2 JMRON COUNTY PRESS,. H. H. MUM. IN. Kditor and Proprietor Published Every Thursday Often the joy ride ends in a ceme tery. Winter Is staying as long aa an un welcome guest. will bo In commission. There is no telling how soon it will be obsolete. Simultaneously with the opening of the postal banks a lot of old yarn socks opened. That American who photographed cows insido England's fortifications made somewhat of a bull. Seventeen-year locusts are due this year, but nobody will caro if they fail to hear the alarm clock go off. The aeroplane does not break down oftener than an automobile, but It breaks down in more inconvenient lo calities. Some people are eternally fussy. An Indiana man wants a divorce from Ois wife because she bathes the dog In the dishpan. Again it is reported that the hoop *kirt is coming back. Not if the wear ers have to pass the Flatiron building in New York. Aviation seems to be like some other methods of producing exhilarating ef fects; there is difficulty in recognizing the right time to quit. Up to date the submarines of the world's navies have been chiefly re markable for the many discouraging accidents which befall them. It does not astonish us to learn that aur sun is a "variable star." Even on this planet it has the reputation of be ing a highly capricious luminary. Aviators should let altitude test 3 go unsought. Endurance and passen ger tests are the ones needed at this stage of the art. The Cnicr.go authorities nave voted :o limit all buildings begun after Sep tember 1 to a height of 200 feet, and If they mean Chicago feet that is surely high enough. * F!y way of giving the children of the city a chance to see all strange ani mals that inhabit the earth, the au thorities of New York Central park bave bought a cow. Medicine Ilat wants its name changed. If Kalamazoo and Oshkosh can be happy and prosperous, there seems to be no reason why Medicine Hat should not be comfortable. Basket ball may be a perfectly love ly game, but when it becomes neces sary to call upon che police to pry players apart it would seem that a re rlsed rule of some sort might well be Inserted. There Is in California a fountain of oil that gushes up to a height of 156 feet. Advocates of the conserva tion of our natural resources might do well to Insist that a lid should be put en this fountain. An Austrian girl, who has just been naturalized in New York, says she be came a citizen of this nation because she loves the United States and the American people. That is the kind of citizen we want. Moisant and Hoxsey laughed at dan ger "as long as the machine was all right." When man becomes perfect, possibly he will invent a machine that Is perfect. Until then it is safer to leave flying to t.he birds. A man in a Philadelphia restaurant discovered 15 pearls in one oyster stew. It Is evident that tho restau rant-pearl fisheries expect to yield a good harvest this season, if this Is to be taken for a sample beginning. One out of every four graduates of harvard earns all or a part of the money needed to pay his expenses. We can't see why Harvard shouldn't get as much glory out of this fact as she does out of her athletic exploits. The department of agriculture has fceen keeping tabs on tho number of deer shot in this country during the year and has counted up to 07,500. «tl!l tln re are people who love deer that have not been converted into venison. A New York doctor says that If women continue to wear the quanti ties of false puffs, rolls and switches now in fashion the next generation mry have llttlo or no hair to start with. With rare exceptions the pres ent generation had migtity little hair to start with. The chief forester says thn« S4 per cent, of the fort t Are* in I'JO'J were dun to the carelessness of railroads snd persons using the forests This Is about as hud as the pen cutage of house llrts caused by csrelcssnesa. Th' /overtiinent has aruln changed the nsme < 112 the life savins st i'.on st the V'-' end of Nantu-ket Ulutid, which w*« d to b» **« 1 r*;. t Nt'k," front "Maddiquel" to"M ddsket," hut we slut! not learn to 1! th< ut-w t.ins until we bate some n»> trait' e ,M || ten ' going to be iLbiged -tutu MOVE IS RIGHT STEP IDEA OF TARIFF COMMISSION A GOOD ONE. Possibility That by This Means Ques tion Can Be Taken Out of Politics and Solved in a Manner Sat isfactory to All. There Is now a good pros]«ct that a tariff commission will be authorized that may be of Incalculable service in securing a revision of the tariff with out disturbance to business and with the nearest practicable approach to justice all around. The bill as it stood has been mod®, fieil in two regards. It has been pro vided that either house of congr •• may call on the commission for sue-; information aa may be desired anu that of the five members of the con' mission not more than three s!:all b< of the same political party. Thes» modifications should remove the objec tions of the Democrats to the measure The first places tha commission fully at their disposal in the next congress when they will have the responsibility for the action of the house. The sec ond gives them a fair representation on the commission, and entirely in- Bures them against any partisan use of the commission. The committee on rules has been instructed to bring in the bill for action as soon as possible. The sooner the better, for prompt ac tion by the house will make the chances of the commission better in the senate. We are not of those who believe that the commission can solve the long standing and complicated problems in volved in a revision of our fiscal sys tem in a single session. Nor is any such view entertained by the able business men who have been laboring for several years to promote the adop tion of the commission principle. Their purpose has been to secure the em ployment of a board of sensible and impartial men, qualified by experience and study, and clothed with reasona ble powers, to inquire into the practi cal operation of the various duties im posed by the tariff and to continue the inquiry for the enlightenment of con gress, the executive aid the public. It is not their idea to make a commission to bolster up the tariff or to batter it down. The cardinal principle of protection or of free trade is not in volved at all. The whole plan simply relates to method and will necessarily be of as much advantage to honest men on one side of the question as to those on the other. If, then, as is plain, the country is ready for a revision, surely it is the duty of all reasonable men to prepare the way for it so that it shall do as much good and as little harm as possi ble. Toward this the tariff commis sion, as devised in the bill now pend ing, is unquestionably cn aid. It will not take the tariff otu of politics, for it cannot, but it will tend to make it an issue of practical, businesslike, intelli gent political action. It will tend to prevent it being made, as it has been in the past, a matter for truck and dicker, for indirect bribery and corrup tion. At one time it was suspected that a commission would serve as an excuse for delay and would be used as a means to mislead public opinion, but the amendments we have outlined are evidences of good faith, and the meas ure now seems to be quite free from objection. If a good commission is selected, and we have confidence in the sagacity and sincerity of President Taft in this regard, it will be what may be called a measure of national sanitation, and heaven knows that it is needed. There has never been in the twisted and tangled history of our tariff ar. Instance of a measure sup ported by so many and varying inter ests involved in tariff legislation, which is another proof of the need of sanitation and of the probability that we shall get It through t'. is method.— New York Times. The Best Farm Markets Safe. Reciprocity with Canada could never interfere T.ith the success of agricul ture in any part of the United States. It could no" touch the markets which are most profitable to American farm ers. gardeners, and orchard owners. 'I he most profitable markets for the food products which pay best are tl?e near markets. They are great cities in this < ountry of big and fast growing urban centers, and few «. the large cities are close enough to Canada to give Canadian food products an equal chance with those grown in the Uni ted States. Distance will always give American producers an advantage In the markets of American cities. The exceptions to the rule could never be numerous enough to affect the general balam •* between American and Canadian producers of food stu ples. Always the better opportunities and the larger profits would be found on this Kid.' of the bolder. Oh. you llaltlmorc! And seven thou sand Uvnnhaven Hays, diamond back terrupiu, canvashack ducks, Smith field hams, live hundre I and* fifty quarts of chainpalgu. et cetera, et cetera! And Just to think of those I. an days when we hud a stale sand whli, a stalk of rusty celery, seven glasses of water and three hours .if hot air for a dollar The Old Ship if /.lon, with u full bellied Democracy aboard, U plowing the waves and I* headed straight for tllory' ifmistoa Post Our T«*aß contemporary's mi hum **Ml I* fully jit*! tiled It hu» «lv, yearned with •amp-meeting fervor tor tliu initiation of s full dlt uer pull era of Democracy. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY. MARCH 2, 1911. THE TARIFF AND JOINT RULES Question Whether Action Can Be Made Binding Is One for Moct Care ful Consideration. The present senate and house of representative s may pass rules to bind themselves in the handling of the tar iff. by schedules, as Senator Cummins proposes, or by subjects, as Senator Aldrich seems to preier. but can either, or both of them, bind the next con gress by any rule whatever, or even bind themselves, of a majority of either house at any moment chooses to abandon the rule? There was a •time when a joint rule, that Is one passed by both houses, was supposed to have the force of a statute, unre [ ersible by either alone, but that beory died when the senate, in 1877. (■pealed the twenty-second joint rule •>r the purpose of opening the way to !e counting In of Rutherford B.Hayes 3 president of the United States. ' e twemy-second Joi'.t rule had been as e-J in 1865 provid lg the mode by vhich the electoral votes should be ounted in the second election of Mr. Lincoln. There was nothing novel bout it. It embodied the principles •• hich had governed every count since he time of Washington. Its principles md methods would have been fol owed in the count then impending had no joint been passed at all. But, fearing tfcat some unreconstructed southern state should come forward with a vote, it was framed and intro duced by Senator Morton of Indiana to make sure that the objection of one house would be effective against it as it had always been. This joint rule was sent to Mr. Lincoln for his ap proval, and he returned it with his signature, but was careful to say that the matter was entirely within the jur isdiction of the two houses, and that the president had nothing to do with it. —New York Tribune. Present Tariff Vindicated. The preliminary report of the bu reairof statistics at Washington shows that the year 1910 was a record breaker as regards the total foreign trade of the I'nited States. The aggre gate was $'J,427,218.000. against $3,346,- 590,000 in 1907, until now the greatest ever reached. The figures tell their own story of the commercial expan sion of the country and of recovery from the business depression that cul minated a little more than three years ago. and also refute a great many al legations made to discredit the protec tive tariff. year the exports were 51.564,411,000 and imports sl,- 562.807,000, while in 1907 the exports \%-*re $1,923,426,000 and the imports were $1,475,520,010. In other words, unoer the new tariff we have opened the ioor to many additional millions of dollars' worth of foreign products. Such a result certainly could not be at tained if the tariff were really "pro hibitive." .The most gratifying feature of the showing is the large proportion of manufactures exported. This, too, shows we are making headway in cap turing the most desirable patronage abroad. Sales in foreign lands of American products are no longer con fined to agricultural products and "raw materials." Taft end Canadian Reciprocity. Nothing more encouraging has ema nated from the White House for a long time than the authoritative understand ing that the president will push the Canadian reciprocity plan with the next congress, which will have a Dem ocratic house, if the present congress fails to act, or acts adversely on the proposition. While it is not probable that an ex tra session would be called to ratify this reciprocity agreement, the intima tion that such a thing might be done is not without consistent basis, for the prospects are that the agreement will be promptly ratified by the Canadian parliament, thus placing the responsi bility for failure or delay in the estab lishing of better commercial relations between the two countries wholly on the Washington government. This Canadian agreement is likely to pre ipitare a fair, striking test of 1 he present congress on the tariff ques tion as modified by national dissatis | faction with the existing law, just as | the final terms of the tariff couunis j sion bill will fiirnish another test. Tribute to Ex-Senator Ccckrell. Much has been said of the retire ment of Messrs. Aldrich and Hale from ; i lie senate and public life, but another j man of distinguished services is pass ing from the field and almost unno ticed. This is former Senator Cock j rell of Missouri, whose successor, C. C. McChord. has Just been appointed on I the Interstate commerce commission, i In his seventy-sixth year, after 36 years I of public service in Washington, he is ' once more a private citizen. A politt ! clan of the old school, he Is almost the | last link left with the legislation of re construction days. Senator Coekrell vv«»%ever a malignant partisan and It was because of the universal esteem In which he was held that President liooscvelt honored him with a place on the Interstate commerce commission Qryjn Still to Be Reckoned With. Mr. Bryan slyly g.-tg even with that llHltimore Democratic conference and Joy dinner, w here he was igunred and from wl:li h he was conspicuous by ab ellce The I me of his Commoner fol lowing the Halt more affair h id a lot of itiH ■< -ling iii v. « übi >it Democratic ■in. hi all i \er th< country, but iieser u lu* 111 lull oi ihe hobnobbing at Mailt mot* And it is »4f« to a*, nine that < veial tine aiuU of Mr. Bryan's read er* will muter* ind why and govern Uiew»el*w* tttkuidlngly. Make Flans to Beautify the Capital WASHINGTON. —One decided step toward making the national capi tal the most beautiful city in the world architecturally was taken re cently when the designs for three treat buildings for the federal govern ment were selected. Fifty-nine archi tects from all over the country com peted. The buildings will cost nearly $5,000,000, and are to be erected on Pennsylvania avenue, facing the White House grounds. They will house the department at state, the department of justice and the department of com merce and labor. The spaces that these great struc tures .will occupy were selected nearly a century and a quarter ago. Major L'Enfant, a French engineer, laid out the plan of Washington in 1793. It is said he so arranged the streets that It would be impossible, in case of riot or insurrection, for barricades to be Need of Hog Cholera Serum Reported THE bureau of animal industry of the agricultural department ex presses the hope that many state leg islatures will take up the question of providing for the production of the government hog cholera serum. The federal experts are convinced of the efficacy of this serum. They believe that if the proper effort is put forth by states hog cholera will be eradl caetd. State officials who display interest in the subject are asked to send rep resentatives to the bureau's experi ment farm, at Ames, la., where the methods of producing the serum are explained. It is also the policy of the bureau to furnish a limited amount of the serum and a few immune hogs to the states that are just starting in the work. Within the last year practical demonstrations of what may be ac complished through the use of this new serum have been successfully carried out in Maryland, Virginia, Illi nois, Missouri, lowa, Kansas, Ken tucky and Tennessee. Style of Street Letter Box Changed AFTER witnessing many experiments with new designs ahd automatic time registers, American cities are soon to have an entirely new style of street letter box. Its exact shape and principle of operation is not yet an nounced by the postoffice department, but experiments have gone so far that an early decision is expected upon the precise type of hex that is to he n c ed. Tiiu u:,sightly green box that graces ♦he top of the iron post at the street corner now has long been an unsatis factory receptacle for street mail, the authorities say. Compared with the post boxes of foreign cities. It Is whol ly inartistic. Considered in the light of an economical device, it is a fail ure, for it wastes the time of the mail collector In getting the mall out of Ic, and It often tries the patience of the patron of the mails by effectually Uncle Sam to Have Aeroplane Fleet r : * A Fleet of aeroplanes for tho United States army la now apparently an assured fact as the result of action by the house of representatives In appro priating $195,000 for this purpose. There Is the possibility that the sen ate may strike out the Item, but even then It would have a splendid chance of remaining In tho bill In conference, for It was adopted almost unanimous ly by the house. This means the signal corps can have the jo aeroplanes for which lllig. lieu Jaini'H Allen, chief signal officer of the army, asked In his annual re port, and still have S2S,OU*J lttft for •equipment, stations, etc. Hrlgadler General Allen has planned to hate about sis of these stations, equipped with an aeroplane Pitch, In various places throughout the couu try, I'htftly on the teacoaat. lie has eailmatrd that tacit olailon, with Its mai.Uue, »U1 cost for the Qrst year built, as they were in Paris in the days of the Terror. On his plan he designated various places where the great public buildings of the future should be put. For nearly half a hun dred years Major L'Enfant was re garded as an impractical dreamer, al though his street, plan was atlh red to. It was only after the civil wa. that people began to realize in a small way that his vision of the future greatness of the nation's capital was likely to come true some day. But even up to ten years or so ago his plans slumbered in the archives of the government. Then they were tak en out and studied in the light of mod ern development, and it was found they could not be improved upon, and that if they were carried out in every detail Washington would surpass ev ery other city in the world in beauty. The completion of these ancient plans of this French engineer is still far away, for it will take many years and much money to accomplish them in all their details. But the three mas sive buildings whose location was des ignated so long ago will be the most important step toward their fulfill ment that has been taken since the capitol was erected. Most of these demonstrations con sisted of treating a part of the dis eased herd and leaving the remainder untreated. At Kansas City, however, a more thorough test was made, the results of which were very interesting and demonstrated conclusively the efficiency of the serum as a preventive for hog cholera. The test was made in the stock yards at Kansas City, on the request of the Kansas City Live Stock ex change and of individuals interested in the subject. Thirty-five young shohis were purchased from a farm where hog cholera had not existed. These pigs were carried to the Kan sas City stockyards, being in charge of a committee appointed by the ex change, were treated and the experts say that no more convincing truth of the efficacy of this scrum could be obtained than is afforded by this ex periment. The agricultural department feels that the subject is of such importance as to warrant state legislatures giving it immediate attention. Hog cholera, it is pointed out, has caused a loss to the farmers of the country of mil lions of dollars annually. Now that the government has discovered a se rum through the use of which this dread disease may be prevented state authorities should not delay in pro viding for the use of this serum. concealing the time when the next collection is to be made. Four things have been taken into consideration in trying to adopt a de sign for a new street letter box. The first is that of economy of time for the collector. Instead of having to open the box from the side and re move the contents by handfuls, the department wants a box that will open and discharge its contents into a sack with a single operation. In searching for this the question of the artistic appearance of the box has by no means been overlooked. If a new box is to be adopted, the postal authorities are determined that it shall combine as much grace and beauty in its appearance as it is pos si We 'o give such a utilitarian object. An indestructible time card and an automatic indicator that will show the time at which the next collection is to be made are the two other points that have been given consideration. The first becomes unnecessary if the automatic indicator works satisfac tory, but the experiments thus far made by the postoffice department have not developed an automatic de vice sufficiently trustworthy, to put in to use on the street letter boxes. SIO,OOO. if It is decided to use the money in this way tho machines at these stations could be used with the other 14 that could be purchased within the appropriation at the ten an nual Joint camps of instruction during the summer months, so that the regu lars and militia might learn to operate them. Representative James R. Mann of Illinois declared that this country was the father of the aeroplane, but when we had provided the most powerful and most economical machine of mod ern times for warfare we stopped. To day other nations are profiting by our Ingi-uuity. We are discussing the aeroplane now just as our forefathers may have discussed the steam englno years ago. "Kngland has several dirigible air ships and aeroplanes for her army and navy. Germany has l« dirigibles and M-ternl aeroplanes and a detach mcnt of airship troops. France has sev-ij dirigibles, ;io aeroplanes and six companies of airship troops Russia has six dirigibles aud three aero planes Italy has ree«gMy appropriat ed sl!.i>ot), AD. HATES ARE RIGHT —CALL ON US agaean mmmmmammmKmmmtaaammmm 'Copyright. I.HI'J. by W. N. (.V Word - of - Mouth Advertising Passing encomiums, only over your store counter, about the quality of what you've got to sell, results in about as much satisfaction as your wife would pet if you gave her a box of cigars 'or Christmas. Advertising in This Paper talks to every boil v at once and make* them t.ilk back with money. 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