2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MULLIN, Editer. Published Every Thursday. TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION. far/car •} jjj If pAI4 Id adyauee 1 M ADVERTISING RATES: are published at the rate of #ae 4ollar per square for one Insertion and fifty at at* per square for each subsequent insertion Rates by the year, or for aix or three montha. are low and uniform, and will be furnished on application. Legal and Official Advertising per aquare, three times or less, 12: each subsequent inser tion !'0 cents per square. Local notices 10 cente per line for one tnser aertion: f> cents per lina for each aubsequent ••executive insertion. Obituary noticea over Are linea, 10 cents rer Hae. Simple announcements of births, mar riage* and deaths will be inserted free. Butlness cards. fl»e lines or less, t& per year; #ver five lines, at the regular rates of adver tising. No local inaerted for leaa than 75 centa per laaue- JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the PBESS la complete and aUurds facilities for doing the best class ol Work. PAK'I ICULAB ATTENTION PIINTO LAW PMNTINfi. No paper will be discontinued nttl arrear- Kes are paid, except at the option of the pub her. Paper* sent out of tha county must be pr.id lor in advance. TtiE late Mr. Gladstone is said to have managed the Hawarden estate, which was once much involved, with t><> much thrift and sagacity that the <*l est son of \V. li. Gladstone will, it is believed, succeed to Alio,ooo a year on attaining his majority. THE emperor, Francis Joseph, of Austria, in order to provide a resi dence nearer Vienna for his daughter, the Archduchess Valerie, and her chil dren, has bought the Frohsdorf cha teau, in lower Austria, in which the Comte dc Chambord lived from IS4G till his death in isss. THE test of a true Persian carpet that used by the natives themselves— is to drop a piece of red-hot charcoal upon it. which leaves a singed rt/tind spot. If the carpet is one of the first quality the singed wool can be brushed off with the hand without the least trace of the burn being afterward dis cernible. THE smallest salary 1 have heard of is paid to a young man in Jirookline for running errands. He at first work ed for nothing, but grumbled until a weekly stipend was agreed upon. He now receives 1 cent a week, and con siders himself amply remunerated for going to the grocery store. l!ut then he is only 7 years old. ONE lesson of the war is that ships are no match for land batteries. Some Jr2.000.000 was wasted when the Amer ican fleet at Santiago attempted to re duce the forts. The hundreds of shots fired at Morro castle proved absolutely harmless. What might have been the result had the forts contained good guns and good gunners? THE regular army of China is said to consist of S-'B,OOO men. Besides this, the emperor's army, there is a national army of 650.000 men, who are paid about one dollar a month. The caval ry receive about three dollars a month, feed their own horses, and if the horses are lost or killed are required to re place them out of their pay. MORTALITY among hospital nurses is startling. It has been ascertained that a healthy girl of 17. devoting herself to hospital nursing, uies on an average 21 years sooner than a girl of the same age moving among the general population. A hospital nurse at the age of 25 has the same expectation of life as a person at the age of 5S in the ordinary community. COMPETENT authorities expected that the Klondike output would this season amount to 8i0.000,000 or $30,000,000, but the total output is estimated at only one-half this amount, or aboui 810,900,- 000 or 515,000,000. Canada charges 10 per cent upon all gold mined on her territory. She collected up to June 1 a revenue of 8630.000. which repesents $(3,390,000 mined. Much gold was prob ably smuggled away. SorsA. the musician, is to be made a musical director in the 6th army corps, with the rank of eaptain, provided he can be released from duty in time to fill his fall engagements. Meanwhile, the sailors on the Brooklyn, jealous of those on the New York, which has a monopoly of the music with Adm. Sampson's fleet, have written to Sousa asking him to name a competent musi cian to organize a band for their ship. SHORT sight is more common in town than among country folk, for the sim ple reason that townspeople have less need for long sight, they have fewer opportunities for exercising their sight on distant objects, and their oc cupations do not favor its develop ment by training or selection, but it is not. in the majority of cases, a proof of physical degeneracy, as can be seen in the ease of the Germans, who are a notoriously short-sighted people. MAI.MSKY, a butt of which wine was selected by Oeorge of Clarence for his final immersion, is now again used in France for bathing purposes. It takes a 100 quarts of wine for a bath, the French character of which is shown by the fact that the wine is poured back into the barrel after use and is employed over again for the next bath. After 100 baths, according to the Lon don Daily Telegraph, the malmsey is distilled, "and the result is a delicious ■brandy." PEOPLE having friends or relatives in the armies now stationed in Cuba and I'orto Rico seem to be much puz zled as to how letters to them should .be stamped. For the benefit of those interested the post office department has issued a circular stating that let ters addressed to soldiers or sailors in Cuba, I'orto Rico or the Philippines «>nly require the domestic rates of pos tage. Mail matter addressed to others than government employes must pay the regular rate as fixed by the inter national postal union. GOVERNMENT FINANCES. AUrmpO of Free Trmlen nml I'rtf ttllirriira Io Dlalort Patent Facta. There is some disposition to judge the nt* war revenue law before there lias hern time 10 measure its results. The same disposition waa shown lor some months after the present tariff was enacted, until the attempt to dis tort facts became s<> glaring that even the mout extreme free traders per ceived that they were only bringing into disrepute the cause they were striving to defend. Fair-minded per sons will agree that the tariff can be honestly judged only in the light, of the conditions arising while it was passing through congress and with regard to the amount of revenue re quired for a state of peace. Its opera tion was for Rome months in part un avoidably postponed by anticipatory imports, lie fore it had become fully operative through exhaustion of sup plies thus brought in, the destruction of the Maine led to quick increase of expenditures in preparation for the war which, it was seen, could not long be averted. Vet the fair-minded have observed the fact that the law had be gun in February to yield the full amount of revenue intended-—namely, the $1,000,000 a day which had for years sufficed for the ordinary expen ditures of government in time of peace —and that it has continued, notwith standing some interruption of foreign business through the war. to yield'sub stantially that amount of revenue. The new war revenue law was in tended, according to Mr. Ding-ley's statement when it passed, to add $138,- 481,306 to the receipts, but it was frank ly recognized by those who framed Un law that it would not be possible to judge with great accuracy the fruit fulness of internal taxes which had never been tried in this country, or of others which had not been tried for 30 years or more. The new law has not been in operation a month, and part of its provisions can become fully opera tive only after a quarter or half year has elapsed, while others can be en forced only when cases pending in the courts have been decided. Yet per sons are found who make haste to conclude that the new law will fall short of its purpose. Tn 23 days of July the law has yielded a revenue of $33,526,572, or about sl,- 456,000 daily. Some of its provisions were capable of anticipation, and con siderable revenue at the outset was thus cut off. while the effect of other provisions will not appear for some time to come. But the receipts thus far have bet n at the rat" of over $530,- 000,000 a year. Strictly speaking, if the law were to be judged at all in the light of present insufficient experi ence, it would have to be held rattier more productive than it was originally intended to be. Allowance must be made, however, for the fact that pur chases of stamps at the outset are tiStialiy for eonsiderabls time to come, an . that other paymertsare to cover periods not yet expired. The same law might not yield as large a revenue In succeeding months, because the first month of a fiscal year usually brings considerable settlements of various kinds. When these things are taken into account, with the obvious fact that full payment has not been real ised on all provisions of the law, it reem« within the truth to say that it has worked thus far qvite as well and has yielded quite as much as was ex pected. A time of war is or.e in which ex penditures cannot be closely scrutin ized. Xo citizen and no official can judge what unexpected outlay pa triotic duty may require in any given week or month. The necessities have tr> be met as they arise, by instant pro vision for the success of army and navy, the supplies of men in the service half around the world, and the prepar ation for other and possibly large re quirements i.T the near future. In the one matter \sf smokeless powder, for instance, not many realized at the out set how clearly necessary it would be come scr the government to provide a full supply for its troops without de lay and without regard to expenditure. I?ut the magnificent success of the loan which the government lias proposed, showing that sums practically unlim ited are at the command of tlie govern ment at any time, and on terms more favorable than were thought possible a year ago in days of peace, relieves the government and people of present anxiety. The thing to do is to push the war so that it may be finished as soon as possible.—X. Y. Tribune. r?"The attempt of a few democratic organs to make the senatorial elec tion last winter an issue in this fall campaign will be a signal failure, from a democratic standpoint. Everyone knows the facts in connection with it. Everyone is familiar with the a Men Arf Rn > Ijig War Honda and Forgot tin K All About I'rff Kilvrr. There arc many indications that the free coinage of silver at the ratio of sixteen to one, as a political issue, is passing. With Mr. Cable and other gold democrats 011 the democratic state comirit!ce in Illinois, by a vote of the convention, it is evident that a decided change has taken place. The report that a large majority of the state committee of Illinois is opposed to inaWng sixteen to one an issue in 1900, but favors free coinage without any reference to the ratio, is entitled to credence. That is the common ground upon which the democracy of the country can get together in 1900. Those who call themselves democratic leaders in Indiana may not see it now. but they have never had the reputa tion of leading the procession. There are other indications. The representative of an industrial paper published in Baltimore has recently been through the south to ascertain the sentiment of business men in ref erence to free silver and the ratio of sixteen to one. lie reports that while those who make polities a business are professing undying devotion to Bryan and sixteen to one, the business men of the south, who > - epresent its trade anfl industries, are opposed to the silver issue and are using their influence to repress the agitation of the question. The fact that a million people, includ ing an element naturally timid, sub scribed for five times as many bonds "payable in coin" as the government has called for without a question as to the meaning of the word is another evi dence of popular feeling. If there had been any general fear that by the free coinage of silver at the ratio of six teen to one the United States would pass to a silver basis there would have been no rush to subscribe for three per cent, bonds. Four years ago there was such a doubt that the government had to issue a four per cent, bond where it could have floated a three per cent, gold bond. Gold is no longer hoarded. Two years apro less than ten per cent, of the revenues were paid in gold. During the pa -1 few months from 7."> to 7S per cent, oft he customs duties were paid in gold. For months the treasury has been paying out nearly a million dollars a day ir. excess of the revenues, but even before the passage of the revenue and bond act that fact caused no un-'asiness lest the gold in the treasury be drawn out by an "end less chain." During the past three months several financial papers, in an alyzing the causes of general busi ness activity, have declared that the general conviction in business circles that the coinage issue of Ilryanism is dead and can never be galvanized into the appearance of life is the leading cause of the present generally im proved business conditions. In this state and some others the democrats will insist that sixteen to one is an issue now and will he in 1900, but leaders of discernment will have as lit tle to say in advocacy of it as possible, knowing that in 1900 the silver issue with a sixteen to one proviso will not be emphasized in the national demo cratic platform. The electoral vote of New York, which Tammany will prom ise, and which the democrats must have in order to win. is of more im portance than the electoral votes of the silver-producing states twice over. Besides, the silent conviction of the country against sixteen to one is much more positive now than it was in Xo vember, 1890. — Indianapolis Journal. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. t!)>- southern soldiers get back from this war and resume voting there are likely to be some surprises in the anti-McKinley camp.—San Fran cisco Chronicle. fCol, I'ryan ought to he sent right down to Santiago to reason with tho*« native merchr.nts who refuse to have anything to do with American silver dollars.—Chicago Record. If •'"The dudes and the millionaires have made a report in this war, but Eugene V. Debs, (Jen. Coxey and a fevr more such "patriots" are yet to be heard from. —lowa State Register. r?'.V little more than three months hence a new house of representatives will be elected. In 1896 Missouri sent 12 democrats to congress, but it will not happen again. Missouri will not be caught twice by the pullbacks.- St. I.ouis Globe-Democrat. If The silverites will have something to ;liink about when they hear of American dollars made of silver going at SO per cent, of their face value. There is a lesson in that worth more than a ream of arguments.—Cincin nati Commercial Tribune. CThis country lias found President McKinley a safe man to trust. It has trusted him all through this war. and it trusts hiin row. He will consent to no terms of peace with Spain which will not do honor and justice to the government of which he is the chief executive. —Baltimore American. If The administration at Washing ton may be trusted to pursue a wise and just course. And meanwhile it is well to bear in mind, in the face of democratic opposition to "imperial ism,'' that there is on record abundant precedents showing democratic au thority for taking territory "and no questions asked." —Troy Times. If The main cause of the present prosperity is doubtless to be found in t!ic disapp n arance of what was the main cause of the panic in 1593 and of the stagnation of subsequent years— tSe "free silver" specter. Its disap pearance, or decline, from the posi tion of a dominant issue, menacing every interest, is the cardinal factor of the revived confidence of which we see so many signs. It is felt now on every hand that "silver i.3 dead" and enter prise in consequence now lifts its head. —Baltimore Sur- THE PROTOCOL S TERMS. A Syn<»|»*lH of the llocument that I'utu an Kit«l to the Conflict with Spulu Two < omiiiiftitioiirr* Provided for. Washington, Aug. lit.—The protocol signed Friday by Secretary Day and M. (.'amboil provides: I. That Spain will relinquish all claim of sovereignty over the title to Cuba. That l'orto Itico and other Span ish islands in the West Indies and an island in the I-a d rones, to be selected by the I nited States, shall be ceded to the latter. 3. That the United States will oc cupy and hold the city, bay and har bor of Manila, pending the conclusion of a treaty of peace which shall de termine the control, disposition and government of the Philippines. 4. That Cuba, Porto Itico and other Spanish islands in the West Indies shall be immediately evacuated, and that commissioners to be appointed within ten days shall, within :io days from the signing of the protocol, meet at Havana and San .loan, respectively, to arrange and execute the details of the evacuation. 5. That the United States and Spain will each appoint not more than live commissioners to negotiate and conclude a treaty of peace. The com missioners are to meet at Paris not later than October Ist. 6.—On the signing of the protocol, hostilities will lie suspended and no tice to that effect will be given as soon as possible by each government to the commanders of its military and naval forces. The above is the official statement of the protocol's contents as prepared and given to the press by Secretary 1 >ay. While the document is properly enough described as a protocol, it is still something more than that. It is an agreement midway between that and the armistice which usually inter venes between active war and final peace. So far as it goes this protocol is absolutely a peace treaty. Thus, having provided for the disposition of Cuba, Porto Itico and one of the La drone islands there is nothing more for a pence commission to do in rela tion to these subjects; their fate is sealed and the protocol in that respect is as binding as any definite treaty of peace. It was such a protocol as this that was signed by President Thiers and Prince Bismarck to terminate the Franco-Prussian war. The protocol provides fort wo com missions. First ,the peace commission which will meet in Paris, and second, a military commission, which will meet in Havana probably within 15 days. The military commission's du ties will be of great importance. It will settle the details of the evacua tion of the Spanish armies from the West Indies and will deeidc all ques tions relative to the Fnited States of the fortresses at Havana. San Juan and other points and tlie transfer of possession of Manila City itself. HOSTILITIES CEASE. Orders Are Sent to Naval and (and it Mill be SUPERIOR EQUIPMENT, n ' m t you ean ill afford PULLMAN BUFFET to miss >» y°u 'Will find SLEEPING CARS, this the best line to take. RECLINING CHAIR CARS > A. N. K. 1721 r\PAQO V NEW DISCOVERY; k-'ves \J§ §T r W ¥ quirk relief and cut e* worst oairk Mend for buok of teatlmontala and lOdajs' treutnacnl Free. Or. U. U. UJIKKN'tf ho.ib, AilaaU. tie.