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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-12-15
CONCERNING PERFUMES.

Bartholm says: THE odor of the
rosemary indicates the coast of Spain
more than ten leagues out to sea"
Cinnamon is an aromatic bark of
odorous fragrance. 1t is a native of
Ceylon and India. The Egyptians and
Romans held it in high esteem.
The Bedouins use civet to.anoint their
bodies, substance of the consistency
of honey, strong and offensive in itself,
but agreeable when a very small pro-
portion is mixed with other ingredients.
Lavender is an English production
and is cultivated about Hertford, Sur
rey and several other districts. It's
name, "lavandula," from "lavare," to
wash, indicates its use, which was per
forming the baths Of wealthy people.
Some perfumes have stronger scent
than others. some give out their fra
GRANGE at special times. Certain
flowers need the warmth of the sun.
some the soft rain and others the cool
night air before they venture to throw
1t their redolence into the atmos-
here
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-12-15
BEFORE THE FOOTLIGHTS.
London has, 45 theaters.

London has As theaters.
Emma Eames takes great care of her
voice, and says she ''lives by the Their
mometer as most people do by the
clock"
There is only one thing I enjoy
more than singing" said Jean De
Reszke the other day. THAT one thing
is bicycling"
Frank Hunter Potter, a nephew of
The Episcopal bishop of New York, is a
grand opera tenor. whose stage name
is Sig Filipe.
Sara Bernhardt in 1872 earned $40 a
month. During the last five years her
average earnings have been $1O0,O0O a
year.
The singing Of certain masses has
been forbidden in the Roman Catholic
churches of Cincinnati because they
too closely resemble operate music.
The manager of London music hall
announces that anyone who purchases
ticket for the performance may have
his or her teeth extracted for nothing
The climax in new English melo-
drama is a marriage ceremony per-
formed in a church by burglar, who,
being interrupted in stealing the silver
communion utensils, puts on the rec
tors robe and reads the service.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-12-15

THE field being one which no other
agency now fully covers, there is
thrown upon the society an important
task which cannot be postponed. The
collection of American oral traditions
should be regarded as a national duty.
To gather materials for history which
are indispensable to anthropoIogisal
record, and which, unless recorded, will
in a few years have irretrievably per-
ished. appears even more important
than the collation. of historical records
already safely lodged in libraries"
The society's head and forefront is
William Wells Newell of Cambridge,
Mass, an author whose immediate work
of recent years has been medieval lit
erature, he having recently issued a
volume on "Arthurian Romance, King
Arthur and the Table Round" The
protector of it, the editor of its journal,
and long it's secretary, Mr.. Newell has
kept on pushing the society through all
these years, reaching cut constantly
for new members and ever striving to
make folk lore better cared fur and un-
derstood among people of education
ard refinement.
Scientists to whom this peculiar field
has appealed have cooperated with
him, and the result is shown in the
quaint papers in the journal. \ recent
number of this contained the follow
ing features, the mentioning of which
will be of much interest: Ninth An
nual Meeting of the American Folk
Lore Society, The Collection of Mary
land Folk Lore, Work and Methods of
the Hampton Folk Lore Society, Negro
Hymn from Georgia, Traditions of the
Iillamook Indians, The Legend of the
Holy Grail, Borrowing Trouble, Negro
Song from North Carolina, Record of
American Folk Lore, The Sixth Vol
ume of the Memoirs of the American
Folk Lore Society, Folk Lore Scrap
book, Notes ard Queries. Local Meet
ings and other notices, photographed
Notes.
As an instance of the material the
society is collecting, here is a Balti-
more, Md, folk lore story lin parts
Georgia, did witch ever get after
you?"
Norm, but my mother, she knew a
woman that was mighty bothered by
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-12-15
PAINT AND PAINTING.

Painting damp wood imprisons the
moisture and induces dry rot.
From sanitary point of view painted
walls are best; the worst is a papered
wall.
Two ounces of dragons blood dis
solved in one quart of turpentine, gives
a good mahogany stain.
AS a filler and putty, some painters
use plaster of Paris, mixed with weak
glue, to the consistency of putty.
Putty can be kept soft by covering
with water or, still better, with lin
seed oil. Any good putty will harden on
exposure.
When mixing tints in the light, it
must be remembered that the color will
not appear quite the same in a partly
darkened room.
All light tints are more or less af-
fected by the application of clear var
nish over them. 1t is better to mix Il
little of the color in the varnish-
If your brush was not cleaned at the
proper time, and has become hard, put
it in linseed oil and heat the oil until
the dried paint is loosened.
Dry burnt umber mixed in vinegar
makes good walnut stain, as does also
one pound of dry Venetian red mixed in
cne quart of turpentine and one pint Of
asphalt.
To test the durability of colors in
paint, apply coat to strips of thick pa
per and nail them on the wall, exposed
to the strongest possible light. Over
one-half of the sample or samples of
color fasten heavy paper, excluding all
light. After few weeks remove this
covering and note the difference in the
exposed and unexposed portions.-The
Master Painter
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-12-15
PHOTOGRAPHIC NOTES.

Amateur photographers in Russia are
obliged to secure licenses.
The hate empress of Austria was an
enthusiastic amateur photographer.
and in the course of her wanderings in
European countries made over 1000
studies of the various types of beauty
that came in her way.
A Photographic film 9h miles in
length is somewhat of a novelty, even
in this age of big things. Three of these
articles of the size stated are now in
progress of construction for use in
cinematograph. The cost of these films
is about e200 a mile. Photographic
films can, therefore, now be had per
yard, per acre, or per mile.
One of the latest and most novel, n s
well as daring, feats of the amateur
photographer is to take portraits in
profile. and then trim and mount the
same so that the head is completely
cut away, leaving only the line of pro-
file. In this the familiar lines, which
serve to reproduce what is commonly
knownas the likeness are all preserved.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-12-15
SERVE THE RICH AND GREAT.

The salary of Queen Victoria's chief
butler, who looks after the wine, is
i 500 a year.
English royal household costs more
than 10000 per annum.
Mrs. Oliver II. p. Belmont prefers
men servants of herculean proportions.
Her new footman is about seven feet
high and otherwise in proportion.
Fcrty servants is the average num-
Der employed by the Astors, Wander
bilts and other multimillionaires, with
an average pay roll of 81 900 month.
The Rockefeller servants are on duty
certain hours, with certain hours for
themselves, and they remain indefi-
nitely, none ever leaving of his own
accord. Very many marry, and their
children, too, remain as part of the
family below stairs.
There are 1,500 people upon the Ger
man emperor's list of employees, includ-
ing $50 women servants, who are en-
gagged in looking after the 20 royal
palaces and castles that belong to the
crown. Their wages are small. The
women receive not more than $12
month and the men servants from SIS
to $25 month.
The court of Pope Leo XIII. COM
prises 1000 persons. There are 20
Wallets, 1870 prelates, 40 privy chamber
lains, chamberlains, 300 extra hon
orary chamberlains, 130 supernumerary
cham berlains, 30 officers of the noble
guard, co guardsmen. IA officers of the
Swiss guard and police guard, hon
orary chaplains. 20 private secretaries.
10 stewards and masters of the horse
and 60 doorkeepers.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-12-15

professors of universities, curators and
assistant curators of museums-and
joined with these are some hundreds
of observant, thoughtful people, who
are no scientific experts, but have a
love for these researches, and can
sometimes add a word or thought
contribute an idea or finishing touch
to the papers read and the discussions
waged. The lists are open to all, and if
anything, there are more women than
men members, many of those from the
south being useful in thenegro work.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-12-15
POESIES OF TIE POETS.

lie Not vain Because of Spain.
We were tempted to be bumptious when the
sinking of the Maine
Was followed by :he drubbing we admin
istered to Spain,
But twill pay US to remember 1t was arro-
gance and pride
Which led Spain to the sins for which her
soldiers bled and died.
1t may be that republics. like old mon
arches effete,
May get the big-head badly. topping off
their props and feet.
We love our flag of freedom, with its bril-
liant promise-stars,
The many grand achievements frescoed in
its battle scars,
The grand domain II represents its men
who fear no foe,
But ride She car of progress with resistless
vim and go:
And yet it's well to fit the car with air
brakes and the like,
Control is of Importance from a warship to
a bike.
So let us mix humility with all our loud
hurrahs,
Content with common sense to love our
country and its cause,
To look for inspiration and true wisdom to
the skies,
Remembering that God is great and in Him
vict'ry lies:
So while we crow little for the victory
Ger Spain,
Mix love with all your loyalty-all braggart
brays vain
Bombastc pride is but the sugar coating
over pain.
The greatest are the humblest high in
Heaven and here on earth
Solf-praise is but a bubble and a text for
honest mrth;
We want to feel responsible for greatness
and its use,
With penalties awaiting it's perversion or
abuse.
So do not stop to cackle or to waste the
precious time,
March on in modest might toward our des-
tiny sublime,
For gratitude Is virtue, but mere boastful-
ness a crime.
l. EDGAR JONES.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-12-15
Let Me Believe.

When boughs are shaken of bloom, and
dead leaves drifting, too,
l would recall their first perfume and the
sunlight sitting through
When fields lie barren without, and bitter
frosts are come,
Bid me not hear the winds of Doubt that
with the darkness roam.
When hours grow dim and gray, and the
song of the year is sung,
Leave me the thrill of the dawning day,
in heart that is young, is young!
Though Hope be a blossom whirled. and
Time doth ptllage and win,
Let me hearken the pulse of the World, and
learn of Truth therein.
Ay, though my dreams shall pale, while
night but an ember lures,
Let me believe, though its light shall fail,
that Love, that Love enduresl
Virginia w. Cloud. in Bookman.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-12-15

ing or convention of the society is close
at hand, the dates set being December
2S and 90 and the place chosen Fayer-
weather hall (the Physics building),
Columbia university, New York city.
Very nearly 200 folk lorists are expect
ed at this conference, to listen to pa
Fers on the negro and the Indian, the
French and Spanish settlers, the races
of Central and South America; a mul-
titude of odd facts dug in some cases
from old documents; in others taken,
as in the cases of certain negro settle
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-12-15

To search out and put on record the
beliefs, superstitions and myths of the
fast dying or already dead old races
of America, to gather up and preserve
the legends, traditions and some accur-
ate knowledge of their curious customs
and ideas is the work of an organiza-
tion that is little heard of, but yet is
strong among scientists, and has its
members in every corner of this "oun-
try-the American Folk Lore society.
Attention is now being directed to
these workers in a strange and inter
esting field, for the tenth annual meet
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-12-15

She takes my hand with the soft diffidence
That seems part of girlhood and pro-
claims
The timorous amateur; then glibly names
Each line thereon, but holds me in sus-
penSe
sweet long while before she can COM
mencs
The oracles deliv'ry Like twin flames
Her cheeks burn up when finally she
frames
The promise Of long life and affiuence
If through some gypsy strain she reckons
dear
Her reputation as a prophecies,
Then by her pleasant art may she divine
That it is thrice secured If she will clear
My way to all felicity with yes
In answer to a small request of mni
Edward w. Barnard, in Judge.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-12-15

because here lay the greatest wealth
of superstitions, record of customs and
mythology. There were living repre-
sentatives of these races at hand, ready
TO be questioned. The work, however,
only begins here. Step by step the
folk lore society is digging into a far
distant past. Its II volumes of it's
journal Quarterly and the six books
it has published in addition to these,
show that a new literature is already
well started.
Serious scientific men and women
make up the backbone of this society
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-12-15
A Lullaby.

Sof' an low, sof' an low,
An sweetly es de rivah's flow,
We heahs de music cross de sea
Whah spreads de Ian of Is-ter-Be,
An sweet an low. an sof an low,
De baby's teensy footballs go:
But bimeby he's gwine be at peace
Whah roses spring an lilies blow.
De music comes f'om hahps of gop,
fetched by de fingers nevah ole,
An Gawd leans down, leans down to heah
De strains dat's floatin to His eah.
An sweet an low, an sof' an low,
De baby's teensy footballs go;
But bimeby he's gwine be at peace
Whah roses spring an lilies blow.
Will T. Hale, In Chicago Times-Herald
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-12-15
snnIn,. S2O.OOO.OOO.

What'H we do with this money of ours
Money we scarcely expected?
No one will hint that we've wasted the
hours
Nor the country's finances neglected.
Shall we devote it to powder and shot,
And talk about ferceness and slaughter,
Buying ships to be added, no doubt, to our
lot
OF scrap-iron under salt water?
Shall we simulate pride. and still sneer at
the rules
BY which the world makes its progress
sion?
Or shall we hire teachers and open up
schools,
And try to he in the procession?
Washington Star.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-12-15
ODD LITTLE FACTS.

woman's brain declines in weight
after the age of 30.
Many thousands of persons in Chi
cago wear wooden shoes.
Paper quilts are extensively used
abroad by the poorer classes.
In very clear water sunlight pene-
trates to depth of over $500 feet.
Small nostrils are said by physiolo-
gists to indicate small and weak lungs.
Feas will never touch an epileptic,
and will instantly leave a dead or dying
person.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-12-15
A Touching Tale.

The playwright with his manuscript
Went sadly on his way,
Threescore and more of managers
Refused his play that day:
Then from a corner dark there sprang
A robber bold and masked,
And of the author, with gun,
His life or money asked.
I've nothing but this play, I swearr'
Replied the trembling scribe;
"All say 1t is not worth the string
With which the covers tied!"
The robber snatched the manuscri4
And fed without delay.
THANK God! At last!" the playwright
cried,
"A man who'll take my play!'
Boston Transcript
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-12-15

The man and the woman who are
severely practical may wonder, per
hars. at all this work, and question the
advisability of this great use of print
ers' ink. To those not interested in
cthnoIogy it may seem good deal like
child play to gather up these quaint
stories and the scattered hints of Gus
toms. To this argument the folk lore
scientists bring forward this answer:
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-12-15
OATMEAL FOR BREAKFAST.

The Greek traders seem to have had
some knowledge of oats, as they termed
them bromos.
IT is not known what country first
cultivated the wild oat grass to con-
dition usable for human food, nor is
any reference made to this grain in the
Old Testament.
Oatmeal in the olden times was an ex-
tremely coarse food, as the only means
of separating husk from groat was
bruising sundried oats between stones
by hand and afterward winnowing in
strong breeze.
The phenomenal growth of the oat-
meal industry in our country is second
to none, when it is noted that as early
as 1865 the milling of oats was most
limited affair. The larger proportion
Of oatmeal sold here came from Canada
ana Great Britain and it is an amusing
fact that the retail druggists carried
packages of Scotch oatmeal in stock to
meet the requirements of physicians,
who would prescribe cruel for their
patients made from it.
If our advice was asked regarding the
consumption of cereals we would give
it emphatically, never eat oatmeal
every morning, but alternate it with
other cereals such as corn, wheat and
rye, which are manufactured in such
variety of form that you have no need
of duplicating your breakfast food but
once in two weeks. 1t has been def
nitely shown that the continuous use
of oatmeal by the Scotch people has
caused more cases of dyspepsia than
any other known food.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-12-15

ments and Indian tribes, direct from
the lips of patriarchs and others whose
memories are long, and who are still
aloof from civilization.
Thus the conference will hear, on
these days, and among other papers
already arranged, Prof Charles L. Ed
wards, of the Cincinnati unive -sity. on
negro folk lore; DR.. l.. Ferrand of Co.
lCmbia, on the folk lore of British Co.
umbia, and A. l.. krocher, of Colum-
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-12-15

From almost nothing has the society
grown in its course of ten years until
now it mum bers famous delegation of
American scientists, particularly of
anthropologists. This is so marked
that the meeting of the Anthropolog-
ical society, to be held in Columbia uni
versity the same week, will have very
many Of the same prominent members,
and the two conventions will not be un-
like.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-12-15

bia. on animal Tales of the Esqui-
mauX." The other papers that are to
be read will extend the breadth of the
study of the meeting to all corners of
the continent
For. in whatever pertains to folk lore,
the society is eclectic and liberal Its
greatest work since its founding in
1883 has been. 1t is true, upon the negro
and the Indian. but that has been only
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-12-15
Ifom ely Advice.

Try to spread de gladness.
Tain no use to show
Other peoples badness.
Folks is folks, you know.
Jes' be kind an lovin'
To'ds yoh fellow man;
Dinners in de oven,
An de gravy's In de pan.
Don't you stop to listen
To a scan'lous tone,
Ca Sc you might be missin'
Business of yoh own.
Don't cloud hours dat's sunny
VIII She says. says she"
Roast de turkey. honey,
An let de neighbors be.
washington Star.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-12-15
Life.

Whence and whittier?
From the night,
We come hither
To the light.
Love and worry,
JOY and pain,
Toll and hurry
Night again.
j A. Edgerton. in Chica
ter Ocean.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-03-04
MAINE BOARD OF INQUIRY.

Anthony made his report to Captain
Sigsbee
That report-the essence of courage
and discipline-should live in Ameri-
can history.
Sir" said the gallant orderly, stand
ing at salute. Il have to inform you
that the ship has been blown up and is
sinking"
"Bill' Anthony has carried a rifle in
Uncle Sans service since he was II
years old. His father was a boss
truckman in New York in the old days
when Fifty-ninth street was out in the
suburbs, and "Bill" was born within
a stones throw of the battery. He was
a natural born soldier, six feet two
inches tall, broad-shouldered, narrow
hipped. slender-limb and stout
hearted
The family moved to New Jersey just
about the time "Bill'' completed rath-
er turbulen careerin the public schools
and one morning he vanished. bill"
had enlisted. That happened twenty
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-03-04
DEATHS IN sKAGUAY.
Seventeen GIye Up the Ghost in One Day
From Plague.

Seventeen give Up the Ghost In One Day
From Plague. -
Nanaimo, b. c.. March THE steam
er Oregon arrived here this afternoon
from Skaguay and Dyea, Alaska. She
had number of passengers who are
returning home Disguised with Alaska.
Before the Oregon left Skaguay, sew
enteen deaths from csrebro spinal
meningitis were reported in twenty
four hours.
DR. o. b. Estes of Astoria, who was
a passenger on the Oregon, predicts
that the number of deaths will soon
run into the hundreds.
The steamer Mamie reports that a
steamship caught on fire in Seymour
narrows. Her name was not obtaina-.
able, but it is thought that she was
from Vancouver, b. c. The fire was
extinguished and the steamer pro-
ceeded north.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-03-04

those of the Infanta Maria Teresa, Viz
caya and Oouendo they will find in the
newly built cruisers an increase OF
/. 200 horse power in the engines, which
of course will give large increase of
speed. In addition to this there is the
finer model which will add still fur
Their speed. The armored belt which de-
tends the vital parts of the Cardinal
Cisneros is larger and the quality of
the plates has improved, and we main
tain hopes that the sister ship in Bill
hao will have even stronger resistive
power. The defensive power of the
whole has also increased not little,
for they have the exceptional advan-
tage of the installation of a battery of
14cm. quick firing guns.
Compared with Our Ships.
ut seems, in our opinion, well to
form comparative data with other ma
yies as the best means of approaching
the relative value of the national forces
and with that object in view we present
to our readers for reference and anal
ogy the three most powerful armored
cruisers flying the United States flag,
which serve to-day as the sword OF Da-
mocles to our Spanish pessimists.
1.-THE four fundamental properties of
this class of ship. power defensive and
offensive speed and radius of action,
can be easily appreciated by the data
which follows:
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-03-04

An experienced trainer asked to con-
dense the best information he could
give new racing man, answered as
follows: Eat almost everything ex-
cept green stuff potatoes and turnips.
Make beef, dry toast and weak tea the
principle articles of food. Do not be
afraid of ice cream and ripe fruit at
your meals. Be in bed at 9 o'clock each
night and up at in the morning. Take
cool spray bath on rising. Do not
use tobacco or drink any kind of Ii,
quor. For rubbing mixtures so dear to,
all racing men use witch hazel mixed
with very little pepperment oil Mix
in the proportion of one pint of witch
hazel to five cents worth of oil. Do
not depend so much on the mixture as
on the rubbing. Have the body we'll
rubbed over. Knead every muscles
End by briskly rubbing in order to-
bring blood to the surface nicely.-Ex-
change.