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Th« Job department of the Press Is complete and affords facilities for doing the best ( lass of work. PAItTICULAH ATTENTION PAIDTO I.AW 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 (or in advance. In these days when appendicitis 4a bo common an ailment the doctors &re put tins" forth every It IN Time * effort to arrive at I iie> K new. aclearer tinder standing of it. The time has long gone by, says a writer in the Philadelphia Saturday Evening l'ost. since the grape seed and the toothbrush bristle were held accountable, and we may now eat our grapes and brush our teeth quite without the menace of a month in the hospital. Medical men generally agree that appendicitis is due to the presence of ft bacillus. One of (he latest and most ingenious theo ries to account for the malady is that put forth by a medical man who be lieves that it is caused by the habit of sitting with the legs crossed. Nine men out of ten —leaving tailors out of the reckoning—spend many of their sedentary hours with the right leg crossed over the left. As tlie vermi form appendix is on the right side it requires no great stretch of the imag ination to believe that such a posture may cramp and constrict the little sac to an extent sufficient to cause trouble. Whether or not litis explana tion be accept<<l there '-tin be no harm in crossing one's itgs the other way about. There was a fire in an apartment house in New York city not long ago, w... ~, ~ an d th e flames I*ot All Heroes gained eonsidera- Are Wliitr. i i , i , .. ble headway before they were discovered. There was it groat scramble for safety, and many narrow escapes were chronicled. On the second floor was a man with six children, tlie mother being absent at the time. The flames were right be hind them, and it was evident that the man could devise no way to save them. At this juncture a young colored man named Anderson called on two inen to follow him, and ran into the building and up to the third floor. With his two companions holding his legs, An derson swung head downward, and in this position managed to reach the children as tiny were held up to him by the father, and then pass them up to the room above. All were taken out safely in this manner, except the father, who slid down a water spout. After performing his feat, Anderson ■walked away, and so far as we have heard, received no reward for his hero ism. nor was any further attention paid to him. A man in Pratt, Kan., was convict ed of selling liquor without a license •and sentenced to jail. Sheriff Uib ibens, however, permitted the prison er to remain with his family most cf ,the time and did not lock him up as he should have done. At the expira tion of the prisoner's term the pris oner's wife sued ihe sheriff for the ;priee of board and lodging for her spouse, alleging that the sheriff was drawing pay from the county for the keep, whereas, in fact, lie was living off her. She was awarded judgment for $21.60. but the sheriff has appealed to the district court. The most picturesque fish story ol ihe season comes from Kennebec •county. Me., where it is related that a lazy angler removed the young birds from a nest and replaced them with Tiollow tin dummies resembling birds Then, the story goes onto say, the ■parent birds fill up the dummies with •worms, which the lazy angler steals and thus keeps himself supplied with Imit at no expense of energy. The 14-year-old daughter of John W. Stewart, while at work in a field near itrookston, Ir.d,, a few days agc became delirious from heat just as a storm was about to break. On be ing called into the house, relates « local exchange, she uttered a startled cry and ran in the wrong direction through field, cross roads and ditches until she fell exhausted nearly nine miles from home. The gentle microbe has found s champion in Dr. Charles K. Page, whe defended it in the physicians' meeting at. Washington recently. H< held thai a healthy body generates its owi germicides, and that the microbe ii Kuch a body stands about as good t chance of doing mischief "as a mouse in a tight room surrounded by t dozen hungry cats. ' A DOUBTFUL GROUP. flow Slhlm Tli 111 WfPf I ni'frlnlo I*l LKVti W ill tio in Ibf tnuliig Election. Fourteen million American electors took putt in the presidential contest four years ago, and in three of the states of the country the plurality for the winning ticket was less than 600 in South Dakota, 2hl in Ken tucky. 553 in Wyoming. These three, though the closest, were by no means the only close states in the last pres idential contest. California was car ried for MeKinlev by 1.H22, and Ore gon by 2,040, while Washington gave 12,000 for Uryan and Kansas Kt.ooo. These seven states. South Dakota, Kentucky, Wyoming, California, Ore gon, Washington and Kansas, consti tuted the "doubtful" group in the ejection four years ago, and vigorous effort was expended by both parties in each of them to attain success in them. These states have collectively ;t7 electoral votes, and the situation in each, as developed since the last na tional election, has taken a majority of them out of the doubtful columu this \ear. South Dakota was carried by the republicans by a majority of 0.000 in the 1899 election. The state adminis tration. except the governorship, is in republican hands, and there was a re publican majority in both brunches of the last legislature. Wyoming was carried by ihe repub licans for governor by a plurality of 1.300 in 1898. The republican party has control of the state administra tion and an overwhelming majority of the state legislature. California was carried by the re publicans by a majority of 19,000 on the governorship two years ago, and the republicans control the state ad ministration. They have two senators in congress, five of the six representa tives, and an overwhelming majority in the legislature. Oregon was carried by the republic ans at the recent June election by a majority so large as to preclude the notion that it would be considered as in the doubtful column this year. Washington was carried bv the re publicans in the election of 1898 by 8.000 majority, and at the same time two republican congressmen were elected, and republican control of the legislature at Olympia was secured. Kansas gave in 1890 an unexpectedly large plurality for Bryan and a con siderable, though smaller, majority for Leady, the populist candidate for governor. In 1898 the republicans carried the state for governor and other offices by 15.000 majority, and the industrial conditions of Kansas since and now give little expectation cf democratic success, though a vig orous effort is to lie made to secure through the nomination for governor of John W. Breidenthal. of Topeka, who w;is chairman of the populist slate committee in Kansas during the last presidential election ami one of Ihe representatives of that state on the populist national committee. Kan sas is one of the few states in which there are practically no gold demo crats. In the election of four years ago 40,000 voters in Kansas supported the populist, and 186.000 voters the | democratic, Bryan ticket, the names j upon each of which were identical, but were returned separately by the election officers in the Sunflower state. ! The muddled condition of politics in J Kentucky has not been clarified by any development since Ihe national j election of four years ago when the | electoral vote of that state was di vided, and in this particular Kentucky is an exception among the group of former "doubtful" states. Consequent upon the exclusion of Taylor from of fice. the assassination of Ooebel. and the temporary occupancy of the gov ernor's place in Frankfort by Beck ham. a new election for governor will be necessary this year, and ihe most skillful and capable prognostieators are making no prophecies as to how it will turn out, and who will be. turned out. Among the states put in the doubtful column this year is Colorado, which Bryan carried by 153,000.— N. Y. Sun. PRESS OPINIONS. E7 Every prediction of victory made by a democratic leader is coupled with a fervent appeal for party harmony.— St. Louis Globe-Democrat. O'ln 1897 the people of Nebraska paid (IFF $19,000,000 of mortgages: in 1898, $49,000,000; in 1899. $78.000,0000 — SI4G.(X)O,CO<j in three years.—lndianapo lis Journal. ICJ'Theeloquence of democratic spell binders on the subject of "imperial ism" is likely to be much marred by coarse shouts of "How about North Carolina?"- —Kansas City Journal. IC?""l."emocrats," says the Memphis Commercial-Appeal, "need not fear that V'illiam J. Bryan will ever turn his on the free coinage of silver." No, i*3r the mints, either. —Chicago Times-Herald. ICRepublican prosperity is hard on ihe farmer. In South Dakota difficulty is being experienced securing hands to harvest the small grain crop. Noth ing of the kind occurred during the late democratic administration. —Oma- ha Bee. Bryan talks imperialism for the sound money east and sixteen to one for the wild and woolly west. That is the kind of free and unlimited coinage of humbug and fraud in which the popocratic party is now working over times. —Troy Times. CThe democratic vote ir. Wisconsin for governor was 09,000 in 1896, and two years later, under what have sometimes been called "improved con ditions for democratic harmony," the vote of the democratic candidate for governor was 135,000, or 30,0U0 less. — N. Y. Sun. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1900. SILVER WILL NOT DOWN. Ilrynn Jin* Commltlrd Hlm«elf «nd Ibe Demoeriioy find * annot llncb Out. The hope of the mugwump enemies of President McKinley that .Mr. Bryan would bt placed in a position where he could force the silver issue into the background and make his campaign on the imperialism issue is not to be grat ified. Silver is bound to be an impor tant issue of the campaign, no matter how the eastern leaders of the party may try to ignore it, and no matter what Bryan may do in the attempt to push imperialism to the front after the campaign has opened. Bryan and his followers have gone too far in committing the party to free coinage at the ratio of 16 to 1 to lake the back track now. Even if a specific declaration foT silver had not been put into the platlorm it would have been impossible to evade the issue. Bryan's open declaration of his purpose nut to abandon the principle for which he fought in 1896, and the avowal by his followers of their belief in the virtue of the issue of 16 to 1, prove that the massies of the democracy throughout the west and south are as fully com mitted to that issue now as they were in 1896. Furthermore, Ihe discussion at the meeting of Ihe committee on resolu tions «it Kansas City sihows the senti ment of the leaders of the party, he silver men insisted that tliey had fought for the principle of "bimetal- TEE CART BEFORE THE MULE. ' ftttnned/ioAi} lism" ir, 1896. and that they would not abandon t.h; 1 principle. They f<-1 1 that Bryan's candidacy throughout the west and >outh would have been weak ened by the refusal to put a specific 16 to 1 piank in the platform, and that was why they insisted upon thot ac tion. On the other hand, the leaders in the eastern stales realized that sil ver would fie a handicap in the coming campaign. They frankly admitted that free coinage had defeated the party in 1896, and they saw no chance of w in ning this year on that issue. This seems to define the lines on which the campaign will be fought. It will be the same fight over again, and the republicans will have the ad vantage of being able to quote the declarations of distinguished demo crats to t.he effect that the financial question has been disposed of and that prosperity has returned to the country in spite of the geld standard. That the money issue is the only one that has been given earnest consideration is proved by tjie fact that no other ques tion was seriously discussed by the crowds at Kansas City. The dele gates cared little for the issues of im perialism. apparently, and while they will follow the lead of Bryan in attacks on the foreign policy or the administra tion, it is plain that they will not re gard that as the vital issue of the cam paign. It seem si to be clear that if the mug wumps support Bryan this year they will have to swallow the pernicious financial doctrine which they abhorred in 1890. and in opposition to wh'ich they worked for the election of President McKinley.—Cleveland Leader. Too Much Work. A stalwart republican, making pur chases in an lip-town dry goods store, happened to meet Mike, the porter, and the political microbe in the air tempted him to ask: "Mike, how do you feel about the election?" "Bryan, for shure," said Mike. "But, Mike are you going to vote for Bryan?" "Shure I am, sor." "Why are you going to vote for Bryan, Mike?" Mark the sage reply: "Oh. begorra, I have had work for four years, an' I want a rest." —N. Y. Press. ICDemocratic stump speakers in states like New York will have to keep watch over their tongues. The I ratio of sixteen to one win be a for bidden subject. To denounce trusts will be to tread on the toes of the Tammany leaders, who own stock in the ice trust. Denunciations of "im perialism" and "militarism" will awaken no enthusiasm. Cnstinted general abuse of everything done by the McKinley administration will have to be the chief stock in trade of the democratic stujv'vrs.—Chicago Trib une. DEFEAT OF BRYAN. of John M. I'nlmer. r n Olfl Democratic* \\ arliorat of Illinois. "Mr. Bryan is not an inspired man. Nor has he prescient powers. Indi vidually he is clean, and I credit him with being honest in his opinions, but at the same time i cannot indorse ihein. Populism has grown wonder fully strong and wonderfully danger ous. "You predict his defeat?" "Assuredly. The cry of imperialism will win him no votes to amount to anything. It's a false alarm. This country is not nor are Mr. McKinley and his followers believers in imperial ism. Cuba will be under self-govern ment in a little while, and the Fili pinos will be governed as best the ad ministration can. "Pray, what would Mr. Bryan have, had this country do with the islands? We got them, and we will hold them as they stand until some better schema presents itself for controlling theit< 1 think myself that the American gov ernment would be better off without theislands. but the administration has met all the demands that have arisen there manfully and honestly. "Mr. McKinley has the confidence of ihe business interests of the country. He is not an unsafe leader. 1 differ with him on many material questions concerning the welfare of the whole people, but as between him and Bryan there is but one course. "If Mr. Bryan were president and controlled the legislative branches, this country would be thrown ill a panic which would require months to check and years ro heal. False proph ets and leaders sprit? g up and live for a time, and they die. Mean time the true principles of self-govern ment live. "My prediction is that after Mr. Bryan has been defeated for the sec ond time the people will renounce him. No man and no set of principles can live after having been twice de feated at the polls. Perhaps it is well that Mr. Bryan was renominated. His party cannot win. and his defeat will forever settle him. "Should he be st:ccess'f-:;l he would convert democracy into populism, and 1 can apprehend no imoit serious na tional calamity than populist prin ciples of political economy be even given a trial. They are unsuited for the times and unsuited and unsafe for a successful government."—John M. Palmer. A Pilfer Inn: Bryan it e. Mr. Webster Davis, ti e self-consti tuted champion of the Boers, who re | signed as assistant secretary of the | interior because of his dissatisfaction j with the administration, has still fur i ther displayed his dissatisfaction by flopping over to Bryan. He signalized his flop by making a speech at the ratification meeting in Lincoln which greatly pleased the sixteen to one can didate as; well as the notification com mittee. Charmed with his oratory, the democratic national committee promptly arranged to have him ap pear on the stump in various cities as a Bryan spell-binder. Their enthusi j asm, however, suddenly cooled when |it was discovered fhat some of his | Lincoln speech was stolen almost i bodily Tram one of James A. Garfield's 1 speeches. It was about 16 parts (Jar field to one Davis. It is not likely now that tilt; Bryanites will be so eager for 'he oratorical services of a man who shows such a disregard for the use of quotation marks. Chicago ! Tribune. ! l7Mr. Khrich. who was a prominenl gold democrat in 189ti and is a gold | monometallism is going to support Mr I liryan because he thinks the gold i standard to Vie permanently estab i lished. He differs from Bryan. When • senate and house are democratic and - Mr. Bryan president a free silver coin i nee law will be passed, unless Mr. • Bryan and his followers are fal*e to i their pledges.—lndianapolis .Journal. I I Z.TBryan is fairly started on his sec- I ond race for the greatest prize of po r litical ambition. The indications are s that he will make another spectacu t s lar. energetic and dangerous fight, onl v ' - to fall in the end. That will be final, J •—Cleveland Leadtr. I'EKIN IS CAPTURED Allied Troops Attacked the Capital of China. KILLED 300 3IONCiOMANS. The Japanese Lost 100 Soldiers During th<* Fighting. LEG ATI ON ERS AR E R ESC T EI) The I lifted Stulr« t'omnnl at < lie Foo Traiiftiilit* n ICeport Irolii a Japanese Olllcer Ki'Kuritinv the Korflsucr»' Kntry Into the City. Washington, Aug. 18.—The act ing secretary of state makes public the following plain telegram received last evening from Air. Fowler, the I'nited States Consul at Che Foo: '"Che Foo, Aug. 17 (received 7:55 p. in.) —Japanese admiral reports that the allies attacked I'ekir. Irom the east on the 15th. Obstinate resist ance. In the evening the Japanese entered the capital with other forces and immediately surrounded the le gations. Inmates safe. Japanese loss over 100. Chinese 300." '1 lie officials here were aware of the fact that the stronghold f>t' the Uox <• i's was in the Chinese city and that for the allies to attempt to force their way through it into the Tartar city, in which the legation compounds are located, might mean a threat loss (if lite and possibly defeat. 11 was also known that the imperial troops which have sided with the Uoxers were many of them in or near the Chinese city and that much of the artillery and rifle fire which has been ponred into the legations had been from the walls separating- the two cities. These facts evidently were communicated to (>en. Chaffee and the other commanding" officers of the allics. Realizing these obstacles, it ap pears the allies decided to attack f h" city by the east gate. There are four entrances to the city on the east, two leading 1 to the Chinese city and two to the Tartar city. .lust which of these was selected as the attacking" point Consul Fowler's dispatch does not disclose. The .Japanese force engaged with he advance, according to the under standing' of the officials here, num bered 10,0(10 men. so that the loss suf fered by them was about 1 per cent. No mention is made of the losses of the other armies, \ cabinet official said yesterday 1 that, uncpiestionably ihe native ( hris tians in China, said to number sever- i al thousand, will lie included in any arrangement made between this gov ernment and China incident to the cessation of hostilities. At the present stage of the Chinese situation this subject has not vet been serionslv discussed by the cabinet, but there is no doubt, according to this member, that the United States is in honor bound to protect them and will look out for their security. "What will be done with them?" he was asked. "That has not been decided, but rest assured that in their disposition the honor of the I'nitd States will be fully preserved. It may be arranged for them togo to the Philippines, or one of many other plans that are available may lie adopted." It also was stated that, while the matter has not been formally con sidered. the indemnity to be collected b\- the I'uited States will be not only for the families of the victims, but also probably to compensate this gov ernment for the expense it lias been put to in prosecuting the campaign. "It has not been a heavy expense, compared to the Spanish war." he said, "but it will be sufficient, er with the indemnity to.'lu families of missionaries and other victims an 1 for all loss to property of the United States government, or of American citizens, to make it a very serious matter, financially, to China." London, Aug. IS.—"l'ekin was re lieved on the night of the lath." Till*' message was received last evening at the imperial customs office in Ijmdun from the commissioner of customs at Che Foo. It is the only official message that has reached England in confirmation of the earlier reports. Proceeding to discuss the probabil ities of a cessation of hostilities, the Morning I'ost assume" that the Uni ted States is willing t i ahai ion any idea of further aggressive action, but it questions ilie disposition of tier many and the other powers lo agree to such a course. The Merlin correspondent of the Morning I'ost says he learns that no formal request for an armistice has vet reached the powers and that it is improbable that any swell request will be granted. The other papers comment guard edly upon tin- situation, owing to the lack of definite news when the editor ials were written. Most of them ad vocate a stern inquisition regarding outrages and the punishment of the leaders, even if they have to be pur sued all over China. The Daily Graphic, in a paragraph, apparently inspired, says there is no reason to believe that any of the powers will repudiate the previous understanding to respect the integri tv of the empire and the dynasty, adding that the proposal to land a I'ritish force at Shanghai originated not with the British government, hut with the Chinese, who at the same time urged that this should not be done if likely to lead to international complications. Shanghai dispatches say that Empe ror Kvvang Su accompanied the em press dowager to llsian I'u much against his will. Prince Titan com mandeil the rear guard of the impe rial escort, of which Boxers formed 65 per cent. All the palace treasures were sent to llsian Fu. Pale and ■* Weak Women Beauty and strength In women vanish early in life because of monthly pain or some menstrualP Irregularity. Many suf fer silently and see their best gifts fade away. TydiTE. 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On the first and. third Tuesdays of each month during the balance of this year cheap excursion tickets will be sold over our road to Nebraska, so that people may go and see for themselves. Ask your ticket agent about this. P. S. EUSTCS, Con'l Paia'r Agt. C. B. A Q- R.N. CHICAGO, ILL. Everybody enjoys custard made from Burnhani'e Cream Custard. Just dissolve in hot milk and set away to harddn. Indorsed by physi cians as a healthful and nutritious food for Children and Invalids. All Grocers are giv ing a 10c. package free to a purchaser oi a package of Burnham's Hasty Jellycon the finest Jelly preparation. <'nl, r to-day. I fi nirc I When I)octnr« and others fall to relieve LAuiLd • vmi.try N. K. M. II.: it never fails Hoi. free. Mr,. IS. A. lto\#an, Milwaukee, \Yi«. Best Cough Byrup. Tasies Qo<>d. Use In time. Bold by druggists. I*l
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