2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MULLIN, Editor. Published Every Thursday. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. f'er year JQ 00 r paid in advance 1 bO ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements are published at the rate of one dollar per square for one insertion anil fifty cents | ei square fur each subsequent insertion. Rates by the year, or for six or three months, are low and uniform, and will be furnished on application. Legal atid Official Advertising per square, three times or less, »2; each subsequent mser t on . 0 cents per square. Local notices It) cents per line for one inser- Bsrtion: b cents per line for each subsequent consecutive insertion. Obituary notices over five lines. 10 cents per line. Simple announcements of births, nmr riat'es and deaths will be inserted free. Uu.-inoss cards, five lines or less. $5 per year; over ttve lines, at the regular rates of adver tising. No local inserted for less than 75 cents per issue. JOB PRINTING. Tin' Job department of the PRESS iscomplelo and affords facilities for doing thi- best class of wnrk. PARIH I I.AH ATTENTION PAIDTO LAW PRINTING. No paper will bo discontinued until arrear ages are paid, except at the option of the pub lisher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid lor in advance. Men with Schemes. Men who have been prominent iitl public life and have retired to tho fields of quiet business are in con stant demand by the man with a scheme, snvs the Chicago News. If the promoter can only secure the name of some well-known man in con nection with his money-maker, either as stockholder, director, or president, the public is ready to take an inter est. Kx-Mayor George 15. Swift was talking with a party of friends in the rotunda of the Great Northern and telling - of the army of men with schemes who called upon him. "Be fore Col. G. K. Davis died we were dis cussing- this ever-present man," said Mr. Swift. "The colonel had them call upon him by the score. It is rather funny to listen to some of their stories. All he wants is just your name, not a cent of money, you know. He will make you president of the company, which will make anywhere from $200,000 to $1,000,000 a year. You do not need to sign a paper, all you need do is to draw your pay and spend the money. Sometimes I find myself nearly believing- these fellows, as their yams are so good." Things Looked Dark. A very agreeable talker, an educated colored man, addressed the students at Adelbert college the other day, says the Cleveland Plain Dealer. lie talked in terestingly about his experience in his chosen profession, that of a lawyer, asserting that on but one occasion he ever met with discourtesy at the hands of white inen during his legal expe rience in his native state, Virginia. This happened in a backwoods hanile', where the general ignorance of the inhabit ants was some excuse for their boorish ness. In the course of his remarks he perpetrated an unconscious humor that brought a smile to the students' faces, and drew a laugh from the speaker him self as soon as he realized the sugges tion in his statement. "I started out in my profession with somewhat gloomy anticipations," he said. "When I reached Alexandria, where there were 7,0C0 col ored people, everything looked dark." It was fit this point that the smile ran around. Several days ago Dr. Alvey, says the Morgan field (Ivy.) Sun, of Waverlv, drove to town in a buggy. Upon his ar rival here he discovered that one of his hens had ridden all the way with him in the back end of the buggy. The doc tor had togo further down the road, so he "shooed" the hen out of the ve hicle and left her here. l)r. Alvey was gone all that day and night and a part of the next. The hen, in the meantime, found her way to Jailer Snodgrass' chicken coop, where she spent, the night. When Dr. Alvey re turned to M organ field the next day he put his horse in a livery stable, and, of course, the buggy belonging to the medicine man was only one of a large number about the stable. lint, strange to say, that old hen seemed to know when the doctor returned, and, with a remarkable display* of .animal instinct, picked out his I uggy, got back into her place and waited for the doctor to start back home. A barn in Aroostook, Me., has long gone unshingled because the farmer who owned it was too infirm to climb to the roof, while one cf his sons had gone to war in tin- Philippines and the other to the Klondike. The other day, how ever, the farmer's only daughter came home from the normal school and shin gled the burn as well as any man ip town could have done, and she didn't once pound her lingers with the ham mer, either. A Maine paper tells about a woman G."> years old, living in Wise-asset, who, recently deserted her fifth husband because, as .she told the court,"he wasn't her style." The husband testi fied that for eight years he had been obliged to get ail his own meals and do the family washing besides, and thereupon the justice 'granted the di vorce asked for. An old authority, gives directions for the most restful position to assume after great weariness. If very tired lie on the back, the knees drawn tip, the hand* clasped above the head or rest ing on the elbows, the forearm at right angles, and the hands hanging over by the bend of the wrist. THE NEW SPEAKER. Policy of Iteed'n Successor Is Hlftlit ( In I.lne Willi Iteiiablican I'receplM. The republican house caucus has rati fied unanimously the conclusion reached j by the members some months ago by » nominating Gen. Henderson for the ] speakership. The brief address in j which he returned thanks to the can- 112 eus for the honor done liini contains t two passages which may be interpreted as an indication of the policy the new • speaker intends to pursue. Hesaid: 112: "May I impress upon your minds the ab solute necessity for devotion to the repub- lie In more than one particular. Kconomy must be our watchword; care In the ex- 1 penditure of the people's money. At the :i same time let us be large enough in In- ( tellect to grasp the situation which pre sents a growing country with opening and ' oxpanding conditions which demand our i careful and patriotic consideration." «. . Gen. Henderson is for economy and 1 . against harmful parsimony. When Mr. Heed was speaker lie opposed and t 4reqnen-t ly defeated expenditures which, i he deemed extravagant or needless, j He was always in the palli of every rep- t resentative who wished to raid the | treasury to "strengthen his fences" in his district. As a rule, the appropria- » tions which Mr. Ueed opposed should 1 not have been made. The fear liasdieen ; expressed that the new speaker will be less stubborn than his predecessor; i that his natural obligingness will cause j him to yield to demands of fellow- 1 members which he knows in his heart t are improper. Some democrats have i been predicting that with him in the THE REMNANT COUNTER. Aunty Democracy lias a grait collection of odds and ends on her bargain counter which she hopes to dispose of as a job lot in 1900. chair and the republican party in power in both branches of congress and the white house the chief business of con gress will be to make extravagant ap propriations. thus giving democratic orators something to talk about in the next campaign. Geij. Henderson's dec laration that "economy must be our watchword" may be taken as a denial of the truth of those predictions. That both duty and expediency bid the re publican party in congress be econom ical is beyond question. The caucus decided with little oppo sition that the lieed rules shall be re adopted. Almost the only objector was Col. Hepburn, who wanted lliose rules modified so as 1o require the speaker to recognize each member as he rises, thus tailing from the speaker a dis cretionary power of recognition which it is claimed has been used oppressive ly sometimes. This determination to reenact the Ueed rules, the enforce ment of which by their author has been complained of bitterly by many repub licans, may he taken as an indication that those rules will not be enforced so harshly by the new speaker as they have been sometimes by his» predeces sor. When (ien. Henderson said to the numbers of the caucus: "1 ask that I may lean upon you—each one of you," he intimated that he did not assume he had been elected the despot of the house, but the exponent of the wishes of the republican members whose votes are to put him in the chair. There is reason to believe no republican will have just cause to complain of the Ueed rules as administered by Gen. Henderson. They will enable tlie republican party with its slender majority to enact need ed legislation, but rot be used to frus trate the wishes of a majority of the re publican membership.—Chicago Trib une. CTThe silveritesliave not got enough, it seems, and are bent upon another Waterloo, which tliev will undoubtedly meet. No matter what congress does, the fight will be on in the summer tin- i less there is some terrible cataclysm, j For congress, therefore, to puss a law ! establishing the goM standard will not 1 materially stimulate the silver lunacy, and it will give stability and confidence to business, lialtiyiore American. ICOn the republicans of the Ftfty- | sixth congress, and on lion. David Bremner Henderson in particular, rests a responsibility which we do not doubt their capacity to discharge. But they should not try to do too much. After all, talk is the chief business and pleas ure of congress, although everywhere of making laws there is no end. —X. Y. Sun. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1899. CURRENCY MEASURES. Chief Feature* of lite House Hill 'i'liat Will lie Considered by GonKrcH, The chief features of the house bill are those which relate, to the metallic standard. The substance of the bills has reached the public, but heretofore in somewhat disconnected- form. The following is a synopsis of the main fea tures of the house bill: 1. That the present gold dollar is tin standard unit of value in the United States. 2. That all interest bearing obliga tions of the United States for the pay ment of money, now existing or here after issfied," find all United States notes -and treasury notes shall be deemed to be paid in gold coin, and that all otherobligations, public and private, shall be performed in conformity with tlus standard. 15. That,there sltfill be established,'in the treasury' artment a division of, issue and redemption, which shall kfey;- a gold reserve for the maintenance <».{ the parity of money, separate fj-om fin? fiscal operations of tin- treasury. 4. That a gold reserve shall be con stituted equal to 25 per cent, of the com bined amount of United States notes and treasury notes oustanding. !">. That the secretary of the.treasury may sell three per cent, bonds payable jn gold whenever necessary to liYUintain the goldiiese'rvc at it' proper amount, and to maintain the parity of all forms of money issued by the United States. These provisions are sfl clear cut and straightforward that they practically explain themselves. If enacted into law they will place the United -States among the other advanced commercial nations, with gold as the fixed stand ard of value. The senate bill has not yet been given final form, but differs mainly from the house bill in creating a stronger gold reserve and giving the secretary of the treasury even broader powers. The house bill would provide a gold reserve at. the outset of about $112,000,000. The senate bill will place this amount much higher, probably at ihe even sum of $150,000,000. The house bill provides for maintaining the silver dollars at a parity with gold by author izing the secretary of the treasury at his discretion to exchange gcjd coin for any other money issued or coined by the United States. The senate bill is expected to leave no discretion to tho secretary, but to put every holder of a gold or silver dollar upon the same plane by providing for exehangeabUity of either coin for the other at the will of the holder. — American Heview of Re views. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. ICThe stacks of New England fac tories will pay no attention to the "No Smoking" signs Mr. Bryan proposes to ereot in that section. Washington Post. .Tones says the demo crats will pursue a definite policy in congress to create issues for the cam paign of 1900. This conception of the duty of a party differs from the popular idea that congressmen are elected to legislate for the general welfare. —In- dianapolis Journal. C7populist Coin Harvey will get a job under the democratic national com mittee. He will be chief educator and will endeavor to show just how pros perity is a fraud and a delusion. But wliilc tit it. why didn't the committee get a democrat to do the work?—Win ciirfiati Commercial Tribune. CThe democrats are still rejoicing j over the result in Nebraska, but the re j publicans have more reason to be jubi | hint over the returns from that state than the democrats. The Nebraska dem.-pop. victory will bring two things about which will be of immense benefit t.o the republicans. It will j delude the democrats into nominat ing- Bryan next year, and it will incite them to make a fight on expansion. Here are two considerations which will make tin* task of the republicans in 1900 easy and pleasant. If the democrats knew their business they would put mourning rul. s around the election fig ures from Nebraska. —St. Louis Globe- Democrat. HIGHLY ENCOURAGING. Gen. OtlM ll<-porn a Number <>l Success- ES* -A I'iirlu in tlic < IOIHIN I 'lie I'ur* milt of Aisuliiuiili) 'l.ii>in'* Surrend er. Washington, Dec. 14.—The secretary of war regards the information con veyed in (ien. Otis' dispatches yester day as the most important that has come to hand for months past. Tho capture of Mahini, reported by Mac- Arthur from Bayuuibuug, is especially gratifying. It is believed that the Filipino leader was trying to make his way across the country from Ban gued where he had been obliged to part company with Aguinaldo a fort night ago- to the east of Luzon. The members of the Philippine commission now in Washington declare that M:t bjui was (he head and front of the in , surrection. Aguinaldo was only a t-iVHt ilaii's HciiKir) Frrnldenl .'lcKinley llelivcrs an Attdr«M>M. Washington, Dec. 15. —With cere monies beautiful uud appropriate and in the presence of a distinguished assemblage tin- centennial of tin; death of George Washington was coinmeniorated at Mt. Vernon yesterday. That Mt. Vernon should have been selected as the scene of the exercises was peculiarly fitting. There it was that the happiest inci dents of Washington's life occurred. There it, was, too, that lie died, and there all that was mortal of him was laid t-o rest in a mausoleum overlook ing the P6tomac. Yesterday's ceremonies were elab orately planned by the Masonic bodies and the Red Men of the United States. The movement for the day's observ ance originated in lso.'f with the' grand lodge of Masons 'of Colorado, the proposition being made by Wil liam 1). Wright, grand master of Col orado, who was present to witness the carrying into effect of his idea. Charge of the ceremonies incident to the commemoration wsa placed in the hands of Masons of Virginia, it being it), the Old Dominion that Washing ton was obligated as a Master Mason and there that he participated enthu siastically in Masonic work and ob servances. The officers of the grand lodge of Virginia and the membership of Fredericksburg lodge, in which Wash ington! was made a Mason, and of Washington-Alexandria lodge, over which he presided as master, had the chief part in the duty of seeing that the observances were appropriate. That, the duty was well performed was evidenced by the solemnity and beauty of the ceremonies and by the im mense concourse of Masons present. Thousands were in attendance from all parts of the country, and almost every jurisdiction in the United States and a few from foreign countries were represented. At Mt. Vernon the procession formed in line at the mansion, where. Presi dent, McKinley and other distinguished guests, joined in and moved to the old vault where first reposed the remains of Washington. The procession was formed and moved in the exact order and over the same path which was fol lowed at Washington's funeral. Halt ing at the vault the Third cavalry band played a funeral dirge and A. M. Randolph, bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Virginia, offered an invoca tion. This was followed by an ad dress by the grand master of Masons in Colorado and the procession then moved onto the tomb where the re mains of Washington now lie. Here occurred the impressive serv ices of the Masonic ritual. The grand masters of the JCioriginal states formed in line facing the representatives of the other- jurisdictions and -the grand lodge and other brethren stood in a circle around the tomb with joined hands. Then the grand mister of Virginia called 11 , upon each the juris dictions in turn for the messages and tributes sent by them. The grand nfasters then deposited their wreaths and evergreens and the craft slowly marched past, laying on the tomb their tributes. I'pon reach ing the mansion the lines were drawn up and President McKinley delivered an "Ploquent oration. The services concluded with a bene diction by Rrother Calisch, rabbi of a Richmond synagogue. At 3 o'clock a delegation of the Im prover! Order of Red Men, in chnrga of the great ineohonee, George E. Green, of Hinghamton, N. V., and Charles 11. Litchman. of Marblehead, Mass., ar rived at Mt. Vernon to pay the tribute of 220,0(10 lied Men to the memory of Washington. lie was one of the foun ders dtt-the Sons of Liberty, to which the lieil Men trace back their origin through varying names. . After the great prophet, Robert T. Daniels, had invoked the Great Spirit, Acting Great Ineohonee Litchman pronounced the oration upon Wash ington. He was followed by the great chief of records, Charles 11. Con ley, with a beautiful message to the Red Men of the world. In conclu sion he deposited within the tomb a handsome silk flag on a standard to which was attached four ribbons of the colors of the order —green, orange, blue and scarlet. George Washington memorial serv ices were held in this city at 'lie Church of the Epiphany under the auspices of the patriotic societies of the District of Columbia. The church was crowded. The Episcopal form of service was conducted jointly by the Sons of the American Revolution, Colonial Dames, Colonial Wars, Sons of the Revolution, Daughters of the Revolution, Daughters of the Amer ican Revolution, and the Society of the War of IHI2. The bishop of Wash ington officiated. New York, Dec. 15. —In commemo ration of the 100 th anniversary of the death of George Washington, services were held in churches and schools and by several patriotic societies of this city yesterday. The memorial serv ices in St. Paul chapel were held by the Sons of the Revolution and the Society of Cincinnati. It was in St. Paul's that Washington worshipped while the first congress was in ses sion in this city, and the pew which he occupied is still preserved. 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