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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-06-23
Powdered Crab as n Medicine

A Russian journal that has recently
come under our notice calls attention
to the fact that for some 20 years past
the inhabitants of a malarial locality
in the government of Kharkov have used
powdered crabs with great success in
th0case of fevers. The powder is pre-
pared in the following way: Live crabs
are poured over with ordinary whisky
until they get asleep; they are then put
ON bread pan ina hot oven, thorough
ly dried and pulverized, and the powder
passed through fine sieve. One dose,
teaspoonful, is generally sufficient to
cure the intermittent fever; In very OBJ
stinate cases 6 second dose is required.
Each dose Is invariably preceded by a
glass of aloe brand y asa purgative. The
powder is used in that locality in pref
erence to quinine. So says the journal.
We will not vouch for it-N. Y. Ledger.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-06-23

and I had my own reasons for think
ing that the stranger was mistaken,
even supposing he meant what he aaid
But it was no affair of mine, | thought;
and, besides, it was difficult to know
what to do. The stranger kept hang
ing about just inside the inner door,
peering around the corner like a cat
waiting for mouse. OnceI stepped out
myself into the road, but he immediate
ly called me back, and, as did not obey
quick enough for his fancy, most hor-
rible change came over his tallowy
face, and he ordered me in, with ap
oath that made me jump.
AS soon as | was back again he re-
turned to his former manner, half
fawning, half sneering, patted me on
the shoulder, told me l was a good boy,
and he had taken quite fancy to me.
81 have a son of my own" said he, "as
like you as two blocks, and he's all the
pride of my art. But the great thing
for boys is discipline, sonny-discip-
line. Now, if you had sailed along of
Bill, you wouldn't have stood there to
be spoke to twice-not you. That was
neeer Bills way, nor the way of such as
sailed with him. And here, sure
enough, is my mate Bill, with spy
glass under his arm, bless his old art,
to be sure. You and nell just go back
into the parlor, sonny, and get behind
the door, and we'll give Bill little sur
prise-bless his art, say again"
So saying the stranger backed along
with me into the parlor, and pat me be-
hind him in the corner, so that we were
both hidden by the open door. 1 was
very uneasy and alarmed, as you may
fancy, and it rather added to my fears
to observe that the stranger was GER
tainly frightened himself. He cleared
the hilt of his cutlass ard loosened the
blade in the sheath; and all the time
we were kept waiting there he kept
swallowing as if he felt what we used
to call a lump in the throat.
ITO BE Continued
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-06-23
PEOPLE-!N-LAW.
Necessary Evils That Must BE Submttet
to in Every Well-ReguIated Family.

Il NoCtssdTy Evils DC
to in Every Well-Regulated Family.
People-in-law are necessary evils. l.
| people will marry they must submit tc
| the infiction of mum Der of new rela
| tions. Sometimes this intliction is bit
| ter, sometimes sweet and sometimes il
| has very little taste, but generally il
| has taste.
| When man and a woman join hands
at the altar they contract an alliance
not only with each other, but, in an in
| direct way perhaps, with their respec
tive families. Many do not attach
much Importance to this fact, but it is
a fact, nevertheless, that no amount OF
| sophistry can explain away.
A young woman has promised to
marry the man who appears to her pos
| Bessed of all the attributes that make
up manly man.
| She has long ago made up her mind,
however, that Johns sisters are 'loud'
| and his mother ''impossible;' she won
ders how such people can have a son
| and brother like dear john" and
after marriage she intends keeping
| them at distance.
| L ne WeuulnS Gay arrives, ana She
| hears Johns mother call her ''daugh-
| ter" but to her ears it does not imply
| much; is only one of the forms to be
gone through on that happy day.
Then comes the honeymoon time,
| and for two whole weeks the bride has
| John all to herself No thoughts of
| his relations obtrude themselves on
| that blisSful time.
When the couple returns to town to
| take up their abode in the cozy home
| that dear John" has prepared, Mrs.
John finds herself greeted by her
| mother-in-law and sisters-in-law, as
| well as by her own mother and quiet
schoolgirl sister. The two latter, how
ever, are quite overshadowed by Johns
relations, and Mrs. John resents the
| fact in her heart.
As the days go by she discovers that
| her people-in-law show no disposition
| entirely to relinquish Johns society
because he has married a wife. He is
still the son and brother, although he
| frown that she remembers to have
seen on his brow is caused by petu-
| liant remark of hers that she wishes
his sister Flora would stop somewhere
| else than with them, while her own
home is shut up during the temporary
| absence of the rest of the family.-Alan
| Cameron, in Lippincott's.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-06-23
HER EXPLANATION.
She Told Him How He Would Make
Her and Mamma and
Aunty Happier.

There are Incidents of real life which con
stantly prove that truth is often more anus
ing as well as more strange than fiction.
sweet, gentlevoiced girl-one from whose
disposition sarcasm is as far as frost from an
active volcano-won the affections of q
young man. 1t was an unintentional con
quest on her part, but none the less com
plete. He propounded the old question and
she demurred. He bided his time and again
proffered his suit. She again delayed an an
swer. But the third time she received his
question first with silence and then with as
sent.
."'And you will be mine?" he asked.
EYES,
'It seems too good to be true. When shall
the wedding take place."
"I-I don't know"
"There is no use in putting it off"
NO" she answered; 81 think not"
".ISay week from to-day?"
every we'll"
81 knew that you would realize that yon
can be happier with me than without me, "
he suggested, little triumphantly.
"Yes," she answered. 81 do realize it
now. You see, since Uncle Bob went away,
mamma and aunty and I have been quite
llone. We all talked it over and agreed
that it would be ever so much safer to
have man in the house at nights. Wash.
ington Star
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Worry.

Don't worry. Don't worry about
something that you think may happen
tomorrow, because you may die to-
night, and tomorrow will find you be-
yond the reach of worry. Don't worry
over thing that happened yesterday,
because yesterday is hundred years
away. If you don't believe it, just try
to reach after it and bring it back.
Don't worry about anything that is
happening to-day, because to-day will
last Is or 20 minutes. Don't worry
about things you can't help, because
worry only makes them worse. Don't
worry about things you can help, be-
cause then there's no need to worry.
Don't worry at all. If you want to be
penitent now and then it won't hurt
you Bit to go into the sacllcloth and
ashes business little. 1t, will do you
good. But worry, worry, fret, fret, fret
why, there's neither sorrow, peni-
tence, strength, penance, reformation,
hope, nor resolutions in it. It's merely
worry.-Edinburgh Scotsman.
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table against the captains return,
when the parlor door opened, and a
man stepped in on whom 1 had never
set my eyes before. He was pale, tai
lowy creature wanting two fingers on
the left hand; and, though he wore a
cutlass, he did not look much like q
fighter. I had always my eyes open
for seafaring men, with one leg or two,
and l remember this one puzzled me.
He was not sailorly, and yet he had a
smack of the sea about him, too.
I asked him what was for his service,
and he said he would take rum;
but as / was going out of the room to
fetch it he sat down upon a table and
motioned to me to draw near. l paused
where 1 was with my napkin in my
hand.
"Come here, sonny" says he. "Come
nearer here"
took step nearer.
"Is this here table for my mate
Bill?" he asked, with kind of leer.
1 told him did not know his mate
Bill; and this was for a person who
stayed in our house, whom we called
the captain.
"Well," said he, my mate Bill would
be called the captain, as like as not. He
has a cut on one cheek, and a mighty
pleasant way with him, particularly in
drink, has my mate Bill. Wen put 1t,
for argument like, that your captain
has a cut on one cheek-and We'll put
it, if you like, that that cheeks the
-. tDlI
Now, is my mate Bill in this here
house?"
I told him he was out walking.
(Which way, sonny? Which way is
he gomez"
And when had pointed out the rock
and told him how the captain was like
ly to return, and how soon, and an
swered few other questions, "Ah,"
said he, "this'll be as good as drink to
my mate Bill"
The expression of bis face as he said
these words was not ss ell pleasant,
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-06-23

was SO, 'T have only one thing to say to
you, SIR" replies the doctor, that if
you keep on drinking rum the world
will soon he quit of very dirty scoun-
drel!"
The old fellows fury was awful. He
sprung to his feet, drew and opened
sailors clasp knife, and, balancing it
open on the palm of his hand, threat
ened to pin the doctor to the wall.
The doctor never so much as moved.
He spoke to him, as before, over his
shoulder, and in the same tone of voice;
rather high, so that all the room
might hear, but perfectly calm and
steady:
"If you don't put that knife this in
slant into your pocket, promise, upon
my honor, you shall hang at the next
asszes."
Then followed a battle of looks be-
tween them; but the captain soon
knuckled under, put up his weapon, and
resumed his seat, grumbling like beat
en- dog.
"And now, sir" continued the doctor,
"since l know there's such a fellow in
my district, you may count I'll have an
eye on you day and night. I'm not a
doctor, only; I'm magistrate; and if l
catch breath of complaint against
you, if it's only for piece of incivility
like tonight, I'll take effectual means
to have you hunted down and routed
out of this. Let that suffice"
Soon after DR.. Livesey's horse came
to the door, and he rode away; but the
captain held his peace that evening, and
for many evenings to come.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-06-23

"Say, I've been living quite spell, u
said Mr.. MIDDLETON, but here is some
thing quite new to me-a war map
pinned on the wall in the dining-room
at home, where it can always be found,
and where all can look at it convenie ent-
ly at once. Mrs. MIDDLETON put it there.
She's absorbingly interested in the war,
as all women are, and when | say some
thing bout the situation of the Span
ish feet in the West Indies she walks
up to this map on the wall and wants
it illustrated and made clear by that
IN. Y. Sun.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-06-23
WOMEN IN BUSINESS.
From the Free Press, Detroit, Mici

From the Free Press, Detroit, Mich.
A prominent business man recently en
pressed the opinion that there is one thing
that will prevent women from completely
filling mans place in the business world
they cant be depended upon because they
are sick too often. This is refuted by Mrs
9. w. Mansfield, a business woman of 5S
Farrar ST., Detroit, Mich, who says:
"A complication of female ailments kept
me awake nights and wore me out. could
get no relief from medicine and hope was
slipping away from me. A young lady in
my employ gave me a box of DR.. Williams
Pink Pills for Pale People; took them
and was able to rest at night for the first
time in months. / bought more and took
them and they cured me as they also cured
several other people to my knowledge.
think that if you should ask any of the drug
gsts of Detroit who are the best buyers ol
DR.. Williams Pink Pills they would say tbs
young women. These pills certainly build
up the nervous system and many young
woman owes her life to them.
AS business woman | am pleased ts
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-06-23
THE CANNY SCOT.
Some Examples of His Unconscious
HumOr.
[To BE Continued

On his first visit to Aberdeen an Eng
lish commercial traveller, having re-
ceived some marks of kindness from
one of its inhabitants, exclaimed, in
an offhand way, on his departure:
IF at any time you or any of your
people come up to London, don't put
up at hotel, but come to u.s.
"Oh, thank vel" replied the Scot, Ia
conically, and away the southron went.
Six months passed, and the English
man had long forgotten the incident,
when, to his surprise, he received one
morning the following note:
"My Dear Friend: AS myself, my wife
and four children are coming up to Lon
don for a fortnight, we will be glad to
avail ourselves of your kind invitation
Facing the situation with unquestion-
able courage, the southerner put him
self to unutterable inconvenience to ac-
commodate his guests. He took them
everywhere, paid for everything, and,
at the end OF the stipulated time, they
announced their departure. The host
accompanied them to the station, and in
the fullness of his gratitude at the eX-
odus, invited the father to have part
ing drink.
"Come along, old fellow! What is
It to be? Whisky and soda, as usual?
Two Scotches and soda, please. miss!"
"Na, ma" replied the Scot, so!emnly,
"nane O. that! Ye've been vera guild to
me and mine durin' the last FORTNIGHT
-hae ta'en us everywhere and paid for
everything! Ma, ma! Well hae toss
for the last!"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-06-23

r e C o m =
mend them,
as they did
more for
me than any
physician,
and | can
gi v e d r .
William $
Pink Pills
f or p ale
z e o p | e
credit for
my general
good health
to-day.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-06-23
CHAPTER III,
BLACK DOG APPEARS AND DIsAP-
PEARS.

BLACK DOG APPEARS AND DISAP-
PEARS.
1t was not long after this that there
occurred the first of the mysterious
events that rid us at last of the captain,
though not, as you will see, of his af-
fairs. 1t was a bitter, cold winter, with
long, hard frosts and heavy gales; and
it was plain from the first that my poor
father was little likely to see the
spring. He sunk daily and my mother
and l had all the inn upon our hands,
and were kept busy enough without
paying much regard to our unpleasant
guest.
1t was one January morning, very
early-a pinohing, frosty morning
the cove all gray with hoar-frost, the
ripple tapping softly on the stones, the
sun stilllow, and only touching the hill
tops and shining far to seaward. The
captain had risen earlier than usual,
and set out down the beach, his cutlass
swinging under the broad skirts of
the old blue coat, his brass telescope
under his arm, his hat tilted back upon
his head. 1 remember his breath hang
ing like smoke in his wake as he strode
off, and the last sound l heard of him,
as he turned the big rock, was a loud
snort of indignation, as though his
mind was still running upon DR.. Live
sey.
Well, mother was upstairs with IA
ther; and I was laying the breakfast
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-06-23

covery of modern times has done so much TO
enable women to take their proper place in
life by safeguarding their health as DIR.
Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. Act
ing directly on the blood and nerves, in
tions, they restore the Strength and health
to the exhausted woman when every effort
of the physician proves unavailing
For the growing girl they are of the great
est benefit, for the mother indispensable, for
every woman invaluable
For paralysis, locomotor ataxia, and other
diseases long supposed incurable, these pills
have proved their efficacy in thousands of
cases.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-06-23
Twentieth Century Love Scene.

Suitor-"Ah, dearest Irma, what &C.
stasy lies in this sweet passion of love
which makes the heart tiutter and the
pulse beat faster" Irna (recenu grad
uate of a medical school, seizing his
hand)-"Ha, villain! You are deceiv-
ing me! Your pulse is quite normal
only 70. Begone!-Fliegend Slatter.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-06-23
How Alexander Treated His Wives.

Alexander the Grea. had large num-
Der of wives, and was accustomed to re-
duce them to obedience by using the
fiat of his sword as . corrective.-Chi.
oaCo Inter Ocean.
The age-herald., 1898-08-05
MADIsON's NEW JAIL.
The Old Structure is Being Torn Down
 to Give Room For It.

Special Dispatch to The Age-Herald.
 Huntsville, Aug. 1.-The old Madison county jail that has been in service con- tinually for fifty years is being rapidly de- molished to leave space for a modern structure planned by the county commis- sioners. The old jail has a. long history, having been a Federal prison during the civil war, and later the ylace where lessee and Frank James and other members of that gang were confined. The new jail that is to be built will cost from s15,O to s2O, ,0O1 and will contain all modern conveniences.
 Company L., the new negro company for the Third Alabama regiment, recruited in this city, has received its full quota of men and is now in camp in Mobile. The com- missioned officers will be: John H. Sheffey captain; William Huntley, first lieutenant; Allen Greene, second lieutenant
 Capt. H. c. Laughlin and Private Nor gan Stewart, recruiting officers for the First Alabama volunteers, received orders last night to re-join their command at Mi ami and will depart tonight. The regiment ? has received notice that it will be sent tc Porto Rico, but 1t Is still short about twenty men.
The age-herald., 1898-08-05
szgz szz5 DISMEMBERMENT
 IS CHINA'S FATE
 fSsa Corruption Has Brought the Most An-
 Cient Ol Empire TO A HELPLESS STATE Ii Hung Chang Has Proved a Total
 Failure. MONEY RULES THE EMPIRE Provincialism and Official Conservatism Have Long Stood in Li Hung Chang Pathway-Sugges- tions for the Future.

Chautauqua, N. Y., Aug. Apr. John Henry Barrows' lecture today was on Con fucianism, and the Awakening of China" |" He said: Tn speaking of Confucianism we speak of civilization which is invet- crate in its ideas, plodding, utilitarian, i'm mobile, persistent; a civilization that dwells in the past and worships the past, which is rational and workaday, and gives us the most remarkable illustrations in history of arrested development.
 China may be properly described as an old man lying in his cradle.' All the world knows that the Chinese have a system of morality which in theory is remarkably pure They may not be a peculiarly moral people, compared with the rest of man. kind, but they have better system of hu- man duty than almost any other heather nation, ancient or modern.
 "TEere is only one recognized portal of office in China, and that is the examination
The age-herald., 1898-08-05

hall. Consequently the administration is
 not in the hands of demagogues, nor of persons selected more or less according to the accident of birth or haphazard methods, but of men who have proved their fitness
 by submitting to the severe test of sue
 cessive examinations. In no other country
 according. is education so highly valued.
 Ii Hung Chang's Failures
 How little the Chinese Bismarck, u
 Hung Chang, has been able to accomplish for the vast mass of yellow-skinned hu- manity, is plain enough from the ineffec-
 tiveness of China's resistance to Japan
 His friends think of him as a colossal but pathetic figure, whose hopes have been dashed to the ground in miserable defeat
 He has been compelled to fight an official
 conservatism and provincialism which are
 almost worse than the all-prevailing off,
 cial corruption, for China seems one huge
 sponge, where every man is equally sure I to be squeezed and bent on squeezing But Lii Hung Chang has been regarded
 as too much of hero in the west. He
 has gained his ends by bribery in coun-
 try where nothing can be done without
 money, where political corruption is uni-
 versal where the people are the servants
 and victims of beaurocracy compared with
 which the Chicago common council and
 the Springfield legislature in their worst days are models of integrity.
 Every Chinese official with the excep- tion Of possibly one in thousand, is a liar, a thief and a tyrant The larger part Of the sums subscribed in England for the relief of the famine districts in China was pocketed by Chinese officials. On one oc- casion some turbulent Chinese at Canton attacked and plundered and destroyed the houses in the foreign settlement of Sha- meen and for this the government of Chi ma was compelled to pay an indemnity. They paid it, however, out of the London Mansion House Famine Relief Fund. Money Rules the Empire
 "No business can be conducted without use of money, and it costs u Hung Chang 60O,0O0 taels to get permission to visit the Empress Dowager after one of his recent disgraces. He himself is man of great ability, with some patriotic feeling, and quite unwilling that China should be for ever. in the rear of human progress, but his enormous riches have been obtained by means like those by which old Roman generals and modern Turkish pashas plum dered provinces.
 Tt is not hopeful and brilliant picture of Chinese society which was brought to the Parliament of Religions: Take busi- ness. Large corporations are impossible for lack of mutual confidence. They have been lately attempted in large numbers but with few exceptions have collapsed | through the corruption of directors or cash iers.'
 "We speak of the oldest existing nation: | as the type of conservatism, and yet the l nineteenth century has struck at the gate: l of China and we behold process oi
 change. What more remarkable event IT