2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MULLIN, Editor. Published Every Thursday. TERMS OK SUBSCRIPTION. PIT year "0 If paid iu advance 1 ■><> ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements are published at the rate of one dollar per square foronc Insertion and tlfiy rents j er square for each subsequent insertion ltatos by the year, or for six or three months, are low and uniform, and will be furnished on upnlicatiou. Legal and Official Advertising per square, three times or less, 52: each subsequent inser tion i U runts per square. Local notices Hi cents per line for one lnser sertlon: 5 cents per line for each subsequent consecutive Insertion. obituary notices over five lines. 10 cents per line. Sinlpie announcements of births, mar riages and deaths will be inserted free. ltu*inc«s cards, live lines or less. >.5 per year; over live lints, at the regular rates of adver tising- No local inserted for less than 75 cents per issue. JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the PRESS Is complete and affords facilities for doing the best class of ■W rU. PAH I H'LL.Mt ATTK.VI ION PAIU TO I.AW PKINTINO. No paper will be discontinued until arrear np s are paid, except at the option of the pub lisher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid for in advance. At last accounts, the deposits in *he savings banks of the L T »ited Stales I'lie Need „112 Snv- ainour.totl. in round numbers, to $2,200,- lnB " 000, COO—an impres sive total, which represents an aver age of nearly $l5O for every man, wom an and child in the country. An analysis of the figures discloses a singular concentration of savings banks. More than four-fifths of the deposits, or, to be more nearly exact, a little more tliau 87 per cent., are in the 11 New England and middle states, leaving less than 13 per cent, distributed among the other 3-i estates. There can be 110 question that savings banks encourage thrift, says Youth's Companion. People are a great deal more likely to lay something by for a rainy day if they feel a reasonable as surance of finding it when they need it. with a pleasing addition of inter est. These figures show that large sections of the country are entirely ■without savings banks. It is the con sideration of this fact which gives weight to the argument for the estab lishment of a postal savings-bank system. There is much to be said in favor of that system; yet when we examine the practical working of the British post office savings bank, which has been suggested as a model for this country, the result does not encourage imitation. For the last four years the bank has shown a year ly and increasing loss, and the Lon don Times declares it insolvent. In view of this fact, congress may well hesitate to establish postal savings banks. Without waiting for action in that direction, communities which lack institutions for savings may -wisely devise means to found tlietn, and to foster and safeguard them by state legislation. The annual report of the federal life saving service- is one that is read by . „ , , „ few and cuts little A lieoonl of ller figure among the Olniii. , ... department publi cations. and yet it deserves to be widely read as a record of heroism and service 10 humanity performed by the life guardsmen who patrol our ocean and lake coasts to save life and property, justly observes the Chicago Tribune. During the last fiscal year 700 ship wrecked persons have received help at the stations. The value of property imperiled was $9,737,260, and of prop erty lost $2.245,8€14 routes had been established in -14 states, serving a population of nearly 2.0(10.(101) peo ple. By July 1 next 4,300 routes will have been established, carrying the mail daily to 3,500,000 people. De ducting the expense of the old system as far it has been discontinued, and making allowance for the increase of revenues under the new system, the cost of free rural delivery is about 60 cents per capita. At the present time 31,000,000 residents of cities and towns have free delivery. In the ham lets and 011 the farms within the lim its of a reasonably free delivery sys tem are 21,000,000 farmers and villag ers to whom a daily mail service can be extended at a cost of $13,782,224. If congress could be induced to cut off the flagrant abuses of the regula tion of second class matter, enough would be saved to the postal revenues to pay the entire expense of rural de livery and something to spare. The scheme for a rural free delivery is a republican device. It was urged by Mr. Wanamaker when he was postmaster general, and was started to be quickly abandoned. It was taken up by the present administra tion, never having had the support of democrats in congress until it was an assured success. Rural free de livery is one of the great services which the republican party has ren dered the country. It is of vast eon sequence to the large farm areas that its full benefits will not be realized for years. The agents of parties are criticised oftener than applauded— criticised for insignificant and seem ing defects. Would it not be fair, once in awhile, to recall a great serv ice like the free rural delivery and place it to the credit of the party which has rendered it?—lndianapolis Journal. BRYAN'S MAGIC TOUCH. The Discredited Pr«»|»lie» of Disaster Never Ileliin|ui*lie* 111 M Hold. So William Jennings Bryan intends to start a newspaper of his own. He is to do this in order, as he announces, to keep "in touch with social, economic and political problems." It is to be a weekly newspaper, sans news, issued to touch the aforementioned problems in order "lo provide an income sufficient for my (his) pecuniary needs." We sincerely trust that Mr. Bryan's anticipations of a success that will al low him "more time with his family than he has been able to enjoy for sev eral years" will be realized. If all who voted for the nominee of the Kansas City convention will only send a sub scription of one dollar to the Common er, Lincoln. Neb., it will establish Wil liam Jennings Bryan in the bosom of his family beyond the necessity of run ning for the presidency every four years. Talk of the Midas touch! The man who. by keeping "in touch with social, economic and political problems" in the columns of a weekly newspaper, can hope to allure one dollar a head from 0.502.025 American citizens annually has a snap beyond Col. Sellers' dream of selling eye water to 500,000.000 sore eyed Chinese! Great is Bryan, there's millions in his touch. —Chicago Times-He raid. IT7"Mr. Bryan's finish is in sight. ITt formally announces that he will estab lish a weekly newspaper in Lincoln, to be devoted to the principles of the Kansas City plaiform. If lie ever had any chance of election to the presi dency it will be gone before he i.as been editing three months. lint what fun Editor .1. Sterling Morton will have with his Lincoln contemporary, and what a relief to the rest of 11s when Mr. Bryan gets a newspaper of his own to advertise himself. "Mine enemy" who writes a book runs great risks, but when he starts a paper he is simply in viting grief in varied and bitter form. —Minneapolis Tribune. ICSenator" llanna has Been the re cipient of more abuse than pru-'-e, but the delegate in the convention of the Federation of Labor who declared that he would prefer Mr, llanna in the cab inet over any representative of labor paid him a compliment worth having. —lndianapolis Journal. ID'The total McKinley plurality on the popular vote is now placed af 906,- 000. Later and fuller official returns may bring it nearer the million mark. Both on the electoral and pspvlar vote President McKinley is a record break er.—Troy Times. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, i 9 or. PROSPERITY INFLATES. In"re«»e of Money In (.'lrt'nliitlon Through n n HnneNt folic)'. In the report of the director of the mint appears convincing evidence of the utter absence of any necessity for an artificial inflation of our national currency. For the.fiscal year we pro d'iced $71,000,000 in gold, over $6,000,- 000,000 in excess of the output during the banner year of our history. The wtrld produced $306,000,000, a gain of $19,000,000, and this despite the prac tical closing of the Transvaal mines nc cause of war. Statistics upon this subject, as affect ing the United States, throw additional light upon a feature of the recent re port of the secretary of the treasury. Within the comparatively short period of four years t here has been an increase of 33 per cent., or $500,000,000, in the circulating medium of this country, fully meeting the demands because of extraordinary emergencies and of the increased volume of money moving in response to enlarged and more active industries. Nearly two-thirds of this expansion has been in gold coin and certificates; one-fifth in silver dollars, certificates and subsidiary silver coin, and the re mainder in government and national bank notes. This keeping pace upon t, solid footing with the most wonderful development of general prosperity iu the history of the country should cer tainly silence those who would have made us the silver dumping ground of the world, on the plea that we could not have enough money with which to car ry on business unless this suicidal policy were resorted to. The increase that has been made in a currency that is good the world over, is greater by 50 per cent, than all the mints in the country could have 1 timed out in silver hed they worked at their fullest capacity, 24 hours a day. Our home crop of gold is annually increas ing, and the "gold of the old world is flowing to our markets. A great nation is permitted to vindicate the adage of honesty as a policy.—-Detroit Free Press (Dem.). WILL BRYAN RUN AGAIN? The Defeated I'opoeral I'll Ink* llie Demoeriiey Will Act the Fool Attain. Mr. Bryan lias recovered his breath and. being sure of his wind, enters t he lists for the third battle. In a pub lished communication Mr. Uryan an nounces the democratic platform for 1004. His announcement of that plat form is in itself an announcement of his candidacy for the nomination in 1!)U4. The self-declared candidacy is made more emphatic because he insists that the platform for 1004 shall be the same which he forced upon the Kansas City convention this year, and which he says he had a right to force upon the convention because in all but two states the delegates had been instructed for his renomination. At the beginning of the democratic platform for 1904 Bry an places the distinctively Bryanistic doctrine of free silver, lie does that because he knows that he rises or.falls with free silver. Bryan reads out of ihe partv for 1004. as for 1900 and 1806, the gold dem ocrats. In his eyes defeat for the dem ocratic party is less to be deplored than obscurity for Bryan. Perpetual candi dacy brings Bryan a better income than ever did the practice of law . But will the democratic party be asinine enough to accept again the leadership of Bryan? Bryan thinks it will be, and he can claim the law of probability as a witness that if that party has done an idiotic thing twice it is likely to do it the third time.—Troy Times. CURRENT COMMENT. present democrats are. very lit tle disposed to look forward, but four fears hence they will learn some val uable lessons, if so inclined, by looking backward. —Indianapolis .Tourna 1. (ETAdlai Stevenson does not display as much interest in the defeat of the democratic party as Mr. Bryan does. But then this was to have been Mr. Ste venson's second helping.—Washington Star. tTv*MeKinley had in the state of New York a majority of 06,072 nvi r all oilier candidates. Such figures were un known before the democratic party dropped to its present level.—St. Louis (i lobe-Democrat. Mr. Bryan has started into write for publication and for com pensation. Surely newspapers will not be so foolish as to contract for his in terviews! with himself at space rates! —lndianapolis News (Ind.). IE?"Mr. Bryan's decision to start a weekly newspaper for the airing of his views is wise and should be satisfying to the public, for this means that the disowned prophet of the democracy run to seed will secure a harmless out let for his superabundance of energy. —Pittsburgh Leader. IT?"As a first step toward the reorgan ization of the democratic party Col. Henry Watterson should feed the Kan sas City platform to his famous "horned lion of plutocracy." The mor sel might kill the creature, but it would be an immense relief to the party. —• X. Y. Mail and Express. CWilliain Jennings Bryan is to be admired for his courage, if not praiwd for his discretion. The man who can deliberately start it paper in defense of the principles of the Kansas City platform after readir.g the returns of the last election is certainly not lack ing in nerve.—Detroit Journal. tT7"Free trade, or. to use the modern term, "tariff for revenue only." is in keeping with the democratic ideal of as little government as possible, allowing the greatest freedom for individual in itiative. Will the party swing back or these lines? It is bound to do so in time. —Indniliapolis News (Ind.l. RESTS WITH DEVERY. Tanimnnr'D Antl«Vlrf < oiiimtltor SMfi Ike t lili't ol Hiilloc In lo lllnme fur I'.xlfttlni; ICtIIm In <;»ilihiii. New York, Dee. 2"). —The Tammany committee of five at a meeting held Monday issued a statement that Chief of Police Devery could rid the city of vice in two hours if he so chose. They further say that they will pre sent facts to the grand jury in the event of no immediate action being taken by the police. Chairman Nixon presided at the meeting. Several members of the police department appeared before the committee and said that the places mentioned in the list given to Chief Devery by Chairman Nixon were closed. The majority of the places were gambling dens and disor derly houses. After an executive session of two hours, Chairman Nixon gave out the following statement: "The list of suspicious places handed to the police is by no means complete and we shall be guided bv developments as to when and how they shall be made public. My object is to close such places, and by clos ing them demonstrate to their own ers that those who have taken money from them for protection, lack the power to protect. No matter what party is in office, about the same sort of men will be found farming out im munity. "Every department of the city gov ernment except the police depart ment is doing good work. I am satis fied by what I have found that the chief of police could close every gam bling house and pool room in the city in a few hours. Our motive now is to show that these places are not pro tected by the Tammany organization and, further than that, to show that a system which has existed during this and the. preceding administra tion, can be stopped if the police de partment can be induced to act. A single-headed commission with power can remedy existing abuses, not only for a time, but permanently. A bi partisan police commission and the excise department are the sores on the body politic and they should be reformed jointly, and they will be when the people come to a full knowledge of the iniquities which owe their existence to them." A DUEL AT A DANCE. An llullan ICevel at N. V., ICihlk lit li .Hurtle roil ft Kuttle. New York, Dec. 25.—An Italian dance at Mamaroneck, N. Y., which was started Sunday night as a Christ mas celebration ended Monday morn ing in a muderous row, one man be ing killed outright, another so badly stabbed that he is expected to die and several others receiving bad wounds. The scene of the tragedy was the "Foot and a Half House." The row was started by Antonio Dori. Verata Naraglano was waltz ing around the hall with a young woman who had refused to dance with Dori. The latter followed them about the hall, ridiculing their danc ingand making himself generally dis agreeable to them. Naraglano replied to his taunts and Dori challenged him to a duel. The dance was stopped immediately. Naraglano and Dori started outside, followed by all the revellers. Naraglano drew a revolver. Dori a stilletto. The latter made a plunge at Naraglano and drove his stiletto deep into the man's breast. Narag lano fired twice. One shot tore open Dori's arm and the other struck An tonio (iuiseppi, one of the musicians, in the eye, the bullet penetrating the brain. This immediately precipitated a general light. When the Italians had fought themselves tired (iuiseppi and Naraglano were helpless on the ground. Dominico Chippi and (iui seppi Cortez were bleeding from many cuts. (iuiseppi, the musician, died last night and Naraglano is still uncon scious. After the fight there was a general flight of Italians from the town and as but little information can be ob tained no arrests have been made. CoiljgreftM 'Bum Act l'°ir»t. Washington, Dec. 25. —It has been decided that no further action can be taken with regard to the return of the volunteers from the Philippines until congress shall make provision for their deplaeement. The war de partment is considerably em barrassed by the failure of congres® to make provision before the recess for the relief of the military situa tion in the Philippines. The depart ment has concluded that it is abso lutely necessary to maintain an ;.rmy of 00,000 men in the Philippines until the policy of establishing municipal governments throughout the archi pelago has been executed. l ill lieyte. Manila, Dec. 25. —Advices from the island of Leyte show that there is still considerable turmoil on the west coast, but that the east coast is luiet, the leaders having retired to the mountains. Lieut. Lynch and three men of the Forty-fourth in fantry were wounded near Ilingas, on the west coast. Two men of Com pany L, Forty-third infantry, were killed and three of Companies Land K, together with Lieut. Leaf, were wounded December 13 near San Mig uel. No decided results have yet been secured by the '*l,ooo United Statis • roops distributed among the coast towns of Samar. I'luywriifbt Susjt; Dieft. New York, Dec. 25. —William F. Sage, a playwright and dramatic critic, died at his home in this city Monday. He was a brother of Mrs. Abbie Sage Richardson, who died in Italy about a fortnight ago. Since receiving the news of his sister's death Mr. Sage had been very despon dent and it. is believed the shock of her death brought on an attack of paralysis. His great ambition was to become a successful playwright, but only one of his numerous plays wa* nver produced. That was called "Dee tiny." FUSIONISTS FEAST. me»»rft. Itryiiii antl Kern Deliver Nota ble S|>eeelie» at u liiin<|iiet filvcn In Lincoln, Neb. Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 27. —The annual haii(|uet of the .left'ersoniati club of Lincoln last night brought together nearly .'!()() representative men of the democratic ana populistic parties of -Nebraska, together with a number of leaders from other states. William J. Bryan made his first appearance at public gathering since the election and the greeting accorded him was never more hearty. Aside from the remarks of Mr. Bryan, the event of the evening was the speech of .(ohn W. Kern, defeat ed democratic candidate for gover nor of Indiana, who aroused the ban quet.ers to a high pitch of enthus iasm, not only by his laudation of Mr. Bryan, but by his outspoken crit icism of those democrats whom he accused of contributing to Bryan's defeat. His denunciation of demo crats who offered "gratuitous coun sel to the democracy," though he mentioned no names, was accepted ■•is a reference to ex-President Cleve la nd. Mr. Bryan, whose subject was "Principles Live," said in part: "At this banquet, surrounded by neighbors who have been my friends for ten years, I may be pardoned for saying a word of a personal nature. Five times you have voted for me for public office —twice for congress, once for the United States senate and twice for the presidency—and no candidate ever received more loyal support than you have given. "Whether I shall ever be a candi date for office again is a question which must be determined by events. No one can speak with cer tainty of the future, for one's des tiny is not known (tntil his life's work is complete. I shall be content if it is my lot to aid in the triumph of the principles while others enjoy the honors and bear the responsibil ity of office. "The holding of public office should lie an incident and not the extreme aim of the citizen. It should not be an end, but the means for the accom plishment of a purpose. "The presidency seemed desirable because it would have enabled me to give effective aid to certain reforms which I believe to be necessary to the public welfare, but defeat—even a second defeat —does not lessen my interest in this reform, and time? may prove that my work is to advocate rather than to execute. "The Commoner will give me an opportunity to participate in public tliscnssions, and I ain sure that an editorial pursuit will furnish as much .ntellectual enjoyment as I could have found in the White House, and n addition thereto will give me more time for home pleasures. "The principles for which we con tended in the last campaign still live ind we who believe in them must continue to fight for them. An elec tion does not change principles; it mly determines what principles shall be for the time being applied." Mr. Kern, who spoke in response to the tisast "The liank and File," praised Biehard Olnev, David B. Hill, I'iourke Cochran. Robert. E. Pattison, Alexander K. McC'lure, Arthur P. Qorman, Henry Watterson and other {fold democrats for their course in the late campaign and "their pat riotic protests against the advance 3f the hosts of imperialism," and con tinued: "It is in no spirit of bitterness, however, I add that there were a few men, once prominent in democratic ranks, who in the midst of all the stormy scenes of this mighty contest remained silent, except that now and then they took occasion to furnish iid to the enemy by making public lenial that they were in sympathy with the cause of the people, "For the sake of the future welfare af the party I shall attempt no harsh criticism of the course of these gen tlemen, but I will not forbear saying here ami everywhere that they need not be surprised if any gratuitous counsel which they may seek to thrust upon the millions of loyal lemocrats who fought the good fight mid kept the faith shall fall upon re luctant ears." RECEIVERS ARE APPOINTED. It. Kairtl A: Co., Steel hihl Iron MID tltttiers, are ICiiiliui-mtiactl. Philadelphia, Dec. 27. —Judge Mc pherson. in the United States district court, yesterday appointed John N. M. Shinier and William 11. Stoake re ceivers in bankruptcy of C. K. Baird V Co., operating a number of iron furnaces. Counsel for creditors rep resenting- about $160,000 of claims, stated that the business would prob ably he reorganized. The entire lia bilities are nearly $1,500,000. The concerns controlled by Baird are the Elmira Steel Co., Elmira, N. V.: Cumberland nail and iron works, llridgcton, X. J.; Fullerton rolling nills, Ferndale. Pa.. Catasaqua rolling mill, Catasaqua. Pa.: Phiekles Iron Co.. Philadelphia; Danville rolling mill, Danville, Pa.; lloanoke rolling mill, Roanoke, Ya., and blast fur naces at Emporium, Pa., Roanoke and Iron Gate, Ya. The failure is attributed to the heavy decline in the prices of iron During the last year am} occasioned no surprise in the trade. Mr. Baird issued a circular announcing a plan jf reorganization, and stating that if the properties and asnets are not Brought to a forced sale, the com pany will, he believes, be able to pay its debts in full with interest. W ill lie Come to Clilcu^ol Chicago, Dee. 27. —Thirty-six per sons from various parts of the Union who allege that the second coming of Christ is at hand are in convention here watching, worship ping and praying that they may be in readiness to receive the robes of im mortality. They are to remain in session until January 3. Wholesale ArreKtft of studentM. London; Dec. 27.—Three hundred students have been arrested at St. Petersburg, according to a dispatch to the Daily Express, for propagating locialist doctrine. Cannot Get Knongh. A letter received from Mrs. L. S. 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