2 CAMERON CODNTY PRESS. H. H. MULLIN, Editor. Published Every Thursday. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. f«r *«ar •* JJ II paid In advance 1 ™ ADVERTISING RATES Advertisements » r e published at the rate ol tie Collar per square lor one insertion arid fitly seats per square for eaoli subsequentinsertion Kates by the year, or for six «r three months •re low and uniform, and will be furnished on •■plication. Legal and Official Advertising per square, Biree tanes or less, t2 each subsequent inser »n 10 cents per square. I-ocal notices lu cents per line for one lnser »crtlnn; f> cents per line for each subsequent Obituary notices oyer flu llnee. 10 cents per llae Simple announcements of births, mar riages and deaths will be inserted free Business cards, Ave liies or less. *6 per year; »ver hve lines, at the regular rate* of adver tising No local Inserted for less than 7S cents per Issue JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the P»itss Is complete sad affords facilities fur doinf Ihe best class of Work Pahiicclah attention paidto L.a» PItINTtNO. No paper will be discontinued nt'.l arrear ages are paid, except at the option of the pub- Usher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid lor in advance. Tongue Reading Sow. Various persons have claimed to be able to read character from the lines in the palm of tlie hand, from the irregu larities in the surface of the skull, from the eyes, from the ears and even from the nose; and now a young woman in Paris asserts that she can read it from the tongue. The guiding signs are as follows: If the tongue is long, it is an indication of frankness; if it is short, of dissimulation; if it is broad, ofexpan siveness; if narrow, of concentration. When the tongue is both long and large it implies that the possessor is a great gossip, frank to disagreeableness and thoughtless. If the tongue be long and narrow, its owner is only half frank, thinking as much as is uttered, but-not always uttering what is thought. If the tongue be short and broad, there is promise of plenty of gossip—and false hoods; it talks a great deal, but says little of what is really thought. If short and narrow, it indicates deep cunning and lying, impenetrability and great prudence. This tongue belongs to those persons always ready to make mistakes, but eager to inspire confi dence. I'erhaps by close study of the new science, physicians will become able to tell, when they examine a pa tient's tongue, not only his physical condition, but also whether he is likely to pay their fee. A long coal train was creeping slow ly up a steep grade on the Heading road near Philadelphia when the en gine began to perform in a very pecul iar manner. "What's the matter? Look out of the window and see what's wrong?" said the engineer. "Wheel's going 15 miles an hour," replied the fire man, "but there's the same telephone post we passed five minutes ago!" The engineer shut off steam, climbed, down from the cab, and, with the assistance of the fireman and conductor, found that the track had been smeared with lard, soap and axle grease. To haul the train over such rails was impossible, so flagmen were sewt front and rear, the engine was detached from the train and it crept slowly ahead to Glenside, where the conductor telegraphed for help from Philadelphia. As soon, as the engine disappeared there swarmed out of the adjoining woods a score of men with wagons, wheelbarrows and sacks, and proceeded to steal a car load of coal. The few trainmen were *powerless, and before the engine re turned they had not left in the car as much as would fill a cook stove. A well-known Philadelphia profes sional man, who is noted among his friends for his absent-mindedness, thought he had reached the height of absurdity when he was forced to ask his wife his first name a short time ago in order to answer properly a question asked by the assessor of his district. His memory, however, played him an even, worse trick the other day, and the joke was so good that he told it on himself.. He was writing a letter in the post office corridor one evening, when a seedy-looking person came up with a hard luck story. The writer paused long enough to tell the beggar that he had nothing for him and to go away. The fellow persisted, and again poured forth his woeful story. AJ watchman finally chased the beggar away, and the absent-minded writer Marled to read what he had written. Great was his surprise when he found that he had transcribed word for word part of the hard luck tale that had been poured into his unwilling ears. Critics of missions, who delight in saying that "it takes a dollar to carry a cent" to the beneficiaries of these or ganizations, are conclusively refuted, by facts given in connection with the mis sions of the Methodist Episcopal church. During the church year 1897-8 this body expended in the foreign and domestic mission fields about $1,200,000. The "salaries of missionary bisliops, secretaries, etc.," together with the "ofiice. and incidental expenses," took just 6%. cents out of each dollar given to be expended in mission work. The "children of the world" lfijiy be wiser in their generation than the "children of light;" at least the critics think so; but the fact remains that a business corporation which could keep its "cost of administration" within seven per cent, of its total expenditure would feel -that it exhibited very commendable ("worldly" skill. THE WAGE IMPROVEMENT. Better Times lluve Ilecn Comln* Ever Since the ltepubllean \ ietory of ISJMJ. The numerous announcements of ad vances in wages, particularly for the many thousands employed in the iron and cotton industrits. is but the natu ral movement toward better times for wage-earners which set in soon after the election in November, IS9<5. At that time a million would-be workers were out of employment, and those who had employment were not fully occupied. The improvement from the date of the recovery in December, 189G, was slow but progressive. Industries began to work full hours and then they began to employ more men its prospects im proved. Two years this improvement went on silently, until the mass of men who were idle in lsyt; were taken off of the streets into the workshops and the factories which had been working ten hours on half the days were operating on full time and some of them day and night. All this time there was no apparent improvement in wages. Agitators, calamity ites and demagogues allied to disaster declared that there could be no better times until there should be an advance in wages. The regular em ployment which succeeded three or four days a week and the demand for labor which had absorbed the million of idle men. thus adding to the ag gregate weekly amount paid to wage workers 1.1 or 20' per cent., were as much an advance of wages as if a few cents a day had been added, it is the full employment, of labor at a fair price which measures the general pros perity of the country, because such em ployment gives to workers the largest aggregate of wages. As the year opened the improvement in demand and prices made it possible to take the next step in two or three of the larger industries, which was the advance of wages. This followed natu rally after the absorption of the un employed. The upward movement had begun. In the past two weeks the wages of more men were advanced ten per cent, than during any similar time in our industrial period. And the re j markable fact about this advance is that it has been made without a strike, without a demand, but by the free act of employers. In this connection the returns of wages by the recent bulletin of the Massachusetts bureau of labor shows some interesting facts. The av erage of daily wages paid in 16 employ ments in 12 cities of the United States was as follows: INTO, $2.201850, $2.-31 Vs; in 1800, $2.48; in 1803. ; in 1806. $2.40; IS'JT. $2.40; 189S, $2.38% Put.for the fall in the wages of brick layers the wages of IS9S would have show n a gain over the preceding year. By Pradstreefs index numbers it ap pears that in October, 1890, given quan tities of 107 staples cost 105.990. that the same quantities could be pur chased during the entire year 1896 for f>5.777, and that prices began to rise in 1897. and during 1898 the cost thereof averaged 7.".527. This means that be tween 1890 and 1896 wages fell only 3.22 per cent-., while prices fell 38 per cent., and between 1890 and 1898 prices fell 2-0.8 per cent. Ttiis means that if all wage-earners could have had full employment- be tween 1890'and 1896 at ten or fifteen per cent, lower wages, the fall in prices was so much greater that they would have been quite as well off if not better off. It was not. the decline in wages of the employed which caused the dis tress during the period which followed the inauguration of Mr. Cleveland in 1893. but the entire loss of pay by a considerable percent, of those who live bv wages and the partial loss by half or two-thirds employment by others. —lndianapolis Journal. ITTCoI. William Jennings Bryan has been seen a great deal in Washington lately. He has been a frequent visitor at the capitol, and in his calls shows a marked preference for the senate. He has more personal friends in that body than he has in the house. Indeed, his principal backing is in the senate. Up to within a few months Col. Bryan's appearance at the capitol was the sig nal for crowds to gather around him for many an impromptu reception. To day he fails to arouse more than a languid interest, and he may haunt the marble room or parade the rotunda all day without being interfered with by people getting in his way. Judging from surface appearances, the colonel is overtrained, and his sponsors and managers would be much delighted if he would seek much needed seclusion from public observation for awhile. His insatiate greed for notoriety pre cludes that, however. Washington Special. ITTThe United States is in better shape than any other nation for cross ing the Pacific. Its geographical po sition and rights of defense entitle it to this advantage. West of San Fran cisco, the first stopping place is Hono lulu, a distance of 2.100 miles. Prom Honolulu to (iuam is 3.337 miles, and from Guam to Manila, by the course usually traveled around the north end of Luzon island, 1.750 miles. .Most of the larger ships of the navy can make the runs without recoaling. Within a few years the American cable will be in operation along this route, and it is probable that we shall acquire some coaling stations on the coast of Asia. Ins chort time it w ill be seen that our expansion in the Pacific is not imperial istic, but legitimately commercial. — St. Louiti Globe-Democrat. (TTTreisury officials say that within three yc-Jirs the stock of free gold in the treasury and in the reserve of national banks has more than doubled. That means that the currency of the country has been enriched and strengthened in that proportion. If Mr. Bryan had been elected president in 1896 the situation would now be very different, —Indian- apolis Journal. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1899. PROSPERITY AND BRYAN. (■O4MI TIIIHH Have a l>e|>rea«ln|{ Kf fect on the Free Silver llooNter. Mr. Bryan has been down in Hous ton, Tex., telling the people that "pros perity lias not come." Just what mean ing Mr. Bryan attaches to the word "prosperity" we do not. know. If it conveys to his mind nothing more than the present or prospective realization of his personal political ambition, it must be admitted that he proclaimed the truth to his hearers in the south. But if the word signifies good times in industrial and business circles. Mr. Bry an is either helplessly or willfully blind to the conditions that exist Hi! around him. For some of the undeniable facts of the situation are these: Most of the shops and factories of the country are working at their full capacity. Thedis tributivc movement of goods through out the United States is larger than ever before. The masses of the people are selling w hat they produce and buy ing w hat they •want in quantities which in the aggregate are immense beyond all previous records. Th« export trade of the United States is of a magnitude never before attained. Our domestic needs are supplied from domestic sources to an extent never before known. These large sales abroad and this large consumption of home prod ucts bring and keep money in our own channels of trade and fields of labor. Money, in fact, is abundant and avail able for all legitimate and profit-yield ing enterprises. A million more men are at work now than were employed in IK9G, and the wages in the majority of their industries are ten to twenty per cent, higher than they were then. These are facts recognized and pro claimed by all newspapers of all par ties, and easily verified by anyone who goes around with his eyes open. And the great change from hard times to good time- has come about without the aid of those policies which Mr. Bryan advocated in 1890 and which he de clared W( re necessary to the restora tion of prosperity. The last-mentioned tact is probably the one which keeps Mr. Bryan in the dumps, lie has seen his theories shat tered and his prophecies brought to naught. He is unhappy because pros perity has come in company with poli cies exactly opposite to those on which he staked his pn sidential hopes. Con sequently he denies that there is any prosperity. Possibly he is honest in the matter. He may be organically in capable of perceiving that any 1 hing ea n flourish as long as the country refusrs to ride his own political hobby. He may actually believe that adversity must reign as long as Bryanism is under a cloud; that the personal prosperity of the political Bryan cannot be separated or differentiated from the general pros perity of his countrymen; just as he once professed to believe that the prices of silver and wheat must go up and down together. To be subject to these delusions is a great misfortune, and perhaps Mr. Bry an is to be pitied rather than blamed. However this may be, the people at large do not share in his delusion. They know prosperity when the see it and experience it. They can recognize the real thing as distinguished from the bogus article which Mr. Bryan evident ly has in mind. The latter may deny the existence- of prosperity to his heart > «&«".tent, but by so doing he only furci'Vif- accumulating proof that his frieLds and admirers builded better than they knew when they constructed for him the title of "boy orator."— Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. PRESS OPINIONS. corporations that are advanc ing wages must be inspired by a vin dicative hatred of William Jennings Bryan.— Syracuse 11 era Id. Pingrce, Altgeld, Debs, and "Coin" Harvey have indicated in a circular that they want to be put off at Buffalo next June.—Chicago Tribune. C7"'You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold," said Bryan. What a funny man to call plenty of work and higher wages a crucifixion. —St. Louis (i lobe-Democrat. increase of wages will con vince w age-earners that the gold stand ard does not impoverish them, as Col. Bryan told them so many times in 1596. —lndianapolis Journal. men complain of the Wall street "boom." Perhaps they would prefer a Wall street panic. The people at large would not. Panics have a habit of spreading.—Sound Money. ICThe talk of adding ananti-expan sion plank to the Chicago platform is not helping the democratic party, even with its. own supporters. In the recent election at Philadelphia the democrats did not even, carry one precinct.— Rock ford Republican-Register. ICTAccording to the latest published letter of Mr. Bryan he sticks to the old issues because he doesn't, want to read up on the new ones. He wouldn't go through such another intellectual struggle as his first tussel with "Coin's Financial School" —no, not for the presidency.—■ Chicago Times-Herald. tyQeneral prosperity? Take a look at Bradstreet's statement that the wages of "110,000 operatives" in fac tories were substantially advanced last week. Bradstreet's is cue of Uncle Horiu'c's "great commercial agencies," and it generally knows what it is talk ing about in its weekly commercial re ports. —lowa State liegister. (ETThe pacification of the Philippines under American rule is going on all right. When ihe natives oil the island of Negros. one of the largest and most important of the group, voluntarily raise the stars and stripes, it shows that they have learned a thing or two. It is a good example, and likely to he imi tated, now that the pretensions oi Aguinaldo, with his gold collar and whistle, have been so thoroughly est Time». THEY WANT TEN MILLIONS. Prlrgßli'n from