2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MULLIN, Editor. Published Every Thursday. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. J'er yaar $2 00 112 paid in advance 1 i>o ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements are published at the rate of one dollar per square for one insertion and fifty cents per square for each subsequent insertion. Rates by the year, or for sii or three months. »rc low and uniform, and will be furnished on application. Legul and Official Advertising per square, three times or less. 42; each subsequent inser tion E0 cents per square. Local notices 10 cent* per line for one inser aertion; 5 cents per line for each subsequent oonsecutive Insertion. Obituary notices over five linet, 10 cents per line. Simple announcements of births, mar riages and deaths will be inserted free. Business cards, five lines or less. 15 per year; over Jive lines, at the regular rates of adver tising No local inserted for lesa than 75 cents per isaue. JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the PRIERS is complete »nd 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 put* Usher. Papers sent out of the county must be paif (or in advance. Philanthropic beggars are the bane of a rich man's existence. I'hilip D. Armour wrote out Mothered by a ch eck for SSOO the llFßenm. other day for the mere assurance that he wouldn't be asked to donate anything to a school near his winter home in California. Mrs. Caroline Haskell, whose gifts to the University of Chi cago, to Haskell orphan asylum, at Hat tie Creek, Mich., and other charities, have made her famous, receives from 15 to 20 begging letters in every day's mail. Not long ago Mrs. Haskell had a letter from a girl in Chicago asking for $5,000. "I merely want a small sum," she wrote, "to buy me a trous seau. If I have a wedding outfit and $4,000 in money, I can marry one of the richest young gentlemen in Chicago. Without the money my life's happiness will be totally wrecked. Please remit at once. Better send the cash, as you know sometimes a person has trouble getting a check cashed." Mrs. Has kell paid no attention to the letter, and in a few days received a still more per. emptory demand. "It is not possible that a rich woman, unless she has a heart of stone, will deliberately wreck a person's happiness," the young wom an added. A man in Texas took pen in hand to say that it had "ocured too me that if I had Twenty Thousand dolers I could do a grate work in this comu nity with it. I would found a colege, madum, of whitch I should be pres dent. Noing of your work, I have no dout you wil send that very reason able amt. X. 15. I see you have some times give more to sum places." A ■woman in a Kansas town wrote to say that all that stood between her and en. tire peace of mind was a mortgage on her house, and that nothing could be more philanthropic than the advance ment of money to raise that mortgage. All the writers apparently expect to get what they ask for, and sometimes write again in most abusive tones when no attention is paid to their demands. The utilization of the postal card goes on apace. On some of the big ocean liners there can be had dinner bills of fare printed on cards specially designed for mailing. On the back are ruled lines for the address, a place to affix a penny stamp and the usual inscrip tion, stating that they could be mailed under the present laws of the interna tional postal union. Almost every business house in Europe has cards containing pictures of the store, some times of the exterior and sometimes o f odd nooks and corners inside, and all handsomely done. Such souvenirs are wrapped up with every package. In Berlin several of the large shops have rooms fitted up especially for address ing and posting these cards. The cards are furnished gratuitously to anybody who asks. A barber thus explains how he keeps undesirable customers out of his shop: "If an outsider comes into my shop, and 1 find him undesirable, I get rid o! him speedily. If lie pays his check with a quarter or over, I give him ten cents more change than is coming to him. That generally keeps him away, as growlers are usually mean men, and they stay away for fear of being asked for the overcliange. If the mean man just merely pays for his shave, the next time lie comes in 1 ask him if 1 did not overpay him in making change in such a way that he gets mad and stays away." One evening recently tlie electric lights of Juanita, Cal., failed, and the next morning three suits were iiifrfi tuted against the corporation. Accord ing tc one of the lawyers in the case, "the parlor was at the time filled with guests at a children's party, many of whom made use of the opportunity for illicit kissing and romping, which re sulted in the destruction of costly or naments, and was hurtful to the moral welfare of those present." Ella Wheeler Wilcox thinks the suc cessful man "is one who has made a happy home for his wife and children, no matter what he has done in the way of winning money or fame." Mrs. Wil cox will hardly find anyone to contra dict, heron this point. Money and fame do not always bring to the home the pleasures that are found at the club and public places of entertainment. PASSAGE OF THE GOLD BILL. Stability of the Gold Standard la Nut Kn dative red by the Senate** Action. The majority by which the gold standard bill passed the senate was considerably larger, in proportion to the number of members in that body, than was the one it had in the house. The house passed the bill on Decem ber 18 by a vote of 190 to 150, or by a majority of 40. The vote by which the senate substitute for the house bill has just passed the senate was 4G to 29, or by a majority of 17. In each case the bill received some demo cratic votes. Eleven democrats aligned themselves with t.he republic ans in the house in its favor. Two democrats in tbe senate —Caffery, of Louisiana, and Lindsay, of Kentucky —voted for the measure. All the re publicans in the house, however, were recorded in favor of the bill, while one senator who is nominally a re publican—Chandler, of .New Hamp shire —voted against the measure. Among the republicans who voted for the gold standard was Senator Wol cott, of Colorado, who is one of the representatives of a state which had virtually only one party in IS9G, near ly all its voters casting their ballots for Bryan. In their leading feature the house aiul senate bills are practically the same. Both aim to put the gold standard in the statute books so firm ly that it could not be removed ex cept by the concurrent action of a base money president and of the two A GAIT LIKE A PAIR 0' BARS. /tint ii~ea fiu wd.'/' Bryan says the Democracy ought to set the gait for the Republican Party in the coming campaign. branches of congress. Both measures provide for the redemption of the government's currency specifically in gold, and not cither in gold or silver, at the option of the secretary of the treasury. Several minor features are in the senate bill which are not in the house measure. One of these provides for the refunding of certain classes of bonds at lower rates of interest in long-time securities. The other stip ulates that the act "is not intended to place any obstacles in the way of the accomplishment of international bi metallism. provided the same can be secured by concurrent action of the leading nations of the world, and at a ratio which shall insure permanence of relative value between gold and silver." The refunding feature of the senate bill is opposed by several prom inent republican papers, but it has a chance of acceptance in the confer ence committee to which the two bills will be presented. There is a strong probability, on the other hand, that the senate's bi metallic provision will be rejected by the conferees. Every republican pa per of standing and ability in the country has opposed this provision. It received a large majority in the sen ate, it is true, but the house will un doubtedly make a powerful fight against it.and is lively to win. It is understood, too, that the president is opposed to the bimetallic deliverance. This concession to the silverites will gain no votes for the republicans from the 45-cent dollar side, while it is calculated to offend many gold standard men. Of course the pro vision, if it is retained, will not en danger the stability of the gold stand ard. The "concurrent action of the leading commercial nations of the world" in favor of the restoration of the double standard, which this pro vision mentions, will never be ob tained, and not half a dozen of the senators who voted for it ever expect this. Therefore the expression is use less, and ought to have been omitted in the senate, .n its principal fea ture. however, the senate bill is a wise measure. There will be a sharp con test in the conference committee, and the bimetallic stipulation will prob ably be out of the measure when it goes to the president, but whether it is in or out the act will make a dis tinctive ad; jnee on the present coin- and currency laws, and will strengthen the republican party's hold upon the country. St. Louis Globe democrat. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1900. CANDIDATE BRYAN. Tbe Krbrntka Shunter la the Only Logical Choice of tbe Democracy. It is difficult to believe that the Bryan managers have called upon Chairman Martin, of the democratic state committee, togo to Chicago and explain the alleged anti-Bryan move ment which a sensational reporter suc ceeded in placing before the public a few days ago. It is probable that the story of Chairman Martin's mission is a supplement to the gossip regard ing the Oluey movement sent from here not long since. If it was a prac tical joke it may be in accordance with that modern conception of the idea of news which is the publication of any sort of gossip which will at tract attention, even if it has no basis in fact. There was no basis in fact for a story to the effect that an Olney movement had an organization in this city. There is a considerable number of democrats who would be delighted to unload Air. Bryan and his sixteen to one, but they see no way to accom plish it. Perhaps one of the chief rea sons why the anti-Bryan men here and elsewhere cannot make a successful movement against Mr. Bryan is that they have no man to offer as an op ponent who can draw to his support the elements in different states hostile to Mr. Bryan. As for Mr. Olney, he is not the exponent of the views of Mr. Bryan. He does not stand on the Chicago platform. Ex-Senator Gor man is the ablest democrat of national reputation, but he is not a believer in the Chicago platform. Other derno- erats of ability in the east who might be named are not in touch with the Bryan democracy. Mr. McLean is one of the most conspicuous democrats west of the Alleglienies, but lie is not the man upon whom the democrats* of the country opposed to Mr. Bryan and his heresies can unite. Mayor Harri son is another. b«i with him the ultra populisti-? ekii.ent of the party will not agree. There being' no man upon whom if lose opposed to Mr. Bryan's candidacy can unite, ex-Senator Gor man recently admitted that the claim ant from Nebraska will be the candi date. The democrats who would do so cannot prevent Mr. Bryan's nomina tion and have practically ceased oppo sition, seeing that the only way to get rid of Mr. Bryan is to let him be defeated again. Those who mistake fake-making for news-collecting may be able to evolve an Olney or a Gor man movement for a few newspapers, but Mr. Bryan's nomination is afore gone conclusion. —Indianapolis Jour nal. COMMENT AND OPINION. ICCoI. Bryan can always get large audiences to hear him when he gives a political oration gratis. But his au diences at pay lectures are not so large. Mr. Bryan is compelled to lean hard on the word "free." —Washing- ton Star. C?liryan wants the democratic na tional convention lielu early so that the democrats can nominate him for the presidency before the populists put his name at the head of their ticket. Politicians will see the point. —Cleveland Leader. CT'A Washington correspondent has made the discovery that "no man in I the history of the worl-J ever spoke ! to as many people as Bryan has." It j might he added that no man ever j said less to as many people, either.— i Chicago Times-Herald. ! (CComing at the end of seven sue i cessive defeats in the elections, and | following the passage of the bill by 1 the house, this complete abandon ! nient and overthrow of the fatal and ! [utile fallacy of 10 to 1 in the senate —long the stronghold of this delusion — Tll list be accepted by all reasonable men :is settling the question for years to come, if not forever. It is no long |er an issue in practical polities. The nightmare that for .10 years unsettled | business, demoralized politics and ! threatened the national credit is at j last ended. —N. Y. World (Dein.). A REPUBLICAN VICTORY. They I'rnw the I'orto It Iran Tariff'Hi II Through the National House olltep rese illative*. Washington, March 1. —The battle royal over the I'orto Kican tariff bill ended yesterday in the house in a vic tory for the republicans. The bill, amended so us to reduce the tariff" from 25 to 15 i>er cent, of the Ameri can tariff and limiting its life to two years was passed by a vote of 172 yeas to 101 nays. Six republicans—Messrs. 2ru mpacker, of Indiana; Fletcher, of Minnesota; Heatwole, of Minnesota; Liittlefield, of Maine; Loriiner, of Illi nois, and McCall, of Massachusetts, roted with the opposition against the bill, and four democrats—Messrs. Da rev and Myer, of Louisiana; Devnies, of California, and Sibley, of Pennsyl vania. voted with the republicans for the bill. Herculean efforts had been made to get out the full vote and this led to some remarkable incidents. Six men were brought, from beds of sickness; two of them from hospitals. Mr. Brownlow, of Tennessee, was brought in a carriage accompanied by his wife and physician. He sat bundled up near the entrance until his vote wis given and then withdrew. It was felt that the strain would be severe upon liim, but. when Mr. Tawney, the repub lican whip, urged that the bill might be lost by this one vote, Mr. Brownlow said: "I would rather lose my life than see this bill defeated." Mr. Tawney and three assistants were out in carriages until midnight Tuesday accounting for every vote and Mr. Underwodo. the democrat whip, was similarly exerting every means to get out his vote. Three democrats were brought from sick beds. The first test yesterday was on a lubstitute offered by Mr. McCall on vehalf of the opposition. lit was the ariginal Payne bill for free trade with .'orto Rico and was defeated—loo to 174. Only five republicans voted for the. substitute. A motion to recommit the bill, which followed, shared a sim ilar fate, being lost—loo-172. There was great. excitement throughout the roll calls, which were followed with eager interest by thou sands of spectators who packed the galleries to suffocation. The republi cans indulged in a demonstration of wild jubilation when the final result was announced. SHEATHED WARSHIPS. Admiral llcuey Taken Strong (-round In Favor ol" Their Construction. Washington, March 1. —Secretary Long yesterday made a statement to the house naval committee on the gen eral needs of the navy and the desir ability of not building new ships "n the government yards. As to new warships he held to his recommenda tion at the time congress met, namely, three armored cruisers of about 13,000 tons each, with the heaviest -armor and most, powerful ordnance; 12 gunboats of about 900 tons each; three protect ed cruisers of about 8,000 tons each. As ito building warships 111 our navy yardis, Mr. Long siaid they cost much more than those built under contract and it took twice as long to build them. Admiral Dewey susrfres'ted to the committee that it leave off the 12 gun boats and give three new battleships instead. He said the battleships would be more serviceable, as Gen. Otis had just purchased 14 gunboats and had turned them over to the navy. They were in very fair condition, and the admiral said that from his experience he thought they were just the vessels needed for service in the Philippines. He also took strong ground in favor of sheathing warships. He said the sheathed ships could run three times as long as ships unsheathed, without being docked. The admiral stated that if the cruis er Charleston, which was lost, on a reef in the Philippines, had been sheathed it was his opinion that she might have been saved. POSTAL STATISTICS. Figures (hat Show llow the Principal < ilies Itunk ill Amount ol Mai l Han dled. Washington, March I.—Second As sistant, Posit master General Shallen bergcr has submitted to the postmas ter general a report showing the re sult of the special weigh ill i r of mail throughout the United States, in 74,- OS4 post offices, from October 3 to .No vember 0, 1899. The 175 first-class post offices have been separately tab ulated in the report. This is the first special weighing of mail since ten years ago. when weighing was done for seven days. The figures obtained at that time have been found to be misleading. The mail matter originat ing iti the United States during tlie time of weighing amounted to 150,- 132,405 liounds. and it is estimated that upon this basis the total amount of mail carried during a year is 1,505,- 000.5 us pounds. Revenue is derived from 40.57 percent, of this, while 59.43 yields no revenue. It was found that during the 35 days New York City furnished by far the largest, amount of mail, 16,440,372 pounds, and Chicago the next largest quantity, 8,078,207 pounds. Boston follows with 4,053,533, Philadelphia 3.801,304. St. Louis 3,410,279 and Wash ington 3.244.211 pounds. Other cities furnished the following quantities in pounds: Sa.ll Francisco 1.123,184; Min neapolis 1,017,773, St. Paul 897,860, Kansas City 1,171,302, Cincinnati 1-- 685,511. Atlanta 450,108, Baltimore 911,- 272, Cleveland 760,807, Pittsburg K52.- SlO. Richmond 216,423, Milwaukee 733,. 912. _ _ Three t'hildren l)le Amid Fire. New York, March 1. A fierce fire broke out at midnight 'll a tenement at 1091 Third avenue. After the fury of the flames had been spent the bod ies of three children were found in the ruins. Tliev arc children of Kdward l-'ricdner, who lived on the top floor of the building. A dozen or more peo ple were rescued. A Battleship Stranded. lierlin, March 1. The German bat tleship Saehsetin is stranded near Kiel lighthouse. 1 11 an attempt, to lighten the vessel by removing some of her guns, one of these was lost. THE TIDE TURNS. Two Notable English Successes Inside of Three Days. <>en. Surrenders anil the Srlgt of L.ad)smlth IK liaised Til* ■trillsli <>o vcriimeiil llrtoltri to Prosecute the War with ■tewewed Vigor. London, Feb. 28.—Gen. Roberts cabled to the war office from Paarde berg yesterday as follows: "Cronje and all his force capitulated unconditionally at daylight this morn ing'. Now prisoner in my camp. "Strength of force will be communi cated later. "I hope government considers tliit event satisfactory, occurring- on the anniversary of Majuba. "ROBERTS." The secretary of state for war, the Marquis of Lansdowne, announced in the house of lords yesterday that the prisoners captured with Gen. Cronje numbered about 3.000 men. Gen. Cronje will be sent to Cape Town. The officers captured by Gen. Rob erts besides (ien. Cronje include the following well-known commanders: Chief Commandant Wolverans, a mem ber of the volksraad, Field Cornet Frus, a Scandinavian; Maj. Albreclit, the famous German artilleryman, and Maj. Yondevits, the distinguished tier man officer responsible for most of the splendid engineering works of the Boers since the commencement of the war. Twenty-nine Transvaal officers and 18 Free State officers were made pris oners. The guns captured from the Transvaal forces were three Krupps, nine one-pounders and one Maxim g-un. From the Free Staters the Brit ish captured one Krupp and one Max im g-un. The enthusiasm exhibited in parlia ment over Lord Roberts' graphic de tails of the surrender of Gen. Cronje spread quickly to the street. Crowds of people g-athered about the war of fice and the other bulletin places, in spite of the rain that was falling at the time. Frequent cheers were given for "Bobs," who is the hero of the hour. Ottawa, Ont., Feb. 28.—Lord Rob erts in a dispatch to Lord Minto, gov ernor general, states that eight Cana dians were killed arid 30 wounded. A special dispatch from Cape Town, dated Tuesday, says:"The Hoers at Barklv Fast have offered to surrender on condition that the safety of the rebel Dutch is assured. The British, however, insist upon an unconditional surrender." London, March 2.—The war office yesterday received the following dis patch from Uen. Buller: "Gen. Dun donnld, with the Natal carbineers and a composite regiment, entered Lady smith Wednesday night." Gen. Buller wires from Xelthorpe that he has returned from Ladysmith. He adds that the whole country south of the place is cleared of the Boers. Britons feel that they are living in the presence of moment nous events. Tornadoes of patriotic excitement are whirling through t, Atlanta, Ua.