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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-06-01
NEPHEW OF HIS UNCLE.
The ENpedient EN- Ul"yed by French
Explorer to Get On with the
Niger Natives.

Lieut.. Hourst, the Frenchman who
made himself famous awhile ago by
sailing down the Niger from its upper
waters to its mouth, has just published
a book describing the journey. Every
part of the river he saw had been pre-
viously visited, but he was the first trav-
eler who Travelled down the entire river.
His journey was great success in spite
Of the rapids and the enmity of some
natives, with whom, however, he did
not come to blows
HourSt attributes his success largely
to the fact that he was advised by one
of the Mohammedan natives, an elderly
man, who had seen Barth during that
explorers great journey TO represent
himself as being the son or nephew of
the famous German. The man told
Hourst that no white man that ever
came into the country had made so
good an impression upon the people as
Barth had done. The fame of the ex-
plorer had been handed down from IA
ther to son, and all the more intelligent
people of the western Soudan knew of
the great man, had heard how much he
was liked by tEeir fathers, and would
exert themselves to show their friend
ship for anyone connected with him by
family ties.
Hourst acted on the hint. All along
his journey down the river he caused
himself to be heralded as the nephew of
Barth, and in many places he was re-
ccived with special hospitality on this
account. Inasmuch as he never fired
gun at a native, but treated all with
courtesy and consideration, it is likely
that any other "member of Barth's
family who may visit the Niger will
meet with a kindly reception.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-06-01

his mother-in-law-elect says the New
York World. He had never done any
thing better in an artistic sense, and
his friends gave him credit for uneX-
pected diplomacy. The course of true
love seemed strewn with roses, and the
picture had the place of honor in his
studio. Then, all at once the bride-to-
be was whisked off to Europe and Wa
gers found himself jilted man.
For little while he was inconsolable.
Then he rallied his spirits and spread
a feast for the boys in the old den.
When the champagne sparkled i'll the
glasses the speeches began, but, with
rare delicacy, the subject of his recent
masterpiece was not mentioned, al
though everybody noticed that the
place it lad occupied knew it no more.
Then Wagers rose, and his smile was
mellow as the moon.
"Gentlemen," he said, "when Cleo
patra, lovely sorceress of the Nile. gave
a banquet to her fr'en's she dissolved
pearl in wine. But |, gentlemen, go tn
fair serpent one better. I've dissolved
my mother-in-law."
And so he had, by the aid of the pawn
broker around the corner, to raise funds
for the feast.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-06-01
TOO MUCH PROSPERITY.
The Rryanites Are Being Upset by
the Good Times and In
creased Wages.

Papers of the ultra Bryan and popu-
list variety are beginning to be troubled
about the good times. They seem to
realize the force of the remark of
Mayor Taggart last fall that a demo-
cratic victory cannot be expected as
long as good times continue. Therefore
they declare that the good times are de-
ceptive-that there will be no real pros
perity until the United States pcrfects
a vast silver-bullion trust by bgislat-
ing to stamp every As cents worth of
it one dollar To them the outlook is
not cheerful, and so they make it as
cheerless as they can.
Unfortunately for such cliques and
newspapers, but fortunately for the
country, the people knew better. Most
of them read newspapers, and when in
one issue, as was the case on Monday,
they read that 1000 wage-earners in
Cleveland had their wages advanced
from five to twenty per cent, that 49,
GOO iron workers in Birmingham. with
out solicitation, were given an advance
of from ten to fifteen per cent, and th2 I
advances were announced in Reading,
Pa; Springfield, o., and other places,
most people will come to the conclusion
that prosperity of the substantial sort
has come very generally.
One of these papers declares that the
prosperity is artificial, having been
manipulated by Senator Hanna for po-
litical purposes. lie is the bold, bad
man who is melting employers in cX-
tensive industries all over the country
to increase wages and to make it ap-
pear that there is an unprecedented de-
mand for all the staples of the country.
Thereat they invent some new story
designed to show the depravity of the
man.
The Journal is not an admirer of SEN
ator Hanna. Doubtless he does not care
a fig, but the Journal has never taken to
him. For that reason and others we
would warn the agitated Bryan-pOpu-
list editor that he may overdo the Han
ma talk. There is more labor seeking
men to perform it than there ever has
been in the country before. Workers
are getting millions more as wages each
week than they did three years ago.
Never bSIOFe dld hOOU OF men nave
their wages increased without asking.
Now, if all these people whose condi-
ton has been improved by the better
times should be persuaded by the
Bryan-populist editors that Senator
Hanna has brought it about he would
be the most popular man in the land.
He could have anything he desired at
the hands of those people. What if
they should make Senator Hanna pop
ular idol? Dreadful thought!-Indian-
apolis Journal.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-06-01

have known many housewives and
many varieties of paste and cement in
the course of a brief but useless life,
and | have never yet met with an in
stance where anything mended by a
woman with any of the devices in ques-
ton has remained mended for ten con-
secutive minutes when subjected to the
slightest strain, says Pearson's Maga-
zine.
A woman can mend a saucer with ce-
ment, and its broken parts will con-
tiaue to adhere until some one picks it
up. She can also mend an umbrella
handle with gum, and it will present a
decent appearance until some one tries
to take it from the umbrella stand
This, however, is not this sort of mend
ing which the woman desires, and il is
needless to say that it is worse than no
mending whatever.
Yet, although every woman who has
reached the age of 35 has probably
made 450 attempts to mend things,
every one of which has failed, she will
still continue to believe that broken
articles can be firmly and permanently
mended with her favorite sticking mix
ture. Whence comes this indomitable
faith? Echo declines to return any an
swer whatever.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-06-01
Chinese POIitPneSS.

When in Shanghai Prince and P1in-
cess Henry of Prussia were given an
amusing example OF Chinese politeness.
While visiting a notable mandarin their
host asked through the interpreter the
age of Prince Henry. On being told
that the e.-peror's brother is a little
over Sc the mandarin turned to the
prince and said: You appear So" He
then inquired the age of the princess,
who is 80. The interpreter, Herr Noigt,
an honest citizen of Stettin, hesitated
to inform the princess what the man
DARN replied on learning her age.
Prince Henry, however, has a smatter-
ing of Chinese, and laughingly com
manded: "Out with it, Noigt!" The
Chinese fatterer had told the princess:
you look CO.,
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-06-01
POLITICAL DRIFT.

OMr. Bryan is compelled to glare
very intently at imperialism in order
to avoid seeing the many evidences of
prosperity at home.-Kansas City Jour
nal.
GIVE note with interest a growing
disposition to let Mr.. Edward Atkinson
have monopoly of the business which
has lately engaged his sattention.-N. Y.
Tribune.
DThe democrats are waiting to see
what the republicans will do. That is
why the strongest kind of a plank
should be put in the republican plat
forn.-CIeveland Leader.
DIt would be just like Mr.. Bryan to
tie free silver and anti-imperialism by
their tails and hang them over the
clothes line in 1900. What a Kilkenny
consequence would follow!-Broolilyn
Eagle.
yFree silver politicians will regard
Admiral Dewey's willingness to sit
down to a $50-a-plate dinner as forever
settling his chances to become presi-
dent, even should he change his mind.
Washington Star.
- 4 llc AlhlIISOlo anu lIllliS tllI
noisy, but they do not represent the
deep and settled conviction of the Amer
lean people, at least as they are repre-
sented by those that live in the great
middle ewest.-Indianapolis News.
DThe Philippines belong to Ameri-
ca by cession, by purchase, by the right
of conquest and by possession. And yet
there are some who dispute all these
and would have the property turned
back to anarchy, fire and sword.-Cin-
cinnati Commercial Tribune.
DNew Jersey kept up its republic
an majorities in the spring elections.
The once ruck-ribbed democracy of that
state dwiudled into a minority when
threatened with a bogus dollar. Bry-
ans new gospel of socialism will finish
yyiNt is left.-St. Louis sGlobe-Democrat.
|Our protective tariff hurts Eng
land, but a request in parliament for
its abrogation has just been officially
disapproved. England's only hope is
that free trade will some day win in
this country, but that is hoping against
hope. Protection is the only safe
guard of the American standard of liv-
ing for American labor.-Iowa State
Register.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-06-01
Joke ON the Major.

The major, just returned from Boston,
tells IN strict confidence this story:
Il had engaged my berth, and was stand
ing on the rear platform five minutes be-
fore the, train pulled out of the Park
Square depot, when a midde-aged woman
and handsome girl, both ladies, passed se
and entered the car, accompanied by a.
gentleman y-looSing chap WHO carried their
baggage. moment later this fellow pushed
up to me and said he was in a most embar-
rasslng position, had his sister and mother
aboard, and had lost his mileage book He.
would introduce me to them and give me
any security for S25. | said needed neither
Introduction nor security, but would give
him ten dollars-all | had to spare. He in
sisted on giving me his diamond scarfpin.
and then rushed into the station to see if
he could get more cash. As the train pulled
out without him, he came running wildly
after it, but had to give it up.
Then the porter approached me tenta-
lively. Was that man annoying you| he
said told him no. He insisted on carrying
the baggage of two ladies inside, sab, an
an'-dld he get any money out of you"
OF course he didn't, said |; but took
the first opportunity OF examining that pin.
i was worth about five cents. Buffalo
NaIvC
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-06-01

A writer in the Contemporary Review
claims that there are other points of
similarity between the Russians and
Americans besides the bigness of their
territory and their industrial under
tallings. He says: "What impressed
me most about the educated Muscovite.
however, was his extreme nervousness.
He is conscious that his country has
Jagged behind western nations; he is
also conscious that it has been going
forward this last decade by leaps and
by bounds.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-06-01
Catnrrh Cannot be Cured

with Local Applications, as they cannot
reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh is Q
blood or constitutional disease, and in order
to cure it you must take internal remedies.
Holl' S Catarrh Cure is taken internally and
tcts directly on the blood and mucous sur
faces. Halls Catarrh Cure is not quack
medicine. 1t was prescribed by one of the
best physicians in this country for years,
and Is regular prescription. 1t is com
posed of the best tonics known, combinC4
with the best blood purifiers, acting direct
ly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect
combination Of the two ingredients is what
produces such wonderful results in curing
Catarrh. Send for testimonials, free.
+. j. CHENEY 81 co, Props, Toledo, o.
Sold by all druggists, price 75c.
HALLS Family Pills are the best
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-06-01
FIRST WARM DAY.
The Country Folk in Southeastern
PennsyIvania Cali 1t Wealth
er Breeder.

In southeastern Pennsylvania there
comes a day in February that brings
with it an indefinabIe sense of Joyous
ness. a southern wind wanders up the
Delaware with a touch of spring in
its air that quickens, for the first time,
the slumbering life. 1t is then, says APP
pleton's Popular Science Monthly, that
those mysterious forces in the cells of
living things begin their subtle work
hidden in the dark, underground store
houses of plants and the sluggish tis-
sues of animals buried in their winter
sleep. On such a day the grounding
ventures from his hurrow, some restless
bee is lured from the hive to wander
discOnsolate over bare fields, a snake
crawls from its hole to bask awhile in
the sunshine, and one looks instructive
ly for the first breaking of the earth
that tells of the early crocus and the
pceping forth of dafIodils. The south
erly wind is more than apt to be tell
tale, for with all its Springtime softness
it is drawing towards some storm CEN
ter, near or remote, that Will inevitably
follow with rough weather in its sweep.
The countryfolk rightly call such a
day weather breeder and even the
grounding knows its portent in the
very sign of its shadow. Come as it
will, the day is really a day borrowed
in advance from the spring, as though
TO hearten one through all the dreary
days that will follow, and, in starting
the growing forces of vegetation, to
make ready for the seasons coming.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-06-01
COMPANIONS IN CRIME.
Another shot at the Associated
Preachers of Treason in
This Country.

Brig. Gen. Harrison Gray Otis. who
has just returned to the United States
from the Philippines, adds his testi-
mony to that of the other command
ers in praise of the American troops
who have been participating in the cam
paign about Manila.
For a fact the American soldiers
have made a record for valor, endur-
ance and perseverance in TIE Philip
pine campaign. considering the fact
that most of them were raw volun-
tcers, which has aStonished the world,
and every American should be proud
of the men who have been following
the stars and stripes through iunglcs
and swamps under a tropical sun.
These brave volunteers have put their
hearts into their work, and there has
been rare pluck behind every gun.
Furthermore, they have made the sac
rifice willingly, because they were in
spired by a patriotic desire to uphold
the honor and glory of their country.
Yet while the American soldiers have
been demonstrating that they are the
best fighters on earth. traitors at home
IldNc DctH Try IllS w Dlctu lIlS upoI UNA
ton and mutiny among them in the
hope of so weakening the forces of Gen.
Otis as to make it possible for the in
surgents to win.
1t is impossible to contemplate the
splendid work of the American army
and navy in the Philippine islands
without feeling the utmost contempt
for Edward Atkinson and his asso-
ciated preachers of sedition.-Cleveland
Leader.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-06-01
Signs of the Times.

Chew your food with the celebrated
Dewey false teeth.
Eat at Hashem's and try the surprising
Dewey sinkers.
Play your patriotic pieces on the unex-
celled Dewey mouth organ"
Buy Dewey pies for dinner"
Cool your throat with Dewey ice cream
soda"
Wear Dewey waistcoats.'
Take Dewey bitters for that tired feel
ing"
ATTEND the Dewey picnic given by the
Patriotic Sons of Manila"
Spank your children with the Dewey
chastiser." - Pittsburgh ChroniceTele.
graph.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-06-01

Among the rarest of precious stones
the green garnet is probably the most
valuable. This gem is of superb, rich
shade, far more brilliant than that of
the emerald. A green garnet easily
commands double the price of Il pure
diamond of equal size, because it is so
exceedingly rare, while red garnets are
so common that their cost is trifiinG
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-06-01
THEIR PET BELIEF.
Nearly All Women Think They Have
Fine I<nacI< for Mend
ing Things.

If there is a woman who can lay her
hand on her heart, or the region where
it ought to be, and solemnly declare
that she has ever succeeded in mending
anything permanently with paste, gum
or cement, should like to meet her. |
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-06-01

The weak fellow was making the girl
tired by his long and vapid talk On the
advancement of women.
Don't you ever wish you were a
man?' he asked, as a kind of clincher.
NO" she responded, in the sweetest.
most womanly way; do you|'-l:t.
Bits.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-06-01
Military Musicians,

The German army includes more
than 10000 military musicians. Other
powerful nations on the continent en-
ploy rather less numbers in military
bands.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-06-01
ADVERTISING RATES:
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Rates by the year, or for siI Vt three months,
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Obituary notices over hve lines, 10 cents per
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Business cards, i've lines or less IS per yeLr;
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tininE.
No local inserted for less than rs cents per
issue
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-06-01
MOTHER-IN-LAW DISSOLVED.
An Impecunious Artist Who Went
Cleopatra, Serpent of the Nile,
One Better.

When the engagement was in its first
quarter Wagers painted the portrait of
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-06-01

The upward movement of silver will
do more, if it continues, to put Bryan
against silver than could all the argu-
ments of the honest money men of the
country. OF course, if silver should go
up anywhere near the mark at which
the silver dollar would be intrinsically
worth 100 cents Bryan would drop sill
verism. Anyone who would then talk
sixteen to one would be an "agent OF
Wall street" and an enemy of the hu.
man race" Bryan is not bigoted in
his devotion to silver. He shouts for
the silver dollar because it is a dishon-
est dollar. He wants to force it on the
farmers and laborers Of the country be-
cause its general adoption would cheat
them out of more than half of their
earnings. He wants it for them because
it is only worth 4f cents. If it was
worth only 26 cents or 16 cents, be
would shout twice as loud for il. I'm
til silver starts down again, which il
is likely to do tomorrow or the next
day. Bryan viii keep very quiet about
sixteen to one.-St. Louis Globe-Demo'
crat.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-06-01

Tho JOB department OF the Press is complete
ara affords facilities for doing the best class OF
work. PARTICULAR ATTENTION PAID TO Law
HAIETISG.
No paper viii be discontinued nth arrear-
sres are paid, except at the option of the puo-
Esher
Papers sent out of the county must be PAID
Cor IL advance,
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-06-01
"Th11k of Ease
But Work On. J"

IF your blood IS impure you
may "qUork on" but you
cannot even think of ease. -
The blood is the greatest Sps-
tatner of the body and when
you make it pare by taking
Hood S Sarsaparilla you haze
the perfect health tn qvhich
even hard Uork becomes ease.
floods SaaJabo,M
ZZlZlz.lZE
Hoods Pills cure liver ills the non-irritating and
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-06-01

UThe democratic party got on the
wrong moral side of the union question
of the emancipation question, of the re
construction question, of the financial
question, and now, as an organization
is getting on the wrong moral side OF
the expansion question. The number
of democrats who will not follow the
insantties of the party still remain
sufficiently large to save the country
And they will do it again next year
Brooklyn Eagle
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-06-27
HOUSTON, TUESDAY. JUNE ~, 1888.
TWELVE PAGES
A WISE MOVE.

BY reason OF typographical conditions
the city of New Orleans has found 1t diff
fcult to secure a frst-cIass drainage sys-
TEN. This fact has initiated against that
city In many ways and especially in the
matter OF health
The Post is glad to see that the authorl-
ties there have instituted a movement to
give the Crescent City a sewerage system
that will be far ahead of anything hith-
erto planned, and with prospects of ulti-
mate success. New Orleans. through the
influence of its ino navigation facilities
and many railroads that center there, has
for generations been the leading CONNER
cial city of the South, and the entire coun-
try is, and should be, Interested in its flu
ture prosperity and health This step to-
ward better sewerage system and other
sanitary measures is attracting attention
throughout the country and especially
that section OF 1t that might be in danger
in case OF a yellow fever epidemic.
Referring to the recent action of the
governor OF Louisiana In promising to call
an extra session of the legislature OF that
state to pass certain acts changing the
organic law, SO as to permit the city OF
New Orleans to take such steps as are
necessary to improve the sewerage system
of the city, the Baltimore Sun says:
Governor Foster of Louisiana is in full sym
pathy with the people of New Orleans in their
determination TO improve their city with
every modern sanitary appliance In recent
interview the governor declared his intention
thQp - al
extra session of the state legislature at such
time as may be found desirable, after a CON
ference with the city authorities, to enact
such legislation may be necessary TO carry
out the VIII OF the taxpayers OF New Orleans.
as recently expressed by an overwhelming
vote IN favor Of tax for water drainage and
stWerake Already this vote has had a de-
ciued anect on the real estate market Sew
era<>1parcels Of valuable property on 81
charles street we're sold last week at n de.
coed advance on the figures asked for them
peiore tue vote was taken, while the erection
OF several fine structures held in Allowance
pending the vote, will now be proceeded with
New Orleans evidently did a wise thing In de-
ertInlnihg TO nave pure water, clean streets
and perfect sewerage.
mat is wise move on the part of the
people of New Orleans and that the action
Of Governor Foster is alike wise and nat
rlotic, goes without saying The Post
takes pleasure in felicitating the great
southern metropolis upon the prospects OF
an early sanitary condition that win re-
aound to the health and happiness of every
citizen of the place, as well as to their
material wealth and prosperity.
While The Post extends its congratula-
lions to New Orleans and its people in
al sincerity, it can but feel sort OF sell
hsh satisfaction in the premises. for the
entire country lying in that belt that is
liable to danger in yellow fever epidemcs
must OF necessity experience a direct ad-
vantage to be gained by the improved san
i'ary regulations proposed and now under
way.