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The Job department of the PHRSS IS complete aid affords facilities for dointf ihc l»'*.t class ol WORK PAUIICLLAK Arrn.N I ION PAID 10 LAW ► jUh'TiNG. No paper will be discontinued nttl arrear- are paid, eicept at the option of the pub- Papers sent out of the county must be paid ____ m^^======a leri .0 Lacos>te, selected as mayor of Havana by (Jen. Ludlow, while a-na tive of Cuba, is an American citizen, having' been naturalized in Cincinnati. A Xew Yorker who has just attempt ed to secure a world wide patent on a simple invention finds that it w ill cost him $14,000. There are 04 countries in which an invention may lie protected by patent. An artificial stone has been invented that is a nonconductor of heat, cold and noise. It is especially intended for roofs and floors. The so-called stone is made of purified pulp mixed with various ingTediants to harden it. Fapy ristile is the name. Col. George i'armelee Webster, who died a few days ago in New York, cast the deciding vote in the Kentucky leg islature at the beginning of the civil war, which kept that state in the union. He was the last to vote on the motion to secede and the \ote when it came to him stood a tie. The British colonial system is evi dently misunderstood by many who re fer to it as opposed to the ideas of home rule. Eleven of the 40 distinct British colonies have elective assemblies and locally responsible governments. No two colonies are exactly alike in the extent to which they are allowed to reg ulate their awn affairs. Mis:s Mary (iregg. of St. Louis, being desirous of marrying Joseph 11. Dillon, and being heiress to a considerable fortune, left her by an uncle on condi tion that she does not change her name, tiie difliculty has been neatly solved by the changing by legal process of the name of the prospective husband to Joseph 11. Dillon Gregg. Ambassador Choate is credited with saying many pleasant and clever things. Once at a dinner party he was asked whom he would like to be if he vould not be himself. He paused a few seconds, as if thinking over the list of world's eelebrites, and then his eyes rested upon his wife. "If," he answered, "I could not be myself, I should like to be Mrs. Clioat's second husband." William Condon died recently at East Bloomfield, N. V., of th_* grip, at the age of 111 years, as attested by records in the possession of his family* In early life he was a soldier in the Brit ish army. He used tobacco all his life and boasted that he had "made more smoke than the battle of Waterloo." (111 the same day a woman died in Brooklyn at the age of 101 years who lu'id never used tobacco. So there you are. There is a remarkable condition of affairs, in New Jersey. \\ itliout any di rect state tax there is a surplus of over $1,000,000 in the state treasury, and this is increasing so steadily that Gov. \ oor hees finds it proper to call the attention of the legislature to the matter. The receipts last year were $2,354,022, al most all of which came from the taxes on corporations, the collateral inherit ance tax and the fees, turned into the state treasury. Another tradition has. been swept away. In a train accident it lias.been supposed for years that "on seeing dan ger the engineer whistled 'd.own brakes,' reversed the lever and jumped off." But now comes: an iconoclast who -ays the engineer does not do this, and has not for many years. What lie does do is to "shut oil' steam, apply the air brakes, open the sand box. and jump." If he is afraid to jump he is either killed or becomes a hero. liasing his computations on values shown by records of real estate, build ing, merchandise and railways, Mul liall, the statistician, shows that the United Stales is now the richest na tion on the globe. His figures are: United States, $31,750,000,000: Great Britain, $50,030,000,000; IVan-a■•<%~,950,- 000,000; Germany, $40.200'.y.,000; Rus sia, $32,125,000,000; Austin. $22,500,000.- 000; Italy, $15,800,000OuO; Spain, sll,- 300,000,000. And we are just beginning to "get a move." The police of Brussels have un earthed a manufactory of fake master pieces of art, where imitation pictures by famous masters have been made and passed upon an unsuspecting public. Pictures, claimed to be genuine -Millets, Baudrys and I'uvisdu Chuvannes, were seized, and it was evident that the sharpers have been doing business on a large scale. They have made a fortune ,of a million francs, and the dispatch telling of the matter says that "most of the pictures have been palmed off on wealthy and aristocratic hut unknow ing Americans." SILVER MONOMETALLISM. The Ileal Meaning of I<"ree Coinage ut the Itntlo of suieen to One. The Forum for January has an article by James Kerr, secretary of the demo cratic congressional campaign commit tee, on"The Recent Election and Its Re sults," In that article Mr. Kerr states that "011 the financial question the democratic party is committed to bi metallism, while the republican party is irrevocably committed to the single standard." In another place Mr. Kerr iisserts that— "The near approach of the campalßn of 1900 may discover that 'free silver at sixteen to one' is not the acute Issue it was in 1&96, by reason of the fact that for a time other Issues, that must he settled, may assert themselves, and, alonf? with bimetallism, claim recognition from the people." Thus Mr. Kerr alleges that the demo cratic, party, of which he is a member, is for "bimetallism," and that "sixteen to one" is "bitmetallism." Neither of those statements is true. Mr. Kerr, who is a reasonably intelligent man, is aware of the fact that neither of them is true. Tie makes them simply be cause he hopes some of the readers of *he magazine in which those state ments are made will believe them to be true, and, being deceived, will vote the democratic ticket next year. The democratic national platform of 1800 defines the status of the party on "the financial question." That plat form demands specifically "the free and unlimited coinage of both gold and sil ver at the ratio of sixteen to one." But free coinage at that ratio cannot be "bi metallism," when the present commer cial ratio is more than thirty-four to one. Until 44 cents in silver can be shown to be the equivalent in value of 100 cents in gold there can be nothing savoring of "bimetallism" in a scheme which contemplates the free coinage of silver dollars worth 44 cents and gold dollars worth 100 cents and assumes that they will circulate concurrently. There can be no "bimetallism" with an impossible ratio. Not even the plat form of the democratic party can ac complish impossibilities. If Mr. Kerr believed that the demo cratic party favored "bimetallism" there are some questions which might properly be put to him in order to find out what his conception of '"bimetal lism" was. He might be asked whether, because there once was a time when the free coinage of 10 ounces of silver as the equivalent in value of one ounce of gold was "bimetallism," that free coinage at the ratio of sixteen to one must be "bimetallism" always, no mat ter how- much the value of silver may decrease. lie might be asked, in other words, whether he believes that be cause 3711/4 grains of silver once ex changed freely in the market for 23 1-5 grains of gold that exchange can be made now anywhere on the face of the earth. If not, then all monetary poli cies based on the former equivalence in value of 10 ounces of silver and one ounce of gold must be abandoned. The democratic party is for "sixteen to one." Therefore, it is against "bi metallism" and for silver monometal ism, which is what free coinage at the ratio of sixteen to one implies. The re publicans are bimetallists only to the extent to which bimetallism is possible when the commercial ratio is de parted from. The republicans com bined the free coinage of 23 1-5 grains gold dollars with the limited coinage on government account of 371 '/ 4 grains sil ver dollars. They have been able to keep in circulation at par nearly 500,- 000,000 of 371% grains legal tender sil ver dollars, or the certificates which represent thein and are redeemable in them. Rut when in ISO 3 the volume of the silver dollars in circulation and of the treasury notes paid out for silver bul lion grew alarmingly large, and the business men feared that the process of silverizing the currency would con tinue indefinitely, a frightful panic broke out. The panic, due to the fear that excessive doses of silver would de base the currency, cost the country 1 three times over what all the silver in the United States was worth. It took four weary years for the country to re cover from the fear that it was going to be plunged into what Mr. Kerr men daciously calls "bimetallism." It would be impossible to impanel a jury, except in some peculiarly be nighted part of the United States, which would bring in a verdict to the effect that the free coinage of gold and silver at the ratio of i»i*teen to one is "bimetallism." A jury which returned such a verdict would have to decide that there is no difference between a ratio of sixteen to one and thirty-four to one, or, in other words, that two is equal to four and a fraction over. An unlettered jury would stick at doingthat. Butac cording to Mr. Kerr this manifestly ab surd proposition that sixteen to one is "bimetallism" is to figure in the demo cratic campaign in 1900. —Chicago Tri bune. CTMt will lie a gloomy task for the democratic party to attempt- to rrivide politically within a year a nation which at present is not divided. The north and south are one again. There is 110 democratic-republican disagreement about the tariff. The country is sub stantially one on the question of ex pansion, and again as to the building of the Nicaragua canal. There is 110 »p --portunity for the Chicago platform party to offer serious opposition to the republicans, except through the more extreme passions of Rryanism, and those are impotent in a land that flour ishes like the United States.—N. Y. Sun. Bryan declares: that he "will live and die on the Chicago platform." lie is already politically dead under it, having been crushed by its weight; but apparently he isn't aware of the fact, and keeps right on. talking as though he was.the funeral director instead of 1 he political corpse. —Minneapolis Trib une. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1899. COMING DISINTEGRATION. The I>einne rn cy la Showing Signs of llnpidly (iolnir to Pieces. Not since the years that followed close upon the civil war has the demo crats party been in such a critical con dition as it is to-day. The conference of national committeemen which was held here in Chicago was an exhibition of irreconcilable differences which were emphasized by the arbitrary demands of certain extremists. Apparently it is the purpose of these men to rule at all hazards, and an examination of Iheir programme demonstrates conclusively that their rule means ruin. Their test of fidelity is acquiescence iu the old dogma of sixteen to one and in the new dogma of anti-expansion. The two are to l>e inextricably united, and so a situation that was discourag ing enough before is rendered more than ever intolerable. Senator Teller, who is everywhere acknowledged to be >he ablest of the silverites, will resign from the national ways and mentis com mittee because he believes that it is im politic to oppose expansion. This de fection is of the utmost importance. The senator isa republican still, in spite of his affiliations with democrats, and his influence upon the silver w ing-of his party is greater than that of any other man in or out of its rauks. Naturally his followers will be disconcerted by his action, and many of tbi-tn will be in clined to desert their allies*. Asa result the latter will be deprived of support which they themselves have considered indispensable. But this is not the full extent of the revolt. Kx-Gov. Stone, of Missouri, sup plements the republican with a demo cratic secession. The ex-governor is a pronounced expansionist and has been almost from the first. He is probably too much of a party man to bolt a con vention, but he is ready to lead a fac tional fight which will scatter the seeds of dissension and weaken the forces. It is to be noticed also that while these silver leaders have been offended and repelled, the silver utterances of the controlling faction have undergone no modifications. Mr. Bryan and Sena tor Jones both declare that sixteen to on* w ill be insisted upon as strongly us ever. And ex Congressman Towne, n republican who unites with them in radical denunciation of "imperialism," says: "I believe the convention of 1900 will re- Iterate the Chicago platform of 1800 on the money question. It will do it,l believe, for the reason that public sentiment will de mand it and for the additional reason that the machinery of the party is in the hands of the friends of silver and will continue so." Here we have an uncompromising notification to the gold democrats that they are ostracised and that no help is expected or desired from them. The old wounds are kept fresh while new ones are being inflicted. At the same time signs are multiply ing all over the country which goto show that the silver cause is steadily losing ground on its own demerits. Taken by itself it holdsoutnopromi.se of success. With anti-expansion added it is doomed to one of the greatest fail ures that, have ever been recorded in the annals of Americn politics. The ma chinery of which Mr. Towne boasts is leading the democratic party to de struction. Though it is true, a» Its friends as sert, that this great historic organiza tion has survived many terrific shocks and trials, there was never a time when it contained so many essentially disin tegrating factors as it does at present. Even the south is turning from it, while there is no basis for a reunion such as was found in national politics after the war. —Chicago Times-Herald. PRESS OPINIONS. CCroker has come out in favor of expansion and against sixteen to one. There is another strange bedfellow for somebody. —Cleveland Leafier. he silverite who contends that gold bullion has no intrinsic value ha si never been known to threw away any ui It as worthless. —Sound Money. latest device of the democratic campaign managers to raise funds is> to place a cigar an the market. Why not try the one-fried-oyster-with-evcry subscription plan?—Washington Post. ICTThey say Col. Bryan has dropped one € vociferously denouncing the gol.l standard and protection in his Jackson day speech in Chicago the savings banks of the city were figuring up the largest first week of January deposits) on. record. Thus do the hard facts of American, business continue to punc tuate the jeremiads of the professional calamity howlers. Boston Journal, iCThe suspicion of some of Col. Bryan's real friends that his daily speech iu ah i tig or other public utter ance is pursuant to the advice of pro fessed friends who are secret foes is well grounded. There are plenty of democrats w ho hail Col. Btyan with ap parent enthusiasm, but who hope tosee him out of the way before the next na tional convention. —Indiarapolis Jour ual. NEW SENATOR CHOSEN. \iitlinn 11. Scott (Rep.) Uleoleil li / \\ «*»t Virginia I,e« l*ln tnre A Sli«*tcll of 11 i h 1J IV. Charleston, W. Ya., Jan. 20.—Nathaa B. Scott was elected United States sen ator Wednesday in joint assembly. Scott received IS \otes, McGraw 40 and Goff 1. Necessary to election, 48. One seat in the senate and one in the house was vacant. Hunt voted first for Bliz zard and afterwards changed his voto lo Scott. The announcement was re ceived with the wildest applause. After the joint assembly declared the election of Mr. Scott to the senate c.t the United States, Hon. J. F. McGraw, the caucus nominee of the democratic party for that office, made a statement which indicates that he will contest the election on the ground of illegality. He says two of the votes cast for Mr. Scott were the votes of state senators who had forfeited their seats by the accept ance of lucrative offices under the fed eral government—commissions in the army. Therefore, Mr. Scott in reality and in law received only 40 legal votes. The vote therefore for him was 40, the vote for McGraw w as 40 and the vote for Judge Goff was one. and in consequence there was no election. [Nathan Hay Scott was born In Guernsey county, ()., in 1842. He enlisted in the union army and was mustered out in 18G5. Settling In Wheeling shortly afterwards, he went to work as an employe of the Central Glass company. In a short time he was employed as manager and soon afterwards was se lected president of the company, which po sition he filled for years. He served two years as president of the second branch of the city council of Wheeling. He was elected in 1882 as a member of the state senate, and again in 1880, serving eight years. In the last race he defeated Hon. John O Pendleton In a strongly democratic district, Mr. Pendleton being afterwards elected to congress. While a member of the senate he passed the mutual savings bank law of the state. For live years he was West Virginia's member of the repub lican national committee and during the entire time was a member of the executive committee. During the campaign of 18SS he was selected by President McKlnley to serve with Gen. Powell Clayton and Vice President Hobart in the headquarters at New York city. In recognition of his serv ices President McKinley appointed him commissioner of internal revenue. He or ganized the first savings bank in the state of West Virginia and is still president of that institution.! THE MANUFACTURERS. Spirit of (lie National Convention ut (iiiciii natl Kavornhlr to ft£xpan k ion an ii Co in in ere la 1 i*ropo»t i tion. Cincinnati, Jan. 20. —The National Association of Manufacturers Wednes day transacted most of its annual busi ness, leaving the election of officers for to-day. The spirit of the proceedings indicated that the members were in favor of expansion as a commercial proposition and with a special view to eliminating that question from poli tics, as they favor the tariff, financial and other questions being eliminated from politics. Much attention was de moted to resolutions urging the senate to give prompt consideration to the treaty of peace with Spain. During the noon recess it was learned that the senate would vote finally on the ratifi cation of the treaty on February 6 and then the question was dropped. Al though most of the members favor ex pansion, yet they do not desire to ex press any official views on that ques tion. They held that the business in terests of the country as well as the general interests of the Philippines were suffering because of the delay and that whatever action may betaken should lie taken soon. The spirit of the convention favors unanimous action on whatever action is taken on anything and for that reason the question of ex pansion will not come up again. The convention is a unit on the question of a national department of commerce and industry at Washington, with a cabinet officer. It is argued that the grangers kept up their agitation for years until they secured a secretary of agriculture and that the same recogni tion must be accorded to the vast in terests of manufacturing and com merce and trade. BIG BATTLE IN ECUADOR. Government Forces Win n Decisive Victory Over the KCIICIN Four Hundred Killed on ilollk Sides. New York, Jan. 20. —The latest dis patch from the Herald's correspondent at Guayaquil reports that a sanguinary battle took place Tuesday between the revolutionists and the government forces at San Aucaja. The fighting was desperate all day, the advantage remaining finally with the government's army. The losses on both sides were heavy. More than 400 men were killed and 300 were wounded. Four hundred insurgents were taken prisoners. The rest of the defeated rebels fled toward the province of Bolivar hotly pursued by the victorious troops of President Alfaro. News of a decisive engagement be tween the forces of the revolutionists and the government troops has been expected for some days. Becent dis patches from I'anama stated that the rebels, representing the clerical party, determined to overthrow the Alfaro administration, had invaded Ecuador from Colombia and that an engagement was looked for at Talcan, on the fron tier. t nine Too I. rite. New York, Jan. 20. A sick and des titute man 55 years old was taken from an East side tenement house two weeks ago to the department for out-door poor, lie gave the name of Lawrence Schraeder and lie was dying from want of nutritive food. Wednesday a letter addressed to Schraeder was brought to the superintendent of the institution It contained a check for $5,000 and had been sent from England as Schraeder * long-delayed share in his father's es tate. Schraeder, however, had died and the money arrived just in time to pre vent his burial in the potter's field. A HUSTLING HOST. Ha Had a Little Sclienir for Maklßf Ilia Ciut-stß I'ay for Thflr Ulnorra. It was an apparently innocent little din ner invitation which drew a number of California street heavyweights to the handsome home of a capitalist on Pacific lvenue, who is no longer popular in the l'aeific Union club. After the dinner, which was elaborately planned, perfectly served and thoroughly appreciated, the host led the way to the billiard room, where he produced for the inspection of his friends a new loulette wheel which he had just pur chased. After it had been examined and duly ad mired monsieur proposed that his friends tempt fortune with it, announcing that he would be banker, and smilingly invited them to "break him." The guests scarcely expected this Hort of diversion, but they hardly could decline the "entertainment" which had been provided for them. Hav ing carelessly undertaken to call the turn on the black or the red, they expected to lose a trifle to their host, but they did not anticipate any such financial catastrophe as overtook each of the players. The bank won steadily. Soon all the player guests were "broke," but the ho»t offered, in an ofT-hand way, to stake one and all, guarding against a loss of the frequent loans, however, by taking the checks of his friends. For the purpose, with admirable forethought, he hail provided himself with blank checks on every bank in town. There was no escape for his victims. They were all thoroughly trapped and well scorched before they were released. The guests caught the first car home in the morn ing, the urbane host, with unparalleled gen erosity. presenting each guest with a nickel to pay his fare.—San Francisco News-Letter. Opinions of a Pessimist. Polish may be laid upon wood to such a thickness as to obliterate the grain. The same thing may happen to a man. l'eople who honestly tell us of our faults may mean well, but they never run ahead of their tickets, at the polls. The man who prides himself upon his good looks never acquires the student's stoop. Hard, steady, determined hammering is a good thing, but the greatest battles of life are won by strategy. The philanthropist who gives to the poor only that he may lay up treasures for him self in Heaven, will be surprised if he ever gets there, to see how little credit he got for it. True charity is love for your fel low man.-—Cleveland Loader. Shell Porto Itico lie a StnteT Our public men are trying to decide what action should be taken regarding the status cf Porto Rico. We have never before had to deal with a similar condition where nearly a million people of a foreign tongue have been annexed. Neither have we ever had before such a reliable medicine for malaria, fever and ague as Ilostetter's Stomach Hitters. It drives the poisons out of the system and es tablishes strength to resist future attacks. In Old MisHonrl. Mrs. Olive—-It is rumored among the neighbors that your husband beat you last night. Is it true? Mrs. Poplar—There isn't a word of truth in the report. He struck at me several times, but failed to hit me. You know, he played with the St. Louis nine last sea son."—Chicago Evening News. A Remedy for lite Urlppe. A remedy recommended for patients af flicted with the grippe is Kemp's Balsam, which is especially adapted to diseases of the throat and lungs. Do not wait for the first symptoms of the disease, but get a bot tle to-day and keep it on hand for use the moment it is needed. If neglected the grippe has a tendency to bring on pneumonia. The Balsam prevents this by keeping the cough loose. All druggists sell the Balsam. History. Teacher of the Future — Who can tell me who was Hobson? One of the Countless Generation as Yet Unborn—Please, he was the hero of the merry smack.—lndianapolis Journal. St. Jacobs Oil cures Soreness. St. Jacobs Oil cures Stiffness. On visiting Niagara for the first time one is apt to carry away a falls impression.— Harlem Life. See! Bad sprain is cured. St. Jacobs Oil's magic worked it. An agreeable truth may lie at the bot tom of a well, but a disagreeable one al ways comes to the surface. —Chicago Daily I*ews. She—"That's just it —everything I say goes in one ear and out of the other." He Well, good gracious! You don't suppose my head is enough to hold it all?"—Von kers Statesman. The story goes that when f.i Hung Chang was in England an admirer sent him a spe cially line bull terrier, intended to watch over the veteran statesman's declining years. The following letter —so the story goes—was received in acknowledgment: "My Dear : While tendering my best thanks for sending me your dog, I beg to say that, as for myself, I have long since given up the practice of eating dog's flesh; but my attendants, to whom 1 handed the creature, tell me they never tasted any thing so nice. Your devoted L".—House hold Words. Two little brothers in Bath, Me., were confined indoors during a storm, and Sam, the younger, made such an uproar that his father humiliated him by a whipping. They shared the same bed, and as they knelt side by side at night, saying their prayers, the elder thus closed his supplication: "And, Lord, please make Sammie a better boy. This Sam promptly resented by exclaiming: "You shut up, Willie. I can pray for my self." Old Fogle—"The country is going to the dogs. I'm as certain of it as 1 ever was of anything." Old Keener—"By the way, what'll you sell that acre lot on the cor ner nf Mary and Martha street for?" Old Fogle—"That lot is not for sale. I shall hold onto it. In le