2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MUI.LIN, Editor. Published Every Thursday. TKRMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. ?'er year 12 rtfl I paid lu advance 1 i>o > ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements are published at the rate of cne dul ar per square fur one insertion and tlfiy cents per square for each subsequent insertion Kates by the year, or for si* or three months, a.-e low and uniform, and will be furnished on api Ileal.on. Legal and Official Advertising per square, three times or less, each subsequent lnser t oii Ml cents per square. Local notices 10 cents per line for one inser afriion: 5 cents per line (or each subsequent consecutive Insertion. Obituary notices over five lines 10 cents per line. Simple announcements of births, mar rinices ami deaths will be inserted free. Business cards, five lines or less. »f> per year; over live lines, at the regular rates of adver tising. No local inserted for less than 75 cents per Issue. JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the PKESS Is complete and affords facilities for doing the best class of work PARTICULAR ATTENTION PAIDTO LAW PRINTING. 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 pa< lor In advance. With carefully gleaned statistics, Edward Bok, in Ladies' Home Jour nal, shows that the Men Snpiilnal number of women IRK Women. j n b , lslnesß 5s de . creasing, and will continue rapidly to grow less. "The tide of women rush ing pell-mell int% all kinds of busi ness has been stemmed —in fact, it is already receding, and perceptibly so." he contends. "It has already been asesrted by female agitators that the growing tendency to dismiss women from various business positions is be cause of the opposition of men to the employment of women. On the trary, men were willing to have wom en go into business pursuits, and it was men who opened positions for them. Undoubtedly this was largely flue to the selfish business reason that women would work for lower wages than men. But with the influx there necessarily came into the business world a great deal of incompetent fe male help. For a time incompetency was overlooked, because of the lower wages. Gradually, however, there came the inevitable weeding process, temporarily stayed by the business depression of the past few years. When prosperous times came it was different, and it is a very significant story which accurate statistics tell that more women have been dis charged from business positions dur ing the past year of prosperity, even taking into consideration the larger number employed, than in any pre vious year." After once choosingyoni occupation, however, never look backward; stick to it with all the Ilnw Success tenacity you can is Won. muster. Let noth ing tempt you or swerve you a hair's breadth from your aim, and you will win, says Success. Do not let the thornis which appear in every vocation, or temporary despondency or disap pointment, shake your purpose. You will never succeed while smarting un der the drudgery of your occupation if you are constantly haunted with the idea that jou could succeed'better in something else. Great tenacity of purpose is the only thing that wil| carry you over the hard places, wide" appear in every career, to ultimate tri, umph. This determination, or fixitj of pui pose, liar, a great moral bearing upon our success, for it leads others tf feel confidence in us. and this is every thing. It gives credit and moral sup port in a thousand ways. People al ways believe in a man with a fixed pur pose, and will help liini twice as quick ly as one who is loosely or indifferent* ]y attached to his vocation, and' liable at any time to make a change, or t< fail. Everybody knows that deter mined men are not likely to fail. Tliev carry in their very pluck, grit and de termination the conviction and assur ance of success. An affecting story comes from Phil adelphia of the application for divorce by a deaf mute wife from her deaf mute husband. The history of a mar ried life of this character can be im agined, to some extent. Naturally tin matrimonial experience would begin in a quiet. wedding, and a quiet married life should follow. Nevertheless, al though loud words were unknown, ex asperating language wax possible. The wife complains that her husband "called her names" on his fingers. We a!i know that it takes two to make a quarrel, and it. would appeal- that a deaf mute possesses superi; r faculties for avoiding - quarrels. As the wiP could not hear what tin husband was saying, all she needed to do wast o t urr her back, that she might not see the gyrations of his linger lips. But pos sibly this procedure would become wearisome at length. At all events, a Philadelphia court has been asked tc pronounce the marriage a failure and break the bonds. An Ohio girl who was married to a man after an acquaintance <;f three days complains now because he turns out to be a convict ;*nd not the naval captain he represented himself to be. While she undoubtedly hits cause tc mourn, it is hardly right that she should receive ail the sympathy. The man, on his part, ran some risk. He was probably led to believe that he was getting a wife who possessed rea soning powers. BRYAN'S NEW PLATFORM. Ko PrniuUr of n llrunlun of the Dla orKnnitrd Kaiiku of the l)emoo racy. The platform adopted by the Ne braska democrats is probably a pret ty close approximation to what the national democratic platform will be. It hatl Mr. Bryan's sanction from be ginning to end, was put forth really under his» name, and his is the influ ence undoubtedly which is to control at Kansas City. We may anticipate events-, therefore, by several months as we glance at the elaborate and complicated' structure. The first thing to invite comment is the thoroughly fatuous insistence on the money issue. This begins with the indorsement of the Chicago plat form. which might pass as it mere formality, and appears again in some three or four paragraphs further on. where the old pibroch of 1896 has the strident key of a death cry. It is safe to say that 50 per cent, of the demo crats of the. country have a blank and desolate feeling when they hear the refrain "free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver at the present legal ratio of sixteen to one without wait ing for the aid l or consent of any other nation." They know that it means defeat, that it destroys all hope of a restoration through the new questions of the day. While devotion to principle is an ad mirable thing, the obstinacy which refuses to recognize facts is a differ ent matter, and Mr. Bryan shows by his infatuation that he is utterly im- HERE THEY ARE AGAIN. The oli combination with a brand new, built-over, spring platform for the new campaign. practical. The issue is already de cided by the people, who are more hostile to silver than ever. If it is brought forward again it will have to be forced, and the republican party is the one which would naturally re vert to it because it was the source of one republican victory and appeals to public confidence in behalf of the general soundness of republican doc trine. That under these circum stances the democrats should refer to it in any but the most perfunctory terms is proof of eternal fitness' in the assignment to them of inability to learn or forget anything. But there is another feature of the platform which is equally impractical, and really astonishing evidence of in capacity to understand and to grasp a promising opportunity. The repub licans in congress have made an er ror in their treatment of Porto Rico, which is obvious to the whole coun try. They might, therefore, have been attacked with great vigor and singleness of purpose, on the defects of their governmental methods in the island. But instead of sticking to the point the democratic platform wan ders off to the proposition that we should grant the Filipinos their inde pendence because we are incapable of governing them properly by any methods, and then suggests that, hav ing set them free, we should protect them against the aggression of other powers. Of all the solutions of the colonial problem that have ever been offered this is the least acceptable, in volving as it does limited powers with vast responsibilities, and it is made worse by the insinuations of the dem ocrats against their Filipino friends and proteges, who it is said "cannot be citizens without endangering our form 'if government." Is it worth while, then, to talk of the consent of the governed in connection with such savages? Aguinaldo should call on Mr. Bryan for an explanation. Taking the platform as a whole it contains no promise of a reunion of the disorganized ranks of the democ racy. but points rather to a further disintegration. The party is i:i terri ble need oi new leadership.—Chicago Times-llerald. C 'The gold standard is the law of the land beyond dispute, now. No political trimmer or dodger can deny or ques tion that fact. This alone is a great .rain for the country. It makes for lir.r.esty. candor and common sense in noiitieal dealing with the money ques tion. -Cleveland Leader. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, APIRL 5, 1900. AS TO PROSPERITY. The Mistake of ISIIU Is Not Likely to lie Repeated by the People. "Benjamin Harrison," remarks an eastern paper, "thought he could be reelected' president because times were good, lie was mistaken, and William MeKinley may be indulging in the same unwarranted optimism." This expression seems to be giving a good deal of aid and somfort to some democratic newspapers. Because the republican party was beaten in 1892, these papers reason, there is a good chance that it will be beate.n in 1900. Prosperity is no guarantee of the suc cess of the party bringing it. It is true, of course, that good times do not afford an infallible as surance that the party responsible for them will be continued in power for ever. The country was enjoying a fair share of prosperity in 1892, and the republican party was very large ly accountable for that condition. An immense majority of the intelli gent people of the United States know this. They knew also that the panic which democratic success in that year brought had a pretty good chance to come if the democratic par ty was victorious. Yet. in spite of this knowledge, the democrats were permitted to carry the country, and. of course, the panic appeared on schedule time. But the persons who are supposing the people may be as reckless in 1900 as they were in 1892 forget that the hard. times> which democratic success brought then did not end until 1897 or 1 Mis. Only two or three years have elapsed since the country had the worst financial convulsion in its whole history, except that of IS.'!7. To suppose that the people would repeat in 1900 their blunder of l>-92 is to at tribute to them a forgetfulness which would be marvelous. When the peo ple eight years ago turned the repub lican party out of power the prosper ity which the party had brought had been here over a dozen years. It was on hand so long that the more thoughtless of the voters had forgot ten that the country had ever had any other sort, of times. They imag ined that prosperity was the normal condition in the United States. The warning, therefore, which was heard in 1592 that democratic victory would be sure to end that happy condition, and to close the mills and throw hun dreds of thousands into idleness was disregarded by many persons who ought to have known better. They regretted that mistake very quickly after it was made, and they rectified it by putting the republican party back in control of the government in 1596. The results of the blunder of eight years ago, however, had not en tirely vanished until IS9B. To imagine that the people could forget inside of two years the calamities which demo cratic sway brought is to ascribe to the voters of the United States a shortness of memory which is not justified by history.—St. Louis Globe- Democrat. CURRENT COMMENT. ICIf it's to be an anti-imperiah>t campaign, why shouldn't I'cttigrew go on the ticket with Bryan?- Minneapo lis Tribune. E7"Over r.a.f '.O miles of m w railroad arc pre.:'.etid in this country by 822 railroads. This is not a sign of hard times. nor of democratic rule. —lowa State Register. C-'Sec; etar\ Gage, or the treasury calls atUnticn to the fact that the new financial law is likely to increase the national bank circulation over S3SO.US>O.t:CO. Every dollar of it will be worth ICO gold e; nts. too.—lowa State Register. gold standard Jaw affords an admirable basis for future reforms in the currency laws, but our money sys tem cannot rest upon a scientific basis until the issue of bank notes is gov erned by business conditions rather than the fluctuating volume of thepub ' lie debt. N. V. Journal of Commerce. JOUBEBT IS DEAD. Famous Leader of the Transvaal Army Passes Away. Twenty Tli on MI ml Borrs Assemble ai hroonslari to liar the I'rojfreaa of Ited touted Invaders- Presi dent Kriiiier IK l.lliely to Take t 'omnia ml of tlie llorr Army. London, March 20. —A dispatch to the Daily Telegraph from Kimberley, dated .March 25, says: Prisoners brought in here report that a force of British cavalry has entered the Trans vaal and penetrated to a point 18 miles north Of Christiana. The British forces at Fourteen Streams are being strengthened. London, March 27.—Military observ ers here, and even those in close affil iation with the war ofliee, are conside rably confused as to what is being done for the succor of Mafeking. Some 5,000 or 0,000 men are engaged with Lord Methuen at Warrentnn and Fourteen Streams and now another column is alxiut leaving Kimberley, if it has not already started, for Griqua town. 108 miles westward. Its osten sible purpose is to drive out the Boers. The force is described sis "a strong one," and the expedition as "likely to attract much attention." Gen. I'Veil en is reported from Bloem fontein us returning from Thaha Nehu, without apparently having headed off Commandant. Olivier, with his 15 guns and miles of baggage. The war office has issued another table of British losses, showing an aggregate of 10,052, which does not in clude 4,004 who have been invalided home. Pretoria, March 29.—Gen. .Toubert, died Tuesday of peritonitis. The fu ne-ral will take place to-day. The gov ernment is pleading with the widow ito allow a temporary interment here, with a state funeral. Brussels, March 29. —A private dis patch has been received here from I're tori a which says that President Xruge.r will now take chieif command of tihe Transvaal forces. London, March 29. —The Bloe.nrfou tein correspondent of the Daily Tele graph, in a disjmtch dated .March 27, says: "It is a matter for regret that, ow ing to the state of the roads and of our horses, Commandant G.rovelarr's commando of 0,000 men from Coles berg and the southern districts, got away north by traveling day and ■night close to the Basuto border be fore our force could hope to get near ttihetm. The latest news is that the Boers have 40,000 men still under arms, of whom 10,000 are in and, nround the Natal border. It is assert ed that 20,000 Boers are massed at Kroonstad t." A Pretoria dispatch to the Daily Mail says: An official dispatch re ports a heavy bombardment of Mafe king in progress on March 26, which was meeting with a spirited response. Gen. French, who has arrived at Bloemfontein from Thaba Neliu, says that Commandant Olivier has 6,000 men and is north of Ladybrand. Immense quantities of stores have now been accumulated at Bloemfon tein, and Lord Huberts' infantry is seemingly about to move. An impres sion. which can be traced to the war office, is abroad that the advance will begin next Monday. Boer observation pantie.s are hovering near Bloemfon tein, but Lord Roberts lias Kis miles to cover before reaching the great po sition which the Boers are preparing at Kroonstad. All the morning papers print singu larly kind editorials concerning Gen. Joubert. They praise his military skill, uphold his chivalrous conduct, and regret that so strong and moder ate a mind should be absent front the final settlement of the dispute. Although some of the younger com manders thought the old soldier want ing in dash and enterprise, his raid into the country south of the Tugela Is considered the best, piece of Boer leadership during the whole war. It is now known ithat, he crossed -the Tugela with only :i,OOO riflemen and six guns, but so bold and rapid were his movements that the British com manders thought 10,000 Boers were marching on Pieterniaritzburg. For a few days, although iti the presence of greatly superior forces, lie isolated Gem. Hildyard's brigade at Kstcourt ain-tl at the same time threatened Gen. Barton's camp ait Moot river. Then as British reinforcements were pushed up, .Toubert recrossed the Tugela without losing a prisoner, a wagon or a gun. Pretoria is being entrenched. A laager for women and children is be ing constructed some miles out of town. News from responsible parties confirms the report that the Boers in tend to blow up the principal mines on the l&nd and en Crown Beef, charges of powerful blasting gelatine having already been placed in position with this object. London. March 30.—The Boers are concentrating in force about 15 miles north of Bloemfontein, in the rear of Glen, and Lord Robentr, is scnd.ag for ward t.ronps ito engage them. The seventh infantry division and part of Gen. French's cavalry have been sent up to join the Fourteenth brigade and the two cavalry regiment« that arc holding Glen and its environments. The Bloemfomtein correspondent of the Morning I'ost says: "President Kruger boasts his inten tion to retake Bloemfonteiin within a week and it appears probable that the Boers are advancing in force south ward." VaqnlH to b<- Kx terminated. F! Paso. Texas, March 28.- -L F. Criiakhite. of Guaymas, Mex.. manager of extensive mine interests, gives some interesting facts about the Yaqui wa '. lie says:"From conversations with Gen. Torres and Gov. Ortiz I learned that the policy of the Mexican com mander is to exterminate the Yaquis, who have taken up arms. All prison ers taken by the Mexican® are to be executed and when sullieient troops arrive the Yaquis, who are now prac tically surrounded, will be forced to surrender and be completely extermi nated. " SENSATIONAL CHARGES. A Chicago Labor Lradrr Claim* that tbc Contractors urc Trying to Incite Kiot*. Chicago, March 28. —Before the in dustrial commission's sllb-eommit-tee George I*. dubbins. president of the Chicago Hrieklayers and Stonemasons' union, te.s. —Sensa- tional testimony was given Tuesday at. the trial of William H. Hay and Howard K. Sloan, formerly reporters for a Philadelphia newspaper, on the charge of conspiring to injure the rep-' illation of Kugene J. Darnell, of this city. Last September the defendants caused to be published a confession; alleged to have been made to them by 101i Shaw, of Camden, in which he ad mitted killing his mother aind grand mother. Shaw had been tried twice mid acquitted of the charge some time previously. The alleged confession implicated Darnell as an accessory af ter the fact. He was arrested on a varrnnt sworn to by Sloan, but proved an alibi and was released. Shaw re pudiated the story and Darnell caused the arrest, of the reporters on the charge of consiipracy. Yesterday Kva Wood, tehn w's former fiancee, tesitiilied that on the day of Ihe publication Shaw told her that the story was true. Charles 1). Millej*. a private detect ive, testified that about two weeks after Shaw's acquittal, lie detailed to Shaw the manner in which the murder had been committed, naming Shaw as the murderer and that the latter ad mitted the truth of the detective's statement. Policeman ILi.rinian testified that, he was secreted in Detective Miller's of fice during the cotiversatioin between Shaw and Miller and overheard the former's confession. I'li Shaw was called to the stand and denied the testimony of his former fiancee, as well as that of the detect ive and policeman. The jury dis agreed and was discharged. Bi»I>o|» CoiilrolN tiic Property. Lansing. Mich.. March 2s.— The state supreme court in a decision oanded down Tuesday decided that the co:n plete dominion nwr Roman Catholic church property is vested :.n the bish op. I'lie decision was the result of a suit brought by lUshop Foley to oust from some church property in Allegan county a number of dissenters from his authority, who desired to erect a church thereon. Did iVo! Apologize. Washington, March 28.--It is said at. the state department regarding the ifory that divat Uritain has apolo gized to this government for the ac tion of the censor in opening letters iddr. -sed to lilw Cwited States consul ii Pretoria, that the Cnited States has made no demand upon the Mrit.ish syovernmewit for an apology, as Mr. Marrum, wiio was ro-nsul ait Pretoria when the mail is said to have been ancned. ma le no official complaints on Mi at subject and thus the state de partment had nothing to serve ih rj basis for a demand for uiu apology. From Washington How a Little Boy Was Saved. "Washing-ton, D. C.—"When our boy was about 16 months old he broke out with a rash which was thought to be measles. In a few days he had a swell ing on the left side of his neck a»d It was decided to be mumps. He was given medical attendance for about three weeks when the doctor said it was scrofula and ordered a salve. He wanted to lance the sore, but I would not let him, and continued giving him medicine for about four months, when the bunch broke in two places and be came a running sore. Three doctors 6aid it was scrofula, and each or dered a blood medicine. A neighbor told me of a case somewhat like our baby's which was cured by Hood's Sarsaparilla. I decided to give it to my boy and in a short while his health Improved and his neck healed so nice ly that I stopped giving him the med icine. The sore broke out again, how ever, whereupon I again gave him Hood's Sarsaparilla and its persistent use has Accomplished a complete cure." MRS. NETTIE CHASE, 47 K St., N. E. QRAIN-O THE FOOD DRINK. What is Grain-O? Coffee with all the head ache, indigestion and nervousness left out. A scientific preparation of pure grains, looking and tasting like coffee and costing one-fourth as much. Try Grain-O to-day. All grocers; 15c. and 25c. 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