2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H H. MULLIN, Editor. Published Every Thursday. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. 112 ar year I* o» If tilt ID Sdvance I M ADVERTISING RATES A4*ertlsements are published at the rate o] tse foliar per square for one insertion and fifty ssatn par square for each subsequent insertion Rates by the year, or for six vr three months are low and uniform, and will be furnished on saplu-at on. Legal and Official Advertising per square Rrse times or loss. *2. saco subsequent, inter in :o cents per square. Local notices lu coins per line for one inscr iption: 5 cents per line for each subsequent lensecutlve insertion. Obituary notices over fire lines. 10 cents par Hne Simple announcements of births, mar riages and deaths will be Inserted free. Business cards, five lir.es or less, »5 per year fver live lines, at tha regular rates of adver tising No local Inserted tor less than 75 cents per issue JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the Pitsss Is complete %ff -rds facilities for doing th#» best class o: jrork PAKTICULAH ATTENTION PA ID TO LAW PRINTING. No paper will be discontinued n lll arrear ages are paid, except at the option of the pub lisher. Papers sent out of the county must be pah' lor in advance Municipal woman suffrage is a con dition and not a theory at ISeattie, Kan. At the recent election the town elected i mayoress, five alderwomen and a jlerkess. You best a man when he gets the worst of it. You worst him wl en you get the best of him. That is to say, "to best" and"to worst" mean exactly the same thing. A pauper woman in I'aris has been convicted of having had her child bap tized 14 times as a Catholic and 12 times as a Protestant for the purpose of se curing five francs and a dress each time. Congressman Joe Sibley, of Pennsyl vania, has furnished a startling prece dent for other congressmen by giving his entire salary for the term, amount ing to SIO,OOO, to public hospitals and other charities in his district. In recent experiments with the Mar coni system of wireless telegraphy it has been demonstrated that the wave currents can be reproduced with ac curacy and clearness in spite of strong winds or other atmospheric disturb ances. Admiral Dewey's favorite watch is made of steel from the sunken battle ship Maine. Capt. Sigsbee, who com manded the ill-fated war vessel at the time she was blown up, carries a similar timepiece. Both were made by a pa triotic downeast Yankee. The late John Walter, of the London Times, made a peculiar will. He left as a legacy to one of liis daughters, one of the advertising columns in that pa per. The column is the best in the pa per for advertising, it commands a very high price, and slie is enjoying a steady income of $l5O a day therefrom. In the last 50 years the total number of public officials in France lias in creased from IsS,OOO t0416,000,and their salaries have grown from $49,000,000 to $121,000,000. In the same period the population has increased only ten per cent. Either France did not have enough government half a century ago, or else it has too much now. Relic hunters are carrying away piecemeal in their pockets the house in Montpelier, Yt., in which Dewey was born. The number of relics immedi ately pertaining to the hero of Manila are few in number. Those for which lie is responsible are numerous, but they are not available as mementoes, as they are tit the bottom of Manila bay. And now there is a revolt in Arabia caused by the fleecing of pilgrims by the Turkish authorities, and it is re ported by cable that the chiefs of the Mohammedan church at Mecca may throw off the yoke of the sultan for ever,andgive their undivided allegiance to the grand cherif, who is England's friend. This promises to be a turbulent year in Europe. The annual report of the inspector general of the army shows that 29 reg ular college students and 59 alumni were commissioned in the regular army and 157 students and 290 alumni in the volunteer army, a total of 541 officers, or enough for about 12 regiments. Fur ther, !,'i*4 students and former students Joined the army as noncommissioned of ficers or privates. A French centenarian lias just com mitted suicide because he was afraid that he would live forever. It is not necessary to inquire whether this aged person was in the full possession of his faculties. Evidently he had lived so long 1 as to lose the power to reason eor- W.'Ctly, or he would have appreciated the truth of Mark Twain's remark that only French duelists are immortal. That hay fever is a mystery is very evident. An editor in Ohio says it is caused by kissing grass widows. A Missouri editor says it is caused by a grass widow kissing a fellow by moon light. An lowa editor says it is caused by the fellow kissing the girl while he is feeding hay to the cow, and a Kansas exchange is of the opinion that it's caused by missing the girl and kissing the cow. A poetical editor says that it is caused by kissing in the heydey of youth. The farm on which Abraham Lincoln was born near Ilodgensville, Ky., litis been sold to David (irear, and will be converted into a park. The farm should be preserved as a park for many rea son's, one of which is that it is the only thing related to the place of the great American's birth that has not been carted around for exhibition. The cabin Lincoln was born in, the old oaken bucket that hung in the well, and every fence rail that was on the place when Lincoln died disappeared lonsratro. I AM A DEMOCRAT. I am a democrat. H'W strong the words strike on the ear E>i»pellln;r every doubt and fear, Defending as a giant's arm The body politic from harm; Extending from the Kreat and small, t'ntil it takes in each and all And fills them with the sacred fire- Whin echo rises to Inquire, Ten-dollar or one-dollar? I am n. democrat. Frum north to south, from east to went. The noblest patriots and the best Fy those plain words are tilled anew NVith fresher purpose to be true: Arc made to grasp and wltld The word of mouth, the facile pen; To lead, encourage and inspire— When echo riaes to inquire. Ten-dollar or one-dollar? I am a democrat. Could grander words exist than they? Could Jefferson in his great day Have made a nobler speech? Could he Have told in such char brevity The wondrous story of a soul True to the democratic poll. As th«se words show each one to be In his concrete democracy? How nobly do the words ins; ire— When echo rises to inquire, Ten-dollar or one-dollar? —W. J. Hampton, in Judge. UPHOLD GOLD STANDARD. Fa •!« AVhioli Give tlic I,ie to the A»- ■ertiotiH at the Ctieup Money Colonel. Mr. Bryan, whose knowledge of cur rency matters is in inverse ratio to the quantity of his talk, about tliem, said iu Now York that "the republican party has been burying the gold question." As usual, Mr. Bryan was mistaken. The republican party has been burying several other things, including Bryan ite assertions that high-priced wheat and silver were incontrovertible terms, and that republican success in ls'Jti meant continued', commercial and in dustrial distress. Mr. Bryan never did shine as a prophet. The gold question has never been buried, for the reason that the people of the country took the republican party at its word when it, promised to make and keep the currency of the United states "as pood as gold." That is what the republicans have done and are do ing. A paper dollar with the gold to back it is valued so highly that the peo ple prefer the paper and leave the gold in the treasury and bank vaults. "The endless chain" has gone into innocuous desuetude. That is simply the efTect of putting in a republican administration at Wash ington.and of the popular confidence that it would uphold a sound money standard and guard the financial honor of the nation. It could do no more be cause Bryan's free silver friends in the senate blocked the way. It is going to be different at the next session of con gress, and already the steps to accom plish something definite in the shape of currency legislation have been taken. The republican members of the house of representatives in the Fifty-fifth con gress, just before final adjournment last month, appointed a committee on jnonetary legislation. That committee is carefully constituted. Gen. David B. Henderson, of lowa, is chairman, and the other members of the committee ure as follows: John Dalzell, Pennsyl vania; Sereno E. Payne, New York; Jesse Overstreet, Indiana; William Loveriug. Masaehusetts; C harles Cur tis, Kansas; Page Morris, Minnesota; Eugene 1". Loud, California; 11. B. Haw ley, Texas; J. W. Babcoek, Wisconsin, and W. S. Kerr, Ohio. These gentlemen fairly represent sound money sentiment; they are typical republicans, and almost with out exception are noted for ability and skill during long public service in hand ling important questions. They met at Atlantic City, .V. J., where the pre liminary work in the way of prepar ing a currency bill was done. Xo hasty action is likely to be taken, for the fubject with which they have to deal demands care find deliberation. But that they will devise a measure which in its essential features will com mand the approval of those who favor honest money and legislation that will assure the permanent stability and in tegrity of our country is hardly to be doubted. This gathering, so closely following the adjournment of a con gress in which all attempts at monetary reform were abortive owing to silver antagonism, is the best and most sig nificant reply to Mr. Bryan's taunt.— Troy Times. Democrats IJesertlnsr l!r>nn„ Oh, no. There is no hostility to demo crats who wish to return, "providing they admit that- the party now has a national platform which is satisfac tory," but the trouble is that the num ber of democrats who are willing to re turn on that understanding seems to be growing smaller instead of larger. '1 he colonel lost New York by nearly 270,- 000, and if he expects iiis principles to triumph, these votes must cerhunly be made good somewhere. That they are not being made good in the west is in dicated by Ilie drift of political senti ment in that section. The men who eitlu r voted for MeKinley outright or who helped to defeat Bryan by voting for Palmer and Buckner, do not feel as though they are called upon to perforin works meet for repentance. And it is nol probable that they will change their minds between now and the next presi dential election. Brooklyn E'gle. (Detn.) CT'There are many democrats who are very much disturbed because Col. Bryan is devoting so much of his speeches to denouncing the occupation of Manila by American troops. "It was sixteen to one which fooled u* in IS9G, and now Bryan is going about the country attempting to commit the party to active hostility to the occupa tion of the Philippines, a course which will alienate thousands of patriotic democrats." Such was the remark of a well-known democrat in this city. There are a great many others who were the first to declare for what is called the pol'cy of expansion. —lndian apolis Journal. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MaY n, 1899. THE DEMOCRACY. A FrniiU Confession of It* Forlorn ami llclpleßN Condition by n I'nrty I'npcr. Lot. us face the facts, let us no longer deceive ourselves. The democratic party to-day is without character and standing' in the nation. It has lost the confidence, if not tlw respect of th* great body of intelligent, thoughtful men of this country. What docs the party stand for? What are its princi ples? What man is there in this party to-day who can stand up with any sort of confidence and declare them? l*>es democracy stand for imperialism or ex pansion? Bryan answers one way and Jones the other. Does it stand for free silver or the single gold standard? l'.ryan and J. lies answer one way; Croker and a distinguished member of the democratic committee an swer another. Does the party stand for tariff reform or protection? Nobody knows, for the Chicago platform de clared that that question was retired until the money question should have been settled. Where are the party leaders? Wheje are the great men of thejiast who could upon any occasion, at any time of the day or night, if called upon, stand tip and with accuracy and confidence pro claim democratic doctrines? There are 110 leaders, there is no man or set of men who are recognized to-day as the mouthpieces of the party. There was a so-called leader of the minority forces in the house of representatives. lie raised a constitutional question and called upon the democrats in the house to stand by him in the positioh that he assumed, but when the test came more than 40 members of his party >oted against him, and he then and thel'e re signed. Alas for the party of Thomas Jeffer son! Surely it has fallen upon evil times. It is paying the penalty of the folly of IS9G. Every prediction that we made when it then went astray has been fulfilled, or is about to be fulfilled. It must reorganize upon a true democratic platform or goto pieces. Gentlemen may mock at this, as they mocked at it in IS9G, but it is the truth. Those who then forsook the old ship must come back to the little band (if democrats who remained and kept the eolors fly ing, or be wrecked.—llichmond (Va.) Times (Dem.). M'KINLEY IS WINNING. The President'* Hold on the People Co 111 pared" to That of I.i 11 coin. The growth of William McKinley in the respect and good graces of his fel low-citizens is not confined to his own party, but extends to all classes, re gardless of partisanship. In proof of which see the following estimate of him from the democratic Brooklyn Eagle: "In 1596 the question was 'McKinley or Uryan?' Most Americans, we are sure, are glad it was McKinley. He had the experience in congress and the ex perience in politics wdiich enabled him to obtain necessary legislation iti a great emergency. He had the knowl edge of a man which ennbied him to put at every point of peril or of emer gency agents who were equal to what was required of them. He has had the conciliatory, yet firm, the quiet, yet. in sistent, temper, which has enabled him to have his way at the Inst, by permit ting all others to have their say sit first. He has wisely used, on well-cliosen oc casions, a rare capacity for luminous public statement and for moral appeal to the people who have made up their minds in his favor against all criticism and casuistry and aspersion. He has maintained the organization of his party intact; he has greatly extended the civil service rules and he has estab lished for himself a hold on the homes and hearts of plain Americans that cannot be mistaken, and that can well nigh be compared to the hold which Lincoln himself had under circum stances analogous to those in which Mr. McKinley has been placed." By the way. catch a republican paper comparing McKinley to Lincoln and, oh. what a howl would go up from cer tain quarters—quarters too miracu lously constituted and partisan-minded ever •* •< expand and broaden into fair r.esr,, no matter how much light may b; poured out upon them.—Oswego Times, POLITICAL DRIFT. IT3"The democratic party is threat ened with the most serious danger of disruption ic i'.« history—Kansas City Independent. (CT'When Thomas Jefferson annexed Louisiana the consent of the governed was not thought of by him —lndian apolis Journal. ITTIowa out of debt and a surplus in sight, eh? And now the democratic calamity press may soon be growling about the great surplus.—lowa State Register. ID"'A man cannot be a political big amist." declared Mr. Bryan in one of bis oratorical flights. Yet Mr. Bryan managed to wed himself to three dif ferent nominations in 1896. —Washing- ton Post. C-T'lf, as is reported. Col. Bryan dropped the silver question at Milwau kee, lie picked it up again before he reached New York. The colonel with out sixteen to one would be like a baby without a rattle. —Omaha Bee. j3r"What has happened tomake.more soldiers necessary?" asks Mr. Bryan, and he proceeds to answer: "Nothing but a republican administration." He has forgotten the democratic cavort iiigs in congress to hasten the war with .Spain. —St. Louis Globe-Democrat. free and unlimited coinage of silver at a ratio of sixteen to one, urged as a cure-all at a time of popular dis tress. reached its highest point when Bryan was named for the presidency. L'rged anew, the disasters of '9B are like ly to be intensified in 1900. —Chit-age Chronicle (Dem.). IN STROf G TERMS. Coniliiil of Volunteer Arm) Mnr^Foni I* « riticlKcd bj One ol Surgcuu t.eu. era! Sternberg'* t »fci». Washington, May 4. The session of 'lie Association of American Physicians held here Wednesday was marked by nn important paper on typhoid fever iu the vol nn tor cam]is bj Dr. V. C. Vaughn, one of the board of surgeons appointed by Surgeon General Stern berg last summer to look into this matter when tlhe epidemic of typhoid was prevalent in the various camps. The boa id made a thorough study of the subject and its report has been looked forward to as an authoritative work. The report is not yet completed, but Dr. Vaughn's paper was in the nature of an advance statement, with the >.aiic t;on of Gen. Sternberg, who was pres ent at the meeting. I>r. Vaughn's paper was a severe ar raignment of the volunteer surgeons and incidentally of the officers who were res|«onsible for tlhe policing of the great camps at Jacksonville, Cliicka mauga, Camp Alger and Montauk I'oint. The board visited all these points and found that not only was there a great deal more typhoid than was at first supposed, but that the sur geons. mostly of the volunteer class, were, from ignorance or other motives, treating and reporting typhoid under the names of "persistent malaria." "in digestion." "gastric fever" and "typho malaria." lilood examination of many of the "malaria" patients failed to show The presence of the malaria bacillus, but there was every indication of well mnrked typhoid. These patients were being treated with quinine and natural ly either died or had to be sent to city hospitals, where their disease was prop erly diagnosed. The board made an extra careful ex amination of the water supply of the various camps and found that the prev alence of typhoid could not be laid to impure water in any large degree. The explanation. Dr. Vaughn said, was in the disgustingly filthy condition of the camps, where the excreta of typhoid patients was strewn broadcast, with no apparent effort either to sterilize if or collect it so as to prevent its spread ing contagion to the remainder of the camp. Gen. Sternberg referred to the ap pointment of volunteer medical army officers of the governors of states, the former thereby becoming responsible for the health of our camps. The re sult had been unsatisfactory. It seemed to liim 10 be inconsistent that we | should set ourselves tip to show the Spaniards how .to eradicate yellow fever from their cities while, our camps are infected seriously with typhokt. He declared that any ad\orse conditions which prevailed at Montauk should not be held against the regular army medi cal officers, few of whom were t here. Dr. George Dock, of the university of Michigan, spoke of his investigations at the Sternberg general hospital. The misunderstanding regarding the symp toms of typhoid and the over-estima tion of the effects of quinine form, Dr. Mock declared, the striking faults of the volunteer medical service. Most of the volunteer medical officers went to camp with the expectation of fight ing no end of malaria. In o e regi ment each man was provided with 200 grains of quinine and a three-ounce bottle of paregoric. The great bulk of supposed malarial cases were not mar larial infections a.t till, but many of the doctors, regardless of this, dosed their patients with !J0 to -10 grains of quinine < ach day. CHICAGO'S SWEAT SHOPS. Tlieir ICvll* are Painted ill Ditrlt Col- , or* by a I'ornier Factory Inspector. | Washington. May 4.—The industrial commission resumed its public hearings yesterday. One witness was Florence Kelly, for four years chief factory in spector of Illinois. Her statement dealt particularly with sweat shops in Chicago. She painted the picture in dark colors. Of the 200.000 factory workers in Illinois she said 150,000 were ;in Cook county. Practically all the ready-made clothing and much of the so-called merchant 'tailor work of the city was sweat shop work. The conditions .surrounding the workers were unsanitary and harmful in a marked degree. Child labor was used in direct defiance of the 14-year age limit in force in the ataite. She said the employers had no difficulty in evading this law and securing age certificates for the children. Many of these little ones, she declared, worked for tilie first year for nothing, with the promise of a dollar a week at the end of that time and ultimately perhaps $3 or $4 per week, when they had reached the top of the ladder in their line. She strongly advocated the passage of a law similar in its general provisions to th Sulzcr act now in force in New York. Killed 120 ol the IC»cort. Cairo. Egypt, May 4.—lbrahim Ali, whom Lord Kitchener sent upon a mission to Ibrahim's uncle, the sultan of Barfour, has returned to Cairo. Ibra him Ali found upon reaching Darfo.tr that his uncle had been dethroned by Ali Dinar. The latter, on the appear ance of Ibrahim Ali, turned out with his troops and routed the escort of Gen. Kitchener's envoy, numbering 150, of whom 120 wire killed. Sickle* 1m Reappointed. Washington, May 4. Stanton Sickles, rf New York, has been appointed sec retary of the I'nited States legation at Madrid. Mr. Sickles is a son of Daniel Sickles, formerly minister to Spain, ind held the same positon to which he is now appointed when Mr. Woodford was minister there. Will ArrcM Imported Laborer*. Little ltock. Ark.. May 4. Gov. 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