EMPORIUM MILLING PRICE LIST. Emporium, P»., Dec. 23, 1902. NEMOPHILA, per sack »1 IB Kelt's Fancy, " } Pet Qrove, " * Graham " ™ Rye " Buckwheat " Patent Meal., " 59 Coarse Meal, per J 35 Chopl-'eet!, " J Middlings. Fancy ".... J Bran, 'J® Corn, per bushel, '2 White Oats, u«r bushel Choice Clover Heed, "1 Choice Timothy Seed, I \t Market Prices. Choice Millet Seed. I Fancy Kentucky Blue Grass, | R.C. DODSON, THE Ordcjcjist, KMPORUIH, PA. IS LOCATED IN THE CORNER STORE. At Fourth and Chestnut Sts.. R. c. nUBHON. Telephone, 19-2. LOCAL DEPARTMENT. PERSONAL GOSSIP. Coutributionn invited. That tchich you mould J.ike to see i»» this department Jet vs know by pos tal card or letter. personally. Jos. Kaye returned to Wisconsin on Monday morning. Misses Grace, Eva and lva Leet are home tor the Holidays. Miss Grace Walker came home from Ithaca, N. Y., last Thursday. Little Miss Dorothy Howard enter tained a large number of little folks on Monday. Geo. W. Tanner, of Mason Hill, was in town on Monday interviewing Santa Claus. William Hess left Tuesday for Williamsport where he expects to spend the winter. George Howard is home fVom school to spend the Holidays with his mother and other relatives. Don M. Larrabee came up from Philadelphia on Tuesday to spend a few days with his parents. Mrs. Ness accompanied by her grand daughter Vera is visiting her son and family at Bellevue, Pa. Mrs. E. C. Davison and daughter Miss Mary, have returned from visit ing relatives at Chambersburg. Mrs. li. P. Bingeman and son How ard left for Galeton where they will spend Christmas with Mr. Bingeman. Miss Delia Bingeman left last Friday for Sunbury, Shamokin and other east ern parts of the State, where she will spend the holidays. A number of our citizens attended the opening of St. Mary's new opera house, Monday evening. It Is said to have cost $35,000. Mrs. J. B. Shriever and daughter, arrived in Emporium last Saturday from Scranton to visit with relatives until after Christmas. W. G. Lewis, of Coudersport,*one of Potter county's most prominent gentle men as well as able attorneys stopped in Emporium Monday evening, while en route for the east. Mrs. Thompson, nee Mary Spencer, of New York, was guest of Mrs. l.aura Bryan and daughter last week, return ing to her home on Saturday, after visiting her mother at Krie. A. L. Birr, of Gibson township, was in Kmporium on Thursday last and calle lat the PItBSB office. He is one of the Gibson voters who does not carry the brand of a dollar mark. H. W. Williams, a carpenter and builder of Kinporium, is moving bis faudly into the new house of Michael (tiiuloa in Hyde's Addition, lie says Ridgway is a hustling town and be liever it will yet become a city. Ridg way Democrat. Lumberman 11. C. Crawford late of SU>-rville, wii among Port Allegany friend*, Wednesday afternoon, t'r.iw ford is very popular here for the ren hoii that his earlier lumber munitions were conducted in this vicinity J. M Hutler, wibi and *oit drove to Kiu porium Sunday and spent the day with relatives. Mm. Hutler and the buy went to Ml. Marys MamUy for a vNt with her p irentt and Jo« drove hmut ntnniT p-irt Allegany H. p uter. Mrs. Theo. Newton and Mre. S D. McDonald have returned from visiting at Buffalo. Former Emporiumites are arriving in town and many are the pleasant greetings. Ex. Sheriff J. W. Kriner left last even ing to spend his Christmas at his old home in Lancaster county. A New Device. Uncle Sam's rural delivery has brought out many peculiar things. At one point on a cross road in In diana a number of farmers, in order to make it convenient to themselves as well as thd mail carrier, have rigged up a novel contrivance. Here sixteen farmers are served and all have their mail boxes mounted on an old wagon wSeel which has been set on top of a post. The sixteen boxes are around the rim of the wheel, and when the carrier comes he simply has to give the wheel a turn to reach the boxes, it is a minature postofflce out of doors. The Halls, of Elk. Hon. Henry Hall, Washington cor respondent of Pittsburg Times, says: "J. K. P. Hall, of Elk county, who re signed his seat in Congress last Monday in order to become a member of the State Senate of Pennsylvania on the first Tuesday of next January, enjoys the somewhat unique distinction of being the fourth member of one family elect ed to represent the Thirty-eight Sena torial districl at Harrisburg since its was created by the apportionment act of 1874. Three of there were brothers— John G. Hall, Harry AlvanHall, and J. K. P. Hall—and the fourth was W. H. Hyde, their brother-in-law. John Q. Hall, who died while abroad in 1889, was elected in 1878 and served eight years, being re-elected In 1882. Harry Alvan Hall was chosen In 1896, and re signed in 1893 to accept the appoint ment of United States district attorney for the Western district of Pennsylva nia under President Cleveland. He was succeeded by W. H. Hyde, a brother in-law, since deoeased, who was elected to the short term in 1893, and for the full term in 1894. Now J. K. P. Hall resigns from Congress on being chosen for the four-year term, be ginning with the approaching meeting of the Legislature. Should he serve un. til 1906, the Hall family will have rep resented the Thirty-eight district 20 years out of the 32 which it will then have been in existence." In a Thanksgiving speech at Phila delphia, Senator Penro» Mid that the recent Republican majority had taught him the wisdom of silence. He called attention to the fact that Governor elect Pennypacker, who spoke all over the State, received fewer votes than W. M. Brown, who spoke in only part of the State, and that Issac B. Brown, who did not make a spsech, received a larger vote than either. Carnegie and Frick want to outdo each other in the giving business in Pittsburg, and the city will undoubted ly profit greatly thereby. Carnegie is coming over to try and hold up his end. Doctor: "Well, my fine little fellow, you have got quite well again. I was sure that the pills I left you wonld cure you. How did you take them—in water or in cake?" Small invalid: "Oh I used them in my pop gun." Congressman Hepburn has been stud ing the trust situation and now comes forward with a suggestion forthe regu lation of trusts based upon a prohibitive tax upon over capitalization. His idea is to have the internal revenue officers fix the value of corporation stock as they do liquor and cigars and levy a tax upon all stock not supported by poverty. Here is an interesting state of affairs existing between handwriting experts. It seems that Daniel F. Ainos of Cali fornia and W. S. Kinsley of New York had formed a handwriting trust. They divided the country Into two parts, Kinsley taking all that section cast of Chicago, and Ames that to the west, with the provisco that if either were called Into the other's territory the fees were to bo equally dividod. Ames was calledin the second Molineaux trial and served 21 days at |6O a day. Kinsley now claims that Ames refuses to divide the fee of $1,050 and asks that payment I be stopped until the western man comes I to time. Handwitlng testimony has | been so much exposed in recent trials, : that intelligent jurymen will refuse to | consider it at all hereafter. it will bo news to the roothersof small children to learn thut croup can lie ' prevented. The first sign of croup is ' hoarseness. A da) or two before the at tack the child becomes hoarse. This is hihiu followed by a peculiar rough cough. | Givet'liaiuberlain's Cough Keincdy free ly as so*in a.4 the child becomes hoarse, or even alter the rough cough appears, ami it will dispd all symptoms of croup. In I this way all dauber and anxiety may be avoided. This reiuedy is used by many thoii>aud.i of mothers and has never beeu ' known to fail. It is, in fact, the only ri'tucdy that can always he dd|>eiidcp up mi and th.tt Is plc.i .iiit ami sale to take. For »al<' by I. Taggart. A glass or two of water half un hour before iirtmkl iil will usually keep the bowi-t* fvgttlar. Itarsh eallmrtici «h>>uld In- avoid'd When a puruative i* needed lake Cbawb »lain fciotnueU and Lm r 1 .hi. I I'll V are iniid .ihd gentle in llwit mu ,u. 101 *1 by 1.. 'IY i/art. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 35, 1902. Are We Hen or Monkeys?—A Fable. [ ONE TKIRE DWELT WHERE THE RICH- I EST NUTS GREW, WHILE THE OTHER PRAWLED AMONG THE SHRUBBERY, EATING WHAT THEY COULI) GET. Once upon a time, in the far oriental country where monkeys dwell, a certain tribe of monkeys sequested themselves in an isolated forest that abounded with fruit producing trees and all the vege table products dear to monkey stomachs, and set up what they declared was an ideal government. They proposed to run things by popular vote instead of having a monkey leader or chief to which obedience and homage had to be paid, as was the custom in most monkey tribes. They held a great pow-wow and elect ed leaders who were to hold office as long as their fellow monkeys desired them to, and immediately they all fell to feast upon the good things, grew fat and enjoyed themselves. Certain shrewd members of the band discovered that here and there throughout the forest grew cer tain tall cocoa palms which bore quanti ties of fruit which required very little j exertion to get, and they set about devis-1 ing methods of securing these fruitful | trees to themselves. They took up their abode in them and held possession against their fellows, who grumbled a little and then went seeking meals where there was less promise and less luscious rewards. After many years the monkeys in this forest became divided into two classes; the one that dwelt in the tall trees where the richest nuts grew, and selfishly kept all to themselves, and the other which prowled among the shrubbery, eating berries and such small fruits and vege tables as they could find. The monkeys of the latter group, lead- j ing such a hardy, strenuous life, devel- 1 oped strength, endurance and powers of j body quite beyond what in time came to j be the lot of the representatives of the j upper group. There everything was so j easy to obtain, food was so abundant and so close at hand that the dwellers in the high trees came to the conclusion that they wers of somewhat different consti tution to their fellows. They spent their days in idleucas and pleasure, and so much did they incline after these pur suits that eventually even plucking the fruit that grew about them was too much ! j of a task and they had it done for them by their le#s fortunate fellows, allowing them for the services to eat some of the small, ill-developed kernels. As years went on it began to be a mat ter of belief among those upper monkeys that the care of their baby monkeys was too much for them; that larger and better representatives of their kind might be reared if the mothers were assisted in supplying them nutriment by having a tax levied on the mother's milk of the monkeys that dwelt in the shrubbery, and forthwith they caused a convention of the tribe to be called, where there was much speech-making, and where it was set forth that: Whereas, certain monkeys dwelt in tall trees by right of possession, aud were entitled to environment and benefits dif ferent from the general run of monkeys, and Whereas, it had been discovered that among the aforesaid monkeys the in fants did not receive any more, or as much, mother's milk as did the infant progeny of the less-favored monkeys, and Whereas, as the sense of the monkeys in convention assembled was that the de velopment of a strong and hardy class of High-Tree dwellers was necessary, and that "patriotism" (a word they coined for the occasion) impelled all m< mbers of the tribe to aid in securing this much to-be-desired condition, it was Resolved, that until the infants of the lligh-T rce monkeys should develop the strength and endurance to help themselves to the fruits about them all the mothers of the little monkeys that dwelt nearer the earth should contribute a tithe of their mother's milk towards the keep of the aristocrats of the big trees. Which resolution was adopted with much jabbering notwithstanding the fact that some mothers insisted that it was not like a monkey republic to establish such a lule as would force one mother to give part of her suck to another mother's babe simply that that babe might grow faster and stronger. So it became a custom with these mon keys for the mothers below to supply part of their milk to the off spring of the mothers above. And the little monkeys in the trees thrived and waxed fat, while | the little monkeys lower down were thin I and poorly nurtured. And when the monkeys so fed and pro- I teeted grew to maturity they were much I stronger and fatter than their predeoes j surs had been, and a wisu old monkey, who lived in a irrove of cocoa palms by j himself, declared that it would be a i grave error to stop the supply of rich food that bad been coming to th«-iii from —— We^gS® ffl» ®nl) i; i || ji I | o Holiday (i<><>ds at O | 1 5 HARRY S. LLOYD'S. ' - •£< their fellows, so another convention was called, wherein it was shown, by divers ; monkeys with extended vocabularies, that the monkeys in the trees were very iui- j portant members of the community; that 1 their existence was essential to the wel- j fare of the republic, and they called up the magic word "patriotism" again, and amended the former resolution to stand that each monkey that belonged to the class that foraged so hardly for food among the scrubs and on the ground should contribute a tithe of what he should accumulate towards the main tenance of the monkeys of the palm trees, and this was carried, too, although the hardship caused much grumbling. Thereupon the conditions of the mon key republic became sorely trying. It was noticed that the protected monkey.- grew exceedingly fat and sleek, and their strength was proverbial throughorit the length and breadth of the country; while the poor little monkeys who had to for age so hardly grew thiner and weaker. Hut they were rewarded by the praise showered upon them from above by those their labors fed, who called them patriots and loyal citizens of the mon key republic. This did not produce strength nor stop hunger's gnawing, but some of them declared that they felt all right because of a sense of duty. And monkeys in neighboring forests, who had kings and rulers whom they served faithfully, and to whom alone they were expected to render services or to surrender what they might gather from the forest, laughed long and loud at their republican neighbors when by chance they met them, and derided their lean, hungry, mangy bodies, and jibed them with caustic words, applying to them such epithets as "imbeciles, fools, asses, jackals"—in fact, they called them anything but monkeys, which they de clared their stupidity had proved them not to be. Moral —lf wc knew a tribe of mon keys whose laws and customs fostered such a condition of affairs at; is set forth in the foregoing tale we would unhesi tatingly agree with their brethren who j denounced them as fools and asses.—J. | Redding, "In Cry for Justice." Double-Dyed Knavery. i "Bklm-milk masquerades as cream, | Thin us »re seldom what they seem." The poet might have added that olive oil is expressed from the seed of the cotton plant, and then when smeared on small herrings the joint product becomes sardines; that the orange marmalade of commerce comes from the humble turnip; that the cherry which adorns your cock tail grows on the hoof of the calf, and so on ad infinitum, ad nauseam. Only not so much so as formerly. Most of the states have lawsagainst adulteration which are vigorously enforced. The lactometer tests insure us reasonably pure milk. The tartness of vinegar is no longer a laboratory effect. Oleomargarine may be a wholesome product, but now adays a paternal government sees that you know from which part of the cow your butter is derived. But there arc no laws against substitu tion and this is the age of substitution, the day of parasitism and piracy in busi ness—and, it might be added, in politics. The statesman who promises his hench man a certain appointment, ' or something equally as good,'"—and usually gives him the latter—is a substitutor who plays the game of keeping the word of promise to the ear and breaking it to the hope as cunningly as the enterprising maker who imitates the name of a popular bicycle or the gentle scoundrel who palms off a cheap drug for a costly one. One half of the business world lives on the brains of the other half. The moss familiar motto of the advertiser has to be: "Be ware of imitations." For the one man who has an idea and the courage and the onpital to exploit it, there are nine men waiting to steal it from him. Even litera ture has its parasites. Let a novel or a play make a popular hit, and within a month a doeen publishers or managers have palpable imitations on the market. This is the meanest phase of human nature. This substitutor is a double dyed knave, for he steals not only the purse, but the good name of his victim. The just-as-good kind of merchandise is never so good as the original, for if it were, it could be sold on its merits. And 1 the meanest kind of substitution is that which prevai.s in the drug trade. This is simply triffling with human life. Most of the preprittary remedies are of value in the treatment of the ailments which they are advertised to cure. They could i not have succeeded without merit. Ad ! vertising can do much, but it cannot ' make the public buy a poor article more I than once or twice. The substitutor be ing 11 thief at heart, and having already stolen the good name of the producer, : sees no reason why he should keep faith with the consumer. He tells him that ; "this is just as good" as the advertised I article, and then deliberately gives him some preparation which will not cure and may injure, because there is more money in the transaction for the heart less substitutor. There should be laws in every state against substitution, and they should be enforced as liuidly as are the laws of patent right.— Buffalo Express. Slzcrville. Miss Maud Evans visited in Emporium Saturday. Mrs. F. H. Mahcr was in Olean Fri day of last week. We don't care to be shot at many times; please don't do it again. A number of Gnrdeauites attended the entertainment Saturday night. Mrs. Jos. Kinsler and children of Em porium, attended the entertainment Sat urday night. Mrs. D. B. Morton and daughter Grace left Monday for Buffalo where they will spend Christmas. The Methodist people of this place are contemplating an entertainment in the future; proceeds are to be given to the pastor. The Sbippen and Sizerville schools held a christmas entertainment in the school house Saturday evening. It was a suc cess and largely attended. Miss Mulliner and Miss Germond are to be thanked for the success of the entertainment. PECKS BAD BOY. A Million Voices. Could hardly express the thanks of Homer Hall, of West Point, la. Listen why: A severe cold had settled on his luugs causing a most obstinate cough. Several physicians said he had consump tion, but could not help him. When all thought he was doomed he began to use Dr. Kings New Discovery for consumption and writes—"it completely cured me and saved my life. I now weigh 227 lbs." It's positively guaranteed for Coughs, Colds and Lung troubles. Price 50c and 81.00. Trial bottles free at L. Taggart's. | RESCUE HOOK AND LADDER T| I COMPANY, | | Dance | 1 Supper, I If! AT OPERA HOUSE, |fl f| Wednesday Evening, 9j ffji Mus,c by BUTTONS ORCHESTRA, Olean, N. Y. S M TICKETS. SI.OQ. sttppirp, g>Kn_ ||jj The Public is cordially invited to attend. W I H Thos. Trotter 11 Has just received another lot of j C^UreS# g gi| !- Christmas Presents. |jji| Notice of Meeting of Stockholders. rTIHR Annuil Meeting of the Stockholders of 1 the Emporium & Rich Valley H. R. Com pany. will be held at the Law Office of Green & Shaffer, Tuesday, January 27th, 1903, at one o'clock, p. in., for the election of officers and the transaction of such other business as may come before them. HENRY AUCHU, President, J. W. KAYE, Sec'y. Emporium, Pa., Dec. 24th, 16011. 44-3t. Caution Notice. Notice is hereby given to the public that my wife PEA RL havin < left my bed and board without just cause or provocation, I hereby caution the public against harboring or trusting her on my account,for I shall pay no bills of her contracting. WM HALDERMAN. Emporium Pa., Dec. 11th. 1902. 43-Bt, THE EMPORIUM Bottling Works HENRY KRAFT, Prop. Is prepared to make your Holiday season one of good cheer. Finest Domestic Wines and Beers, Embracing all the pop ular brands. Fine line of light wines, guaran teed absolutely pure. Celebrated Erie Beer ALWAYS READY Send your orders by letter or 'phone early. 44-ly.
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