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For Governor, 1898,
CHARLES W. STONE, of Warren.
: Subject to the decision of the Republican
State Convention.]
EDITORIAL COHMENT.
The Oil City Blizzard very perti
nently says:"The Gubernatorial
stock of Hon. C. \V. Stone mani
fests unmistakable evidences of an
upward tendency. Home of the
parties who have been lukewarm
and undecided, when they find out
(hat he is the man. will present a
fietty spectacle in scrambling over
themselves to get into the band
wagon."
The fact that the Republican
part\ is responsible for all the
benefits which the beet-sugar in
dustry has ever received, and is
cnown to be notoriously favorable
to beet :-ngar interests and to the
production of \merican sugar for
\mericans. seems lo Vie sullicient
answer to those who assume that
rlie Administration's policy of
Hawaaian annexation, if persued,
will result disastrously to beet
sugar interests.
The cause of free silver is evi
dently losing its charm with many
democrats. It is now understood
tllat lilies Hen Y«.u 0«..,vi.
tion this year will be expected to
ignore this question, and that this
disposition is making itself appar
ent in many sections of the country.
So strongly marked is this new de
velopment among democrats that
:-»ucli papers as the Philadelphia
American, edited by Wharton
Barker, and the Caucasin, of Ral
«;igh, N. C., owned by Senator
Marion Butler, Chairman of the
Populist National Committee, are
predicting that the democratic
party in 1900 will swing back to
v he gold standard.
The Labor Commissioner of New
York has destroyed another idol
of the silver worshippers. In his
report just published he shows that
the farmers of that State are com
plaining bitterly of the reduction
in th ■ price of their farms, not in
1*73, the year of the "crime," nor
in the years immediately following
it. but in 1893, and the succeeding
years which the free-trade "crime'"
began its work, when the people
elected a free-trade Congress and
President. lie says specifically
that the complaints of the fanners
are that their farms have been
reduced from 50 to 75 per cent, in
value during the past live or six
years —not during the past twenty
five or six years.
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Representative Bailey, the leader
of the democratic party in the
House of Representatives, recently
jnade a speech at Richmond which
is looked upon as an auguration of
the Congressional campaign in 1898
and incidentally a sort of feeler for
the 1900 campaign, lie endorsed
i'ree silver and the Chicago platform
generally, and indicated pretty
frankly his adhearance to Mr.
Bryan as the Presidential candi
date for the party in the next cam
paign. Let's see. Isn't this Mr.
Bailey the same who in 1896, made
a speech in his own Congressional
district saying that he could not en
dorse Mr. Bryan or his theories,
and did not agree with many of
the principles laid down in the
Chicago platform? And isn't
lie the same Mr. Bailey who
got a very sore throat when he
went to Illinois to make speeches
for Bryan and found the same
Texas speech being scattered broad
cast over the State.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, March. 7, 1898.
Thi' fanners of llie country will
ho interested in some figures which
are incidentally but necessarially
presented b\ that chief organ of
I the silver trust, the "Silver Knight
| Watch num." This publication is
j owned by silver-millionaire Stewart
the most active and persistent of
I the calamity waiters, who never
i misses an opportunity of telling
; the public what sidl'erers they are
under the gold standard and how
impossible it is for the fanners to
prosper without the free and un-
I limited coinage of silver. Profess
ing, as it does, to he a> newspaper,
! the Silver Knight Watchman neo-
I
1 essarially reports some of the cur
rent features oft lie week's develop
ments, including important feat
ures of commerce, markets, etc..
and here, in its presentation of
these facts and conditions which
' cannot be ignored, the Knight
i Watchman destroys the entire
| structure of argument which the
| calamity wailers have washed with
I the tears during each succeeding
year that they have determined to
trick the people of the United
States into aiding them in behalf
j of their free-silver scheme.
Examined in the light of the
| constant assertion of the silverites
that prosperity cannot come to the
| farmers without the free coinage of
i silver, and that prices of farm pro
ducts and prices of silver keep pace,
1 the figures presented by the Knight
Watchman in its issue of Feb. 24,
' !x ( ,»s, are to say the least, interest
j ing. It shows, for instance, the
closing price of wheat in New York
on February -1, IS9N. tobesl.o3£
per bushel. When Mr. Bryan was
nominated and assured the farmers
|of the country, as did all his asso
ciates, that farm products could
j not advance without the free coin
age of silver, wheat was worth (>4*!
j cents per bushel.
The market report of the Knight
Watchman gives the price of corn
in New York. February 21, 1898,
j at .".-17-8 cents, which is just five
| cents a bushel more than it was on
April 1, 1897, showing an advance
j of nearly twenty per cent, in price
| In iuoo i-liaii 12 itiuilllin wllliutll UIC
! free coinage of silve. The same
j report in the Knight- Watchman
j gives the price of oats in New
; York at 30f cents per bushel.
■ When Mr. Bryan was nominated
j in 1890, the price of oats in New
■ York was 2H cents, a, gain of
! nearly ."><> per cent, without the
j free coinage of silver.
Mess pork is quoted in the same
market report of the Knight
j Watchman at $10.25 per barrel.
! That highest authority on prices,
j Bradstreet's, shows that mess pork
in New York was worth §B.OO
per barrel on October 1, 1 sot;, just
jat the time that Mr. Bryan, niine
j owner Stewart, the Knight-Watch
man, and other advocates were as
| suring the farmers that products
j could not advance except through
j the free coinage of silver. Yet
here is an advance of nearly fifty
percent, in 10 months.
Beef, family, is quoted by the
Knight- Watchman 811.75 per bar
rel in New York of February 21,
i 1 8!)8. It is shown by Bradstreet's
|to have been SB.OO per barrel on
I October 11, 1890, another increase
j of practically 50 per cent, within
j 10 months without the free coin-
I age of silver.
The favorite reply, indeed the
i only reply, which the silver men
j have been able to make to advance
| in prices which has come with the
adoption of the protective system
| and the opening of factories and
j consequent increase in consump
-1 tion —all without the free coinage
1 of silver —has been that the ad
| vance in price of wheat was due to
! the chortage abroad. But how
j about corn; how about rye; how
! about oats ? Perhaps they will re
j ply that the advance in wheat in
| cidentally affected other breadstuff*
i and resulred in the advance of
corn, rye and oats. Then how
about apples, wool, and butter and
cheese? How about lard and ba
con and beef and mess pork ?
Every one of them has advanced;
in most cases from 25 to 50 per
cent, in the brief space of time
since the country rejected this
i panacea for all ills, the free and
unlimited coinage of silver, and
determined to adopt that system
which furnishes the real home
! market protection.
Bucklon's Arnica Salve.
The best Salve in the world for cuts,
j bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
i sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains,
corns, and all skin eruptions, and posi
tively cures piles, or no pay required.
, It is guaranteed to give perfect satis
faction cr money refunded. Price 25
cents a box. For sale by L. Taggart.
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CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1898.
First Fork.
A family, from Moore City, by the j
name of A she raft, lias moved onto the Jas. (ior- \
man farm.
John Rues'll and family have moved into the
the old Tommy Leech house, near the county
line.
Mrs. E. M.Coder is visiting her parents here
this week—Mrs.W. Hailey being quite sick.
Mrs. Munroe living at Mr. Isaac Bowen's,.do
ing the work,
M. .J. Colcord, of Coudersport Journal, was
visiting liis father here on Thursday night.
The jobbers along this stream are getting
pretty near through with their winter's opera
tions.
Barclay Bros, have moved their "driving kit"
up to Wharton ready for the spring flood.
It. M. Williams, of Austin, was down a couple
of days last week, looking after his interests.
Elmer Smith who lias been suffering all winter
with some trouble in his head and neck was sent
to the hospital at Williamsport the fore part ot
the week and it is reported he will be back, cured,
in a couple of weeks.
Rich Valley Notes.
Editor Press :
W. E. Swartwood is in Emporium
working for P. D. Leet.
Mrs. Frank Craven and her mother, Mrs. Ahbie
ttittenbender, visited at Kidgway last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Nickerson, of Potter Co., are
: visiting friends in the valley.
Li. Lockwood has been quite sick for a few
■ clays with a peculiar throat trouble.
I Francis Lewis has been holding revival ser
| vices in the Elk Lick school house. We under
| stand several'have been converted.
| A little son of Joe Craven, while playing in his
grandfather's barn last Sunday, fell from the
scaffold to the floor and was picked up uncon
scious, and continued so for half an hour. Fort
unately no bones were broken.
Jimmie Peasler has returned from the hospital*
greatly improved.
Sam Lewis and 8. D. Housler have taken an
other job of cutting wood for the oil drillers as
I they have concluded togo down several hundred
feet more.
| March Bth, 1898. ADINA.
Huston Hill.
Editor Press:
Snow comes one day and goes the
next.
Orlo had business at Mason Hill last
week.
Rube Jordon was seen on our streets
last Thursday.
A. H. I'arr had business at Ridgway
one day last week.
Jordan Bros, have about finished
their extensive shingle job.
The people of this place have all got
the fever—war fever, I mean.
A. S. Bailey and Orla Miller had
business at Emporium last Wednesday.
About twenty of the young people
: attended the entertainment at Hicks'
Run last Saturday night.
Oftentimes a fellow has two girls;
| but a girl seldom has two beaux. Such
was the case the other night.
Huntly Miller had business here last
I week. He is soon to orgoni 70 the Liars
I Club. John Williams or C. Conors is
I expected to hold the seat of honor.
Between the churn peddlers and the
herb doctors they have kept things
lively for the past week.
BALL BABY.
Sterling Run Letter.
Fine weather.
Joe is improving.
Geo. Towers, of Driftwood, was in
town Saturday.
Trox. Fulton visited with friends in
Emporium last week.
Mr. and Mrs. McConnell, of Cameron,
visited their son on Monday.
Miss Amy Summerson returned to
her school on Mason Hill, Sunday.
Miss Vida Housler, who teaches at
Pine street, will close her school Tues
day.
Miss Stella Wylie was the guest of
the Misses McPhee, at Driftwood, over
Sunday.
Lincoln Ebersole has secured a luc
rative position in Miss Ella Lewis'
store, as clerk.
Alex. Mason is putting his logs in
the river, ready for driving when the
water raises.
Bud McConnell looks happy; it is a
young man. Grand-pa Libbey also
wears a big smile.
Mrs. Ella Terwilliger, of Johnson
burg, is spending a few weeks with her
sister, Mrs. Orlo Smith.
One of the yonng ladies living on the
East side of the river says that George's
black whiskers are perfectly lovely.
Link says he has the nicest girl in
town. 11080.
No Barmaids Allowed.
Renovo hotelkeepers are much ex
ercised over an order issued by Judge
Mayer, which has been served upon
each licensee by a constable attached
to the Clinton county courts. Under
this order, women are not allowed to
act as bartenders and the sale of liquor
to women, to be carried from the
premises, is prohibited.
Many hotel men, it is said, have been
unable to pay the expense of bartend
ers, and their wives have been acting
in that capacity at times. A delega
tion of liquor dealers have consulted
the judge over the inconvenience im
posed upon them by the order.
The court insists that women may
not habitually work behinds bars, but i
that it will be no violation of the rule
for wives of landlors to act temporarily j
in their place in case of their absence
for brief periods.
It is, or should be, the highest aim of I
every merchant to please his custom- i
ers ; and that the wide-awake firm of I
Meyers & Eshleman, Sterling, 111., is i
doing so, is proven by the following, :
from Mr. Eshleman : "In my sixteen j
years' experience in the drug business j
I have never seen or sold or tried a !
medicine that gave as good satisfaction j
as Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and :
Diarrhoea Remedy. Sold by L. Tag
gart. mch. 1
GEO. J. LA BAR!
IS OFFERING!
SjK'ciii,! «
Bargains
Having purchased the largest, and most
handsome line of those goods I shall
be compelled to cut close to the
cost in order not to carry
any over to another
season. Come quick
and get your
pick.
PARLOR SUITES, BED-ROOM SUITES,
EASY CHAIRS, WINDOW CURTAINS,
SIDEBOARDS, HAT RACKS,
LOUNGES, DESKS,
EASELS. Etc.. Etc.
LUXURY
i it ia to recline at ease on one of our
! superb couches. Slumber comes un
| sought under such delightful conditions.
1 Pieces of furniture like these are as
1 pleasant to look on as they are to lie on
i and this fact makes them an irresistable
i temptation to repose. Onr entire stock
is packed full of temptations for that
matter, temptations in parlor and bed
room suits and in every kind of furni
ture, and unprecedented temptations
in prices. Some people are always
quoting from somebody, but our favor
ite quotations are figures like these:
Couches, §5, $6, $3, and $lO.
Best Furniture.
We have the largest line ever
exhibited in Cameron connty.
Geo. J. La Bar.
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week in announcing to the peo
(« pie of Cameron county, that we
<» have just received the most beau- ®>
[J tiful and complete line of
:• SPRING si
is GOODS, si
i« •
(• Ever placed in Emporium. •)
<• We have spared no expense in •>
(a buying the BEST CLASS of
(® goods on the market. •)
J® We desire to call the attention
Co of the public to our Show Wind
(• ows and examine all the latest •)
[• novelties of spring.
is OUR
FEDORA •!
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'• In all shapes and colors are a•'
S thing of beauty and something Jj
<• shich all, both younsr and old •)
[• should wear this spring. g
iS OUR I
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S SUITS :|
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<• For Easter are among the •>
( J choice offerings we are now dis- S
<• playing. These are of the high- •>
J® est grade of ready-made clothing *>
and best workmanship J, 1
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re ties in Plaids, Stripes and Polka- »>
<• dots and is the most up-to-date •)
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<« word throughout our entire de
'• partment we have nothing but •)
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(a great pleasure in showing our a)
|® goods if you will but call. •>
R. SEQER & SON,
J? One door east of Hank.
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| Special 112;
Two
I Weeks |
I Clearing :§
| out I
I Sale. |
ill If
[||l Men's Clothing,
j|j Bo >' s ' Clothing,
& Children's Clothing,
'JP Men's Furnishings,
ji|| Hats, Caps Shoes.
ffi Everything in the store#
0? regardless of cost.
| Sale lasts positively only||
two weeks.
, Here are a Few of the Many
|$ j Bargains. ; ;
'-<4, Men's Black Clay Worsted
siuts, former price 814.
|| now - - - $lO
Men's Overcoats formerly M
SS.SO, now - $5.00 I
jj|| Men's suits, former price j|j|
||| SS.OO, now - $4.50
' Children's suits from 81.00 1
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Boys' knee pants form 19c
upwards.
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|,j| Men's Cotton half hose j/, ;
,|ffj C» pairs for 25c.
W! Men's Suspenders lo cents.
JohiMle,
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Opposite Post-ofllce, Emporium, Pa. >'4:'
fc. B. HOMRD & CO. C~ B. HOWftRD & CO.!
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l| It is a genuine pleasure to us to call your attention to the jjjj
j|j| fact that we have just added to our Corset!Departinent the ;|||
0: celebrated 404 P. P. Corset. For wear, fit and durability |||
this corset has 110 equal, and it imparts to the wearer the j'-
||J| most graceful figure. |||
It would please us very much to have you call at our it
i store and take a pair home with you and after two weeks Iff
j|)l] trial if it is not the most satisfactory corset you have ever ff||!
|i> worn, we will gladly refund to you your purchase money. M
l|j| Price is but SI.OO per pair. l^, 1
LACES.
Our Laces for Spring and Summer Dresses have arrived.§p
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All the new and latest np-to-date styles are here for yonrJJW
||j|J picking. Elegant values for little money.
HOSIERY.
fp There is 110 store showing better values in Hosiery than M:
ij here, all new and fast colors.
Ic. B. HOWARD CO. 'C. BjHOWARD i CO.
Adam,
Meldrum &
Anderson Co.
The American Block.
IrtIFFALO, X. Y.
About Our Book
ant! Stationery Department.
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We will gladly quote you our prices at any time
for any book or books published, and we can
always supply you with the best writing paper
and stationery at very low prices. We do card
engraving in the best form for much less than
usual prices.
SOME BOOK PRICES.
Quo Vadis, the authorized and unabridged
edition,cloth binding,illustrated,soc., postage 12c.
The same in paper covers 18c., postage 7c.
The Prince of the House of David, new edition,
cloth, illustrated, 19c, postage 6c.
The Prince of the House of David, new edition,
cloth, illustrated, 19c. postage 6c.
The Beth Book, by Sarah Cirand, published at
$1.50, our price sl,loc, postage 112 c.
The Story of an untold Love, by Paul Leicester
Ford, published at $1.25, our price 95c.. postage 9c.
Corleone, by F. Marion Crawford, 2 vols., $1.40,
postage 17c.
The Seats of the Mighty, by Gilbert Parker,
$1.20, postage, lie.
I The Choir Invisible, by James Lane Allen, pub -
lished at $1.50, our price, $1.15 postage Bc.
| The Chautauqua Books, for course 189S, 5 vols,,
j $4.50 the set, expressage 25c.
j Pelonbet's Notes on the International Sunday
1 School Lessons for 1898, 85c, postage 12c.
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| are received at publishers' rates.
Stationery.
| Our "Swan Vellum," and "Swan Satin" are
high-class writing papers, made in four sizes—
> "Joseph" and "Billet"si.-.es, 40c box of 5 quires.
' Envelopes to correspond, 40c box of 125.
I "Octavo" size, 50c. a box; envelopes 50c.
Our "Swan Everwyn" and "Swan Feather"
are smooth and rough linen papers made only in
octavo and commercial sizes, ruled and plane, 30c
and 35c the 5 quire packets, envelopes 7c and 8c
packet.
"Swan Seconds" in octavo and commercial
sizes, ruled and plain, 18c pound packet, envelopes
5c and Gc a packet.
I'apetcries of new square shaped paper and
envelopes in fashionable tints, azure, heliotrope,
cream and inazarin 15c box, worth 20c, postage Bc.
The same in larger size 20c. worth 30c, postage
10c.
Papeteries of initial paper with envelopes, all
initials, new and beautiful, all colors 40c box.
worth fiOc.
The same illuminated in gold and colors,
square paper 55c box, worth 75c.
Card Engraving.
Plate and 50 cards for $1.25, postage Gc. En
graving address line 30c extra.
50 cards from your own plate 55c, postage 6c.
100 cards from your own plate 95c, pvstage 11c.
Specimens of engraving and sizes of cards for
warded on application.
Monograms and address dies sunk from $1.50
upwards. Stamping in any color 50c for 120
sheets, or 90c in gold and silver.
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