I HE CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. ESTABLISHED BY C. B. GOULD, MARCH, 1866. VOL. 38. NOTICE. XWHEN you see this item mark ed with an X across its face you will know that your subscription is due, or past due. Your name will be found printed on each copy of the PRESS, as you receive it and gives the last date to which you have paid. Our terms are §2.00 if not paid in advance, $1.50 in advance. Many, very many, of our patrons allow their subscrip tions to run year after year. This we are unable to stand. It requires money to purchase paper and pay em ployes and we must insist upon the payment of subscriptions due us. We have been patient, but "patience has ceased to be a virtue," and we now propose to weed out all those subscri bers who show no disposition to pay for their paper. We labor hard to give the public a good journal and while a majority of our patrons realize that fact and pay for it t here are hun dreds who never give the matter a passing thought, taking it for granted that we will always send them the PRESS, whether we receive pay or not. We have had an elegant sufficiency of that kind of kindness. If you want this paper pay for it—if you don't want it, stop it and pay what you owe. We know money is scarce in this county, yet we also know that our de linquents could pay if they desired—a part at least. 10 PAGES. Business Cards. H. W. GREEN, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Emporium, Pa. A business relating to estate, collections, real estates, Orphan's Court and general law business will receive prompt attention. 42-ly. J. C. JOHNSON. J. P. MCNARNKY, JOHNSON & McNAHNEY, ATTO UN EYS-AT- LAW, EMPORIUM, PA. Will tfive prompt attention to all business en rusted to them. 16-ly. MICHAEL BRENNAN, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Collections promptly attended to. Real estate and pension claim agent, 86-1 y. Emporium. Pa. F. D. LEET. A TTO R N E Y- AT- LA W, Emporium, Pa. To LAND OWNERS AND OTIIKKS IN CAMKRON AND ADJOINING COUNTIES. I have numerous calls lor hemlock and hard wood timber lands, also stum page r sell will do well to call on me. P. D. LEET. CITY HOTEL, WM. MCGEE, PROPRIETOR Emporium, Pa. Having again taken possession of this old ami popular house 1 solicit a share of the public pat ronage. The house is newly furnished and is one of tin* best appointed hotels in Cameron county. 80-1 y. THE NOVELTY RESTAURANT, (Opposite Post Office,) Emporium, Pa. I). S. MCDONALD, Proprietor. Having assumed control of this popular Res taurant I am prepared to serve the public in the best possible manner. Meals furnished at all hours. Give me a call. 29-8-ly ST. CHARLES HOTEL. THOS. J. LYSETT, PROPRIETOR, Near Buffalo Depot, Emporium, Pa. This new and commodious hotel is now opened forthe accommodation of the public. New in all its appointments, every attention will be paid to the guests patronizing this hotel. 27-17-ly MAY GOULD, TEACHER OF PIANO, HARMONY AND THEORY, Emporium, Pa. Scholars taught either at my home on Sixth street or at the homes of the pupils. Out of town scholars will be given dates at my rooms in this place. V ('. RIKCK. 1). I), s.. DENTIST. Office over Taggart's Drug Store, Emporium, Pa. Gas and other local anaesthetics ad- for the painless extraction -I.IIIJ T < if teeth. SPEClALTY:—Preservation of natural teeth, in cluding Crown and Bridge Work. I will visit Driftwood the first Tuesday, and Sinnemahoning the third Wednesday of each month. Political Announcements. All Announcements under this head must be signed bj/ the candidate and paid in advance to insure publication. ASSOCIATE JUDGE. Kditor Press: Please announce my name as a candidate for Associate Judge of Cameron county, subject to the decision of the Republican County Conven tion. JOHN A. WYKOFF. Grove, Pa., April 4th, 1898. Kditor Press: Please announce my name as a candidate for Associate Judge of Cameron county subject to the decision of the Republican County Conven tion. WM. BERRY, sterling Run, Pa., April Bth, 1898. Kditor Press: — Please announce my name as a candidate for Associate Judge of Cameron County, subject to the decision of the Republican County Conven tion. JOHN McDONALD. Driftwood, Pa., April 20th, 189S. Kditor Press: - Please announce my name as a candidate for Associate Judge of Cameron county, subject to the decision of the Republican County Conven tion. S. D. McCOOLE. Driftwood, Pa., May 7th, 1898. COUNTY TREASURER. Kditor Press : Please announce my name as a candidate for the nomination <»f County Treasurer, subject to the decision of the Republican countv Conven tion. If. c. OLMSTED. Emporium, Pa., June 27, IK9«. Kditor Press:— Please announce my name as a candidate for Treasurer of Cameron County, subject to the decision of the Republican county convention. <'.G. CATLIN. Emporium, Pa., June 28th, 1898. Kditor Cameron County Press:— Please announce my name as a candidate for the office of County Treasurer, subject to the de cision of the Republican Countv Convention C. M. THOMAS. Emporium, Pa., Aug. 16, 18'.»8. IHHIJ IIS. Jerome B. Niles on the Weakness of the Democracy. BACKS THE CAUSE OF COL STONE An Arraignment of the Minority Party for Lacking Courage to Stand by its Convictions. Philadelphia Inquirer. Following the weak and equivocal letter of acceptance of democratic can didate for Governor George A. Jenks, which seems to have satisfied no one but the Gold Democrats who are anx ious to get inside the Bourbon lines again, a broad gauge and straight-for ward declaration on the issues of the campaign in Pennsylvania from ex- Auditor-General Jerome B. Niles, was refreshingly interesting and conclusive. There are few men better known than General Xiles, in the Keystone State. He is recognized as one of the strong est men in the northern tier and his long experience in public affairs makes his utterances on the issues of the day always timely and valuable. General Niles, who will be one of the leaders on the stump for Colonel W. A. Stone in the Gubernatorial canvas, said: "Our democratic friends cannot shirk the national issues in which our pres ent and future welfare are so vitally concerned. The voters of this most intelligent State will not, by them, be deceived. In 1896 they went before the country contending for the free and unlimited coinage of silver and pleading for a tariff for revenue only. They are, in this State, seemingly anx ious to abandon their position taken in the last campaign. They do not like to have anything said about free silver or about free trade. The marvelous and mysterious connection which they had discovered between wheat and silver disappeared immediately after the election of Mr. McKinley. In thousands of speeches they cried out that we would ruin the American farmer by insisting upon a currency founded upon a gold basis. They in sisted that when silver went down in the scale of values that wheat went with it. That upon the financial ques tion they were a sort of Siamese twins. And yet, in this, as in all things else, they have been mistaken. As soon as it was ascertained that our currency was to be continued on a solid basis, wheat began togo up and silver kept ongoing down. The mysterious con nection was broken. There have been times since 1896 when it would have taken enough silver bullion to make three silver dollars to buy one bushel of wheat. "The Republican party has been in this State on the right side of all the great public questions of the last four decades. Where are the public meas ures that our democratic friends have originated ? They cannot be found. In this State, at least, the democratic party has even been like the hind wheels of a wagon, crawling along in the rear, keeping just so far behind; always using as a camping ground the place occupied by the Republicans in the years that are gone, always keep ing just far enough from the front to be of no service in the settlement of public questions. "We judge men, and we should judge political parties, by what they have done and not by what they promise to do. You form your opin ion as to the future conduct of your neighbor by an examination of his past life. Political parties are composed of individuals, and what is true of the in dividual person is true of all political parties, be they either great or small. There is no allegation against either of the candidates personally that head the respective state tickets. They are both worthy citizens. Each represent the traditions and the principles of his party. And the success of the individ ual candidate will be the triumph of the party whose representative of the present he is. WHAT STONE REPRESENTS. "Colonel William A. Stone repre sents the Republican party with its glorious and illuminated history 01 the past third of a century. He represents a party that stands pledged to a finan cial policy that will for all time give us a currency which shall be as un changeable as the hills and which shall be good as gold in any land upon which the sun in Heaven shines in making his daily round. Colonel Stone represents a party that stands pledged to the maintenance of our "Liberty and Union, One and Inseparable." —WEßSTEß. EMPORIUM PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 25,1898. present protective system, which af fords fair and ample relief to Ameri can industry; which raises a sufficient revenue to meet all of the demands of the people; which is at all times able to protect the gold reserve in the national treasury'and which does not compel the government to sell its bonds by the hundred millions to pay our running expenses in times of pro found peace and general prosperity. "Mr. Jenks and his ticket, so far as this state is concerned, do not repre sent anything. His party has not originated a single measure for the benefit of the people. It has content ed itself in opposing Republican meas ures and generally without success. From a national standpoint Mr. Jenks represents a tariff for revenue only and the free and unlimited coinage of forty-live cent dollars. No democratic orator, during the pending convass, will deliver a speech advocating either. They dare not here and now urge the principles of the Chicago platform. If they would meet these issues fairly and squarely on the stump and advo cate the same doctrines that they put forth at Chicago in 1896, the majority for Colonel Stone would lie 300,000. A WORD TO THE DISGRUNTLED. "In political parties all cannot, at .all times, have that to which they feel they are entitled. There always has been; there always will be heart burn ings and bitter personal disappoint ments. Republicans should stand by our most excellent State ticket from the top to the bottom. There has been, here will be no allegation against the personal fitness of a single one from the head to the foot of the list. They are all good men and true. We know of their antecedents. It is vastly im portant that we should have a delega tion in Congress as nearly our way as possible. A delegation that will at all times stand by the financial and rev enue measures to which our party has been so long committed "We all understand, if such a thing were possible, what the election of the democratic ticket in November would stand for. It would be said from the busy Atlantic coast to the golden shores of the Pacific; from our north ern lakes to the land of the orange and magnolia, that the strongest protective State in the Republic has repudiated its own idea, and that in matters of finance its people preferred the theo ries of William J. Bryan to the facts, logic and sound principles of William McKinley, who to-day is the most respected, the most honored and be loved citizen of the Republic. "The Republican party in Pennsyl vania has a record of which its mem bers have a right to be proud, and with which it can confidently go be fore the million of intelligent voters of the Commonwealth and ask and ex expect to receive their continued confidence and support. Broke His Arm. While performing on a trapeze, in an ice house on Cherry street, Tues day morning, Alex., the eleven year old son of Wm. Snyder, had the mis fortune to fall on liis right arm, sus taining a severe fracture of the wrist and spraining the arm at the elbow joint. His companions took him to Dr. Bardwell, who set the broken member and the prospects are that the young man will be able to climb chest nut trees with the rest of the boys, this fall. To Farmers. I desire to inform the farmers ot this and adjoining counties that I have recently purchased a Fearless Thresh er and (Meaner, and am prepared to do any work in this line in first-class manner and at reasonable rates. Hav ing the best machinery I take pride in giving my customers good clean work. I am also making contracts to bale hay, having purchased the Eli hay press. Give me a call. 1.,. G. COOK. Emporium, Pa., Aug. 8, 1898. —24tf "Second Heavy" Reunion. The 12th annual reunion of the 2d Heavy Artillery (112 th P. V.) will be held at Williamsport, Pa., September 14 and 15 (same time and place as the U. V. L. National Encampment.) For further information address Lew. C. Fosnot, Sec'y Committee, Watson town, Pa. Methodist Camp fleeting. The Pennsylvania Railroad Com- | pany will sell excursion tickets at re duced rates from Emporium to Pitts field, August 24th to Sept. sth, good to return until Sept. 6th, 1898, account Camp Meeting of the Wesleyan Metho dist Church. The Citizens Gas and Oil Co., mot at the Warner House last evening and and voted to sink another well. Why Not? At the late meeting of the Empori um school board, the measure, pro viding for the one year extension of the high school course, proposed by Principal H. F. Stauffer, was rejected, much to the disappointment of the citizens of the borough and patrons of the school in general. For the past year or two the question of raising the standard of education and proficiency, in the high school, to a degree compar ing favorably with the curriculum of studies adopted by the high schools of the neighboring towns and smaller cities, has been quite freely discussed and advocated by many of our think ing citizens who have the best interests of the public schools at heart. It is because of the turning down of this popular plan so conducive to the welfare of our schools, that we make this brief comment. By the addition of a few new studies to the present course, and a year's ex tenuation of some of the branches now taught, but which have to be hurried through, owing to the limited period of time allotted to them, the Emporium high school could be placed on a par with that of any of the large .."'zed towns in the state. The above plan could easily be car ried out, without any expense to the taxpayers, no additional teachers or buildings being needed for the culmi nation of such a project and the only noticeable change in the order of the classes of the high school would be the omission of a graduating class for the school year ending May 1899. The class which would have graduated then, under the present system, would continue their studies another year Before receiving their diplomas and the usual under classes would follow i'i regular order to the completion of the newly prescribed course. A petition, favoring the above ex plained method of advancing the edu cational standard of the high school to a higher plane, is being circulated among our citizens and we were re liably informed this morning that the sr v ! d petition contains the name of n- triv every resident in the commun ity. In view of this prevailing senti ment on the part of the taxpayers and citizens it is to be hoped the school board will see fit to rescind • their recent action on the matter. E. N. Fairchild is No flore. After a painful illness of several months, E. N. Fairchild succumbed to the inevitable, at his home near Gar deau, Tuesday evening at eight o'clock, aged fifty-seven years. The deceased had been a great suf ferer from the peculiar but fatal dis ease, lymphangitis, and it became evident to himself and family several weeks ago that he could not hold out much longer against the ravages of this dread malady. He remained con scious to the last and died, as he had lived, a conscientious, God fearing man. Mr. Fairchild was a native of Le grange, N. Y., and came to the Brad ford oil region, when he was twenty years of age, where he conducted a prosperous business for a consider able length of time. About nine years ago he removed to Gardeau and en gaged in lumbering and agricultural pursuits, in which he continued up to the time of his late illness. He was the secretary of the F. A. and I. U. Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and also secretary of the Cameron County Agricultural Society, besides holding otlier minor positions of trust and responsibility. He leaves a wife and four sons to mourn his loss. The funeral will be held from his late home at Gardeau on Friday afternoon, and interment will be made in the Sizer ville cemetery. American Protective Tariff League. "The blight of free trade—The bless ings of Protection," is the title of a document just issued by the American Protective Tariff League. This docu ment clearly demonstrates the effect of the system of Free Trade under the Wilson Tariff, and of Protection under the Dingley Tariff. It is based on the result of the Tariff League's Industrial Census, and should be in the hands of every voter. Seven copies to any ad dress for six cents. Address W. F. Wakeman, General Secretary, No. 135 West 23d street, New York. In Peace or War Westphalia hams and bacon are al ways at the front. Fresh two to three times a week, and price right at Day's. In view of the pending negotiations for peace, we have decided to make a big slaughter in our Gent's Furnishing Goods, and can astonish you with the unheard of bargains we have to offer, at N. Soger's. Seed Wheat. Mr. L. G. Cook has several varieties of seed wheat for sale, samples of which may be seen at Walker's hard ware store. 25tf BRIEF HENTION. The Andrews, Sierra county, N. M., post-offico was established last week *> h Geo. W. Delamater as postmaster, i . "nator Delamater is engaged in ; mining in New Mexico. The Sixth Annual Epworth League ; Convention will be held on the Sinne ' mahoning camp ground, Aug. 2Gth, i 27th and 28th, beginning at 7:30 p. in., Friday, the 26tli. An interesting pro gram lias been prepared and a good time is expected. The new brick arch, under the boil ers at the tannery, has been completed and operations at that plant have been resumed. Mr. Joshua Bair superin tended the construction of the arch and it is a model of workmanship in the masonry line. Mike Hout, the "veteran snake charmer," brought a four-foot rattler into the PRESS office last Tuesday and performed all sorts of antics with him. The snake is of the black species and is terribly vicious It will be sent to the Excelsior Hunting & Fishing Club, of Allegheny, Pa., and placed among their collection of curios. Ed. H. Taylor, of Smethport, met a sudden death at Johnsonburg, Satur day night. He attempted to jump a freight train at the trestle, hut miscal culated and fell, breaking his back, from which injury he died last evening. One leg was also cut off and the other broken in two places. He was a native of Smethport and a son of the late John B.Taylor one of the early settlers of that town. He would have been forty years old rext month and leaves s wife and five small children to mourn his sad end.—Kane Republican. The P kkk.3 is indebted to President W. 11. Crawford, for a very pretty booklet, received a few days ago, con taining several excellent cuts of Alle gheny College and some of the pictur esque scenes surrounding it,which are interspersed with interesting epitomes of traditions that have been associated with the College from the earliest years of its existence. On one of the pages we noticed a facsimile of the signa tures of Lafayette and members of his suite, as recorded on the College reg ister by them during his memorable visit to this country in 1825. Gen. Roy Stone, who lately figured in the war news from Porto Rico, is well remembered in Bradford. He was the man who built the Peg-Leg road which was such a great curiosity here 20 years ago. Stone was one of the principal promoters of the scheme, but it failed to pan out according to pro gram. Hugh Brawley, now of Mead ville, was a conductor on the train that ran"on top of the fence," but decided to accept a safer position. The man who succeeded him and five others were killed when the boiler of the saddle-bag locomotive blew up on Jan. 27th, 1879. —Era. Gen. Roy Stone is well and favorably known in Empori um, having visited here during the Bucktail Reunion. We can think of no reason why the county should not build the much needed bridge across the Sinnamalion ing river at Wyside. But the reasons for doing so are manifold. There are but two ways for the people of Wyside 1 to cross the river, both of which are j exceedingly dangerous. We believe, j should anyone suffer injury, or loss of i life result from either crossing the T-ail- j road or foot bridges, that the county would have to pay very heavy damages, j People who are compelled to cross the J river must either ford the stream or | trespass on private property. We i would ask the county commissioners to j make an investigation at an early day ; and give the people down there what i they want—what they need.—Drift- j wood Gazette. Sam Jones says, "A man may be a i rank atheist and a red flag anarchist j and Morman and a mugwamp, he may j buy votes and bet on elections; he may | deal from the bottom, drink beer until ; he can't tell a silver dollar from ; a circular saw, and still lie is infinitely better than the man who is all suavity j but who makes his home a hell, who j vents on the head of his poor helpless wife and children the ill nature he would like to inflict on his fellow men but dares not. I can foregive much iyi that fellow mortal who would ra',fter make man swear than women tveep; would rather hate of the wor'nl than the contempt of his wife; \cho would rather call anger to the face of a king than fear to the face of a child." TERMS: $2.00 —$1.50 IN ADVANCE. Pressed Bricks. "If I had my way," a man said this | morning, "I would build a crematory | in every country town and proceed to ] burn up the fossils." Quarterly meeting services in the ;M. E. church, next Sabbath. Love feast, 9:15 a. m.; Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. Preaching in the even ing. llev. G. W. Faus gave two very line discourses in the Methodist church last Sunday. lie is a young man of more than ordinary talent, and has a promis ing future before him. , It is said by tyingaand-paper around | her ankles a girl can produco the sami I effect as by buying an expensive silk j skirt. The pieces of sand-paper rub j to-gother and sound like a ?12 skirt. There is a plant, it is said, that is never touched by insects, and that is tansy. If you rub a horse over with a handful of it before taking him on the road, it is claimed that flies will not touch him. Remember the last excursion to Southern New Jersey Sea Shore points via Pennsylvania Railroad is Thursday, September Ist. The rates are ex tremely liberal considering the accom modations offered. "War is hell," said the man sitting 011 the cracker barrel. "Well," said the man holding up the show case, "I've never been to war and never ex pect togo, but I've been to Bradford." —Jamestown All. When some one smites you on the left cheek immediately turn to him your right. Then haul off and give him a double-decker between both cheeks, in the neighborhood of the nose. Do others or they will do von. —Oil City Blizzard. The chief objection to ready-made clothes ax-e based upon the fitting qualities. Our clothing is designed by the best tailors in the country—such men as few custom tailors can afford to employ—and the proportions of the garments are perfect at N. Seger's. Don't cuss under your breath. If you feel like tearing off a few measures of a sulphuric harmony, do so in good, clear, unmistakable terms. Your dia phragm will feel easier after its all over. Only hypocrites and cowards swear under their breath.—-Bradford Star. Over §200,000 will be paid by this Government as "head money" to the officers and sailors who destroyed Cervera's fleet. This is according to the law, which provides payment ot SIOO a head for every man on the ships of an enemy when these ships are des troyed. A few of the officers will re ceive pretty good fortunes. The Pennsylvania Railroad Sea Shore Excui'sion, Thursday, September Ist, offers all that may be desired, low rates, first class accommodations, on regular trains and for those desiring to go through to Atlantic City, same day without transfer through Philadelphia, can do so by taking the Delaware River Bridge Route, the only all rail line from points in Pennsylvania. Superintendexxt T. H. Ryan, of the poor farm, has just received from Gen. Bradley T. Johnson, who was Colonel of the First Maryland Infantry, C. S. A., a very fine picture of the battle of Harrisonburg, where the rebel general Ashby was killed, and where a hand ful of the famous Bucktails—about 100 —did such hard fighting against over whelming numbers. It was in this battle that Col. Kane was taken pris oner. Comrade Ryan was present and saw the fun—if fun you can call it.— Smethporl Democrat. Here is a bright girl's method 01, keeping her skin in good conditi 0 Wheix asked her secret, she rerjj? e j "What do you think ? Cucumb c >,. - i eat plenty of them, and 1 beli thev are healthful in hot weathe - . but be sides that I take the thick 'peelings, if I am at iiome, and rub the' fl on m y face, and also on the backs o/ m y hands. It is the encumber juice w hieh is so whit ening, and which i , also an ;lß tn n{?e nt and keeps the P _>res from becoming coarse. It is tl9e( j jn f} ie best face creams." One oi Bradford's wealthy men laid the four .dation of his fortune by saving $1 eae'j day for sever;;! years. When l ' lc 'i.ofal amount saved had assumed P r that allowed an investment ' c was placed where it would do the most good. The gentleman and his wife continued laying $1 per day aside from the interest accruing from in vestments, and in a few years they had a snug bank account to rely upon in ease of an emergency. The gentleman believes strongly in the adage that "money saved is money earned."—Era. NO. 20.