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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-11-23
"BURN THE VILLAGES"
order Given by AguinaidO TO His Fol-
lowers in the Island Of Panay.

Manila. Nov. l6.-Gcn. Hughes with
parts OF the Nineteenth and Twenty
sixth regiments moved from IIoilo on
November 8 to Otton, six miles west,
for the pIrpose of capturing Santa
Barbara, the rebel stronghold ten
miles north of lIoilo. Heavy rain
preceded the movement and the roads
were in places impossible. The same
night Col Carpenter with the Eigh-
teenth regiment and BATTERY q of the
Sixth artillery moved westerly from
,Jaro 10 connect with Gen. Hughes.
Col. Carpenter was forced 10 return
to Jaro on account of the roads and
the entire movement was hampered
by lack of proper transportation.
Company {, of the Twenty-siXth regl-
ment. had the only fighting. when
three miles ont of Jaro this company
charged the rebel trenches and three
of the enemy were killed. One Amer
lean was wounded.
Gen Hughes on November u occu-
pied Tagbanan and Guimbal on the
southern coast and also Cordova IN
the interior. The enemy did not op-
pose Gen. Hughes advance. Recent
orders from Aguinaldo found in the
trenches said: "Do not oppose the
Americans advance. Burn the vi
lages as they are evacuated. Divide
the forces into bands of 40. llarrass
the Americans on every occasion
Araneta. the rebel leader, of the
island of Panay, was captured AT Tag
hanan while attempting to pass the
lines into IioilO Two battnliOnS will
garrison Iloilo and Jaro. san Miguel,
visible from IIoilo. has been burned
by the rebels
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-11-23
WHAT SENATOR JONES WANTS
The Workers Are Prosperous But His
Friends Cannot Get Rich
by Loafng.

Senator Jones, chairman of the Chi
cago democratic party, returned to this
country from Europe a few days ago,
and proceeded at once to unbosom him
self to the American people. He said
that all of this talk about prosperity
was ridiculous, and that the country
was not prosperous. Now, for any man
TO stand up in the face of the Ameri-
can people and tell them that they are
not prosperous, when the country IS in
such a rush and tide of business as was
never heard of before, is simply to dis
credit himself with all observant men.
But in point of fact Senator Jones is
not suffering from such an eXtrava-
CANT delusion, after all; what he means
is that the calamity shouters who sit
around waiting for the government to
make them rich are not prospering.
His ideas of prosperity center in and
revolve around them. Unless they can
get cash to buy whisky and tobacco,
while they gossip about the courthouse
in regard To the country going to ruin
because the niggers won't work. Sen
ator Jones imagines that the country
is on the brink of ruin. They are the
people to prosper, in his mind, and
there is no prosperity unless they can
loiteraround and swap anecdotes, while
they repeat every - minutes what the
governor of North Carolina is reported
to have said to the governor of South
Carolina.
1t is of no consequence, in his opinion,
that the negro laborers who produce
the cotton about which they were al
ways gabbling are getting better wages
than they ever got in their lives, and
have clean shirts TO wear on Sunday and
are able to give their barefooted chit
in his opinion, that the great indus
tries of the country are paying their
employees tile best wages they ever re-
ceiyed, and that every man who is will
ing to work can get work with the best
wages that the world has ever known
to be paid. This part of the population
cuts no figure in the estimation of Mr..
Jones and his kind, much as they talk
about government by injunction" and
the necessity of the politicians of labor
having full and every opportunity tG
burn up property and murder and NAL
treat men who are willing and anxious
to work. 1t is the calamity man who
viii not work, come what may. who
must be thought of.-Richmond CIV.
| Na.) Times.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-11-23
ECHOES OF THE ELECTIONS.
Comments of Republican, Journals
on the Results in the Nari-
GUS States.

uTCol. Bryan will perceive that he
has failed to talk ''imperialism" to
Chicago Tribune.
CrThe result in Ohio was as en-
phatic an Endorsement as president
could have from his own state in an
off year.-Indianapolis journal.
ryAs prelude to the year 1900
elections on the 18th We're a solid as
surance of renewed republican sue
cess.-St. Louis Globe-DemOcrat.
EyThere is some doubt about what
question the democracy will take up
next year, but there is a prevalent be-
lief that it will prefer something else.
milwaukee, Sentinel.
r5It will be the height of political
stupidity for the opponents of the
presidents policy to attempt to de-
tract from the force and significance
of the vote of confidence in the ma
tional administration registered by
the people of Ohio.-Chicago Times
Herald.
E-TIf the friends of William ]. Bryan
are not wholly deprived of sight and
sense they must perceive that the
state elections terminate his political
career. The voters did not indorse
him or his principles. They sustained
the administration and its policies,
which he has attacked.-E. Y. Times
Gold Dem.).
ryTuesday's elections resulted in
a magnificent Endorsement of repub-
| lican policy and demonstrated the fact
that the people of the country are un-
touched still by the silver heresy and
! the traitorous sentiment that would
| haul down the flag raised by the valor
of American arms in the Philippines.
st. Paul Dispatch.
UTThere is no conceaIment of tho
fact that republican leaders want
| Bryan renominated, and are willing
to sacrifice Nebraska for the present
on II theory that he is the easiest
man 20 beat. as he will always stand
| for the silver issue. no matter how
he attempts to avoid it, and on this
issue the republicans are confident
they can win.-ChicagO Tribune.
G77''President McKinley's policy has
been vindicated by the result in Ohio
said Assistant Secretary NanGe"lip
considering the conditions it was a
remarkable victory. The triumph OF
the fusionists in Nebraska means that
Bryan will be a candidate next year
/ his is what every republican wants
@S he will he the easiest man to de
feat. In Iowa the result is significant
as the platform declared emphaticaI
" for sound money and expansion
The result in this state is particularly
gratifying to the party and points
clearly to republican SUCCESS neXt
! year"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-11-23
TRUE PROSPERITY.
the Republican Policy Helps
the People.

In March, of the present year, the
American Protective Tariff league
made an industrial census to show, in
"a measure, the gain in the number of
men employed in various industries
and the increase in the amount of
wages paid. This report shows that,
compared with March, 1895, there was
in the 1857 establishments report
ing, a grain of 1874 i'll the number
Of hands employed, or a gain of 1886
per cent. for March, 1899, that there
was a gain on the gross sum of wages
paid of So, ,461. .235.5S, this being 54.09 per
cent. more than in March, 1895; and
that, while in March, 1895, the average
rate of wages per capita for the month
was $33.36, the average wage rate per
capita in March, 1899, had increased to
$3G.S6, being a gain of 1910 per cent.
Had this census been extended so as to
include the months of April and May,
1899, the months in which the heaviest
and most general advances in wages
occurred, the percentage of increase
in the per capita wage rate would un-
doubtedly have been above Is per
cent.
OF course, if it had been possible to
cover the entire country, the totals
would have been far up in the millions.
Even as it is, and restricted as it had to
be, the comparison is startling. 1t
shows that industrial activity has
taken the place of the depression and
dullness Of the period of desOlatiCn
that followed the free trade experiment
Of President Cleveland. Is it reasonable
to imagine, then, that at this time any
number of voters will, with their eyes
open, refuse to indorse an administra-
ton whose beneficent legislation has
made rossible an era of prosperity
scarcely second to any since the days
of thrift that followed the war of the
| COS?
In commenting upon the figures
! given above. the American Economist
says: Such is the story of protection
and prosperity as affecting the Amer
lean wage Garner" Does anyone really
! believe that the voters of this country
are going to run any chances at this
time of endangering this prosperity by
rebuking, even indirectly. the admins
tration of President McKinley?-Cin-
cinnati Commercial Tribune.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-11-23

The subject of food adulteration was
brought to the attention of a recent
grand jury at Philadelphia, which
made u special presentment on that
subject, saying that 1.-The adulteration
of food is a matter of such vital i'm
portance to every member of the COM
munity that the strongest measures
should be taken to prevent and punish
the crime" Special attention was
called to the fact that it is not always
the retailer who is at fault, but that
very frequently the adulteration Is
made by the wholesaler or manufac-
turer. The Pennsylvania law prohib-
Its the use of borax, boracic acid, sal
icylate of sodium and salicylic acid
ms preservatives in any article of food,
and this provision of the adulteration
act is relied upon in many instances
to secure convictions, these prescrva-
tives being frequently used by milk
dealers. The Pennsylvania oleomar-
garine law is also quite severe, the re-
tail dealer being held responsible even
if he himself bought oleomargarine in
the belief that it was butter.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-11-23
A Judge Enioined.

Louisillc Ky. Nov. lG.-Judge Stsr'
ling Il. Toney whose mandamus is
sued on election day for the admis
sion of Honest ELECTION league insp"c-
tors to polling places caused the prin'
cipal excitement of that day. was YES
tcrday restrained by the appellate
court at Frankfort from taking any
further action in the contempt cases
growing out of the order. On Tues
day % alleged violators OF Judge To
news orders were bound over by hin
in the sum of $500 each. Yesterday
he was proceeding with the cases AND
had sentenced one prisoner to 81
hours in Jail. when the order of the
appellate court was received.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-11-23
MEANING OF THE ELECTIONS.
The Policy of the Administration
Sustained in All But
Two states.

1t Will not require many facts to
make clear the falsity of the demo-
cratic clair. that the president was re-
buked in all the states that voted on
Tuesday. Begin with Massachusetts.
The republican plurality is nearly Co.
600: it was considerably larger last
year because, on Tuesday, the repub-
lican vote fell off nearly 10000 and the
democratic only 5000, and this with
tie open Endorsement of the demo-
cratic ticket by the mugwumps and
ant-eXpansionists. Mr.. Bryan will
not be elected president in 1900 by
states whose republican majorities fall
from $4,000 to 6O,000 Tammany car
ried Greater New York, but by much
less than its usual majority. The re-
publicans gained elsewhere in the
state. New Jersey and Pennsylvania
made it clear that they would stand
with the republicans a year hence.
Coming to the presidents state it can
be claimed that the republicans have
rarely won in Ohio a more emphatic
triumph. In an off year, in the face
of open treason and secret treachery
in official places, with candidate
using hundreds of thousands of dol
lars to debauch voters and with fac
tional jeaIousies, the rank and file of
the republican party in Ohio have
given Judge Nash about as large a plu-
rality as President Mckinley received
in 1896. Forcing the question of eX-
pansion to the front in Iowa in the
most aggressive manner, the repub-
licans have gained thousands of votes
in that state. The republicans have
also carried Kansas and South Dakota.
If the result in Kentucky has no ma
tional significance it has given the
democratic leaders a feud that will
distract them for years to come.
The democrats carried Maryland and
Mr.. Bryan carried his own state. They
carried Maryland upon platform
which was carefully silent on the
money question and because of the
diSsensions created by few would-be
bosses in the republican party. 1t is
not probable that the Bryan party
| can carry Maryland next year on the
Chicago platform, with Mr.. Bryan as a
candidate: and if they could-if by
! Goebel counting ont laws the solid
south should be arrayed for the Bryan
! ticket. Nebraska and Colorado are not
| sufficient. with the gain of Kentucky
| and Maryland. to elect Mr.. Bryan. In
! Maryland and Kentucky, in 1896, Pres
ident Mckinley received 20 electoral
votes, and in Kansas, South Dakota
and Washington Mr.. Bryan received
! IS votes. The votes of these states are
more certain for President Mckinley
in 1900 than is Maryland for Mr.
! Bryan.
There was nothing in Tuesdays elec
tious to indicate that one northern
state, great or small, which voted fo1
Mckinley in 1896 would not vote fo1
him next November. Indeed. whereve1
there was voting on Tuesday, eXcep
in Maryland and Nebraska, it sus
tanned the policy of the president
even when a part of that policy il
stigmatized as imperialism.-Indian
apolis journal.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-11-23
CURRENT COMMENT.

r-Mr. Bryan would doubtless be well
content to have Kentucky forget Goe-
belism and centralize on Bryanism.-
Washington Star.
rTDecause everybody else is prosper
Gus Col. Bryan has discovered that the
best way for him TO get prosperity is to
howl for it.--Cleveland Leader
rJMc. Bryan says dewey has added
glory to American arms He also made
an addition to the American map that is
worthy of mention.-St. Louis Globe
Dcmxrat.
CCMr. BRYAN has been saying that
there are now 1G reasons why one
should vote til" democratic ticket where
there was one in 1896, which shows that
he is mistaken. as usual. His 16 reasons
will not be reasons to intelligent people.
-IndanaDCiis Journal.
GA serious uprising by natives in
Manila was frustrated by the prompt
action Of the American military au-
thorities. The natives intended 10
butcher all the Americans they could
get at. They probably lad been read
ing Atl,insonian pamphlets and Bryan
democratic pIatforms.-Troy Times.
CTIt is impossible to see how any un-
biased person can read the report of the
PhilipE.ne commission without being
convinced that ii is the inevitable duty
of the United States. both for its Own
honor ard for the greatest measure OF
liberty TO the Filipinos, to suppress the
ryurrectiou ard maintain Il general
control of The archirelGgo-Chicagc
/ V'riIuIC
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-11-23
{ Murder IL Court Room.

St. Paul, Mimi, Nov. lG.--Frct
Guion yesterday shot and Killed James
Miller. the shooting occurring in the
office Of Justice of the Peace Smith
Mil!cr's head was blown Off, his brains
being scattered ov1r the rucE. Guior
then pointed The gun ~ Justice
Smith. He was on the point of firing
when Attorney Earta rushed towards
him and knocked the mu2zle of the
gun towards the ceiling. The sho
was fred and did no harm. Guior
was then oyerpowcred and turn,C
over 10 tho police 1t IS Hudcrs' ooC
Smith and Miller had business dis
ar"CeIntnt.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-11-23
FOUR FOUND GUILTY,
Defendants in the Famous "Corncob5
Case are Convicted of Using the Mails
TO Defraud.

st. Louis, Nov. 16.-Four of the de
PENDANTS in the celebrated "corncob
case" were last night found guilty in
the United States court of using the
mails tc defraud. The four men are
Henry Ringbeck, Z. W. Northstein,
NJ. NcElhaney and Arthur Miller. One
Of the defendants, William Ruff, had
already pleaded guilty. no action
has been taken in the cases Of w. S'
DAILY and j. +. Wilmington, who were
jointly indicted with the others
named. Their testimony was of great
value TO the government and a nolIe
Isoseql may be entered for them.
The witnesses brought in by the gov
crnmcnt came from a dozen states,
showing how widespread was the
operation of the scheme TO defraud.
1t was the plan of the defendants,
as shown by the testimony, to write
to the mayor or postmaster of Il town.
telling him that corncob pIpe fac
tory could be established for $1,000
and operated at small expense, while
the profits were represented to De
large. The men. whose headquarters
were at Washington, Mo, would then
offer to sell suitable machinery for
$500 TO 5000 In each case where a
factory was put in operation It was
corncoh pipe market. The govern
found next to impossible to dispose OF
the product so overstocked was the
ment alleged that the price asked for
the machinery was SO excessive as to
be fraudulent and that the purpose of
the defendants letters was to cause
an inordinata demand for machinery
which could not he profitably used.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-11-23

Paltimcrc. Nov. 1G.-NeGotiatione
are pending for the sale of the Lake
DrTumCnd Canal and Water Co..
which owns the Dismal Swamp canal.
A New York syndicate is anxious II
secure the property. The canal wa.
surveyed bv George Washington and
was constructed early in the century
II was 1alen possession Of by the gov
crnmcnt during the civil war. at the
close of which il waS returned to the
owners in diiaL.dated condition
The Lake Drummond Canal and Water
%. acquired the properly and renabil'
tateG the waterway
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-11-23

Advertisements are published at the rate of
one dollar per square for one insertion and fifty
cents per square for each subsequent insertion.
Rates by the year, or for six or three months,
are low and uniform and Will be furnished on
application.
Legal and Onicial Advertising per square
three times or less, ~. each subsequent lnSer-
ton 20 cents per square
Local notices 10 cents per line for one inSer-
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consecutive insertion
Obituary notices over five lines 10 cents per
line. Simple announcements OF births, mar
riages and deaths will be inserted free.
Business cards five lines or less, is per year;
over five lines, at the regular rates Of adver-
tsing.
No local inserted for less than 70 cents per
issue.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-11-23
Perfect Conf dence.

Perfect confidence is desirable between
couples engaged to be married. but it is not
always that the young woman has as fine
an opportunity to establish it as did a Nor
ristown belle, to whom wealthy bachelor
had been paying assiduous attention. After
worrying her a good deal about how many
young men had been in love with her, and
how many she had been attached to, he
asked her to marry him. adding:
Now let there be perfect confidence be-
tween us. Keep nothing concealed from
me-"
Certainly" replied the giddy girl; "let
US have no concealments;" and, jumping
up she snatched the wig he wore from his
head and danced around the room with it,
Philadelphia Record.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-11-23
.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
PRINTING.
No paper will be discontinued until arrear-
ages are paid, except at the option of the pub
Usher
Papers sent out of the county must be paid
for in advance.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-11-23
Jason Crow, OscnrviIIe, Ga, Says:

81 feel it my duty to write and let you
know what your medicine, 5 Drops has
done for me. | have had rheumatism about
Is years, but was able to be up most of the
time, until year ago last May, when | was
taken down and not able to move, about.
About six weeks ago | saw your advertise
ment and wrote for a sample bottle. After
taking few doses, it did me so much good
that | ordered some more for myself and
friends and in every case it has done Won
ders and given perfect satisfaction. DR.;
Woodiff, my family physician, who has had
rheumatism Is years, is taking $ Drops, and
says it is the most efficient rheumatic med
icine he has ever used. May 81, 1899"
The above refers to "5 Drops" perfect
cure for rheumatism, kidney and all kin
dred complaints. The proprietors, Swan
son Rheumatic Co., l64 Lake St., Chicago,
offer to send 25c. sample bottle for only
lOc during the next 80 days. Be sure to read
their advertisement Of last week.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-11-23

A not very courteous author, replying
to one Of the interview syndicates that
had propounded the question: When
do you write, and what do you get for
what YOU write?" said 81 write when |
please, and it's none Of your darn bust
ness what get for what | write." But
when the managing editor of the syn
dicate informed him that he merely
wanted to know his terms so that he
might forward him a check for some
work he had in view the author changed
his tune and wrote six pages of infor-
nation, with an apology in postscript.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-11-23

One of the officials of the Canadian
police at Niagara Falls tells the follow
ing story in the Buffalo Commercial:
"a German from Pennsylvania blew in
the other day and asked the officials If
there was anything about the place
worth seeing. You zee, he said, it's
shust like dis: Ny frients und frau tolc
me | should take id in, und | want TO
take everything in der iss to zee. Day
did gay der was someding great here,
und ! forgot id alreaty, und l hat
walked all ofer und see nodings.' The
visitor was at once taken to the finest
view of the falls, where he stood a
few minutes looking around. Nell?'
said his conductor, at last 'Nell?' re-
turned the man. L zee nodings.'
Don't you see the false Vat! Dot
water falling? Iss dot for vat | cum
all dis Ways to zee, liddle water drip
ping? Ach, Gott! ] go me home.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-11-23

The number of standard silver dol
lars in existence AT the beginning of
November is reported by the treasury
department at 4S3. 3.l@2.37G. On the 1st
Of June, 1898, the number was iG1. $780,
422, so that 21.041 .054 of them have been
coined since June l. 1898, pursuant to
the provisions of the war revenue act
of June 10. 1898. At the minimum al
lowed by the act. of 100000 per month,
the number will. in the course of the
next 12 months, be augmented by IS
0C0,000. bringing the total up to $5O1,-
122,27G. This. it will be obs srved, surder
an administrator and a secretary of
the treasury opposed to free silver cCin-
age, and it cNcites no alarm for the
safety Of the gold standard. y silverite
administration could do but little more
without new legislation, and fear OF its
being able to overthrow the gold stand
ard is delusion.-N. y. Sun.
CTThere is no comfort for the anti.
expansionists and the 'anti-imperial-
lists" in the Philippine report.-Kansas
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-11-23

Here is corker from the Naldosta
(Ga) Times: smith Myddleton had
u novel catch while fishing in the river
on Saturday. 1t was the occasion of
the fish fry given by Mr.. VIII Mckee tc
a party of young people at Naldosta,
Smith put out a trout line, baited with
minnows, and in a short while went
back to see what the results were. TC
his surprise he found four-pound
trout on one of the hooks, big catfish
OF the other and crane on the other
hook. Such catch of fish and bird
has not been recorded in this section
before" If Mr.. Myddleton had only
put out another hook he might have
made good catch.