AN INFANT FHODIGY. fir John Evelyn's Tribute to His Won derful ChilJ. Of all .the stories of infant marvels the most touching is that told by Sir John Kv >l.vu in his diary when here cords In bis quaint, dignified style the death of his wonderful little boy "Died my deare son Uichard, to c.t:r inexpressible griefe and atliiction. live years and three days onely. but a> thai tender age a prodigy for witt an I learning. To give only a little tn«*e of them and thereby glory to lied, sense of God. at two and a haife <•!<! he could perfectly reade any of ye English Latine or French or Gothic letters, pronouncing the first three languages exactly. lie had before the fifth yea re or in that yeare got by heart almost the entire vocabularie of Latin and French primitives and words, ctild make congruous syntax, turne English into Latine. and vice versa, construe and prove what he read and did the government and use of relatives, verbes. substantives, elipses and many figures and tropes and made considerable progress in Co menius' .lanua, began for himself to write legibly and had a stronge pas sion for Greek. As to his piety, aston ishing were his applications of Scrip ture to the occasion. He declaimed against ye vanities of the world before he had seene any. So early knowl edge, so much piety and perfection! Such a child 1 never saw. and for such a child I blesse tJod. in whose bosom he is."— Exchange. HELPING A SCULPTOR. The Favor Falguicre Did For Young Macmonnies. When Macrionnies. the American sculptor, was a young man working in Paris Falguiere. the famous French sculptor, on one occasion entered his atelier and found there'a beautiful Diana that had been for months "on the stocks" and was approaching u perfection measurably satisfactory to the sculptor himself. Falguiere became so absorbed in the work before him as to forget that it was not his own. He began to twbt and pull the dainty limbs of Diana this way and that, to punch her in the rile-, turn her queenly head—for she was then only In clay, of course, and sus ceptible to impressions until at last he hud pr< dnced the very pose he de sired. "There, my friend: 1 like her better so." he cried, and skipped out of the studio. lie had really intended to do .Mac monnies a favor and had indeed paid him the greatest compliment of which he was capable, but the young sculp tor was in distress, for on comparing the remodeled Diana with a photo graph of Falguiere's statue of the same character lie found the French man had unconsciously made a prac tical replica of the other. Macmon nies did not rest until he had restored his statue to its original pose. Bi!ly Rice and a Pin. Billy nice, the negro minstrel, used to tel! the aor.v of a man who picked up a pin as lie was leaving the otlire of a great merchant after an unsuc cessful quest for work. The mer chant. seeing the man's action from the window, called hini back and gave him employment, which kindness he repaid by becoming owner of the en tire business in an incredibly short time. Billy used to end his story by say ing that he tried that scheme once when he was looking for work, drop ping a pin carefully on the floor as he entered. He stated his wants to tlie proprietor, who not only had no employment to offer him, but remark ed to his partner as Kice picked up the pin: "Say. if that fellow's so small as to steal a pin off the floor, how much do you think he'd leave in my till V®* Damascus, "City of Magic." An oriental city of magic called up by a slave of the lamp to realize one's dream of the orient; a city ethereally lovely, exquisitely eastern, ephemeral, to be blown away by a breath like a tuft of thistledown, not white, but delicately pale with a pallor holding the faintest hint of a seashell flush; a city slender, calm, almost mystic in its fragile grace, set in the heart of a great wonder of green, a maze of bright and ardent woods, beyond which lie the desert spaces—this is Damascus from the mountain of Jebel Kasyun. It holds one almost breath less seen thus from afar. Robert Hichens in Century. A Permanent Position. "Mr. Smith." spoke up the young lawyer, "I come here as a representa tive of your neighbor Tom Jones, with the commission to collect a debt due bitn." "I congratulate you," answered Mr. Smith, "on obtaining so permanent a job at such an early stage in your ca reer."—Success Magazine. The Gotsiperi. "They say she will create no end of gossip." "Well. I guess the jobbers in that community wilt be able to handle her output."—Louisville Courier-Journal. A Tip He Wanted. Artist (to burglar, who is making away with paintings)—Er—by the way. if you should manage to dispose of them would you mind sending me your customer's address?— Life. Had Shown Good Sense. Hewitt—Tliat rich old fool wouldn't let me marry his daughter. Jewett— Well, he may be rich and old, but he's no fool.—New York Times. KEELHAULING. An Old Tirr.e Form of Punishment F<*T Of/cnding Sailois. Very few persons know \vh.:i keel hauling is. but before the advent of steam it was a recognized form of punishment for offending sailors and more i <> be dreaded than even the cat o' nine tails. A line was passed beneath the ship from port to starboard side, leaving about a font of slack under the keel. The unfortunate tar's feet were se curely tied together and ids artns lashed behind his back. In this help less condition he was attached to the end of the line and dropped overboard in the smothering seas to lie hauled along under the ship, bumping and scraping against the bottom in the process until he was yanked up on the opposite side. The punishment was repeated until the victim became un conscious from fright or bruises, and sometimes by a refinement of cruelty lie was allowed to remain under the rhip for a full minute until he was all but drowned. The ship never was stopped while a sailor was being keel hauled, and if sometimes the strain on the line was too great and it parted, leaving him togo down bound and helpless to an ocean grave, nobody was held responsible for his death, but it was reported in the log as an "act of Providence." Keelhauling was great sport for the captain and mates, but the mariner who once survived the experience took good care never to do anything to merit such a terrible punishment again.—New York Press. HIS WIFE'S TRIUMPH. A Memento That Was Inspiring to John Richard Green. It has been the fate of many men of letters to have ill health bearing them down as they struggle on toward lit erary achievements. Thus beset in re cent times were Stevenson, Richard Jeffries and J. It. Green. Each of these, it happened, had a high hearted wife to keep him up, even to help him with the actual labor of writing. "The Life and Letters of J. It. Green" show forth a great and sweet man. They show, too, a wife whose sympathy and fortitude helped to make his accom plishment possible. In copying the vast amount of manu script of her husband's books Mrs. Green contracted writer's cramp and was forced to stop using her right hand. This looked like a final obsta cle in the way of the invalid, who did much of his thinking in bed and could not write himself. Hut Mrs. Green set to work at once learning to write with her left hand. One of her first practice pages, which she was about to destroy with the rest, her husband took quietly and putin ids pocket. Years afterward when ill health seemed unbearable and in dis couragement lie felt that he could not work he used to take out that piece of paper, a living record of his wife's tri umph over difficulty. When he saw the painful, patient strokes by which Mrs. Greeu had learned to write with her left hand he could work on with something near to inspiration. Poison cf the Centiped. Tlie centiped is popularly supposed to carry a sting on each foot, but I have several times handled one after its head was removed without the claws producing any result. It is the first pair of claws only that are ven omous, being hollow and provided with poison bags like a snake's fang. The largest I ever saw was eleven inches in length, a grewsome creature. A bite from one of this size would most like ly have been fatal to a man in weak health. The tarantula, though his powers of offense are nothing like those of the scorpion or centiped, is. however, a more unpopular character than either. The horror of these large spiders entertained by many people is curious and unaccountable. I have seen Australian bushmen, who in everyday life scarcely seemed to un derstand danger, turn white as a sheet at the sight of a small "triantelope," as they called it.—Chambers' Journal. Practice and Preaching. When the late Bishop Hare was pre siding over a Methodist Episcopal church in New York city a large re ception was given in his honor to which a brother of his, a lawyer, who closely resembled the bishop, was in vited. During the evening a member of the conference who had never met the bishop's brother approached him and, shaking him warmly by the hand, said: "Good evening, Bishop Hare. I great ly enjoyed the sermon you gave us to day. It is just what this church needs." "You are mistaken In the person," said the brother, smiling, as he point ed to the bishop on the opposite side of the room, "that is the man who preaches. I practice." A Long Job. "Where have you been for so long?" asked the head man of the menagerie. "Been watching one of the animals clear his throat, sir," replied the at tendant. "But does it take half an hour for an animal to clear its throat?" "Yes, sir; it was the giraffe, sir."— Yonkers Statesman. Mean. The Bride (from Chicago)— This is my third bridal tour. The Groom- Well, my dear. I hope that it will bo your last. The Bride (bursting into tears)— You selfish thing!— Puck. Every man should keep a fair sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.—Henry Ward Beecher. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1910. SAVED BY THE KING. An Incident tn the Career of Holbein, the Painter. Then* happened ;;u ufTnlr in England whii'li might have l»con faial to Hol bein it' the king had not protected tiiui On tin; report «»f his chara- tor a noble nian of the tirst quality wanted one day to see him when lie was drawing a figure after the life. Holbein in an swer begged his lordship to defer the honor of his visit to another day. which the nobleman look for an af front. He broke open the door and very rudely went upstairs. Holbein, hearing the noise, left his chamber and, meeting the lord at his door, fell into a violent passion and pushed him backward from the top of the stairs to the bottom. Considering, however, immediately what he had done, he escaped from the tumult lie had raised and made the best of his way to the icing. The no bleman, much hurt, though not so much as he pretended, was there soou after him, and upon opening his griev ance the king ordered Holbein to ask pardon for his offense. But this only irritated the nobleman the more, who would not be satisfied with less than his life, upon which the king sternly replied: "My lord, you have not uow to do with Holbein, but with me. Whatever punishment you may contrive by way of revenge against him shall assuredly be inflicted upoti yourself. Remember, pray, my lord, that 1 can whenever I please make seven lords of seven plow men. but I cannot make one Holbein even of seven lords."—"Life of Hol bein." WIDTH OF A RIVER. A Way to Measure It Without the Use of Instruments. it is necessary to make use only of the eyes and the brim of a hat to measure the width of any ordinary stream or even of a good sized river, and here is the way to do it: Selept a part of the river bank where the grounds run back level behind you and, standing at the water's edge, fix your eyes on the opposite bank. Is'ow move your hat down over your brow until the edge of the brim is exactly on a line with the water line on the other side. This will give you a visual angle that may be used on any level surface, and it', as has been suggested, the ground 011 your side of the river be flat you may "lay off" a corresponding distance on it. To do this you have only to hold your head perfectly steady, after getting the an gle with your hat brim, supporting your chin with your hand if neces sary and turn slowly around until your back is toward the river. Now, take careful note of where your hat brim cuts the level surface of the ground as you look over the latter, and from where you staud to that point will be the width of the river, a distance that may readily bo measured by stepping. If you are careful in all these de tails you can come within a few feet of the river's width. Short and Sweet. Perhaps one of the shortest court ships was that of an eminent jurist. He was on bis way to hold court in a town when he met a young woman returning from market. "llow deep is the creek and what did you get for your butter?" asked the judge. "Up to the knee and ninepence," was the answer as the girl walked 011. The judge pondered over the sensi ble brevity of the reply, turned his horse, rode back and overtook her. "I liked your answer just now," he said, "and I like you. I think you would make a good wife. Will you marry me?" She looked him over and said "Yes." "Then get up behind me, and we will ride to town and be married." She did get up behind, and they rode to the courthouse and were made one. It is recorded that, brief though the courtship had been, the marriage prov ed a pre-eminently happy one. Disguised Hands Always Bad. "Here is a truth,"says a handwrit ing expert, "that is as widespread as the ether: A disguised hand always tries to be poorer than the real hand. That axiom is a great help to us ex perts. For instance, when a letter done in a disguised hand is brought to us we always know that the writer of the letter is in a higher station thai the hand would lead us to infer; hence In our detective work we are able to save much valuable time by eliminat ing all persons socially below the ap pearance of the letter and concentrat ing our attention 011 those only who are above it." Embarrassing. "Paw, I want to know what you think the fourth dimension is." "It's a figure of speech. Tommy, em ployed to express the idea of the size to which a man feels himself shrinking when the pastor of his church happens to catch him in the act of making a quick sidestep into a saloon."—Chicago Tribune. A Double Break. Wife—l saw Mr. Chacer this after noon, and he looks very bad. What's the matter with him—do you know? Hubby—Compound fracture. Wife— What sort of compound fracture? Hubby—He's broke, and Miss Dough bag, discovering that fact, broke her engagement—Philadelphia Inquirer. He Told Her. "What is it. do you suppose, that keeps the moon in place and prevents it from falling?" asked Araminta. "I think it must be the beams," re plied Charlie softly. Four Useful Senses. fft* naturalist ot SVobrook-ifi-the- Hillt bad pointed out a rabbit squat ting close under a bush, and the la dies had declared In chorus that they could not see the little animal. "How do you manage to see every thing?" asked one of the party, with flattering inflection. "Well." began the naturalist confi dently. '"tain't altogether seeing Sometimes I see, but when 1 can't see with my eyes 1 smell thiugs with my nose, and when 1 can't smell things with my nose I hear 'em with my j ears, and when 1 can't hear with my j ears I prickle all over."—Youth's Com- i panion. Curacao's Good Bchools. In all Curacao schools, from the most exclusive to the humblest gov- I eminent school, in which the little black or parchment Dutch twigs are bent, Dutch, French, Spanish, Euglish ; and Papiemento are used and taught. By the neighboring islands and even on the mainland and as far away as Cen tral America these schools are highly regarded, and a large number of for- j eign children are sent to Curacao to get their education.—Charles Johnson Post in Century. Definition of Tact. Mrs. Pyne— Mrs. Blank certainly pos sesses a lot of tact. Mrs. Hyne—What ia you definition of "tact?" Mrs. Pyne —Tact is a woman's ability to make her husband believe he Is having his own way.—Lipplncott's. Hatred's Dividends. Hatred takes time and energy and health. And the dividends on the in vestment are pitifully small and un satisfactory.—Atchison Globe. Atlantic City Cape May WILDWOOD, SEA ISLE CITY OR OCEAN CITY, N. J. PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD EASTER 15-DAY EXCURSION Friday, March 25, 1910 Full information regarding leaving time of trains on which tickets will be accepted may be obtained of Ticket Agents, or K. Yungroan, 1). T A., NN illiatnsport, l'n. J. R WOOD, OKO * W ' BOYD ' j Passenger Traffic Manager. General Passenger Agent I ADAM, MELDRUM y ANDERSON CO. "Buffalo's Loading Store" Buffalo, N. Y. Established ISfIY The New Spring Suits ASHION'S Favorite Spring Suits have Blossomed out, con> JflJf] \M prising the most beautiful strictly tailored and trimmed ef .JflJfl W' "1 [K fects we have ever shown. It will be an occasion of great Sfjjfj jj£i interest to every woman who appreciates the highest ideals JflJfl pCI of art in fashion and the high standard of quality and worls- manship for which this store is known. 11 Smart tailored and exquisitely designed suits in beauti ful qualities of serge, plain and wide wale materials, basket weaves and the finest worsteds will be shown. Some of the new shades in tan, cedar, green, various tones of grey, navy, Copenhagen are particularly attractive. Black and white checks are predicted a strong vogue. The new jackets are mostly 32 and 34 inches long. The normal waist line is a striking feature in most of the new styles. Moire silk is used extensively; ad facing for lapels and cuffs. The pleated skirt will predominate. Many kinds of plaits are noted. Som© plain, others in clusters, a few having as many as twenty-one plaits. Every fashionable vogue for Spring will be represented, every approved fabric, is included and every shade on Dame Fashion's book is here this exhibit of women's and misses' ready-to-wear apparel complete, as weQ AS authoritative. Style ii by no means the only important qualification of these A. M. 8t A. Co. Sprifig S||itS. They are made in accordance with the A. M. & A. Co. staadards and that meant—a little bettef grade of material, a better quality of lining and a superior class of workmanship in each and every suit at its respective price. The A. M. &A. Co. Suits may be obtained in a wide range of sizes. There are sizes 16 to 18 for very small women. Regular sizes 16 to 44. Odd sizes up to 51 for atout women. We aim to meet every requirement. The A. M. & A. Co. Spring Suits are priced at sls, S2O, $25, S3O to S6O, and 4 better suits at these prices will be hard to find anywhere. R. R. 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The Set to Set Before You Is waiting for you in the shape of a nice set of crockery. We are now showing a splen iid stock of good sound Crockery, every single piece warranted free from fault or blemish. The finest as- I sortment in the county at rea ' sonable prices. Undertaking (jc«. J. Liiliir Business Cards. j J.C. JOUNSON. J. p. MCNARNKY F. A. JOHNSON. | JOUNSON & McNAKNEY, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW EMPOHKJM, PA. j Will give prompt sittentioii to all business en j t usteri to them. 16-ly. ! MICHAEL BBENNAN, ATTORNE Y-AT-LAW Collections promptly attended to. Real estate ! and pension claim agent, | 85-ly. Emporium, Pa. B. W. CIBBKN. JAY P. I-'KLT GREEN A; FELT, A'i'TORNEYS-AT-LA W, Corner Fourth and Broad streets, Emporium, Pa. All business relating to estate.collections, real estate, Orphau'sCourt and generallaw business will receive prompt attention. 41-25-ly. i MAYOOULD, TEACHER OP PIANO, HARMONY AND THEORY Also dealer in all the Popular sheet Music, Emporium, Pa. 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