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The Job department of the PURSS Is complete and affords facilities for doing the best class o! SrorU. PA lITICUt. All ATTENTION I'AID TO LAW PRINTING. No paper will bo discontinued ntil arrear- Kes are paid, except at the option of the pub hel'- iA Papers sent out of the county must be paid lor in advance. .Two thousand colored farmers ate tended the seventh annual Negro con ference at Tuskegee, Ala. Resolutions were adopted urging training in agri culture along with the other education of the race. The purchase of laud is also urged. EIGHT of the most remarkable mar riages on record took place within a few weeks in the parish of St. Marie, Quebec. Two neighbors named Morin and llheaume have each eight children, four sons and four daughters. Rhea ume's four sons have married Morin's four daughters, and Morin's four sons -havv married the daughters of Kb ca nine. BARKK, Vt., lias just secured a inodt-l for a statue of Robert Hums, to be erected on the park of the Spaulding academy. The model, which is the work of J. Massey Rhind, an Edin burgh sculptor, represents the pot coming home from the field after the day's work, his coat over one arm and a roll of manuscript in his right hand. THE appointment of ex-King Milan as general-in-chief of the Servian army is assigned to a curious cause. King Alexander's mother, ex-Queen Natalie, it seems, set such a pace in dress and court festivities that the Belgrade hus bands could not stand it. They remon strated with the king, and, as the sur est way to keep Natalie out of the cap ital, her spendthrift husband was in vited back. THE reg-ular army of China is said to consist of 323,000 men. Resides this, the emperor's army, there is a national one dollar a month. Hut in considera tion of tliis munificence are required to feed themselves. The cavalry re ceives a month, feed their own horses, and, if they are lost or killed, are required to replace them out of the pay given by the government. A HOARD the Vizcaya there is an English speaking midshipman, San chez l'arragut by name, who is dis tantly related to the gr.-at American Adm. Farragut. He is proud of his American relative, and so announced in the pr senee of his commanding officer. liis grandfather was an Amer ican and closely related to Adm. Far ragut. It is from his mother that the young middy gets his Spanish blood. Drmxo the civil war the confederate cruisers captured or destroyed 80 ships, 4(5 brigs. 07 schooners and eight other vessels Hying the American flag. The number of men withdrawn from indus try to take part in the civil war on the union side was 2,772.408, while the con federates enlisted over (>OO.OOO. The expense of the war department in 186J was $394,000,000; in 1883, 8500.000,000; in 1804, $000,000,000; in 18(55, 81,031,000,000. THERE has been considerable discus sion as to the proper pronunciation of Vizcaya. Captain Eulate—pronuonced "Ay-00-lah-tay," with the first two syllables run together a little, the third accented and the fourth very short—pronounces his ship's name "Vith-kye-ah," or as near that as an English tongue can get it. The sec ond syllable rhymes with "rye," and is really two syllables, but the two vow el sounds are run close together. SINCE the overwhelming defeat of home rule for Ireland, when the Glad stone party went to the wall, several years ago, little has been heard of the subject, but the Salisbury ministry has prepared and will doubtless pass a bill which will establish a system of local governing boards to have control of taxes, expenditures, poor relief and all other matters not properly in the jurisdiction of the courts. These coun ty councils are to be elected by the peopie. CONSIDKKI.NO that the United States army now numbers only 2(5,955 officers and enlisted men, the addition of two new regiments of artillery is a consid erable one. At present there are five artillery regiments, with 292 officers end 3.800 men, so that the proposed ad dition will increase that branch of the service 40 per cent. The increase is made necessary by the large increase in the number of batteries for coast de fense already made or about to be made, which have to be manned. GERMAN analysis say that the apple contains a larger proportion of phos phorous than any other fruit or vege table adapted for renewing the essen tial nervous matter of the brain and spinal cord. Scandinavian traditions represent the apple as the food of the gods, who, when they felt themselves growing old and feeble, resorted to this fruit for renewing their powers of mind and body. A modern maxim teaches us "to tat an apple before go ing to bed, the doctor then will beg his bread.'' ADDRESSES OF FREE SILVERITES Appcnln fur Sn|>|>»rt of Itotfi-n Money fa mlltl tiff*. The national committees of the demo cratic, populist and silver republican organizations have just issued ad dresses. Tlicy are In substance appeals to all to »-r>om they are addressed to unite at approaching elections in the support of rotten money candidates. Democrats, populists and silver repub licans are urged to disregard all minor issues on which they may disagree and look on the financial question as the paramount issue. These addresses are filled with de nunciations of the gold standard, which is held up as the cause of all the ills that flesh is heir to. Chairman Jones, of the democratic national committee, informs a prospering country, whose farmers are paying off their debts hand over fist and whose wage-work ers can find employment whenever they want to, thnt "work is harder to get; the weight of debt is doubled; and the value of land and other prop erty is reduced one-half or more." This Arkansas pessimist also predicts that unless the gold standard is thrown overboard— "The continued rise In the value of gold, or, which is the same thing, the continued fall of prices, must inevitably transfer the property of all those engaged In active business, the actual creators of wealth, whether by hand, brain, or capital, to those who, avoiding the risk and effort of active business, only draw Interest." But all the men in tlie United States who are engaged in active business and who may be assumed to understand what is good for them as well as .Tones, the backwoods "lawyer, are supporters of the gold standard. They are not afraid of being swallowed up by the men who "draw interest." They could not have such fears when they see the steady decline in the interest rates. The populist address declares tear fully thnt— "All of those of whatever party wlio favor the conspiracy of gold and monopoly, who favor industrial slavery, widespread poverty, and national destruction, should be on one side; and all of those of whatever party who oppose this deadly design, who love truth and right, who love their coun try, who love their home-sand llresides, and who believe in 'the sacred principles de clared by Jefferson and reasserted by Jackson and Lincoln, should be on the other side." But there is no attempt to explain why industrial slavery, poverty and na tional destruction should be incidents of the gold standard when England has prospered so greatly under it for over 80 years and when Germany has made such progress under it during the last quarter of a century. Those who wish to have the mono metallic silver standard substituted for the gold standard are described as lov ers of"truth and right"and as believers in the "sacred principles" of Jefferson, Jackson and Lincoln. But how can it be "right" to make a «. uunui ..f,... i, niiri, i«> je used retroactively in the payment of debts contracted on a 100-cent dollar basis? How can it be "right" to cheat several millions of people, the majority of them wage workers, who can ill afford to lose more than half their savings? When did Jefferson, or Jackson, or Lincoln anounce it as a "sacred prin ciple" that the government should de base the currency in order that knavish debtors might be enabled to defraud their creditors legally? The authors of th«* itJdresa should have quoted the language those eminent men used when tliey expressed themselves —as tlicy are accused of having clone—in favor of rot ten money and public and private dis honesty. These addresses explain nothing. They do not point out wherein any class of the community would be bene fited by 44-eent silver dollars. They do not attempt to justify the wholesale de struction of values which the retroactive use of such dollars would entail. They contain simply the old and often answered attacks on the geld standard. Their only novel feature is the failure to use anywhere those familiar words, "the free coinage of silver at the ratio of sixteen to one." That ratio, according to Bryan, is the very heart and core of the silver movement. It is a little strange that men like Jones, who have been saying "sixteen to one" several times a day for some years, should for get. to use those sacred words now. Does this mean that the free silverites nrc preparing to shift their ground a little? Some of the eastern democrats have urged that "sixteen to one" be dropped ajul the fight be made on the naked issue of the free coinage of silver. Can it lie that their advice is to be taken?— Chicago Tribune. An Ahxtiril Alliance. The more or less substantial organi zations known as the democratic, popu listic and silver republican parties have broken out again. This timet! breach of the pea' e is in the form of addresses published by the national committees of the parties. The address mie;lit as well have been prepared in triplicate, for the burden of the song is the same in each case, and there is little differ ence in the notes. There are three mouths, but one voice. The parties mentioned are recommitted to the craze which submerged them from sight at the last general election. Ephraim is joined to his idols, and they are made ol silver of a debased quality and a low market value. This bourbon ism. that learns nothing and forgets nothing, is characteristic of the party that for years after the war ended op posed the measures of reconstruction, as it had opposed the suppression of re bellion and, before that, the abolition of human sir very. The resurrection of the free silver absurdity, with its triple moulh. is such a puerile reitera tion that the joint silver republican, populistic and democratic elements de serve to be called the Silly Rcpopocrats. —Troy Times. tTSnme of the democratic papers are trying to gather the remnants of their party together on a bimetallist plat form in the congressional elections.— (ova Stale Register. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1898. j THE OLD RATIO BEING DROPPED I)t niocrntN Wenkenln;? on the Six teen to One ItuKin. Sixteen to one as the democratic war cry is not as vociferous M it was. Symptoms of weakness arc developing. Some old democrats are asking why, if the ratio was changed in Jackson's time from fifteen to one, there is any thing particularly sacred about sixteen to one, or any other rigid figures. Jt is stated that certain democratic sen ators and representatives are planning a movement to declare for silver, leav ing the ratio blank, and that several well-known leaders, not including Mr. Bryan, are encouraging the scheme. In the first place, they argue, sixteen to one has been passed upon by the people. It was defeated, and would be defeated again by a larger majority, for the world since 1896 has been steadily drifting away from the silver standard. Every democrat knows that his party is divided on the silver plank. In the interest of harmony it is proposed to declare for the free coinage of silver, leaving the ratio to be determined by circumstances—that is to say, by the current views of a majority of con gress, with the approval of the presi dent. Signs come from other parts of the country than Washington that there are democrats ready to let the old ratio go by the board. Some silver men nominally not democrats take a sim ilar view. In his recent speech review ing the experiences in Europe of the latest bimetallic commission Senator W olcott suggested that something pos sibly might be done abroad by chang ing the ratio to twenty or twenty-two to one. Ex-Gov. lioies, of lowa, has just published his plan to send all gold and silver at the market price to the government vaults to serve as security and basis tcr the redemption of gov ernment paper issues. A Washington correspondent reports one of the cham pions of the new scheme to have said: "The ratio may be twenty to one or twenty-five to one, or even thirty to one. No matter. The point is that by this means the democratic party will regain control of itself and of the country, and be. able to restore silver to its proper place as a money metal. This is the principle at stake; the ratio is a mere detail." llut that is not the principle at- stake by a good deal. This government has never surrendered the principle that the gold dollar and the silver dollar shall be on a parity at the world's mar ket price. In fact, the government ex isted nearly 100 years before this poli cy was looked upon in any other light than as a matter of course. The JK-O ple cannot accept an uncovered 04-cent silver dollar or an 84-eent silver dollar without giving tip the long existing parity between the gold dollar and sil ver dollar, each representing 100 cents. Thn.. - r- •* v«_«no of silver now as a doliar only because the gov ernment protects it with 100 cents in gold. The democrats might ns well stick to the old ratio if they propose anything less than parity with gold. Their new scheme is a shuffle and a fraud, and will lose them the support of those whom they ding-donged into the belief that all the world's financial and industrial fabric rested unalterably upon sixteen to one.—St. Louis Globe- Democrat. Dmcrtine the Fallacy. The Wyoming republicans, who have long tried to be republicans and free silverites too, have given up the effort to continue to be of two minds on otie question, and at a late meeting of their state committee it was decided that the party organization should come out fairly and squarely for the gold stand ard in the coming campaign. Free sil ver will be left where it belongs, with the Bryanites. This action marks a decided change in public opinion in what is a silver mining camp state, foi it has been the custom for years foi the Wyoming republicans to indors free coinage of silver as "a local issue. Either the Wyoming republicans have notheard from Senator .lones of Arkan sas that the gold standni'd has worked such hardship on the toiling millions that the lives of our people are "made bitter with bondage," or else they have heard it and do not believe it.. Senator .Tone will find other people than those of Wyoming equally disinclined to ac cept his assertion that the inhabitants of the United States are in such a state of suffering that relief can be obtained only by overthrowing the gold stand ard. Nor will Senator Jones find it an easy task to demonstrate his proposi tion that "the crime of 1873" was a "cruel confiscation of the lives and lib erty of the laboring millions of this country." The people heard all about the crime of 187.'i from Mr. I?rvan in 1800, and then went and elected Mr. Mc- Kinley.—Boston Transcript. Sound Money RcpnhllcnnM. There can be no doubt of the attitude of the republican party on tin* proposi tion to pay the obligations of the nation in depreciated currency. Not only did the republicans in the senate vote against the proposition, but the repub lican house made short work of the measure, rejecting it by a majority of 50 with the promptness which empha sized the vigorous disapprobation which republicans of that body exer cised with reference to this proposition. In addition to this, the president him self took occasion to express his disap proval of the measure in his New York speech, saying: ".Nothing should ever tempt us—nothing will ever tempt us— to scale down the debt of the nation through a legal technicality. What ever may be the language of the eon tract. the United States will discharge all of its obligations in the currency recognized as the best throughout the world at the times of payment. Nor will wt» ever consent that the wages of labor or its frugal savings shall be sealed down by permitting payment in dollars of less value than the dol lars accepted as the best in e' pry enlightened nation of the earth." —Cin- cinnati Commercial Tribune WAS A CHANCE REMARK. Misconstruction Placed on Words of Socretary L.on^. lie Fubllcly t'Xpliilnn Thnt It ftai Nut an Olllc-lul I Mrrani'e— VI x caifi ltenche* llh vn iia—'l iie Court of Ln\julr>. Washington, March 2.—The main in terest of the day in connection with the Maine inquiry centered in a statement by Secretary Long, following the cabi net meeting, that in his personal opin ion any official participation by the Spanish government in the blowing up of the Maine was now practically elimi nated from the situation.' This state ment was not of a formal or official character, and was made by Mr. bong ns he walked away from the white house. As usual the various cabinet of ficers were besieged with inquiries as to the questions before the meeting, and in response to these importunities the secretary rather casually summed up the situation in a few words, stating that most of the time had been given to the outrages on colored postmasters in the south. Naturally the Cuban situation had been gone over, he said, but there were no actual developments nnd he felt that public excitement over the subject had materially abated. Then he added the statement, in the same passing way, that any participa- AT_THEL RFAkCfc. Ullllll!*-! ' n ? rr ~'" < A-toMAnGDrNAmre faa. B-CONIHING 1 HOLLAND SUBMARINE BOAT. WHICH CAN PI-AY HIDE AND SEEK WITH AN ENEMY. The Holland Is about 60 feel long and cigar-shaped. A single screw, propelled by a gas motor, enables it to make tight knots an hour, either on the surface ur under Waier. Its rudders are on pivots. Under waler they lake a horizontal position and steer Just as well as on the surface. The ship is steered by a man in a little conning tower fitted with plate-glass win dows. Air is supplied from reservoirs Mr. Holland says the boat can remain un<!er water four hours at a time. It can go 7" feet below the surface, where a shell hurled at 11 could not reach it. The boat carries three dynamite guns, each with a range un der water of hUO yards. tion by the Spanish government in the blowing up of the Maine was practically eliminated, in his judgment. This last remark was speedily given wide circula tion apart from the quieting references which had accompanied it. It im mediately started much comment tflid discussion, and when Mr. Long returned to the navy department after lunch he found that what he had intended to convey was being given the force of nn official declaration that Spain's respon sibility for the disaster had been eliminated. In order to make clear his meaning, ns a personal expression of opinion. Mr. Long dictated the following statement: "The main things we talked about In cabinet were the outrages on postmasters, one a white man In Georgia and one a colored nfan In South Carolina. "In regard to the Cuban situation. I said I thought things were growing quieter every day and as far as my Judgment weni I was Inclined to think that any official par ticipation on the part of the Spanish gov ernment in ihe disaster was now practical ly eliminated." Aside lrom this incident the dav brought forth few developments of im portance relating lo the Maine. No dis patches of any character from Key West, where the court of inquiry is sit ting, were given out during the day, and fas the rule of publicity is still in force presumably nothing came from that quarter. The vessel movements an nouueed during the day were devoid of significance. While activity continues in the navy yards, there is a display of war spirit In all sections of the country. Among others offering their services in case of a conflict with Spain are the coal min ers of the Pittsburgh district. Xothlnu Netv In Known. Key West, Fla., March 2.—The second day's sessions ol the court of inquiry are over, and nothing new is known re garding the fate of the Maine, at all events outside the members of the court. Some who confidently declared a week ago that the court had already found that the was intentionally blown up have modified this conviction, and, for the most part, admit that such reports must have been based largely on speculation. Even naval officers are apparently as much in the dark as tin civilians as to what the court's opinion is at the present moment. Excellent progress has been made in the examina tions, and the court will probably finish its work here to-day, when its members will be taken back to Havana cn the Mangrove. Funeral I'lnna. Admiral Sicard has requested Dr. Mai lonej', the mayor of Key West, to pre vent a local demonstration when the funeral of the Maine's dead occurs. lie has asked that in the event of a parade being formed by the residents only American flags shall be displayed. Mayor Malloney has promised to carry out Admiral Sicard's wishes as far as possible, but doubts whether the strong Cuban nnd anti-Spanish sentiment can be suppressed. All of the funeral ar rangements will be under the direction of Commander McCall, of the Marble head. As now planned, small details of marines will be landed from the ves sels here and at the Tortugas, and the artillery at barracks will join in paying the last honors. Vlicnyn Rrnrhpi Hnvnnn. Havana, March 2.—The Spanish cruis er Vizcaya arrived off Morro castle at six o'clock Tuesday evening, after a good voyage from New York. She was met by scores of steam launches and gayly dec-orated yachts with bands, and ! as she steamed to her moorings tuthu j siastic welcomes were shouted from all I the quays, which were lined with thou sands of people. The streets and plazas were gay with bunting, rockets were discharged and there was continuous cheering from all the boats. ' Keady, If Needed. London, March 2.—A special dispatch I from Shanghai suys: The United States squadron is concentrated at Hong I Kong, with a view of active operations against Manila, Philippine islands, in | the event of an out break of war between \ the United States and Spain. The ! squadron, which is very powerful, in- I eludes the cruisers Olyinpia, Boston, j Kaleigh. Concord and Petrel. An Antony of SiiNiieime. Madrid, March 2.—Greater anxiety is visible here in regard to the verdict of the United States naval court of in quiry into the loss of the battleship Maine than was apparent a week ago The constant rumors of possible hostil ities are harassing and weakening the government, anil they are also trying the patience of the public. The "jingo papers" publish exhaustive dispatches from New York and Washington to the effect that the relations between the United States and Spain are hourly be coming more strained, and attributing to President MeKinley a series of anti- Spanish declarations. FATAL EXPLOSION. Two Men Killed nnd Severn! Hurt at Wet more, Mich. Wetinore, Mich., March 2.—The boil ers in Clark & Acker's shingle mill ex ploded Tuesday evening, killiugtwo men and seriously injuring several others. Hugh Long, a teamster, was killed in stantly. Peter Morris, ex-sheriff of Alger county, was found lyingdead and badly mangled near the boiler. 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