MEXICAN DRAWN WORK. Tlio Women \\ li«» Mnko It Acourdltiff to I*4*oll Contract. The woman who makes drawn work 011 a Mexican estate is not «u independ ent worker to whom conies the money for ail the work her deft hands accom plish. She is a woman whose father or brother or nnclo or mother is in debt to the "great don." She can do the drawn work, so the don's agent sup plies licr with linen or lawn, a frame and the requisite implements and in dicates the design that she is to fol low, for. though you may not know it, there are fashions in drawn work quite as exclusive and quite as popular as there are 111 women's hats, for instance. When lier work is jjone that poor wo man cannot fare forth to market and offer it for sale. It is by the term of her peon contract perhaps already sold to the "great don," whose tenant she is. Miguel, his agent, takes the work, by now as grimy as the overalls of an engineer. He lias kept account of the time the woman has been engaged up on it, and for each of the many days she may have worked he gives her 7, S, !), at most 1" cents, but never the last amount unless she be a thorough mistress of her craft. Once a year the Mexicans for whom the women do this work, somewhat as the sweatshop toilers of Chicago and New York drive their needless for a master, meet in solemn conference and determine what the prices shall lie. So great is the popularity of drawn work generally that the supply never equals the demand, and the profits made by the Mexican masters of the drawn work trust, for it is really that, are enormous. The dealer pays these "op erators" what they demand, and they demand much. Therefore the buyer pays S4O for a "cloth" that costs the "manufacturer" 12 cents a day, labor hire, for, say, ninety days, to produce.— Pilgrim. THE FLAMINGO AT HOME. Observation Ha* Proved That llotli Male- mid Frmnlc Incubate. Apparently two factors enter into the flamingoes' type of architecture—they must build where there is mud and at the same time erect a structure high enough to protect its contents from any normal rise in the water due to tides or rainfall. After watching a nesting colony of flamingoes in the Bahamas for "nearly an hour" at a distance of 150 yards Sir Ilenry Blake stated that the fe males sat upon the nests, while the males stood up together, evidently uear by. My dissections, however, showed that both sexes incubate, while contin ued observation from the tent revealed the presence of only one bird of the pair in the rookery at the same time. The bird 011 the nest was relieved late in the afternoon and early in the morn ing. The one, therefore, which incu bated during the day fed at night, and his or her place was taken by another which had been feeding during the day, or, as Peter put it,"l do t'ink, sir, dat when de lady fillymlngo leave de nest den de gen'leman fillymlago take her place, sir; yes, sir." Morning and evening, then, there was much activity in the rookery. Single girds or files of as many as fifty were almost constantly arriving and depart ing. coming from and radiating to ev ery point of the compass. Flamingoes in flight resemble 110 oth er bird known to inc. With legs and neck fully outstretched and the com paratively small wings set halfway be tween bill and toes, they look as if they might lly backward or forward with equal ease. They progress more rapid ly than a heron and when hurried fly with a singular serpentine motion of the neck and body, as if they were trawling in the air.—Century. f-ot the I'aulN Ml it'll. Paul du Cliaillu, the one time Afri- Ui explorer, performed a good Samarl n act one night in assisting along e street a very intoxicated stranger, te man told him where his home was, ad after considerable difficulty Du Jhaillu got him to his door. The bibu ius one was very grateful and want- Jd to know Ills helper's name. As the Explorer did not particularly care to {live his name in full he merely replied |hat it was Paul. "So it'sh—hie— Paul, Ush It?" hiccoughed the man, and then, after some moments of apparent thought, inquired solicitously, "Shay, >le man. did y'ever get any—liic—any Usher to those 10-ong lettersh y' wrote a th' Ephesians?" Looked lloiient Anyway, A member of the Kansas City board ! trade called a newsboy in front of le Exchange building the other after noon to buy a paper and then discov ered that he had 110 small change with which to pay for it. He wanted the paper, so he asked the boy to trust him. "I'll pay you tomorrow," he said. The boy looked him over. "Yer on the board of trade, ain't you?" he asked. The man replied that he was. The newsboy hesitated a moment. Then lie said: "Well, you look honest, anyway. I guess I'll trust you for the 2 cents." — Kansas City Times. nidi 111 Espeetntfond. "They're comparatively rich, aren't they?" "Well, I wouldn't say 'comparative ly,' but 'relatively.' They have a rich uncle of whom they expect great things." Philadelphia Ledger. Ono Advantage. Rimer —Do you really prefer to have long poems sent into you rather than short ones? Editor—Yes. When they're long, you see, I don't have to think up any other excuse for rejecting them.— Exchange. He that falls into sin Is a man; that grieves at it is a saint; that boastetb of it is a devil.—Fuller. THE 6LLPIoH COUPLE. HtixliaittlN mid V."lve« Wlio Itrfusr t« Mingle lu Society. Selfishness is the bane of ail life. It cannot enter into life—lndividual, family or social without cursing it. Therefore if any married pair find themselves inclined to confine them selves to one another's society, indis posed togo abroad and mingle with tlic life around them, disturbed and ir ritated by the collection of friends in their own dwelling or in any way inov t'd to regard their social duties as dis agreeable, let them be alarmed at once. It Is a bad symptom—an essentially morbid symptom. They should insti tute means at once for removing this feeling, and they can only remove it by persistently going into society, persist ently gathering it into their own dwell ing and persistently endeavoring to learn to love and feel an interest in all with whom they meet. The process of regeneration will not be a tedious one, for the rewards of social life are im mediate. The heart enlarges quickly with the practice of hospitality. The sympathies run and take root from point to point, each root throwing up leaves and bear ing flowers and fruit like strawberry vines if they are only allowed to do so. It Is only sympathies and strawber ries that are cultivated in hills which do otherwise. The human face is a thing which should he able to bring the heart into blossom with a moment's shining, and will be sucli with you if you will meet it properly. The penalties of family isolation will not, unhappily, fall entirely upon your selves. They will be visited with double force upon your children. Chil dren reared in the home with few or no associations will grow up either boorish or sensitively timid. It is a cruel wrong to children to rear them without bringing tliem into con tinued contact with polite social life. The ordeal through which children thus reared are obliged to pass in gain ing the ease and assurance which will make them at home elsewhere than un der the paternal roof is one of the severest, while those who are constant ly accustomed to a social life from their youth are educated in all its forms and graces without knowing it. Great multitudes of men and women all over the country are now living se cluded from social contact simply from their sensitive consciousness of Igno rance of the forms of graceful inter course. They feel that they cannot break through their reserve. There Is, doubt less, much that is morbid in this feel ing, and yet It Is mainly natural. From all this mortification and this depriva tion every soul might have been saved by education in a home where social life was properly lived. It is cruel to deny to children the opportunity not only to become accustomed from their first consciousness to the forms of so ciety, but to enjoy its influence upon their developing life. Society Is food to children. Contact with other minds is the means by which they are educated, and the dif ference in families of children will show at once to the accustomed eye the different social character of their par ents. But I have no space to follow this subject further, and 1 leave it with you, with the earnest wish that you will consider it and profit by the suggestions I have given you.—"Tim othy Tit cuuib's Letters"in Boston Globe. I'ollt<'ll« k .SM I'll JM. Virtue is not to bo measured by os tentatious giving. There is frequently more real love for humanity in the soul of the man who removes the banana skin from the pavement than in the heart of the donor of the memorial window in the church. Politeness, like all other faults and virtues, may be come habitual. It is surprising how many small acts of kindness, how many little deeds of helpfulness, one may do in the course of a day when there are inclination to be kind and a lookout kept for the opportunity. Ono may set out with this intention in the morning, and the footing up at night— not to others, but to one's own secret conscience -will be cheering and en couraging. Wlinle.M on Their Holiday**. Professor Goldlob has been telling the Cliristiania Academy of Science the results of his investigations into the migrations of whales. These creatures hang about the coast of Norway and Finland until the spring is well ad vanced, and then they go away on their travels. Some goto the Azores, others to Bermuda and the Antilles, and they cover these enormous dis tances in an incredibly short time. Some of them bring back harpoons which bear the names of ships and other evidences of where these mi grants have been for their summer hol idays. C'liiNMifleil. "Uncle Bill," said little Reginald, "did it hurt you when the men caught you with the dredge and grappling hooks?" "Why, I don't understand you," said Uncle William. "Well, that's the way the natural history book says they get 'em." "Get what?" "Sponges. When pa said you was coming ma said: 'What? That old sponge coming here again?' " Not Always Popular, Grayce—Why is it that Edytlie is so unpopular in society? She's very care ful to speak nothing but the truth about people. Gladys—And that's just what makes her unpopular. Louisville Courier-Journal. Opportunity sooner or later comes 11 all who work and wish.—Stanley. CAMERON COUNTY PRES.s, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1904. LIFE INSURANCE. <«ot !•* 1111 > A (Myuici 11 (<-< l Willi fla 'lVri-.i* of Vour I'oliry, "What the average purchaser of life Insurance doesn't know about the tiling lie is purchasing would 111! a good sized lioou printed with very narrow margins," says an insurance expert. "For instance, 1 talked not long siuce with a man who fancied he was in sured for SIO,OOO on the fifteen year endowment plan. That is, lie thought he had to make payments for lifteen yea re—which was true and that at the end of that time he could get .$lO,- 000 in rash or take a part in cash and a part in paid up Insurance, which, as it turned out, was not true. The rate he was paying was so very low for what he said he was getting that 1 asked to see his policy, and when I looked at it 1 found, Just as he might have found on a brief examination, that while he was insured for life, with only lifteen yearly payments, he could not get the SIO,OOO or any part of it for a good many years more. No in surance company In the world will permit the fooling of a patron like this if it can help it, and yet to attribute such a mistaken idea to fraudulent misrepresentation on the part of an unworthy agent would not always lie fair. Many men who take insurance, and especially those who do not decide togo in until they have looked at it a long time, go in finally with a rush. They don't give the agent time to tell them what they are getting, and often don't lind out for years afterward. Another thing that many insured per sons do not know is that a rebate 011 the lirst payment, arranged between the insured and the agent, sometimes renders the whole transaction invalid." —Philadelphia Record. CHRISTMAS DAY. Why the L'>ftllvuX IN Olrlirnleil on Dec. 2S. There are 110 definite allusions in the writings of any of the disciples of Christ as to the date of his birth, nor has there ever been produced proof of any character as to the exact period in the year when Christ was born. There are, very true, occasional references to the event In the Scriptures, indicating that the Nativity occurred in the win ter season. The institution of the anniversary dates back to the second century of Christendom, and it has been since uniformly celebrated by nearly all branches of the Christian church with appropriate rejoicings and ceremonies. The frequent and somewhat heated controversies, however, relative to the date of Christ's birth early in the fourth century led I'ope Julius I.to order a thorough investigation of the subject by the learned theologians and historians of that period, which re sulted in an agreement upon Dec. 25. and that decision seemed to have so settled all disputes that that date was universally accepted except by the Greek church. While this date was never changed, the reckoning of it is made according to the Gregorian cal endar. which was adopted in the latter part of the sixteenth century, and up on which computations of time in near ly all civilized nations have since rest ed.—American Queen. < oMiiiic Horror. The two infinities of Kant did not 1 chill or hurt him, but his fearlessness is shared by few. Only for si short iu- j slant, iit best, will most persons con sent to look open eyed at any clear ini- 1 age of fate or of infinity. Scarcely a friend of mine will look steadily at the I clear midnight sky for a minute in si lence. The freezing of the heart fol- j lows; the appalling shudder at the i dread contemplation of Infinity, which j may be called cosmic horror, is more j than can be endured. If those stars are i absolutely and positively infinite then j there is 110 up or down, and they knew no beginning, will have no ending, j With any such staring gorgon of fatal- j ism tlie surcharged attention is shaken, ! and the chemistry of common life ! seizes upon the liquid crystals with j avid hunger.—George M. Gould, M. D., j In Atlantic. A Sc*otch I'lirNon'N Clover lloply. When musical instruments were first 1 used in the services of the Scottish j churches many strict Sabbatarians ob- j Jected to the ifiiqultous proceedings. ! One of these persons, on meeting the | minister some time after leaving tlie "kirk" because of the introduction of a harmonium, said with a sneer, "Well, | and how is your fanner getting on?" i (A fanner was a winnowing machine I resembling the bellows of an organ in i Its working.) "Oh, splendidly." an swered the reverend gentleman. "It's ! just keeping the good corn and blow- j ing the chaff away."—Spare Moments. I If you wish to please people you must I begin by understanding them.—Reade. 1 I /, Laughlin A || J| jg Fountain jg || pj 18 THt PEfcR OF AL!. Sjlll 1- Jyfj § PENS AND HA9 NO pgffi| HI Ml tauAU ANvwHCfla. j If) HI FINEST GRADE 14K. Hp L iH ||| GOLD PEN jjfe fit ! "S a YOUR CHOICE OF THESE ffijf ; i| TWOPOPUURBTYLESFOR as i | SUPERIOR TO OTHER jfill !| MAKES AT $3 1j (S! 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"Judging by the way he will stand up and listen to himself sing by the hour, I should say he isn't."—Chi cago Journal. StroiiK Diet. Veterinary So your new bull pup is sick? What seems to be the matter with liini? Owner—A little of every thing, 1 guess. While we were away this afternoon lie chewed up and swal lowed the dictionary.—Detroit Free Press. The Small Children. "I wonder what It Is," said the fami ly man, "that makes landlords and janitors dislike to have small children In fiats." "The small children, I guess," replied the savage bachelor.— Philadelphia Ledger. L.et Her Pirn*. The mistletoe above the door Expectant swains were viewing. A maiil passed through, but she was more Than thirty. Nothin' doing! —Philadelphia Press. iiHESSSSSKSSSSSSSESKSIESISSSSSXSSKSSSSKSSSJ I GO TO THE FAIR 1 II FOR LADIES COATS, ALL STYLES, FURS, SUITS, SHIRT !S WAISTS AND SKIRTS, CHILDREN'S DRESSES AND COATS Bv:..'" . Mmi »I *2 hi /',■ :•/ i' v./ k ' / I II | I I? A full line of Facinators, Shawls, Belts. Fancy Stocks, Gloves, Handkerchiefs, Hosiery, || Sacques and Toques, Fancy Lamps, Gold Clocks, Gold Picture Frames, Gold Framed Mirrors and small Gold Novelties. Fine line of Cut-Glass, Silverware, II I* Jewelry, Pocket Books, Wrist Bags, Toilet Articles. Fancy Goods II of all descriptions in Baskets, Birch Bark, Celluloid and || ta g Articles, Vases, Picture Books, Jardineres fcg H and Umbrella Stands. Umbrellas, all styles from 48c to sl2. £3 - ■ —■—■ || The Largest Display of Cliina Ever Shown in the County $$ II THE FAIR STORE, LL Zarps & GO. Proprietors. | if 1 II REMEMBER the store room next to JOHNSON & McNARNEY'S Law Office has been || II rented and stocked with a large assortment of goods. ii 1%3E3E 5E Sf 5£ !SS? 'SZI fT S? 3* w ** w w ****'* ** w *** ** ** ** ** w tk je«k ot c* iifc iSi /St at *%. *at ** #*. an. *ak «tk oat an ** *.% jom. man >* a* **,» * E. C. I>c v CH^ACO^LL. Sold by 11. C. Dodson, Druggist. 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