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The Job department of the PHHS IS complete •c<3 aflerds facilities for doing the best class of Work Paki lD'i,a 11 atbcniion 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 fer in advance There is a ease in Atchison of a man falling in love with his wife. Shortly _ .after their mar hut in (he Roman riage, the wife dis tic May. covered that "Home, Sweet Home" did not appeal to tier husband and thai he preferred the companionship of his men friends downtown, so set to work to win him. She did not try any of the recipes for winning a husband's love found in the women's papers, says the Globe of that city, which are mixtures of pretty dresses, a smile and a kiss at the door upon the arrival of the victim; a kiss as he is about to leave after having eaten his supper (which is to be dainty, with a bunch of his favorite flowers in the xniddle-of the table); she is also togo to the piano and win him back by sing ing the songs he admired during their courtship. The sensible Atchison woman discarded all such recipes. She said nothing about her husband's lack of appreciation, but simply put her shoulder to the wheel and helped him along. He was in debt. She was thrift}-; he got. out. She excelled in fcousekeeping. His meals are substan tial and on time. She made his home so comfortable in an unobtrusive way that he now hates to leave it, and hur ries back after business hours. The woman has one of the most devoted tiusbands in town. She does not brag of it, but just jogs along doing the things he likes. In Milwaukee recently during a rain storm several trees were set on tire by diverted electric currents. Alabama has quietly increased her territory by !iOO,OOO acres of valuable timber land. The strip is on the state's southern boundary, and by right belonged to Alabama for nearly 70 years. In 1826 a survey was made to fix the boundary, but ten years later it was discovered that the east ern boundary line was a mile too short on the Chattahoochie river. For some unknown reason no attention was paid to the second survey, and the whole Ihing was forgotten. Re cently some allusion to it was found in old records, the question was looked up, and after the government land office had passed upon it the strip became a recognized part of the state of Alabama. A Louisville grocer, who sleeps over Ibis store, was startled late the other night, by a mysterious rapping in the cellar. He knew there were some spirits t*here, but was incredulous as to others, and he suspected burglary. He telephoned for tthe police. Their investigation showed a plumber calm ly at work. It seems he had been ordered there two days before by the water company, on application of the grocer. He was unable to come in the daytime, and finding all the doors locked had quietly let himself into the cellar through the grating in the sidewalk. 1 he total cost of the Pan-American exposition to be held in Buffalo next year is estimated at $10,C00,000, and John N. Scatcherd, who is chairman of the executive committee, says that the resources now in sight amount to about $6,000,000. Progress on the work of construction is proceeding rapidly, nearly 5,000 workmen now being employed. The "midway" at the exposition will cost $3,000,000. The exposition grounds will be half a mile wide and a mile and a quar ter long, and will comprise 350 acres. It will open May I, 1901. Jn tne course of a cross-country drag hunt on Long Island Mrs. James L. Kernochan, of New York, was thrown from her saddle after taking a double jump. Her foot caught in the stirrup and she was dragged a short distance, but she stopped the horse, remounted and regained two miles on the leaders, having to take ten jumps over rail fences on the way. The cotton crop of the country amounted to only 5,000,000 pounds in 1793. Last year it was about 5,500,- 000,0(10 pounds, representing three fourths of the entire crop of the world and valued at $350,000,000. It filled 0,500,000 bales, and the loss by waste incidental to the process ol taking samples was not less than $7.- c::.cc:. A CAMPAIGN LESSON. Workmen Are Not to Itr Prejudiced by the Itakld Talk of Aicltatora. One of the facts that must have been made plain to those political leaders and others who did not, know it before, or refused to acknowledge it, is th-ot the workingmen as a class cannot V»e influenced to give their support to a»iy particular party, by mean» of special und specious appeals to prejudice. In the recent campaign efforts on the part of the opponents of repufolic- Bft ism to turn, the workingmen against the republican party and to attract them to its enemies were more con spicuous and' persistent than in. any previous contest for party supremacy. Chief among the agitators who sought to excite the workingmen.'s prejudices Against the party in pow er, and to enlist their aid for the party that wanted to secure power, \»as Mr. Bryan himself. Day after day he talked to wage-earners with intent to make them discontented with their con dition, tow arouse in them jealousy of all better situated than they, and to fill their hearts with hatred of all men who have money enough to conduct large business enterprises and'thus give employment to thousands of their fel low citizens. The doctrine that the re publican party was the party of wealth, and that wealth was an evil, was preached by Mr. Bryan continuously. His argument vyas that, every man not possessed' of wealth ought to join the ranks of the Bryan democrats and make relentless war against- all invested cap ital. In this state, every possible attempt was made to turn organized labor as a body against the republican state can didates. The trouble between the New- York Sun and the Typographical anion, which is purely a business differ ence, was dragged, into the campaign by the opponents of the republican party, and misrepresented as having partisan significance The trust, ques tion, which likewise has no relation to partisan politics, was used as tirelessly with intent to create animosity against State candidates as it was employed to arouse hatred of the national repub lican body a.nd its ticket. Letters from labor leaders endorsing one or another of the democratic candidates, or crit icizing or condemning republican nom inees, were published in profusion. Es pecially in this county were such com munications employed in the hope of drawing the support of wage-earners to the democratic candidate for con gressman. In one of the assembly dis tricts the democrats nominated a labor leader, expecting that he would be able to draw- republican votes be cause of his prominent position in a labor organization. But, as the event proved, all these efforts, and all similar ones that were made throughout the country failed ut terly to produce the intended effect. The workingmen cannot, be fooled more easily than any other class of Amer ican citizens. They know that when a party Iries to get their votes it wants them for its own benefit. It is not seek ing to promote their welfare. They rec ognize the special arguments to work ingmen as merely a part of a party's campaign material. They cannot- be induced to support one candidate, and oppose his rival, simply because one party tells them that the one is their friend and the other their enemy. If the time ever comes when labor organ izations nominate candidates for public office, these workingmen may be ex pected to support such candidates re gardless of their previous party affilia tions. But the sentiment of the most conservative and level-headed labor leaders is so decidedly against political action by organized labor that- that time is not likely to come. At any rate, until it does, the workingmen. like other citizens, will continue to divide on party lines at elections, always how ever using their own good judgment, based on observation of causes and ef fects. and conditions, to decide with which party it will be to their advan tage to ally themselves. Fulsome praise of certain candidates by partisan friends among labor leaders, attacks upon certain other candidates by par tisan enemies who are prominent in la bor unions, fuhninations against in vested wealth, denunciation of employ ing corporations, attempts to give po litical significance to differences be tween 'employers and employes—all these tricks and'similar ones produce no effect on the minds of the working men. That has just been conclusively proven. The republican, party in the late cam paign. directed no special arguments at the workingmen. It made to them the same appeals which it made to all other citizens. It asked them to vote for the maintenance of prosperity, for the permanence of a financial system on a solid basis, for national expansion and for the government against its armed foes. And so the great majority of the workingmen voted. Confidence in their intelligence, their reason, their good judgment and their conscience w as w ell founded.—Albany Journal. CAny party that wants to abolish the gold standard can do so. provided it has control of the legislative de partment of the government, but it ought not to be possible for one man to make any change in the monetary standard. The republican party has claimed and received credit for the work which it is now called upon to perform. Let us hope that before another campaign comes on it will be indisputably true that "the stability of our currency on a gold Jiasis has been gecure4." Washington l'ost (Ind.). of the editors that were pro fessing the greatest assurance of Bry an's election are now calmly acknowl edging that they knew he had no pos sible chance of success! —Indianapolis News. CAMERON CODNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 190. THE WINNING ARGUMENT. Proiperlty of (he People Outweighed (he Appeal (o Clan* Ha(red. It is in order to congratulate Mr. Bryan on the fact that he knows what hit him. Bryan says:"The prosper ity argument was probably the most potent argument used by the republic ans." That's right. It was. The full dinner pail did it. The pay envelope outweighed the soup ticket. The dol lar counted for more than the half dollar. The dollar was before the man, because the man was passing it out to purchase those things which he needed for a comfortable living for himself and family. Prosperity was not only the most effective argument. It was also a legitimate argument. Destitution is not a virtue. It is a decidedly un pleasant defect. Prosperity is the aim of society, the purpose of labor. It always has been and always will be the most potent argument. No phil osopher has ever pictured a heaven of discomfort or adversity. The prosperity argument was the most effective in the campaign. And it brought the verdict for the repub lican party, because the logic of events and the mathematics of history traced the effect of prosperity to its cause in the principles and policies of the republican party. Bryan himself never knew such prosperity as followed the election of 1896. The people hope that the elec tion of lOOfl will be followed by con tinuance and renewal of that pros perity. As a successful book agent Mr. Bryan will deserve the sympathy and encouragement of the American people. Prosperity will enable the people to buy his books, even if it will not give time to read them.—Troy Times. THE PRESIDENT. Ilia A<lnil nl k I ri< < lon ItccflvM the En duridiient of nil Emplintic Majority. Bv one of the most emphatic votes ever polled, this country declared its in tention togo on as it has been going. It holds fast to the blessings of pros perity. It continues its way along the path of progress. It. again, repudiates t.he repudiators. It keeps the flag aloft. No process of reasoning can make of this magnificent. victory anything- else than an endorsement and approval of the administration of President Mc- Kinley. Wherever the republican pluralities are less than they were four years ago, wherever Bryanism shows ap parent gains, the explanation is ob vious. Democrats have returned by thousands to their former political al legiance; not because they hoped by their votes to elect Bryan, but because they believed his defeat so certain that they might safely take advantage of the occasion to resume regular rela tions with the party to which tfiey have allways belonged. William McKinley is the man who made possible the election of a re publican president. May his second term be as glorious, as productive, and as beneficent as has beeni his first!—'X. Y. Sun. POLITICAL DRIFT. the democratic organizers want is a paramount issue that will stay mciunted.—Chicago Tribune. , CJ'As it turns out it was no sacrifice for Mr. Bryan to refuse to stand for the senate in Nebraska. —Indianapolis News (Ind.). Don Dickerson would cure the democratic party by first, throwing it into spasms. Dr. Don is great on fits. • —Washington Post. ID'lf Mr. Bryan will stay on the farm and attend to business maybe he will have better luck with his crops next year.—Sioux City Journal. whole, secret of the late re publican success lies in the fact that the eoun.try would not submit to a treatment of dwarfing.—San Francisco Chronicle. CJames K. Jones has returned to Arkansas. It is only fair to conclude, therefore, that he has decided to con cede McKinley's election. Chicago Times-Herald. Bryan was in the habit of say ing: "Some men get information in their heads and' some in their necks." Mr. Bryan has now certainly got some information. —National 1 Tribune. tK?"Mr. Bryan has practically an nounced himself as a candidate for president in 1904, 19CKS, 1912, 1916, 1920, 1924, 1928 and 1932. After that date he has made no plans.—(Louisville Post. an orator Mr. Hanna differs from Mr. Bryan in one important re spect. The states in which Banna speaks do not roll up majorities for the opposition.—Kansas City Journal. ID'Bry.an is n.ot only the man.without a country, but he seems to be also the man without a state. Nebraska has tired of him. Like t.he parrot, he has ta'.ked himself into a cage. Trov Times, Boies makes an' honest, or unguarded, confession when he says the democratic party has been brought near to death's door "by fol lowing strange gods." It is impossi ble to forget, though it may be un kind to dwell upon it, that Gov. Boies has had frequent appearances as one of the gods.—Sioux City Journal. IE?"A great many pleas for "a regen erated democracy" are heard nowa days. But it must be admitted that a large portion of the democracy, and especially the Bryan end of it, indi cates a perverse desire to remain un regenerate. llow this must afflict the skhjl of that patriotic and high-mind ed used-to-be-a-democrat David B. Hill! — Troy Times. HOPELESS SOPHISTRY. Bryan's Doleful I ((ernnrea Regard* Inn (he Keinl( of the Election. Mr. Bryan seems to be hopelessly joined to his idols of sophistry and evasion. He clung closely to them be fore election, of course, in futile hope of thus winning the campaign. But not even crushing defeat can part him from them or cause him to see straight and to speak frankly. After election he remains as specious and sophistical as before. In his formal post-election address, for example, he says:"The prosperity argument was probably the most, potent one used by the republicans. They compared pres ent conditions with the panic times of '93 to '9O, and this argument had weight with those who did not stop to consider the reasons for the ohange." That means, if anything, that Mr. Bryan thinks the republican part}- and its policy have received undue and undeserved credit for the restored and enhanced prosperity of the country. Four years ago, however, Mr. Bryan said: "If McKinley and the repub lican party are successful ami putin power for the next four years, wages will be decreased, hard times will come upon us, mortgages upon our homes will be foreclosed by the money lenders, shops and factories will close. We will export no goods, and we will import from foreign lands all the goods we use. Thus will ruin, want and misery be with us." That meant, if anything, that these, dread ful things would come upon the na tion because of republican success, and there can be no doubt that if they had come upon us Mr. Bryan would have declared they were the di rect effects and results of republican policy. His argument appears to be, then, something- like this: "If the country suffers hard times under republican government the republican party is to be held responsible for it; but if the country is prosperous the republican party is not to receive credit for it." We are not trying to maintain that republican policy is to be credited with all the good the nation has en joyed in the last three or four years. It was not the republican party that made short crops in Europe and Asia and at the same time full crops in the United States. That the republican policies of honest money and protec tion have wonderfully contributed to the restoration of business confidence and prosperity and the extension of trade is, however, confidently to be maintained. And in any ease credit and blame must stand upon the same ground. The party is to be credited for good times as much as it would have been blamed for hard times. Mr. Bryan's present sophistry is noth ing more than a paraphrase of "heads I win, tails you lose." There is one thing which, in spite of Mr. Bryan's disclaimer, people did stop to consider. That is. that Mr. Bryan's doleful forebodings in 1R96, which we have just quoted, and which he made unconditionally, were not realized, but that, on the contrary, exactly the opposite in every detail came to pass. People considered that if he was so false a prophet in lfi96 his prophecies in 1900 were of little worth. And they took him at his word, too, and considered that if the republican party was to have been held responsible for the evils that happened it was also in common jus tice to be credited with the good. That is sound common sense, and Mr. Bryan's inability to appreciate it, or his unwillingness to acknowledge it, must be regarded as of little credit to him in his defeat.—X. Y. Tribune. ClirlMtmna AVIII lie Merry. McKin.ley'» ree'.ection means a merry Christmas. This is shown by the re ports as to the conidtion of the candy market published in the International Confectioner, which says: "Many of the lurger concerns in the confection ery business have already withdrawn their travelers from the road because the orders now in hand will keep them going overtime until Christmas day. There is not a factory of any impor tance in the country that has not all it. can do to meet the demands made upon it. Every indication in the trade papers dealing in. such goods points to an unusual Christmasd'emand. This means happiness for the children as well as for their parents.—a full Christ mas stocking as well as a full dinner pail. Evidently Santa Clans will have to work overtime on December 24 and 25, but the good-natured old saint-will probably rejoice when he thinks of tjie many children he will make happy.— Chicago Tribune. ICMr. Bryan is credited with a de termination to maintain his hold on the democratic party, and it is even said that he is thinking of being a candidate four years from now. But suppose the democratic party decides to unload Mr. Bryan? We say frank ly to the young man from Lincoln that he has taken up quite enough of the country's time. He has all but ruined a great party, and we very much doubt whether the members of that party will, after they recover from their very natural soreness, have anything to do with Mr. Bryan. He lias had a fair hearing, and he ought to realize that the people want none of him.—lndianapolis News. in in his last calamity howl declares that "republican policies have, lessened the value of farm lands." Yes. Four years ago he said republican success would mean a low ering of the value of farm produce. But with McKinley's election price* went up with a boom, and stayed tip. Bryan's own experience as a farmer ought to have taught- him better than the stuff lie Is jiow spouting.—N. Tribun®. * . A NARROW ESCAPE. A GRATEFUL WOMAN. MRS. F. J. LYNCH, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. >irs. F. J. Lynch, 324 South Division street, Grand Rapids, Mich., writes: The Icruna Medicine Company, Columbus, Ohio: Otntlmmon- / amrnaatly raoommand Paruna to any muffaring woman mm It ouraa quickly. / had a moat parmlatant cough which nothing moemmd to euro. Two bottlm* of Poruna did mora for mo than mil tho doctorm moomad to do. In a oouplo of wooka I found myaolf In axoallant haalth, and tavo boon anjoylng It mvmr mlnca. Hanoa / look on Pmrunm ma a trim frtoni to womon." MRS. F. J. LYNCH. Chronic Coughs and Colds Are Catarrhal Diseases. Catarrh is the Contin ual Scourge of Christendom. Catarrh hovers ominously over every city, and nestles treacherously in every ham let. It flies with vampire wings from coun try to country, and casts a black shadow of despair over all lands. Its stealthy ap proach and its lingering stay makes it a dread to the physician and a pest to the patient. It changes the merry laugh of childhood to the xvheezv breathing of croup, and the song of the b'.ushing maiden to the hollow cough of consumption. In its withering grasp the rounded form of the fond wife and mother becomes gaunt and spectral, and the healthy flush of manhood turns to the sallow, haggard visage of the invalid. Cough takes the place of conversation. ■55351 i SUES ILLUSTRATED FOLDER GIVING COMPLETE DIRECTIONS HOW TO CROSS TIIE CONTI NENT CHEAPLY AND COMFORTABLY. | WASHINGTON j PERSONALLY CONDUCTED PARTIES. THROUGH SLEEPING CARS. FINEST SCENERY. THE BEST FOR THE MONEY. WHITE FOB ILLUSTRATED MAP FOLDER TO GEO. J. CHARLTON. 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Catarrh in some form, catarrh in', some stage lurks as an enemy in the slightest cough or cold and finishes its fiendish work in heart disease and consumption. No tissue, function, or organ of the body escapes its ravages; muscles wither, nerve* shatter, and secretions dry up under it» blighting presence. So stubborn and diffi cult is this disease that to invent a remedy to cure chronic catarrh has been the ambi tion of the greatest minds in all ages. Is it therefore any wonder that the v*»t multitude of people who have been cured of chronic catarrh by Peruna are so lavish in their praise of this remedy? That the discovery of Peruna has made the cure of catarrh a practical certainty is not only the testimony of the people, but many medical men declare it to be true. As a drug store in this age of the world i» incomplete without Peruna, it can be ob tained anywhere with directions for use. 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