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The Job department of the PIIERS is complete, aud affords facilities for doing the best class of work. PAKTICULAH ATTENTION TAID TO Law Printing. No paper willbe discontinued until arrearages paid, except at the option oftlie publisher. Papers sent out ofthccounty must be paid for luadvance. *9* No advertisements will be accepted at less than the price for fifteen words. *#-Beligious notices free. "" • —— there must b«' a cause for tlie higher wages ami better living in America than elsewhere, and that cause is the Protective Tariff, vliieh enables tlie manufacturer to produce his goods at a fair margin of profit and to share this profit with his employees. —Springfield "Union." The Farmer's Interest. Year after year since tlie inaugu ration of William McKinley and the accession of his successor, Theodore Roosevelt, and during the continued operation of our present Protective Tariff the farm products of the country, without regard to the quantity harvested, have netted the farmer more than a billion dollars in excesss of tlie value received during the opera tion of the Wilson-Gorman Tariff law under the administration of Grover Cleveland. This by no means, however, measures the in creased value to our farmers,as an other billion dollars must be added as the increased value of farm animals. It is not likely that the farmers either West or East, North or South, care to change existent conditions and go back to the low value and to the cheap markets of 1893, 1895 and 1890.—Rockland (Me.) ' 'Courier-Gazette.'' A Frightened Horse. Running like mad down the street dumping the occupants, or a hundred other accidents, are every day occur rences. It behooves everybody to have a reliable Salve handy and there's uone as good as Bucklen's Arnica Salve Hums, Cuts. Sores, Eczema and Piles disappear quickly under its soothing ef. feet. 25c, at L. Taggart's Drug Store THE CHRISTIAN churches at Con stantinople. Turkey, and Yokahoma, Japan, have long used the Longman & Martinez Faints for painting their churches. Liberal contributions of L. k M. Paint will be given for such purpose wherever a church bo located. P. M. Scofield, Harris Springs. S. C., writes: F punted our old homestead with L..M. twenty-six years ago. Not painted >i:ice, looks better than houses painted trs the last four years.'" W. B. b ;rr, Charleston, W. Va., writes, '•Painted r'rankenburg Block with L. & M. shows b 'tter than nny buildings here have over done; stands out as though varnished, and actual cost of paint was less than 81.20 per gallon. Wears and covers like gold." These Celebrated Paints are sold hv 11. S. Lloyd. 3 Some men die ot heart failure, but sonic continue to stack up dollars in spite of it. Heals Everything. It beats anything in the healing line '.vu ever used. My little girl hail been troubled with dark purple sores on her J legs for two months. Everything failed 1 to help her until we tried San-Cura i Ointment, which made a complete cure : in a few applications. J. M. Fenton, j Shelmadine Springs, Pa. San-Cura j Ointment, 25c and 50c, at druggists. I For sale by R. C. Dodson. A man must have a nice banking (inure 1 before he can pose as a model statesman, j She Struck I.ucl£. About six years ago I sent to the I store for some medicine and they sent me ' some Thompson's Barosma or Kidney i and Liver Cure. The first bottle did me ! so much good that I bought the second 1 and it cured me of female weakness, with which I had been troubled over two i years. I gained in strength and flesh ; and have been well ever since. Mrs. M. (Jrovc, Plutn, Pa. For sale by R. C. Dodson. Photographs for Chaistmas presents at Hair's studio. Don't wait until it i_ s | too late. What the Robin Told The Holly Sprig By MARY BAIN BILTON ON a mountain side grew a sprig of holly. Beneath, In the val ley, nestled a village, and the holly could see the people moving about, the cattle going to and from the brook for water; Indeed, there was constant motion, while the holly sprig was always still except when the wind set It In motion. One morning a robin lit on the holly sprig, clutching it with Its tiny claws. "How I wish I were you!" said the sprig to the bird. "You can fly any where and soo what is going on, while I am doomed to hang here, passing my life in one spot." "Yes." said the robin, "I can go about and see the world, and I have opportu nities of learning. The other day it was Sunday—l perched on a limb near a church and beard the clergyman say that one of the greatest blessings was contentment." Then the robin flew away. One winter morning when the snow had fallen the holly sprig heard merry voices, sounding very loud in the moist air, coming up the mountain side, and presently a number of children ap proached. They were gathering holly, and one of them took hold of the little holly twig and twisted it off its parent bush. Then it was thrown into a bag with other sprigs and taken down to the village. For a time ii lay perfectly still, but suddenly the mouth of the bag was opened, a hand thrust in and the holly taken out. Then for the first time the holly sprig saw a new sight. It was in a lighted room where boys and girls were at work. The girls were tying evergreens together and making ropes of them, while the boys were standing 011 tables and steplaclders arranging the ropes on the walls in festoons. Some of the girls were making ever green wreaths and hanging them in the windows. One little girl took the holly sprig and hung it to a chandelier. The holly sprig was supremely hap py. How much more delightful was this than the bleak mountain side, with no change from day today! It was somewhat disappointed when the boys and girls put out the lights and went out, leaving the room in darkness. It could see nothing, whereas in its moun tain home on clear nights It could see the stars, and often the moon lighted up the trees about it and the valley below. However, in the morning the children came back to view their work, and people were coming and going all day, so that the holly sprig was not lonely. Indeed, it was charmed with its altered condition, which, it sup posed, would last forever. That day a young evergreen tree was brought into the room and stood be fore the chimney piece. The children brought in boxes, from which they took little wax candles and fixed them all over the tree. From other boxes they took iridescent and gilt globes, span gles and tinsel chains, which they scat tered in profusion among the branches. Hut tlie climax of delight to the holly was In the evening, when the children THE HOLLY SPRIG SAW A SEW SIGHT. all came in together. The candles were lighted, and all stood about admiring the beautiful tree. "What a happy change for me!" ex claimed the holly sprig. "Had not the children come and brought me down here I should now be a part of my parent bush, out In the cold wind, with nothing above me but a murky sky, nothing beneath but the cold snow." Then some of the elder people who were present went to the evergreen ,tree and took off boxes and packages thej- had hung there in the night when the children were In bed and distribut ed them among the little ones. Each package was marked with the name of the child for whom it was Intended and was opened eagerly. The holly sprig, hanging high in the center of the room, could see everything and as each child opened its package watched eagerly to see what was being unwrap ped. There was frequent clapping of hands, shouts of laughter, everything expressive of happiness. "This is delightful." said the holly spring to itself. "I wonder if they are going to <!o this often." ISy and by. when the merrymaking had lasted a long while, the candles oil the tree were extinguished and the children were sent to bed. Then their parents put out the lights, and the room was dark. But the holly sprig had so much to remember that it did CAMKKOX COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1904. •ot fee! lonety during the night, ex pecting that It would again have plenty of company on the morrow. In the morning before the sun was up servants came into the room and took out the evergreen tree, then tore down the evelfereen from the wall. The holly sprig lookwl on, terrified. One of the servants said to another: "It's a pity master doesn't like to see these things about after Christmas. They would look pretty for weeks." With that the holly was pulled down »nd thrown into the general heap, all of which was taken down into the cel lar. Then the holly sprig wished itself back on the mountain side, where it cottkl see the stln sparkling on the snow and icicles by day and the stars and the moon by night, but as the juice of life dried out of it it gradual ly lost sensation. One spring morning a servant came down into the cellar and looked about for some kindling. Seeing the holly sprig, she took it upstairs, put it on the hearth in the room where the tree had been, laid wood on it and touched a match to Its dry loaves. A.sit burst inlo a flame it thought of its home 011 the mountain side, where tlie buds were sprouting, the soft south wind xvas stealing up the valley and the sweet summer time was at hand. Its last re membrance was what the robin had heard the clergyman say: "One of the greatest blessings is con tentment." CHRISTMAS TREES. A\ tie re Tliey Come From and linn Tliey Are Sold. Where do all the Christmas trees come from? You would think there were not enough to supply the huge demand, but in almost all parts of the country there are big pine, fir and cedar tree forests that remained un disturbed for centuries until Mark Carr gave Americans the idea of cut ting them for Christmas. It used to be that Maine furnished 90 per cent of them, and for two months before the holiday the wood men were busy chopping and the fann ers were busy carting them to the sta tions, where they were loaded into cars and sent west and south to be sold to the dealers. Today Maine has rivals, and all the northern border states deal regularly iu Christmas trees. Christmas tree selling is a pay ing business nowadays, and it is en tered into with all the formality and shrewd business methods that you might use in disposing of acres of land. The woods that furnish spruce and flr are sold on contract, and the jobber visits them in October to "size tiieni up." He offers so much apiece for each tree as the trees run—usually about a hundred—and makes the money payable 011 receipt of the pack age of trees at the nearest railroad station. On their arrival In the city the Jobber sells them to the whole saler. getting about .$7 a hundred for the trees, after which the wholesaler sells them to the retailer at a good profit, and the retailer does his best to get big prices from the housewife and the head of the family. The boughs of fir bring the highest price because of their symmetry and grace. After them come the stiller pine and cedar, but when they are cov ered with gorgeous tinsel and brilliant baubles and strung with popcorn, can dy, toys and presents you really do not see much of the form of the tree. One of the most remarkable faet9 about the Christmas greens lies in connection with the people who handle them. Christmas tree merchants do a rushing business and work steadily from October to the Ist of January, after which they take a vacation and are the laziest of all idlers from Janu ary to the next October. Their sea son is only three months long, but they have to "step lively" during that time or it will pass them by unremunerated. —Washington Star. Christmas 111 Bethlehem, Christmas in the lloly Land is an in teresting experience. Indeed it is one never to be forgotten, and every Christ mas thousands of persons from all over the world make a journey to Palestine in order to witness the various ceremo nies held there during the festive sea son. 10very one almost puts up at Je rusalem and on Christmas 1 morning makes his way to Bethlehem, which lies almost due south, about six miles away as the crow fliesr over a range of hills. No highway the world over pre sents such a motley crowd as may be seen streaming along this thoroughfare early 011 Christmas morning. Wliere the Heavens Open. In l'oland it is believed that ou Christmas night the heavens are open ed and the scene of Jacob's ladder is re-enacted, but only the saints are per mltted to see It. Iu Holland the peo ple enter thoroughly into the spirit of the Nativity. In nearly every Dutch town at 2 o'clock Christmas morning the young men assemble at the market place, singing the "Glorln" and other hymns. One of them carries a large star 011 a pole. Tills Is suppose 1 to represent the star that guided the steps of the three kings to the stable at llethlehem. A Holiday Jtnjcle. Cedars standla' in <lc cold. Trim dat Christmas tree. Maplo drops a bunch o" gold. Trim dat Christmas tree. Stars a-shlnln' In de night Make de snowflakes glisten bright, Gwlno to habit lookln' rlKlit, Trim dat Christinas tree. Rabbit's track run.: rocn' about, Trim dat < hrlr.lm s tree. 'Blmm 1:1s folll-r- v :li me shout, Trim dat Christmas tree. Is my ey< < -g'ttln' film? What'.! 'l.it I'■ ,ia' i" 111 do limb? Possum!, An' l's proud o' him! Trim dat Christmas tree. —Washington Star. THE COUNTY. SINNAMAHONING. Pretty good winter weather. Snow enough for sleighing would be appreci ated. Our young people are enjoying the fine skating It. H. Lightner is doing business again. His quarters are small but his new and commodious building will he erected seou. (.'rum Bros, have their new store build ing up. The I'. (). S of A. boys are building the wall for their new hall, vr. and Mrs. Edwaid Losey, of La <juin, attended the funeral of Twila Her field on Saturday. The floral tributes to tile litll e one was profuse. The Patriotic Order of Americans have received their new charter and parapher nalia and will meet in Brooks' hall Wed nesday evening of this week. .Members of Lieut. I). W. Taggart Post, No. 211, will attend a meeting at Driltwood, Saturday afternoon, to elect I officers for ensuing year. All comrades I are requested to be present. Ajax Answers. | Editor Press: Please allow nie a little space in the , J columns of your valuable paper that I : may answer Mr. T. \V. Kailbourne sell vindication. First. 1 never said publicly i j that Mr. Kailbourne was the "Gazette" j ' correspondent from this place. I opened ; i battle with that reporter for misrepresent ; ing and ridiculing tue through the col- | umns of the "Gazette'', and if Mr. Kail- j | bourne is not the correspondent, he is j not the one lam fighting. Second, why i don't lie let the ''Gazette" man light hi j own battles? No doubt that reporter is I more capable ol defending himself than j j Mr. Kailbourne and his narrow minded, j ! and narrow gauged assistant is to fight ! for him. The shoe fit or he wouldn't | j put it on. The pill 1 gave the corres- j I pondent from his own pill bag certainlv 1 j lodged in Mr. K's stomach and soured or I jhe wouldn't feel so sick. He said in the I Press I was ''looocy." Well it is better to be looney and attend to your own af fairs, than to be "foolish" and try to at tend other peoples' business, and light other peoples wars. There is about as much sense iu him taking sides in this fight, as there would be in me going to Port Arthur and threaten to lick the whole world because Japan and Russia are at war. Perhaps the Gazette reporter would thank him to mind his own business. Mr. K. is howling liabel suit. I think I am the one to feeljaggrievcd, for I have been misrepresented, ridiculed, and abused at least a dozen times in the last two years through the the columns of the HESS and ''Gazette" by smart (?) cor respondents from this place, and he has not. He denies writing for the Prkss. and ' Gazette" last spring and summer j and can prove himself innocent by the | Editors. Very well, I never said he was guilty, but he can't prove himself in | nocent of not writing for the Gazette ! within a month. The items he refered j to about me in the Press and "Gazette" I certainly had a reporter and that is the | person I intend bringing to justice if this fight is continued much longer. How quickly Mr. K. recalled these items to memory. The "Gazette" editor has barred out its correspondent, and now j Mr. Kailbourne has taken refuge in the | Press, and openly announced himself to j defend that correspondent. Mr. editor, ; please look over your file and see if I I haven't been imposed upon repeatedly by i souie "Simple Simon" who signed his or j her self "Bruiser" and "Bouncer" and I still by another, who didn't sign any | name. But hereaftor, if itny items ap pear in the eolums ol the Press and Gazette of a personal direct or indirect nature from this place about me some one will suffer for it, and editors arc re quested to guide themselves accordingly. ! The Gazette barred out its correspondent, j and the Press is hereby notified to do | likewise, cut out all correspondents from I this place, for items are riot written four jor five times a year, and then for the 1 sole purpose to "shoot" me. If Mr. Kailbourne wants a libel suit why go ahead, and 1 will go hand in hand with | him. AJAX [The Pit Ess lii.s repeatedly asked its ' cornspondents to cut out all personal ref- j erenee or "blind" flings at his neighbors We like to receive news items from our friends, and can stand an innocent joke once in a while, yet we mwt put a stop to neighborhood sores being aired through the columns of the Pkess. Give us good clean news, or items of interest. All others will he blue penciled, no matter who sends them.— [Editor. HOWARDWLLE. Mr. Truman Carpenter was at Bel- j mont, N. V.. Monday, buying machinery for a large saw mill to be built in Canada, ! by Pennsylvania paitics. The duties ! will hit them twice if they buv their j machinery here, as they will have* to pay j duty (or tariff) on the machinery guinl' i over to Canada, and again on the lumber coming back. E. L. Masor met Mr. Carpenter at Belmont Monday evening, and returned ; with him on the midnight flyer. Mr. Theodore Newton has returned from a week's visit with his mother i.t Corry, Pa. The new mill has started on hardwon I lor the winter sawing This means a r.- duction of eniDloyees, M. El„ Have your photograph taken and mounted on those Christmas cards. Did you see them at Bair's studio? They are something entirely new. FIRST FORK. At a box social and fair, held at the Gilmore school house, on last Saturday evening for the benefit of Rev. Simpson, the sum of 852.00 was realized, which will pay up his salary at this, and Brooks , Hun appointments. Spafford & Currier have their bark hauled and shipped, and have their job bers at work skidding the logs. W. 11. Tanner has moved his family into the camp up Mill Run. Hunting season being over we have very few casualties to chronicle,as far as the deer are concerned and none as far as the hunters. One ol the B. & S., em ployees reports l(i deer and 2 men killed about Medix Ilun, by the hunters. Said | it was dangerous to work in the woods with a log loader, as the bullets were I whistling in all directions. Win. Mahon was down from Hulls I and stayed over Sunday with his family. A good many wells have gone dry in this vicinity and the people are hauling j or carrying water a long ways, as the j water in the creek is unfit to use for any I purpose whatever. Wonder if the Board I of Health or the fisheries commission or | our lawmakers iu the Legislature, will I look after the matter at the comimr ses- I sion? A <;ood many of the farmers about j here are going to do their annual butcher | ing this week. ! News like the weather is prettv dry ! here how. 101 trier Smith is on his annual assess- I merit round. x .\ I FF Sr.!). SI2ERVILLE. Snow has come to stay, iss Maude Evans came over from j Austin and spent Sunday with In r folks | at this place. Mr. Floyd Minard has returned to j our city after a well earned vacation to | take up his position as operator. Mr. Jos. Stonham and son David has i leltfor Florida to take tip a position as carpenter for Mr. Felt. Mr. Silas Farrell from Hulls came over and spent Sunday with his folks, Mr. and Mrs. K. I). Sizer. Mr. W. 1). Sprague and .J. 11. Evans were out hunting Wednesday. We have not seen any game yet. Mr. Michael Kepthart aged 38 years was killed last Saturdy morning at 4:10 while walking track. luterment at Sizerviile Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Mr. E. S. Ling principal of Emporium schools was seen on our streets last Satur day. Mrs. William Farrell who is employed as conductor for Goodyear Lumber Com pany is visiting his parents. F IN NI Ni K v Fin NINIK iN . If you desire to make your friend happy, present them a picture of your self mounted on those lovely calendar cards at Bair's studio. Thf Lino Drawn. Ethel—What do you intend to give •ne for Christmas? Bertie—Would a kiss answer? Ethel (with sarcasm) —No, indeed! Mamma never allows nre to accept val uable presents from gentlemen. Vacancy. There's Christmas smiling: in the sky, There's Christmas in the trees. There's Christmas In the streets near hy, There's Christmas In the breeze. It's Christmas, Christmas everywhere. No matter where you look. Save when you gaze with mild despair Into your pocketbook. —Washington Star. Christina* Bills. The Christmas bills Glvo dad the chills; He'll never climb The heavenly hills Nor wear the angels' Wings an' frills Because o' them Same Christmas bills! —Atlanta Constitution, j Don't Jump to conclusions and think, be cause you liavo suffered so long from chronic PAIN, that it is incurable. Whether you call it rheumatism, neuralgia, back ache, earache, toothache, head-| ache, a sprain, indigestion or \ some internal trouble, of which you don't rightly know the nature, the surest and most reliable relief and cure la' II AM LIN S WIZARD OIL. This medicine acts directly upon the nerves and blood vessels in such a way as to re lieve inflammation, reduce swellings, and drive out the exact cause of trouble to which the pain is due. Price 50 cents and SI.OO. Fully guaranteed. For sale and recommended by L. TAGGART. Fight Will be Bitter, j Those who will persist in closing their r ears against the continual recommenda t tion of Dr. Kind's New Discovery for i Consumption, will have a long and bit -3 ter fight with their troubles, if not ended earlier by fatal termination. Read what T. B, Beall, of Iteall, Miss., has to say: "Last fall my wife had every sympton of consumption. She took Dr. King's New Discovery after everything else had failed. Improvement came at once and four bottles entirely cured her." Guar anteed by L. Tuggart Druugist. Price 50c, and §I.OO. Trial bottles free. Mothers, Be Careful. ')l the health of your children* Look 1 out for Cou»hs, Colds, Croup and \\ hooping Cough. Stop them in time— | One Minute Cough Cure is the best i remedy. Harmless and pleasant. Sold 1 by R. ('. Dodson. The oil of kiudness is enhanced by r being carried in the ea nof courtesy. Beware ol Counterfeits. , 'DeWitt's is the only genuine Witch I Hazel Salve" writes J. L. Tucker, of I j Centre, Ala. "I have used it in my ■ family for I'iles, Cuts and ISurns for years and can recommend it to be the j best Salve on the market. Every family should keep it. as it is an invaluable | household remedy, and should always be kept on hand for immediate use." Mrs. j Samuel Gage, of North Bush, N Y., says:"l had a fever sore on my ankle j for twenty years that the doctors could i not cure. All salves and blood remedies proved worthless. 1 could not walk for j over two years. Finally 1 was persuad ed to try DeWitt's Witch Ilazel Salve, which has completely cured me. It is a ! wonderful relief.'' DeWitt's Witch ; Haz°l Salves cures without leaving a ; ; scar. Sold by R. C. Dodspn. i I Bonds, bondage and beasts of burden ; are all synonymous of debt. Latest Popular Music. Miss May Gould, teacher of piano l forte, lias received a fuil line of the lat j est and most popular sheet music. All i the popular airs. Prices reasonable. ATTENTION HOYS. Notice is hereby given to the bovs who broke the wind >ws in the basement of Plank Road Hollow School House that they are given until January 7th, 1905 to call upon the Board and settle damages. Otherwise warrants will be placed ill the hands of the proper officers. FRED K. ZIMMER, President, ATTEST:— DF.I.BKIIT TOWNER, Sec'y. 42-3t. liI.KCTIOJJ SIOTICK THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK, Emporium, Pa., /Jec.'sih, lio4. r pHE annual meeting of the stock-holders for I the election of a Board of Directors and the transaction of such other business as may be laid before them, will be held at the Bank on Tues day, January 10th, 1905, between thelioursof one and three in the afternoon. T. B. LLOYD, Cashier. Holiday Annex H. A. ZARPS & C I j T"N order to meet *■- the increased demands of our numerous custom ers we have rent- IB ed and stocked the store room, next door to J OP I NSuN & McNARNEY'S office, with a beau tiful line of goods, especially selected for the Holiday Trade. During the rush incident to Xtnas trade this new departure will afford the ladies an excellent oppor tunity to make their purchases. One of the features of the Annex will be several bargain counters. Wejcan't fail to meet your wants at either store. Call early. IH. A. ZARPS I& CO. j NEXT DOOH TO | JOHNSON & McNARNEY'S 1 OFFICE
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