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The Job department of the Phkss is complete »rul affords facilities fordoing the best class or w rk. PaH'lll t'l-AIl ATTIi.VI ION I'AIDTO Law PIIINTIM. No paper will bo discontinued until arrear ages arc paid, except al the option of the pub lisher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid for in advance. Science of Ticklishness. When one lists found a suitable lit tle playmate, preferably a child be tween three and eight years of age, and commences to tickle it, what hap pens? In the first place, replied Dr. Douis Robinson, lamed for his re searches inlo zoology, ,it becomes quite evident that unless the child is in a playful and responsive mood it cannot lie tickled. If it be unwell, or If a stranger or one whom the child fears or dislikes attempts to tickle it, there is no response except resent ment at an unwelcome interference. But as soon as a satisfactory under standing is established, the little one laughs and wriggles with delight. Al though each movement is an elaborate avoidance of contact, there is a con tinual invitation to repeat the tickling. Practically all children, in fact, both by word of mouth and act. show plenty of evidence of enjoyment of the game, and invite its continuance indefinitely. Hence, one may say that there exists a distinct appetite for tickling. This, upon close investigation, proves to be as marked and real as any of the rec ognized animal appetites (all of which, by the way, have an immediate bearing fin the continuance of the in dividual or of the race). This appe tite for tickling has this in common with the other appetites, declares Cur rent literature, that there are times when desire is absent and provoca tion fails to take effect. Like the re flexes associated with the gustatory nerve, which makes part of the appe tite for food the activity of which de ponds upon whether we are hungry or the reverse, the reflexes that accom pany ticklishness are intermittent. The conservative element in China lias been greatly upset by two inci dents which occurred almost simulta neously. The "holy duke, Yen," who is a lineal descendant of Confucius in the seventy-sixth generation, visited Peking for the express purpose of op posing the government plan for a memorial university to his great an cestor. He expressed his belief that the institution should teach modern languages and modern science, as well as the Confuscian sacred books, which are the pillars of the old Chinese learning. The other incident, even more shocking to tradition, was the visit of Count Otani, the abbot of one of the most famous Buddhist mon asteries in Japan. He represents the advanced wing of the sect which advo cates the marriage of the priesthood, tolerates meat eating, and accepts modem science. He has his countess with him, and traveled in that most dangerous of "foreign devil wagons," au automobile. Most of the fine American vessels that fought the Spanish war in one round without loss of wind have been sent to the scrap pile or the museum as back numbers, or at least are in the repair shop, where the govern ment expert is looking them over and shaking his head. In building a mod ern warship the work must be hurried along as much as possible lest the ves sel be out of date before it is com pleted. An accommodating scientist has evolved a tablet which will enable every one to be his own brewer. But there is one serious trouble with this tabloid beer. It has to be kept on ice, and few people are able to take their ice wagon around with them. In view of the frequency with which Bright's disease is reported as a cause of death it looks as if it •would presently take rank with tu berculosis as a plague to whose abate ment medical science should espe ciall> direct its energies. A it. h man of New York commit ted suicide on the evening before his wife and daughter were to take him to a fashionable seaside resort. Per haps he had reason to believe he was going to be the only man there. It would be a fine thing for our so ciety buds who like information but are timid about asking questions if the next blue book should print after the name of each man the amount for jvhich he is assessed. NEAR $3,500,000,000 TREMENDOUS GROWTH OF OUR FOREIGN TRADE FOR 1907. Exports Are Close to $2,000,000,000, But Imports Are Increasing at a Much More Rapid Rate with a Cor responding Decrease of the Trade Balance. A foreign trade for the fiscal year of 1907 of $3,315,000,000, or more than $3,- 500,000,000 if we take into account our j trade with Porto Rico, Hawaii and the j Philippines, does not harmonize with | the clamor for doors that should j open wider for both exports and im ! ports. Our exports are within $200,- 000,000 of the three-billion mark, or $1,880,851,024; an increase of more | than $500,000,000 in the past six ] years. Our imports are $1,434,401,092, j against $903,320,94 Sin 1902. i Compared with 1900 imports have increased $207,838,646, while the ex j ports have increased $136,980,524. We have been buying at a greater rate than we sold, and our trade bal ance is reduced from $517,302,054 in j 1906, to $446,449,032 in 1907, a de | crease of 70,852,122. At this rate of piling up our pur chases from foreigners we ought not ito be accused of maintaining a Chi j neae wall tariff. At thirs 'rate we shall find ourselves i running in debt to foreigners before | long, for practically every dollar of that favorable trade balance of $446,- 000,000 is needed to pay our freight ! bills to foreign steamship companies, i the earnings on our stocks and secur- I Ities owned abroad, the millions spent abroad by our tourists, and the other ] millions constantly being spent, by ] prosperous American wage earners to j needy relatives. ] Out of our total imports of nearly a i billion and a half more than $800,000,- ! 000 represent products that compete j with American labor and industry. Is not that enough? i Should we lower the tariff so as to | increase that competition? | Should we rig up special trade dick ! ers so as to make it easier for foreign- I ors lo break into our market with their goods? Should we go ahead with tariff re i vision and other trade dickers, so that | the present billion and a half of im j ports may bo swelled to two billions or more? These are questions which every j business man, every wage payer, every i wage earner should ask himself in con i nection with our present foreign trade i of fully $3,500,000,000. HAD NOT LEARNED THE NEW UNDERVALUATION ROPES. I ol ! United Stales Consul (to manufacturer : who has not yet grasped the full purport lof the undervaluation privilege in the I German agreement)—lsn't there some mistake in this invoice? ! Manufacturer—l think not, sir. That is J the actual market price. Consul—l don't doubt tlmt In the least. ! But under the new deal you have the j right to invoice at a lower price "for ex | port only." Your competitors are taking j advantage of that privilege and invoicing I l. r < to 2a per cent, below market price. I You had better cancel this Invoice and bring in a corrected one. i Manufacturer—Thank you, sir. I will | do so. A Suggestion. The Brooklyn Standard-Union, re | marking on the fact that the National i Association of Manufacturers favors ; tariff revision and io raising $1,000,000 ! with which to carry on war against | organized labor, suggests that if the | tariff should be ripped to pieces la bor would be reduced to such straits j that there would be no need of that ; million dollars. This is worth con i sidering. Why not use that million j dollars in breaking down the tariff? : That would be killing two birds with | one stone. The tariff would be re j vised downward "at the earliest prac ; ticable moment," and so many wage I earners would lose their jobs that i unionism would goto pieces in the i general scramble for work and wages. | The brilliant statesmen who control I the organized manufacturers may find j herein an easy solution of a difficult j problem. A Step In the Wrong Direction. Twenty-five years ago Daniel Man ! ning, secretary of the treasury in Pres | ident Cleveland's first administration, j said in an official report, in substance, | that the treasury was being robbed at the rate of $40,000,000 a year in revenue through the fraudulent under valuation of imports. Being a free trader and a hater of protection, Mr. Manning did not add, as he might truthfully have done, that domestic labor and industry were being robbed of far more than $40,000,00.0 by this unfair and dishonest competition. It is indeed a long step in the wrong direction when our government offici ally lends itself to the fraud and wrong of undervaluation. —American Economist. CAMERON COU.NTV PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1907. FORAKER ON TARIFF REVISION. Ohio Senator Has Comprehensive Grasp of Situation. In his speech of July 19 at Miamis burg, Senator Foraker occupied a plane of high intelligence and sound common sense when he said, in refer ence to the proposed revision of the tariff: "It might be that a more satisfao tory tariff law would be made than that which we now have, but I doubt it. It inay be that our general situa tion would be improved, but I do not see how it is possible. With respect to such procedure only one thing is certain, and that is that we would have a period of suspense, of doubt and of uncertainty, that would work a more or less serious interruption to business." That is the view entertained by the best business minds of the country. Those who have watched the making and the unmaking of tariffs know from experience what the process involves in the shape of prolonged discussion and attempts to harmonize conflict ing views. Senator Foraker knows this, for he has had mueh to do with tariff legislation in the past 20 years. II« realizes the wisdom of the remark of tltw late Thomas ii. Reed that it is very easy to revise a tariff—in your mind, but. far from easy when it comes to a final legislative procedure. Mr. Foraker is right in demanding that those who clamor for a change shall show that they know what they ire clamoring for: "I want 3ome man who in clamoring for an immediate revision to tell me what evil is so great it can 110 longer be endured; what duties are to be changed and what improvement in the situation is to follow. Let us have a bill of particulars." No man among the many who have spoken .and written for immediate tar iff disturbance has answered any of these questions. No man has yet fur nished a bill of particulars. As Mr. Foraker so forcibly puts it, no one has asked the farmers whether and in what way they want the duties changed. No one has asked this question of the sugar growers, the to bacco growers, the rice growers, the mill owners, the pottery men, the glass men and those whom they employ. Ten million voters who work on farms and in factories have not been asked to state wherein the present tariff is working badly and ought to be changed. Senator Foraker's plea is for a square deal in this matter of tariff re vision. lie wants to know' what is intended and for what reason. Iln does not want togo blindfolded into the business of tariff disturbance. He does not want the tariff ripped up "on general principles." That is the at titude of conservative men in busi ness and in politics. They want to be shown. It is the attitude of all "stand-patters." Tiny want to know what the great gains are to be that shall overbalance the absolutely cer tain losses through uncertainty, alarm and lack of confidence. They do not say that the tariff should never be revised, but they do insist that the need for revision has not been made apparent and that the time for revi sion has not yet arrived. Their po sition would seem to be natural, rea sonable, logical. Have Pursued a Practical Course. The fact remains that, the Republi can party is the only one which baa shown any ability to solve the prob lem of tariff legislation in harmony with the industrial growth of the coun try. The Democrats have tried upon several occasions to reach a solution, but their failure is easily accounted for by the fact that, as President Har riman said, they are "students of maxims rather than of markets." Tariff reform cannot be successfully achieved in a student's closet. It. is not the doctrinaire teacher of political economy in colleges or essay writer who is to blaze the way of revision along lines that will benefit instead of harm our industries. Before a so lution of the right kind can be obtain ed the business men must be consult ed, and whenever thev are brought into the discussion the Democrats are compelled to retire. The success of the Republicans in dealing with these matters is due tc the fact that they have pursued a practical course. They have consulted the great commercial and manufactur ing interests, and thereby they have promoted the welfare of the whole country.—Denver Republican. The Acrobat. The Democracy of the north has al ready repudiated Bryan and Bryan ism. The south is becoming suspi cious. Either the western meteor is losing its dazzling brilliance or the political star gazers are realizing that tliey have been looking upon a false light. There is something of humor in the spectacle of political gymnastics pre sented by the one time idol. Govern ment railroad ownership having been so emphatically repudiated, we have had the theory of "ultimate" owner ship, with pronounced regulation in the meantime. This theory, too, having failed to rally the disintegrating factions, we have had from Mr. Bryan the theory of the initiative and referendum, based upon the apparent success in the cantons of Switzerland. But all except the socialistic element of the party has laughed in the face of the "peerless leader." To-day he stands high and dry 011 the lone mount, as one who has climbed to unstable heights of theory and cannot find a way to retrace his steps. HI DISCUSSES NEGBOJRDBLEM OPENS REPUBLICAN STATE CAM PAIGN IN KENTUCKY. THE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT Does Not Require that Every Negro Should Vote, and Its Enforcement Has Nothing to Do with the Social Equality of Races. Lexington, Ky.—Secretary of War Taft on Thursday opened the re publican state campaign with a dis cussion of the race problem, general political issues from the southern standpoint and an appeal to Kentucki ans to aid the republican party in sup port of those principles. He called attention to the prosper ity of Kentucky's Industries and. agri culture, and expressed the belief that many Kentuckians who favored a pro tective tariff had blindly voted the democratic ticket because of feeling on the race issues. "The fifteenth amendment does not require that every negro should vote. All that it requires is that he should not be excluded from voting because lie is a negro. If he lacks educational qualifications or any other qualifica tions that the state may lawfully im pose as a rule of eligibility for its voters, .then he may be excluded, pro vided that everyone else who lacks similar qualifications is equally ex cluded. "The fifteenth amendment is merely intended to secure him in his political rights from race discrimination by the states. It is not intended to give him affirmative privileges as a mem ber of his race. Its strict enforce ment does not involve an amalgama tion of the races; has nothing to do with social association or equality. It does not involve so-cailed negro domi nation." GUARDS SHOT CRAZY CONVICTS. Inmates of the Prison at Dannemora, N. Y., Tried to Escape. Schenectady, N. Y. —A special to the Gazette says: One of the worst outbreaks among the insane prisoners in the history of Clinton prison at Dannemora occurred Wednesday night. As a result Isaac Dubois, one of the inmates, is dead, shot through the heart by a guard. The insane prisoners were being marshalled for bed when, at a given signal, they rushed into the two big lower domitiries and slammed the doors in the faces of the guards. Hav ing locked the doors they proceeded to set about making their escape by smashing the doors and sawing the bars. Some of the less violently in sane, however, helped the jailers. Seeing that the struggling convicts cotiid not be reached through the steel doors, the guards turned on them from the windows streams of water from the fire hose. This kept them at bay, but did not subdue them. The guards were finally obliged to use rifles and pistols and It was after mid night before the uprising was quelled. Besides Dubois, who was killed, sev eral other prisoners were seriously wounded. Two large dormitories were wreck ed, windows smashed, iron gratings bent and walls damaged where an ef fort to wrench the iron bars from their fastenings had been made. The dead man, Isaac Dubois, had been at the hospital only a short time. Con victed of larceny in the second degree, he was subsequently ordered to the state hospital. Townspeople were attracted by the terrific noise and assisted materially, when the wardens made a series of assaults and finally forced the doors and overpowered the rioters. $250,000 FIRE LOSS. Eight Buildings at Pittsburg Were Destroyed—Firemen Rescued 14 People. Pittsburg, Pa.—Two fires 011 Thurs day caused by the explosion of gasoline in clothes cleaning establish ments caused damage estimated at $250,000 and for a time threatened the entire East End section of this city. The first first broke out in the Club Pressing avid Cleaning Co's plant at 6339 Penn avenue. The three-story brick building was destroyed and 14 employes were rescued from the win dows by firemen. The second was more serious and before it was controlled seven build ings were wiped out. The blaze started in the Enterprise Pressing Co.'s shop at 5975 Center avenue and spread with great rapidity east and west. Soon the following places were in flames: Allen Rug Weaving and Carpet Cleaning Co., East Liberty Auto Co., American Reduction Co., East End Mantle and Tile Co., Crown laundry, Andrew Pafenbach, horseshoer; Snively Plumbing Co. Bank Employe Stole SII,OOO. Washington, D. C. Edwin H. Potts, an employe of the American na tional bank, is missing and the police are looking for him on a charge of having stolen SII,OOO in Erie railroad stock. Potts left the employ of the bank a year ago, but returned recently. Struck for More Pay. New York.—Drivers and stable men employed at the wholesale beef packing houses went on strike last night. They demand a uniform working week of 60 hours and an in crease in wajjes. GDRTELYOU TO THE RESCUE TREASURY'S CHIEF TAKES STEPB TO AID MONEY MARKET. Will Deposit Government Funds in Banks of Several Large Cities Dur ing the Crop Moving Period. New York. —Secretary Cortelyou announced on Friday a new plan of depositing government fund in New York, Boston and other cities, to afford relief to the money market in the approaching crop movement period. Secretary Cortelyou will, com mencing next week, place each week at such points in the country as he shall designate, government funds to such an amount as he deems sufficient to prevent an acute monetary strin gency and possible panic when the demand for money is greatest at the height of the crop moving period. The plan of the secretary for mone tary relief is new to the financial world and one which he believes will prove more efficacious than the old method of the treasury department in waiting until the country was severely shaken financially and then coming to the relief at the last moment by plac ing a large deposit of government funds in New York banks. Mr. Cortel you did not state how much money he would deposit each week, though he indicated that the amount would equal the situation. 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