4 (Earrje-roi) Lou j^ress. ESTABI.ISHKD BY C. B. GOULD. HENRY H. MULLIN, Editor and Manager. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: PER year $2 00 If paid in advance 50 ADVERTISING RATES. Advertisements are published at the rate of one dollar persiiuareforoneinsertion and liflycents per square for each subsequentinsertion . Rates by the year or for six or three months are low and uniform, and will befurnisbed on appli cation. Legal aud OfHctal Advertising per square, three time -or less, s2 00; each subsequent insertlon&O cents per square. Loca 1 notici stencents per line for one insertion, five cents per line for eacli subsequent consecutive incertion. Obituary notices over five lines, ten cents per line. Simpleannouncements of births.marriages and deaths will be inserted free. Business Cards, live lines or li s.; $.5.00 per year over five lines, at the regular rate>, <■(" advertising Nolocalinsertedfor less than 75 cts. per issue. JOB PRINTING. TheJobdepartment of the Pnrcss is complete, and affords facilities for doing the best class ot work. PAKTICI'LAU ATTENTION PAID TO Law Printing. No paper willbe discontinued until arrearages are paid, except at the option ofthe publisher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid for in advance. POINTED COnnENT. As Colonel Watterson expresses it"the country is in a state of helpless prosperity;" and so the Democratic captains are traversing the land in the painful endeavor of trying to find a place whereon to stand. Ex-President Cleveland writes that he can find no evidence to support the claim that "Jacksonian Democracy sanctions the degrada tion of the people's currency." And so Mr. Cleveland differs from Mr. Bryan, who contends that both Jackson and Jefferson were in reality Populists. Manufacturers and their em ployes must have been extremely busy during the year 1899, They increased their importations of raw material for use in manufacturing 33 per cent, over the busy year of 1898 and 05 per cent, over the last year under the Wilson law, while exports of manufactures increased 23 per cent over last year and 50 per cent, over the last year of the Wilson law. .John Wanamaker ought to hire Dr. Swallow to edit his Philadel phia North American. The Doc tor's ideas would fit in very nicely with policy of the North American and lie and John ought to be able to mix lip church and politics about as well as any pair we know of in Pennsylvania.—Bellefonte "Watchman. The British losses in Africa in the last ninety days are' officially reported at over 7,000 men, killed, wounded and captured. This is many times as great as the entire losses of the United States in the eighteen months since the war with Spain began and was followed by that in the Philippines. Yet there is still found, occasionally, a man with the iron nerve to continue to criticize the conduct of our war. The public can have little respect lor the Presidential candidate who spent an entire campaign on the stump urging people to vote for himself, and they must have less for one who spent an entire four years following that failure in ask ing to be given a second trial. There is a feeling that in a position of this dignity the office should seek the man, or at least that the man is hardly justified in making a live years' personal campaign in his own behalf. Ex-Governor Churchill of Ar kansas recently declared himself emphatically for expansion, and warned the Democratic party, to which he belongs, that it is folly to war against an accomplished fact. "I am a loyal Democrat," he said, "but an American citizen, and I stand by the flag and the soldier "who is fighting for it. Expansion is a Democratic doctrine and we uaot honorably recede from it. I do not see for my life how any Southern man can take any posi tion other than for expansion. 'lmperialism' means nothing and is simply used to scare the ignorant. Our flag is planted in the Philip pines and no one is going to haul it down; there it will remain as a beacon light toall Asiatic nations." / Olmsted Argues for Sound Honey. Representative M. E. Olmsted, of Dauphin district, delivered in Congress an able speech on the currency bill, and was listened to with marked attention. The fol lowing are some of the strong points he made in support of the measure: "Those who would tamper with the currency or render its condition uncertain do not take into con sideration the potent influence of credit. Whatever impairs the in tegrity of a nat ion, of a corporation or of an individual, impairs its credit; whatever impairs credit and weakens confidence lessens commerce; and whatever lessens commerce results injuriously to all the i>eople,'' declared Mr. Olmsted. He then drew a comparison of the industrial condition of the country following the election of President Cleveland in 1892 and the present era of prosperity under a Republi can administration. WORK IX PLENTY FOR ALL Mr. Olmstead read from advance sheets of the annual report of Fac tory Inspector Campbell, of Penn sylvania, that "328,008 more per sons were employed in 1899 than in 189<i; 293,915 more persons were employed in 1899 than in 1897; 182,207 more persons were em ployed than in 1898, and if the demand for skilled workers and laborers could be supplied, the in crease would be greater. "1 have just read," he con tinued that in certain parts of Philadelphia there is great activity in real estate, caused by the fact that workingmen who have hereto fore been content to live in humble rented tenements, are, as a result of improved conditions, beginning to purchase homes for themselves." Mr. Olmsted also spoke of the increase in money in circulation, since the defeat of Bryan, from 821.10 in 189(5 to $25 per capita in 1899, the highest ever known. CONFIDENCE IS RESTORED. In answer to Mr. Newlands' (Nev.) argument that the present prosoerity was due to large crops, Mr. Olmsted said: "But nature is not entitled to all the credit for putting at work 328,000 ad ditional factory hands in Pennsyl vania. Nature is not wholly re sponsible for enabling the great Pennsylvania Steel Company at my home, which went into bank ruptcy under a Democratic ad ministration, to pay out 82,730,- 047.04 in wages to employes in 1899, The restored confidence in proper protection to American labor anil in the maintenance of the integrity of our currency and of the government's obligations and of private obligations has had even more to do with it. The Federal government borrowed money read ily at 3 percent., in the midst of war with a foreign nation, while the preceding Democratic adminis tration paid 4 per cent, in a time of profound peace." Mr. Olmsted declared that it was necessary, however, to enact legis lation that would make it impos sible for a President or Secretary of the Treasury, without action by Congress, to change from the gold standard basis. Every report of Brad street's and Dun's is a confirmation of the statements that our industries are all prosperous and upon a stable basis. Farmers are paying off their mortgages in millions of dol lars and are no longer anxious to abandon their farms and move away. Farm property is gradu ally but surely rising in value. There is no longer a glut in the markets for manufactures, and fac tories are voluntarily raising the wages of the workmen all over the country. The party of calamity and opposition and hard times finds itself in sore straits for any reason able issue to ask voters to rally be hind. It Used to be Cheaper But— "Three years ago," said a Dem ocratic merchant to a lady of our acquaintance who had just paid him 25 cents for an article, "you could have bought that for ten cents." "1 rember that, but 1 couldn't get the 10 cents. Now I have paid you the quarter, and look here," and she held open her pocket-book, in which were seen several 100- cent dollars.—Clark County (111. ) "Herald." "1 am indebted to One Minute Cough Cure fin - my health and life. It cured uie of lung trouble following grippe.' Thousands owe their lives to the prompt action of this never tailing remedy. It cures coutrhs, colds, croup, bronchitis, pneumonia, grip and throat and lung troubles. Its early use prevents con sumption. It is the only harmless remedy that gives immediate results. It. C' Dodson. 81y CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY I, 1900. ii JASPER HARRIS' jj »« 55 m GENERAL H S* *4 M i< ! CLEARANCE •■• SALE!! M N II II j* W/E have resolved to clear the decks, and when we determine to do a thing we enter } 1 into it heart and soul. We want to clear every heavy-weight garment out of our store within the next THIRTY DAYS, and are ready to jj^ H N ;; SACRIFICE on EXERT SUIT OVERCOAT, ULSTER OF OUR STOCK. " 3C ' ' *4 N N >j FROM 25 TO 50 PER CENT. >j 14 N 14 This means more to the buyer than ever before. Such a chance seldom occurs, so take advantage 14 II ot it. You save from 25 to 50 per cent. 011 all Men's and Boys' Ulsters, Children's Suits, and in fact ij|£ kg on everything you will buy of us during this sale kg T P JKS°*REMEMBER We make this wonderful ofter at the beginning of 1900, with confidence in the > , intelligence of the people to whom we have always given the worth of their money. These unusual Z. values we want the people to possess. We must make room for our SPRING STOCK. * M M | Look Through Our Store. 1 3C M IM The prices and the goods will tell you a tale that will surprise you. This sacrifice sale extends Ml j $4 also to our HAT and CAP Department, and our FURNISHING GOODS Depaitment. The man who M M misses this sale is a loser. M IN N H N »« ft« m 14 j| THE PEOPLE'S CLOTHING HOUSE, jj 5C )C 11 METZGER'S BLOCK, OPPOSITE POST OFFICE, EMPORIUM, PA. II »4 U I kr I OUR STOCK TAKING BARGAINS. They Are Yours. We have completed the annual review of our mammoth stock of Furniture and after passing through our line of goods, crowded into two floors of our large building and a large ware house we were surprised ourselves to see the great va riety of Furniture from the cheap kitchen chair or table to the handsomest pailor or bed room suits. Many of the goods were ordered before the rise took place and we have concluded to turn them over to the public and be satisfied with a reasonable profit. You may travel miles and you will not find another such variety of goods at these prices. SPEC!Ah It AUG A TNS. We have a quantity of chairs, both kitchen, rocking, dining room and even parlor, that we desire to dispose of to make room for other purposes. These goods are not soiled or damaged in any way, yet requiring the room we shall close them out at prices that will astonish you if you are in need of chairs. They will go at less than cost. First come, first served. New goods are always arriving at our establishment and if you don't see what you want we will cheerfully ordering any article manufactured and deliver it free of charge. We desire at this time to return our thanks to the good people of Cameron and adjoining counties for their very liberal patronage during the past years that we have been in business in this county. Our relations have been pleas ant. We hope to greet all our former customers during the year 1900 and many n<'W faces. We are here for busi ness. To please the public. ()ur I 'ndertakinjji department, the most complete in tin; land, and with experienc ed attendants, shall continue to meet the approbation of an intelligent community and eater to the needs of the times. Remember the.' place. The Brick Block, Cor., ol Fourth and Chestnut Sts. Geo. J. Laßar. (« •) I <• WE ARE READY FOR J "Winter ? j | Are You?^ 1 R. SEGER & SON, I Next to Bank, Emporium, Pa. * <• UP-TO-DATE CLOTHIERS, g (• •; 2 We took time by the C* forelock and made our (• purchases of •> (• FALL AND WINTER •> (• 9) <• CLOTHING, V, (• •) g Thereby securing the g <• cream of the market. •) (• Times are not as they •) (« used to be —"the early Jj [J bird catches the worm." g (• Our customers shall •> <• have the benefit. In [J clothing we have secur- ' <" ed the very popular •) r" SciILOSS BRO'S & Co.'s •) (• •) 2 BALTIMORE CLOTHING. ( • <• This firm manufac- J (• tures the best goods in •> J the market and we are 2 pleased to show our cus- Jj c* tomers their clothing. (3 STYLISH HATS. •> (• •) 2 When we say we have g the most stylish line of (• late fall and all-winter •> Cm shapes in Hats we mean 'J just what we say. We (• have never yet seen a g (• larger or better line in •) r* this county. J) (• •t) ;• ALL UP-TO-DATK, "j <• We have recently dis- •> !* jjosed of all old goods •; and our present line has Jj been selected new in Jj '+ every department. •> (9 C* •) jj R. SEGER & SON. j Emporium, Pa ®) I '• I 'I I 1 rlj OF Jj 1 I [| HENRIETTA SKIRTS, | I HARVARD MUFFLERS, | I FASCINATORS, | 1 I |l CHILDREN'S KNIT HOODS | | AM CAPS, | I AT REDUCED PRICES. I 1 I |j i I (fflb I ill " S! °" a lit ii | | | BALCOI &LL YD, | I I 111 iDI pi n Fourth Street, Emporium, Pa. ij
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