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The Job department of the Purss is complete •nd affords facilities for doing the best class of work. I'A KTICUI.AH ATTENTION PAItITo LAW PRINTING. No paper will be discontinued until arrear ages are paid, except at the option of the pub lisher. l'apers sent out of the county inust be paid lor in advance. A PART of the curious list of Lady Littleton's wedding outfit 2(>o years ago is as follows; "A black pnddvsway gown and coat: a pink unwatered pab by suite of cloaths; a goid stuff suite of cloaths; a white worked with sneal suite of cloaths." 11. W. PENNISON, of Vermont, who has been the legal adviser of the Japanese governmen t for 15 years, is going to visit his old home for the first time since he began his services in Japan. The emperor of Japan has made him a number of costly pres ents as a token of regard. THE Chinese, as most people know, believe in a future existence, but in that future state they are by no means certain whether all one's wants are provided for, consequently they have a way of their own of consigning earth ly comforts to their departed friends and relatives in th» other world. IT is said to be the unwritten rule of Boer warfare to hill the enemy'? offi cers. For this purpose the Boer com mander generally selects six of his best marksmen and instructs them to shoot simultaneously at the particular officer in view, and they would rather kill a general than a sergeant any day. Their idea is to leave the foe leader less. IT is now possible to telegraph from San Francisco to the Klondike; a Ca nadian government line has been strung from Heimett to Dawson City. As the line connects with Skaguay at Bennett, electrical communication has also been established between the A.aska ports and the Klondike, which will be a decided convenience to terri torial trade. STATISTICS just completed by the in come tax ccmrninsioners of Great Brit ain show that out of a total adult male population of 12,500,000 more than 10,- 000,(100 earn less than §B6O a year. The income tax is collected at the rate of 16 cents on each S5 above SHOO, and the total tax, which last year amounted to nearly $100,000,000, was contributed by not more than 'J. 000.000 people. EMPEROR WILI-IAM, of Germany, will have a stable for his horses which will cost 5J,000.000. Its length along the Spree river will be three "short blocks" in New York. It will have room for 270 horses, room for 3<>o vehi cles and two great tanbark riding rings. It will take three years to build the stable, and it will be finer than that of any other reigning monarch. THE French war office is rejoicing over a new civilizing influence whicn may outdo even the English dumdum bullet. It is a rifle invented by a C'apt. Daudeteau, and experiments have proven how deadly a weapon it is. At 2,000 yards the bullet went clean through a horse placed obliquely to the line of tire, the bones in the track of the bullet being shockingly smash ed. IN Hillsdale. Mich., the sidewalks are all in control of the city; are built by the city itself by the day labor plan; are uniform in size and construction, and are paid for by property owners upon a uniform scale. The city is put ting down cement sidewalks for seven cents a foot and wood for five cents. Cement is now used altogether in this town, and the present ordinance has been in force for three years. SENATOR HOAR, of Massachusetts, though not a stingy man, is none the less a careful one. He always buys six street car tickets at a time in Wash ington, thus being able to get one ride for 4 1-6 cents. He once rebuked a none too properous friend for not do ing so. "1 am comfortably off." he said, "but I never felt I could afford to pay five cents for a ride when 1 could get six for a quarter. OWNERS of Dundee (Scotland) jute mills locked out 40,000 employes on September 20, when they learned that tlie3 T would demand higher pay and the eight-hour day. Two days later the salvation army the first of its fr<-e breakfasts to SOO children of the locked out workers. Two members of parlia ment and several clergymen addressed the employes and talked to the em ployers and on September 24 all re turned to the mills. DISPATCHES received from Darm stadt by the Danish court announce that a searching medical examination lias made it clear that an operation on the brain of the czar will be abso lutely necessary for the relief of tao intolerable headaches from which iie suffers, and which are the conse quence of an attempt long ago made upon his life in Japan. On that occa sion the czar's life was saved by I'rince George of Greece. Prof. Bergman, a celebrated German surgeon, will un dertake the operation. DEMOCRACY IN 1899. The Party of Dliconlrnt Remains Practically tlie Same n* lu IXIMS. The democratic party is presenting it self for popular approval in three states especially, where the national party or ganization is really on trial before the country, with the state machines and their candidates for evidence, lias the party changed in any respect since it nominated liryan at Chicago in IS9C? llow is this question answered by the democratic state conventions of Massa chusetts, Kentucky and Ohio? Three years ago the leadership of the democratic party was assumed by its most unworthy and ignorant elements. We have nothing to say touching Mr. Bryan's honesty. We are quite willing to admit his purity of purpose, but puri ty of purpose coupled with ignorance and foliy is often more dangerous to the body politic than open vice, even when such vice is accompanied or partly dis guised by intelligence. But while it may be that Mr. Bryan and some of the free coinage advocates are honest and sincere, the country is justified in its doubts as to the character of Altgeld, Croker, (ieorge Fred Williams, Tillman and others of that kind, some of whom are in politics for votes and some for dollars. It is not necessary togo into minute detail in our examination of the meaning of democracy in 189(5. The country knows what Bryan and his par ty stood for, and what would have hap pened if it had won the victory. In the first place, the panic from which the country had been suffering for four years would have reached an acute stage, and the recovery and pros perity which we have since experienced would have been delayed. If could not have been wholly prevented, for nature would have worked its provident will, and would have brought forth the abundant erops of the last two years, but it would never have become so great as it is to-day. Ituin, however, would have fallen sharply and swiftly upon those who had withstood the troubles of 1893, 1594 and 1895, imme diately following the announcement of the election of Bryan and of a Bryanite house of representatives. If, unde terred by the panic and distress follow ing the election, the l.ryanites had kept to the course marked out in their plat form, we should have had a free coin age sixteen to one law enacted in the summer of 1897, for, of course, an extra session would have been called for that 1 jrpose. Whether or not we should have had a war with Spain, who can tell? Bryan might have been against it, although he started for it as a colonel, and the democrats are fond of saying that they forced the republican administration and majority in con gress to the task of making Cuba free, l'opular opinion and rage, however, would probably in the end have brought on the conflict, lu that event our rev enues would have been 00 cents on the dollar and our expenditures the full dollar. In other words, our purchases abroad and at home would have taken at least twice as much revenue as they actually do require. Our money would have been Mexieani/.ed, and we would have had a practical experience of South American public finance. Our bonds would have been below par and our borrowing capacity crippled. It is idle to speculate as to what means would have been adopted to raise the necessary funds for carrying 011 the war and to meet the expenses incidental to it. Hut it may be safely asserted that we should have been without funds for a long time, owing to the variety of eco nomic opinions which disturb the minds of the Bryanites, and to the pervcrse ness with which many of them con tinue to cling to the income tax as a fetich, notwithstanding the decision of the supreme court that such a tax is un constitutional. Doubtless we should have been in great straits with a cheap dollar and a lack of necessary income. Perhaps we should not yet have seen the seizure of the railroad, teleprapfe and telephone lines by the general gov ernment, or the establishment of public warehouses for grain on which the gov ernment had lent money. We would, however, have seen the beginning of the degradation of the supreme court, and we would have had a department of justice bent 011 enforcing the will of the executive against the opinions and consciences of the judges. This is, in effect, the meaning of democracy as it was written in the platform of 1890. Has the democratic party changed since 1890? In Kentucky both factions of the party are for free silver at six teen to one; the John Young Brown faction is opposed to Gocbel because the regular candidate obtained his nom ination by force and fraud. It has been the practice in Massachusetts to elect delegates to the national convention in the several congressional districts anil the four delegates at large in a state convention called for the purpose, Hut George Fred Williams, fearing that if this practice were adhered to this year the democracy of Massachusetts would decide against himself and Bryan, per formed a coup de politique and had all the delegates chosen at the recent state convention. In Ohio a man has been nominated for governor who has al ways frankly courted the friendship and support of the baser elements of his party. The men who controlled these three state conventions will do anything for place and power. Their most admirable possession is the sixteen to one plank. That has the ring of foolish and igno rant sincerity. The rest of their plat forms is nothing but bait for gudgeons. What they say about imperialism and the war in the Philippines does not ex press any convictions or imply any promise. Bryan might bring the troops out of the Philippines without regard to the effect on them or on the Filipinos, but there are many of his followers who would not, and some who believe that the country has assumed some dirties in that quarter of the globe. Whatever they might do in this respect CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1»99- would be entirely dictated by policy and not at all by principle. All that is really clear from the actions and utterances of these three conventions is that the party has not changed in the three years that have elapsed since the last presidential election. It is still for the debasement not only of the currency, but of the political and social life of the country. It is still not only the party of the discontented, of those who would turn society upside down, but of the political freebooters of Tammany llall, whose lessons and influence have at last dominated in the three states whose conventions and candidates we have been considering. It must be dif ficult for self-respecting eitizens.vv lietli er they have hitherto been democrat# or republicans, to.associate themselves with this kind of democracy. —Harper's Weekly. THE GROWING TREASURY. A Trlnmph In Financiering to the Credit of Republican l.e«- (relation. From the present indications the gov ernment's receipts will more than meet its expenditures in the current fiscal year. Throughout the whole of the year which closed last June the monthly out go exceeded the income, except in March, May and June, in each of which months there was a surplus, in the present fiscal year there has been only one deficit thus far, tl»at for July; while in August and September there was an excess 011 the right side which offset the shortage of July, and furnished about $1,000,000 in addition. The half year which will close on December 31, it is now safe to predict, will put a good sized balance on the credit side. Here is a triumph in governmental financiering for which the republican party deserves high credit. At the out set the Dingley law, which was passed in 1897, did not quite meet expenditures. The inrush of imports in the fouror live months in which the law was pending reduced the normal importations of the first seven or eight months of the oper ation of that act, and the pending and the actual war with Spain also had an adverse influence. Then, too, the gov ernment's expenditures made a sharp and material advance even before the war started, and, of course, even though the Spanish end of the conflict is over, the level of outgo yet remains far above the average of the years immediately preceding 1898. Yet the war revenue act, supplementing the Dingley law, arc now providing a sufficient fund to meet all the outlay of the government. Unless there shall be lavish appropria tions for other than immediately urgent purposes a good surplus is reasonably certain in the fiscal year which closes next .June, while the chances, of course, are that the balance shectwill be even more favorable in the next 12 months, unless some of the taxes are dropped in the interval, which is not likely. The great improvement which has taken place in the government's finances as a result of republican legislation will un doubtedly make tens of thousands of votes for the party in the election of 1900. —St. Louis Globe-Democrat. PRESS OPINIONS. ITTMost of the democrats have about made up their minds to take Bryan if nobody else will accept. Chicago Times-llerald. in?*lf Mr. Bryan is making $2,500 a week by delivering hard luck lectures, the joke is on the people who pay the money. —Washington Post. ICMr. Bryan is not talking about ex pansion or free silver in Kentucky. lie • says bluntly that if the democrats don't get together there will be no chance for Bryan in 1900. Two words for Bry an and none for Goebel. —Chicago Inter Ocean. ICAfter a prolonged effort Coin Har vey has secured contributions in Ne braska for the silver cause amounting to $2,058.50. He wants it distinctly un stood that he has not yet caught a glimpse of Gen. Prosperity.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. ICSenator .Tones, of Arkansas, chair man of the Bryan national commit tee, reports that he can see no prosper ity in the United States. Southerners who are getting seven cents for cotton can. Besides, Mr. .Tones is a very sick man.—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. PMr. Bryan cannot delude the labor ing men of the country into believing that a 40-cent dollar is better ilian a liundred-eent one. The Illinois Federa tion of Labor has dropped from its con stitution the demand for free silver coinage at the ratio of sixteen to one. —St. Louis Globe-Democrat. S3"Senatot Ilanna is surprising flic people of Ohio, as lie has done more than once before. They thought they knew him well, but they were not pre pared to see him stand on the same stump and hold his own with such a famous orator as Senator Frye. Even to those who best know his abilities. I Senator Ilanna is a man of unexpected resources.—Cleveland Leader. icy'The patriotism of the country was never higher than at tliis moment; and there is just one thing in the mind of every true American to-day, and that is that our flag which has been assailed in the Philippines shall be triumphant, anfl those who assail it shall lie defeat ed. And hostilities in that distant is land of Luzon will cease whenever si 17 | the people recognize the authority anc sovereignty of ihe United States."— President McKinley. 63* Mr. Aguinaldo makes public proe laination that the democratic party ol the United States is his ally in rebel lion against the United States. The Atkinsonian anti-imperialists will doubtless circulate that document with pride as proof that their work has not been in vain. But there are a great many loyal and self-respecting demo crats who are not yet ready to be classed among the enemies of theii country and who will vote the othet way.—Troy Times. THE PRECIOUS METALS. Tin- Director of flie Jll.it VurniahFi Intorentini; Data a« lo (lie Produc tion of 4-ol.t and Silver. Washington, Oct. 20. E. H. Roberts, director of the mint, has made the fol lowing report on the production of gold and silver during the calendar year 1898. lie says: The production of gold in the I ui tcd States in the calendar year 1898 was 3,118,39s line ounces, of the value of $04,403,000. The amount of gold produced from tpiartz mines In 1*93 was 2,500,00<) fine ounces: and from placer mines 31*.000 fine ounces. Tin* South Afri 'an republic produced 3.831,975 ounces, of the value of $79.- 213,9;).':; Australia produced 3,137.041 ounces, of the value of $64,800,800. These three countries are the great gold producers of the world their output aggregating 1o.o»s,017 ounces, of the value of $208,537,753. or 73 per cent, of the product of the world. Next comes Russia, witli $25,463,400$ Canada, $13,775,400; India, $7,781,500; Mexico. $s 500.000. and China. 80.078,- 700, These f've aggregate 92,080 kilo grams. valued at $01.599.000, or over 21 per cent, of the whole, leaving 0 per cent, to the remainder of the world. The United States still occupies sec ond place as a silver producer, to which it was relegated by Mexico in 1597. lit 1898 it produced 54.438,000 fine ounces of silver, with a commer cial value of $32,118,400, against the Mexican production of 50,738.000 ounces, with a commercial value of $33,475,400. Together, they produce 07 per cent, of the world's product. No other country approaches them, Ihc nearest being Australasia, Bolivia, and T'eru. The product of the last two is somewhat uncertain, but none of the three exceeds 12.000,000 ounces. The world's gold production in IS9B was 13,904.303 ounces, of the value of $287,428,600: an increase over the pro duct of 1897, of 2.351,831 ounces, val ued at $48010.600. Since 1887. when about $100,000,000 were produced, each year has shown an increase over the preceding one. There is no reason, says the report, to expect any cessa tion of this steady annual increase for some years to come. The Transvaal lias not nearly reached its limit; Aus tralia— particularly West Australia is not yet half developed; Alaska and the Yukon have only fairly begun to pro duce, while the recent steady in creases in Colorado and."flier western states, show no signs or abating. The world's consumption of the precious metals in the arts and manu factures during the year was, in new gold. 97.804 kilograms, of a value of $05,000,000; and in new silver, 1.005.289 kilograms, of a coining value of $44,- 273.000 and a commercial value of $20,- 200,000. FANATICS AND FOOLS. lirorjjla'n (Governor llatlll* lliat Tliay are Itcapouail>le for the Increase of I rime In ll«at Mate. Atlanta, Gu.. Oct. 20.—The Georgia legislature met in regular session yes terday and the message of Gov. ( and ler was read. The chief executive took the position that there should be the strictest economy in the adminis tration of the school fund of the State •ind pointed out the importance of re stricting the work of the public schools to the elementary branches. If education in text books caused a decrease of crime, he argued, that would be sufficient reason for impos ing even heavier burdens, lint lie point ed out that while education litis decreased illiteracy among the ne •jroes, crime has increased. Gov. Candler devoted several para graphs of his message to the twin sub jects of crime and mob violence. lie referred in general terms to the crimes in different sections of the state, taking the position that the unusual amount of crime by lawless negroes and the consequent, unprece dented amount of mob violence can be laid at the door of intermeddling fa natics and fools who do not know anything of the situation in the south, nor the real relations of the people of the two races. lie believes that al most, if not all, of these criminal acts on the part of the lawless negroes can be traced to the people whose utter ances, in their newspapers and through incendiary letters sent to the negroes in the south, have greatly ag gravated a situation which they pro fess to deplore. A NERVY BRAKEMAN. Was Dyiim. but I'laced Torpedo* on the Track and Mopped a Train. Motion. Ind.. Oct. 20. —"Kid" Birch, a freight brakeman, yesterday gave an extraordinary exhibition of nerve. 110 was on a train that left this place at, 2 a. m. About three-fourths of a mile outside of town he fell between the cars. Both his legs were crushed off, and his body fearfully mangled. The train crew did riot miss him until the train reached Delphi, when thev notified **•< t:»»n»jin«l HiHion*. Chicago. Oct. 20. Twenty-four mil lion dollars is to be demanded through the courts from corporations in Cook county for violations "I the Illinois statutes. State's Attorney Dineen will make the demand in a few days bv filing 3.000 suits. The purpose f state every year. Fnilurt to comply is punishable by a fine ol ««» #«•» a «t» ■ i | 44 It is an 111 Wind j I That Bloivs Nobody Good.'' j J That small ache or pain or 'weakness ♦ tis the "ill 'wind" that directs your at- S tention to the necessity of purifying 112 ! your blood by taking Hood's Sarsapa- 2 1 rilla. 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