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The Job department of the PHESS is complete and affords facilities for doing the best class of work. PARTICUI.AU ATTENTION PAID TO LAW PKINTINU. No paper will be discontinued until arrear ages a rc paid, except at the option of tho pul> Usher. Papers sent out of the county must be paif lor in advance. A few days a Philadelpliian discov ered $15,000 in bank notes wrapped in tinfoil and stout paper which had been concealed in an old mansion for 35 or 40 years. It was in a beam in the house, which had been destros'ed and the wood sold for kindling. The finder bought some of the rubbish, and, when cutting the kindling, the wealth came to sight. After counting the entire lot and finding the amount so large, he called in an intimate friend, but this one blasted all his hopes by stating that the entire lot was not worth a cent, the issues be ing of old state banks, now out of existence. The finder said that he supposed the money was deposited in the hiding place during the early days of the rebellion by a brewer who lived in the mansion at the time. Report says that Mrs. I.eland Stan ford has absolutely disposed of every penny of the enormous fortune left by her husband, the late Senator Stanford. She recently signed the last of the deeds that transferred to the Lelaiul Stanford university every acre of land that her husband had owned, as well as all her personal es state, which included ever so many millions in stocks and bonds. So, as to the actual ownership of property, sho is destitute to-day, but the trus tees of the university have bound themselves to pay her $25,000 a year, which she uses for her personal wants. It is reported that 300 women in Trenton, X. J., paid $1 each to a glib canvasser who rented rooms in a central office, employed several clerks and agreed to give a $lO silk petticoat to every woman who would pay $1 and induce ten of her acquaintances to invest the same amount for a sim ilar garment. Two or three petti coats were given out, an "unavoidable delay" occurred, and one morning the operator was found to have left town without leaving his address. T.C'arson. the mayor of Brownsville, Tex., is known in that part of the country as the "perpetual mayor." lie has held the office for 21 years, and he cannot get out of if. He has declined renomination time and again and threatened to resign if elected, but the people have nominated and elected him in spite of it. He was the first mayor elected in Texas under the new constitution of 187'J, and be fore that he had been an alderman for a number of years. A Tonawanda (Pa.) bank employed ingenious means to stop a recent run on the institution. While several hun dred depositors were in line: to with draw their money, three barrels of silver dollars were unloaded in front of the building and carried in by the basketful. The sight of $75,000 be ing dumped into the bank in this wholesale manner had a reassuring effect, and the run ceased. Nettie Dickey, a young girl of Stan ton. Del., lately returned to her home, after leading the life of a tramp for several years. During that time she chopped wood for a living, slept in empty box ears, and lived in cheap lodging houses. She visited the principal cities in the United States and is now willing to abandon her roving life and settle in Stanton. Left-handed parties are a fad in New York, (iuests are requested to come with their right hand securely bound tip. They must register their names, play the piano, make all ges tures and eat with the assistance of the left hand. "In nine cases out. of ten," says a writer in the Washington Post, "the beauty hints iti the newspapers are prepared by homely women." This is a mistake. Fully half of them are prepared by big men with bushy whiskers. The city of Akron. 0., is entitled to the credit for installing the first auto mobile police patrol. It is of the larg est size, having a seating capacity of 20 persons, and was built at a cost of $2,200. It is aid •.here are in Havana more beautiful horses and elegant car riages than in any city of equal size in the United Stat-* DEMOCRATS IN A DILEMMA Trouble In the Konilocriiit I'arty tl»tr the N'nmlug of Itryan u» Lcutlvr, Spending of the proceedings of the recent democratic national committee in Washington, the correspondent of a Boston paper that supported Cleve land says in winding lip a report of the meeting: "Behind the scenes it was interesting to observe that the majority of the committeemen do not now expect that Mr. Bryan will be elected." On the face of the situation Bryan has 110 reasonable hope of suc cess, and the democrats in control of the party machinery know it perfectly well. Yet all of them will declare that his nomination is certain, and probably by a unanimous vote. There is here something of a political paradox, but it has been brought about by a sequence of events. Time alone can deliver the democartic party from its singular po sition. It is inevitably committed to a candidate who will be beaten, as the managers behind him foresee. The causes of this predicament are not hard to find. In ISM> the democratic party abandoned its old creed and went into a fusion with another part}'. It cannot retrace its steps. Its position is hopelessly bad, but there is none bet ter in sight, and circumstances com pel it to light the second battle on the general alignment of the first. Since, the last presidential trial of strength there have been three fall elections in various states and in all of them an evident loss of ground for the Bryanites. The states that have left their colump are Kansas, Washington, South Dakota and Wyoming. Maryland went democratic last year, but on a platform written by Mr. Gorman and making no mention of free coinage. Some suggest thafr the democrats might try Gorman's idea in the nation al, fight this year. It could only be done with some other candidate, for Bryan and silver are synonymous. To drop Bryan would cost the democrats all the trans-Mississippi states that remain to them and the gain in the eastern or border states would be problematical. An election practically on the Gorman plan was held in New York in 1898 and the republicans carried the state, with a plurality for Roosevelt over Van Wyck of 17,786. The republicans won in New York decisively again last year on the vote for legislature. Though party lines were much broken in Ohio last fall, the republican plurality was larger than usual and the democratic aggregate vote one of the smallest com paratively in the history of the state. As far as the facts of the political situation are revealed the democrats can make nothing either with Bryan or without him. So they are disposed to let matters drift, knowing at least thai another defeat will lessen his su perficial popularity, representing now, as always, a great deal more noise than rotes. The republican party holds the vantage ground of having redeemed its pledges and also of having conducted the nation tiuough a series of unex pected and serious emergencies. It lias momentous work on hand connected with the country's expansion and it would not be businesslike to turn it over to new hands and a hostile party, bent on destroying what has been done rather than bettering it. Possibly the democratic national convention of 1900, like that of 1896, may beseized with a sudden impulse and do something ex traordinary; but no matter what tick et or sensation is ground out at Kan sas City the electoral table gives the democrats 110 encouragement what ever.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. AYnKreM AdvnnclnK. An unmistakable sign of prosperity is the ten per cent, advance of wages which went into effect in New England manufacturing cities and J owns in De cember and at the beginning of the present year. At least 70,000 operatives are directly affected by this increase. This means the distribution of a vast ly greater amount of money among the working people than has been the case for years, and consequently larger spendings and larger savings. It is ex cellent evidence of greater prosperity already arrived, and an earnest of stili greater prosperity to come. For pros perity grows with prosperity; the mills whose profits permit them to make this increase in their employes' wages may. through easier times else where, actually find their profits in creasing as a result of their own ex penditure. This seeming paradox is not so much of a mystery as it seems superficially, for it has been explained in the returns from business invest ments many times. The increase is a cheerful sign for the new year. Gener ally the president ial year is a bad one for business, but the present bids fair to become a happy exception to the rule.—Youth's Companion. Rrynn'M I'neortnlnty. Mr. Bryan, it seems, is in favor of the United States acquiring new territory even when, as in the ee-se of the Philip pines, it is not contiguous to ih spates of the union, provided the people are intelligent enough 1o form part of the republic. This declaration is very much akin to a flop on the question of expansion; for one of the axioms ol the anti-imperialists is that there is a mysterious though inexorable law of nature against anncxingnoneontig uous territory. Moreover, the anti imperialists never tire of telling the world how intelligent the Filipinos are. Many, indeed, go so f:ir as to say that they are quite as intelligent ns the average Americans. But if that view is correct, there can be no possible objection to ti e acquisition of the is lands, according to Mr. Pryr.n. And, on the other hand, if that gentleman continues *.O oppose the retention of the Philippines, he will have to justify his course by denying Ihe anti-iin perialist assumption of Filipino en lightenment. which will be embarrass ing all arour.'J.—X. Y. Tribune. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1900. SAFE GOLD STANDARD, The Line Ilclneen It epn li I leans an ltruwn. When the United State* senate passed the bill providing that the gold dollar should be the standard unit, of value, the gold standard was made legally safe. The house bill differs in some respects from that of the senate, but both are alike in the vital pro vision, which formally establishes the gold standard. Conferences will soon harmonize the bills in their minor fea tures, and then, with the approval of President McKinley, the United States, by the explicit sanction of law, will take an indisputable place among the gold standard nations. The action is the more notable and gratifying because it came from a body which long hung like, a weight on tho neck of sound money, and which by palterings and makeshifts blocked the way to the simple and assuring declara tion made the other day, and kept financial affairs in a condition of in certitude. The vote drew the line between the parties and showed where republicans and democrats stand on the question of purity of thccurrency. Everyrepub lican but one voted for the bill. Every democrat but two voted against the bill, and those two are gold and Cleve land democrats who know that their political future in the democratic par ty is closed, because with their devo tion to honest money they could not be elected on the democratic ticket to the pettiest office in their states. The vote for 44 republicans and two democrats against 28 democrats and one republican determines the position of the parties on the financial issue for the national campaign soon to open. The republican party is the party which insists upon the standard of value recognized by the leading na tions of the world—a. standard which therefore is necessary to commercial intercourse and to financial stability, and never before so necessary as with the worldwide expansion which this nation is now enjoying. The democrat ic party insists upon championship of a cheap metal and bearing against the opposition of the world the hopeless burden of dignifying that metal be yond its normal possibilities. The republican party insists upon the standard of value which regulates the currency of the following coun tries: Great Britain, Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungary, Norway and Sweden, Denmark. Portugal, Turkey, Japan, Finland. Egypt, British Honduras, Bra zil. Chili, Peru, Costa Pica, France, Italy, Holland. Switzerland, Belgium, Spain. Greece, Venezuela and India. The democratic party insists upon the standard of value of Mexico, except in commercial affairs; China, where silver goes by weight value; Servia and Hotimania, and a few states in Central and South America. The people chose in 1890 between the financial platforms of these par ties. The issue now is even more definitely made, and the choice will be repeated by as much larger majority as four years of the experience of pros perity will suggest.—Troy Times. DRIFT OF OPINION. was not in the last re publican platform. But it was in the nation's destiny and republicans have lived up to it.—St. Louis Globe-Demo crat. t-"'The greatest Fourth of July fire cracker this year will be the Bryan ex plosion at Kansas City. It will be loud and noisy.—Cincinnati Commercial- Tribune. E7"Gov. Nash says there are no fac tions in the republican party of Ohio. Surely things look more harmonious than they have before in years.—Cleve land Leader. IE?" Bryan was entertained in New York by one of the richest men in that city. It should always be remembered however that Bryan is not opposed to the rich except when they happen to be republicans. —Chicago Times-Her ald. F™Senator ITanna says that the two issues of the campaign this year will be prosperity and expansion. Well, the people know all about prosperity, and they are willing to chance expan sion with the republicans in power.— Cleveland Leader. ICIn Ilie end the Macrum state ment will prove a benefit to the admin istration. It will clear up the whole matter of this country's relations with Great Britain, and destroy some capital out of which the demagogues expected to make much.—Cedar Rapids Repub lican. mention of silver or the cur rency is found in the call of the demo cratic national committee. It invites those who are against "the empire'' to come forward. No doubt the commit tee thought enough will be done for silver when its champion is nominated. —St. Louis Globe-Democrat. CThe American Agriculturist esti mate's that the total advance in the market value of farm stock since 1S!)0 has been $700,000,030, the gain being in value rather than numbers. The rate of increase in value has been .'7 percent. The- gain in value e) flive stock many times exceeds the slight le>ss by lower prices for wheat and corn this year. Al! of which goes to show that the farm ers have enjoyeel a good share of the prosperity. — Indianapolis Journal. E7"i'he whole anti-imperialist move ment is se-e'ii and summarized in this account ejf the reading by Boston school children r•' certain essays for which prizes had been offered by At kinson, Bradford, Garrison end the three or four other Massachusetts anti irnpcriali: ts: "The *r papers wore heart ily applauded by the few people pres ent." The few people present applaud ed one another; that is the true efiigy of the anti-imperialist meeting.—N. Y Sun. AN EASY VICTORY. Lord Roberts' Army Ajjain Routs the Burghers. WltU an Overwhelming Force the Kit llhla 4 oiiiimincler Knttugcs thu Jvueniy ei ml they Itelrcat < ronjc and IIIH Tien Hill be Kent tn St. Helena— Other War News* London, March C.—Mafeking is to v >e relieved as soon as the British force already on the way to Kimberley can raise the siege. This force is describ ed vaguely as "strong." London, March 7.—Lord Roberts st'ill pauses in the neighborhood of Os fontein. while stores, re-mounts and fresh troops stream toward' him front the Cape. The British position also continues to improve in thu minor spheres of the campaign. Cape Town, March 7. —Nearly the whole of the Dutch population of the Prieska and ICenhardt district are in rebellion. Many of the Dutch from neighboring districts have je>ined them. London, March 8. —Last, night the war office posted the following advices from Lord Roberts: "Poplar Grove, March 7.—We had a very successful day and have com pletely routed the enemy, who are in full retreat. "The position which they occupied is extremely strong and cunningly ar ranged with a second line of intrench me'iits, which would have eauseel us heavy loss liael a direct attack been made. "The turning movement was neces sarily wide, owing to the nature of the ground, and the cavalry and artil lery horses are much elone up. • "The fighting was practically con fineel to the cavalry division, which, as usual, did exceedingly well, and Gen. French reports that the horse artillery batteries eliel gre-.at execution among the enemy. "Our casualties were about 50. I regret to say that Lieut. Keswick was killeel and Lieut. Bailey was severely wounded, both of the Twelfth lancers. Lieut. De Crespigny, of the Second life guards, was severely wounded. Lord Roberts wired yesterday inorn :ng from Osfontein antl m the evening from Poplar Grove, 14 miles eastward. By an application of the elementary principle of strategy, the Boer posi tions, 15 miles long across his path, have bee-n emptied and their holders have been obliged tej retire in confu sion. Nothing was done by Lorel Roberts to elisturb the symmetry, the deadly ingenuity, of the Boer trenches in front of him. lie marched out infan try estimated at 30,000 men, and sent 10,000 horsemen and horse artillery in a bold sweep around the Boer left, whereupon the Boer center and right became untenable. Fifty British fell when the' cavalry came into contact with the Boers. The correspondents differ as to the enemy's strength. The Daily Mail's representative thinks the lie>ers num ber something more than 4.000. The Daily Newsman estimates them at 10,000. As these figures come from ob servers at headquarters, it is clear that Lord Roberts' force was over whelmingly superior. He c:in scarcely have fewer than 45,000. The military authorities have decid ed that (ien. Cronje and the other lioe-r prisoners shall be- se-nt to Hie- isl anel of St. Helena, there to remain un til the end of the war. It. is also asserteel that the cabinet h-as resolved neither It) propose nor to entertain a proposal at the present juncture fe>r an exchange of prisoners. A. G. H:iles, the correspondent of the Daily News, who was captured by the Boers February 0 and released a few days ago at IHoemfontein, tele graphing from Sterkstroom, says: "While I was a prisoner .at IHoem fontein 1 hatl an interesting interview with President Steyn. He saiel the burerhers were determined to fight to the last man, and that the struggle in the Free State would be child's play compared with what would follow in the Transvaal. "President Steyn preelicteel that the capitulation of Pretoria would be pre cedeel by events ■which woulel astonish Europe." Ltnulon, March f.—Mr. llollowell. the Daily News correspondent at Mare king, who passed two months in pris on in Pretoria, escaped hist week and was recaptured GO miles from Pretoria, senels a dispatch to his pa.pe'r, elated Pretoria jail, March 2, describing the misleading news given the Boers by their officials regarding the course of the war. He adds: "Great dissatis faction exists among the Itoers, as their supplies of fe>e>d, especially meat, coffee and sugar, are very irregular ami many threaten te> return to their farms." The Daily News makes the tallowing editorial aninouneement: "It was rumored in London yester day- antl we* have some reason for be lieving the rumor to be- correct—that the two repjibl'cs have made ofticJal overtures of peace. Unfortunately the conditions suggested were eif such tt character :is to preclude the possi bility he at taineel is the establishment of a co operative »oKimoti wealth. SIX MEN INDICTED. Alleged Circulator* of I-'alae Itumors are in Trouble—four «»re Arrraird. New York, March 7.—The special grand jury which lias been investigat ing - Brooklyn Kapid Transit matters for the past mouth, yesterday brought (in a presentment before Justice Furs man in the criminal term of the su preme court, together with indict ments against six men, making them in part responsible for the false re ports that had been circulated about Brooklyn Ka.pid Transit, with a re sulting depression of the stock. The men indicted are Alfred K. Gos lin, who was arrested in Philadelphia; Harry J. Alexander, an advertising | agenit; Charles T. I>avis, editor of the Wall Street Review, and Eugene L. Packer, all three of whom were put under arrest in this city; Warner T. Allen, an alleged stockholder of the Brooklyn Kapid Transit Co., and one Bogart, who is said to be Goslin's pri vate secretary. The presentment of the grand jury : intimates that there are others impli cated in the circulation of false re ports, although suificient proof against them had not been submitted to the jury. Uavis was arraigned on three indict ments, two alleging felony and one misdemeanor and was held in SII,OOO bail. Packer was held in $4,000 on two indictments charging misdemean or. Alexander was held in $7,000 bail on three indictments charging felony and conspiracy. Goslin has not yet been brougiht to this city from Phila delphia. Alexander and Davis were commit ted to the Tombs, being unable to fur nish a bond. The presentment recounts the means by which the market, price of Brooklyn Kapid Transit stock was de pressed last summer, specifying paid advertisements in newspapers here and in Boston, and in circulars sent through the mails, predicting heavy declines because of the alleged bad condition of the company. These statements, it is further said in the presentment, were also disseminated orally and by telegraph and telephone, the result being a heavy decline in which innocent holders of the stock iwere unable to protect themselves and bo "saw their property depreciated day by day." The presentment con tinues: "In our opinion these attacks ema nated from several sources, but from thuir nature it has been impossible for this grand jury in every case to trace these rumors to their authors." It is further added by the present ment.: "The statements referred to are not put forth as mere expressions of opinion, but purport to be based upon accurate inside information and in numerous instances on downright statements of fact which are false and known to be false by the publishers thereof." Philadelphia, March 7.—Alfred K. Goslin, of New York, who was arrest ed here on instructions from the po lice department of thait city, was yes terday committed to await requisition papers from New York. 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