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The Job department of the Press Is complete •lid affords facilities for doing iho best class of work Pahiiculak attention paiutu Law P HINTING. No paper will be discontinued nttl arrear- K«;s are paid, except at the option of the pub her. Papers ser t out of the county must be paid lor in advance. Bd CURRENT TOPICS. Col. V>. J. Buy an has a sword E- ' "nt inches longer than the ordinary ««i; • Oil. In South America there is a race of tats tvliieh docs not know how tc mew. Lot Isvil.l.K is preparing to build half-millioii-.ioiiar plant lVr filtering her water supply. (in i;cu procosions are prohibited in Mexico. Even a priest cannot le* pally walk the streets in his ihurehly garments. THK movement in Jamaica For an nexation to the I'n.ted Mates is or l useu by tlie colore-i population ani; laci;s the support of the newspapers. Oil mills on the farm of Senator linger Mills, of Ti xas, are bringing jinn in a nrofit of &100 a day.and Mr. Mihs is believed to be on tne road te niillionairedom. An enterprising housekeeper in Brooklyn lias been for som tine i nt ploying a trained monkey to wash and wipe dishes after nu als and assist in general housework. ONE 111 NDKEII AND FORTY-TWO gold crosses were iastycar distribute 1 by the Empress Augusta amoip.' as many German servant girls who had eaeii continued for 40 years in the eiinuoy of one family. Miss Helen Goi 1.0, 'laughter of Jay Gould, ami herself a millionaire fifty Tines over, is d voting most of her time to caring for sick and wounded United States soldiers at tiie military hospital near New York city. The duke of Westminster gave per mission to the National Sunday league to visit his picture galleries at tiros venor house Sun ay, August 14. Dur ing the afternoon the privilege was taken advantage of bv 3.554 persons. Gen. Maximo Gomez. the great chief tain of the Cuban revolution, has been giving some uncommonly good advice to his countrymen. In a tetter which the Cuban propaganda is circulating lie pleads fo.i law. order, education and peace. Mus. ( ami i:i 11. a dressmaker in Wichita, has., is a first cousin of Adin. t'amara. She was born in (iranada, Spain, and while living in this country with her father she eloped with a young I'ennsyivanian an t has never been forgiven by her family. Nt.ia s Mfnelik's wife. Queen Tai tou. who will accompany lier husband to Paris next month, is likely to at tract much attention, for she is always escorted in public by a train of Ne gresses mounted on richly caparisoned mules, with runners and other attend ants. A dollar BILL from the upper left hand corner of which a piece an inch and a half by an inch and a quarter las been held, n North Hudson county railroad company vs. Anderson (N. J ). 40 L. I!. A., 410. to be too much muti lated to constitute a legal tended for car fare. The queen of Italy's extravagance in dress is tiie one grievance of her loyal subjects. Italian ladies have a reputation of spending more on dress than any other women in Europe, and their husbands and fathers attribute this state of things to Queen Marga ret's example. An improved boot and shoe drier and warmer lias been designed, consisting of a water chamber, having an air shaft through its center, at tiie bottom of which is placed a lamp and a pipe open to the atmosphere and provided with an expanding end for conducting the hot gases to the toe portion. It is estimated that during the pon tificate Leo XIII. lias amassed 8.0.0 )0.- OUO, including presents of precious stones, gold and silwr, to the value of 810,000,000. President Kruger, of the Transvaal republic, is said to have presented the pone with the largest diamond in the world. It is valued at i' 4.000.000. A< < oiidino to a medical authority the mooing of a cow is set to a perfect fifth, octave, or tenth; the bark of a dog to a fourtn or fifth; tiie neighing of a horse is a descent on tiie chro matic scale, while the donkey brays in a perfect octave. Yet it is thought that the quality of the donkey's voice might be improved! Alexander Steele, of Marshall, Mo., wiio died a few days ago. was re lated to Gladstone, and he had many mementoes of the Grand Old Man. 1 iis mother was a Miss .lane Glad stone, a cousin of the great English statesman. Alexander Steele was born in Scotland S3 years ago, but came to this country at an early age. A con tin not'SLY - actino trap for rats aind mice is formed of a chamber with a sliding door at the opening, which droi s as soon as a rodent steps on a platform inside the cage, the only opening being through a passage with a pivoted floor which throws the ani mal into a dish of water, the tilting of the floor opening the door a^ain. THE NEW COPPER HEAD ISM. Urmiirrn I* Arc Trying to Crrnlr Po litical Clip it a I Out of War's M Isfort ii ii I'M. Sinister methods are clearly at work to raise a great hue and cry. for po litical purposes, about the oliieialcare bestowed upon the army. This is a tender point with the people. Every good citizen, in office or out. of it. is in tensely anxious that American sol diers and sailors should have the very best treatment and every available comfort. War at best, is a eonditon of hardships and suffering, or at least such in the past has been its universal history. Hut Americans seek to miti gate its privations to the greatest pos sible extent. They rightly demand that any neglect of our valiant representa tives shall be dealt with severely. Upon this point all are agreed. No Ameri can worthy of the name would look with indifference under any circum stances upon a defender of our coun try. Strong fueling in his behalf is general and praiseworthy. But there is in the democratic papers at this time a ptimped-np clamor on this sub ject that illustrates exactly how the livery of Heaven may be stolen to serve the devil in. These newspaper organs are not interested in the soldiers nor tiie army as they pretend. Their real purpose is to howl in a democratic congress next November. The game has reached the disgraceful stage,and the people should at once show that they understand its true design. When was it that tlie democratic party ever showed a disposition to do anything for the army of the United States? Its members of congress iiave invariably voted to cripple and dwarf the army and to open a fire in its rear, especially when it met with reverses. The only anxiety ever expressed by democrats as to the army was to keep its numbers and resources down to the most insignificant figures. When tlie recent war drew near the army num bered 27,000 men. Did any democratic congressman ever suggest that it should be enlarged or its medical and commissary departments strength ened? Not a bit of it. The records tell the story of Inveterate democratic opposition to doing anything for the army. Our little body of regulars, ■ mail as it is. has been looked upon by the democratic party as a threat against political liberty, and every proposition to add to its efficiency has met with bitter democratic antago nism. Six* months ago democrats were vot ing to plunge this count ry into war, and yet would have voted on the same day against any increase whatever of the medical or other staff depart ments. Such hypocrisy is disgusting. The war in its army and navy operations lias been an extraordinary success. Not a word can be urged against the results achieved. The copperhead venom accordingly is concentrated in exaggerations about the care of the troops. When an army of 27.000 men is suddenly expanded tenfold there is necessarily a good deal of inexperi ence where experience would be bet ter. Transporting an army by ship in summer from a temperate to a trop ical climate is a tremendously difficult undertaking, and the marvel is that our great success was riot attended by heavier losses. Sickness in war is in evitable. The 1;:ss of the union army from disease alone in the civil war was 100.720. or far more than the loss from battles, prisons and accidents. In the Crimea ten Bri'isli soldiers died from disease to one who fell from bullets. In our war with Spain extraordinary efforts have been made to remove the soldiers to healthful camps, to fur lough the sick and to relieve their ne cessities. These endeavors will be con tinued. tio matter what the cost. Yet thfc »act remains that war is no hoii ■Saj\ The American army owes the democratic party less than nothing. It is time to call a halt on the demo cratic scheme > i deceit to affect the Vovomber elections.—St. Louis Globe- Democrat. Honor for McKinley, When every gate for peace had been ■losed President McKinley firmly set' his face for war. He has steadily re fused to permit the conflict to be ■hanged from a war for liberty and iiimanity into a war for revenge and territorial seizure. He has been so magnanimous as to win the applause jf our enemies and facilitate the coni ng of peace, lie has softened the as perities of competing ambitions, and >iven harmony and unity to our army ind navy. And he has done it all with the modest dignity that is the mark of native greatness. This will be his ory's acknowledgment, as it is that of 'lis grateful fellow countrymen. Chief itnong the honors of the new peac."* ire his own, and the man and president vhose deportment has been sufficient 'or the trials of war, may safely be rusted to meet, guide and command lie issues of peace.—Troy Times. Will Cliurj£€»n. President McKinley says that all ;harges of mismanagement and neglect it army camps will be thoroughly in •estigated, and if there are guilty par ies they will be punished. The presi lent is certainly not a man to tolerate such an offense, nor is he a man to pun sh without investigation. That there lave been some cases of inefficiency :n the care of 200.000 men suddenly summoned to the field is not to tie lounted. They are exceptional, and jet j lot to be excused. The business of j sifting charges of neglect is one of i stern but impartial justice. The ] iharges must lie specific, no rumors set [ lfloat by sensationalists. For every ' ioldier that has been wronged by in competence there will and ought to | ie a singling out of the culprit, fol- j owed by proper punishment.—St. Louis j lobe-Democrat. Ohio democrats want Broth erhood, Bimetallism and Bryan. But j hat is not to B.—Cleveland Leader. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1898. COL. ERYAN WARNED. Ill* Policy of Anil--tuTM-xiitlun Witt . II rin k ( iioii Hi in Sure Dcfcn t. A few days ago the Sun published a ■ i very able and interesting letter iji fa -1 ; vor of tlie policy of expansion, written i ; by Capt. Camm Patterson, a Virginia ' | democrat of great distinction and in • | tluence in his state and his party. One • | part of his Utter we reprint as a warn i ing given by a democrat of the stout ■ | est silver sect to democratic leaders j who oppose themselves to the irresist j ible flood of public sentiment us well as to the historical policy of the dem ! ocratic party in regard to annexation: "Neither beautiful rhetoric nor the most j skilful political manipulation, though ai l ed by the unsurpassed advantages of the j Virginia Walton hw, can save from the j doom which awaits them the office hold | ers who oppose the policy of annexation. | The men who attempt to stem this mighty torrent will be swept away by the resist less force of publ'c opinion. They will Join Sterling Morton, William I>. Wilson, Vilas and Don M. Dickinson; together they will form what may be properly termed the ilotsam and Jetsam of the Cleveland ad ministration, and w'.ll quietly float away into oblivion. Upon their wrecks will spring up a new democratic party, which will prove to the world that the spirit of true liberty still lingers among us, and tl.e memory and the deeds of an illustrious an cestry have not been forgotten." Col. William .7. Bryan is the princi pal offender who needs to profit by tlfis admonition. His pragmatical little friend, llailey, lias already shrunk from the size of a national leader of the national democracy to the size of the sulky darling of one congresssional dis trict. Hryan will be reduced in the same way if he persists in the same de fiance of public sentiment. The me chanical praise of slate conventions will not save hirn. If lie remains an anti-expansionist, and his party by ap proving him shows its intention to re sist the course of events, opposing the annexation of the Philippines, as it op posed the annexation of Hawaii, Bry anism will become as hopeless a dere lict as Clevelandism. —X. Y. Sun. THE COMING CAMPAIGN. New IMNII«*M <>rouiiitf Out OF tla «* War Will < route Divisions in the Ue niocrac)'. Interest in politics is reviving over the country, and to all appearance we are going to have an interesting cam paign, though it may prove more in teresting to the party which supports President McKinley than any other. It looks us though issues growing out of the war will figure prominently, and as our democratic friends are somewhat divided a.t present on those questions, while there is little division of opinion among republicans as to what should be done concerning war issues, this may constitute the ques tion of th" campaign. The democrats may be divided on matters of great and lasting concern — such its whether we shall add to our territory, but they propose to makct p "red-hot" for the republican party for its unpardonable and lawless perform ance in issuing iionds to carry on the Avar. That was to be expected, for the democratic party always was opposed to wars managed by the republican, party. The democratic party is not exactly clear as to what it would have done, if it had been in power, in order to ob tain money to carry on the war. Being under th - ; leadership of astute states men like Mr. llailey, of Texas, it op poses the war revenue bill and the bond issue simply because these meas ures were fathered by the republican party, and therefore they necessarily must "bear more against the poor than against the rich." What triviality! But then the peo ple under modern democratic condi tions are getting used to that kind of thing!— Albany Journal. CURRENT COMMENT. [D'Tlic Ohio democratic programme of "brotherhood, bimetallism anil Bryan" will end w hen the brotherhood is found to be bifurcated and the rest is beautifully busted. —St. Louis(Jlobe- Democrat. (E7"fhe Ohio democrats couldn't get away from Bryanisin. Sink or swim, they must have a little free silverisin about their clothes j'ust to console the populists, who are on the ragged edge. —Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. ICIt will be real mean in Col. Bryan if he slips out from under and leaves Uncle Bland with the anti-expansion bag to hold. But it will be recalled that the colonel played a rather sharp trick on his I'ncle liiek at Chicago in 18!)6. —Washington l'ost. IcSomew hat t he most important re sult of the Texasdemocratic state con vention was a smashing defeat for the pestiferous Bailey, llis attempt to dominate the affairs was a more dis mal lizzie than his efforts to boss the, American congress.—N. V. Mail and Kx press. cyfhere can be no doubt that Mr. McKinley understands the situation perfectly, and there is reason to be lieve that he is well satisfied with the work of the secretary of .war. The re tention of Gen. Alger appears to show this, for we cannot think that the president would keep at the head of the war department a Tnan whom he did not regard as capable and efficient. —Omaha Hee. E "Although Secretary Alger has an j nouneed that he will make no inves ; ligation, it is certain that the presi | dent will have any specific charges in quired into. In justice to himself and 1 the good name of tin army the truth should be known. While it is certain | that such tin investigation will show j more or less incompetency on the part. ! of staff officials, it is also certain that it will result in disproving many charges against the war officials and will show that the condition of the army has been crossly exaggerated. —Chicago Times-Herald. r / / j . \ i I % n 'J / ' I6 N / v v 'yX FJ 11 LEADING CHARACTERS IN THE DREYFUS SCANDAL. No other event In the history of the year has caused as much International ex citement as the latest development of this cause eelebre, which ended in the sui cide of Col. Henry, a French officer high in the esteem of the war office, who, pri.n to his death, confessed that the letters on strength of which Capt. Dreyfus was de graded and expatriated were manufactured by him "to save the honor of the French army." Other actors in this despicable drama ;m- expected to destroy themselves before the much-wronged Dreyfus can be brought back to l'rarce for a retrial. FIFTEEN KILLED. Picnickers are Slaughtered at a Grade Crossing. A Dclnwurc & Hudson Train Cra*li«'H Into an«l lieinoliHlicK a Trolley Car at Co hoeti, N. Y.—A Frljjht fill Keene of Horror Ten I'alailj Injured, Cohoes. V.. Sept. C.—All appalling disaster occurred in this city lust night. Shortly before s o'clock a trol ley of t IK- Troy City Ilailroad Co. was struck by an express train on the Delaware «.V Hudson railroad al a crossing at the west end of the Hud son river bridge which connects this city with l.ansingburg, and its load of human freight was hurled into the air. fifteen of the passengers are dead and 10 of the remainder will div. The cars entering the city front l.ansing burg were crowded with passengers returning from a I.abor day picnic itt Kens.-a lucr park, a pleasure resort near Troy. Car No. P.l'i of the Troy- City railroad was the victim of the disaster. It came over the bridge with a merry party of people fresh from the enjoyment of the day. Four tracks of the Delaware <£' Hud son road, which runs north and south iit this point, cross the two tracks of the trolley road. It was the hour when the uight boat special, a train which runs south and connects with the New York City boat at Mbany. was due to pass that point. The tracks of the street line run at a grade from the bridge to the point where the disaster took place. The motor car was struck in the center by the engine of the train, which was going at a high rate of speed. The accident came without the slightest warning. The car was upon tin' tracks before the train loomed in sight and no power on earth could have saved it. The motorniati evident ly saw the train approaching as he reached the Iraek. and opened his con troller, Irtit in vain. With a crash that was heard for blocks the engine struck into the lighter vehicle. The effect was horrible. The motorcar parted in two, both sections being hurled into the air in splinters. The mass of humanity on the car was torn and mangled. Those in the front of the car met with the worst fate. Every man in that section of the car was killed. The scene was horrible, l'odics were hurled into the air and their headless and limbless trunks were found in some cases •"') feet from the crossing. The pilot of the engine was smashed and amid its wreckage were the maim ed corpses of two women. The passen gers on the train suffered no injury in addition to a violent shock. Troy. N. Y.. Sept. 7.—There tie T5 persons dead and four fatally injured as the result of the collision between a locomotive and a trolley ear at a grade crossing between l.ansingburg and Cohocs Monday evening. Walter Congdon. cor 'uctor of the trolley car. has been arrested for manslaughter. A New Trust. Pittsburg, Sept. 8. As an outcome of the meeting here of table glassware manufacturers an organization has been formed to be known as the Cni ted (ilass Manufacturers' association, with headquarters in Pittsburg. The combine is based on the same lines as the iron nail makers' pool. Twenty eight plants, including all the import ant factories of the country, repre senting' a combined capital of $8,000,- 000, have entered the combine. Ad vance in prices will be made ranging from 5 to 20 per cent. l.urjct'Ht Crnp on Rfrnrd. New ork. Sept. ii. The wheat crap of 1 Mis is not quite up to promise, ac cording to the report of the American Agriculturist. This says that in a few states the promise of wheat was not fulfilled in actual grain by a large margin, while in;■ number of states the rate of yield was even greater than indicated on July 1. Hut with full allowance for:■ 11 disappointment, the fact remains that the crop this year is the largest on record. The reported rate of yield in winter wheat is 1-I.H bushels per acre and in spring wheat 15.4 bushels. G. A. R. ENCAMPMENT. j Thousands of Veterans of 11t«■ Civil Witt ! Invade < iiiciiiniiti ami a Wceli of H< union* nt'Kitis. Cincinnati, Sept. <">. After the re cent rains there is no longer appre hension of prostrations from heat dur ing the national encampment of the A. I!. I'l'.e railways an bringing iu excursionists from i very direction and the local posts arc kept busy in escorting the visitors to their quarters. Although Camp Sherman was not ded icated till Monday, it u.is partially oc cupied by veterans Sunday night. The reports of the railways indicate over IMIO.OOO tickets sold. I'cport*- indicate a greater influx the next two days than was ever known before at these encampments. The festivities of the week opened when the naval veterans formed at ii a. m.to escort liear Ad miral Kelley from the depot. When the visiting naval veterans were escorted to Horticultural hall in the exposition building tiny rebelled against the arrangements. They ac knowledged that the cots and every thing were better than usual on sue i ncmisions. but they wanted quarters in a boat and nowhere else. They have had boats at other places and claim they w< re promised a boat here. Commander-in-Chief (iobin and staff visited Camp Sherman iu the after noon when the camp was formally turned over to him. This camp has a capacity of over !.",.ono in its tents and ample provisions for meals. The offi cial salute was ('red upon the arrival of the commander-in-chief, after which the bands rendered concerts. The ladies are very largely repre sented at the present encampment and there is the usual rivalry between the ladies of the K. J. C. AVER. 1J Lowell, Mass. FV