2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MULLIN, Editor. Published Every Thursday. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. p«r T«*r 12 It |tl< In ' M ADVERTISING RATES: fssM'seiriruitl are published at the rate ol H« 4»l;ar per square forone insertion anil fifty easts par square for each subsequent insertion Kates by the year, or for six «r three months srt low and uniform, and will bo furnished on afpMcatiou. L«*iU and Official Advertlelnr P" square, akree times or less, (2. each subsequent inser tion !>0 cents per square. Local notices 10 cents per line for one lnser jertlon; 6 cents per line for each subsequent tensceutlve Insertion. Obituary notices over fl*e llnee. 10 cents per jtme Simple announcements of births, mar ris*es and deaths will be Inserted free. Business cards. fl»e lines or less, »6 per year, frtr fl»e lines, at the refular rates of adver tising Ho local lnaerted for lesa than 75 centa pei Issue. JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the Pkbss iscompleis si 4 affords facilities for doinu the best class of Srurk. Pakiicl-i.ak attimtion paidto La« ►iuntiko. No paper will be discontinued nttl arrear af«a are paid, except at the option of the pub lisher. . Papers sent out of the county must be pate lor In ailrance. _____ The I'nited States' military authori ties in Cuba have decided to establish a sanitarium on the Isle of Pines for the care and cure of sick soldiers. Col. Ilccker and a party of staff officers have made a survey of the island and ar ranged for hospital buildings. The Isle of I'ines has several mineral springs with healing qualities and has long been regarded as a health resort. ,T Joseph H. Choate's appointment as ambassador to England naturally re- . callsstories of his uncle. Joseph Choate. One of them tells how he described fhi indefinite boundary line between I.'hode Island and Massachusetts: "It is like starting at a bush, thence to a bluejay, thence to a hive of bees in twarming time, thence to 300 foxes wi'.h tire brands on their tails." A story conies from Madrid that live Spanish officers haw been rewarded for valiant and successful services as spies in this country during the war. The spies may have done good work but the mistake that Spain made in the matter >\as that they were not detailed to learn the weakness of their own na tion before the war rather than the strength of their foes after it was toe late. _________ We feed the world; we finance the w hole.community: the universe pays us tribute. On I'ncle Sum's territory the sun may set. but he is safely to be trust ed in the dark. Nothing can shake our position. This nation is the wonder of 1 he world, and yet has only just reached stalwart manhood. The eagle should be excused for screaming now and then, since the bird has really just begun to extend its wings. An impression has become current in America that the Japanese live almost exclusively upon rice. This is a mis take. In isoii .Japan produced the lead ing cereals in the following propor tions: Uice. 150.408.555 bushels: wheat 17,701,945 bushels; rye, 24.C1C.235 bush els; barley. 37.420,425 bushels; millet < 112 ail va rit tii s. 11.017,050 bushels; rape 3.554.700 bushi Is. There were also pro duced ::.715.170 bushels of Irish pota locs and bushels of sweet po t a toes. An editor in (ieorgia wants the news lie says: "If your wife whips you let vis know it.and we will put you right be fore the world. If you have company, tell us —if you are not ashamed of you? ■\ isitor. If you have a party or gather ing of any kind, bring around the cake seven or eight pies and a side of ham— rot necessarily to eat. but just to show your friendship and appreciation. Yot needn't mind inviting us, as it may b< toocool for our wardrobe. We want th« news—that's all." owers of the future ringing with mel odj." Happy "Bob!" "I fly away to the heaven of my native mountains." j-aid he, "where 1 may think and dream in peace, safe from the sickening sting of unjust criticism, safe from the talons of some old political vulture; safe from •the slimy kiss and the keen dagger of ingratitude." American agricultural implements 4ire imported into Mexico without com •petition from abroad. Our manufac turers have a clear field and a market to themselves. In addition the demand Tor United States agricultural machinery 5s steadily increasing. In the first place, implements for tilling the soil are bet ter in the United States than those made in anv other country. Our man ufacturers have the advantage of quick transportation and moderate freight rates and all agricultural implements shipped into Mexico are entered free of ■duty at the custom houses. A remarkable story comes from the f-outli to the effect that a Mississippi (planter by the name of Mangum has i>ecn experimenting with monkeys as Votton pickers, and that during the en tire fall of last year he had ten mon iJveys working in his fields. It is said i-hcv were taught to perforin the work r.t picking cotton by a New York ani mal trainer, and that the same man is now training 120 monkeys for Mr. Mangum. Monkeys may yet prove o! t-ome use outside the menagerie and hand organ business, but we have no proofs concerning the cotton pickers. At the last Mardi Gras festival in New Orleans a special car was devoted to the doings of Aeolus, king of winds, but it has not yet been reported which one ol 11*- large crop of pugilists now floating aroond the country impersonated iht iiug. FOR BRYAN TO STUDY. Tlie InorenMing Suppl) CJolil Mnkri (lie Slh«'rilr VrKUUicnli lull Flat. Mr. Tiryan will find a hard nut to crack in an article on"The Increasing 1 Supply of Gold" which George K. ltob erts. director of the mint, has written for the Forum. Assuming the quanti* tative theory of money to be true, as the silverites argue, they are now fair ly beaten by their own arguments. When the horrible "crime of'":;" was consummated the gold output of ihe world amounted to $90.200.0(H), and that, of silver, reckoning it at the ratio of sixteen to one, was only $S 1,000,000, which gives a total of SI~M,lK,7oo 1«M $151,175,600 isiti isnr. ih»,:m.ih" lsHL* lir,.i;r.i,ikmiw; ISH3 157.494.800J1W7 237,M4,800 Such are the improved methods of mining and treatment that it may be said of most gold fields, as Mr. Iloberts s-avs of those of the Transvaal, that the figures "suggest the steady growth of a manufacturing industry rather than the record of one usually regarded as extremely uncertain in results." The exhaustion of placer deposits counts for little when capital is invited to the working of quartz ledges of al most limitless extent and when even low-grade ore is a paying- investment because of increased facilities for tak ing it out- and of the improved and economical process of reduction. For lH'.is there is a gain of more than $20,000,000 in South Africa, of about $10,000,000 in Australasia, of $7,000,000 in the I'nited States and of $10,000,000 in the remainder of .North America. The product, for IS9B was over s.'itio.- (KHj.OOO, and the Indications are that the gains for 1899 will be still greater. These gains, it should be noted, do not merely reenforee a depleted stock, nor are they offset by industrial con sumption. During the years from ISO 2 to ISO 7 there was a net increase in the world's gold coin and bullion of $082.- 252.1 SO. and during the same period the industrial consumption amounted to $279,197,816. So far from true is it that the money supply of the world has been prac tically cut in two by the general estab lishment of a single gold standard that the supply of gold is now morethan suf ficient to do the work that was once re quired of both gold and silver. Under the quantitative theory there could be no call upon silver except as a sub sidiary coin.—Chicago Times-Herald. PROCRAMME OF REPUBLICANS l*rn»|it-c< nl I.cjfflNlnlion on flic Money UamOon 1m Somewhat I iicertll iii. The republican members of the pres ent house of representatives, a major ity of whom will serve in the next house, have agreed, with a fair ap proach to unanimity, on the first step to be taken towards the settlement of the monetary question. It is admitted generally that nothing can Lie done at 1 his session, owing to the makeup of the senate. Therefore the question must go over to the next-congress. As; there is only the remotest possibility of an extra session, that means a post ponement until December. Consequently it has been decided to appoint a committee cC 11 members of the present house, who are members elect of the Forty-sixth congress, to consider monetary legislation and agree on a measure to be submitted to the republican caucus of the next house. Should the republican senators appoint ii similar committee, it is as sumed that the two committees will confer together and agree on a common plan. Whatever measure republicans do unite in supporting can be put into a- law by the next congress, both branches of which that party will con trol by safe majorities. It is to be presumed that the 11 mem bers of tin- committee will be selected so jmdieiously that they will represent the views of the republicans of every -ection of the union—not merely of New York and New England, but of those in Ihe Mississippi valley and Pa cific states, and as the committee will not have to submit any measure before December, its members will have ample time in which to discover what the peo ple who sent t hem to congress do and do not wish to he don- It is essential that the committeemru should get close to the people, or thfy will make mistakes which, if indorsed by the party repre sentatives in congress, will prove in jurious. to the fortunes of the party. The position assumed by republican congressmen next winter will have its influence during the next presidential campaign. ll' the members of the committee will investigate thoroughly they will find that their constituents are in favor of legislation which shall put the main tenance of the gold standard beyond all question, and which shall make it. certain that all government and private obligations should be paid in gold or in n ild va 1 lie money .They will find also t hat the people are invincibly opposed to the creation of an asset currency to take the place of bank nok's secured by gov ernment bonds. The committeemen will discover differences of opinion be tween republicans on minor quest ions. Those differences can be harmonized, however, and a measure prepared ac ceptable to the party and to tin eoitn •ry a measure which free silverites vill denounce, but which the voters ■vill ratify.- Chicago Tribune. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 1899. THE TREATY RATIFIED. Pclliy ChilmH hj •ilislrurll'MilMji ProeliiltntfN moo«l*ti«. the treaty was in the hands of the senate a full month before a vote was reached. It is said Ihat. if a vote had been taken at once the treaty would have been ratified by a decided vote, senators generally con ceding that ratification, was the only thing to l>e done. The so-called anti imperial movement has failed to meet any response from the people. Unfor tunately, Col. Ilryan, from the wars>, assumed the role of sole adviser to the democratic party,iiiclucliuKdcm ocratic senators. lie visited Washing ton and publicly advised democratic seuators to vote for the treaty while opposing annexation. Senator, and soon to be ex-Senator Gorman. as it is re ported. took offense at the interference iif Col. Ilryan, and, to show his power, inaugurated a movement hostile to the advice of Col. Ilryan, to defeat the treaty. Thereupon the opposition sprung up. Democratic senators, asui body, were arrayed against llie treaty under the adroit manipulation, of Mr. (Jorman. At first the Gorman men wished to amend the treaty. Then they concluded t hey could defeat it as a plain issue, and after many delays agreed to have the vote takt non February 6. Looking at the result- at the present time, there is reason to believe that if the vote had been taken any day with in a week previous to February 0 ratifi cation would have beefi defeated. Aguinaldo's attack at Manila probably gave the treaty three votes, if not more. Thus did "the Washington of the Phil- defeat his friends in the sen ate. There is reason to believe that noth ing but the jealousy of Senator (Jor- Hian. which made the defeat of the treaty a sort of party measure, prevent ed ratification as early as the middle ot January. Had the treaty been rktified two weeks after it was sent to the sen ate Aguinaldo would not have made the attack upon the I'nited Statesarmy at Manila. It now appears, and prob ably ample evidence will be forthcoinr ing to show that theattaek was advised by Agoncillo, because the ratification of the treaty would fail. No one will charge the opponents of the treaty with advising Aguinaldo's agent, but he was made much of by them and naturally accepted their views regarding popular sentiment, and their views, transmit ted to Aguinaldo, led him to assume the offensive. The treaty ratified, the war with Spain is over, and the congress, not the president, can formulate- such a policy in regard to the future of lbe Philippines as the best interests of the I'nited States and the Filipinos may in dicate. —Indianapolis Journal. CURRENT COMMENT. ETTlie democratic party will now have to remain inactive until a Phil ippine policy has been formulated. Then it can oppose that. —Albany Jour nal. E7"Of the 27 senators who voted against the ireaty. eight will leave the senate on March 4, and most of the rest as soon as their constituents can take up their cases.—l ndianapolis, Jour nal. tT3"On the day the president signed the treaty there was*-fighting at Manila. It would never have occurred, however, but for the encouragement given by 27 United States senators. —.St. Louis (I lobe-Democrat. tn?-Mr. Bryan has no patience with demagogic attempts to convince the farmers that, mi rely because they have paid off their debts and have plenty of money in the bank, 1 liey are prosper ous. —Kansas City Journal. efforts of the mugwump press to extract consolation frcm the war investigating committee's "reflections upon Alger" remind one of the well known experiments looking to the ex traction of blood from a turnip.—Chi cago Inter Ocean. ICLast year's output of silver in the United States amounted in commercial value to $.15,051 which is $1.,047,3!i 1 more than it was in 1897, and s<>,.'loo,ooo more than it was in W4. The gold standard is a good but unappreciated friend of silver. —lowa State Register. ITTBryan's political status in Penn sylvania has been fixed. A populist sen ator wanted Bryan's name added to President McKinley's in the invitation of the Pennsylvania legislature to visit Ilarrisburg May 13, but, not a demo crat would second the motion.—Chi cago Tribune. lE?And so many republicans want to get the gubernatorial nomination, and, on the other hand, so few democrats are anxious to make the race :*a Ohio, it looks asi if the- state was getting ready to roll up another SlcKinley ma jority. Cincinnati Commercial-Trib une. i7Mr, Ilryan may consider this the "enemy's com try." but he will find it difficult to make Tammany let goof regularity, no, matter what it be lieves. He canir. > lose Taminanv if ! lie is nominated in 1900, try as hard | as he will to build up a rival democracy I in New York. —X. Y. Tribune. E The St. Paul .TelTersonian clubwill | give a swell banquet soon, at which Col. I Ilryan has signified his willingness to ] be the guest of honor, upon a guarantee j of SSOO as an evidence of good faith. : And still there are people who foolish ly maintain that advertising doesn't pay.—Nebraska State Journal. r '\ow that Ilryati, Cleveland and Carnegie are linked together, why not choose the first for president, the sec ond for vice president, and the last | for manager of their campaign? Surely t such a combination ought to unite all 1 the democrats and wumps iu Ihe campaign of 1000.—Cleveland Leader. IT WAS VERY BAD. Arnij Officer* l.lu Tliflr Opinion ol lli<. tmilled Ituael Heel lufcllfd l« d |¥ Soldier*. Washington. Feb. 21. —The Miles court of inquiry yesterday made a good start in its work. The court was quar tered in the old meeting room of the war investigating- commission, with ac commodations for representatives of the press associations and the local pa pers. . , . As indicated by a letter of the adju tant general, read by the recorder for the information of the court, the scope of the inquiry was limited to the alle gations of Gen. Miles before the war commission as to the quality of the army beef "and the matter purporting to have been furnished to the public press by the same official'' Only two interviews were called up by the court, 'y on pretty good terms with himself, lit ins eighth cigarette and then threw it away, after taking two whiffs. "Yes, I am,' was the reply. There »no use trying to be anybody in this world. "Oh, come, brace up," Ilainnlin urged. "What's gone wrong? You ought to be ashamed to let yourself be cast down, after the streak of good luck you've had. Here you are on the sunny side of 30, and a firm doing a business of $1,000,000 a year has made you its chief buyer, with a salary that would keep three or four good-sized families in luxury. You've had a r-urope at the house's-expense and you—" "Hold 0r.," Flagg interrupted, you ve struck the very tiling that bothers me. \ou know Miss Dolliver —that beautiful, stately girl I introduced you to one night in the Burkwells' box? "I called on her last evening. I used to call there every week or two, before I start ed across to the other side. Well, more than three months had elapsed since 1 had seen her last. Of course, I concluded that my trip was an apology enough for the fact that I had not called lately, so without any ado I began talking about my experiences in Paris. What do you think she said?" "Oh, I can't guess." . " 'Why, have you been out of the city? —Chicago Evening Xews. SUCH IS FAME. A Small Schoolgirl Gel* lh« Hero of Manila Into a llad Mix Ip. One of the most popular of the young pro fessors in the male high school tells an amusing little story on a small, up-to-date schoolgirl. She went to one of these dis trict schools over which a cousin of the professor presides. It is usual to have vis itors at the building now and then, who ask the scholars questions and see that everything is in good shape. One day not so long since a party of callers came in and requested the pupils to write the answers to several questions propounded them. One of these questions was: "Tell what you know about Admiral Dewey's great fight." The children set to work figuring on their answers, but the teacher noticed one of the girls did not make a move to do so. "Why don't you write your answer to the question?" she demanded of the idle pupil. " 'Taint no use," was the slow response. "I don't know nothing about it." "Hut," remonstrated the teacher, "you must try, anyhow; you must not sit there idle while the others are doing the best they can. See if you cannot think of some thing, my dear." "Xo use," protested the pupil. "All I know is that Dewey and Corbett fought, and' I don't know which whipped, and 1 don't care either." Such is fame, and the bold sailor who sunk Montojo's fleet must go promenading down the halls of time with a pompadoured ex-slugger for a partner. —Louisville Times. Her Idea. TTe—Yon say you like a manly man. What is vour idea of a manly man? She— \Vell, for instance, one who doesn t stay and stay and stay just because he knows the girl isn't strong enough to throw him out. —Illustrated American. Coiigliing Lends to Consumption. Kemp's Balsam will stop the Cough at once, (Jo to your druggist to-day anil get a sample bottle free. Large bottles 25 arid sC cents. Go at once; delays are dangerous. Drink is a noun that many men are unable to decline. —Chicago Daily Xews. A photographer is never positive regard ing his undeveloped negative.—L. A. VV. Bulletin. Will it cure? Use St. Jacobs Oil for lame back and you'll see. A genial person is one who laughs heartily when he hears a funny story a second time. —Atchison Globe. "I feel all run down," said the jocular citizen as the cyclist rode over him. —L. A. Bulletin. p A "doubting '1 homas" full of aches uses St. J ieobs Ud. He s cured. This world's population resembles a home made pie; the biggest and iiest part of it lies between the upper and under crusts. —L. A. W. Bulletin. Businesslike Passenger (trying to put on the air of a director)—" Guard! Guard, are vou running on time to-day?" "Guard (siz ing him up and answering "according ) "Xo, sir. We're running on the same o.d steel rails."—Ally Sloper. Snooks—"l paid that bill before-j-there's some mistake." Inchtape—"( an t be a mistake —my books are carefully kept, double entry system." Snooks—"That ac counts for it; I thought I'd paid most of my bills twice!" —Judy. "There is a man that I would' trust any where." "Yes, and he would probably fool you." "Xever! There isn't a dishonest drop of blood in his veins." "Why are you so sure about it?" "Hedoesn't try to create the impression that he gets twice the salary he actually receives."—Cleveland Leader. Father —"When women get to voting, if they ever should, they will be found wear ing the party yokes as meekly as the men." Daughter—"fhey won't if yokes are not in fashion." —Cigarette. Giving Herself Away.—Mistress—"Jane, I've mislaid the key of my escritoire. I wish you'd just fetch me that box of odd keys. 1 dare say I can find one to open it." Jane— "lt's no use, ma'am. There isn't a key in the-'ouse as'll fit that desk."—Punch. International Troubles. —"W hat do you think about this universal peace move ment?" "It will do to quarrel about as well as anything."—Chicago Record. Wiggs( proudly)—" There, that's some thing like a dog, "isn't it, old chap? As fierce as a tiger, too." 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