C. R. HUSTED &. CO., Opposite M. E. Church, Emporium, Pa. ===== I Will for the next sixty days give 10 PER CENT. OFF I on all gboda sold for cash or cash in two weeks and FIVE PERCENT, off all bills paid in full at the end of thirty days. We make an exception when selling FLOUR and SUGAR accompanied by no other 1 groceries. Call us up, on phone, No, 74. Goods Delivered Free and | Promptly. THE FOURTH STREET GROCERY C. R. HUSTED & CO., Proprietors. ''o/ O J Si .. • ,' and Tar 1 <. arcs colds. or :\ <ts pneumonia. ! Building Time And we wish to say that we are better prepared than ever before to supply you with all kinds of Hardware and Builders Supplies. We have in addition to our regular stock, (the for business of U. A. Palmer, known as Hockley's Cool Yard) consisting of Brick, Lime Cement, Wall Plaster, Shingles, Coal, Hay, Hardwood, etc., etc., a full line of PAINTS, COLORS in OIL, PAINT BRUSHES, etc. Plumbing and Tinning is among our specialties. Costs you nothing for estimates in these lines. All our work is positively guaranteee to give satisfaction. Stoves and Ranges. I Don't forget we carry the largest assortment of STOVES and RANGES for gas, coal or wood in county and every one guaranteed by the maker. MURRY 4 COPPERSMITH CO. —a——a——u—l ~§ Pleased and Satisfied Customers ours are to be found in nearly every home in this county. You ought to be one of them! We carry the LARGEST and BEST stock of FURNITURE In this county. All made by SKILLED labor. Our Bed-room Furniture Was all made in 1904. CROSS BANDED VENEER and SOLID ends. Steel beds fr*m L to COO Cfl Guaranteed against breaking VZOIUU Mattresses from ClOCto£|linn A iso guaranteed yliZu J«UU Baldwin Refrigerators Do refrigerate, and the price is within nn|UP the reach of all s)w«UU We have the best Go-Carts in town aud||challeuge comparison. Quickest and handiest adjustment and prices no higher than low grade goods. Lace Curtains from 60c per pair to SIO.OO. Carpets from 15c per yard to $1.50. Linoleums from 37 /c per yard to $1.50. All prices marked in plain figures are positively the lowest for the goods we offer. Emporium Furniture Co., BERNARD EG AN, Manager. I UXI>F]RTAKIX(r iStore-Raom Enlarged to Dtubla S Capacity. c O. B. BARNES' ) 1 Family Grocery } } ■"* Meat Market ) t EAST EnPORtUfl, PA C i Fml E I MEATS. IT | JTII fresh (Jatitied j ( Goods. \ £ Opposite S. I). McDonald's Hotel. 3 'PhoneSl. \ \ Call up; We'll do the rest Promptly. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1904. Shooting In the New Year RACING, whirling, nerve wreck ing as has become the recog nized spirit of our times, yet in the remote districts lingers a serenity so unshaken we can but mar vel over the dual nature of this thing we call American. Customs of the fa therland have become so grafted upon the newer land one feels the richness of the past ever mellowing the crude ness of the present. One of the most lovable of these old customs,, redolent with the air of feu dalism, Is that of shooting in the new year. We first hear of it among the early German settlers of Pennsylvania, where it has long since become obso lete. but about 1750 there was a gen eral migration from Pennsylvania down to the hill country of the Caro lines. In rumbly old wagons these pioneers Journeyed, laden with featliei beds and delftware, sprigs of fruit trees and sturdy babies. As I lie life history is but a repetition of the race history, there came with their tirst strange new year a burst of heiniweii. <Jetting themselves togeth er. they celebrated as best they could in memory of older days, anil not once through all the years that have fol lowed have these greetings been omit ted. Then tenantry and poorer people of the neighborhood gather at some ap pointed place about 0 o'clock in the evening, and the inarch Itegins. From one "big house"to another they tramp, dolorously intoning their doggerel, fir ing fierce salutes and feasting at the hands of the gentry. Though North Carolina could never boast as many stately mansions as could some of her sister states, yet for homely comfort and lavish old time hospitality she has never been sur passed. Each of the dear old places lias its own name, still lingering there —Swan I'onds, Pleasant Gardens, Mount Welcome, Ingleside. The sen timent of all was voiced on one stone gatepost, which proudly bore the in scription: Welcome all To Buncombe Hall. Tradition tells us that the owner of this estate, Colonel Buncombe (of course he was a colonel), lived in the ''low" country, and when he was entertaining guests whom he particu larly enjoyed he had the bridge, the only means of escape, taken up and hidden In the swamps. Most of these Jovial hosts are sleeping now, each in his narrow bed forever laid, but the new year has a way of returning, and the shooters return with it. On the last night of the year, as you sit over the hickory tire, there comes a j THE NEW YEAB SHOOTEIiS. tramping in the front yard, and a deep voice outside begins the so called New Year's sermon with a forcing of the rhyme worthy of Walt Whitman. A loud report being the thing desired, heavy wads are put on the powder and the gun muzzle held close to the ground. After the shooting comes the hint: If ydu are a man of grace, Come to the door and show your face. The door is then thrown wide, and the company enter, awkward, grinning and shivering* with cold. Some of | them have come from a dlstauce of eight or ten miles, as the country is | sparsely settled, and must necessarily I be tired, but they consider it more def- I erential to stand, or If one is finally ; persuaded to take a chair he sits on j the edge uneasily. I The ruddy. Santa Claus-like old men I exchange laconic remarks on the price j of cotton; the youngsters refer to the I possum hunt of the previous night. | Some one goes to the piano and strums j away in a frantic attempt to furnish amusement. They are stolid until she strikes up "Dixie." The effect is mag ical. The callers mark time with mud dy boots and remark slyly: "That's the stuff!" Apples and oranges, cakes nnd coffee, are now brought out. At some places the black bottle is passed around. Then the shooters with a relieved sigh pile i out of the door. The society manner Is a fe:irful strain.—New York I'ost, A... g New Year 'w Proposal v " // ■ MC resolutions have 1 vowed to heep WA the coming fear? Come, Bit beside me, maiden fair, and straightway you shall hear. I've pledged myself to choose one girl from out the throng so gay, Hnd love her -with an honest love forever and for aye. i "I'VE MADE NO PLEDGE." " T'LX worh for her with brain and brawn, with all my might and main {lntil I've won her everything that hon esty can gain. I'll till her life wilh ail that's good till life it self is done Hnd while we train our minds and hearts we'll not neglect the fun. " IVT®® * c " me ' won't you, maiden fair, J what you have vowed to do, for I've laid bare my inmost soul to no one but to you?" "I've made no pledges," she replied In so de mure a tone, "But, if you don't object, I'll try to help you heep your owni" - Wallace Dunbar Vincent in Leslie'i M&gazin*. XothliiK to Keep Illm Happy. "Wish you a happy new year!" says the visitor, riding up to the home of the Kentucky mountaineer. "Thanks fo' yo' kind wishes, suh, but hit looks almighty bad fo' me this comln' yeah." "Now, I'm sorry to hear that. What seems to be the trouble?" "Well, suh, 'long last spring me an' Lije Bingo happened to have a failln' out ovah a couple o' liawgs, so we done had a time all sence then, shootin' at each otheh f'uni time to time." "Oh, I shouldn't be cast down over that. Even if you have a feud it can be ended. There's no reason why"— "That's Jest It. podneli; that's jest It. IJJe fell offen the side o' the mountain yestiddy, an' now I've got no feud at all."—Judge. New Yenr'n (.'all*. The custom of visiting and sending presents and cards on New Year's day is recorded almost as far back as his tory goes. The practice of using visit ing cards can be traced back for thou sands of years by the Chinese. Their New Year's visiting cards are curiosi ties. Each one sets forth not only the name, but all the titles, of Its owner, and, as all Chinamen who have any social position at all have about a dozen, it makes the list quite appalling. These cards are made of silk or else of fine paper backed with silk and are so large that they have to be rolled up to he carried conveniently. They are. In deed, so valuable that they are return ed to their owners. A Pollnli K Inn 111 K Bee. In Poland New Year's eve Is observ ed in a dance called St. Sylvester's ball. The dancing proceeds decorously until the clock strikes 12. Exactly at that moment the men fall to kissing their oWli and their neighbor's part ners, each taking particular pains to thus salute the one he loves best be fore the one with whom she chances to be dancing can perform that duty. Those not In the mood for dancing gather in another room or remain at home to entertain one another with stories about the departing year. \rw Year'* liny In IlanNln, At every country house in itussiu there are a feast and s. procession in honor of New Year's day. lloriiW,sheep, cows and hogs are dressed \»'iti gar lands and led to the landlord's ioa.je. The Idea is that the animals shail be iaken into the (lining room, but wh-n the landlord has a handsomely furnish ed apartment and does not care to have It ruined he sets aside some other room and allows the mob to take pos session of it. An Old EnifUah Cnatum. The old country Englishman never fails to unbar bis door at 11' o'clock New Year's eve to let the old year out and the now year in. New l'ear'H Vloletn. I sighed to gl< e you flowers bright, Though vau.siud sweet the summer's glow. The violets heard my longings deep. Oh. way down 'neatli the turf and snow. They were no due till April fair, Yet. in Deo -mber'a wilderness, They felt tl e warmth of friendship's rprl n g And robed themselves in royal dress. —Donahoe's Magazine SYLVESTER EVENING. How the Urrmnm t rlrbrntr the C*a vernlon «>f tuiialvntliie. The evening af Doc. .'!1 Is known In Germany as Sylventer evening. In Eu ropeun calendars, excepting that of England, the tlnys of the year have names, anil Dec. ill bet'.rs the name of Sylvester, who wan bishop of Home in the time of the Emperor Constantino und wn» obliged to hide himself In the mountains to escape persecution. Then it happened that Constantino was smit ten with leprosy, for which horrible disease the physicians could propose 110 other remedy than a bath in the blood of young children. For this pur pose 3.000 children were gathered, but Constantino, moved to pity by the despair of the mothers, refused to avail himself of such a sacrifice. In the night he was advised in a dream to re call Sylvester and to accept the Chris tian religion, which he did. This evening is everywhere in Ger many a time of great rejoicing. Par ties and balls are given, and friends gather to spend the last hours of the old year in merriment—games and dancing and, most important of all. au guries and divinations. Though these tricks are as old as the hills, they nev er lose their charm. Hot lead is pour ed into cold water contained in a basin, and in solidifying it forms itself into nil kinds of shapes and figures, in which many meanings can be read by the initiated. Empty walnut shells, in each of which burns a tiny wax taper, are put to gether in a basin of water to swim in opposite directions. If they meet two loving hearts will lie united in that year, but if they separate the love af fair of those represented by the shells will come to naught. Young girls throw slippers over their heads. If tin* points of the slippers face the door the owners will be married that year; if the slippers miss the wished for direc tion the girls have t> remain at home. Sealed cards on which words of good omen, of good advice or wishes have been written are passed around, read aloud and considered as indications of the future. New York Tribune. NEW YEAR'S BREAKFAST. In Jnpnn It In a Rollkloum Itlto nnd a SerloiiN Matter. To a devout Japanese breakfast on New Year's day is a religious rite rath er than a vulgar satisfaction of the ap petite. No ordinary dishes are con sumed at this meal. The tea must be made with water drawn from the well when the tirst ray of sun strikes it, a potpourri of materials specified by law forms the staple dish, while at the fin ish a measure of special sake from a red lacquer cup must he drained by whosoever desires happiness during the coming year. In the room is placed an "elyslan stand," or red lacquer tray, covered with evergreen leaves and bearing a rice dumpling, a lobster, oranges, per simmons, chestnuts, dried sardines and herring roe. All these dishes have a special signification. The names of some are homonymous with words of happy omen; the others have an alle gorical meaning. The lobster's curved back and long claws typify life pro longed till the frame is bent and the beard is long; the sardines, which al ways swim in pairs, express conjugal bliss; the herring Is symbolical of a fruitful progeny. These dishes are not intended for consumption, although In most cases the appetite Is fairly keen. The ortho dox Japanese not only sees the old year out; he rises at 4 to welcome the newcomer and performs many ceremo nies before he breaks his fast.—London Chronicle. Alt Improved Diary. "This," explained the bookseller, "is our latest patent diary. We think it is the cleverest thing in that line ever de vised." The shopper turns the leaves idly. "But I can't see where it Is different from any other," she observes. "No? Well, If you will look at all the dates after Jan. 23 you will see that in each space has been printed, 'Got up, ate breakfast, lunch and din ner and went to bed.' That insures a complete diary for the year."—Judge. New Year'M In France, New Year's in France is a greater day for exchanging gifts than Christ mas. The custom of New Year's calls, once so popular in this country, but now fallen almost into disuse, is still supreme in Paris. Great family din ners, in which the orange figures most prominently, add to the gayety of the day. So crowded are the pavements on the boulevards that pedestrians sometimes have to take the middle of the street. Xfw Ycnr'H liny In Canndn. With the French-Canadian, New Year's day, or le Jour de l'an, as he calls it, is very much like what Thanks giving day Is to his New England brother. It is par excellence the feast #f the home, essentially a domestic holiday. A Song For the New Year. A song for the new year. Its hopes and its fears. And ne%-er a song that Is saddened by ten rs; A song that shall ring and shall s'ng to the years— A song of a brighter tomorrow; A song for the new year, forgetting the old. Whose story in sunshine and shadow was told; A son- of the Joys that love's dear arms shall hold— A song of a brighter tomorrow! A song of a green world and bluest of skies, A song of a sun that in splendor shall rise; The joy's In love's heart and the light's in love's eyes. And the world seen a brighter tomor row! —Atlanta Constitution. mMrsmmt/tmrn - a*,/ \ Adam, | Meldrum & £ Anderson Co. \ * HUFFALO.X. V. % 396-408 Main Street, H > A / , THE i I Christinas 1 I Store ; |i Buffalo's leading depart- / & ment store is now a great / bzaar of fancy goods and , '■/ Christmas novelties. Arti- y cles of exquisite beauty and & £ practicle gifts abound, and * $ the price range is great / A enough to meet any pocket- / / book. The magnificent dis- 4 / play is the largest we have / 4 ever made. / / If You Cannot enme in Person / J SHOP BY MAIL. 112 We have a most efficient / . ' mail order department / / which supplies your wants / / the same day your order is / received- We issue Help- £ / fill Hints toCliristmas Sliop- pers" which will be sent 't free for the asking. Our / 5/ advice is at your command ' ' and all letters receive the •' 112. personal attention of an ex- / V WE PREPAY EXPRESS 112 5 / 011 all goods to a reason- able amount and deliver ■1 goods to the depots|without 112, j charge. J | LOCKPORT AND NIAGARA FALLS 112 g Cars arrive and depart t from corner of Court and *1 % Main St., one hundred feet / % north of our entrance. / % —: * J Adam, < 'i Meldrum & > Anderson Co. < The American Block, % % BUFFALO, N.Y /\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \.\\ 1904 V \N. SEGER C Furnishing Goods, Shirts, C c Neckwear, Trunks, c 112 Satchels, Suit Cases, / C Etc., Etc. V \ A fine line at ? V bottom prices. \ > Clothing s F FOR ALL. Y / Men's, Youth's and X / Boys' Clothing, \ y A new stock just in. r / Give me a call. / THE PIONEER. tar BOOK MAILED FREK. 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