2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MULLIN, Editor Published Every Thursday. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Cer year M 09 paid Hi advance 1 ADVERTISING RATES. Advertisement!) are published, at the rate ot fne dollar per square for.rtne Insertion mid 11 rtl •cats lier.Vquare'fof encU.''subseiiuen.t insertion Rates by the year, or for six or three 'month*, •re low.and uniform, end will be furnUhed oil »p plication. Legiil.tayd OSlclal Advertising per square three tlmU'or lens. «2:' each subsequent inset lion Ki i QfiiH pc&Squara. Local'-nolJoeaiO cents per line for one lnser tertluii: «&.„eent ; (jper line for each subsequent lOQ^ecuuvqMhserti.on. Obituary,;notl<;>s>'over five lines. 10 cents pet line. Suttpl?, i' Jnoimf eiucnts of-.birlhs, ma: ■ w.ill b<Hn~serto,d i Jroe. Business oaras.flve llnes-or less, per year, over live lint's, at the tegular rates of adver tising No local Inserted tor less than 75 cents pe> Issue JOB PRINTING. Tan Job department of the Pkb*r Is complete afford ■ fao'illUos for dctlng'the best class of Vork. . P Mi l RJI'I.AII ATTENTION PiIUTO LAW JPtUNTUKI Novjwpw *rtll be discontinued until arresr- Kes .BTe paid, except at the option of the pub* her. Papers sent out of the county must be paid tor luadvaoce Medical Education. The changes of the past 25 years in medical education have fteen noth ing short of a revolution, and yet at a conference of medical educators in Chicago it was stated by one delegate that three-fourths of the graduates were unfit to practice medicine. The condition of medical education in this country 30 years ago was almost be yond belief. There were medical col leges in Chicago that graduated two classes a jear. In a single town in northern Illinois nine men were prac ticing medicine, of whom two had di plomas and the rest were druggists, ex-hospital stewards from the army and men who had taken one course of lectures. The immediate result of the enactment of the medical practice act was the departure of 1,400 practition ers from the state, some of whom com pleted their medical studies, but most of them practiced where there was not so much law. At a conference in Chicago the other day, says the Phil adelphia Record, Dr. Means, chairman of the judicial council of the Associa tion of American Medical Colleges, said that the average man admitted to practice was deficient in knowledge of bacteriology, chemistry, physiology and anatomy. Fifty-eight per cent, of the men in 25 states who fail at their final examination pass a few weeks later. "In the few days intervening where do they get their knowledge? They don't get it." They simply learn the answers to the questions, and the same questions are asked them at the re-examination. Evidently the reform of medical education, although much has been done, is not yet complete. Encourage the Young Poet. Every man, woman and child should write poetry. It is like boils, it pre vents worse sickuess. If there were more poets there would be fewer crim inals. Poetry is in every man's blood. If he doesn't write it at some time or another during his life watch out for him. His wild oats are unsown; they will rot in his system and sour his na ture. Write poetry, therefore, so long as there is a jingle in your soul, ex claims the Emporia (Kan.) Gazette. The man who would advise corking up poetry unwritten in a human heart would soon have all the world full of brain storms and the devil to pay. It's a great business, this poetry busi ness. And the man who hasn't had his fling with love and dove and spring and wing and skies and eyes a»d true and you and girl a;id pearl and lips and sips and honey drips (inspected and guaranteed absolutely pure) is like the man who died aged 72 years without being hungry—he missed a lot Cif fun filling up. A writer in an exchange has dis covered that the greatest foe to s eauty in man and woman is not er rors in diet, lack of exercise, over work or any of the things usually classed as enemies of good looks, but bad mental states —"anger, fever, jeal ousy, worry, irritability, want of trust in one's self and in the 'Great God.'" The young woman who wants to be beautiful may eat what she pleases and work long and hard, but if she will cultivate good nature, calmness, kindliness, gayety, ehe may develop the divine gift. Therefore cheer up, girls, says Indianapolis Star, be good and you will be lovely to behold and, of course, happy. Several European shipping com panies have determined to raise their freight rates to Rio Janeiro 20 per cent.., states the Brazilian Review. It cites the fact that a steamer recently arrived there with a cargo, the freight on which was $2,800. The expenses of getting the same into the Rio Janeiro custom house amounted to $3,000, or more than the freight charges from Europe. J. P. Morgan is preparing in Lon don, under the direction of W. Wil liamson, the noted English authority on miniatures, one of the most sumptu ous and costly volumes ever published. It will contain reproductions, in color, -of Mr. Morgan's unrivaled collection of miniatures. Forty copies of the su perb book will cost? 2,500 each, and :40 more $1,250 each—slso,ooo in all. SURGEON'S MISTAKE NOT VERY SERIOUS; HE ONLY CUT OFF THE WRONG LEG. Inasmuch as Experimental Tinkering with the Tariff Might Also Prove to Be a Mistake the Wiser Plan Would Be Not to Cut Off Either Leg. The New York Times makes bold to say that "if we reduced the tariff we should import more goods, and we should also.export more goods." Import more we certainly should if our tariff rates were lowered, and more yet if we had no tariff at all. If to increase our imports be the main consideration, why have any tariff? Hut does it follow that our exports would increase in equal ratio? And, If so, what sort of commodities would we more largely export than we now do? Certainly not manufactures, for, even though the American wage standard were to be reduced down to the foreign level —a proposition, by the way, which opens up a vista of grave consequences which no man can contemplate without a shudder of fear and dread —our lower priced goods would not be allowed to invade the markets of manufacturing coun tries. Corresponding wage reductions would inevitably occur in such coun tries. The workers in European mills and factories must somehow and at some wage be employed. Otherwise chaos coiness again. Not in foodstuffs could our exports greatly increase under a lower tariff or no tariff, for the reason that by so much as we should succeed in dis placing production or in reducing wages in foreign countries, by so much we should reduce their ability to take and pay for our surplus food products. No; it does not follow that greater exports go with greater imports. It was not so from 1893 to 1897. We are now exporting fully twice the quantity which we then exported. Reduction of the tariff with a view to increasing competitive imports must of necessity break down the American wage rate. Nobody, we believe, disputes that. The free trader and the tariff "reformer" will tell you that wages are too high afid ought to come down, but that lower cost of living will compensate for the cut in wages. This is like inflicting a stab and then pouring balsam into the open wound. The pain may be less, but the wound is still there, and it was not there before. The ques tion, then, is whether it is wise to in flict the stab; whether for the mere pleasure of trying experiments in the treatment of wounds we should apply the knife. The healthiest condition known to the history of human labor and pro duction exists in the United States to day. "I never made but one really serious mistake," said a great sur geon. "Was it attended with fatal consequences?" "Oh, no," was the reply; "I merely cut off the wrong leg." In the present case the wiser practice would seem to be not to cut off either leg. Let nature take its course. The American body politic requires no tariff surgery of any kind. Not Quite Killed. "Forty years of almost exclusive at tention to domestic trade has killed our instinct for commerce across the seas." —N. Y. Evening Post. Not exactly. The instinct appears to be very much alive. Forty years ago, in ISG6, our exports were s.''>4B,• 859,522. in 190 C they were $1,793.- 107,955, an increase of 500 per cent. In ISCfi our total foreign trade was $783,671,588; 40 years later it was $3,113,172,049, not counting trade with Porto Rico and Hawaii, which will briiig the total to nearly $3,200,000,- 000 —an increase of over 400 per cent. Forty years ago our imports were $434,812,000; 40 years later they were $1,321,064,694. All this would seem to indicate a considerable attention to foreign trade, and with a fair de gree of success. It suggests that while taking good care of the do mestic market and the internal trade our instinct fn,- commerce across* the seas has been far from killed. Our attention to internal trade has made us, alike per capita and in gross, the richest among all the nations. For eign trade is a side issue; a good thing to have, but, in comparison, a minor consideration. "Foreign trade," said Andrew Carnegie, "is a brag gart; domestic trade is the true king." Mr. Root and Canada. It is understood that as a basis for complete free trade between the Unit ed States and Caaada Secretary Root has proposed the adoption by the Do minion of the American tariff sched ules in their entirety, as against other countries, Great Britain included. Coining from any other than so lofty an official source the proposition would seem impracticable almost to the point of absurdity. The establishment of uniform tariff rates and their uniform enforcement would necessitate on Can ada's part withdrawal from the British empire and political union with the United States. Such a merger would also involve the complete abandon ment of Canada's industrial aspira tions. Canada would spurn either of these proposals if considered separate ly; collided together, as they WOMWI have to he, she would not entertain them for a moment. A little deeper study of the. tariff question would serve to enlighten Secretary Root re garding many things that cannot be done. CAMERON COUNiTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1507- WAGES AND THE TARIFF. Some Reckless Admissions Made by Democratic Leafier. In a speech in congress the other day Hon. John Sharp Williams re viewed the coming of immigrants to this country, the swelling stream ever since colonial days, lie said they came to better their condition; that there was a falling off in panic years, but that the rule was a steady inflow. He gave as one reason the higher wages paid in this country and said: There never was a period from the time the pllm-ims landed on Plymouth Hock up to tin- adoption of the Constitu tion of the United Stales when wages for the blacksmith, the carpenter, for tlie skilled artisan and tlie unskilled la bor In the field, were not about double what thi y were in Great Britain. No tariff, ii I fill tariff, low tariff—all sorts of tariff—it made no difference what the tariff on our statute books was, they came. That is very reckless talk for a lead er in congress. Can Mr. Williams ex plain why there was always a falling off in immigration when free trade was the rule in our country? Without elaborating or going back beyond the memories of middle-aged men, it is enough to say that in 1893, 1894 and 1895, skilled laborers' wages fell 40 per cent.; common laborers' wages fell 30 per cent., and thousands and tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of laborers, skilled and unskilled, were unable to find em ployment 011 any termn. This may not have applied to Mississippi, but it did apply to the entire northeast, north and we;t. It is just as plain Ihat i" tiriff were struck down to-day a million of skilled laborers would be without work in a month, and in two months immigration would be cut down GO per cent. —Salt Lake City Telegram. JUST STAND PAT. The Public Satisfied with the Present Tariff Policy. The majority of the people of the country are well enough satisfied with our present tariff policy and do not demand or desire any change therein. So long as we are so prosperous that we are exporting three thousand mil lions of dollars in merchandise, etc., every year and also importing more than any other country in the world except Great Britain; so long as we are not able to get either laborers or supplies to meet all the demands of our prosperity, that neither men nor materials can be had to carry on the work which is wanting and waiting to be done, there is little use of talking about revising the tariff. The present congressional campaign will have to be won on a campaign of no apology for any Republican principle or policy. Unless we begin to admit that the tar iff policy is Wrong the Democrats will find the Republican party and Repub lican policies invulnerable and unas sailable. If any loophole is given for Democratic success it will be the Re publicans' own making, and will con stitute an error as difficult of repara tion as it will be foolish in its concep tion. —Salem (Ore.) Statesman. DOESN'T CARE TO DISCUSS THE SUBJECT. Tariff Reformer —Polly want a cracker? Polly—Aw, forget it! The Editor and the Tailor. It is a.dull ass that will not mend his pace with beating. Let us suppose that the editor wajjts to buy a suit of clothes and that his tailor wants to ad vertise in the Mail. The tailor has doubled his prices. The editor pro tests. "Very well," says the tailor; "I will reduce my price 00 per cent, if you will reduce your advertising rates 50 per cent." But that isn't fair," says the editor. "You have doubled the price on your goods, while my advertising rates are the same that they vere before. If I cut 50 per cent, in rates I shall be getting only half what I have been getting for my advertising, while if you cut 50 per cent, you will get precisely what you got before for the clothes." "It makes no difference," insists the tailor. "Those are my prices, and if you don't like them you can buy your clothes somewhere else." "That is precisely what I'm going to do," says the editor, "and you can advertise in some other paper if you can find any body that is fool enough tft nit you double your rates on him and at tlie same time cut down his own > - ates one-half. Good-day, sir." Cal' the editor Uncle Sam, and the Sailor Kaiser Wilhelm, and you have the German tariff situation precisely. Does the Mail see it yet? REVERENTLY Was Mrs. McKinley laid to Rest in Westlawn. FUNERAL SERVICES Were Very Simple—President Roose velt, Members of His Cabinet and Gov. Harris Attended. Canton, O. —The body of Ida Sax ton McKinley rests beside that of her distinguished husband 111 \\ est lawn cemetery. Her last words, "Oh, God, why should I longer wait —let me lie beside him," have been answered. The funeral services held Wednes day at the McKinley home were ex tremely simple. Four songs were sung—the same that were sung at the funeral of President McKinley—and the service was the simple ritual of the Methodist Episcopal church. The house on its Market and Louis street sides was roped ofT to restrain the crowds which thronged neighbor ing thoroughfares. President Roosevelt arrived at* 12:45 p. m.and was driven to the residence 'if Justice Diy for luncheon. Among others at the table W'>re Secretaries K'lOt, Cortolyou :ind WiltAn, Gov. lim its and ex-Gov. Herrick. Immediately after the luncheon tho president and party were driven to the McKinley home. The body in its black casket rested in the so-called "campaign office," in the identical spot where President McKinley's body lay after the Buffalo tragedy. Flowers filled the room, while many more for which there was not room in the house were sent to the cemetery ahead of the cortege. While the services were being con ducted by Rev. Dr. Buxton, of the First Methodist Episcopal church, and Rev. Dr. Holmes, former pastor of the same church, all business and amuse ment in Canton stopped. Retail stores, schools and places of amusement both In the city and surrounding country were closed and the street cars in the vicinity of the McKinley home did not run. All along the route to Westlawn cemetery flags were at half-mast. The pallbearers were: Judge Henry W. Harter, John C. Dueber, Joseph Hiechele, Robert A. Cassidy and George B. Frease, who were honorary pallbearers at the funeral of President McKinley, and Austin Lynch, R. S. Shields and Judge C. C. Bow. When the services in the cemetery were over the presidential party re turned to the Baltimore & Ohio depot, where the train for Indianapolis was taken. Despite a rumor of doubtful origin that Michael Czolgosz, brother of the assassin of President McKinley, would be in Canton Wednesday, the funeral of Mrs. McKinley and the visit of President Roosevelt passed off without Incident of sinster note. Taking pre caution against the one chance in a thousand that the rumor of Czolgosz's presence here was true, the local po lice, assisted by secret service men from Washington and Cleveland, exer cised the utmost vigilance during the president's .stay in the city. No trace was found of Czolgosz, nor any anarchist, although three strang ers to the city were held in the jail during the president's stay. There was nothing against them, however, and they were released last evening. THE TREATY 0E AMAPALA. It Provides for Arbitration of Disputes Between Two Central American Republics. Washington, D. C. —The state de partment on Wednesday received a translation of the treaty of peace negotiated at Amapala, Honduras, un der which friendly relations were re established between Nicaragua and Salvador, following their estrange ment over the conflict between the former and Honduras, when Salvador allied herself with the Honduran re public. Tlie treaty seems to be more far reaching than had been supposed. It commits the republics to obligatory arbitration should trouble arise in the future, and in providing for a peace congress to be held at Corinto, Nicara gua, the five sister republics in Cen tral America are invited to form a peace pact "governing commerce, navigation and any other questions that may be judged profitable to Cen tral American interests." It is beiieved here that the treaty would not have been negotiated except for the mediation of Philip Brown, American charge at the legations of Guatemala and Honduras. His good offices were highly appreciated. The treaty stipulates that any dif ference that may arise in the future between Salvador and Nicaragua that might alter their good relations shall be adjusted by means of the obligatory arbitration of the presidents of the United States and of Mexico conjointly, who shall have the power in case of not arriving at an agreement, to name a third person whose decision shall be definite. Is Charged with a Big Steal. Indianapolis, Ind.—The police are searching for Frederick W. Hoen, who is charged with the larceny from a safety deposit box in Fletcher's na tional bank of $60,000 worth of stocks and bonds belonging to his sister, Mrs. Christina Nold. Two Boys Killed by an Explosion. Terre Haute, Ind. —By thy> explo sion of several hundred pounds o' powder at the storage house of the Farnsworth mine near Sullivan, Wed nesday, two boys were blown to pieces and three others were seriously hußt. ASTONISHED THE BARBER. Quietly entering a barber's shop, the stranger removed his hat and coat, and taking a card from his pocket wrote on it: "I want to be shaved." A barber stepping forward read the card, and. pointing to a chair, said to his brother artists: "Deaf as a brass kettle and dumb as an oyster." The man straightened himself out in the chair, when his manipulator be gan lathering his face. "This cuss lias a cheek like a stone wall," he said, when a general laugh followed. "Stick a pin in him and see If he is entirely dumb," said another. The victim remaining undisturbed, the following shots were fired at him by the delighted tonsorial artists: "He needs a shampoo. His head is dirtier than a public-house doormat." "Shave him with a stool-leg. Don't spoil your razor on that stubble." "Gracious, what a guy! He'd make a good bird-frightener." "He ought to rent that nose for a locomotive head-light," etc. While all these complimentary allu sions were flying about him the opera tion of shaving was finished, and tlws man arose and put on his coat, and then,turning to the astonished barber, said: "How much for the shave and com pliments?" "I —I—I—I," gasped the astonished man, "oh, nothing nothing call again—excuse;" and as the strang er left the shop tlio Jiscomfitod bar bel 1 swoio Ux.it they v/ould never be lieve ia a deaf and dumb man again until they had first fired a ten-pound cannon about his ears. Not What He Wanted. "I'm selling a new burglar alarm," said the gentlemanly agent. "Can I in terest you in it? This contrivance will fix it so that everybody will be awak ened the moment a burglar steps in side the house. It can't —" "I don't want it. If you have any kind of a contrivance that will keep my wife from waking up when burg lars break in, come around and I will talk business with you."—Chicago Record-Herald. Necessary. "I am afraid you are becoming a practical politician," said the sincere friend. "I am," answered the eminent per sonage. "A statesman must be a mighty good politician if he wants to stay in public life long enough to put his theories into actual operation."— Washington Star. Course of Dieting. Family Physician—Nothing will do your daughter any good unless she controls her appetite for sweets and rich dishes. She must live on the plainest food, and very little of it, for months. Mother —Very well. I'll send her to the boarding school I used to attend. —N. Y. Weekly. Hard to Open. Dick—Succeed in touching the old gentleman for a ten spot this morn ing? .Tack —No; the money he carries is like the umbrella he carries. Dick —How so? Jack —Why, it's a close roll.—Chi cago Daily News. NOT AN IMAGINARY LINE. Pedagogue—Now Snarker, junior, give an example, by reference to any familiar object, of what is meant by the word equator. Snarker (rather at a loss) —Well, sir, er—er —it's like the —er —waist- band on your trousers running round yer stunnnick, sir. G.SCHMIDT'S^ —---.HEADQUARTERS FOR FRESH BREAD> J popular P "" cv s„, 'fj # -confectionery* Daily Delivery. AllordcrF jziven prompt and skillful attention. .- Illltl 11 I"."." . . . .»«■■«* .lii .irjujs , §V/HEN IN DOUBT. THY They have stood the tent ofye«v OTnnMA and !i;f-a cqrsd thousand® cr) OIKUho Q .'^icC AGAIN! tbc OrcuUtion, .make dige&tk** perfect, tfud.imoatt a healthy. vigor to the whole belnfj. All drains and lostes are checked fntrmtin?Ktly % r.XJn) rs s pitientr are properly cured, their condition often worries them luto Insanity- Consumption or l>e; tfc. Mailed tattled. Price $i per bos; o boxes, u ith iron-clk i legal jmarantce tocure or rcfum' ( money, #5.00. Send for free book. Addrcis, PfcAL fiifc.9lClft& CO- Cldv«l&A<L 9ai tale b/ fi. 0. Dodacn, Smpvlui, Pi. S The Place U Bay Che&p V ) J. F. PARSONS' > BR. UFBJtP'S COBVH. 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