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A wise puppy being told to lie down in a certain place will obey meekly at the moment, and them, waiting until his master's attention is diverted, will slip slowly away from his post. His reluctance to stay where he is told is not based on a dislike of tho spot, for he will often select it for himself —but purely on his prejudice against obedi ence as such. So the chilu loves to assert his freedom by doing what he would consider a serious hardship if lie were compelled to do it A keen zest is added to play if it is close to the edge of the forbidden. Like many of the naughtinesses of human kind, desire for the unpermitted underlies the great advances of the race. Erect a barrier, and the child and the man long to climb over it, says the Youth's Companion. The impassable moun tain, the unsailed ocean, the mysteri ous Jaw of nature, the infinitely dis tant star —these are so many irresist ible magnets to the pioneer, and they lead him, through what we may truly call an audacious disobedience, to new worlds and new triumphs of mind over matter. "Why are the cows always getting out of the pasture?" asked the schoolmistress of the old farmer. "Wal, I suppose it's because they want to be where they ain't!" A glorious impulse, which climbs from brute to man—and so on, to the heights of future development! The puppy, the cow, the child, the pioneer, the man of science alike may glory in their reluctant and temporary obedi ence to the voice which says, "Stay bere!" It may be that science and the doc tors will yet prevail on man to steril ize the tempting lips of his lady love before kissing her, but if the latter were consulted she would prefer to have him bring along his barber tools unless he comes with a fresh shave. A Chicago girl has had a man arrest ed for making her cheeks sore by kissing her while he was in an un razored condition. It is very annoy ing to the tender and confiding young woman who has read about kisses in the books suddenly to have a shoe brush shoved against her face, says Chicago Daily News, and to be ex pected to like that sort of thing. There is room for reform in kissing, but the kisses and not the scientist should say what the reforms should be. The best eyesight is possessed by those people whose lands are vast and barren, and where obstacles tending shorten the sight are few. Eskimos will detect a white fox in the snow at a great distance away, while the Arabs of the deserts of Africa have such extreme powers of vision that on the vast plains of the desert they will pick out objects invisible to the ordi nary eye at ranges from one to ten miles distant. Among civilized peo ple the Norwegians are credited with having better eyesight than most, if not all, others, as they more generally fulfill the necessary conditions. The complaints about the poor pay of the clergy are getting loud, and nobody disputes their validity. It is a solemn fact that the ministry stands almost alone among all the profes sions or occupations in which the emoluments or wages have not ad vanced correspondingly with the in creased expenses of modern living. The clergymen have a perfect right to be indignant about it. Consuelo Vanderbilt, duchess of Marlborough, has taken up rescue work among the women of the poor, and it is announced that she will en deavor to interest New York society women in practical charities. The Carnegie school of bricklaying with its one pupil is bound to grow, anyway. Herein it. differs from some other kinds of schools and seminaries. Those in old-fashioned theology, for instance. If it is true that other planets are Inhabited by sinners the old earth should not feel so lonely as it strolls through space on a quiet summer night. A "SHARP" BARGAIN RECKONING OF THE NEW DICKER WITH GERMANY. Considering That by Larger Under valuation Privileges We Open the Door to Increased Competition, the Bargain Does Not Seem so Very Fine for Us After All. As $<>,004,000 a year is to $208,1 G8 a year—that is what we are told the United States lias gained in its tariff dicker with Germany. More specifical ly stated the claim is that the reduc tion in Germany's tariff on American exports will amount to $6,664,000, while the reduction in our tariff on German exports will amount to only $208,168. If this be the truth, t.he whole truth, and nothing but the truth, then Ger many has been completely ever reached, swindled, buncoed, confi denced, bamboozled, thimblerigged. The sharpest traders the world has ever known have been "made to look like suckers!" Our gift ed state department has outgen eraled Germany very much as the natives of Timbuctoo might be outgeneraled. We have hand ed Germany a lemon. We have sold to Germany for $6,664,000 a gold brick which assays $208,168. Hut is this the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, as our gifted state department endeavors to show in its optimistic analysi' of the net results of the new German agreement? No; it is not tho truth, but only a small part of the truth, as events will abundantly prove. Germany did not put up her maxi mum tariff bluff lor the paltry advan tage ef saving $208,168 in tariff duties under the limited section three of the Dingley law. It was not to sell us more of her argols, crude tartar, vermouth, still and sparkling wines, paintings and statuary that Germany doubled and tripled her tar iff on our foodstuffs and manufac tures. The whole trade in the articles named in section three amounts to considerably less than $2,000,000 a year. Certainly it was not for this petty trade that Germany provided herself with a maximum tariff club with winch to frighten the United States into a cowardly surrender. Where, then, does Germany expect to "get even?" Somewhere, you may be sure. This is where: By the nulli fication of law and procedure in American customs administration, whereby German exporters, consign ing goods to their own agents in the United States, are practically permit ted to undervalue their exports any where from ten to 50 per cent. That is where Germany will "get even." Says the German exporter: "Let me write my own values and I care not who writes your tariff schedules." And he is right. P.v so much as the German export ers are allowed to undervalue the $170,000,000 of mostly competitive goods which come to this country, by so much will our tariff be reduced. Ten per cent, of reduction in values would reduce the dutiable value of the imports from $170,000,000 jo $153,00(f,- 000; 20 per cent, of reduction in val ues would make the total $136,000,000, and so on, according as the new un dervaluation privileges shall work out larger or smaller percentages. If the reduction through undervalu ation amounts to 20 per cent., Ger many will escape tariff payments on $34,000,000 of goods. At an average rate of 50 per cent, this would amount to $17,000,000 which the Germans will save in one year. Not $208,168, as the state depart ment optimist, would have it, but $17,- 000,000 a year, is what Germany will get out of us. Seventeen millions a year is a tidy sum to have in tariff payments. It is also a tidy sum for the United States treasury to lose in revenues. Hut the increased volume of German exports dumped on our market at cut prices represents a much greater sum of gain to Germany, compared with which that $208,168 is made to look "like 30 cents." What' it represents to American producers undersold in their own mar ket and American wage earners robbed of employment, as the iqsult of increased competition—this is an other story which remains to be writ tea when the results of our govern ment's humiliating "lay down" to Ger many shall have become visible.* For the present it is sufficient to say that the sharp traders of Ger many are not the ones who have been overreached and swindled as $6,664,- 000 is to $208,168. Nothing of the sort. Wait and see who has been over reached and swindled. Six months or less of the new "export value" regime will determine whether or not Ameri can labor and Industry have been overreached arid swindled. Pulling Down a Pillar. Hailing with satisfaction the "im ♦provement" in our tariff policy that will result from wider latitude in un dervaluation, the New York Evening Post remarks that "the abandonment of the old policy (that of attempting to enforce strict honesty in classifi cation and appraisement, of imports) is really to pull down one of the pil lars of the protective system." Yes; we should say it might ultimately come to that. Correct, valuation must of necessity be the chief support of a tariff system in which ad valorem du ties are the chief element. Give the exporter consigning goods to himself the privilege of determining values, and you give him the power to deter mine what tariff he shall pay. The main pillar is pulled down. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY n, ifto7- WHAT THE TARIFF 13 DOING. It Robs Foreign Factories of the Chance of Doing Our Work for Us. Do you remember how English statesmen favored the southern Con federacy when those states were i« rebellion against the government to break up the union? Do you know why England felt so much sympathy for the Confederacy? The northern states were for a pro tective tariff and for building up American industries. The southern states were for free trade. All they wished was to develop their agricul tural resources by means of slave labor, sell the surplus abroad, and im port their manufactures. There is where 'England's sympathy found such deep root. The cotton Industry of England depended largely on the success of the American rebellion. When the rebellion broke out the cotton crop amounted to from 3,000,- 000 to 4,000,000 bales. It now amounts to from 10,000,000 to 13,500,000 bales. In 1860 we were spinning very little of this cotton in America, none in the south. Year by year, since the close of the war, under Republican tariff politics, cotton spinning has increased more rapidly than the size of the crop. A year ago there were 6,350,000 spindles in England. During the past year the enlargement of English cotton fac tories has been very great. By the end of this decade the increase in the decade will equal that in 30 yenia be fore. In spite iVf the growth In English cotton spinning there lias been great expansion in America. The south, which, when the war broke out, lind no cotton factories, now has many. We are using a very large portion ol our own raw product and importing increasing quantities of raw cotton. The increase in value in the year 1906 amounted to $11,500,000 and thc exports decreased $13,500,000. Cotton manufactures are worth more than twice as much as the raw material. Think of that! We kepi at home $13,500,000 worth of our crop more than in the previous year, and gave this a value of about $30,000,000. We sent abroad the money this made and bought raw cotton with it, which again was worth $30,000,000. That is what the Dingley tariff act added tc our wealth in one year in one indus try. Under a free trade policy we would probably be growing nearly as much cotton as we do now, but it would nearly all go abroad to be made into cotton goods, and for each dollar we received for the raw stuff we would have to send out two dollars to pay for the goods made of our own ma terial. If we were all free traders and sold all our raw cotton togo abroad we would get at the prices now ruling $500,000,000. But to get. back the goods made, if we needed them, we would pay $1,000,000,000. Which policy is the best for the American people? This is the policy which the great and good Mr. Bryan calls the "robber tariff." If it robs any people it is the foreigners whom it deprives of the chance to do work we should do our selves.—Los Angeles Times. THE NEW SYSTEM CF CUSTOMS ADMINISTRATION. M y y I if I Which Is Stung? "The German government is to give United States exporters the benefit of the minimum schedules of the Ger man 'maximum and minimum' plan while ihe United States simply modi fies a few custom house rules and regulations that bear heavily upon for eign importers." This is what the Worcester Post considers an arrangement which gives Germany so much the worst of it that its acceptance is astonishing. It all de pends upon the view. Germany want-, ed a wider entrance for her competi tive products, and that is practically what Germany gets. What more did she want? Our compliant state de partment could not very well execute a quit claim deed of the whole Ameri can union, but it did the best it could. It went a long way toward guarantee ing to Germany that it shall hereafter be permitted to do more, and the mills and factories of our own country less of the work whicl: our wage earners have been doing in the past ten years of the Dingley tariff. It must, indeed, be an "insatiate monster" for whom all this would not suffice. Why Not? "Other foreign countries will in the near future insist upon our giving them better tariff rates, or they will retaliate by putting prohibitive duties on our imports."—Albany Press. That is precisely what they will do. Why should they not? Our gifted department has advertised to the world the fact that the way to break down the American tariff is to put up rates and then make a few threats RUNYAN IS CAPTURED. BANK TELLER WHO RAN AVi/AY WITH $96,000 IS ARRESTED IN NEW YORK CITY. More than $54,0Q0 of the Stolen Cash Was Found—A Woman Betrayed His Hiding Place. New York. —Chester B. Runyan, ! the defaulting teller of the Wind | sor Trust Co., was arrested in New York Friday and $51,410 of the money stolen from the bank was recovered. Runyan was found in the apartment of Mrs. Laura M. Carter, of 619 West One Hundred and Forty-fourth street, where he had been since he walked out of the bank on Saturday with all I the money In the teller's vault packed ! in his suit case. Mrs. Carter reported at the One Hundred and Twenty-firth street po lice station Friday that Runyan was 1 in her flat. Five detectives accompa nied Mrs. Carter to the house. She ! furnished them with a key to the apartment and two detectives entered j the room while the others remained | outside. As the detectives entered Runyan | was standing in front of a chiffonier, iHe turned suddenly on the officers j with a revolver in his hand. The de j tectives rushed at him, telling him to j throw up his hands. He thereupon \ dropped the revolver and submitted to ; being handcuffed, saying "The jig is up." asked where the money was, h said that part c,f it was in the suit case and the rest was in a drawer of the chiffonier. # When the detectives had finished ransacking the flat Runyan was taken ! to the police station. Mrs. Carter and I her negro maid, Mary Duncan, were \ also arrested. At the station Runyan admitted his I identity. He said that he had been in the flat since Saturday, laughing at the efforts the police were making to locate him. When questioned about the where ! abouts of the balance of the money missing from the bank—the sum lost j was said to be more than $96,000 —he i stated that he had been speculating I and had lost heavily and intimated I that Mrs. Carter might know some | thing about any money that was miss j ing. Mrs. Carter indignantly denied I that she had any of the money and | angrily told Runyan that she had be trayed him to the police because he had lied to her and hffd not given her money as he had promised. Runyan stated that he had given Mrs. Carter $15,000, but this she de nied. He said he had given her $5,000 on Monday and SIO,OOO Friday morn ing. Mrs. Carter said that he gave her $5,000 on Monday, but that she withdrew it from the bank Friday morning and returned it to him. It also developed that Runyan gave Mrs. Carter a heavy gold bracelet and ! a diamond ring on Saturday evening. I These were valued at SI,OOO. The j bracelet was on Mrs. Carter's wrist at ! the time of Runyan's arrest and is now in possession of the police. Mrs. Carter was closely questioned ! by the police as to her acquaintance j with Runyan. She said that she first met him on the street and had met j him several times after that. Finally, j she said, he agreed to furnish a flat | for her and give her SSO a week. The flat' was secured and she moved in two weeks ago. After that, she said, | she saw little of Runyan until last Sat urday and he had given her little money. BUSINESS IIWPROVtS. Very Satisfactory Conditions are Re ported by Dun's Review of Trade. New York.—R. G. Dun & Co.'s | Weekly Review of Trade says: Despite the interruption of a holi day and the usual inventories and midsummer stoppage of machinery | for repairs, a vast amount of business j was transacted during the past week and the outlook improved still further. ; Settled warm weather has reduced stocks of summer fabrics at many points where congestkm was threat ened and in some cases supplemen tary orders from wholesalers replen ish depleted stocks that it was feared would be carried over to 1908. Midyear dry goods clearance sales were satisfactory, local jobbers sell j ing freely to the interior where deliv- I eries could not be secured from the { mills. Sales of fireworks were esti * mated as 20 per cent, larger than last year. Two Bank Employes Sent to Prison. Pittsburg, Pa. —After refusing appli cations for new tiials of the men | convicted in connection with the fail ! ure of the Enterprise national bank, of Allegheny, Judge Ewing in the Uni ted States district court Friday sen tenced E. P. McMillen, the general bookkeeper of the bank, who pleaded guilty to two indictments charging false entries and misapplication of the bank's funds, to serve six years in the penitentiary on the first charge and six months upon the second. Charles Menzer, former assistant, teller, con victed on nine counts, charging mis application of funds and aiding Leo Clark, the cashier, who suicided, to do the same, was sentenced to five years and six months imprisonment. Railroad Company Is Fined $15,000. Rochester. N. Y.—A fine of $15,000 was imposed on the New York Central Railroad Co. Friday in the federal court by Judge Hazel in accordance with the conviction of the company for failing to file a tariff schedule as required by law. Death List Grows. St. Paul, Minn.—Twenty-one per sons are now reported to have been killed in the tornado which swept a path 100 miles long and from a mile to a tew rods in in width through western Wisconsin Wednesday night. AN EXPENSIVE OUTLOOK. fib ii Daughter—l want all the money you can spare this summer, father. Father —Hear nie, my (laughter, art you going to tour Europe? Daughter—Xo, father; I am going to graduate and get married. Progressing Some. The possibilities increase That tills olil world will move aright - We've talked of universal peace And no one tried to start a tight. —Washington Star. Suspicion. '"Wh..i you win*," sail the stranger, 'is a morn centralized forn of government for Crimson Gulch." 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