4 (Elarrjeror) (Eourjfy jfWss KHTABLTHIIKP BY C. B.GOULD. HENRY H. MULLIN, Editor and Manager. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Per year |2 00 If paid in advance $1 50 ADVERTISING RATES. Advertisement Bare published at the rate of one lollar persquareforoneinsertion and fiflycents per square for each subsequent insertion. Rates by the year or for six or three months are low and uniform,and willbefurnished on appli cation. Legal and Official Advertising per square, three times or less, $2 00; each subsequent insert ionso cents per square. Local noticestencents per line for one insertion, five cents perlineforeacnsubsequontconsecutive i ncertion. Obituary notices over five lines, ten cents per I no. Simpleannouncementsofbirthp,marriages and deaths will be inserted free. liusiuess Cards, five lines or less $5.00 per year over five lines, at the regular rales of advertising No local inserted for less than 75 cts.per issue. JOB PRINTING. TUe 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 unti! arrearages are paid, except at the option ofthe publisher. Papers sent out ofthecounty must be paid for in advance. Dissipation in Reading. New York Times Saturday Review. As there may be intemperance in everything, there may be dissipa tion in so good a thing as reading. Aealthful reading is one of the most beneficial of all mental exercises, though it is not, as some mistak ingly imagine, the best. But when reading is done without intellectual stimulation, merely to kill time, it becomes a low form of dissipation, for it dissipates the mentality. Again, when it is done merely to excite the imagination, to over stimulate the mind, it is equally dissipating and dangerously un healthful. The Summer season, now so near at hand, is the time when dissipation in reading is most common, though it is not tlie only time when it is practiced. Some persons dissipate in reading all the year around, with the result that they become unable to think clearly and logically on any subject. This dissipation may consist in reading nothing but trash, and again it may consist in reading what is classed good literature, but reading it to excess. For example, it would be possible to indulge in a form of dissipation by reading con stantly poetry of the highly colored, sensuous sort. Reading of this kind needs to be balanced by a pe rusal of the more contemplative poets, sucli as Wordsworth and Tennyson. A steady diet of Swine burne or Kipling would not be healthful, though the verse itself would be admirable of its kind. Again, it would be dissipation to read constantly the novels of the present romantic school. These should be offset by the works of the students of character. But habit ual novel reading, 110 matter how good the books read, is bad. Ev ery one should from time to time take up some work of thought or fact. Perhaps the best antidote for the novel is history, and there are histories, like Prescott's "Con quest of Peru,'' which areas fasci nating as any novel ever penned. Hut. after all, it is aimless, thoughtless reading of any kind that constitutes the worst dissipa tion of this kind. To read simply to kill time is a vicious pastime, it dulls the intellectual forces, weakens the will, and blunts the appreciation. It brings on a form of ennui intolerable and dangerous to the moral perceptions. The val ue of mental employment, like that of physical exercise, lies in its em bodiment of a purpose. There must bo a consciousness of effort if the great central of controlling power of the intellect is to grow and govern, as it should. Scatter ed forces are altogether too com mon. To dream away one's inner life in an imaginary world, no mat ter how beautiful that world may be, is to waste one's highest pow ers. To read constantly for the want of something to think of is to stultify one's self, liacon said, "Reading maketb a full man." But there are different sorts of full ness, and that of the idle glutton is not to be commended. Let the dissipated reader ponder the wise words of Milton: Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior 1 ncertain and unsettled still remains- Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself. A Good Thing. German ftyrup is the special prescrip tion of Dr. A. A. Boshee, a celebrated German Physician and is acknowledged to be one of the mo3fc fortunate discover ies in Medicine It quickly cures Coughs, Colds and ai! Lung troubles of the sever est nature, removing, as it does, the cause of the affection and leaving the parts in a strong and healthy condition. It is not ■in experimental medicine, but has stood the test of years, giving satisfaction in every case, which its rapidly increasing sale every season confirms. Two million bottles sold annually. Boschee's Ger man Syrup was introduced in the United States in 1808, and is now sold in every town and village iu the civilized world. Three doses will relieve an ordinary cough. Price 75c. Sold by b. Taggart. (Jet Green's Prize Almanac. 2n3leow Ifiaasaa'a Lake of Fire. "I doubt If many persons realize the fascination to be derived from a winter spent in the Kahamas," said a visitor Just returned from there the other day. "Down near Nassau, for example, there Is a curious sheet of welter known as the Lake of tire that Is worth going far to see. rt Is simply a phosphor escent lake, but Its weird effects cling to one's recollection In an uncanny hotel. You drive through quaint and Harrow streets, with only here and there a lamppost shedding a dim light, and past the open doors of huts whose occupants seem to fill every space in the abodes to overflowing. "The gates of the old estate of Wa terloo have long since disappeared, and the house is in ruins, but you drive be tween the posts which still mark the entrance down a grass grown roadway to the edge of this wonderful pond. The water is only a few feet deep, and the poiul Is sea reel. T;l quarter of a mile long. We stepped into a rowboat by the dim light of a lantern, and in a mo ment, as the boat pushed off and the oars broke the water into ripples, we were surrounded by a sea of tlame. The divers who swam about seemed literal ly merged in blue smoke, for the effect of this phosphorescence is more like smoke than water. It reminds one of the butterfly dance seen on the stage. The form of the diver is surrounded by a luminous glow, and the fishes take fright and dart away like little flames Into the dark and quiet waters. It is a beautiful sight."—New York Sun. An Early Georgia Monster. In the fore part of August, 1812, a party of hunters found in a mountain ous region now known as Rabun coun ty, Ga., a being nearly eight feet high covered with bluish hair and having a human face adorned with immense ears resembling those of an ass. The creature was stone deaf and on that account seemed wholly unconscious of the npproach of the men. This mon ster seems, from old accounts, to have been seen upon several occasions dur ing the next four years. In 181G a number of adventurers from Virginia, most of them surveyors working up the unexplored portions of Georgia and the Carolinas, formed themselves into a party for the express purpose of capturing the uncanny be ing if possible. They scoured the hills and valleys for several days and at last returned unsuccessful to the starting point. The many tales told of this extraordi nary being seem to have created quite a stir all along the Atlantic coast. A printed circular issued by a land com pany in 1815 says,"The climate of Georgia is exceedingly mild, the soil productive, and the danger of attack from uncouth beasts which are repre sented as being half beast and half man are fairy tales not worthy of con sideration." llarrymore and Modjrukt. Maurice liarryraore earned a reputa tion as a wit and really deserved it. His style could be less successfully transferred to the stage, as liis efforts at comic writing showed, but in its spontaneous phases its effect always told. One of the stories told was about his experiences with Mine. Modjeska. with whom lie acted for several years, lie bad been as careless as lie often was on the stage, and Mme. Modjeska, with all the conscientiousness of a great artist, protested that lie had no right to take his calling so lightly and that if lie did not owe it to his reputa tion to do his best lie at least owed it to her, because she had done so much in his behalf and had put him before the public in a dignified and serious line of parts. "Why, madam," he said, "it is not you who brought me before the public and made me known. People had heard of me all over the United States when they thought that Modjeska was only the name of a tooth wash." A Crashed Lawyer, Some time ago a well known San Francisco attorney, who prides himself upon his handling of Chinese witnesses, was defending a railway damage case. Instead ot following the usual ques tions a« to name, residence, if the na ture of an oath were understood, etc., he began: "What Is your name?" "Kee Lung." "You live In San Francisco?" "Yes." "You sabbie God?" "Mr. At torney, If you mean 'Do I understand the entity of our Creator?' I will sim ply say that Thursday evening next I shall address the State Ministerial as sociation on the subject of the 'Divinity of Christ' and shall be pleased to have you attend." Needless to say, a general roar of laughter swept over the courtroom at this clever rally, and it was some min utes, much to the discomfiture of the lawyer for the defense, before order was restored and the examination pro ceeded upon ordinary lines.—Argonaut. noHtns an Elephant. A difficult operation was performed the other day at the zoological gardens at Hanover. An elephant was suffer ing great pain from a growth on the lower part of one of its hind feet, and it was deemed necessary to cut this malformation away. In order to ren der the animal insensible a dose of COO grains of morphia in six bottles of mm was administered. This dose took about an hour before any visible effect was produced. The elephant then fell over in a kind of sleep, and the opera tion was successfully carried out with out any further ado. The operation lasteil in all three days.—London Globe. Of three wires of the same thickness one made of gold will sustain 150 pounds, one made of copper "02 pounds, one of iron 545) pounds. The purest Chinese is spoken at Nan kin and is called "the language of the mandarins." CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1901. North Crack. Chas. Barr'fl house is nearly completed. If you wish chickens apply to Ray Evans. Phoebe Caunsin is suffering with neu ralgia. Mr. G. Barr is busy attending to his herd of cattle. William Putman is boarding at Lafay ette Lockwoods. Dean Angevine visited friends in Em porium on Sunday. Harry Evens, of Coetello, is visiting at the Angevine farm. North Creek is booming. The roads are under the careful attention of super visor Swesey. Warren Angevine is puzzled how to fix the stairs in Chas. Burr's new mansion. Help him along. PLIILO. Rich" Valley. Editor Preu:— Wedding bells soon. Milton Lewis moved to town this week. Gordon Lewis was on the sick list last week. Harry Leslie is building a houte on the Nolan farm. Mr. and Mrs. Leon Chadwiek Sunday ed in the Valley. Miss Ruby Lewis visited Mrs. War don Lewis this week. Mrs. Carl Culver visited Mr. and Mrs. Phlan Culver this week. Gen. Geo. Skinner, S. L. C., is work ing on North Creek. Mrs. William Pye visited her father, Frank Craven this week. Francis Housler visited his daughter, Mrs. W. W. Lewis this week. Miss Ornia Lewis is assisting her nister Mrs. Milton Lewis with her house work this week. MAOGIE. Sterling Run. Editor Press : The beam ciew of the tannery are all leaving for other places. Monday morning's frost did no dam age to fruit in this locality. Howlett says boys cost, especially the last one, but ie don't know it's politics yet. James Strawbridge has the running of the camp and overseeing of A. W. Ma son job on Sterling Run. John Tracy worked the last side of leather on Tuesday that will be worked in the Sterling Run Tannery. Mrs. Ed. Whiting, who has been dan gerously ill the past few days, is now improving under the care ot Dr. Corbett. Frank Parker, alias Jesse James, has allied himself with the Crescent tannery base ball team, of Driftwood, as pitcher and pitched his first game on Tuesday. A. W. Mason started his bark and timber job on Clear Creek, Tuesday, for Brown, Clarke & Ilowe of Williamsport, also his job on Sterling Run, next Mon day, both jobs will employ about fifty men. Our Postmaster is complaining about the street in front of the pottoffice being blocked in the evenings by a lot of young men and boys, so that women and chil dren cannot pass to the office, without being molested and insulted by the un gentlenianly language of these loafers. BARNEY. Huston Hill. Editor Cameron County Press : It is wet for farming. S. C. Williams of Medix Run visited friends on the Hill last week. C. L. Williams will move his family to Medix Run in the near future. Mr. John Williams a trusty young man is now employed on the lath mill at Medix Run. Mr. A. S. Hicks, one of our good neighbors will leave us this week. Sor ry to see him go. Jesse Hicks took a load of people to Sterling Run on Friday to see Miss Turbv depart for her home. Miss Francena Turby closed a very successful term of school here last Friday and deserves the praise of the whole com munity. Her many friends regretted the departure of this excellent young lady. The btst wishes ot a host of friends follow her. May a happy future await her- w. L. c. «*• Our school has closed. Thos. Conner spent Sunday with his family. Warren Dill made a flying trip to Grau tonia on Saturday. Chas. Barr is busy helping his mother erect a new house. Miss Daisy Barr was *tho guest of friends on Mason Hill. Supt. Sweney of Elk county visited the school here, on Friday. Miss Deliah Painter is visiting her sis ter at Dents Run this week. Miss Madge Miller spent a few days with friends at Millers last week. Mr. and Mrs. D. Lupole and son were the guests of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Connor, on Sunday. Huston Hill will have one month add ed to the school term next year, being one month short this year. For Female Complaints and diseases arising from an impure state of the blood Liehty's Celery Nerve Com pound is an invaluable specific. Sold by L. Taggart. may Stolen sweets are liable to give one in digestion of the conscience. Cameron. Editor Cameron County Press:— Plenty of rain here the past week. Joe Yoeum was in town on Saturday. Wm. Wykoff has returned from Cau ley run. S. S. Hicks has a large tie job on Hunts Run. Thomas Carney, Jr., passed through our town one day last week. Wm. Connors has moved his family into the hotel in the east ward. Emery Dinniny, of Sinnamahoning, called on friends here Saturday night. E. 11. Linninger has gone to Austin, where he has secured a position in a store. E. F. Cotnley will leave soon for First Fork, where he expects to work in the woods. Rev Jos. l'oyer held services here last Sunday. He preached a very able and interesting sermon. Daniel Britton has moved his house hold goods on Britton llill,where he will farm this summer. Allie Lord returned home from Sinna mahoning Saturday night, where he was employed in the mill. J. D. Brooks, a former resident of this place, has returned again, after an absence of about six years. Little Ed. Clark eat some laurel last week and was dangerously sick but at this writing, seems to be out of danger. The L. C. held a meeting Saturday night; Ed. Goodwin occupied the chair. After spinning a few, E. F. was suspend ed from the club for failing to attend meetings regular. The next meeting will be lirld in McConnell's chicken coop, where 11. D. is expected to take the chair. PROF. COAL. See What a President Says About Brandy (or Sickness. The President of the Baltimore Medi cal College, who has thoroughly tested Speer's wines and brandy says: • "Speer's Climax Brandy is a pure and valuable article in all cases of disease in which a reliable stimulant is required. I regard it superior to most French bran dies. 7-8t eow If you want to Buy Anything,— Advertise in the PRKSS PEOPLE'S COLUMN, WANTED. "AVTANTED.— A good girl for general house VV work. None other need apply. Good wages to the right party. .MRS. FRED JULIAN. FOR RENT. RENT—Two nicely furnished rooms J" Apply to J. L. Fobert. over Express office. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms, five minutes ride from Fan-American grounds. Address MBS. N. M. GOULD, 428 Ashland Ave., 11-lf Buffalo, N. Y. L"HJR RENT.—A good store room, located in J the most prominent part of Fourth street will be rented to the right person. Apply at PRESS office. 9-2t FOR SALE. / 1 K. SIMPSON'S one-third interest in the V '. Nolan Farm, located in Shippen township. Enquire of C. E. Simpson, Eld red, Pa. 10-2 \\""HEEL. An entirely new Ktatlierstone, \ \ lady's bicycle that cost $35, will be sold dirt cheap. Apply at Piusss office*. "T7V\NCY FOWL EOOS.—I am prepared to J' furnish Unit' Leghorn and I tuiian Game eggs for setting—l 3 for SI.OO. First orders get the eggs 0-131 D. W. Co NO VON. FiNNSYLVANIA REX SAW.-Mr. C.~A. Horr, traveling salesman for the Pennsylva nia-Rex oross-cut saw, manufactured by E. C, Atkins Hi Co., Indianapolis, I ml., lias been placing this popular saw with the trade of this section. Be sure you examine this excellent impliment before purchasing. A \ r ANTED—Salesmen for Rand, McNally & \ V Co.'s New Census edition Reversible Map of the United States and World, sizeß6x4B inches, tne largest map published on a single sheet in this country; two maps in one; gives county map of United States and Canadaon its face, and large scale up-to-date map of the world on the reverse; special map of Alaska aud polar regions; beauti fully colored; durably mounted; new plan of work greatly assists Its sale; no previous experi ence necessary; an active representative can average $5.00 per day; first-class opportunity for men who want to make money and ttnd perma nent employment. Address Rand, McNally & Co., 142 Fifth Ave., New York. FOR BALE—New and Popular Books, 10 cents each. Each book containing M large dou ble column pages. Paper covers. "Joker's Bug et," "Fireside Games," "Modern Euterlain ments," "The National Handy Dictionary." "Money-Making Secrets," "Etiquette of Court ship," "Humorous Dialogues," "Humorous Recitations," "The Minstrel Show," "Detective Stories," "The Mystic Oracle," "Outdoor Games," "Women May Earn Money," "Astrology Made Easy," "Dialect Recitations," "Fifteen Complete Novelettes," "The Handy Cyclopedia," "75 Com plete Stories," "Mesmerism and Clairvoyance," "156 Popular Songs," "Mrs. Partington's Grab Bag," "The Art of Ventriloquism," "Dramatic Recitations," "Famous Comic Recitations," "A Cart-Load of Fun," and "Parlor Magic." SPECIAL OFFER—We will send any 4 books described, postpaid, for 25c. 11-lSt E. T. DRUM & CO., Warren, Pa. Administrator's Notice. Estate of James M. Matte-ion, Deceased. Letters of administration on the above estate having been granted to the undersigned, ail per sons indebted to tile said estate are requested to make payment, and those have claims to present the same without delay, to ALMON M. MATTF.SON, Administrator. GBKF.N & SHAFFER, Attorneys, Emporium, Pa., April 17th, 1901. t 8-6t ArtmluiHtrator'H Notice, N'OTICE is hereby given that letters testamen tary upon the estate of DHA INRIIIDOE V. WVKOFF, late of Gibson township, Cameron county. Pa , having been granted to the under signed all persons knowing themselves indebted to said estate are requested to make payment and those having claims to present the same. JOHN B. WYKOFF, Administrator. JOHNSON & MCNAHNKY, Attorneys. Sinnamahoning, Pa., April 29, 1901.—10-6t Sealed Kids. rpHE Build inn Committee of Emmanuel Parish, 1 ttmporiiwn, Pennsylvania, will receive, un til :j o'clock, p. in., Muy 21st. 1901, sealed bids for tlic building of a stone church, according to adopted plans and specifications now on file at the office of B. W. Green. Esq., Emporium, Pa. Work to be commenced with least delay possible, and building to be under roof before December Ist, 1901. Satisfactory bond required. Bids will also be received for a separate con tract for moving the old church building, (frame) to the rear of lot and placing a good foundation under the same. 1 l-2t J. M. ROBERTSON, Sec'y, Emporium, Penna, I Furniture. | | SPECIAL SALE. 112 ?>. Our factory is now running and we must have t# room to show our new line of Bed Room Suits Wand Sideboards. Therefore, we have cut prices & on every suit on our floor. 0 BED noon SUITS, :T PIECES. Y" Solid Oak, Handsomely Carved, Solid Brass 1Q Trimmiug, 24 x 30 Glass, 4MO O Birds-Eye Mapel, Double Swell, Solid Brassynn $ Q Trimmings, 24 x 30 Glass 4)ZU '!■£. '*■ o & Dining Room. $ $ Up-to-date Sideboards, hand-carved. Dining Tables, polished tops and flutel legs. $ Dining Chairs. & J&@P*THE BEST AND CHEAPEST. Jfe Go-Carts. M .0, Every Baby in this town shoul down one of our n jj' lovely Go-Carts. Patent wheels, independent ac tion, neat, nice, safe and comfortable. V $ Gold Medal Refrigerators. ¥ The best Relrigerator on the market, will be nT JsA found on our floor and we hereby challenge compe- Cl \J titors to produce an equal. 7* $ Couches and Rockers. & These articles need no comment from us. Our JYI y daily sales of them show plainly their superiority nr Jvl over all others. j*s M ALL <;OODS GUARANTEED AND DELIVERED. H, W Remember the place, next door to the S ODD FELLOWS BLOCK. * E EMPORIUM FURNITURE CO., | w Furniture DeatcrH. Funernl Directors. T^f Residence up stairs. Open all night. }*? n BERNARD ECiAN, Manager. ft 3$ \ \ \ X X \ X X \ XXX X N: V \ \ X X X \ \ X \ \ \/ ; Always Reach for the Best, 112 - .' r* Some homely philosopher g —!. i I has remarked that "all good '■/ .£ —f 1 —things of life seem to be on v / I the other side." It is not £ / so at our establishment. % / Since our new. ; Union-JWade | 1 JBBK Clothing '/ I as ieen °fl" er ed to the / '■■y Pf-I citizens of Cameron and ad lln joining counties all good >1 % fe® 11 things in the Clothing and p ' Furnishing line are to be / I found m our store * % / -.JL In order to show the peo pie of this county the capa- ■y —bility of OUT Great Bargain / House we have inaugurated. , I A Great Special Sale | J to all classes. We offer nearly $20,000 WORTH OF | / the latest serviceable and durable % | SPRING AND ni AmUIMrl I summer LLOlnllNuri At About Half its Cost Elsewhere. / t i \ I x Our excellent line of \ Gents' Furnishing- Goods | Include all the latest in Hats, White and Colored Shirts, % '■/ having the agency for the sale of the Monarch and Gold and |t Silver make of shirts. No more popular or durable manu- factured. Don't Miss Our Special | / Bargain Sale. 5 JASPER HARRIS, | / Opposite Post Office, Emporium, Pa. % I /\"A \ x \.\ \ \ v \ s x \ \ \ \ N s \ v; -N.
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