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The Job department of the I'lirss is complete aril affords facilities for doing tli" best class of .w rk I'AIUU I I.AK A'ITK.N HON PAlllTu LAW PKINTINfi. No paper will bi discontinued until arrear ages are paid, except at the optiou of tlie pub lisher. l'apers sent out of the county must be paid for in advance. Excessive Athletics. Exercise is as necessary for the human body as food and drink. It is Impossible to maintain perfect health without it; but It must be taken in moderation, for excess in this respect Is as harmful In Its way, and some times in the same way, as excess in eating. The effect of exercise into increase the tissue changes in the body. The weaker cells arc destroyed and replaced by new and stronger cells, the nutrition is increased, and the waste products are thrown off. If the exercise is carried to extreme lengths ft may happen that the waste products are thrown into the system in so great quantity that they cannot be disposed of in the ordinary way, and they accumulate to such an ex tent that the body is poisoned by its own waste. The result is the same as when an excess of food is taken; and so, exercise, which in moderation tends to counteract the evil of over eating, in excess only increases the evil. It has always been known that excessive physical labor has a tenden cy to shorten life, and the attainment of old age is seldom the lot of the la boring man. But the fact is often curiously overlooked that physical la bor is physical labor, whether it con sists in wielding a pick and shovel or in throwing weights, rowing a boat, running or jumping. The dangers of inordinate devotion to athletics, says Youth's Companion, are that one part of the body, one set of muscles or cer tain organs, such as the heart, will be developed out of proportion to the other parts. This is especially the case in the young, who have not yet attained their growth. The heart is a patient organ, and when strain is put upon It it quietly increases its bulk and its strength to meet the task. So long as the strain is continued, It works along, but when the call upon it is diminished suddenly, the young man giving up,his athletics and taking to a sedentary life, its muscular tissue begins to degenerate. The arteries, under strain, act in the same way, and when the tension is relaxed the con dition known as arteriosclerosis de velops. The tissues are poorly nour ished and the man ages before his time. When devotion to athletics has been excessive, it is only by the greatest care in training down that the athlete can avoid the danger of weakened body and nerves. The death in New York of Prof. An gelo Heilprin deprives the world of a noted scientist. # Prof. Heilprin, who was a native of Hungary, came to the United States when an infant and re ceived his education here, rising to special eminence as ' a geologist, though his versatility was shown by his achievements in other fields. His explorations in various directions add ed greatly to the sum of human knowledge, and the results were em bodied in numerous instructive vol umes. One of his most notable achievements was the ascent of Mont Pelee immediately after the great and destructive eruption of that Mar tinique volcano in 1902. He risked his life in scientific investigation and calmly took notes of the phenomena on the very edge of the blazing cra ter. Electricity continues to extend its usefulness. New Jersey has found it the most expeditious and humane means of putting an end to stray and useless dogs. Hitherto the dogs have ben asphyxiated in a big gas tank. Hut the society which looks after such things finds this is cruel and by no means infallible. So Plainfield leads off by substituting the electric kennel for the gas receptacle. By this means the canines are sent painlessly and swiftly to death and the bow-wows cease from spreading fear of rabies. There is a factory In Amsterdam, Holland, which cuts and polishes 400,- 000 diamonds annually. About 20 wo men do most of the actual cutting of the stones. A Missouri judge has fined a man one dollar for beating his wife, this being his second offense. If he does it many more times the judge may get real cross. * NEED A JEFFERSON AT THE HEAD OF OUR DEPART MENT OF STATE. Ht« Mode of Dealing with Foreign Tariff Discrimination Was Not to Surrender to Threats, But to Strike Back with a Vigorous Policy of Tariff Retaliation. What would have been the policy of Thomas Jefferson at ihe head of tlm American department of state in tha year of our Lord 1907, in dealing with foreign tariff discrimination against American exports and for eign attempts to dictate American tar iffs? This question fs answered in a very instructive manner in a timely and vigorous contribution signed "July Fourth," in the American Economist. Extracts from his writings of a hun dred years ago tell what Jefferson would have dcr.e when the German kaiser flourished his maximum tariff club over our heads. Jefferson would not have struck his colors before the enemy had fired a shot. He would have cleared his decks for action. He would have met threat with threat, hostile tariff discrimination with hostile'tariff retaliation. Ho would have made it costly for any nation to undertake to browbeat 85,000,000 of American people into a craven surrender of American tariff making rights. He would not hare shivered and quaked when the German emperor gave an extra tariff twiat to his fierca mustache. He would not have laid down his cards and said: "Take the money; your hand is the best." He would have played out the game. He would not have nullified a law of congress in order that foreigners might gain unlawful and unfair ad vantages in the American market, to the Injury oi' American industry and labor. He would have urged upon congress the Immediate passage of a law im posing tariff penalties upon the goods of any nation guilty of tariff dis crimination against the products of the United States. He would have advocated the Mc- Clcary bill. He would have given us commercial peace through ample preparation against commercial welfare. "Where a nation imposes high du ties oil our productions, or prohibits them altogether (precisely as Ger many threatened and France now threatens to do) it may be proper for us to do the same by theirs; first burdening those productions which they bring here in competition with our own of the same kind; selecting, next, such manufactures as we take from them in greatest quantity and which at the same time we coulil the soonest furnish to ourselves or ob tain from other countries; imposing on them duties lighter at first, but heavier and heavier afterward, as other channels of supply open. Such duties, having the effect of indirect encouragement to domestic manu factures of the same kind, may in duce the manufacturer to come him self into the state, where a cheaper subsistence, equal laws, and a vent for his wares, free of duty, may in sure him the highest profits from his skill and industry. . . . The op pressions on our agriculture in for eign ports would thus be made the occasion for relieving it from a de pendence on the counsels and con duct of others, and of promoting arts, manufactures and population." Thus wrote Thomas Jefferson a hun dred years ago, when "the states" pos sessed not the hundredth part of the power of resistance and the effective ness of commercial defenses that the states of to-day possess. Were Thomas Jefferson at the head of our state department now, there would be no German agreement to place a premium on dishonesty and promote unfair competition with American industry and business. There would be no humiliating "lay down" to foreign bluster. Discriminating tariffs against Amer ican exports would be unheard of. We should have commercial peace with all the world. We should preserve our national self-respect, and at the same time do justice to our own producers and wage earners. Which Would Bo Preferred? "The question would be an import ant one, if the next presidential cam paign should begin with pledges of tariff revision from both parties. The situation of itself would lead all Amer icans to compare the tariff of 1894 with that of 1897; and it is not very probable that the Republicans would suffer by the comparison."—Boston Advertiser. Suppose the business men of the country should argue that as between i tariff revision in spots to suit Massa chusetts and other selfish sectional interests, together with free trade in chunks through special trade dickers and an all-round revision downward, like that of 1894, the latter would be preferable. There are some who argue this way, believing that the mischief of Democratic revision would only last until the next presidential elec tion. just as in 1894, whereas the mischief of selfish sectional tariff tlnk sring and selfish reciprocity dicker ing by the Republican party would be much harder to cure and would ast much longer. It is by no means certain that the sort of revision which Republican tariff rippers would force jpon their party Is to be preferred :o the revision to be expected at the .lands of the Democratic party. CAMERON COU.NTV PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1007. WHAT CAN THIS MEAN? Gigantic Trust Development in Fre» Trade Great Britain. Intelligence of a most terrifying and astounding character comes from Eng land. John Hull is not given to sensa* tion, but in this respect he seems ta have outdone some of his much-derid ed trade competitors. The news is that there is about to be organized in ureat Britain a mammoth steel trust, composed of nine large firms and boasting a capitalization of $130,000,- 000. The avowed Intention of the merger, it is declared, is to fight Ger man and American competition, which is increasing year by year. The larg est company in the merger has al ready absorbed SO independent con cerns, and the deal, when put through, will control, it is estimated, fully 90 ljer cent, of the steel produced in Great Britain. While the details of the combination are not yet complet ed, it is likely that it will be based upon the principle of the German trust involving the regulation of prices, ad justment of the output to the demand and equal distribution of orders. Now, all this would be alarming in protection America, where the people are chained to the chariot wheels of the trusts and are rapidly being re duced to serfdom, but in free trade Great Britain, where competition is supposed to be as unrestrained as the air, it becomes positively horrifying. Certain amiable gentlemen, in cam paigns past, have taught us to believe that . •> long as our industries and la -lor are protected by tariff duties on foreign imports, just so long will we remain under the domination of the trusts and monopolies. "Remove or reduce the tariff," they have cried, "and competition will take the place of monopoly." Now comes word of the formation of a monstrous trust in steel by capitalists of a country which is not cursed by a tariff, but where every man must, by nature of that country's economic system, be able to buy and sell in the open market. What does this mean? Aha, we have it! It is another diabolical conspiracy on the part of the American Protec tive Tariff league, headed by Wilbur F. Wakeman, arch conspirator, the dark and bloody purpose of which is to mislead and confuse a trusting pub lic and draw attention away from the midnight deeds of the league and its emissaries. This is the only rational explanation of an outrage so iniqui tous as this. —Des Moines Capital. THEY ARE PERSONAE GRATAE, , Jk^m jP German Manufacturer —Good morn ing, gentlemen. I trust you found my last invoice all right? IT. S. Special Treasury Agent— l found It undervalued 25 per cent, be low current wholesale market value. Manufacturer —But that, you know, is my export price. U. S. Consul —Yes, that's all right. The chamber of commerce certifies to its correctness. That is "competent evidence." We don't go behind it. Your invoice has been consulated as you put it in, and is now on its way to the United States. Manufacturer— Tb-tnks, gentlemen. Come out ani St/ih me in a toast to "Better commercial relations between the United States and Germany." (They go out.) A Friend Indeed. "Germany has already inado over tures in the way of tariff concessions, and the United States has accepted these like a next friend." —St. Paul IJispatch. A friend in need is a friend indeed. Germany needed a friend to help her push more of her goods into the Amer ican market. She found such a friend. First she "made overtures" by mark ing up her tariff on all our exports, excepting those which she had to have. Then she agreed to mark her tariff down again if we would mark down our tariff. We didn't do exact ly that, but we did fix up a scheme whereby she could sneak under the fence with her goods. The "sneak" process began July 1, 1907, and is to continue for one year, and longer than that unless congress patches up the fence and puts a stop to the "sneak" game. Some Increases Necessary. Remember, we are importing SBOO,- 000,000 worth of foreign competitive products, that is, things we ought to produce at home, even with a tariff which they say was designed to keep them out. Some part of this is be cause, do our best, we cannot make all we need; after unlng all we produce, we still have to send abroad for more. And, mind you, when revision comes this will be one of the indisputable facts to deal with. Its obvious and in evitable lesson is that we need In crease, very slightly of course, many schedules, not reduce them. There are schedules that can advantageous ly go down a bit, no doubt, and will. It will be essentially the same tariff still. —Lebanon (N. H.) Free Press. EIGHTEEN MEN ARE INVOLVED l IN REPORT ON PENNSYLVANIA STATE CAPITOL STEAL. An Effort Will be Made to Punish the Grafters and Compel Them to Dis gorge 111 Gotten Gains. Harrisburg, Pa. Criminal pro ceedings against all persons con cerned in the fraudulent transactions in connection with the construction and furnishing of Pennsylvania's $13,- 00«,000 oapitol is recommended in the final report of the capitol investiga tion commission made Friday to Gov. Stuart. Eighteen persons are named ' in the report as being involved in one way or another in the irregular trans actions, and the attorney general, through the governor, is urged to act at once. The pursons named and against whom either criminal or civil suits are recommended are; John E. Sand erson, of Philadelphia, contractor for furnishings; Joseph N. Huston, Phila delphia, architect, and Stanford 11. Lewis, his assistant; James M. Shu maker, of Johnstown, former superin tendent ef the board of public grounds and buildings; W. P. Snyder and E. B. Hardenberg, former audit ors general; W. L. Mathues and Frank G. Harris, former state treasur ers; Congressman Burd Cassel, presi dent of the Pennsylvania Construc tion Co., which supplied the metallic casings and furniture; George F. Pa.j no, who built the capitol, and his partner, Charles G. Wetter, Charles I'. Kinsman, Wallis Boyleau, lolin G. \ T eudei< i* an.! George K. Storm, who o-ganized the Pennsylvania Bronze Co., which supplied the loaded lighting fixtures to Sanderson; Frank Irvine, an auditor in the auditor general's office; George C. Towne, bookkeeper under Bhumaker, and the Internation al Manufacturing and Supply Co., which bid against Sanderson for the capitol furnishing contract. The name of Gov. Penn.vpacker, who by virtue of his office was a mem ber of the board of public grounds and buildings which let the furnish ing contracts, and those of ex-Gov. Stone and his associates who made lip the commission which constructed the capitol are not mentioned in the list of persons against whom the in vestigators recommend that action be taken. The commission says it was able to ascertain by testimony that goods costing $1,574,399 were sold to the state by Sanderson and the Pennsyl vania Construction Co. for $G,434,748, a profit, of $4,860,849. The report was presented to the governor by Chairman Fisher in the presence of the commission. After receiving it Gov. Stuart issued a statement in which he said: "I will transmit the report to the attorney general for his action and I can assure the people of Pennsylvania that there will be a vigorous prosecu tion of every person whom the evi dence may show to have been guilty of any criminal offense in connection with the construction and furnishing of the stale capitol. Wherever the evidence submitted shows that there has been any money wrongfully or fraudulently taken from the state treasury, civil suits will be com menced to compel restitution." Attorney General Todd is in Maine, but he will return in lime to prepare for beginning criminal proceedings in the Dauphin county court here in September. His office force has al ready begun work on the papers. The state will be represented by the attorney general and his deputy, James Scarlet, of counsel for the in vestigation commission, and State Senator Fox. of this city. DUN'S TRADE REVIEW. A Tight Money Market and the Teleg raphers' Strike Has Had Little Ef fect on the General Prosperity. New York.—R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: Lower prices for railway securities than at any time since July 1, 1904, greater stringency in the money mar ket and the telegraph strike were the week's adverse factors, offset by many favorable reports of jobbing trade, manufacturing activity, rapid progress of the crops and remarkably prompt collections considering the scarcity of money. Undue significance was given the Pope failure which, as in the case of the Milliken assignment in June, was caused by monetary pressure and not lack of business. Reports from the interior are almost unanimous in tell ing of active trade and bright, pros pects for full and winter. Most lead ing industries have orders covering output for months in advance, and new records of production are con stantly noted. Much new business has appea-red in the market for iron and steel dur ing the past week. The least favor able reports are received from tin plate mills, a short fruit crop having restrioted purchases by canning in terests. Pig iron furnaces complain that new contracts are not abundant. Some steel mills have little business beyond the end of the year, but order books are usually full for five months ahead, and the past waek has brought out considerable structural work, while a large contract for specially made steel rails was a feature. Auto Plunged Into a Lake. San Francisco, C'al.—Six persons were injured, one fatally, in an automobile accident late Thursday night in Golden Gate park. The ma chine was going at. a rapid rate and got beyond the control of the chauf feur, George Harper, and plunged over an embankment into a lake. Steamer Ran Ashore. Manitowoc, Wis. The steamer Hiawatha. owned by the Gil Christ Co., of Cleveland, is ashore ten miles north of here. The boat car ri«s a crew of 15 mea. PROSE AND VERSE. Writing this way at so much a word hardly would pay. Writing this way? Never! Nay, nay! It is absurd writ ing this way at so much a word Still I am of the opinion That It is a Good deal honester Than calling this kind Of Stuff Poetry and getting so Much A Line For it. Eh?— Franklin P. Adams, in I.ifQ. AN ANTI-EXPANSIONIST. Aw : i\ f/i itze "Roster was a victim of anti-expan sionist sentiments." "How's that?" "Made up his mind he was too fat and he doctored and starved himself to death." Failed to Blossom. He yearned for literary fame— A senius lie, beyond a doubt, fie longed to make a famous name, A name no editor would scout. So he with pad and pencil sat, And thought and thought, a theme to get— 'Twas years ago, nnd I guess that He's sitting there and thinking yet. —Milwaukee Sentinel. Long Distance Foretelling. "You will marry a rich and beauti ful blonde," said the fortune teller, "and become the father of a large family." "Then I'll have a long time to wait," said the young man, with a half sigh. "1 married a rich but homely brunette a couple of weeks ago, and she looks good for CO years yet."—Chicago Tri bune. Same Old Touch. The celebrated explorer stood on the coral reef and mopped his brow. "So white men have called here be fore?" he interrogated. "Well, then, my sable brother, I suppose you have felt the touch of civilization?" Chief Ebony grinned. "Umph, yes!" he grunted; "touched of all the ivory and gold on the island."—Chicago Daily News. Could Use Him. Tommy—So glad you've come, Mr. Bowlegs! Mr. Bowlegs (fishing for compli ments) —And why are you so glad I've come, my little man? Tommy—Ethel and I are playing at trains, and you'll make such a lovely bridge. Up to Her. "I'm going to kiss you," said the hold, bad man. "How will you have it —with or without?" "With or without what?" queried the innocent maid. "A struggle," replied the b. b. m.— Chicago Daily News. Why He Came Back. Old Neighbor—My goodness, Mr. Ar den, you back, after all these years? 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