2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MULLIN, Editor. Published Every Thursday. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Fer year '? J2 If paid Id advance ' s# ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements arc published at the rate of •ne dollar per square for one insertion ami tlf.jr •ents 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. Len'il and Official Advertising per square, three times or less, *2: each subsequent inser tion .'0 cents per square. Local rioLices lu cents per line for one tnser gerti.in: 5 cents per line for each subsequent Obituary notices over Arc lines. 10 cents per line. Simple announcements of births, mar' riapes and deaths will be inserted free. Business cards, five lines or less. <6 per year; over live linet,, at the regular rates of adver tising. No local inserted for less than 75 cents per inue. JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the PKK*S TS complete •nd affords facilities for doinc the best class of Work. I'AItIICLUAU ATTB.NIION I* AID TO LAW PtUNTINti. No paper will be discontinued until arrear ages are paid, except at the option of the pub lisher. I'apers sent out of the county must bo paid lor in advance. u ■ ■ J Once each month in the rear i xeept. February a printed card is tacked up .. in rural post odices tinvrrnuienl Crop ail over the eoun lte|iorts. . . , •try, on which ap pears s statement of the conditions and pr:>spects of the important crops of the United States. The method by which these crop statistics are gath ered is a good example of the wide reaching activity and painstaking ef fort of the government to serve the people. Three main sources, each in dependent of the others, furnish the information and insure the greatest possible accuracy. First come the county correspondents, of whom t here are about -.700, one in each county of considerable' agricultural importance. These men, wit h their assistants, form Ihe best estimate fheycan of the con ditions in their own fields, and for ward their conclusions to the state statistical agent. Next are the town ship correspondents, of whom there are from (5 to 15 in each county. These men send their own independent esti mates direct to the statistician. Lastly, there is the special force em ployed by the statistician himself, numbering from!.' oto t>oo men, accord ingl to the agricultural conditions of the state, and a supplementary body of special field agents who systemat ically traverse the producing portions of the country, procure all the data possible and analyze the situation. Information in regard to the final yield per acre is further obtained front reports regularly received from a very large number of individual producers, <*ach of whom reports for his own farm only. The whole number of those who help to make the govern ment crop reports what they are thus, reaches the enormous total of 250,000. The frequency, the attention to details arid the accuracy of these reports make them of immense importance. To the intelligent producer of wheat (or corn or cotton or live stock th o y are a "barometer of probable prices, and a gauge of his income. To the trader they furnish dcita on which to buy or sell, and to banks, railroads find indeed to all sorts of interests they serve a l ' hcrr.'.ds of general pros perity cr L-i'd l- i A Philadelphia boy who drank the contents of a bottle of nitroglycerin might have met the same fate which, overtook the dynamite frog that lately blew up, had not the police interfered. His name is Kdwin Wright, and be is just eight years old. lie found the bottle on it dump and, of course, the stuff made him deathly sick, reports a local exchange. A patrol wagon was summoned and the boy taken to a hos pital. The crew of the wagton carried Edwin in their arms to lessen the jolt ing. for they didn't know what might happen. At the hospital a stomach pump w as brought into requisition and In a short time the dangerous coin pound was removed and Kdwin sent liome. A way of bringing the bigness of the department store within the realiza tion of the reader is by reference to the size of its purchases. One store in Chicago bought in one bill a stock of granite kitchen ware which filled 17 cars that were made up into a spe cial train. Another of these institu tions bought a trainload of shirt waists on a single order. Hooks are handled in quantities which are almost beyond comprehension. One depart ment store bought in one invoice 100,- 000 volumes of standard works of fic tion—and sold them, too! It is not unusua. for any of these great con cerns to place a single order for $50,- 000 worth of goods, and often this is far exceeded. Mother's love prompted a heroic act at Kt. Louis the other day. To save her child from being burned, or from injury by the fall from a second-story window, Mrs. Joseph I!. I'osclc stood with her back to a brick pavement, aer hce.s on the < dge of the window ledge, with flames ia her face, and threw herself backward. Her own body cushioned the fall of her len months-old baby, whom she held in her arms. A moment later she was raised unconscious from th;' sidewalk. She suffered a bndly-wrenched. back and severe interni.l injuries. The baby was not hurt. IMPERIALISTIC FORTO RICANS. Uriiiiikliik Effect of !•'pet' Trmle on One of the* Island's Muni Im liortunt Industrie*. Poor l'orto Rico is again the victim of injustice. The critics of the repub lican legislation for tla«- island should not yet retire from business. If any of them iiu the proclamation <>f free trade thought that their occupation was jjone and that t hey had got to hunt up other sufferers from imperialist oppression to weep over. tln \ should at once realize their mistake anu again denounce the wicked Foraker law. It seem.s that the i'orto Kican coffee industry is threatened. The poor l'orto Wicans. whose desperctc wrongs so appealed to'theoretical free traders in the months when nominal duties were paid on commerce between the island and the I'nited-States, find that the American tariff does not in all re spects suit their condition. They wire taught with fervid appeals to the principles of human liberty by the opponents of the administration that un!e-- they had identically ihe same tariff laws a- we had they w< re being' enslaved, taxed without representa tion, exploited and impoverished. Now they have the same customs duties and absolute free trade with the conti nent. and yet they are in trouble. Is if. because our protective tariff is found to be a barbarous and stupid system? l)o these unspoiled children of nature at their first experience of the evil show their hatred of it and' protest against the Chinese wall which shuts them off from Spain and Kngland and. South America and makes them, like ourselves, a prey to the trusts? Not a bit of it! It is not more free trade they want, but more protection. The United States some years ago put cof fee «.n the free list. With the exten sion of our tariff laws to i'orto liico, coffee can be imported there free of duty, and the Porto Kican planters are threatened, with the extinction of one of their staple industries. A> a tem porary measure merchants have been forced under threat of boycott to make nonimportation agreements and to turn back cargoes of lirazilian cof fee, much as our ancestors did the tea ships, though for a different reason. The Americans objected to taxed tea, and the Porto lticans desire taxed cof fee. This measure i~ to be followed up by an appeal to Washington for a changed interpretation or early amendment of the law so as to levy dit ties on coffee imported from foreign countries or from the United States. Free importation of cheap Brazilian coffees would doubtless be a serious in jury to the l'orto Kicans, and their in terests sh' iuid certainly be considered, lint will our free traders who have wept so over thvir hardships come to their rescue now? Granting the re quest of l'orto Kico would mean anoth er step in imperialism. It would mean giving the island once more a tariff dif ferent from our .own. It would run counter to all the eternal principles proclaimed in denunciation of the For aker act, to the effect that uniform laws, even though others should be de clared constitutional by a degenerate court, were absolutely indispensable to the liberty of both the I'orto Kicans and the Americans. The anti-imperial ists threw fits to secure equality for the I'orto Kicans, and now that un grateful people .'iy th°y do not care h rap for tho principle of equality in tariff laws any more than in interna' revenue laws. They want free trade with the United States when it suits them, and a tariff when it suits them. They* have no sympathy with the aca demic theorists who insist on their in alienable right to certain laws, not bo cause they are needed there, but lie cause we have their, here. Rather, like sensible people, they say their situa tion is not like ours, and where our laws made for out - conditions do not meet their needs they want different laws adapted to the island's situation. That is exactly the imperial position of the republican party. It has pro claimed the rigiit and duty of this gov ernment to solve its island problems by laws suited to the special require ments of each island, instead of ex tending to them, without regard to appropriateness, laws made for this continent. —N. V. Tribune. (•orinii ii*m Ctni«lio4 of much interest, but probably the business people of the country would be glad to see a can vass which would be so one-sided that the result could be foreseen from the beginning without any possibil ity of doubt Of course the candi dacy °f Gorman would make a \c"y small vote in the country at large. This would mean that the demo cratic defeat Would be merely a lit tle worse than the one they would be sure to -jet under any candidate. —St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Clt is the opinion of democrats of excellent judgment that "imperial ism" was not exhausted as an issue in the campaign of 1900. The demo crats were unfortunate that year in having been anchored to the Paris treaty by their leader.—Cincinnati Enquirer (Dcm.). Bryan has advised the Amal gamated association to vote as it strikes. That advice is according to the old doctr'ue of repudiation which Mr. ltryan tried to apply to the finan cial obligations of the United States. —-Albany Journal. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1901. BRYAN STICKS TO SILVER. Two Defeat** Have !\ot ClinnjtCMl (be l*et I'olloy of Ilie C'lieup Muitey Mimen. Mr. l'r.van hu.s clearly manifested his desire thai the people of the I'nited States shall understand that he i> not willing to become a party to any at tempt to shelve the silver question, Says he.in an article in his Comm oner: "If the silver question is going to lie important again, why turn the party over to the reorganizers and allow them to aid the republicans in mak'njj the silver dollar redeemable in gold?" In the same article occurs thisasser tion: "Mr. Bryan believes in the prin* ciples set forth in the Kansas City platform, and is not willing: to surren der them in order to win the approval of those who oppose those principles." The article from which these ex cerpts are taken is a witicism of Sen ator Vest's proposed platform for the democratic party, whose feature is the omission if the silver plank. Mr. lirynn has made it plain that no plat form without a silver plank will have his approval. "If the silver question is going to be important again," he wrote, hut the context proves that there was not the doubt in his mind which 'the "if" would imply if it were used in its exact sense. "Since." or "as," would have better expressed Mr. Bryan's meaning. "Since the silver quest i' in is to he important again," w as the thought which he had in mind. It is a thought that has never left liim since 1S!)G. It will be with him still in 1004, and he will be still.at the head of the national democracy. That some of the democratic state conventions have recently been studiously refraining from referring to national issues does not weaken Mr. Bryan's position in the least. His leadership of the party in the nation cannot be imperiled until another man is put forward as a leader and the anti-Bryan force s unite to sup port him, and there are thus far no indications of any disposition of the anti-Bryanites to rally around the standard of a new leader and give him their undivided support. Albany Journal. THE FISHY DEMOCRACY. I.ncntizlnir Their State I'latformM find Sli-eriiiß Clear of National UllCMt iOtlM. The boldness with which the demo cratic state conventions steer away from national questions is marvelous. It Is true that the Virginia democrats declare their "unatterable opposition to criminal trusts and to every illegal combination of capital," and the "octo pus will tremble in every tentacle at that virtuous resolution. All parties are safe in opposing unalterably crim inal and illegal things. The real noble .strength of the Virginia platform lies in such affirmations as this: "The Democratic party recognizes, as It lias done, the great importance- of the tish ar.d oyster industry of the state of Vir ginia." Of the great importance of a sound currency, of the Philippines, of any national question whatsoever, the Vir ginia democrats have nothing to say. The democratic party doesn't know what to think yet. "What would he popular to think? It is hard and too early to say. The Virginia democrats will take their opinions meekly from .he next democratic national conven tion, when the time comes. Under the direction of that bluff, hearty and open statesman. Hon. Ar thur I'ue Gorman, the Maryland demo crats sternly shut their eyes and mouths against national issues, hut were bold as brass in proclaiming their devotion to the crab ar.d oyster in dustries. The Pennsylvania democrats are now waiving their banner, so to speak; "waiving all questions and proposi tions upon which the people of the na tion divide into parties." Nonpartisan -hip is their oyster this year. The Ohio democrats must begin to feel that they sinned against demo cratic etiquette in allowing the fact to appear in their platform that tliev had any views as to national policy. But they are go;ng to".make theircam paign"on state issues. There are many severely local dem ocratic parties at present, but there is no national democratic party.—X. Y. Sun. COMMENT AND OPINION. look upon their platform as a joke, while others regard it as a tragedy. —Chicago Record-Herald. inyThe democratic state conven tions are indulging in some lively side-stepping when they see Bryan ism coming down the pike.—Hartford Post. (D The able democratic editors may be expected to assist, in their pecu liar way. in the work of tranquilizing the Philippine Islands.—Chicago Tribune. ETThis dropping of Bryan means that Bryan is dead so far as the democratic party is concerned. He is out of the party forever, and he must, between now and 1004, organ ize a party of his own, a party that will indorse him and the platforms that were hitih for him to stand upon.—Springfield Union. ETThe Xashvilie American, a repre sentative soutnem democratic paper, is of opinion tnr.t if a vote of the American peopie could be taken on the question, divorced from party politics, "the answer would be, we doubt not, overwhelmingly In favor of retaining those Philippine is lands." — Indianapolis .lournal. Ey'i'hc Chicago Chronicle (dem.\ ;?.• marks: "It need surprise no one if t!*> republicans carry lowa this year by a plurality considerably in excess of 100,000." As usual the en tire country iia.s its eye on lowa. lowa State Register. Papa Not In 11. Ascum-- Hello! How's your baby? Netwpop—l have no baby. We're living with my wife's folks now. Asvum How do you mean? What's that got to do with the baby? Newpop—dt's "our Mary's baby" now.—Philadelphia Press. Looking Backward. Mrs. Nagg.—We were wedded in June, the marriage month. Mr. Nagg—-Yes. 1 fell in love in March, the mad month, and proposed in April, the fool month. —Town Top ics. A ICeal HelleTactiir. "My dear doctor, I cannot thank you enough for performing that oper ation on my uncle." "I did the lu-st I could." "I know, I know it. By liis death two whole families are now living in comparative ease."—.l tidge. Illnqualllletl. Mabel There is the telephone call, Amy. I wis-ti you'd answer it. Amy AVliy don't you answer it yourself? Mabel—Well, you see, I've been eat ing onions.—Harlem Life. (•niliy u« Cliariied. Upgardson—l am told you have been talking 1 about me behind my back. Atom—That's the way I have al ways talkoil about you. I never talk about a man in front of his back.— Chicago Tribune. Milrt W&tats. Henry—Are you partial to shirt •waists? David (absent-mindedly)—lt de pends upon what kind of young wo man is inside of them.—Boston Transcript. II iM CI aNNIfiC* I! t i 011. There was a rug on the line that needed attention, and she had been looking for some able-bodied man. "Are von a carpet beater?" she asked of the hobo who applied for a little financial assistance. "Xo, ma'am," he replied, honestly, as he hastily backed away. "I'm a dead beater." "I don't believe you do any beating at all." she retorted. "Just give me a chance," he said, "to beat n woman out of a little coin, and see what happens."—Chicago Post. ProKrp*» Rnekwnrd. "I'm (tlad to observe that Mr. De K.i"ter has turned over a new leaf," remarked Airs. Borden. "How do you mean, ma'am?" inquired the observant chambermaid. "He hasn't left his shoes on the hall rack the«e last few niehts." "No. ma'am, hut you'd ought to see how muddy his sheets are."—Philadelphia Press. A Social Sherlock Holme*. "She claims to be from the east," we said, referring to the new arrival. "1 have my doubts," remarked the ob servant person. "Have vou noticed that when she shakes hands »iie only raises her hand to her chin? I do not think she is from any farther east than Pittsburg." It is well, when in society, to take note of these little things.—Baltimore Ameri can. Recreant Member of the FlorU, "I trust. Brtidder Eph'm," said the pas tor, "you is still walkin' in de straight an' narrer path?" "Ise sorry to say. pahsun." rcrdied Uncle Eph'm. deeply penitent, "Ise backslode a good deal lately."—Chicago Tribune. Quite I'roiier. Rubbr.bs—l hear the small farmers out our way talking about their truck patches. Wonder why they call them patches? Citiman—Whv net? They're sewed on, you know. —Philadelphia Press. I.nyinK for the Parrot. Mother—Tommy, a little bird tells me that you helped yours* 112 to cake while I was out. Tommy (aside^ —I'll wring that parrot's neck! —Chicago News. Piso's Cure is the best medicine we ever ased for all affections of the throat and lungs.—Wm. O. Endsley, Yanburen, Ind., Feb. 10, 1900. MicroHcnplc Metapii yule*. Mrs. Hoyle—l can read lay husband like a book. Mrs. Doyle—You must have good eyes to read such a small type. —Smart Set. If you want to be cured of a cough use Hale s Honey of Horehound and Tar. Pike's Toothache Drops ( ure in one minute. "It seems strange to hear you speak so bitterly of him. You used to say you ad mired him for the enemies he had made." "Yes, but I'm one of them now." —Philadel- phia Press. Ilroncliltlu Can Be Cui?ed With Hoxsie's Croup Cure, sncedily. 50cts. Dead women tell no secrets.—Chicago Daily News. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES a.e as •aty to use as soap. No muss or failures. Some people pay too much attention to the talk of the insane.-—Atc.iison Globe. Mirth is nature's best remedy for ills.— Chicago Daily News. for the Teeth A scientifically prepared and strictly pure Liquid Dentifrice $ in a New Size, handy to use. laaW Large LIQUID and POWDER 75c SOZODONTTOOTH POWDER, . 25c At all tho Stores, or by Mail for tho price. Sample i.f Sozodout for tho postage, 3 cents. HALL & RUCKEL, NEW York HEP YSUB SADDLE DBY! //,,,// /,,/ THE ORIGINAL POMMEJLJ UCKEII / yilr /A* '/ /X\y IH./.CK oartLiotv ! PROTECTS BOTH ! V EIDER ANP SADDLE M«x. HARDESTSTQRM| locak>llA.» CATALOGUES PREE SHOWING rULI LINE OP GARMENTS ANPHAT3.I A.J.TOWER CO~BOSTON. MASS. a»J *h«» Knew Amoa Kfder, She was a very talkative old aunty and her memory was remarkable. Her nephew from the city realized the strength of both of these characteristics. "Say, aunty," he putin when he found an opening in tlie old lady's continuous chain of reminiscences, "did you ever know the Skeeter family that used to live around here somewhere?" "Knew 'em all," cried the old lady, with out a moment's hesitation. "Yes, indeed." "Did you know Amos?" continued the joker. "Ainos Keeter!" cried the old lady again. "Well, I should say I did. Matty's the party he's taken me to. Amos Keeter? Dear, dear, how his name does call up the good old times!" And then the wicked nephew had togo out behind the woodshed to laugh. Cleve land Plain L'caie/. Too much honey is sometimes as bad as too much gall.—Chicago Daily News. Be not merely good; be good for somo thing.—Thoreau. Tale hearers are just as bad as tale* makers.—fcueridan. Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold.—Juvenal. Lots of men marry young because they are not old enough to know better.—Chica go Daily News. Lots of men are all rig'it, only they stopped learning too long ago.—Washington (la.) Democrat. Even during the worst drought things Are soaked at the sign of the three balls/—ln dianapolis News. Some days a fellow could easily waste every bit of his time listening to fool sto ries.—Washington (la.) Democrat. You can make an honest man trouble, but you can't make him as much trouble as you can make a thief.—Atchison Globe. Boynton—"Harding tells me he is suffer ing from an operation." Sawyer —"l hadn't heard of it. Surgical, of course?" Boyn ton —"No, this was a financial operation. Gibbons borrowed ten dollars from him yes terday."—Boston Transcript. "I made one hole in five stroke's," an nounced the new golfer, gleefully. "The idea!" exclaimed the other golfer, who was even newer. "I invariably make a hole with every stroke. 1 never can hit the ground in the same place twice."—-Philadelphia Press. The New Reporter Again.—"Always," said the astute city editor to the new re porter, "always be on the lookout for any little touch of humor that may brighten up our columns." That evening the new re porter turned in a story about a burglary in a butcher's shop, which commenced: "Mr. Hiram Cleaver, the well-known butch er, is losing flesh rapidly these days."—Bal timore American. Prevented by Shampoos of CUTICURA SOAP and light dressings of CUTICURA, purest of emollient skin cures. This treatment at once stops falling hair, removes crusts, scales, and dandruff, soothes irritated, itching surfaces, stimulates the hair follicles, supplies the roots with energy and nourishment, and makes the hair grow upon a sweet, wholesome, healthy scalp when all else fails. MILLIONS USE CUTICURA SOAP Assisted by CCTICURA OnmiENT, for preserving, purifying, and beautify ing the skin, for cleansing the scalp of crusts, scales, and dandruff, and the stopping of falling hair, for softening, whitening, and soothing red, rough, and sore hands, for baby rashes, itchiugs, and chafmgs, and for all the pur poses of the toilet, bath, and nursery. 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