2 CAMIM COUNTY PRKSS. H. H. MULLIN, Editor. Published Every Thursday. TERMS OF SUUSCRIPTION. fer '* If paid In advance I ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements are published at the rate of »nr dollar per square for one insertion arul tlfiy •nits 1 er square for each subsequent insertion. Rale's by the year, or for six or three rnonthi. are low and uniform, and will be furnished on ID' ileal on. Legal and Official Advertising per square, three times or loss, t2; each subsequent inser tion -0 cents per squaro. Local notices lo cents per line for one lnser aertion: 6 cents ptr line for each subsequent consecutive Insertion. Obituary notices over five lines 10 cents per Vine. Simple announcements of births, mar riages «n>l deaths wi',l be Inserted froe. Business cards, five lines or less, S5 per year, over live lines, at th« regular rates of adver t.ilng. No local Inserted for less than 75 centa per issue. JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the Pusss Is complete and affords facilities for doing ihe best class of work. PARTICULAR ATTENTION PAIDTO LAW PIUNTING. No paper will be discontinued until arrear ages arc paid, except »t the option of the pub lisher. l'sper* sent out of the county must be paid lor in advance. Chairs wore in use in Egypt so lons ago as 3399 B. C. The Chinese em ployed (hem from about 1300 13. C. In India they were used, and are men tioned as dating from 1100 LI. C. House ehairs with hacks were in use in India A. D. 300. They are known to have hecn employed in Rome so early as A. D. 70, being mentioned h.v Pliny at that date. Chairs with t'oot rests were used in Rome A. D. 150. Strange as it may seem, a lot of money is made out of policemen'.': ■-as<- off uniforms. Quantities are boug't by African traders and exported to va rious parts of the "Dark Continent," where they are exchanged for palm oil, ivory, skins and other merchan iiso It is by no mear.s an uncommon sight to see a swarthy savage dressed in tho uniform of a London policeman, and wearing the regulation helmet of the force. In a dark room, where he could see nothing but the outline of his machine, with a stop-watch held on him and six witnesses present, John A. Shields, of Ottawa, Kan., clattered off 222 words on a typewriter in a single minute, thus breaking the world's record by 10 words and demonstrating his right to he hailed as ihe world's champion. Charles McGurrin has for a number of years held the world's record at 212 words per minute. The warrant under which .lo'nn Bun yan was apprehended and placed in jail at Bedford for six months during the r(ign of Charles 11. was sold at auction in London for $1,525. The warrant, which is signed by thirte r n justices of the peace, six baronets and seven esquired; charged the linker with contempt of law, by preaching and teaching otherwise than "accord ing to the liturpie or practice of the Church of England." 11 is said that In the British house of commons, as soon as the question to be decided is put from the chair, a clerk at the table sets in motion a huge sand-glass, familiarly known to members as the "egg boiler," probably because it takes three minutes to run out. As the last sand runs through the glass the sergeant-at-arms instant ly locks the massive oak doors of the chamber, and only those members who have succeeded in getting through the doorway can vote. A remarkable operai.on was recently performed at the St. Antoine hospital, Paris, by the extraction of a large nail from a man's lung. After six pielim inary experiments the foreign body was located and seen througi the "bronchoscope." The first attempt at extraction failed, but a second was completely successful, the nail being dislodged from an inner ramificntion of the right lung and removed up the windpipe by means of a magnet, tho operation lasting only five minutes. A widow of comely figure and tender age, Mrs. Emma Peake, of Wanatah, 111., has been courted by two farmei3 who raise fat stock, mostly hogs. Mrs. Peake, being unable,to decide between the two. has offered to marry tho man who has the largest number of fat bo.is weighing over 300 pounds each by De cember 15 next. This is the birrriday of the widow, and she has promised lo have a great, feast on the day when sht will be able to make a satisfactory choice between her two suitors. Harbin is a modern city in the 'leart of Manchuria, on the Sungari iivc\ 350 miles west from Vladivostok and 600 miles north of Port Arthur. It is at the junction of the Chinese Eastern railway with the Siberian trunk 'inc. Population in 1901, 12,000! in 1902 20,000; in 1903, 60,000, exclusive of soldiers. The Chinese number about 40,000 of these, in a special settlement. It is a military center, with many pri vate business interests, the money for which lias been furnished largely bv Siberian Jews. A species of acacia which i;row3 very abundantly in Nubia and the Sou dan is called the ' whistling tree" by the natives. Its shoots are frequently distorted in shape by th agency of larvae of insects and swollen into a globular bladder from one to two inches in diameter. After tne insect has emerged from a circular hole in tho side of the swelling, the opening, played upon by the wind, becomes a musical instrument suggestive of a sweet-toned flute. The whiistlin? tree is a!gc#founrl in the West Indies. ABOJT ro BE CORKED. Mf ' fii tj/ft, • ~" r IKDIANArOLIS JOURNAL DANCER IN HEARST PERIL. Democrats Are Sure to Have a Halcy on and Vociferous Time at St. Louis Convention. > The friends of Judge Parker and the rest of the conservative democratic aspirants can see by this time that the Hearst movement is of much larger dimensions than they had im agined. Hearst's victory in lowa gives him about 80 votes in the St. Louis convention, or almost as many as Parker has won by this time. No as pirant save Parker has anything like as many votes committed to him as have been instructed for Hearst. That candidate, moreover, won in lowa in face of powerful opposition. The reorganizers in that state were reenforced by an element which sup ported Bryan in 189G and 1900, but which now want to make a new deal. Bryan, of course, stands with Hearst in his crusade for the candidacy this year. Possibly Hearst does not expect to carry off the presidential candidacy. He is developing a strength, however, says the St. Louisi Globe-Democrat, which promises to give him a third of the convention, and thus to be in a position to prevent any objectionable person from getting the nomination. There is no doubt that if lie controls a third of the votes he will head off Parker. As Parker just now is the most conspicuous of the aspirants of the Cleveland section of the party, Hearst's hostility would naturally be directed against him. Parker is keep ing still. Probably he is telling his patron, Hill, also to remain in the shadow, for Hill is as dumb as Parker. Hearst is getting a good deal of ad vertising out of nis candidacy. Prob ably he is having fun at the terror which he is inspiring among his dem ocratic enemies. It is possible that ho expects to get the candidacy, for, as a man of information about demo cratic history he knows that his party has often done queer things. The present conditions make it probable that queer things will be done at St. IjOtiis in 1904. The Hearst movement at any rate is showing a power which neither his republican antagonists nor his democratic rivals ever expected. He is said to look for the support of Illinois and of several other states which are yet to choose delegates, and wise persons are not making any loud guesses to the contrary. A very strange situatior is developing in the democratic party. If a halcyon and vociferous time be escaped at St, Louis In the early days of July the country will be very much surprised. Possible Bolt at St. Louis. The question of the hour is: Will Mr. Bryan bolt? Suppose he does. Who will lecture him on the enormity of the offense? The Cleveland democrats? Shall he be told by them that the ma jority rules and that a national demo cratic platform is what a democratic na tional convention regularly organized rogularlj adopts? If it comes to this we shall have much interesting talk in this country. For, of course, in reply to such deliverances Mr. Bryan will have a word or two to say, a precedent or two to quote, and line upon line of pointed ob servations to register. The old debate between the pot and the kettle on the question of color contains much that is edifying and instructive. Time and fre quent usage have deprived it of none of its application to human affairs, and human affairs were never more human than they are to-day. A bolt at St. Louis, it is easily to be seen, would add greatly to the gayety of the campaign.—Wash- ington Star. No Chance for Money Scare. There will be no chance this year to get up a money scare on anything. The country's banks are well provided with cash. As there is not the faintest doubt as to the result of the election in No vember, enterprise will not be checked by the canvass. Business is likely to be more active than it usually is in presi dential years. The financial outlook has seldom been brighter than it is at this time. The country can stand the stag cation in the stock market. No kite-fly ing is in sight for 1904.—5t. LouisGlcbe- Democrat. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1904. DOCTRINES THAT WILL WIN. Republicans Need Not Recede from a Single One of Their Time- Tried Principles. Republican leaders have been con ferring at Washington about the dec laration of principles which the party will present to the people for the coming campaign. It is encouraging to notice that there is no disposition to recede from the fundamental doctrines that have brought success to the party and prosperity to the country. First of all stands the protective tariff, which will be given due pre eminence in any platform approved by a convention of republicans. In the hands of republican legislators the tar iff will always be protective, and it will never be reduced or revised so far as to relax its fostering care of Ameri can industries or its exclusion of com petitive products of the pauper or ill paid labor of other countries. The record of the United States under the McKinley and Roosevelt adminis trations is the exact and sufficient plat form of the republican party for 1904. To him who would ask why the electors should support the republican ticket, the only answer, wisely says the Troy (N. Y.) Times, need be: "Look about you." Industry blessed by the shield of a protecting government; commerce made stable by sound financial stand ards; increase in area ami wealth and social advantage; exclusion of the unfit; public works begun that the cen turies had hoped for; primacy among the voices of the nations; everywhere leadership—such a platforn is one that supersedes promise by performance. Ano if the idea is always best ex pressed when it has the human form, the personality of the republican can didate will be an unmistakable plat form. If the democrats choose that personality for their issue, the chal lenge will be welcomed. For the more examination is given to the character and achievements of the strong and earnest man who took the burden of the martyred McKinley's care and has borne it with a giant's vigor and a pa triot's confidence, the more clearly will it be seen that the republican party and the America of to-day find their typical embodiment—their platform on the plat form—in the personality of Theodore Roosevelt. TITBITS FOR PAETY MEN. rrif Mr. Bryan does not like what they a.-e doing at the St. Louis con vention he can go out and amuse him self ir. the fair grounds.—Washington Star. iciowa may help some democrat to get th- nomination for the presidency, but right there, dear children, is where lowa stops.—Chicago Tribune. t"?The democrats are now taking the tariff from the tar-balled cedar ce dar chest and scalding and perfuming it. that it may enter into business rela tions with the platform which is now being hatched.—Judge. C3"The Hearst resolutions in lowa say; "In William Randolph Hearst we recognize a living exponent of true democratic principles." Is this a del icate way of referring to all others as "dead ones?" —Chicago Post. icy Cornelius Bliss, treasurer of the republican national committee, a man who knows more about political feel ing in Wall street than all the editors of democratic newspapers in the world, is authority for the statement that if the Parker men are counting on domi nating financial support from New York city they are computing without their host. —Cleveland Leader. tKTJudge Parker's mother tells the reporters that she used to give her son a good switching when lie needed it. At some time or other she must have whaled him half to death for talking too much. —Indianapolis Jour nal. the democratic slogan for 1904 is to be "Down with Roose velt." A campaign of personal abuse can he welcomed by republicans. It will weld the affections of the plain people all the closer to the patriotic and forceful American whom they ad mire, love and trust.—Cleveland Leader. „ COnONJS A KING. Interesting Facts About the Great Staple. In 20 Years It Has Increased Nearly 7,000,000 Bales —United States the Largest Producer and Greatest Consumer. Washington, May 20. —The depart ment. of agriculture will issue shortly a report on the consumption of cotton in Ihe cotton states, compiled by J. L. Watkins, the cotton expert of the bureau of statistics. Reviewing the industry in the past 20 years it says that notwithstanding the great in crease in the world's consumption of cotton, the overshadowing feature of the period is the phenomenal increaso in consumption in the cotton states. This consumption in the south in creased 1,007,000 bales, or 509 per cent. The consumption in the north increased in 20 years 702,000 bales, or 59 per cent., and in the whole country 2,309,00»> bales, or nearly 148 per cent. The report says every additional 10,000 bales consumed in this coun try means shorter time for some for eign mill, perhaps its shutting down, if no further expansion of the cotton crop takes place. During the past 20 years the United States has increased its cotton crop nearly 5,500,000 bales, or about 90 per cent., India's crop has increased 1,580,000 bales of 400 pounds each, or 73 per cent.; Egypt's crop has increased 570,000 bales of 500 pounds each, or 79 per cent. Russia, which used to draw so largely upon this country for her raw cotton, is now supplying her own mills with 200,000 to 300,000 bales grown in her trans-Caspian provinces. Brazil has almost ceased exporting cotton, on account of homo demand for her crop and the continent of Eu rope has increased its consumption of cotton 2,492,000 bales ,or about 95 per cent. The consumption of cotton in East India has increased 1,230,000 bales, or about 200 per cent, in the last 20 years, and her mills now use about half of the crop produced there. Japan has erected mills equipped with 1,333,000 spindles and is opening from 000,000 to 700,000 bales of cotton annually, of which nearly 25 per cent, is American. The world's consump tion of cotton has increased nearly 7,- 000,000 bales, or about 94 per cent., and the United States, the largest producer, also has become the largest consumer of cotton. The price of this staple is now regulated in the home market instead of Liverpool Every year since 1890 there has been an increase in the number of mills and spindles in operation and with the single exception of 1893-94 an increase in the number of bales consumed. TWO CONVENTIONS. Two State Tickets Are Nominated by Wisconsin Republicans. Madison, Wis., May 20. —Two con. ventions, both claiming legal status by right of delegate majorities hold ing prima facie credentials, and both asserting themselves to be regularly republican, were concluded in Madi son last night. Two state tickets, the one headed by Gov. Robert M. La Follette, candi date for a third term, and the other headed by ex-Congressman Samuel A. Cook, were nominated. The ticket named by the La Fol lette convention includes all the pres ent state officers and the platform only differs from the other in the in tensity of its declaration in favor of so-called La Follette reforms. Gov. La Follette considers himself the choice of the regular republican party. His delegates, according to the state central committee's count, numbered 585 Vi. The other convention was endorsed by Senator John C. Spooner and Sen ator Joseph V. Quarles, and its state ticekt, it is declared, was legally nominated by 507 delegates holding prima facie credentials. Senator Spooner voiced the sense of the con vention when he said: "These delegates sitting here will not have to stand merely upon the declaration of this committee on credentials. Their right to seats here will be tested and proved." This means that courts will be called upon to settle tne dispute. A Notice to China. Washington, May 20. —China has been informed that the Washington government claims the right to send warships not only to those Chinese ports declared by treaty to be open to the world, but also upon the inland waters of China "whefcrver Americans may be and where by treaty with China they are authorized to engage in business or reside for the purpose of spreading the gospel." A Man May Spank His Wife. Detroit, May 20. —Judge Henry Mandell, of the Wayne circuit court, on Thursday ruled That a husband has a right to spank his wife. The ruling was made in the case of A. R. Sobke, a mechanic, who asked for an injunc tion to restrain his wife from abusing him and selling his household effects. The judge told Sobke togo home and spank his wife if she insisted on rhis behaving. Growth of the Postal Service. Washington, May 20. —Postmaster General Payne yesteiday said that the receipts of the department for tha fiscal year ending July 1 would be approximately $144,100,000. In IS9C the receipts of the postoffice department were $52,499,208. This year the rural free delivery appropri ation was $20,810,C00. In 1599, 200 rural routes were in operation. At Lhe close of the jvesent fiscal year there will be over 25,000 rural routes in operation, bringing a daily mail service to more than 12,500,030 people residing in rural districts. 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