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.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. Each package of POTXAM'S FANELESS DYES colors more goods than any other dve and colors them better too. fckld by alj druggists. Know thyself, by all means; this is an ac quaintance which never ripens into love. — Detroit Journal. "Do you think?" asked the landlady, "that death ends all?" "Not for four or five days, in the case of a turkey," said the sav age boarder, who had won his position of star by sheer brutality.—lndianapolis Press. I fmrrMi jCfISTORIfi i M For and Children. CASHIIMPe Kind You Have laglS 1 ! Always Bought similatingltieFoodandßegula- pjfi $ ting the Stomachs andßowels of fefl .Bears the X.» x /{/M• I 1 Sl S nature /M [ nessand Rest.Contains neither ll p A M Opitim.Morpliine nor>lineral. 01 /ft *\ I F ' NOTNarcotic. j|| ll -If* fbapt of Old LrSAMUEL PITCHSIi |§§ . j" Pitmpkui Seed'" iS 1 rjj W j4Lx.Se/utei ♦ M n Jfik IfoekelU SaUt jjvK « - JtnUe SettL *■ jjaj' A A 1 W I f\ iJiw Ba! i}k J iS