2 CAMERON COUNTY FRESS. H. H. MULLIN, Editor. Published Every Thursday. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. t2 (l [j 11 paid in advance 1 *' u ADVERTISING RATES Advertisements arc published at the rate of ©ne dollar per square for one insertion anil fifty cent* per square for each subsequent insertion. Rates by ihe year, or for six or three month*, arc low and uniform, unci will be furnished on application. Lettul and Official Advertisinp per square, three times or less. each subsequent inser tion Ml cents per square. Local notices lii cents per line for one lnser certion: .S cents per line for each subsequent consecutive insertion. Obituary notices over five lines. 10 cents i>er line. Simple announcements of hirtlis. n.ar riajres and deaths will be insr rted free. Business cards, live lines or less »6 per year; over hve lines, at the regular rates of adver tising. No local inserted for less than <5 cents per I issue. JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the I'kkss is complete and affords facilities for doing the best class of •work. Pah'i iculak attention paidto Law Printing. No paper will be discontinued until arrear tges are paid, except at the option of the pub she r. Papers sent out of the county must be paid for in advance. 'llir story is i Id of a Chinese man darin who early Jearnrd that Mr. ('on cer. the A-tierican Oar Minister . . minister to I'eking, In C hina. wag „ () j j 0 j, e lialked or bluffed. A missionary of the American Bible society, duly provided with passports and credentials, was stopped by the officials and held in the military quarters on some paltry trumped-up charge. The missionary *ent word to Minister Conger, and the minister went in person to see about it. When he learned the trivial na ture of the trouble he demanded the release of the missionary, saying he was an American citizen, and as such liis rights must be respected. "But my orders are to hold him here," said the officer."And my orders from the United States are to demand his re lease." '"He must stay here until it fuits his majesty to release him." "The United States of America de mands his immediate release," quietly 'rejoined Minister Conger, "and we're used to getting what we want." The missionary was (jiven his freedom at once. Although a big spot has been discov < red upon the sun. there is noseicntilic proof, says an authority on such mat ters, that r severe heated term will re sult in the next three months. Hot tummers have come when 110 unusual solar spois appeared, though some ob servers claim that the weather has been hotter when they were most nu merous. Another astronomer insists that the whiteness at the poles of Mars •is caused by congealed carbonic acid gas, not by snow, and that life on that planet is impossible. In view of the great abundance of life 011 the earth, under all sorts of conditions, it is as suming much to believe that Mars is a feterilized body. Fifteen-year-old William Van All man, of Altoona. Pa., while picking iberries near that city one day lately, ■was nipped by a rattlesnake, which !he failed to observe under a bush. The fangs of the reptile caught one i»f the boy's fingers near the end. First billing the snake, the lad drew his pocketknife, and. with Spartan cour age. cut off the injured finger at the second joint. He bound the wound Avith his handkerchief and hastened to Altoona, where the injury was dressed. The physicians, according to the re port, say he is in no danger. Exportation of American coal has grown steadily in recent years and at present is increasing at a very rapid rate. During the last ten years the total exports have increased more than threefold. In 1890 less than 2,000,000 tons were sent abroad; in the 11 months ending May 3(j, 1900. nearly Ci,500,000 tons were exported. The bulk of this coal goes to British Xortli Amer ica, which in 1809 took 3,220,251 tons, Mexico came next with 410,709 tons and Cuba was third with 326,509 tons. The exports to Ei«rope amounted 10 only 40,101 tons. A hotel man in Portland, Me., made a bet of a hat with a friend and lost. The loser telephoned to the winner: "Get just as good a hat as you want in fact, buy any ftind of a hat that suits you, and have them send the bill to me." In a day or two a bill of $33 from a well-known Congress street milliner for a woman's hat was received by Ihe loser. The w inner calmly informed him that he was pretty well fixed for hats himself, and so he. thought he'd turn the tiling over to his wife. It was a hat and the hotel man paid. Primitive rules as to vote canvassing are observed in some southern states. At a recent general election in Georgia there were no returns from one of the counties in consequence of a fire in the courthouse, so the vote in the county ■was ignored. At the recent election in Virginia one of the counties was omitted from the canvass owing to the fact that some of the local officials had neglectid to open several of the polling booths in it because election day was rainy. The negro population of the United States in 1890 was 7,470,000. Now it is about 9,000,000. At the usual ratio of ■voten? to population there should be at thisi time about 1,800,000 negro men above the age of 21 years, although of course there is no way of telling how many actually vote. WAGES ARE HIGHER Ihe Labor Unions Show Greatly In creased Earnings. Official Heiiorfs from Trail)'* in the I.afct Three ituri All Have Ileen Visited li> (jie ■■ era I Prosperity. The workinginan of to-day who does his own thinking has had the proof presented 10 him that it is to his best interests to stand by the platform and principles of the repub lican party. The fact that there have been strikes during this period of prosperity 110 doubt affords u great opjiortunity for calamity howling to the democrats, but they always fail to point out that strikes during a re publican administration are for more wages, and that strikes during a democratic administration are against lower wages, and that labor invaria bly loses. The American wage-earner wants the present good times and prosperity to continue indefinitely, and he will not vote this good thing away for any bubble of promises which only means a disturbance of their industrial conditions, with less work, lower wages, idleness, soup houses, free bread and the poorhouse. Wages paid in the United States are from two to four times greater than the wages paid to the corre sponding class of labor in the free trade countries of the world. The FAMOUS AERIAL ARTIST TO ATTEMPT A REMARKABLE FEAT. ANNOUNCEMENT—During the performance Mr. Bryan will endeavor to walk the tight-rope from Lincoln, Neb., to Washington, D. C, carrying sixteen times his own weight 111 his celebrated iron jaws and balancing the Anti-Imperialist Fancy with the Anti(lce)-Trust Fact!— Chicago Times-Herald purchasing power of a dollar in America is also correspondingly greater. Admitted that rents and ihe prices of native products may be cheaper in foreign countries than they are here, this difference is noth ing like the wide disparity in the amount of wages earned. Moreover, the conditions of living must be con sidered, as well as the nominal cost. Cheap rents and cheap prices mean in ferior accommodations and poorer living. To the average worker in foreign countries most of the con veniences that are in common use by the American wage-earners are posi tive luxuries. The American work man nnd his family are the best ed ucated, the best dressed, the best housed and in every the best situated workers in the world. The American wage-earner is always the most skill ful workman. liis duties and re sponsibilities are privileges possessed by no other laborers, and to his in telligence and achievements are largely due the fact that these United States are to-day the envy of the civilized world. Within a couple of short years, by the wise administration of the re publican party, the democratic haunts of idleness have been turned into hives of industry. Thanks to the en actment of the Dingley protective tar iff and the wise administration of public affairs by President McKinley, the entire effect of the democratic free trade policy has passed away. Millions of persons employed in the thousands of establishments which resumed work within the last three years show only too plainly how far the influence of a business adminis tration has been felt. Side by side with this record of the resumption of work is that of the increase of wages, ranging from 5 to 40 per cent,, and the most gratifying fact in this matter of higher wages is that it has been voluntary to a large ex tent on the part of the employers. High wages encourage the increase of a high class of labor and a high stand ard of living. The following table is compiled from the reports of na tional and international unions, made in May, and it shows the per cent, of increase in wages of 59 different trades or crafts in the years 1897, 1898 and 1899: Increase of wapes in 1897. 1898 and 1899, as reported by labor organiza tions: "Wage Increase, per rt Crafts. 1897. 189h. !*!)» Agents 5 30 20 Bricklayers and stone ma sons 10 12 25 Broom makers 10 Bicycle workers 10 20 Boiler makers and iron ship builders 10 25 Briekmakers 10 Blacksmiths 10 Brewery workmen 10 15 Bakers 15 Bookbinders 5 10 25 Boot and shoe workers 5 15 Conductors (railroad) Very sult'l inc. Coopers '3 4 10 j Curtain (lace) operator* 16 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1900. Core makers 8 12 25 Carpenters & H 15 Cigar makers ti 10 Engineers (locomotive 1 Email 12 M0 Engineers (coal hoisting) 10 SO Electric workers 2525 Engineers (stationary) 20 ,'t() F:rt men (stationary) l' r > Firemen (locomotive) 10 Glass bottle blowers & Class workers 3 Horseshoers 10 B i" Iron molders 10 Iron, steel and tin workers... 5 & 17 Longshoremen 10 •• i|j I.eather workers 15 1» 15 Meat cutters and butcher workmen Metal workers Machinists 10 '•> 4" Mine workers 12 26 4» Potters 12% • • Plumbers, gas and steam tit ters Paper makers Printers I' l ;*0 Patternmakers... 5 15 30 Stone cutters 5 Spinners (cotton mule) 22 Stove mounters 5 If' Stage employes . 25 200 SOo Street railway employes 6-10 JL' Seamen 5 12 Tailors 10 Tin plat« workers !•> Trunk makers,... 10 I,> Tile layers • • 10 Railroad laborers 5 1 10 Textile workers 12% Tobacco workers 8 1.1 I'pholsterers 10 20 Waiters and cooks 5 10 10 Wood carvers •' fv Wood workers 5 8 1j With this remarkable exhibit of the higher wages paid to American labor the democratic party will appeal to the wage-earners to place the admin istration of this country in democrat ic hands, the sole result of w*hich would be to restore the era of low wages, to extinguish the fires of hope in the workingman's ambition, to ex tinguish the fires in the furnaces of their factories and to cause the pro duction of a different table in a few years, showing the decreases in wages as reported by the labor unions. To Our Credit. The British war office is now the re cipient of vigorous criticism and con demnation on account of itsi loose methods of caring for the sick and wounded in South Africa. According to the disclosures the conduct of the officials was almost criminal. Yet England is popularly supposed to have reached almost perfection in all branches of the army. When we con sider the emergency preparations and the results achieved there is abundant reason for taking pride in the manner in which the army of the United States is conducted. Groom Dearrtrd. Samuel Bishop, of Livingstone, and about 50 relatives and friends who had gathered to see him married to Miss Mary Wnshel in St. Joseph, were disappointed by the failure of the bride to putin an appearance. Bishop says he came on a written invitation from Miss Washel, secured a license, engaged Rev. J. A. Post to perform the ceremony and invited his friends, but a visit to the house of his af fianced disclosed the fact that it was deserted, lie says he can give no rea son for the young lady's actions. In Republican Kun Us. The Arizona Gazette has renounced its democratic faith and in the future will Vie an American newspaper. The (iazette tired of apologizing for as saults upon our soldiers in the field and encouragement to Aguinaldo. Thick-Skinncd. The so-called anti-imperialists have decided to hitch onto the democratic donkey. The poor animal is always compelled to furnish Ihe motive power for the slanderers of the country. A Subject Avoided. Those democratic editors who affect to believe that the protective tariff is the parent of trusts never attempt "to explain the fact that the trust orig inated in free trade England. They Are Independent. Hon. Claude Duval is> running for congress on the democratic ticket in one of Ihe Kansas districts. It is not believed ht will be able to hold up tb'- voters. Anil the Full Stomach. The democratic orator will be de prived of one advantage he enjoyed in 18!)ti. This; year lie will have to argue with the man with the full dinner pail. Ton I'rlKld. Mr. C'roker is trying very hard to drag foreign issues into the campaign. Anything to get away from the Tam many ice trust. Two of n Kind. In the dowager empress of Ch!na the country has a very fair picture of Maiy Ellen Leaseisui at its zenith. SPANISH WAR, LOAN. Administration's Success in Getting Two Hundred Million Dollars. How Secretary tinge Handled the l*opiilnr l.onn— \n*l Sum With drawn from Circulation With out Injur) to liuMinefck. The war with Spain served to dem onstrate something more than the military and naval strength of the lulled States. It brought to light the vast resources in wealth of this country. In a general way it had been understood that the United States was a nation of great wealth, perhaps richer than any other coun try. Hut it needed the necessities of war to give au exhibition of our real financial strength. While it, was rec ognized in the spring of 189K that the Dingley tariff, under normal condi tions, would produce ample revenues for the ordinary requirements of the government, it was apparent that means must be taken at once to pro vide for the. heavy war expenditures. On April 25. 1898, two days after the declaration of war. a bill to provide additional revenues was introduced in the house of representatives. It passed that body April 29 and Ihe senate on June 4. The report of the conference committee was apreed to in the house June 9 and the senate June 10. The bill became a law June 13, 1898, when it received the signa ture of the president. The necessities of the hour re quired that the treasury should be supplied imineditaely with funds. The task was to raise a large sum, avail able for immediate use, in such a manner as to avoid injury to the rap idly reviving business of the coun try. The act recognized a true prin ciple in public finance by making pro vision to borrow at once a sum suffi cient to provide for war expenses, while at the same time additional taxes were levied in order that the loan might be supported by an in crease in revenue. The act authorized the secretary of the treasury to borrow $400,000,- 00(J, or as much thereof as might be necessary, to defray the expenses o? the war. Under this authority it was decided to borrow $200,000,000. The success which attended the floating of this loan is a memorable one. It was a popular loan in every sens" of the word. The act itself directed that "the bonds authorized by this sec tion shall be first offered at par as a popular loan under such regulations, prescribed by the secretary of the treasury, as will give opportunity to the citizens of the United States to participate in subscriptions to the loan, and in allotting said bonds the several subscriptions for the individ uals shall be first accepted, and the subscriptions for the lowest amounts shall be first allotted." The secretary of the treasury utilized every agency at his command to comply with this direction of con gress. All state and national banks were requested to cooperate with the department; the express companies tendered their services free of cost in the handling of subscriptions; the postmaster general directed that all money order post offices be charged with the duty of receiving the orders of subscribers, and all the newspapers of the United States were invited to disseminate information concerning the loan. All these great agencies combined to place before the people the fullest information that could be given. For a period of 31 days subscrip tions were received. At the end of that time it was found that the total of subscriptions aggregated only a little under $1,400,000,000, or almost seven times the amount of bonds of fered to the public. This was a re markable demonstration in favor of the public credit. It showed to other nations the. tremendous resources which the people of the United States were able to command almost at a moment's notice. The success of the war loan had an effect, both at home and abroad, scarcely less important than were the naval victories at Ma nila and Santiago. Doubtless the pur pose of the people thus expressed to give abundant, support to the war was one of the factors which brought about its speedy termination. The withdrawal of so large a sum as $200,000,000 from active employ ment in commerce and industry, with out deranging any of the vast busi ness interests of the country, was,l feat successfully accomplished. By the end of the calendar year 1898 al most. every dollar of this great sum had been paid into the treasury. Yet under the plan adopted by the secre tary of the treasury such payment was made without occasioning the slightest injury to business. In fact, the entire management of the war finances was conducted with such skill that not for a moment was there any interruption to the returning tide of prosperity. Industrial and com mercial expansion continued as if in fact there had been no war, and at its close, the. business of the country was greater in volume than at, th<j beginning, and the national credit, both at home and abroad, had been raised to the highest point in our his tory. It may be said with truth that this increased faith in the public credit, laid the foundation for the achievement of that, currency reform which was accomplished by the act of March 14, 1900, fixing the standard of value and providing for the re fucding of the national debt at the lowest rate of interest on public se curities ever effected in this or any other country. TltE 1.C710H Ml ED disfigurement and prcbaVily life. W. R Wright, Jamaica, Long Inland, wrote: "I hive recently realized the efficacy of Palm er's Lotion in the cure of burns so severe that the skin hung from my face and left arm in ribbons, and now, at the end of one week. 1 am to resume work with no scars on iny face and but few on my arm." You ought always to have it in the house. If your druggist don't keep it, send his name to Solon Palmer, 374 Pearl St., New York, and receive free pamphlet of testimonials and •ample of Palmer's Lotion, or Soap. At the Restaurant. First Man (excitedly)— Our restaurant is an fire. Second Man (calmly)— Come, then, hurry up and perhaps at last we may be able to get something hot.—Pearson's Weekly. Do Your Keel Ache and Ilornf Shake into your shoes, Allen's Foot Ease, i powder for the feet. It makes tight or New Shoes Feel Easy. Cures Corns, Itching, Swollen, Hot, Callous, Smarting, Sore and Sweating Feet. All Druggists and Shoe Stores sell it, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Ad dress, Ai.'* n s Olmsted. L'• Wnv. N. V. An Enierftrnejr, Assistant—The Irish stew has burned. Chef—Well, put some spice in it and add "A la Francais'' to its name on the menu. —Puck. I.inr'i Family Medicine. Moves the bowels each day. In order to be healthy this is necessary. Acts gently on the liver and kidneys. Cures sick head ache. Price 2. 1 ) and 50c. Coffee resembles the earth when it is ground.—Chicago Daily News. Itching Burn ing Scaly Blotchy Humors Instantly Relieved and Speedily Cured by (uticura The itching and burning I suffered in my feet and limbs for three years were terrible. At night they were worse and would keep me awake a greater part of the night. I consulted doctor after doctor, as I was travel ling on the road most of my time, also one of our city doctors. None of the doctors knew what the trouble was. I got a lot of the different samples of the medicines I had been using. I found them at so mauy different kinds that I concluded I would have togo to a Cincinnati hospital before I would get relief. I had frequently beeu urged to try CUTICURA KEMEDIES, but I had no faith in them. My wife finally prevailed upon me to try them. Presto! What a change! lam now cured, and it is a permanent cure. I feel like kicking some doctor or myself for suffering three years when I could have used CUTICUKA remedies. H. JENKINS, Middleboro, Ky. Complete Treatment $1.25, Consists of CUTIOURA SOAP (25C.), to cleanse the skin of crusts and scales and soften the thickened cuticle, CUTICURA Ointment (50c.), to instantly allay itching, irritation, and inflammation, and soothe and heal, and CUTICURA KESOLVENT (50c.), to cool aud eleanso the blood. A SINGLE SET is often sufficient to cure the most torturing, dia iiguring skin, scalp, and blood humors, rashes, and irritations, with loss of hair, when physicians, hospitals, and all else fail. Sold throughout the world. POTTEU DBCCI AND CHEM. CORP., Sole Props., Boston. " How to Cure Itching Humors," free. Millions of Women Use Cuticura Soap Exclusively for preserving, purifying, and beautifying the skin, for cleansing the scalp of crusts, scales, and daudruli, and the stopping of fulling hair, for softening, whitening, and healing red, rough, and sore hands, in Uie form of baths tor annoying irritations, Inflam mations, and <.halings, or too free or offensive perspiration, In the form of washes fop Ulcerative weaknesses, and for many sanative antiseptic purposes which readily suggest themselves to women, and especially mothers, and for all the purposes of the toilet, bath, and nursery. No amount of persuusion can iuduce those who have once used It to use any other, especially for preserving and purifying the skin, scalp, and hair of infants and children. Ct'TLCDUA SOAP combines delicate emollient properties derived from CUTI CUUA, the great skin cure, with the purest of cleansing ingredients and the most refresh ing of flower odors. No other medicated or toilet soap ever com pounded is to be compared with it for preserving, purifying, and beautifying the sklu, scalp, hair, and hands. No other foreign or domestic toilet soap, however expensive, Is to be compared with it for all the purposes of the toilet, bath, and nursery. Thus It combines In ONE SOAP at OK* PKICE, viz., TWKNTT FIVE CENTS, the atei sklu ud «g»gl%xio& tuap, and U>« sui toilet aad BEST baby soap in the work). CHICAGO'oOMAHA Double Daily Service New line via Rook \ >AQIHay^/ ford, \ / Waterloo. Korfr \"yl/ Dodge and Ceim rWLßOjZf <ll liluffs. liutfet- library-smoking cars. sleeping cars, free reclining chair cars, dining cars. send to the undersigned for a fi>« ropy of Pictures and Notaa En-Routa Illustrat ing this new line as seen from the ear window. Tickets of agents of 1. <\ K. H. and connecting Unas. A. H. HANSON, <i. 112. A.. Chlcatu. Crenin Cunturil Free. All Groeers are giving, with a package of Bumham's Hasty Jellycon, a 10c. package of Bumham's ('ream Custard. Hasty Jelly con is the finest Jellycon preparation. No cooking or baking. Dissolve in hot water and set away to harden. Flavors: Orange, Lemon, Raspberry, Strawberry, Wild Cherrv end Peach. Order to-dav. MONEY -HElßS lTeirsof I nlon Holdiers who made homesteads of less than 1»J0 acres before June 'l2. 1*74 (no matter it abandoned), if the additional homestead rijrht was not sold or used, should address, with fuil par ticulars. IIKMCV !>'. rOPI*. Washinirtmi. 11. 4\ ICENT Pr.Sq.Ft. Including capp und nalla, for the beat Red Kopl Rooflog. Bubatitute. tor Plaster Samtilee free. TUK HV VANILLA ROIIFIM! IIIII'IM, CAHUKN, k. J,.
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