THE CAMERON COUNTY PRESS.
ESTABLISHED BY C. B. GOULD, MARCH 1866.
V()L. 40.
Miss Mildred Gillum's Reading.
An entertairment that no one can
ati.-rd to miss will he given in the Pres
byteriup Church, Wednesday evening
of next week, beginning at 8 o'clock,
r soon thereafter. Miss Gillum's
dramatic Readings are given under
the direction of the Ithica Conservatory
Entertainment Bureau, and entertains
here for the benetit of the Presbyterian
Church. Miss Gillum is a genuine
artist in her profession. She has a
voice and personality, strong and force
ful. ' eis one of the greatest dram
.caders on the road. Shr; has a
very attractive presence, a pure distinct
enunciation, a natural, easy and grace
ful pose and all the qualities that make
up a reader of surpassing ability, it is
needless to say that she has received
nothing but words of the highest praise
wherever she has appeared, whether
North or South, East or West. "The
greatest literary ,reat," ''Thoroughly
enjoyable," "Thrilling and fascinat
ing," "Interesting and instructive.'
"Among the tinest entertainments ever
given in Ilout/.dale," are but a very few
of the many echoes from press notices
which are unqualified in their expres
sions of highest appreciation.
Don't fail to attend. Tickets on sale
at Harry Lloyd's store,
House Painting and Paper Hang
ing.
Clifton S. Larrabee, who has had two
years experience with a leading Phila
delphia firm, has located in Empori
um and is prepared to contract for
house papering and painting. Orders
left at M. M. Lirrabee's store will re
ceive prompt attention.
lG3t. CLIFTON S. LARRABEE.
Sure of Good Meals.
A number of our citizens were called
to Wharton last Thursday to attend to
a "duty call," and all day were
royally entertained by Mine Host,
Cbas O. Miller, of Riverside Hotel.
This excellent Hotel is admirably situ
ated to entertain fishing and hunting
parties.
■SpendtM Fourth)
I At EMPORIUM. I I9OS
I9OS
All Roads Lead to Emporium. There will ft
be Plenty of Enjoyment July 4th
Swiss Rifle Club Band, of Ridgway, Pa I
Emporium Cornet Band
Eldred Band Orchestra
| A Great; Large Day of Sport
Oration by the Rev. Oliver S. Metzler A
at Opera House.
Fifty Ariel Balloons During the- Evening. I
Hall (lames, Foot Races, Sack Races, etc.
K EYSTONE PARK lias been greatly improved for this ■
(occasion. Dancing will he enjoyed afternoon and ■
evening upon the Platform. Bring your baskets and I
enjoy the beautiful grove. A New Elevated (irand 0
Stand has been erected. gfe
In case it rains the management have leased ■
the Opera House for the day
and evening.
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WATCH FOR SMALL BILLS . .J
Attending Bankers Convention.
Mr. T. B. Lloyd, Cashier of First Na
tional Bank, left on Wednesday for
Wilkes-Barre, to attend the Bankers
State Convention. Mr. Lloyd is very
attentive to his duties and seldom gets
away for a day or two. A little rest
will do him good.
Strawberry and Ice Cream
Festival.
A strawberry and ice cream (festival
will be held at the rooms of the new
Presbyterian ChurchonThursday even
ing, June 22d at which time all wish
ing will be served with ice cream, cake
and strawberry short cake—the latter
being one of the features of the occa
sion. Will prepare for and hope for a
large patronage. We expect to enter
tain you with music.
Funeral of Hon. Solomon Ross.
Ths funeral of Hon. Solomon Ross,
whose death was announced in last
week's PRESS, took place at Wharton,
last Thursday afternoon at two o'clock
from the M. E. Church. The friends
and neighbors of our late friend as
sembled in large numbers to pay that
respect due a friend. Judge Ross left
Emporium about twenty six years ago,
having previously resided at Empori
um, coming here when young man.
lie leaves a wife, one daughter, I Mrs.
Geo. Mahon, of Bailey Run) and two
sons, B. F. and Bingeman Ross.
Deceased had suffered for several
years from cancer in left breast. His
death was very sudden, being called
away while sleeping.
The following Emporium Masons at
tended the funeral, and conducted the
services at the grave: P. R. Reattie,
Geo. J. Laßar, A C. Blum, F. P.
Strayer, 11. L. Burns, John W. Kriner,
I. K. Hockley, 11. H. Mullin, T. IT.
Norris, Geo. D. Neidlinger, A. Chaj>
man, Jasper Harris, J. 1). Logan, W.
S. Walker.
For Rent.
The store room, so many years oecu
pied by R. Seger & Co., will be rented
to responsible party.
r i. SEOEIf.
"Liberty and Union, One and Inseparable."— WEßSTEß.
EMPORIUM, PA., THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1905.
Social Hop.
There will bo a dance given in K. G.
E. Hall, Cameron, Pa., Monday even
ing, June 19, 1905. A cordial invita
tion extended to all.!
Gone to State College.
Dr. It. P. Heilman went to State
College, Pa , on Monday, being a dele
gate from Cameron County Agricul
tural Society to assist in the election of
Trustees of State College.
Graduates With Honors.
Leon Rex Felt, son of Mr. and Mrs.
J. P. Felt, of Emporium, graduated
last Wednesday from the University
ot Pennsylvania with the decree of
Doctor of Dental Surgery. This being
one of the oldest dental schools in Am
erica and Dr. Felt being one of the
honor men in a class of one hundred
and sixty-eight, we predict a bright
future for the young man. He will
open an office in Emporium in the
near future.
Roy Kirk to Wed.
Invitations have been received in
this city to the wedding of Firman Roy
Kirk, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. F. Kirk,
of Dußoistown, to Miss Elizabeth
Crooks, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
George Walter Crooks, of Malone, N.
Y. The ceremony will take place in
the First Congregational church, at
Malone, oil Thursday, June 29, at 7:30
p. m. The prospective groom is a
well known and very papular former
Williamsporter and his host of friends !
here will all extend he irtiest congratu- \
lations.—Williamsport Bullet in
Was an Odd Fellow.
The following is from an exchange j
W. 11 Hall, of Cortland, N. Y., whih; j
on a trip to California last year, lost a'j
wallet containing over §I3OO which he
had placed under his pillow in the
berth and the porter shook it out the
window when airing the coverings. It
was picked up by an Odd Fellow, who
found inside the purse a receipt for
dues paid a Cortland lodge of Odd
Fellows. He communicated with the
seeretary, and securing Hall's address,
returned him the money. This was an
"odd fellow," indeed.
A Correction.
The PRESS last week made an emis
sion while giving an account of the
selection of teachers for Emporium
Schools. In the first place we omitted
the name of Miss Lora McQuay as
teacherjof "B"' Intermediate, East Ward.
Miss McQuay is one of our excellent
young ladies as well as a successful
teacher. Lastly, the types made us
say that Miss Nina Bryan was emyloy
ed as teacher in East Ward building,
when wo should have stated that Miss
Bryan was engaged as te icher of Kin
dergarten school in City Hall, a school
she has very successfully conducted
for several years. These errors will
i creep into a paper sometimes.
i An Emporium Reminiscence.
I A good many years ago, when Caleb
Sweasey kept the old Biddle Home,
(where the Warner House now stands,)
there were thirteen of us gathered
around the big bar room stove with
Sweasey behind the bar, when an old
soldier came into the room and want
ed a pipe of tobacco Now, the strange
thing about the unlucky number in
the ease was that there was not one
person in the crowd that used tobacco,
which was unlucky for the old soldier.
However, Mr. Sweasey said he would
pay for a pipe if some one would go
across the street and get it for him.
The writer of this went across to
Crane's and got the tobacco for the
man. After tilling his pipe he wanted
to know if we could find R. M. Over
hiser, who was an officer in the regi
ment that he belonged, wishing him to
assist in securing a pension. After
getting the desired information he
"went on his way rejoicing."
I very much doubt it the same num
ber of men be found at this day,
in a bar room in this State, none of
them using tobacco.
ONE OK THE CROWD.
Emmanuel Church.
Trinity Sunday, June 18th; 7:30 a.
I m , celebration of the Holy Commun
i ion; 10:30 a. m., morning prayer and
i Sermon; 7:30 p. m., evening prayer
! and sermon.
. The offerings svill be for the Diocesan
I Mission Fund.
Calling on his Trade.
Carl G. Milligan, of Bradford, repre
i senting the firm of J W. Milligan, has
j been calling on the piano and organ
i trade of this city. He reports busi
ness as being unusually good.
For Sale.
Store doing a good business, fn
] quire at this office.
I Cows for Sale.
Two good fresh milch cows for sale.
' 17 2t. JOHN ZWALD.
Bargain in Books.
A complete set ofßrittanica Ency-
I clopaedia,consisting of thirty volumes
i and key. Aro all new and in original
I packages. Will be sold at a bargain,
J Apply at PRESS office. 36tf
CLIMBING HIGHER.
;fev- J9hL .JgjSp
J. I). MORRTSSEY.
John D. Morrissey, an Emporium
boy who located at Superior, Wis., has j
again been promoted as will be seen by I
the following dispatch from Marquette, j
Michigan:
J. 1). Morriaey, at present freight j
agent for the South Shore in theSu-j
perior office with Mr. Perrin, is slated
for the general agency at Superior.
When the circulars announcing the
changes arc out Mr. Morrissey's title
will read "general freight and passen
ger agent." i
All the gentlemen connected with ;
the change aro well known in Marquette |
and are considered among the best rail- j
road men connected with the South 1
Shore system.
I
Big Bull Game.
The Brooklyn Royal Giants, all j
colored, will cross bats with Empori- ;
um team, next Tuesday afternoon.
Don't forget the date.
Service Omitted.
Owing to the absence of the Hector,
the Friday evening service at Emman
uel Church will be omitted this week.
Choir rehearsal as usual.
Fatal Accident in Lumber Yard.
John Davie, an Italian, while work
ing on a lumber car at Cameron, last
week fell to the ground and fractured
his skull. He grew worse rapidly and
Dr. Smith, who attended him, decided
to send him to Williamsport Hospital
on train No. 4, June 9. He was very
violent and it took three men to hold
him. He died at the hospital last Tues
day. _ s
Another Impostor Detected.
Chief of Police Frank Muiuly, who
is always on the alert for evil doers j
and can tell a fraud on sight, eyed a
supposed pin and needle fakir in front j
of H. S. Lloyd's last Monday. His j
right hand was scientifically bandaged !
and saturated witfi liniment. Chief
Mundy, not to be caught by this old
"fake plan" took him in hand and up
on removing the bandages found his
hand to be as sound as a dollar. He
was locked up.
Flag Day.
Yesterday was Flag Day and it was
appropriately observed in Emporium.
Flags were displayed from First Na
tional Bank and other business blocks
and private residences. Old Glory, as
designed by Betsy Ross, was accepted
by the Continental Congress June 14th,
1177, when it declared "that the flag of
the thirteen United States be thirteen
stripes, alternate red and white, and
that the Union be thirteen stars, white
in a blue field, representing the new
constellation." Long may old Glory
wave, respected and feared.
Stenography and Type Writing.
Will teach shorthand and type writ
ing at my home on Fourth street, dur
ing the summer months. Graham's
Standard method of shorthand taught
and the Underwood Standard tyoe
writer used.
I am a graduate of one of the best
shorthand schools in Pittsburg and
have had five years experience, three
years in legal work and two in corn
i mercial. Students desiring to take up
! this study can do just as well for the
first two or three months at home, as
! going away and with much less ex
: pence.
j 17-tf. MRS. FRED SEGER.
Too Much Drunkenness.
Drunkenness and open violation of
! the license law has become unbearable
and disgustingly offensive to our citi
|/.ens. LastSudday morning the offen
i sive evidence of Saturday night de
i bauches were terribly in evidence.
I That these things should continue is
an outrage. Policeman Mundy, single
| handed and alone, is doing all he can
| to correct the evil but he cannot and
should not be expected to stay up all
night, while the law is violated it is
also abused, or in other words Empori
um has altogether too many licensed
places. With practically eighteen
licensed places to say nothing of the
"pigs ears " Those men who have in
vested large sums of money in order
to furnish the public comfortable ac
commodations, see the law violated
daily, yet they are compelled to keep
"mum." If this outraga continues
much longer the people will rise up
and wipe out about two thirds of the
i licensed places in Emporium.
The Observer.
One of the lecturers at the local In
stitute of the State Sunday School As
sociation held in the Presbyterian
Church last winter, spoke of the sus
ceptibility of the child mind to impres
sions received through reading, and
emphasized the exceeding importance
of surrounding the child with the right
sort of reading matter.
It is certainly true that early impren
sionsare apt to be lasting.|JThis is gen
erally recognized; but it is not so gen
erally realized how much of an impres
sion may be made upon a very young
mind by books which are supposed to
appeal only to those of riper years.
Even before he is able to read a word,
the child may receive impressions from
illustrated copies of classic authors.
Almost as far back as the Observer can
remember, there was in the home of his
childhood a paper-bound copy of Ten
nyson, published by Harpers. On the
front cover was a picture of the poet;
and, thanks to this picture, Tennyson
very early became a name and a per
sonality to the Observer. There were
other pictures in the volume; and after
he had (unwillingly, he must own)
passed the Rubicon of the alphabet
and primer under the insistent guid
ance of a school teacher aunt, the Ob
server gradually made himself familiar
with the lines printed beneath each
picture. One picture was of the dead |
Elaine reposing on the deck of a small
boat, at whose stem, grasping'an oar,
was seated an ancient bearded figure.
Beneath were the lines:
"Then rose the dumb old servitor, u ml the deac 1 .
Steered by the dumb, went upward with the
flood."
The Observer knew nothing at that
time of the story of the "lily maid,"
but the picture and the quotation be
neath it made an ineffaceable impres
sion upon his childish imagination,
awakening in him a reverential sense
and gleam of the reality of a world of
truth and beauty that transcended his
own little brief experience. When in
after years he read the "Idyls of the
King," the story of Lancelot and
Elaine was instantly attached to the
point of his earliest impression, and it
seems to him now almost as though he
had known the whole story from in
fancy. in the same manner he receiv
ed early impressions of"The Lady of
Shalott" and"The Deserted House."
So far as the Observer is aware, his
parents never dreamed that he was
thus early receiving lasting impres
sions from their copy of Tennyson.
They never called his attention to the
book, never read it aloud to him,
never explained the pictures to
him. The book just "lay around,"
and childish curiosity did the rest.
Time would fail to tell of impressions
received from the numbers of the old
Scribner's Monthly, the chrysalis out
of which sprang the Century Maga
zine. In the very early seventies there
appeared in this a serial by George
Mac Donald, —"Wilfred Cumbermede."
| The Observer to this day has never
i read this story, but as a child he used
I to pore over the pictures, while the
j very name of the hero awakened in
j him a keen, though vague, sense of a
j character unspeakably noble and re
fined. Sometime afterwards there ap-
I peared in Scribner's a serial, "Seven
j oaks," by the editor, Dr. J.G. Holland,
j The Observer, then a ten year old,
j read the story after the last iustal
j ment had been published. Saturday
j night overtook him just as the excit
ing denouement was coming in sight.
Had he been been his own master he
would probably have sat up all night
to finish the story, but parental auth
ity intervened and the numbers of the
| magazine were laid away, not to be
I brought out again before Monday.
I That was the longest Lord's Day ever
; putin by the Observer. The story
j would do credit to the shelves of the
j best regulated Sunday School library,
| and as a Sunday school book it would
I doubtless have been approved for Sun-
I day reading by the parental censor;
i but as a magazine novel it was a horse
! of a different color.
The foregoing experiences illustrate
! the tendency of children to take the
j initiative tin making themselves ac
: quainted with such literature as hap
pens to be within their reach. The
! lesson for parents is that they should
i see that nothing save what is clean
and wholesome in the way of reading
i matter should find its way into the
! home
Will Take Special Course.
Prof. E. S. Ling and wife leave to
day for Bedford, Pa , to visit relatives
and friends during the heated season.
Mr. Ling will attend Columbia Univer
sity, at New York city, for six weeks,
commencing July 7th. Emporium
schools will probably open first week
I in Sept.
TERMS: $2.00 —$1.50 IN ADVANCE.
WEATHER REPORT
(Forecastby T. B.L'.ovd.)
FRIDAY, Fair.
■SATURDAY, Fair.
SUNDAY. Fair.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(Frnmour liegular (Jftrrespondc^yt.
Washington, JunelOth. 1905.
Editor Prcst:
President Roosevelt has brought,
if not to a close, at lea>t to a
period, the peace negotiations
which have for the past week had
their center in Washington by ad
dressing to Russia and Japan a
duplicate note in which he appeals
to both beligerents to bring to a
close the "terrible and lamentable
conflict now being waged." it is
generally believed that the Presi
dent did not take this step without
first ascertaining that it would
prove accepetable to both powers
and it is generally accepted as a
long stride in the direction of peace.
Should peace be accomplished as
the direct result of the initiatory
steps which the President has taken
it will add one to the many tri
umphs which have crowned his
administration.
Suming up the general situation
in the light of the best information
obtainable, it may be said that fol
lowing ilie President's frank pre
sentation of the situation to the
Russian Ambassador, which oc
cured a week ago, the Czar finally
sent for Ambassador Meyer, who,
it will be remembered is a mem
ber of the Republican National
Committee, from Massachusetts,
and a close friend of the Presi
dent's. Mr. Meyer served his ap
prenticeship in diplomacy at Rome
where he was Ambassador through
out the last Administration. After
his audience with the Czar the
Ambassador cabled full account to
the President, the character of his
communication having been as
closely withheld as possible.
He made it clear, however, that
the Czar was still unwilling to be
placed in the position of suing for
peace, although he was grateful for
♦in; President's friendly expres
sions and intimated that he would
be glad to know something of the
peace terms which Japan would
demand.
After a careful consideration of
Ambassador Meyer's dispatches,
the President sent for the Japanese
Minister. Kogoro Takihira, who
came immediately to the White
House, despite the fact that he
was obliged to leave a sick 1 ed to do
so. What the character of his in
terview with the President was can
only be surmised, but it is known
that .Japan still maintains the posi
tion that she cannot define peace
terms until Russia has done more
than express a mild interest in
their character. The Mikado be
lieves that the Czar should first
frankly declare that he is ready to
make peace if Japan's terms are
moderate, that then.the President,
or other intermediary, should se
cure from the < 'zar an acceptance,
at least in principle, of some of the
conditions fundamental to perman
nent peace.
For instance, Russia should, it
the estimation of Japan, recognize
the right of Japan to an indemnity
the property of the permanent
evacuation of Manchuria, the per
manence of Japan's control of
' Corea, etc. This much accom
plished a protocol could be signed
1 and the actual amount of the in
demnity, the i'alQ of Vladivostok,
and similar more specific qV.fsti?."?
could be left for final settlement
between the principals. The Czar,
on the other hand, maintnu.s that
it is extremely difficult for him to
commit Russia to peace without
some appreciation of all tl : t peace
implies.
DEATH'S DOING $.
DINGER.
A correspondent of Pittsburg Times,
from Scottdale, Pa., makes the follow
ing reference to the death of Prot.
Clias. L. Dinger, formerly of Empori
um, who died at at that place on Mon
day, June sth; "Prof. Charles L.
Dinger died to-day at the hoir.e of his
: parents, Mr. and Mrs. John C. Dinger,
from tubercular laryngitis. He was 29
years old and for some years vas prin
cipal of the High School. He was a
graduate of Grove City college and
Ada university, and took a post-grad
j uate course at the University cf West
j Virginia, Morgantown."
Miss Gillum at the Probyteriau
| church, Wednesday evening, Jene 21st.
NO. 17.