2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MULLtN, Editor. Published Every Thursday. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. tor »«ar It M (ltd in adTance ■ M ADVERTISING RATES Advertisements are published at the rata of •Be 4ollar per square for one insertion and fifty Mats per square for each subsequent insertion nates by the year, or for six vr three months Are low and uniform, and will be furnished on kfplicaton. Legril and Official Advertising per square, three times or less, 2; each subsequent inser tion : 0 cents per square. Local notices lo conta per line for one inser »crtlon: 5 cents per line for each subsequent ten ecutive insertion. Obituary notices oyer five lines 10 cents net Use. Simple announcements of births, mm rlsges ami deaths will be inserted free. Business cards, five lines or less, s5 per yar. fver nve lines, at the regular rates of adver tising No local inserted for lose than 75 cents per (•sue JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the Pf»«ss Is complete »nd iff. rJ- facilities for doing 'he best citss o! Work. PaK I tOt'LAK ATIIN I luK PAIDTO i.AW I**l N I INI. No paper will be discontinued ntil arrear- Kea are paid, except at the option of the pub her. Paper* sent out of the county must be paid lor in auvance A Chicago court has fixed the fine at $25 for calling a man an ordinary liar. Where the allegation of falsehood is ac companied by a lot of trimmings the tax is correspotidingly increased. Factories in this country are now en gageel in ffianufacturing 81 locomotive engines for the Trans-Siberian railway, 30 for the Midland railway, of England; £0 for Swenden, 15 for Egypt, audi ten feir French state railways. The Kennebec (Me.) .lourna# tells of an industrious bachelor living at Waldo lioro, in that state, who has "pieced" and made three fine ejuilts this winter. He did the work while watching beside the couch of his sick father. A French engineer, by a device which intepsifies the vibration, makes it un necessary to stand with receiver to the ear audi talk into the transmitter c>f a telephone. The invention.it is claimed, will revolutionize the telephone. Some persons may be confused by reading cabled accounts of tire fighting in the Philippines dated several hours ahead of time, but it must be remem bered the difference in longitude repre sents a difference of 14 hours in time. Thus readers of morning papers may be inforinedofeventsthat took place in the Philippines as late as 11 o'clock on the day of publication. The settlement of Ponce de Leon at Caparra. near the site of Pueblo Yiejo, across San Juan bay. in Peirto Kieo, is now, by more than 55 years, the first town established within the present borders of the I'nited States. Histo rians. therefore, must give the prestige of antiquity, not to the Spanish town of St. Augustine, Fla., of 15G5, as formerly, but to Caparra, founded in the year 1509. The bodies of soleliers who lost their lives in Cuba and Porto liico and which were not claimed by relatives will be buried in the Arlington cemetery, near Washington, where the graves will be taken care of as long as the government stands, and be decorated with flowers on each recurring memorial day. No other government has bestowed this care on its soldiers who have died abroad. Charles Kraus, of Cincinnati, brought proceedings for a divorce, in which he pleads that during his courtship of the lady now his wife she carefully con cealed from him the fact that she has a glass eye. and he therefore believes be was defrauded and should be given a divorce. She should file a erosssuit and ask for a divorce upon the ground that only having one eye she did not get a good look at him when he proposed. It said that .John C. llight is com ing to visit America. His name is ordi nary. but when it is known that he is the only billionaire in the workliit de rives added interest, lie lives in Kirn berly. South Africa, and is rated as a billionaire. Mr. Plight is 54, a heavily built man, with gray hair. It was his ambition as a boy to become the rich est man in the world, anil strange to jsay, he has accomplished his purpose. The Daily Record, published at Itielge ■wood. X. went through an interest ing experience. Willi eight surround ing buildings in flames and the news paper office threatened with lire, a run way of greased boards was built under the building, a belt of chains was passeel around the structure, and then when a long rope was attached to the belt 500 subscribers of the paper seized the rope and dragged the building to a point of safety. liear Admiral Iligginson declines to take a promotion because it would put him ahead of other naval officers whose gallantry lie thinks should be rewarded. And l.ient. Ward refuses advancement because it would give him precedence over his classmate. Lie ut. Staunton, and he regards this as unjust to the latter. Is it any wonder that the American navy commands the admiration of the world? Its lustre will never fade so long as it is commanded by such offi ccrs. While every dead American soldier on Ihe fighting line in the Philippines represents glorious, bravery and devo tion. the most distinguished victim In Luzon thus* far has been Col. Ilenry C. Egbert, of Ihe Twenty-second infantry. Here, in the jungles of the tropics, was ended the career of an American officer of 40 years' active service. Col. Egbert hael been wounded in three wars, in IHG4, in the civil war; in 1898. at Santi ago, in the war against Spain in Cuba, and in 1 SO!), at Malinta, in the war with the insurgents of the Philippines. It is u rare record. VALUE OF GOOD CURRENCY. I'liat Which HcprcNcntH an Kqulvt leiit In <■«»1 «l Is Quickly Obtainable. The "more money" advocates are having a lesson in the operation cf the law of supply and demand by which it is hoped they will profit. They have al ways "put the cart before the horse." In times of business depression the de mand for currency is less than inactive periods. As a consequence there is less of it in circulation, and the surplus, for which there is 110 need, is stored away in banks, in the treasury vauits and in other depositories where it remains idle and unproductive. The people who want cheap money and lots of it.from 48-cent silver dollars molded in the holy ratio of sixteen to one down to flat, paper turned out by the bale or carload, say this depression is due to the scarcity of money in circu lation. The truth is the other we;*. The depression causes tlie limited cir culation of money. No more effective demonstration of the principle that commercial activity brings a lively de maiul for currency could be afforded than is to be seen eve ry day in the reg ular course of business transactions in this country. Confidence has been fully restored, prosperity is general and the belief in the stability of our finances for some lime to come is firmly estab lished. As a consequence paper cur rency is in great demand. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat puts'the matter clearly when it says: "As a matter of fact, the circulation has been much larfrer recently than it ever was before in the I'nited States. Money is not Rrowlnff in volume constantly, but it is growing more rapidly than population. The per capita circulation is now up to the highest point ever touched. It I - going up every month. Yet there are complaints that in one of its elements it is not ado quate to the- demand. There is not enough just now of paper money to fully meet the needs of commerce. This is the report from the trade centers. "All this is an evidence of great business activity and financial confidence. There is apparently enough money in circulation it:, the aggregate, metallic and paper, to meet the demands even in this period of un paralleled business expansion, but tike paper ingreelient of it is not quite large enough. When there is any sort of doubt about the government's disposition or ability to convert all its money into gold nobody wants to accept paper or silver when he can get gold. In conditions like the present, however, when the gold standard is certain to be maintained, every other kind of money is more desirable in business than gold, but paper money is in especial demand. Thus it happens that at present there is an apparent scarcity e.f gre nbacks, national bank notes ar.d other currency. This condition, of course, can only be temporary, for the volume of the circulating medium is constantly increas ing, while the use of chicks, drafts and other cas'i economizing devices is also growing. 7ht- dearth, or apparent dearth, of paper money is not going to be a serious matter for business men. This fact, how ever, that even the present immense sup ply of money is all in active circulation, and the further fact that ordinary persons prefer any sort of currency to gold, is a very tine tribute to the intelligence and general financial sanity oT the republican party, which has brought a business confi dence and an industrial expansion such as the? country seldom saw, even in the most prosperous days of the past." The best currency in the world is that which represents an equivalent in gold, quickly and conveniently obtainable. 'l'liat is what has been secured by ihe wise financial course of the republican administration, and the majority of re publicans in congress. Imagine where the- enormous commerce of the country and the millions of wage-earners and small producers, whose livelihood and comfort would be so injuriously affected by cheap or irredeemable dollars, would have been with the fiat mania and six teen to one foolishness in full force and effect!— Troy Times. COMMENT AND OPINION. Ct7"J'he expansion of business goes on from day 10 day without the aid or con sent of ISryan.—Cleveland Leader. CThe democratic platform next year is to consist ejf free silver and anti-ex pansion. It would consist of the same thing if republican managers were building it.-- Kansas City Journal. ICCoI. Bryan objects to the high priced banquet, but it is noticed that he refuses to lecture in any town un til his exorbitant price is paid, and his check is in sight. There are some Des Moines people who could testify to that. —lowa State Register. Richmond (Ya.) Times, which is democratic, says that the democratic party of to-day "litis lost the confidence if not the respect of the great body of intelligent and thoughtful men of this country." Feu- truth and brevity that opinion cannot be improved.—lndian* apolis Journal. ICThot the United States is now in the full tide of n period of general pros perity, in which the conditions are fa vorable to success in the various lines of American enterprise, will scarcely be questioned, except by those perverse individuals in whose bosoms the heipe ful pulsations of optimism have never found lodgment.—Baltimore Herald. t '.Mr. Bryan sticks to the old issues, because, as he says, to abandon them would tie to admit that he and his par ty were wrong a few years ago. As >Jr. Bryan and bis party have been thoroughly proven by the leigic of events to have been wrong a few years ago, the only effect of holding to the old issues will be tej show that they are wrong st ill. —Kansas City Journal. will find it much more dif ficult to rally his motley host in 1900 than it was in IHfIG. Ho will have to bait them with a new campaign Jere miad. It must have the general char acteristics of the cheap-silver repudia tion craze. It must be a plea that will appeal to the credulity of the ignorant, the covetousness of the envious and the cupidity of the dishonest. These ele ments are still numerous enough in our society to nourish democratic am bitions and to occasionally wield the balance of power. And not until the democratic creed makers cease 1 ruck ling to them will Bryanisin perish as a semi-available and more or less dan gerous force in our politics..—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1899. DEMOCRACY'S DOOM. Uryan'a Anta»eonl»ni to (inlil I>emo» oral* Kreiia I |> the Faction al \\ iirfare. There is good reason to believe that the attitude which Col. Bryan has as sumed toward the gold democrats is deplored by a large body of men who voted for Mr. Bryan in IK'jg for the sake of regularity. They did not then ac cept the sixteen to one heresy, and they are farther from acceptance to day than they were in the summer of 18D6. They have been hoping that the party leaders would get together on some basis which would retire the sil ver question at the sixteen to one ratio to the rear or plsce bimetallism upon a ratio to be determined by a demo cratic congress, as has been advocated by the editor of the -New York Jour ral. Most of the gold democrats would like to rejoin the party bearing the old name, lmt they will not do it if the free silver and populism of the Chi cago platform are to be the cardinal features of the party faith in 1!K>0. They will be angered and driven farther away by thedictatorialiind offensive attitude which Col. Bryan assumed toward Mr. Belmont. Many of those democrats who voted for Mr. Bryan and his plat form against their better judgment will also be alienated by the arrogance of Col. Bryan and Chairman Jones. They see that it is absurd to make another campaign upon the Chicago platform. They see that whatever doubts There might have been as to the results of a reaffirmation of the gold standard have been scattered by the unanswer able logic of the past two years. The only hope of the democratic party was in the getting together of its factions upon a platform which would ignore the issues of 1896 or force ,them to the rear. The Gormans, the Harrisons, ihe Crokers, and, it may safely be said, the conservative leaders in Indiana, have been hoping and la boring to adjust the differences of so that the party might act together in 1900. They have been doing this be cause they see that the party must win voters to carry the country, and that ten voters will be lost where one will be gained for 'he heresies of the Chicago platform. In 1-90 the Bryan ticket had the ent.re populist vote, and it had some republicans who have since seen the folly of sixteen to one. They cannot win a republican to silverism, Ihere are no populists to win, and. hav ing to choose between the populism of Bryan and a candidate for president who stands for financial confidence, many who voted for Bryan in 1.890 for party's sal e will not vote for him in 1900. —Indr.'tnapolis Journal. ITS MANAGER QUITS. The Sl)»er Democracy Taken Leave of the t'hainiilon Cheap Coin Man. Cruel ami relentless fate appears to be strewing the pathway of the silver democracy with broken glass in large quantities. If there are any primroses along t he highways of 1 iryunism and re pudiation t hey have not been discovered thus far this spring. The outlook is dark, chilly and foreboding. Close upon the heels of the Bryan- Belmont battle of the banquets comes the announcement that the silver de mocracy and General Manager "Coin" Harvey have parted company just-as wheat and silvi r parted company two years ago. In this instance, however, the separation was not caused by the law of supply and demand, but by the forces of incompatibility. The head of the business end of the democratic party lias quit because Senator Jones would not adopt "a practical business like policy," while Senator • I ones claims that the famous bookmaker on repudi ation. who planned an elopement be tween silver and wheat, is "visionary and a dreamer." This seems like a very inopportune time for Senator Jones to prefer such charges against "Coin" Harvey. After Mr.Harvey has been industriously gath ering in the "sinews of war" from those ivho are willing l to be "educated" up to the theory that congress can nullify thf law of supply and demand and legis late value into a commodity, Senator Jones now gravely announces that he believes Mr. Harvey is "visionary." Can it be possible 1 hat Senator Jones has just realized that the head "cm balmer" of the sixteen to one fallacy is a "dreamer?" Has it taken the Arkan sas statesman three years to learn that a man who believes the government can make 40 cents' worth of silver pass for a dollar is "visionary?" The people are not so slow as Sen ator Jones of Arkansas. They have settled down to the conclusion that the whole free silver business is not only a "dream" but a nightmare.—Chicago Times- Herald. Circulating (iolil. The treasury department reports that, as the result of the comparative scarcity of paper money in the treasury and the consequent refusal to give banks paper iu exchange for gold, the circulation of gold coin throughout ihe country is greater to-day than in many years before. There was a time when a gold piece would not be seen in the ordinary channels of trade from one year's < ml to another, but Americans are now becoming better acquainted with the yellow coins. The popular prejudice in favor of paper money as the medium of exchange is merely the result of education. In England gold circulates freely, an ml no objection is made to it.and doubtless in this coun try the people will like it better when tlie\ become more accustomed to hand ling it. silver cranks of course excepted. —Troy Times. C 'The Wisconsin professor who thinks he has perfected a process for photographing sound waves is letlinga great deal of good material get away from him by not following ip Mr Bryan.—Chicago Times-Jlerald. TITLEf CHOSEN. Names Selected for Warships Soon to be linilt. SIX STATES ARE HONORED Pennsylvania, Georgia and New Jersey for Battleships. THREE ARMORED CRUISERS. Tlif) Will Ik- Known an the \obranka, Uint Virginia anal < alilorilla Ml 4 lllcn It •■in-inhered In t'lirlNle lllng a* Many Smaller Ma< -liine*. Washington, April B.—The president has authorized the battleships and ar mored cruisers which the law required to be named after states, to be named the Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, West Virginia, .Nebraska and Califor nia. The six cruisers which are to be named after cities are to be named the Denver, l)es Moines. Chattanooga, Gal veston, 'I aconia and Cleveland. Petitions by the hundred have been flowing into the White House and navy department ever since the new ships were provided, urging the merits of various names. The president and Sec retary Long enjoyed the rivalry and in making the linal determination consid eration was given not only to the urgency of the influence brought to bear, but also to the several sections of the country. Pennsylvania petitioned through Gov. Stone. Senators Quay and Penrose and the entire delegation in the house of representatives. Georgia did not petition the navy department, and it is believed the choice of a south ern state was due to a desire by the president to compliment those with whom he visited on his recent south ern trip. Senator IClkins and rlie con gressional delegation we re most active for West Virginia. Representative Mercer made it his business to besiege the navy department with petitions for Nebraska. The choice of California also sems to be a personal compliment, without the same effort shown in other states. The same rivalry was shown among the cities, the mayors, city councils, chambers of commerce, etc., joining in the pleas. The battleships Pennsylvania. New Jersey and Georgia are described m the act authorizing them as follows: "Three seagoing coast line battleships, carrying the heaviest armor and most powerful ordnance for vessels of their class, upon a trial displacement of about 13,500 tons, to be sheathed and coppered and to have the highest prac ticable speed and great radius of action, nnd to cost, exclusive of armor and armament, not exceeding 5.'i.000.000 each." The armored cruisers are simi larly described, exceipt that they are to cost $4,000,000 each and are to have a displacement of Hi, 000 tons. The cruisers Denver. Cleveland and others are described as "protected crui ser® of about 2,500 tons trial displace ment. to be sheathed and coppered and to have the highest speed compatible with good cruising qualities, great radius of action and to carry the most powerful ordnance suited to vessels of their class, and to cost, exclusive of armament, not exceeding $1,141,800 each." VI oiiadnoek I'atrois (lie Bay. Man'la. April s.— Gen. McArtliur's operations consist temporarily in daily reconnaissances in various direcy >ns for the purpose of keeping in touch with the rebels and ascertaining their' movements. The Fourth cavalry and two guns were out Friday in the direc tion of Hairasoain, a little north of Malolos. Dredgers are busy clearing the channel of the Rio Grande to Pamapagnn. The United States moni tor Monadnock is patrolling the bay in the vicinity of Bakoor, keeping the rebels in motion and dropping occasion a! shells among them in response to their musketry fire. Tlioii»ail