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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.
The plan was made know a in the
following official statement: "Begin
ning with next, week the treasury de
part.nu nt. will make earh week for a
period of n<jt less than five weeks de
posits in national banks at Now York,
Boston and other points, the security
required to be approved state, munici
pal and railroad bonds acceptable un
der the existing requirements of the
department, with the understanding
that if called for such deposits shall
be returned after January 1 next in in
stallments to be fixed by the secretary
of the treasury. This action is taken
to meet the commercial and industrial
needs of the country at this season."
Secretary Cortelyou believes that
by not announcing in advance the
amounts to be deposited he will pre
vent speculators from taking advan
tage of the situation and obtaining
money which he believes should go
into other channels. In adopting this
plan the secretary gave careful con
sideration to the question of gold ex
ports and he is of the opinion that the
present measure of relief will do
much to prevent a movement of gold
to Europe.
REVIEW OF TRADE.
Business Improves as the Harvesting
of Crops Progresses.
New York. —R. G. Dun & Co.'s
Weekly Review of Trade says:
Jobbing markets are well attended
by interior buyers and country mer
chants, who operate with great free
dom considering the financial strin
gency, which has compelled the post
ponement of much contemplated
structural work. Yet many western
and southern cities report building op
erations in excess of last year's, and
as the harvests progress there is
more disposition to increase prepara
tions for future needs. Retailers'
stocks have been depleted by the cus
tomary bargain sales and prepara
tions for fall and winter trade indi
cate confidence in continued activity.
At most domestic points there is no
complaint regarding collections, but
reports from Canada indicate many
requests for renewals.
Leading industrial plants are well
occupied, many mills having output
sold far into 1908. Inquiry for pig
iron has improved, chiefly for small
lots and prompt delivery, consumers
of Bessemer iron being notably urg
ent for quick shipment, but scarcely
any can be had earlier than October.
In most sections of the iron and steel
industry conditions are normally more
quiet at this time than any other
month of the year.
A Double Murder at Coaldale, Pa.
Coaldale, Pa. —A double murder
for which the "Black Hand" is
held responsible, was committed here
Friday. While Frank Peknola;.' and
Samuel Ambrose were walking 1 to
gether along Ridge street they were
attacked by several men and soon
they were stabbed to death. Pek
nol-as' throat was cut almost from ear
to ear.
Chicago & Alton Railroad Is Sold.
New York. —The Toledo, St. Louis
& Western Railroad Co. has acquired
control of the Chicago & Alton.
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