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The Job department of the PRESS iseomplete and affords facilities for doing the best class of work. PARTICULAR ATTENTION PAID TO 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. An exchange is trying to get Up a controversy over the grammatical con struction of the phrase: "The United States." It is a poor time to start uuch a quarrel. Everybody is quite sure just at present that the United States is, grammar or no grammar. John C. Baldwin, a life convict- in the Sing Sing penitentiary, has been pardoned by Gov. Roosevelt because ihere is no doubt of his innocence. He has served 22 years in prison for a crime which he never committed. Baldwin was a victim of circumstan tial evidence. It seems as if the limit of humilia tion has come at last to the horse, lie has been used as a beast of profitless burden, cut up into sausage meat and otherwise abused in the flesh, and now doctors are making a drunkard of him in order that with his virus they may destroy drunkenness in that unrelia ble animal, man. As a producer of pig iron the United States has a large lead over other pro ducers, the output for iS99 being about 13,500,000' tons, while that of Great Brit ain was less than 10,000,000 tons, and that of Germany 8,000,000. Out output was last year 0,000,000 tons in excess of that of 189G, when the smaller quantity was sold with difficulty. The return of Paderewski to this country recalls a remarkable fact. In ISS3 Roentgen was professor of physics, Paderewski was an instructor in music and Tesla was an instructor in elec tricity, all of them being in the fac ultyof the University of Strasburg. At that time they were unknown to the world; now there are probably no three men who are better known. Miss May Howard, a "society coach," who sued Mrs. Frances Augusta Skin ner for services rendered, has been awarded $5,000 by a New York court. The coach seems to have become a fixed American institution. Backward stu dents. football elevens, boat crews and other college athletic teams have had them for years, and now women with social ambitions are employing them. The consummation of the United Str.tes' "open door" policy in China is considered as one of the greatest dip lomatic strokes ot modern times. By it all the European powers become pledged to a pacific policy of commer cial expansion and the United States secures every desired advantage of trade without meddling in the affairs of China or forming any entangling alliances. Bells have been the same shape for so many years that, everyone naturally supposed that it was the very best shape for them, but now up jumps a bell maker who has discovered that the proper shape for the bell is tubular. It is stated that the discovery w ill make a revolution in bellmaking. All of which goes to show that if we insist, upon stay ing in the old rut we will never know what there is outside of it. One of the most remarkable coinci dences 011 record has come to light in Lynchburg, Va., and Augusta, (ia. In each city there is a Walter Clark whose father was named Samuel and whose mother's maiden name was Walker. Both Walter Clarks have brothers named Samuel and William, uncles named Charles and John and an aunt named Elizabeth. Yet the two men cannot trace any relationship between the two families. Norway now has a new flag, and it is all her own. The Swedish flag was forced upon the Norwegians in 1814, though the constitution gave them an emblem of their own, and ever since that time they have been fighting for their rights. The king has vetoed every attempt that has been made, but now the storthing has for the third time voted to give Norway her flag, and as the king cannot veto the third consecu tive enactment of a law Norway at last has her national emblem. The new flag bears no symbol of the union between Norway and Sweden. The government has a peculiar case or. its hands from Hawaii. C. 1). I'rin gle, a merchant, has taken possession of Cocoanut island, the most, famous spot in all the islands, and claims (he place vndcr squatter's rights. The government lays claim to the place be cause of its having been set aside bv the old monarchy as a quarantine station for the harbor of Milo. Our minister has notified I'ringle to leave, but he has thrown up a small fort and says lie is prepared to defend his claim by force if necessary. He lias appealed to Washington. t/SING THE SURPLUS. Svuntl II tii« In run Pulley of Secretary (•nice in Ills I've of Caovern mriit Knmla, When Secretary Fairehild refused to use the surplus revenue in buying bonds and deposited it in certain banks, Wil liam McKinley, February 29, 1888, at tacked this treasury polity. His speech then is having a wide cur rency now in democratic papers with short memories and an insufficient knowledge of the facts, it is quoted in criticism of the present policy of the treasury in increasing bank deposits by $5,250,000 in December. Some papers quote this speech of President McKin ley 12 years ago without knowing the facts, and some because they know the fa«ts. Both are wrong, wittingly or unwittingly, and both mislead, as the facts show. The surplus of treasury income over expenditure in the past six months was $21,000,000. This was the first, surplus of income over expenditure in six years. Secretary Gage lias bought $19,277,000 of bonds, par, between October 1 and December 31, and the premium on these bonds and interest anticipated on the January payments make the total out go by the treasury considerably larger than the surplus. Secretary Gage has, in short, us ed all and more than all the surplus of income over expenditure dur ing the first half year in buying bonds, and President McKinley's administra tion Las for the first.linie in seven years resumed payments on the sinking fund. When .Representative Mclvinley, Feb ruary. 188S, made his attack on Secre tary I'airchild the income of the treas ury from July 1, lss~, to March 1. 1888, was $253,000,000 and the outgo $183,- 000,000, leaving a surplus of $70,000,000. The reduction of the bonded debt was $44,551,510, par, between the same dates. Instead of spending nil the sur plus and considerably more in redeem ing the debt and easing the money mar ket, as Secretary Gage has done, Secre tary Fairehild spent considerably less than the surplus on the debt and de posited the balance. For the fiscal year ISS7-S the surplus was (111,000,00(1and the par of bonds bought was $70,109,850. For the eight months dealt with early in 18S8 by Mr. McKinley and for the fiscal year attacked in the republican national platform of that year the treas ury had refused to spend the surplus in the redemption of the debt, leaving the balance on deposit in the banks. Secretary Gage, instead, lias used all the surplus in buying bonds and then disposed a floating balance so as to ease trade and save public and private credits. In other words, President Mc- Kinley's secretary of the treasury lias done exactly wlmt Representative Mc- Kinley urged that Secretary I'airchild should do. Having done tl's. additional public needs of trade, commerce and ex change have been met by increasing the treasury bank deposits. If Secretary Fairehild had done this in 188 Sand 1889 the treasury would not have rolled np the great balance which Secretary Windom had to use ir ISOO to avert panic during the Baring failure. The one sound principle is to return treas ury receipts to the channels of trade, first by bond purchases, and w hen this is over by bank deposits. The business community knows and understands this, and no business men are deceived either by the attacks on Secretary Gage's policy now or the quotation of President McKinley's utterances when a representative.—Philadelphia Press. THE ELECTIONS OF 1899. Conil 11 lon m Which Are Nol I.ikcly to Jse Uepcaleil in the Oomins Caiiiiini^n. In ten only of the 45 states, a smaller number than usual, were there general elections in the year 1899. This is the record of the vote in each: Repub- Demo- Vari- State. llcan. aratic. ous. lowa 153.520 10,590 Kentucky 1K5,714 1!U.331 17,r>24 Maryland 1I«,286 J2\4<» 0,494 Massachusetts 148,902 103,802 26,442 Michigan 216,828 165.452 16,835 Mississippi 42,173 ti,li97 Nebraska 94,213 Ohio 417,199 368,176 122.7M Pennsylvania. 455,000 SlT,."ill 2<',Wi-l Rhode Island 24,! well stocked with money ;i-nd the banks seein to be relying on legitimate profits. — Balti more American. ITTChairman .(cues, who is to be dropped by the democratic national committee, is reported t > lie angry. ■:nd it is feared in some quarters that he may deal Bryan a body blow by coming out and declaring that pros perity has returned, after ail.—Chi •ago Times-Herald. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1900. A CERTAIN STANDARD. Sullent Keaturm of ihe Currency 11111m That Are !\ow llefore (ongrm.i. The passage of one of the currency bills before congress will be the log ical result of the last, presidential elec tion, the. election of ltys and of the course of events. The real issue was between a gold and silver standard in 1890. With a timidity which ill befits a great party, many republicans were reluctant to declare for the gold stand ard, but the convention did so by a decided majority, with the proviso of one more atempt to bring about inter national bimetallism, which, at that tunc, no one who had watched the drift of •sentiment in Europe and had weighed the effect of the doubling of the output of the world's gold mines believed had the ghost of a chance. It is fair to say that the issue in 189G was between the gold and silver stand ard, since there is not an intelligent man who has any information regard ing the history of coinage in his own and other countries who will not con fess to himself that free and unlimited coinage at the ratio of sixteen to one would bring the country to a silver standard as soon as it should be adopted. The country declared against, the silver standard in defeating Mr. Bryan in 1890. Two yearn later six teen to one was made the leading issue in the congressional elections. Again the country, having to choose between the gold and silver standard stood for gold. The democrats in the east, ex cept those controlled by Tammany, were elected upon platforms which as sumed that the question of standards had been settled. The party standing for the gold standard won states which voted for Mr. Bryan in 1896, indicat ing that the sentiment in favor of the gold standard had grown because of the good results that followed from the decision of the country in favor o- that metal. Such being the case, the republic ans in congress, by virtue of their pledges, were in fluty bound to estab lish the gold standard beyond ques tion by requiring that all the obliga tions of the government shall be paid with gold. Such a requirement may seem unnecessary, since the United States has had a gold standard since 1834, when, undcu the influence of President Jackson, a democratic con gress changed the coinage ratio, mak ing the silver dollar worth more in trinsically than the gold. But while the gold standard has been in force practically, it has not been fixed by law in such a way as to prevent the president from putting the country on a silver bas-is by declaring that, all Uie obligations of the United States should be paid only in silver. The peo ple having declared in two general elections in favor of the gold stand ard, the congress elected 011 that is-- sue would be recreant to duty and 1111 mindful of the voice of a majority of the voters if it did not place the gold standard where it cannot lie set aside except by an act of some future con gress. (living what lias been the prac tice of the government for t>s years— the payment of its obligations in gold —the force of law and placing the gold standard on a secure basis arc the salient features of the currency bills before congress. The bills simply make certain what has been the prac tice of the country. They do not change the character of a dollar of the money now in use. —Indianapolis Jour nal. RECEIPTS INCREASING. SiiceeMM of the 111 nRI e y Tariff Ilcing DemonKtrated in SaliMtantlxil M (inner. While the increase of over $40,000,000 in the receipts of the government for the first six months of the current fis cal year over those for the correspond ing period last year is a matter for national congratulation it is especial ly gratifying to find that the customs receipts have shown a proportionate increase. The returns for customs and internal revenue for the last six months of 1599, compared w4th the cor responding months of 1898, are as fol lows: Internal Customs. Revenue. ISM, last six months...sll3..V.KM7o $152,301,225 1898, last six months... !i0,630,557 137,583, CM) Increase $ 18,2»,fi13 $ 14,717,54: It will be perceived that the increase from c lis to 11 is is greater absolutely, as well as relatively, and demonstrates the success of the Dingley tariff as u revenue producer. Increasing cus toms receipts is an invariable sign of national prosperity. An increase of some $7,000,000 in the receipts from miscellaneous sources swells the total receipts to $254,79: i , or $40,108,389 more than was re ceived from all sources during the last six months of 1898. For the first- six months of the cur rent fiscal year the excess of national revenues over expenditures was $21,- 116,994. —< Chicago Ti mes-H era Id. ICCandidate Bryan and Chairman .tones, of the democratic national com mittee are said to be at. loggerheads because of the candidate's declaration IhEt the appointment of a new chair man would be satisfactory to him. For a man who has not yet secured the coveted nomination, even though it may be in sight, Mr. Bryan seems to take little pains to keep his old po litical friends in line, and his failure to do this may even yet cost him dear. —Troy Times. ID'Tlie republican control of both houses of congress is easy and com ! plete. This fact is being demonstrated every day. The silver element in thin senate will not be able to delay greats Iv the passage of the currency reform bill which has gone through the house, or one so nearly like it that either measure will serve the purpose of the other. —Cleveland Leader. THE PROSECUTION CLOSES. Letter Ko* Agency Proprietor lllvn IC\lilciiee Agaluot .Hiiliiiriil. New York, Jan. 18.—The prosecu tion yesterday practically closed its case against Holantl B. Molinettx, on trial for the murder fo Mrs. Katherine J. Adams, with the introduction of the testimony of Nicholas Heckinan, pro prietor of a private letter box agency, where Molinettx is alleged to have hired a box in which he received patent medicines from mtinufacturers. lleck man testified that he had known Mol ineux by sight for five years and that he had seen him 150 times. On May 27, 18<»h, Molineux went into witness' place and engaged a box for receipt of mail. He gave his name sis 11. C. Barnet. Witness testified that Molineux came in about 20 times for his mail, which w:is mostly medicines. Witness remembered putting in defendant's box a. package of a certain jxiwder. This powder is the one in which it is alleged cyanide oa mercury was con veyed td Barnet. Witness never knew Harry Cornish. Recorder GofF took the witness *n hand and asked whether he had been promised any reward for his testi ni/my. Heckinan replied: "Absolute ly none. I don't expect any reward and I dc.n't want tinv." A LOQUACIOUS WITNESS. lie fatINCH I lie flit rli liribcrj lin estiva lion to liall for 11 Time. Washington, .lan. 18. —William J. Cook and William F. Rector were be fore the senate committee on privi leges and elections in the Clark in vestigation yesterday. Mr. Cook is an official connected with the Thomas Cruse savings bank, of Helena, Mont., and his testimony related solely to the deposit of money in the bank by per sons who were regarded as representa tives of Mr. Clark in his contest for the senate. Mr. Rector proved to be a somewhat irrepressible witness, volunteering more information than he was asked far. He thus brought the Lewis and Clark county grand jury investigation into the committee inquiry, contrary to the intentions of the committee. The intrusion of the matter caused the defense to raise the point as to whether the charges in connection with the grand jury should be entered upon, and the committee adjourned until Friday next without deciding it. To take up this phase of the question would materially extend the inquiry. IS STEERED WITHOUT WIRES. Test of an Invention to be In il in i onneclion with Torpedoes UIHI Oilier Sithmarlne ( rait. London, .lan. 18—Lieut. Commander Col well, the United States naval at tache in London, witnessed yesterday at Yoevil the test of an invention of fered to the United States government for steering torpedoes and submarine craft by means of a wireless electrical device on the lines of the Marconi system. The invention, however, is in no way connected with Signor Mar coni. The patents are held by Cecil Yarieas, an English inventor, and an employe of A. C. Higgs, United States consular agent at Weymouth. The experiments left no doubt that craft can lie directed by means of an ether wave, the model being controlled by a shore motor with no other connection save the current working upon the rudder. The inventor claims that this can be applied to torpedoes and submarine craft. KobcrtN 4'ommlttec Is Hi tilled. Washington. .lan. 18. —The special committee of the house of representa tives to investigate the case of Brig ham 11. Roberts, of I'tnh, has reached a final conclusion. On the polyga mous status of Mr. Roberts the com mittee is unanimous and agrees upon a formal statement of facts, tin the quesition of procedure to be adopted the committee is divided. The major ity. consisting of all the members ex cept Littlefield, of Maine, anil J)e Ar mond. of Missouri, favor exclusion at the outset. Messrs. Littlefield and He Armond will make a minority report favorable to seating Roberts on his prima facie rights and then expelling him. Warship* to Utieort Jltile Tran«port». New Orleans, Jan. 18.—It is stated here that there are British warships within easy reach of the Mississippi, assigned to the duty of escorting the mule transports wi..en they shall have been loaded with animals from New- Orleans for South Africa. The presence of the warships in the gulf waters is said to have been brought about by advices received at the British war office in London to the effect that two old hulks had been fitted out by- American sympathizers with the Boers, with the avowed intention of captur ing and sinking the mule transports as soon as they left the mouth of the river on their voyage across the At lantic. It cl oses to tall an lislra Mewtinn. Springfield, 111., .leu. 18.—Gov. Tan ner yesterday refused to call a special session of the legislature to enact a relief law, which it is claimed is made necessary by the Illinois supreme court deciding unconstitutional «lie limitation clause of the new revenue law. The refusal v.as made to a dele gation of Chicago business men, who argued that the taxes under the deci sion would be increased from 2(1 to 50 per cent, in Cook county. Gov. Tan ner said it would be impossible, rtwing to democratic opposition, to obtain the necessary two-thirds majority to •»a ss the mini red legislation. IliiiiiK to ilk Africa. New York. .lan. is.—The steamship St. l'aul, which sailed for Southamp ton 011 Wednesday, hail 011 board a number of men who are en route to South .Africa to do some lighting. Among them was I-'. I!. Burnhatn, a icout. who has seen much service 111 the lOnglish araay. Mr. liurnham was .villi Lord Roberts wli 11 the latter was in India, ( apt. 1!. 10. Harris and I,s son I'dix, from San Antonio, Tex., laid they were going till the way to Vfrica "ID get in the s. run." 'I hey would lo.t, say which side they arc *oing '••• ght for. RIVER CROSSED. Buller's Troops Ford the Tugela and Surprise Boers. The Sllfiiif In l(> ul a Ifritlhli Advance HIHI na> ■ liiilily Nurirul'ul IIUITK Snlll lo IK- lli n|laily Mail from 1 Mete rmsu'i tz I >i\ rg, dated Tuesday, says: "There was very heavy firing to the north yesterday. I believe the lioers are contesting Gen. Buller's pas sage of the Tugela. Howitzers were evidently busy, as the firing is de scribed as the heaviest vet heard ia Natal." London, Jan. If.—The Times pub lishes the following dispatch from Spearman's Farm, dated .January IT: "The force marched westward on January 10. Lord Dundonald. by a dashing movement, occupied the hills above I'etgieter's Drift, 13 miles west of Oolenso, taking the lioers com pletely by surprise. The same even ing the infantry followed, (ien. Lytle ton's brigade crossed the river yester day and to-day sh(t 1 led the Boer trenches beyond with howitzers, (ien. Warren's force is now crossing Trich ardte Drift, five miles above, lie is not opposed, although the Boers are holding a position five miles from the river." The other morning papers are out with extra editions confirming the dispatch from Spearman's Farm to the Times. The Daily Telegraph's correspondent says: "I am permitted to wire from Spearman's Farm that Gen. Lytleton ferried and forded I'otgieter's Drift aml seized with little opposition a line of low ridges a mile from there. Dur ing the night a howitzer battery was carried across. To-day, from Mount Alice, near Swartzkop, naval guns and howitzers effectively shelled the Boer position, which is strong. "(ien. Warren also crossed the Tu gela.six miles farther t-'> the west,near Wagon Drift, with all arms, in the face of a heavy fire from Boer cannon and rifles. He has effected a most satisfactory lodgment two miles fur ther on toward Snroenkop." This news completely disposes of the statement that Sir Charles War ren's force went in the direction of Weenen. and tends greatly to restore confidence in (ien. Buller's tactics. The supposition that he had divided his forces into three columns had giv en cause for anxiety. It is now seen that such a view was erroneous, as Gen. Huller's forces are concentrated. In Cape Colonv Gen. Methuen has made a demonstration in force, shell ing the Boer works. Gen. Gatacre is skirmishing around MoltenO, and (ien. French has been throwing a few shells at the Boers at Hens-berg. Col. 1 Mum mer is moving to the relief of Mafe king from Bechuanaland. lie is now in command of less than 2,000 men. Matching is in a bad way. The siege is being pressed with determination and the Kaflirs are deserting because of pinched rations and the necessity of eating horse meat. The Standard's account of the as sault upon Lady-smith shows that the garrison was surprised and that sev eral times the situation was critical. Out of a detachment of 30 Gordon Highlanders who surrendered, every man was wounded, sa*s the corres pondent. Curiously enough, this is the first mention of the capture of Highlanders. The Boer repulse at ,advsniit.h was the heaviest counter stroke of the war. The government is relaxing its ef forts to send out reinforcements. It is undecided as to wnen the eighth 'ivision will be shipped. The war oflice declines the offer of a third battalion of Northamptonshire militia, saying that no more militia will be sent abroad. It seems prob able that only 5,0b0 instead of 10,000 yeomanry will be mobilized. The correspondent of the Times at Lorenzo Marquez says: "An old British resident in the Boer republic, who has just been expelled, informs me that. 10 per cent, of the Free State commandos are British or British born, who have been compell ed to tro to the front. The Boers are so disappointed and disheartened that he predicts that a single big reverse would be followed by a wholesale dis persal of the Free Staters, who are disgusted with the Transvaa.lers. "They have no money and no fool stuffs, except unground wheat and mealies. In consequence of defective transportation the men at the front often go for days without food. HI He ammunition is running short, and what was condemned by (ien. 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