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The Job department of the PllESSlßcomplete »nd affords facilities for dolnn the host, class of ■work. PARTICLI.AU ATTENTION IMIDTO LAW PRINTING. No paper will be discontinued until arrear f ges arc paid, except at the option of the pub is her. Papers sent out of the county must bo paid for in advance. Th. nours we spend in wishing and craving for the impossible could be better spent in working for the at tainable. A man of intelligence, wealth and power who treats his subordinates "with rudeness and insult is a natural coward. People who show no kindness OT mercy in wealth and power will cer tainly receive none when poverty comes to be their lot. The man who doubts and the man who scoffs have this difference be tween them: The one uses his reason arid the other his passion. Possibly sleeping-car porters may become so wealthy that they wi." turn the tables and tip passengers who have made the jaunt unkickingly. Prof, Ross says the idle rich are more dangerous than the hoboes. It must be admitted, however, that they are less apt to hit you with a piece of gaspipe. "Only people with a million or more can afford to have 'stuporous melan cholia.'" says the Washington Her ald. Well, it. isn't exactly a disease that many of us crave. If the learned professor of Harvard should speak politely to the laboring man would not the laboring man give the learned professor a seat? Let the. learned professor try it. They are talking of sending wireless messages around the world. For what purpose"' So that a man can telegraph to himself instead of tying a string around his thumb when he wants to remember something? King Menelik of Abyssinia claims to be the descendant of Solomon and the queen of Sheba, and certainly it is no violent wrench of facts to say he is a much better behaved old fellow than some of our distinguished senators. We do not know that it will make any particular difference in the world's history whether Gladys is happy or not. Would some of her patriotic ad visers guarantee happiness for her ■with an American husband whom they might pick out? The Sheridan statue commission has approved and accepted the model of the statue of Gen. Philip Sheridan, which is to ornament. Sheridan Circle, Twenty-second street and Massachu setts avenue, in Washington. The model is the design of Gutzon Borg lum of New York. The battleship Mississippi has been accepted by the government. It is in order now for somebody to discover that she was constructed along anti aunt ed lines and that it would be pre posterous to expect her to last more than one round in a battle with any thing bigger than a rowboat. Farmers in many parts of the coun try have been able, owing to the mild winter, to do a good deal of work, ac cording to reports, but have found it difficult to get help in spite of the .lumber of unemployed men in cities. Getting up at 4 o'clock a. 111., and go ing out to feed the stock does not ap peal even to the hungry men. Orea, in Sweden, has, in the course of a generation, sold $5,550,000 worth of trees, and by means of judicious replanting has provided for a similar Income every- 30 or 40 years. In con sequence ol the development of this commercial wealth there are no taxes. Railways and telephones are free, and BO are the schoolhouses, teaching, and many other things. Now a movement has been started *0 compel women to take off their hats fn church. The movement might as well be dropped at once before its ad vocates lose unnecessary sleep and j-row thin through worry. If a wom «in is to take off her hat in church, what, she will naturally argue, is the good of her Easter millinery? The logical conclusion of this argument is too self-evident for formal statement. Helen Keller's latest intimate and detailed account of her experiences and emotions in an existence where i,he is deprived of sight and hearing and restricted to the three other senses, is a remarkable paper in many respects. But is not more remarkable declares the Boston Herald, than her declaration thai if a fairy bade her to choose between the sense of sight and touch she would not part with the warm and endearing contact of human hands. Those who possess both gifts of sight and hearing would perhaps ponder long before choosing. BUILT FOR RESULTS AMERICAN FIGHTING SHIPS HAVE NO SUPERIOR. Special Report of Rear Admiral Con verse Thoroughly Answers Criti cism Reflecting on Condition of the United States Navy. The special report of Rear Admiral Converse on the material and person nel of the American navy has been made public. It is a detailed consid eration of all the facts which formed the basis of the article put out to prove the navy almost, if not quite, useless and worthless. As far as the telegraphed summaries show the report of Admiral Converse covers little new ground. Most of the technical accusations of the "sensa tion" had already been refuted, not ably in articles published in the Scientific American, by men qualified to speak with technical authority. Ad miral Converse appears to cover the same ground with more detail and in a broader way. The sum and substance of the whole matter is that our naval constructors, like those of every other nation, have had to make compromises in order to get as near as possible to that ideal which must always be pursued even though it can never be attained the perfect battleship. All of our battleships are defective in some respect. So are those of every other nation —every one of them. Ther# never has been and there prob ably never will be a battleship sent to sea at which some naval expert could not look and say with all truth fulness and sincerity: "This is not as it should be, in all respects." The size of ships is limited by the amount of money congress is willing to spend on them and by other prac tical considerations. Upon the size depends the weight the ship can carry. How shall that weight be distributed? That is the fundamental question which seamen and naval constructors answer in various ways, according to their conception of the relative im portance of different features, and 011 which there must be compromise. If the ship is made so high out of water as certainly to be able to light all guns in all weathers, the weight thus added must be subtracted some where else. If a ship is given such heavy armor as to be able to resist any projectile in use, other parts must be made lighter, if given the highest possible speed and the largest possible coal capacity, something must be sac rificed in armor or guns or both. And so it goes all around. The American rule, founded on ex perience, has been to remember that the first purpose of a fighting ship is to damage the enemy. Therefore it has been the American rule to subor dinate everything else, as far as prac ticable, to gun power, and to make gun power effective by trained skill in gunnery, remembering that only the shots that hit are shots that count. Taken altogether, from the days of the Constitution down, American ships have commonly been more powerful— they have usually had greater hittting power—than ships of the same size and date of any other nation. And never but once has an American ship been compelled to strike her colors to an enemy of even approximately her own size! "Results," in tlie pungent phrase of the street, "are what count." The re sults attained in the final test of war prove that American fighting ships— save at those periods when the navy was openly neglected—have been as good as any and better than most that other nations have. And so they are to-day. As Admiral Converse says: "Our ships are not infevior to those in for eign services." By foreign critics they are considered somewhat su perior on the average, and especially in the vital point of ability to damage the enemy.—Chicago Inter Ocean. An Encouraging Showing. While but 11 months' figures are available, Bradstreet's says that the foreign trade record for the year so far exceeds any corresponding period of earlier years as to justify the stals ment that the total of exports and im ports will be far larger than in any preceding year in the history of our commerce. The growth in the ex port trade has been chiefly in fin ished products, manufacturers' ma terials and manufactures, although the Impression probably prevails that any increase has been largely in raw ma terials, cotton and cereals. The gain in imports of manufactures for fur ther use in manufacturing has also been considerable, greater than it should be, perhaps, considering our own resources. Hut it at least goes to prove that the tariff is not prohibitive, as we are constantly hearing, and the showing tends to confirm the belief that, the time is not ripe for a pro tracted period of business depression. —Providence Tribune. Against Tariff Revision Now. All tariffs should, from time to time, be revised and brought up to date. They are framed with a view to existing industrial conditions, and when those change materially the tar iff requires adjustment. The time for such a change should, however, be well chosen. A period of financial de pression and uncertainty and the yeai of a presidential election should r.ot have its inevitable complications and disturbances aggravated by a tariff revision agitation. Philadelphia Press, Rep CAMERON COUNTY PRESS., THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1908. FOR CIVIL SERVICE PENSIONS. Chicago Newspaper Thinks United States Has Been Remiss. No other nation has ever been so liberal in pensioning its soldiers as the United States. No other nation, either, has so neglected the applica tion of pension laws to civil service, declares the* Chicago Journal. Military or naval pensions are scarcely a matter of bounty, in mo3t nations. That is, the soldier or sailor who receives a pension has given its equivalent in active service for his country. Where the pension laws ex tend to the benefit of soldiers' widows, the same rule is held, and the widow or children reap the fruits of the dead patriot's services. In the civil service, a different rule applies. Most civilized nations allow their civil servants to create out of their own earnings pension funds that goto widows or children. A fixed sum is deducted from monthly or yearly salaries for that purpose. Thus there is 110 direct charge upon taxpayers, and the government only assumes supervision of the civil pen sion funds. But even this point has not been reached in the United States. Con gress has turned a deaf ear to all pen sion proposals, except for the army or navy. The result, as was inevitable, is that hundreds of aged civil servants, in tlio various Washington depart ments, who have given their lives to the government ■ * rvice, .iro now about to be discharged. It may be good business and good politics toman the departments with younger blood. But the old servants might at least have reaped the benefit of small retiring pensions, if the gov ernment had allowed them to main tain a pension fund out of their own earnings. Fleets in the Pacific. Remarks in the speeches of tary Taft in New England have been seized upon as explanatory of the bat tleship cruise into Pacific waters, and as being significant of that fleet's ulti mate destination. Mr. Taft has said something about the necessity for "fill ing the Oriental eye." If that be the real purpose of the cruise it is likely to accomplish its object whether Rear Admiral Evans does or does not go be yond San Francisco. The fleet now at Callao consists of 16 battleships of the first class, among the world's ablest lighting craft. The other fleet assembling at San Francisco to meet the battleships comprises nine great armored vessels, almost if not quite equa! to those under command of Ev ans in Peruvian waters. Then there is the torpedo flotilla that is in itself a very formidable aggregation. The cruiser squadron that is as sembling at San Francisco includes the four armored vessels of the Penn sylvania class, carrying armor and armament almost equal to those of battleships. The other members of the group are almost equal in fighting strength, the squadron surpassing in power the whole American navy en gaged in the war with Spain. When it combines with the two forces com ing from the Atlantic the whole should be ample to "fill the Oriental eye," and any other eye that may happen to be turned in that direction. The fleet will not then represent the present naval strength of the nation— not by many powerful units. And wo may add that the splendid spectacle should so fill the eye of congress as to convince it the nation is not in ijeed of haste in making additions to its force. The two battleships and aux iliary vessels indorsed by the house appropriations committee are suffi cient for the moment.—Pittsburg Dis patch. Free Trade Blundering. Edward J. Shriver, in the "Free Trade Broadside," makes the blunder of asserting "that within the past eight or ten years we have exported as much as 5.000,000,000 more than we have imported, and that for a period of 50 years there has been a sub stantial 'favorable' balance on our for eign trade." His **rror consists In fail ing to note what some of his school of thinkers have agreed to designate as invisible imy.orts and exports, be cause they do not appear in custom house reports of foreign trade. When these are taken into considera tion the assumed balance of trade shrinks very materially; still it has been large enough during recent years to put us in better shape to draw upon foreigners than we were during the years of Cleveland's last administration. Mr. Shriver evidently does not believe that this is the ease. He thinks that, the United States could have remained a debtor country, increasing the volume of its indebted ness year by year by buying more from foreigners than we sell to them, and still be able, like England, a cred itor nation of long standing, to draw on them for gold whenever it was needed. —San Francisco Chronicle. United States and Japan. It is absurd to say that the United States is going to fight Japan to com pel her to evacuate Manchuria. If Japan lives up- to the terms of the peace treaty, which was approved iiy our government among others, wo have 110 quarrel with her. If she fails to do so and can give no satisfactory reason for her failure, it is a matter for all the great powers. Let us not forget that Japan has an army of over a million trained and seasoned fight ers and a navy that has been tried in 1 war, and that any nation that, attacks her will have to fight thousands oi miles away from her base. Neithet President Roosevelt nor Secretary Root is insane enough to rush \is into an adventure of this kind on sucb small provocation. FOUR REPORTS ARE SUBMTTTED TO THE SENATE IN REGARD TO THE BROWNSVILLE AFFRAY. Majority Report Blames Negro Sol diers for "Shooting Up" Town, but Fails to Identify Guilty Persons. Washington, D. C.—Reports from the senate committee ou military affairs were presented Wednesday in regard to the Investigation of the af fray at Brownsville, Texas, which re sulted in the discharge without honor of three companies of negro soldiers of the Twenty-fifth infantry. At the same time a message was received from the president calling attention to the fact that the testimony taken by the com mittee sustains his position in dis charging the negro soldiers. He rec ommends extension of the time for re ienlistment of the discharged men who tmight be found not to fall within the terms of the order. There were four reports from the committee, the ma jority being signed by Senators War ren, Lodge, Warner, Dupont, Talia ferro, Foster, Overman, Frazier and McCreary. A minority report was signed by Senators Foraker, Scott, Bulkeley and Hemenway. The majc •- lty report found as follows: "That in the opinion of the commit tee the shooting was done by some of the soldiers belonging to the Twenty fifth infantry; that the testimony fails to identify the particular soldier or soldiers who participated in the af fray. It is stated that is con siderable contradiction In the testi mony, but that taken .13 a whole and reconciling It wherever possible it proves the case outlined in the ma jority's decision." The principal minority repot was presented by Senator Scott and takes the position that it WPS impossible to ascertain who did the shooting and makes the recommendation that the negro soldiers be restored. In addi tion to this minority report. Senators Foraker and Bulkeley joined in a sup plemental report which was presented by Senator Foraker. Foraker's report declared that the testimony of the eye-witnesses against the negro soldiers is not reliable and that no motive for their alleged con nection with the affray had been shown. A supplemental report signed by Senators Warren, Lodge, Warner and Dupont declares that under the evi dence it is shown that the assault was perpetrated by members of the battalion, but that it is reasonable to believe that all of the soldiers were not concerned in the commission of the crime, either as principals or ac cessories. They recommend that it would be .justice to restore to all the innocent men the rights which had ac crued to them by reason of their pre vious service in the army. A bill is presented authorizing the president within one year after the passage oi the act to authorize the enlistment of the men whom he may be satisfied had 110 connection with the shooting. Senator Foraker included in his re port a bill, previously introduced, "which provides for the same general purpose. This bill, however, would compel the war department to accept the enlistment of any one of the dis charged negroes who makes oath that he was not connected with the shoot ing. ADMITS SYSTEM IS BAD. Ohio's State Treasurer Confesses that Poor Methods of Accounting Exist in His Office. Columbus, O. —The state of Ohio is ahead some SIO,OOO interest pay ments for state deposits, according to the findings of the expert account ants that reported to the senate com mittee investigating Treasurer Mc- Kinnon's office Wednesday. The great discrepancies are credit ed to the poor system of keeping ac counts in the state treasurer's office. McKlnnon admitted the lack of sys tem and said that he now fully real ized what a poor system it is. The greatest discrepancy exists be tween the treasurer's cash book and the correspondence from the banks received along with the checks in payment of interest on state deposits. By checking up these letters against the cash book and allowing for 51c- Kinnon's 5 per cent commission, the accountants found the cash book ahead $:if1,889.90. The difference between the cash book and correspondence is blamed on the loss of some of the corre spondence, although as to this no one was positive. McKinnon asld he thought he was keeping all the let ters, but Accountant Lothrnan pointed out that he surely must have lost a good many by failure to keep them in a good file. The difference between the banks' statements and the cash book is credited in part to mistakes on the part of banks and to the dTop ping out of some of them, although McKinnon declared that until last, fall, when one bank decided to retire, the bank list is intact. Congress. Washington.—Amendments to the postoflice appropriation bill were adopted by the house on the 11th in creasing the pay of letter carriers to $1,200 a year and prohibiting the transmission through the mails of in toxicating liquors and cocaine. In the senate a message from the president and reports from the military affairs committee on the Brownsville affair were read. Senator Clarke of Arkan sas spoke against the currency bill. Killed Her Friend and Suicided. Boston, Mass. Suffering from melancholia, due to overwork, Miss Sarah Weed, of Philadelphia, shot and killed Miss Elizabeth Hardee, of East Savannah, Ga., and then committed suicide at the Laurens school, a fash ionable boarding school for girls, Tuesday night. Bond Sale Was a Success. Albany, N. Y. The sale of $5,000,000 of 50-year 4 per cent, state highway improvement bonds by State Comptroller Glynn on Wednes day was a great success, the issue Ixsine several times oversubscribed. ON THE ROAD. "Guests without baggage fire r& quired to pay in advance," significant ly remarked the new clerk at the hotel. "How much baggage is required?" asked the plainly-dressed traveler, who was signing his name in the reg ister. "Something more than that little old valise." "Well, I have 36 cars of baggage, but it won't be here till Thursday of next week." "Thirty-six cars of baggage? What kind?" "Merely a circus and menagerie I happen to own." "O, I beg your pardon!"— Chicago Tribune. Its Size. "Is this disfranchising measure they've passed, to amend the consti tution ?" "Hardly to amend anything; it is more like another bad break." —Balti- more American. VERY PERSONAL. Lord Chumpy (dressed for the opera)— Here, boy, call me a four wheeler, will you? The Boy—Well, yer don't think I'd call yer hansom, do yer?—Comic Cuts. Rhyming Romance. HP culls ut 8 Upon Miss KB, And stays till IS; Their tetc-a-t8 I.cads him to stS He thinks her gi'S— At any rB, An ideal niß She names the US; They oseulß. • * • • • Alas, sad FB, They separS— She, too much prS; ile, too much tskS. —Judge. Very Appropriate. "Yes." confided the garrulous bar ber, "I'm tired of working in the city and I think I shall go down south and raise pork." "That so?" replied the regular patron. "What kind of swine are you going to raise?" "Why, razorbacks."—Chicago Daily- News. Prohibition. "Now that th? lid is on tight, what shall we do to drown our sorrows?" exclaimed an advocate of demon rum. "Drown them in the prohibition wave," replied the prohibitionist, who was somewhat of a wit himself.—De troit Free Press. Just What He Wanted. "She said that she would never speak to me again." "Well, what did you do?" "I asked her if she meant it, and when she nodded her head. I asked her to be my wife. Such a chance as that, was too good to lose." —De- troit Free Press. A Physical Feat. "When Jones found lie had tacklod the wrong man, he turned cold all over." "Why?" "To find himself unexpectedly in such hot water." —Baltimore Ameri can. Fatigued Them Some. "This attack on the Americans who have the rubber concessions in the Konj?) by the natives must rather in terfere with the turning of the wheels of commerce." "Rather looks as if they were get ting rubber tired." 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