THE CAMERON COUNTY PRESS.
ESTABLISHED BY C. B. GOULD, MARCH, 1866.
VOL. 40.
24 PAGES.
H. E. HELMER.
Real Estate
and Loans.
PORT ALLEGANY, PA.
The Observer.
In Washington Irving's "Sketch
Book" there is a charming account of
a Christmas-tide spent by the author at
Bracebridge Hall, one of the few
places in England where even so late
as the early part of the last century
the traditions and customs of the Caval
iers of the seventeenth century still
obtained. The sermon in the parish
church on Christmas-day was an echo
of the controversies which raged about
Christmas during the troubled times
of the Puritan revolt and ascendency
'"The parson gave us a most erudite
sermon on the rites and ceremonies of
Christmas, and propriety of observing
it not merely as a day of thanksgiving
but of rejoicing, supporting the cor.
rectness of his opinions by the earliest
usages of the Church and enforcing
them by the authorities of Theophilus
of Caewrei, St. Cyprian, St. Chrysos
tom, St. Augustine, and a cloud more
of saints and fathers, from whom he
made copious quotations 1 was a
little at a lons to perceive the neees.
sity of such a mighty array of forces to
maintain a point whijh no one present
seemed in lined to dispute; but 1 soo .
found that the good man had a legion
of ideal adversaries to contend with,
having in the course of his researches
on the subject of Christmas got com
pletely embroiled in the sectarian con
troversies of the Revolution, when the ,
Puritans made such a fierce assault up
on the ceremonies of the Church, and
poor old Christmas was driven out of
the land by Proclamation of Parlia
m! i I'is w u'thy pir-nn lived bu
with times past, and knew but little of
the present.
"Shut up among worm-eaten tomes
in the retirement of his antiquated
little study, the pages of old times were
to him as the gazettes of the day,
while the era of the Revolution was
mere modern history. He forgot that
nearly-two centuries had elapsed since
the fiery persecution of poor mince-pie
throughout the land; when plum por
ridge was denounced as 'mere popery,'
and roast beef as anti-christian, and
that Christmas had been brought in
again triumphant y with the merry
court of King Charies at the Restora
tion. He kindled into warmth with
the ardor of his contest and the host of
im iginary foes with whom ho had to
combat; he had a stubborn conflict with
old Pry une and two or three other for
gotten champions of the Roundheads
on the subject of Christmas festivity,
and concluded by urging his hearers,
in the most solemn and affecting man
ner, to stand to the traditional customs
of their fathers and feast and make
unrryon this joyful anniversary of the
Church."
An amusing instance of the Puritan
dislike for Christmas is naively related
by Governor Bradford in his "History
of the Plymouth Plantation." Nearly
a year after the landing of the Pil
grims, a shipload of young fellows
came out from England to join the little
colony. ''On ye day called Christmas
day,"says Bradford, "ye Govr caled
them out to worke, (as was used,) but
ye must part of this new company ex
cused themselves and said it went
against their conscience to work on
that tlay. So ye Govr tould them that
if they made it mater of conscience, he
would spare them till they were better
informed. So he led away ye rest and
left them; but when they came home at
noone from their worke, he found them
in the streets at play, openly; some
pitching ye bar & some at stoole-ball,
and shurh like sports. So he went to
them, and took - away their imple
ments, and tould them that was against
his conscience, fiat they should play
& others worke. If thoy made ye
keeping of it initttr of devotion, let
them keep their houses, but thr should
be no g imeiug or n veiling in ye
streets. Since which time nothing
hath been at tuple I that way, at h tut
oj-enly.''
Chriklmus at Presbyterian Giiirch
Special mu»ie uu habliatli morning
and ev> nin.;, and preaching appro
priate.
OB T'hristiua> NIGHT Monday
"Hieepy Siinti,' a ('lnUluiaa Cantata
will he rendered.
Harry Lloyd's [Store Ransacked.
j Ilia automobile filled cliock full,
i With presents large and small,
Old Snnta Claus departed from liis home,
I For on Christmas Eve upon his children dear,
j He lial to call,
j And patiently they looked for him to come.
1 At Buffalo, Rochester, Ilornellsvillc and Troy,
j And all the little towns that are between.
He Hal some pretty presents for every t;irl nrfl
I boy,
j To hang upon the Christmas tree PO green.
| At Olean lie stopped again,
: And lilled the stnkings all,
i The presents they were very fine to see,
j lie put them in the dining room, the kitcliOi
I and the hall,
j To he ready to haug upon the tree.
; The next place was Emporium,
j At which he had to stop,
I For many little friends were waiting there,
j To get their dollies, books and drums,
{ And nice red spinning tops.
And animals with long white silky hair.
Hut then a great misfortune befell the dear eld
man,
He pulled his whiskers ami was very sad,
For looking in his auto.
As up the streets he ran,
He found his presents missing that he had.
What shall I do? Poor Santa cried,
My heart is troubled sore,
The children heie I cannot dissappoint,
I When suddenly across the street he saw a pretty
store,
| Where lights shone brightly in the winteis'
night.
I He stepped across and reH the sign,
i That hung above the door.
i His feelings changed and he was overj jye 1.
j For the letters there that pleased him
j And filled him with delijht.
| Spelled the name of our goo 1 townsman HARI.Y
I LLOYD.
1 The store was filled from floor to roof.
' With every kind of toys,
li oks and pictures tiiey ware there galore.
And everything that's wanted for little girls ar d
boys,
(>lil Santa said "I cannot wish for more."
Ko in he went and filled his bags,
And wont h s journey on.
And said if ever trouble me betides ,
To Emporium at once I'll go,
As happy as can be,
And get my Christmas goods at HARRY LLOYD'S
J. F. SULLIVAN,
Holiday Goods.
lit view of the fact that there is more
holiday goods in town than can be
sold in the next three years, I have con
cluded to offer ray extensive line at
such a reduction in price, as will make
it an object for everybody to come to
my store to purchase the balance of
their holiday goods. This is not mere
talk but business and you can easily
be convinced of this fact by calling.
Respectfully,
L. TAGGART.
Interesting Letters.
Mr. Alfred Truman, of Brookville,
i (formerly a resident of this county,
when engaged in lumbering at Truman I
has become one of the most popular
i and entertaining writers in the coun
j try. Devoting most of his time to
1 travel, he takes delight in describing
to his friends his impressions and dis
coveries. We are pleased to announce
that the PRESS has arranged with Mr.
Truman for the publication of his let
ters. The first of the series appears in
this issue and we assure our readers
they will always find Mr. Truman's
letters interesting and instructive.
DEATH'S DOINGS.
SAGE.
Just as we goto press we learn of
the death of C. 11. Sage of Johnson
burg, which occurred at that place
: this morning.
GILMARTIN.
Thos. tiiiinartin of Sterling Run,
notice ol whose accident appeared in
this paper at the time, died froul tlie
effects of the fall this morning at three
o'clock, at his home. We are unable
to get the particulars as to the arrange
ments at this writing.
FOUNTAIN.
Joseph, son of Mr. and .Mrs. Ruben
Fountain, of West Allegany Avenue,
aged about 1!> years, died at the family
residence last Monday morning. The
young man had been at Sharon, Pa.,
for some time and came home about
two weeks ago and after a day or two
was taken sick with typhoid lever.
Ili? parents did all that could be done
tor the young man, hiring a trained
nurse to care for him, but he gradually
grew worse and died on tne above
date.
The funeral was held yesterday after
noon from the liaptist church, Rev. T.
W. Twlohell, officiating, assisted by
Itev. Kobt. Mcf.isliu, interment was
made in Newton Cemetery.
Snyder Verbeck.
Mr Ernest E. Huyder and Mi** Kffio
VerlMtck, of Key noldsville, !',» , were
united in iinwrltttfe on Wednesday
afternoon, December StOth, at rectory
ofEmroauuel Chu-eh, the H v. J M
Kobertson, < ttlcla lng
"Liberty and Union, One and Inseparable."— WEßSTEß.
EMPORIUM, PA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1905.
The Gift I Didn't Get
A Christmas Poem by Peter McArthur
t'opyriglif, 1904, by Peter McArthur
gs HA V 22 presents by the dozen.
; 1 Meant to mahs my Christmas glad,
6/ J|L From each uncle, aunt and cousin—
' Best a fellow e-Vcr had.
There's a KeepsaKe from my mother,
\ Fat bar sent a checKr-and yet
Ai . 1
am thinKjng of another—
/" \ ■ Of the one / didn't /jet.
(•" \ -
P ■ \ i i arc gifts from all the fetloWx.
i ' jfe V ' ) "Pipes and things a chum built send;
Lm. There's a tie, all reds and yellows,
tfjum From a girl who calls me friend.
* •- V. '' '•*»'•*,) Vott Would thinK. me far from slighted
112 you • rato Ihem all -and yet.
I ■j. I confess, I'm most delighted
gjf ®Uith the one I didn't get.
|j» E, told me it Was ready.
| j She'd prepared it long beforet
| Frf been calling on her steady
" 112 • For at least a year or more.
4% '* *' She told me all about it.
112W And her eyes With tears Uteri Wet',
7- 1- •\$L And I'm hayf.y. nc-dcr doubt it.
w %'%}■ For that gift I didn't get.
4'\% :
V '
• \%: . l/£lt attitude tvas altered
k MM When I called on her last night,
j ', SM "But my talc of lot)a I faltered.
' And 1 guess I did it right.
3 v , And this little rhyme is Written
>' % *>? 'Cause I'm full of joy—you bell
•• %•> For a frosty little mitten
fai' Was the gift / didn't get.
A Girl Who Ctlli Mo Friend
Kiener Barton.
At the home of Mr. anrl Mrs Charles
Diehl, North Poplar street, Wednesday
evening, at 9 o'clock, Mr. John H.
Kiener, of Buffalo, N. Y., and Mis
Gertrude L. Barton, of Emporium, Pa.
were married by the Rev. O. S. Metzler
pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal
Church. Preceded by little Miss Flor
ence Diehl, llower girl, and Mr. Floyd
Barton, brother of the bride and Miss
May Moon, as best man and bride's
maid, respectively, and to the strains
of Lohengrin wedding march, played
by Miss Myrtle Olmsted, the party en
tered the parlor and were made man
and wife, the ring ceremony being
used. Mr. Kiener is a young man of
many fine qualities and is in the em
ploy of Emporium Lumber Co., while
Miss Barton the daughter of Mr.
Charles Bartou, is held in high regard
by a large circle of intimates.
The decorations of carnations and
roses were very beautiful. Following
the ceremony a bountiful luncheon was
served, covers being laid for sixteen.
Mr. and Mrs Kiener will enjoy a
wedding tour to Buffalo and Niagara
Falls and will, upon their return, re :
side at Keating Summit.
"Grimes' Cellar Door."
Don't fail to see "Crimes' Cellar
Door," at the Emporium Opera House,
Saturday Dec. 23. The company is
headed by that inimitable comedian, j
Mr. James B. Mackie, the man that hap 1
made millions laugh and who plays the
part of "Criniesey Me Boy." Mr. i
Mackie has a reputation well known i
from to the Atlantic to the Pacific coast
as an entertainer. His manager has
surrounded him with a merry collec
tion of players, and a lively preaenta- |
tion of one of the liveliest entertain- \
ments is assured. There is not a dull !
moment during the whole performance
as there are plenty of catchy music, j
pretty girls, pretty dances, comical
comedians, etc., and the engagement
of this clever comedian and company
atOpera House, Dec. 2:1, should prove
■
an enjoyable entertainment.
Christmas Services at Emmanuel
Church.
Christmas Day, Monday, Dee. 2>th, 10
a. in.. Morning Prayer, Holy Communion
and Sermon. The offerings at this ser
vice, as well as at the services next
Sunday morning will lie for General
Fund for Clergy Belief.
The Sunday school Christinas festi
val will be held Holy Innocents' Day,
Thursday, December 28th, at 7 p. in.
The envelopes for the Christmas Tree
Fund will be received at that time, or
they may lx> placed in the plate on
Sunday or Christmas day.
Farm for Sale.
A good farm fur sale or rent; ad
(lre**,
WM H At'KK.NI
41-11. Emporium, Ha.
'J.ulu Tyler Gates and Her Com
pany, December 28.
The third number of the Peoples
Star Entertainment Course will be,
Lulu Tyler Gates and her company of
artists, Thursday evening, December
28. Mrs. Gates' success as a public
reader, has been unbounded, her Chau
tauqua appearances the past season,
being features of almost phenominal
interest and attractiveness. Two years
ago she won the plaudits of our pto 112
pie, by the rare excellence of her work,
but her development since then gives
her a rank second to none as an inter
preter of the best things in literature
and an entertainer of the pleasing and
popular sort. The assisting artists will
be Walter Bently Ball, Baritone, Ebba
Hjertstedt the Swedish Violinist, and
I Grace Gilmore, Pianist, forming a
combination of such strength as to
place them in advance of any popular
concert company before the public.
Mr. Ball starred at the head of a com
pany of his own for several seasons.
He is possessed of a robust and delight
fully smooth voice and in ballad work
is especially effective. Miss Hjertstedt
j has studied at home and abroad under
the best teachers of the violin and this,
her first American tour, will prove the
superiority of the grade of her work.
I She is worthy to be at the head of a
j company of her own. Miss Gilmore is
j brilliant both as a soloist and accom
j panist. Tickets at Lloyd's.
The Brockway Jubilee Singers.
The justly celebrated Brockwav
j Jubilee Singers will be wit h us Wednes
I day evening, Jan. Isrd in a program of
< new songs and new specialities, with
some of the be«t of the old features, of
which the public never tires, retained
j and brought freshly up-to-date. Al
; ways at the top, they are said now to
j be better than ever. Their itinerary
extends from ocean to ocean while
they have a record of over four thous
and concerts, having appeared in the
best courses in the largest cities of the
continent. The demand for this class
of entertainment knows no diminution
and the management believes an audi
ence of generous size will greet them
on the occasion of their appearance at
the opt ra house, Wednesday evening,
January 3. The reserved seat chart
will open at Lloyd's book store, Tues
day, January 2nd, light a. m. First live
rows r >u eta; balance of the house Bf> cU;
gallery 25cts,
Christmas Service.
A Christina < ser\ ice by M. E. Sunday
school, will be given next Sunday
evening at 7 o'clock, which will he in
charge of Mi«« Lillian Heilman and
Mrs. Goo Mi t/ger, Jr.
Dagger* Worcester Brand box candy
for <iale by M. L fummiiigs. A nice
| Christmas present
Interesting Letter.
K<\ it or P'eHs:
At the beginning of the present aut
umn I had occasion to visit North
Lastern New \ ork, in that particular
region along tho Black river made
famous in the eigteentli century hy
the settlement of many French Hu
guenot families, of noble birth, of whom
I wish to write at another time. On
this occasion I will bring to the reader's
notice the manner in which I WHS im
pressed with the town ofDeferiet and
its industry. Tho name Deferiet was
gi\en the town in honorofthe memory
of Madame Deferiet, an influential
member of one of the principal Hu
guenot families that found exile in tho
s ate of New York after tho massacre
of St. Bartholomew. The town of De
ferit is prettily located in the valley of
the Black river. Its population num
bers about one thousand souls, and tho
sole industry which gives these people
employment is the great paper works
of the place.
The Black river is a stream of some
magnitude, its dark waters flowing
from the Adirondack mountains. At
Deferiet the river makes a great bend,
and the paper company, to utilize the
water's enormous power, have cut a ca
n d {tt an immense r ost, from the two
points of the river where its serpentine
like form are hi ought closest together
Over oi.e mi! io i of dollars were spent
in this one feature ot the plant alone.
In addition to all the vast power ex
erted by water, the steam engine in use
represents ionic thousands of borne
power also, meaning the consumption
|of a greatquantity ofcoal for fuel. The
institution all throughout, is one of the
most modern known. It's capacity,
whilst not the great- st, represents a
daily output of one hundred and forty
tons of finished paper It's consump
tion ot wood means tho destruction of
three thousand, five hundred acres of
spruce forest yearly.
And having seen iho working of the
great plant, I asked the gentleman
who had so kindly shown and ex
plained it all to me, as to where a mar
ket was found for their enormous pro
duct, and was told that a certain New
Yok journal consumed sixty-four tons
of this paper every day of the year, and
that the same concern published two
other papers which I know to be of the
same lamentable order, in two other
cities of the state, all three cousuming
an amount of paper equal to the plants
entire production.
After learning this information I
passed into a deep reverie, and my
thoughts ran something like this:
"What crime, what infamy, all this
collosial and stupendous waste of na
tures resources. The loss to the world
of thousands of acres of magnificent
young forests every year, the invest
ment of millions of capital, and the em
ployment of hundreds of bands, all to
create a species of publications which
are evil, tending only to degrade the
mind and the morals of those who read
them, a class of literature so baneful as
to make the acquisition of knowledge
and intelligence impossible wherever
it's influence comes, a blight upon the
human mind." Coming out of this
reverie 1 am still wondering whether,
from the beginning of time, there has
been any form of criminal, or other
j waste, that has in any degree been
i comparable with our destruction of the
J country's rapidly waning forests for no
better purpose than to deluge millions
of people daily and hourly with printed
matter of the shocking and deplorable
| character of what the daily press is so
I largely constituted.
' People boast of their love of country
j and their patriotism, and yet subscribe
j to a thing that destroys the objects of
j education and all desire for intellectual
advancement; a thing that saps the
I brain just as certain species of insects
j dwarf the growth and sometimes saps
the life of the living plant, or creature,
upon which they exist.
Philanthropists have constituted mil
lions upon millions of money for the
purpose of creating libraries, hoping to
disseminate knowledge and to* make
their fellow men better and wiser, but
in tho path of their good intentions
comes the cyclone of journalistic entity
mud liens feeding the poor bruin with a
class of garbage that renders both brain
ami good intentions nugatory.
AI.KKKI) TIU'UAN.
Ilollins, Ala., Dee. 1, IVO'i.
Fire ut 11untley.
The tenement house owned by l,evi
Smith, which wa* formerly occupied
by Mrs. John Campbell was" burned t«>
the ground Wednesday morning |r
is not know how the lire originuUd
KstiiriMled loss was about f-.'on Tin
building WMH not insured.
nugget's Worcester llrand bo* ctedy
1..r sale liy M. I. I'unnniiigw. A nice
* 'bristnot* (icntol.
I erms: 52.00—51.50 i.v Advance.
THE WEATHER
FRIDAY, Fair, SATUPDtv r>
V Ram or Snow
SUNDAY, Fair
assets
Fiist National Bank,
emporium, PA.
1 At the Close of business December 20th IflOS
$792,781.72.
Now that i have money on deposit in this Bank
j < J' er \ ; ' ' ,vl6lu " i me a prosperous and Happy
I .New \ ear.
Opera House,
EMPORIUM. PA..
ONE NIGHT ONLY
Saturday, December 23rd,
Host's Famous Comedian
JAHI I S e. 3IACKIK
In the Great Comedy Sucess
Grimes Cellar Door
Supported by a Clever Company
Catchy Music, Pretty Girts, Warehes,
Dances anil Choruses Galore
Original Special Trick Equipment.
Prices—2s, 35, 50 and 75c.
- - -zaor. nwfc,,.
Man About Town.
Haiiir up a clean, new stocking,
Willi t,o holes in the heel;
tor Santa'l do some knocking
If an outlet lie should feel.
. There is a smile on the face oi the
kids these days that yon c mid not wipe
off with a crash towel.
Christina:! shoppers should look
sharpat their change. §SOO counter
feit bills are in circulation.
It id better tu give than receive.
Don't forget the unconverted; they are
perfectly willing to receive.
1 he Laundry Trust raises prices again
the first of the year. People wil! have
to turn their collars and shirts, and
Brother llilliker is now using gluecoso
instead of starch.
Pedestrians along the Rialto Sunday
evening had the assurance of the visit
to some neighboring hen roost of one
of those ill scented animanls—the smell
was rank.
Postmaster Seger is contemplating
holding a fair in the basement of the
postoftice after the Holidays to raise
currency to pay the twelve million
postal deficit.
A person in town known for his love
tor the filthy lucre and his hatred for
women. A lady remarked the only
women he ever loved was the one on
the silver dollar.
Brother Pyle of the Sun Life insur
ance Co., is not in any way alarmed
about the investigations. Says the
Sun's surplus is what keeps the Bank
of England running. Says where the
English language is spoken the Son is
a household word and its mothods of
doing business favors the under dog.
Prof. Ericsson is scheduled some time
in the near iuture to read a paper be
fore the Sinnamahoning Liars' Club.
Subject, "Dynamite, its utility in pro
gressing people towards the Sweet
Bye-and-Bye." The Prof, told a bright
little girl, the other day, if she would
come to church she would see him play
the organ. Innocently the little one
asked: "Will you have a monkey?"
We have a claw hammer coat, cellu
loid shirt bosom and white neck-tie to
rent New Years day. Callers can gov
ern themselves accordingly.
The towel used in our press room fell
from its roller, ,i few days ago, and
striking the tloor, broke in two.
A man went into I'ncle Peter Beattie's
Tobacco Exchange, the other day, and
says: "Peter, can you change a five?' *
"No," says Peter, "I wish I had a Ave
for a change." A suburbanite was tell
ing him how a man in one of the lumber
cam1 1 mde a perfect fitting shirt oot
ol hemlock bark and wore it two weeks
without suffering any inconvenient e.
"Well," said Peter, "that's the worst
'shirt tail' I ever heard." Says when
he was a boy in the Province of New
Brunswid !■ saw the wind blow so
hard he tiew a kite made from an iron
window shut W rand used a lor chain
tor a tail; a iti.in -landing by watching
hint \* a ■ caught in the mouth by a guat
of wind and was turned completely
wr nig side .nit If•-1• ■ llm thlsNtorv:
•• A *irl llwnit upon HkV« rua.
uu. ila.v wti. ii tirr h 'UMWurk wax
tail!, i <to d*<ili«rr,
I will kill » t«mi
Villi liui.lt < I Iter Hill latlirr'• eun.
fth* tin . n cW quit** .«
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