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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-12-13
The Cloth of Ceremony.
Ito Be Continued

One of the Tibetans was dressed in
white, one in black, with square-cut
caps, Tartar physiognomy, very dark
compilations, and long pigtails, and
were well known to our people.
They approached us mNking many po-
lite bows, and, taking off their caps,
presented the cloth of ceremony, as
was becoming from interiors to supe-
riors. This is form which is uni
versal in Thibct, and extends into
China, though 1 do net remember ever
to have heard an explanation of the
custom. The cloth we received was of
cotton, badly woven, but of fine tex
ture, about the size of a small hand
kerchief, but so dirty as to show that
it had frequently performed similar
offices of ciyility before. The more
wealthy classes employ silk instead of
cotton cloths, the legend, "Om name
padme hum" being commonly woven
in damask at each end. The sale of
these cloths of ceremony, / was given
to understand, constituted govern
ment monopoly in this part of Thibet
Geographical Journal
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-12-13
RULED OFF THE TURF.
Eleven Residents of an Indiana Town
are Punished for Bold Fraud.

Chicago, Dec. 6.-The board of re-
view of the American Trotting asso-
citation, in annual meeting here We'd
nesday, investigated one of the most
extraordinary turf frauds ever per-
petrated, and at the close of the in
quiry issued an edict of expulsion
against II residents of Rushville, Ind.
The offense for which these people
were put outside the pale of reputable
turfdom-the sentence being effective
on tracks of the National association
as well as of the American is the
taking" of an entire day of alleged
trotting and pacing over the Rush
vile track on September 16, 1899, pro-
curing the admission of summaries of
the same in the official records of the
American association as well as the
year book of the American Trotting
Register association and then selling
and otherwise making use for gain
of the horses alleged to have made
fast records op the day in question.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-12-13
Opticians Latin.

Hiram had returned home from col,
lege, where he had won high honors
as student of the ancient languages,
out he "fell down" one day when his
sister, demure young girl in her
teens, asked him to translate a sign
she had seen in front of an opticians s
Office, which read thus:
"Con Sultu Sabo Utyo Urey Es"
Hiram struggled manfully with it
for several minutes, and gave it up.
ut isn't good Latin" he said. "There
are some words in it that are Latin,
but the Others are either wrong in
termination or are barbarisms from
other languages, and, taken as a
whole, it doesn't make sense"
THAT is what l said," rejoined his
sister, 'but Keturah, out in the ktch-
en-. translates it without any trouble
She says it means, Consult US about
your eyes,"
Whereupon Hiram collapsed. =
Youths Companion.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-12-13

But officers whose wives and children
prayed fearfully at night within the
puny wooden stockades, and listened
trembling to the howls and tom-toms
Of the dancing Indians around the
council fires in the neighboring valleys,
wished to heaven they had left those
dear ones in safety at their eastern
homes-wished to heaven they could
send them thither now, but well knew
that it was too late. Only as single
spies, riding by night, hiding by day,
were couriers able to get through
from the Big Horn to the Platte. Of
scouts and soldiers sent at different
times since the middle of May, seven
were missing, and never, except
through vague boastings of the In
dians, were heard of again.
ut is treacherous truce, I tell you"
said Folsom, with grave, anxious face,
to the colonel commanding Fort En-
ory. 81 have known Red Cloud 20
years. He's only waiting a few weeks
to see if the government will be fool
enough to send them breech-loaders
If it does, he'll be all the better able
to fight little later on. If it doesn't
he will make it his casus belli."
1t was nearly 300 miles by the wind
ing mountain road from Gate City to
Warrior Gap. Over hill and dale and
mountain pass the road ran to Frayne,
thence, fording the North Platte, the
wagon trains, heavily guarded, had to
drag over miles of dreary desert, over
shadeless slopes and divides to the dry
wash of the Powder, and by roads
deep in alllali dust and sage brush to
Cantonment Reno, where far to the
west the grand range loomed up
against the slly-another long days
march away to the nearest foothills,
to the nearest drinkable water, and
then, 40 miles further still, in the heart
of the grand pine-covered heights, was
the rock-bound gateway to lovely
park region within, called by the
SioGX some wild combination of al
Ieost npronounceable syllables, which,
freely translated, gave us Warrior
Gap, and there at last accounts,
strengthened by detachments from
Erayne and Reno, the little command
of fort builders worked away, AK in
hand, rifle at hand, subjected every
hour to alarm from the vedettes and
pickets posted thickly all about them.
pickets who were sometimes found
stone dead at their posts, transfixed
with arrows, scalped and mutilated,
and yet not once had Indians in any
force been seen by officers or man
about the spot since the day Red
Clouds whole array passed Brooks
troop on the Reno trail, peaceably
hunting buffalo. AN divil sowl in
the outfit" said old Sergt. Shaughnes-
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-12-13
CHAPTER V.

Mid June had come, and there was
the very devil to pay - so said the
scouts and soldiers up along the Big
Horn. But scouts and soldiers were
far removed from the states and cities
where news was manufactured, and
those were days in which our Indian
outbreaks were described in the press
long after, instead of before, their oc-
currence. Such couriers as had got
through Frayne brought dispatches
from the far-isolated posts along that
beautiful range, insisting that the
Sioux were swarming in every valley.
Such dispatches, when wired to Wash
ington and referred" to the depart
ment of the interior and re-referred to
the head of the Indian bureau, were
scoffed at as sensational.
"Our agentsreport the indians peace
ably assembled at their reservations.
tribution of supplies except those who
are properly accounted for as cut OH
their annual hunt" The Officers"
said the papers, "seem to take the real
Indian in every bush," and unpleasant
things were limited at the officers in
consequence.
Indians there certainly were in other
sections, and they were unquestion-
ably raising the devil along the
Smoky Hill and the Southern plains,
and there the interior department in
sisted that troops in strong force
should be sent. So, too, along the line
of the Union Pacific. Officials were still
nervous. Troops of cavalry camped at
intervals of forty miles along the line
even beyond. At Washington and
the great cities of the east, there
fore. there was no anxiety as to
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-12-13
THE WAR TAXES.
A Eill to Reduce Them by $4O,-
100000 Annually.
Nearly All of the stamp Taxes VIII be
Abolished, and "a Reduction i'm the
Rates Levied on beer Is Pro-
posed - To be Rushed
Through Congress by
Christmas.

Washington, Dec. 6.-Chairman
| Payne, of the ways and means COM
mittee, yesterday introduced the bill
reducing the taxation under the war
revenue act, after the republican
members of the committee had agreed
On the form of the measure and the
articles to receive the reduction of
| tax. 1t is intended to have the full
| committee act on the bill to-day and
to put it through the house before
| Christmas.
The bill provides an aggregate re-
| duction estimated at $40, ,000,34S.
The estimated reductions, in detail,
as given out by Mr.. Payne, are as
| follows:
Beer 50, S32, ,7l2, cigars $3,1s7,764, spe-
cial taxes (Section 3) commercial bro
kers $13S,2S1, custom house brokers
| 8,167, circuses S11,744, theaters $47,
IFS, exhibitions not otherwise provd
ed $S4,21S. Total special tax $2s7,-
$50.
Schedule A-Bank checks $1,000, 900,
certificates of deposit 100000, drafts,
inland. $500,000; promissory notes So
100000, postal orders $602,000, foreign
bills of exchange 100000. export bills
of lading 100000, express receipts
81 100000, telephone messages $315.-
900, bonds of indemnity S250,000 GER
titicates other than of profits S200,000,
charter party 100000, brokers' con-
tracts 100000, conveyances $3,O00,0OO,
telegraph dispatches 100000, insur-
ance $4,000, 900, leases 100000, mort
900, powers of attorney etc, 100000,
protests $4,000, warehouse receipts
S25O,0O0. Total in schedule A $22,-
242 900.
Schedule b, $4.54S,2s3; less wines
5000, ,000-$3, ,04S, ,2S3. Legacies, char
liable etc, $5OO,OOO; grand total $780,
00O,34
The bill provides a discount of 90
per cent. in the tax of So per barrel
on beer, in lieu of the present re per
cent. reduction, making the new rate
$1.60 per barrel.
The sections of the war revenue act
taxing commercial brokers, custom
house brokers, circuses, theaters and
other exhibitions are stricken out.
The rate on cigars is made So in
than three pounds per thousand.
Schedule A retains the stamp tax
on corporate stocks, bonds, etc. sales,
etc, at exchanges or boards of trade,
freight receipts, certificates of profits,
entry of goods at custom houses, and
entry for withdrawal of goods from
customs bonded warehouses. With
these exceptions, the stamp taxes un-
der schedule \ are struck out.
Schedule b, which requires stamps
on proprietary medicines and prepar-
ations, perfumery and cosmetics,
chewing gum, etc, is amended so
that sparkling or other wines are the
only products requiring stamps.
The bill provides for redeeming
revenue stamps heretofore issued and
| not used.
The concluding section provides
that the act shall take effect 80 days
after its passage.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-12-13
CRAZY IMMIGRANTS.
More Stringent Legislation Is Needed
to Keep Them Out of This Country.

Washington, Dec. 6.-Goodwin
Brown, prominently connected with
the hospitals for the insane of New
York, yesterday cohtended before the
industrial commission that vigorous
legislation was necessary to protect
the country from the influx of insane
immigrants. He declared that while
25 per cent. of the population of the
state of New York was foreign born,
quite so per cent. of the patients in
the hospitals for the insane in that
state were foreign born. He was
not prepared to say that there was "a
concerted effort on the part of for
eign countries to unload their insane
upon the United States, but it was an
incontrovertible fact that many of
the foreign insane get into this coun-
try. He said the foreign born In
sane was costing the state of New
York over $1,000,0O0 a year.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-12-13

the possible fate of those little
garrisons, with their helpless charge
of women and children, away up
in the heart of the Sioux country. But
at Laramie and Frayne and Emory, the
nearest frontier posts; at Cheyenne,
Omaha and Gate City the anxiety was
great. When John Folsom said the In
dians meant war of determination
people west of the Missouri said:
Withdraw those garrisons while
there is yet time, or else send five
thousand troops to help them" But
people east of the Missouri said: "Who
the devil is John Folsom? What does
he know about it? Here's what the In
dian agent says, and that's enough" !"
and people east of the Missouri being
vastly in the majority, neither wore
the garrisons relieved nor the reen-
forcements sent. What was worse,
John Folsom's urgent advice that they
discontinue at once all work at War
rior Gap and send the troops and la
borers back to Reno was pooh-poohed.
"The contracts have been let and
signed. The material is all on its way.
We can't back out now," said the of
ficials. "Sendrunners to Red Cloud and
get him to talk. Promise him lot of
presents. Yes, if he must have them,
tell him he shall have breech-loaders
and copper cartridges-to shoot buffa-
10 with of course. Promise him pretty
much anything to be good and keep his
hands off little longer till we get that
fort and the new agency buildings fin
ished, and then let him do what he
likes"
Such were the instructions given the
commissioners and interpreters hurried
through Gate City and Frayne, and on
up to Reno just within the limit fixed
by Folsom. Red Cloud and his chiefs
came in accordingly, arrayed in pomp,
paint and finery, shook hands grimly
with the representatives of the Great
Father, critically scanned the prof
fered gifts, disdainfully rejected the
muzzle-loading rifles and old dragoon
horse-pistols heaped before him. Got
heap better" was his comment, and
nothing but brand new breech-
leaders would serve his purpose.
Promise them and he'd see what could
be done to restrain his young men.
But they were pretty mad" he said,
and couldn't be relied upon to keep
the peace unless sure of getting better
arms and ammunition to help them
break it next time. 1t was only tenn
porizing. 1t was only encouraging the
veteran war chief in his visions of pow
er and control. The commissioners
came back bearning. Everything salts
factorily arranged. Red Cloud and his
people are only out for a big hunt"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-12-13

Mr.. Isaac Brock. of McLennan county.
Tex, has attained the great age of Ill years,
having been born in 1888. He is an ardent
friend to Peruna and speaks of it in the
following terms:
During my long life 1 have known a
great many remedies for coughs, colds, ca
tarrh and diarrhoea. | had always supposed
these affections to be different diseases, but
l have learned from DR.. Hartman's books
that these affections are the same and are
properly called cataprh
"As for DR.. Hartman's remedy, Peruna,
I have found it to be the best, if not the
only reliable remedy for these affections.
"Pc.Una E'ss bcns, .-..'stand- by Fc1
many years, and attribute my ySod
health and my extreme age 10 fhEs
remedy. IL exactly n7oefs all ray
requirements.
Il have come to rely upon it almost en-
tirely for the many little things for which I
need medicine. believe it to be especially
valuable to old people," Issac Brock
Catarrh is the greatest enemy of old age.
person entirely free from catarrh is sure
to live to hale and hearty old age. A free
book on catarrh sent by The Peruna Medi-
cine Co., Columbus. o.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-12-13
Cages Estimates.

Washington, Dec. 6.-The secretary
of the treasury has sent to congress
the annual estimates of the expenses
for the government for the coming
year. They aggregate $626, ,762, IL
slight decrease from the estimates
last year. The appropriations for
the present year are 1886, 6,655, 1862. The
estimates cover every branch of gov
ernment service. The war depart
ment estiJAate is $176,65S,345 and the
navy department $SS,913, ,24S. The
total for rivers and harbors is $685.
ss1, ,317. The total for pensions Is
st44. .OOO. 900,
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-12-13
y, that hadn't his tongue In hi.

check"
For three months that hard-worked
troop had been afeld, and the time
had passed and gone when its young
first lieutenant had hoped for leave
to go home to see the mother and Jess.
His captain was still ailing and unfit
for duty in saddle. He could not and
would not ask for leave at such a
time, and yet at the very moment when
he was most earnestly and faithfully
doing his whole duty at the front
slander was busy with his name long
miles at the rear.
Something was amiss with Burleigh.
said his cronies at Gate City. He had
come hurrying back from the hills,
had spent day in his office and not a
cent at the club, had taken the night
express unbeknown to anybody but
his chief clerk, and gone hurrying
eastward. 1t was a time when his
services were needed at the depot, too.
Supplies, stores, all manner of ma.
terial were being freighted from Gate
City over the range to the Platte ana
beyond, yet he had wired for authority
to hasten to Chicago on urgent per-
sonal affairs, got it and disappeared.
Ayoung regimental quartermaster was
ordered in from Emory to take charge
of shipments and sign invoices during
Rurleigh's temporary absence, and the
cnly other officer whom Burleigh had
seen and talked with before his start
was the venerable post commander.
One after another the few cavalry
troops (companies) on duty at Emory
had been sent afield until now only
one was left, and three days after Bur-
leigh started there came a dispatch
from department headquarters direct
ing the sending of that one to Frayne
at once. Capt. Brooks troop, owing
to the continued illness of its com
mander, would be temporarily with
drawn and sent back to Emory to re-
place it.
Marshall Dean did not know whether
to be glad or sorry. Soldier from top
to toe, he was keenly enjoying the
command of his troop. He gloried in
mountain scouting, and was in his ele-
ment when astride a spirited horse.
Then, too, the air was throbbing with
rumors of Indian depredations along
the northward trails, and everything
pointed to serious outbreak any mo-
ment, and when it came he longed to
be on hand to take his share and win
his name, for with SUCH troop his
chances were better for honors and
distinctions than those of any young
ster he knew. Therefore he longed to
keep afield. On the other hand the
visit paid by Jessie's school friend,
litth "Pappoose" Folsom, was to be
returned in kind. John Folsom had
begged and their mother had consent
ed that after a week at home Jess
should accompany her beloved friend
on II visit to her far western home.
They would be escorted as far as Oma-
ha, and there Folsom himself would
meet them. His handsome house was
ready, and, so said friends who had
been invited to the housewarming,
particularly well stocked as to larder
and cellar. There was just one thing
on which Gate City gossips were en-
abled to dilate that was not entirely
satisfactory to Folsom's friends, and
that was the new presiding goddess
of the establishment
Ito Be Continued
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-12-13
The Census of 1900.

A booklet giving the population of all
over according to the census of 1900, has
just been issued by the passenger depart
ment of the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
Railway, and a copy of it may be obtained
by sending your address, with two-cent
stamp to pay postage, to the General Passen-
ger Agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul Railway, Chicago, Iii.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-12-13
Higher Education of Women.

"She managed to keep her cook more
than week after the cook decided to
leave!"
"I'm not surprised At college her
blocking gandinterferenc were thought
quite phenomenal" indianapolis
Journal.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-12-13
ExcursIon sIeepers Via NJ. *. &T.Rz.

Weekly Excursion Sleepers leave st. Loui,
via Katy Flyer (M X. G. T. Ry.) every Tues
day at 8: 10 p. M for San Antonio, Los An
geles and San Francisco.
Weekly Excursion S!eepers leave Kansas
City via the NJ. X. & I. Ry. every Saturday
at 9:05 p. m. for San Antonio, Los Angeles
and San Francisco.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-12-13
Awful Willie.

Featherstone-What keeps your Sis
ter so long, Willie?
Her Awful Little Brother-She's put
ting on the finest clothes she has.
Featherstone-What that for?
Her Awful Little Brother-She said
she was going to land you tonight if
it could be done.-Tit-Bits
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-12-13
What shan we Have for Dessert,

This question arises every day. Let US an
swer it to-day. Try Jell-O, delicious and
healthful Prepared in two minutes. No
boiling! no baking! add boiling water and
set to cool. Flavors: s:-Lemon, Orange, Rasp-
berry, Strawberry. At your grocers. l0c.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-12-13

Real Patriot,-Friend-" YOU love
your country" Poitician-"Y You bet I do.
I've held a government job for ~ years. -
Syracuse Herald.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-12-13

It is said that an artist at work on Bibli.
cal history undertook to make sketch of
",Rebecca at the well" but he couldn't draw
the water-Chicago Daily News.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-12-13

Yer no thrue an pathriotic Amurican,"
mo more are you!" ''Thot Oi am! | got
me papers jest befure iliction an voted loiks
mOn.'-Indianapolis News.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-12-13

Kemp's Balsam will stop the Cough at
once. Go to your druggist to-day and get
sample bottle free. Large bottles 25 and so
cents. Go at once: delays are dangerous.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-12-13

1t is hard to do, of course; still, you can
be fooled. d.-Atchison Globe.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-12-13

To Cure a Cold in One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
druggists refund money if itfails to cure 25c.
knowledge comes with what we learn;
wisdom, with what we unlearn.-Judge
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-06-09
RED MEN.

The hall OF Tahoma Tribe was well
filled Tuesday eveninato see the popu-
lar warriors degree team from Mosh-
assack Tribe under the supervision OF
Past sachem Scott. confer that inter
esting degree upon a class of nine can
didates. The work was. dore in most
impressive and interesting manner. A
number OF applications for membership
were received and at the meeting Tues
day evening they will be given the
adoption degree and at the meeting Of
Tuesday. June 49, will, with
the class that received the warri-
or's degree Tuesday evening be raised
TO the chiefs degree. At the termina-
tion of the work short talks were made
by some of the great chiefs and a col
lation was served.
Canonchet Tribe had work I'm the
adoption degree Thursday evening.
The session OF Woonasquatucket Tribe
Thursday evening was well attended
and the warriors degree was conferred
upon three candidates and one applica-
tion for membership was received.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-06-09
SONS OF TEMPERANCE.

On Friday evening the last regular
meeting of Excelsior division. No. 16.
S. of ", was held in Arnold post hall.
with 80 members present, and a num-
ber of visitors from Eastern Star of
Capitol HILL Prov, and VIM. of Paw
tucket div. All officers were present
except the assistant scribe, and the
treasurer, and the Scripture lesson was
given by Worthy Chaplain Frank j.
Potter. Two propositions were received,
making eight candidates and an in
itiation of two new members was had,
under the direction of the worthy pa
triarch Malcolm Mc0ann. Brother
Charles Higgins was reported as i'm
proving in health by the q. w. p, Peck.
who had called on him. Sisters Adah
and Alice Marshall and Sister Harvey
were reported as having gone away for
the summer. Under the head or the
good OF order" interesting remarks
were made by Grand Worthy Patriarch
Allan r. Peck OF Grand Division of r.
L., and Past Worthy Patriarch Will
liam Lowry OF VIM. Penn of Pawtucket.
Readings were given by the Sisters
Munroe and Brother Potter and Supt.
of Y. p. W. Mrs. Mary +. Potter of
Providence. Two recitations were given
by Brother Lowry OF William Penn di-
vision and a recitation by Sister Sadie
Read.