2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MULLIN, Editor. Published Every Thursday. TF.KMS OF SUBSCRIPTION'. Per fear 00 If paid in advance l 50 ADVERTISING RATES Advertisements arc published at the rate of one dollar per square for one insertion and fifty 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 /avertising per square, three times or less, is?; each subsequent mser t on 10 cents per square. Local notices 10 cents per line for one inser- RPrtion: r> cents per line for each subsequent ©on«ecutive insertion. obituary notices over five lines. 10 cents per line. Simple announcements of births, mar rinses and deaths will be inserted free. Business cards, five lines or less. $5 per year; over five lines, at the regular rates of adver tising No local inserted for less than 75 cents per issue. JOB PRINTING. The Job department of th 1 PRESS is complete •lid affords facilities for doinir the best class of work. PAKUI RI.AK ATTENTION PAIUTO LAW PKINTINO. 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 Good Example. The subject of food adulteration was brought to the attention of a recent grand jury at Philadedphia, which made a special presentment on that subject, saying that "the adulteration of food is a matter of such vital im portance to every member of the com munity that the strongest measures should be taken to prevent and punish the crime." Special attention was sailed to the fact that it is not always the retailer who is sit fault, but that very frequently the adulteration is made by the wholesaler or manufac turer. The Pennsylvania law prohib its the use of borax, boracic acid, sal icylate of sodium and salicylic acid as preservatives in any article of food, and this provision of the adulteration act is relied upon in many instances to secure convictions, these preserva tives being frequently used by milk dealers. The Pennsylvania oleomar garine law is also quite severe, there tail dealer being held responsible even if he himself bought oleomargarine in the belief that it was butter. One of the officials of the Canadian police at Niagara Falls tells the follow ing story in the Buffalo Commercial: "A German from Pennsylvania blew in the (,ther day and asked the officials if there was anything about tlie place worth seeing. 'You zee,' he said, 'it's shust like dis: My frients und frail tole me I should take id in, und 1 vant to take everyting in der iss to zee. Day did zay der was soineding great here, und 1 forgot id alreaty, und 1 haf walked all ofer und see nodings.' The visitor was at once taken to the finest ■view of the falls, where he stood a few minutes looking around. 'Well?' paid his conductor, at last. 'Veil?' re turned the man. 'I zee nodings.' "Don't you see the falls?' 4 \ at! Dot vuter falling? Iss 'lot for vat I cum all dis vays to zee, a licldle vater tlrip ping? Acli, Gott! Igo me home.' " Here is a corker from tlie Valilosta (Ga.) Times: "Smith Myddleton had u novel catch while fishing in the rivet on Saturday. It was the occasion of the fish fry given by Mr. Will McKee tc u party of young people at Yaldosta, Smith put out a trout line, baited witl» minnows, and in a short while went back to see what the results were. Tc his surprise he found a four-pound trout 011 one of the hooks, a big catfish on the other and a crane on tlie other hook. Such a catch of fish and bird lias not been recorded in this section before." If Mr. Myddleton had only put out another hook he might have made a good catch. A not very courteous author, replying to one of the interview syndicates that had propounded the question: "When do yo.u wite, and what do you get for what you write?" said: "I write when I please, and it's none of your darn busi ness what I pet for what I write'" But when the managing editor of Ihe syn dicate informed him that he merely wanted to know his terms so that, he might forward hitn a check for some work he had in view the uuthor changed his tune and wrote six pages of infor mation, with an apology in postscript. When the yacht America, in August, 1851, beat 17 British yachts, the news was 13 days in reaching the United States. No New York or P.oston paper had from its own correspondent over 500 words describing the contest. Most of Ihe American papers covered the race with brief clippings from the London journals. Newspaper enter prise has expanded in the 4b years since the America made her brilliant run around the Isle of Wight. leading her nearest competitor 20 minutes. C'. G. llerr, of Lancaster, l'a., has re ceived a letter from a person residing in the west in which ten dollars is sent to him as conscience money. The writer says that many years ago he stole a set of old harness Irom Mr. Ilerr's father, and, having since then turned over a new leaf, the money is forwarded to wipe out the old score. Our agricultural department is not satisfied with the fact that ail perfumes are manufat t ured abroad, and has sent agents to the Mediterranean region to bring back tlie Bulgarian rose and other plants from which fragrant extracts lire derived. Their culture will be test ed in various parts of the I nited St»tf6 MEANING OF THE ELECTIONS. The Policy of tb<- AdmlniHtrntion SuNtninrd in All Hut Two Stale. It v.ill not require many facts to make clear the falsity of the demo cratic elaii:- that the president was re buked in all the states, that voted on Tuesday. Hegin with .Massachusetts. The republican plurality is nearly 00,- 000; it was, considerably larger last year because, on Tuesday, the repub lican vote fell off nearly and the democratic only .'i,0(lO, and this with tla> open indorsement of the demo cratic ticket by the mugwumps and anti-expansionists. Mr. Bryan will not be elected president in 1000 by states whose republican majorities fall from 80,000 to 00,000. Tammany car ried (ireater New York, but by much less than its usual majority. The re publicans gained elsewhere in the state. New Jersey and Pennsylvania made it clear that they would stand with the republicans a year hence. Coming to the president's state it can be claimed that the republicans have rarely won in Ohio a. more emphatic triumph. In an off year, in the face of open treason and secret treachery in official places, with a candidate using hundreds of thousands of dol lars to debauch voters, and with fac tional jealousies, the rank and file of the republican party in Ohio have given Judge Nash about as large a plu rality as President AlcKinley received in 1896. Forcing the question of ex pansion to the front in. lowa in the most aggressive manner, the repub licans have gained thousands of votes in that state. The republicans have also carried Kansas and South Dakota, if the result in Kentucky has no na tional significance it has given th? democratic leaders a feud that will distract them for years to come. The democrat s carried Maryland and Mr. I'ryan carried his own state. They carried Maryland upon a platform which was carefully silent on the money question and because of the dissensions created by a few would-be bosses in the republican party. It is not probable that the Bryan party can carry Maryland next year on the Chicago platform, with Mr. I'.rvan as a candidate; and if they could—if by Goebel counting out laws the solid south should be arrayed for the I'ryan ticket, Nebraska and Colorado are not sufficient, with the gain of Kentucky and Maryland, to elect Mr. I'.rvan. In Maryland and Kentucky, in 180<>. Pres ident McKinlev received 20 electoral votes, and in Kansas. South Dakota anil Washington Mr. I'ryan received 18 votes. The votes of these states are more certain for President McKinlev in 1900 than is Maryland for Mr. Bryan. There was nothing in Tuesday's elec tions to indicate that one northern state, great or small, which voted for At.'Kinlev in Ist»(> would not vote ror iiiin next Indeed, wherever there was voting on Tuesday, except in Maryland and Nebraska, it sus tained the policy of the president, even when a part of that policy is stigmatized as imperialism. Indian apolis Journal. ECHOES OF THE ELECTIONS. ComiiM'iilm of in JinirnnJ* 011 tli<* lii'MtiltM in tin* Vnri ou m Slatt'H. CT-Col. Bryan will perceive that he has failed to talk "imperialism" to deal h.— Chicago Tribune. C7"The result in Ohio was as em phatic an indorsement as a president could have from his own state in an off year.—lndianapolis Journal. CAs a prelude to the year 1900 elections on the 7th were a solid as surance of renewed republican suc cess. —St. Louis Globe-Democrat. (ETTliere is some doubt about what question the democracy will take up next year, but there is a prevalent be lief that it will prefer something else. —Milwaukee Sentinel. C ft will be the height of political stupidity for the opponents of the president's policy to attempt to de tract from the force and significance of the vote of confidence in the na tional administration registered by the people of Ohio. —Chicago Times- Herald. 3 If the friends of William .T. Bryan are not wholly deprived of sight and sense thev must perceive that the state elections terminate his political career. The voters did not indorse him or his principles. They sustained the administration and its policies, which lie has attacked. —Y. Times (Gold Item.). •crTuesday's elections resulted in a magnificent iiwlorsenu fit of repub lican policy and demo list rated the fact that the people of the country are un touched still by the silver heresy and the traitorous sentiment that would haul down the flag raised by tlie valor of American arms in the Philippines. St. Paul Dispatch. tWThere is no concealment of tlid fact that republican leaders want Bryan renominated, and are will ill sj" to sacrifice Nebraska for the present fin tie theory that lie is the easiest man TO beat, as he will always stand for the silver issue, no matter how he attempts to avoid it, and on this issue the republicans are confident they can win.—Chicago Tribune. McKinlcy's policy has been vindicated by then suit iu Ohio." said Assistant Secretary Yandcrlip "Considering the conditions it was a remarkable victory. The triumph of tl:e fusionists in Nebraska means that Bryan will be a candidate next year I l»is is what every republican wants. r,s he will be the easiest man to de feat. In lowa the result is significant as the platform declared emphatical ly for sound money and expansion. The result in this state is particularly gratifying to the party and points clearly to republican su'/'ess next rear." CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1899. PREPARING THE WAY. Th* President"* I'lllllpplne I'ollc) Receive* the Fnlleat Indorxe inent a* a I'eucemuker. President McKinley's administration has had uo stronger words of justifica tion, we will ne>t say of defense, than were found in the very noteworthy speech of Hon. Elihu Hoot, his new sei retary of war, delivered recently at the Marquette club dinner at Chicago. He made complete answer to the auti-es pansionists. He emphasized facts that had in part been told heretofore, but which the anti-expansionists had either refused to hear or failed to remember. These facts cannot be repeated too often or be remembered too long. Secretary Koot. says the problem which confronted us in the Philip pines was how to hold back the un counted hordes who surrounded Manila, how to keep in subjection the 200,000 Filipinos in the* city who had been or dered to rise and massacre every Eu ropean, while we were waiting during the rainy season until a new army could be raised and sent si third of the way around the world to take the place of the returning volunteers. Seventeen thousand of the latter have been brought back, and a new army of 27,- COO has taken their places. Seventeen thousand more are e>n the way. 17,000 in camp ready to start, and by the er.d of November. Secretary Hoot adds, 65.- 000 American soldiets, the best youth, of America, will be ready for duty in the Philippines. The secretary called attention again to the fact that we arc not fighting the Filipino nation, because there is none; that there are hundreds of islands in the Philippines, inhabited by over •;.> tribes, speaking more than six lan guages, and every tribe but one read\ to accept American sovereignty. Ad miral Dewey, (ien. Greene and Presi dent Scliurman says the Filipinos are ne>t fit for self-government, and the in surgents themselves only demand the right of self-government under the pro tection of the United States; the right to make war, but only with our help/. The vast majority, including the men of property anil intelligence of the Filipinos, are anxious for pence, and the secretary declared that "we ai.. fighting against the selfish ambition of a military dictator brought from exile by an American ship, furnished With arms by American soldiers, who lias been permitted to gather all the forces of disorder, has attained supreme power by the assassination of his rival, and maintains it by the murder of every one whom he can reach who favors the United States." The secretary believes that as longiis the American people stand behind the American soldier he will maintain the honor of his Hag. Tin se are not mere words of sentiment; they come from one e>f ultra-conservatism, a student of the situation, a man trained in thought anil naturally possessed of a judicial temperament. We are among those who believe that the anti-expansion sentiment in this country has been greatly overestimated. The tendency of the times is clear. What Charles Kendall Adams, in his interesting ar ticle in the Atlantic Monthly, calls "the ever irresistible encroachment of the Occident upon the orient, of the mod ern spirit upon the spirit of antiquity," is noticeable among all the great na tions of the world. "It is," says Mr. Adams, "thes substitution of the rail road train for the ox-cart and the cara van. It is electricity driving out the rushlight. It is the white man ever civilizing the red man or pushing him out of the way." lie might, have added thai it is open ing tlie doors that have been shut; ii is blazing tlit way with weapons of war for the entranee of perpetual peace. In the words of Rev. Lyman .I. Abbott, at the recent international Congrega tional council at Boston: "When-con science and reason are wanting, and either despotism rules by the red dened sword of anarchy runs its wild amuck, the Christian must meet sword with sword and awaken conscience and reason through the wholesome fear of a stronger arm." Bishop Thoburn, fresh from the Philippines, said as much in his recent interesting contri bution to these columns, and it is this thought and not thirst for blood or an eager pursuit of plunder that animates the sentiment, of the American people in reference to the Philippine question. —Leslie's W'eeU.y. CURRENT COMMENT. (CM r. Pry a n would doubtless be well content to have Kentucky forget v lack of proper t ranr portal ion. Company C. of the Twenty-sixth regi ment, had the only lighting. When three miles out of Jaro this company '•harged the rebel trenches and three of the enemy were killed. One Amer ican was wounded. (Jen Hughes on November 12 occu pied Ti.ghanan and (liiimbal on the southern coast and also Cordova in the interior. The enemy ili'l not. op pose t •<•!). Hughes' advance Uecent orders from Aguinalcio found in the. trenches said: "Do not oppose the Americans' advance. Hum the vil lages as thev arc evacuate*!. Divide the forces into bands of 40. Ilarrass the \mericans on every oci avion Arancta. the rebel leader, of the island of I'anay, was captrfr>d at Tag hanan while atteni|>ting to pass the lines into Hollo. Two battalions will garrison lloilo and J;*ro. San Miguel, visible from lloilo, has been burned by the rebels FOUR FOUND GUILTY, Defendant* in lli«* I'amoii* "Corncob" r them. The witnesses brought in by the gov ernment came fro u a do/.en stales, showing how widespread was the operation of the scheme to defraud. It was the plan of the defendants, as shown by the testimony, to write to the mayor or postmaster of a town, telling 11ii■ i that a corncob pipe lac torv could be established tor SI,OOO and operated at small expense, while the profits were represented to oe large. The men, whose headquarters were at Washington, Mo., would then offer to sell suitable machinery for <7OO to?!) 00. In each case where a factory was putin operation It was corncob pipe market. The govern founil next to impossible to dispose of the product, so overstocked was tne ment alleged that the price asked for the machinery was so excessive as to be fraudulent and that the purpose of the defendants' letters was to cause an inordinate demand for machinery which could not be profitably used. of Chicaffo, president of tin American Steel and Wile Co., anil William Ede burn, ol New ork, yesterday closet! negotiations with J. \\ . Dravo iV- Co., of this city, for the purchase of 0.000 acres ol ore land for a new organiza tion known at, the I'rited States Min ing Co. The price for the property is $1,000,000. It lies on the border line between Alabama and Tennessee and is underlaid with a vein of iron ore. The Cnitcd States Mining ( o. is said to be a part of the American Steel and AY ire Co., and its organization is be lieved to be another step of the com bination tow arils independence Iroir outside concerns. A Judge IClijoilli'd. Louisille Ky.. Nov. 16.—Judge St*-r --limr I*. Ton cv. whose mandamus is sued on election day for the admis sion of Honest Election leag.ie inspec tors to polling pine"s caused the prin cipal excitement of that day.was yes terday restrained bv the appellate court at Frankfort from taking anv farther action in the contempt eases growing out of the order, (in 1 ues dav :; r . alleged violators ol Judge To nev's orilers were bo.ind over by liiin in the sum of s'oo each. >i -;er.lay he was proceeding with the cases and had sentenced one prisoner to •■(! hears in jail, when the order of the appellate court was receivi d. V 'luriler in u Court Itooin. St. Paul, Minn., Nov. l'.'.--Fied (Jiiion ye-tcrday shot and I.tiled James Miller, the shooting occurring in the office of Jrstice of the Peace Smith. Miller's head was bIA-.vn oil his brains hem:." scattered ovur the room. iiuion then pointed The gun at Justice Smith. He was on the point of firing when Attorney Harta rushed towards him and knocked Ihe muz/It of the siiot was tired and did no harm. (iuion w:is then overpowered and turmil over 11 th" police It is ruders'.oad .Smith and M :ll er had a business ills ag'. eemi nt. A <'atas«l li» lit l Sold. Pnltlmore, Nov. 16.—Negotiation* are pending for the s;:le ol t'i * I.ake Drv.nnioiu! Canal and Water • •... which owns the Dismal Swamp caaid. A New York syndicate is anxious ti secure the property. The canal was surveyed bv (ieorge Was'iington and was construct 111 en:l> in the century. It »\a-. lal • 1 possession of by tiie go»- ' rmnont duriu«. v the civil wir. at the close of which it wa- returned to the owners in a
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