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Tne Job department of the PUESS is complete »dJ »(I.<rd. faeillt'.'is for dolnc.tho best class of Vorfc. F A l.'l K.'UI.AIt ATTJCNI ION PAID TO LAW yHI.NTIN'j No .pjosr will be discontinued untll arrear ■ion are puid, except at the option of the pub* Usher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid lor iu-a'iivance. The Latest Panacea. W'c Americans have a genius for the invention of cure-alls, and for faith in them after they are invented. Some one lias now contrived —on paper— ! the Order of Nebuchadnezzarites. The method of the order is not to be, as one might expect, a diet of grass, but a change from the upright position to one on all fours. Members of the so ciet> must, agree to eat, drink, walk a?ul run on their hands and knees. They are assured by the founder of the order that they will speedily ban ish .:!1 the ills to which human ilesh is heir. Witness the vigorous health enjoyed by the dog, the ox, the horse and the necessary pig—their freedom from dyspepsia, neuritis, rheumatism and consumption. Whether they be imn.une to measles, chicken-pox and mumps has not yet been announced. It is not disclosed whether this order is the product of the lively imagina tion of a newspaper reporter or a se rious scheme of a sincere reformer who is unable to master more than one idea. The very doubt on this point results from the fact that even such a society might find adherents. An oriental legend relates that when woman iirst discovered man he was living on all fodrs. She coaxed him to his feet, and induced him to walk upright. Can it lie that the twentieth century will undo the work of the primitive woman? Surely, remarks Youth's Companion, the adherents of the new cult must all be men; for fashion has made no provision for wonn n's clotln sin the new attitud* . "Creepers" designed for the purpose cannot yet be obtained, and the mush room hats would not adapt them selves to a poise on the; back of Ihe neck. Thus fashion may be stronger than fad, and weary man may be forced to stand up again to get witli in speaking distance of woman. President Roosevelt may find sup port for his theory that under certain conditions war may be more honora ble than peace and better for mankind in the utterances of Dr. Emil Reich, the Hungarian historian and philoso pher, now lecturing in London. In a letter to a New York paper Dr. Reich say.; he does not believe in peace con gresses, and adds: "1 believe, alter 35 years of study of the past and ob servation of the present, that conflict made us, conflict keeps us going, and without conflict the great question of nations can never be solved. Shake sptares are made by the destruction of armadas, and not by universities, lecture rooms and public libraries. The father of Sophocles was Salamis. General disarmament means stagna tion and degeneration." When Mr. Carnegie hears this he will be greatly displeased. Waste of Scientific Thought. Word comes from Paris that a scien tist over there has an invention thu' will make a detailed record of a man's thoughts. This is interesting, but it will never be popular, declares Cleve land Plain Dealer. Few men think thoughts that they would care to pre serve, more especially if taken una wares by a prowler with a snapshot tWnk recorder. Of course, it might be possible to train the mind to sit for a mental picture, as it were, but there are few men who could look pleasant while doing it. No man would feel safe as long as he thought it was in the neighborhood. Ko, the Frenchman would do humanity a much greater and far more satisfying service by perfecting a new can open er or an original cough cure. Sometimes Americans wonder that Australia, a country with less than 4,000,000 inhabitants, should turn out so many crack athletes, especially pugilists. It's a country where the climate and llie habit of the people combine to favor outdoor life, and sport is taken at least as seriously as business.—Cleveland Leader. It is said that eagles sometimes go up r,0,000 feet into the air, but how anyone can prove it is a mystery. Anyway, one of these birds has been known to rise from the ground and fly al.iiost directly up and disappear Irom sight within three minutes. TAFT'S HIGH HOPES PRESIDENTIAL PROSPECTS OF THE OHIO WAN. He Is Creatly Admired as Citizen's j Jurist and Statesman, But Lead ing Protectionists Question Whether He Is Sufficient ly Sound in Their Economic Faith. Events of an unusual character have conspired to project into the arena of public discussion the aspira tions of Hon. William H. Taft for nomination as tlie Republican candi date for president of the United States. Fully 14 months prior to the assembling of the national convention Mr. Taft comes out in the open as a seeker after this great distinction. With almost equal openness the declaration is made that lie is "the administration candidate." In a recent issue of the Morning Call of Paterson appears a significant letter from one ol' the foremost citi zens of New Jersey, Col. William Har bour, chairman of the executive com mittee of the American Protective Tariff League, as follows: "New York, April 29, 1907. —To the Editor of the Call: In last Saturday's Call, under the heading, 'Taft I?oom in the State,' you nriated an article that would lead the reader to sup pose that Secretary Taft was the choice of the Republican party in New Jersey to succeed President Roose velt. "Having had the privilege cF rep resenting the Sixth district at so many national conventions, may 112 sr.y for myself, and on behalf of the many friends I have consulted, that when the time comes to nominate the next president, who will undoubtedly be named by the Republican party, the state of New Jersey can select a bet ter protectionist to occupy the White House than Mr. Taft? "If we are to continue to enjoy the prosperous times to which we are entitled so long as our country is blessed with bountiful crops, the tar iff must be let alone, and Mr. Taft must speak out on this great question, as McKinley did and Vice President Fairbanks has, before visiting con gressmen can hope to make many friends for Mr. Taft in the great man ufacturing state of New Jersey. Very truly yours, "WILLIAM BAR HOUR." When Col. Barbour thus early raist s the question whether Judge Taft is a good enough protectionist to com mand the support cf a great industrial state like New Jersey, it is an evi dence that the time has arrived when the Taft candidacy must bo taken seri ously. Only a few days previous to the publication of the Barbour letter Hon. Theodore E. Burton, represen tative in congress from Ohio, paid a visit to New Jersey. The object of this visit was clearly revealed in a speech before a New Jersey audience appealing for New Jersey's undivided support of the Taft candidacy. As Col. Barbour has a rather larger in terest in New Jersey affairs than the Ohio congressman can possibly have, and as the moment for plain speaking had plainly arrived, it, seems both natural and proper that a protest should be filed against the unripe as sumption that New Jersey was go ing to be solid for an Ohio aspirant. Col. Barbour questions whether so I doubtful a protectionist as Judge Taft can command the solid support of the j New Jersey delegation ill next year's Republican national convention. Many protectionists have similar doubts as to the delegations from other states. It is believed that even in Ohio, Mr. Tnft's own state, there are many such protectionists. This opposition to the Taft. can | didacy is based upon no feeling of ill : will toward the man himself. Far i from it. Secretary Taft is warmly I esteemed and greatly admired for his splendid abilities as jurist and statos | man. He is indeed a most lovable I sort of a man, albeit a strong lighter and a hard liilter. He fights in the ! open, and what he says you can de i pend on. But is he a protectionist? Mr. Taft's strenuous advocacy of j free trade in Philippine products com | peting with the products of American j agriculture stamps him as a devoted friend of the semi-servile and half j savage Filipino, but it does not make | him out a protectionist. Mr. Taft's persistence in the matter ;of purchasing in foreign markets i materials and supplies for the con- J struction of the Panama canal was doubtless actuated by a desire to en force strict economy in the canal ex penditures, but it was a mistaken economy—the economy of those who urge that the right thing to do is to buy everything in the cheapest mar ket, and that a protective tariff that gives the home market to home pro duction and labor is morally wrong. The congress took issue with Secre tary Taft's economic views and or dered him to spend American morey in American mills and factories. Early in the campaign of 1900 Mr. 1 Taft made a speech in Maine in which | he pronounced for immediate revision j downward of the Dingley tariff. | Doubtless he honestly believed it to J be true when he said that Republican | sentiment demanded tariff revision : without delay. But he was mistaken I in that belief; mistaken in supposing that the sentiment of the Boston J V> rood of tariff rippers was the senti ment of the whole country. He was | speaking in Maine, and Maine was then antl now is practically a unit against any disturbance of the tariff. ! To gratuitously lug in his Individual opinion that tariff revision was the CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1907. pressing need of the hour was, under ■ Ihe circumstances, of questionable propriety. It was not wbat a good j protectionist would liSve done. That Col. Barbour in his Utter to | the Call has voiced the general view ! of protectionists we think is beyond question. His rank in the world of industry, finance and business, to gether with his official relation to ward the American Protective Tariff league and his many years of con spicuous identification with Repub lican politics in New Jersey, combine to give ills declaration more than or dinary significance. It. is well that Secretary Tuft's early and frank avow al of his presidential aspirations should be met by an equally early and frank avowal that if he is to stand well with protectionists he must de clare himself a protectionist in terms of unmistakable certainty. The next nominee of the Republican party for president of the United States is go ing to be a protectionist. Current de velopments along the line of conces sions and relaxations all point that way. A rebound back to sane and consistent protectionism is certain to occur, and it will be duo in 1908. WHOLE IDEA IS WRONG. State Department Errs in Effort to Revise Tariff. When even Democratic newspapers deprecate invasions across the border line which tcparat.es the respective pov. r a ai.<l functions of the legisla tive and rxocutiv. branches of our government, the situation tuk 0.1 ;i serious aspect. The new York Amer ican 1: a a 110 love for the protective tariff sy: i( in. but it gravely questions whether that system can or ought to be changed by an edict of the secre tary r,t state without the concurrence of congress. In a well considered and ably written editorial in the American of May 2 the conclusion is reached that "This method of dealing with a matter of national magnitude is wrong and dangerous. It threatens disturb ance to our whole foreign trade." This presupposes the truth of the reports that in the new dicker with Germany the spirit and intention of the Dingley tariff law have been sub verted to an extent, that will revolu tionize customs methods of appraise ment and collection. Unfortunately the supposition turns out to be cor rect. Our gifted state department has for the time being taken over the authority to revise the tariff sched ules downward. A THREATENING TROPICAL. CY CLONE. ■ r '.V.f. v'"' c V V A Serious Question. Referring to the proposed transfer of the tariff making prerogative from the United States congress to the ex port and expert—undervaltiers of Germany, the Bulletin of the American Iron and Steel Association remarks: "If the reader will compare* the con cessions made to Germany with tlie forecast made by the correspondent of :Tio American Economist he wiil see that our government has shamelessly yielded to the German demand that not the true value of German extorts to this country, but the value placed upon them by the exporters is to ba the guide to our customs officials in assessing duties. When did congress give to the president, the authority to set aside and absolutely nullify the plain provisions of our tariff sched ules?" The practical repeal of the customs administrative sections of the Dingley law is accomplished if the reported concessions arc carried out. Congress has explicitly laid down certain rules for the ascertainment of the values of imports. If the state department sets aside these rules so that German ex porters and not United States apprais ing officials may determine such val ues, are not the power and authority of congress in effect usurped? It is more than possible that this ques tion will be brought up in congress. Have Kept Things Steady. "This is no time for stand-patters." The foregoing is one of the recent declarations of George P. Hummer, the Democratic candidate for congress in the Filth district. This sarcastic reference to Republicans who do not favor repeal of the Dingley bill or any drastic tariff changes, has been repeated from time to time for sever al past years. These years have been the best this country has ever known. Had it. not been for the positions held by the so-called "stand-patters'* the changes and experiments proposed six or eight years ago would have been entered upon. There are few Americans who are not now glad that these demands for changes were re sisted and prevented. Those who now are asking for changes in policies and conditions are those who did their best to prevent present policies and present conditions. —Houghton (Mich.) Gazette. Of a Series of Crimes (s Made in Court by HARRY ORCHARD. The Prosecution's Star Witness in the Haywood Triai TeSis a Story that Sickens iiis hearers. 1 Boise, Idaho. —Alfred Horsley, alias Harry Orchard, the actual as sassin of Frank Steunenberg, went on the stand Wednesday as a witness against William 1). Haywood and made pubiic confession of a long chain 1! brutal, revolting crimes, committed, he said, at the inspiration and for the pay of the leaders of the Western Federation of Miners. An undertaking by the prosecutors for the state, that they would by late/ proof and connection make his testi mony legitimate, opened the way like a floodgate to th« j whole diabolical story, and throughout the entire day Orchard went 011 from crime recital to crime recital, each succeeding one seemingly more revolting than the one tiiat preceded. Orchard confessed th'it a", a mem ber of the mob th.it. wrecked the Bunkor Hill an.l Sullivan mills in the Coeur J'Alenes he lighted one of the fuses that carried fire to the giant powder explosion; confessed that he set the death trap in the Vindicator mine at Cripple Crolt that blew out the lives oi' Superintendent McCor mick and Foreman Heck; confessed that because he had not been paid for his first attempt at violence 111 tite Vin dicator mine he had been treacherous to his associates by warning the man agers of the Florence & Cripple Creek railway that there was a plot to blow up their trains; confessed that he fired three charges of buckshot, into the body of Detective Lyte Gregory, of Denver, killing him instantly; con fessed that for days he stalked Gov. Peabody, of Colorado, about Denver, waiting a chance to kill him; con fessed that he and Steve Adams set and discharged the mine under the station at. Independence, Col., that in stantly killed 14 men, and confessed that, failing in an attempt to poison Fred Bradley, of San Francisco, he blew him and Bis house up with a bomb of gelatin powder. Orchard retained control of himself almost from the moment he took the stand. His eyes were bloodshot and his i'ac > mottled in color when he came into the room to confront the man wh-se lift- he jeopardizes, lie was plainly nervous. lie quickly steadied himself and was soon talking in the soft, easy tones that, character ize his speech. Mis manner was easy and his gaze steady in any direction whence a question claimed his atten tion. TOR CONTEMPT Of COURT. The Secretary of an Oil Company Is Given a Sentence of Three Months in Jail. Leavenworth, Kan.—Judge Hook, of the United States circuit court, on Wednesday sentenced I-I. FT. Tucker, jr., indicted secretary of the Uncle Sam Oil Co., to three months in jail for contempt of court, the con tempt being an aliUlavit iiled by Tuck er alleging a conspiracy between Fed eral Judges Pollock, McPherson and Phillips and the Standard Oil Co. to drive the I'ncle Sam out of business. Judge Hook condemned the action of An jrney Albert L. Wilson, of Kan sas City, who prepared the afliilavit. The judge said that the only purpose of filing the affidavit was to create in terest in the papers and influence pub lic sentiment. Hook said there was 110 precedent for such an affidavit, and the clerk of the court was repri manded for placing it on file. The af fidavit was stricken from the files by order of Judge Hook. Tucker began serving his sentence last night. The bankruptcy proceed ings were continued until a judge can be found to sit in the case. Judge Pollock will not preside. The affidavit alleged that Judges Pollock, Phillips and McPherson went on a fishing trip to Tampico, Mexico, on January 2(5, 19(16, in the private car of Gardiner Lathrop, head of the legal department of the Santa Fe railroad, and strongly intimated that during the trip a conspiracy was entered into be tween the judges and the Standard Oil Co. The assertion was made in the affidavit that the Standard Oil Co. and the Santa Fe railroad were con trolled by the same persons. The affi davit further alleged that Judge Pol lock made a statement against Tucker and the Uncle Sam out of court. Tucker was on the stand two hours and was subjected to a grueling ex amination by N. H. Loomis, general at torney of the Union Pacific railroad, named by the court to conduct the ex amination. Tucker attempted to cor roborate the charges in the affidavit, but became mixed and admitted that the affidavit was prepared on hearsay. Fifty-seven People Injured. Nashville, Tenn. —Going 25 miles an hour, a Southern railway pas senger train on Wednesday plunged off a la-foot embankment at Black Branch, 33 miles east, of Nashville, in juring 57 out of the 60 passengers aboard. Croker's Horse Wins the Derby. London, Eng. Richard Croker's Orby, ridden by "Johnny" lteiff, the American jockey, won the Derby stakes, of 6,500 sovereigns, at Epsom Wednesday; distance abou: one mile and a half. SIMILAR, EUT DIFFERENT. "i'\a pot a bright Idea, George!" Kxelairned the maiden fair To the young man by her wide As the sunbeams kissed her ha!*. "No doubt," said he:"and I'm sure If you would consent to ko Willi me and fare the minister I'd have a bright-eyed dear also." —Judge. Perseverance. The mistress of a large, fashionable home had just secured a now maid of Irish extraction, and who had just come from the "ould sod." Being on friendly terms with her neighbor, she told the maid that the neighbor could use anything she desired. One day the mistress went out for all morning. On her return she found that the telephone which had been in stalled in the hall was gone. Calling the maid, she inquired for it. "Plaise, mum," answered Bridget, "th* lady across th' shtrate asked me if she cud use th' tilephone, an' Oi sint it over to her; but Oi hod an awful toime to git it unshcrewed."- Judge. Changed. But Love, it soon appeared, was by no means the spoiled child he once had been. "People don't make so much of him as formerly, particularly Americans," whispered Venus, with a note of re sentment. That was the mother of it. She wa9 downright offended, in her heart, and thought it lr.it a poor world where peo ple made so little of anything but money, noise, trouble for thr'.r j.ieigli boi j, and the like. -Lifo. Didn : t Get Over It. Two young men wore having a heat ed argument over a problem which needed a great deal of mental calcu lation. "I tell you," said one, "that you are entirely wrong." "But 1 am not," said the other. "Didn't I goto school, stupid?" al most roared his opponent. "Yes," was the calm reply; "and yo'.i came back stupid." That ended it. Just the Animal He Wants. "Halloa, Hodge," said Thomson, "what's wrong with that horse?" "I'm going to sell him," replied Hodge. 1 "What for?" "Oh, well, my mother-in-law was driving him yesterday, and he ran away, and gave her such a fright that she has left the house." "Oil, I say," cried Thomson, eagerly, "I'll buy that horse. What do you want for him?" , Diplomacy. Watkins —The Do Robinsons are giving a big dance next month. I wish they'd invite nie. Roberts —Do you? Then I'll tell you a scheme that generally works. You drop in some night and tell Mrs. De Robinson that you'll be out. of town all next month. See if they don't in vite you then. Height of Laziness. Mifkins —So you consider Dawdles rather lazy, do you? Hifkins —Lazy!- Say, he's the limit. 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