2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MULLIN, Editor. Published Every Thursday. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. f'er year 12 00 112 paid In advance 1 W> ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements are published at the rate of em- dollar per square for one insertion and titty cents per square for eaeh subsequent insertion. Rales by the year, or for six or thr«e months, «re low and uniform, and will be furnished on application. I.egnl and Official Advertising per square, threu times or less, 12; each subsequent inser tion 50 cents per square. Local notices lu cents per line for one lnser sertlun; f> cents per line for each subsequent consecutive insertion. Obituary notices over five lines 10 cent* per line. Simple announcements of births, mar tinet's and deaths will be inserted free. Business cards, five lilies or less, »5 per year; over live lines, at the regular rates of adver tising No local inserted for less than 75 cents pet Issue. JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the Pwcss is complete »nd affords facilities for doing the best class of ■Wi.rU PAR'UCCLAIi ATTENTION PAIIITO LAW Printing. No paper will be discontinued until arrear £ges arc paid, except at the option of the pub sher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid lor in advance. ; New Jersey's entomologist has ls tsued suggestions to all householders •that cisterns or rain barrels should be covered with netting, so as to keep mosquitoes from breeding. He also suggests that gold fish should be kept in the water. Christian Smith, the oldest locomo tive engineer in the country, lives near •Harper's Ferry, Md. He ran the first engine on the Baltimore & Ohio rail road at a speed of from six to eight miles an hour, which was considered rapid for those days. A new and novel cure for dropsy and asthma has been discovered by Dr. John S. Cram, of Philadelphia, and the total cost of his treatment is §1.50. Dr. Cram, who is 72 years old, had not eaten a morsel of food for 30 days, and during that time the only nourishment he hail taken was fro quent slips of a salt and water solu tion. The German emperor ascribes his good health and vigor to the excellent advice given to him by his favorite doctor and he has learned by heart the latter's "rule of life" which is as fol lows: "Eat fruit for breakfast. Eat fruit for lunch. Avoid pastry and hot cakes. Only take potatoes once a day. Don't drink tea or coffee. Walk four miles every day, wet or fine. Take a hath every day. Wash tho face every night in warm water. Sleep eight hours every night." The principal hobby of the ex-Queen Regent of Spain is collecting of play ing cards. She possesses a large num ber of curious packs, many of which have no little historical interest. One set. made of ivory, is believed to have belonged to Prince Eugene, who fougnt with the great duke of Marlborough, and to have accompanied him in all mS campaigns. Queen Christina also owns some exceedingly rare cards of Egyptian. Arabian, French and Span ish manufacture. Reinach has made a series of expe riments upon children of 6 to 9 months, with chocolate. He found that the fat ■was well absorbed, and that a very small proportion of it reappeared in the feces. The children increased very Tapidly in weight. The indications for the use of chocolate are acitl dyspep sia, fat dyspepsia, chronic enteritis, cases in which the body weight does not increase with normal rapidity up on ordinary diet, and in rachitic and scrofulous children. Greyhounds are the swiftest dog 3 known, and scientists say that they are the swiftest of all four-footed ani mals. Trained hounds can travel at the rate of 18 to 23 yards a second, which is about the speed attained by a carrier pigeon. These clogs are bred for speed alone. Every other con sideration is lost sight of, and only the machinery that makes for motion and endurance is cultivated. Foxhounds are also very fast travelers, going at the rate of nearly 18 yards a second. The great scarcity of platinum con tinues to be complained of. It is in such demand, for use in electrical and other scientific work, that the price i 3 in the neghborhood of S3OO an ounce— that is about 20 times the value of gold, or five times what it was 75 years ago. The total world's output of platinum is less than five tons a year. Most of this comes from Rus sia. Formerly platinum was mistaken for silver, and considerable of it got into the Russian coinage without being ■discovered. A band of gypsies traveling in an au tomobile arrived in Mount Vernon, N. Y., the other day and went into camp at Sherwood Park. The automobile, which is a gasoline affair, is large and very handsome and appears at a •distance like a trolley car. It was ■especially built for the trine. The in •side is divided in three apartments, one a bedroom, another a dining room and in the front is the kitchen. The chief of the tribe says that he can make 50 miles a tlay in tho automo bile if he wants to. Spiders are met with in the forests of Java whose webs are so strong that it requires a knife to cut through them, we are told. A spider weighing four pounds, which has taken tip her resi dence in a cathedral at Munich, re gales herself with a large supply of lamp oil. A Texas spider weaves a ■balloon four feet long and two feet wide, which she fastens to a tree by ■a single thread, then marches on board with her halt-dozen little ones, cuts ithe thread and away goes the airship to some distant point on the prairie. THE ISSUE ACCEPTED. Pre-Mltlent Roonrvrll Tnl>m Ip the Philippine Mailer and Wilt See It TlirouKli. The president has disappointed those critics of the administration who insist that the issue of the independence of the Philippines is one lie dure not dis cuss. Having-insisted on that assump tion for a long-time it is naturally not convenient, for them that Mr. Roose velt takes up the issue in a sensible, di rect and straightforward fashion, says the democratic New York Times, and declares that when the people of the Philippines "haveshown their capacity for real freedom by t heir power of self government, then, and not till then, will it. be possible to decide whether they are to exist independently of us or to be knit to us by ties of common friendship and interest." This is practical because it involves a definite test of fitness for self-gov ernment by extended self-government as fast as orderis restored. That proc ess is steadiily going tin. Wherever re sistance to the United States has ceased the natives enter immediately into the exercise of the elementary forms of civil activity. They have a voice in the choice of their local offi cers. They have a voice in the levying of taxes and the determination of the use to which the taxes shall be put. They have representation in the ad ministration of the law and of justice. They supply the local police. They share in the regulation and in the bene fits of schools, roads and sanitation. And this entrance on local self-govern ment is assured to them without in terference from other parts of their islands or from other tribes. The United 1 States keeps t he peace through out the territory and guarantees to each community, in the words of the president, "that with their growing knowledge their growth in self-gov ernment shall keep steady pace." Now there is nothing theoretical or fanciful about this. It is plain, solid fact. We are giving to the Filipinos wherever our authority is established actual freedom, with peace, safety, or der, and all the conditions of continu ous prosperity and progress. And ours is absolutely the only power existing on the islands, or possible there, that can do this. Xo native "government" could do it. Native government in any effective shape is only possible in lim ited districts as the arms of the United States make it so, and protect it from internal disorder or outside hostility and attack. In the reality of freedom we are generous and steadily more generous. In the freedom to fight among themselves orto perish, orboth, we must frankly confess that we do not deal. Nor do we see that it would be more merciful, or more just, or more, intelligent to try to do so. As the president s«ys, we are preparing the Filipinos through self-government for possible independence, sure that when they are so prepared' the ques tion can be settled wisely, and only then. AGAINST PROTECTION. IJemoernt* Are Not So Much Anninul the TruxtM, Hut Are (iropiiiK for tin Issue. Democratic clamor about the trusts has quickly worked around to the proposition that the establishment of free trade is the only way to battle against business monopolies. The re public, alarmed at the federal move ment against.trusts, remarks that "the first, and all-important step in the popular movement to restrict the trust evil is an amendment of the protective tariff that -shall destroy the monopo lies guarded by prohibitive duties." In groping for an issue for 1904. the democratic press, for the moment at least, has gone back to its old free trade wail and will push it along enough to measure the public re sponse, says the St. Louis Globe- Democrat. Their doctrine on this point rests on nothing tangible, but they fancy republicans can be divided on the tariff and the old hue and cry is renewed. Plenty of trusts exist in England, which is more of a free trade country than any other in the world, though it lias recently found it ad visable to relax its Cobden principles. Not many years ago the democratic party had control of all branches of the government and passed a tariff monstrosity that brought widespread disaster upon the American business woVld, yet did not check in the slight est degree the movement toward trust organizations. The new steamship trust, which gives England so much concern, has no connection whatever with the tariff question in this or any other country. A majority of the capi tal in the deal is American, but the cus toms regulations of the United States and of England area matter of indiffer ence to the men who are exploiting the combination. "The most result fnl anti-trust, action." continues the Tie public. "is a vote for the denKicratie candidates in the approaching con gressional and presidential elections." This advice is funny, in view of the basis on which it is offered. But. the democratic party has no issue, and the return to the old free tradehowl is the last resource of th« party that is al most out of hope as well as entirely out of principles. If the trusts are not restrained until tills country risks an other democratic tariff, they have a clear course ahead. IT7"T give you my word they shall not be condemned until heard. I!< of good cheer, American soldiers. When the record comes to be made up in the cool judgment of the Amer ican people and of mankind, after Cuba, with its brilliant page, after China, with its glorious achievements, there will lie written another page, equally glorious and equally brilliant, tin which will be recorded the achieve ment of the American army in the Philippines." CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1902. A MEASURE UNNECESSARY. So in el li I njt Which the Protective TnrlfT Render* Entirely SII|II-r --fluon* mill Incalled V'or. Gen. Grosvenor's bill requiring all manufacturers of goods made of wool to attach to each piece put. upon the market .a card declaring the material* of which it is made is again talked of. This is a measure of the Wool Growers' association and' is designed to compel manufacturers to use pure wool in stead of shoddy, cotton ffnd other sub stitutes. The champions of the bill at tempt to create the impression that more shoddy is used in American cloths than ever before, and that, it is very bad. Shoddy as now manufactured contains nothing unwholesome; it is simply wool which lias once been used, being manipulated'and-used again. It has been used for years. The British manufacturer was the first to use it in large quantities, and lie does so now. At the present time our tariff so dis criminates against shoddy for manu facturing purposes that it cannot be imported to a (Kant age, says the In dianapolis Journal. Cotton lias always been used more or less, else the phrase "all wool and a yard wide" would not be nearly a hundred years old. Those who advocate the bill are proceeding upon the assumption that if each piece of good's offered by a tailor should be stamped with the proportion of wool and the substitutes customers would demand an unadulterated article. If the unadulterated should cost much more they would l not. Besides, a large part of the American people, and, by the way, the best clothed people in the world, purchase ready-made clothing; would the authors of ibis bill com pel the manufacturers of such clothing to attach an.aflidavit to each suit, stat ing t he proportions of wool, cotton and shoddy which the material may eon tain? If so, how many inspectors would it take to make certain that the tag gives t he proportions correct ly ? During the brief existence of the Gorman-Wilson tariff law, in which the woolen industry suffered most, our markets were filled with the cheap woolens or alleged woolens of Europe, and: particularly of Great Britain, whose manufacturers were past mas ters in the use of shoddy and other adulterants (in the manufacture of woolens before we had begun woolen manufacture in this country on a large scale. Having the notion that whatever was Britisji was the best, we were more nearly being clothed with shoddy and other substitutes for wool than ever before or since. To tag ev ery piece of American-made goods to show the materials of which it is made, and allow the woolen goods of Europe to come in without such labels, might so interfere with the use of shoddy and cotton by home manufacturers as to give our market for the cheaper cloths to foreign competitors. TICKET WITHOUT A NAME. The Antnre of n Com binatlon Which 1* t'linracter- I.Mticil 11 >' Democratic. The official report of the populist and democratic conventions at Hutchinson would lie regarded as a hoax if they came from any other state save Kansas. Nowhere else on God's green earth could the transaction of important du ties lie made so silly and nonsensical, says the Kansas City Journal. A populist committee went into the democratic convent ionto negotiate for a fusion between the two parties. A democratic delegate got up amlisaid: "The populists can either take the democratic name or goto the devil." Thereupon the populist committee withdrew in great anger and reported to the populist convention that it had been "insulted," and the populist con vention adopted resolutions scoring the democratic convent ion for its rudeness, l!ut almost immediately a committee of grave and reverend democrats ap peared in the populist convention and said the populists need not goto the devil; that 1 hey were very good people, and that the democrafs would like to have them come over and be sociable. "Our delegates spoke without due de liberation." said the chairman of this committee. "We don't know whether we are populists or democrats, and you don't know whether you are democrats or populists, so the best way to do would be to adjourn without claiming to be either, and let the state conven tions settle which we are." And so it was decided. The man who was nominated for congress doesn't know the name of the ticket on which he will i-iin, or the set of principles he will be expected to stand up for. The delegates to the two conventions don't know the name of the ticket they will v«te for at the coming election or the policies their candidates will repre sent. The annals of American political history might be searched without finding anything more triflingand con tempt ible. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. C'T'lt is shrewdly suspected that Mr. Bryan's compromise candidate for president is William Jennings Bryan. trrThe Dingley law has proved a prac tical triumph in conservative states manship, and no reasonable person be lieves that it can be improved by aca demic cranks or democratic botches.— St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Uncertain newspapers see in the pro ceedings «if the late democratie conven tion an attempt to yoke Cleveland and Bryan together. Naturally, the pro ceeding is full of interest to each and every spectator.— Indianapolis News (ind.). r/Mr. Dry an declares that "the next nominee will l>e a democrat who stands squarely on the Kansas City platform." If that is the case we beg to inform Mr. Bryan that there will be no "next nominee" of the democratic party.— Montgomer 'Ala.) Advertiser. DECLARATION OF WAR. A Ilolf wives or property of the Moros. The following 1 reply has been received from the sultan by Col. Baldwin. "We ask you to retire to Malahang; we do not want you in the Lake La nao district unless you will join our religion and adopt our customs. In case you do not so desire all the dat tos will make war on you, because here there is but one religion, that of Stamboul." Col. Baldwin says that the sultans of Baclod and Massin will have to be taken prisoners before permanent peace in Mindanao is possible. The organization of civil govern ment. fin the island of Sainar yester day was witnessed by a large crowd of people. Gen. F. I). Grant turned the administration of the island over to Luke E. Wright, acting civil gover nor of the archipelago. The former Insurgent leaders Guevarra, Abuke and Rafael were present. 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