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"A Spirit in Prison."
A Paris correspondent nipntions an
anomaly just discovered in that capi
tal. He is a railway guard and com
poser, one -VI. Paul Dupin, 43 years of
age, who has been a musician since
childhood. When he was 12 his family
lost the little money they had and he
started at that early day to »'arn his
living. He was an apprentice in one
of the humblest berths in a railway
company and then a mere porter at
Rennes. Manual labor kept him busy
12 hours of the day, but at night he
studied music and composed. He has
never had any instruction but what he
gave himself by reading such works as
he could find in the Rennes public li
brary. Until three years ago he had
actually never been able to afford a
concert tickel and had never in his life
heard a full orchestra. He used to
"read" Beethoven's symphonies, hav
ing taught himself to make out an or
chestra score, but he could not even
play arrangements of them on the
piano, never having learned that or
any other instrument. "Yet," says the
Paris writer, "Dupin all these years
went on composing. To-day he is em
ployed in Paris. A friend has made a
present of a piano to his, 12-year-old
daughter, who seems to be also re
markably gifted, and his delight is to
hear his own compositions played by
her, as he cannot play them himself."
Behold, "A Spirit in Prison!"
The officers and men of the battle
ship fleet are full of praise for the
kindness, hospitality and generosity
shown them during their long cruise
and the visits to foreign lands. One
of them says he was unable lo spend
any money during the trip, because
wherever they went no one would take
pay. That certainly was extraordinary,
for as a rule foreigners seem to think
Americans have money to burn, and
the hotel keepers, merchants and
others are quite willing to help on the
conflagration, declares the Troy (N..
Y.) Times. Rut it may be assumed
that knowledge of the United States
has increased abroad somewhat of late
Uncle Sam is a great deal bigger man
in the world's estimation than he was
ten or eleven years ago, and the na
tions of the earth are correspondingly
willing to do honor to him and his rep
resentatives.
The latest feast of the Anihf-rsi
alumni in New York is described as
the biggest and most enthusiastic col
lege dinner ever held in that great
metropolis. The fact that nearly all
the speechs were of the phono
graphic order and could be turned on
or shut off by twisting the button
suggests inquiry whether the button
old-fashioned postprandial speeches
hadn't better be dispensed with by
dining organizations and the machine
variety with the open and shut ar
rangement made use of instead. The
idea is certainly worth considering.
The law ordinarily has little senti
ment, yet occasionally its decisions are
based on sentiment alone. A poor
woman haled into a Chicago court for
non-payment of rent was noticed to be
wearing a wedding ring and a pair of
cheap earrings. The lawyer for the
landlord demanded them, but the judge
would not. permit him to take them.
"Their intrinsic value is small, their
sentimental value great. They are ex
empt," he said, it is a humane and
pleasant view.
The Philadelphia Inquirer protestE
against sending the liberty bell on "an
other wild west exhibition circuit." But
has the bell ever been injured during
one of these jaunts? Our impression
is that Philadelphia caused these suc
cessive cracks in the glorious old her
ald of freedom.
An invention, which, it is said, will
revolutionize the curing of meats has
been perfected by Cleveland men. Elec
tricity will be used to cause the salt
to penetrate the meats and thus pre
part them for the market in one-quar
ter the time the present method re
quires.
For years and years it was the cus
tom of the Naval academy to make the
"plebes" walk on the extreme edge of
any street or pathway in the Nava 1
academy grounds. Now a "plebe" is
Xree to walk where he may.
WORTHY OF TRUST
PRESIDENT'S ADVISERS HAVE
CONFIDENCE OF COUNTRY.
Cabinet Is Rich in Men of Legal
Mind, and Their Services Are
Needed by the Coun
try To Day.
The new administration is strong on
its legal side. In fact, it may be said
to have no other side. President Taft
ranks with our best lawyers. Mr. Knox
was called lo Mr. McKlnley's cabinet
because of his high st.antfinß at the
bar, and in that cabinet, and later in
the senate, attracted wide attention be
cause of his professional equipment.
Mr. Wickershani has the highest New
York indorsement, and Mr. Dickinson
the highest middle state indorsement.
Mr. Nagel is one of the leading law
yers of the Mississippi river valley,
and Mr. Ballinger occupies a position
of distinction in .the legal world of the
Pacific coast. Even Mr. MacVeagh,
who is classed as a financier, was edu
cated for the bar.
Lawyers have always dominated our
politics. Twenty of our 20 presidents
have been of that profession. The
greatest of our achievements in the
organization of the government—the
treasury department—was the work of
a la\yyer—Alexander Hamilton. John
Marshall was a tower of strength at
the start. Daniel Webster., a lawyer,
expounded the constitution in a way to
command the deepest reverence for
the instrument. The most popular and
influential of our political leaders —
Henry Clay—was a lawyer. The greaj
man who saved the union—Abraham
Lincoln—was a lawyer.
But never were lawyers more needed
than now. The trust question, the rail
road question, the labor question, the
always present question of national au
thority and state authority, are in
shape demanding the attention of ex
perts in legal forms and powers. The
Roosevelt period was largely agitatory.
Evils were exposed. Remedies were
indicated. Hut, in a large measure,
matters have been left unsettled.
There is work aplenty to be done to
ward bringing permanent order out
of it all; and this ample legal talent in
executive office co-operating with con
gress should be of immeasurable serv
ice to the country.
How strong we are as a people is il
lustrated afresh by the names pre
sented. With an exception or two, all
are those of men new to our national
life, and unknown out of the country.
They have played honorable and use
ful parts in their fields, but not so as
to become known to the general public.
The attorney general comes Upon the
stage as suddenly and surprisingly as
did Charles E. Hughes a few years
ago, and is said to be of the same
grade and fiber. His opportunity is
great, and those who know him are
confident that he will improve it to th<-
country's good. Eminent in the legal
field, Air. Dickinson is a stranger in
he political field, and takes a depart
ment whose business stretches to (he
Philippines on the east and to Panama
on the south. The secretary of war
pf to-day has bis hands full; and as
able a man as Judge Taft found use
for all his talents in the post.
But new as they are, these men,
there is all faith, will meet the emer
gency, and, under a chief enjoying the
country s trust, and admiration, execute
their commissions faithfully and well.
The First Step.
The tariff is becoming less and less
of a party question. It is generally
conceded that the country will not
abandon the protective policy. A non
partisan commission would have been
impossible once, but is possible now.
But congressmen do not wish to create
a commission. They resent expert ad
vice. They believe that they know
everything best, hut if the business
men of the country shall keep up their
agitation—and they should do so—they
will finally extort a commission from a
■eluctant congress.
The first thing is to get a tariff com
mission with whose intelligent assist
ance there can be some approach to
German thoroughness in the tariff
schedules of future years. The busi
ness men should pull together to in
duce the next congress to create one
as a supplement to its revision of the
tariff.—Chicago Tribune.
Calls for Smiles.
The senate must have been over
come with the emotion which the spec
tacle of confident and triumphant vir
tue always inspires when it heard ths
Hon. Joseph VV. Bailey object to con
firming a nominee for a post in the
cabinet on the ground that, he had per
formed some legal services for the
Waters-Pierce Company. Mr. liailey,
with his intense consciousness of im
peccability, is ever prone to condemn
in the walk and conduct of other pub
lic servants —or prospective public
servants —what he generously con
dones in his personal and poltical rec
ord.—New York Tribune. '
Had the Right Support.
In an article reviewing the career
of the outgoing president, tho New
York Post says querulously: "As
Koosevek broke with friend after
iriend, and lust the support of one col
lego man after another, he could point
to the adoration of labor unions and
miners and ranchmen; and that wa
enough for him." The support, or that
class of men is what every president
in this democratic country should mo.-;
desire, for it is the common man, if
whom, as Abraham Lincoln said, the
Lord made so many, that the govern
ment is intended chiefly to benefit,
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL i, 1909.
CONGRESS AND THE TARIFF.
Action on Vital Question Undoubtedly
Will Be Slow.
The president's proclamation calling
the Sixty-first congress to meet in ex
traordinary session on March 15 was
in formal compliance with general
agreement. The constitution empow
ers the president to convene congress
"on extraordinary occasions," but
when so convened it possesses all its
ordinary powers and is not limited to
the consideration of any specified sb
ject. The present "extraordinary oc
casion" is the demand for the revision
of the tariff, which was left by com
mon consent to the congress elected in
November last.
Even should this session be devoted
exclusively to the one subject, the ex
pectation that this can be disposed of
in three months is probably oversan
guine. To begin with, this congress is
to organize anew, and in the house of
representatives a long time will l>e
spent in the discussion of amendments
to the rules. The old rules will doubt
less stand, with few modifications, but
the opportunity for the insurgents and
for new members who know nothing
of the subject to make speeches about
the speaker will not be neglected. Aft
er this the committees will be appoint
ed and organized, and the committee
representatives a long time will be
nominally a new committee, though
composed mainly of the old members
—will proceed to another stage of its
consideration of the schedules. In the
course of time it will report a bill, and
after the bill shall have been adopted
by the house ik will goto the senate,
and will be reported to a committee of
that body. After further time it will
emerge from committee in a form
scarcely recognizable by its original
framers. Then will come debate, con
ferences, more debate and more con
ferences. Finally »he tyranny of the
"rules" will have to bo invoked to
reach a definite result.
There will be opportunity in the
meanwhile for any other legislation
that may appear urgent, for the great
body of the members of either house
will take but little part in the actual
consideration of the complicated de
tails of the tariff. Nevertheless, the
need of prompt action is universally
recognized. The country is not ex
pecting an ideal tariff at this time, but
it does want the matter disposed of.
"Sunny Jim."
Vice-President Fairbanks has been
unjustly held up before the country as
a cold, austere man. Whatever else
may be said of his successor, this
charge will never be laid at. his door.
James S. Sherman, who to-day is
tlie second officer in the nation,
is the apostle of sunshine. He says:
"The world has been bright and beau
tiful right along and has given me all
I ever earned and more, too. I have
been an optimist from my boy
hood up."
liis youth was spent amid cheerful
and helpful surroundings. His father
was a journalist, drifted into politics,
and held a number of public offices.
His mother, a woman of culture and
character, put the impress of her
strong personality upon her children.
Fortune has been good to her hon
ored son, and be has cultivated
through life that genial disposition
which makes him one of the most pop
ular men in public life to-day.
The Taft administration ought to
be all sunshine with such sunny char
acters at its head. The Taft and
Sherman smile will be contagious no
doubt and usher in an era of abound
ing good fellowship and cheer. The
genial Taft and "Sunny Jim" Sherman
reflect the prevailing optimism of the
American people.
Enforcing Treaty Obligations.
An important reform which Presi
dent Taft hopes to see credited to his
administration is the assertion,
through legislation, of the federal gov
ernment's power to enforce treaty ob
ligations. That is one of the federal
powers which has been allowed to re
main latent, and the omission to ap
ply it has more than once seriously
embarrassed the United States. As
a nation accepting treaty favors from
other nations, 'his country has often
had to confess that it does not. guaran
tee to aliens the same rights and pro
tection which it asks for its own citi
zens in alien Jurisdictions. The trea
ties which we sign with other powers
impose what are apparently mutual ob
ligations. But when the pinch comes
the bargain is found to have been one
sided. We do not give a quid pro quo.
For other governments are in a posi
tion to compel their citizens or sub
jects to respect treaty promises, while
an administration at Washington has
to intrust, the execution of its pledges
to uncertain agencies quite beyond its
control.
A Southern View.
Mr. Roosevelt will rank in history
as one of the five groat presidents of
the United States. We would name as
the preceding four Washington, Jef
ferson, Lincoln and Cleveland. He has
done more in the last eight years to
impress himself upon the world than
any other man in it, not excepting
William of Germany. And notwith
standing his infirmities of character
and temper, bis frequent follies and
even worse, he is, we believe, the most
popular man in the United States to
day.—Charlotte (N. C.) Observe)'
(Dem).
One of the prominent engineers on
the Panama canal says Poultney liigc
low passed two days there and spent
the next two years writing about i:.
Some of the most industrious critics
at present have never beea to Panamn
at all.
Pennsylvania
Happenings
Altoona. —A stormy session was
held here at the convention of Dis
trict No. 2, United Mine Workers, re
sulting in the disfranchisement of six
local unions along the main line of
the Pennsylvania railroad,
ing 2,000 miners, who, it is alleged,
refused to obey the constitution of
the order.
New Castle. Ground has been
broken at Eden burg, this county, for a
$250,000 plant by the American Pressed
Steel Rail Company of Boston. E. A.
Dodson, purchasing agent for the com
pany, closed a deal for a 20-acre man
ufacturing sit and immediately em
ployed men to begin preparing the
ground for building foundations. The
plant will employ 250 men.
Erie.— A man arrested here is be
lieved to be one of the gang of city
directory swindlers who have been
working other parts of the country.
He is said to have worked dozens of
Erie business concerns, and was
caught while negotiating for an adver
tisement with a brewing company. He
gives his name as E. L. Goodhart,
and was committed to jail in default
of SI,OOO bail for a hearing.
Washington.- Mrs. Sarah Harford,
said to be the oldest woman of Wash
ington county and a member of a fam
ily noted for longevity, died at Bealls
ville, aged 95 years. Mrs. Harford's
father. George Craft, a pioneer settler
of Fayette county, lived to be 92. A
brother, Daniel Craft, of Fayette coun
ty, and a sister, Mrs. Margaret Wag
goner, of Brownsville, are living, the
former 80 years old and the latter 87.
Harrisburg.—By a vote of 22 to 18,
four less than required, the senate de
feated the Murphy pure food bill.
This is tlie measure advocated by the
Wholesale grocers and some of the
retail grocers of Pennsylvania, New
Jersey and Delaware, and permitted
the use of one-tenth of one per centum
of benzoate of soda as a preservative
in food stuffs and allowed the use of
dioxide of sulphur in the preparation
of dried fruits.
Harrisburg.—Gov. Stuart has signed
the pure milk and ice cream bills,
prepared by Dairy and Food Commis
sioner Foust and they will become
effective at once. Both were drawn
as the result of years of experience
in the enforcement of the food laws
and from data compiled in prosecu
tions. The milk bill prohibits the sale
of any milk to which water has been
added or from which butter fat has
been removed, provided that skimmed
milk may be sold as such and that
no cream shall be sold as cream con
taining less than 15 per cent butter
fats. Penalty is line of from S2O to S6O.
West Newton. Tony Noble, an
Italian of Blythedale, committed sui
cide in the Suterville lockup by hang
ing himself with a strap. Noble, who
had been drinking, was crossing a
toll bridge over the Youghiogheny
river, when he quarreled with .Miss
Katherine Kellner over paying toll.
He went away, but returned soon
with a revolver and opened fire on
the toll otllee. Several bullets went
entirely through the building, but Miss
Kellner and her brother John, who
were inside, were not injured. Noble
was arrested, and while alone in the
lockup ended his life.
Butler. Whether a tuberculosis
dispensary established by the state in
the heart of a residence section may
be removed at the instance of the
borough board of health lead to a
clash between local and state authori
ties here. Health Officer Robert B.
Fowzer served notice on County Med
ical Inspector H. D. Hockenberry to
remove the dispensary to the out
skirts of the town, alleging that as it
is now located it is a menace to the
public health. The decision was left
to State Commissioner of Health
Samuel G. Dixon, who has refused to
overrule the health officer. Notice
has been given that the dispensary
will be removed at an early date.
Harrisburg.—The Herbst medical
bill has been amended in the senate
committee 011 public health and sani
tation so as to exempt Christian
Scientists from the requirements for
a medical education. Chiropodists
also are exempted. The "one board"
feature of the bill was retained, but
instead of the "agreement" of two
weeks ago for a state examining board
of three allopaths, three homeopaths
and two eclectics, the committee
adopted the original form of the bill,
for the governor to appoint eight
members of the board without speci
fication as to the medical "school" to
which they may belong. No exception
is made for the osteopaths under the
provisions of this act.
Pittsburg.- Methodism and spiritual
ism have locked horns at Smithton
and Jacobs Creek, the two Youghiog
heny river towns that were the scene
of the fearful Darr mine disaster a
year ago, 011 account of the reputed
activity of a number or Pittsburg spir
itualistic "mediums" who invaded the
locality immediately after the mine
horror. The clash of the church peo
ple and the spiritualistic converts cul
minated recently in the liveliest pub
lic meeting Smithton has seen in
years in the town hall, when a small
riot nearly broke up the gathering.
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