2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MULLIN, Editor. Published Every Thursday. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. »er year *8 0# If paid la advance ' 50 ADVERTISING RATES; Advertisements are published at the riite of one dollar per square for one insertion and fifty oeuts per square for each subsequent insertion Rates by the year, or for six or three months, •re low and uniform, and will be furnished on application. Legnl and Official Advertising per square, three times or less. *2: each subsequent inser tion to cents per square. Local notices in cents per line for one inser •ertlon: 5 cents per line for each subsequent oonsecutive Insertion. Obituary notices over five lines. 10 cents per line. Simple announcements of births, mar riages and deaths will be inserted free. Business cards. Ave lines or less. 15 per year; over nve lines, at the regular rates of adver tising. No local inserted for lest than 75 cents per tiaue. JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the PRESS IS complete and affords facilities for doing the best class of Kork. PAKTICCLAH ATTENTION PAID TO 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 for in advance. What ho! ye baldheads, look up and be of good cheer. Here is glorious . _ , news for you, eom- A Boon for tlie J lng from a relialle Bald-liende<l. gource Jt , g ways a pleasure to furnish encourage ment for the bald. Baldheaded men are appreciative. To gain the grati tude of a baldheaded man it is only necessary to tell him his hair may be made to grow again. And he is ever reedy to share his last penny with the man who has a hair restorer. Failure does not bear him down. He hopes on, hopes ever; he is always ready to try, try again. Therefore ihe follow ing from the London Globe will no doubt come to the baldheaded as a thrice welcome message: "The use of gns to make the hair grow Is one of the latest medical discoveries. The gas employed Is oxygen. A large cap tits tigfitly round the head, and Is supplied with oxygen from a bag which is slung over the patient's shoulders. It is worn for a few hours every day, and even in cases of abso lute baldness is said to produce a more or less luxuriant crop of hair. The discovery was made at the Oxygen hospital, Fitzroy square, an institution of which princess Louise Is patron. The gas is used for the cure of quite a number of diseases. A woman was undergoing the oxygen cure for skin disease, and one of her arms had for many days been placed In a light air tight box tilled with the gas. It was soon noticed that on that part of the arm that was unaffected by (he disease the growth of hair was much stimulated, and this nat urally suggested oxygen as a cure for bald ness. The first experiment was made upon n woman who had completely lost her hair, ar.d it was found that after a few weeks' treatment there was quite a strong growth." It is further estimated that the oxy gen treatment is found to benefit weak eyes and to cure consumption in a large percentage of cases, but these virtues may be lightly passed over if it will really restore even a fuzz upon the head of the bald. Let us hope, chips in the Chicago Record-Herald, that the day may be speedily coining when the bald-headed man may, in stead of paying over his hard-earned savings to the hairless drug clerk for hair restorer that refuses to restore, go about with his little oxygen bag slung over his shoulder, adding to the gayety of nations and blissfully fos tering the hope that never dies. The postal department has issued a bound book of receipts for rural mail The Rural Poxtal Carriere > which re sembles in a eren- Sjntem. , eral way a check book, each page containing a stub, with a perforated line between to fa cilitate separation, says the Wash ington News. The book is kept by the carrier, and the stubs show the disposal he made of the money in trusted to him by the patron who holds his receipt. He is always sup plied with blank applications, which the patron fills out himself and gives him with the money. The carrier's receipt in this manner becomes the patron's voucher, showing that lie has given the carrier his money and his application; the stub becomes the carrier's voucher that money and ap plication have been given to the post master, and that a money order has been made out in accordance there with; and the postmaster's voucher is found in his own money order book, where a carbon duplicate of the or der he has drawn is preserved. The posmaster may, if the patron desires and sends him by the carrier's hand an addressed envelope or letter, slip the order inside and mail it himself, or he may give the order to the car rier to be handed over to the patron on his next trip past the latter's place of residence. That was rather a stalwart prayer that the little Gardiner boy put up and was expressive, if not wholly rev erent, says the Kennebec (Me.) Jour nal. Living as near neighbors is a fam ily that is in a deplorable condition, the mother dead and the four or five chil dren coming: al-ong'almost any way. One of the younger male members of this family has a decided fancy for climb ing the trees on the premises and has received a few (juite serious falls; so when the little four-year-old tot in the next house was saying his prayer the other night his mother was horrified to hear the following clause injected into it: "O God, take care of the Blank family. Tommy climbs the trees, and, O God, see that he doesn't fall and break his cussed neck." It is needless to say that that prayer came to a very abrupt ending. BRYAN'S "PERHAPS." Note.—"lt may be observed," said a prominent politician, "that Mr. Bryan prefaces all his political utterunces with bis now famous 'perhaps.' " The shades of r.ight were falling fast As through the westejrn country passed A man who bore, through party ice, A banner with the strange device: "Perhaps." His brow was sad; his hair, beneath A somewhat damaged laurel wreath, Was mussed; but like a clarion rung The accents of tha* tireless tongue: "Perhaps." In great Ohio's broad expanse He saw them try to choke his chance; They turned his picture to the frail; He smiled and murmured: "That's no gall— Perhaps." "Try not to run,"the rebels yell; "Imperialism has gone to , And capital has come to stay." He answered, in the same old way: "Perhaps." "Oh, stay," a remnant said, "and rest Your weary head upon this breast." A tear stood in his blackened eye, As soft he answered with a sigh: "Perhaps." "Beware free silver's withered branch; ■Where is your hard times avalanche? Bay, won't you ever learn a thing?" The rebels hear him murmuring: "Perhaps." Around, above, below, he sees The icy portents of a freeze; He feels the foe upon his track. But just the same he answers back: "Perhaps." From east and west, from south and north, Come anxious rebels trooping forth. "We'll down the Matchless Leader," cry The hungry hordes. He makes reply: "Perhaps." "We'll smite him on the thigh and hip, We want a change of leadership; Chicago platforms are n. g., We'll have a new one." And says he: "Perhaps." A traveler, by a little mound, Half buried in the snow was found, 6till grasping, midst the snow and ice, A banner with the strange device; "Perhaps." There in the twilight, cold and gray, They stood about him as he lay. "Thank God," the rebels cry; "he's dead." Then, turning in the snow, he said: "Perhaps." —William J. Lampton, in N. Y. Herald. REPUBLICAN STALWARTS. Clenn-t'ut ami I'roKrenaslve State ment of Principles by the lowa Convention, The work of the lowa state con vention must be viewed with satis faction by loyal and thinking' repub licans all over the nation. It nom inated strong and clean men for the various state offices. Its platform is a clear-cut, progressive statement of republican principles. The convention justly congratulated congress upon its currency legisla tion and upon its dealings with Porto Rico, Cuba and the Philippines. "The policy of this government toward the islands," it said, "has followed inev itably upon our expulsion of the au thority of Spain. It has been dic tated by the conditions present, has been consistent with the spirit of the constitution", and the paramount con sideration fias been to secure the lasting welfare of these peoples whose fortunes and destinies have become in a large degree dependent upon us." The convention indorsed the policy of protection as the foundation of our industrial and financial independ ence, but it also recognized that that policy is a practical one whose ap plications must change with circum stances, and indorsed "the policy of reciprocity as the natural comple ment of protection, and urge its de velopment as necessary to the real ization of our highest commercial possibilities." In its declarations concerning so called "trusts" the convention recog nized them as useful instruments for the nation's industrial advancement, but asserted "the right residing in the people to enforce such regula tions as will protect the individual and society from abuse of the power which great combinations of capital wield." No thinking observer of in dustrial progress could ask for more. None interested in combinations can find the lowa attitude unfair or op pressive. The lowa convention has spoken clearly, fairly and worthily of a great republican state. While the contest for the various nominations was keen, it was without rancor. The lowa republicans have preserved their old commendable habit of do ing all their fighting before the nom inations. United and harmonious, ably led, advocating principles that appeal to every loyal and fair-minded Amer ican, the republican party in lowa enters upon the campaign with the best prospects.—Chicago Inter Ocean. lown'* neputillenitM. lowa follows Ohio in denouncing the southern attempt to disfranchise the negro. In the republican state convention at Des Moines the follow ing was adopted: "We are earnestly opposed to all legisla tion designed to accomplish the disfran chisement of citizens upon lines of race, color or station of life and condemn the measures adopted by the democratic party in certain states to accomplish that end." To this genuine Americanism the lowa republicans added indorsement of the protective tariff and of the gold standard.. On this invulnerable platform was placed as the candidate for governor A. J!. Cummins, a prom inent lawyer of Des Moines, who has been an lowa legislator and who was for four years a member of the re publican national committee. Repub licanism is not "taking the back back track." lowa republicans are witnesses to the truth of that dec laration. —Troy Times. C"7"Coin Harvey charges the defeat of the democratic party last year to Chairman Jones' mismanagement. Coin Harvey shouldn't tell tal«s out of the financial school.—Chicago Trib une. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1901. AN ISSUELESS PARTY. llopoloHN Flight of the Dcmocraoy for the C'OIIIIIIK Presidential Cunipuitf 11. It was Hon. Charles A. Towne, of Minnesota, ex-silver republican, ex populist, ex-democrat, now a develop er of Texas-"oil gushers" and "out of politics," who thus recently hit off the temper and purposes of the democratic party: "The feeling among democrats is that they want to win, and they do not care a rap what sort of a platform they win on." Mr. Towne's breezy out burst of cynicism was inspired by the indecent haste with which the Ohio democrats turned the campaign litho graph of Nebraska's "peerless com moner" to the wall and barred from their resolutions nny specific indorse ment of last year's democratic nation al platform. The Minnesota states man's candid arraignment of demo cratic hypocrisy was amply justified by the Columbus convention's eagerness to make any sacrifice of principle nec essary to facilitate immediate party success. Put if further disclosure of recreancy had been necessary to jus tify Mr. Towne's assertion that the democratic party has entered the final stage of moral bankruptcy, that dis closure is furnished in the lamentable exhibit of political assets offered to the world by the Maryland democratic convention. As has already been noted in these columns, the Baltimore convention re fused absolutely to commit itself on any of the national issues on which it was compelled to fight the presidential campaign of 1000. Free silver coinage, imperialism and the evils of trusts— the trinity of issues on which Col. liry an appealed for votes a year ago were dismissed without a syllable of approving comment, and in their stead the utterly misleading and ridiculous cry of "negro domination" was rais«d to justify the election of a legislature which is to fill the seat in the United States senate now held by a political nondescript, George L. Wellington. A more impudent and transparent at tempt to hide the true questions at issue between the two parties in Mary land could not well be imagined; and were it not for the desperate exigen cies of the democratic organization, which dares not advocate before the people any single one of the demands to which it is committed by the Kansas City platform, the bugaboo put for ward by last week's convention would be laughed contemptuously out of court by democratic as well as byre publican opinion. According to the census of 1900, the negroes in Maryland constitute some thing over -19 per cent, of the state's population. Probably 50,000 negro votes were polled for presidential electors last November out of a total of 264.511. Since then a new elec tion law has gone into effect, ex pressly designed by its framers to limit negro suffrage, and, unless the hopes and plans of the democratic organization sadly miscarry, the ne gro vote at the coming state election should fall to less than 15 per cent, ol the whole. To say that white su premacy is endangered or appreciably affected by the presence in the elec torate of this small negro element is, of course, flie sheerest absurdity. The democratic party in Maryland has no fear of the negro, and no intention ol disfranchising him as such, and prob ably no body of Marylanders would be more reluctant to see the negro excluded from the suffrage than the democratic politicians themselves. As always, however, they are willing ta advocate a programme of buncombe and humbug, especially when, as in this instance, it serves as a cloak to disguise an absolute poverty of gen uine political ideas or issues. Find ing nothing else left in the ransacked wardrobe of Jeffersonianism,they try to clothe themselves with the pre- i tense that the 215,000 white voters of | the state are to be overawed anc! trampled on by the 40,000 or 45,000 negro voters. But in parading so self-destructive a theory they only ad vertise the fact that in Maryland, even more than in Ohio, the demo cratic party has become a party with out a conscience and without an is sue.—N. Y. Tribune. PRESS OPINIONS. tETThe men who are asking for tariff reform are-free traders. What they are aiming at is tariff destruc tion rather than tariff revision.— Cleveland Leader. ICThe populists, democrats and free silver republicans have had their grand annual fusion in Nebraska again, and the regular worry over the problem of getting them to stay fused until election time will now be gin.—Chicago Record-llerald. IT7 Advice to the steel workers' leaders to recede from their unten able position comes with poor grace from newspapers that sup ported Bryan and Bryanism without whom and which there wotikl never have been so many workingmen brought to their present condition oi unreasoning discontent. Albany Journal. C?" The Commoner says: "Another week has passed and yet not a single republican paper has seized the op portunity to declare that the drought is a result of Bryanism. The g. o. p. organs are growing extremely care less." Could anything be more child ish or more like Bryan?—lowa State Register. CTSenator TTanna has disposed of the rumor connecting his name with efforts to settle the steel strike. He says he has been asked by neither side to participate in the attempt to reach a settlement. There is no jus tification for trying to drag this strike into politics, but that is what a good many politicians would like to do. —Cleveland Plain Dealer. A CENSUS BULLETIN. It Show* that Ibr Dentil Hate 111 Tbla Country l» UrrrfailiiK mid tl»at the Average Duration of Life ID Im-reaa. In If Washington, Aug. 22.—The census bureau yesterday announced the mor tality statistics for the year 1900. W. A. King, chief of the vital statistics division, says:"The most important feature of the results presented is found in the decrease in the general death rate of nearly 10 per cent., and the decrease in the rates from the particular d.seases to which the gen eral decrease is due. "The effect of the advances made in medical science and sanitation and in •the preventive and restrictive meas ures enforced by the health authori ties is still more strikingly shown in the comparative rate for the regis tration cities of the country. In IS9O the death rate in'27l registration cities of 5,000 or more population was 21 per 1,000; in 1900 the rate was 18.6 per 1,000 in 341 cities of 8,000 popula tion and upward, a reduction of 2.4 per 1,000. The gross population of these cities was 14,958,254 in 1890, and 21,81)0,631 in 1900. "The entire significance of these figures can be properly weighed only when the rates for the individual cities are considered in connection with known conditions of local im provement in sanitation and health regulations. "The average age at death in 1890 was 31.1 pears; in 1900 it was 35.2 years. "The total number of deaths re ported in 1900 was 1,039,094; in 1890 it was 841.419. The increase was therefore 197,695, or 23.5 per cent. As the percentage of increase in the population was but 20.7, this indicates a more complete return of deaths than in 1890. "The record of deaths upon which these statistics are based was ob tained from two different sources, namely, the return by the enumera tors of deaths reported to them at the decennial enumeration, and the registration record of deaths record ed under local laws. Portland, Ore., with a death rate of 9.5 per thousand shows the lowest mortality among the cities, and Shreveport, La., wim 45.50 is the highest. In the registration area the 15 prin cipal causes of death with the rate per 100.000 was as follows: Pneumonia 191.9, consumption 190.5, heart disease 134.0, diarrheal diseases 85.1, kidney diseases 33.7, apoplexy 66.6 cancer 60, old age 54, bronchitis 48.3, cholera infantum 47.8, debility 45.5, inflammation of brain and men ingitis 41.8, diphtheria 34.4. typhoid fever 33.8 and premature birth 33.7. Deaths from all the principal diseases show a decrease since 1890, the most notable being in consumption, which decreased 54.9 per 100,000. POTTER AND HARRIS. State Ticket Nominated l»y Penti«yl» vanla Republican*. Harrisburg, Pa., Aug. 22.—The re publican state convention, which met here Wednesday and nominated Judge William P. Potter, of Pitts burg, for supreme court judge and State Representative Frank C. Harris, of Clearfield, for state treasurer, was a most unusual gathering. The ticket was nominated by acclamation. Sen ators Quay and Penrose and other party leaders were absent. There was an unusually small attendance of active party worksrs and a large ma jority of the delegates never attend ed a state convention before. Judge Potter was formerly Gov. Stone's law partner and was appoint ed to the supreme bench last year to succeed the late Judge Green. Mr. Harris is serving his third term in the house of representatives, and has al ways been a follower of Senators Quay and I'en rose. The platform on which they were nonr~ated endorses the national and state administra tions and the official acts of Pennsyl vania's senators, commends the leg islature, concedes the right of labor and capital to organize and denoun ces "yellow jonrnalism." A BATTLE IN A COURT ROOM. Itil»«ln»ll>pi Parmer* Indulge lu a Sbiiotin;' .Matinee —Three .Tien Fa tally Wounded. Water Valley, Miss., Aug. 22.—A shooting affray occurred yesterday at Reynolds, in Panola county, in which four men were wounded, three of them fatally. Otto Johnson was being tried be fore Justices Shelby and Warner on a charge of seduction. The evidence was all in and the justices had retired to make up their verdict. More than 100 men were present in the room. Suddenly a shot was fired, supposedly by Otto Johnson. Instantly orher shots were fired, fully half a hundred in all, and when the smoke cleared away Otto Johnson had three bullets the body, Len Smith, who testified against • Johnson, one through the breast, J. W. Dawson one through the breast and the father of Len Smith one through the arm. Eight or ten men had narrow escapes. All the parties to the difficulty are farmers. Siiyn the t'ourta are Corrupt. London, Aug. 22. —The Times pub lishes a long article from a correspon dent in Cuba, who highly praises the progress of the island in material welfare under the government of the United States, but complains that the courts of justice are sis corrupt as under the Spanish regime and that both the urban and rural police aire inadequate and inefficient. Knulneer Impaled on a Board. Fort Dodge, la., Aug. 22.—Frank Bender, an engineer on the Illinois Central railroad, was impaled here yesterday on a flying timber when the cab of the engine failed to clear a box car on the side track. A frag ment of the moulding of the box car four feet long and two inches in di ameter, jagged with nails, was driv en through the top of the cab and through the left breast of the engi neer just above the heart. Fully two feet of the splinter stood out behind his back. The splinter has been ex tracted and there is a pcssibility of his recovery. 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