When winter's at his oldest When life I* at Its bleakest And coldest And meekest And boldest, And weakest, Then eosneth Rood St. Valentine, Tlien conioth nood St. Valentine, To show that love Is burning To show that love is rosy And sighing and yearning, And wistful-eyed and cozy. And breathe upon the wintry earth Ids And breathes on every torpid heart his tenderness divine. tenderness divine. —Good Housekeeping. 1L V { OR THE: wT \x .-QULE WONDERFUL 112 day, the four teenth of F< bru ar >'- It is so won derful that it spreads its charm over the preceding week and the week that comes after. For days and days the Small Person sneaks into the house with unnatural, unhealthy and suspicious quiet, holding queer shaped bulging packages under her coat or smuggled away in the innermost cav erns of her absurd little muff. The paste pot appears everywhere in the house. The paste brush disappears entirely and is finally found in a slate of suicide and the ink-bottle. You see something on the floor that, looks like a cherry. You pick it up and it is a red paper heart. While you are look ing at it tho Small Person trots into the room, gives you one mysterious Klance, immediately separates you from your treasure and scampers Rway to a hiding place under the din lugroom table, where she sits for three straight hours in a billowy pool of white paper lace, big white envelopes and numberless samples of scissors. Then, after these charming hours of mysterious preparation, the great day approaches. The mail man is the Kris Kringle, the Santa Claus, the good fairy. With bended shoulders he plods down the street, while the Small Person has her nose glued so tightly to the window pane that there is con siderable question whether or not it will detach itself without the aid of a paper knife. At last! liooray! The bell rings. At imminent risk of catching every thing from a cold to a spanking .he Small Person dashes out of the front door and fairly leaps into the mail bag. She emerges looking like a young stationery establishment, nothing but envelopes, big, little and middle sized. With a sqtieal and a scurry she blows back into the house and opens up her treasures. There are paper trees filled with brilliant paper roses, and be neath the forest trees sit little cupids "without no clo's on at all," just, as If it were not February and chilly. Great big, beautiful white swan cars ■—more beautiful even than a new au tomobile—are dragged out of their white casings, and lo! when you touch a little spring somewhere the swan cars are filled with flowers and all sorts of wonderful, exquisite, beautiful things, like Lirds and jewels and lov ing hearts. Oh, it is very, very de lightful. being a child on St. Valen- day. While all this excitement is beating the quiet home atmosphere into quiv ers you sit down in a far-away cor ner and think of the time when you were a little girl. Perhaps you didn't have as much attention as the Small Person; perhaps things didn't some how come your way—and perhaps it's because you had so little that you are ready to make any sacrifice so that the Small Person shall have much. It is from deprivations that you learn what good things mean and how much they mean. Somehow your mind goes way back, so far you wouldn't dare tell the ycarb. You wouldn't even guess them. It seems so long a„'o that it must have been another world, or anyway an other life. You see a dingy old school room, where the benches were fright fully hard and where the clock was so lazy it never moved its hands at all The days wore very long for a little tiny child who should hav<* been romping and playing out of doors. One day there came strange whis perings about St. Valentine. You won tiered if he were the man who came to trim the trees in the orchard. It was all very new to you, because everything was new, and you had so much to get acquainted with in a big strange world. The other children talked knowing ly about a St. Valentine's box. Next 4jay they filed in one after another, *nd into a big woodeu box they dropped white envelopes. When school was about to bo dismissed the Beautiful Lady who took care of all the children opened up the mysterious affair and took out the envelopes one by one, calling the name of the little boy or girl. You held your breath. When would yours come? Ah! exquisite moment of anticipation! Your heart —such a tiny little silly, lovable heart, too — fairly ceased to beat, for every mo ment you expected that your name would be spoken. The other children were busy showing their white lace valentines, and never noticed the wist ful little face in a far-back seat. It was all over. The box was empty. The Beautiful Lady closed her desk. The children ran for their hats and coats. You placed two soiled fat lit tle hands to two very moisty-misty eyes and feit your first great sorrow. You did, didn't you? Well, if you didn't, I did. The heart of a child is so sensitive a flower. A thought will crush it—a tear will bruise it. HIS ONE DAY TO GET EVEN, Husband Sent Eurlesque Valentines and Had His Wife Guessing. "Say, old fellow," said Brown, as he laid his hand familiarly on Potter's shoulder, "didn't I see you in the stationer's a day or two ago looking at valentines?" "You probably did, as I was In there." was the answer. "Buying for some sister or niece?" "No —for my wife." "But you are over GO years old and have been married a quarter of a cen "l Get a Hundred of the Meanest Bur lesque Valentines I Can Find." tury. You don't say that you are still romantic?" "1 say this —that my wife can beat me at argument or scolding or doing as she pleases whether I like it or not. She's obstinate and pigheaded and touchy, and the only way 1 can get even with her is on Valentine's day. Then I get 100 of the meanest bur lesque valentines I can find and send them to her, and for the next three months she's wondering who sent 'em and treats me fairly well. Try it once. It is a good deal better than threatening her with the family ax." Love's Lottery. One often wonders how St. Valen tine's day ever got a start. It is said that in England and France the young folk were given to playing a game in which the names of all the girls and boys were written on tiny slips of pa per, thrown into a general receptacle, and then drawn cut lottery fashion, care being taken of course that each person draws the name of one of the other sex. The person thus drawn became one's valentine, and the allot ment decreed by fate was supposed to impose upon the couple a sort of loy alty for the coming year. All of which sounds very romantic I and beautiful, but which in plain fact j must have mixed things up fearfully, | and it is a question whether or not i fate always selected the right maiden | or tho right beau. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1.908 The Retort Venomous. "So this is your widely advertised dollar table d'hote dinner, is it?" Bald the indignant would-be diner, as he pushed aside an entree which he could not masticate. "Why, this is the last place in the world I would recom mend to friends." "Don't blame you. sir," said th« sad faced waiter. "Send your ene mies here." SIOO Reward, SIOO. The readers of thl* paper will he pleased to learn thai there 1s at leait ouc dreaded dtHenne that science bit hoeu able to cure In all Its Hinge*, mid that 1* Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is the only positive euro now known to the medical fraternfty. Catarrh being a constitutional f.lH»>ase, require* a conutltu tlon.il treatment. Hail * Catarrh Cure la taken In ternally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces "112 toe system, ihereby destroying the foundation of the dlnesHe, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and ablat ing nature In doing it* work. The proprietor* have so much faith In Its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any caHo that It Tails to cure. Bend for lift of testimonials. Address F. J. CUKNKV <fc CO., Toledo, O. Bold by atl Drugglflt*, ?sc. Take JlaU's Family Till* for constipation. Too Interesting to Bury. There is a certain little southern girl who is very fond of her negro mammy. The nurse's name is Sally, and she is a large woman, so she is known as Big Sally. Ethel, however, calls her "Biggie" for short. One day her mother took her to a museum, where, among other things, there were some stuffed animals. Ethel was greatly interested, and for many days Bhe did not tire of talking about them. Perhaps a week later, at the supper table, after a preoccupied silence, sho eaid: "Mamma, when Biggie flics !'m not going to have her buried; I'm going to have her stuffed!" A Remedy for Neuralgia or Pain in the Nerves. For neuralgia and sciatica Sloan's Liniment has no equal. It has a pow erfully sedative effect on the nerves —penetrates without rubbing and gives immediate relief from pain— quickens the circulation of the blood and gives a pleasant sensation of com fort and warmth. "For three years I suffered with neuralgia in the head and jaws," writes J. P. Hubbard, of Marietta, S. C., "and had almost decided to have three of my teeth pulled, when a friend recommended me to buy a 25 cent bottle of Sloan's Liniment. I did so and experienced immediate relief, and I kept on using it until the neu ralgia was entirely cured. I will never bo without a bottle of Sloan's Lini ment in my house again. I use it also for Insect bites and sore throat, and I can cheerfully recommend it to any one who suffers from any of tho ills I have mentioned." DIFFERENT. "Do you" believe In art for art's sake?" "No; I sell my pictures!" OPENS GRAVE FOR A PICTURE. Sorrowing Widow Had to Have Pic ture by Which to Remember Hubby. To be exhumed after he had been buried for 20 days and told to sit up and "look pleasant" was the tough luck that befell a corpse out at Wood lawn cemetery, New York, the other day. Henry Brown, a train dispatcher on the One Hundred and Twenty ninth street elevated road, died De cember 6 of rheumatic gout and was buried decently and in order. Some two weeks after the funeral it oc curred to Mrs. Brown that she would like a photograph of her husband, having none that did him justice. Im mediately she petitioned the Bronx health department for permission to exhume llenry and snapshot him. The health department was some what dazed, but granted the request, and so, with a photographer and an undertaker, Mrs. Brown went to Woodlawn and had the three weeks' corpse dug up. Brown was taken both profile and full face. PANTRY CLEANED A Way Some People Have. A doctor said: "Before marriage my wif« observed in summer and country homes, coming in touch with families of varied means, culture, tastes and discriminating ten dencies. that the familias using Fos tuni seemed to average better than those using coffee. "When we wer«s married two years ago, Postuni w-as among our first order of groceries. We also putin some cof fee and tea for guests, but after both had stood around llie pantry about a year untouched, they were thrown away, and Postum used only. "Up to the age of 28 I had been ac customed to drink coffee as a routine habit and suffered constantly from in digestion and all its relative disorders. Since using Postum all the old com plaints have completely left me and 1 sometimes wonder if I ever had them." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read, "The Road to Jftfellville," in pkga, "There's a Reason." THIRTY YEARS OF IT. A Fearfully Long Siege of Daily Pain and Misery. Charles Von Soelinen of 210 A St., Colfax, Wash., says:"For at least t thirty years I suf fered with kidney troubles, and the at tacks laid me up for days at a time with pain In the back and rheumatism. When I was up and around sharp twinges caught me, and for fifteen years the frequent passages of kidney secretions an noyed me. But Doan's Kidney Pills have given me almost entire freedom from this trouble and I cannot speak too highly in their praise." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. She Was In No Hurry. Rev. Dr. Wallace, new pastor of the East End Baptist church, brought a new one to Cleveland with him. According to the story, a Boston girl got on the street car one day car rying one of those muffs the size of an ordinary hassock. She had only one hand in the muff. A young man alt ting next to her took advantage of the opportunity to slip his hand into the unoccupied end of the muff. The Boston girl turned upon him severely. "I could have you arrested for ouch a familiarity," said she. "But," sha added, "I'm from Boston and I purpose to keep calm. Now, I'll just give you ten minutes to let goof my hand." —Cleveland Plain Dealer. POOR JOHN! TjZFZ ~ *—— ' Scrappeigh—l was a confounded fool when I got married! Mrs. Scrappeigh—Well, John, mar ried life hasn't changed you any! For 12c and this notice the John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., in order to gain 250,000 new customers during 1908. will mail you free their great plant auu seed catalog together with 1 pkg. "Quick Quick" Carrot $ .10 1 pkg. Earliest flipe Cabbage 10 1 pkg. Earliest Emerald Cucumber.. .15 1 pkg. La Crosse Market Lettuce 15 1 pkg. Early Dinner Union 10 1 pkg. Strawberry Muskmelon 15 1 pkg. Thirteen Day Radish 10 1,000 kernels gloriously beautiful liower seed 15 Total SI.OO Above is sufficient seed to grow 35 bu. of rarest vegetables and thousands of bril liant bowers and all is mailed to you POSTPAID FOR 12C, or if you send 10c, we will add a package of Berliner Karliest Cauliflower. John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis. K. & W. Generally Done. "Did you know that the Downtown Merchants' bank had closed its doors?" "Good heavens! Is that so?" "Certainly. It always does when cool weather comes." —Baltimore American. Eating Cocoanut-Custard Pie. Everybody praises Cocoanut-Cu3tard pie If it's made right, but a sogey pie Will spoil the entire meal. Grocers are now selling "OUR-PIE," each 10-cent package containing just the proper ingredients for two pics. Get the Custard for Cocoanut- Custard pies. Keep Tobacco at Home. The Turkish government absolutely prohibits the exportation of the seed of Turkish tobacco. Little wonder that Garfield Tea meets with approval everywhere—it is the Ideal Laxative; pure, mild, health-giving! It reg ulates the liver and overcomes constipation. Beware of Debt. Raleigh: Borrowing is the canker and death of every man's estate. PII.ES < |!KEL> IN 6 TO 11 DATS. f'A/', OINTMKNT is ffuurantectl to cure any rase til Iteliinjt. Blind, illeedlng or Protruding Piles in oto 11 days or uioney refunded. 60c. Some finished orators don't seem to know when to quit. Mm. "\Vlnilow*H Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softena the gums, reduce* In tlamnmilon, allays pain, cure* wind colic. 'J5c a bottle. Some men just can't foot a bill with out kicking. A. N. K.—C (1908—6) 2216. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES Color more pooda brighter and tatter color* than any other dye. One 10c package color* all fibers. They die In cold (rater better than am other d» VAN can <i» Mi garment without rlpplna Writ* lor Ira* OookJat-How to o>e. Bleach and MM Color*. MONRO £ OnUOOO., Qulnoy,' l/tinoin HAD TO GET STRENGTH FIRST. Hard Worked Woman Not Ready t» Face Hired Girl Problem. A Massachusetts man, whose busi ness frequently takes him over the line into Vermont, says that one even ing he was a guest at a farm house In that state when he observed that the wife of the owner—a poor, wan little woman—was doing every bit of tbe work around the house. As he himself put it, she did an amount of work .that would have put an ordinary Massachusetts horse to shame and he really felt like a vil lain sitting there watching her. Feeling considerable compassion for the woman, who looked as if ready to drpp from overwork, tho visitor asked: "Why don't you get help here? Surely you are not going to try to pull through the long winter without a hired girl." A sickly smile came to the pallid face of the woman. "Waal, I dunno," she said. "I don't feel as if I could just yit; but p'raps ef I should get to feelin* a little better and stronger I might."—lllustrated Magazine. Chickens in the Snowball. Several boys at Tusten, Sullivan county, started a bail of snow rolling down a hill, and it went flying through Farmer Schneider's chicken coop. The big ball gathered up nine of Schneider's fat hens. With the poultry packed into the ball, leg 3 and heads of chickens sticking out of tho mass, it rolled farther and brought up in the barnyard of the next farmer, on the opposite side of the Tusten turnpike, where the pigs ate fire of the chickens. —Port Jervls dißpnUh to the N. Y. World. A milkman doesn't cry over spilt milk if there is a pump hand^. I CASJORIII !3 ., ",,,1,,,,, F0r Infants and Children. i| The Kind You Hava Always Bough! ALCOHOL—3 PER CENT * *V, lh Preparation for As- W I ggaaas Bears the \ Signature / /IJI Jjj Promotes Digestion, Cheerfu- 112 fj nessandßest.Contains neither QJ M Opium, Morphine nor Mineral #l\ IT* itj NOTNABCOTIC. i# fa P*<ip* cfOU DrSAVU£ir/rcmt l^y )|| Pum/thin **tj ~ ■ • % ft. JlxStnn* • / " ■ M |,l IfachtUt Sa/ti 1 #i cf" Jnin Stti » LU I n «! ft i/l* ■ » Jjj < ClarifitdSugar 11 ■ Wintkryreen Ffavor. A perfect Remedy for Constipa- AVT Ati IB § H £«! tion, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, I » Worms .Convulsions .Feverish- 1 I\/ _ y ncss and LOSS OF SLEEP ' 1 JJ fft P II VO 112 Facsimile Signature of i JlxzlsL Thirty Years __ NEW R|A Exact Copy of Wrapper. r*« o*irr»uii mw *onn orrr. NO MORE MUSTARD PLASTERS TO BLISTER I Capsicum-Vaseline, lit ' i | [§! |P EXTRACT OF THE CAYENNE | PEPPER PLANT TAKEN 'I R \ DIRECTLY IN VASELINE I DON'T WAIT TILL THE PAIN N 8 COMES—KEEP A TUBE HANDY A QUICK, SURE. SAFE AND ALWAYS READY CURE FOR PAIN —PRICE lSe. —IN COLLAPSIBLE TUBES MADE OF PURE TIN-AT ALL DRUGGISTS AND I DEALERS. OR BY MAIL ON RECEIPT OF 15c. IN POSTAGE STAMPS. I A substitute for and superior to mustard or any other plaster, and will not bliste* the most delicate skin. The pain-allaying and curative qualities of tho article are wonderful. It will stop tho toothache at once, and relievo Head ache and Sciatica. We recommend it as the best and safest external counter irritant known, also as an external remedy for pains in the chest and stomach ,1 and all Rheumatic, Neuralgic and Gouty complaints. A trial will prove what » we claim for it, and it will be found to be Invaluable In the household and for children. Once used no family will be without It. Many people say "It Is the best of all your preparations." Accept no preparation of vaseline unless the same carries our label, as otherwise It Is not genuine. Send your addrau and we will mall our Vasellna Booklet deacrlblna our preparations which will Interest you. 17StateSt. CHESEBROUGH MFG. CO. Now York City | ft i MEN, BOYS, WOMEN, MISSES AND CHILDREN. V 'WW H «£3>» W. L Dou&lax makes and malls more /sV N men's SO.SO, 03.00 and fsa.BOtrhoao ___ than any oihei' manufEcturar In thm worid, bocsuso they hold thole \ Vs V rati chapo, fit botCcr, wear lon ft or. and \vP»apSi' Color feitn. .iro of nroztor re/uo than xriy other uct a Wi W BytUu shoos In tho world to-day. , c " d , W. L. Douglas $4 and $5 Gilt Edge Shoos Cannot te Equalled At Anj Price aj- "AI TIOV. W. 1,. Dnncl is nume and prlr« Is (itamped on bouom. Tiike STo Mutxtltnte. 8«>l«t by th* !.»-8t nhoe deal era everywhere IS&oe* fuelled from an? p»jt of the world, Illus trated Catalou free to anr addruvii. •¥. JL. DOIiWLAH. llrockton, MAM. Habitual Constipate Ni 112 i ay be overcome by prop** personal efforts with the assistance truly Ijenejicijil laxative remedy, Syrup ojhgs an J Klixir oj which enables one regular habits daily so that assistance to na ture may be gradually dispensed wiiH when no longer needed astliebe>! of remedies, when required, arc to assist nature and not to supplant the nalur* alfunctions, which must depend ulti mately upon propev nourishment, proper efJorts,and right living generally. To get its beneficial cjjeefs, a! way a buy the genuine ixir4 Senna Rianujocturftifeyt(ie CALIFORNIA Fig Syxjup Co. only SO LP BY ALL LEADINC DRUGGISTS one size ortfy, regular price 50r per fiottU HAIR^BALSAM BBKafiffigSßfo Jg] Oan«e« and beautifies tha hair. 3 Promotes a luxuriant frovth. j Jpl Hover Fails to Roatore One • Youthful Color. \ Cuw scalp diaeaaea Ac hair falling 112 It yon wast to hatch orcrj fertile cg%, jcu ohould gel i Mandy Lee Incubator because It's the machine that In "built that «a None other like It. Catalog iollh how anO wlij. K**"ul for it todaj—3s:7. iULD. &l. 3 .tit CO , Cir.nha, Ncbr. n%. ■ n MB— A ANAKEStSgITMIi-"art Kla US Br 0 OTR rclief.l'OrtlTlVKLYCUKhS. -•/ ■ H ■!_ II at druiTßlMn or by rnall« ■ ■ Wj "ANAKESIS" 19 M i»JD EbS3 Tribune llldg., Nkw York. H A VPUf A Wafaon r. Coif man. Patent Attor 9rEtl BrH I no>. V\'i H hinKton. 1). C. A<lvu-e IrQ I bll I freo. Termulow. lliuhc«t rut. 7
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers