fin 1 I I The Careful H ousetfife Makes I every cent count. But she can't make the pennies count by trading at every store in town, spending halfjher time looking for the cent cheaper article. She can save money only by searching out a reliable grocer and sticking to him. The money is saved by trading with the groceryman who Hj Sells Dependable Goods. Dependable are not to be obtaine-l.'iu every H store. Goodness and cheapness appeal to H HI every condition of humanity. There are 110 fancy prices here and everybody is treated alike. Our goods are cheap because they I It's Not Th 1 that make them cheap. Goods bought so cheap that they have to be thrown away ; 011 account of poor quality are the most dearly bought goods. Better pay a fair price in the first place and get the depend able kinds. You can't buy any other kinds | here. We do not keep them. T WE ARE | HEADQUARTERS I Holiday Supplies. I Pickles, sWeet and sour, {■■) I Tomato Sauce, Prepared Mustard,2oc qt. I NUMEROUS OTHER SEASONABLE DELICACIES COMPRISED IN THE M m Heinz' •:">I :• Varieties 1 I Of Good Things. 1 WE ALSO CARRY A FULL LINE OF FANCY BISCUITS, and TINNED MEATS, FRESH MEATS. ■ CHICKEN, SARDINES. FRESH BREAD. Print Butter, Fancy Cheese, Lemons, Oranges, Bananas. I K. l tiross & Co. I p m 5 wmmmmmzmmmmmmminw CAMERON COUNTY PRKSS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1904. WONDERFUL INSECTS. Tlie Mitrveliiun \Yn>* of Vnrlona S|>vrlp» of A lit*. Lieutenant Colonel Sykes saw at Poo nan ants carrying out grain to dry in tiit* sun. I>r. Lineeeum in Texas found ants which planted a certain seed bear ing grass, reaped it and carried tlie grain into their ceils, where they strip ped it of chaff and packed it away. The paper relating tills was read by Darwin before the I.innacan society. Another observer has told us of ants which grow mushrooms. The foraging ants of Brazil and western equatorial Africa are terrible creatures. Elephants and gorillas ily before them; the python takes care not to indulge in a meal till lie has satis lied himself that there are none of them about. They have a "leisured class," much larger creatures, which ac company their mar n, "like subaltern oflicers in a marel mg regiment;" they are not fighters, however. One curious conjecture as to their function has been made. They are indigestible, and birds spare the whole army lest they should get bold of one of these tough morsels. This, It must be allowed, looks a little too strange. Slaves the ants certainly have, but they do not make slave raids; the lar vae of the inferior race are carried off and hatched out. The crowning mar vel. however, is that the British slave owning ant, and he alone, makes his slaves tight for him.—-London Specta tor. CHILDREN IN THE HOME. TIIPJ ilriiit; Vnxlety, but Very Much >IOH* Comfort. The children of the family—one is apt to look 011 tliem as burdens, both ers and expenses. When the baby comes, be it ever so welcome, the mother has more work to do. As it grows into childhood and on to maturity it is more and more care, worry and expense. And so the little children, those inno cent trespassers, are borne with as pa tiently as possible until they grow to a successful manhood or womanhood. Few stop to think deeply about this, or it would be plainly seen how erro neous the impression. The children of the family, instead of being burdens, are burden bearers; email saviors who are daily means of grace, and who lead the world worn parents once more into the paths of in nocence and peace. A baby's tiny hand clasped around his mother's finger has stilled heart throbs of sorrow and of bitter trouble; a baby's arms around his father's neck have brought to the man's weary brain a renewal of that love which is all that makes life livable.—Philadelphia Telegraph. BLOWING OUT A CANDLE. The Effect 11 PuflT of Ilrrnth HUM on the Finnic. A burning candle is a gas manufac tory 011 a small scale. The wax or tallow is converted by the heat of the flame into gas, and in that form en ters into chemical combination with the oxygen of the surrounding air. This chemical union causes a very high rise In temperature in the ele ments concerned. 111 fact, it produces what we know as flame of tire, which Is simply the white hot molecules of carbon and oxygen. The gas making process is started by the match in lighting the candle and is afterward continued by the tlame itself* Our breath acts In three way: (1) It carries away the particles of gas bodi ly. (2) It lowers their temperature at the same time, so that they are 110 longer capable of entering Into chem ical union with the oxygen. (3) The breath contains carbonic acid gas. which is Incapable of supporting com bustion and so helps to extinguish the flame. IlettliiK For n Friend. A gentleman was requested by a lady to put her a tenner 011 a certain horse if he fancied it. Now, lie did not fancy the animal nor back it and was greatly surprised to see it win. Of course he was pleased, but his satis faction was interrupted by the reflec tion that the lady would doubtless Imagine that lier tenner had been in vested. The trainer inquired the price —2O to 1. Though a poor man, lie was —and is, 1 should say—so kindly and scrupulous that he would not. disap point his friend, and sent her £2OO, which he could exceedingly ill afford. Doubtless to tills day she lias no knowledge of the truth.—London Sport ing News. Tli «• V'nKKlni; of Ctiivnlry, When gallantry prevailed in the south no woman was allowed to carry home a bundle of any kind. If any gentleman caught one in the act of lug ging a purchase from some shop to her domicile be felt in duty bound to tip | his hat, make low obeisance and beg flie privilege of acting as her express i man. This common courtesy was ac ! cepted of all men in the spirit in which a queen would allow a vassal to serve I her. Nowadays southern women, like I their northern sisters, tote their own packages.—New York Press. Tliree Very Gooil Reamini. [ Candid Minister—(Jood morning, Ja i net. I am sorry to hear you did not i like my preaching on Sunday last. What was the reason? Janet—l had | three verra guld reasons, sir. Firstly. : ye read yer sermon; secondly, ye did na read it weel, and, thirdly, it was na worth readln' at a'!— London Tit-Bits. CruHlinl. "Very well, sir," said Dr. Quack aft er his quarrel witli the undertaker. "I'll make you sorry for tills." "What are you going to do," asked the undertaker—"retire from practice?" —Exchange. THE RAILROAD FIREMAN. Diiildlni? ii Fire IN H I.ncomotlve la Not no Knny .fob. The average citizen manages to set the house in an uproar every time he has to make a lire in the heater, but his job is a trifle hi comparison with what a railroad tirenian faces when u new lire has to be built in a locomo tive. As a starter about 200 pounds of wood are necessary to lire up the or dinary engine. The wood used is old railroad ties cut into convenient blocks. | When the lire box lias been lined with wood if is drenched with oil, and the match is applied. As soon as the lire gains headway forced draft is applied, the operation necessary being performed in the roundhouse, where all apparatus for quickly producing high temperature is at hand. When a good bed of blazing wood lias been produced the fireman gets busy with his shovel, placing coal in even layers over the flames. This part of the work is hard on the back, and the aggrieved individual whose woes are evident to the whole block when he labors with the heater would go down and out in the first minute at it. Under the forced draft it is only a few minutes before the coal lias been reduced to a sheet of embers at white heat, and by this time there is enough steam pressure generated to permit of the locomotive being moved under its own power. Continuous resort to the shovel 011 the part of the fireman does the rest. It is only about once a month that a new tire is built in a locomotive while in service. The balance of the time the fire Is kept alight by being banked when the iron horse is not on the road. —Philadelphia Record. THE HAIR COMB. I# WIIM In llemott* Time* l«ed In ItrliKlouN (ereiiionle*. It would be curious to know what mystic meaning our forefathers at tached to the simple act of combing the hair. We learn from old church records that the hair of the priest or bishop was combed several times dur ing services by one of the inferior cler gy, but what such a queer proceeding signified no one knows. The comb is also mentioned as one of tlie imple ments used during high mass, but only when sung by a bishop. Mass combs of the precious metals are still reckon ed as the most valuable possessions of some European churches, though they are of no use in modern ceremonies. Besides the gold and silver combs, the poon r churches had them of ivory, Iron, horn and even wood. Combs espe cially known to antiquarians are those of St. Neot, St. Dunstan and St. Mal achlas. That formerly belonging to St. Thomas, the martyr of Canterbury, is still kept In the church at Thetford; that of St. Cuthbert, "the woman hat er," at Durham cathedral. From sundry references In old leg ends to the use of the comb in divina tions and from Its appearance in com binations with pagan emblems on rude ly sculptured stones In many of the old countries, It seems probable that It was a widely known pagan device and one that was highly venerated.—Lon don Standard. The Girdle of Old. Howell quotes as familiar a French proverb, "II a quitte sa celnture" (He has given up his girdlei, which inti mated as much as if he had become bankrupt or had all his estate forfeit ed, it being the ancient law of France that when any man upon some offense hail the penalty of confiscation inflict ed upon him "he used before the tribu nal to give up bis girdle, implying thereby that the girdle held everything that belonged to a man's estate, as his budget of money and writings, the keys of his house, with his sword, dag ger and gloves." The fact that the gir dle was used as a purse had much to do with its importance In general ap preciation. We have an English prov erb confirmatory of this appreciation. It Is said, "Ungirt, unblest," and that It was in very common use Is clear from the frequency with which the phrase occurs in old out of the way literature.—Chambers' Journal. Flower* of <»ood Cheer. Although Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes never practiced medicine, those who knew him intimately say that he cheered more sinking invalids, cured more sick people and did more good, ! even from a medical standpoint, than I I many of his young physician friends, j The secret of his power lay in his over- ! flowing cheerfulness and kindness of heart. lie scattered "flowers of good \ j cheer" wherever lie went. With him ' optimism was a creed. "Mirth is God's j medicine," he declared. "Everybody ! ought to bathe in it. Grim care, mo- i roseness, anxiety—all the rust of life — | ought to be scoured off by the oil of j ' mirth." Identified. "What has become," asked the oc casional guest, "of the pretty black j eyed girl who used to wait at that 1 table over in the corner?" "What pretty black eyed girl?" frig- I idly Inquired the young woman with ! the snub nose and prominent chin. "If I remember rightly, slie had a little bit of a mole on one cheek." "Oh, that girl with the blotch 011 her i face? I think somebody married her." j —New York Press. The noKtoiilfin'n Ineldentiil Iteuinrk. He—Will you marry me? She—No, i thank you. He—l thought perhaps yon ! wouldn't. How do you like that con tinned story that Is running now in the Atlantic? Somerville iMass.) Jour nal. ; However things may seem, 110 evil thing Is a success, and no good thing Is a failure.—Longfellow. A GOOD WIDE YAWN. It Inn Splendid Ilevlier For the Whole Hod y, A good, wide, open mouthed yawn lo n splendid thing for the whole body. A yawn is nature's demand for rest. Some people think they only yawn be cause they are sleepy, but this is not 1 so. You yawn because you are tired. You may be sleepy also, but that is not the real cause of your yawning. You are sleepy because you are tired, and j , you yawn because you are tired. Whenever you feel like yawning just . yawn. Don't try to suppress it lie cause you think it; is impolite to yawn. ; Put your hand over your month if you want to, but let the; yawn come. And If you are where you can stretch at the ! same time that you yawn just stretch j and yawn. This is nature's way of 1 stretching and relaxing the muscles. i Don't be afraid to open yotir mouth wide and yawn and stretch whenever \ you feel like it. Indeed, if you are j very tired, but ilo not feel like yawn- | itig. there is nothing that will rest you ] j so quickly as to sit on a straight back j | chair, and, lifting your feet from the j floor, push them out in front of you ■ as far as possible, stretch the arms, 1 | put the head back, open the mouth I 1 wide and make yourself yawn. I Those tense nerves will relax, the I j contracted muscles will stretch and the ( ' whole body will be rested. Do this two ! >r three times when you are tired and ■ see what it will do for vou. ! 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Tidings 1 AND GOOD WILL TO ALL. I ■H L*- The way to g MAKE Hll ID FRIENDS 1 JjgE is to give the best and most attractive presents ry your money will buy, and no matter whether your n*| purse is large or small, we've got the article you're | - looking for. Sure to please you. 111(5! 11l Pi i m sSI We have the largest display of *a: m 3: FANCY DRY GOODS => OO Ever before offered ill Emporium. CD O SE Table Linens, Doilies, Handkerchiefs (for men, wo- I men and children), (io 112 Gloves, Tainoshanters, Fascinators, Fancy Dress Goods, Fancy Cushion * Covers, Fancy Neckwear, Fancy Side and Back 3- 535 Combs for tin; hair, a large and elegant line of bar crri and Handy Pins, Belts and Belt-Pins, etc. 1 1 1 fE OUR SPECIALTY IS q £ FAIR DEALING B S TO ONE AND ALL. X We will sustain our past reputation for dealing |jJ justly with our customers, always remembering to CZD give you the p -8= Right Goods and Right Price & We've got the goods and if you want to share in —J the profit of dealing with us, come early, as we al- JJJT «J ways close out our Holiday Stock, never having UJ mSC any old goods to offer. cj "H We Purchased Early for the Holiday Trade, thereby ob- U taining the Choicest; on the Market. CO IO E BALCOM & LLOYD £ >- • _ j p* . Atfd'iiiM Ti iwiudn'v jolom v I Iliilat (Ms 9J BY THE \\\m LOAD AT Id Relli Ig Ste. \v . jm / It would be impossible to f| y enumerate tbe goods in j stock, siillice it to say I have everything to please / both (lie old and young, ' / and at prices positively / / lower than you will find / x elsewhere. Why? lie- ■ : i cause I have no clerk hire or rent to pay, and / ' y Discount All My ilills. £ Kvery article in the store ; is marked in plain figures / which you will not find ' / in any other store. I in- / vite everybody to / / ('all mill Examine. ' % Yours trulv, / ' \ s L.TAGGART
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