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The Picture and the Stcry.
F. R. Whiteside, sorrowing over the
painter's lack of proper appreciation
in the Bookman, asks why the painter
should be expected to paint a story,
saying that although the painter de
pends upon the writer for his widest
publicity, the writer discusses the
idea, the meaning of tho picture, to
the e - ,elusion of the qualities that to
the painter are reason for its exist
ence. "When the painter writes about
a picture," says Mr. Whiteside, "ha
speaks of the qualities he sees in it,
qualities of selection, form, color and
composition, hut has little to say about
the subject. The average layman
frankly admits that he knows nothing
about pictures; but he generally quali
fies his remark with, 'I know what I
like.' And usually that is some picture
that he has read about, or that appeals
to him through its story-telling quali
ties. If his interest goes deeper—in
stead of securing his knowledge at
first hand from pictures themselves,
he gets a book on 'How to Study Pic
tures,' written by a man untrained in
the painter's art, unfamiliar with his
aims, and out of sympathy with his
point of view. A writer would be
amply justified in vigorously object
ing to a painter as a reviewer of his
books; a musician would naturally
protest against a sculptor as musical
critic. The position of the painter is
identical.''
Dangers Lurking in Cravats.
Girls who gave neckties to men
used to get into the joke papers. Now.
no more. Since the notion of wearing
knit ties came in a few yean, igo, the
mightiest is not too prouu to disj.'.ay
such handiwork. And in this act is
there not a quaint and charming sym
bolism? The tie, fashioned by innu
merable delicate motions of soft fin
gers, represents in its final form al
most a detached part of the lady her
self. Mere thread plus her —that is
the tie. And this resultant the man,
c willing slave, knots around his neck.
Might not one almost say that that
silken noose, which, minus what her
hands have done, would be mere yarn,
is indeed her hands? A noose—aye,
there's the rut! For if once around
one's neck, it is but a step from being
caressed to being throttled in the re
lentless grip of the Superman. Each
must decide for himself. As for us,
exclaims the editor of Collier's, we
are willing to risk it, provided we get
the tie. No, this is not fishing. A
man used to have to asl: his friends
to send him knit ties from the other
side. Now they may be picked up in
every Broadway shop and are become
almost vulgar.
Sudden and accidental death on the
streets of a city is not an uncommon
thing. It may come by way of a brick
or stone dropped by a mason from a
new building, from a falling sign loos
ened by the wind, from the wheels of
trolley car or automobile, from a run
away horse, from a hundred causes.
All men know this risk, yet seldom
take special precautions for them
selves in connection with it. In curi
ous contrast with the ordinary care
lessness is the action of the Wormser
brothers, New York bankers, both of
whom are now dead, one having
passed away recently. It is related of
them that when both were alive they
were practically inseparable, keeping
the same hours and being always to
gether except when going to and from
their office. Then they always took
separate conveyances so that no acci
dent could meet them both at the
same time.
Prince Tokugawa, the ex-shogun of
Japan, In May gave a luncheon at his
residence in Tokyo to some of the sur
vivors of his supporters at and before
the time ol the restoration. As most
of the surviving samurai were in
capacitated by age from attending,
only some 20 were present, but the
function was exceedingly impressive
notwithstanding. The guests recalled
rvith mingled feelings the old days
when they were the prince's retainers,
and the toasts to the dead heroes who
lost their lives for the cause of the
shogunate were drunk with an emo
tion not often seen among Japanese.
NOWHERE IN FAVOR
IMPORTERS PROTEST AGAINST
THE GERMAN AGREEMENT.
They Point Out the Mischief That
Will Result from Permitting For
eigners to Name Low Export Val
ues and Thereby Escape the Pay
ment of Full Tariff Duties.
Against that portion of the German
agreement which compels consuls cer
tifying to the correctness of export in
voices and American customs officers
who are to pass upon the question of
values to accept as "competent evi
dence" the values placed upon such
invoices by local German chambers
of commerce the strong protest of the
Textile Importers' association is whol
ly directed, if any doiibt as to the
grievous error and wrong inflicted by
this agreement alike upon the direct
importing interests and the wage pay
ers nnd wage earners of this country
remained in the minds of the presi
dent of the United States, or the sec
retary ol state who engineered the
pernicious dicker, or the secretary of
the treasury who acquiesced in its
unwholesome provisions, or the news
papers which have accepted the agree
ment as all right and proper, or any
man who would like to see American
industry and American business have
fair play anil a square deal —that
doubt upon a reading of the memorial
of protest should instantly disappear,
and in its place should come a feeling
of certainty that on the part of tho
American negotiators a grossly im
prudent and improper thing has been
done in permitting foreign manufac
turers to fix "export value" and there
by evade in part the payment of tariff
duties specified by law.
This is made perfectly evident by
the clear and forcible language of the
memorial of the Textile Importers'
association. The facts and arguments
are those of the leading merchants of
the United States—men conspicuous
the world over for their great busi
ness ability, their scrupulous business
integrity, and their wide business in
fluence. They are facts and argu
ments wholly outside of the domain
of politics, and they cannot be suc
cessfully controverted.
If these men had been consulted
and their testimony taken —the iden
tical testimony that is embodied in
the grave and dignified protest which
is now In the hands of President
Roosevelt—fortified by the testimony
of our great domestic producing inter
ests, the German agreement could not
have been cosunnnated. Secretary
Root, obsessed as he was with the
delusion that foreign trade is the one
great tiling to think of, and Secretary
Cortelyou, Inexperienced and plastic
as he was, with less than 50 days of
service at the head of the treasury
department, would not have dared to
disregard such testimony.
President Roosevelt, had he known
what he now knows after reading the
importers' memorial, would have used
his "big .stick" to smash the dicker.
Of this we feel sure.
Why, then, was not the testimony
of the direct importers and the do
mestic producers heard on this im
portant matter in advance of the
signing of the German agreement.
Why was the report of the commis
sion sent to Germany withheld until
after March 4, so that congress could
not get hold of it?
Why did the state department, in
reply to a resolution of inquiry be
fore the house committee on ways
and means, decline to make known
any of the provisions of the Ger
man agreements?
Why should every American inter
est have b~en kept in the dark when
the German manufacturing interests
were fully advised of what they were
going to get?
We cannot answer any of these
questions. We do not know for what
reason it was thought proper to s"-
eretly sacrifice the business of llie
direct importers, to secretly lower
the tariff duties that American labor
and industry depended upon for pro
tection, to rob the treasury revenues,
and to demoralize the customs admin
istration service by official sanction
of dishonesty and fraud.
The great, central blunder and in
justice of the "export value" provision
of the German agreement is made as
clear as day in the memorial of the
Textile Importers' association. Un
der its operation the heaviest tariff
payers (the direct importing houses)
are put out of business, the American
manufacturer is subjected to a dis
honest competition alike repugnant
to the provisions of the tariff law
and to good morals; the American
wage earner finds his labor undersold
through crooked practices, and the
American treasury is robbed of no
one can tell how many millions of
dollars annually. This is what may
be gathered from the memorial of
protest. And it is absolutely true.
Easily Answered.
The Roston Herald irs having some
trouble in answering the question,
"What is a Republican?" -Thus:
"Or take the tariff: Is Gov. Cum
mins, who demands revision in the in
terest. of the consumer, or Senator
Allison, who sneers at such an idea as
a 'fad,' a true Republican? Coming
to our own state with this paramount
issue 'What is a Republican?'—a man
who stands for Gov. Guild and Air.
Foss, or one who sides with Gen.
Draper and Col. Clarke?"
The process of elimination would
aid in solving the riddle. If the Her
ald strikes out Cummins, Foss and
Guild the answer is easy.
CAMERON COUNTV PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, if»7-
HAS TAKEN UP HARD TASK.
Secretary Cortelyou Apparently Aims
to Accomplish the Impossible.
"Fortunately Secretary Cortelyou
has proved in three government de
partments that he has the habit of ac
complishing what his predecessors
pronounced impossible."—N. Y. Mail.
His immediate predecessor at the
head of the treasury department sup
plies an illustration. Secretary Shaw
pronounced it. impossible to collect
the revenues to which the government
is entitled, to provide the protection
to which domestic labor and capital
are entitled and to maintain the hon
esty and efficiency in the customs
service to which the people as a
whole are entitled, and at the same
time open wide the door to frauds on
the revenue, to facilitate the undersell
ing of American producers by foreign
exporters under the consignment sys
tem, and to the encouragement of
wholesale graft and rascality among
customs officers. Accordingly, Mr.
Shaw refused to sanction the Ger
man agreement and resigned from the
cabinet. Now, as it appears, Secre
tary Cortelyou is about to accomplish
the Impossible. He is going to give
away and keep the same market; he
is going to smash protection and
maintain protection; he is going to
promote dishonesty and insure recti
tude. He will turn out to be indeed
a great man if he shall succeed in
these indeavors.
MAKING COMMON CAUSE AGAINST
A COMMON ENEMY.
From the Protest of the Textile Im
porters' association against the Ger
man agreement:
"Germany has secured an undue ad
vantage. It is the one for which she has
been struggling a long time; it is the 0110
which she has been seeking by every
means in her power; it is tile one that
every American importer who has sought
to buy poods In the German market
knows that Germany has been working
to secure for a number of years; it is the
one which Germany lias striven for, be
cause she Is a consigning and not a sell
ing nation. She prefers to consign her
goods to this country, enter them at her
"export price," and then compete in this
market with direct or purchasing im
porters and American manufacturers.
American merchants know that the ad
vantages lie entirely with Germany under
the "export price" feature. As a demon
stration, the imports from Germany dur
ing 190fi were $136,000,000, largely consign
ed; a reduction of ten per cent, under the
"export price" system would be $13,000,090;
if a larger percentage, a corresponding
increase. Assuming only a ten per cent,
reduction, all our advantage as indicated
in the statement Issued by the state de
partment is wiped out."
Bad Leaders.
Cutting loose from a safe anchorage
with minds distorted by a monstrous
ambition, discarding and repudiating
the declarations of their party and
forgetting its wonderful achievements
under this wise national policy, there
are to-day Republican leaders who
would destroy the great work of Mc
kinley and Dingley, and listening to
the clamor of the men who plunged
this nation into an era of calamity
and depression in 1593, would undo
the work of Republican statesmen and
try again a policy of free trade, which
has at every trial hitherto driven
prosperity from the United States.
We care not who these men may be
nor what great things they may have
done, whether the Republican party
follows their advice and elects them to
power on such a platform, it writes
its own epitaph; repudiates lis great
est living principles; destroys the
foundation upon Avhich it lias built
the grandest, political organization the
world has ever known; undoes the
work of half a century of efficient
political labor and starts the nation
down the declivity of depression,
stagnation and disaster, to plunge
into the mire of free trade and Dem
ocracy, which will speedily obliterate
every vestige of the prosperity we
now enjoy, bringing the country back
again to the dark days, similar to
those through which it passed at the
close of the Buchanan and Cleveland
administrations. —Boone (Mo.) Repub
lican.
Tariff Revision by Treaty.
German exporters under this new
arrangement are permitted to fix their
own values upon goods shipped to the
United States. The goods will be ap
praised at such figures as the Ger
mans may name and American con
suls are expected to accept German
appraisals. The Germans can well af
ford to pay the duty when they aro
permitted to fix their own value on
the goods. By well known tricks of
undervaluation they will be able to
get their goods into this country on a
lesser ad valorem duty and will thus
save many millions every year. If
France, England and other countries
exporting lo Hie United States shall
be able to make a similar arrange
ment the tariff question will lose
much of Its importance and a tariff
for revenue only will have been ac
complished by treaty.—Nyack Star.
HUNOREOS OF MEN ARE QUI
STRIKE OF TELEGRAPHERS EX
TENDS TO WESTERN CITIES.
Employes of Western Union and Pos
tal Companies Fight for the Closed
Shop and Shorter Hours.
Chicago, 111. —Following the lead
of telegraph operators employed
by the Western lluion Telegraph Co.
in Chicago, who struck Thursday
night, because they were asked to
work with non-union men In Los An
geles, telegraphers in nearly a dozen
other cities quit work Friday. The
5(10 men employed by the Postal Tele
graph Co. in Chicago who belong to
the same local of the Commercial
Telegraphers' union as the Western
Union men and who declare that their
working conditions with the company
have become unsatisfactory, took ad
vantage of the situation and quit
work in a body last night.
With the strike of the Postal em
ployes. Chicago is left with about 35
commercial telegraphers who are en
deavoring to transmit the business of
both companies, whereas under nor
mal conditions fully 1,500 men are
necessary to do the work in Chicago.
Other Western Union offices which
became involved in the trouble Fri
day, together with the number of men
whr> quit work, are:
H..H Lake City 3 1 ). Helena Hi, Kan
sas Ci t330, Dallas I(K>, B'oi t Wot f.h,
To:., 40, Colorado Spriiil<», Denver
S3, El l':iso 15. In New Orleans the
luon empiojed by the Postal Tele
graph Co. left their k«_y.s last night.
Under or lei a from National Presi
dent Small, of the telegraphers' or
ganization, National Secretary Rus
sell last night wired to the secretaries
of the various locals throughout the
country to keep the men at work un
til further orders. Mr. Russell, in ex
planation of this action said: "We
don't want to use up all our ammuni
tion in one charge.'•
New York. —The Western Union
Telegraph Co. will fight the
strike of iheir operators in the west
ern cities, in the east or wherever the
men may go out. They expect to win
as they claim to have won in 1883. A
strike among the 3,000 operators of
Greater New York is imminent.
INDICTMENTS FOR RE3ATING.
They Are Returned Against Two Oil
Companies and an Equal Num
ber of Railroads.
Jamestown, N. Y. Convictions
on all the counts of the indict
ments returned Friday by the federal
grand jury for western New York
would render four corporations liable
to tines aggregating $18,240,000.
Judge Hazel received the report
from the jury's investigations of the
go.-ernnient's charges against the
Standard Oil Co., the Vacuum Oil Co.,
the New York Central and the Penn
sylvania railroads of giving and re
ceiving special and illegal concessions
on shipments of oil from Olean, N. Y.,
to points in Vermont.
The report includes the presenta
tion of two indictments against the
Standard Oil Co., two against the
Vacuum Oil Co., two against the New
York Central and Pennsylvania joint
ly, and two against each of these rail
roads separately. One of the indict
ments against each corporation con
tains 188 counts and the other 40
counts.
The report given is only a partial
one, the jury adjourning until Septem
ber 6, when it will continue its work.
The law provides a penalty of $20,-
000 for each count in case of convic
tion. A conviction on each count
would render the Standard, Vacuum,
New York Central and Pennsylvania
nable to fines of $4,560,000 each, or a
total of $18,240,000.
REVIEW OF TRADE.
The Usual Midsummer Quiet Is Noted
at Many Points—The Leading In
dustries Are Well Employed.
New York. —It. G. Dun & Co.'.s
Weekly Re view of Trade says:
Jobbing trade in fall and winter
goods is active at the leading cities,
country merchants being in large at
tendance and operating freely as a
rule. Retail sales of seasonable mer
chandise are liberal, although at. some
points customary midsummer quiet is
noted. While payments are some
what irregular, mercantile collections
show distinct improvement on the
whole.
A few labor disputes are pending,
but there is little interruption in the
leading industries, most manufactur
ing plants working full time and hold
ing orders that promise continued ac
tivity. Commodity prices are lower,
especially in cases where speculative
inflation existed, favorable weather
having greatly improved crop pros
pects.
New business In the iron and steel
industry is light and some quotations
of pig iron are lower, but wire and
wire products have become firmer,
and many steel mills are sold well
into next year. Steel rails are in bet
ter demand, a liberal tonnage of new
contracts appearing this week, and
material is sought by car shops and
shipyards.
Strikers Refuse to Arbitrate.
Los Angeles Cai. —The striking
boilermakers of the Pacific division of
the Southern Pacific on Friday declin
ed the offer of arbitration submitted
by the company. The strike may be
extended further east on the Harri
man lines.
A Famous GamMer Dies.
Chicago, 111. Michael C. Mc-
Donald, fcr years a leading politician
and gambler in this city, dieo
Friday. It is said that Mr. McDon
ald's estate will amount to betweer
11,500,000 and $2,000,0u0.
SUMMARY.
Summer roses;
Summer girls;
Summer poses;
Summer curls;
Revelations
On the beach;
Wild flirtations
With a pe<"-h;
Bathers daily
Wade or tloat;
Idiots gayly
Rock the boat.
Sunburn, freckles—
•lust a few
Piquant speckles—
I'eek-a-boo
Waists mysterious;
Moon and stars;
Swift delirious
Motor cars;
'Tin the season
■lust for rhyme
Without reason—
Summer time.
—Washington Times.
Terrible Revenge.
Manville (much excited) —He rut.
Ed me in business. He smirched my
good name. He filched from me
the girl I loved; but at last, ha! ha!
I am revenged!
Neate —Good gracious! What did
you do?
Manville (hissing through his set
teeth) —I recommended him to spend
his holidays at the seaside lodgings
I had last year, and he's going to
do it.-
TOO SHORT-WAISTED.
Lady—Good morning. I left my
bathing dress here yesterday by mis
take; may I have it, please?
Bathing Man —This the one, miss? —
The Tatler.
The Latest.
Rounder —Wedderly wasn't at tb«
stag party last night, was he?
Pounder —No. He was storm
bound.
Rounder —Why, there wasn't any
storm last night.
Pounder —Oh, yes there was. His
wife had a brain storm. —Chicago,
News.
Her Best Recollection.
Mrs. Lapsling was explaining the
nature of the injury sustained by
Johnny when he fell oft the back
porch.
"It's a wonder he ever went through
It alive," she said. "The doctor says
he came mighty near fracturing his
juxtaposition. You know that's the
bone next to the Medullion obligato."
—Chicago Tribune.
Modern Improvements.
Fire Insurance Agent—l fear I must
charge you extra rates. You burn
kerosene oil here, I see.
Mr. Subub —Yes, but we run no ex
tra risk —no risk at all. The kitchen
Is separate from the house, and there
is a skylight in the roof big enough
for the servant girl and the cookstove
to sail through without hurting any
thing—N. Y. Weekly.
Believed.
Physician Your boy •will pull
through all right. He has a wonder
ful constitution.
Mr. Tyte-Pliist—l am glad to hear
it. doctor. In making out your bill,
of course, you will not make me pay
for what his constitution has done
in pulling him through.—Chicago
Thibune.
Slight Mistake.
First Stranger—Excuse me, but you
are a physician, I believe?
Second Stranger—You are mistaken
sir.
First Stranger—Put I overheard you
say you followed the medical profes
sion.
Second Stranger—And so I do. I'm
an undertaker. —Chicago Daily News.
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