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The Job department of the PHESS Is complete and ;,!t rds facilities for doing the best class of n ru. Pautkxi.ak at'tiniion ha id to Law Phintinc;. No paper will bo discontinued until arreur rg s are paid, except at tlie option of the pub islier. J'spers sent out of the county must be paid for.ii advance. A ladies' school of music in a su burb of Vienna has owned three cats during the course of the past year, and each has gone raving mad, according to the testimony of a veterinary sur geon. The diurnal discord within the establishment is reported to be ear torturing in the extreme. The school now owns a deaf cat, which sits out the trumming of a dozen pianos with sphinx-like imperturability. A five-mile range is claimed for tho new model Springfield army rifle, which will be the deadliest small arm yet designed in the United States or Europe. The Krag-Jorgensen. or United States magazine rifle, with ■which the regulars were equipped in the Spanish war, and which at that time was regarded fruitless, is, accord ing to recent tests, but a mere toy as compared with the new weapon. The library at Windsor already con tains about 100.000 volumes, to which additions will continue to be made. Henry VIII. was the first monarch to establish a library at Windsor, and by the time c>* George 11., who handed the books over to the British museum, there was a considerable collection. William IV. was an indefatigable book collector, and it was by his orders that the rooms at present occupied as a library were set apart for that pur pose. Under the direction of State Ento mologist John B. Smith and his assist ant, H. H. Brehme, the work of ditch ing the mosquito breeding pools on the meadows in the vicinity of Newark. N. J., was begun when an improved ditching machine was placed in posi tion. The apparatus consists of a gas oline engine, to which dredging ma chinery has been attached. The entire meadows will be ditched in an effort to destroy the breeding places of the mosquitoes and exterminate the pest. Menus at special dinners are always good keepsakes for sentimental rea sons, but the menus at the dinner giv en recently by Mrs. Theodore Kramer, of New Yoru, in honor of the sixth wedding anniversary of her friend. •Mrs. M. D. Bernsteen. have not only that value, but another value as well. The menus were engraved on the backs of twenty-dollar gold certifi cates. There were in all 12 guests, and at the plate of each was a twenty ■ dollar menu. The moat which so often surrounded halls and castles in the old days is now generally dry and filled up. but some remarkable specimens still re main. Perhaps the finest example of a moated house is Ilelmingham hall, the seat of Lord Tollemache, in Suf folk. about eight, miles from Ipswich. The drawbridge still remains, and it has been raised every night for more than 300 years, the ancient precaution being observed, even though the need for it has long passed by. A delicate operation has just been performed in the Massachusetts Home opathic Hospital, whereby a woman •was saved from total blindness. Frog skin was grafted around her eye, where the flesh is most sensitive, and the pro cess was attended with great danger. The flesh about the eye had become bruised and the skin became affected. Both to save the eyesight and to pre vent the socket from having a bald, hideous appearance, the graft had to be made. The patient has fully re covered. Every year two or three days after the fete of St. John, a market of hu man hair is held at Limoges, France. Girls, matrons and old women from the country around bargain to obtain the best price for their tresses, which are shorn off in the market place. White hair always fetches the highest price, because the color can not be .produced with dyes. It is often worth ?25 per pound. Gray hair comes next •in market value, then flaxen colored, {golden auburn, light and dark-brown, in that order. The cheapest is black hair. Mexico nas in some respects thr> most luxurious railways in the world. The rails of the Mexican Gulf railway are laid on sleepers of mahogany, an I the bridges are built of white marble. On the west coast of Mexico there is another line which has sleepers of ebony and ballast of silver ore dra.vn Irr.m the old mines beside the track. 'The reason for this apparent extrava gance Is that the engineers had no oth er material on the route, and found '.t cheaper to use these than to Import the ordinary material from remote dis tricts. THE PRESIDENT ASSAILED. Krai Object of Drmorrnto in Op pmlntt the Promotion of (■en. Wood. Reports concerning the lining up of forces for and against the confirma tion of Gen. Leonard Wood as major general indicate the possibility of a fight over the matter. The indica tions are further that the light will be led by democrats in the senate, aided by army officers and the friends of such who think they have been un fairly treated by the rapid promotion of Gen. Wood. There is reason to be lieve that the real object of the lead ers of the fight in the senate will be to hurt President Roosevelt. Army officers who feel aggrieved by the rapid promotion of Gen. Wood would natu rally like to defeat his confirmation as major general, and perhaps humili ate him if they could, but democratic senators will have no such personal animus, says the Indianapolis Journal. Their object will be to make political capital by trying to make it appear that the president has been governed by motives of personal favoritism, and has thereby established a demoraliz ing precedent. The fight will not open till the sen ate meets, but in the meantime there are some phases of the case worth con sidering. In the first place, as far as the overslaughing of other officers is concerned or the establishing of a de moralizing precedent, it was done by the early promotions of Gen. Wood, 1 all of which were made by President j McKinley. It was President McKin ley who commissioned Col. Wood to raise the regiment of cavalry known as the Rough Riders regiment, and it. was President McKinley who made him a brigadier general of volunteers, a major general of volunteers and a brigadier general of the regular army. I It was President McKinley who made ' Gen. Wood governor of Santiago, and. I later, military governor of Cuba, in both of which positions he made a splendid record. All of his early pro motions and assignments to special duty came from President McKinley. The only favors he has received at the hands of President Roosevelt are an assignment to duty in the Philippines and his promotion from tlie rank of brigadier general to that of major gen eral in the regular army. There is nothing in this record to supply the basis of an attack on President. Roose velt. If the attack is made it will be chiefly on the memory of William Mc- Kinley. But, no matter from what quarter the attack comes or against whom it is aimed, it will be weak in that it will ignore two essential facts—first, the unquestioned ability and prominent services of Gen. Wood, and, second, the fact that the question of promo tion is one that rests exclusively with the president. No person denies Gen. Wood's ability or fitness to command, though his actual military experience has not been great, and no person denies that his services in Cuba were such as to entitle him to almost any reward in the gift of the government. The president has a free hand in the matter of promotions in the army. Tradition, precedent and custom, based on sound principles, have estab lished certain rules regarding promo tions, but as far as the law is con cerned the matter rests wholly with the president. The responsibility is on him, and he is the sole and final judge as to the fitness of a promotion, and whether it will conduce to the honor, welfare and efficiency of the army or not. No person would con tend that if an officer next in line of promotion were notoriously unfit the president would be bound to promote him. and it is equally true that he is justified in promoting an officer over the heads of others if, in his opinion, the unusual promotion is deserved. The power, the right and the respon sibility are his. When the attack on Gen. Wood is made, or rather the at tack on Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt, through him, it will be found to be without justification in law or reason. CURRENT COMMENT. Bryan. starting off for Ell - will be only one more proof of republican prosperity.—Des Moines Register and Leader. (H'The next democratic national convention will resemble a grab-bag as much as anything else. —Los An geles Herald (dem.). tr'Byron said: "The weakly wicked shall be doubly damned." Respectful ly referred to those who opposed Bry an in 1890 and supported him in 1900. —Brooklyn Eagle. C "Mr. Bryan does not quail in the face of the fact that, when he gets to Europe he will often be among people who would not understand a word if he were to make a speech.—Washing ton Star. icy Mr. Bryan's paper has added a new humorous department and is now ready to have a gay time next, year with the reorganizers and the re crudescence of Grover. —St. I.ouls Globe-Democrat see they are now trying to make a democratic presidential possi bility out of ex-Controller Eckels. As one democrat is as good as another. If not better, Eckels will do as well as any one, and lie is big enough for what is wanted. —Philadelphia I'ress. c rMr. Bryan has been t<» Chicago and fired off that anti-Cleveland speech. Of course the ant I-Bryan democrats neer at and belittle the oc currence But down in ihelr hearts they realize that what Mr IJryan says "goes" with a large proportion of th' ir party, and It Is that which makes them sad-eyed and sober when they contemplate next year's outlook. —Troy Time*. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1003 ALARM OF BRYAN. I'roaprrt of lifanlne Di-morratlr lit-at orn t lon Appnlla the Silver Him, The man who has made a good living for ten years past as an attorney for the silver mine owners of the west, tho bonan/.a men of other days, addressed a gathering of city hall pay rollers in this city on a recent Saturday, says the Chicago Chronicle (dem ). Naturally enough, he undertook to libel Grover Cleveland and the demo cratic parly, for whatever distinction has come to him has been at the ex pense of democracy, and, with every prospect of democratic restoration, ho necessarily takes alarm. So long as men of Mr. Cleveland's character and standing can be kept out of democratic councils there is a pros pect of continued and lucrative employ ment for the Bryans. Hence the con temptible slanders of the discredited demagogue who has fallen so low in the last few years that, outside the dis reputables of the Chicago city hall, there are few to do him honor. The man who lives by his advocacy of the cause of the silver producers is well understood in these parts. His hostility to Mr. Cleveland is commer cial as well as personal and political. He is nearing the end of his employ ment. When this archdemagogue in the serv ice of mine owners as greedy as the coal barons of Pennsylvania makes bold in the presence of the city hail lazzaroni of Chicago to stigmatize the administration of Grover Cleveland as "corporation-controlled" decent men know well enough what it means. He means that the administration was corporation-controlled because it enforced the laws against the mobs to which the silver mine attorney has been appealing ever since, because it pre served the credit of government and people which the silver mine attorney has been assailing ever since, arid be cause in the presence of political idiocy, fanaticism and betrayal unexampled in the history of the republic it adhered resolutely to the democratic doctrine and tradition. Grover Cleveland is not the greatest man that ever lived, but certain charac teristics of his shine with dazzling ef fulgence when brought into contrast with the traits which the people have been familiarized in the person of the Lincoln (Neb.) demagogue. He is honest. He is a democrat. He has served the people faithfully. He is neither a trickster, a trimmer nor a mountebank. He has been elected pres ident of the United States twice. He has not grown rich in the service of the silver mine owners. He never appealed to a mob except with bayonets and can non. He enjoys no popularity in the reeking precincts of the Chicago city hall. When the well-paid favorite of the big bonanzas gains a reputation and a record like this his libels will carry far- J ther than they do now. RASCALS BEING TURNED OUT. I'artlNitn Cn pit it 1 of Ilentoerati \\ ill lie Speedily Taken front Tltetti. The democrats who are urging their partv to have a "turn-the-rascals-out war cry for 1904, in connection with the post office scandal, are behind the times. The rascals are being turned out now. Democratic and republican rascals are being flung out of the post office de partment just as soon as they are re vealed, and the republican admlnistra i tion is doing the "firing." This will 1<« kept up until not a rascal, democrat or republican, is left- in. The chances are that the whole of them will have gone before congress meets next winter, says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. All this talk about the partisan capi tal which the democrats can make out of the postal irregularities shows that the talkers forget which party is in power. A republican is at the head of the government. This republican president is supported by a republican cabinet. He has behind him a congress republic an in both branches. If any party makes capital out of the postal frauds it must be the republican party. The republicans are exposing the frauds, though democrats as well as republicans were among the officeholders who com mitted them. The republicans axe pun ishing the offenders, without any dis tinction of politics. It is the republican party, therefore, i which will be benefited. Let there be rio mistake on this point. The repub licans have more of a stake in these exposures than have the democrats. The republican is the parly in power, and it will take care to cleanse the public offices very vigorously and coin ! pletely. No rascal, democrat or repub lican, will escape. If there is to be any mention of this scandal in a national platform in 1904 it is the republican party which will do the mentioning. The ! republicansare running the government, | and they are punishing all sorts of transgressions among office holders just as soon as these are revealed. The rr i publican is the only party that can be S rolled onto do this sort of work or any ; other kind of reform which calls for in | telllgence ar.d courage. Not "turn the rascals out," but "keep the rascals out" should be the campaign cry of 1904. c ''Not much talk is heard among democrats now about the party capi t'M which they were to make out of the pot office scandal. As the repub licans are doing the exposing and the punishing, while democrats as well as republicans are Involved in the steals the demoi rats are beginning to dis cover, 'thai they ought to have known all along, that If any parly niako anythlng out of the affair »it will be the republican party.—St. Loul* i Globe-Democrat, CURRENT TOPICS. An airbrake tor automobiles has been perfected. The population of the dependencies of France is 56,000,000. All the seven islands of Hawaii ore connected by wireless telegraphy. Mt. Vesuvius in active and throws out quantities of Incandescent stones. Some first editions of Dickens' works were sold for £35 In London recently. Music treatment for insanity la be ing officially tested by New York city. A well-equipped sanitarium will soon be traveling through Egypt in a tent. A room in which soiled-clothes or shoes become moldy is too damp for health. There are in use in the United States 1,610,220 railway cars and 11,228 loco motives. At Canterbury cathedral there are always about forty workmen engaged in the structure. Birmingham's sewage works are the largest in the world, after those of Paris and Berlin. Lockcd-out knitting girls of Dover, N. J., have organized a co-operative knitting mill company. Ashantee is one continuous forest, with small clearings, where native vil lages have Iseen built. The most powerful automobile ever built is the Gobron-Brille racing car, having 120 horse-power. Brock's statute of Gladstone has been placed in Westminster abbey, near that of Beaconsfield. The first life insurance company was started in London in 1698 and another In 170''. Neither was successful. Permanent salvage corps to render aid in case of accident are about to be organized by the Swiss Alpine clubs. - In the ten city churches adminis tered by the Glasgow corporation, 4.943 sittings out of 9,890 are unlet. M. Paul B. du Chaillu, whose dis covery of the gorilla made him famous, has only left £IOO, as shown by his will. Balloonists who ascended about 10,- 000 feet in Europe the other day found a temperature of 27 degrees below zero. Artemiev, a Russian electrician, has invented a pliable coat of mail which effeteively protects against current of 150,000 volts. Galileo's first telescope was made from part of a lead water pipe, in each end of which he cemented common spectacle glasses. In America alone 30,000 automobiles will be placed on the market during the present year, which will only sup ply half the demand. From Liverpool to Yokohama by the transcanada route will be about 9,830 miles. By New York and San Fran cisco it is 12,008 miles. John Wanamaker, of Philadelphia, is believed to carry more Insurance than any other man, his policies amounting to more than $2,500,000. Six torpedo boats have been ordered to Brest to chase porpoises away from the coast, where they have done much damage among the sardines. The Korean government has ordered that all Koreans, without regard to rank or class, should not wear clothes except of a blue or dark color. There are probably 1,000 women in the United States to-day who make their living as insurance solicitors. The idea is becoming very popular. In 1870 the German people barely exceeded 40,000,000; in 1885 they had risen to nearly 47,000,000, and in 1900 the census returns gave 56,345,014. German students at Geneva have collected £ll for the guides who res cued seven of their compatriots from a dangerous situation on Mont Blanc. The South Chicago plant of the Illi nois Steel Company one day last week turned out. 1,894 tons of steel rails, breaking the world's record, which had been 1,772 tons for a day's work. George Lincoln Burr, head of the de partment of mediaeval history at Cor nell university, is touring New Eng land towns on a bicycle for the pur pose of studying early American his tory. Tobacco has besn smuggled into France from Belgium on a motor car covered with sailcloth to hide its ap pearance and number. A rope stretch ed across the road frustrated a second attempt. In the body of a horse that died sud denly at Newport (Yorks) the veterin ary surgeon who made a post-mortem examination discovered three large stones, one of them nearly as large as a cricket bat. Municipal corporations in England have Incurred debts aggregating sl,- 250,000,000 on socialistic lines. They own gas works, street railways, docks, markets, dwellings, race courses, dai ries and hotels. Irish women can boast of having twins more frequently than any other women in the world. Twins are born in Dublin about once in every 52 births, as against a general world average of one in eighty. A large number of Japanese are find ing their way into the rice-growing regions of Louisiana and Texas. The Japanese rice farmers understand the business better than Americans, and they make the business pay better. Statistics show that in fifty years file average height of British men has risen an inch. The present average height for a man of thirty is 5 feet B',.j Inches. The deepest depression in tiie earth, ascertained by sounding, is five and a fourth miles; the greatest height, the peak of Mt. Everest, live and three fourths miles. It. T Daniel, who owns many blocks In Spokane, Wash., most of the town of Trail in llrltl ii Columbia and 10 out) acri s of land in Cuba, left Glas gow. Ky., 25 years ago and arrived In Spokane with Just $1 In his pocket •'Hcil Tnpf" hy th* t nnl, (ijf the soldier* who nttd been reportr.i I liillfd in a certain battle u. South Africa! mil again*!. wiioi-e runic in the rrgimtiilaJ buuk* a note lo that effect had bcii made, afterward turned up and reported him»elf. I'lien the sergeant made another note in the book . "Died by mistake." The man «a» placed in the hoapita), and a few weeks after -uccunibcd to the injuries he had received. Tiii» tact was communicated to the sergeant through the colonel of the regiment, and then a thud note hs made: 'B< died by order of the colonel."—London "V. C." tVlial Wo* It! Frairpoint, Miss., Aug. 3rd.—One of the strangest c.i-ts ever reported occurred Here recently. The son of Air. G. L. Butler was very ill. The doctor said he had some dis ease of the sjiinal cord, and treated him for two months, but he grew worse all the time, and finally the doctor told Mr. Butler that he did not know what was the trouble. The boy would wake up in the night and <ay that he wa- dying, lie would be nerv ous and trembling and want to run out of the house, saying he saw ugly things which frightened him. His father was very much discouraged till one day lie saw a new remedy called I>odd's Kidney Pills advertised, and he at once bought some and began to give them to his bo v. He used altogether eight boxes before he was entirely cured. He has not been troubled since. Mr. Butler says: "I fed it my duty to tell what Dodd's Kid ney l'ills have done for my boy. All this remedy needs is a fair chance and it will speak for itself." On the IIIkIi S*n». At the bow of the steamer sit the two happy young people. "How sweet it seems to-night!" sighs the gill. 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