2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS.. H. H. MULLIN, Editor and Proprietor Published Every Thursday EMPORIUM. • PENNSYLVANIA m On a cold clay the hobble skirt ha»f Its advantages. London should not strain Its back breaking mosquitoes on ft wheel. Even nursing bottles In New York give short measure. This Is really the limit. The whirling dervishes of Scrutarl ero out on a strike. This carries the strike business to the limit. Aviation appears to be a good deal like playing the game at Monte Carlo. Few people know when to quit. Several prominent flying men have agreed to quit sensational perform ances. That is getting down to earth. Eggs have advanced In price, but let us hope that the hens will not become too proud to keep on lay ing. And now more nian will be able to arise in the still, small hours and go through the pockets of his wife's trousers skirt. Whoever began the custom of spell ing "shiver" with cnly one "v" had no adequate conception of the horrors of a cold street car. If the surviving aviators should hold reunions at the close of the years would they be able to get special rates from the railroads? Two persons in Baltimore were mar ried just for fun. This is another evi dence that tlie accepted standards of humor need revision upward. Uncle Sam has just paid $58.50 for clothes worn in the Civil war. This is setting a good example to the men who never pay their tailor bills. A bride of seventy-eight in Brooklyn Is accused of eccentricity. The fact that she is romantic enough to be a bride ought in Itself to prove the charge. English scientists are now discuss ing a beer without alcohol. They should bear In mind the discomfiture which overtook the discoverers of odorless limburger. The Evansville (Ind.) man who Is suing for a divorce because his wife bathos her pet dog in the dishpan Is unreasonable. She might have •compelled him to do it. One thousand copies of the book written by the king of Italy were gob bled up as 6oon as they were placed on the market. Tor successful au thorship try being a king. It took 12,299 hunters to kill 5.50 l deer in Maine during the recent open season. If the hunters had used clubs Instead of guns they might have brought down a few mor~. A woman in a Pennsylvania town found a gold nugget in a chicken's craw. Poultry will now get dearer than ever with the prospect of every hen's being Its own gold mine. Science, says an expert, will make men In the future centenarians. But It Is Impossible to please everybody. This news will raise a calamity howl from the pessimists and undertakers. A New York woman who has been •rrested for bigamy says she married her first husband for spite and the second on a bet. We think the joke was on the man who enabled her to win the bet. They have accused the family fly, the night-singing family mosquito, ol Infecting with tuberculosis, and now they say the family cat must go for the same reason. But when the last is abolished there will come the threat of the rat with the bubonic plague ®erm. No matter which way we turn we aro confronted with a new peril. A physician in Washington, who evidently is obsessed with the idea ol being the benefactor of his race, de clares that silence Is the best cure foi nervous disorders In women. Bui with all his science he doe 3 not know the nervous aex, If he thinks a dic tum like this, after centuries of of tensive and defensive- volubility, U goiag to make them stop talking. It is said that whistling is now a fad In Washington society among th« women. The pessimists, who hav« been unable to shock the country with their walls over the terrible deteriora tiou of the raco caused by cigarette smoking among women, will now hav« a fresh outlet for their vociferous calamity outbursts. And s a result the women will, as long as It pleases them, keep on whistling. A man in a Philadelphia theater tore to pieces a big hat which hid his view of the stage. Of course, tbey Jad to arrest him. but no one will doubt that he a martyr to th« sac red cause of our common hu manity A man In Plttsburs pleaded that h« beat his wife only when she needed It Put. as If found when she had hlni sent to I there Is nothing aboul which are to utffrawful as tue » '» o' others for theli moral WAIT FOR THE FACTS THEN THE TARIFF CAN BE IN TELLIGENTLY REVISED. I Report of Board at Present at Work on the Subject Should Be Con sidered Before Congress Takes Action. There Is just 0110 way in which the tariff may be properly revised and that into revise it in accordance with the facts of production cost as determined by a board of expert in vestigators. No matter whether this or that schedule of the present Payne law ia believed to be at variance with the Republican protection principle, no matter whether this or that schedule is alleged to work hardship to the ultimate consumer, there is just one way in which those schedules can be revised to the ultimate good of scien tific and equitable tariff making and that is in the manner we have Just indicated. Tho government has a tariff board which is probing to tho quick the various elements in production cost both here and abroad. This board has not gone about its work super ficially or empirically after the man ner of the ways and means commit tee. It is prosecuting its investiga tion in the true scientific spirit. Naturally, such investigation takes time; but when once the facts are ad duced tho people may rest assured that they are right. With such a board at work upon the tariff and with its promise of reports during the coming year, it must ap pear the height of folly, demagogy and what not else, for newspapers and "statesmen" of a certain type to clamor for immediate revision of the suspected schedules. Granting that these schedules re quire revision, are congress and its committees in any better position to accomplish an equitable and scientific adjustment of the duties than they were last year? Assuredly not. If anybody, outside the tariff board, has been gathering authoritative tariff data, determined by exhaustive first hand research. th 6 country has yet to hear of it. Whatever revision were made be fore the report of the tariff board would therefore be made in the dark just as its predecessors. A reduction of certain duties, would, to be sure, meet with the favor of the unthinking who have been taught by demagogues to believe that any kind of tarifT re vision is all right if it is "downward." But such unfounded tinkering would just as surely be inimical to the cause of honest, scientific tarifT making. To revise any schedules now, with the report of the tarifT board still pending, would not only appear as a repudiation of that exceptionally able body, but would be a blow to the future authority of similar expert bodies and the cause of scientific, non-political revision which they rep resent. What They Will Try to Do? The total output of tin plates and terae plates in 1909 was 1,373,011,000 pounds. When the Democrats were last in power they vociferously pro claimed that it wa3 impossible for Americans to make tin plates In com petition with the Welshmen, but their assertions and predictions have been completely refuted by the event. The United States is now manufacturing all the plates required for domestic consumption, and the American people are paying less for them than they did when the tarifT was increased to pro tect and promote the industry. The Democrats now announce that they will lower the duty on tin plates. It will be interesting to note what they will try to do, and what tho large num ber of workingmen who subsist by the Industry will think of the effort to take away their jobs by turning tho trade over to foreigners.—San Francisco Chronicle. Move for Currency Reform. The action of the national board of trade, in convention at Washington, which indorsed a scheme of mone tary reform conforming closely to that outlined by United States Sena tor Aldrich. is indicatlvo of crystall ing sentiment on that subject- The idea favored, and which has been ap proved by some important commercial bodies, including the chamber of commerce of the state of New York, the Merchants' Association of New York and the New York produco ex change, is that embodied in the Aid rich statement, with modifications. The attempt to organize throughout the country a monetary leaguo of business men may lead to the devel opment at still strongßr sentiment In that direction- This Is quite proper. The great difficulty in bringing about currency reform has been to unito financial opinion in support of a prac ticable system. Facing More Than Superstition. Champ Clark wants to increase the w*ys nnd means committee of tho next Democratic hocse of reprwtent atires from 13 to 14. He admits that be is superstltlos'.a and does not want togo up against a "hoodoo" ncmbrr. Hut taa Democrats will tare to fnce more tangible troubles thar.it the 13 snperrtit'on. Cni? of them w?l! be the difficulty, already In evidence, of gettin.i together on the tariff qwert.'cG CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1911. MERIT IN LONGWORTH BILL Measure May Not fie Perfect, But la at Least Good Foundation to Work On. The present Republican congress has the opportunity before it to place the handling of the tariff question on a business basis, where it should bo. The Longworth bill presents the mat ter in a tangible form, and while It may be defective in some respects It at least furnishes a good founda tion to work on. The bill will be criticized in at least two particulars. It gives the tarifT commission, which it creates, power to summon witnesses but not to compel them to testify. Further more, aside from its annual reports, the commission is not to submit in formation to congress unless congress asks for it. Unless these restrictions are eliminated it is more than doubt ful that the measure wil prove satis factory to the country, if putin operation. How will it be possible fcr the com mission to get all the information needed for the framing of just im port duties unless it can compel men to testify even though their financial Interests can best be served by con cealing information? It can report in stances of refusal to testify to con gress for such action as that body may wish to take but what probabil ity of adequate majority action would there be in an ordinary case of this kind? There has been too much framing of tarifT laws on the basis of confi dential information. The public is distrustful of this manner of doing business. Necessarily, information not of a guilty nature, which would injure the business of those giving It if it be came known to their competitors, should be safeguarded. Aside from this, however, the work of the tariff commission should be aboveboard. The public is clearly entitled to the facts regarding the differences be tween the cost of production at home and abroad, and their relation to the tariff. The country can then decide whether the duty levied is a fair one or not. " the facts ascertained by the commission are placed on file i a public record, as fast as collected, they will be available to every mepi ber of congress and every citizen, at all times. Then it would not matter so much if congress should forget to ask for the reports, or if the house and the senate should not agree to ask. There would always be some body to remind congress, and the pub lic as well, of its delinquency.— Cleveland Leader. A Permanent Tariff Commission. Congress now has before it the first draft of the measure favored by th-e administration for the creation of a permanent tariff commission, which shall carry on with greater assur ance of continuity and an entire ab sence of partisanship the investiga tions now being made by the com mission appointed by the president. The present body can exist solely by the sufferance of each successive congress, whereas the commission contemplated in Representative Long worth's bill would do for the scien tific study of the costs of production, so far as they enter into the problem of tariffs, very much what the inter state commerce commission does in its own appointed field. Doubtless there are many details in the bill that will need perfecting and will call forth criticism, but the principle embodied in the measure is one to which the Republicans are now committed, and which the senti ment of the country will cordially approve. The Democrats in the pres ent congress may for partisan pur poses put obstacles in the way of the measure, but if it shall be passed I they will find themselves In the com- I ing session in the uncomfortable po sition of opposing the first long step which has been made toward a scien tific method of tariff revision.—Chi cago Tribune. Let Them Fight It Out. There seems to be no end of trouble for the Democrats, now that they are coming Into some responsibility.' A Texas representative In congress with the suggestive name of Dies Is out with an open letter to his fellow Democrats In which he attempts to set forth that all the good jobs In the way of committee appointments and the like In the next house have been "Bwiped" by a coterie of Demo crats who came early and appor tioned the spoils to Buit themselves. And Mr. Dies has a good deal to say about "restless Agulnaldoes" who were propitiated by being handed out liberal doses of patronage, "trading, log-rolling and Intimidation," "ar rogant political legerdemain," and so on. And this is Democrat against Democrat. Republicans have no oc casion to interfere in any such fam ily row. Tho editor of Collier's Weekly has not yot made up his mind as to what would be the wisest procedure for the Republicans in regard to the tariff. Some of us suspected that the editor of collier's WS«H born with his mind made up on every question, pest, present or to be. If tho new Democratic committee on waya and means is for free trade let it say so promptly and squarely In case it iB for protection in any de gree tho party must propose to shift its position to Republican ground. MONARCH'S GREAT DIAMONDS Magnificent Stonea Set In Crown and Scepter of the King of England. London. —The larger of the two great Cullinan dlafhonds, which Is offi cially known as the "Star of Africa," has been set In the king's scepter. The smaller of the two diamonds is The King's Scepter. in the imperial crown, just above the ermine band. Both stones can be tak en from their settings in crown and scepter when those symbols of power are not in use and made to form a pendant for the queen. The "Star of Africa" weighs carats; the smaller stone, 309 3-16 carats. The setting of the diamond in the crown, of the diamond in the scepter and of the diamonds as a pendant was in trusted to the famous crown jewelers. The great difficulty they had to face in altering the scepter to receive the "Star of Africa" was caused by the fact that the general ornamentation had to be kept intact. SECRET ORDER'S BIRTHPLACE Old School House at Eagle Harbor, Mich., Where Knights of Pythias Ritual Was Written. Charlevoix, Mich.—All over the country there are school buildings that have been famed for one thing or another. The Eagle Harbor school house is famed as being the birth place of the Knights of Pythias. It was in this schoolhouse in 1858-9 that Justice H. Rathbone, a teacher then, wrote the ritual of that order. Eagle Harbor is the name of the settlement where this schoolhouse is located. It is a typical frontier, log cabin settlement, a relic of olden times, situated about ten miles from the point of the upper peninsula of Michigan on tlie shores of Lake Supe rior. It was in this country that cop per was first discovered in northern Eagle Harbor School House. Michigan but in later years about the only people living there are fishermen, a light-house keeper and a few hunt ers and trappers. In the summer time It is a very popular place for camping parties. . Last Survivor of '76. Columbus, O. —The last survivor of the Revolutionary war was John Gray, •who died in Noble county, Ohio, aged 104 years, on March 26, 1868. Me came to the Buckeyt state enrly in Its existence. For some years before he died he drew an annual pension of SSOO from the government. Gen. John A. Bingham, having gotten a special act through congress lor this. Gray's father was killed at the battle of Still water, and he took his placo in the army, being only 16 years old then. 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Willie had been to see his old nurse, and she had shown him her treasures, Including some very strik ingly colored scripture texts which graced her walls. A few days afterward his aunt gave him a dime to spend at a bazar. Seeing that he seemed unable to find what he wanted, she asked him what he was looking for. "I am looking for one of the Lord's advertisements, like Mary has in her room," said Willie/ RESULTS OF FOOD. Health and Natural Conditions Com# From Right Feeding. Man, physically, should be like a perfectly regulated machine, each part working easily in its appropri ate place. A slight derangement causes undue friction and wear, and frequently ruins the entire system. A well-known educator of Boston found a way to keep the brain and the body in that harmonious co-opera tion which makes a joy of living. "Two years ago," ahe writes, "being in a condition of nervous exhaustion, 1 resigned my position as teacher, which I had held for over 40 years. 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