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The Job department of the I'RKSS is complete, and affords facilities for doing the best class of work. PARTICULAR ATTENTION PAID TO Law Printing. No paper willbe discontinued until arrearages are paid, except at the option ofthe publisher. Papers sent out ofthe county must be paid for in advance. POINTED COnrilENT. The surplus during the present fiscal year will do nicely for beginning the Nicaraguan canal. It is only common decency for the United States not to add at present to England's difficulties. England's nerve in calmly continuing her seizures, ia taking away the breath of the nations of the world. "Mystery hunting" goes on unabated in both Houses of Congress undiscour aged by continued failures to make a bag. If Col. Bryan has been informed that he has a chance of winning this tall, he must be like Lord Methuen deceived by his guides. It was rubbing it in for Col. Blake's Irish brigade to march the captured Irish Fusiliers into Pretoria under the Irish flag. *. * Governor Smith of Maryland, though a Democrat, is an expansionist. He believes that he can be Governor and retain his seat in Congress. It is nothing new for the Govern ment to deposit money in National banks. In Mr. Cleveland's first term, he deposited over'§s'J,ooo,ooo, The Daily Slush Bucket has missed a trick. It hasn't yet sent a correspon dent to Manila to describe Mrs. Aggie's captured undergarments. The Czar explains that he is merely experimenting when he sends his troops to the borders of India. He doesn't mean anything—yet. Senator Beveridge says that the Philippines are one of the garden spots of the earth, and that Luzon is healthier than New York. It is rather late to say it, but we are constrained to remark that Emperor William has decided to see to the short coming of the twentieth century. Col. Bryan denies that he intends to ride an ostrich. But he will attempt the infinately harder task of again at tempting to ride the Chicago platform. It is probable that those gory tale s from Kentucky are exaggerations, but if they prove true the United States government will preserve order there. * * Five hundred American cats have been sent to Manila. Where is Petti, grew? He should resolute towards this contemplated tyrany towards free born rats. While Billy Mason is presenting resolutions of sympathy with pretty much everybody, he should not neglect St. Lewia and the Chicago sewage canal. What lias become of Mr. Watterson'? He was billed in large letters to appear at the Jackson-day iove feast at Omaha but he didn't show up. Why this thusness? An indication of the prosperity of the c juntry under the present administra. tion, is found in the fact that in last November alone, orders were placed for 11,281 cars and 396 locomotives. The wonder is, not that Senator Cul person should wish not to lead the Democratic hosts this fall, as it is that Senator Jones of Arkansas should wish to do it. Democrats who expected anything from Mr. Sulzer's resolution to investi gate Secretary Gage, should have studied the former's record of results and compared it with his list of at tempts. Buokion's Arnica Salve . The best Salve in the world for cuts, bruises, soren, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains, j corns, and all skin eruptions, and posi tively cures piles, or no pay required, ft ia guaranteed to give perfect satis faction or money refunded. Price 25 r--nts a box. For sale by L. Taggart. No better barometer of business can be found than the railroads, those great transporters of the pro ducts of industry and labor. The gross earnings of all roads in the United States, reporting to Dun's Review for the first half of Decem ber showed a gain of 10.1 per cent, over the prosperous year 1892. The difficulties which surround the men who are trying to frame legislation to regulate trusts are illustrated by the fact that the British government, with its strong centralization, linds it impossible to draft legislation to control trusts, which arc quite as prevalent and successful in that country as in the United States. Democratic spellbinders are now evolving a theory to show the dis advantage of increased wages. Higher wages, they will say, mean, of course, greater cost of produc tion and necessitate a higher charge for manufactured articles, and the farmer is therefore compelled to mortgage his farm to buy silk hats and rosewood liayrakes. Mr. Bryan will please make a note, for use on his Eastern con verting tour, that 011 January 2 of the new year the wages of 25,000 Pittsburg steel and glass operatives were advanced five and ten per cent., and in some cases even more. Under Mr. Bryan's method this occurrence can doubtless be ex plained into a misfortune. The efforts of the free-traders to veil their attacks upon the protec tive tariff, which has brought ac tivity to thousands of factories and given employment andbetter wages to several million American work inginen, under the guise of an anti trust crusade in the coming cam paign will not succeed. All that is necessary to do is to point to the nourishing condition of trusts in Great Britain, well known as the home ol' free trade. The action of the administration in bringing about an "open door" agreement among nations with reference to our commerce with China has awakened general inter est in our trade with the Orient and its prospective development, and many leading men in the Dem ocratic party, both North and South, are cordially commending the course of the government in its efforts to develop our foreign trade in that part of the world. Some of the Western railroads are complaining that, after making great efforts to secure adequate transportation, the farmers are holding their grain instead of slop ing it. This is interesting when it is recalled, only a few years ago the farmers were not able to hold their crops until prices suited them, but were forced to sell at the earliest possible moment to enable them to pay their debts incurred under Democratic rule. The farmers are enjoying their share of the present good times. Senator Kyle's reasons for de termining to vote for the gold standard are simply an example of the conditions which are causing many other leaders to abandon (lie silver cause. He says, "Though I am a bimetallist and have been so from conscientious conviction for twenty-live years, I would rather take the most undiluted gold standardism than accept bimetal lism with the ingredients of radical socialism that are now associated with it. We have been practically operating under the gold standard for thirty years, and having brought ourselves into harmony with the monetary systems of the world, it is a doubtful proposition whether it is right to again disturb values in the world when by such action we do injustice to the creditor class and at the same time put ourselves out of joint with the rest of the world.'' The gold which is going to Europe need not worry the calamity criers at all. It is going there be cause it commands a higher rate of interest there than can be obtained for it here, and not for the purpose of debt-paying. So long as the trade balance is in the neighbor hood of forty million dollars monthly in favor of this country, it will not be necessary to export gold to Europe for debt-paying purposes. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1900. JJIEEXXXXUXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXJIXXXIIXXEXSEEXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXS ii JASPER HARRIS' jj ** M " nF.IMF.PAI M II □ I CLEARANCE - SALE! 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The man who 112 ? misses this sale is a loser. *5 M M N N §2 M »< N II THE PEOPLE'S CLOTHING HOUSE, I N 25 »« METZGER'S BLOCK, OPPOSITE POST OFFICE, EMPORIUM, PA. " »« 11 Ixxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxsxxxxxxxxxxxxsxxxxxxxxxxxsxxxxxxxxxl LATE WASHINGTON NEWS. President McKinley Assists Demo cratic Probers--The Financial Bill in the Senate--House Canal Bill Attracts Attention. WASHINGTON, Jan. 15th, 1900.—"Pub lish copies of every record of my ad ministration, if called for," is the sum and substance of President McKinley's instructions to the members of his Cabinet. That is the straight-forward answer of the man who knows that the closer his official acts are studied, the higher his administration will stand, to the roundabout attempts of the Democrats and assistant Democrats to play politics by offering all sorts of resolutions asking for all sorts of in terrelation, so worded as to arouse sus picion in the minds of the suspiciousiy inclined that their authors know of something discreditable on the part of some branch of the administration. This offer to furnish any information desired by Congress, together with President McKinley's request to the Republican loaders in both branches of Congress that they would not take advantage of the Republican majority to defeat resolutions of inquiry offered by Democrats, has disconcerted the Democrats, and they seem in doubt as to what they shall do next. The Democratic Senators seem to bo even more afraid of the financial ques-! tion than were the Democrats in the | House during the debate on the Repub- j lican financial bill. There was some- j thing almost pathetic in the attitude of! Senator Jones, of Arkansas, when he asked Senator Aldrich, who is in charge ] of the financial bill, if no more Repub licans intended to speak on the bill, j and acknowledged that no Democrat j was ready to speak. Senator Aldrich promptly replied that the Republicans were ready to vote on the bill, but were willing to allow its opponents to do all the speaking against it they wished. j So far the only speech in the Senate against the bill has been made by | Senator Stewart, who is a long ways from being a Democrat, notwithstand- J ing his radical silver views. Mr. Bryan j is expected in Washington this week, j enroute to the Eastern States, where j he is going to try to convince the prosperous people that the country isn't getting along all right. Perhaps after they confer with him, the Demo- J cratic Senators will be ready to do j more talking, although rumor says that Mr. Bryan himself has promised I not too much silver talking in the East. The Roberts report will goto the House this week, and there isn't the slightest doubt tiiat Roberts will go i back to Utah, a wiser, if not a happier | man. Mr. G. M. Lambertson, who, in ad i dition to being one of Nebraska's lead- I ing lawyers, is an authority on State | politics, is in Washington on legal | business. In answer to questions on I the political outlook in the State, he j said he was absolutely certain that the next legislature, which will elect two | Senators, will be Republican. Mr. P. B. Shepard, who is U. S. Com j missioner at St. Michaels, Alaska, says j the action of President McKinley in j making Alaska a military division, | under command of Gen. 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