Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-07-21
NO.. 21
Pressed Bricks.

| ih ~ ShSdP, puU NIUE money Duyt
a suit of summer clothing at n. Seger's.
A festival will be held tonight fos
the benefit of the base ball club. War.
ner House lawn.
1t is only the middle aged man who
lives. The STRIPPING hopes, and the
old man remembers Bradford.
Warm weather prices in clothing a:
n Seger's. Keep cool and dress cool
We have the goods for little money.
In order to get along in this world
you must not meddie with other peo4
! ple's affairs, nor allow them to meddle
in yours.
Scientists announce that bicycle rid
ing will cure mania, and recommend
that all insane people be taught how to
ride the wheel.
Ladies' afternoon prayer meeting at
the home of Mrs Jos. Newton, on Fifth
street, Friday afternoon at O'Clock.
Come and help the good work along.
Forest lands denuded of timber are
being bought by the State at tax salee
to be used as State forest reservations
They cost about cents per acre, and if
kept free from fires, the timber will
grow again in due time.
The government has abolished the
practice of letting mail contracts to
contractors who sub-let them at starva-
ton prices. Hereafter the contracts
will be made direct with responsible
persons in the sections where the route
is located.
Spain can no longer boast that she
has ships to burn. While CerveraG
fleet was beached and burning on the
coast Of Cuba, the Alfonso XIII. was
destroyed in an attempt to run the
blockade at Havana. The destruction
of Cervera's fleet is estimated to entail
a loss of S13, 900, 900 on Spain.
The other day, after the naval fight
at Santiago, the papers spoke of the
sailor killed OH board the Brooklyn as
being "a yeoman. By yeoman in
nautical language is an inferior officer
under the boatswain, gunner or carpen-
ter, charged with the stowage, account
and distribution of the stores.
The auction sale of hotel furniture
and fixtures, by the executors of the
estate of the late Col. n. H. Parker,
was held at Gardeau Tuesday after
noon and was well attended by the
hotel men of the surrounding towns.
Many fine pieces of furniture went at .
bargain and everything on hand waG
sold.
John II. Day, the live Fourth street
grocer, is ever on the outlook for good
goods. He has recently made very
large purchase of the popular Queer
Olives, and has placed on exhibition in
his store a glass vase, containing sew
eral branches taken from an olive tree,
thereby showing his customers the
fruit in its native state
Some years ago wag said: I'VE
have no navy, but what magnificent
sheet of water we have to float navy
on if we had one!" Now we have "a
navy, says the Baltimore American,
and it has been accomplishing magni-
ficent deeds to match the sheet of water
on which it did them. Bryce said of ne
some time ago that no nation could SO
quickly adapt itself to conditions and
emergencies as the American, and iE
time of need develop so many une2-
pected resources with such raDidity antI
effect.
The Kane Republican says: a some
what peculiar accident happened to
one of the race horses which was being
shipped home from st. Marys, where il
had won second money at the races
In some manner the animal got loose
in the car while the train was in the
vicinity of Ludlow, and jumped out OF
the car door which mad been left open
by the man i'll charge of the horse. Is
was injured so badly that it died in q
short time. The animal was valued al
$4,000 by the owner who resides iu
Pittsburg.
A prominent young Clevelander,
whose parents are wealthy, came home
to join the cavalry troop from that city
and go to war. At school and college
he went in for manual training and
learned blacksmithing. Now, what do
you suppose he is doing at the present
time? Winning glory on the field OF
battle? Galloping DER hills and through
dales, bearing dispatches from one com
mander TO another? No! He is shoeins
horses at Chickamauga. And ne isn't
complaining, either. Somebody muss
do this he writes, land if I can be
most useful to my country in this way,
why,I am satisfied. But there are many
more pleasing things than working