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date, thoroughly reliable furniture at much less than ??
cost of manufacture. We want you to cotne to this ??
sale, to see and compare the furniture with that you **
** can buy elsewhere at even double our prices. We will fc4
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£4 values can be had. It is only through a purchase of £4
lis kind, that these stupendous bargains are made pos- &£
gg sible—a chance that comes your way but seldom. This £2
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Next to Bank, Emporium, Pa
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1903.
ANCIENT HISTORY.
happening in McKean County in Days
of Old, Taken from the Files.
Smethport Miner.
The following statement of Captain
Theodore McGowau, A. A. (J., to (Jen.
Augur, may be implicity relied upon as
a correct version of the assassination of
President Lincoln;
"On the ni'jht* of Friday, April 11,
1865, in company with a friend, 1 went
to Ford's thrcatre, arriving there just
after the entrance of President Lincoln
and his party accompanying him. My
friend, Lieut. Crawford, and I, after
viewing the Presidential party from the
opposite side of the dress Circle, Went to
the right side and took a seat in the
passage above the seats of the dress
circle and about live feet from the door
of the box occupied by President Lin
coln. During the performance the at
tendant of the President came out and
took the chair nearest the door. I sat
and had been sitting about four feet to
his left and rear for some time.
"I remembered that a man, whose
face I do not distinctly recollect, passed
me and inquired of one sitting near who
the President's messenger was and learn
ing exhibited to him an envelope, ap
parently official, having a printed head
ing and superscribed in a bold band. L
could not read the address and did not
try. I think now it was meant for Gen.
Grant. That man went away.
"Some time after I was disturbed in
my teat by the approach ot a man who
desired to pass up the aisle in which 112
was sitting. Giving him room by bend
ing my chair forward, lie passed me
and stepped on one step down upon the
level floor below me. Standing there,
he was almost in my line of sight and I
saw him while watching the play. He
stood, as I remember, one step above the
messenger and remained perhaps one
minute, apparently looking at the stage
and orchestra below. Then he drew a
number of visiting cards from his pocket
from which, with some attention, he
drew or selected one. These things 1
saw distinctly, 112 saw him stoop and,l
think descend to the level with the mes
senger and by his right side. He showed
the card to the messenger and as my at
tention was then more closely fixed upon
the play, 1 do not know whether the
card was carried in by the messenger or
his consent given the entrance of the
man who presented it. [ saw, a few
moments later, the same man entering
the door of the lobby leading to the box
and the door closing hi hind him. This
was seen because I could not fail from
my position to observe it; the door side
of the proscenium box and the stage
were ali within the direct and oblique
lines of my sight. How long I watched
the play after entering 1 do not know.
It was, perhaps, two or three minutes,
possibly four. The house was perfectly
still, the large audience listened to the
dialogue between 'Florence Trenehard'
and 'May Meredith, when the sharp re
port of a pistol rang through the house.
It was apparently tired behind the scenes
on the right of the stage. Looking to
wards it and behind the Presidential box,
while it startled all. it was evidently ac
cepted by everyone in the theatre as an
introduction to some new passage, several
of which had been interpolated in the
early part of the play. A moment after
a man leaped from the front of the box
directly down nine feet on the stage and
ran rapidly across it, bare-headed, holding
an unsheathed dagger in his right hand,
the blade ot which flushed brightly in
the gaslight as he came within fl) feet of
the opposite exit. I did not see his face as
he leaped or ran, but 1 aui convinced
that he was the man I saw enter. As he
leaped he cried distinctly the motto of'
' Virginia, 'sic semper tyrannis.' The
hearing of tiiis and the sight of the dagger
explained fully to me the nature of the
deed he had committed."
The circumstances which led to the
success of the ['resent diabolical plot are
mainly as follows: As is not uncommon,
the general joy and hopefulness after the
late brilliant victories, whereby the heart
of the insurrection was finally and fatally
pierced, the day of rejoicing was conclud
ed by special rejoicing at the public thea-1
tres. It has not been the custom of the
President habitually to attend these places
of amusement, but as this seemed to be
an occasion of general rejoicing, he had
consented to visit it in company with his
wife for the purpose of lending his
countenance and encouragement to the
prevailing good feeling. (Jen. Grant and
his wife were expected to he present also,
but afterwards changed their determina
tion. The play for the evening was "< >ur
American Cousin." The Presidential
party, consisting of Mrs. Senator Harris
and daughter and Major Henry J. Rath
bun of Albany, arrived at the theatre
about forty minutes after eight o'clock
and were ushered by Col. Ford into the
private box overlooking the stage.
The expected presence of the President
j and Gen. Grant drew out a crowded
house. Booth was observed working his
way through the crowd towards the box
occupied by the Presidential party, but of
] course no suspicion was excited by the
; circumstance. When he reached the
i sentry at the door ol the box he was re
; fused admittance, but in a whisper he an
j nounccd himself as a senator ami said
th<! President had sent for him. Il<' was
llien allowed to pass in, when .Major
Rathbun confounded him in a low tone,
of voice; "You mistake, sir; this is the
President s box.' Booth graciously
lugged paidon. turned to t'o and struck «t
Major U.ithbuii with a knife, iufli< ting a
severe but not dangerous wound, lie
stepped out of ihe box, passed onto the
second door, which was closed, tired
through it. stepped buck again in the box
at the first door ami in an instant had
sprung out upon the stage with a cry of
"sic semper tyrannis." The whole affair
was the work of thirty seconds. Major
Rathbun made no outcry at first as lie
did Dot wish to create an alarm. All in
the boxes as well as the sentry outside,
heard the shot, hut at first supposed it
fired in the course of the play. Mr. Lin
coln made no outcry when hit and Mrs.
Lincoln only discovered it when she turn
ed to him after Booth rushed past her
and jumped upon the stage.
There are but few brief details to be
added to the scene in the actual moments
in which the assassination took place.
The President was sitting in a large easy
chair which Mr. Ford had placed in the
box specially for that evening. Mr.
Lincoln was looking on the stage in the
second scene of the third aet of "Our
American Cousin." Mrs. Mountcher
sington was ju«t leaving the stage, saying
to Mr. Hawk, who was playing Asa
Trencbard, the words: -'You don't
understand the manners of good society;
that alone excuse the impertinence of
which you are guilty." Trenehard
answers, "I guess I know enough to turn
you inside out,'' and the audience clapped
their hands and laughed in glee, in which
the President joined with a smile and
turned his head halfway to the audience.
At that instant Booth fired the pistol
through one door of the box, at the same
time making his aim while looking
through the other open door. The Presi
dent threw his head slightly forward and
seemed to crouch down in the chair.
Booth leaped from the box to the
cutting Major Rathbun as he passed and
shouting "sic semper tyrannis" as he
dashed across the stage, ft was but 04
feet from the President's box to where
Mouth left the house. After the shot
was lired the occupants of the box seem
ed paralyzed. Miss Harris recovered
first and calhd to Miss Laura Keene,
the actress, for water. As the house was
lifting emptied Miss Keene went around
up into the dress circle and into the box.
She immediately set to work, placed the
bleeding head of the dying man on her
lap and endeavored to get some water
down his throuf, but even then he was
wholly unconscious and his breathing was
rattlingly noisy. The brain was already
commencing to ooze out and the blood
bedaubed the robe of the actress. The
self-possession of Miss Keene is comment
ed on as the only exception to the general
fear that seized upon everyone.
That Rooth meant to kill the Presi
dent is elear enough, but that hi; did kill
him, shooting through a door at an angle
which he must have measured with his
eye when he first looked into the box, is
something almost remarkable. He must
have framed his mind for just such emer
gencies as actually and finally came, or
else the success of this shot was a mere
stroke of luck for him. In any event,
firing as he did, he could scarcely hope
tor such success once in twenty times.
His intimate knowledge of the exits from
the stage at Ford's, where he had often
played—his last appearance being some
six or eight weeks ago when he played
Romeo to Mis. Rowers' Juliet—assisted
his escape to the alley, where he mounted
his horse and rode away. The horse
had been held by an employe of the
theatre, who does not appear to have any
! connection with the assassination.
The stable where Booth kept his horse
temporarily was in an alley about one
hundred yards in the rear of the theatre.
This alley eeimuunicates at a right angle
wi'li another one leading out into F.
street; so alter committing the deed, he
rushed out of tin- rear of the theatre,
where lie had left a small door open a
few moments before, and mounting the
horse that ho had previously brought
there from the stable a few yards off,
thus pot fairly out into another street be
fore any cxcitcm n: could be created. A
personal inspection of this way ot escape
shows that it defied pursuit and those per
sons who declare they saw him ride away
from the front of the theatre simply im
agine it.
Very low Rates to the West ant!
Southwest.
The Missouri Pacific fly., and Iron
Mountain Route will sell one way and
round trip Homeseekers tickets to
points in Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska,
Missouri, Arkansas, Indian and Okla
lioma Territories, Louisiana, Texas, and
New Mexico, 011 the first and third
Tuesdays of each month to and includ
ing April, at unusually low rates. For
further information write Jno. R.
James, Central Passenger Agent, 905
Park Bldg., Pittsburg, Pa.
Washington.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
announces that on March 3 and April 3
it will run special excursions from Buf
falo, Mt. Morris, Bradford, Titusville,
Falls Creek, Kinzua, Tidioute, and prin
cipal intermediate stations on the Buff
alo and Allegheny Valley Division, and
from points on the Philadelphia and
Frie Railroad, Erie to Lock Ifaven,
inclusive, to Washington for
the benefit of all who may
wish to visit the National Capitol.
Round-trip tickets, good going en all
regular trains on day of issue, and good
returning on any regular train within
ten days, exclusive of going date, will
be sold at rate of SIO.OO for the round
trip from points on the Buffalo, and
Allegheny Valley Division, and from
Erie, St. Mary's, and intermediate
points; and at rate of $S.9"> from Drift
wood; $B.l o from Heuovo; £7 lit' from
Look Ifaven; and proportionate rates
from other points.
These tickets will be good to return
via llurrisbiirif or Philadelphia, and to
stop oil at Philadelphia returning if de
p sited with ticket agont at Broad .Street
Ktatiuii, Philadelphia.
For additional information consult
small hand-billH apply to ticket agents,
or address B. P. Fraser, Passenger
Agent, Buffalo District,3o7 Main Street,
Ellicott Btjuare, Buffalo, N. Y., or E. S.
Ilarrar. DlvUlok Ticket AfMt,
Williamsport, Pa. fi'J 2t.
Mysterious Circumstance.
< )ne was pale and sallow and the other !
1 fresh and rosy. Whence the difference? j
I She who is blushing with health uses I>r. >
King's New Life Pills to maintain it
By gently arousing the lazy organs tliev '
j compel good digestion and head off con
| stipation. Try them. Only 25c at L. ;
| Taggart druggist.
A man seldom realizes how much he j
; can't do until he tries.
Tlie Easy Pill.
DeWitt's Little Early Risers do not
I gripe or weaken the system. They cure 1
j biliousness, jaundice, constipation and in- j
active livers, by arousing the secretions, i
i moving the bowels gently, yet effectually, j
J and giving such tone and strength to the |
| glands of the stomach, liver and bowels
j that the cause of the trouble is removed
| entirely. These famous little pills exert
I a decided tonic effect upon the organs in- |
! volved, and if their use is continued for a |
I lew days there will be no return of the j
j trouble. R. C. Dodson.
The more a m.t>i is wrapped up in
! himself the colder lie is.
When you feel blue and that every
thing goes wrong, take a dose of Chamber
lain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. They
will cleanse and invigorate your stomach,
regulate your bowels, give you arelish tor
| your food and make you feel that in this
old world is a good place to live. For
i sale by L. Taggart.
I Some men know just enough to make
] fools of themselves.
A Weak Stomach
Causes a weak body and invites disease,
Kodol Dyspepsia Curecuresand strength
| ens the stomach, and wards off and ovcr
| comes disease. .1. R. Taylor, a prominent
j merchant of Chriesman, Tex., says:"l
| could not eat because of a weak stom ich,
: [ lost all strength and rundown in weight,
j Al. that uioti"y imh! ! do was done, but
| all hope of recovery vanished. Hearing
of some wonderful cures effected by use of
Kodol I conclude d to try it. The first
bottle benefitted me, and alter taking four
bottles I am fully restored to my usm.l
strength, weight and health." R. C.
Dodson.
The real hero doesn't need a brass
band to herald his coming.
One Minute Cough Cure gives relief in i
one minute, because it kills the microbe
which tickles the mucous membrane,
causing the cough, and at the same time
clears the phlegm, draws out the inflam
mation and heals and soothes the effected
parts. One Minute Cough 'Jute strength
ens the lungs, wards off pneumonia and is
a harmless and never failing cure. In all
curable cares of Coughs, Colds and Croup,
One Minute Cough Cure is pleasant to
take, harmless and good alike for young
and old. R. C. Dodson.
AFTER THE BATTLE
Some arc lound bleeding and
sore, while others have a fit
of the blues. No if there
should be any so unfortunate
as to suffer from the efiects of
accidents we have the Balm j
for their pains and aches,let it
be either for man or beast.
Our liniment and powdersfor
horses or cattle are always !
the best.
Our medicines are pure and j
always get there. The prices |
I are right too.
\P% uur patent medicine depart- j
j ment is supplied with all the j
i standard remedies and we can I
supply your on short notice. I
Our toilet and fancy goods j
department we keep up to
the times.
Our Prescription depart
ment receives our closest at
tention and all calls answered
day or night. Just touch the
button. In fact we are here
to do business and serve the
public.
M. - A. - ROCKWELL,!
TIIE PHARMACIST,
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the very best fabrics and
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To brush up and make beauti
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year for such has arrived
and we would call the attention
of the public to our very large
and reliable line of Paints, Oils,
Varnishes, the best in the world.
In addition to the best paints,
we have a first-class line of De
Voe & Co.'s Brushes. Get a
move on and be prepared to paint
before the workmen are all en
gaged. We can save you money.
While you are painting your
home or business place let us
talk a little with you on Bath
and Closets, Hot Water, Steam
or anything in that line. Our
increased facilities and expert
workmen will do you good work.
Don't deay until too late.
Farmers should bear in mind
that we handle Plows, Harrows,
Rakes, etc. In fact our Hard
ware, Stove and Plumbing De
| partments are up to the best.
Write or wire us, when a com
petent agent will call 011 you.
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