2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MULLIN, Editor. Published Every Thursday. TERMS Or SUBSCRIPTION. C»r year M °* jS'.e It advance I J® ADVERTISING RATES Advertisements sre published at the rate oi fae Collar per square (crone insertion ami fifty testa j«er square for each subsequent insertion Raves by the year, or for sii nr three months are low a:.d un.form, and will be furnished on •■plication. Legal and Official Advertlatnß per square, ifcrse time* or less. t2. each subsequent :nser i»-i .j0 (euta per square. Local notices lu cents per line for one Inser #ertl--n: 5 cents per line for each subsequent ««iU-ecutive Insertion. Obituary notices ever (1t« lines. 10 cents per Dae. Simple r noun.-ements of births, nar r.sees -.md deaths will be inserted free Business cards. Ave line* or less, tt per year, fTer fcve lints, at tlis regular rates of adver tising No local Inserted for less than 7S cents per issue. JOB PRINTING. The .tub department of the Pkr*9 !s complete -V. .rds facilities for dointf th-' best class of Hurk F' tli t'i.a a a r»KN i I<>N PAID TO Law PIUNTIN'. No paper will be discontinued nttl arrear rf n arc paid, except at the option of the pub- Is lier. Papers sent out of the county must be paid lot ic advance "It's queer to me," said a healthy looking' citizen, "that more people don't take the air cure. There's nothing like a breath of fresh air; it is delightful and refreshing, renovating and renew ing, uplifting and invigorating, stimu lating and exalting, and without any depression, and all this is absolutely free. There are far more people now than ever before in this country that go in for outdoor sports, for bicycling and all that sort of thing, and so get the fresh air; but there are many left who do not give themselves the ben efit of it as they might. It isn't neces sary for a man to have a bicycle or a horse or a steam yacht to enable him to take the air cure; such helps, of course, might make it easier to take, but they are not essential. It can be taken effectively walking; and there's nothing like it. Air might not heal a broken leg, but for many ills of mind and body it will be found a sovereign remedy." A curious story comes from Chicago. Fear of social degradation keeps many a millionaire of that city from ac knowledging the fact that he uses oleo margarine in lieu of pure butter, ac cording to William Broad well, a wit ness before the pure food investigation committee. "It is the strangest kind of a game, your honor," the witness said to Senator Mason, "this deception that is going on simply because a man is too proud to let his friends know that he is using anything that is not the real arti cle. It would surprise you if you could learn of the millionaires that come into my store every day and carry home their little package of oleomargarine, and then palm it off on their swell friends as real butter." The 50,000 silver dollars which con gress has ordered as a subscription to the monument to Lafayette, which is to be erected in Paris, will be elaborate specimens. On one side of the coin w ill appear Lafayette's prayer for the United States (about 40 words), and on the other probably the faces of Wash ington and Lafayette, and perhaps ihose of Lincoln and Grant also. Pres ident McK'suley was invited to appear on the coin with his four eminent predecessors, but resolutely declined. A reformer of a new kind has turned up on a New York Central train. lie assaulted the brakeman, and all (lie crew who came to the rescue, because lie could not understand the names t 112 stations as they were called out. lie explained to a magistrate that he had met with the same difficulty on the L road, every name sounding like "Umpty-Uinp." Ho was held for exam ination as to sanity, though perhaps there would be two opinions on that point. Out in Kansas C'ily three months age a church goer wrote to a newspapei that he would pay no more pew rent at his house of worship unless some guar antee should be given him that his view of the minister should be unob structed. Out of this missive grew UK anti-hat campaign, with the result that on a recent Sunday the feminine mem bers of the church capitulated and re moved their new spring headgear at the opening of the. service. Rev. C. 11. Currens, a I'resbyterian minister of Chicago, thus explains his attitude toward the state:"l nevei vote; such matters do not interest us Our citizenship is in Heaven; we are aliens and foreigners here. 1 have no more bnsiness to take a voice in af fairs here than 1 would have togo tc England and attempt to participate in their government. Heaven is my home." The recent cyclone at Kirksvilie, Mo., Is responsible for a lawsuit over the disposition of .sloo,ono. A man and his wife possessed of that amount oi property and money had agreed that the survivor should administer the property, and the heirs of the woman claim that she gasped a few times after her husband died. A Saguache county (Col.) newspaper announces that Mrs. Rubber gave birth to twins last week. It is only reason able to suppose that tliey are bounc ing boys, unless one or more of them happen to be girls. A superstitious burglar broke into a Lexington (Ky.) store the other night. There was sl3 in the drawer, Tie took $tS.75. AN EXPANSION STORY. ti"OHtli nnd I'reicremi of Thin Coun try Inder the Ex|iaii»iun Sj Htem. There are intimations that perhaps the high estimates of the population of the United States which have been re cently made may not be quite realized next year. It is well, of course, not to place too much reliance 011 the exuber ant predictions made in recent years, yet if the lowest figures at which any body put the population in 1000 be re alized the country will show a growth not approached anywhere else in the case of any great nation on the globe. According to current estimates of the treasury officials, made as a basis of their computations of the per capita circulation of the country, the popula tion in 1000 will be about 78,000,000 out side of the territorial accessions made in the past year. But even if the 75,- 000,000 mark be reached, and the most conservative of prophets put the total up to that line, the expansion will have been totally unexampled in the case of a very great nation in the world's his tory. When Benjamin Franklin sur prised the people of England a century and a quarter ago by his prediction that his country, still a dependency of (ireat Britain, would double in inhabitants ev ery quarter of a century, lie made a prophecy whose truth time has vindi cated with marvelous fidelity, for the 13 colonies had then only about 2,000,000 people. In another particular the story of ex pansion has been equally surprising. By the computation oft he director of the mint the United States produced $05,- 782,677 of gold in the calendar year 1898. When the country's gold output started downward about 40 years ago, after the first great spurt in California's produc tion had ended, nobody supposed that the high figures of that time would ever In* closely approached again. The high water mark in gold production was reached in 1853, when the output was $C5,000,000. All this was the yield of California. None, of the ot her states or territoriesat that time produced enough gold to get into the statistics. After ward, v\ith some fluctuations, the tend ency was steadily downward until the period from to I»9£, when the country's gold output ranged beiween $30,000,000 and $33,000,000. Since that time the production has grown by great leaps, and in IS9S, as already mentioned, it was close to the $60,000,000 line, or in excess of the great yield of 1-5;;, when the mines of California were at their most productive stage. Here is a story of American expan sion—the increase in population and the growth in gold output—which jus tifies the most hopeful predictions which were made in the past, and in rite still more sanguine forecasts for the future. The tendency, of course, in a nation as it grows older is to grow slower in population, and this circum stance has really begun to be noticed in the United States. Nevertheless, this country's increase in population will be one of the marvels of the nineteenth century. But in the production of gold its growth promises to be much larger than it has been in inhabitants. The output of the gold mines was more than double as great in 1808 as it was six years earlier, in 1802. The production in the present year is likely 1o be be tween $73,000,000 anil $75,000,000. Nor is the advance in gold production con fined to the United States. Some of the other gold fields have now passed this country, but whether they will maintain their lead in the face of our steady increase is doubtful, in IhOO the world's production of gold was $1j0,000,000. In ]yjS it was about $;.'75,- 000,000. In 1000, according to the esti mate of the director of the mint, it will be $100,000,000. The influence of the gold fields of California and Australia a little over a third of a century ago in the development of the great nations is well remembered. We are entering into another golden age in the world's business and social advancement, and the United States, on the whole, has been the largest contributor to and w ill be the most conspicuous beneficiary of this record of expansion and progress. —St. Louis Globe-Democrat. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. E7"Col. Bryan persists in rising now and then without waiting for the emer gency.—Chicago Tribune. tv.Now it is intimated that Bryan is doubtful about making silver the para mount issue next year. Can it be pos sible that Croker has scared the boy orator? —Cleveland Leader. ICThe anti-imperialists have had their say and it has not amounted to much. If they are rational and patri otic men they ought to give up their un equal struggle against history.—Chi cago Journal. that Charles Francis Adams has climbed valiantly into the expan sion band wagon it would be wise for Dr. Henry Wade Kogers and some of his copperhead associates to uo likewise. Chicago Inter Ocean. Mr. Atkinson, the eminent Bos ton Filipino, it may be said that first, lie distinguished himself and then he ex tinguished himself. The snulling-out process was vastly the more commend able of the two. —N. Y. Mail and Ex press. "silver republican" lead ers want Bryan and Towne to form their presidential ticket next year. The faet that they call themselves "silver republicans" shows that they are not to be trusted. There arc no silvur repub licans.—Chicago Times-Herald. crKansas is overrun with cheap money. It is not the kind of cheap money that Bryan and Teller are clam oring for; ever; dollar of it is worth 100 cents. It is < cap in Hie sense that Kansas farmer who want to borrow ran obtain it readily at a low rate of in terest. This is one of the beneficent re sults of Ihe victory for sound money which wms won in 1800 in spite of the vote of Kansas. Kansas Citv Journal. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1899. THE TRUST ISSUE. Will llnrilly Flffiire n* n Feature 111 Hit* Coining Xnlloiial Ca miniien. Many states, without distinction as to the party controlling' the legislature, have made the past few months mem orable for their attempts to destroy or regulate trusts. There seems to have been a common concurrence in the view, especially • since Attorney-General Griggs pointed out ihe misapprehen sions as to the force and effect of the federal laws relating to trusts, that any attack upon the great industrial mo nopolies must have state initiative. The federal courts, tinder a decision of ISO 4, cannot suppress a combination or monopoly for manufacturing a neces sary of life. The government prose cutes unlawful combinations affecting interstate commerce, but many of the trusts do not come under this head. "If amenable to any law," says the at torney-general, "they are amenable to the laws of the respective states." Con sequently the states have been doing what they could to get at the trusts, and some of them have gone very far in punitive legislation. Especially is this the case in Michigan, where the republican legislature is ut work try ing to shut trusts out of the state alto gether. If the regulation of trusts is a state affair and one upon which all parties are agreed, it is difficult to see how a national campaign issue can be made of it. A party might tif_ r ht to plant an anti-trust clause in the constitution, but it would have no other party for an opponent except perhaps an organ ization of trust capitalists. Certainly the democracy will not be able to maneuver the republican party into such a position. The average repub lican is quite as much averse as the average democrat to having his ex penses Increased to make dividends on watered stock for conscienceless cor porations. If there is any doubt on that point look at his record in the va rious anti-trust legislatures and in pub lic expressions of opinion. Mr. liryan himself is no more vigorous in his op position to trusts than is Gov. I'ingree and a score of other republican lead ers; and if a representative republic an here and there is tied up with trusts lie can be matched by a representative democrat who is in the same fix. The cupidity that organizes trusts has no partisan politics any more than the in stinct of self-preservation lias which re sists them. Quite likely some of the drastic laws passed by states will be adjudicated be fore the national campaigns begin. Should they stand the test there will be no need of any better weapons, and a national anti-trust campaign will lie more than ever a sheer waste of time. — .Sau Francisco Chronicle. MR. BRYAN'S MISTAKE. Tlie Sll ver-ToDKUril Orntnr Sound* Some I'nlwe .Votes »" lli* Itan qu)'l llnzoo. Mr. liryan availed himself of a recent opportunity offered by a banquet to say that "at the present time the gold standard is maintained at the dictation of foreign financial interests and against tin' protest of a large majority of the American people." The only pop ular protests which have been heard lately regarding gold are made by peo ple who find it inconvenient to carry around even a comparatively small quantity of gold coin. They are not protesting against the gold standard. What they want is gold standard paper, not always crisp and clean, but always worth its face in gold coin. Those men who object to tlie physical use of gold because it is bulky are of all people the ones w ho do not want the silver stand ard, for with that standard they would have to lug about with them L' l ) silver dollars as 1 he specie equivalent in value of an eagle. Evidently Bryan misin terprets the significance of what he sees in the papers about protests against the use of gold. Few Ameri cans now are objecting honestly to the gold standard, because the productivity of the gold mines has knocked the bot tom out of the yarn that gold was "scarce." This year's output of gold will amount to about $340,000,01)0.. Not over $05,000,000 of that will be used in the arts. That will leave a surplus of $275,000,000 for monetary purposes. This will much more than make good the wear and tear of existing stocks and meet the demand for new gold occa sioned by the increase in trade and com merce throughout the world.—Chicago Tribune. Duty of th«* President. The president does not permit him self to forget that he is riot the entire government. It is not his business to determine the future of the Philip pines; to decide upon a permanent plan of government for the inhabitants of those islands. His duty is to restore order under the sovereignty of the United States. He did not begin, our military forces did not begin, the con flict in which they are now engaged with that comparatively small section of the Filipinos who adhere to the self seeking, treacherous adventurer, Agui naldo. All that the administration could do to avert trouble with that man and his dupes was done. All that can be done to put an end to the trouble it being done. As to the righteousness oi unrighteousness of the war that is sup plementing the war with Spain, we dc not believe the I'ree I'ress makes a cor rect diagnosis of the public conscience Tlie people know that our motives it this are as honorable as they were when we took up arms to put an end to insuf ferable conditions in Cuba. From that day to this our course has been consist ent with our high professions.—Wash ington Post ( I nd.). ICSome months have elapsed sinct Ihe editor of sixteen to one inclinatior has made inquiry about general pror; perity.—lndianapolis Journal. THE OLD VETERAN AND THE NEW. Side by side in this year 1899 by the graves where "Sleep the brave, who sinll to rest, by all their country's wishes blest." OPENS THE GATE. President McKinloy Issues an Important Order. N»arly I.(HH> oriiiM * art' Ilemoved from Ilie 4la«»ilied ■ approved January 20, lso9, relative to temporary appointments in the navy department is hereby re scinded." An entirely new rule is added, classi fying all officers and employes in the classified service as follows, unless otherwise provided by law: Class A, all persons receiving an annual salary of less than $720 or compensation at a less rate; B, from $720 to less than $840; C. SB4O to $000; 1), SOOO to $1,000; E, SI,OOO to $1,200; Class T. $1,200 to $1,400; two, $1,400 to $1,600: three, SI,OOO to $1,800; four, sl,- 800 to $2,000; five, $2,000 to $2,500; six, all at $2,500 or more. This classifi cation does not include persons ap pointed to an office with the advice and consent of the senate, nor mere laborers or workmen. Hereafter no person appointed as a laborer or work man without examination under the civil service rules shall be assigned to work at. the same (Trade as that per formed by classified employes. The largest classes included in the order, and thereby excluded from the classified service, number thus: Deputy collectors, internal revenue service, 472. Storekeepers and gangers temporar ilv employed, 500. Military park commissioners and employes, 58. I'ostoffice finance clerks and cash iers, 28. Private secretaries nt certain post lffices, 22. Deputy marshals, 204. Private secretaries tr> United States district attorneys. 57. Special agents, general land office, 30. Financial clerks at Indian agencies, 50. Pension examining surgeons, 675. Fatal l'ractical Joke. New York, Mav -Frank McC.ill died suddenly in the car house of the I'aterson Itailroad Co. at Paterson. .V T.. Sunday night, b> ing killed by elec tricity. Joseph (it-ant and Chris topher Ashfield, who were also em ployed at the car house, were arrested Monday upon charges of manslaugh ter. Grant admits that a practical joke was played on Mcfiill, a live w're licinir "unmectcd with a soft soap tub. It was expected that when the men took out soap to wash their hands ihev would receive a slight shock. The ivire WPS of high tension. j WHEN SOLDIERS COME HOME. Voluntcerx Now In tlie I'll 111 |>|>lne« are lo l>e Mobilized at tltllllru|)oll« and St. I'aul, Alter Tlieir Itetnrn. Washington, May 30.—A1l the volun teers now in the Philippines, if they are mustered out at San Francisco, are to lie invited to mobilize at Min neapolis and St. Paul. There they are to be tendered a rousing welcome, made the more notable by the pres ence of President McKinley. The, president has been anxious to meet all the troops who served in the Philip pines if this were practicable and he agreed togo to Minneapolis and St. Paul to greet the Minnesota volun teers. With the possibility that the president might be unable to con tinue his trip further west, the Twin Cities have undertaken to arrange for the mobilization of all the volunteers as their guests. The organizations, if mustered out at San Francisco, will be transported to Minneapolis and St. Paul as the guests of the Twin Cities. After the jubilee the troops will go home to their respective states at the expense of the states. The program is to have the North and South Dakota, Montana, Colorado, Tennessee, iowa, Pennsylvania, Kan sas and Nebraska volunteers at this gathering and, if possible, those from Washington, Utah, Oregon and Cali fornia. The date upon which the troops will reach St. Paul and Minne apolis will depend upon the rapidity with which transports can be placed at their disposal by the war depart ment, but it is expected that once started the troops will all be landed at San Francisco within six weeks. The first of the troops are expected to arrive by the middle of .Tune and the last by August 1. The jubilee there fore probably will occur early in Au gust. The president's acceptance of this invitation does not necessarily mean that he lias abandoned his con templated trip to the Pacific coast. A TALE OF TWO CITIES. I'ittMburg ami Ituflitlo are ViKitcd by Severe Storm*. Pittsburg, - May 30. —A terrific wind and rain storm passed over this section Monday, doing considerable money damage, but no fatalities resulted. The early rumors had a number of people killed, but later reports show that the most serious effect of the storm was the almost electrocution of Annie Sullivan, a 10-year-old girl, who was on her way hotye from school. She was struck by a live telephone wire, heavily charged by a cross with electric light wires. The wire caught; her across the throat and burned into the flesh from car to ear. The phy sicians say she has a chance of recov ery. The Miller street school house in Minersville was unroofed. No one was seriously injured. The roof of A. Warmeastle's livery stable in the East End was blown off and the entire system ot' telephone, telegraph and trolley circuits was prostrated, delaying street car traffic for three hours. The Fast End elec tric light plant was partially wrecked, resulting in the machinery being stopped for the night, leaving the East. End in almost total darkness. Buffalo, N. Y., May 30.—A severe rain and wind storm passed over Buf falo and vicinity .Monday, causing dam age to property and in jury to a num ber of people. In this city the 00-foot smoke stack at the Buffalo Cast Iron Pipe Co. was blown over and in fall ing it crushed in the wall of the foun dry building. Andrew Reidle and Valentine liahn. workmen in the foun dry, were probably fatally injured and 20 others were slightly hurt. At Lock port the grand stand at the T.ake avenue ball grounds was wrecked. Daniel Toothill, 14 years old, "was fatal ly injured. Ilooil's liimniiieM ICetnrn. New York, May 30. —The United States transport Logan arrived here Monday from Gtbara. Cuba, with 17 of ficers ami 630 men of the Second vol unteers, known as Hood's immunes. This regiment returns in fine condi tion, the men looking healthy and strong. Keel" Contract Awarded. Washington, May 30. —The award of the contract for furnishing fresh beef to the army in Cuba and Porto liico has been made to Swift «& Co., of Chicago. There are 10 posts to be supplied in Cuba. The proposals were for refrigerated beef and freshly slaughtered beef, Ihe latter to be cooled so as to be in condition for use immediately upon delivery. The re quirements are for first class meat and conform on general lines to the re frigerated beef frrnished to arm; posts in this country. The meat is to keep 24 hours after delivery. 44 In Union j There is Strength."^ True strength consists in the union, ♦ the harmonious 'working together, of I every part of the human organism. 1 This strength can never be obtained 112 if the blood is impure. Hood's Sar- I • > saparilla is the standard prescription 1 '' for purifying the blood, I JfootLi Sahkifrauf/tf j Mnncullne lilcn of n Tea. Empty two r|uarts of dried peas into a bass drum and trim up tlie outride with pink baby ribbon and you have the average man's idea of his wife's live o'clock leas. — Atchison Globe. TIOTV'M Tbl*T We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any ease of Catarrh that can riot ba cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. V. J. Cheney & Co., Prop*., Toledo, O. We, tlie undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. \Vest & Truax, Wholesale Druggists, To ledo, O. Walding, Kinnan &, Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Price 75c. per bot tle. t?old by all Druggists. Testimonial* free. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Potlenee anil Practice. A clever young physician lure, who, like so many of bis brethren everywhere, lias had a weary time trying to build up a prac tice, nevertheless meets his bard fortune with smiling gayety. Dike Warren Hast ings, his motto is "Xitor in Adversitum." in company with a friend, lie had occa sion the other day togo into the lliber rna bank, where, owing to the throng of customers, lie could not get his business transacted at once. After considerable de lay, his companion, a nervous little man, complained irritably of the inconvenience to which they were subjected. "Doesn't this put you out of patience, Doc?" he asked. "My dear sir," returned the medico, gay- Jy, "to be out of patients is my chronic con dition. I haven't had one for a week."— tsan Francisco News Letter. Opinions of a I'«NHlmUt. The fact that you can make a mule work in harness constitutes one oi the chief dif ferences between a mule a-id n treniu*. Kver.v dog has his day. The cat is on the night force. The man who doesn't lift hi* hat when he meets his wife nrolcbly refers to his mother u.'; "the old lady." A man seldom marrie< his lirst love. When he gels old enough to tale a wife she is gen erally busy cutting down papa's pants for Willie. Some men are born rich and some are bortj lucky, but they all have to lose their milk teeth and have the measles just the same.— Chicago Post. Wanted a. Door. The sun blazing down on a race course, far, far east of Suez, and on a lieid of hot, excited horses and men, waiting till the ec centricities of the starter .Tnd an even more eccentric horse combine to get us in line. The patience of the fomner is at last ex hausted. "l!ring up that horse! Come up on that beast! You'll get into trouble over this, I tell you," and so forth. The Aim tralian lightweight replies patiently: "I can't help it, sir. This is- a cab horse, this 'orse is. He won't start till the door shuts— and I haven't got a doer!"— Academy. A I'o«erful Incentive. The condition of a man's liver has more to do with his reputation for generosity than is generally understood.—St. Louis Star. Look the Snmc. Yeast—Did you ever take any of those mud baths? Crimsonbcak —Well, Iran for office once. —Yonkers Statesman. A- sallow skin acquires a healthy clear ness by the use of Ciena's Sulphur Soap. Hill's Hair and Whisker Dye, 50 cents. ■W hat He Got. Ethel—He offered me an engagement ring. Edith—And of course you gave him the "glad hand!"— Puck. But a Short Time. —"And pray," asked the gay coquette, "what is this claim of yours to distinction?" "Why," replied the lovelorn caller, "I am the man of the hour!" —Brooklyn Citizen. Clear on One Point.—Sprockett—'"Do you believe that the bicycle has seen its best days?" Tyre—"l know mine has."—Phila delphia North American. [LETTER TO MBS. FINKHAM NO. 46,970] "I had female com plaints so bad that it caused me to have hysterical fits; have had as many as nine in one day. "Five bottles of Lydia E. 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