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Lessons in Smiling.
The course of instruction in smiling
which Is proposed in the public schools
of one of the large cities of the coun
try ought to be popular. Will it be
Kiven by the teacher of gymnastics or
of psychology? Will it be compulsory
for girls and elective for boys? Wilt
it be possible to escape it by passing a
satisfactory examination? Clerks
should be the first patrons of such in
struction, suggests, the Youth's Com
panion. What is there about the task
of selling buttons or ribbons or milk
pans which casts a glooin over the
countenance of the seller? It is a curi
ous fact that "drummers" are a smil
ing race, and clerks a sad one. Yet
one would suppose that begging folk
to buy would be a less cheerful occu
pation than being entreated to sell.
Can the general housework girl be
taught to smile when unexpected com
pany coines to dinner? Can the trolley
ear conductor beam on the mother
with three babies under five years old?
Can the farmer's boy reply to the ques
tion of the summer visitor with a grin
instead of a scowl? The school board
way well consider whether there is
not some scheme by which a telephone
girl can project a smile into her voice
as she announces, "Double one four
two, ring three—line busy!" When the
Sunshine society can supply a smiling
attachment for telephones and cash
registers and phonographs and door
bells and automobile horns, they will
command a market. Meantime, may
the course in smiling prosper, even if
it. has to be catalogued under the head
of ethics!
Prom the state of Washington comes
a story of a young woman who, seeing
a bear in the back yard, got out her
trusty 22-caliber rifle and pursued it
up a tree. In South Dakota, the same
day's dispatches relate, a young mar
ried woman saw a cash prize hung tip
for the best, corn-husker, and there
upon went forth and pulled it down.
This species of new woman, declare?
the Chicago Daily News, will not be
denied when she takes a notion that
she wants the ballot. Let her eastern
sisters enlist her in the cause and
there will be some action in addition
to a few sealplocks in the air. So long
as man could say, "I'm your natural
protector; home is the place for you,"
woman's cause looked doubtful. Now,
however, since she is a mighty bear
hunter and a nifty corn-picker, her
chances for getting the ear of the
White House as well as the sympa
tliies of the common people ought to
bo more than good.
The chef of a fashionable New York
restaurant serves real American beau
ty roses as a salad, stuffing them with
cheese and dressing them with mayon
liaise, and is said to pride himself on
the novel dish. That chef is a grace
less wretch who ought to be drenched
in mayonnaise himself along with the
patrons who order the desecrated
flower. American beauty salad, in
deed !
An army officer in Washington was
convicted of disorderly conduct on a
street car, the evidence showing that
it took five policemen to carry the bel
ligerant officer to the hospital. The sen
tence of dismissal was commuted, and
with reason, for a fighter like that
would be a great loss in time of active
service.
A .New York man has figured out
ht»w by careful management an auto
mobile can be kept, up at $2,300 per
year. At that rate a SSO a-week man
has only to figure further how to bring
his other living expenses within S3OO,
In order to reach the present goal of
social ambition.
The Swedish National Commission
for the Prevention of Tuberculosis has
recommended the gradual establish
ment of 4,600 retreats for consump
tives, to he scattered throughout the
length and breadth of the country.
The total cost will be nearly 11,000,000
crowns.
Edison's prediction that heat from
the sun will be utilized in such a man
ner that fuel will be needless sounds
hopeful. But the process \<All doubt
less require a large piant controlled by
one of the big corporations.
QUARANTINED.
IS STARTING WELL
MR. TAFT'S EXCELLENT CABINET
SELECTIONS.
Appointments of Messrs. Knox and
Wickersham Prove Fitness of
President-Elect for His
High Position.
The president-elect announces that
his secretary of state will be Hon.
Philander C. Knox, who was attorney
general in Mr. McKinley's second term
and is now senator from Pennsylvania.
It is also officially announced that
George W. Wickersham of New York
will be Mr. Taft's attorney general.
The selection of Mr. Knox is one
that commands public confidence. Few
men have risen faster from private
success to public esteem or held that
esteem with less question. It is not
given to many inen iu times of peace
to become recognized pillars of the
republic within so few years.
Prior to his appointment as attorney
general in April, 1901, Mr. Knox was
unknown to the nation at large. To
the legal profession he was known as
a successful Pittsburg lawyer of
highly respectable position. From
those who make hasty assumptions
his appointment was objected to a»
that of "a mere corporation lawyer."
He speedily showed that his sense
of public duty was in no way colored
by the accident of his associations in
private practice. Under his adminis
tration the department of justice stood
for evenhanded enforcement of the
laws. His record has been made more
illustrious from the inevitable com
parison with that of his successors.
Mr. Wickersham is as little known
to the nation at large now as was Mr.
Knox early in 1901. However, the
fact that he is described where best,
known as an "old-fashioned lawyer"
must be regarded as a promising sign.
The country has become weary of at
torneys general who ask the courts
to disregard the constitution, or who
make a jest of grave questions of na
tional welfare.
It is worthy of note that in the ac
ceptance of both Mr. Knox and Mr.
Wlckershani there is a clear prefer
ence of public duty to mere ease and
profit. One would have an easier life
by remaining in the senate. The
other could make more money by
sticking to his law office. The pref
erence of both shows what cant are
certain assumptions most current
among those who criticise public men
most severely. Though it must he
also the post of danger, the patriot
prefers the post of honorable service.
That Mr. Taft's first selections for
his cabinet not as a matter of course,
as was that of Mr. Hitchcock, are of
the character they are is a cheerful
sign to the country. They give hope
ful promise that the incoming admin
istration will be guided by broad
thought for the general welfare of the
American people.
Very Significant Figures.
In the quarterly statement of the
T nited States Steel Corporation there
is ample ground for the belief that
business and industrial conditions are
rapidly improving. WhWe the earnings
are lower than for the high-tide quar
ter ending with September of last
year they show an increase of nearly
$7,000,000 over the preceding quarter,
ended with June. This is the more sig
nificant when compared with the in
crease of only $2,000,000 for the sec
ond quarter over the first quarter.
Putin another way, the increase of
the third quarter over the second is
3Vs times the increase of the second
over the first. Moreover, the increase
since March 31 to 50 per cent, of the
total earnings for the first quarter of
the year. At the same rate of progress
for the current quarter the earnings
for the last hair of the year may easily
be double those of the first half of the
year, and up to the highest rate of the
corporation.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY JANUARY 21, 1909-
CALLS FOR A SETTLEMENT.
Sentence of Labor Leaders Brings Up
Vital Question.
It is, all things considered, fortunate
that men of the high character and ac
knowledged worth of Gompers, Mitch
ell and Morrison have become the
agents by whose acts the vital ques
tions of the boycott, the court injunc
tion, contempt of court, the right of
free speech and freedom of the press
have been brought forward in a way
which demands for them full consid
eration and final judgment by the
courts and the people. These questions
goto the very foundation of popular
government, it is to be expected that
they will be settled right in the end;
for we have Abraham Lincoln's word
for It that no question is ever settled
until it is settled right.
In this great controversy the ele
ment of peril is the sentiment that
there is "one law for the rich and an
other for the poor." Gompers, Mitchell
and Morrison offend a court and are
sentenced to jail. A great corporation
offends and is fined. It is known that
President Roosevelt and other clear
sighted men are greatly disturbed by
such demonstrations of differences in
the application of the law. Unques
tionably the trade unionist and the
head of the trust should be equally
careful to refrain from unlawful acts.
If they offend they should be punished
with equal severity. Roth, however,
are Inclined to rail at court decisions.
The courts are established by the peo
ple for the people. Being human in
stitutions they are fallible.
Americans want all the freedom
that is right for them to exercise. It is
not difficult to see faults on both sides
in this case. The deliberate violation
of a court injunction while its validity
was being tested in a higher court
surely was improper from any point of
view.—Chicago Daily News (Ind.)
Taft for the Consumers.
In his solicitude for fair tariff re
vision. Mr. Taft does not give himself
any concern about the industries so
far as needed testimony is concerned.
He knows from history, and Crom the
policy of the tariff revision committee
now sitting, that the protected inter
ests will be heard to the full ftxtent of
their prejudiced, one-sided evidence.
He does want the side of the con
sumers to be heard and recorded, and
he indirectly calls the committee to
account for not taking initiative action
to secure testimony on this side of the
I case. The justice of this criticism is
obvious. Suppose, for example, that in
I order to fortify the side of the inter
: esls it had been necessary to send sub
committees to various parts of the
! country, to call upon representatives
j of the consuming class, does anyone
I believe for a minute that this commit
| tee, presided over by Mr. Payne, would
| have failed to take these steps?
The whole policy of revision corn
| niittees in the past has been to leave
nothing undone that could be done to
Strengthen the claims for high protec
tive duties and to do nothing that
could be left undone to show the rights
lof tiie consumers. But for the deter
mination of Mr. Taft to have honest
i revision, a great ma*:y Republicans in
i congress would be more than willing
' ihat the next revision should be ae
-1 complished in the same old way.
The New Tariff Bill.
Now that the ways and means co>U'
inittee has begun the drafting of a
tariff 1)111 interest in the subject will
|be greatly quickened. Not that tho
j bill drafted is likely to he accepted
in the form presented. That is most
unlikely. The new ways and means
committee must pass upon it, then the
next house, and then the senate.
Changes, and maybe many of them,
are inevitable. But the hill will afford
the basis for speculation as to what
; ihe contest will turn upon respecting
i the meaning of the Chicago platform
jln other words, what was compre
i aop.ded now, in the promise of tarifi
j revision?
WINDOW GLASS
TRUSHDIEO
TAKES IN VIRTUALLY ALL MANU
FACTURERS OF HAND-BLOWN
GLASS IN COUNTRY.
WAGE SCALE TO BE FIXED LATER
Factories in Combine Are Located In
Ohio, West Virginia, Indiana, New
York, Pennsylvania, Kan
sas and California.
Columbus, O. —After two days of
conference and argument over terms
of consolidation window glass manu
facturers on Thursday in their
meeting came to an agreement, and
within a few days the Imperial Win
dow Glass Co., which will include in
its personnel practically every manu
facturer of hand-blown window glass
in the United States, will be launched.
The capitalization of the company,
its officers and other details were not
definitely decided. Out of the 2,000
and more pots of the independent win
dow glass factories, over 1,750 signed
the agreement and when the remain
ing factories, which are located in
West Virginia and Pennsylvania, are
heard from, the final touches will be
put on the new corporation. W.
.Tones & Co., who own three .arge
plants in West Virginia, on Thursday
decided to join the merger. It was
the decision of this firm to enter the
new company which made possible its
organization, as without its factories
the merger could not have been
formed.
It is probable that the headquarters
of the new company will he in Pitts
burg. The factories which will be con
trolled are located in Ohio, West Vir
ginia, Indiana, Pennsylvania, N T ew
York. Kansas and California.
Pending the completion of the con
solidation the question of the new
wage scale will be allowed to lie as it
is. Practically all of the factories are
closed down by the strike of the work
men, and when the new organization
is completed, then the subject of a
settlement will be taken up. Under
present conditions in the glass trade,
the owners of many of the factories
are not anxious to operate, and both
Messrs. Faulkner and Burns, leaders
of the rival organizations of work
men, were unable to obtain any official
conference with the employers.
Cleveland Jan. 15. —Declaring that
it. would would mean a reduction of
40 per cent from the old straight list
and lower wages than glass workers
ever worked for under the sliding
scale, President Faulkner of the Na
tional Glass Workers says that organ
ization could not countenance the
plans proposed at the Columbus meet
ing of manufacturers in the formation
of the Imperial Glass Co., designed as
an independent combination. Mr.
Faulkner returned from Columbus
with information that the organization
named had, through committees,
agreed upon a forfeit of SIOO per pot
and that certain manufacturers would
put plants out of blast until the work
ers had coincided upon an agreement
based on the selling price of 90-30 sin
gle strength and 90-40 double strength.
President Faulkner asserted that the
workers could derive no benefit what
ever under this arrangement and
could do nothing other than continue
the fight along the lines inaugurated
when the strike of the glass workers
was called.
MINISTER'S BRAIN DISEASED
Doctors Find Evidence of Decided Cer
ebral Derangement in Murderer
Carmichael.
Detroit, Mich. —The brain of Rev.
J. H. Carmichael, who killed Gideon
Browning in the Rattle Run church
and committed suicide at Carthage,
111., was examined by four physicians
Thursday night. At the conclusion of
the autopsy the physicians stated that
they had found unmistakable evidence
of insanity.
"We find that Rev. Mr. Carmichael
had been a sufferer from acute
mania." said the physicians. "The
blood vessels of the brain were all
congested. There was an adhesion of
the coverings of the brain to the
cranium which showed an anaemia of
the right side of the brain and we
found granulations of the superior
posterior surface of the cerebrum. It
is evident that Rev. Carmichael had
suffered several attacks of acute in
flammation of the brain."
The doctors agreed that the marks
found upon the body, which had given
rise to the report that the dead man
had been addicted to the use of a hy
podermic syringe for administering
drugs, had all been made after the
minister's death.
Rev. Carmichael's funeral will be
held Friday at Romulus, Mich., in the
Methodist church, Rev. C. B. Steele,
presiding elder of the Port Huron dis
trict, officiating.
More Night Riders Confess.
Union City, Tenn.—The prosecu
tion in the Night Rider cases se
cured further evidence Thursday when
two of the men held in connection
with the lynching of Capt. Ranken
made voluntary confessions.
Hawaian Judge Is Canned.
Honolulu, Hawai. —United States At
torney General Bonaparte has asked
Circuit. Judge Kepoikai of Maui for his
resignation after investigating the
(barges filed against the jurist by
Co.. Frear of Hawaii.
HE "WILL SIGN NO SUCK BILL"
PRESIDENT VETOES MEASURE
FOR DAMMING A RIVER.
Outlines Policy that Government Should
Adopt in Giving Public Property
Over to Private Control.
Washington. I'tcsidcni Roosevelt
sent a special message to the house
on Friday with his veto of the
bill providing for the construction of a
dam across James river in Stone
county, Alissouri, the purpose of the
dam being to get, water to create elec
tric power, lie declared that the
movement to secure control of the
water power of the country Is still in
its infancy, but that "unless it is con
trolled the history of the oil industry
will be repeated In the hydro-electric
power Industry, with the results far
more oppressive and disastrous for the
people."
"It is true," he added, "that, the
great bulk of our potential water
power is as yet undeveloped, but the
sites which are now controlled by com
binations are those which offer the
greatest advantages and therefore
hold strategic position."
He says that "the bill gives to the
grantee a valuable privilege, which by
its very nature is monopolistic, anil
does not contain the conditions essen
tial to protect the public interest."
Continuing, he says:
I rppr-.it the words with which I con
cluded inv message vetoing the Uainv
River bill:
In place of the present haphazard policy
ef permanently alienating valuable public
property we should substitute a definite
policy along the following lines:
First. There should be a limited or
carefully guarded grant in the nature of
an option or opportunity afforded within
reasonable time for development of plans
and for execution of the project.
Second. Such a grant or concession
should be accomplished in the act making
the grant by a provision expressly mak
ing it the duty of a designated official to
annul the grant if the work is not begun
or plans are not carried out in accord
ance' with the authority granted.
Third. It should also lie the duty of
some designated official to see to it that
in approving the plans the maximum de
velopment of the navigation and power is
assured, or at least that in making the
plans these may not he so developed as
ultimately to interfere with the better
utilization of the water or complete de
velopment of the power.
Fourth. There should be a license fee
or charge which, though small or nominal
at the outset, can in the future be ad
justed so as to secure n control in the in
terest of the public.
Fifth. Provision should he made for
the termination of the grant or privilege
at a definite time, leaving to future gen
erations the power or authority to re
new or extend the concession in accord
ance with the conditions which mav pre
vail at that tiine.
Further reflection suggests a sixth con
dition, viz:
The license should lie forfeited upon
proof that the licensee lias joined In any
conspiracy or unlawful combination in re
straint of trade, as is provided for grants
of coal lands in Alaska by the act of May
28, 1908.
I will sign no bill granting a privilege of
this character which does not contain the
substance of these conditions. I consider
myself bound, as far as exercise of my ex
ecutive power will allow, to do for the
people, in prevention of monopoly of their
resources, what I believe they would do
for themselves if they were In a position
to act. Accordingly I shall Insist upon
the conditions mentioned above not only
in acts which I sign, but also in passing
upon plans for use of water power pre
sented to the executive departments for
action. The imposition of conditions lias
received the sanction of congress in the
general act of 1906, regulating the con
struction of dams in navigable waters,
which authorizes the Imposing of "such
conditions and stipulations as the chief of
engineers and the secretary ot war may
deem necessary to protect the present and
future interests of the United States."
I .Inclose a letter from the commissioner
of corporations, setting forth the results
of his investigations and the evidence of
the far-reaching plana and operations of
the General Klectrie Co., the Westing
house Electric and Manufacturing Co..
and other large concerns, for consolida
tion of the water powers of the country
under their control. I also inclose the
memorandum of the solicitor general
above referred to.
I esteem it my duty to use every en
deavor to prevent this growing monopoly,
the most threatening which has ever ap
peared. from being fastened upon the
people of this nation.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
WEEKLY REVIEW OF TRADE
Dun & Co. Report General Progress,
Except in Iron and
Steel.
New York City.—R. G. Dun & Co.'s
Weekly Review of Trade says:
Trade during the first half of Jan
uary shows expected progress. New
undertakings are encouraged by the
more settled policy regarding large
financial and industrial affairs and
ample funds are available. Leading
industries gradually increase working
forces and output and while in most
lines both continue below normal, the
gains established in the closing
months of last year are fully main
tained.
Disappointment is manifest in the
iron and steel markets, demand lack
ing snap and requirements coming
out in a hesitating way. Better buying
was expected owing to cheap money
and the fact that the entire country is
practically bare of finished goods. Lit
tle inquiry is received from the rail
roads.
Hains Not Guilty.
Flushing, N. Y. —After reviewing
the evidence for 22 hours and
taking 15 ballots before all were
agreed, the jury in the trial of Thorn
ton .1. Hains found the prisoner not
guilty as a principal with his
in the killing of W. E. Annis.
More Water.
Springfield, 111.—Swift & Co. of
Chicago on Friday certified to the
secretary of state a $10,0(10,000 in
crease of capital stock. The present
capital stock is $,">0,000,000.
SETEfiTEEN HOURS IN SADDLE
ROOSEVELT SETS AN EXAMPLE
FOR ARMY MEN TO FOLLOW.
Pre»ident Made Trip to Prove to Mili
tary Critics that 90 Miles in Threa
Days Is Not Too Much.
Washington.—President Roosevelt
rode 98 miles on horseback on
Wednesday, and when he dismounted
at the White House door, more than
17 hours after having departed there
from, he did not show any marked
signs of weariness. The object of his
long day in the saddle, he explained to
a representative of the Associated
Press after his return, was to "prove
to the critics who have found fault
with the recent order requiring all
array and navy officers to take physical
tests, that if a president who is not in
training can ride 90 miles in one day
without being laid up in bed thereby,
it should not be too much to ask the
men who are supposed to be in the
best physical training all the time to
ride 90 miles in three days."
Mounting his faithful rider and
jumped "Roswell" in front of the
White House door at 3:30 o'clock
Wednesday morning he dismounted at
the same place at 8:40 Wednesday
night. His journey was to Warren
ton, Va., and back. On the return trip
the last 30 miles of the journey were
made in sleet and rain, while the last
15 miles were in almost pitch dark
ness. When he dismounted his coat
and hat were frozen stiff with sleet
and ice. There were four relays of
horses, the first stage of the journey
out and the last in being made by the
president on "Roswell"; the second
out and third in being on "Georgia";
while the other two were on army
horses which the president had never
before mounted.
As the four horseback riders, fol
lowed by two policemen on wheels and
the empty carriage drove into the
sleet shimmering grounds surround
ing the executive mansion, the presi
dent in front with his broad brimmed
black slouch hat drawn down over his
face, presented a striking picture.
Both the outward and the return trip
lay through Fairfax courthouse to
Warrenton. Arriving at the latter
place about It o'clock, where the
president's coming had been heralded
an hour or so before his arrival, he
was greeted by a gathering of citi
zens and school children to whom he
spoke a few words of greeting.
In less than an hour after returning
to the White House the president had
changed his ice-coated clothing for
evening dress and appeared in the din
ing room, ready for as hearty a meal
as he has eaten for a long time.
If any of the critics of his "army
riding order" had dropped in about
that time they would have been sadly
disappointed, for the president did not
show in the least by his walk that he
had been sitting for nearly 17 hours in
a hard saddle.
KING GETS FOURTEEN YEARS
Convicted Boston Broker Accuses
Thomas W. Lawson of His
Financial Ruin.
Boston, Mass. —Cardenio F. King,
former financial agent and broker, who
maintained palatial offices in Boston
and New York and who for a short
time was publisher of a daily paper
here, was Wednesday night sentenced
by Judge Schofleld in the superior
criminal court to serve a term of not
less than 10 and not more than 14
years at hard labor in the state prison
at Charlestown.
On December 29 King was convicted
on 27 counts of an indictment charging
him with larceny and embezzlement
and with securing by false pretenses
the sum of $22,000 from his customers.
The sentence followed a dramatic
statement by King in court, during
which he reviewed the story of his life
his flight from Boston and his travels
in England, France and Ceylon. He
declared that he was innocent of any
wrong intent in any of his acts and in
closing his address he accused Thomas
W. Lawson of secretly fighting him
and bringing him to financial ruin.
The last move of Mr. King's attor
ney to secure a delay took the form of
a motion for a stay of execution which
sought to have the imposing of sen
tence delayed until Saturday. Judge
Schofleld declined to grant the re
quest, and imposed the sentence.
Woman Perished in Fire.
New Haven. Conn. —Tn a fierce
fire that completely burned the resi
dence of Samuel Higgins, general
manager of the New York, New Haven
& Hartford railroad here, early Wed
nesday, his mother, Mrs. Higgins, lost
her life, his mother-in-law, Mrs. M. E.
Corbin, was probably fatally hurt, and
his wife, daughter Isabel, his young
son and Air. Higgins himself barely es
caped death in the flames by jump
ing from a second story window. It
was as a result of this jump that Mrs.
Corbin was fatally hurt.
Nine Years for Forger.
Pittsburg, Pa. —Julius K. IMllman.
arrested here last week for for
gery, and wanted in many cities
throughout the United States on the
same charge, pleaded guilty here Wed
nesday and was sentenced to serve
nine years in the penitentiary.
Two Men Frozen to Death.
Pittsburg, Pa. —Two unknown men
were frozen to death and many
persons suffered from cold, owing to
a gas shortage in this city and vicinity
Wednesday.