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No Quarrel with Timw.
According to the poet we are speed
ing forever down the ringing grooves
of change, and this ia nowhere more
apparent than In the alterations In the
popular taste for the better, every
thing considered. A writer in the
New York Evening Post, in alluding
to this matter, says that those who
occupy the benches in the public
parks on a summer afternoon to listen
to the band are no longer satisfied
with the "Star Spangled Banner" and
a medley from the comic operas, but
must have selections from Wagnei'
and Gounod, though he indicates that
they may not be averse to a little of
Richard Straus thrown in, we sup
pose, by way of dessert in the musical
least. There is u like fastidiousness
in regard to painting, due to the in
fluence of the museum of fine arts and
picture exhibitions. Chromos, even
when they are copies of celebrated
paintings, have lost their vogue, and
the fashion for fruit and flower pieces
is going out, while "marines," repre
t enting heart-rending shipwrecks,
!.ave been superseded, it is somewhat
tatirically observed, by "Waves with
ictton wool crests and a splash of
moonlight which discloses nothing be
cause it is so suggestive." A change
in the taste of literature is also ap
parent in the demand for short stories
in dialect to replace the yld-fashioned
serial novels. Continued works of fic
tion in the monthly magazines still
have their admirers, though the ma
jority of readers no longer like bloody
tales of the frontier type or long
drawn out sensational narratives of
unhappy brides and ghostly visitants.
Instead they prefer a story concern
ing the fair settlement worker who
lives among the poor and perhaps
makes a romantic marriage, or ac
counts of automobile adventures in
which the heroine has many lucky es
capes from perils of various kinds.
In sermons, too, the ministers keep
abreast of the times in short dis
courses, treating the topics of the
hour as they bear on moral and reli
gious life, and do not model their ser
mons after the fathers, who too often
had sleepy congregations. What was
fine enough in the departed days, that
we hear so much praise about, says
Boston Budget, is not adapted to the
present. With Tennyson, we hold it
well good things should pass, and
with the changes of time we need not
quarrel. They are usually in the direc
tion of progress.
The famous yacht Mildegarde, built
for King Edward when he wds the
prince of Wales in 1874, has been
broken up and consigned to the junk
pile in Hackensack, N. J. The yacht
originally cost $85,000, but recently
the vessel was sold for a few thou
sand dollars to F. R. Long, a bridge
builder in Hackensack, who decided
to have the vessel broken up. The
prince's stateroom Mr. Long had cut
out entire. He intends to install that
in his residence as a "den." Portions
of the timber were sold for a bridge
over Cole's brook, Hackensack. while
the deck, which is teak, is being cut
up for souvenirs in the way of walk
ing sticks, collar boxes and other use
ful articles. One of these is to be
sent to the king of England with a
story of the final disposition of his
former yacht.
William Warner of Great Barring
ton, Mass.; Albert G. Herpin of Tren
ton, N. J„ and Joseph Root of Erie,
Pa., are to engage in a struggle for
the nonsoporific championship of the
United States. Warner has not slept
a wink, so he says, for the past 30
years; the Trenton man says he has
not closed his eyes for the 14 years
immediately preceding. Mr. Root has
a 25-year record as an anti-Rip Van
Winkle.
They have found a buried wall said
to be over ten miles long and 40 feet
high, in Texas. Must have had an ex
tinct race of long-horned steers to
fence in, long before the first white
man ever saw America.
A man named Angel has gone to
the penitentiary In Virginia for the
second time, after being out for 24
years. Well, Angela visits to the
penitentiary are few and far between.
THE GROCERY CLUB
SAM SAWYER'S REPORT OF AN
ECONOMIC DEBATE.
Cornersville, Ark., Is Inclined to Think
That in the German Agreement
Kaizsr Bill Has Successfully
Worked a Con Game on Our Teddy.
Our club met in Sy Jones grocery
store las' night pursuant to its nat'ral
tendencies. A quorum was present—a
quorum in our club consistln' of two or
more members present who don't agree
on anything that may come up. Sev
eral members wus absent 'cause
they hadn't come up with the "ready
come down" fer their las' week's gro
ceries.
Jim Jackson, who used to lead the
quire an' hes a good readin' voice,
read a loud one of your artickles on
the late "German Agreement" enter
ed into by Teddy an' Bill thru thair
speakin' tubes, so to speak. The
terms you use es, fer instance, the
"export price" an' the "eonsignln' " of
goods wus n't exactly clear to us in
the beginnin' of the discusliin. One of
our members, Hob Sanders, thot that
the word "consignin' " meant the sign
of the con; an' that it indicated that
Kaiser "Bill" had worked a con game
on Teddy 'cause they both spoke the
same language. Howsomever Jim soon
fetched the sun up on the matter an'
all wus clear es fer as terms went.
Jim's library consists of Daniel Web
ster's unabridged, an' lie can bridge
over purty near any stream of diffi
culties with that.
Jim showed that the "export price"
allows the feller that sells the goods
to fix his own price on 'em; an' that
our custom officers, or policemen of
trade, must accept that price an' col
lect toll on 'em accordingly. 'Spose
he's right.
But It 'pears that the "German
Agreement" allows the feller (it 's
darned hard to beat the Dutch) that
makes the goods over there to sell
'em to hisself over here at his own
price, consignin' 'em to hisself, jes
usin' our custom house fer social
clubs goin' to an' comin' from. Boiled
down over a slow fire of green wood
it sums up sorter like this:
By the "German Agreement" the
German deals with himself on both
sides of the sea; an' arter he gits
thru dodgin' duties he ses: "Vel vhat
vill you have mit me?" Thus he be
comes the whole derned shootin'
match—both exporter an' importer.
So thar hain't nothin' left fer our im
porters but to turn porters or jine
our club an' whittle an' spit. This tip
's thairn in advance.
I hain't use to spillin' Ink 'cept
when I turn over the stand; but I hev
always noticed that orthografy, gram
mer, an' retric hain't no use less you
hev something to say an' a way of
savin' it. Book larnin' 's apt to lead
a feller into thinkin' that he can think.
Ten times to a baker's dozen that the
feller with the "sheep-skin" can't skin
a sheep; nor would he know "taller"
from hog grease when it comes to the
fryin' out of things.
The majority of our club are Dem
ocrats an' hanker arter "Free Trade"
'cause they hain't nothin' to trade an'
want something free. They strike an'
erudite attitude 'cause the college pro
fessors are free traders. They hain't
nothin' agin the tariff 'cause it's a rob
ber; fer they hain't nothin' to be rob
bed of! An' havi'n nothin' to protect
they don't care a tinker's d —n about
protecshun. They whittle fer a livin'
an' care more about shavins than fer
a shave. But right here in our club
I'll bet thar's more statesmanship
goin' to waste than 's bein' v:asted in
Washington. ,
The next subject fer discushun is
"Free Trade or Tariff —Which?" at
which thar 's expected to be some
conclushuns an' other things drawn.
I'll send you a summery of 'em.
SAM SAWYER, Secretary.
P. S.: Summer's flood-tide 's in.
The hloomln' meadows hev splashed
the foot-hiils with foam. The chestnut
trees stand along the hillside at noon
lookin' like rolled up clouds colored
by a half faded sunset. The oaks are
full of acorns, which means a lean
streak of pork this fall. S. S.
Going to Make Matters Better?
The dispatches tell us that 91 head
of lowa steers sold at seven cents a
poti' d. or $95 a head, in Chicago a few
days a. ; ;o. Getting the matter nearer
home, the Koosauqua Republican says
that John A. Ferguson of Van Buren
county recently marketed 17 head of
steers In Chicago which brought him
$107.80 per head at seven dollars a
hundred, while another bunch of 17
brought SG,BO a hundred. William
Fritz, another fanner of the same
county, recently sold a single wagon
load of wool for $728.08. There was a
time about 15 years ago when cattle
and wool were doing pretty nearly as
good as that. Along came a lot of
fellows who were going to give the
country something better if they could
only get "a change.." Enough of the
people were fooled by their talk to
bring about the change. The cattle
fell to three dollars and four dollars a
hundred, wool from 25 cents a pound
to ten, and sheep from three dollars
and four dollars a head to one dollar.
And it took a long time to get prices
back to those of the good old time.
Now there Is another lot of fellows.
In these days of good prices for the
farmer and general prosperity, telling
how they are going to make matters
better if they can cut down the tariff
and give away home markets to the
foreigner. How many of the people
are going to be fooled this time? —
""airfield Jlowa) Ledger,
CAMERON COU.NTV PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1907.
MAY BE MOVING TOO FAST.
Governor Cummins Seems to Be in a
Hurry to Count Chickens.
Have the lowa Republicans already
elected their delegates-at-large to the
National Convention of 1908? Is A.
B. Cummins among the number elect
ed? It would seem so, for Governor
Cummins has lately announced his in
tention to see to It personally that a
pledge of immediate tariff revision is
incorporated in the platform. We had
not heard that a state convention had
been held in lowa and that Mr. Cum
mins had been chosen one of the
delegates for next year. Is not the
governor then counting his chickens
before they are hatched? May not the
Republicans of lowa uecide not to
thus honor a man whose mania for
tariff ripping and for political mis
chief in general has been so fruitful
of dissension and trouble? There was
some question in 1904 as to including
Cummins among the delegates-at
large, but "in the interest of harmony"
the objectors acquiesced. How far
harmony was thereby promoted was
shown last "year in the vindictive atti
tude of the Cummins faction and in
the heavy falling off in the Republi
can vote of that year. It proved to bo
a harmony that did not harmonize.
Possibly the time has arrived for dif
ferent tactics. In that event Cummins
may not be in a position to personally
direct the action of the Republican na
tional convention on the question of
tariff revision.
Printers Are Interested.
Some apprehension is expressed re»
garding the effect of the German
agreement upon the printing and pub
lishing business. The Engraver and
Electrotyper of August 1 raises the
question whether the "export price"
provision may not be so manipulated
as to allow the Germans to do a great
deal more In the way o£ composition
and plate casting for the American
market than they have ever before
done. A large amount of English
typesetting is done in Germany al
ready, and the 25 per cent, duty has
not kept out the competition of plates
cast from type set at about one-third
the wages paid to American composi
tors. Now that German chambers of
commerce are to fix values for ex
port, will not the German printers,
electrotypers and engravers, produc
ing articles for export only, be able to
get in under a low valuation and thus
take the bread out of the mouths of
American workmen? This might be
worth looking into by the Interna
tional Typographical union and by the
organizations of stereotypers and elec
trotypers. Some years ago it was found
that plates ready for the press were
coming in as "scrap metal" and pay
ing less than one-tenth the duty pre
scribed for imported printing plates.
"Big Six" took up the matter and stop
ped the fraud. The German agreement
also will bear investigation.
THE RIGHT THING TO DO.
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Recipro.cal Tariff Reformer: "Ger
many threatens to shut out our ex
ports with her high maximum tariff.
To avert that disaster we must make
tariff concessions that will satisfy Ger
many."
Thomas Jefferson: "We must do
nothing of the sort. Let me repeat
what I wrote on that subject in 1793:
'Where a nation imposes high duties
on our productions or prohibits them
altogether, it may be proper for us
to do the same by theirs; first bur
dening those 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 could the soonest
furnish to ourselves or obtain 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 manufactures of the same
kind, may induce the manufacturer to
come himself into the states, where
a cheaper subsistence, equal laws and
a vent for his wares, free of duty,
may Insure him the highest profits
from his skill and industry
Can Cut Our Duties in Two.
If all the German exporters can ar
range to do their own valuing at our
custom houses they cannot only se
cure a reduction in duty amounting
to 20 per cent., but they can cut our
ad valorem duties in two by merely
cutting in two the actual value of their
goods. Not only can the German ex
porters do this, but all European ex
porters can do it, for, of course, it is
our purpose to apply the new customs
regulation to Imports from all favored
nations. If this is the situation which
actually confronts our customs depart
ment it is quite in order to suggest
that congress shall take some action
to prevent such wholesale nullification
of the tariff rules enumerated in th*
Dingley law—Sioux City Journal,
TWELVE ARE KILLED IN WRECK
ROCK ISLAND PASSENGER TRAIN
JUMPED THE TRACK.
Baggage and Mail Cars Were Tele
scoped and the Smoking Car was
Demolished—The Injured are
12 in Number.
Waterloo, lowa. Twelve per
sons were killed anil 12 others injured
in the wreck of an express train on
the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
railroad at Norris, la., Friday. The
express train, northbound, jumped the
track while going at full speed and
crashed into a freight train standing
on the siiling. The dead:
P. B. Oliver, Waterloo, la.
Will Goodman, Waterloo.
John N. Watson, Waterloo.
C. L. Landphere, Shellrock, la.
W. Ray Johnson, Dike, la.
B, P. Christy, Minneapolis.
Lepovan Toja, Hammond, Ind.
W. H. Myers, baggageman.
Four unidentified men.
The injured will all probably re
cover.
The injured were brought to Water
loo hospital.
All of the dead and injured were in
the smoking car, which was immedi
ately behind the baggage and mail car.
The smoking car was demolished.
The northbound express was ten
minutes late at Norris, where the
freight train was waiting. The ex
press came along at terrific speed in
an effort to make up time. Just as
the locomotive of the passenger train
was about to pass the freight locomo
tive the trucks of the former left the
track and the moving engine crashed
into the engine of the freight, wreck
ing both locomotives and telescoping
the baggage and mail cars and de
molishing the smoking car.
The passengers in the two day
coaches following the smoking car es
caped with a violent shaking up.
CAVALRYMEN ARE VICTORS.
They Win the Dryden Trophy on the
Rifle Range at Sea Girt, N. J.
Sea Girt, N. J.—The 85,000 Dry
den trophy and $l5O cash, the
most coveted prize offered at the New
Jersey Rifle association tournament
was won Friday in an exciting finish
by the United States cavalry team,
which scored 1,001 points. The next
highest score was made by the Massa
chusetts team with 977. The second
prize is SIOO. The Maryland marks
men surprised the field by taking third
place with 976 points, defeating New
Jersey by five points. The third prize
is SSO. The Jerse.vtnen's 971 is tied
by the army infantrymen, but the
regulars did not shoot so well by three
points on the 1,000-yard targets and so
had to take fifth place. The marine
corps was sixth with 954 and the Dis
trict of Columbia team seventh with
935.
The prize was first given in 1903 by
Senator John F. Dryden, of New Jer
sey, for teams of eight which should
make the best score in the shots at
200, 600 and 1,000 yards with United
States service rifles and with any ma
chine-loaded ammunition of American
manufacture. Members of a winning
team any year are barred from par
ticipating the next year. Seven teams
competed for the trophy this year.
In the thousand yards competition
Massachusetts and Maryland contest
ed for second place and the SIOO cash
prize. When Sergeant C. J. Jeffers, of
the Bay State team, came up for his
last shot he had to hit the target or
have his team third. He made a bulls
eye.
The Massachusetts team had the
misfortune Friday to lose one of its
most experienced shots, Private J. E.
Burns. He was called to Lowell by
the accidental shooting of his brother.
Massachusetts had no substitute and
was about to withdraw from the match
when Col. John Caswell, Massachu
setts state inspector of small arms
practice, chanced to come to the
range. He was at once putin the
breach.
Sergeant M. L. Brown, New Jersey,
Second troop, won the offhand match,
at 200 yards, by a score of 48. J. A.
Dietz, of New York, was second, with
46 and Private Marey, marine corps,
third with 37.
BUSINESS BULLETIN.
The Volume of Trade Is Satisfactory
and in Many Sections Exceeds
that of Last Year.
New York.—l{. G. Dun & Co.'s
Weekly Review of Trade savs:
Aside from some conservatism in
preparing for remote requirements,
directly due to stringency in the
money market, the volume of business
is satisfactory. Trade exceeds even
the activity of last year in many sec
tions, and as the crops are secured
there is a demand for goods at lead
ing jobbing markets that makes the
outlook bright for fall. Wholesale
dry goods sales are nearly concluded
at the south and merchants are now
hurrying shipments forward to meet
the autumn retail demand that is
about to open.
Prices of farm staples have risen
to an unusual positidTi for this season,
but this is caused by large foreign
needs rather than any reductions in
domestic yield and the increased
amount of money paid to the farmers
will benefit all departments of trade
and industry. The week's reswlts are
somewhat irregular because of the
holiday ami interruption to tele
graphic communication, but complete
reports for August indicate that the
month compared most favorably with
1906 in almost every department ex
cept the market for securities.
Arabs Plan Another Attack.
Casablanca. Although the Arabs
suffered severely In the engage
gagement of Tuesday, one tribe losing
50 men killed out of 2,500 engaged,
they are in nowise discouraged and
are planning for a fresh attack on the
French.
Bank Robbers Secured SB,OOO.
Frankfort, S. D. The James
River bank, of Frankfort, was
dynamited early Friday and looted of
SB,OOO. Seven charges of dynamite
were used in blowing open the vault
and the safe, 'lhe robber* btul« %
band car and escaped.
A Rare Meteorite.
Prince Edward of Wales, who is a
collector of minerals and meteorites,
has received a piece of the meteorite
which fell in the Dacca district of
Bengal in October, 1903. The speci
men should he one of the rarest in his
collection, only four museums in the
world having received a piece.
Women's Need of Rest.
Every woman should have at least
a short time in the day in which she
rests, and it should be a regular time.
She should close her eyes, withdraw
her thoughts from everything and real
ly rest. Fifteen or twenty minutes of
such absolute rest every day counts
for a great deal.
Berlin Largest University.
Berlin university is the most numer
ously attended seat of learning in the
world. It contains 7,774 matriculated
and 1,330 nonrnatriculated students.
All the cities of Germany and every
country in Europe, from Norway to
Sicily, from Ireland to Russia, are
represented in its classrooms.
Fame and Human Happiness.
Whatever may be temporary ap
plause of men, or the expressions of
public opinion, it may be asserted
without fear of contradiction that no
true and permanent fame can he
founded, except in labors which prom
ise the happiness of mankind. —
Charles Sumner.
Art as a Malaria Antidote.
Give the girl art student, a dank,
undrained bit of swamp with positive
ly green verdure growing inartistic
clusters, says Woman, and she will
not complain of the mosquitoes which
it breeds or the malaria which the
doctor's wife is sure to find visibly
present in it.
Vast Extent of the Earth.
Some idea of the vast extent of the
surface of the earth may be obtained
when it is noted that if a lofty church
steeple be ascended, and the land
scape visible from it looked at, 900,000
such landscapes must be viewed in or
der that the whole earth may be seen.
Mother-in-Law Joke 1900 Years Old.
Mothers-in-law were no better in
Juvenal's time (the first century of
the Christian era) than they are to
day, and to this date belongs the im
mortal story of the man who threw
a stone at a dog. and, hitting his moth
er-in-law, said: "Not so bad."
Comfort of Air Castles.
I find the gayest castles in the air
that were ever piled, far better for
comfort and for use than the dungeons
in the air that are daily dug and cav
erned out by grumbling, discontented
people.—Emerson.
A Treat, Indeed.
One little girl had been to a party
on two consecutive days. "Oh, mam
ma," she cried, enthusiastically, on
her second return from the second,
"just think, I've had ice cream twice
to congestion!"
As She Recalled It.
"Yes," said Mrs. Lapsling; "my
husband enjoyed his trip ever so
much. He says the train he traveled
on had the finest buffoon car he ever
saw in his life."
You Lose.
There is comfort in the thought that
the barking dog never bites until you
happen to think that the biting dog
seldom barks.—Somerville Journal.
Value of a Hobby.
Have a hobby for your spare mo
ments. Bacon's fame is mainly due
to books written in his spare hours
while he was England's chancellor.
> Lightning Speed.
A Munich firm has just run a loco
motive and train weighing 2SS tons
from Munich to Augsburg at an aver
age speed of SI miles an hour.
Shave Heads of Schoolboys.
It is the fashion in France for
schoolboys to have their hair shaved
off.
World' 6 Average Rainfall.
Taken the world over the annual
average rainfall is 60 inches.
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