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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-05-17

ceive the report of roll call from the
first sergeant of company Il. where's
Latrobe?" sleepily asked the officer of
the day of the cadet first lieutenant.
~ dn' know" was the answer, and
to the amaze of Latrobe's roommate,
who had gone to bed and to sleep right
after taps the night before. they found
evidence that Pat" had left the post.
He had not even made down his bed
ding. His cadet uniforms were all
there, but a suit of civilian clothes,
usually in snug package up the chin
ney, that had been used several times
running it" to the hotel after taps in
August. was now, like its owner. miss
ing. After three days waiting and
fruitless search, the superintendent
wired Latrobe's uncle and best friend,
old Gen. Drayton, and that was the last
seen or heard of Pat" In the spring
and ahead of time his class was grad
uated without him, for the war with
Spain was on. In the spring an irate
and long-tried father was upbraiding
another only son for persistent failures
at college. "'Gov' Prime will get the
sack, not the sheepSkln, pfophesIeu
his fellows. And then somehow, some
where the father heard it was mar
ried woman with whom his boy was
so deeply in love, and there were bit
ter, bitter words on both sides-so bit
ter that when at last he flung himself
out of his fathers study Gov Prime
went straight to Mildred's room, 81
lently kissed her and walked out of
the house. This was in April. The
next heard of him he had enlisted for
the war and was gone to San Fran
cisco with his regiment with the pros
pect of service in the Philippines ahead
of him, but that was full four months
after his disappearance. Thither, late
in July, the father followed, bringing
Mildred with him and-the reader
knows the rest.
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to hide it until she could slip it safely
into Nita's hand, Nita who read shud-
dered, tore ii into minute scraps, and
wept more, face downward, on the bed
They had reached their winter station
before the cable flashed the stirring
tidngs of Dewey's great victory in Ma
Mia bay, and within half week came
telegraphic orders for Col. Frost to pro-
ceed at once to San Francisco, there to
await instructions. The first eXpedi-
ton was organizing when Ee arrived
his pallid little wife by his side. and
there We're his instructions to proceed
to Manila as chief of his department
an independent position, and yet it was
a horrid blow. But there was no re-
course. Nita begged that she might
stay with her sister. She could not
bear the idea of going. Frost knew that
no women could accompany the eXpedi-
tion, and, shipping his chest and desks
by the transport, he had secured passage
for himself and wife to Hong Kong on
one of the splendid steamers of the
English line from Vancouver, and so in
formed her. 1t dashed Nita's last hope.
They were occupying fine rooms at the
Palace hotel. The city was thronged
with officers and rapidly arriving
troops. Other army women, eager to
accompany their husbands, were rail
ing at the fate that separated them, and
Nita had been forced to conceal the Joy
with which she heard their lamenta-
tions. But she had yet to learn how eX-
acting Frost could be. 1t had never oc-
CURED to her that he could obtain per-
mission to go except by transport. 1t
had not seemed possible that he would
take her with him. you should have
known" said he, that even if | had had
to go by transport, you would have
gone by the Empress of India. 1t is only
60 hours from Manila to Hong-Kong,
and | could have joined you soon after
your arrival. AS it is / shall see YOU
safely established there-I have letters
TO certain prominent English people
then shall go over to join the fleet when
it arrives in Manila bay"
That night she wrote long and des-
perately to Margaret. "He swore he
would follow me wherever we went un-
til | granted him the interview. You
know how he dogged me in Washington.
followed me to Denver, and any mo-
ment he may address me here. f. will
not let me return to you. He insists on
my going to Hong-Kong, where he can
occasionally join me. But Rollin holds
those letters over me like whip, and
declares that he will give them into
Frost's hands unless | see him when
ever he presents himself. You made
me swear to Frost never cared a straw
for my darling that was. o God, how
loved him. and if these letters ever
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-05-17

self, 'or even with her nuspand," said
the most observing. Already it had
been whispered that despite his assid-
nous care and devotion during her ill
ness, something serious was amiss
Everybody had heard of the adventure
which had preceded her alarming i'll
ness. Every body knew that she had
been accostcd and confronted by a
strange young man, at sight Of whom
she had pleaded piteously minute
and then tainted dead away. BY this
time, too. there were or had been near
ly a dozen of the graduating class in
town-classmates of Rollin Latrobe-
their much loved "Pat," and speedily
the story was told of his devotion to
her when she was Nita Terriss, of their
correspondence, of their engagement
to be married on his graduation, which
in strict confidence he had impaired
to his roommate, who kept it inviolate
until after her sudden union with Col.
Frost, and poor Pats" equally sudden
disappearance. Everybody, Frost in
cluded, knew that the young man who
had accosted her must be Latrobe, and
Frost by this time knew that it must
have been he who caused her shock at
the Arlington. He ragged in his jealous
heart. He employed detectives to find
the fellow, swearing he would have
him arrested. He became morose and
gloomy, for all the arts by which Mrs.
Garrison persuaded him that Nita
looked up to him with admiration and
reverence, that would speedily develop
into wifely love, were now proved to
be Vaccinations. He knew that Nita
feared him, shrank from him and was
very far from loving him, and he be-
lieved that despite her denials and
tears and protestations she loved young
Latrobe. He wrote angrily, reproach-
fully to Margaret, who, now that her
fish was hooked, did not greatly exert
herself to soothe or reassure him.
That he could ever use violence 10 one
so sweet and fragile as Nita she would
not believe for an instant. Then the
nurse, still retained, heard bitter words
from the colonel as one morning she
came to the door with Mrs Frost's
breakfast, and while she paused, uncer-
tain about entering at such a time, he
rushed angrily forth and nearly col
lided with her. Mrs. Frost was in
tears when the nurse finally entered,
and the breakfast was left untouched.
ITO Be Continued
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-05-17
ONE ON THE BISHOP.
The Eminent Divine Had Unyvitting-
ly Exchanged Grips with
bridegroom.

Bishop Huntington, of Syracuse, told
this story on himself during one of his
last visits to Washington. The good
bishop, it seems, once went down to
a town in Connecticut to perform a
marriage ceremony. He arrived the
day before the wedding, and he left
at the same time the bridal pair did !,
although he was driven to q different
railway station. AS he passed through
the station, carrying his travelling bag,
he was aware that he was creating a
sensation, but was totally at a loss to
account for it. In the car he found
that he was still the object of amused
attention. The porter positively snick-
cred as he passed his seat, and finally
just as the train drew out, he came
up and assisted the churchman to re-
move his overcoat.
What is the matter with you, my
man." asked the bishop. The porter's
snicker broadened into a laugh.
''Ain't you done lef' the lady, sah?"
he chuckled.
'Eh?" exclaimed the bishop il sur
prise. Then his eye fell on the side
of his travelling bag, which the porter
had just turned round. There glued
to it was wide strip of white satin
ribbon, on which was painted in large
letters: Married this morning"
The facetiously best man had
mistaken the bishops travelling bag for
that of the bridegroom, and a chuckling
black porter worked late into the niOht
removing the ribbon.-Albany Journal.
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DObby's Choice.

Of Brooklyn mother, whose grown
up sons declare that she wants to
"boss" them just as if they were chill
dren-although she vows she merely
wishes to advise and guide them, this
story is told: At dinner the other day
a large meat pie and a small roast duck
were brought on together. The duck
was intended for the father principally.
The boys were fond of duck, their
mother well knew, but it would not
make a mouthful apiece for them; so,
addressing the boy who sat nearest her,
she said: (Which will you have, Bobby,
duck or pie?" "Duck!" said Bobby,
promptly. mo, Bobby" answered his
mother, cheerfully. You can't have
duck, dear. Take your choice, my son.
take your choice-but you can't have
duck !"-N. Y. Tribune.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-05-17
LULLABY LAND

4 ship is sailing for Lullaby Land;
And what may the cargo be?
A wooll' dog and china cat
4 trumpet of tin and an old torn hat,
Are ready to 80 to sea.
For Lullaby Land her sails are set
90 pray we the winds be trueD
She will gently glide across the sea of
Dreams,
Mid the moonbeams bright and the star
light CLEANS,
Meath the skies of sapphire hue.
Nov All aboard for Lullaby Land!
cone tiny traveller to go)-
THE woolly dog and the trumpet of tin,
two chubby hands have folded within,
While golden head droops low.
Far Lullaby Land is reached al last;
The captains duty is done
BY her sweet low voice, and her face so fair,
She has sailed the ship-the rocking chair
To the Land of the Setting sun.
Lena S. Thompson, in Good Housekeep-
ing
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-05-17

Some animals can live many years
without water. A paroquet lived So
years in the London zoo without talk
ing a drop of water. A number OF
reptiles live and prosper in places
where there is no water.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-05-17
No Landlords In This Town.

Rented houses are unknown in Jet
more, Kan. Every house is occupied
by its owner. The town has about
inhabitants.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-06-08

This young fellow Is engaged to a
pretty Detroit girl, but they don't care
to publish the bans until after Lent,
says the Detroit Free Press. This dis
turbs an irascible old uncle of hers,
who has II daughter of his own, too
much after his own style to be fa-
vorite. He took it upon himself to send
for the young man the other day.
"Are you going to marry that niece of
mine?" he asked sternly, when they
were alone in the inner office.
Pardon me, sir, but l must decline
to answer. She has father and u
mother, and I'm on good terms with
them. fail to see that 1t Is your
affair" z
"There's whole lot that you fail to
see, young man. I'm really the head
of our family, and I'll not shirk my
duty. Her parents are n couple Of
chumps. Are you or are you not en-
gagged"
you force me to say, sir, that 1t is
none of your Internal business, and
that you are just what l thought you
were a sour, cross-grained old cur
mudgeon."
See here, sonny, I'll not handy
words with the likes of you, but If you
had been going with my daughter as
long as you have my niece | wouldn't
do thing but put Il revolver to your
head, informing you that If you didn't
marry her I'd shoot"
"And I'd beg of you to shoot"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-06-08
or both sides, whichever way it is
made and 1t can be made either way"
Herb Farms.

There are several kinds of farms.
profitable ones, too, of which little
mention Is made to the public. Many
herbs are grown on farms devoted to
them, and they are a product not over
done by growers. In New York are
acres devoted to the growth of pepper
mint. In Illinois are farms where the
castor bean Is raised for the castor oil
that 1t contains. Many farms which
have lost their productiveness could be
made to grow sage, catnip, thorough
wort, and the other vegetable necessi-
ties Of the pharmacopoeia. The business
is one of the few that are not ruined by
competition. Rose farms are to be
found in different sections of the coun-
try, and there Is a sweetness In this
method Of earning a livelihood, al
though that Is not all there Is in II by
a good deal. In California some rose
farms are carried on to raise roses for
rose jelly.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-06-08

plate and two heated copper plates at
the same time in such way that the
copper forms a skin over the surfaces
of the steel and gives it all the weather
resistance that pure copper has.
On his desk in the standard oil offices
in this city Frand Rockefeller has
small sheet of the new material, no
name for which has yet been selected.
The sheets were the size of letter pa
per, and so thin as not to be much
heavier. The steel itself was several
times as thick as the copper, and yet
on each surface of the steel there was
a perfect skin of "copper" so thin that
a strong magnifying glass did not eX-
pose the edges. To all appearances the
sheet was all copper, but its spSingi-
ness showed that it was not
Although he has had conside erable
correspondence with the inventor, Mr..
Rockefeller has not yet met him. Last
summer the inventor sent some sam
pies of his new sheet metal to Mr..
Rockefeller, who had an idea that such
plates of greater thickness would be
valuable material for making steel lake
steamers. He arranged with Captain
McDougall to tow model made of the
new material behind one of his whale
backs for a trip up and down the lakes,
to see how it would stand the expert
ence. When the model came back the
copper skin over the steel plates was as
shiny as when it had been put into the
water. Whether it is along this line,
or in the making of stamped articles of
use and ornament such as gas chan
deliers, cornices and roofngs, that the
new material will be used, will in a
measure depend on the cost of ptoduc-
ton under actual conditions.
II think that the invention is bne Of
the most remarkable that has cdme to
my notice, and people are all thh time
trying to get me into something df that
sort" said Mr.. Rockefeller. Tile cop
per and steel are all rolled at thd same
time, and in the finished plate, ND mat
ter whether 1t is thick or thin, tile cop
per Is united with the steel so that it
Is impossible to break or strip lit off.
1t is practically a single thicknbss Of
metal with a copper surface on either
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-06-08

blackboard, she seemed to be trying to
peer over them-to the other sid ;,
which is exactly the mental attitude
necessary to the ordinary observer for
the conception Of the origin of Mary's
kind of writing.
1t Is apparently impossible for her,
until she has been over the letters, to
understand their meaning. Imagine the
mental gymnastics required of that lit
tie head. 1t was amusing to see Mary
hold her reader indifferently upside
down or rightside up, reading equally
well in either case.
Doctors express the belief that the
defect in Mary's makeup is mental,
rather than physical. That as an
image reflected ON the retina Is invert-
ed, and that as 1t is a mental effort
only which enables man to see things
right side up, 1t must be a mental lack
In Mary's case which hinders her from
seeing as the rest of mankind sees.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-06-08

He said to-day: "We In America3
never have done that work. and the
plants, the capital and, above all, the
experience, which are required for
ocean cable-making cannot be impro-
vised under the touch of government
undertaking. a look at the history Of
cable-making for ocean lines will show
why we haven't done the work and
why we cannot do it offhand, even il
we try.
practically all ocean cables, from
the first transatlantic line in 1857 up to
the present day, have been made In
England, and English firms have a
practical monopoly of the experience.
The first Atlantic cable was made by
Glass. Eliot Il Co. The failure of this
and the loss of the second resulted in
the formation of a great company-the
Telegraph Construction and Mainten-
ance Congratulated by great capi-
tai, and this company made success
of the third cable and gave impetus to
further work of the sort. But the nee
essary experience had been expensive
and England was the first to acquire it.
Then, in 1870, when England paid $780,
100000 for the land telegraph lines of
the islands, that capital went at once
into plants and ships for making and
laying ocean cable. Thus England had
the lead. To make the cable in Amer
lea we would have to have big plant
and good many men of practical eX-
perience in such work.
For this, a large Investment, far
into the millions, would be required,
and II the cable, when laid, should fall
in any way, it's makers would suffer Il
dead loss of all their work and have to
replace the cable at their own cost
Then there must be some ten ships of
at least 1900 tons specially constructed
for the work. Each ship requires full
outfit of apparatus for every branch Of
the work and to be manned by men Of
experience. All this equipment is found
only in England. Evidence of this APP
pears in the course taken by Germany
to New York, via the Azores. Ger
many wanted a cable she could be sure
of and wanted it quickly-just the stu
alton at present of the United States.
She guarantees about per cent. of the
whole cost, and then the cable Is made
in England. That shows the German
appreciation of this need of experience
and great equipment.'-New York
Evening Post.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-06-08

versing everything that she wrote. If
you will take sheet of paper, write
your name on it, turn 1t upside down.
reverse the sheet and hold it up to the
light you will see what Mary Terry
sees when she has the pleasure of be-
holding your honorable signature.
Since the date of her discovery it has
been perpetual struggle for Miss Par
rish to keep pace with her pupils pc
culiar point of view, and after patient
effort, most praseworthy on the part
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-06-08
JUST LIKE TEMPERED COPPER.
New Combination of Metals Which IL
Expected to Be Very Useful.

By new process of rolling Massa-
chusetts genius has succeeded in at
tanning results that, so far as sheet
metal work is concerned, are almost
equal to what he would be able to ac-
complish If he had rediscovered the
secret of tempering copper. The Mas
sachusettts genius has succeeded, ac-
cording to the Cleveland Leader, in
getting Frank Rockefeller, brother Of
the president of the Standard Oil Com
pany, and himself a very rich man, in
terested in the matter.
The inventor has succeeded in max
ing sheets of seemingly pure copper of
wonderful thinness and with the
springiness, strength, and capacity for
being tempered that steel has. The
process consists in rolling a hot steel
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-06-08
Very Complimentary Advice.

Through carelessness on the part of
the committee of well-known London
club, and some deXterous wire pulling
by the Individual concerned, an ex-
ceedingly unpopular man contrived to
secure his election; but he soon made
himself generally obnoxious to his fell
low-members by continually posing
and staggering on the steps at the en-
trance.
One morning, not long after he had
taken up his customary position, a
prominent member of the club, whom
we will call Major Dash, came up the
steps, and In passing him said, with
quiet sarcasm:
81 say, X, could get subscrip-
tions to the tune of five hundred
pounds for you in the club II you
would only take your name off the
books"
k rushed off in a tremendous
rage to a friend Of his with the story
what do you think?" he shouted.
81 have been outrageously insulted by
that Major Dash. He has just said that
If l would take my name Off the club
books he would get up a subscription
of five hundred pounds for me. What
would you doT
well" replied his friend, '1f were
you, wouldn't take 1t. You stand out
a bit, and you'll get thousand"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-06-08

There is a T-year-old girl in Alviso,
Cal, who lives in a world all her own.
Nobody would want to share her world
with her, because it is topsy turvy
one-sO very topsy turvy that it makes
the head dizzy just to think about it.
Little Mary Terry sees everything bot
tomside up and backward. The ex-
periences that each day brings to this
child in real life are more remarkable
than those which befell Alice in Won
derland, for Alice was fiction and Mary
is fact.
This sole inhabtant of topsy turvey-
dom is the daughter of a Portuguese
rancher near Alvarado. For two years
she has ATTENDED the Alviso public
school, She is pretty child, shy and
graceful with rosy coloring and black
hair Her case puzzles the wise men
OF the West So far as is known, sim
liar instance has not been brought to
the attention Of science.
1t was nearly. year before her
teacher, Miss Carrie Parrish, discov-
cred the strange peculiarity of Mary.
L he first six months work in the re-
ceiying class consists mainly Of the
teaching of English. From the first
Mary appeared timid and seemed
slower of comprehension than the 9TH
er members of her class. Nobody
could understand why she did not
learn faster. For whole year her
strange hieroglyphics appeared utterly
meaningless to her teacher, who could
only wonder at their invariable incor-
rectness One day certain method
in their madness became apparent to
Miss Parrish. Then she discovered that
her little pupil was not only writing
everything upside down, but was re-
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-06-08

Wftted Children, Seing t!4y nearest ap-
3roach to this perversity of vision. In
cases of mirror writing, uncoasciously
produced as correct copy of ordinary
writing, paralysis of the right side is
often found.
A simple inversion of things, without
the accompanying reversion, is fairly
common conception, and the attempt
to conceive Of the various physical and
psychical phenomena consequent on
living in an upside down world, has
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-06-08
MONOPOLY IN CAeLE BUILDING.

England Alone Can Lay Telegraph
Lines Across the Great oceans.
There are no American makers of
ocean cable, so the insertion of clause
in the Pacific cable bill by the House
Committee on Commerce, providing
that "the cable shall he of American
make, and that the cable ships shall fly
the American flag" Is considered by
President Scrymser of the Pacific
Gable Company to be likely to affect
the rapldity and thoroughness Of the
work.
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SCrupulously Clean.

In the matter of personal cleanliness
the Filipino is equaled only by the Jap
anese. Men, women and children seem
to take pride in being clean yet their
houses are untidily kept, and they
make not even the simplest kinds of
sanitary arrangements.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-06-08

been made the subject of practical ex-
pertinent in San Francisco, when G.
NJ. Stratton, A. NJ, professor Of psy-
chology at Berkeley University, made
his famous looking-glass experiments.
But neither of these reached the unique
point Of view which is Mary Terry's
popularity. The other day at the
school, in looking at the words on the
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-06-08
Startling Follows the sparrow,

The English Startling has been
brought to New York and is domesti-
eating itself rapidly. Although intro
duced only year or two ago, 1t has
increased considerably in numbers and
in many Of the uptown streets its musi-
cal piping can be heard this spring.