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A large proportion of the failures in
life are to be found in the ranks of
, the chronic leaners.
The Clironto
Everywhere we go
Leaner., meet earnest ,
conscientious workers who are amazed
that they do not pet on faster. They
wax eloquent over their fancied
wrongs, the injustice that confines
them to inferior grades, while persons
with no more education, ability or per
severance than they possess are ad
vanced over their heads. To the cas
ual observer, writes O. S. Maiden, in
Success, they seem to have cause for
grievance; but when we analyze these
people we find what the trouble realiy
is. They are incapable of independent
action. They dare not make the slight
est move without assistance from
£ome outside source, the advice or
opinion of some one on whose judg
ment they are wont Jo rely. They
have no confidence in themselves—do
not trust their own powers. They have
never learned to stand squarely on
their feet, to think their own thoughts
and make their own decisions. They
have leaned upon somebody from
childhood, ail through the formative
period of character building, until a
habit of leaning is chronic. Any fac
ulty which is unused for a long time
loses its power. It is a law of nature
that we must use or lose. If a man
ceases to exercise his muscles they
soon become weak and flabby. The
tame inexorable law governs man's
mental powers. So the men and wom
en who have never learned the funda
mental jesson of self-reliance, who
have never used their God-given fac
ulties in reasoning with themselves,
making their own decisions and in be
ing their own final court of appeal,
grow up weaklings, parasites. God in
tended them to stand alone, to draw
upon Bis inexhaustible power without
stint, lie meant them to be oaks, but
they have become vines. Not realizing
that all growth is from within, they
have reversed this fundamental truth
and endeavored to draw their strength
from the outside.
The latest thing in the eating saloon
and lunch cafe line is the automatic
or waiterless restaurant. There is not
a waiter in the place, and the only hu
man being visible upon entering- the
restaurant is the cheek man. Bis only
duty is to furnish checks to customers
for cash, and these checks are used to
procure a meal from the numerous
dumb waiters with slot-machine ar
rangements, which are grouped around
the restaurant walls, liefore the face
of each dumb waiter is the bill of fare
furnished by the particular machine.
Anything from a sandwich and coffee
to a course dinner can Be procured.
If a person wishes ham and eggs and
a few vegetables, marked down on the
bill of fare as costing 50 cents, he sim
ply drops a 50-cent check into the slot
and the numerous dishes come up one
by one on the dumb waiter. All the
diner lias to do is to arrange the dishes
before him on the table which stands
beside each waiter.
A manufacturer of farm machinery
told a gathering of farmers that if he
treated the machinery in his factory
as they treated that which he made
for them, he would soon be a bank
rupt. The waste involved in leaving
implements exposed to the weather
accounts for much of that which is
classed as agricultural loss. In im
mense establishments, or in large
business enterprises the operations of
which extend over a wide territory,
what might he-called petty economies
are followed. Minute care for slight
details makes an important difference
in dividends. The managers cannot af
ford to be wasteful. The extrava
gance of the individual is often in \ io
lent contrast with corporate pru
dence.
A Chicago man thus advertised, and
■with success, for a domestic: "Wanted
—Girl for general housework; union
or nonunion; any old kind; family of
■three adults and three children, with
nurse; nice, large, airy room, with
southwest breeze, for girl; no wash
ing nor much of anything else to do;
one girl quit because we invited some
relatives to help us celebrate the
Fourth; next Fourth, if girl demands
it, we will disown our relatives and re
nounce our country." And yet that
household is without a girl.
CONFLICT IRREPRESSIBLE.
Democratic Platform Mnltcr> Iloand
to UrliiK Un n llrcuk in
llir Party.
The action of the Ohio democrats in
their state convention means some
thing more than that, in the wrangle
between the local bosses, McLean got
the candidates and Tom Johnson wrote
the platform. The apparent rejection
of Bryan and all liis works l>y the con
vention marks a departure in the dem
ocratic policy which promises to have
important consequences for that party,
and to register itself conspicuously in
national politics. We say apparent,
for there is much in Tom Johnson's
programme which Bryan would favor,
and there is something in it which he
has favored. The demagogic and futile
assault on the trusts which tlie Ohio
democrats made has been made fre
quently by Bryan, for it represents his
notions on that subject, as lie has often
and prominently presented them. But
the platform makers overwhelmingly
rejected the plan t«> reaffirm the Kan
sas City platform, the chief point of
objection to that deliverance, of course,
being its silver plank. The convention
itself took pains to scorn and deride
Bryan personally in trampling on the
banner containing his portrait.
Warfare has been inevitable between
the Bryan and anti-Bryan factions of
the democracy in 1904 in any event.
The first skirmish in that war took
place in the convention at Columbus,
and the anti-Bryanites won. The same
section of the democracy which dic
tated that party's municipal ticket in
St. Louis a few months ago carried the
7&nn J ~
THE REAL NEBRASKA BULL FIGHTER.
Ohio convention, with this difference,
that much of the Ohio platform would
have been favored by t lie municipal own
ership people of St. Louis, who opposed
the regular democratic ticket here.
The break in Ohio has been on Bryan
and silver, and the cleavage through
out the country will be on that line.
Bryan and silver are synonymous.
Bryan means silver and silver means
Bryan. By throwing Bryan overboard
the Ohio democrats necessarily reject
silver, though some of the men on
their ticket have favored silver, ar.d
all of them have supported Bryan. The
cause of silver and the fort unes of Bry
an are inseparably linked in politics,
as the Ohio democrats made plain- in
their assault on both.
The war which has been started in
Ohio in the democracy will continue
until after the campaign of 1904 is com
pleted. At the outset the victory is
with the reorganizers, for the friends
of Bryan, numerous and eloquent as
they were, were beaten. Probably
they will be beaten in many other
states, for in some of the west and in
most of the east the reorganizers are
undoubtedly in preponderance in their
party. In most of the trans-Mississip
pi states, however, the Bryanite sec
tion is in the majority. It is in the ma
jority in Missouri, notwithstanding
the victory of the anti-Bryan element
in the municipal canvass in St. Louis this
year. It is in the majority in Kansas,
Arkansas, Nebraska. Texas and most
of the other states between the Missis
sippi and the Pacific. There will be a
contest in the democracy of every state
on Bryan, and, while there is a proba
bility that he will be defeated in the
convention' of 1904, there is very far
from being a probability that it will
strengthen the democratic party in the
nation at large. Bryan himself will
make no concession to the reorganiz
ers. There are hundreds of thousands
of men who voted for him in 1896 and
1900 who would rather see the repub
licans carry every state in the union
than have an anti-Bryan democratic
candidate win. The democracy's irre
pressible conflict has begun, and it
will wage uctil one or the other faction
is overthrown. The Ohio convention
proclaimed to the country that the na
tional democracy is a house divided
against itself, and the party will lie
forced to accept the calamity which
that condition imposes.—St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
C7"Coin" Harvey wants to run for
congress in Arkansas, lie has picked
out a good state, and if he moves back
into those pine woods, where they do
not yet know the civil war is over, lie
may be able to so hoodwink t he people
that they will elect kiui. —iuwu State
Register.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST i, 1901.
BRYAN'S DYING THROES.
Pathetic Dcfrnx- of lllx Old anil Rot*
ten luaae Mo Long Iteatly for
Ilarlnl.
There is little of the swan song in
the latest wail of William Jennings
Bryan. It. is much more vigorous
than sweet, but it is none the less a
certain indication of the end. Natur
ally Mr. Bryan sticks to free silver
and the Chicago and Kansas City
platforms. He has no other theme;
there is but one string to his harp,
and even though this be frayed and
sadly out of tune, he must thrum it
industriously or quit playing 1 .
But he has another reason for bit
terly opposing the action—or silence
—of the Ohio democratic convention.
He is now an editor, and must think
something of the circulation of his
paper. Let him be read out of the
party in every state, as he has been
in Ohio; let the dead issue of free
silver be uecently buried by every
state convention of his erstwhile fol
lowers, and where will the Commoner
be?
So the repudiated and oft-defeated
champion of tree silver, the one-time
leader of the elements of discontent,
masquerading under the name of a
great political party, says of the Ohio
snub recently administered: "I uon't
object to having it distinctly under
stood that I intend to fight to the
bitter end every efi'ort to force the
abandonment of the Chicago and
Kansas City platforms." It may be
consoling to reflect that in the very
nature of things this fight will not
be prolonged, that the "bitter end"
has appeared on the horizon and is
even now much bigger than a man's
hand.
Mr. Bryan thinks there is too much
significance attached to the Ohio con
vention, and in this belief he has the
warm indorsement of Champ Clark,
who adds: "I don't know what the
issue of 1904 will be, and I don't think
Mr. Bryan pretends to know, but I
know who will do the issuing. It
will be the men who were faithful
to the party in 1000."
And this naturally' raises the by
no means settled question: Who are
these faithful ones.' Are they these
who have been responsible for the
most thorough disruption of a party
ever known in the history of this
country? or are they those who have
stood and are standing valiantly by
that party's traditions and are now
trying to reunite it?
There is fitness in Mr. Bryan's
pathetic defense of his old issue.
Free silver has long since died, and
a prosperous people can look on com
placently while its most persistent
advocate opens the grave there tear
fully to lay his own dead hopes and
ambitions.—Chicago x ost.
CURRENT COMMENT.
ICTThe democratic party realizes
that it has a past of which the least
said the better. —St. Louis Globe-Dem
ocrat.
IE? The action of the Ohio democrats
in regard to Bryan and silver becomes
the more significant the more you
think about it. It was hard to appre
ciate it fully at first.—lndianapolis
News (Ind.).
tcWilliam J. Bryan announces that
he will fight f:ir the Kansas City plat
form. Apparently Mr. Bryan doesn't
believe in deserting an old friend be
cause it happens to be down.—Chicago
Record-Herald.
£?" It is the opinion of some demo
crats that William Jennings Bryan is
planning to punish the party for not
electing him in 1000 by bolting the or
ganization three years hence and run-
Ming as a populist or independent.
Whatever he may do, he is a disturb
ing element;—lndianapolis Journal.
lt~Mr. Bryan must begin to feel like
Napoleon on St. Helena. lie is likely
to find that democracy is a shifting
aggregation of thought and desirous
only of a candidate who can win. Op
portunism is all that there has been
to praet ical democracy throughout its
career, while in so far as its alleged
principles are eonc< rned it is like
Artemus Ward—it hasn't any; it's
I in the show business. And a mighty
i poor show it has been for a long
i time. —Philadelphia Inquirer.
FOR VINDICATION.
Admiral Schley Asks for a Courl
of Inquiry.
TIIO lllsflipal OfHcer* of ihf INuvj
Hate Hern Called to Mt In final
Ju d £ ill r lit oil llie lliapnto
Ifctweeu SnmiiMon and
Scliley.
Washington, July 24.—The Wash
ington Post on Monday night tele
graphed Admiral Schley that in an
editorial it insisted that he owed it
to himself as well as to his friends
to begin proceedings against Mr.
Maclay, the author of the History of
the United States Navy, to disprove
the latter's charges, adding: "Will
you do this? Please wire statement."
Yesterday it received the following
telegram:
"Great Neck, L. 1., July 23. —I be
lieve the first step should be an in
vestigation of all matter by a court,
then a civil action afterwards. I
am preparing to take this .course.
"W. S. SCHLEY."
The Post, as a result of extensive
inquiries based upon the admiral's
dispatch, says:
"Admiral Schley proposes to ask
an investigation at the hands of a
naval court of inquiry and' then to
sue Historian Maclay for libel.
"His act'ion is the sequel to the
developments during the past weeJt,
when the entire country has been
stirred by the publication of the un
exampled abuse poured out upon him
in the third volume of E. S. Maclay's
History of the United States Navy,
in which publication Schley is said to
have run away 'in caitiff flight,' and
is, in addition, denounced as a cow
ard, a cur and a traitor."
The Schley court of inquiry will
undoubtedly be one of the most cele
brated cases in the naval or military
history of the country.
Mr. Long has already stated that if
Admiral Schley requested a court of
inquiry he would grant the request,
and has also expressed his willing
ness to personally select the court.
While he has not made any state
ment as to its personnel, there is
every reason to believe that he fa
vors Admiral Dewey and Bear Ad
mirals Ramsey and Benham, the
two latter being now upon the re
tired list.
The name of Admiral Walker has
been suggested, but it is known that
he has expressed views upon the
Sampson-Schley controversy in an
tagonism to Schley and his appoint
ment would, therefore, be seriously
questioned. It is said that Dewey,
Bamsey and Benham have always
carefully avoided giving an opinion
as to the merits 01 the controversy.
Three names are mentioned be
cause that number is specified in the
navpl regulations for courts of in
ql*..:-.
With respect to the matters to be
inquired into by the court of inquiry
the Post says that it might be diffi
cult to state briefly the exact ques
tions which will come before the
court, but that SeHr.ley
them in a letter written to Senator
Hale, chairman of tne senate com
mittee on naval affairs, February IS,
18 ( J9. This letter divided the criti
cisms of himself into four heads, as
follows:
First—The alleged delay off Cien
fuegos, Cuba.
Second—The alleged slow progress
toward Santiago from Cienfuegos.
Third—The retrogadc movements
on the 26th and 27th of May. (This
refers to the turning of the fleet
from Santiago toward Key West.)
Fourth —The battle of Santiago
and the destruction ofCervera's fleet.
Washington, July 25.—Bear Ad
miral Schley's hequest for the ap
pointment. of a court of inquiry has
been granted by the secretary of the
navy.-
Washington, July 26.—The board of
inquiry, which is to investigate Ad
miral Schley's conduct during the
Spanish war, will be composed of Ad
miral Dewey, president of the court,
and Hear Admirals Kimberly and Ben
ham. The court will meet in Wash
ington September 12. Secretary Long
has tendered to Sam C. Lemly, judge
advocate general of the navy, the po
sition of judge advocate of the court
of inquiry.
lUwliiy'w Job in Danger,
Washington, July 25.—An effort has
been made to secure the removal of
Edgar S. Maclay, the author of the
history of the Spanish war containing
the criticisms on Bear Admiral
Schley. Maclay is a clerk in the
Brooklyn navy yard. Congressman
Mudd, of Maryland, called on Secre
tary Long yesterday and represented
to him the impropriety of Maclay
continuing an employe of the govern
ment, in view of the language he
made use of in referring to Admiral
Schley. The secretary promised to
give the matter his early attention.
Kaiser to Act as PoacemuUrr.
London, July 20. —-"The rumor as to
early peace negotiations which has
pervaded the house of commons for
some days," says the Daily Express,
"has taken the more definite form
that Emperor William is soon to as*
slime the role of peacemaker. Mr.
Kruger and his advisers are repre
sented as having empowered the kai
ser to act for the Boers, and he in
considered willing to take the initi
ative in order to popularize his rela
tions with the German people, who
disapprove his friendship for Great
Britain."
BIS Contract* Awarded.
Pittsburg, July 24.—Contracts were
let Tuesday by President Bamsey, of
the Wabash railroad, for work on tha
Pittsburg, Carnegie & Western rail
road, which will be the line over
which the Wabash will gairt entrance
into Pittsburg. The value of the
contracts so far given amounts to
$3,000,000 and work is to start to-day,
W. E. Kenefick & Co., of Kansas City,
secured "flic contract for six miles of
grading and a tunnel 4,450 feet long,
for $1,250,000. They will employ 1,«
000 men on the work. All of tha
work is to be completed within 13
months.
noih Had Oif.
An enthusiastic Louisiana fisherman had
great luck while fishing on the Illinois
river recently. During the day he wired
his wife: "I've got one. weighs seven
pounds and is a beauty." He was consid
erably surprised to receive the following
reply from his wife: "So have I. Weighs
ten pounds. He isn't a beauty. Lock* like
you. —Chicago Inter Ocean.
lonlKailleaßt.
She —I don't believe y«i're telling th«
truth.
He —You are most annoying sometimes.
I suppose you think you can read me lika
a book.
"O! no. Like a paragraph, I should say."
—Philadelphia Press.
Miss Sweete—"Oh, dear, it is simply im
possible for a girl to look any other way
than wilted this warm weather." Mr. Soft
leigh—"Yes, but ice cream is just as sweet
after it is melted as it was before."—Bal
timore American.
Grief counts the seconds; happiness for
gets the hours.—De Finod.
The spider has no wings yet he often
takes a fly.—Chicago Daily News.
You judge folks by the people who visit
them. —Washington (la.J Democrat.
0 .
"Is your wife a rapid reader?" "Yes;
unless I'm waiting for the paper."—London
Tit-Jiits.
There would be few slandering tongues
if there were 110 listening ears. —liaui's
Horn.
If all faultfinders were reformers, the
millenium would have come.—Town Top
ics.
•
W T hy should a man who is not an ideal
fnian, demand an ideal wife?—Atchison
Globe.
Some men in perfoming a duty look as
if they were hired to do it and were doubt
ful of being paid.—Chicago Daily News.
Our kin who are living in Buffalo hav«
our permission to move to St. Louis any
time after November. —Atchison Globe.
The man who doesn't know when he is
whipped would be more popular if he were
not so insistent about displaying his ig
norance. —Puck.
Nell—"Her riding costume is stunning."
Belle —"That so? Then you might call
that an example of the force of habit, eh?"
—Philadelphia Record.
"A woman may love her husband ever
so much," mused the monarch of the
cracker-barrel, "but that's no sign she will
let his dog track up the kitchen. '—lndian
apolis News.
Miss Hugo—"l think it would be a good
thing if we could see ourselves as others
see us." Mr. Ego—"O! I don't know. I'm
afraid it would make souie of us conceited."
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Hn Rrrat
Innkeeper (after wagonload of huntere
has departed)— Silas, did you find room ia
their wagon for t.hera six ca«es of beer and
the case o' whisky?
Silas —Yes, (jot everything in—er — gaib
all hemlick! I fergot to putin their guns!
"What! yc dad-vummed—oh, well—
they'll never miss 'em!"— San Francisco
Bulletin.
Men with Weak Intellects.
The captain on a Cunarder forced a
"skin" gambler to give up his gains. Tba
gambler, of course, regards it as an unjust
discrimination, as a man who does not
read the papers enough to keep away from
steamboat poker is pretty sure to give hia
money to the first bunc«> man he meeta
after he goes ashore.—Washington Star.
Dilatory.
"It's kind of discouraging, Ethel," saiA
Mr. C'umrox; "kind of discouraging.
"What is, father'?"
"It's nearly a month since you read yon*
graduation essay, and they haven't taken
yo-*r advice on Low to run the' govsrnmeafc
yet."—Washington Star.
Be»t for the Bowel*.
No matter what ails you, headache to at
cancor, you will never get well until your
bowels are put right. Cascarets help natur#,.
cure you without a gripe or pain, producei
easy natural movements, cost you ju*t 10*
cents to start getting your health back.,
Cascarets Candy Cathartic, the put*
up in metal boxes, every tablet has C. C. C.i
stamped on it. Beware of imitations. .
nioodahcd Avoided.
Jones—What would you do if your bur»
glar alarm went off in the night?
Brown—Well, in the dark, you know, ift
would take me a good while to find my
shoes and my pistol, and that would give
the burglar time to get away.—Detroit Fre»
Press. t
Do Your Feet Ache and Barn?
Shake into your shoes, Allen's Foot-Ease,
powder fort lie feet. It makes tight or New
Shoes Feel Easy, Cures Corns, Itching,
Swollen, Hot, Callous, Smarting, Sore ancL
Sweating Feet. All Druggists and Shoei
Stores sell it, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Ad- 4
dress, Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. ,
That's Different.
When a full grown man robs a bird'*
nest, he is not in the same category as the
small bov. He is alluded to as an ornithol*
ogist.—Washington Post. /
To Prevent Diphtheria
U6e Hoxsie's Croup Cure. No nausea. 50ct9i
The judgment of the girl who sits sigh
ing for a career while her mother does th®
housework is in need of mending.—Well--
spring.
Piso's Cure for Consumption is an infalli
b!e remedy for coughs and colds. —N. W
Samuel, Ocean Grove, N. J., Feb. 17, IL'OO^
She —"I wish I had known before 1 mar*
ried you what a stupid you are."—He—
"You might have guessed it easily when 1
offered to marry you."—lxjnd »n Pick-Ale-
Up.