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
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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
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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
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HENRY KRAFT, Prop.
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your Holiday season
one of good cheer.
Finest Domestic
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Embracing all the pop
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