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The Job department of the PTTUSS is complete and nfT. rds facilities for doing the best class of work. PAUUCUI.AU ATIKNIIUN PAIDTO LAW PRINTING. No paper will be discontinued until arrear. ag>*s are paid, except »t the option of the pub lisher. I'aperß sent out of the county must be paid for in advance. The Horse Is King. Last October the statistics on the number of horses in the United States on January 1, 1903, were published and given to those most directly interested", the horseshoers. The statement of tlie national statistician at Washington may be relied on as the most authentic that can be compiled, and it was these which we published, says the Horseshoer's Journal. There were in the I'nited States on the date mentioned, 16,557,373 horses, valued at $1,030,705,959. The in crease in number over the previous year of 1902 was just 20,149. Mark it well. Now comes the same Washington au thority—and he knows, if anybody does —with his report of January 1,1904, anil liere are the figures which he gives of the number of horses in the country on the latter dale: Total number of horses January 1, 1904, 16,730,059. The differ ence in number between 1903 and 1904 is just 178,080, or an increase over the corresponding period of the previous year of 152,537 horses. Of values, a pro portionate increase is seen, there being reported $1,136,940,298 worth of horse flesh in the country January 1 last. With the exception of 1901, when there were but 8,604 more horses in the country than there are now, the number is .greater at the present time than was ever before reported, while in point of value the country is richer in horsellesh to-day by $100,235,339 than it ever was lefore. Wireless Telegraphy in War. The Question of the value of wire less telegraphy in war has already been considered. Now it is supple mented by that of its legality, say 3 the New York Tribune. The Russian government has practically served no tice that it regards it as illegal. At any rate, the use of such a device at the seat of war will be treated as a breach of neutrality. Correspondents telegraphing without wires will be shot as spies, and vessels equipped with wireless telegraphic apparatus ventur ing near the scene of war will, if caught, be confiscated as contraband of war. So far as correspondents accom panying the Russian army are con cerned, we may unhesitatingly concede :he Russian right of censorship. That Is a matter of course. A belligerent oower has the undoubted right to de side whether it will permit correspond ents to accompany its army at all, and if it does let them do so it can, of :ourse, prescribe what matter they may send through the lines, and how. Similarly, it may exercise a censorship aver news vessels entering its territor ial waters, or the waters implicated in the sphere of belligerent action. But a general outlawing of wireless teleg raphy in that part of the world would be a much more extreme matter. The death of Maurus Jokai at the age of 79 marks the passing of one of the greatest of tiie last century novelists, writes Roswell Field, in the Chicago Post. Only of late years has Jokai be come well known to American readers through the publication of some excel lent translations of his more popular novels. As a story-teller of power and brilliancy the Hungarian writer was not surpassed by any of his contemporaries, and his works have been translated and admired in all the continental tongues. A stanch patriot, a loyal Hungarian, he was for many years the idol of his coun trymen. and even some little indiscre tions of old age did not greatly shake the confidence so long placed in him. The best critics or fiction literature have warmly lauded Jokai, and even Mr. Howells, whose enthusiasm was doubt less tempered by the fact that the old writer could not be regarded a "coming man, gave way to expression of com mendation. If there are any Jol.ais looming up on (he horizon of modern fiction a telsscope is required tc see them. New Orlean.j announces another "cotton-picking machine." It would be difficult to number the designs for a cotton-picker, but none is effective, says the Louisville Post. If cotton would ripen all at once the problem would be simplified. Tit New Orleans picker is called the B ivditch, an 1 la said "to pick 80 per jfcnt. of the cot ton." But there Is not SO per cent, of crop on the pUnt at one time. Such a machine would be second in im portance only to the reaper and inowei if the erain fieldn CONDITIONS NOT THE SAME There Is a Vast Difference Between the Political Outlook of 1884 and That of 1904. The democratic papers which are trac ing fancied resemblances between the social anil economic conditions of 190-1 and those which existed in 1884. when a democrat was elected president, are astray. The republican party was in power then, as now, and an assassina tion three years earlier, in both cases, sent the vice president, to the higher of fice. In both cases it was an Ohio man who was killed and a New Yorker who succeeded him. But the similarities do not extend much farther, while the con trasts are striking and decisive. In the early days of 1884 the silver menace was just coming up. while the greenback peril had not yet been entire ly eliminated. Weaver, the greenback party's presidential candidate, had re ceived 307.000 votes in the election just previous to that year, which was the largest poll ever scored by a presidential nominee for that party. Butler, the greenbacker, was to poll 134,000 votes in 1884. The gold reserve in tin- treasury was small, and was getting smaller. Bankers were uneasy over the outlook. In May, 1881, several bank wrecks took place in New York city, inciting seme thing like a panic on Wall street. The opposite conditions, in every respect, prevail to-day. As regards the strictly political con ditions, says the St. Louis (ilobe-Dem ocrat, the contrast between 1904 audi 1884 is equally marked. I'nlike 1881 j there is no contest to-day for there- | publican presidential candidacy. The party is harmonious and enthusiastic now, but then it was torn up over the Garfield-Conkling feud of 1881, which had projected itself into the congres sional canvass of 1882, in which the re publicans were badly beaten, and also into the New York governorship cam paign eif 1882, in which Cleveland gained his big majority. In the elections held just in advance of the contest of 1904 the republicans have everywhere been suc cessful. The democrats had a candidate in 1884 on whom all of them rallied with enthusiasm, and many republicans sup- I ported him. It is the republican and not the democratic nominee in 1904 that excites the enthusiasm, and that will at- ! tract votes from the opposite party. In I the more important respects it would b-> I hard tei find two situations in a presi- | dential year more unlike than are those j of 1904 and 1884. DEMOCRACY'S POOR DONKEY He's a Funny Animal and Affords Lots of Amusement to the People of This Country. The demeieratic donkey is always a frisky quadruped as well as one in which all people, without reference to political affiliations, never fail to find a certain kind of amusement. The democratic donkey is usually more or less hilarious and skipful, and If he could only learn the art of going ahead half as fast as he easts his hinder members into the air he would have a much better chance of winning. It must certainly be a source of discomfort and chagrin to them that j would enjoy his indorsement to realize I that he can prance with the vim of a | one-minute horse, and at the same time j stand as still as a rampant bronze steed j on a park croejuet-lawn. At the pres- | ent time the democratic donkey is be- j Ing coaxed and cajoled, propitiated and i flattered, by his aelherents, each of whom would be the favored one. It iscertainly j a trying and unenviable situation for i (lie poor beast when he looks over the j sea of faces that flash into his vision I and bob about In the same like spots upon a coach dog. Between so many men who are so widely different In every way, the graft-fed donkey is nat urally more than sorely puzzled when it comes to the matter of selecting a rider. It is no wonder that he kicks anel snorts | In dismay, and belches forth flames that indicate anything but soulful har mony and rapture. The democratic don key, like the suburban contractor, knows better than he builds, and he is well aware of the fact that not one of the candidates in whose mielst he cara coles can ride him to victory; and in knowing this his knowledge easily ex ceeds that of any of his would-be riders. —Judge. Hot Time in St. Louis. It is pretty evident that the Hearst boomers intend to make a big noise at 1 St. Louis, whatever else they do. Ar rangements are being made; to seiiid par ties of shouters for the yellow kid candi date from every portion of the country, I all expenses paid. Here is a good chance | for lusty-lunged college men to (urn an j honest penny. It will be vacation time when the convention meets, and no doubt j many of them will be willing to putin a few days in St. Louis whooping it up fe>r i Hearst and getting Hearst money for It. While it lasts the job will probably ; pay better than working In the harvest i fields of Kansas, and it will give the boys a chance to see the big fair.—Troy ' (N. Y.) Times. Roosevelt is evidently not wor- ' rying greatly about a campaign man- ! ager. At present affairs appear to be in 1 such shape a? to leave comparatively little lor a manager to do. —Washington Star. nomination of a wild-eyed fakir like Bryan in 1890 was a s-tei enough comment on the intelligence and stabil- ; itv of the i.rir.oeratic party, but the suc cess with which Hearst has met is a I comment on its moral fiber that no party i should be able to survive.—lndianapolis Journal. iL'Politieal opponents of the president are not likely to be pleased with the pro gramme fe.-r his summer vacation, which ' "'.as just been announced. There will he | nothing to criticize in his determina- j tion to remain ejuietly at Oyster Bay and j receive no political delegations there. — ! Cleveland Leader. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1904 IS BRYAN FOR PATYISON ? Pennsylvania's Perennial Offlce-Seek er Said to Be Backed by the Nebraska Oracle. There ought to be some recognition of the news that a distinguished Penn sylvania!! has been suggested for the democratic presidential nomination. It is, ol course, ex-Gov. Patlison; there could be no other. The fact that it is a long distance sug gestion—coming all the way from Ne braska —ought not to prejudice it in the estimation of anybody. We have to take these things wherever we can get them. Public opinion .nay be fairly sus pended until it has been ascertained definitely whether *his is a deftly con cealed preference of Col. Bryan, th<i only citizen of Nebraska whose explo sions of opinion count for anything out side the state, or whether it is other wise. The feeling in local Pattisonian circles, however, says the Philadelphia Press, inclines to the belief that Cel. Bryan has had a sufficiently sustained period of mental fermentation to en able him to agree with himself upon a candidate, and that ex-Gov. Pattison is his choice. Now is the time for Pattison to be a candidate for president, though it will not be his first appearance as such. He has been a candidate for city con troller, for mayor, and three times for governor, so that there is really nothing ahead of him but a presidential candi dacy. Whether Col. Bryan is his next i friend or not his chance of noirina | tion this year will be at least as good as jit was when he was a candidate i tight years ago. He had the Pennsyl ] vania delegation at that time, but it. j overlooked the formality ol' presenting | his name when the roll of states was called. In view of that circumstance ho j lias reason to feel encouraged by the fact. | that the delegation is not now commit ted to him. The availability of ex-Gov. Pattison is not to be treated lightly. He is the one really distinguished suggestion who can climb up to any sort of platform and feel perfectly at home. I'nlike Judge | Parker, he doesn't have to do even a I few platitudes. If he should not be able I to act as his own platform, as in all cases heretofore, he will be sure to get some- I thing that he will like and can indorse, | no matter who hands it out to him. And I after all, why care what the platform is j if he can only have the nomination? Even if it should be proven that Col. | Bryan is the author of his candidacy this time we trust Mr. Pattison will not bn i discouraged. Though the wait has been | long, he should be cheerful and hopeful. I All may yet be well. BUSY TIME FOR CLEVELAND "Sage of Princeton" Is Working Hard to Keep Himself Before the Public Just Now. The Sage of Princeton is a busy man these days. For his country's sake —or : for some other reason—he is explaining to the public the whys and wherefores of his second administration. Those were strenuous times. Coming into of fice at the head of a huddle of factions. I with more promises out than an angel j from on high could have redeemed, Mr. j Cleveland floundered through the whole j four years and returned to private life I execrated by nine-tenths of his former j followers, and a man without a party. , His reply to it all was an application of j the story of the Indian and the wigwam: | "Cleveland not lost, party lost. Cleve- J land here." At any rate. Mr. Cleveland | and his party were separated, and j through the medium of lectures and newspapers he is engaged now in telling us all about it. Well, why not? asks the Washington Star. A democratic national conven tion approaches, and in some quarters there is a demand for the return of Mr. | Cleveland to leadership. With all his faults and failures, there are those who love him still. Does he love them? Is he willing to try his hand again ? Sure! He is aiding his friends all he can. Criticism has pointed out the matters that need clearing up, and lie is address ing himself to the task industriously. Note his Princeton lecture on the sub ject of the Chicago riots. Note the arti cle which appeared in print on the sub ject of the bond deal with Pierpont Mor gan and the Rothschilds. Will these contributions to the cur rent discussion prove of service to the | Cleveland boom? They should not in jure it. They recite at most only that with which the country is already fa , miliar. But they show that Mr. Cleve j land is not afraid of that portion of his j record, however shy lie may be of con- I fession in the case of entertaining Fred | erick Douglass at the white house. The | cry now is. let the democracy return to j sanity, and Mr. Cleveland certifies that j the party was sane In his day. Ergo, a re'urn to sanity means a return to Cleve land. Will Mr. Bryan bolt? The question Is regarded as an open one. But the sug j gestion of the nomination of Mr. Cleve | lanti appears to answer it. Tnat Mr. I Bryan would reject him is reasonably | certain. He would either urge the put ting up of a third ticket and support it. or he would unsheathe his tongue in ad j vocacy of Theodore Roosevelt. This is | the safest of assumptions. IT •""Judge Parker has one eis tinct. ad- I vantage. If the game does not go right | ho can lay the blame on Umpire Hill. j Washington Post. a •-•Democracy's search for a man"the antithesis of Roosevelt" has thus far resulted in a dummy candidate on a tap ioca platform.—Milwaukee Sentinel. c It will not help the democrats to claim that it costs more to run the gov ernment under republican ariministra ! lion than it did in President Cleveland's i time. The present l-ind of government j is worth more, and the people aTe satis -1 fled that they are getting the full value j of their money.- Troy (N. Y.) Times. MH. HILL'S IDEAS. Subsidies Cannot Bene fit Merchant Marine. President of Northern Securities Co. Advocates the Payment by the Government of a Bounty on All Tonnage Exported. New York, May 25. —James J. Hill, president of the Northern Securities Co. and of the Great Northern Hail way Co., appeared Tuesday as a wit ness before the merchant marine commission, the joint congressional committee which is investigating the causes of the decline of American shipping in order to suggest measures for remedial legislation. "The tirst thing necessary," said Mr. Hill, "is to create a desire in the people of this country to own ships. It is a purely commercial question. If there is a profit in it people will en gage in it; if a loss, it is a question how long people will stick. "Our conditions on the high seas, as a nation, seem hard to meet. On land, in spite of high rates of labor, the United States has been able to work out a system without an equal. "Why we are not able to do this on the high seas is not clear to me, and as far as I have investigated it I be lieve that no amount of direct bonuses will build it into a life worth living. "What the country wants is a mar ket. Outside of our agricultural prod ucts, cotton, grain, oil, there are very few things we can export because the cost of production is srf high. Wo cannot sell them. If we could carry those products in our own ships it would be a source of great profit. "They can build ships in England much cheaper than here. Citizens of other countries have owned ships for the last 40 years to a greater extent than we. "If we are going to buy a merchant marine out of the treasury of the country it won't last long. We must give people confidence to invest. "I don't think you will make much of a success of buying a merchant marine; it won't stay with you. You must get people interested, but there does not seem to be much disposition on the part of people togo into ship ping." "How are we going to get back a merchant marine?" asked Mr. Mc- Dermott. "If you are willing to put a tonnage tax on all that goes to a foreign mar ket, everything that goes out of the country, even to new markets, I think you will get. the ships. That would come out of the people. The ship subsidy started in about SO min utes. "Then your remedy," asked Mr. McDermott, "is an export bounty?" "Yes, that is it." "There are only two courses open: either an export bounty or govern ment assistance which would rise into very large figures." THE STRIKE GROWS. A General Tieup of Freight Traffic on the New York, New Haven & Hart ford Railroad. New York , May 25. —The strike which began several days ago with the refusal *.f freight handlers em ployed by the Fall River line to con tinue work unless a non-union fore man to whom they objected be dis charged by the company and has re sulted in a serious tieup of freight traffic between New York and many New England points, assumed more serious proportions Tuesday when a strike of firemen tied up the transfer system of the New York, New Haven & Hartford road between Mott Haven and New Jersey. As a result of the strike the com pany found it necessary to lay off sev eral hundred engineers, firemen and brakemen who had been employed in the yards on both sides of the river, as there were no cars for them to handle. At the same time hundreds of cars of freight, much of it of a per ishable nature, remain in the yards with no prospect of being moved until a settlement of some sort is made. The strike of firemen resulted from the refusal of the company to grant the men's demands for an increase in wages and betterment of certain con ditions under which they work. Aside from this trouble, yesterday seemed to show a general improve ment in conditions at all the docks. Large crews of men were working in the various steamers and in the freight sheds. Struck for Higher Wages. Chicago, May 25. —The!) 00 hand lers of iron and heavy hardware in the wholesale and retail stores here struck yesterday for higher wages. The order to strike followed a month of negotiating for a new wage scale which was finally refused by the em ployers. The men asked for sl3 to SIS a week, as against sl2 to sls here tofore paid. Abolished Strikes and Lockouts. New York, May 25. —A conference between representatives of the Truck Owners' association of this city and representatives of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters was held here yesterday, after whica, in a ses sion lasting five hours, strikes and lookouts were abolished for one year. A Chapter of Accidents. Indianapolis, May 25. —Prince Pu Lun and ;iarty were taken to Lafay ette yesterday in automobiles. Thirty machines started. Before starting, the machine that was to carry Prince Pu Lun took fire and there was much ex citement. Cans of milk were taken from a milk wagon and the fire put out. The machine scheduled to gc in advance of the parly and mark the roads was wrecked a few minutes be fore the start by an accident to the steering gear. While beyond control the advance machine dashed into a house and turned over. and admiration of her husband should be a woman's constant study. Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Potts tell their stories for the benefit of all wives and mothers. /'TEAR Mns. 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