2 CAiUH.IN COUNTY ?M& H H MULLIH, h.d.tot rul>ii»liecl livery Thursday. TEKMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Csr year. »* >* f*ifl In sdvance 1 W ADVERTISING RATES: Aflrertlsements are published at t!i» rate ol Cae 4ul ar per square for otic luserilo.* and lift J -ats ver square for each subsequent insertion- Rates I V ib« year, or for sii or til ee months, low a:;d uniform, anil will be furnished on t ailicat.ou. '.egnl and Official Advertlsln* per square r'jree times or less, .2: each subsequent mser lie i; 0 cents per squaro Local notions 111 ceni* per line for one Inser aer Ion: 6 cents per line lor eacn subsequent •on eoutive insertion. Obituary notices over Ave lines 10 cents per lln per year, erer live lines, at the regular rates of adver tising. No local lnaerted for lesa than 75 cents per Issue JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the Pkbss Is complei* 4u& sflords facilities for doing tho best class of Work. Parhoui.sh jni«no» faidto Law tBINTIKO. No paper will be discontinued until arrear tfea are paid, except at the option of the pub •b#r. _ ljt Papers sent out of the county must be pale lor In advance "AN OLD-FASHIONED WINTER." Those who believe that nature gives various warnings in the fall when the winter is going to be severe, are pre dicting a strenuous season for snow and ice and low temperature. They say that the wild birds which stay In the north during the winter have un usually thick plumage. The shells of nuts are reported to be heavier than they are when a mild winter is coining, and chestnut burrs are also of the "old-fashioned winter" kind, if these weather prophets are correct. Fur bearing animals are more warmly clad, according to the same wiseacres, than they are before "open" winters, and the bones of geese make the same prophecy. It is all very interesting, but men who make the study of the weather their life work and bring to bear upon it all of the learning and scientific resources of the age, utterly reject these much trusted warnings. They are certain that there is nothing in the whole theory of animal prep arations, conscious or unconscious, for differences in winters. They do not. believe that the trees grow more bark or put thicker burrs on nuts because ••ho winter is going to be severe. In fact, the scientific experts who deal with the climate seriously and with infinite pains, in all civilized countries, year after year, are sure that there is no nature sign language which tells the character of the weather months in advance. The gold output of the world contin ues to increase. The statement for the year 1908 will soon be forthcom ing, and it is believed it. will show a considerable gain over 1907, which re ported a production of $410,555,300. an increase of $3,000,000 over the largest output known to that date. There has been enormous development in South Africa, and several other regions havt shown gains in gold production. These gains will much more than offset any declines, and the total will in all prob ability be more than the record break er of 1907. And the increase must help materially in promoting mone tary ease. The postmaster of Washington ha? conducted an investigation into the character of the correspondence car ried on by means of the general deliv ery window at his office, and has dis covered that of 1,064 letters called for by women in two days 111 bore ficti tious names. In eight instances clan destine correspondence was managed in i his way by girls under sixteen years of age. The limiting of the use ef the general delivery window by any one person to 30 days is now proposed, with a view of furthering the interests of morality. Spelling matches used to be a popu lar form of entertainment in rural schools, and it was helpful, too, for it made lor proficiency in spelling. Hoys and girls then learned to spell with their minds instead of spelling always with their eyes l'roin the printed page. There are now many men and women who can write with ease some ol the most difficult words in the English language, but without pen or pencil they could not spell some of the sim plest words of the language. If it comes down to a choice be tween rats and higher education it is not at all improbable that the high school girl will choose ihe rat. Any how, education ought to be more con cerned with what goes under the fair pupil's hair than in it. Since we are now approaching the shank of the year those who may not have accomplished all the excellent things they resolved upon in January should take advantage of the present lovely weather. See that tbe name "Metchnikoff" Is blown in the buttermilk bottle. That ■ eminent cultivator of benevolent bacil li says that his imitators cannot, guar antee longevity with every drink. A careless autoist who killed a pe destrian has been sent to jail in Con necticut for one year. He'll have time to form other habits before he takes io lluumiK fL UiOMi C«U afcctUL THE VANISHING LINE. TRIUMPH FOR LAW FAR REACHING EFFECTS OF STANDARD OIL DECISION. Will Prove to the People That the Re publican Party Is Their Friend Against Trusts That Oppress Them. Tbe decision of the United States circuit court of the Eighth federal cir cuit that the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey is a combination in re straint of trade and must be dissolved will, if sustained by the supreme court, have a far-reaching effect on the oper ating methods employed by great in dustrial and commercial combinations. When told of the decision Attorney General Wickersham said that it wa<* "one of the most important ever ren dered in this country." Certainly if the framework of corporations within corporations, all responsive to one central direction, yet each by virtue of its nominal individuality relieving that central authority of direct anil confessed responsibility, which legal talent has built up for the Standard Oil interests is based on a misinter pretation of the law against combina tions in restraint of trade, then the conceptions which a large part of the business world has entertained of what constitutes illegal interference with competition must be abandoned or materially altered. The Standard Oil Company has been the pioneer in constructing devices to control trade without being technically chargeable with sulflciint control lo constitute a monopoly. If its lawyers have failed to make tho construction statute proof, it is not likely that the imi tators of the Standard Oil people have been any more successful in hedging themselves about with legal immunity. When the Standard Oil Company was fined $29,000,000 for collecting re bates the issue was one of facts. The line was held to be excessive and un warranted by the higher courts be cause the liability for accepting re bates was not sufficiently established. That proceeding sought to punish only a specific offense charged against the Standard Oil Company of Indiana and indirectly against the parent New New Jersey company. Rut the suit just decided in the Eighth circuit at tacks the vital principles of organiza tion applied in the creation of the parent company and the legality of the methods by which it has tried to partition responsibility while concen trating power. The circuit court holds that the entire method of operation is vicious and contrary to law, and that the wheels-within-wheels system must be simplified until it no longer exercises a stifling effect on competi tion. The full text of the decision will be needed to show how far the simpli fication must be carried. Yet the ab stract issued indicates that much of the present machinery must be cast away. The supreme court took advanced ground against holding companies in the Northern Securities decision. If it decides again that a holding com pany like the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey is in itself a menace to the freedom of competition there will have to he a new departure in the conduct of many vast enterprises engaged in interstate or foreign com merce. That prospect gives the unanimous action of the four circuit judges of the Eighth circuit an unus ual economical and political signifi cance. Congress Must Aid President. There is no reason why a congres sional investigation of the sugar trust and the customs service need inter fere with the criminal prosecution of persons charged with crime. The in surant e prosecutions were not balked by anything the committee did, and a congressional Inquiry could reach evils that are beyond the courts and the de partment of justice. Rut the presi dent needs the help of congress. He needs an agency that will not be ham pered by the statute of limitations or the rigid rules of criminal procedure, and that will not be restricted to testi mony that concerns the guilt or Inno cence of a particular individual on trial for the specific offense. It is rot enough to punish the guilty. The system must, be smashed. Gov ernment itself must be purged. There must be a new order of things in the customs service. Only a committee of congress can give to Mr. Taft the assistance that he will require in this grcal work of reform. —N'. Y. World. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER if, 1909.1 PROPOSITION IS A GOOD ONE Creation of Commerce Court to Deal with Railroad Regulation Would Be of Much Avail. Attorney General Wiekershaui's speech at Kansas City outlines the railway regulative legistion propos ed by the administration for the con sideration of the next session. Much of this has already been set forth by President Taft in his recent speeches. Some of it is new. As a whole it will bring little comfort to that class which is devoted to the slogan of "Let the railroads alone!" The leading proposition is for the creation of a commerce court having the powers and jurisdiction now held by all district and circuit courts with regard to the review or enforcement of orders of the inter-state commerce commission. This would materially simplify the proceedings for remedy through the commission. At present the complaint for that body must first, go through the commission. Then ap peals or stays are likely to be fought through district and circuit courts up to the supreme court. Moreover, it has frequently been the case that the law has been construed one way in one circuit and the opposite way in another, thus producing the anomaly of having practically two different laws in different sections of the same country. Under this proposition a sin gle court would hear all appeals from the commission, issue decrees of en forcement of its orders, and from court's rulings appeals to the United States supreme court would lie only on constitutional questions. The value of this change is unquestionable. The Conservation Question. Millionaires whose wealth is derived from the timber, mineral and power resources of the public domain, are conspicuous in our time. History shows that great wealth dissipates as easily as it. gathers. The greatest evil in the amassing of private fortunes from national resources is government neglect of the welfare of the people as a mass, and too much devotion to poli cies of special privilege. Government lands, with their mines, forests, rivers, power possibilities and agricultural areas belong to the people. They are as much a trust with tbe government as is the cash in the national treasury. If the secretary of the treasury, on the application of the ablest business men of the nation, would hand over to the mall the gold and silver in the pub lic treasury at the price of one dollar per pound, on the plea that these men could use the money to better advan tage than most of the owners, what an explosion of public sentiment would take place! Rut the nation sits indifferent while other departments of government pass over the natural re sources of the nation to a few exploit ers for even a smaller fraction of their actual value. These officials defend their action by arguing that these are the men best fitted to develop the wealth in the public lands. This prac tice is as much a breach of trust as the looting of the treasury would be. —Detroit News. Law to Replace Sherman Act. The decision against the Standard Oil Company gives pertinence to some remarks made by Attorney General Wickersham in a speech at Kansas City, probably in anticipation of it. No doubt, he said, the Sherman act is sufficiently comprehensive "to reach and destroy such monopolies" as have been created in the form of "holding companies," but "at the same time that the national government forges a weapon to destroy such abuses, it must provide a substitute for those legitimate enterprises which are equally dependent for thier existence upon the system so abused." Mr. Wickersham is plainly pointing toward a federal law providing for corpora tions to engage in interstate com merce, a proposition of very great importance and difficulty which cannot be satisfactorily discussed until v/e have reached a definite extent of con gressional authority. The estate of the late Henry H. Rogers has paid New York $342,000 as part of the sum due under the inheri tance rax law of that commonwealth. It is about the least burdensome tax which can be imposed, with a reason able exemption limit for small proper ties, and it yields a line revenue, in old and wealthy states, with much more assured lor the future. Senator Stone's late.-; speeches on Ihe tariff question are an effort to prove that the Democratic party's his torical attitude on free trade has been : trict!y Pickwickian. Pennsylvania Happenings An agreement has been reached by file state and Ontario authorities rela tive to the gathering of fish eggs off the Canadian coast. This will be done by a mutual arrangement without in terference. Deputy Attorney General Cunning ham is at work upon the state's book in tiie appeal of the first, capital case in the supreme court and is preparing to argue it at Philadelphia in the week of January 10. The paper book of the appellants has been received and Mr. Cunningham at once took up the task of preparing for the argument. The Huston trial Is to follow a week later. Deputies of the state factory Inspec tion department are busy enforcing the new moving picture law, several places in various parts of the state having been closed up because they did not comply with the requirements of the safety act. The deputies are also attending strictly to the business of factory employment certificates and explaining the new law. Deputy Knisely reports very few violations in his district. TIIP state forest reservation in Bed ford county, near the Maryland line, has been swept by several disastrous Ires recently. Great damage to young timber resulted. Nearly all the for ests south of Martin Mountain, which •i the closest to Cumberland, has been burned over. Two wardens with 30 men have been fighting the fire for some time. There are 14,000 acres in the reservation and more than one half of it has been burned over. Hunt ers are accused of setting the woods on fire to drive out deer. Over SOO orchards have been of fered to State Zoologist Surface for use for demonstrations, every county but one being now represented in the list. Dauphin has offered 12 and Cum berland about the same number. Rob ert C. Neal has offered his orchard at Kinkora, near Cove. Dr. Surface says ihat he will announce his list later in the year. At present he is busy on plans for the demonstration train, which will start west about December •!1. and in ascertaining best methods of fighting the coddling, tunnel and midge moths, whose larvae is work ing havoc among apple orchards in rhe northwestern tier counties. The vast volume of business done >y life insurance companies in Penn sylvania last year and the great in crease over the business of the previ ous year are shown in the annual re >ort of Insurance Commissioner Da vid Martin. During the year the Pennsylvania companies issued 18,419 policies to residents of this state, in juring $47,365,230, an increase of 2,301 policies and $1,826,129 of insurance. In the same period companies of other states issued in Pennsylvania 699,364 iolicies, insuring $205,810,543.61. The •iggregate of business, therefore, in Pennsylvania was 717,783 policies, val ued at $253,175,773.61, an Increase over the previous year of 54,663 policies and $38,605,197.04 of Insurance. The benefits paid by all companies in Penn sylvania during 190S aggregated $20,- 163,478.51, of which the home compa nies pa id $2,278,038.49 and the com panies of other states $17,885,440.02. Premium receipts by all companies in Pennsylvania aggregated $53,828,284 - 52, or $271,458.33 less than the previ ous year. The state law prohibiting foreigners from carrying firearms was in the recently. While Judge S. J. Telford of Indiana cpunty was reversing a de cision rendered under the law. Judge J. A. Evans of common pleas court No. 3 of Allegheny county was uphold ing the act. This law, which was signed May 9 last, is very different from that prohibiting the carrying of firearms. It only prohibits unnatur alized foreign-born residents from owning rifles or shotguns, and the object is "to give additional protec tion to wild birds and animals and game within the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Complaints have been made that such residents in various counties were particularly destructive of birds and game, in season and out. and the law simply seeks to take away the weapons with which they were doing it. Came wardens or other of ficers were empowered to confiscate all such weapons found on unnaturalized residents, or in their homes, sell them and turn the proceeds over to the state. A $25 fine also is provided. In both instances noted, the defend ants had appealed on the grounds that the new law not only was in violation of fhe Fourteenth amendment of the constitution of the United States, but also was not in keeping with the pro visions of the treaties entered into between the countries from which the defendants had ecnie and the Ameri can government. The firuros quoted by State Game Commissioner Kalbfus to show the ex tent of the game season this year have been corroborated by a number of hunters. The estimate of deer runs between 400 and 500. Few does were shot. . Strong < ommendation of the work done by state police in keeping down game poachers i ; heard from various parts of the state. The police have also been checking rowdies in indus trial regions where trolley cars .are often assailed. 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