We Have What You Need! To brush up and make beauti ful your home. The season of the year for such work 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 011 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 011 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. Fanners 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. MMBIiMI. C. B. Howardi tiijk") & Co. 112 We have had large sales in our SUMMER DRESS GOODS,but the best pieces are not all sold. We still have \ large assortment left at very reasonable prices, and are mstantly adding new pieces. MSCALL/IoN PATTERNS^ \iile in our store do not forget to look on our mark ed do\ counter. A few of the bargains are, Ladies and Childre s Shoes, Ladies Belts, Ladies Fancy Hose, etc. Beat we; n g quality at less than cost. CALL'S We are a^t s f or the famous McCall Patterns, ioc aud 15c. Nottjigher. C.B.HOYARD&CO. "STORE O?THE RIALTO." SHSHSHSS 5H5 AA• A • 112 Artistic I Painting' S S _ ANIJ _ | l PAPER HANGING! 1 jjj Will receive prompt jj] attention and all [jj work intrusted tome [ji n] will be guaranteed (n p] satisfactory. lam (n n] prepared to furnish Cj m my customers with uj nJ both Paints and in jjj Wall Papers, and u] [jj save you big money. jn [}{ Estimates cheerfully }j] jjj given on contract work. Apply to !F. H. PEARSALL. j [°S2ESHSHSHHESHSHSHSHSSSSH?J nT BIG ! Bargains J 8 a jij THIS WEEK. uj l/j Call and see what they are. [u [u When you want Ifl g GRAPES, S CELERY, W S PEARS, K Sj SPANISH ffi ffi ONIONS, ffi p 0 |{j Our Meats ru It are always fresh and the 1} j{] best grade obtainable. [J ffi ri ruin ft GOODS DELIVERED PROMPTLY, [} Geo. H. Gross, 112 [iS3 HSaSHSHS HSHS BSHSH 5P SH^ CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER i, 1903. An Old Time Explosion. An old chronicler tells a curious Htorj of an explosion which occurred in Lon don Jan. 4, 11549. A ship chandler, it seems, "about 7 of the clock at night, being busy in his shop about barrel ing up of gunpowder, it took fire and In the twinkling of an eye blew up not only that, but all the houses there about to the number of fifty or sixty. The number of persons destroyed by this blow could never be known, for the next house but one was the Hose tav ern. a house never (at that time of night) but full of company. And in lliree or four days, after digging, they continually found heads, anus, legs, etc." The most Interesting part of the iccount comes further on: "In the digging they found the mis tress of the -house of the Rose tavern sitting In her bar and one of the draw ers standing by the bar's side, with a pot in his hand, only stilled by dust and smoke, their bodies being preserved whole by means of great timbers fall ing across one upon another. There was also found upon the upper lends of Barking church a young child lying In a cradle as newly laid in l>ed, neither child nor cradle having the least sign of Are or other hurt. It was never known whose child It was, so that one of tho parish kept it for a memorial, for In the year KSOO I saw the child, prow 11 to be then a proper maiden." Tlu» Trdnlilcn of tho Coyote* The coyote has small chacce for life. It is hunted upon all occasions and by devious and sundry methods. As tho cowboy careers along the plains he pops nt it with his six shooter. The wise ranchman has a shotgun or rifle hanging in a convenient place await ing the appearance of a coyote near the ranch house. The hunter of more choice game never misses a shot at a coyote, while there are professionals who do little else but pursue it from one year's end to another, llesldes, there are organized hunts inaugurated in settled communities for both pleas ure and proflt, when a large scope of the country Is swept clean and the coy otes falling into the meshes of the hunt are dispatched and their skins tanned for rugs and doormats. Then animals are baited with poisoned meat. This method of destruction Is not only used by ranchmen, but by persons who make a business of killing coyotes for a living.—Kansas City Journal. The Apeifitn In Society. To upe anything Is a sign of vacuity of mind; to ape the follies of those above you is one of the most offensive forms of vulgarity. Yet we see the fol lies of the uppermost classes steadily imitated all down the different sets of society, and the popularity of every book dealing with the peerage Is a proof, if one were needed, of what ab sorbing interest our failings are to the public. There is nothing we will not write upon to gratify this vulgar curi osity; nothing Is in too bad taste if by Its publication we can raise a little of the "needful." Our scandals, our in trigues, our inane conversation, our bills and even our menus are recorded for the benefit of a public which, while professing to be horrified, greedily cries for more.—A Countess in London Outlook. Tobacco For Wives. In the early history of Virginia and Maryland tobacco was by all odds the most important crop, and It was even possible at times to secure a wife In ex change for a moderate amount of to bacco, as in later days In the west a squaw could be obtained In exchange for a small amount of whisky. In 1732 at Jamestown tobacco was made a le gal tender for all debts, Including cus toms. In about a dozen years after the founding of Jamestown by Captain John Smith an English nobleman. Sir Edwin Sandys, brought over with a ship load of supplies ninety youn# Eng lish maids, who Immediately upon their arrival were wooed and married by the colonists, each being paid for at the rate of "120 pounds of good tobacco." John Adam*' Opinion of Wanhlnfttnn After dinner one night a visitor stepped into the hull to help Adams put on his coat. Adams thanked him. "Don't mention it,"was the solemn toady's reply. "No attention Is too great, no trouble Is too much that we of this century have the pleasure of taking for the patriots of the Revolu tion—for George Washington and your self, sir." Adams' sharp retort was: "Don't mention Washington to me, sir! Washington was a dolt!"—Sanborn's "Reminiscences of Emerson." Montreal'* Cathedral. The great landmark In Montreal is the Cathedral of Notre Dame, which, next to the famous cathedral In the City of Mexico, Is the largest church building in America and has a seat ing capacity of 12,000. The church was built in 1820 and is noted for its mag nificent chimes, one of the bells of which, called "Le Gros Bourdon," Is one of the largest suspended bells In the world and weighs 24,780 pounds.— Vour Track News. Very Abnent Minded. "Talk about absent mlndedness," said 11 man the other day, "why, I like it, for when I was a boy I worked for a luan who was so absent minded that he discharged me three times in one week 2nd paid me a week's wages each time." The Indnoement Incomplete. She (romantic)— When you first saw the wonderful Niagara falls, didn't you feel as though you would liko to Jump in? He—No; I hadn't got my hotel bill then,—Toledo Blade. Pcflnliulfltlc. At-least half*the work done In the 1 world is of no particular use uriloßs!k may be for exerclsa.—MilwaukeeSopti ncL # 1111 .-II I 11- % Our Clothing v, There may be Is selected with the HHraQIfAL False economy in buy greatest care, being fesf \ V ing Clotliiugadvertised made of good material JP as c^ca P- Better buy —material that wll lj\h\ sm&MISIr of a dealer who has a give good service and £ reputation to maintain, at that are IfflW °^ er " ? onie OUR HOYS' CLOTHING ' lfi| Rl H JMI GENTS FURNISHINGS Is made for boys and it Maral IPPI fSS and if you would like looks as if it was made something handsome for boys—not father's in this line, call and R. SEQER & SON. R- SEGER & SON. v ■ J When 11 Capuchin Dien. Death in the eyes of the Capuchin monks is chiefly a terrible reminder of the vanities of the flesh. Their ceme tery In Rome is a cellar whose walls and ceiling are covered with the bones of their predecessors. Skulls, ribs, thigh bones and knuckles are arranged in grotesque designs, and even the chan delier is constructed of parts of skele tons. When a Capuchin dies he is burled in loose dirt without a coflln. As there Is room for only forty bodies in this earth, which was brought from the Iloly Land, the body that lias lain in It lon gest Is dug up, the skeleton Is cleaned, garmented in monkish garb and placed in a niche. To make room the oldest skeleton in a niche is dismembered, and its various bones are added to complete some wall design. The I'nHophiKtlcnted Moujik. "The Russian inoujik," says a man who has seen life in the land of the czar, "is a naive fellow, lie is some thing like a boy and something like an Irishman. lie is, as a rule, very sim ple, very kind. "A typical moujik entered one day a railroad station. He approached the agent and asked when a certain train would leave for a certain place. The agent told him distinctly, and, seem ing satisfied, he departed. But a mo ment later he was back again, and again he asked the agent the same question. " 'Why,' the agent exclaimed, 'I told you that only a minute ago!' " 'You did, truly," the moujik an swered. 'But it isn't myself that wants to know this time. It's my mate out side.' " Kreneh Deeorntlon*. The popular impression is that the Legion of Honor is the only French decoration, but that Is not at all the case. France possesses orders quite as ancient as those of most countries, though the oldest of them, St. Esprit. St. Michel, St. Louis and St. Hubert, dating from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, are no longer conferred. Since the Legion of Honor, which wag founded In 1802 by the first consul and modified by statute in 1810 and 1852. there have been established no fewer than seven decorations. The Legion is the only honor that can be Ijestowed on foreigners. Courting Under Dlfflcultleii. Engaged lovers in the Canary islands find it difficult to exchange sweet con fidences, as the young man is not al lowed to visit his fiancee In her home. He goes to her house and, finding her at the window, must talk to her from the street. Sometimes her window is perhaps ten or twelve feet above the road. Therefore he must talk loudly, and very often members of the girl's family are unseen listeners. How He Got Out. "No." said Woodby, "I don't see Wiseman at all any more. He has dropped out of our social set." "He tells a different story." remarked Slnnlckson. "Indeed!" "Yes; he claims he has climbed out." —Catholic Standard. Iler Conne LIIUKIU George—You do not call on Miss Rosebud now? Jack—No; I got dlsgnsted. She has such a coarse laugh. George- -I never noticed that. Jack—You would if you'd been with in hearing when I pioposed to her. The Cut Didn't Show It. "Yes," Mrs. Stnyathome told Mrs. Gotbaek, "your husband took awful good care of the oat while you were away, and he had lots of help too. Al most every night I heard them calling, 'Fatten up the kitty.' " A Sobriety Tent. Orderly Officer Why don't you eon fine that man, corporal? Can't you see he's drunk? "No, sir; 'e ain't drunk. Why, I seed 's 'and move."—Sporting Times. Queer Faces. "Oh, my friends," exclaimed the ora tor, "it makes me sad when I think of the days that are gone, when I look around and miss the old familiar faces I used to shake hands with." He Needed Something. "You need a rest." "But I haven't done any work for years, doctor." "Then you need a change."—Cleve land Plain Dealer. Ifß a wise man who knows when tho ] past Is past. If you would fear nothing think -that all things are to be (eared. —Seneca. I This is the House, I I; jL•A-' J* I, jfljy i —— —-i At which to purchase your Furniture of all kinds at the very lowest prices. CARPETS, all new and up-to-date. The larg est line you ever saw in town. RUGS, both large and small. Carpet samples for rugs —all grades. LACE CURTAINS, a large line, Ifrotn theV cheapest to the best. WINDOW SHADES, all kinds. GO-CARTS, until the babies cannot rest with out one. No trouble to show goods. Glad to have you call, whether you purchase or not. Yours respectfully, GEO. J. LaBAR. 1 PEARL WHITE J I Massage jf I Cream jjj m CLEARS AWAY BLACK HEADS Uj S AND MAKES BEAUTIFUL SKIN. | 0 ITISISOLDFAT - - - | 5 " "" a S jo 1 Rockwell's I s ■ i [)j DRUG STORE, "] ffi 25c A BOTTLE. m I Tiiaflanl^iOean'sl A safe, certain relief for Suppressed 9 Menstruation. Never known to fall. Safe! 9 Sure! Speedy! Satisfaction Guaranteed M or money Refunded. Sent prepaid for 3 81.00 per box. Will send them on trial, to VI be paid for when relieved. Samples Free. « UNITED M CDICAL CO., Box 74, LANCASTER, PA. jjj Sold inGmporium by L. Taggart and R. C , Dodson Swell Clothes Are the delight of all well dressed peo ple and a large ma jority of the well ; dressed gentlemen in Emporium, have their clothes made I by the old reliable tailors R. Seffer & Co. The reason why so many wear clothes I® of onr make, is be cause we have an established reputa tion for good fits and fair dealing. R. SEGER & CO. | 16t*M * lireadwlnnlne Education—Educating young men and women tomeetthd»dem»nil of this prosperous commercial age For circulars address P. DUFF k SONS, Bth A Llbarty Ayr, Pittsburg,Pa.
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