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The Job department of the PKESS is complete and affords facilities for doing the best class of work. PARTICULAR ATTENTION PAID TO 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 tor in advance. Waste in lornflelriH. The editor of Wallace's Farmer com putes that lowa loses $8,000,000 a year in ungatliered cornstalks. In making this estimate he puts the value of the cornstalks at the low rate of one dollar an acre. On the same basis of valua tion how much do Minnesota and the Dakotas lose? W ; ould not the sum at least reach the million mark? Such loss is appalling. In the corn belt it reaches a prodigious sum. It must be stopped. No nation, how«?Ver prosperous, can af ford to waste the gifts of a kind Provi dence. The man who only cuts half his hay would soon be dealt with by the authorities. But where is the dif ference in such a course and in leaving cornstalks ungathered ? The excuse made for not cutting cornstalks is the scarcity and dearness of labor. The remedy is not an impossible one. Grow less corn anil turn up some other kind of food that can be harvested at some other season. The ability to grow so much corn is fraught with promise to the live stock interests of the country. It means that two or three limes as much live stock will some day be grown as we have at. the present time. Mrs. J. C. Croly, who has just rounded her 70 years, is the Mteral embodiment of the woman's movement, being not only the progenitor of woman's club dom, but the pioneer press woman of the country, says the New York World. Few of her contemporaries know that her pen name, "Jennie June," is one of the sweetest reminis cences of her childhood. When she was only 32 a gentleman who had beep vis iting her family wrote to a friend: "She is the Juneist little girl I ever knew!" In after years when she made her first adventure into print and sought for a signature she remembered the quaint fancy and promptly became "Jennie June." Augustus Rice, of Cleveland, aged 35 years, of stalwart form, a sailor, and steeple climber, while en route from Green Bay, Wis., to Baltimore to board ship, was run over by a train at Sand patch and his foot crushed. Bice is tattooed from head to foot. On the leg, just above the crushed foot, is a beau tiful tattoo representing the stars and stripes, lie begged the doctors piteous ly not to mutilate the stars and stripes, saying: "Please save the old flag, I love it," just as he was overcome by the unaesthetic. The doctors were able to make amputation just below the em blem, and when Rice recovered con sciousness he shouted with joy to know that tlie flag was saved. Oklahoma enjoys the unique distinc tion of being the only state or territory east of the Rocky mountains which produced more wheat in 1899 than in 1898. The government statistician at Washington gives Oklahoma credit for 1,218,000 acres in winter wheat and a crop of 10,202,000 bushels. Only 12 of the 40 states of the union raised more wheat than Oklahoma did this year. The prominent grain states which produces less than Oklahoma are Mis souri, Illinois, «lichigan, Kentucky, Tennessee, Maryland and Texas. During a recent holiday in New York the price of American Beauty roses went up to the usual figure of S3O a dozen and remained there. Pinks sold in some places for four dollars a dozen. But it was the azaleas that brought tho highest price. A basket of them was made up by a certain florist for a mil lionaire. The millionaire was a regular customer, but his basket cost $175. "The women of Wichita," remarks the Kansas City Journal, "have been canvassing the town for subscriptions in aid of the poor. They tackled L. It. Delaney, of the Santa Fe, in a cigar store. He had just one nickel in his pocket. He took this out, walked over to the slot machine and dropped it in Out rolled five dollars in nickels, which Delaney piled into the apron of one of the women." There are some men, says the Wash ington Post, who feel that the highest round of greatness has not been achieved until they have been tucked away in a public office with a colored gentleman stationed at the door to keep out the fellows who whooped it up for them. AS DEMOCRATS SEE IT. Independence for Filipino* llcium ucndcd by llrynnlte Rcpre— ■rnlalirri. The democrats in congress have not been able to agree on a Philippine pol icy as yet-. A few days ago Representa tive Williams, of Mississippi, offered a series of resolutions which, it is under stood, express the views of Mr. Bryan. Those resolutions propose that the United States shall recognize the right of the Filipinos to national independ ence, and shall withdraw its land and sea forces upon "the inauguration of a constitutional government or govern ments by the people of the islands or any of them." Were the American forces to stop fighting. Aguinaldo would set up in a day what, he and Representative Williams would call a "constitutional government," because there would be a written constitution which would be so much waste paper. Then it would be the duty of the l"nited States to move cut. But under the res olutions it would have to protect for ten years the "constitutional govern ment or governments" against the ag gressions of foreign powers. Senator Bacon, of Oeorgia, has of fered resolutions regarding the Philip pines which, though they differ from those of Representative Williams, are, it is understood, favored by many dem ocrats. These Bacon resolutions de clare that it is not the purpose of the United Slates to maintain permanent dominion over the Philippines, but that it contemplates the establishment of au independent government there ul timately, and that when a stable gov ernment shall-have been established un- PROUD OF IT. tier American supervision, "competent and worthy in the judgment- of the United States to exercise the powers of an independent government and pre serve peace and maintain order within its jurisdiction," then national inde pendence shall be given the Filipinos. The difference between these two sets of resolutions is considerable. One set contemplates the abandonment of the islands by the L'nited States when ever the Filipinos set up what they will call a constitutional government, but which will be a choice mixture of an archism and despotism, cemented to gether with blood. The other set pro poses that the islands shall not be given up until American authority has been fully established and the Filipinos have proved to the satisfaction of the United States that they are competent to govern themselves. They are not now. Humanly speaking, they never will be. They do not belong in the category of self-governing races. The adoption of a constitution will not put them there. What is to be gained, then, by prom ising the Filipinos national independ ence when they are fit for it, when it is plain that they never will be fit for it, at least not until generations have come and gone? The only effect of such a promise, impossible of fulfill ment, will be to encourage malcontent Filipinos like Aguinaldo to keep on insisting that they arc (it for independ ence and shooting at American sol diers to prove it. All these democratic rsolutions—none of \\ liich will be adopt ed—will contemplate recognizing on possible or impossible conditions, the national independence of lh<- Filipinos, serve only to confirm Aguinaldo in the belief lliat he has friends in this coun try, and thus encourage him to keep on resisting the lawful authorities in Luzon. —Chicago Tribune. (CTThe Mobile Register (dem.) says that "not many months ago the dis play of a Bryan picture to an assem bly in a Mobile theater would sure ly a storm of applause, but that time is no more." The other night, when Mr. Bryan's picture was thrown upon the screen, some applause fol lowed, with a few shouts in the upper part of the house. Directly after a MeKinley picture was shown, and it was greeted with applause equal to that given to Bryan. some saying it was twice as loud as that given to Mr. Bryan. "The difference in quantity is of no eonsequeuce," says the Reg ister; "the startling fact being that i Mobile assembly applauded MeKin 'e\ it all."—lndianapolis Journal. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, iooo A PARTY OF JOB LOTS Tl»«* Ileniorrnoy nt Present la a queer Mixture of I'olllleitl Odd* mill Knds. Recently a member of the house in debate referred to Mr. Cleveland as the greatest democrat since Jackson, and the report says the remark caused de risive laughter on the democratic side. The incident serves to show thetorn-up condition of the party. Cleveland is the only man the democrats have re elected since Jackson's day. He re ceived the nomination three times. He is the only democrat who has.reached the presidency since 1850. His second term expired less than three years ago, and yet his name excites nothing but sarcastic merriment among the demo crats in congress. The point seems to be a confession that the one demo cratic president in half a century was one too many. His own party, after re peatedly bestowing upon him their highest honors through a long term' of years, have nothing left, for him but a mocking laugh. If they are right now they were wrong in 18S4, 1888 and 1892, and are simply acknowledging an un limited capacity for making mistakes. No doubt Air. Cleveland has some friends and admirers left in democratic cirrtt s. but they can have little in com mon with the element now running the organization. The party is split up in so many ways that it is next to impossi ble 1o describe them all. There are gold democrats, silver democrats, greenback democrats, expansion demo cats, anti-expansion democrats and oth er subdivisions too numerous to men tion. Only about 30 democrats could be mustered to support the pretensions of Roberts, of Utah, though their new leader in the house tried to point the way. it is true that Roberts lias a par ticularly bail case, and it was therefore a democratic blunder to attempt, to stand by him at all. As the session runs on the public will be interested to see if the democrats can agree 011 anything. Their readiness to be mirthful over their past record is not calculated to in spire confidence in their present or fu ture. — St. Louis Globe-Democrat. DRIFT OF OPINION. Es* After a republican congress passes the gold standard bill the talk of free coinage will be shadow without substance—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. K?" 1 lon. John P. Altgeld says gold is of no earthly use to anybody. If lion. John P. Altgeld. ever runs for office again this may cost him the en tire dental vote. —Chicago Tribune. Every democratic leader sees the folly of going before the country again on the silver issue, but he doesn't see any other issue that olTi-is better inducements. Kansas City Journal. t?S!imp people do not know an an swer when they meet one. llryan still insists that there is a money "ques tion." With him it is probably "How much can 1 touch the committee for?" —Topelta Capital. ICTIf anyone expected that Mr. llryan would favor the currency bill after he emerged from the Texan wilds,he is doomed to disappointment. Still, why should anyone expect Wil liam J. to favor a sound currency measure? lie is not built that way. —Cincirnati Commercial Tribune. IFA Minnesota paper says the coun ty banks are filled with farmers' de posits. Good crops and good polities are a strong team for prosperity on the farms, and many people have dis covered since J896 that the right stamp of politics is indispensable to round out other blessings.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. hawton's last message to his fellow-countrymen on the war in the Philippines should be taken to heart by all, but it is especially appli cable to the anti-imperialists. Just as Admiral Dewey was misquoted by the I lost on enthusiasts, so Gen. Law-ton's view as to the campaign in Luzon were grotesquely misrepresented. In his letter to ex-Minister I'arrett airl read at a banquet in New York, he asks the imperialists "honestly to as certain the truth."' Philadelphia Press. MR. GAGE EXPLAINS. Tlie Secretary Tells Wby Cmtunit R«> eel pin Were lle|>o»llid in Nutlonal ■ln ■■ k». Washington, Jan. 11.—Secretary Gage yesterday sent to congress his replies to the resolutions recently in troduced in the senate by Mr. Allen, of Nebraska, and in 'the house by Mr. Sulzer, of New York. In his reply the secretary says: "First—That the reason for utiliz ing national banks as depositories for public moneys, as authorized by law, will en the receipts of the treasury were exceeding it-s expenditures has been to avoid the disturbance to busi ness which the withdrawal of large sums of money from active circula tion must inevitably cause. "Second —The reason for directing the internal revenue receipts into de jiository banks at this time is that the revenues are now largely exceed ing disbursements from month to month, and seem likely to do so for an indefinite time. This condition would be a menace to the business world if assurance were not given that this surplus would 1»' diverted from the treasury vaults to public deposi tories. "Third—The reason for directing n.ll of the internal revenue receipts to one depository was that it is more convenient to first collect the receipts of numcTors offices info one place and make the <:esired distrlfou. .on from it, than to give new instructions daily to 11 3 collect irs. "Fourth - The reason f} ICimlifcli Wa r«lil|>». liondon. Jan. 11.—The American flour seized till* Delagoa Kay lias been released. I'tilled States Ambassador Choate had an interview with the Marquis of Salisbury yesterday after noon and received a verbal reply to the representations of the Washing ton giverninent. 'The British note on this subject was sent later to the Uni ted States embassy. The gist of it was cabled to Washington. In brief food stuffs are not considered contra band of war unless intended for the enemy. The foreign office only arrived at 8 decision yesterday and it was not un til after Mr. Choate's interview with the Marquis of Salisbury that a note embodying the provisions was drawn up. Several of the government's ad visers wanted to make a regulation regarding canned goods, but. this was decided to be impracticable. The de cision to make flour and grain in •transit to the enemy contraband is evidently hedged in by many difficul ties of execution, but the foreign of fice believes that investigation will generally determine whether the grain is really meant for consumption af Lorenzo Marquez or in Transvaal. Mr. Choate cabled Lord Salisbury's note to the state department at Wash ington and Mr. Hay is expected to re ply accepting the terms. The latter step was not. taken by Mr. Choate, as he had first to receive authority from the state department to do so. ROCKEFELLER'S ANSWER. Standard as Marinas and (ien.'Schwan at Ki lang. all awaiting the arrival of pro vision wagons. ReconnaisLsances have shown that. 2,000 armed insurgents have ret.ired to the mountains from the district l>et\veen Indang and Maig, and tihat others have retreated along the coast from Novaleta toward Ha tangas. Tuesday night Nolan's squadron of the Eleventh cavalry drove a body of insurgents from .Maig. One American was killed and two were wounded. Thirteen tlead Filipinos were found. The movement largely resembles Gen. Sehwan's experience in the sr.me country, except that the towns are now being garrisoned and that the in surgents refuse to fight, retreating soutihward and dividing into small bands, with the apparent intention of reassembling later. The plan of catching a large number between two brigades has failed. About 100 insur gents have been killed, but compara tively few arms thave been taken. The region is full of arnigos, who doubtless have been bearing arms wliicth they have hidden. The women and children remain in their homes and the insurgents, as they fall back, release all prisoners they have cap tured. It is asserted on high authority that Archbishop Nozaleda contends in his interviews with Monsignor Chapelle, the papal delegate, on l>ehnlf of the Roman church and the brotherhoods that the titles to all property held by the church and the brotherhoods in the Philippines should be recognized; that the Roman catechism should be taught in the primary schools; that tihe existing religious orders should continue to administer the parishes; that other parishes should be estab lished under the same control and that the parochial control of ceme teries should continue. In addition. Archbishop Nozaleda advises the continuation of the church's control of pawnshops and certain designated hospitals and schools, together with the establish ment of a special form of parochial administration exaevted by the actual conditions in the Philippines. Final ly, he makes a plea for the continua tion of the present missionary work of tlx- church. The inhabitants of the islands of Leyte ami Samar are suffering from lack of food, resulting from the long blockade. the arbitrary confiscation of property and the levying of tribute by the so-called government of the Fili pinos. The governors of both islands are Tagalos, who are appointed by Aguinaldo. and they hold the terri tories completely in their power, ad ministering local affairs according to their own whims and accountable to no O'lie. The rebel forces, on the other hand, have never lacked food or money. The inhabitants, driven to desperation by the necessity of having to pay four times the normal price for food stuffs, organized against insurgent depreda tions. but. having no arms, they were unable to resist their oppressors. MURDER AND LOVE. They are Strangely Tllxi-d Ip In the Liven ol I'lve tlUMiuriaiik. Mountain Grove, Mo., Jan. 11.—The facts in the suicide of Joseph L. Moore, a man of 70, who shot his wife of 'S-i at their home at Astoria and then killed himself, have just become known. Mrs. Moore, as a girl, was en- ito .lames Winningham, tihe son of a once wealthy farmer. When the elder Winningham lost his property, the girl's father forced her to give up young Winningham and marry Robert Ford. Last year Ford died. When Mrs. Ford refused to marry the aged Joseph Moore, he secured Winningham's promise to aid him in his suit, in consideration of three months' pension—$72. Winningham was successful and Mrs. Ford consent ed to the marriage last year. The father of Mrs. Moore objected to the gossip, about his daughter and Win ningham. and in a quarrel killed the elder Winningham and dangerously wounded the son. Mrs. Moore nursed the wounded man and when he recov ered he was a frequem caller at her home. Her aged husband became jeal ous and committed suicide after shoot ing his wife. She is still alive and may recover. A RAILWAY MYSTERY. A New I.tut Kullt from N0%% here to No u liere by I nkniitlli I'arlic*. Lewiston, Idaho, Jan. 11.—The Pa cific & Idaho Northern railway, now being built from Weisier. in the south ern part of the state, north to Seven Devils, is the most mysterious piece of railroad building in the country. It begins nowhere and ends nowhere, yet over 100 miles of the finest road bed have been built ami cash is paid for everything and only the best ma terial is purchased. No one knows who is furnishing the cash or why the n»ad is being built. Tt is believed, how ever, to be the Vanderbilt connecting link between the east find west. The Oregon Railway and Navigation Co. is to build 77 miles from liiparia to Lewi.-'ton and eventually this piece of rotid will connect the Oregon rail way and Navigation Co. with the Ore gon Short Line. This will make it possible to start a car at New York City 'and pull it to Portland. Ore., on tracks owned by the Vanderbilts. A i udge AOMiMkllluted, Florence. Ala.. Jan. 11.—Judge W. P. McClure, of the probate court of Lauderdale county, was assassinated Til- - !ay night. Wednesti iy morning his Ixwiy was found in the street, the rain beating upon the upturned face. He had been rich lied with buckshot. Illoodhoumls have been put on the traciv of the murderer. Allen'* IViimloii Kill. Washington, .lan. 11.—Senator Al len has introduced a bill granting a pension of $lO a month to every sol dier and sailor who served in the civil war for three months or more. TWO MEAN TOWNS Itorles Told bjr Traveling .Men About a Couple of Decidedly I'oor risrei to Live In. They were talking about bad towns. "The meanest place I ever was in," said ihe man who travels for a Chicago house, "is lown in Massachusetts, bay, do you know what happened while I was stopping thero snce? A man had fallen through a hole in ;he sidewalk and sustained injuries that re uilted in the loss of his right arm. He sued ihe city for damages, and the case was tried oefore a jury, which, the papers said, was :orriposed of representative citizens. Well, what do you suppose they did to him? Brought in a verdict in favor of the city, holding that inasmuch as he was left-handed us injury didn't amount to anything." "Yes," the cigar man said, "that's a pretty mean town, I admit, but I know of a worse ine. This place is in Pennsylvania. An ac juaintance of mine down there was injured some tunc- ago in pretty much the same way the man you mentioned got hurt. He fell on i bad sidewalk and lost one oi a»