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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-06-17
NOTICE.

The Directors of the Womans Elk
change wish to state that there is no
agent to buy or sell goods,
or sign receipts for the Exchange, ex-
cept the treasurer, Mrs. Parmalee, and
the manager, Miss r. X. Oliver.
MRS. o. II, GULICK,
Secretary.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-06-17
CITY OF COLUMBIA.

William f. Rowell owner of the City
of Columbia is making arrangements TO
secure registry for her.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-12-21

straightforward that they practically
explain themselves. If enacted into law
they will place the United States
among the other advanced commercial
nations, with gold as the fixed stand
ard of value. The senate bill has not
yet been given final form, but differs
mainly from the house bill in creating
a stronger gold reserve and giving tire
secretary of the treasury even broader
powers. The house bill would provide
a gold reserve at the outset of about
SIP, 100000. The senate bill will place
this amount much higher, probably at
the even sum of $l50.000. 900. The house
bill provides for maintaining the silver
dollars at a parity with gold by author
izing the secretary of the treasury at
his discretion to exchange gold coin for
any other money issued or coined by
the United States. The senate bill is
expected to leave no discretion to tho
secretary, but to put every holder of a
gold or silver dollar upon the same
plane by providing for exchangeablity
of either coin for the other at the will
of the holder.-American Review of Re
yiauS
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-12-21
Men with Schemes.

Men who have been prominent IND
public life and have retired to the
fields of quiet business are in con-
stant demand by the man with a
scheme, says the Chicago News. If
the promoter can only secure the
name of some well-known man in con-
nection with his money-maller, either
as stockholder, director or president,
the public is ready to take an inter
est. EXMayor George b. Swift was
talking with n party of friends in the
rotunda of the Great Northern and
telling of the army of men with
schemes who called upon him. BE
fore Col. g. Il. Davis died we were dis
cussing this ever-present man." said
Mr.. Swift. The colonel had them call
upon him by the score. 1t is rather
funny to listen to some of their
stories. All he wants is just your
name, not q cent of money, you know.
He will make you president of the
company, which will make anywhere
from $500, 900 to $1,O0O,OO0 a year. You
do not need to sign u paper, all you
need do is to draw your pay and spend
the money. Sometimes | find myself
nearly believing these fellows, as their
yarns are so good"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-12-21

\ very agreeable talker, an educated
colored man, addressed the students at
Adelbert college the other day, says the
Cleveland Plain Dealer. He talked in
terestingly about his experience in his
chosen profession, that of a lawyer,
asserting that on but one occasion he
ever met with discourtesy at the hands
of white men during his legal expe-
rience in his native state, Virginia. This
happened in backwoods hamle+, where
the general ignorance of the inhabit-
ants was some excuse for their boorish-
ness. In the course of his remarks he
perpetrated an unconscious humor that
brought smile to the students faces,
and drew laugh from the speaker him
self as soon as he realized the sugges-
ton in his statement. Il started out
in my profession with somewhat gloomy
anticipations," he said. when / reached
Alexandria, where there were 1000 COL
ored people, everything looked dark"
1t was at this point that the smile ran
around.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-12-21
a SCHEME OF FRAUD.
Insurance Money Is Collected on ~
Supposed Dead Wan, Who Turns Up

Milwaukee, Wis, Dec. 14.-Robert
O'Grady, supposedly dead and buried
in a Chicago cemetery and paid for
by an insurance company, is alive and
ut present an inmate of the National
Soldiers Home in, this city.
The circumstances of the case have
come to light through the prosecution
for fraud of six Chicago persons, in
cluding Margaret Sheehan, a niece OF
fhe veteran, by the general counsel of
the Knights and Ladies of Security.
In December last "A man died at S37
West Monroe street, Chicago. His
death was recorded, IA special permit
secured for him by j. O'Brien, an
undertaken, and body was placed in
4 grave in Forest Home cemetery.
A Robert O'Grady was insured in
Illinois council, No. 42O of the Knights
and Ladies of Security, and when the
man at S37 West Monroe street died in
surance on his life was collected by
the officers of the Illinois council.
The real Robert O'Grady, who has
been located here, says he did not
know that his life was insured. He
claims that Margaret Sheehan is his
niece, but does not know much about
her. He says he never lived at S37
West Monroe street. where the sup
posed Robert O'Grady died.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-12-21
THE NEW SPEAKER.
Policy of Reeds Successor Is Right
in Line with Republican
preccpts.

The republican house caucus has rati-
fled unanimously the conclusion reached
by the members some months ago by
nominating Gen. Henderson for the
speal<ership. The brief address in
which he returned thanks to the eau
Gus for the honor done him contains
two passages which may be interpreted
as an indication of the policy the new
speaker intends to pursue. lie said:
MAY / impress upon your minds the alb
solute necessity for devotion to the rcpub-
tic in more than one particular. Economy
must be our watchword; care in the eX-
penditure of the peoples money. At the
same time let us be large enough in in
tellcct to grasp the situation which pre-
sents a growing country with opening and
expanding conditions which demand our
careful and patriotic consideration
Gen. Henderson is for economy and
against harmful parsimony. When Mr..
Reed was speaker he opposed and
frequently defeated expenditures which
he deemed eXtravagant or needless.
lie was always in the path of every rep
resentative who wished to raid the
treasury to strengthen his fences" III
his district. AS rule, the appropria-
tions which Mr.. Reed opposed should
not have been made. The fear has.been
expressed that the new speaker will be
less stubborn than his predecessor;
that his natural obligingness will cause
him TO Weld to demands Of fellow
members which he knows in his heart
are improper. Some democrats have
been predicting that with him in the
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-12-21
CURRENCY MEASURES.
Chief Features of the House Dill
That VIII BE Considered
by Congress.

The chief features of the house bill
are those which relate to the metallic
standard. The substance of the bills
has reached the public, but heretofore
in somewhat disconnected form. The
following is synopsis of the main fea-
lures of the house bill:
/. That the present gold dollar is the
standard unit of value in the United
States.
.. That all interest bearing obltga-
tions of the United States for the pay
ment of money, now existing or here
after issued, and all United States
notes and treasury notes shall be
deemed to be paid in gold cCin, and that
all other obligations, public and private,
shall be performed in conformity with
this standard.
3. That there shall be established in
the treasury department division Of
issue and redemption, which shall keep;
a gold reserve for the maintenance Of
the parity of money, separate from the
fiscal operations of the treasury.
4. That gold reserve shall be con-
stituted equal to 25 per cent. of the COM
bined amount of United States notes
and treasury notes outstanding.
5. That the secretary of the treasury
may sell three per cent. bonds payable
IN gold whenever necessary to maintain
the gold Eeserve at a proper amount, and
to maintain the parity Of all forms of
money issued by the United States.
These provisions are SO clear cut and
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-12-21
Hidden Military stores round.

Santiago, Dee. 15.-For months it has
been suspected that large quantities
of military stores were in possession of
CubanS at some points in the interior.
Wednesday the mayor of Tunis. n
small town in the district of IIolguin
voluntarily disclosed the location and
surrendered three effective field guns,
1000 rifles and large amount of am
munition to the Americans. The guns
had been stored in an obscure place in
a rough country under palm leaf
blinds 1t would have been almost
impossible to find them unless their
wherea bouts had been voluntarily re-
vealed.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-12-21
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

EJ'The stacks. of New England fac
tories will pay no attention to the NO
Smoking" signs Mr.. Bryan proposes 10
erect in that section. - Washington
Post.
EFChairman Jones says the demo-
Gratis will pursue definite policy in
congress TO create issues for the cam
paign of 1900. This conception of the
duty of party differs from the popular
idea that congressman are elected to
legislate for the general weifare.-In-
dianapolis Journal.
DPopulist Coin Harvey will get a
job under the democratic national com
nittec. He will be chief educator and
will endcavor to show just how pros
perity is Il fraud and delusion. But
while at it, why didn't the committee
get a democrat to do the work Gin
ciEHati Commercial Tribune.
GyThe democrats are still rejoicing
over the result in Nebraska, but the re-
publicanS have more reason to be iubi-
LIANT over the returns from that state
than the democrats. The Nebraska
dem.-pop. victory will bring two things
about which will be of immense
benefit to the republicans. 1t will
delude the democrats into nominat-
ing Bryan next year, and it will incite
them to make a fight on expansion.
Here are two considerations which will
make the task of the republicans in 1900
easy and pleasant. If the democrats
knew their business they would put
mourning rules around the election fig
ures from Nebraska.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-12-21

chair and the republican party in power
in both branches of congress and the
white house the chief business of con-
gress will be to make eXtravagant ap-
preparations, thus giving democratic
orators something to talk about in the
next campaign. Gen. Henderson's dec
laration that economy must be our
watchword" may be taken as denial of
the truth of those predictions. That
both duty and eXpediency bid the re-
publican party in congress be econom-
ical is beyond question.
The caucus decided with little oppo-
sition that the Reed rules shall be re-
adopted. Almost the only objector was
Col. Hepburn, who wanted those rules
modified so as to require the speaker
to recognize each member as he rises,
thus talang from the speaker a dis
crctionary power of recognition which
it is claimed has been used oppressive
ly sometimes. This determination to
rcenact the Reed rules. the enforce
ment of which by their author has been
complained of bitterly by many rcpub-
Leans, may be taken as an indication
that those rules will not be enforced SO
harshly by the new speaker as they
have been sometimes by his predeces-
sor. When Gen. Henderson said to the
members of the caucus: II ask that /
may lean upon you-cach one of you"
he intimated' that he did not assume he
had been elected the despot of the
house, but the exponent of the wishes of
the republican members whose votes
are to put him in the chair. There is
reason to believe no republican will have
Just cause to complain of the Reed rules
as administered by Gen. Henderson.
They will enable the republican party
with its slender majority to enact need
ed Legislation, but rot be used to frus-
trate the wishes of a majority of the re-
publican neutrality-suspicious. Trib-
une.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-12-21
around.

Several days ago DR.. Alvey, says the
Morganfield Ky.) Sun, of Waverly,
drove to town in buggy. Upon his ar
rival here he discovered that one of his
hens had ridden all the way with him in
the back end of the buggy. The doc
tor had to GO further down the road,
so he "shooed'' the hen out of the ve-
hicle and left her here. DR.. Alvey was
gone all that day and night and a
part of the next. The hen, in the
meantime, found her way to Jailcr
Snodgrass' chicken coop. where she
spent the night. When DIR. Alvey re-
turned to Morganfeld the next day
he put his horse in livery stable.
and, of course, the buggy belonging
to the medicine man was only one of
a large number about the stable. But,
strange to say, that old hen seemed to
know when the doctor returned, and.
with a remarkable display of animal
instinct, picked out his buggy, got
back into her place and waited for the
doctor to start back home.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-12-21

Advertisements are published at the rate OF
one dollar per square for one insertion ana 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 Official Advertising per square
three times or less, -: each subsequent Inser-
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Local notices 10 cents per line for one inSer-
sertion: cents per line for each subsequent
consecutive insertion.
Obituary notices over five lines. 10 cents per
line. Simple announcements Of births mar
riageS and deaths viii be inserted free.
Business cards. five lines or less, IS per year;
over hive lines, at the regular rates OF adyer-
tising.
No local inserted for less than 75 cents per
issue.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-12-21

y barn in Aroostook, Me-, has long
gone unshingled because the farmer
who owned it was too Infirm to climb to
the roof, while one cf his sons had gone
to war in the Philippines and the other
to the klondille. Tke other day, how
ever, the farmers only daughter came
home from the normal school and shin
gled the barn as well as any man ip
town could have done, and she didn't
once pound her fingers with the ham.
mer, either
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-12-21

a Maine paper tells about a womsn
90 years old, living in Wiscasset, who,
recently deserted her fifth husband
because, as she told the court, "he
wasn't her style" The husband testi
fled that for eight years he had been
Obliged to get all his own meals and
do the family washing besides, and
thereupon the justice granted the di
vorce asked for.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-12-21

committee in charge of arrangements
for the proposed national antitrust
conference has issued an address call
ing the conference to meet in Chicago
IN the anniversary of the birthday Of
Abraham Lincoln, February II, 1900.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-12-21
BOy Murderer Convicted.

Saratoga, \. l., Dec. 14.-Irving
Shaw. ii years of age, of Providence.
vas yesterday convicted of numbering
lis playmate, Jesse Blanche, at Provi-
lence last October. Justice Stover
sentenced Shaw to life imprisonment
It Dauncmora prison.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-12-21

An old authority gives directions for
the most restful position to assume
after great wcariness. If very tired lie
on the back, the knees drawn up. the
hands claspcd above the head or rest
ing on the elbows, the forearm at right
angles, and the hands hanging over by
the bend Of the wrist.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-12-21
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, 1899-12-21

vThe silverites have not got enough,
it seems, and are bent upon another
Waterloo, which they will undoubtedly
meet. No matter what congress does,
the fight will be on in the summer un-
less there is some terrible cataclysm.
For congress. therefore, to pass Il law
establishing the god standard will not
materially stimulate the silver lunacy.
and it will give stability and confidence
to business.-Baltimor American.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-12-21

uTOn the republicans of the Fifty
sixth congress, ard on Hon. David
Brcmncr Henderson in particular, rests
responsibility which we do not doubt
their capacity to discharge. But they
should not try TO Io too much. After
all, talk is the chief business and pleas
ure of congress. although everywhere
of making laws there is no end.-N. Y.
Sun.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-12-21
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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-08-18
Swords Seldom Carried.

There is one thing" writes Ser
geant Ozias, "that should be spoken
OF to correct misapprehension of facts.
General Funston is spoken of and
pictured rs rushing at the insurgents
with uplifted sword and scabbard
swinging high. He did nothing
of the kind, nor did any other officer
worthy of being called one. At Mar
ilao | stood upon the east bank OF
the river with the fret platoon of
Company II, firing over the river at
the rebels, to protect Funston and the
men crossing the river. None of us
were more than ten feet from the
river bank, in full view by the enemy
and without even blade Of grass to
protect us, but they were hid from us.
We yelled to Funston that Pennsyl-
vania was attempting to cross to claim
our victory. He started on run as
fast as his legs would carry him,
shouting to the squad with him,
Come on, boys, deploy,' and to us,
Give 'em fits, boys Seeing him
there without even so much as stick
in his hand speeding his way like a
shadow through the trees and bana-
ma stalks, over fences and bushes, ten
yards ahead of his party, still yelling
Come on bOysv stampeding chickens,
hogs and dogs from among the hous-
es, would have made dead man
laugh, serious as the affair was. Our
platoon was firing at will, yet we
guarded 1t so closely that none but
Filipinos felt it. At Calumpit, when
Funston aud the eight sets of fours
crossed and ran the rebels out of theil
trenches and won in u few minutes a
battle that had been fiercely fought
for two days, Funston was again bare.
handed, as were all officers except q
| few who carried native canes they
had picked up, more as an aid to
walking than anything else. speak
of these things to show that the
sword should be left out of the pic
lures of this war; 1t is ornamental not
useful, and as l was there and saw
the events as they happened, l am
(modestly) glad to tell of bravery not
often paralleled in commanders
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-08-18
THE KLONDIKE LAW BREAKERS.

Lawrence journal The defiant atti-
lude of the law breakers of the Leav-
enworth Klondike is Il menace to Kan
sas, Il disgrace to the state, Governor
Stanley has offered a reward for the
conviction Of the culprits, but no one
is inclined to undertake to secure IT,.
Governor Stanley is not pOwerless,
but he Is lamentably near it. The
most casual observer can see the law
violated in the most brazen manner.
But what of that? How can convic-
ton be secured 1t has been the
boast of Leavenworth saloons that II
jury can not he selected i'm the county
that will convict II man for selling
liquor. The boast is probably well
founded. And the klOndike is the le-
Ultimate result of continuous evasion
of the law. The man who sells liquor
will be bounded only by the strict con-
fines of an iron clad law. Give him
an inch and he will take an acre. In
Leavenworth he has taken the whole
county. Can Governor Stanley close
the Klondike dives? If he can, then
he should do it But how? fla Leav-
enworth jury would convict, the ques-
tion would be practically easy. But a
Leavenworth jury will do nothing of
the kind. 1t is sad condition of
affairs when the whole power of the
state can be and is defied by law
breakers of the lowest character. Gov
ernOr Stanley should have the moral
and material support of the whole
state. He is in earnest in his desire
to rid Kansas of this pest hole, this
hell that defies the state.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-08-18

WHILE it is not i'm the least our
scrap, it affords the REGISTER Il great
deal Of pleasure to see the name of
Hon. Frank G. Crowell. of Atchison,
prominently mentioned as Il good sub
stitute for Bailey or Curtis i'm case of
deadlock in the First district cOnven-
ton next year Mr. CrOwell is one of
the best equipped young men i'm Kan
sas for public career. He is thorough
ly educated, rooted ;and groU dad n
the principles and the practices of
sound morality and good citizenship,
ready and strong in debate, lpleasing
and persuasive in public speech, and
as sound in body as he is i'm mind. No
man whom Kansas has sent to Con-
gress has had a better equipment to
start with, and no one has grown " it'll
experience into honorable prominence
more quickly than he would. The
sooner the First district starts Frank
Crowell the better it will be for the
district.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-08-18
ono Way Cm.lstlanity Trlumphs.

A sensation was created in the district
court ut Medicine Lodge last Saturday
when divorce case was called for trial.
The plaintiff was in Jail under the charge
of statutory rape In order to marry the
girl and avoid prosecution he was seeking
divorce from his first wife When he was
brought into court, instead Of taking his
seat by his attorney, he walked up immedi-
ately in front of the judges desk, and said
Judge Gillett want this divorce case of
mine dismissed. While have been lying
in jail here waiting for trial have been
reading my Bible and am now changed
man. l am not entitled to n Divorce If
my wife wants one she can have it, She is
entitled to it on account of my misconduct
She is virtuous honorable and upright
woman, and will not damn my soul to
hell by adding perjury to the many wrongs
have been guilty Of when my case is
reached on the criminal docket shall enter
plea of guilty OF the charge preferred
against me. l shall be sentenced to the
penitentiary and shall go there and serve
my term like q man. and when am releas-
ed shall begin life again and do all in my
power to lead an honorable and upright life
and as far as 1t Is In my power with Gods
help shall do all | can TO amend the many
Mlbhko hhNN hbhS III VIC phhR hhHNHtWH
Leader Courier
1t is i'm working such changes as
that in the heart and the soul of a mar
that Christianity triumphs over all the
isms of the skeptics and the agnostic'
and the philosophers. Who ever
heard of any man standing up before
his fellow men and declaring; ~ dc
not believe in the Christian religion OF
in any other religion. | donot believe
i'm heaven or hell or any future exist
ence. ! do not believe there is a Goo
and therefore | am resolved to be {
better mani! There is a contradiction
in the very terms that would max,
such a declaration absurd. A man
may be a good man in every mora
and social relation of life and yet no
believe in the Christian religion, bu
no man was ever yet changed from
being bad man to a good man b.
reason of such disbelief