2 ctou cCuNty press. H. H. MULLIN, Editor Published Every Thursday. TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION. Ceryear.. It OG 1 paid in advance I*l ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisement a the rate ol fcie JJenSrtjtvare;* or.rnr, inse rtlo na ud 112 flf Ratqalis'vilftjf uar.'-or ft>r ail Or.three qjor.tU». art.'loifiaail uniform, and will ba furnlahed on Offldal A<lvertlaln« per square |hveO'timffS'Or.li's».",»Z;' eucti subsequent insei - tletVjoab^fit^'pßX.VMirare. went* per line for one ln?ei »<sril6lo^'{j?^-enw;pi:r Une for each subsequent »<m iyr\it(ro;{tjß ; rrtl9n. ODtoufjJUfytlts.'siover !1 valines. 10 cents pet Une! births, mat- bqilnsflrtoilJree. Uneaorlesa, 46 per year, avor?tree lines.' at the regular ratea of silver uri^k No local Inserted for leu tban 75 oeati pe» taaua JOB PRINTING- Tae Job department of'th'ojPaKSßlsoompleu and iin>'ird-'J3<'.!Uttos fdr.doigtf'the boat olas%of fcut*-, . f-llil ICULAK ATTENTION PAID TO LAW yaiSTixy. will bo discontinued until arresr. Ke»>ro paid, exoept at tbe option of the pub ner. I'tipfcra pent out of the county must be paid tor liiiac vduae. ■III Ml ■ Mil ' ) » i ————— New York's Temperature. The records for New York are fair ly complete since 1822, and they show, prior to the advent of the local bureau, that our coldest year was in 1837, with an average temperature of 47.G de grees, and the warmest in 1865, aver aging 55.5. This would make a dif ference of about 14 weeks in the pe riod of vegetation In the extreme years. —N. Y. Times. Dreaming. I care not how worldly you may be; there are times when all distinctions seem like dust; and when at the graves of the great, you dream of a coming country where your proudest hopes shall be dimmed forever. Mar ried or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time feel and know that your life is but a dream.—lke Marvel. Fads in Diet, So many dietetic schemes have been urged on what have been claimed to be scientific reasons, and have proved themselves in practice to be unsatis factory, that not a few practitioners refuse to listen to any discussion on the specific values of foodstuffs out side the teachings of practical experi ence. —London Hospital. Considerate. "Brethren," said Rev. Mr. Good man, bringing his sermon to a close when scarcely half way through it,"it Is too hot this morning for me to preach and for you to listen. We will sing 'From Greenland's Icy Moun tains,' omitting all but the first stanza, and be dismissed." Loyal. Tommy Atkins (to colonel, who has brought him to see a memorial brass In the church to those of their regi ment who fell in a late wart —Well, sir, if I'd a-known your name weren't a-going to be amongst 'em, blest if I'd have subscribed a penny to the thing! —Punch. The First Trousers. Pockets were one of the great sar torial objections urged against trou sers, and an English writer on male fashions 80 years ago declared: "No pockets can be tolerated on any ac count whatever; they make a man look like a Yankee." English Modesty. It is not the habit of the average English gentleman to brag of his bene factions. of anything attempted or done, and, as a rule, he is a most dis concerted person when his left hand discovereth what his right hand doeth.—Motor World. Sayings of Childhood. A little girl of three years was given a bag of peanuts by her father. She helped herself to one and being un able to break the shell, she said: "Papa, will you please unbutton this peanut forme?"— Chicago Tribune. Plain Language from H. James. It is observable, I think, the world over, writes Henry James In Harp er's Bazar, that the poor are kinder to the poor, in proportion, than the rich themselves are, or even than the rich are to the rich. Will Never Dress Like Men. "Will women ever dress like men?" asks a New York reformer. No. Even If they wore trousers they would want to put them on by poking their heads up through from under. —Chicago Rec ord-Herald. Keep Out Dust. Tack a piece of cheesecloth over the screen in your pantry window and gee how much dust you can keep out; wash the cloth when needed. Large Crop from Acre. An acre of rich land in the parts of Central America suitable for raising that fruit will yield about 26,000 bananas in a year. Few Insfane Indians. The proportion of insanity among the North American Indians is the smallest among the world's races—2s per 100,000. The Real Test. It Ik by presence of mind in untried : emergencies thnt the native metal oi 1 a man la t< ted,—Lowell. S NOT FAIR PLAY NEW TARIFF DEAL WITH GER MANY SHARPLY CRITICIZED. It Not Only Permits the Cheating of the Revenues by Undervaluation, but Also Enables Foreigners to Undermine American Producers in the American Market. It is gratifying to find so influential a newspaper as the Chicago Tribune arrayed on the side of fair play and square play in connection with the new German agreement. Additionally gratifying it is to have the view of the American Economist regarding the mischief and the folly of that agreement so thoroughly agreed with by the Tribune. Again it is gratify ing that the Cedar Rapids Republican has arrived at the truth through the Tribune, after having hesitated to ac cept identically the same truth as promulgated through the Economist several weeks in advance of the Tribune. We are delighted ;o find that the truth, through whatsoever channel, has at last penetrated to Cedar Rapids. The main thing is that the truth has got there. The over zeal which insists upon a prompt procla mation of the truth is surely no less pardonable than the under zeal which hesitates in accepting a truth %vhon it is as plain as the noje on a man's fare. The Chicago Tribune, albeit no fer vent friend of protectionism, and far from partial to the so-called "stand patters," shows a clear comprehen sion of what is the true substance of our new dicker with Germany. The Tribune is not fooled by the peanut concessions authorized in section 3. It knows better than to suppose that this paltry consideration is all that Germany obtains in return for her generous condescension in marking down to normal rates a tariff schedule previously marked up for that very purpose. It knows that what Germany was after, and what Germany gets under the agreement, was such a nullification of our cus toms laws and methods of adminis tration as would permit the wholesale undervaluation of German exports consigned to German agents in the I'nited States. Fully aware is the Tribune that there is no virtue in the clause requiring that the goods shall be for export only and not such as are sold in the home country except in limited quantities only. In order to defeat this restriction, says the Trib une: "All the German ir,p>r f aetarer has to do is to put up a staple sMticle in an unusual form and refrain from selling it in that shape in the domes tic market. It immediately become? an article for export only, and the manufacturer fixes his own price, which under the convention cannot be attacked either by our consuls or by customs appraisers at the port of ar rival, no matter what may be its ac tual value." Every competing country will claim and sooner or later be granted similar license to send to the United States special brands of goods manufactured "for export only." In every compet ing country manufacturers will, as the Tribune says, fix their own export prices on everything they export to the United States. Well may the Cedar Rapids Republican exclaim: "It is almost past comprehension how such a blunder could have oc curred. If what the Tribune has set forth be true, the United States has virtually said to Europe: Here is our tariff law; make your own reductions. In other words, fix the schedules to suit yourselves." Yes; this is precisely what our gifted state department, backed up by our acquiescent treasury department, has said to the manufacturers of Eu rope. They have said more than that and worse than that. They have said to the governments of the world: First mark up your tariffs on Ameri can exports, and we will then mark down our own tariff as an inducement for you to put your tariffs back where they were before you marked them up on us." Evidently the era of Ameri can tariff making for Americans is past. Hereafter foreigners are to de termine what our tariff shall be. The results, as affecting American 'ibor and industry, of the universal under valuation of goods for export vo the I'nited States need not be speculated upon. Industrial disaster will go hand in hand with national humilia tion. —American Economist. Has Learned Nothing. Mr. Cleveland thinks the tar'T should be the great issue for till Democrats to bring to the front next year. The ex-president is 70 years old. He lives in the past and has learned nothing since he left the White House. He imagines that the issues that interested him then are still alive and that, people are think ing now pretty much as they thought then. That was long ago. A great deal has happened since, but Mr. Cleveland has had no hand in it and thinks the country should get back and take up the work where he left it. Both liryan and Hearst have come to the front since Mr. Cleve land's time, but he scarcely recog nizes them, though they represent ten Democrats where he represents one. Grover is an excellent fisherman on a pond, where he can got a good scat, but not much in quick water, where he has to v/ade.—Northampton (Mass.) Gazette. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1907. STAB AT PROTECTIVE SYSTEM. What Recent Agreement with Ger many Amounts to. In declaring that "the arrangement with Germany is a violation of the principles of the protective tariff sys tem" the Washington Post states a fact of importance. It is true, as the Post avers, that the foundation stone of protectionism is that the United States shall treat all countries alike, and that "the agreement just made is not justified if the protective system is to be continued." The agreement with Germany con templates larger opportunities for the admission of competitive products in the United States. Either it means that, or it means nothing. We do not suppose that the shrewd diplomats of Germany have been putting in their time reaching an agreement which means to German producers no more than the petty an inconsequential con cession relating to argols, vermouth, sparkling wines, statuary, etc. Paltry dickers like this do not take so much time. It was the privilege of under valuing their exports that the Ger mans wanted and got. Just now our gifted state depart ment and our acquiescent treasury de partment are busily engaged in trying to show that the permission to fix their own values is not going to do the Germans any good or American industry and labor any harm. Then why was the permission granted? Was a 1 tw of congress distorted out of shape and nullified to 110 purpose? It is silly to suppose it. The Post is right. The German agreement ia an underhanded stab at the protective tariff system. This agreement must of necessity be extended to all com peting nations—all except Great Britain, the nation that deserves most at our hands. So, if the agreement stands protection must fall. Nothing is plainer than that. STILL NEED OF PROTECTION. Outory of Chicago Journal Is Unsup ported by the Facts. "The Dingley tariff has been in ef fect for ten years. In that time our 'infant' industries have had all the protection they need, in many cases too much protection for the good of the people."—Chicago Journal. Is that so? And how about, the Journal's subscription and advertis ing patronage? Both have been the beneficiaries of the era of prosperity that exists in this country on account of the Dingley tariff. Does the Jour nal think it has got to a point where it can get along without prosperity? Has it a notion that American indus tries can goon paying the highest wages ever known and employing full quotas of workmen in competition with the cheap labor of Europe? If it dees, it is laboring under a delusion. The removal of the protective princi ples of the tariff would instantly ex pose the industries of this country to the inroads of foreign goods made at starvation wages, and no matter how strong and prosperous an institution is, it cannot long withstand such a corroding influence on its business. Wages would have to be lowered, quality of articles cheapened and money withdrawn from investment in unprofitable concerns. Anyone with common sense can figure out the ulti mate result of such a condition. With all due respect to the Journal for a most excellent but misguided news paper, the intelligent people of tha country do not propose to do away with the protective tariff and let down the bars to panic and business stagnation.—Burlington Hawkeye. PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF THE PERSONAE NON GRATAE PRINCIPLE. /' §j fry $ 4$ &! I H ~ <^ v '> "It is hereby understood," says the new German agreement, "that the general principle as to n&iconae gratae shall apply to special agents, confidential agents and others sent by the treasury department to investi gate questions bearing upon customs administration." What will happen should these officials become personae non gratae because of overzeal in the matter of ascertaining true values of German exports is graphically sug gested in the above illustration. Seeing a Light. In a letter to the Philadelphia Rec e,rd, Mr. A. B. Farquhar, an uncom promising free trader, bears test! mony to the sincerity of the demand of the manufacturers for tariff reduc tion at the earliest possible moment, and also for a general system of rec iprocity in competing products. "Our manufacturers have begun to sec light," says Mr. Farquhar. Perhaps they have. But they will see more light when tariff ripping and all-round competition under so-called reciproc ity shall have been established. Ic that light they will readily recognize themselves as having foolishly dug away the ground from under their own feet and landed in a hole. LIKE A CARD HOUSE. A NEW BUILDING AT PHILADEL PHIA COLLAPSED, KILLING THREE MEN. Nineteen Workmen Were Injured, One Fatally—Others Are Believed to be in the Ruins. Philadelphia, Pa. —Three men are ; known to have been killed, one ! fatally hurt and 18 others were injur ed in the collapse of a new concrete building Wednesday at the plant of j the Hridgman Brothers Co., manufac- I turers of steamflttera' supplies, at Fif teenth street and Washington avenue. The building was just being put un | der roof when a section about 30 feet iin width and extending the entire depth of the structure collapsed. About 30 men were at work on the side which gave way, and they were carried down in the debris. The body of Marshall Hopkins, aged 45 years, and the bodies of two unidentified col ored men have been taken from the ruins. It is believed there are others buried under the heavy mass of con crete, as the police and contractors have not been able to locate two Itali ans and three colored laborers who were on the building when the acci dent occurred. The building, which was being erected as an annex to the Bridgman plant, collapsed according to the ad missions of C. B. Miller, the boss car punter, because the shorings were • away from the concrete before it. had properly set. A. S. Reavis, trading as the Sheet Metal and Cor nice Co., <, 112 Washington, D. C., wa» the contractor for the building. TOBACCO TRUST IS ATTACKED. The Government Brings Suit to Dis solve the Big Combine. New York. The government |on Wednesday filed in the Uni | ted States circuit court in this city a j petition against the American rßo j bacco Co., the Imperial Tobacco Co., I the British-American Tobacco Co., the American Snuff Co., the American | Cigar Co., the United Cigar Stores Co., j the American Stogie Co., the McAn drews & Forbes Co., the Conley Foil Co. and 56 other corporations and 29 individuals connected with the named | companies. These corporations and individuals j constitute what is generally known as ; the "Tobacco Trust" and the petition directed against them sets forth the i purpose of the government to dissolve I this trust by breaking up the agree j ments under which the consolidated 1 concerns are working. In showing the growth of the "trust" since its organi ; nation in 1890 the conclusion is reach ; ed that at an early day, unless pre vented, it would monopolize the en tire tobacco industry. James C. -VlcHeynolds, the special assistant attorney general appointed I to prosecute the tobacco trust, declar | ed Wednesday after filing the com plaint in the case that the question whether he would urge the court to appoint a receiver for the various companies would depend entirely upon the evidence secured. He said that criminal prosecution of some of the defendants he named in the com plaint is probable. YAMAMOTO COMES TO GOTHAM. A Japanese Admiral Visits New York, Calls on Admiral Evans and Dep recates Talk of War. New York.—Admiral Haron Yama moto, one of Japan's most dis tinguished naval officers, is the guest of New York. The admiral and his suite arrived here Wednesday from England on the steamer Carmania and will remain here until July 15. The admiral's first day in New York was a busy one. He was interviewed by half a hundred reporters, had his photograph taken a score of times, re ceived visits from M'aj. Gen. Frederick L>. Grant, Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans, Capt. J. D. Adams, acting com mandant of the New York navy yard, and a number of other military and naval men, took a long automobile ride and dined with the members of his party. In his interviews the admiral dep recated the war scare which has re cently appeared in both Japan and America. He said that no small inci dent could break the friendship which has existed for many years between Japan and the United States. He thought the sensational press of the two countries largely to blame for the war talk. As to the proposed trans fer of the great Atlantic battleship squadron to the Pacific, that was a matter solely for the American gov ernment to decide. Moyer Testifies. Boise, Idaho.—President Charles H. Moyer, of the Western Federation of Miners, went to the stand Wednesday as a witness for Secreary Haywood, charged with mur dering Frank Steunenberg, and be sides making positive denial of all the crimes attributed to him and the other federation leaders by Harry Or chard, Moyer offered an explanation of the unsolicited appearance of the federation of miners as the defender of Harry Orchard immediately after Orchard's arrest at Caldwell for the murder of Steunenberg. Two-Cent Fare Law Inoperative. Richmond. Va.—Judge Pritchard, of the United States circuit court of appeals, 011 Wednesday con tinued the restraining order prevent ing the uniform two-cent passenger r, H.te as adopted by the state corpora tion commission from going into ef fect. Canada's Population Is 6,504,900. Ottawa, Out.—The census de partment has figured out Canada's population April 1 at 6,504,900, an in crease of 1,133,586 in the last six yeare. Straw Cuffs for Gardeners. Cuffs specially designed for the use of women gardeners have made their appearance. They are made of woven willow that is perfectly impervious to thorns and yet is light and not un comfortable to wear. Through the baskets, which fit from the wrists al most to the elbows and keep the blouse and arms from being soiled during the heavy work of gardening, the hands are easily slipped. Dreaming. I care not how worldly you may be I there are times when all the distinc tions seem like dust; and when at the graves of the great you dream of a coming country where your proud est hopes shall be dimmed forever. Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dream er, and will one time feel and know that your life is but a dream. —Ik Mar i vel. Wholesale Lamplighting. A new invention has been intro duced in Newcastle by which it is 1 feared the lamplighters of the city will lose their vocation. A German | inventor has placed a machine at the local gas works which will enable the gas company to light and extin guish all the street lamps simulta neously.—Newcastle (Eng.) Guardian. India Rubber Tree. The india rubber, -tree grows freely in gardens as an-ornamental ahrulj in southern Italy, and steps are be ing taken to make an industrial busi ness of growing it. Prof. Bozzi of the Palermo Gardens, exhibited a specimen at Milan recently contain ing as much as 85 per cent, of rubber. The Actor's Hard Lot. Canada has a theatrical company which is transported in automobiles from place to place. The game is getting harder every minute. Old time Canadian actor only had to be | able to play ten characters a week, ! drive a wagon and double in brass. Now he has also to be a chauffeur. Good Business Proposition. The proposition is being discussed ' to pull down the Hank of England building, which i 3 one story in height and covers eight acres, house | it in a seven-story building on a por -1 tion of the site and sell the remainder of the land, the value of which is estimated at $32,500,000. Knew Where to Come. With reference to a fossil tooth of a hippopotamus found in lowa the London Evening Standard doubts whether that proves that the animal ever was an inhabitant of America It thinks that the tooth belonged to a hippopotamus that visited America for dental purposes. Thirsty British Sailors. More than 1,000 men from a tor pedo flotilla at Harwich, England, got shore leave one day recently, and early in the afternoon there was not a drop of beer left in the saloons of the town. Thirsty customers had to be regretfully turned away. Bible Seventy Years in Court. After 70 years' continuous service at Wisbach, England, a leather-cover ed Bible with brown and faded leaves, has been discarded, a lady having pre sented the police court with a cellu loid-covered copy, which will be wash ed every day. Beauty. There are women's faces, some real, some ideal, which contain something in them that becomes a positive ele ment in our creed, so direct and palpable a revelation is it of the in finite purity of love. —Holmes. Interesting Indian Relic. An interesting Indian relic was re cently displayed in Strong, Me. It is a sapbucket formerly owned and used by Pierpole, the noted character of pioneer days, and is made of heavy birch bark. Youthful Snake Charmer. Evelyn Chandler of Norway, Me., eight years old, is said to have a pe culiar power over reptiles. She is a natural snake charmer, and handles the most venomous serpents with im punity. G.SCHMIDT'S, HEADQUARTERS FOR FRESH BREAD, Jj popular ~!su CONFECTIONERY Daily Delivery. 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