8 JORDAN BROS. m il I' Dealers iu ,I . I Staple and Fancy Groceries, Dry I' jlAl Goods, Fresh, Salt and Smoked I l 11 Meats, Fruit in season, Tobacco, ' I *]| Cigars, Confectionery and School || 11 I Supplies. □ [-, A complete line of Fall and _j_mt Winter Goods. J I [l 1 We would be pleased to have Til'"ill! i y°" cull and inspect our stock |Uj ll I ', whether you purchase or not. Ijj'H Goods delivered anywhere in i,|j Ijjjj town, free of charge. J] 1 1 JORDAN BROS., lilP iTii No. 43, W. Fifth St., Emporium. If Spring Attire /mtskk Awmk / lif km '\ /J MMM a. MAN has or ought to have an eye V 1 on his attire. Fine Clothing is the uui form of success and prosperity. Every man seeks to look his best. He must have a good tailor to help him do it. We claim first place in hat line and having opened our New Spring and Summer Goods. We arc now ready to serve our customers with the latest in models of clothes. R. SEGER CO., THE MERCHANT TAILORS. GEO. J. LA BAR IS OFFERING iSarpns I! Hi Having purchased the largest and most handsome line of those goods I shall be compelled to cut close to the cost in order not to carry any over to another season. Come quick and get your pick* PARLOR SUITES, BED-ROOM SUITES, EASY CHAIRS, WINDOW CURTAINS, SIDEBOARDS, HAT RACKS, LOUNGES, DESKS, EASELS. Etc.. Etc. LUXURY it is to reclinelat ease on one of our superb couches. Slumber comes un sought under such delightful conditions. Pieces of furniture like these are as pleasant to look on as they are to lie on and this fact makes them an irresistable temptation to repose. Our entire stock is packed full of temptations for that matter, temptations in parlor and bed room suits and in every kind of furni ture, and unprecedented temptations in prices. Some people are always quoting from somebody, but our favor ite quotations are figures like these: Couches, $5, $6, SB, and $lO. Best Furniture. We have the largest line ever exhibited in Cameron county. Geo. J. La Bar. THE PRESS IS THE BEST MEDIUM FOIL ADVERTISERS IN THIS SECTION. LOW PRICES How to Cure a Cold. Simply take Otto's Cure. We know of its astonishing cures and that it will stop a cough quicker than any other known remedy. If you have Asthma, Bronchitis, Consumption or any dis ease of the throat and lungs, a few doses of this great remedy will surprise you. If you wish to try, call at our store and we will furnish you a sample bottle. Large bottle 5Ce. and 25e. K. C. Dodson. 33-15ly A. well bread sandwich makes both ends meet in the middle. Kidney or Bladder Troubles. It you suffer from kidney, bladder or urin ary troubles, or from too frequent or scanty urine. "Dr. Fenner's Kidney and Backache Cure" Is what you want. Bed-wetting: by children Is generally cured by one bottle of this powerful remedy. Testimonials are disregarded, many people doubting the hon esty or sincerity of thi'in. wo therefore avoid pivins any here, but will furnish them on ap plication to dealer whose name is given below. If satisfied after using one bot tle your money will bo refunded by R. C. Dodson. How rarely we feel as sleepy in bed as we do in church. Diphtheria. So far as known not one case of diphtheria has ever been reported to health officers where Aamstrong's Diphtheria and Quinsy Drops was used as soon as soreness was felt in the throat. It is a wonderful remedy and should be in every home, and used for any affection of the throat. R. C. Dodson. 6-ly "For three years we have never been without Ct amberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy in the house," says A. H. Patter, with E. C. Atkins & Co., Indianapolis, Ind., and my wife would as soon think of being without flour as a bottle of this Remedy in the summer season. We have used it with all three of our children and it has never failed to cure—not simply stop pain, but cure absolutely, it ia all right, and anyone who tries it will find it so." For sale by L. Taggart. jun Diphtheria. The most successful throat remedy ; n the world is Armstrong's Diphthe r j a ond Quinsy Drops. Sold by drugging R. C. Dodson. 6-ly J. A. Fisher, PRACTICAL i Sheer, Broad Street, Emporium, Pa. ( • | NEW STOCK ■.,s -A / OF <| j WALL j I PAPER | X / '/:■ % H WE SELL p 1 BIRGB'S & SONS' 112 % % % BEST GOODS. | I fl 112 FULL LENGTH, ) p A ]|n ' | FULL WEIGHT, 112 lwllSj j | % 112 At the same price you pay for $ % light weight, cheap goods. If I H. S. LLOYD. | $ \ / \ \ \ \ N \ \\ \ V \ \\ THE FAIR! M ! Inr \J ri k J( 1 I l/KJfMJnj fl LACE CURTAINS. The best quality, large.st assortment, newest, handsomest and most artistic designs, and prices that are in the bloom of satisfaction will all be found in our superb array of Lace Curtains. An early inspection will be richly re warded. Come before the stock has been depleted by earlier purchasers. H. A. ZARPS & CO. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDA\, JUNK 23, 1898 Additional Local News. Addresses at Firemens' Banquet. At the Banquet recently given to the Past-Chiefs of Emporium Fire Depart ment, many really interesting and instructive addresses were delivered. Among the most able were those of Mr. Josiah Howard and Mr. A. C. Blum and we take pleasure in publish ing the same : MR. HOWARD'S ADDRKBS. Mr. Chairman and Members of the Em porium Fire Department• The impotence of rulers and states men to understand and regulate a peo ple eventually leads to tyranny or de cay. Every nation has a Cuba, and it will be a source of revenue and strength, or a troublesome ward that not only wastes its own resources but saps the very life of its guardian, ac cording to the ability of that guardian to understand and regulate its affairs. Every man has a boy or a horse or a farm or a business or a trade to under stand and care for and develop. His ability to do so will mainly depend upon his ability to understand, care for and develop himself; his mind, his muscle, his energy, and his character. As the profit of a horse depends upon the care and regularity with which it is fed and managed, so the develop ment and efficiency of each individual and association depends upon the ability of its manager to understand and regulate and develop its life. It is my pleasant duty this evening to enumerate and describe the official management of the Emporium Fire Department. The original depart ment was formed in 1874, and contin- 1 ued as an organization for only a year or two; but the names and deeds of i such pioneer firemen as C. B. Gould, L Taggart, J. F. Parsons, J. P. Felt, i W. C. Clarke, H. C Rockwell and Murry Overhiser, should not be drop- i ped from the roll of honor, for it is to the energy and perseverence of these j men, and particularly of C. B. Gould, ! (who should be called the honorary ! Chief of the Emporium Fire Depart- I ment,) that we owe our water-works 1 and fire fighting apparatus. The water works were completed in 1886, and in the fall of 1887 H. C. Rockwell, one of the old-time firemen just men tioned, was fittingly chosen as chief to organize the present department. Mr. Rockwell, owing to ill health, re fused to act as permanent chief, but at the end of four months turned over to his successor a well disciplined and well instructed body of men and offi cers. Mr. Rockwell was a man of few I words, but immense size and ability, j who not only knew how to handle a j fire, but also to command the respect j and obedience of his men. On the re tirement of Mr. Rockwell, the foreman of the \V. N.Y. & P. R. R , was elected ! as the second chief in January j 1888 for one year. Then came ! our gentlemanly and talented drill- 1 master, Dr. E. O. Bard well, from \ 1889 to 1890. The manly bearing and efficiency of the men has not been ex- ; celled since his time. The next year, ! 1890, the department was under the ! care of W. C. Clarke. He like Mr. | Rockwell, endeavored to unite all the companies in good feeling and for united work, and as a means to that j end, he paid particular attention to j the annual inspection and parade of I the whole department. He was follow- j ed by D. W. Felt, who made it his par- j ticular business to overhaul the equip- | ment and purchase a better quality of | high pressure hose. Then came the | first recognition of younger men in the election of Henry Haupt for the j year 1894, and he was followed by another young man, our late chief from 1895 to 1898, Mr. John J. Hinkle. Mr. Hinkle having served as fireman in a large city, brought many new and important additions to our department. Councils were induced to appropriate city funds for the purchase of addition al tools and apparatus. Fire police were appointed to rope off the streets at a fire and to protect property, while last but not least the natural gas was utilized to sound the alarm and locate the fires. And now to-night we have an- - other young man wearing the chief's badge. All our chiefs have been quiet, reserved gentlemen, and as a nation composes its countenance to the ex pression of the king, so our depart ment has reflected the gentlemanly | conduct of its chiefs. The dividing up of hose and the exchange of tools, and other courtesies at a fire, it is a matter of pride to the department and to our fellow citizens. May the department be blessed with as able chiefs in the future as in the past, is the sentiment of us all. MR. A. C. BLUM'S ADDRESS. Mr. Chairman and Fellow Firemen:— The subject you have assigned to me "The Emporium Fire Department" is at once the most difficult and the most gratifying, which could have fallen to j my lot. The most difficult, because I have not the ability, to do justice to! the gallant men, composing this de- I partment, and the most gratifying, be- j cause by personal experience, and j daily association with its members, I know how worthy they are of the j feeble tribute which I am able to be- j ! stow upon them. The Emporium Fire Department was | [organized about 11 years ago, and has i steadily increased in efficiency, until j to-day, there is not a better fire service j in any town of its size in Pennsylvania I For the truth of this statement I refer 1 to the remarks made by the many i strangers, who have seen the depart- } ment at work in the past. It consists | at this date of three Hose and one j Hook and Ladder Company with a j total membership of about 200 men. j With much pride and gratification we ; point to the fact, that although the j town has nearly doubled its population j during this period, there has not been j a heavy fire loss in all this time. 1 ! have been informed by insurance men, ' that the heavy rates charged for cover ing fire risks in this borough were caused by the very heavy fire losses of j the past, during which there was no 1 fire department, but as a tribute, the highest that can be paid to firemen, we are able to state to-day, that during the life of this department, there has not occurred one single heavy fire loss, although we have had many alarms and incipient fires, and therefore in surance rates are steadily decreasing. If you want to hear of a big fire, you have to hunt up an "old inhabitant." Now, Mr. Chairman, .he |question j ; might be asked, why have these men become firemen, subject to a call for duty at any hour of the day or night, in the heat of summer or midst the ; icy blasts of winter; called away from a comfortable hearth, or from desk, counter or workbench to do battle ; against a most relentless foe, risking, time and again life, limb and health. Is it for remuneration or for personal I gain. Most emphatically no ! Be it remembered that up to three years ago, j every one of these men contributed ; from their own means toward the sup port of the company he loves so well, until unon the urgent appeal of the entire department, a liberal Borough Council made an annual appropriation for the maintenance of each Company. Or is it for renown or fame, that ignis fatuux, that has led many a brave man :to death. Again we say no. Many the deeds done by firemen, equalling the most sublime heroism performed on the battlefield. A soldier or sailor performs an act of astounding bravery, and he is not only sure of promotion, ! but also finds his name for ever in scribed upon the tablets of fame and glory, doubly Bweet compensation to most men. A Dewey lives in the memory of man forever, but a fireman will with equal disregard of personal danger, with equal deliberation and equal courage enter a burning build ing, mayhap to save life, mayhap to save only property from destruction, j not knowing what dangers may con front him, perhaps an explosion, or tha falling of a wall or roof, or the sinking of a floor, carrying him to a horrible ; death. If he is successful in theper- I formance of his duty, he has nothing to show for brave deeds performed, ex ! cept the consciousness of duty well done. If he falls, no costly monument ' will tell future generations ofselfsacri ' ficing bravery. No Congress shnll look after those he left behind, and help them to fight th'j battle of life, in | place of him, vbo gave his life that | others might live. The Recording Angel above alone will write his epi taph, not to be read by mortal man. It is simply the very highest type of | good citizenship, a full realization of | man's duty toman, that has banded us : together for the purpose of doing good to our fellow man. Let us therefore I work together, shoulder to shoulder, to make this department, if possible, even more efficient in the future, than it has been in the past. Hurrah for Young America. A young American who has just come home from Paris in order to join our Volunteer Army left behind him in the French capital a small brother j whose patriotism is at 4th-of-July tem | perature. He is a pupil in a school j for boys, a college, they call it over ] there, where he is the only American. ; He wears half dozen patriotic buttons and on the lapel of his coat a small i American flag. One day recently I there was an uproar on the play ! ground. The headmaster himself sal- I lied out to find out what the trouble ! was. It proved to be the thing most ! strictly prohibited by the shool rules— a fight. The parties of the first part were five small French boys. The ; party of the second part was one small I American boy who was hitting out right and left in the beautiful, clean, j stright-from-tlie-shoulder Anglo-Saxon j fashion. He had already landed on | the noses of two of the five French ! boys with gory success. The head j master hurried to the seat of war and demanded an explanation. "They tore off my flag," said the young American,"and they trampled on it. I've knocked out two of them and if you'll just go away and leave me alone I'll do up the rest of them." It was the headmaster himself who | restored the little flag to its place of honor on the boy's breast. —for surely the lapel of that boy's coat is a place of honor—and it was the headmaster himself who gave the youngster leave to sail in and thrash anybody who should lay a finger on it therefter.— Washington Post. The Wharton Hurder. William Ayers. a farmer aged 6. r > years, living nine miles southeast of Austin, near Blowville, was brutally murdered in his home on Tuesday night at about midnight. The crime | was not discovered until Thursday, ! when John Mohan, a neighbor, pass ing the house was moved to investifiate the stamping of the horses and bellow ing of the cattle in the Ayers barn. Mohan found the beasts half-starved I and half dead from thirst, and his ! curiosity was aroused. He fed and I watered them, and summoning two j boys to his assistance, began to look , about the premises. The party soon | came upon a ladder leaning up against , a porch roof, and they climbed up and 1 found a window of Mr. Ayers' sleeping ! roomjopen, Looking in, they saw Mr. Ayers lying on the floor, he evidently having been pulled from his bed. THE BODY DISCOVERED. Mr. Mohan and the two boys crawled j through the window into the room and ! examined Mr. Ayers' body. They j found that he had been shot twice, one 1 bullet entering the mouth and going ! upward into the head, and a second j having entered the left temple They also found linger marks on Mr. Ayers' j throat, indicating that he had been j choked during the struggle, which had j been desperate and at close quarters, j as the pistol had been held so close to the man's head as to fill the flesh with : powder.—Coudersport Enterprise. Bucklon s Arnica Salve. 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