2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MULLIN, Editor. Published Every Thursday. TKKMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. fw II p»l<3 in advance 1 " u ADVERTISING KATES: Advert'sements are published at the rate of •ue doliar per square fur one insertion anil tifiy crnts per square for each subsequent insertion. Kates by the year, or for six or three months, arc low and uniform and will be furnished on application Legal and Official Advertising per square, Ihree times or less. *2: each subsequent inser tion SO cents per square. Local notices lu cents per line for one lnser •ertion: F> cents per line for each subsequent consecutive insertion. Obituary notices over five lines. 10 cents per line. Simple announcements ot births, mar riages and deaths will tie inserted free Business cards, five lines or less. *5 per year; over five lines, at the regular rates of adver tising. No local inserted for less than 7o cents per iKsue. JOB PRINTING. Tbe Job department of the PKKSR is complete »nd affords facilities for doing the best class ot Work. PAIUICUL.AK A 1 TEN HON 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 paid lor in advance. Rev. E. E. Dixon, a sremlnent Metlr •odist clergyman of Stroudsburg, Pa., will be called vipoa rroirrution , . , . " to defend in court for Praying. answer to a jprayer offered, calling for Divino '■vengeance on a brewery. Capitalists i-recently erected- a large brewery in Cftev. Mr. Dixon's parish. It caused ixnuch comment, reports the Phiiaciel (phia Times, and was made the subject of a vehement prayer from the minis • ter, in which he called upon Go<? to strike with lightning the new brewery ibeing erected in that place. Shortly .after, during a violent storm, lightning •struck the brewery, partially wrecking it, and knocking from a ladder two tons of another Methodist minister who were at work on the building. No ccc was killed find the brewery was not 'burned, but the prayer created so much comment, that the capitalists, who are prominent in social circles, decided •that they were engnged in a legitimate calling, and should not be made the ■target of pulpit imprecations, as it in jured the social standing of themselves and families. Lawyers who have looked tip the case say the men have a first class cause of action, and it is stated -Ihe case will be fought to a finish. Kev. Mr. Dixon claims he cannot be held re sponsible for an act. of Providence, which brought the subjects into unen viable notoriety, ar.d the question promises to be one of the most novel ever tried in a Pennsylvania court. a v ...n authenticated fcnake story comes from n««<sant Val ley, about five miles A Terrifying " from Westminster, Experience. m,3 m the principal #ctors in which were the snahe and Miss Cora Legore, a domestic em ployed by Frederick G. Yingling, a well-known farmer residing near that place. Miss Legore went to the barn to xnilk the cows as was her customary duty. She did not return as promptly as usual and. becoming uneasy after a lime. Mrs. Yingling sent some one to the barn to look for her. She was found lying in a dead faint in a cow stall, and upon being revived appeared dazed and frightened. Finally she became suffi ciently composed to tell the cause of ber unconsciousness. She said that while milking she felt something mov ing about her clothing, but supposed it was a cat. untii. she felt a constriction about her waist, and found herself look ing into the eyes of a snake which had wrapped itself about her. and reared its head in front of her face. She was too much frightened to notice what «ort of a serpent was thus confronting lier, but, striking at it with her hand, fainted away. When she was found the snake had disappeared. This account of a budding genius is taken from the Mount Sterling (Ivy.) Bentinel-Democrat: "Near the poor bouse farm for some time the people 3iave been on the lookout for a large «nake which had been crossing the road and making a bed the size of a child's "body. One day lately it was seen mak ing its way across the road, and it proved to be a small boy crawling on his all fours. lie did not want to work, and would make the track toward the corn- Held in which he and his father were •working, and would gs> and hunt the #nake for half a day at a time. This is a bright young man, and ought to be given a chromo." A Minneapolis paper which appar ently has started into grab off the 'palm for tall story Celling, gives us ithis yarnlet to ruminate on: "A cow 'which was picketed on a rope wxif (picked up by the cyclone and carried 'up the length of her rope—about CC ifeet —where she remained until th« istorm had passed, when she quietly •climbed down the rope and resumed 'lier grazing." The narrator failed tc may whether the cow came dowr :bead or tail first. The Daughters of the American He vo lution of Arkansas. Helen M. Norton *tate regent, boast of one "real daugh ter," who resides in Fayetteviile. Lit Ile Hook chapter is proud of the honor of having recently elected tc membership two of the nearest living relatives of the "Father of His Coun try," Mrs. Mary Washington (Smith; Dewey and Mrs. Mary Norma SmitL Xuingdon. IT HAS NO POLICY. The Democracy Has No Plan to Build Up Shipping. o]ip«>n Hi'iiulillrnn Pulley «>f En- IttrKiDK Our Kurrl|t» C«m nicrfr nut (litem Nollilng ltrttcr. The platform utterance of the dem ocratic party regarding American shipping is a clear index of the inher ent inability of that party to con struct. It seems only to be able to oppose and denounce the constructive policies of its progressive iiolitical op ponents. The foreign commerce of the I'nited States is regarded the world over as the most important of all. To this country come the finest foreign ships. The greatest and most powerful steamship lines vie with each other for our trade. The largest, the swift est, the safest and most luxurious ships that are built are for the carry ing of the trade in merchandise, pas sengers. specie and mails from andi to the United States. But 8 per cent, of our foreign trade is carried in American ships. Foreign ships carry 92 per cent. This carry ing is worth fully $200,000,000 each year. All but 8 per cent, of it goes out of the pockets of American producers and consumers for paying foregners for doing our foreign carrying Not only does it go out of our people's pockets, but it goes out of the coun- ** (S^ DEMOCRATIC 1 NMIOIVAL TICKET § Jj FOR I FOR PRESIDEMT, | WILLIAM J. BRYAN [ FOR VICE PRESIDENT I *zfl> <d> LM^fg "They didn't put me on the ticket, but I'm with them anyhow.'' try. It goes abroad and is tl?re used to pay for the building andrunning of foreign ships. It gives tluemploy ment 10 foreigners that the;arrying of our foreign commerce crates. People ask, why is this? 'he an swer is simple. Foreign sips are built more cheaply than merican ships. This, however, is a toad van tage that could in time be vcrcome if the shipbuilding industry ."ere put on a basis of permanency. Ifi steady and large demand were crited for cur ships very soon the cos of their construction would be reducd to the level of foreign prices. It j the un steadiness. the irregularity.and the uncertainty of employment n Amer ican shipyards that keeps ie cost of American ships from to :.per cent, higher than the cost o' f«ieign-built ships, liettcr food and m.ie of it is given 011 American thJi m foreign ships. This also creata h disadvan tage which the Amerien ship cannot easily overcome. Thei again wages on shipboard are mue hig'j?r under the American than Oder foreign flags. In the cases o ofli.>ers the wages on American slls are on the average twice as highß they are on foreign ships. Worse than all tliisiowever, for eign governments payieir merchant ships great subsidies nd bounties. Great I'ritain spends out ,SG.COO,COO a year in this way; fince spends over $7,000,000 a yt. Germany, Italy. Spain, Russia. Atria and Jap an all give large su"|lies to their ships. In all the sirbsies and boun ties paid by foreign nernments to their ships amount toore ",'han S2G,- 000.<XK) each year. Unaided American ps. it must be clear, can not profitalfcompete with foreign ships under e conditions above described. Th;is why it is that foreign ships 'ladriren Amer ican ships from off tlteas. The re publican party, rconpj r.g the un equal conditions wh confront American ships in f/nireign trade, is committed to a pflief subsidizing 1 American ships in th trade The 1 amount of the sufisid.fe-oposfdi is barely enonsrh to tna American ships to compete on tcr jpf equality with foreign ships This bill democrats e sirg'ed out for denunciation in T r national platform. They nceiimu liition of a surplis to b4jandered j > in such bare-factd fraudpon the r tax-payers as the s 'ipP'j subsidy j bill, which under the of prospering American si vending, i would put unearned the 1 I pockets of faorite contribti to the l I republican campaign fun ('The al- CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1900. ternative of the sliipplnp subsidy bill is to keep on paying nearly $200,000,- <OO a year 1o foreign ship owners, whose governments in paying them subsidies enable them to prevent American ships from competing, llather than have our government pay a subsidy to American ships the democrats would prefer to have our people send nearly $200,000,000 out of the country each year to build and sustain foreign ships. In their platform the democrats "especially condemn the ill-concealed republican alliance with England." When we remember that democracy's platform denunciation of the shipping subsidy hill will nowhere he received with such favor and gratitude ?is in Great Britain, whose command of the sea and especially of American for eign carrying the democrat?, would perpetuate, and which present Brit ish monopoly the passage of (hat bill would do much to destroy, the insin cerity and the secret pro-British leanings of the democrats are clearly discerned. Not a word have the democrats to utter in behalf of a policy that would cause the building of the ships our foreign commerce employs out of American material and with Ameri can labor, instead 1 of. as now*, their construction out of foreign materials by foreign labor in other countries. No policy is suggested by them —they merely denounce the republican policy that would substitute American for British and other foreign ships in our foreign ti-ade. Having no plan of their own to suggest for building up our shipping in the foreign trade, express ing no regret at seeing nearly $200.- 000.000 annually paid by Americans to foreign ship owners (chiefly for carrying our commerce, the dem ocrats. on the shipping question, at least, proclaim themselves the aliits of England. THE NATION'S MONEY. Over (f.'M .000.000 of Silver untl Mure Small Money Have ISeen Coined. Fcr the fiscal year that has just ended the coinage executed at the United States mints amounted to $184.- 323.793 pieces, valued at $141,301,900. as follows : Gold. 7.0002,780 pieces, valued at $107,937,110; silver. 75,359.254 pieces, valued at $31,121,333; minor coins, 101,- 301,75.3 pieces, valued at $2,243,017. In 1899 the total number of pieces coined was 122,270,945, and the value $130,855,075. In value the increase over 1890 is inconsiderable, but there is an increase of 02,000,000 pieces, rep resenting a great deal of hard work for the mints and showing the activ ity in trade circles. The total circulation of national bank notes at the close of business June 30, 3909, was $309,559,719, an in crease for the year of $08,291,023. and (.an increase for tlie month of $9,070.- 830. The circulation based on United States bonds was $274,115,552, an in crease for the year of $08,851,458, and an increase for the month of $11,020,- 435. A Point to Deride, The people are to be called upon to say at the next general election whether, in their judgment, the coun try has reached the height of its pow er and capacity to grow, or whether they have confidence enough in Amer ican methods of government to be lieve that the country may both grow and be a blessing to those who may come under its influence. Fur merit Too I'iisy. It is now harvest time and the farmers are too busy togo hunting for the fellow who knew that an ounce of silver and a bushel of wheat were married so firmly that nothing under the sun could separate them. I ncrei'iltle. The democrats would have the world believe that tlie American army, which never lost a war. and neccr furled the ting, cannot conquer, and pacify an irregular insurgent force in the island of Luzon. f.nltoi- OrfjHnisr.titK. Labor l.r.s tlie right to organize as well as capita!, and the American Fed eration of Labor has gained upwards of 300,000 members this year. BENEFITS THE PEOPLE Under Uncle Sam's Rule the Porto Ricans Are Content. llaraih S|»nnlfth l.nv** Modiflfd tr Abolliihed—lndniitr)-, Health and Prosperity 1 ntler Our Govern men t. Mr. Charles E. lUiell, who was secre tary of the United Slates special com mission to Porto Rico, and is familiar with the various conditions of which he speaks, makes it plain that our occu pation of that island has been of great est benefit to the people of Porto Pico. Under Spanish rule imprisonment ithout a hearing, or the preferring of charges against persons arrested, was common, and the imprisoned persons frequently passed several years with out being informetj of the nature of the offense for which they had been thus held. Under American rule this has been changed, and no more Spanish meth od* are permitted in dealing with those charged with unlawful acts. Before the American occupation of Porto Pico it was a common custom to rent a burial place in the cemeteries, and to demand a renewal of the rent from year to year, after the first five years; a failure to promptly pay the renewal resulted in the disinterment of the body and the throwing of the skull and bones promiscuously into a common bone heap to be thereafter for ever exposed to the gaze of the curious and to the action of the elements. This custom was discontinued upon an order issued by the military gov ernor. making it unlawful to disinter bodies without a special permit from the governor general, and then only for the purpose of reinterment. Under the Spanish rule marriage had been hedged about with arbitrary rules which had made it impossible for th? poor, especially in the rural districts, to enter into marriage. The result was that more than half the families were living in a state of concubinage, and more than half of the children born on the island during the latter years were illegitimate, and deprived of nat ural rights under the law.^. By order of the military governor the contract of marriage can be entered into without cost, before a magistrat or priest, or minister, and every barrier to marriage was removed. Those hav ing children could marry, and the legal status of the offspring of such as had been born out of wedlock be thereby es tablished. Under Spanish rule the island was scourged with diseases due to unsani tary conditions, and to a lack of care for the people, by those in authority. The military governor established a vaccine farm, and army physicians vac cinated the popn-al'on of the island. Every msease is being conquered by government agencies, and every sani tary measure is being carried out to prevent filth diseases. Under Spanish rule everything was. taxed, and to all the very exacting taxes on property, real and personal, were added duties on imports., port dues and a consume-tax of no small rate. In addition there were, exac tions by the church, which was backed by the crown and insular government, and. last, but not least, there was a gov ernment lottery. The mayors were in structed to sell a certain amount of the drawings, and they invited the citizens to purchase a drawing, which was un derstood to be a thin-veiled order to contribute the amount asked for to the government. With the occupation by the Ameri cans the lottery disappeared, and the burden of taxation dwindled down to I. 1 ; per cent, of the tariff upon imports, and, what was more important, the amounts thus collected are handed over to the island government for paying the expenses of running that govern ment: so that the 15 per cent, of the tariff does not burden the people at all. Leading men of both political parties in Porto Rico were in Washington dur ing the preparation, of the bill to pro vide revenues and civil government for Porto Rico (Public No. C 9) and they were strong in their expression that they were satisfied with the provisions of this bill. When I'orto Rico was storm swept the quick response of our people to Ihe cry of distress, and the liberal send ing of tens of thousands' of tons of supplies for the stranded victims of the storm gave evidence of the true feel ing which this country entertained to ward the new possession. A loyal lady of San Juan remarked that "the Unit eo States is great because it is liberal; it is prosperous because it is humane." Under Spanish rule the weak were robbed; the foreclosure of a mortgage was permitted to be done in a most unwarranted manner, and always to the loss of the debtor. A military or der checked this. Under Spanish rule a large percentage of the property owners were absentees, conducting their estates through agencies, and exacting a most ruinous'course against other interests. The property of the absentee class has been put under tax able conditions that will make them bear tlieir portion of the burden of the government which gives security to their property. Under Spanish rule the money of the island was subject to the most extraordinary fluctuations; when Ihe planter needed money to pay his help, and for supplies, the peso would be held at (XI cents in gold, and as soon as the money had passed into the hands of the men whom the planter had owed the value of the same peso declined to 42 cents. This ruinous variation in money has been made to give place to certainty and stability by changing the currency of the island to United States currency. Under the rule of Spain the mass of i the people dared not make an outcry i against any oppression; the bakers of J San Juan testified that their hours of labor were from four o'clock p. m. till 12 o'clock noon, of the day following, and that they worked every day in the year; other artisans gave similar tes timony; with American occupation snorter hours were demanded without fear, and fair-dealing began to the place of the ancient wrong. Aside from the 50,773 property own ers of I'orto Hico, made up largely of absentees, priests and pro-Spanish res idents, the people of the island are loyal to our methods, and appreciate our efforts in iheir behalf, so far as they can realize the enactments. M'KINLEY'S AMERICANISM. EnKllilimrn Do Not Bnihnur Over (he I'romlre of 111K Ite eleelion, London, .Tune 2.1 (Copyright, 1900, by (he .New York Tribune).- —If there be any doubt in the United States respecting I'nglish opinion of McKin ley and republican politics, it may be dispelled by the reticence of the London and provincial press respect ing the work of the Philadelphia con vention. There are few comments on it, and such as there are have a per functory sound. These are not eulo gies of McKinlev, and the republican party is not embarrassed by English patronage or flattery. The party platform is described as moderate and the nominations as good as the cir cumstances permitted. The nearest approach to compliment is the Spec tator's remark that McKinley is pos sibly too much of a politician, but, that he has won and receives inter national respect. The English press is preoccupied with affairs in South Africa and China, and has no space in reserve for a trivial incident in Anglo-Saxon his tory, such as the election of a pres ident by a nation of 80,000.000. More over. there are no illusions here re specting either President McKinley or the republican party. Both are known to be downright American and not in any sense English. President McKinley is not suspected of having ever made an apology for introducing the tariff bill which bore his name, and the party which renominated him. so far from repudiating protec tionism. has reaffirmed it and added to it subsidies for American ship ping. Nobody in England ever speaks of McKinley as anything but an uncom promising champion of American ideas and politics. Hence his renom ination is received here without en thusiasm and with quiet reserve, as possibly not the best choice, but one which divides the republican party least. AMERICAN MANUFACTURES. Em»r(i> of tmrrlenn Made (iuiidiaiid Import* of Korriicn Material*. Forty million dollars' worth of manufactures were exported from the United States, and $25,000,000 worth of manufacturers' materials were imported into the United States last May. This is a higher record for both than was ever made in any pre ceding month. This assures a total exportation of manufactures in the fiscal year 1900 of fully $425,000,000, and an importation of manufac turers' material of $.100,000.000. On only four occasions has the im portation of manufacturers' materials reached the $200,000,000 line, while in the year just ended it, will be about $300,000,000 —anincreaseofso per cent, over the average of the past five years. Exports of manufactures in 18!)'J were $338,00,000, and will be fully $425,000,000 in 1900—an increase of nearly or quite $90,000,000; while no earlier year ever showed an increase of as much as $50,000,000. The total importation of manufac tures for the year will aggregate about $325,000,000 and the total ex ports of manufactures will aggregate about $425,000,000. HOW WILL BRYAN VOTE? Hl* InercitKol PrnH|>erll)- Should Cause 111 in lit Support McKinley. "The republican party is on the de fensive. It will talk prosperity, of course, but we'll be willing to take the votes of all the people who have not had their share of prosperity, and leave them the votes of the people who have been prosperous." \V. J. Bryan, at Chicago, June 13, 1900. The following figures are taken from. the books of the assessor for the Fifth ward of the city of Lincoln, Neb., which is the ward in which Mr. Bryan makes his home, and they show the assessed valuation of his personal property for the years indicated: Years. Assessed Valuation. 1891! $ 280 no 1894 :!00 00 1895 340 00 1596 (last year of democracy) 270 00 1897 1,485 00 189S 1!,9N0 00 1899 2.980 00 190 4,£50 00 The above figures are official and prove conclusively that Mr. Bryan should vote for Filliam McKinley in this year of our Lord, 1900. Tlie Price- off Cattle. The average price of cattle on the farm was $10.65 per head on January 1. ISO?, just before President McKin ley was inaugurated. At the beginning of this year cattle were worth $25 per head on the farm. The increase in the last three years has been 50 per cent. These figures are from the reports of the department of agriculture, and may be accepted as absolutely reliable. Mukcx Priced Retter. War is especially distasteful to the democratic party. In addition to the display of bravery called for it makes higher prices for the products of the American farmer. SOMETHING NEW IN SURGERY.. An Oiiernflnn Tlir.t W'a> DorrT ta|{ of World-Wide Cel ebrity. "I see," Mid the old man Pimpernel the other evening, relates the Cleveland Plain Dealer, "that they've mended another brok en neck for u feller. He had a fall some ivheres out in the country, an' when they got him to th' hospital th' doctors found that his upper spinal colume was cracked clean across. Feller couldn't hold his head up, an' his voice was clean gone." "How did they patch him up?" inquired'. John Howman. "You'll be s'prised when I tell you," re-- §]ied the old man."lt was so dead easy, 'ust, they crowded over th' left phalanx till' it lapped the right vertrickle, an' then they stuck th' two ends together with anty-toxum. glue. That's fer blood pisenin', you know Then they got the broken ends of the me dulla together an' fastened 'em in place with strips of adhesin' plaster. After that they nailed narrow rods of zinc up and down his? backbone and clinched 'em together with rivits. When this was all fixed the surgeon, sent out an' got an old-fashioned bootjack,, an' they tied it on his chest so that the open in' at the top would just catch under hia chin —an' hold it until the glue hardens. An' as soon as it does harden the young feller'lli be just as sound as ever, with a few rivita>- thrown in." "Thunder!" cried Josh Bowman. "Ain't: it wonderful!" "You jest bet it is," said the old man, He Feared to Presume. The American tourist is so firmly con vinced that he is being cheated on all hand*- during his European travels that he occa sionally oversteps the bounds of jirudenoe. "What is the price of this pin?' asked u. young man in a Paris shop, handling a small, silver brooch of exquisite workmanship. "Twenty francs, monsieur," said the clerk. "That's altogether too much," said the young American. "It's for a present to my. sister; I'll give you five francs for it." "Zen it would be I zat gave ze present to your sister," said the Frenchman, with a deprecatory shrug, "and I do not know mademoiselle!"—-The King. Archneoloory. "These pictures," the archaeologist of the distant future is explaining, "represents the cake walk of the ancients. The cake walk, consisted of a number of movements evi dently designed to assist the digestion o£ cake. Hence the name. —Detroit Journal. What Ilnrts. "The other side," observed the candidate, in much apprehension, "are putting some damaging reports in circulation." "But no money to speak of," rejoined the chairman of the campaign committee, com placently.—Detroit Journal. One of the baffling mysteries of nature io the pie that melts in the mouth but :» solider than a brick in the stomach.- De troit Journal. ~ HEALTHY WOMEN. ~~ Marv J. Kennedy, manager of Ar mour ik Co.'s Exhibit at the Trans-Missis sippi Exposition at Omaha, Neb., writes the ■ olio wing of Peir u ina, ~s. ti curt digestive system. 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