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CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1898.
Pennsylvania History.
In ii late Lewieburg News an un
! known writer over the signature of
"I'ncle John" givea Home interesting
facts about Pennsylvania, it.-; people
and their unwritten history which are
) valuable and interesting to every in
j habitant. This information is especi
ally interesting to young people and
should be read and remembered by all.
Here it is:
: Washington was first called the
| "Father of his country" in Hardie's
Remembrancer, published in Lancas
ter. 1795.
Sunday school tickets, red and blue,
! with scripture verses were first print
! Ed at Gerraantown, 1744.
The first attempt at bibliography in
! America was by the Swenkfelders of
; Penna., about 1740.
The most extensive literary aceom
i plishment in America prior to the
Revolution was the"Martyer Spiegel,"
j of 1500 pages, printed at Ephrata,
I Lancaster Co.
The most learned colonist of Ameri
| ca was Daniel Pastorius, of German
tow n ; who read and wrote German,
i Spanish, English, French, Italian,
1 Greek and Latin.
Peter Miller, a Pennsylvania Dutch
j man, translated the Declaration of In
i dependence into seven languages for
the Continental Congress. It is
; thought he was the only American
j then living able to do this.
Prior to the Revolution there were
j more printing presses in Pennsylvania
I than in all other colonies combined.
Prior to the Revolution more books
had been printed by the Pennsylvania
i Germans than in all New England
and New York combined.
More agricultural papers are taken
in Pennsylvania than any other state
in the Union.
Pennsylvania had more newspapers
before the Revolution than all New
; England.
Pennsylvania has the richest agri
cultural county (Lancaster), in the
Union.
The first protest against slavery
from the colonies came from German
town in 1688.
In 1836 Gov. Ritter, ofPennsylvauia,
was the only free state governor who
in his annual message made a bold
stand against slavery. See Whittier's
poem.
Pennsylvania first of all .the states
voted money to put down the slave
holder's rebellion the same day Fort
Sumpter was fired upon.
Pennsylvania sent the first troops to
Washington in 1861.
The first Normal school department
in America established at Nazareth
Hall 1807.
The Pennsylvania Germans printed
the bible three times before it was
once printed in English.
They printed the New Testament
seven times before it was once printed
in English.
The first work of pedagogy was
printed in Pennsylvania.
The first American works 011 astrono
my and music were printed in Penn
sylvania.
First yonng ladies seminary in
United States established by Mora
vians in 1749. In 1793 such a school
was proposed at Plymouth, but pro
posal was defeated because it was sug
gested in such schools women might
become more learned than their future
husbands.
The largest orphan school in the
United States and best endowed is in
Philadelphia.
The first hospital, the first medical
school and the first dispensary in
America were established in Philadel
phia.
The first public medical library was
established in Philadelphia.
Lady teachers in schools of high
grade first employed in Moravian
schools of Penna.
The first modern water works in
America at Bethlehem.
The first fire engine in America at
Bethlehem.
The first genological work done in
America among the Moravians.
First stereotyping in America was
done in Pennsylvania,
j The first printing in colors in Amer
| ica was done in Philadelphia.
The first medical man of the Revolu-
I tion was Dr Benj. Rush, Philadelphia.
The greatest surgeon of modern
j times was Dr. Sam'l Gross, of Phila
delphia.
The Pennsylvania railroad is the
best managed and greatest railroad in
the world.
Pennsylvania gave more men and
more money to the war of 1815 than
any other state. Massachusetts was at
that time plotting secession and dis
union, but the New England school
histories do not tell of this.
When, after the battle of Bull Run,
the National capital was at the mercy
of the confederates, Gov. Curtin sent
the Pennsylvania Reserves, 16,000
strong, and Washington was saved.
No other state had such a body of
soldiers save Pennsylvania. Note
this, my boys.
When, in 1776, Washington's army
had almost dwindled to nothing, here- j
ceived 1500 recruits, every man of |
them Pennsylvanians. These recruits j
made Trenton and Princeton possible, I
j and saved the Continental army. Note j
jit boys. It is not in your history.
At the Thermopylae of the American
! Revolution, the battle of Long Island, I
' the American Army was saved by the
j Pennsylvania riflemen, under Col. J
I John Peter Keehlein. These men j
| stood their ground until ih some com
! panies 79 out of 100 were killed, and j
j the rest of the army had completed its
! retreat. This is not in the histories,
rny boys, because Bunker Hill and |
Lexington used up all the space.
When the army at Valley Forge i
needed blankets, the Pennsylvania :
farmer's wives furnished them.
When Washington needed gold and j
silver to hold his army together, nine j
Pennsylvania Germans advanced SIOO,- j
000.
Both in the Revolutionary war and !
in the great Rebellion, Pennsylvania j
furished more men than any other
state.
Pennsylvania now appropriates ;
more money from the public treasury j
for public schools than any other state
in the Union.
Pennsylvania treated the Indians .
within her borders more fairly than !
any other state. For sixty years she I
had no Indian wars.
Pennsylvania was the only colony j
which offered the asylum to the op- j
pressed of the old world. In Mass i- j
| chusetts they hung or drove into
I the wilderness to freeze and starve, j
| Quakers, Baptists and other people '
! who had ideas of their own.
The first commodore in the Ameri- :
can navy, John Barry, was a Pennsyl- j
1 vanian.
The finances of the American wars 1
j have all been managed in Philadel- j
! phia, Robert Morris in the Revolution j
I and Jay Cooke in 1861-65.
Nine years previous to the outbreak j
of witchcraft at Salem,Mass.,there was
! a trial in Philadelphia for this crime,
' but instead of hanging the poor
I woman, as was later done in New
• England, the jury promptly acquitted
i her, and the judge severely reproved
I her accuser.
These things my boys, are not in
! your school history. That was writ
i ten by a descendant of the Puritans,
•! and he had so much to say about the
. deeds of his own ancestors, that he had
I no room in his book to say anything
| about our ancestors. It is a shame
• that you are compelled to use in school
' any book which is so narrow and partial
I as your school history, but you will
soon be a man, and then you can read
other histories written by better and
: wiser men, and then secure a true
1 idea of the history of your great State.
UNCLE JOHN.
Kindness draws out the better part
1 of our nature, disarming resistance,
dissipating angry passion, and melting
the hardest heart.
When a man is a good item of news
for a newspaper and then gets mad
because it is published, he displays de
cidedly poor judgment and ninety-nine
times out of a hundred he is the fellow
who would like to read that very same
item in the paper if it was about an
other fellow.
The statistical report of the Grand
Lodge of Odd Fellows at Wilkesbarre
last week showed that the present
membership in this State is 106,478.
The sum paid for the relief of brothers,
to widows, burying the dead and edu
cation of orphans was $593,891.52. The
assets of the Lodges amount to nearly
$4,000,000.
Jeremiah S. Whelan, who conducted
a barbershop in Emporium some time
ago, left this place and located at Buf
falo. On Sunday last he went in bath
ing in Buffalo creek; being a good
swimmer he amused his companions
with his skill until finally overcome
with cramps he sank. His body was
recovered later.
A southerner and a soldier of the
Confederacy, now living in lowa, ex
pressed the sentiment of the South very
plainly and tersely the other day when
hestfid: "We couldn't lick the Yankees
in 1861, and d—d if we'll let any one
else lick 'em now."
In putting down a new oil cloth re
member it will last twice as long if you
give it a thin coat of varnish and let it
dry well befjre using. A little milk in i
tepid water is excellent to wipe oil
cloths or painted floors.—Ex.
The editor of an exchange, while
effervescing over the sweet girl gradu
ade, declares that he would welcome
j her with open arms. A married brother
' | newspaper man quoted his item,
| adding: "We would be glad to do the
| same thing if we were single."
Bucklen s Arnica Salve..
j The best Salve in the world for cuts,
! bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
- sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains,
j corns, and all skin eruptions, and posi
| tively cures piles, or no pay required.
; It is guaranteed to give perfect satis- j
faction cr money refunded. Price 25 I
j cents a box. For sale by L. Taggart.
v3l-n4O-ly
Low Rates Made by the Nickel Plate i
Road.
Only $11.85, Buffalo to Warsaw, Ind., j
; and return, every day to Sept, 15th.
Only §36.20, Buffalo to Omaha and
| return, every day, account Exposition.
Only $35.55, from Buffalo to Dallas,
Tex., and return, June 11 and 12, good
j to return until June 28, account Mystic
I Shrine,
Only $8:20; Buffalo to Toledo and re
j turn, June 15th and 16th, good to re
turn until June 20th.
Only sl4 50, Buffalo to Louisville
and return, June 19th and 20th, good
to return until June 26th.
Only 57.00, Buffalo to Detroit and re
turn, via Cleveland and boat, June
27 and 28th, returning until July 4th,
account Knights of St. John.
Only $19.25, Buffalo to Nashville,
Tenn , and return, July 2nd, 3rd, 4th
and sth, good returning until August
Ist.
Only $12.00, Buffalo to Chicago and
return, July 12th and 13th, good to re
turn until August 10th.
j For information call 011 your nearest
ticket agent, or address F. J. Mooro,
I Gen'l Agent, Nickel Plate Road, 291
Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y. 36-15-4t.
"BEFORE BABY IS BORN."
▲ Valuable Little Book of Interest
to All Women Sent Free.
Every woman looks forward with feel
| ings of indescribable joy to the one mo
! mentous event of her life, compared with
which all others pale into insignifi
cance. How proud and happy she will
be when her precious babe nestles 011
! her breast how sweet the name of
| "Mother!" And yet her happy antici
pation of this event is clouded with
misgivings of the pain and danger of
the ordeal, so that it is impossible to
avoid the feeling of constant dread
which creeps over her. The danger
and suffering attendant upon being a
mother can be entirely prevented, so
that the coming of the little stranger
; need not be looked forward to with
fear and trembling, as is so often the
case. Every woman who reads this
paper can obtain absolutely free a val
uable and attractive little book enti
tled "Before Baby is Born," by sending
her name and address to the Bradfield
| Regulator Co., Atlanta, Ga. This book
j contains priceless information to all
! women, and no one should fail to send
| for it.
Sympathetic fiusbanfls.
The sympathetic tenderness of a lov
ing husband is everything to an expec
tant mother, especially during her first j
ordeal. George Lay ton, Esq., a promi- |
nent druggist of Dayton, 0., gives the j
following case:
A customer of mint, whose wife has aged
four bottle* of Motner'a Friend " before con
finement, My*, nftsr seeing the effects of the
remedy, that If she had togo through the ordeal
ngain.'and there were but four bottles on the
market, and the cost was SIOO per bottle, she '
would have them.
" Mother's Friend " is a scientifically |
compounded liniment which affords cer
tain relief in the various ailments pre
ceding childbirth, and assures proper
elasticity to the cords and muscles in
volved in the final ordeal.
"Mother's Friend" is sold by drug
gists, or expressed on receipt of one
dollar.
Valuable book, " Before Baby 1j
Born," mailed free on application.
THE BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO.. Atlanta. Qa.
HUMPHREYS)
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No. 1 Fever, Congestion.
No. 2 Worms.
No. 3 Infants' Diseases.
No. 4 Diarrhew.
No. 7 Coughs & Colds.
No. 9 Headache.
No. lO Dyspepsia, Indigestion.
No. 11 Delayed Periods.
No. 12 Leuchorrea.
No. 13 Croup.
No. 14 Skin Diseases.
No. 18 Rheumatism.
No. 19 Catarrh.
No. 27 Kidney Diseases.
No. 34-Sore Throat.
No. 77 Grip & Hay Fever.
Dr. Humphrey*' Ho meopathic Manual of ,
Diseases at your Driun i-t- or Mailed Free. ;
Sold by druggist*. o' ■ '.ton receipt m&Vt-. ;
50.;tn or sl. Ilumpi'.n- ' Med. Co.,Cor. William
and John Stß.. New Yo: k .
Pk R S l"0 Ur Williams' Indian Pile
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h 8_ allays the licking at once, acts
■ liof. i)r. Williams' Indian Pile Oint- j
™ ment is prepared for Piles and Itch
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warranted. By druggists, by mail on re
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JULY 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 898.
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Allotted to the Grandest of American Sports.
A MERRY RACE WAR. A CARNIVAL OF HIGH CLASS SPORT.
BASK BALL.—ELK LEAGUE UAKIES.
RIDGWAY vs ST. MARYS, JULY 4th.
JOHNSONBURG vs ST. MARYS, .... JULY sth.
KANE vs ST. MARYS, JULY Oth.
JE&ii!r Games called at 12:45 p. m. JES*®" 1 Races called at 2:00 p. m.
SCHEDULE.
MONDAY, JULY 4th.
No. 1. 2:27 Class Trotting, ..... Purse, §400.00
No. 2. 2:16 Class Pacing and 2:14 Class Trotting, - - Purse, 400.00
No. 3. 2:40 Class Pace, ... . Purse, 400.00
TUESDAY, JULY sth.
No. 4. 2:37 Class Trotting, ..... Purse, §400.00
No. 5. 2:23 Class Trotting, ..... Purse, 400.00
WEDNESDAY, JULY 6th.
No. 6. 2:19 Class Trotting, ..... Purse, §4OO 00
No. 7. 2:20 Class Pacing, - ... Purse. 400.00
THURSDAY, JULY 7th.
No. 8. 2:29 Class Pacing, ..... Purse, §400.00
No. 9. Free-for all—Trot or Pace, .... Purse, 400.00
Entries Close June 27th.
tifrjf" Excursion Rats;s on all Railroads. Steam cars run direct to gates.
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them. Cannot do harm—life be
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