2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MULLIN, Editor. Published Every Thursday. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Per year 12 00 If paid in advance 1 !>0 ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements are published at the rate of one dol.ur per square fur one insertion and ilfiy cents i er square for each subsequent Insertio i Hates by ihe year, or for six o.' th ee mouths, are low and uniform, and will be furnished on application. Legal and Official Advertising per square, three times or less, a 2; each subsequent inser tion :0 cents per square. Local notices 10 cents per line for one tnser sertion: 5 cents per line for each subsequent consecutive insertion. Obituary notices over five lines. 10 cents per line. Simple announcements of births, mar riages ami deaths will lie inserted free. Business cards, live lines or less, per year; over live lines, at the regular rates of adver tising. No local inserted for less than 75 cents per issue. JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the PKESS iscomplete •nd afford-, facilities for doing the best class of work. PAR I u ri.AH ATTKM ION PAID TO I. AW PHINTINO. No paper will be discontinued until arrear ages arc paid, except at the option of the pub lisher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid (or in advance. Woman's Independence. The increase In the number of self supporting women, especially notice ably in our large middle class, is creat ing a new problem, the economic as well as moral significance of which is inter esting, savs Sara Y. Stevenson, in July Lippineott's. If women became men's intellectual equals whilst retaining their moral superiority, a serious com petition must be established, in which the nonsmoking, nondrinking and gen erally more orderly employe must sur vive as the littest in the struggle for ex istence. On the whole, however, the close contact in which men and women, are brought through education and co exertion is beneficial to both. It adds; to woman's strength, clearness of judg ment and business capacity, whilst bj r increasing his respect for womanlg un derstanding it tends to raise man's moral standards to a level nearer to her awn. Pessimists have claimed that the "new woman" in exchange for her re cently acquired fields must lose the sliivalrous attentions granted to her grandmothers. But so long as men and women depend upon each other for love and happiness there need be no fear of that. Indeed, such a fear would imply that modern man has stood still when woman lias progressed. Such a thought cannot be entertained. Man is not like ly to refuse the dignified, well-informed woman who sympathizes with his high est aims and who strives with him to at tain them the physical protection and the courtesy which he has so lavishly bestowed upon the woman described by Mr. Kipling as the woman who "never could know and did not under stand." In 1557 Postmaster General Iloratio King, of President Buchanan's cabinet, appointed Melvira E. Stone postmis tress at the little village of North Ox ford, Mass. Miss Stone was the second woman ever appointed to that position in the United States, and has held the position ever since—for -12 consecutive years. She is said to have held the of fice for a longer term than any other person in the country. She is a cousin of Clara Barton, of the Red Cross, with whom she used to make mud pft's in their early days. Political parties may come and go, but no administration has yet ventured to disturb the manage ment of the North Oxford post office. Three lads who mistook William Rarnes, a wealthy resident of Port Nor folk, for a sea serpent and shot him through the chin while he was swim ming were arraigned before a magis trate and tlicir cases continued one week. Parsons, the boy who fired the ehot, declares that he and his compan ions were frightened by the antics of Barnes, who Is an expert swimmer, and when headed for their boat feet for ward,spurting water, they thought him a ferocious monster of the deep, and fired. Barnes will recover. One of the girls in the mills at YVa tervillc, Me., several months ago wrote her name and address on a piece of cotton. The other day she received a letter from a lady in Arizona, who said that the cloth had been purchased by Uncle Sam, and was being cut up for garments in a school for the Apache Indians there. It was but a few years ago that ihe Apaches, ihe most cruel and fiendish tribe North American Indians, -were taking scalps instead of making shir's. What a cosmopolitan city New York is was strikingly exemplified the other day in Jefferson Market police court. Two men were answering to a charge of fighting on. Seventh avenue. One of them was a Belgian and the other a Swiss. The policeman who arrested them was a German, the court inter preter u Greek, the judge an Ameri can and a policeman who went to L.e assistance of his brother officer in stop ping the fight an Irishman. Clarence Baker, a local barber of Lin coln, Neb., after five attempts to get into the I nited States regular service has been accepted. He was examined . the mornjng and was found to be four pounds under w eight. lie was told to drink as much water as his stomach could comfortably hold and return after dinner. Ilis weight was satisfactory at the afternoon examination, and he was accepted. DEMOCRATIC MANAGERS. Tnlk of a Shirt In the Control of Na tional Affairs In the Party. Humors continue to be circulated from St. Louis of certain mysterious combinations in politics which have for their object a change in democratic na tional leadership. Ever since it was decided last May in that city, at an informal conference of democratic na tional committeemen, to put a younger and more active politician than Sen ator Jones, of Arkansas, at the head of the national organization, gossip has busied itself in Missouri over the ul terior and hidden significance of the shift about to be made in party man agers. Ex-Gov. William J. Stone, it was unanimously agreed, was to be Mr. Jonas' successor as head of the national committee, and with his ad vancement it was confidently predicted n new and powerful factor would be created in democratic politics. What role Mr. Stone would play in the presi dential struggle of 1900 was, of course, not clearly defined; but hints have not been wanting that he would dispute with Col. Bryan not only the control .of the machinery of next year's na . ional convention, but even the nomi nation for the presidency itself. Too much importance should not be attached to these whisperings from St. Louis of a covert or open campaign to transfer to other shoulders than Col. Bryan's the burdens of party leader ship. Gov. Stone's abilities are unques tioned and his political ambitions are doubtless far reaching; but there is nothing in his attitude so far to indicate that he hopes to displace Col. Bryan as the recognized leader of the. western and southern democracy. Indeed, whatever Mr. Stone's personal inclina tions may be, he is too good a politician to invite the difficult and unequal struggle involved in any attempt to break Col. Bryan's present hold upon the party. Though Mr. Stone's eleva tion to the temporary chairmanship of the national committee was accom plished without friction recently at Chicago, his choice for the post in no way challenged Col. liryan's pres tige; nor did the ex-governor's elec tion qualify in the slightest the easy mastery shown by the Nebraska leader both in influencing the committee's deliberations and in shaping, as its mouthpiece, next year's campaign pol icy through his Auditorium speech. The odds against Mr. Stone in a con test for the party leadership would, under present conditions, be practically overwhelming. As an expansionist he is clearly out of touch with the bour bon sentiment of a party which has acted pretty consistently on the theory that the chief business of an opposi tion is to oppose. Suspected of luke warmness to the cause of silver, he has incurred the hostility of the extremist free coinage organizations which have undertaken the burden of keeping the party loyal to the platform of 1890. In volved in dealing with eastern politi cians of the Tammany stripe, he is distrusted by the southern leaders, who since Mr. Cleveland's election in 1892 have lost faith in alliances of any sort between the south and the east. More over, as a committee room politician, pure and simple, how could the Mis souri ex-governor be expected to hold his own against a rival who not only knows the tricks of the cabinet, but can enforce his purposes and policies through a gift of oratory which few American politicians have been fortu nate enough to command. To our way of thinking, no vacancy exists at present in the important post to which Mr. Stone is thought by his St. Louis friends to aspire. Nor, if Mr. Bryan's political activity continues, will the placard "Leader Wanted" be lning out at democratic national head quarters for some time to come. —N. Y. Tribune. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. C?' William MeKinley was the "ad vance agent of prosperity" for a fact.— Indianapolis Journal. EVThe old-school democrats of Ken tucky never thought the day would come when they would be obliged to im port their principal speechmaking tal ent.—Washington Star. ICPBryan indorses the regular demo cratic ticket in Kentucky, but adds that he doesn't know anything about it. That's a valuable certificate of recom mendation. —N. V. Press. IC'The able democratic editors are as suming an assured tone when speaking of John I*. Altgeld which seems to in dicate that they have his obituary al ready in type. —Chicago Tribune. P"Mr. Bryan says he hoped to unify the Kentucky democrats. Mr. liryan's previous successes as a unifier were not such as to have emboldened a less sanguine disposition.—Albany Argus (Dem.). ICT'Mr. Bryan says the party is first, the platform second and the nominee third. The party that stood first with Bryan in 1592 was that of Weaver, and his versatility may again be displayed in 1900. —St. Louis Globe-Democrat. tCIn response to the threatened re fusal of eastern democrats to contrib ute to a campaign fund if Mr. Bryan shall be nominated, the Bryan leaders say in that ease they will raise the cry of "a poor man's campaign" and make their candidate popular on that line. With his experience in handling gate money, Mr. Bryan ought to be able to finance his own campaign.—lndianap olis Journal. in?After Bryan has swallowed the democratic candidate for governor of Kentucky to help his own canvass for t' » nresidcntinl nomination, he lias the ! *i claim it as an act of sclf-re nuiiciuni If it were true, as Bryan says, that he has "no personal or polit ical interests to be considered when democratic principles are at stake," he would get out, and thus give the demo cratic party a chance to make some sort if a showing next year.—Troy Times. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1899. FLOOD OF PROSPERITY. The tiiiod Time* Have Mnile the l)em ocrat* C'eane The! r C alamity Honilug. Among the many indications of pros perity none are more remarkable, than the car famine on the eastern and mid western railroads. For two years the output of new cars has been prodigious, and yet there are not nearly enough to handle the freight. The suinmel wheat crop, it should be understood has not yet begun to move, nor are corn, potatoes, apples, hops and the otherstaple crops oft he area mentioned ready for shipment. So the glut of traffic is mainly caused by shipments of manufactured articles. The call for these is larper than has ever before been the case in the history of the coun try, particularly for manufactures >4 iron, and despite an increase of price along some lines we cannot see any signs of an abatement in the volume of demand. People who have lately visited the east speak of the condition of business there us surpassing any thing that was promised even in the most sanguine speeches of the McKin ley orators three years ago. The strikes that are happening among railroad men are none of them against a reduction of wages, but are carried on either for the sake of a fairer ratio of pay toward the new business done or in protest against the overwork which follows an effort to keep up with orders or to pet relief from a congested demand upon manufacturing facilities. They do not alter the fact that money was never so plentiful, industry so active nor de mand so great. On the contrary, they emphasize it. When the commercial uplift first brought the country out of the slough of despond into which the Gorman- Wilson bill had plunged it the demo cratic fashion was to account 'for pros perity by the prices realized for wheat owing to the failure of the crop in India and other places on the plobe. No such explanation is possible now, and that is the reason the democratic journals have dropped the prosperity discussion. They never allude to bet ter times, except in their affidavits of circulation and advertising, but are do ing their best to raise issues against the administration which will cause the people to forget what they owe to it. But the task is bound to prove too great for partisan ingenuity. What ever views the workingman may hold on the subject of "imperialism" he knows when he is well off and is quite capable of voting to keep himself in that comfortable situation as long as he can.—San Francisco Chronicle. SILVER SENTIMENT WANING. Other Isxtie* Arc Now EnKnsrinn th« Attention of tin- Majority of lit- in of r receive pay, and after three davs only 580 had been paid. Thousands who had been disappointed at other points had come to Cuevitas, as the last place of payment in the province. The imperfect list causes great dis satisfaction and a rumor circulated that' the paymaster would leave on Wednesday alarmed the men who had not been paid. They began to collect in groups and to show their annoy ance. Finally their threats became serious. ( apt. Baliat with 20 gendarmes was present to preserve order among the and the I'nited States j troops protected Col. Moale, the offi | eer having charge of the payments. I Suddenly Capt. Baliat, who was mounted, was surrounded by a mob, struck by stones and bottles and shot in the arm. His men fired a volley into the mob, three persons being in stantly killed and IT! wounded, two of whom died yesterday morning. Col. Moale's guard promptly sur rounded tttc money office, but took no part in the fighting. For a few min utes there was a lively conflict, car bines and machetes being used freely. Capt. Baliat was the only gendarme wounded. All the dead were colored Cuban soldiers. Wednesday morning payment was resumed under a hcav\ guard. There are r'lniors that a force is being organ ized 1o attack the pay office, but these are probably unfounded. There is no doubt that the inacurate list will cause a great deal of hard ship. Many veterans have vainly fol lowed the United States commissioner for six weeks, only to find that their names are not listed. SMASHED THE TARGET. A Tent ol a New "»llcil Mioii'n tliat It Could Mnli a Haltlefchip. New York, Aug. 21.—At the Sandy Hook proving ground yesterday an experiment was made with a dynamite shell which tnciled to prove that if it had struck a battleship the latter would have been sunk. The experi ment was one of those ordered by the board of ordnance and fortifications and took place in the presence of mem bers of the board. Maj. Heath, who is in charge of the defences at Sandy Book, and Willard S. Ishain. the in ventor of the projectile. The shell, made from about 900 pounds of ex plosive gelatine, was fired from nn ordinary 12-incli ritle mounted on an Improvised carriape behind a shield. The eharpe used for firing it was com posed of common brown prismatic powder. About 200 feet in front of the pun a piece of Harveyized steel 12 inches thick and specially treated was plaeeel at an angle of 45 degrees to the line of fire. lichinel it was a thick backing of oak, ami behind the oak was a small mountain of sand, the whole calculated to be stronger than a battleship's side. The shell struck anil exploded with a terrific report. The steel target was blown clear up the oak backing and lay 17 feet to one side and at right angles to the line the shot had followed. Part, of the oak backing anel the sand behind it were blown away. Only four pounds of steel frag ments of the shell were found. Mem bers of the lionrd expressed satisfac tion with the experiment. The most destructive explosive known was used in the shell. Tt was composed of PS pi'r cent, of nitro-glyeerin. 8 per cent, of gun cotton as an absorbent and t per cent, of camphor. It is estimated to be 25 per cent, more powerful than No. 1 dynamite. THE TANNERS' TRUST. Pimm lor a Great < oiiiiiliie ol Leather TO all lilac Hirer* are Porlceled. New York, Aug. 24.—The tanners of the east and middle west who have been in this city working for a com bination of upper leather manufactur ers since August 1. are confident that in a few days their organization will be effected. The combination, they say, will include nearly all the calf skin and cowhide leather manufactur ers between Wisconsin and the At lantic ocean with the exception of sev eral large tanneries in Milwaukee, and will be known as the American Hide and Leather Co. In the statements issue-d to possible purchasers, the authorized maximum issue of capital stock is placed at $17.- 500,000, and $10,000,000 of (i per cent, gold bonds. The real estate, machin ery and buildings are valued at $7,000,- 000, raw material and finished product at $0,000,000. The average earnings for the last ten years of 23 concerns in the proposed combination are set at $1,600,000. A S3