Ipx I SQUAN CREEK FOLKS J Some Local Matters as Recorded in the S i Squan Creek "Gazette." I / M. QUAD. Copyrighted. \ \Ve regret to announce that Bobby, the two-year-old son of Kobert en derson, our justly popular butcher and general hustler, had a fall on the side walk the other day and skinned his nose. Of such is the Kingdom of Heaven, and Mr. Henderson will con tinue to sell fresh and salt meat at the lowest prices. It was reported around town Monday afternoon that Mrs. Aaron Sehemer liorn, wife of our courteous and big hearted blacksmith, had broken two ribs while leaning over to dip water out of the rain barrel. Our reporter hurried to the house and found the re port false. It probably arose from the fact that she cut her foot on a piece of broken glass the same day. She has assured us that she will be at prayer meeting Thursday night as usual, though she may limp a little. Let us thank Providence for her nar row escape. Last week, in mentioning the various new enterprises on foot in Squan Creek, we stated that Richard Spooner would build a S4OO addition to his beautiful residence on Lobster avenue. Mr. Spooner has called at the Gazette office to make a correction. Instead of building an addition to his house, he is going to tear down and entirely re construct his pig pen. The plans and specifications provide for all modern conveniences, and no money will be spared to make it an ornament to the village. Next fall, in case a business boom follows the war, Mr. Spooner may change the 7x9 panes of glass in his mansion for Bxlo's. Among the exciting incidents of last week was the alarm of fire, caused by Mrs. Charles Longman setting fire to " Tiiere Are Fifteen Johnsons Around Here." an old straw bed in her back yard. As the dark smoke billowed to heaven and the lurid flames stretched forth their fiery tongues in every direction, the cry of "Fire!" rang out o'er the peaceful landscape, and in five min utes the entire population of the town was on hand to perform deeds of valor. No harm was done beyond tramping down a few cabbages. The fire bell was rung by Mr. Shakespeare Jones, and the coolness and placidity displayed by him in so doing is the talk of the town. Two or three weeks ago Mr. Henry White, who is, without doubt, the most accomplished cooper in this state, if not in America, bought a bottle of hartshorn for family use. It was placed on the clock shelf, and two or three days ago, while Mrs. White was tem porarily absent from the house, young Herbert climbed up and got possession of the bottle. Later on he was found in the back yard and had got the cork out and was aboirt to drink the con tents for lemonade. With a wild shriek of terror the mother dashed forward and wrested the deadly bottle from his innocent hands, and then fell uncon scious. Our reporter was almost in stanly on the spot, as he always is, but the grim specter of death had spread his wings and gone in search of other prey. That is, young Herbert had been drawn back from the edge of the grave. It is far from our purpose to blame Mrs. White, whose heroism is beyond question, but we must say 'hat there is a warning in this incident. Folk* who keep hartliorn in the house can't be too careful of it. One gulp of it and young Herbert would have been with the angels. We had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Thomas Longfellow as he was on his way to prayer meeting Thursday even ing, and he informed us that he had bought two kegs of paint and 1 </, gal lons of oil, and should begin painting his bouse next Monday. Me will paint it a pea green, and if times continue fair will also make a new gale for the front fence. Such evidences of pros perity make us rejoice, and we are only too glad to chronicle them. It is our sorrowful duty to chronicle n painful accident to Mrs. Daniel Wheeler, wife of "Dan,'" the popular ond highly esteemed carpenter. Last Tuesday morning she started to carry a 20-pound feather bed upstairs, and bad nearly reached the top when her strength pave out, fcnd she feli backwards and bumped to the bottom, llcr screams alarmed the neighbors, and they rushed in and laid her on the lounge and sent fcr Dr. Danforth. lie found the victim badly bruised, but with no bones broken, and predicts that she will be about again in two weeks. It was indeed a narrow escape from death, and we cannot repressia shudder as we tender our congratulations. There are times when feather beds be come menaces to life and limb, and they caanot be handled too carefully. The editor of this paper must have at least two meals per day, and cloth ing of some sort to wear. He has a wife and five children, and they must also be provided for. Last week pie plant was offered on our streets at live cents per bunch, and one bunch would have made seven pies, but alas! we had not the money to buy with. If we were not sorely pinched for cash we should not ask delinquent subscrib ers to settle up, but, as it is, we hope that the 42 who are owing us will make payment, even if only ten cents a piece. We will take wood, provisions, soft soap, cider vinegar, carpet rags or most any thing else on subscription, but three or four dollars in cash would help us out wonderfully just now. Exaggerated reports of the trifling misunderstanding which occurred be tween Mr. Jonas Barber and Mr. Darius Baker last vunday evening are flying about and /ve feel it our duty tc correct them. The gentlemen named were at the wharf when Mr. George Gill brought in a strange fish. One pro nounced it a flounder, and the other con tended that it was a sunfish. Neither one called the other a liar, and not a blow was struck. All reports about pis- tols being drawn, blood shed and a ter rible struggle are the veriest nonsense, We trust that this statement will settle the matter for good and all. What might have been a fatal acci dent, but which turned' out to be only a painful one, occurred to William Green, our favorite house painter, one day last week, lie was using a rake in the garden, and after laying it down carelessly stepped on the head of it. This brought the handle up with great force, and, hitting him on the forehead, it produced a lump as large as a wal nut, and for a moment rendered him unconscious. His shouts of "Fire!" and "Police!" were heard by several neigh bors. and they were speedily at hand. They would have cabled a doctor, but Mr. Green, whose grandfather fought at Hunker Hill, and who is himself a born hero, insisted on sitting down on the doorstep and bathing the lump with camphor, and in the course of an hour he was sufficiently recovered to drive a stray hog out. of the garden. In the midst of life we are in death, and you can't be too careful about stepping on rakes and things. THE RASSOR SETTLED IT. "Mistah Jones," said the tall man, after the dispute had continued for a quarter of an hour, "does I understand •)' to declar' dat yo* am a gcn'lan?" "Of co'se yo' does —of co'se!" was the indignant reply of the short man. "Am yo' willin' to let me put my hand in yo'r liind-pocket, sail?" "Of co'se 1 am. Put it dar. Now, den, what vo' find in dat liind-pocket?" "I find, sail," replied the other, as he held it up to view—"l fin' de nios' overpowerin' and prompatious proofs dat. yo' am a reg'lar gem'lan. Nobody but a gem'lan eber carries a razor in his hind-pocket.—nobody but a gem'lan of de highest standin'!" DIDK'T 114.VE TIME. "Yes," said <he Kentuckian. "we had a camp-meetin' at Laurel (irove which lasted the whole week through." "nig crowd?" was asked. "A heap o' folks." "And how many r.ouls were saved?" "Dutmo. I was on the committee to count up the souls that were shot, and I didn't hev time togo foolin' around!" Star (iaiinK. Ned—What are you doing nc~* Ted—Studying the stars. Ned—Astronomer? Ted—No; dramatic critic*—N. Y. World. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1899. PERSONAL AND LITERARY. Horace Greeley is editor of the Enter prise at Thornton, la. Lord Kitchener has given Queen Vic toria a large Arabian donkey. Rev. G. Hay Morgan, of Stamford, England, is both a minister and a law yer. President Steyn, of tlie Orange Free State, is suave, cultured, and, unlike Kruger, is careful of his personal ap pearance. An artist residing in Florence, Robert Davidsohn, has discovered the oldest known caricature of a fight between knights. It is dated lOiiO, and was found on the inside cover of a manu script. Dr. Horace Howard Furness, of Phil adelphia, has received the degree of doctor of laws from the University of Cambridge, England, in recognition of his achievements as a Shakesperean scholar and editor. Henry Timrod was one of the sweet singers of the south, who died more than 30 years ago. His pooms have great beauty in form and expression, but they have long been out of print, and even in his lifetime had little vogue. "The Timrod Memorial Association of South Carolina" has been organized to promote the publication of a volume of his poems. It has been discovered that what may be called the first daily newspaper was a manuscript letter written by salaried correspondents and forwarded by them every hours from London to the provinces. That was in the days of ihe early Stuarts. During the common wealth these London letters were printed in type and circulated in large numbers. Even so long ago as 3 6SO the law of libel was such as to be char acterized by Judge Scroggs as making any newspaper publication illegal and tending to provoke a breach of the peace. OVERHEATED HOUSES. Every Pnrnaee-Henteil Hoom Sliotild lie "Washed Ont" with Cold Frrnh Air. A vast amount of ill health in this country may be directly traced to over heating our dwelling houses. There are very few people who are correct judges of the proper amount, of heat by their feelings. It is not an uncom mon thing in this land of the furnace, where a household of moderate means can secure this method of heating, to find entire families living habitually in rooms heated far beyond the limit of safety. It is dangerous to health to live in a house heated to 7S or SO de grees. Yet these figures are not in excess of the amount to which we often find rooms heated where women and children are li\ing habitually. It is not strange that persons who have become inured to this degree of artificial heat should complain of being chilly if the temperature is at a normal point. There are thousands of people who habitually sleep with the heat from the furnace turned on and their sleep ing rooms heated even far beyond the temperature of tiS degrees given as the proper temperature of the sleeping room of an invalid. A person in health ought not to sleep in winter in a room heated to such a point. The doctrine of fresh air has been widely published and preached, but it is often ignored, nevertheless. It is not an uncommon thing for uninformed women to imagine that the air which comes from the register of a hot air furnace is sufficient to ventilate a room if it is supplied from a cold air box opening ouldoors. Such air, superior as it is to the various substitutes for it, is not sufficient to keep a whole some supply of pure air in the house. Evevy room heated by the furnace should be thoroughly "washed out" with cold fresh air from outdoors at least twice in the 24 hours, even when the heated air of the furnace comes from a cold air box opening outdoors. Everyone knows that the furnace takes more coal in cold weather, anil that if the air of the "cold air" box comes from outdoors it will burn more coal than when it comes from within the house. Some furnaces, therefore, are for economic reasons supplied with the air of the living rooms upstairs. A more ingenious project for introduc ing the vitiated, breathed over air of tilt; house repeatedly into the lungs could hardly be conceived. It is even more objectionable than introducing the air of the cellar into the living rooms upstairs. As a matter of health, the furnace should be started as late as possible in the season. I'liis can be don» in houses where there are open fireplaces and other means of supplying a little pure heated air sufficient to take the chill and dampness off a house, with out heating the air to an undue point. In many parts of the country the fur nace is not started for the season un til after the pleasant days of Indian summer, which come from the first to the second week of November. Once started, the furnace fire must be kept up steadily, and it is seldom safe to let it go out until the middle of April or the first of May. All the best fur naces, whether those which supply heat by hot air or by hot water or steam, are now arranged so that the heat may be regulated, and it is neglect of the simple rules that regulate the heat supply, and not necessity, which causes houses to be overheated so often. —IV. Y. Tribune. Nxttioiinl Sport. "Ah!" exclaimed the Yankee tourist in South America, "a football game? I observe that you people don't throw the violence and vigor into the game that we do in the United States." "You are mistaken," replied his guide. "That is the national revolu tion. It should have taken place yes- j terday, L .11 wis postponed on account of the sickness of some of the leaders." 1 —Judge. ONE OF THE GRANDEST OFFERS EVER MADE. The first five persons procuring the Endless Chain Starch Rook from their grocer, will each obtain one large 10c. package of "RED CROSS" Starch, one large 10c. package of " HURINGER'S REST" Starch, two Shakespeare panels printed in twelve beautiful colors, its natural as life, or one Twentieth Century Girl Calendar, the finest of its kind ever printed, all absolutely free All others procuring the Endlesn Chain Starch Rook will obtain from their grocer two large 10c. packages of starch for 5c and the beautiful premiums which are being given away. This offer is only made for a short time to further introduce the famous " lUiD CROSS" Starch, and the celebrated "UHBlStiElt'Si BEST" cold water Starch. Ask your grocer for this starch. UT GAVE little thought to my health," writes MRS. WM. V. J HELL, 230 N. Walnut St., Canton, 0., to Mrs. Pink ham, "until I found myself unable to attend to my household duties. ••I had had my days of not feeling well and my monthly suffering, and a good deal of backache, mm-r but I thought all women had these M ffClvCln M m things and did not complain. _ "1 had doctored for some time, but no medicine seemed to help me, and my physician thought it best for me togo Irlr I to the hospital for local treatment. I —> — had read and heard so much of your Vegetable Compound that I made up .... v y~;,^ my mind to try it. I was troubled with falling of the womb, had sharp pains in ovrres, leucorrhceaand painful menses. I was so weak and dizzy that I would often have severe fainting spells. 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