yjpKTßaking tte flavor MSmw M iT'TOL?* -1 PERSONAL GOSSIP. Contribution* muted. That which yon u-o.# «» <o nee in thin department Jet u* know hy pot ai card, letter or peruana Iti . Arthur Catlin called on mend* at Driftwood between trains last Sunday. Rev F. B. Schriner returned on S t urdav from visiting at New Castle. Miss Grace Schriner, the pleasant daughter of Rev. and Mrs. Schriner, was a PRESS caller on Tuesday. Misses Bessie Edwards and Elise Narby were business callers at the new ! PRESS office last Saturday morning. Dudley Cole, of Curwensville, was uest of his cousin, Harold Seger, last j Saturday evening and Sunday. Misses Verena and Hilda Hertig spent a few days shopping and visiting friends at Olean this week. Miss Mary Leutze, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bennett Leutze, was a busi ness caller at the PRESS office on Mon day afternoon. { Mrs. Helen Tiggart departs!' tor Kittanning, Pa., on Tuesday, where she is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. George Deike. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Cramer and daughter, Miss Lena, lefo Emporium on Tuesday morning for Buffalo, N. Y., j lrom which place they will start for | New Orleans and thence to California j for the winter. Mr. and Mrs. Earl j Simmons will occupy part of the j Cramer home during their absence. J Gordan Howlett, Jof Sterling Run, ' transacted business for Central Lum- j ber Co., in Emporium on Monday and ! called on the PRESS, renewing bis J paper for another year, as he always | does promptly. Mr. Howlett was guest I of Commercial House, where he always j stops when looking after timber and bark interests in this section. C. Leslie Freck, of Sheffield, was I guest of his cousin, W. S. Sterner, for j u few days during the past week. Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Robinson, of Ellington, N. Y., were guests at the I home of C. G. Catlin and family on j Fifth street, last Sunday. Misses Flora Schlecht and Mazie Gallagher were guests at the home of j the former's sister at Johnsonburg, last j Saturday and Sunday. Andrew Cavanaugh, of Pittsburg, is j guest of his sister, Mrs. John Treps- i wether, on Fourth street, and will re main until after the holiday season. The genial D. R. Branson is in town spending the holidays with his wife, who is guest of her father, Mr. A. A. McDonald. Charles Farrell has been enjoying a short vacation, the past week. His | whereabouts seem to be a mystery to ! his numerous friends. Jos. Kaye, Jr., who has been at Dem- ! ming, Wash., for some time, returned to his home at this place last Friday. Mrs. Joseph Kaye returned to Em- i porium last Sunday, after spending a j short time at Williamsport. John Catlin, of Renovo, was guest at the home of his parents, C. G. Catlin and wife, on Fifth strdet, last Sunday. ' Ed. More, who has been working at Philadelphia for some time, has arriv- i ed in town to spend the Holidays with : his mother and other relatives. A fine line of picture moulding for Xmas framing at Bair's Studio. 43-2 The Use of Sexine Pills, No man or woman who is uervous, weak or irritable, should fail to take Sexine Pills. The treatment cost only $5 and it is fully guaranteed. Sexine j Pills make you strong and happy. Price j 81 a box; six boxes 85, with money-back ! guarantee. Address or call on It. 0. j Dodson, Druggist, Emporium, Pa., where I they sell all the principal remedies and do not substitute. Don't put off ordering your Xmns | photographs made. Have them made | now and give me lots of time to do a nice job. Open on Sundays 1:30 4:00. 43-2 BAIR'S STUDIO. STANDS R ) BUSINESS EDUCATION Young People With R. B. I. Train ing Always In Demand. During the last four year*, Nov. 1,1905, to Nov, I, 1903. during the period of severe business d» pression. 4212 calls for graduates to fill good positions were received, 1013 more than the en tire student enrollment during that time. At tendance much larger this year than ever before. Next monthly registration dates Jau. 3 and 4. Send for catalogue. ROCHESTER BUSINESS INSTITUTE. 1 odd Election sTgns. The Signs Are In Washington, the Elections Elsewhere. "Of course we don't have any elec tions of our own," said a man from Washington, "but we have election In timations, If 1 may call them that, which can't bo duplicated anywhere else In the country. "You soe, when we Washlngtonians want to vote we've got to do It sonic \ where else, and as most of us have u | lingering fondness for the franchise |we are pretty likely to hang onto a I residence somewhere outside the Dis trict. "We especially like to do it because it makes us feel as if we had some sort of weapon to flourish before the observing eyes of the politicians who may have something to say about our hold on our jobs, and when the time comes togo home to vote we visibly swell with importance. "Naturally a national election is the one that catches us all at once, and it is then that the intimations I spoke of do most abound. The papers are full I of advertisements of loans for election [ expenses. Department clerks can he j accommodated with sums covering j their railway fare, new clothes for i the trip and a substantial margin over and above necessary Items. The inter i est Is a bit high, but a clerk who is pining togo back home to splurge a | bit is willing to mortgage his re ! sources for the pleasure. "These offers of loans fill columns of the daily papers. Alongside of them are other advertisements, all turning ion the one theme, the election. 'Buy yourself a new suit togo home and S vote in!* The grammar is a bit off. i but the prices are asserted to be all I right. "In the shop windows there are doz ; ens of election placards: 'Just the hat i to wear when you go home to vote,' ! 'Specials in suit cases for the election,' 'Take a souvenir hatpin to your best ; girl when you go home to vote,' 'Swell suit for the election, only $1 a ! week,' and in a shoe store window, 'Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are marching—home to vote; wear 's shoes and you won't get sore feet!' "The railways offer special rates to voters, and so it goes. You won't find anything like it in any other town."— New York Sun. Curious Laws In India. Some of the old laws of Nepal, In dia, were curious. Killing cows ranked with murder as a capital offense, for instance. Every girl at birth was married with great ceremony to a betel fruit, which was then cast into a sacred stream. As the fate of the fruit was uncertain, the girl was sup posed never to become a widow. To obtain divorce from a husband a wife had only to place a betel nut under bis pillow and depart. In Nepal the day is considered to begin when it Is light enough to count the tiles on the roof or distinguish the hairs on a man's band against the sky. ''KICE LIST. . "•mporium. Pa., Dec. 14, 1909. £EMOPHII,A. per s * ck «0 Jet's Fancy, « 70 Pet Orove, " i 7n Roller Meal •• 50 Rye " 71 Graham •• I." 80 Puck wheat, •' 75 Buckwheat, lolbaack, 30 Coarse Meal pel 100, 1 so Choi Peed. I..!!.".!! 1 SO Cracked Com per 100 ' Ilio Middlings " ' i White Middlings, 1 60 Bran , M Chicken Wheat " 2 00 Screenings " 1 IMI Oil Meal '• i Corn oer bushel g . Sterling Chick Peed 2 00 Daisy Dairy Peed 1 Daisy Horse Feed, 150 Alfalfa Meal 1 Whilt-Oats.perbushel 55 Oyst r Shells, per 100 75 ( hoiie Clover Seed, J I Choice TimothvSeed, i At Market Prices Choice Millet Seed, \ CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECBMBI'K 16, 1909. SANTA GLAUS IN PORTO RICO. CHRISTMAS ; i Spain i-! a r«*ll fosfh :i r.n!i".- t-ssm a so cial one. I; was s;> t rl.lnally In Porto Itli'-). I>ut . Misiiulalioii ; lias boon inline 1 <,' 1!,. l>; 1 lir I spirit of I'll:' :i ;! |ni!".!« li.v I tile many At::s W 1:: •»"-■ !:a> v. lioiv- I Hide iii the ciiie.s anil \v': > exert an in ; fliuuiw much greater than (!:,» num | bi ;'s would seen} to iv;iivmi! Thi' diuretics welcome th • day with chimes which at midnight and last until the midnight of the next day. What with one church beginning ten minutes too soon and another ten min utes too late and a third at the right moment, what with bells which ring every fifteen minutes and bell ringers who under some ancient custom will sound the great bells every half hour, the air is filled with music which never seems to end. If you are near a campanile the ef fect is not altogether pleasant on ac count of the volume of sound striking the ear with too much force, but in a public square several hundred yards from the nearest belfry, where frees A JjALUUTi.I: N T.4.K GOITAK. and buildings break the sound waves, or in suburbs 011 the hillside the effect is unspeakably delightful. Pleasantest of all is it when you are sitting in the inner court or quadran gle of a Porto Iticnii home. Around you on four sides the house rises above you, and in the grounds or in great tubs and porcelain pots rich flowers, graceful vines and restful trees afford shade, color and perfume. The sound of the hells descends from the air above very much like a benediction. You sit in an easy chair, and servants bring you tea or steaming coffee, sweetmeats aud biscuits, confections and cigarettes, while a daughter or son plays ancient songs or dances upon a mandolin or guitar. The churches are crowded; so are the clubs and most of the places of recrea tion. Every vehicle is in use, and here and there can be seen young men and women trying to imitate English mod els. Some of the people of the moun tain districts carry out many of their early superstitions in regard to Christ mas. They hang over the doors of their houses boughs of trees which are supposed to possess charms and often conduct marriage ceremonies under great canopies made of these charmed trees. A great many wild flowers are in bloom at Chrlstmastide, and these are worn by children of the mountain dis tricts in wreaths and garlands about their heads, necks and waists. The Christmas giving is sadly missing in our new possessions. The churches hold no Christmas tree, and there are few charitable societies to give feasts. However, one hospital for old people and orphans in Ponce gives a Christ mas fete, aud the inmates have a good meal and receive warm clothing, med icines and other needful gifts. The American occupation has brought extra Christmas cheer to the people of the island. The American residents celebrate the day in good American fashion, and, best of all, they put money Into circulation and give zest to Industry and business. When Shepherds Watched by Night. Some historians contend that the shepherds could not have watched by night ou the liethlehem plains In De cember, it being a period of great in clemency. In answer to this a well known student says: "Bethlehem Is not a cold region. The mercury usual ly stands all the month of December at 40 degrees. Corn is sown during this tluie, and grass and herbs spring up after the rains, so that the Arabs 4rive their flocks down from the moun tains into the plains. The most deli cate never make fires till about the end of November, and some pass the whole winter without them. From these facts I think it is established without doubt that our Saviour was born on the 25th day of December, the day which the church throughout the world has united to celebrate In honor of Christ's coming In the flesh."—Wash ington Star. The Moat Popular Christmas Poem. The most popular Christmas poem ever wrltteu for children was that fa miliar to the world, beginning: 'Twm the night before Christmas, when all through the house— The poem was written by a very learned man, Dr. Clement Clarke Moore, a profound Greek and Hebrew scholar. He was a professor In the General Theological seminary in this city. He was born In 1779 and died In 1863.—New York Globe. 11 - ' "V : ■ '.ory 1 1 Where Holiday Goad Cheer prevails and the work of providing 11 for your comfort, pleasure and convenience for the Yule Tide Season goes on. Our telephone and delivery service is at your command but we invite you to visit the store and see the tempt ing array of good things that is being gathered together for you I Holiday Nuts and Candies and ] Candied Good Things | V ~~ groceries" RIGHT SORTS : 1, " r !" : jy WIDEST VARIETY High Grade Teas and Coffees V Butter, Cheese and Eggs of the Best Grade | Holly and Holly Wreaths I Do not delay until the last moment and then in the Christmas rush, per- ! I haps be disappoiuted, but GIVE US your order early and rest assured that I it will be executed to your entire satisfaction. I A* Christmas Gifts for Everybody J \ While catering to the wants of the inner man 1 my y JEK i s a principal feature of this store, we would re \ XHtf minc * y° u y° ur wants in the line of gift giving can be su PP lied here as well. Beautiful China, I \ decorated and plain, odd pieces or whole Dinner H Scts - Blown and Pressed Glass, Water Sets, 1 n Jardinieres, Toilet Sets Fern Dishes, Vases. Notable Kitchen Specialties AU the little # \ _ convenienci e s ' | for making easy the work of the kitchen. Extensive line of Enamel Ware I tir Novelties in Burnt Wood, Etc l ■ ■ mtiwH "Big Saving Prices m S; d^ TURDAY j Sugar -'>'»• «»k <in in ui»«,.,i si_4s Shredded Wheat Sl2c Coffee L'£r ur f" mouß KA - U - KA 1.00 Hickory Nuts 10c Pop Corn 1908 Cl ' o£l ' " bs 25c Oranges 350 Florid,iß the Joz 30c Soda sod lirche s Arm and Hanimerbrand 3c Onions Choice y elloftr stock > p k 2Sc 1 Pickles Heinzlscßottl ® " JOc Starch GlbßLaundryStarch 25c ' Cranberries 0 " I>Cod ' :!,|Uart 25c Apples p™ k ening " 0l ' Splea ' a 35c I Baltimore Shucked Oysters 1 | Fresh Caught Lake Fish | | Leave Orders for Delivery Friday Morning jj J. H. DAY.
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