2 CAMERON COUNTY PR« H. H. MULLIN, Editor. Published Every Thursday. TEHMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Per year 15 W) If paid in advance 1 »U ADVERTISING KATES: Advertisements are published at the rate of one dollar per square for one insertion atul fifty «*ents i er square for each subsequent insertion limes by tin' year, or fur six nr three months, tire low and uniform, and will be furnished on application. Eegul and Official Advertising per square, three times or less,each subsequent inser tion i.O cents per square. Local notices lo cents per line for one inser- Kertion: 5 cents per line tor each subsequent consecutive insertion. Obituary notices over live lines 10 cents per line. Simple announcements of births, mar riages and deaths will be inserted free. Business cards, live lines or less. 15 per year; over live lines, at the regular rates of adver tising. No local inserted lor less than 75 cents per issue. JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the Pukss is complete and affords facilities for doinn the best class of work. PAH'I KTI.AK ATTK.VIION PAIDTO LAW Printing. No paper will he discontinued until arrear ages are paid, except at the option of the pub lisher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid for in advance. Tea was grown in Japan in 1902 on an area of 120.107 acres, producing 57.457 611 pounds. In the previous year the area was 119,712 acres, and the production 57.984,067 pounds. These figures do not include the Island of Formosa, which in 1901 produced 13.752 94(1 pounds, making the total for the empire in that year 71.737,013 pounds. The largest dwelling houso In tho world is the Frpihaus, in a suburb of Vienna, containing in all between twelve and fifteen hundred rooms, di vided into upward of four hundred sep arate apartments. The immense house, wherein a whole city lives, works, eats and sleeps, has 13 courts —five open »nd eight covered—and a garden with in its walls. Macaroni, vermicelli and all similar preparations constitute, as a whole, the most important of breadstuffs im ported for consumption into the Unit ?d States. In the fiscal year 1902-03 the combined imports of these prod ucts amounted to 29,670,191 pounds, valued at $1,200,419; in the previous fiscal year the imports were 23,7i>u,756 pounds, valued at $974,929. Askley, la., has the champion egj» "ater of the United States. George Richardson, a stock buyer of that pity, has an appetite for hen fruit that is not satisfied by the usual allot ment, as he demonstrated whj>n he ate El in 20 minutes in the presence of witnesses. Richardson thinks nothing 3f eating two dozen at one sitting, and sxperiences no inconvenience from Ihe unusual number. The news comes from Paris that the operation of extracting radium from the ores has been considerably shortened. The preliminary process, which produces the material to labor atory dimensions, now occupies ono month, where it has previously taken three months. It is estimated that tip to the present about 730 tons of ore has been used to produce about one fifth of an ounce of radium. Wooden water pipes dug up in the streets of London, Eng., about four years ago, after having been in the ground for about two centuries, were In an excellent state of preservation. They were mostly elm logs, and none of the pipes exceeded seven inches bore. In one instance two lines of wooden pipes were connected together by cast-iron bends. Some pipes made of fir and some of oak were found. Leather crossties were putin the Boston & Albany at the West Spring field freight yard in June, 1901. At this particular place chestnut ties have to be renewed annually on account of the continuous switching over them, but the leather tics are now in as good condition as when first laid, ac cording to T. J. Sullivan, the division roadmaster. The spikes are stated to be as firm as when first driven. The ties are made of scrap leather. The latest and most efficient as well as the most humane method of get ting rid of a pest of rats is by the use of electricity. Such, at any rate, is the opinion of the proprietor of a large grain warehouse in Rochester. N. Y., ■where Ihe rats until recently were so abundant that their depredations were an actual source of financial loss Since the introduction of scien tific methods, however, the rats have been killed off so rapidly that within a short time they will be practically extinct. The first cultivated rose is said to have been planted in Belgium in the year 1522. The ilamask rose was brought from France in 1573. the moss rose about 1724, and the China rose some 50 years later. Wild roses are, however, natives of ali parts of Brit ain. In Wethering's "British Botany" ■only five distinct species are said to be indigenous, but in Hoeker's and Arnott's "British Flora" 19 species are mentioned, but some writers on botany raise the number to as many as 24 The morgue proper in New York city consists of a large room parti tioned off with glass, behind which are rows of marble slabs with cold water running over them constantly. On these slabs in a nearly nude state as cold and white as the marble itself, tne dead are laid and remain in full view for three days or le ; ?s according to the discretion of the keeper of the place. A refrigerating plant keeps tho running water ice cold, which is found to be a better preservative than Ice. It is seldom the Institution is not crowded. A bit or color against the blue; 4 of the morning:; blue for true. And red for the kindling light of flame, And white for a nation's stainless fame. Oh! fling: It forth to the winds afar. With hor«e In its every shining star; Under its folds, whej-ever found. Thank God, we have Freedom's holy ground! Don't you love ft, as out It floats From the schooihouse peak; and glad young th roat s Sing of the banner that aye shall be Symbol of honor and victory? Don't you ihrill when the marching feet Of jubilant soldiers shake the street, And the bugles shrill, and the trumpets call. And the red, white and'blue is over us all? Don't you pray, amid starting tear?. It may never be furled through age-long years? A song for our flag, our country's bonpt, That gathers beneath it a mighy host; Ivong may it wave o'er the goodly land AVe hold in fee 'math our Father's hand; For God and liberty evermore May that banner stand from shore to shore. Never to those high meanings lost. Never with alien standards crossed, Hut always valiant and pur and true, Ourstarr.v liag, red, white and blue. —Young People. TOY PISTOLS ARE FATAL. Some Reasons Why This Favorite Plaything of the Fourth Is Dangerous to Life. The mortality from the toy pistol is appalling, and the deato from it, which is by lockjaw, is horrible. In Chicago in one July those flying from thi3 cause numbered 60 and in another 24. In New York city three consecutive fourth of Julys yielded 98 such deaths. That the tetanus bacillus which causes lockjaw is not present in the powder or wad of the toy pistol cart ridge has been shown by Wells of Chi cago, who examined 200 of them; tha Boston health officers, who examine.! 350; and army officers, who tested 675. Therefore the microbes of the disease are on the skin and are driven into the wound made by the pistol. That they are on the hands of the jollifying boy is not surprising, for their sports abound in many soils and especially about stables. This germ is harmless while exposed to the air, but multiplies and rapidly produces its virulent poison when given warmth and moisture where air is excluded. On this account all accidents from ex ploding powder should be disinfected by a doctor and should not be wrapped up. _ _ CANNON CRACKERS. Evened Things Up. Teddy and Fay were each given ten cents for their Fourth of July treat. "You buy ice cream soda wif yours, Fay, and give me half, and I'll buy lire crackers —" "No, I won't, never," interrupted Fay; "you'll drink half of my treat, and then you'll fire off the bunch of crackers all to yourself." "Well," shouted Teddy, "won't you have half of the noise, smarty?"—Lip pincott's. A "Don't" for the Fourth. Don't tell your long-suffering son as he sets fire to a whole bunch of fire crackers at one time how his father had but one bunch for the whole day when he was a boy, because if you will stop to think the story must be a chestnut to him, considering how many times you have told it already.— Chicago Daily News. HISTORICAL ACCURACY. '"SpPpl l Teacher—Where was the declaration of independence signed? Tommy—At the bottom. —Chicago Daily News. Not Their Style. "What's the matter with Mcßride? Hasn't he any tact?" "Hardly. He came over on the steamer with two Englishmen and in sisted upon their celebrating the Fourth of July with him." —Life. The Fireworks Corps. "How do you celebrate the Fourth of July?" "Well, we take care of the Jones children half the day.and the Joneses take care of our children the half. —Chicago Record-Herald. His Busy Season. "Aren't you going to celebrate the glorious Fourth" "Don't Delieve I'll have time," said the physician, "unless 1 make arrange ments to use red, white and blue ban dages."—Washington Star. No Independence. Tyed—This is 'ne Fourth of July. Knotley—Why don't you say Inde pendence Day? Tyed—lt is also the anniversary of my marriage.—Brooklyn Life. Well P-ovided. Hank—Say, there's an eight-fingered boy at the museum! William—Gee! Wish I had that many so's I could afford to lose some on the Fourth. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1904. A Modern Gunpowder Plot A FOURTH OF JULY STORY By CAROLINE M|l LL S By Caroline Miles. jpra«»*nOFESS(>R GRAY had a P great many ideas and opin ions; indeed, it was his business to have them, for he bad been a teacher over 20 years. Many of his theories lay in the di- VEE. J rection of training the IftiL youthful mind. He had wll i fIU ,hree children and on fffmllM them he worked out his IMMBBMS pet schemes. One of his ideas was this: that chil dren should be told the truth al ways. "It is a bad course," he would say, "to let children read and hear so many fictitious stories. Why not give them historical stories which shall teach as well as amuse?" So that was the plan he pursued with his family. Each year he took up the history of a different country and all the stories the children read or heard that year must be of that particular nation. Three years ago they were studying English history. One evening toward the end of June the family were seal ed on the front veranda enjoying the evening air. "Father,'' said Clifford, the elder son, suddenly, "won't you tell us a story?" "Oil, yes, do," urged Ruth, the only sister. "Make it a Fourth of July story," Clarence putin enthusiastically. "How can I?" said the professor, in doubt. "You know they don't celebrate the 'Glorious Fourth' in England." "Oh, you can certainly get up some thing," Clifford insisted. The professor sat. thinking for a few moments, and then he said: "Well, I'il tell you about the Gun powder Plot. It has nothing to do witli CIFFOI'D, WHO WAS THE GUY FAWiiKS OF THE CONSPIUACV, TOt'CJ' >-ij A MATCH TO THE END OF THE KOPE. the Fourth o" July, but it treats of ex plosives, so I suppose it will suit you just as well." The children settled themselves de lightedly, and the professor began. He was a charming story-teller, and th" children sat spelbound until he had finished. The tale made a great im pression, and especially on Clifford. The next day, when he and his playfel lows were lying on the grass in the shade, too lazy to play on account #jf the heat, Cliffoffrd told the story t.> them, and concluded by saying: "Boys, I've got a scheme. Let's us get up a 'gunpowder plot' for the Fourth. Only we won't have ours just like the story, for ours shall go off as it ought. We can have it? on that va cant block across the street. Well dig a cellar and then build a sort of i house on top for the parliament build ing." "Yes, and make the house of tin cans and such things, so it will make a terrible noise when it goes off," said Frank Middlebury. So it went on and soon the plans were all laid. The next day they began operations, and worked desperately, as boys will lor play, all morning. Day after day the work went on. Both boys and girls of the neighborhood were wild with curiosity to know what they were about, but never a word of informa tion could they get from any of the workers. Even Ruth Gray did not know what they were doing until she accidentally overheard Clifford say something to Clarence about the "gun powder plot." Then she was all in terest and wanted to join the conspir ators herself. "There weren't any ladies in it," Clarence replied, scornfully, when she asked him about it. "Oh, well, that doesn't make any dif ference and I want to so bad." "Well, you ask Cliff." %Vnd when she asked Clifford he put her off very contemptuously. Then Ruth began to cry and told him he was "real mean." But no amount of teasing made any Oifference. Clifford was obstinate. Ruth was not admitted to the plot. At last the morning of the Fourth arrived. The conspirators had agreed that "parliament" should be assembled and the gunpowder in the cellar "set off" at 12 exactly, as they would all have returned from the public exer cises of the morning by that time. The day wore on. The usual pop ping and banging of a typical Fourth of July continued very steadily. It was nearina. Li o'clock and one by one Ave boys appeared on scene nea» the "parliament building." Issuing from one side of this"tin can" house was a rope which extended about ten feet out of the house. The end of this rope was to be lighted and then the boys were to run away and watch proceedings. The rope com municated with a quantiy of firecrack ers underneath the house. All the pocket money that five boys could savo and earn for a week had been invested in explosives and stored away there for the Fourth. Finally the appointed moment ar rived. Clifford, who was the Guy Fawkes of the conspiracy, touched a lighted match to the end of the rope. Then the five boys stepped back to a safe distance. Very eagerly they watched the progress of the tiny point of fire moving slowly along the rope. Closer and closer to its destination crept the spark. "It's getitng there, boys," said Frank Middlebury. "Landy! won't it be great?" cried another. "Watch it! It's nearly there!" Clif ford exclaimed. Sure enough the tiny flame had reached the boundary of the house. It was creeping inside. An instant—and all would be over. The building, and the members of parliament, supposed to bo seated inside, would only be a memory. None of the five said a word and each held his breath in expecta tion of the terrific crash. "It's coming now!" shouted Frank as they heard the report of one small firecracker. * But it didn't come as fast as they expected. "It takes awful long," Clarence said in a discouraged tone. Yes, it did take a very long time. Five minutes passed, in fact, and still no greater sound had they heard than the one small cracker. "What's the matter with the thing?" said one boy. "Maybe the rope was tangled up in side," suggested Frank. "No it wasn't, either," answered an other in disgust. "You were here first. Cliff. Didn't you go in and look at things to see if they were all right ?" "I looked just before I started down to see the procession and I didn't have time to look again after I came back before you got here." "Say, boys, somebody's been m-d --dling, I think," said Frank. "Oh, pshaw! I don't. It'll go off yet," Clarence persisted. "Well. I'm going togo and look," said Cliff. The other boys were a little timid about approaching the"tin can" house, but Clifford, with the true Guy Fawkes spirit, went straight ahead and peeped in at the opening. The other* confidently expected to see his head blown off, but nothing of the kind happened, nor was it likely to hava taken place. For what do you sup pose Clifford saw as he looked in? Well, it was truly enough to make his blood boil. There was not a sign of a firecracker to be seen, and instead, there lay the end of the burn rope in a pail of water. Clifford stepped back and beckoned to the other boys. Ho was literally speechless. When all had taken a peep at the disappointing scene, the indignant conspirators of the "gunpowder plot" at once hurried over to the Gray's house. As it hap pened the professor was at home. With loud voices and excited gestures, the boys told their story, interspersed now and then with wild conjectures aa to the probable perpetrators of tho trick. The professor heard them out, and just as he was beginning to speak in serious leproof of tlieir daring scheme the door opened and Ruth came in. To the surprise of everyone her arms were piled high with fire crackers. She flung them impulsively on the floor at the boys' feet, and ex claimed, in defiance: "There are your hateful old firecrackers!" At first all present were amazed, then a look of contempt overspread the boys' races such as would havo been a study for a painter. The pro fessor spoke gravely: "Why, Ruth, you ought not to havo taken the boys' crackers. If you knew that their plan was a dangerous one, you should have told me about it." . "I wouldn't be a tale-bearer." She raised her head proudly. "I did it be cause they wouldn't, let me be in it." The professor hardly knew what to say, for the scheme of the boys had been a dangerous one. and it was well that it had been interrupted; yet Ruth had done a wrong thing to take the crackers as she had. He explained to the boys what a serious thing they had planned, what harm it might hava done, and added: "Here are your crackers. Go, fira them in the time-honored way. and don't let me hear of any more such en terprises as this." Then he smiled. "And, boys, you must learn sooner or later that you cannot outwit a woman, be she little or big." The boys, crestfallen at so common place a conclusion to tlieir daring plot, filed out, 'he crackers in their arms. The professor was left alone with Ruth to point out to her the error of her ways. Now, let me conclude with a littla secret which must be kept just be tween ourselves. Come, let me whis per in your ear. Since then. Professor Gray himself has been a little more careful about the kind of historical incidents which he relates just befoio the Fourth of July.—Christian Work. A Sophistry. "Why do you shoot a lot of fire works to show your patriotism, instead of learning the Declaration of Inde pendence by heart?" "For the reason." answered the man who is never at a loss for an answer, "that actions always speak louder than words." —Washington Star. gleet of warning symptoms will soon prostrate a woman. She thinks woman's safeguard is Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. " DEAK Mns. 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