112 Bargains| Qj THIS WEEK. Uj 1/1 Call and see what they are. pi nJ When yoa want If] 8 1 K] Home-Made Sausage, Dj n] Houie-Made Mince Meat, n] Ground Bone. 5j i | Our Meats ru u nl are always fresh and the [} best grade obtainable. |J ■Ti rv ui B GOODS DELIVERED PROMPTLY. [} 1 Geo. H. Gross. 1 OISH HSBSHSHS HSHS EsHshsp«= 52.] SHSHSESH SHSHSESSSHSas^ I Artistic a | Painting | S a rt AND [n Cj PAPER HANGING! I |j Will receive prompt || |{j attention and aFI [jj J{] work intrusted tome $ n] will be guaranteed jn satisfactory. lam (n nl prepared to furnish K jjj my customers with uj pi both Paints and in Wall Papers, and tr |jj save you big money. & Estimates cheerfully b given 011 contract jj] sj work. Apply to I F. H. mmiL j !55H2.5E5"55cL58S -LSHSnIETEEHS.TE"] SBalcom & Lloyd. I 11 Iprepared 1 I f or 1 | the Se&Jor? jl > We have opened and are displaying a 1 m , Hi j|j choice line oi . . i'J I FANCY I DRY GOODS I y P a specially selected for the . . IMj 8 Winter g I && I I • Season. I pj 1 ■j We have gathered such articles as combine elegance with fj p and utility at || J {n| I Very Reasonable jj |j Prices ~ | ji Balcom&L loyd. I THE EMPORIUM Bottling Works HENRY KRAFT, Prop. Is prepared to make your summer 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 AI.WAVB READY. Send your orders by letter or 'phone early. 44-ly tWT BOOK MAILED FREE. A. AJFKVRRfI, Oongfitions, Inflamma- CLRts) liona. Lung Fever, Milk Fever. B. Lameaeii, Injuries, CUBKB) llheumatlam. V. C.jHORK THROAT. Qulnay. Epizootic. cuiiEA S Distemper. CTRia | WORMS, Bota, Gruba. K. R.K'OUjllfl. I'olda. Influenza, Inflamed cuuks ) Lunsa, I'leuro-Pneumonia. F. F. M'OLIC, Bellyache Wind-Blown* cukes ) Diarrhea, Dyaentery. G.G. Prevents MISCARRIAGE. j KIDXKV A BLADDER DIKORDEHB. I. I. £ SKl\ IUKKAhKK, Mange, Eruptlona, cueh j 11 cert. Grease. Farcy. J. K* )II \D ( 0\l)ITI«\, Ktarlng Coat, CCUKs ) I nditfCHtlon, Stomach Staggcra. fll)c. each; Stable Cane, Ten Specifics, Book, Ac., $7. At druggist*, or sent prepaid on receipt of price, Humphreys' Medicine Co., Cor. William Sc. John Streets, New York. BANNER SALVE mo-* '-«=»tjng saivo in tho world. K&sfioß Dyspepsia Sure Digests what yc» oat. SDR. CALDWZLL'S K! VRUP PEPSifri CURES IFiDIGtSTiON. U V. SJra© K3inuie fiapc fret* Ccajjhs, Colds and Cfaup. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1903. with anything so modern as a Jen!oc? husband. Ilcrs was dawning on her i i that light. She could not flatter hers if that the suspicious vigilance of her matrimonial lord was the distorted ex pression of a too engrossed affection. She realized It as the selfish greed for absolute domination which Is compati ble with the narrowest of natures. Compared to this degrading Jealousy, which she quickly came to rate as ma lignant. her husband's tendency to stimulants, which also cropped out dur ing this stay In Cairo, seemed almost forgivable. Yet drink produced in Lu clen Bonvale that dry, insolent Irrita bility which is one of its unpieasantest effects. As Clarice Bonvale's eager young soul rebelled under the scourge of this double revelation a dull mist seemed to obscure the effulgent radiance of the •rient, and an iron thorn pricked through its sensuous indolence. She was a soft, innocent, Ignorant young thing, capable of heaven only knew what possibilities. Until now rose leaves had strewn her way through life, and homage to her wonderful beauty had been a stimulating incense to her brain if not to her heart She had always had her mother hitherto. Now she had only her husband. That she should so phrase it to herself filled her with a childlike shrinking and de spair. Never before had her soul known this helpless loneliness. It Is a deso lating thing for a proud, ardent young wife to learn that she has married a stranger who, as her husband, is rapid ly becoming n bereaving acquaintance. There was a dumb cry in her heart for some touch of human sympathy, for the soothing support which affec tion exhales. This poignant Isolation was enhanced by her surroundings. The gayety of the hotel people; the su perficial splendor, almost nakedness, of the orient's color; the melancholy of the tombs, mournful memorials of a hu man kind associated with so remote a past as to be merged In the mythical; the stolid insensibility of the sitting fig ures in the many shops of the great bazaar, from which drifted perfumes "IT WAS"UKAU'I naif —to summarily eject the god who proved a faithful tenant and to bewail him if he did otherwise! Brought in by King Katechos nearly 5,000 years before Christ, the last of the Apis bulls had passed out of Egypt to be brought to the Emperor Julian 11. A. I). 3f>2. Yet through the centu ries their preserved exuvite bad held stately possession of the Serapeum— were waiting there for her to come where they held their silent court. So much lavished 011 a beast of the field, and she, made in the likeness of God, looked in vain for sympathy, some touch of human interest that might ease her aching heart! What a mockery! This bull, flower of the herd, by force of his lordly markings raised to the pinnacle of a nation's adoration! She whom beauty had as sharply sepa rated from the others of her sex had gained by this gift a husband who*e highest form of regard was an intoler able Jealousy, a life partner who was already numbing the eager vitality of her girl's heart and making it cry out to Itself in the yearning of Its loneli ness. Why should the heart spontane ously put forth tendrils if there was naught which they might grasp for support, no other heart to which they could cling, strengthening and strength ened by the preordained clasp? Such was the leaven of thought In the hungering soul of Clarice Bonvale as she sailed up the ten miles of river that lay between Cairo and Memphis on the pilgrimage to the tomb of the Apis bulls. The trip should have been an enchanting one. Streaming sun shine, vivid color and air that would have rejoiced spring buds lent sweet ness to the Egyptian day. But the mill of her heart was grinding tine its grist of bitterness. In the ne«r foreground of every view, even the long vista of existence, stood a human being whose shadow fell upon her soul with blight ing chill. They landed at Sakkarah and made the short transit to the tombs on don keys. Clarice smiled faintly as she felt that the kindliest emotion awakened In her by this land of Ptolemies and the resplendent Cleopatra was due to this same small beast of burden—strong, di minutive, with demure relish of Its gorgeous trappings. The tombs of the Apis bulls were as depressing as she liad Imagined. Out id the warm glow, tlio acrid smell, the jcurrylng flight of Iwts and tlx- smoky Ohio «>f the torches in these subterra nean chain hers. "What Is an Apis bull? And why should it have a tomb?" s!k> asked cu riously. "Oh. when they founil a bull with certain markings the priests made the people think Osiris had gone into him, and they adored the beast," replied Bonvale, quite content with this de gree of erudition on the subject. Mrs. Bonvale informed herself some what more about the Apis bulls. If she was going to the Serapeum, the necropolis of defunct bovlnes at Mem phis, she chose to know what claim this sacrosanct herd could have on the attention of an intelligent New Eng land girl of today. She would hardly have been a true product of her envi ronment had she regarded with nught but quiet disdain the solemn mockery of worship which lay In adoring the benevolent Osiris reincarnated in a bull, 110 matter what its erotic mark ings. Yet ages before Christ had come to flood the chambers of the mind with his mystic light the early kings of Egypt had fostered the recollection of their highest divinity by presenting to the somber Egyptians "hlni who slept at I'hlla?," renascent In a lordly bull. Her Imagination at least found a;s thetic delight in picturing the majestic creature with Its lustrous, silky hide; tho symbolic triangle standing white npon its brow, the hair of its back swirling to simulate an eagle, the snowy crescent flashing on its stalwart flank and beneath its pink tongue the knot which fancy called the mark of the scarab, the sacred Insect of Ptah. What a destiny for a bull—to be taken from the common herd and in stalled as a god, cared for with infinite attention during life and after death embalmed at enormous expense and enshrined in a costly sarcophagus! If the revered animal rounded a quarter of a century it was imposingly killed. If death came to it before that time all Egypt mourned, and sorrow settled on the land like a pall. So charmingly strangely sensuous, but poorly invigo rating; even the thin, penetrating cry of the muezzins, perched like human storks on the slender minarets and in citing the Moslem to mechanical devo tions with their reiterated "Alia Akbar, Alia Akbar! La Allah il Allah! Ileyya alasalhfh!" the narrow, dirty alleys, the garish l'aris suggestiveness in so much of the khedlve's capital—all seemed to drain her heart and leave in it a heav ier burden of aching void. The same numbing undercurrent of sadness ran through their excursions to the excavations, trips 011 the oily calm or sluggishly rallied Nile, drives to Ge zireli, the pyramids, sphinxes, columns or what not. Some one has said: "The east is a land of mj stery. If one cares for it at all one loves it. There is 110 half way. If one does not love it one really hates it and all its ways." Clarice Bonvale did not love it. She saw it all with her husband. She had come to feel him a disturbing figure in the foreground of every scene, even the widely extending one of life. "Those ranges of boats with their curved yards make me think of great dry sedges bent by the wind, and those tall, tufted palms look like gigantic feather dusters stuck in the sand," she remarked oneo to Bonvale, with a short /ittle laugh. They were sailing 011 the Nile, the yellow Libyan hills In the dis tance. The quick wrinkle came Into his smooth forehead, and there was the disgusted compression of his lips. "You ought to learn to tnke things as you find them," he said, with an ir ritated, monitory air. The girl's month quivered to a slight, prond smile, but formed no answer. She had already begun to take Lucien Bonvale as she found him, but her re sentment at baring to do so was not therefore the le«s. She was looking forward with sharp desire to the hour of their departure. If she fell in nnprotestingly with Mr. Bonvale's proposition togo here or there it was with the relieving sense that one more reason for remaining would be exhausted, hi this spirit she assented to his wish to "do" the torn ha of the Apia bulls. She hated tomt.s more than nnyt'-Ing—flrst been*im> «dn» Was tO'.> :i!!w not to detest th" th'iught of death, and th'vi b«ennse oath- Christmas is Near I ENDLESS new things in Men's, Boys' and I Children's Clothing and Furnishings. Our B assortment of Holiday Goods is the finest ■ ever offered in Emporium. Surely you will ■ not go wrong by selecting your gifts here. S Our prices mean a saving ou every purchase B and every article we sell is backed by our 8 guarantee—your money back if not satisfied. I A Few Suggestions forXmas I Silk Handkerchiefs, White and Fancy Shirts, |f Knit Gloves, Linen Collars and Cuffs, || | L ; ned Gloves, Ways Mufflers, §1 Kid Gloves, Silk Mufflers, || Fancy Hosiery, 15 ' « Fanc y 1 Suspenders Ties. * See our line of soft and Suit Cases S stiff Hats in newest fall Trunks, B and winter shape. Umbrellas. » Large line of Men's A very fine line of X JTJ ) . . ~ Men's and BBoys' Foot X and Boys' winter Caps. Wear H I Call on us,We can Please You. Jasper Harris, | The People's Clothier. 11 G.B.HowardiCoT| 11 II 6 M g|| I "STORIi ON THE RIALTO." | m B— :==: —-| M N H »* While we do not have the room for a large frd display of Holiday Goods, we have a good supply of useful articles suitable for t# £2 ** N H w m ■£ gj Christmas »j || Pr e :S ; ©h,t s» || if ii M UMBRELLAS M M N PW Ladies' and Gents' Umbrellas with good M quality of taffeta silk cover. One hundred N M different styled handles. Prices ranging || M from si.oo to $3.50. LINENS || Best quality Table Linen in the city. Several pieces with napkins to match, &S N from 80 cents to $1.70 per yard. $M| M M A large assortment of Towels, hemstitched, fringed, plain or assorted colored borders. |t| Q Prices from 20 cents to SI.OO each. g!3 Every housekeeper appreciates good linen M and at "the store on the Rialto," is the 1 Pi place to get it. N M HANDKERCHIEFS M H M || We have a full line of everything in hand- || || kerchiefs; handkerchiefs for pillows, a large variety of them; handkerchiefcen- ' ?? tres, handkerchiefs to use and some of them too nice to use, "just to look at" '* Pi from five cents to so cents. PI 14 M M Our Gents'Furnishings arellp-to-Date N fc| Lots of new things in the Grocery Depart- fc| ment for Christmas, etc. Cj II C. B. HOWARD & COMPANY, }j General Merchandise. \ a* 4*4*4* 4*4*4*4
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