2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MULLIN, Editor. Published Every Thursday. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. f'er year fC 00 112 paid in advance 1 50 ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements are published at the rate of one dollar per square for one insertion and tifty cents per square for each subsequent insertion. Rates by the year, or for six or three months, are low and uniform, and will be furnished on application. Legal and Official Advertising per square, three times or less, Ki. each subsequent inser tion oO cents per square. I.ocal notices lu cents per line for one inser certlon: 5 cents per line for each subsequent consecutive Insertion. Obituary notices over five lines. 10 cents per line. Simple announcements of births, mar riages and deaths will be inserted free. Business cards, five lines or less, 45 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 PRESS is complete and affords facilities for doing the best class of work. PAR'IICL'LAK ATTENTION PAIDTO LAW PRINTING. No paper will be discontinued until arrear ages are paid, except at the option of the pub lisher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid for in advance. A Volunteer's Appetite. A Nebraska soldier who served faith fully in the Philippine campaign, never missing a scrap his regiment was en gaged in, says an Omaha exchange, wrote home to his wife: "I see they are preparing to give us a grand banquet when we return to Omaha. That's all right, but I want something- to eat before the banquet comes off. And I want it at home. I want it on the table when I get home, too. What do I want ? Well, here's the list: Sirloin steak, rare; hot biscuit and plenty of them, made by you; flour and milk gravj-, about three quarts; mashed potatoes, apple sauce, corn on the cob, 11 ears; string' beans, macaroni and cheese, peaches and cream, ice cream. I want you to pet all these thing-s ready. We have had plenty to eat since reaching San Fran cisco, but when things are camp cooked, they all taste alike. Cook 'em yourself, and don't think because I've been away over a year you can ring in any hired-girl cooking on me. When I pet through with this bill of fare I'll be ready to tackle the banquet." The Ferris Wheel. The mammoth Ferris wheel will probably be taken away from Chicago before many months have passed. What is to be done with it is still in doubt; but the company now owning it is thoroughly convinced it can no long er be made a paying amusement invest ment in Chicago, says a local exchange. Negotiations have been pending for some time to take it to one of the sea shore resorts near New York, prefer ably Coney Island, and it is more than likely this will be the disposition made of it. Though the Ferris wheel was considered one of the wonders of the world's fair, it has never since appealed to amusement seekers in this vicinity. Ferris \\ heel park, an uncommonly pretty resort, was built around it on the present site in North Clark street, and even this failed to attract the pub lic until a variety performance was in troduced. Since then the attendance has been uniformly large, and the man agement is doubtless convinced that the park will be equally successful if the wheel is taken elsewhere. Overina mountainous country east of Echo where CO sleek Jerseys walk with the regularity of clockwork into then stalls at 4:30 every afternoon, says the Hartford (Conn.) Times, lives Amri Stone, who likes raw eggs with their shells on. Recently, on a bet, in Flute ville, he swallowed 25 of these eggs. This eclipsed all his former records. In his latest test he is said to have swal lowed the eggs without difficulty lip to the twentieth. It took him an hour to get away with the rest. He won $5 by the operation and his friends ex pected to find him dead the next day. Stone, however, was up early and out and cut a cord of wood between day light and dark, taking along with him a lunch of more raw eggs, a loaf of bread and a few slices of raw pork. It was rumored in the city of Provi dence awhile ago that the pastor of the Center church was about to marry a certain Miss S , a beautiful society young woman, but belonging to the Episcopal church. The good people of the pastor's church talked it over and tame to the. conclusion that he might choose more wisely. Finally it was left to the elders to wait upon and expostu late With him. They visited him and expressed to him the feelings of the church. The pastor listened patiently till they were through and then laconic ally remarked: "Gentlemen, there is more than one Congregational church in the world; there is but one Miss S A midway, of course, is it feature ol the national export exposition at Phil adelphia. It includes an Egyptian the ater, a Georgia plantation colony and a large Chinese village. There is also a trained animal exhibit, whose man ager gave a unique dinner a few days ago. Near the end of the feast a bas ket covered with flowers was placed in the center of the table. When the top was removed three fluffy little lion's cubs, not much larger than cats, sat up to blink at the guests, and were al lowed to wander about the table, Finally, a champagne basket was opened, and an athletic monkey came forth to turn handsprings. NEXT YEAR'S CAMPAIGN. Bryan Will Leail the llenim'rnls in nn Attack on Anirrirnn Integrity. As soon as the returns of the election of 1890 came in, with the vast number of 6,502,025 votes; polled for ISrvan, it was manifest that though defeated then he had only to live to be renom inated by the democratic party in 1900 and that the issue represented by him in that election would again be fought out. It was not merely because Bryan had received about 1,000,000 more votes than were cast for Grover Cleveland at his election four years before that his renomination was inevitabl if he lived until the democratic national conven tion in 1900, but because also lie repre sented and embodied a spirit which had taken possesison of the democracy to the exclusion of any other. He had been their leader in the hottest and fiercest campaign of their history, and had carried them to more radical posi tions than had ever been fought for by a great American party. The democ racy had been inspired to the greater devotion to him and the politics he rep resented because of the very bitterness of the campaign against them. To bor row a phrase coined for Cleveland, he is loved because of the enemies he made. The aggregate vote for McKinleyand Bryan in IS9G was 13,607,704, or 2.874.- 078 more than Ihe aggregate for Cleve land and Harrison in 1892. This great increase in the number of votes polled at two successive quadrennial elections was unexampled in American history. The increase during the whole period fiY>m 1870 to 1892 was only 2.414,191, or nearly half a million less. The gain of Bryan over Cleveland in 1892 was ex plained by the circumstance that the populist vote, which was over a million in 1892, went to him; it nearly account ed for the difference. But the increase in the republican vote since 1892 was the most remarlyible incident, McKin ley receiving 7.104,779 to Harrison's 5,176,108, or nearly 2,000,000 more. That is, the election of 1896 was the most remarkable in our history; it brought out the greatest vote propor tionally, and therefore was the elec tion in which the interest of the peo ple was shown the most profoundly. It can never be forgotten; it left both of the contending parties in new shape. The republicans became specifically t Lte champion of ihe single gold standard and the democratic party of silver free coinage. It was too bitter a contest to be ended by a single election. The spirit which expressed itself in the Chicago platform was too radical and the Bryan campaign kindled by it was too hot for it to be subdued by a single defeat. Free silver was fur the first time the battle cry of the forces of rad icalism, bent on experiments which in volved the very reorganization of so ciety and the destruction of property. The platform adopted by the Massa chusetts democrats had reason to pro nounce the Chicago platform a "politi cal code written not for one year, but for all time." It.was distinctively a new and radical departure. The renomination of Bryan anil the renewal of the contest are consequent ly inevitable, and the indications row are that he will be nominated by accla mation next year, and that there will be no opposition to him which will dare express itself, however feebly. The platform he will stand on will be the Chicago platform, with added planks which will be more rather than 1 ejs rad ical than it was originally made, tr'l the subsequent campaign will repeat that of 1890 in intensity of feeling and interest. It is a revolution that Bryan leads, and in 1900 he will carry the re pudiation of national obligations and his assault of 1890 on the financial cred it of Ihe nation to the further repudia tion of the moral obligations and the honorable name and prestige of his country imposed and won by successful war. It will be a shameful canvass against American integrity and patriot ism; but it will occur. That is what is before us next year, and wisdom dictates that every man Should look calmly at the prospect and prepare to be counted for or against the repudiation with which the democratic party is now inseparably associated.— N. Y. Sun. POLITICAL DRIFT. C7"To a man up a tree it looks as if John Peter Altgeld is about to take a header into the cold and cruel outness. —Washington Post. Mr. Bryan is letting his oratory spread over so much ground that his credit for successes in some states is sure to be neutralized by the disaster in others. —Washington Star. C?"l'hc free traders arc not saying much about the Dingley law just now. The government receipts for August showed a surplus of more than a million dollars, and they WIT e $4,300,000 in ex cess of the revenues for August of last year.— Cleveland Leader. ICThc leaders of the democratic par ty are not only radically wrong on na tional politics, but they are willing to be wrong if so they can deceive the people for personal advantage. The Bryan motto may be read: "I would rather be wrong than not president."— Troy Times. (C7"The trust problem, said Gen. Roosevelt in a speech in Ohio, will be solved by republicans and not by dem ocrats. Political history teaches that this is the natural course of all such problems lTi this country, democrats bluster, republicans accomplish.—St. Lou is Globe-1 Jemoc rat. tT7"riip silver papers suffer from the same difficulty which afilictcd.(ien. Bin terfield inability to discriminate be tween accurate and inaccurate expres sions. But the general has got over his trouble, and the free silver papers show no signs of recovery. It is sixteen to one they r.evcr will —Brooklyn Eagle (Dem.). CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1599. DELUDED DEMOCRATS. Nothing I'pnn Which to lln*o Tkel* Hysterical Declarations ii n Sun Francisco, Oct. 12. —The Twen tieth Kansas regiment and the 400 dis charged soldiers who arrived lieie Tuesday night on tiie transport Tartar landed yesterday. When the quaran tine inspection was finished and the word was passed among the soldiers that the vessel would lie docked im mediately a great hurrah greeted the announcement and the soldiers com menced their preparations lor debar kation. The water lront was black v\ith people. As the Tartar passed slowly along the water front the sol diers were cheered again and again. Flags were dipped and whistles and calliopes added to the din. The march to the l'residio reserva tion was a continuous ovation. The streets were thronged with excited people, all anxious to honor the re turned heroes. Cheers upon cheers pased up and down the lines of people. Cannons were fired at intervals, bells clanged and whistles and steam calli opes added their noises to the occa sion. (ien. Funston marched with (lov. Ktan'.ey, of Kansas, and escort. 'I ho throngs surged around (ien. Funston and he had great difficulty in making progress. llounds of cheers greeted him. The crowds simply would not let the soldiers pass in peace. Relatives and friends broke into the ranks and marched with the soldiers, some smil ing and laughing and others crying. The regimental colors, little the worse for wear, in spite of the ardu ous campaign through which they had passed, called forth tremendous ap plause whenever they were sighted. Taking it all ill all the soldiers looked to be in fair health, but of eoursu there were some who showed the ef fects of the severe campaign. Infring ing up the rear of the regiment were the hospital wagons, not very heavily laden with sick. Gen. Funston, in an interview, said: '"This is America, you know—and I am an American. That tells the story best of our delight in reaching home cgain. There is nothing like tne great joy of being back here again, among people whom we know are our countrymen and kin. I have only this to say of the campaign in the Philippines —everything is being donft that could be to carry the war to an early and sueeesful conclusion. r ! he report that 1 am an anti-expansionist is ridiculous and not worthy of seri cus consideration. 1 never intimated such a thing and have been wrongly quoted in the matter. "The people must stop to consider when they are passing judgments that there are countless conditions to be constantly overcome before headway can be made. I fear that the exact difficulties of the situation are not ful ly understood. "Some mistakes may have been made, but the campaign has been con ducted in a most able nner conscien tious manner and every man ha? done his best. No grave errors Tiave oc curred, but it is always easy to look back and comment upon what has been done, even though that might have been accomplished under trying circumstances." AN ENGINEER'S BLUNDER. It Itrnultrd in the Injur}' of l People, Two of Wlioin 11 ill l»io. Wheeling, October. 12. —Yesterday at Short creek, nine miles above 'lie city, a northbound pasenger train collided wit ha special from Pittsburg, the lat ter bringing delegations from west ern Pennsylvania to the tri-state> en campment of the Uniform uk, Knights of Pythias. Fight persons were seriously injured, two fatally. The special had orders to take the sid ing at Short creek, but the engineer of the special forgot and a. minute later the two trains came together and were badly wrecked. The Injured: lieuben King, of Steubenviile. fire man; fracture of skull, will die. P. J. Walsh, of Midway, Pa., a pas senger, paralyzed below waist, may die. Julius Med low, of Boston, passen ger, badly shaken up, but no bones broken, will recover. Abe Frankland, of Pittsburg, pas senger. left foot crushed—has been amputated. Engineer Pollock, of Dennison, 0., back of left hand crushed, amputation probable. Conductor Ellsworth lianney, of Steubenvilie. collar bone broken. Fireman Kdward Martin, of Denni son, end Baggagemaster .T. I!. Steven son, of Steuben vi lie, slight injuries. MR. HILL IS TURNED DOWN. New York'* ex-Senator I* (Ideated !>>• Mr. < rokcr in a Content lor Sup rem »<)'• New York, Oct. 12. —The followers of ex-Senator Murphy and Kieliard Crol cr defeated ex-Senator 1). I!. Hill in a struggle for supremacy at the meeting of the state democratic com mittee at the Hoffman house last night. .lust what the victory means the campaign alone will tell, for Mr. Hill in a strong speech on other mat ters emphatically declared that while Croker had won the fight in the com mittee, he could not ride roughshod over the rights of democrats sit the polls, and followers of Hill declared that Croker's victory meant defeat for every member of the legislature above the Xew York City line. The vote on a Bryan resolution was adverse to the llill forces and stood :ss to 10 in favor of the .adoption of the statement declaring I'ryan the leader of the democratic purt>~. Republican* Nominate a Democrat. Xew York. Oct. 12.—The republican county organization has been forced te nominate Justice («. ('. Barrett, dem ocrat. for justice of the supreme court, being unable to gain the support of the ( ity club, the Citizens' union and other independent organizations for an anti-Tammany' fusion ticket on any other terms, and being threatened with opposition of the liar association if Justice Barrett was turned down. The republican county convention last night nominated a ticket which has the approval of the anti-Tammany or ganizations. IT MEANS AVAR. Boers Send an Ultimatum to Eng-land. The Briton* arc Tol Frontier at tinea Failure to Comply with (lie lie in aml Will l>e Kryurd id la a declara tion of Mar. London, Oct. 11. —The ultimatum of Transvaal is the absorbing topic of conversation and the late editions of the afternoon papers containing the text of the ultimatum met with a good sale in the central parts of Lon don. There was no apparent excite ment, however, but a general feeling was expresesd that the Boers had made a mistake, as their forcing mat ters would tend to alienate the sym pathy which might have been extend ed to them had they thrown the stig ma of declaring war on England. The text of the Boer ultimatum was sent with all speed to Lord Salisbury, who came to town in the afternoon, and a dispatch box wns sent to the Prince of Wales, which is only done in cases of special urgency. War preparations by England are being pushed with the greatest en j ergv. The Woolwich arsenal lias al- I ready forwarded to South Africa over 3,000,000 cartridges for rifies and ma chine guns and the reserves continue to respond eagerly to the mobilization proclamation. The Transvaal ultimatum, which is signed by F. W. Beitz, secretary ol state, concludes with the following four demands: First —That all points of mutual dif ference be regulated by friendly re course to arbitration, or by whatever amicable way may be agreed upon by this government and her majesty's government. Second That all troops on the bor ders of this republic shall be instantly withdrawn. Third- That all reinforcements of troops which have* arrived in South Africa since June 1, IS'Jt), shall be re moved from South Africa within a reasonable time, to be agreed noon with this government, and with the mutual assurance and guarantee on the part of this government that no attack or hostilities against any por tion of the possessions of the British government shall be made by this re public during the further negoti ations, within a period eif time tei be subsequently agreed upon between the governments: and this government will, on compliance* therewith, be pre pared to withdraw the armed burgh ers eif 1 his republic from the- borders. Fourth —That her majesty's troops which are now on the high seas shall not be landeel in any part of South Africa. To these demands is appended the definition of the? time limit for a re ply: "This government presses for an immediate and affirmative answer tei these four questions and earnestly requests her majesty's government tc return an answer before eir upon Weel neselay. October 11, 1899, not later than i o'clock p. m. 'lt desires further to add that ill the unexpected event eif an answer not satisfactory being rcceiveel by it with in the interval, it will with great re gret be compelled to regard the action of her majesty's government as a forma! declaration of war and will not hold itself responsible for the conse quences thereof." The Mail's Cape Town correspon dent telegraphs: A short ami very dignified reply has been communicat ee! to Conyngham Green, the British diplomatic agent at Pretoria, by s.'.ii Alfred Miluer, British ceunmissioner in Seinth Africa, to be- handed to the Boer government to-elay. Cape Town, Oct. 12. —A dispatch from S'andspruit says a council of war has been held and developments are expected to-day. .No •further council will be necessary, as all plans are matured. The dragging of the 1 enor mous sie-ge gun which has been posted by the (ierman detachment on the Free State-Natal border in a position (o aid Wakkcrstroin, up the declivity to tli • point where it was tei be placed. *as a. splemtTo teat. Four teams of oxen failed in an attempt, to move the gun to the desired position, where upon a body of men built a road anel dragged the gun up the declivity in six hours. Sir Alfred Milner, governor of Cape i olonv and British high commissioner in South Africa, has issued a proclama tion declaring all persons abetting the enemy in a state eif war with Great Britain to be l guilty of high treason. London. Oct. 12. A dispatch from 'ilencoe camp says the burghers are reported to be beyond the president's control and hostilities are expected at any moment. A telegram from Pretoria says: The situation is bocoming more critical. Numerous Americans, Germans, frenchmen. Swedes, Belgians. Norwe gians, Danes, Italians, Dutchmen, Swiss and Cape Afrikanders have gone 1o the border to fight, for Transvaal, (illhough they are not burghers, while manv British residents also have taken the oath of allegiance. The hope is expressed by many that war will yet be averted. A dispatch to the Telegraph from T.ndysmith alone among the specials received deedares that war has been begun by the Boers in Natal. Montague White, consul general of the South African republic in London, closed the consulate yesterday and im mediately left for the' continent. t l>a