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Our buyer has recently returned from the Drv |£|
$ g Goods centers. Alter looking over the lines displayed
£ - by several of the largest stores, tells us that our lines £5
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We believe we have the best line we have ever If*
Pf shown, aud the prices are as low as possible for the M
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"Fil de Soie,"fancy mercerized. fc*
h j "Aurora Raye" fancy mercerized. *2
"Electric Raye," fancy mercerized.
"Arabella Raye," fancy mercerized.
"Pandora," fancy mercerized.
M "Woven Silk," fancy mercerized. JH|
$4 "Jacquele" fancy mercerised. N
|| Ahneria Batiste. M|
|| These goods are mercerized in the yarn and will £2
*4 retain their gloss after laundrying. fc*
] We have a large assortment of Percales, something *2
E2 new, in three quarter and four quarter widths at nc
Wand nc a vard. W
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|j New Wash Fabrics.
1 Our new Wash Goods deserve more than we can M
M say for them. Come and look and you will find a £4
marked departure in Wash Fabrics from other seasons. |i|
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Hg Here are one hundred fine styles of handsome Ej
Ginghams, very newest color combinations in stripes, Ej
checks and plaids. All fine, smooth fabrics at 12c and Pj
P* 18c a yard. JM|
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White Goods.
*4 We have a large line of White Goods, the best that
N can be bought for the money, such as Dimity, Lawn, M
M Persian Lawns, India Linen, Nain Sook and Long M
M Cloth from 8c to 50c a yard.
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N I Embroideries and Valiennces Laces | fjj*
fcf Our line of Embroideries and Laces is larger than
ever and deserves more than we can say for them. You
will have to see the goods to appreciate the bargains PI
II that can be had, from 2c to 30c a yard. II
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t.ie mueil is.ivo myru jii y, they
( ;aiin >t <]< i lmH-tr th in !■> ■.Miitinui' _'nrlin.:
and [iiiltirm in stone gutters to cirrv (li ■
vvutor off thii bill, hut before "ruling any
more of the streets a drain should
be put iu froiu the ooruer of Fourth and
Maple streets to reach the cuWert under
the railroad on Maple street.
KLECTKIC LIUHT.
Thii department has increased our
taxes about $1,500.00 per year but it
has been soch an improvement to our
town ami such a convenience to our
people tlitet they gladly pay their share
SEWERS.
The Trunk line sewer is not quite
enough to carry off the water liiat
goes into it from the roofs of house# at
the time of heavy rains, and that enters
it from the jrround. Not only during
the icc floods this winter, but at the time
of the high water of 1903, the water and
tilth backed up into cellars all alonj
Fourth street us far west as \ ine street.
The Council should appoint a (Committee
to have a >urvey made ofth* creek below
the outlet of the tower, to see it its course
could be chunked and the bed lowered
to prevent the water backing into the
sewer. 1f at all feasible, the work should
be done this year, as it wonld be a great
saving to the health and wealth of our
people, and no doubt a subscription could
be raised to cover one-half this expense.
The sewjr d.iwn Broad Street should be
lowered so as to accommodate properties
on Second Street,
Begging your careful attention to the
foregoing suggestions and assuring you
of my hearties; co-operation in your
work, I am.
Respectfully yours,
JOSIAII HOWARD
For Piles.
Sample mailed free.
One application gives relief.
The continued use of Hum
phreys' Witch Hazel Oil per
manently cures Piles or Hem
orrhoids—External or Internal,
Blind or Bleeding, Itching or
Burning, Fissures and Fistulas.
Relief immediate—cure certain.
Three Sizes, 2&c., st>c. ami £I.OO. Sold by
Drnieiciiits, or sent prepaid on receipt of price.
Hnmphreyi*' Mcdicino Co., Cor. William and
John BU., New York.
NERVOUS DEBIIJTY,
Vital Weakness and Prostra
tion from overwork and other
causes. Humphreys' Homeo
pathic Specific No. 28, in use
over 40 years, tac only success
ful remedy. $1 per vial, or spec
ial package for serious cases, $3.
Bold by Druggists, or sent prepaid on receipt of price.
Humphreys' M«d. Co,, William & John St;., N. Y.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1904.
The Pennsylvania State College.
The Electrical Engineering Society I
held a banquet at Harrison's restau- j
rant, Wednesday evening, March 2.
Articles of engineering interest were j
discussed, followed by refresh in an ts
and a general good time.
The Creamery studeuts left for home
Wednesday, March 2, on which day
the Creamery Course ended. The
Short Course in Agriculture ends with
the close of the winter term of College
J. D. Elder, of Elder's Ridge, one of
the Commencement speakers, has been
chosen valedictorian by the Senior
class.
The Beta Theta Pi fraternity held a
dance at their chapter house, Friday
night, March 4.
R. L. Streeter has resigned his posi
tion as assistant in the Mechanical En
gineering Department to enter the em
ploy of the Oldsmobile Co., Dotroit,
Mloh. His place has been filled by D.
S. Fowler, 'O3, who since his gradua
tion has been employed in the cur
shops at Berwick.
A basetball game was played in the
Armory Friday night, March 4, with
the Altoona Athletic Association Th >
■core was 59 8 in favor of State.
Messrs. Bamberger and Fonster
maclier of the Senior Electrical Sec
tion are making a life test of fourteen
or fifteen prominent American makes
of incandescent lamps. The test will
continue to the close of the College
year next June.
What Women Once Couldn't Wear.
While we may pick and choose and
do exactly us we please about our
clothes, there have been in times gone
by, in many countries and even in our
own, what were known as "sumptuary
laws." These laws regulated expendi
ture for dress, for ornament, for food
or for whatever refreshments you
might give company when they came
to take tea.
Among the first of these sumptuary
laws was one made in Home in 215 B.
C. and called the "Oppian law." It de
clared that no woman should possess
more than half an ounce of gold, wear
a dress of different colors or ride In a
vehicle in the city or within u mile of
It except on occasions of public reli
gious ceremonies. This law lasted only
twenty years.
Italy and France are the countries
where most of these laws have been
passed, and some of tliem read very
strangely. In 1330, in Italy, no woman
was allowed to wear a dress with fig
ures painted on it; she could only have
them embroidered. And in 1348, in the
same country, neither dark green nor
black dresses were allowed to be worn
In the morning St. Nicholas.
An Arn!» Sj>y Outwitted.
Once at least in Egypt the loss of liis
eye In an earlier campaign proved a
great service to Lord Wolseley and bis
army, lie could ;:et no Information of
the enemy's strength or position. An
Arab was captured prowling around
our outputs anil was brought before
him. It was ten to one the sullen fel
low knew everything. Lord Wolseley
questioned him. The fellow answered
never a word, standing stolid between
the two soldiers. At last a happy idea
struck the general. He said in Arabic:
"It is no use your refusing to answer
me, for I atn a wizard and at a wish
can destroy, you and your masters. To
prove this to you I will take out my
eye, throw it up, catch it and put it
back In my head." And, to the horror
and amazement of the fellow, Lord
Wolseley took out his glass eye, threw
It up, caught and replaced it. That
was enough. The Arab capitulated,
and the information he gave the staff
led to Arabi's defeat.—London Globe.
A Hidden W'arnliiK.
It is recorded in history that when
Darius, king of Persia, invaded Seythia
the ruler of the latter country, Idan
thuras, sent him a message consisting
of a mouse, a frog, a bird, an arrow
and a plow. The wisest men In the
army puzzled over the meaning of it,
which was conjectured to be that the
empire was surrendered. It was sup
posed that the mouse signified the
dwellings, the frog the waters, the
bird the air, the arrow the arms and
the plow the land.
But it turned out eventually that
the Interpretation Intended was that
unless Darius and his soldiers could ily
like birds, burrow like mice or betnke
themselves like frogs to the water they
would never escape the weapons of the
Scythians and make their way out of
the country.
Why They Waited.
A Btory Is. told which couples the
names of Princess Mathilde and the
great painter Gerome. The princess
und the painter had both been Invited
to a dinner party. The princess arrived
punctually; the painter tarried until
long after the dinner hour was past.
The guests concealed their impatience
as best they could, until at last the
princess suddenly said: "Why, I nearly
forgot. Only this morning I received
a telegram from Gerome, who is la
Spain. He ia unable to come tonight."
"But why did you not tell us before,
princess?" cried all the guests together.
"Because I was not yet hungry."
Old EnKllnli Customs.
Sir Walter Besant's study of old Eng
lish customs shows that the doctors of
several centuries ago prescribed for
fevers "a cold water affusion" with
drinking of asses' milk. When the
queen was ill in 1003 they shaved her
head and applied pigeons to her feet.
Powdered mummy for a long time was
considered to be a specific against dis
eases. It is said that the reason it
went out of use was that dealers took
to embalming bodies and then sold
them for genuine ancient mummies.
The fltrtli of the Opal.
There is u beautiful little story told
about tlie opal, that delicate stone
which you have ho doubt seen In rings
mid bracelets. The story is that the
opal was long ago promised to any
body who could discover it. It lay hkl
deu away, so the old fortune tellers
nsed to say, at the place "where the
sunlight and the moonlight Joined"
encli other, and whoever could find
that spot would be rewarded by a
quantity of large, beautiful opalg. Aft
er a long search for the place "where
the sunlight and moonlight Joined"
•aeh other the place was found by a
Spanish traveler, who followed up the
rays of the setting sun, and when he
fcad reached the end of the last ray he
waited until the moonbeams shone up
on the earth, and there ho found the
opals. They are said to be very lucky
stones for those who are born In the
fall of the year and very unlucky for
those born in the spring. Of course it
is only a saying that these are lucky
or unlucky, but the rest of the story la
true, as you will believe if you look In
the heart of an opal and see the pink
tints of the sun and the blue rays of
the moon nestling in the middle of it.
fi<]i.eleliii:;4 it Ho re.
One of the famous Rothschilds was
once entertaining at dinner a distin
guished party. The dinner went on
admirably. Nothing marred the gen
eral enjoyment save the silly loquacity
of one young man. This young man
insisted on monopolizing the conversa
tion. He insisted on talking about him
self—about bis books, his works, his
love affairs, his automobile. Finally
he jumped to his feet. ,
"By Jove!" he said. "1 must show
you my new cuff buttons. I got them
this morning. They are malachite."
And lie passed from one guest to an
other, exhibiting the buttons. "Mala
chite," he kept repeating—"genuine
malachite."
Baron Rothschild watched the young
man's progress with a faint sneer.
When the buttous reached him he
touched them with his linger supercili
ously and drawled: "Ah, malachite, eh?
It Is a handsome stone. I have always
liked it. I have a mantelpiece of It in
the next room."
MominNcn on lian^uafccN.
The German historian, Professor
Theodor Mommsen, was noted for the
facility with which he acquired lan
guages. The tongues of modern Eu
rope as well as the classics were to
him not studies, but the familiar tools
of his daily work. An American re
porter who was interviewing him some
years ago asked to have a certain ref
erence put into English, as he did not
road German well.
"Not read German well? And you a
journalist?" exclaimed the savant. "I
do not see how it is possible. Young
man, German is one of the four neces
sities for a student. The other three
are English, French and Italian. With
out them you can never km-v the tend
ency of modern thought. If you have
tliem not, do not rest until you have
learned them all."
Trciniiii? si llorNc.
The horse is a logical and therefore
a teachable animal. Once convince him
that a locomotive or any other object
of terror is not really dangerous and
he will never shy at it again. Every
year accidents occur because the har
ness breaks or the vehicle upsets, and
then tln> horse runs away. But such
accidents are unnecessary. Any horse
can, with a little pains, be taught to
hold back a carriage by bis hind quar
ters as well as by the breeching. To
have wheels come off and straps and
other things hitting his legs should be
a part of every colt's education.—Coun
try Life In America.
Herbert Speneer'w Odditie*.
Herbert Spencer hated clocks which
strike, especially out of door clocks.
When staying in lodgings in a Berk
■hire village he sent a request to the
owner of the principal house there that
the stable clock, which struck the
hours, might be stopped. He was not
a good companion togo out for a drive
with, as, If he did not feel well, he
would ascertain how fast his pulse
was beating and if it was not satisfac
tory would instantly give the order to
return home.
Slam's Sacred Elephants.
Curious ceremonies are witnessed In
Slam when one of the sacred white ele
phants dies. It is given a funeral
grander than that accorded to prince
of royal blood. Buddhist priests offi
ciate, and thousands of devout Siamcso
men and women follow the deceased
animal to the grave. Jewels and of
ferings representing small fortunes are
buried with the elephant.
A Grcyvsome Collection.
At the prison of St. Paul, at Lyons,
France, there Is a curious collection of
pens. They are the pens with which
the executioners have signed the regu
lation receipts for the prisoners handed
over to them to be executed. At each
execution a fresh pen is used for the
purpose, and the ink is left to dry up
on it.
Tlie Explorer.
Ingenuity, facility—that quality, by
whatever name it may be called, which
enables its possessor to do the right
thing at tlie right moment and in all
sorts of unexpected circumstances—ls
one of the indispensable qualities of a
man who would be an explorer.
Dry Goods.
Biffins—He labeled that box "Dry
Goods." Miffing—What was in it? Ilif
lins—A bound volume of the Congres
sional Record.—Baltimore News.
Man's heme is small as compared to
the world, but there is nothing in all
the world that appeals to him with the
aame force.
Now Ready for Spring.
\\/E have just received a fine
™ line of CLOTHING for the
Spring trade and if you want
goods that are strictly up to date
you should see our stock. Our
Clothing is perfect in style, '
workmanship and fit, for solid
comfort and our guarantee accom
panies every article we sell. We
want all our customers to be
perfectly satisfied. Never any
chance for a kick. We have pur
chased a large stock for the spring
trade, and our goods are sure to
please in every particular.
The place to buy your clothing is H
where you are |sure to get your
moneys worth and we think you
can find no better place than here.
Our prices are always reasonable.
Gents' Furnishing Goods, Shoes, H
Hats. Shirts and in fact every
thing to dress you in an up-to-date
manner. Come in and see us and -f
Jasper Harris, 1
The People's Clothier.
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Unprecedented Success.
Having just completed our "annual accounting"
I we are indeed thankful to the generous public for the
very flattering tradelbestowed upon us during the past
year. It is indeed gatifying to know that our trade ?
has been much larger than any previous year.
Thanks, friends.
Although we have been as busy as bees
shipping and delivering goods we are again stocked
up, ready to supply the public with anything in the
FURNITURE line. We have r a [large stock to se
lect from and many choice articles that werelbelated
I holiday orders—goods suitable for [any time. You
get them at bargains. Again thanking you, one
and all, for the continued confidence wc invite you
drop in and see us and buy if you will. We are glad
always to chat with our friends.
GEO. J. La BAR.
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