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EDITORIAL nENTION.
What the Commoner really needs
is an editor who will see that it
isn't so blame common.
And now it is President iladley
of Yale, who is looking under his
bed to see if by any chance an Em
peror has hidden himself there.
The allies had better send anoth
er ultimatum to the Empress Dow
ager in a hurry or the first thing
they know, she will think that she
owns China.
Indiana has adopted a plan to
discourage lynchers that seems
likely to a charm. She simply re
moves a sheriff who permits his
prisoner to be lynched.
Recruits are coming in very fast
for the new army. Evidently
neither the tales of hardships in
the Philippines nor the abolition of
the array canteen has had a deter
rent effect.
Before making too sure that
Paris Gibson, who carried off the
stakes iif the Montana Senatorial
race, is a dark horse, it would be
well to inquire whether lie is not
copper-colored.
If Com Paul has succeeded in
making the waj' so expensive as to
force a change in the tariff policy
of Great Britain lie has done some
thing quite us important as stag
gering humanity.
It is a good deal of a question
whether the South ever really be
lieved in free silver. It followed
that doctrine simply because the
Populists who captured the party
machinery advocated it.
Most of the Hawaiian legislators,
it is said, cannot speak English.
That's nothing! Many United
States Congressmen cannot speak
English either. For proof of this,
read their speeches in the Congres
sional Record.
Senator McLaurin of South Car
olina, has abandoned the Demo
cratic party and joined the Repub
licans, showing that negro disfran
chisement is likely to work out in
a way totally unexpected by its
authors. Now that this incubus
of black domination has been re
moved, the South can divide on
political lines —aiul it -shows a
strong tendency to do it, too.
Strangers at the inauguration
were taken aback by the way in
which Presidant McKinley goes
around the streets of Washington
without protection. Judging from
the imperial talk of the Democrats
and from Cleveland's example they
expected to find him with at least
a portion of the twenty-two guards
with which his predecessor sur
rounded himself.
Lord Salisbury showed a good
deal of common sense in failing to
reject the Hay-Pauneefote treaty
until after it was dead —and until
after Congress had adjourned. A
few days at the wind-up of a hurri
ed session is no time for the dis
passionate consideration of so im
portant an agreement. By next
fall, Secretary Hay will probably
have ready a convention that will
meet the approval of all.
Order that spring suit now.
BEDARD.
ALL AROUND THE COUNTY.
Huston Hill.
Editor Preta:—
Hero we are again.
The sleighing has left us.
We are glad to see the robin and blue
bird with us again.
Yes, there is a man on our Hill who is
proud of having once been a school di
rector.
How pleasant, yet impossible, it would
be to live in a place where everybody at
tended to their own business exclusively.
llauscom, you can't go, but I can. 1
was once a school director.
GUESS.
Sterling Run Tan nary News.
Editor Press:—
Miss Manna Tracy and brother Pat
made a business trip to Driftwood, one
day last week.
Mrs. Wiu. Sumuierson anil brother
visited with their mother, on Bennetts
Branch, over Sunday.
It would have been a good thing if
Mrs. Carrie Nation had been at Sterling
Hun, on Saturday night, with her little
liatchet. McKinley would have been
more frightened than ever.
Mr. Alplieus Berry and Miss Laura
Lynch were rjuictly married at the home
of the groom, Wednesday, March sixth.
Miss Flora Lynch acted as bridesmaid
and Mr. Edward Berry as best man.
They returned to Caledonia where they
will make their future home.
Wade Spence of Moore Hill passed
through here on Tuesday.
Ed. Berry made a flying trip to Drift
wood 011 Thursday.
Cory Fisher of this place visited the
county seat Tuesday last.
Mrs. J. R, Libbey and two children
left on Monday for San Francisco, where
she will visit her sister.
Jeff Lynch, who has been laid up with
a sore foot, resumed his work at the tan
nery on Monday.
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Rich Valley.
Eklilor Press:—
Andy McGraw was a Valley visitor on
Sunday.
Miss Alda 0. Carter and William Put
man visited Sizerville last Saturday.
Quarterly meetings were held last Sat
urday and Sunday.
Mrs. Carl Culver is seriously ill at
Leon Chadwick's. We did not learn the
cause of her illness.
What might have been a fatal accident
happened to Murdick McNeil, an em
ployee of Frank Lockwood, the other day.
He took two spoonsfull of borax in mis
take for salts. Beverly Ilousler, the
genial cook, came to the assistance of Mc-
Neil with copious doses of mustard and
water and other antidotes. Dr. Ilousler
reports the patient doing as well as can
be expected.
Samuel White is very low at this writ
ing (Tuesday) with typhoid pneumonia
Sherifl Swope had business iu the Val
ley this week.
Maggie thinks that some of our folks
must be non compos mm!is from the way
they talk.
Win. Putman is boarding iu town at
present.
The many friends of Mrs. Dehnout
Adams will be pleased to learn that she
has so far recovered from her recent ac
cident as to be able to walk around a
little.
MAGGIE.
Mason Hill.
Editor Prexa
You'll And fifth day, what then was done,
How aod 'ere making man, did give
Great fishes, in deep seas to live.
'Twas one of these, a living thing;
No arms, no legs, no feet.no wing,
A body huge, without a soul,
Yet living under God's control;
And did his master's laws obey,
Who rules the sea and land away,
A purpose wise God had in view
As in all things His creatures do,
When this great fish did swallow whole,
Poor Jonah's body and his soul.
Jonah repented, wept and prayed;
Learned that his God must be obeyed,
God beard his prayer and made the fish
Cast Jonah up as be did wish.
Thus was the whale again the same.
He had no soul, but kept his name;
He traveled on from pole to pole,
Without a hand, a foot, or soul.
Answer, by Lila T. Dewes.
E. J. Walker left on Saturday for his
new home in York State.
Thos. Dauglierty has been sworn in as
supervisor for the sixth successive term.
This cannot be beat in the county.
Jacob F. English a resident of Grant,
slipped on ice, hurting one of his hips so
bad that he is not able to turn over in
bed.
James Nefcy, son of B. Nefcy of
Driftwood, was killed near Pittsburg by
an overhead bridge. At this writing—
18th, his remains have not arrived home
yet.
Harry Williams, son of C. W. Wil
liams, on Monday came near loosing his
life. He was working at logs along the
Sterling road, when in some manner he
was caught between two logs and held
fast. His mother, who was coming from
Sterling Run heard him make a noise
and went to his assistance and succeeded
in releasing liim. He was take to Drift
wood in the afternoon to see the doctor.
Elder Ebersole gave us a tcmperanee
lecture on last Lord's day, which was
just to the point. He is an excellent
speaker.
Pearl Hill started with Mr. Walker's
team to drive it to his York state farm.
Miss Ethel Barr visited her sister,
j Mrs. Chas. Connor, at Sinuamahoning on
Saturday.
Mrs. Ray Smith who visited her
mother-in-law a few days last week, has
returned home.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1901.
W. M. Miller, wife aud daughter,
Oral, of Medix lluu, visited the former's
mother on Sunday.
Wonder if our mail carrier found that
young lady waiting on the corner for him
when he came along Saturday?
C. J. Miller has returned to his work
at Huntley after two weeks' vacation.
C. W. Wiljiams and 0. B. Tanner
have their lumber job about finished.
David Ives made a business trip to
Emporium on Saturday.
No grippe on our hill at present.
Mrs. James Russell who has been on
the sick list for so long a time is improv
ing.
John Williams called on friends in this
place Sunday.
Bar-
Exposition Notes.
Michigan will have a splendid State
building at the Pan-Arneriean Exposi
tion.
The extensive and valuable resources
of Louisiana will bo exhibited at the
Pan-American Exposition.
The Louisiana exhibit at the Pan-
American Exposition will occupy 2,000
square feet of space.
New York State will have about 4,000
square feet of apace for its exhibit at
the Pan-American Exposition.
Canada's exhibit at the Pan-Ameri
can Exposition will occupy a space of
about 3,000 square feet.
The biggest logs in the Western
Hemisphere will be seen at Buffalo this
summer.
Sinnamahoning Liars' Club.
Kditor Cameron County Press.—
The Liars' Club held another session
Friday evening, in George Shaffer's chick
en coop, and being a new one and free from
vermin, the Club enjoyed the quarters
immense. Frank Jordan, Geo. W. Gore,
and C. W. Peasley held the floor tor three
hours and sixty-eight minutes without a
break. There were several hot ones
spun and ringing encores given. John
Loguc told a whopper that nearly caused
his expulsion; he said while he was after
coons the other day, and had run on on«
track for 12 hours, he found the chap
had entered a large pine stub which he
cut down, and, behold, out came
coons, three bears, five foxes and about
thirty-nine rattle snakes. That was too
much for John and he made for Potter
county where he landed in a "pigs ear,"
all out of breath.
J. V. Strayer proposed the name of
Frank Fisher, of Williamsport Hospital,
for membership to this Club, which was
unanimously accepted, and the first decree
will be administered some time in June.
We will procure the Driftwood and Em
porium goats for the occasion, and Pap
Blodget will loan the candidate his night
cap so the goats will not feast on the hair
of his head.
llanscom brought charges against Bel
din lor swiping china nest eggs and Bel
din proved that he got them at Empori
um, that they were laid by Alfred Nelson's
prize hen—four each day—the charges
were withdrawn.
Our Warden at Emporium informed
us that Bro. Nelson is going to dispose of
all his hens but the otie that lavs china
eggs, to make room for the Emporium
Club, and Dalrymple will call a session in
the near future.
Pap Blodget said something about
take something, and the Club broke up
in idiotic disorder.
FIDE.
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it will run special excursions from Buf
falo, Bradford, Titusville, Falls Creek,
Kinzua, Tidioute, and principal inter
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Allegheny Valley Division, and from
points on the Philadelphia and Erie
Railroad, Erie to Lock Haven, inclu
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all who wish to visit the National Capi
tal. Round-trip tickets, good going on
all regular trains on day of issue, and
good returning on any regular train
within ten days, exelu'-ive of going
date, will be sold at rate of $lO 00 for
the round trip from points on the Buf
falo aud Allegheny Valley Division,
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diate points; and at rate of $8.95 from
Driftwood; from Renovo; $7.30
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The Louisiana Commissioners to the
Pan-American Exposition state that
nothing will be left undone by them to
have the Pelican State exhibit equal to
the best at the great show.
Endorsement of Speer'g Wine by the
Faculty of N. Y.
Dr. Cyrus Edson of New York Board
of Health, say 3 there is no better wines
in the world. 50-eow-8t
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wood-work which would have required
a generation nearly to carve out. It
was in returning from this old Mexi
can town, where buildings are mostly
adobe, that my sympathies were arous
ed for the Rio Grande river, or rather
what remains of it. From my boyhood
I had been led to regard this river as
one of the crowning glories of this
groat country of ours —no one ever told
me this that I remember of—but some
how this idea grew up with me, and I
had longed to see the mighty, the noble,
Rio Grande. Had I given it any
thought, I would have known that I
could not pass from the United States
into Mexico, at this point, without
crossing the Rio Grande, unless I wad
ed, which I could easily have accom
plished by taking off my shoes and
stockings, but this manner of going in
to a strange country would have lacked
dignity, besides being a direct evasion
of the revenue laws, for which offense,
I believe, the penalty is confiscation,
and in addition I should have been
obliged togo somewhere and wash my
feet before daring to replace my shoes.
There is ample provision for a river
here, but the vater is lacking, except
ing n, iittle muddy stuff running down
along one edge* of the channel, which in
places a spry lad could jump across.
The poor river is not to blame for this
state of affairs, however, it is doing the
best it can with the materia! it has at
hand, and by following on up through
New Mexico, towards its source, the
observer will find that the noble river,
once, no doubt, the pride of this great
Southwest, has been sacrificed, stolen
in fact, to irrigate these vast arial
planes, that knew not fertility until
their fevered brow had been kissed by
the waters of the noble river that gave
up its very life that they might become
productive.
Well, it is very evident that I will
never reach California by following the
Rio Grande, so will say good bye to its
muddy waters, and strike out over a
barren waste of country that is largely
desert, that requires nearly a day's
journey to traverse (a Sabbath day at
that) until we strike Yuma on the
banks of the Colorado, an oasis, you
might say, for it is planted down there
almost on the edge of the desert, and
arriving there a3 we did at six in the
morning, with appetites keenly sharp
ened in passing over the sandy waste
of desert, you can imagine that we did
not do a thing but make the quail and
fried chicken fiy with all the other good
things served us that morning for
breakfast. Wo took on new life here
upon seeing the green grassy lawns
with their luxuriant palms, and orange
trees laden with their golden fruit, and
the rich fragrance of their pure white
blossoms; but it is their time, and wo
must speed onto the sunny land, and
on this last stretch we pass through a
valley of salt that is depressed 300 feet
below sea level, while at the same time
we look out of the car windows upon
mountains, whose snow-covered, jagged
peaks peer out above the clouds, some
at a height of over 11,000 feet. Cali
fornia can, at once, boast of the lowest
as well as the highest points of land in
the U. S. Shasta in the north being
over 15,000 feet high, and this salt bas
in in the south being 300 feet below, it
is a State of vast dimensions as well as
vast resources. It boasts of one county
that is more than one and one-third
times the size of the old Keystone State
and in this same county is the great
Mojave desert equal in extent to one
half the size of Pennsylvania. Well, I
guessitis about time to arrive; it is
about the middle of the afternoon, and
the day is a magnificent specimen of
the California breed, of which they
have 316 in each year (the other 49 or
50 in the event of leap year being given
over to rain and cloud.)
I had not been in the city perhaps
more than an hour, when I walked in
to a newspaper office—to tell them I
had couie—when who should I run up
against but an old friend whom I had
known in the east, for years; he used
to be our Olean poet, Arthur J. Burdick,
and he was so overcome he couldn't
work any more that day. He is on the
editorial staff of the Los Angeles Her
ald, having come here from Buffalo the
first of the year. I also find our old
townsman H. C. Rich aad his wife, who
together with Mra. Rich's father and
mother, are spending tho winter here,
so I am not altogether a stranger in a
strange land. I have been around over
the country, in the vicinity of Los An
geles, to some extent in the four weeks
since I arrived, and I find that no story
or picture that I had heard or seen, in
the east, concerning Southern Califor
nia, its climate, and resources, had
been in the least overdrawn. I came
hero for climate, and I find it in abund
ance, with orange 3 and a lot of other
things thrown in. They use it largely
for fuel at this time of year, it being
much less expensive than hard coal at
§3O a ton, and much less annoying even
than soft coal at §l2. With the ther
mometer in the sixties (maximum) it is
a little chilly for tourists in their rooms
without fire To-day it is 75 and we
have had nearly two weeks since my
arrival, ranging from 80 to 90 degrees.
Still the grippe is not unknown here
Some people who are grippe proof in
the east come right out here and get it,
largely from lack of good arrangements
for heating rooms when it rains or is
chilly. Have had pnly one rainy day
since I came, besides a nice shower one
night. They have had a very success
ful rainy season, however, and every
thing is luxurant in consequence, and
vegetable and fruit crops are very
heavy—2o,ooo car loads will be the
movement east, of oranges and lemons,
for the season.
T am in excellent health, and will be
glad to hear from any of my friends
who will take tho trouble to write me
at the "Watauga, : ' 123 N. Bradway.
Yours with many thanks,
J. S. DOUGLAS.
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