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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.
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