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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-11-03
HIDING HERESIES.
Free SiIVerites Are Keeping Their
Pet Issue In the Back
ground.

There has been a studied effort on
the part of democracy in all parts of
the country to neglect national issues
in the present campaign and confine
debate, if possible, to local issues. The
trouble comes from the gold demo-
Gratis. They are so bitterly opposed to
silver that local issues of any kind
dwarf into nothingness in comparison.
Hence the shrewder of the democrats,
who are for democracy before and
after rything else, lay low and
cloud the fight with local issues.
But the silverites appreciate the sit
uaticn, as is shown by an extract from
the paper owned and controlled by
Senator Stewart, of Nevada. This
frank paper, called the Silver Knight
Watchman, says:
"If 1t is the purpose OF the democratie
leaders in New York to weaken their op-
ponents this year by the defeat of state
issues, and then in 1900 to place the demo-
cratic party of the Empire state in the
thickest of the fight, marked out by
the rational convention, the result may
prove their wisdom. There Is nothing in
the New York democratic platform which
shows the slightest opposition to airy
on the contrary, its declaration of contin-
ued allegiance to democratic principles is
substantial endorsement of the latest an
nouncement of these principles by he
national convention of 1896 1t must not bs
forgotten that New York is the enemy's 8
country and that If he can be disoIged
in that state by any method short of re-
nunciation of bimetallism pure and SIM
pie, the friends of free coinage of both
metals will then be in better condition for
the great struggle of 1907
That presents the situation plainly.
The democrats have not repudiated
the silver heresies, nor will they. When
the national convention meets the sill
verites of the west and southwest will
hold the balance of power and free sill
YER will be in the platform in char
acters good and plain. The safe way
at present is to kill the issue at it's
borniEg. Elect republicans all along
the line, ard especially republican
congressman. To do otherwise is to
provoke discussions and meddling in
the lower house, to the great detri-
mem of business everywhere.
AS whole, democracy cannot
handle national questions in broad
and statesmanlike way. Better keep
them out of power for another gem
Grafton at least.-Cincinnati CONNER
cial Tribune.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-11-03

Gen. Denver. the man after whom the
Colorado city was named, is still living.
1t has been his good fortune to see his
namesake expand from the status of
frontier village to the dignity of
hustling western city, with popula-
ton of 10000.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-11-03

Observations made at the Massachu-
setts agricultural experiment station
show that so per cent. of The food OF
the ungalnly and repulsive-looking
toad is made up of insects injurious TO
agriculture. The toad is an especial
enemy of the army worm, the cut
worm, and greenhouse pests general
ly, and does lot of good in its modest
kNay
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-11-03

Theodore Camp, of Mount Vernon.
n. Y, has been teaching school for
over 62 years, and now, although in
the eighty-first year of his age, is still
energetic, and seems to have deeper
interest than ever in his class of boys
and their studies.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-11-03

The American scientists are anxious
to undertake a botanical exploration
of the island of Puerto Rico, and al eX-
position has already been organized
for the work. The Yankee is never
easy in his mind until he knows all
about the natural fora of every part
of the country in which he lives and
Days taxes.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-11-03

William Barclay Parsons, the Chief
engineer of the American syndicate
that is o construct railroad between
Hong Kong and Han Kow, has sailed
for China to look over the ground and
have the preliminary surveys made.
The line will be $50 miles long and will
be STRICTLY American made.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-11-03

The three prizes offered by the Cen
fury company for the best stories writ
ten by college graduates of 1897 have
all been won by young women. In
times Of expansion the young men have
to hustle in the production of history
instead of romance
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-11-03

The trolley has emancipated the car
horse, and before many years will re-
lease the camel in Africa from his an
cient thraldom. Steam and the elec-
trio current are powerful workers in
the field Of philanthropy.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-11-03

The laborers who built the pyramids
did not work under such disadvan-
tages as have long been attributed to
them. Recent research shows that
they had solid and tubular drills and
lathe tools. The drills were set with
Jewels and cut into the rocks with
keenness and accuracy.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-11-03

If Spain had only stopped to think
that there are in this country 24O,G9S
public schoolhouses and 14,4G5,370 chill
dren in the public schools, it would
have chosen some other antagonist.
The difference in the men behind the
gums began in the schoolrooms.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-11-03
JOR PRINTING.

The Job department OF the PRESS is complete
and affords facilities for doing the best class Of
work. PARTICULAR ATTENTION PAID To Law
PAINTING.
No paper will be discontinued ntil arrear-
ages are paid, except at the option OF the pub
Eaher
Papers sent out of the county must be paic
for in advance.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-11-03

The Suitor-I love your daughter with all
the intensity of my nature, sir.
Her Father-Yes-same way you smoke
cigarettes.
After that, of course, nothing more could
be said.-Chicago Evening News.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-11-03

Celebrated Lawyer-Now tell me, hon.
estly. did you rob that bank?
Client (n disgust)-Of course did. Do
yer s'pose I'd be able to retain yer if l didn
Harlem Life
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-11-03

ETIt is iutimated that if Col Ryan
secures his release from military du-
ties before election day he might be
induced to come to New York to aid
in the canvass of his friend, Judge
Van Wyck If he waits for the induce
nent to be held out, it is safe 20 say
chat he viii never come. The demo
cratic managers, on the contrary,
would go to any length to induce him
to stay away in order that they may
not be embarrassed in their efforts to
dodge national issues.-TrOy Times.
TSound money. protection and ter.
ritorial eNpansion-these are the three
issues on which the republican party
will win this year.-Indianapolis J our
nal.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-11-03

A mixed pain has bruise and sprain. st
Jacobs Oil cures the twain.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-11-03

Three different +, lamentations as
TO the size at whicl a regular army
should be put will rt congress at its
coming session, fro h quarters.
Gen. Miles will say my should
number about one so very 1000
of the country's popul is would
make the army numb 1000 at
the present tin ), Sec n will
favor $4,000, ana 'hah of the
house military committee, will intro
duce a bill calling for 100000 a reg
ular army large enough to meet all the
immediate needs of the nation will
probably be provided.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-11-03

kentucky..... 2
at is believed" he adds. that the
democrats will sus tain losses in the
extreme west, but to what extent is
mere conjecture, and at this time
there is not sufficient informant in
the possession of anyone to form a
reliable opinion" The fact is that the
drift in the west of late has been
steadily away from the democratic
party, and the returns next month
from that locality are likely to be
a surprising revelation to those who
have counted on republican reverses.
In the east, too, the democratic dali
lance with Organism is pretty GER
tain to cost the party dear, for the
great mass of the people are ready to
stamp upon the Chicago platform with
greater emphasis than they did in 1896.
However, giving the correspondent all
he claims, it will be seen that he falls
somewhat short of making out dem
ocratic majority in the next house.
On the other hand, republicans will
show timely prudence by recognizing
the possibility of substantial demo-
cratic gains unless proper effort is
made to defeat them. Senator Hanna,
of Ohio, chairman of the republican
national committee, and one of the
most competent and alert Of political
managers, has pointed out some of the
dangers ahead. When asked for his
views he said:
You will see the exact situation o. the
campaign at present when l recall TO you
that in 1896 there were 60 congressional dis
tricts In which members were elected by
a majority of less than 1000 votes This
was true of democrats as well as repub-
icans. The majority of these districts
were carried by less than 800 plurality. and
you can see at once how important II is to
arouse interest and activity in these dis
tricts. The republicans must not let
the democrats get ahead of them in work "
1t is in these close districts that the
democrats will put forth especial eff
fort, and there they must be watched
and their schemes frustrated. Over
confidence and lack of vigilance may
endangers republican supremacy in
congress. But with the conditions so
clearly understood, with the people
aroused as they have not been in a
generation by the glorious results Of
the war, and with patriotic indigna-
tion at the cowardly and semitreason-
able attitude of large portion of the
dem ocratic party with regard to the
conduct of the war and the great and
inspiring issues now confronting the
nation, voters should not hesitate in
giving their support to an administra-
ton which represents the noblest
American purposes. The way to
strengthen the hands of President Nc
Kinley and assure the forward march
of the United States along the path
of it's splendid destiny is to send to the
house of representatives a strong ma
jority in close sympathy with the ad-
ministration's views.-Troy Times.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-11-03
COLLAPSE of Free silver.

The democratic managers who are
trying to run the western end of the
party in the interest of free silver
would do well to ponder on the com
plete collapse of the cause in the east.
Nearly all the democratic conventions
and candidates in that section of the
country are either ignoring the sub
ject or coming out frankly against the
Chicago platform. The Baltimore Sun
prints an interview with Mr.. r. B. Tip
petit, democratic nominee for con-
gress in the Second Maryland district,
embracing part of the city of Balti-
more, in which he says: ''In order
that there 1nay be o misapprehension
as to my position on the financial ques-
ton, should the same be made an issue
in this campaign, ! wish to say that I
am absolutely in favor Of the gold
standard" In. like manner Mr.. F. c.
Stevens, of Attica, n. Y, in declining
the democratic nomination for state
senator, assigns as reason "the adop-
ton Of Gew ideas and principles to
which ! cannot conscientrously sub
scribe" and cites the free silver plank
of tho Chicago platform as one. And
so TIE lost cause continues to lose.-
indianapolis Journal.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-11-03

Beauty is like cooking stove-no good j
the fuel gives out.-Chicago Daily News.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-11-03
Advice Quickly Taken.

Physcan-You are living too high.
Patient-That's so: I've got to get o
cheaper doctor--N. Y. Vim.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-11-03
THE PEOPLE SHOULD KNOW.
Democrats Are NiIIifying and siam
dering the President and His
Supporters.

One danger confronts the repub-
lican party-it is just as well to be
frank about these matters-a bare
possibility that the people may not
fully understand the momentous i'm
portance of their going to the polls
and casting their ballots on election
day. Once they realize this there is
no longer cause for apprehension.
The administration of President Nc
Kinley is attacked by the democrats
through villiication, misrepresenta-
tion and direct falsehood. The glory
of our arms, of which the people are
so proud, is being smirched by scandal
mongers, uncontrolled by COINCIDENCE
and unfettered by facts. The whole
policy OF progression outlined as the
logical sequence of our conquests is
menaced by these political despera-
does fighting under the guise of demo-
Gratis. They are out on a wrecking
cruise, with the black flag flying, and
the proper way to meet them is with
steady broadsides of loyal republican
ballots.
Col. Roosevelt, in his Carnegie hall
speech, put the case strongly when he
truthfully told his heroes that if the
men who are opposing and denouncing
the president and his policy secure a
victory at the polls that victory will be
interpreted abroad as reputation
of the war from which we have just
emerged so triumphantly. 1t will
strengthen the hand of our enemies,
give life to foreign jealousy and in
trigue and endanger every great result
achieved by our army and navy.
The war was the peoples war; its
results are the peoples glorification.
The issue involves more than partiZan-
ism. it involves patriotism. Once hav-
ing awakened to realization of the
menace to their interests and the
glory of their flag, the people will rise
in their might and rally to the support
loyalty as in war.
That is why the case is thus frankly
and openly put before them-that
they may see their duty. Having seen
it, there is no question of their doing
1t fully and faithfully.-Cincinnati ii
Commercial Tribune.
ETThe democratic attempt to make
campaign issue out of alleged mis-
management of the war in providing
for the soldiers has reacted. The
speech of Capt Allen, OF the One Hun
dred and Fifty-eighth Indiana, himself
democrat, vigorously denouncing
the whole business, was body blow,
while the statements of Gems. Wheeler,
Lee and Others before the invcstigat-
Ing commission have demonstrated
that in very large measure the
charges are the disreputable untruths
Of yellow urnalism.-Indianap apolis
Journal.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-11-03
His Way.

Ever thus-helrs to aches and pains. St.
Jacobs Oils the doctor.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-11-03
CHANCES IN CONGRESS.
The Outlook for the Democrats In
the Coming Contest Is Not
Very Promising.

The Louisville Courier-J Journal is a
pretty earnest democratic newspaper.
But evidently its Washington CORE
spondent has no hope of democratic
success in the coming congressional
contests. He has been looking the
ground over very carefully, and, while
he is confident there will be some in
crease Of democratic strength in the
house of representatives,, he casnOt
figure out a majority for his side. The
ct
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-11-03

Thus the republicans have a clear
majority over all opposing forces of
Al. On all party questions except
those relating TO the currency the sill
YER republicans act with the other re-
pub.icans, so that the party strength
is practically 200, or a majority of AS
over the opposition.
The Courier-Journal correspondent,
carefully considering the chances,
comes to the conclusion that demo-
cratic gains can be expected from the
rr11 ct "a
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-11-03

UyMr. F. W. Burlington. formerly OF
Atlantic, and one of the active work.
ing republicans Of Iowa, is now located
at Macon. Col. lie is still gold stand.
ard republican of the most deter.
mined character, and he is keeping his
eyes open TO discover the effect Of gold
standard rule in the silver states. He
writes the Register that there never
has been 4 time when there was such a
demand fer labor in Colorado, the uH.
skilled labor of the masses and the
skilled la Dor of the artisan" He
writes that the demand for labor alsc
extends over Montana and all the
other mountain silver states.-Iows
State Register.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-12-23
RUSSIANS RACIAL HISTORY.
The Original Inhabitants Have Been
Pushed Aside and Absorbed
by the Slavs.

Theanthropological history of north
eastern Europe is now clear. The Slavs
penetrated Russia from the southwest,
where they were physically an offshoot
from the great Alpine race of central
Europe. In so doing they forced a way
in over people primitive in culture,
language and physical type. This
aboriginal substratum is represented
Today by the Firms, now scarcely to
be found in purity, pushed aside into
the hooks and corners by an intrusive
people possessed of a highes culture &C.
quired in central Europe. Yet the Finn
has not become extinct. His blood still
flows in Russian veins, most notably in
the Great and White Russian tribes.
The former, in colonizing the great
plain, has also been obliged to contend
with the Asiatic barbarians pressing in
from the east. Yet the impress of the
Mongol-Tartar upon the physical type
of the Great Russian, which constitutes
the major part of the nation, has been
relatively slight.
For, instead of amalgamation or alb
as Win the luHS,
ton, or what Leroy Beaulieu calls
secretion" has taken place in the case
of the Mongol hordes. They still re-
main intact in the steppes about the
Caspian. The Tartars are banished to
the eastern governments as well, save
for those in the Crimea. The Asiat:c
influence has probably been more
strong in determining the Great Rus
sian character than the physical type.
a struggle for mastery of eastern Eu-
rope with the barbarians has perhaps
made the Great Russian more aggres-
sive; vigor has developed at the expense
of refinement. The result has been to
generate a type well fitted to perform
the arduous task of protecting the
marches of Europe against barbarian
onslaught, and also capable at the
same time of forcefully extending Eu-
ropean culture over the aborigines of
the neighboring continent of Asia -
Appleton's Popular Science Monthly.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-12-23
RUSSIAN ARMY DISCIPLINE.
Cruel Way in Which the Cars Sol
dicrs Were Treated Only
Few Years Ago.

Blows from the officers, logging with
birch rods and with sticks, for the
slightest fault, were normal affairs.
The cruelty that was displayed sur
passes all imagination. Even in the
corps of cadets, where only noblemen' S
sons were educated, a thousand blows
with birch rods were sometimes admin
istered, in the presence of the corps, for
q cigarette-doctor standing by the tor
tured boy, and ordering the punish
ment to end only when he ascertained
that the pulse was about to stop beat
ing. The bleeding victim was carried
away unconscious to the hospital. The
Grand Duke Mikhael, commander of the
military schools, would quickly have
removed the director of corps who
had not had one or two such cases every
year. "No discipline" he used to say.
When one of the common soldiers APP
peared before a court-martial, the SEN
tence was that thousand men should
be placed in two ranks, facing each
other, every soldier armed with a
stick of the thickness of the little finger
German name of spitzruthen), and that
the condemned man should be dragged
three, four, five and seven times be-
tween these two rows, each soldier adj
ministering blow. Sergeants fol-
lowed to see that full force was used.
After one or two thousand blows had
been given, the victim, splitting blood
was taken to the hospital and attend
ed to, in order that the punishment
might be finished as soon as he had
more or less recovered from the effects
Of the first part of it If he died under
the torture, the execution of the sem
tence was completed upon the corpse.
Nicholas !. and his brother were pitt
less; TO remittance of the punishment
was ever possible. 81 will send you
through the ranks; you shall be
skinned under the sticks" were
threats which made part of the current
language.-Prince Krapotltin, in At
lantic.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-12-23

ettes Then she has her bath, a long,
perfumed, comfortable affair. After
that she attends to the comforts of her
husband, lighting his hubble-bubble, or
water-pipe, bringing his fresh robe, hot
coffee and slippers. If a man of affairs
he attends to his mail while his wife
sits near, the children trooping in for
caresses and to beg for money to buy
sweetmeats. The custom of giving
pence daily to the children is SO uni
versal that it is practiced even by the
poor. Except the women of China 70
women enjoy such freedom of speech as
do the Turkish women, for there is alb
solutely nothing they cannot and will
not say. A married woman retains full
control of her property, for a Turk never
dreams of Interfering with his wife's
disposal-no matter how whimsical
of her money and chattels. Turkish
wemen are careless mothers. They as
sist in the household work, no matter
how many servants they have, just to
pass the monotcnous time away.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-12-23
THE MONOGRAM FAD.
1t Is "A New Fancy and One That Has
Taken Possession of Women
Everywhere.

This is decidedly monogram sea-
son and the very much up-to-date wom-
an amuses herself discovering how
many ways and in how many different
styles she can use her cherished mono
gram. One of the prettiest of the mon
ogram fancies is that of placing it upon
ones own pieces of furniture, such as
the piano, the desk or other strictly per-
sonal article. a young woman who re-
Gently received piano for birthday
gift had her monogram cut out of
oak. This she fastened upon one end
of the piano with small brass tacks.
Another decorated a treasured white
enamel desk with monogram in brass.
Silver monographs are tackled upon
ones easy chair and work basket, or on
private footstool.
Monograms are worked upon under
clothes, pocket handkerchiefs and anv
personal article of wearing apparel, and
very tiny ones are embroidered upon
women's hat Innings.