Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-11-15
BRIEF rlENTION. p,
Frank Shives got car load of West
ern cattle, 81 head, last week.

| You can generally know Whon a
woman has some great secret on her
mind by the mysterious way she goes
about to tell it.-Ex.
A man is truly in love with his wife
who offers to match some pale blue
ribbon and two spools OF sewing silk
on his way down town.-Ex.
A Tennessee woman recently killed
her son by chopping his head with a
hatchet because he smoked cigarettes.
Another strong argument against the
deadly habit.
If the entire cost of spellbinding in
CURED by both parties were totalized,
it would lead person to come to the
conclusion that talk is not so cheap
after all.-Bradford Era.
Mrs. j. E. Free, of Billings, Mont,
daughter of w. F. Lloyd of this place,
has musical wonder in her little
daughter, not yet three years old, who
plays cornet and violin.
The official returns show the census
of the United States for 1900 to 76,-
295, ,2O0-a gain of 13, ,225. .464 during the
last ten years. The population of Penn
sytvania is 6,3O1, ,365-a gain of 1,O43,
351 since 1890.
Emporium has been we'll supplied
with entertainments the past few
months-all of a high class-and they
were without exception we'll patron
lied. This is one of the greatest towns
in the state for all kinds of good enter
tainments.
Franklin claims the distinction of
having one of the youngest piano play
ers in the world. Edwin Frank is the
name of the prodigy and he is now
only four years of age When only
two years of age he developed a taste
for music, which has classed him as a
prodigy.
A Kansas editor has discovered how
to tell a mans politics when you meet
him in hotel washroom: "The Re-
publican will wash and empty the basin.
The Democrat will wash and leave the
water standing. The Populist will wash
in the water left by the Democrat"
This does not seem to accord with the
widespread belief that the rural Pop.
simply entered and combed his whisk-
ers and didn't wash at all.
An exchange states that the Corn
planter Indians of Pennsylvania desire
to take in the Aboriginal display at the
Pan American Exposition. The Corn
planters are 85 strong, and they boast
that while civilization has ruined near
ly all the Eastern tribes, they still re-
tain the customs of their forefathers.
Everybody, friend and enemy, knew
that Matthew Stanley Quay was an ar
dent political leader, but it remained
for the present campaign to reveal him
as scholar and student, familiar with
the classics and capable of literary pro-
ductions entitled to rank with the best
of their class. His speeches through
out the state, however, are doing that
very thing.-Johnstown Tribune.
According to our exchanges, two
swindlers are abroad in the land sell
ing towels and table linen. IF they call
on you hit them with the frying pan.
The goods that they deliver are moth
ing like the samples they display. In
some instances they have received or
ders amounting to as high as $50, for
which they give about $5 worth of
cheap goods.
An observing editor, after looking
over the situation, concludes that some
people go to church to weep, while
others 60 to sleep. Some go to tell
their woes, while others go to show
their clothes. Some go to hear the
preacher, others go to hear the solo
screecher. Boys 60 to reconnoiter,
girls go because they orter. Many go
for some reflections, but mighty few
to help collections.
Speaking of the newspaper dead beat
the Catawissa News-Ttem says: "We're
not after our honest subscribers (al-
though we want them to pay up) but
we are after the newspaper hogs-those
fellows who beat their doctor, their
merchant and their preacher, along
with the printer. They beat everybody
they can, whenever and whatever they
can. In fact they beat the devil"
Christmas packages for American
soldiers serving abroad will be trans
ported by the government free OF
charge from either San Francisco or
New York. This was done last year,
and proved popular. Those in charge
of the army transports, however, say
that senders of boxes should under.
stand that perishable articles, such as
fruits and plum puddings, and fragile
packages, such as preserves, should not
l.