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Small Men Live Longest.

One of the most interesting and trustworthy statements in respect to old age is the report on the habits of centenarians, made some years ago ly commission appointed by the British Medical association, It seems that most of these people were small or me. ,:ium of stature and spare habit ol body; the voice was rather feeble; most of them had lost their teeth. but nearly all enjoyed good digestion, one old man of 9S, clergyman, placing his hand on the organ in Gaestion and saying that he never knew what it was to have stomach. Nearly all of them had enjoyed uninterrupted good health, and many had never known what it moderate in eating, most af them using little animal food. Few indllged at all in intoxicating drinks, and those only In notable moderation. They took considerable outdoor exercise and nearly all possessed the good patured, placid disposition.
 Mrs. Fremont Permanently Crippeo.
 Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont. who is now in her sixty-ninth year, is living in Los Angeles. She is permanently crippled. as the resul. of an accident she met with early in tho summer.
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Cage fu- 45oners.
1o1ph there are still ma

Though there are still many par ishes in En and where the remains Of village stocks" may be seen, it is doubtful whether there exists any where else two such relics of o!d-time punishmentS as those which stand side by side near the ehurehyard of Roydon, Essex. Not only can this village boast of it's ancient stocks, but the old prisoners cage" or lookup still remains intact with the exception Of the changes which time has wrought upon its woodwork. Two massive iron bars With large padlocks still guard the doors or this cid structure and though of course it is many years since any prisoner was confined therein, the owners of the property are very jealous that the relics should be preserved and needless to say, many strangers who find their way to Roydon are greatly interested in these local an. tiquities.
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ORATORICAL CONTEST.
Between a Colored Lad and a White
 Girl at Ann Arbor.

ANN ARBOR, MICH, March 21- A fair coed and bright colored lad were the representatives of the uni versity of Michigan in an oratorical contest today in the annual de- bate of the Northern Oratorical League. Eugene J. Marshall is ne- gro student who is working his way through the college by serving meals in the Sigma Phi Fraternity House Marshall is after a degree of law and stoutly declares that he will be a sec Ond Douglas He won his right to contest in the finals by winning in the freshman law class debate. And the fair coed? She is Miss Mabel Joy, whose home is in Albion, Michl- gan She was somewhat averse to ap- bearing with a colored student at first, but Marshalls modesty and quick wit have overcome her objections and to- day they Were together on the plat form Miss Joy did not gain her honor without effort and she was forced to debate a number of times before be- ing selected for the final trials. Her last contest was in the senior literary class
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LUCKY PUPILS.
No Partial Payments" in Philadelphia's
 Public Schools

Public Schools.
 The school children of today have a great many advantages over those of few years ago, but there's not one chronicled that has brought as much regret to former pupils as change recently introduced into the public schools of Philadelphia By it's prob lens in compound interest, customs and partial payments are abolished. The head of the school system in the Quaker City is very sensibly of the opinion that not one child in a thou sand ever has occasion in later life to use the specified problems, and so these lucky youngsters escape them altogether, says the Baltimore News. Anyone who has toiled over a partial payment example; who has filled both side5 of slate with it; who has sigh- ed over it, and worked over it, and wept over it, and has finally gotten an answer that differed from that in the book-sometimes by mere bagatelle of $200 or S300-can appreciate the good fortune of the scholars. They also cases their own struggles With figures that wouldn't add correctly and that wouldn't multiply at all might have been spared them to the improvement of their tempers and tbeir nerves and without injury to their intelligence.
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GA ASTORIA Bears the 1 The Kind You Have Always Bought signature as &x2NzzM
Declines to Answer Yet

Congressman $. Brunbridge and Nr k, B. Willis. of Searcy, returned home yesterday afternoon after consulting With lion, J. H. Langford and others. owners of the burned Speers-Lang ford Military Institute. relative to the rebuilding of the institute at Searcy. MT. Langford informed a Graphic re- porter that the citizens of Searcy have offered him Inducements to rebuild the school there he has given them no answer just now.
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CASTORIA
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Y. M. c A. Notes.

II you have boys and they are not members of the Y. VI. C. A. see that they join. The physical training they will get in the gymnasium will help to deFeiope them and add materially to the length of their lives.
 In order to fit the gymnasium up with the latest apparatus the manage ment are booking benefit attractions
 Edmund Vance Cooke, the celcbrat- ed authof-actor will appear at Merrill Institute March 27th, and you are all invited to Take Pot Luck With a Poet"
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Funeral of the Late John Tanner,

The special train carrying the many friends of the late John W. Tanner. re turned from the Young place at 5.30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon. They attended the funeral which occurred at that place at l o'clock Wednesday afternoon. It was one of the most largely attended funerals that has ever occurred in thqt section of the county and was i.,.9 assively conduct. ed by Rev. ". D Pnckner. of this city. The remains weie inferred in the family burial grc"ads on the Young place and hundreds of hand some floral emblems were laid upon his last resting place. The pail bearers were: Active-Wade H
 Knox, Mo Levine, Doc Baldwin. John Hutt, c. G. Loving, Oscar Spellman
 Il. w. Wesner and John F. Sennett. Honorary-L. w Clement. Alex Dry. burgh, J. B. Trulock, R. H. Stearns
 c. w. Wesner and J. F. Clemmons
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GA g 8ToRIA Bears the The Kind You Have Always Bought Signature ss &xHZzzzu

Messrs. Chas. E. Schell and J. F. Chiffon, of Little Rock, are in the city
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-12-19
A WEAPONLESS HUNTER.
WOOdsman Who ChOlScs Bears and.
Wildcats to Death, and Hunts
Small Game with stones.

Bob Brown, of Fox Hollow, is a
woodsman who gets much game, yet
uses neither gun nor knife, nor any
other weapon except occasionally "a
club or stone, says the New York
Sun.
He has a record of choking bears to-
death, and even a wildcat is among
his trophies that he bagged in that
way His manner of hunting bears is
to trail one to It's feeding grounds, get
to the windward of it, creep stealthily
upon it, and, when near enough, throw
q horse blanket or sometimes his coat.
over it's head.
While the bear is blinded and it's
forepaws entangled in it, Brown
jumps in, finds the bears windpipe
with his right hand, clutches it with "A
grip like a wise, and actually chokes
the bear to death. At least, he has
succeeded in killing two in this way.
One of them weighed over 200 pounds,
and one was a 110-pounder.
The wildcat that Brown choked to-
death leaped at him from a hollow
stump where she had kittens CON
cealed. Brown, who is a powerful
man, seized her by the throat while
she was still in the air and held her
at arms length until she was dead,
with her hind legs drawn clear up to
her breast.
He killed a wildcat once with sin
gle blow of his fist, crushing the ami
mails skull.
Ruffed grouse, or partridge, as they
are called by the natives, will tree
when flushed if they hear the barking
of dog. Brown hunts partl.idges by
initiating the bark of a whiffet, when
the birds rise.
When they tree he brings them
down with stones, with which his aim
is almost unerring. He is said to be
able also to kill running rabbit by
stone throwing.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-12-19
CELTICISMS ON THE STAND.
Funny Sayings of Irish Witnesses
While Undergoing the Custom
ary Examinations.

Lawyers with an appreciative sense
of humor enjoy nothing so much as to
get a quick-witted, ready -tongued
son of the Emerald Isle on the stand
to relieve the monotony of the legal
technicalities of a case. A gentle,
man who has been collecting samples
of Irish wit and repartee for some
time relates the following anecdotes
says the Baltimore Sun. Some of
them are doubtless mellow with age,
but in any case th.y will bear repeti-
ton:
Are you guilty or not guilty?"
asked the court clerk of prisoner
charged with some trivial offense.
'Phat are yees there for but to
foind out?" was the quick rejoinder.
henpeclled usband had his bet
ter half arrested for assaulting him.
The plaintiff was on the stand.
And now, Mr.. O'Toole," said his
counsel, will you kindly tell the jury
whether your wife was in the habit
of striking you with impunity?"
"Wid what, sor?"
with impunity."
"She wuz, sor, now an then; but
she ginerly used th' potaty masher."
a witness testifying in murder
case was asked to describe to the jury
the exact location of a fight of stairs.
Explain to the jury" said the
prosecuting attorney, exactly how
the steps run"
'Shure, sir, if ye shtand at tn bot
tom they run up, an if ye shtand at
tn top they run down."
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-12-19
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Statistics of Atchison county, Kan,
show that of the 16,501 people living
there 12,143 have never attended Sun
day school.
Rev. Samuel Scoville, the son-in-layv
of Henry Ward Beecher, has become
associate pastor with DR.. Hills, OF
the Plymouth church in Brooklyn.
The bishop of London said recent
ly in talking of the poverty of the
clergy that 4,566 livings average $3.50
year, and no fewer than t,24I
benefices were worth only $325 per
annum.
Rev. Richard Lewis Howell, one of
the best known Episcopal clergymen
of Washington, ID. c., has a project
for the erection of magnificent edi-
flee in that city to serve as meeting
place for the communicates of al re-
ligious denominations.
Nearly 1000 men and women are
employed to conduct summer vaca-
tion schools and Fairgrounds in the
boroughs of Manhattan and the
Bronx. Last summer more than 1OO,-
600 boys and girls were in more or
less constant attendance.
In the future Boston's public school
buildings are to contain well-appoint-
ed bathrooms. The impulse was given
two years ago, when the Paul Re-
we're school was erected, and now
bathrooms are to become a regular
| adjunct of the public school system.
Carrie Nation the other evening lee
tured to large audience in Marietta,
o., under the direction of II. j. Con-
rath, saloon keeper, and Joe
Bruner, pugilist. In answer to crit
icisms on her appearance under such
management Mrs. Nation said:
"Neither the w. c. T. u. nor the
churches would bring me here, but
these men did, and | am grateful to
! them"
President Eliot, of Harvard, insists
that the school-teachers spend alto
gether too much time trying to teach
arithmetic to young children. In his,
Twentieth Century club lecture he
told of a naughty boy who was told
| by his mother that he must either
do as she told him or leave the room.
The boy thought for a moment and
then remarked: That's fair" Il
would give more for that judicial
comment for it's effect on the boys
later life" said President Eliot, than.
for any amount of accurate figuring"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-12-19
MILES OF Jo8-LoT BOOKS.
Vast Numbers of Volumes in London
Library StOreroOms That
Are n Drug.

One of the most curious sights in
London is that provided by the cellars
and storerooms of the great circulat-
ing library firms, who have literally
miles-nearly 20 miles in one case
of shelves of once more or less fash
ionable books that may be bought now
for few coppers apiece, says the New
York Herald.
To show how uncertain is the fate
of any book that may be issued, it
may be saiu that in a vast number of
cases there are often in these cata-
combs hundreds of copies of one book,
the latter less than three years ago
having been read by thousands of peo-
pie, though absolutely a drug in the
market now.
In great number of instances, too,
the books now offered at a few cop
pers-published at C 12s, Cd. original
ly-have never been issued by the Ii
brary or read by a single being, al
though written by a supposedly noted
author.
The libraries throughout the coun-
try, from second down to twentieth
rate, having been supplied from these
many miles of shelves, millions of nov
els issued during the last few years
remain, and tons of them are periodic
ally carried off to the paper makers, to
reappear as bright, virgin sheets, and
very likely to revisit once again the
literary dead house of one of the Ii
braries. Sometimes, however, these
catacombs yield treasures.
An author, hitherto unrecognized,
writes a book that goes with swing,
and that brings him fame at once, and
then people discover that many unread
stories by him are mouldering in
library cellars.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-12-19
KITCHEN WALLS.
Should he Covered with Tile Paper
to He Kept Constantly in
Good Order

l want to speak word for
the desirability of enameled or
tile paper for bathrooms and
kitchen walls, says Anne Warner, in
Good Housekeeping. The friend who
recommended it to me is still enjoy
ing her kitchen paper in its ninth
year of service, and mine is in its
fourth and has been washed twice
every year. The secret is this:
When it is first put on have a coat
of good varnish laid over it. This
will render it impervious to water
along the edges and the line where
the paper is matched and where it
soon shows wear without this bit of
"know how" In washing, use warm
water and soap, or little soda, if
the walls are badly smoked, and a
soft flannel. Clean, spot at a time,
quickly and lightly and wipe dry be-
fore proceeding. Do not wet large
surface and leave soaking and expect
good results. The original expense.
and the outlay of strength and pa
thence in care, are considerably less
than an oil paint finish exacts. |
prefer not to have the ceiling pa
pered but calsomined when neces-
sary, until some one invents and APP
plies to humanity the facilities en-
ioyed by flies for keeping COM
Portable working position upon it.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-12-19

Through the glistening glory of moonlit air
When frost through the night was steal
ing,
rode to the rush of glorious pair
One night long ago, with my beautiful
Claire,
AS the Christmas bells were pealing.
The night was sparkling, sharp and still,
The snow held the earth in its keeping,
While under its mantle DER vale and hill,
BY the banks of each river and ice-bound
rill
The unblossomed flowers were sleeping.
Roy Griffith was out with his dappled grays,
And Fanny Cremorne in his cutter.
And wild Willie Ford with his blooded bays,
And that dashing beauty. Miss Kate Du-
Pays,
trife too utterly utter
Now a gray grows white and a bay horse
fades,
But mine showed beauty and breeding.
For Ronald was black as the queen of
spades,
And Lais still blacker by several shades.
AND bred with view to speeding.
And the face by my side was the loveliest
far,
Like dream, through It's fur wraps show
ing.
All, never shone sun, ror moon, nor star
And never broke wave over crystalline bar
With the light in those dark ewes glowing.
And never sang seraph a sweeter strain
Ihan the song of her ripping laughter;
And never field of golden grain
folloRed the breeze like a soft refrain
AS her echoing smile followed after;
And never breathed spirit of light and air
with grace so winning and tender:
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-12-19
SLOT MACHINE CHARMED HER.
She Had Been bitterly Opposed t.
Gambling Until Her Husband
Won "a Dollar.

"One of the most decided and
quickest changes from a pronounced
stand that ever came to my atten-
ton | noted in the case of my wife
while we were on a vacation trip re-
GENTLY" remarked a well-known To-
cal official. Ever Alce we have been
married Mrs. C. has been unalter-
ably opposed to gambling in any
form. The mere mention of the word
caused her to shudder. While stroll
ing about a summer resort a few
weeks ago we passed one of those
machines that bear sign inviting
all who pass to drop a nickel in the
slot. The inducement is the possibil-
ity of the coin dropped striking a
channel that will result in the drop
per receiving an amount varying
from one dollar to $3.50 in nicllels as
a return from the inveS tment. But
the dropped coin follows winning
passage about once in a lifetime.
More for the sake of witnessing
my wife experience a momentary
chill than for any other reason [
suddenly halted in front of the ma
chine | spoke of and parted with a
five-cent piece. Vastly to my sur
prise, 20 nicltels slipped from the ma
chine. The event of a lifetise had
actually come to pass. But more re-
markable was the transformation of
Mrs. G.. Without a word she took
possession of my winnings, deposited
them, and when they were gone bor-
rowed a dollar more in small change
from me and placed all of it in the
slot She next called for more.
Thereupon / protested.
But I'll surely win $3.50 if I keep
on trying" she eXpostulated.
"'Iou won't try with my money,
though" | declared. Since this little
occurrence, says the Washington
Star, Mrs. G. has not discoursed
on the evils of gambling.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-12-19
GERMAN ARMY AND NAVY.
Rules and Regulations That Govern
officers and Men of That
Country.

Army and navy officers in Germany
are not allowed to marry unless they
have certain private income and
must make a deposit of 10000 marks
cash 7,500) with the government be-
fore the marriage can take place,
writes William f. Curtis, in the Chi
cago Record-IIerald. This is depos-
tied to their credit in the public treas
ury, and they receive three per cent.
interest a year. At the death of the
officer the principal is refunded to his
family. The purpose of this rule is to
protect the government from the bur
den of destitute officers families, and
also to protect the officer aga nst
court-martial, for the regulations pro-
hibit him from incurring debts. When
an officer gets into debt he must re-
sign or go before court-martial, and
if he cannot show that his misfortune
was unavoidable and due to circum-
stances over which he had no control,
he will be dismissed from the service.
If the debts have been incurred for
reasons which he could not prevent,
they are paid out of the deposit to
his credit and the amount is deduct
ed from his pay in installments.
The privates in the German army
get no pay at all. By the constitution
of the empire every German capable
of bearing arms is enrolled in the
standing army or navy for six years
from the twentieth to the twenty
seventh year of his age, although he
is liable to be called upon at the com
pletion of his seventeenth year. OF
these six years, two must be spent in
active service in the infantry and ar
| tillery, and three in the cavalry, and
the remaining years in the army of
the reserve. During this time the sol
dier receives allowances for food and
clothing and the other necessaries of
life. He is also given beer and tobacco
from the commissary, and if he is
economical can commute his rations
into cash and thus acquire a little
spending money. The soldiers of the
| United States army, who receive $13
month, are the best paid in the
world. Those of the British army,
who receive a shilling day, are next.
The pay of the officers of the Ger
man army is very small, and no one
can obtain q commission unless he
has a sufficient private fortune to
yield him an income of at least 500
marks ($125) a year. Captains re-
ceive about the same compensation as
second lieutenants of infantry in the
United States, and officers of the low
er grades even less in proportion. A
second Lieutenant in the German army
receives less than a commissary SER
geant or a hospital steward in the
United States. The Germans get
marks where our officers get dollars
mark being 25 cents. Army officers
in Germany, however, have privileges
that civilians do not enjoy. They are
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-12-19

The London city council have tun-
neled under the Thames, reconstructed
bridges, demolished many streets,
provided parks and music for the
masses, and are anxious to add serv-,
ice of free steamboats, and hope to buy
up all the water companies whenever
parliament will grant the requisite
powers. Not satisfied with these enter
prises,, it is now suggested that the fog
tiend should be localized, run to earth
and deprived of his asphyxiating ter
rors. As a commencement it is only
proposed to spend e250 on an expert
mental investiga tions. When prelim-
inaries are completed fogs may cease
as soon as the Essex marshes are re-
claimed, the river diverted and smoky
chimneys suppressed. These cannot
be called trifling obstacles, but with
ambitious councillors on the job there
is sure to be big effort made to over
come them.-N. y. Sun.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-12-19
WHERE is THE RoER GENERAL.

entitled to half fare for themselves
and their families on all the railways,
like clergymen in the United States;
they are given half rates at most of
the hotels and restaurants, and dis
count from the regular prices at the
shops, usually from 10 to 30 per cent.
They have half rates at the theaters
and operas, but at the royal opera no
officer is allowed to appear in uniform
unless he occupies box or seat in the
parquet or in the first row of the first
balcony.
The regular garrison of Berlin is
10000 troops, which, with the general
staff and the various bureaus, gives
the city a large military population,
and nearly every third person you
meet on the street wears uniform.
During an hours walk on the prin-
cipal streets the other day 1 met 28
generals.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-12-19

We had won. We had won?with my brain
all aswirl,
But my heart most blissfully singing;
For through all the desperate rush and
whrl
knew that that dear little, sweet little girl
Was close to me, close to me clinging.
OF course, / was tired after the race,
And my heart in terrible fiutter.
So | pulled down the blacks to moderate
pace
And sat while my right hand held them in
place,
with my left on the back of the cutter.
And then, as the heavens were not quite
clear,
And the chains of love were clanking,
Myarm crept along on the seat, by the rear,
And slyly, with doubling and many a fear,
Strove to capture my captor, by thanking.
I2ut Claire was awake with her vdettes out
And soon had the enemy routed.
twas merely whisper have no doubt,
BUT it seemed as If earth and air about
With a thousand voices shouted.
.Do you think 1t quite safe" Qn tone very
grand,
"single handed to drive with lady?
I'm sure, sir, you'd better take two-and-
and
think that perhaps-I could-lend you a
hand,
AS l see you have only one ready"
AS that last low whisper flew off into space
And my darling grew scared into coldness,
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-12-19
A Helpful Hint,

If your wooden dresses look dread
fully creased and wrinlled after
packing, try the following plan, and
don't, however, if you are tempted,
try to iron the creases out. Instead
dip a clean piece of stuff of the same
material as the dress, if you have it,
in hot water. Wiring it slightly and
sponge the creased places with it.
Then hang the dress in the open air,
tut not in the sun, and the creases
will disappear as it dries.-Washing-
ton Star.