2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MULLIN, Editor. Published Every Thursday. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Per year tl 00 If paid in advance 1 "0 ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements arc published at tlie rate of otic dollar per square fur one insertion and fifty writs per square for each subsequent insertion Kates by the year, or for six or three months. »re low and uniform, and will be furnished on application. Letful and Official Advertising per square, three-times or less, 5"-'; each subsequent inser tion iO cents per square. Local notices 1(> cents per line for one inser ftertion: 5 cents per line for each subsequent con-ecutive insertion. obituary notices over five lines. ID cents rer line. Simple announcements of births, mar riages and deaths will be Inserted free. business cards, live lines or less. per year; over ttve lines, at the regular rates of adver tising. No local inserted for less than 75 cents per issue. JOB PRINTING. The .lob department of the PRESS is complete and affords facilities for doing the best class of work. PARTICLI.AH ATTENTION PAIDTO I.AW PRINTING. No paper will be discontinued until arrear ages arc paid, except at the option of the pub lisher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid lor in advance. An echo proposed to a girl in the "whispering chamber" of the cupitol They Wanted a at "Washington the other day, and she Preacher. . , . forwarded a reply that, opened an avenue of lifelong bliss before the delighted vision of a bashful swain. Under th<? direction of an enterprising guide he located himself behind a pillar at one end of the chamber, and she behind one at the other end. They could thus communicate by "Nature's tele phone." "Can you hear me, Grace?" he whispered. ••Yes." "It's funny, ain tit ? Say, Grace, I'm going to ask you .something. We've known each other for a long time, and—er—" "Oh, I hear you splendidly," said she. "And—er—well, you know that—" es; oh. what were you saying?" "Well, that I—" At this moment the faithful guide who is responsible for the story turned away. "It's not the capitol that those two want to see," he remarked as the pair skipped down the stairs. "It's a preacher." Another interesting wrestling match, in which cowboys figured, took place near Globe, Ariz. There •were three cowboys ana a mountain lion, or big wildcat, in it. The cow boys routed the lion out of somt rocks and tried to lasso it. One of the men shot at the beast and knocked it over, but. when the three cowboys dismounted they found that it had only been stunned. The animal, which is simply an enormous wild cat, then jumped upon one of the men, crunching his left arm and bad ly lacerated his body. But one of the cowboy®, who had exceptional strength, caught the beast by the throat and a front foot. Another cow boy seized the hind foot, while the third ran in and cut the animal's throat with a small knife. • The New York Sun reports that some thieves broke into a man's house on the eve of Christmas, drank his whisky, car ried off his cigars and his best cToTir**, and left this message: "Merry Christ mas ano Happy New ear. We regret this sincerely, but necessity compels us to leave our old clothes. You un derstand that it would not be safe to carry a bundle. We would not have taken your things had we not known that you could replace them. We thank you for your entertainment." As a matter of fact, were not these burglars more polite, more moral, even, than the people who borrow your hooks and never return them? At the Indian reservation near Co velo, Cal., the other day an infuriated bull broke out of the corra! and start ed through the grounds. Several ex pert cowboys tried to lasso hiin, but could not do so, and a cowboy known as "Chub" Baker was thrown from his horse and seriously hurt. .Just then another cowboy, Wyatt Jordan, gal loped up, and, jumping from his horse, seized the bull by the horns and forced him into a near-by corral. An elephant was made to climb four flights of marble stairs leading to the women's reception room in the Chicago Athletic clubhouse the other night. He took three steps at a time. The ele phant, whose name was Barney, took part in an amateur circus given by members of the club, and there were four young lions in it. Christmas day was the birthday of four members of the family of Rev. A. E. Ballard, of Ocean Grove, N. J. Mr. Ballard was 80 on that day; his 6ister, Mrs. Elmira Canfield, was K2; another sister, Mrs. Margaret Stains by, was 72, and Mr. Ballard's grand child, Anna S. Ballard, was 12. A horse, fresh from the country, which was being led up Broad street in Newark, N. J., saw a trolley ear, probably for the first time in his life, and, falling back on his haunches and trembling violently, toppled over and died. According to a veterinary *ur. geon he was killed by fright. A number of Beading (Pa.) capital ists have bought a tract of land near that city, on which they expect to raise silver foxes, opossums, raccoons, jack rabbits, minks, weasels, skunks, wolf dogs, beagle hounds, pointer and setter cogs, and other animals for their fur or fk'ns. MB FROI Bill Progress of the Various Measures Now Being Considered by Congress. THE ANTI- SHIPPING BILL ALLIANCE. Fierce Kale War on Ooenn Freight* In Prospect If Shipping Hill I* I'lutril Which Will Incrfant- tlie Receipt* of Farmer*—The Foreign Lobby. [Special Correspondence.] As 1 write, congress is about to re sume the session, after the holiday re cess. In the house the work is so well advanced that members are able to take things comparatively easy, but. in the senate public business is far in the lag. and it would- seem, if some of the rumors current are true, that little will be accomplished in "the greatest deliberative body in the world" beyond the necessary passage of the great appropriation bills. There is even some reasonable doubt as to whether these will be squeezed through before the clock strikes the closing hour on March :J. * « * In the senate the only important measure disposed of is the Hay- Pauncefote treaty, and.even this is rot a finality, because the concurrence of (ireat Britain—by no means as sured —is essential to its adoption. All the other great measures, such as the war revenue reduction bill, the army reorganization bill, the Nicaragua canal bill and the shipping bill, yet remain to be acted upon —these apart from the annual appropriation bills and the myriad of other bills of lesser importance. At the rate that the sen ate has already proceeded, it would take several years for the bills named to secure consideration and final ac tion. It must be apparent from all this that the senate must wake up. and abandon its drowsy dallying and begin to work in real earnest. * * * Senator Pettigrew, of South Dakota, has'lifted himself again into ihe pub lic eye. He is quoted in the columns of the New York Herald as saying that he has perfected an alliance with Senators Allen, of Nebraska, and But ler. of North Carolina, to talk the shipping bill to death, in order to either prevent its passage, or prevent the passage of sufficient other impor tant legislation to compel the presi dent to convene congress in extraor dinary session immediately upon the close of the present session. The only reason advanced by Senator Pettigrew for the course he has mapped out for himself and his colleagues, is Sen ator Banna's identification with the bill for the upbuilding of our ship ping. • * * Senator Pettigrew, without a shad ow of foundation, alleges that Senator Banna has promised that the shipping bill will be passed, in order to repay certain contributors to the republic an campaign fund during the last campaign, who are interested in the bill in question. Senator Pettigrew concocts his own story, wholly out of his imagination, then declares it to be true, and proceeds to act upon that theory. The yarn has absolute ly no kind of basis in fact. It is a pure invention and utterly without substance. The democrats may just as well be charged with having re ceived contributions from the foreign shipowners, whose powerful and weal thy lobby is actively and determined ly at work here in Washington at this minute, to defeat the shipping bill, because the great bulk of the opposi tion in congress to that bill is on the democratic side. » * • The reason that this foreign ship ping lobby is so active is because their principals well know that the passage of the shipping bill means a long drawn-out war of ocean freight rates, in which the reduction that the fierce Competition will compel will wipe out profits for a long time to come, and. they greatly fear, give American ships nn impetus that will equip them to eventually wrest the larger part of the carrying of American imports and exports from the foreign ships now monopolizing it. Senator Frye has said that so fierce will the rate war on ocean rates become, as soon as Ihe shipping bill gets into operation, that a reduction of 23 per cent., or $30.- 000.000 a year, will result in the single item of charge for carrying away our exports and bringing hither our im ports. • * * * Such a reduction in freight rates would enormously increase the sum the farmers of the country would re ceive for their entire products. The price paid for our great wheat staple, for instance, is the Liverpool price, less the cost of transportation to Liv erpool. The price thus paid govern* not alone in the quantity exported, but also in the entire quantity con sumed at home. If, therefore, the war of ocean freight rates predicted by Senator Frye should be precipitat ed by the passage of the shipping bill, aid a saving to the farmers of only live cents a bushel on wheat should follow, in this one item alone our farmers would receive about $3,000,- 000 more than they will receive other wise—based on a total crop of Ota,- 000,000 bushels. * » * Tint this is only one item. Tal<e our cotton production, averaging, say, 10,- 000,000 bales per year, worth, the present year, about S3O per bale, OT a half a billion dollars for the total crop in the United States. Nearly three-quarters of our entire cotton is exported in its raw state, and the CAMERON CODNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1901. ocean fre'ght bill is enormous, appro* inutliiifT Hose to S2">.OIiO,OW). A irduo tion here in the cost of transport;! lion on the ocean IIIOTIP would cfTecl a saving to our southern cotton grow ers of over $(>.(10(1.000. and there would be a saving of $2,000,000 more on th« portion retained for borne con.sump tion. • * » According to the totals on these tree products of wheat and cotton alone I have pointed out a net saving to our farmers of $11,000,000, and this sum represents not much more than one fifth of the total saving thai would be effected if such a reduction in ocean freight rates should occur as Senator Krye predicted. For anyone to say that the farmers of the country are not affected by this bill, and are not interested in it. is to fly in the face of the most vital facts. And this ex plains. as 1 said iti the beginning, why the wealthy, powerful foreign lobby is so determinedly at work here to defeat the hill. They don't want American ships to compete with them for one thing, and they want, them selves. that $.')0.()00,0(j0 a year they are threatened with the loss of if the ship ping bill is passed. * * * These facts and these figures explain why it is so easy for the necessary in fluences to he brought to bear upon certain men in congress, at times, and especially men whose reputations have completely vanished, and who are about to drop into well-merited obliv ion through their repudiation by their own constituents, to prevent legisla tion helpful to American interests, and to favor, at American expense, for eign interests. It is nothing short o? a national scandal, to say nothing of the enormous losses in dollars and cents and in the perpetuation of our weakness upon the seas, for senatorial courtesy—so-called—to stretch so far as to enable a fag end of a minority to defiantly proclaim its determined purpose to hold up the entire legis lation of the nation, if need be. to de feat a measure of the most vital coi sequences to every American eitizeh. J. B. M. REPUBLICANS WILL RULE. Tlie Denioerncy of tlio Northern nod Western Stntc* Make a I'ltifnl Showing. It is figured that the republics ns will have a majority in the next sen ate which will be Imost two-thirds of that chamber. This is more of a preponderance than the republicans looked for, and more than many of them desire. It is just what might hhV2 been expected, however, from the vices and lunacies of the demo crats in the past few years. Bryan ism is responsible for the disasters which have come to the democracy. The disasters were worse in Bryan's second canvass than they were in his first one. They will be still worse in his third campaign if the plans of his supporters to give him another nomi nation are carried out. Not since the middfe of Grant's serv ice as president has there been such an extirpation of the democracy in the senate as has taken place in the past few years. After the withdrawal of the 11 states which constituted the confederacy the republicans had' a two-thirds majority in the senate for years, and part of the time- they had a three-fourths vote. But abnormal conditions prevailed at that time. The absence of the 11 states and the 22 senators from the democratic sec tion of the country naturally put that party far down in the scale. For years the democratic vote in the sen ate varied from nine to eleven, while the republican roll in that time ranged from 36 to 58. In the present situation all the states are represented. There is a democratic party in the entire 45 states, but in most of them it has become so weak that it has not the slightest influence in the elections, «r even in determining the sort of candidates which the republicans put up. The republican as cendancy is so great in the larger part of the country that, the party never takes tlie democracy into the account. There is scarcely a democrat in the senate from any of the great tier of states of the north and west. Outside of the states in which slavery existed in ISGO the democratic party has no standing, and in some of those states, like Delaware, Maryland and West Virginia, the republicans are far in the lead. Nor is this the, worst that can be said for the democracy in this connection. Not only are the democrats in the present, day reduced to the low estate in the senate in point of membership which they had in 1801-73. but they lack the leaders— the Bayards. Hendrickses, Saulsburys, Thurmans, Johnsons, Bavises. Bucka lews and others—who gave the demo crats a dignity and a strength which went far toward compensating them for their comparative diminutivenets in numbers. At the present time the democrats in the senate are ns feeble in character as they are in number. They are not strong enough to form that powerful opposition which is nec essary in a popular government even for the well-being of the dominant party. Never before since the de mocracy was founded by .Jefferson a little over a century ago has that party been as feeble and as contempti ble in the northern and western states as it is at this moment. —St. Louis G lobe-Democrat. IT." 11 is said that subscriptions to Mr. Bryan's new paper are "pouring in." Mr. Bryan is one of the few men in our history who lias made money by running for public office, lie has really had no other lucrative occupation. So it may be that- the notoriety that h« has wou in two unsuccessful campaigns will prove a valuable asset for him in his new venture. —Indianapolis New* (lnd.). A FITTING REBUKE. idmlnUlrrril by n Heroic Mraaon^r Hoy to a Cowardly and Stlniry Man. There was a trifling fire in a west side street, the other day which caused a good deal of excitement and incidentally gave a fat man a lesson in courtesy. '1 he fire utarted in the apartments where the man and his mother lived. The man started about the time the fire did and got down four (lights of stairs to the street before his mother knew what was up. When she dis covered the lire she promptly fainted, says the New York Mail and Kxpress. Meanwhile the fat man stood in the street yelling: "Save my mother! Save my ; mother!" A messenger boy who was pass j ing stopped, saw the smoke, ran tip tba I stairs, aroused the woman and brought her 1 out in safety. The neighbors cheered and the fat man looked uncomfortable. "Here, boy," he whispered. "Here's a I quarter for you." | The boy's face expressed his disgust. "Aw, save it,"he said, "and buy yourself i -om<- nerve food." j The crowd laughed, the fat man blushed 1 and the boy went whistling down the street. He didn't know that he had been a hero, and the fat man felt himself a coward, dewiirc of Ointment* for Catarrh That Contain Mercury, ns mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely derange the whole sys tem when entering it through the mucous surfaces. Such articles should never be used except on prescriptions from reputable physicians, as the damage they win do is often ten fold to the good you can possibly derive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, ()., contains no mercury, and is taken inter nally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall's Catarrh Cure be sure yon get the gen uine. It is taken internally, arid made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & Co. Testi monials free. Sold by Druggists, price 75c per bottle. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Sherlock Holme*. "What will you gimme on this?" asked the musician. The pawnbroker took the battered tuba, fingered the keys, noticed the wire netting across the big end and asked: "Kay, does a feller have much fun trav eling with them one-night burlesque com panies?"—lndianapolis Press. There I* nt ins* of People Who are injured by the use of coffee. Re cently there has been placed in all the gro cery stores a new preparation called (JRAIN-O, made of pure grains, that takes the place of coffee. The most delicate stom ach receives it without distress, and but few can tell it from coffee. It does not cost over J as much. Children may drink it with great benefit. 15 ets. and 25 cts. per pack age. Try it. Ask for GRAIN-O. The Ke*u!t. Towne—Newman took part in an auto mobile race not long ago." Brown—"lhat s*o? ilow did he come out ?" "On crutches, about a month later " Philadelphia Press. I.ane's 112. amity Medicine. Moves the bowels each day. In order to he healthy this is necessary. Acts gentlv on the liver and kidneys. Cures sick head* ache. Price 25 and 50c. Inopportune. "See exclaimed the shopper, ex citedly, "there's a man just dropped dead in tnat bargain crush!" "How inopportune!" cried the floor walk "We have not yet opened our under taking department."—Philadelphia I'rtss. To Core a Cold In One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 25c. The commonest grub looks good when a fellow can't eat. —Washington (la.j Dem ocrat. Dropsy treated free by Dr. H. H. Green's Sons, of Atlanta. Ga. The greatest dropsy specialists in the world. Read their adver tisement in another column of this paper. If you desire to be contented don't appre ciate favors by comparison.—Atchison Globe. 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C., as i Corresponding Secretary of the Higher Educational League, of ! that city. Cured of la grippe by Peruna. MISS FRANCES M. ANDERSOX, Corresponding Secretar.v of the Higher Educational League, writes from the "Astoria," Washington, D. C., the following: "About two months ago 1 was taken very ill with la grippe and was obliged togo to bed. I took three bottles of Peruna with very beneficial results, and was able to leave my bed in a week and regained my usual strength very soon. " I have nothing but praise for Peru na and recommend it to those simi larly afflicted whenever 1 can."— Frances M. Anderson. La grippe is, strictly speaking, epidemic catarrh—that is to say, a variety of acute catarrh which is so contagious and runs a course more or less definite, the same as scarlet fever, whooping cough, etc. During the acute stages of la grippe it is not a very fatal disease, but the condition in which it leaves the system has caused the death of a countless number. Indeed nearly every person who lias had la grippe within the last three years finds himself more or less deranged by the per nicious effects of this disease. The major ity of those who have escaped death find life scarcely worth living. If this vast multitude of people could only know with what certainty Peruna would relieve them of all the bad effects which la grippe has brought upon them, what an un told amount of suffering could be averted! Thousands have already heard how quick ly this remedy will cure in these cases and have been saved; but tens of thousands have WHEN WBITIXG TO AltVKK'J'lSiilta plruae atute that you uw U« AJvei tl»«- neut In tblt puper. not yet heard, and continue to suffer on, dropping into the grave one by one. Peruna cures catarrh in all stages and va rieties, whether acute or chronic, and is therefore the most effective remedy ever de vised for removing all the derangements which follow la grippe. Samuel M. York writes from Union Grove, Ala., the following letter: Dear Sir:—"Last week 1 was taken with la grippe and catarrhal deafness. I wrote you for advice and followed your direc tions. After taking two bottles of Peruna I found myself well of la grippe, and iny hearing was fully restored. My health is better than it has been in five years. "My wife improved in health verv much after taking Peruna."—Samuel M. York. Mis® Caroline J. Kahl, Otisco, lnd., writes as follows: "Three years I had la grippe and pulmonary trouble. I was very sick. I had hemorrhages of the lungs nearly evrey day for a year, and three bottles of your Peruna cured me. The doctor said I had consumption. lam now In better health than 1 have been for many years. "I highly recommend Peruna to all my neighbors and friends. Peruna is my favor ite medicine. I shall always havePeTunain the house."—Miss Caroline J. Kahl. 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