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"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
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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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