THE CAMERON COUNTY PUESS.
ESTABLISHED EY C. B. GOUJ,I>, MARCH, 1866.
VOL. 41.
letters'from tlic People.
All communications ii iter this heivl must be
accompanied by the writer's name. Wewil! not
be held responsible for any e*predion in this
department ]—EDITOR.
Editor rrest:
There are two questions I would like
to have you discus 3 in your paper, and
if agreeable to you, I also wish you
would express an opinion thereon.
First:—Are all of the old taxes which
were due the county when the Tax
Collectors were disqualified from office,
now being collected or were they ex- ;
onerated because they were too old ?
At the time the Courts declared the
old Tax Collectors to have been illeg
ally elected, that was something like
$12,000 of back taxes on the books, and
it is these back taxes which 1 wish to
inquire about—whether they were col
lected or exonerated.
Second:—ls in icgard to the road
Supervisors. Much has been said
about the illegal expenditure of money
by the road supervisors and about
"graft" in the road taxes We, I think,
as citizens, owe it to ourselves to know
whether the money is being properly
paid out, and the road supervisors owe
it to themselves to keep their accounts
so public that there will be no question
as to the money being properly
handled.
It the newspapers would not ciiarge
too much for publishing a monthly
statement of how the road taxes are
spent in each township in the county,
I will be willing to start a subscription
with SIOO.OO for the purpose of having
the accounts audited every month and
published in the papers. This auditor
should also be authorized to receive
complaints from tax payers along the
lineot the different roads being worked.
There is no remedy for public wrongs
except the honesty and manhood of
the people themselves, and the people
cannot act unless they have the infor- 1
mation.
Yours truly,
JOSIAH HOWARD.
Emporium, Pa., April 14,190<>.
Oriental Palmist.
Madam Goodwin, of New York City,
at City Hotel, Emporium, Pa., for ten
days only.
Palmistry is not what a good many
people imagine it to be—a species of
fortune-telling; but it is an exact sci
ence, as lias been proven over and over
again. All well informed people now
a-davs admit this fact, and many of
them consult palmists frequently.
In every person's life there are sev
eral courses which he or she may pui
sne, many of which lead to failure and
a few to BUfcess.
By consulting a skillful and reputable
Palmist, it is possible to ascertain be
yond the question of a doubt which of
the several paths opening before you
lead to the best and brightest success.
If you have been crossed in love, if
interferers have broken your dearest
and tenderest ties, in every affair it is
wise to consult a Palmist.
Reom No. 10 from 9 a. m., to 10 p. m.
Private audiences given at private
homo to not less than five subjects. My
diploma on exhibition.
April 17, 1906 until further notice.
Birthday Party.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Johnston gave a
party to their son Lloyd last Thurs
day evening, April 12, in honor of his
thirteentti birthday and forty-five of
his young friends responded to the
invitation. At about 7:30 o'clock the
house was a veritable swarm of bees.
The program of entertainment for the
evening was magic lantern pictures,
Buster Brown necktie party, anatomy
contest and refreshments. Lena
Swartz won the Buster Brown party
prize the "Game of Proverbs I ', Ethel
Lloyd the first prize and Robert Pear
sail the second prize in the anatomy
contest. These prizes were beautiful
books, "Royal Hearts and True," by
Kuih Ogden, and"ln the Closed
Room,'' by Frances Hodgson Uurnett.
As the guests departed for their homes
Master Lloyd presented each with a
1 >uvenir Easter button ami a box of
•andy. As we came from the lodge
room we Imagine:! that ther.' were
a*>out a million youngsters in the
house and if siirie .-i and rumbling
aoiind* are evidence of a g i.ul time
th »r< is no mist ikini; that it was up to
the royal atatidar i Th" young folks
voted it one of the be>t times of their
life and will long remember the hoapi
tallty of their youun h >-*.
Mr an I Mrs. Johnston w«.-« agisted
<<y Mrs. H. W. O > id, Mrs. F. ||. Pear
- til, Mr. and Mr F. - C >pp» r«o,ilh
ad Mr. FMg.tr G, .J <\ entertaining
thi littl* gnestn.
I' ire Hurred Plymouth Ho ks LgK«
60 • |*»r 14, F. O. Jt'iiji
Man About Town.
Some people say just what they
think. That accounts for a good many
people being silent.
Two heads one better than one, es
pecially if they are the head on a silver
dollar.
Johnny, saye a woman onFifth street
to her son, "When that boy throws
stones at you again, come and call
me." "Call you!" says Johnny, "Why
mother you could not hit a barn."
A person in town who i a noted for
putting a cent on the collection plate j
Sundays, was asked the other day bow
he liked the sermon. "Poor, very
poor," said he. A friend remarked,
"what could you expect for a cent."
When Mr. Carnegie's new spelling
book comes out, instead <>f writing
trousers, we will write, "in the morn
ing he arose and put on hie pane,"
A lady in town says her maid of all
work answered the door bell the other
day and stood talking with the visitor
sometime. When he left she was
asked who he was. She answered, "he
is a gentleman looking for the wrong
house."
They are having a revival up on the
Portage. One of the anxious seat the
other night in her excitement exclaim
ed, "I wish I had the wings of a grass- i
hopper." After things had quieted !
down some, a fellow mourner asked |
her why she wished she had wings j
like a grasshopper, she said,
"so I could fly to heaven." "You fool
thing" she answered, "don't you know
a woodpecker would catch you before
you would get half way."
The sage of Portage remarks, "there
ain't no more honesty. If he should go
into business to-morrnw with St. Peter '
for a salesman and the recording angel !
for a bookkeeper, they would beat j
i him.
"Children," said one of our ministers
j addressing the Sunday school last j
: Sunday, "why are we like flowers; j
what do we have tha{,- flowers have." 1
| A little fellow in one of the classes ;
j answered, "worms." The minister !
j turned his back to the scholars to con
: ceal his emotions.
At a meeting of the cracker barrel
club, in Mike Hogan's the other even
ing, one of the members remarked,
"we are fearfully and wonderfully
made." "Yes," said another member
sitting on a soap box, "and we should
! be thankful that we are made so we
can sit down."
A man in Potter county was hugged
by a bear and died from the effects of
j the grip.
Lott's wife turned into a pillar of
! salt. An Evangelical friend says,
| "that's -what she got for being too
■ fresh."
One of our young itiarried men says
he bought his marriage license on the
installment plan—one dollar down and
! his monthly salary the rest of his life.
It is sorrowful to meet one of your
old time friends who is a dyspepsic-
We shook with one yesterday who had
a pork and bean appetite and a milk
toast stomach. Blessed are they who
can digest birch bark and shingle tim
ber.
Sheriff Swope says the town at one
time had a champion long distance
jumper; he jumped his bail clear to the
Klondike
Bill Thomas found a ten cent piece
in the craw of a chicken he killed last
Sunday. She was evidently keeping
it until she got where she ould buy
| a couple ol beers.
Brother Pyle says love is tuuch more
j courageous when the light is turned
away down low.
We often meet ladies that use face
powder. We think some of theqo
j we see, if they should meei a walking
delegate of the whitewasbers union,
j would have to show their card.
The window sill club at their last
meeting decided that a noisy noise
annoyed an oyster and that a hypo
crisy was a boy that went to school
with a smile on his face.
An itinerant photographer has pitch
ed his feut at Sizerville. A sijrn reads,
"Pifturfs tiken of all kinds, from a
back tooth to a mouse's soul."
Uncle Peter Bcattie says people talk
about remarkable shooting he s ; s the
best shot he ever made u duet'>
lut*. He wa>» hunting one day and
when it came noon, lie was ten miles
from camp and hadn't seen a tiling.
He sat down under a spruce tree and
ate a lunch which he had in nis pocket,
smoke i' in pipe «nd ( II fuleep. Ho
Woke up with u start <tnd when he
opened lils eje-i he Haw bijj rattle
mi.ike within ten feet of him he raised
his gun thinking he would put a bullet
* through him when a nd caused
"Liberty and Union, One and Inseparable."—WKßSTKß.
EMPORIUM, PA., THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1906.
him to look and on a limb above liin
head, be Haw a half dozen patridgee;
he thought a club would do for the
snake and was just aiming at the birds,
when out of the brush near him eamc a
deer, he changed his aim quickly.
Just as he was covering the deer, he
gave a jump and from the other side
came a black bear, he changed his aim
to the bear and fired. The gun burst
ed, the bullet killed the bear and as he
fired the deer name by and a piece of
the barrel went plamb through his
heart and killed him dead. The lock
flew off and as the rattlesnake had his
mouth open and it went down its neck
and choked him to death; the stock
flew up and hit the bunch above bis
head and the shock killed the partridg
es and the explosion threw him more
than thirty feet and he lit on a couple
of rabbits.
QABSAWAY.
A Sharp Swindler.
Last Saturday a sleek rascal called at
Cummings' bakery and requested some
candy. While Miss Margaret was pro
curing the candy the chap extracted
S2O 00 from a pocket-book lying behind
the counter. Immediately upon re
turning with the candy she noticed the
pocket-book bad been tampered with,
being open. She at once made the
chap stand still while she examined the
contents. Seeing that four five-dollar
bills were missing from the money she
had prepared for deposit in the bank,
she called policeman Monday and the
proprietor, who searched the man.
Not finding any money on his person
they were compelled to give the suspect
his freedom. Later in the day it was
learned that the same man weot into a
saloon and presented a five-dollar bill
saturated with tobacco juice. It flashed
upon Policeman Mundy that the cud
he was chewing was mostly the bills
stolen. Prompt telegrams located him
at Austin where he was arrested and
returned to Emporium. The prisoner
"owned the corn" and was committed
to jail for court.
Progressive Whist.
Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Balcom enter- .
tained about forty lady and gentlemen
friends at tiieir Sixth street residence
Tuesday evening, in a very pleasing
manner. The evening was voted a
very decided success. At mid-night
elegant refreshments were (served, after
which the score cards were called in,
the progressive prizes being awarded
to Mrs. A. Brady and Mr. IS. A. Pyle,
while the booby favors were captured
by Miss Alice Green and Hon. J. C.
Johnson—ordinarily two expert whist
players, but luck was against them.
Obituary.
Mr. George White and son, E. D.
White, chief clerk at Emporium lion
Company's plant at this place, were
called to Lebanon, Pa., last Thursday by
a telegram announcing the dangerous
illness of their daughter and sister,
Mrs. Win. Hoover. The lady was dead
before they arrived at home. Deceas
ed leaves a husband, father and
mother, two sisters and three brothers
to mourn her death. The funeral took
place on Monday from the home of her
sister, Mrs. Frank Kline, at Lebanon.
New Church Trustees.
The new board of trustees of the M.
E. Church consisting of Geo. J.
T. B. Lloyd, It. P. Heilman, F. P.
Straver, L. K. Huntington, A. C. Blum,
112. P. Rentz, 11. A. Cox and J. P. Mc-
Narney, organized by the election of
Geo. J. La Bar, President, and J. P.
McNamey, Secretary and Treasurer.
The repairs to the parsonage are
about completed and will be ready lor
the family of Rev. Cleaver in about a
week.
Met With an Accident.
I While riding a pony belonging to IJ.
| C. Hayes, last Monday evening, Otar
j enee Quinn was thrown from the an
imal's back breaking his lefta rm, also
spraining his wrist. Dr. Heilman at
tended the young man and set the
I wounded member.
The Portage Store.
W. L. Dixon, proprietor of the
Portage store, desires to inform his
patrons and the genera! public that he
is offering special inducement in canned
goods for the next thirty days. Road
this:
Tomatoes, 10c; Good California
Pt acht>«, Hie; Mince Meat, Hu, Corn He;
Finest Hiring lieans. lUe; Bust Seeded
Itiisens, lie; Seven liars Oak I.eal'Soap,
iific. Other goods in proportion.
Cull me on 'phone.
W. L. DIXON,
"•If. Ni'#r Portage Bridge.
C. B. Howard A Co., have the only
large stock of shingles in the county at
the prenent lime. IlKll CEDAR from
the I'acifle Coast and WHII'KCKDAIt
rum WiscnriMlii
limit lis m nun
One Thousand Lives
Wiped Out.
Buildings in Six Blocks Went Down
During the Shock Which tasted
Three Minutes. Fires Started
and Added Terror-Water Mains
Broken.
SAN FIIANCISCO, April 18, S a. in.
In the confusion which reigns
everywhere, it is almost impossible
to learn details of the disaster
caused by the earthquake this
morning. In general it may be
said that the district lying between
Market and Howard streets from |
the bay to city ball has been j
wrecked. Most all the principle j
business blocks have been badly j
damaged.
Fires are burning in many places !
and the water mains have been j
broken by the earthquake. The an- j
thorities have resorted to dynamite !
to check the progress of the lire, j
The fire houses have been so badly
damaged that it is impossible to get
the apparatus out.
For the benefit of eastern people 1
who have friends at San Francisco
it is safe to say that they haw not !
been injured.
In the cheap tenement district
the loss of life is heavy. The resi
dence portion of the city is but
slightly damaged.
The last earthquake that occur
red in San Francisco was about the
middle of January 1900. The
chief building affected was the St.
Nicholas Hotel,which was severely
shaken. The walls "collapsed in
certain parts of the structure and
| patrons were thrown from their
j beds.
At this time there is but one
j wire out of the ct.iv, a Postal wire.
The Postal building is considerably
damaged.
A dispatch from Los Angeles
says that 1,000 lives have been
lost in the earthquake at San
Francisco.
SACRAMENTO, Cal., April 18, —A
severe earthquake shock occurred
here this morning. There is great
confusion and it is impossible to
learn the extent of the damage.
No loss of life is yet reported.
Barclay a Candidate.
Capt. C. F. Barclay, of Sinnamahon
ing, Cameron county, is a candidate for
the Republican nomination for con
gress. lie lbels assured that his own
county and McKean will be with him
.and that he stands a good show. Capt.
Barclay was a candidate four years ago
against S. It. Dresser. He is a gentle
man of remarkable attainments and is
one of the foremost citizens and busi
ness men of Cameron county. With
two candidates fromClearfield, and one
from Center, there promises to bo live
ly doings in the district this summer
Curwensville Review.
Sch wab-Summerson.
Mr. John Schwab, of Cameroon, Pa.,
and Miss Edna Summcrson, of Sterling
Run, Pa., were united in marriage, on
April 15th, at Emmanuel Church Rec
tory, by Rev. J. M. Robertson. This
popular young couple have many ad
miring friends iu thin county. Mr.
Schwab, who is engaged in mercantile
business at Cameron, while the bride,
who has successfully taught school in
this county for several years, is a lady
of excellent character and greatly re
spected by all our citizens. The PRESS
joins in hearty congratulations
VV anT KU: Travelling sales man
Must furnish references and invest one
thousand *1,000) dollars, in first class
ti per cent, bonds Salary and expens* s
paid Experience not required, we
teach bit ineiis at our mills. The
Wheeling Ko.itlng it Cornice Co.,
Wheeling. W Va 4 Ht.
Census Figures and Marriage
Customs.
We are indebted toAlfredTruraan tor
the following information concerning
a recent census taken of the British
I Empire together with some strange
marriage customs of the people of
India:
The whole empire contains 398,000,-
000 of people, scattered over different
parts of the globe as follows: In
Asia there are more than 300,000,000
of people in British dominions; in Am
erica there are 7,500,000; in Africa 43,-
000,000; in Australia over 5,000,000; and
in Europe over 42,000,000. Classifying
this vast, hetrogenous mass of people
by religions, it is found that 203,000,000
are Indus, 94,000 000 are Mahomedans,
58,000,000 are christians, 12,000,000 are
Budbists and 23,000,000 of various
pagan and non-christian religions.
This latter generalization represents
Parsees, Jains, Jews and Confucians,
and some other primitive forms of sup
erstition.
There are in the British Empire.
1,200,000 Chinamen who are known,
from the best sources of information,
to be exemplary subjects, made up of
merchants, bankers and country gentle
men, as well as industrious and efficient
workmen.
Considering that Egypt is practi
cally under British rule, brings the
populatieu of the empire to consider
ably over 100,000,000, being over one
fourth of all the people on the globe,
and occupying moro than one fourth
of the earth's space.
The marriage customs of the people
of India are very strange and unnatural,
and has so far been impossible of cor
rection even by the British and Indian
governments. Marriage of children in
India takes place While the children
are yet in infancy, and is nothing more
than a contract entered into by the
parents and guardians. Its most
pathetic feature is the number of young
widows in that land of strange customs
for to become a widow, no matter at
what iige, means to romain a widow
through life.
And while English law would recog
nize the validity of a second marriage
Indian law and customs forbid it.
The census already referred to shows
there are over a quarter of a million
of married girls of the age of five years
and under. Between the ages of five
years and ten years over ten million
married girls were found, and the
number of married maidens between
the years of ten and fourteen, were
seven millions. There are at the pres
ent tioic 426,000 widows under the age
of fifteen, destined, along with millions
who are older, to remain in widow
hood through life. Most of the widows
of such tender years become so before
they know what widowhood means.
The custom of burning the living
widow with the deceased husband has
been abolished, and the same civilizing
intluences that suppressed that cruel
practice will in time correct their un
natural customs relating to marriage
and widowhood.
The age at which girls could be taken
to wife by whomsoever had been mar
ried to them was formerly twelve years,
but during the reign of Victoria that
good queen succeeded in lawfully
establishing the age at which real
married life could begin to be fourteen
years.
DEATH'S DOINGS.
HALLE *HER.
The remains of Mrs. Gallagher were
brought to Emporium yesterday from
Bradford and interred in the Catholic
cemetery. Deceased was a sister of
the elder Creightons, who resided here
years ago Many relatives attended
the funeral here.
MCFADDEN.
Mrs. .Jesse McFadden, after an illuess
of only a few days, passed away Tues
day morning, leaving a husband and
four children, one a babe less than a
week old. The sad death was a great
surprise to friends of the family. The
funeral took place this morning from
St. Mark's Catholic Church.
'l'he Thespians.
The Thespians from State College
will appear at the Opera House, Mon
day evening, April 23rd, under the
auspices of the Y. P. 8. ofC. K, in a
roaring farce . ntltled "Facing the
Music." An orchestra of ten pieces
and a quartette will accompany them.
Board open Friday morning, at 11 H
Lloyd's store. Admission ISc t'flo:
SfK*: and Mir
TERMS: f2.00 —$1.50 in Advance.
THE WEATHER.
FRIDAY', .Showers. SATURDAY, J'air
SUNDAY, Fair.
ASSETS
First National Bank,
EMPORIUM, PA.
At the close of business April
$796,751.74.
! If you deposit yoor money in this Hank, yoti
may r(Sstossur«<l that it will be there when you
wont it.
Services in Presbyterian Church.
The Rav. John Mitchell, of Houtas.
dale,Pa.,will preach in the Presbyterian
Church, Sunday, April 22nd, 1006.
Preaching morning and evening.
Home Market.
Is the title of the first document of
the Congressional campaign of lt'OU,
issued by the American Protective
Tariff League. The pamphlet is a re
production of the great speech of Con
gressman John F. Lacey, of lowa, re
cently delivered in Congress. Send
postal card request for free copy. AsN
for Document No. 84. Address W. P.
Wakeman, Secretary. 339 Broadway,
New York, N. Y.
The Savings of Solomon.
Never go into business with rela
tives, says a writer in the American
Magazine. They skin you even if you
get St. Petor for doorkeeper and the
Recording Angel for the book keeper?
Beware of false profits. A penny
overcharge! may cause you to lose
dollar customer.
When you hear a man say "do others
before they do you," look out for "him!
He is one of the evil doers!
When you are down, take knocks
without howling. But when you
up again just sock it to your enemy
with compound interest.
Mark Twain says—"Be good and
you will be lonesome!" Your Uncle
Solomon says—
"Better be alone in good company
than sociable in bad!"
The ready lender generally finda
out that when he gets broke there if)
a great deal of truth in the old saying
that "He who goes a borrowing, goes :t
sorrowing!"
Paste this over your desk! If you
haven't a des.c, on your looking glass!
It you haven't a looking glass, over
your bod! If you haven't abed, wear
it next to your heart! Be sure to keep
it by you so that you may remember, a
dollar is your best friend!
Never answer advertisements that
promise to pay you thirty dollars a
week for sitting home, doing nothing!
Save your stamps and your common
| sense! The postoftice hasn't cornered
all the frauds yet!
Never run from a policeman or a
dog! They'll think j - ou are guilty
whether you are or not! Then you
are sure to get a clubbing, or a biting,
no matter how little you may deservo
it. There are times when it pays to
stand still!"
Reception Given to Rev. Metzlir.
The following is a clipping from tho
Gazette and Bulletin:
The members of the Mulberry Strre t
M. E. church will give a reception at
the church Monday evening, at 7:45
in honor of the new pastor.
The Rev. Oliver S. Metzler, tho
new pastor at Mulberry Street Meth
odist church, opened his pastorato
yesterday with two sermons, both cf
which can he justly characterized as
brilliant. The morning discourse was
on the "Resurrection of Christ" ai 'l
the evening in "Esther at Shushan."
Mr. Metzler fully demonstrated tho
correctness of the reputation ho has
gained in other fields of labor for
being a pulpit orator of splendi'l
ability. The conjugations both morn
ing and evening were large and gave
j evidence of thorough appreciation c 112
! his work. The year opens most aim*
! piclously in this oh.ipch. Monday'n
Williamsport News.
*»•
The Rev. O. S. Metzler opened bin
' pastorate i . Mulberry Street church
| yesterday under most encouraging
| auspices. The congregation, both
morning and evening, were unusually
! large The music and decorations
, were artistic and inspiring. The mora
ing sermon on the "Resurrection,"
j and the evening sermon on ' Easter .it
; Shushan," were both fine pieces «.i"
' logical clearness and rhetorical beauty.
The Rev, Mr. Metzler has a round,
clear voic • and speaks with energy and
impresslvcneaa. Only words of praise
are beard from his work on the flr»(
lay of his pastorate in tho new field
Williamsport Bulletin.
For Sale.
One l it 7 >*ll2 with good dwelling
I hous« and outbuilding* Will be «< I
lat a bargain. Enquire ofCl, I'. Ralcrui
I Chairman. • »112
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