A Raftman's Experience OonUnuer. from Ist page him and iu the course ol a few minutes they both fouud that the fleet was drift ing along at snch a rapid rate that the cables would have been snapped if they had been hitched to trees on the bank. Seeing that it was useless to try to land the ratts there, one of the men sprang into the stream and was pulled on board. The other fellow let bis cable drop and had to walk alon<; the bank all to pay for his timidity. Then we cut the rafts apart and let each crew find its own landing place. Minard and I then steered our raft to the left bank and tried to lind a safe landing place. Tt was no sro, on account of the swift ness of the stream. Darkness came ou and oh! how dark it got. The poor people we had on board and their scanty belonging.- were soaked through and through. They did not utter a murmur but we know they were suffering from the wet aud cold. We could stand it be cause we were used to that kind of life. We had no more food on board, as we and divided with the fatherless family that noon, and I was afraid that oue of the grown sons, who had eaten scarcely anything all day would faint from hun ger and cold before we could reach a place where food could be obtained. Mi nard and I were in a most uncomfortable situation there in the dark aud swollen river, with four human lives in our keep ing. If the worst came to the worst we could let the raft go and swim for the shore but such a thing could not be thought of with those people on board. They had uo idea that they were in the lea-t danger and we did not dare to tell them the true situation for fear they would become panic-stricken and rush into the water. Sooa we went until it was nearly 11 o'clock. Mtnard, who was still at his on the forward end of the raft, then yelled back to me and gaid that Queen 'a Run dam was not far ahead. The dam Was twenty-one feet high, aud if we went over that we would all be drowned. The rain had let up a little by that time but it was as dark as ever. 1 stuck a "growsei ' down into the water be tween two sections of the raft and found that we were in shallow water. I then yelled to Minard that 1 was going to jump from the raft and see if I could not find something on the bank to hitch the cable to. I immediately leaped in to the water that was breast deep, and then I felt along and crawled up the steep bank, keeping opposi;•• ihe raft as near as I could judge. Before long I found that I was on a railroad track at the top of the'bank, and I tucked the rope under a rail and took a hitch in it. The raft was soon stopped and then Mi nard waded ashore with another cable and a stick of timber, the latter we plac ed on the ties. Then we dug a hoie un der the rail and fastened a cable to this stick of timber, so that the rope would not be cut in two if a train should bap pen to come along. I was just about tuckered out by this time and my friend Minard was in the same fix. But we had saved the lives of the four unfortu nates, and after having rested a little we got them off the raft. It was then about midnight and as dark as tar. We were all chilled to the hone and the next thing for us do was to find a house, if possi ble, where we eould get warm. Minard and I groped around iu the dark for a while leaving the widow and her sons huddled together near the railroad. We found a wagon road finally aud then we sent the woman and oue of her sons ahead in search of a house, while we look ed after the boy and the other son. We lost track of the latter for a while and then found that he had fainted in the road. Nearly a mile down the highway the woman found a farm house and soon aroused all the people in it. We saw the light and went down there at once. One of the good people got us a lantern and some food and wa ter and we went back, revived the young man aud look him to the house. By this time the hospitable Irish people in the farm home had a rousing firejand were getting us a hearty meal. Every me.ubcr of the family, father, mother, sons and daughters buckled iu and did all in their power to relieve our sufferings and riuht welcome did they make us in their comfortable homestead. We wanted to pay them for their kind ness but not a cent would they take. A clear sky greeting us the next morn ing and wishing that most hospitable family everything that was good, we took the widow and her sons back to the raft preparatory to resuming our journey, after that night of peril and terror. We safely went through the chute at Queen's llun dam and the trip to Mari etta was made without incident. The little family left the raft as we landed and never saw them again. The above letter was written twenty two years ago and published in the El mira Telegram at that time. Duridg the past month I visited Em porium after an absense of more than half a century and was agreeably sur prised to see the beautiful town with its well kept houses, its fine business blocks and expensive churches and on every side the evidence of thrift, happiness and prosperity. While in Emporium I was the guest of my brother, David C. Hayes and his wife at their home. I also visited my old friend and schoolmate of the long ago, M. T. Hogan. It was also a pleasure to meet N, P. Minard, in whose saw mill I worked dur ing the years of 1857-' SB and '59. It was a genuine pleasure to meet Mr. Mi nard and his esteemed wife. Time has certainly dealt very kindly with them. Matuew llays. Jf. 20,1909. FOLLOWING THE BAND. Pageantry Ap;-onls ts the Negro's Trcpic-I Imagination. Once upon a time a Philadelphia lawyer came south. lie had a pair of big spectacles, an inquisitive mind, and he wanted to know, says Harris Dickson in Success Magazine. Wirti ins southern friend lie was hurrying to the courthouse. A ocgro parade block ed tho street u.-groes in carriages, 0:1 horseba. !;, on foot; negroes with swords a.id axes, stumpy negroes with Masonic banners, lean negroes with Pythian devices, fat negroes with Odd Fellows' insignia, miscellaneous ne groes with miscellaneous emblems. The Philadelphia!! pushed through the crowd and ran back in great ex citement. "What's it all about? What are they doing?" The southerner couldn't explain, but beckoned to a very intelligent young negro—who, by the way, was a promi nent politician—and asked, "Tom, what's the occasion for all this pa rade?" The young negro laughed. "Now, jedge, you ought to know dat a nigger don't need no 'casion for a "parade." Tom had spoken a mouthful. Pag eantry appeals to the negro's tropical imagination. Churches and lodges fur nish most of the social life that he knows. lie does not ask why the brass bund i ; playing. He keeps step with the fellow that beats the drum and is happy. DANCING ROLAND. A Scotch Shepherd's Remedy For All Kinds cf Maladies. A highland shepherd, one Donald MeAlpin, a famous dancer, was re pul' d ti> have cured his mistress of a mysterious malady by means of danc ing a reel with her, and this story be ing n<>;:. d abr.ad gained him the repu tation 1 112 being :: successful physician. His liumbl.' cottage in Slockmuick, overlooking Strathspey, was besieged willi crowds of patients who hoped to get rid of tlieir ailments by a dance with Donald. The shepherd did not hesitate to take advantage of this stroke of good luck and soon had a largo and thriving practice. The treatment adopted was very sim ple, the main features being as fol lows: 111 cases of indigestion moderate doses of medicated "aqua" were tak en, followed by the ceum shuil, or promenade step. For catarrh Donald prescribed in order to produce perspi ration a largo dose of gruel mixed with honey and butter, followed by ceum crask, or highland tling. All the different processes terminated in the patient being well wrapped up in warm blankets, and the doses of medi cine and dancing were repeated, ac cording to the patient's constitution and the nature of his disease.—British Medical Journal. The Telephone and Julius Caesar. Julius Caesar missed a great deal in not knowing the telephone or at least in not using it if he knew it. One can see the telephone engineer attached to the Roman postuflice endeavoring, but without avail, to get an instrument in stalled at the capitol and at the pal ace. "I am instructed by the emperor to say that lie does not desire these barbarian novel ilea, and so Thomas Alva Edisonus need not call again with his magician's apparatus." A signal blunder! We can imagine what would have happened. "Hello, 2187 Tiber! is it thou, Artemidorus? I un derstand tiion rangst nie up this morn ing. What? Details of a plot? Go not to the senate today? Beware of Brutus? G'> not near Casca? Right, and I thank tliee, Artemidorus. I will have an extra guard put on instantly and the conspirators arrested." And so, though Artemidorus was unable to give his warning in the street, he gave it over the telephone, and Caesar's valuable life and with it the fortune of Rome were saved.—St. James' Ga zette. A Sloomy African Pool. There is a large, deep and mysteri ous pool in the valley of the upper Kafue river, northwestern Rhodesia. This wonderful pool lies in llat coun try, and one comes to it quite sudden ly, Its banks being concealed by dense forest. There is a small native village near the pool, and the inhabitants have a superstitious dread of it. They refuse to drink the water or use it for any purpose v. hatever. To sit beside this still, pellucid pool of unknown depth, surrounded by precipitous walls in the heart of the tropical forest, would induce a feeling of awe in the breast of even the most civilized man. —London Mail. Sport and Athletics In America. Sport and athletics in America are vastly different terms. Sport should be play, not work. Athletics as prac ticed in general are too strenuous, too spectacular and too exclusive. We are not an athletic nation. Far from it. We talk athletics, but there is too much grand stand and too little actual participation in games.—Malcolm Ken neth Gordon in Century. Poetic Justice. "Pa, did you ever hear of a real case of poetic justice?" "Yes. A man who once swindled me out of SOOO in an irrigation scheme died of water on the brain."—Chicago Record-Herald. Not a Bit Conceited. Husband—How conceited you are, Effie! You're always looking at your self in the glass. Wife— l'm sure I am not. I don't think I'm half as pretty as I really am.— lllustrated Bits. The kingdom of Prussia gets out of its cultivated forests over $24,000,000 *nu. - CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1910. PLENTY OF ROOM. No Trouble to Find a Place For Him tc Rest In Sleep. His blanket the soldier takfs a Ion;, on the march, hut usually not his tout Usage soon makes ihe ground as s. a bed as he wants. The cast* is pretty nearly ihe same with the prospeetoi and the frontiersman. In writing <> the "Highways aud Byways of Hi Pacific Coast" Mr. Clifton Jolniso tells of the practice on the < nches c the west. He was the gu.'st of a early settler While we were chatting u labon passed, shouldering a roll of hlaul.c! The butcher had come to ihe dour. ai. be pointed to the passer and sail "You see that fellow, don't you? We,! when I first reached here from tin east I thought a man with a bed 01 his back was the funniest thing I'll ever come across. "A rancher in this country won't take his hired man into his house They've got to furnish their own blan kets and usually sleep 011 the hay in the barn. "I know a fellow who, when he'd just arrived and didn't understand the way they manage, got a job harvest ing on a big wheat ranch. The help usually sleep iu the straw stacks then, and it's precious little time they get to sleep anywhere. But he didn'i know anything about that, and he was sitting around in the eveniug and final ly said to the rancher. 'Where am I to sleep tonight?' " 'Why, 1 don't care where you sleep,' said the rancher. 'l've got 000 acres of land around here, and if you can't find a place to sleep on that I'll get my next neighbor to lend me a piece of bis.'" TOWER OF BABEL Traditions as to the Height of the Fa mous Structure. The actual height at which the last stone of that famous structure, the tower of Babel, rested cannot, on ac count of the remoteness of the times at which it is said to have existed, ever become more than a matter of merest conjecture. Herodotus, who lived about 1.700 years after that "great spiral way to heaven" is said to have been attempted, says that he saw at Babylon a structure consisting of eight towers raised one above an other, each seventy-five feet in height, but whether this ruin was the re mains of the tower of Babel it was even then impossible to ascertain. He rodotus, usually minutely exact in his writing, leaves us iu ignorance as to how the upper level of each of these seventy-five foot towers was reached from the level below. As might be expected, even in tra dition, a wide difference of opinion ex ists as to the height of the tower. Most orientalists maintain that God did not put a stop to the work until the tower bad reached a height of 10,000 fath oms, or about twelve miles. In Cey lonese tradition it is said to have been as high as 20,000 elephants, each standing one above the other. St. Jerome asserts on the authority of persons who had examined the ruins that it did not reach a height exceed ing four miles. Other statements are still more extravagant.—London Sat urday Review. Happy Events. A teacher in one of the public schools of Vienna in order to test the ability of her junior class—girls eight to nine years old—in composition writing gave each little miss a subject to be dis cussed "at once without cousultation and without help of any kind." The articles were fouud to be so interest ing and amusing that they have been collected for publication. One article on "My Three Happiest Days" is nota ble in the unique collection. In well chosen words and clearly rounded sen tences the little girl says that, being lost in the woods, having to run away from a fire which broke out in their house and watching a little boat as the wind tossed it on the waves and finally smashed it, were the most "hap py events" that she could think of. Another in describing "fairyland" said that it must be a place where "every thing is as it is here except that the lakes should be frozen half across at all times of the year so that we could take a swim and jump out and skate." James I.and Billiards. James 1. appears to have inherited his mother's love of billiards. Among the payments from his privy purse not ed in the exchequer records is one to "Henry Waller, our joyner, for a bil liards boarde. Twelve foote long and fower foote broade, the frame being wallnuttree, well wrought and carved, with eight great skrewes and eighteen small skrewes." A salutary billiard rule in force in the days of the Stu arts wns one to the effect that no by stander, even though he was betting on the game, should be allowed to offer advice unless asked. If he did so it ■was provided that "he shall for every fault instantly forfeit twopence for the good of the company or not be suffered to stay in the room."—London Chronicle. His Early Home Coming. "Does your husband carry a latch key. Mrs. Homebody?" "No, I never knew him to." "Oh. then he comes in early! That must be due to your training?" "Not In the least. There is always some one up when be gets home in the mornlhg."—Chicago Record-Herald. Answering Little Eddie. Little Eddie—Say. pa. do political enemies belong to different parties? Pn—No. my son; they belong to differ ent factions in the same party.-Ex change. Honor Roll. Patrons of the PRESS who have either called or sent and paid up subscriptions since the last publication ot the list: Emporium. G. J. Smutz, R. K. Mickey, H A. Cox, J. D. Logan, Wrn Benty, A. A. McDonald, A. W. Nebilna, Henry Jaeger, C H. Felt, Joseph Kinsler, Geo. Barker, Sr., Mrs. F. F. Day, Mrs. Charles Maloy,John Robinson, H. VV. Graham, CounlyOom'si'ners, W. L. Dixon, John L. Johnson, Edward Blir.zler, Richard Kelley, John Trehswetber, Mrs. Poorman, James B. Hayes, Hon. J. C Johnson, C. H. Edwards, John Gauntz, Stephen Il'dw'eCo.,VV. 11. Howard, Bennett Leutze, Mrs. Wm Robinson, JoeStrichr, Mrs. A. Keiapher, J. F. Parsons, Mrs. J. M. Olson, M. McGrath, Dan Shugart, W. D. Moore, Burton Honsler, H C. Taylor, W. H. Flint, Edward Hughes, Morgan Evans. E. H. Gregory, Jay P. Felt. East Emporium, G. B. Shearer. John Conkwriglit, Mrs S. S. Hackett, J. A. McConnell. Sinnamahoning, Mr 9. B. V. Wykoff,B. J Hackett, T. W. Snyder, Barclay Bro's. J. R. Foultz. Driftwood, (J A. Callahan, W. R. Chatham, S. P. Kreider. Hon. John McDonald. Beech v/ood, J. G. Nybeart, C. R. Kline Sterling, Run, Gordan Howlett, John May, John E. Smith, VV H. Barley, Theo. Marshall, John Anderson. : t! 'kw uffl ;✓& mfi; ' vnkfyvA.. Iku . ;Af« ; ijr sfo'. I# fe- lb®- * « ' Jr- '" * %1 - 1 • e^p^vS^- r •■>"•- ' w -> A* .* \fgfpf <lgy - - •l>->"** f ' ' ''•■ * Scene in"The Wizard of Wiseland," at Opera House, Thursday, Jan. 20. •]^L V,WHOLESALE" D€ PARTMENT ; U & ANDERSON CO j-; 3j 3 3 3 Jll3 J 39, ESTABLISHED 1867 !:||| jj jfj-Jjl "Buffalo's Leading Store" K ■ A store that has been prominent ® J in Buffalo's MAIL ORDER SHOPPING GROWING AT THE A.IUA.CO. People in Cities and Tow,is All About Buffalo Are Taking Advantage of This Buffalo Firm's Popular Innovation. Through the splendidly equipped Mail Order Department of the Adam, Meldrurn & Anderson Company, the million people living within a radius of 100 miles of Buffalo are afforded the same excellent opportunity of purchasing goods at this store, ns is given to the multitude of persons living in Buffalo. That the people are quick to realize the economy of shopping by mail is shown through the remarkable strides made within the past few months in developing the Mail Order business of the Adam, Meldrurn & Anderson Co. The straightforward policy of abso lute satisfaction or your money back that has identified this concern for' Sizerville, E. D. Sizer, Miss Dora Sizer. Cameron, F. B Hoag, Mathew Phoenix. Westboro, Wis., G T. Dixon, J. VV. Kaye, JOB. Lingle. Ridgwav, Pa. MrR. F. T. Ryan, Mrs. Jacob Zerfluh. Austin, Pa., Mrs W J. Allen, John Anderson. New York City —Mrs E. M. New ton. Buffalo, N. Y.--Mr«. Lill Dinniny. Hicks Run, Pa.—lsaac WykofF. Pine River, Minn —A. M. Beriield. Emporia, Florida.—J. P. Felt. Renovo, Pa —B. VV. Marsh. Filmore, N. Y.—W. H. Liptnan. New London, Conn.—Mrs. S. S. Klinefelter, Farmington, W. Va.--Harrv Smith. First Fork, Pa.—Malvin J. Lotruo. Warren, Pa.—Burt Burrows. Downsville. Wis.—Michael Smith. Elkland, Pa,—J R. Libby. Poughkeepsie, N. Y.—John R. Ueil man. Manitownaing, Canada.—Mrs. T. W. McGregor. We will esteem it a favor if any patron who discover an error in our report, will drop us a card. We aim to be accurate but we are only human. For Rent. One six room house, with bath, city water, gas, cellar and all modern im provements. R. SEGER. ■ nearly half a century has been the i means of a marvellous growth from a , mite of a store to the Largest Wholesale rand Retail Establishment between New York and Chicago, and has won the confidence of thousands of people, not \ only in the immediate vicinity of Buf falo, but us well as every state in the ' union. The Mail Order Service of this de partment store is exactly the service 1 you would expect from a skillful shop per among your Buffalo friends to whom you would write to get one or a dozen things. Every detail of the orders received by mail is carried out by an experienced shopper and selections are made with the same care that would h* The Churches. FIRST BAPTIST. J. L. BOOUE, Pastor. 10:30 a. m.—Sermon. 11:30 a. m.—Sunday School. fi:3o p. m.—C. E. 7:30 p, m.—Sermon, "What do Peo ple do in Hell? 143 attendaneo at the C. E., last week. The adult class in the Sunday School is making: a special study of the differ ent Religions. Last week it was Hinduism and Indian Reform Work. Next week we study Buddha and his work. EMMANUEL EPISCOPAL, J. M. ROBERTSON, Rector. Sunday, Jan. 23, Sepluagerima:— 3:00 a. m.— Holy Communion. 10:30 a rn, Morning Pra,\er. Ser mon: The Church's Work in the Philippine Islands. 12:00 m.—Sunday School. Lesson: ''Our Lord's Farewell Discourse." 7:30 p. m.—Evening Prayer and Ser mon. Friday, Jan. 21, 7:30 p. m.—Evening Prayer. Address on Sunday school lesson. FIRST METHODIST EPISCOPAL, REV J. F. ANDERSON, Pastor. Revival meetings continue. Good congregitions and considerable inter est Visiting ministers are assisting the pastor. Cor.-e in, sing, hear, help and ho helped Meeting will continue over Sunday and next weelr used were the person personally select ing the merchandise, ordered. Every article advertised is guaranteed and if upon receipt of the merchandise ordered, it is found unsatisfactory, the purchase price will bo gladly refunded. Another notable feature in connection with the service of this store la their free delivery offer which makes it pes sible, for non-residents of Buffalo t», share the money saving advantages, thaf' result from an unlimited purchasing power, without any additional charges tot delivery. An excellent advantage is afforded to local residents to becetagl part of the many hundreds of satisfied whoppers to the fast growing Mail Order Department of this store.
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