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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-12-25
THE MAN WHO SWORE OFF.
He Is Deserving of Respect and En-.
cOEraEement.

The world, if it knows its business.
will doff its hat to the man who
swore off New Years day. Notwith-
standing the outlaws of the crowd
at the bar when they hear about it,
that man, says the Chicago Daily
News, is worthy of respect and en-
couragement. Having the desire to
mend his ways, he has braved the
JestS of his associates, the sneers of
those whose unworthy methods he
hopes to torsake, and the curious
glances of casual acquaintance, in
order to exercise his will in resist
ing evil habits. His militant man
hood is worthy of praise So, for
your own sake as well as for his.
do not laugh or sneer at him or
take a patronizing attitude toward
him because of your well-known and
unassailable virtue. Express conf
dence in him and help him to stick
to his good intentions.
Why should not one resolve to for
sake ones bad habits on the first
day of the year? Why should not
one resolve to forsake them on any
other day? Having made the resolve
and entered upon the effort neces-
sary to carry it out, why should one
be the subject Of iests, since there is
nothing foolish nor dishonorable in
trying to improve ones methods of
life? If the school of experience
teaches valuable lessons, as every
one knows it does, why should not
one profit by these lessons? Habit
is mainly a relic of youth and ig-
norance, so far as it is not formed
on good models or by the firm hands
Of wise elders. To improve ones hab-
its from year to year is the valuable
privilege of the man or the woman
who has been learning lessons in the
worlds academy of hard knocks. To
take no advantage of those lessons
is to write ones self down a fool.
Pity, therefore, the man or the wom-
an who never swears off.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-12-25
GOod-By, Old Year

The minutes are flying, the Old Year IL
dying,
The time will soon come when the o.o
clock will chime,
When the year, bent and gray, will psss
quickly away,
And the New Year will come in the foot
prints of time.
Old Year, you will go as you came, in the
snow;
For that emblem of childhood is waiting
for all;
And when in old age you will pass from
life's stage,
The snowhakes will cover the place
where you fall.
For many you hold what is dearer than
gold;
We will never forget you, although you
have fled.
For the New Year is here, and so good by.
Old Year;
We will number you now with the years
that are dead.
Marguerite M Hillery Gage 1D, in St.
Nicholas
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-12-25
DRESSING THE TREE.
How 1t May BE Done to Secure the
Rest Effects

The Woman's Home Companion
gives some hints on decorating a
Christmas tree safely. 1t is well
known that when tapers are fixed
to the laden branches, after the
gifts are taken off the lightened
boughs spring up and often set each
other on fire. The mode indicated
here avoids all that.
First" says the Companion, "thin
cut the branches sufficiently to al
low the gifts to show TO good ad-
vantage. Then with an auger bore
holes in spiral row about four
or five inches apart the whole length
Of the trunk. Have some fiat sticks
prepared, an inch wide and half an
inch thick, and of varying lengths.
Sharpen one end, and insert them
according to their graduated lengths,
giving each a blow or two with a
hammer TO insure it's being firmly
fixed. Paint them green. At the
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-12-25

In Norway, the cold northern land,
the Hnd-hearted people wish to have
every creature rejoice at the glad
season, and they think of
the dear little birds; so there is al
ways sheaf of wheat fastened high
on pole in every farmyard. that
the birds may enjoy Il good dinner
of grain, and the little Norwegian
children are Santa Claus helpers.
when they help to bring Christmas to
the birds.-Dctroit Free Press.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-12-25

Meadowbrook-How fine this world
would be if we should all keep the
good resolutions we make on New
Years day, instead of breaking them
all within week.
Hempstead-Nes! | guess the few
days after New Years, each year,
will be about as near as we will
ever get to the millennium.-Bro
lyn Eagle.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-12-25
Christmna EtInnette.

No holIuay joy can be complete to
those who have not tried to make
other hearts happier. This is Christ
mas iquette.-Ladies' Home Journal.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-12-25

An dad. he looked so happy. an
mother Sn1iiin' 80
NY! bur they tOas a happy pair!
Them days tOe didn'f knot0
Wbof CbriSfmas day could mean fer
them. bar notO I 6ueSs t0e do.
Since eOe'Ve Sot youn9SferS O. our otOn.
or feIer. me an you:
An so fb' sOorid's lots brighter nosO:
fbey'S fon1efbin' in IT. shine
o. eyes a-Lookfn' in your face. an eyes
'df look in mine.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-12-25

Mrs. Saurs (suspiciously) - WelIg
now, what do you want?
George de Gent-Nuthin', lady,
nuthin'! Dis is jus me New Years
call.-Chicago Daily News.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-12-25

An in bearff ~ knd O. feer glad!
Till tOere as happy guess
Post.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-12-25

Wot0 Sfandin' Stork-iike eOifb one foot
raised off IT. cold. cold floor,
An Iookin' fer The sObistters ar he tOore
fb' year before.
sos he could play at .Sanfa Claus an
fool rs feIIers. NY!
HosO us Kids Sneaked back a-sniGSerf1'
till tOe eOaS like Ter die!
An cratOIed back inter bed aS'fn,
a-sOaifin' fer IT, yeIIS.
The "Wboa notO you or refndeersy"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-12-25

Ar told uS all tOaS ready:
1ez qfore Uiron,
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-12-25

I'm vafffnS fer IT. holidays: some-
bot0 it seems fer me
1bey'S Iofr more joy in Cbrirfmas nosO
an tO6uf they used fer be:
TIL sunshine seems lots briebfer, IT,
skies deeper blue
Than any o. IT, CbriffmuSeE ar us Old
feHerF knetO
laid atOake all nlebf.
An s0enf fipfoefn' doeOn IT, ball afore
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-12-25

I'D you hear what the old
man said to me when he
gave me the ten?" asked
Robert Allerton of the
bright-faced cashier as
they prepared to close the
Office the night before
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-12-25


An kfcbed
Apaddiin BAREFOOT floor sOiGgfn toes
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1902-05-24

Walter Williams, travelling IL
Europe for the Worlds Fair, write
from Prague, Bohemia, that a meeI
ing OF officials of an important indus.
trial and export organization of lowe.
Austria will be held with the view q
arranging for participation in IT,.
Worlds Fair. This organization
which has over 250O members, is ii
most influential body of The kind =
Austria, and its efforts to secu
government action favorable TO pa.
ticipatlon in The Exposition eannts
result otherwise than sticcessfnlft,
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1902-05-24
CAUTaOLNr!

This is; not q gentle word-but when
you thiak. how liable you are not TO pur-
chase for 75c the only remedy universally
known and remedy that has. had the
largest sale of any medicine in the world
since 1865 for the cure and treatment of
resumption and Throat and Lung troa-
all these years. No1 win le thankful we
called your attention to Boschee's Ger
man Syrup, There are so many ordinary
others that are cheap and good for light
colds perhaps, but for severe Cou CHS,
.Rronchiti Croup-and especially. for
Consumption, where there is difficult ex
pectoration. and coughing during the
German Syrup. Sold by all druggists in
the civilized world.
g. g. GREEN, Woodbury.. N. J.
Sold by GODDARD; Kibbe Il Williams,
Erath.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1902-05-24
Struck Gas.

!, George Stailey struck strong
pocket of gas. just about half mile
northwest Of St. Martinville, SUNDAY
evening while digging an eight inch
well for the irrigation Of his rice crop.
While the piping was being put
down the men found some difficulty 3
in doing this work on account OF
heavy pressure from the bottom Of
the well, but none of the men sup
posed that gas was the cause of ii.
and it was only when one OF the
working men struck match on the
pipe to light his cigarette, that 1 /
fame shot from the pipe and kept
burning for about twenty-four hours
when it was put out to resume the
work on the well.
This well is about It's feet deer.
and these who visited the well. say L
few streaks of oil came out with the
water, and it could be seen over tie
surface of the water.
This report created quite an ex
citement in town, and quite a large
number OF people went over to see.for
themselves, and they all feel deeply
impressed that the precious oil Is
there.-St. Martinville Messenger.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1902-05-24
Mammoth Canal for Mamou.

The long talked of project for a
blg lrrigating canal from the Coco
|idrie and Courtableauu near washing
ton, down through the big Mamou
prairie seems near realization. From
tie Picayhne we learn that on Mon
day, a party composed Of Geo. K.
Bradford and Several civil engineers
from New Orleans arrived at Gpelou-
ses, and after making the necessary
purchases Of provisions and stores
left for the vicinity of Washington,
where they will begin a survey Of the
route over which. it is proposed to
construct an immense irrigation
canal. Consideration Of this matter
has been going on for some time, and
this is the first step towards putting
the scheme in actual operation. The
purpose Of the canal WTfi be to fur
nish water for the irrigation of rice
over a vast area Of country, situated
p5rincfpaHy Ia St. Landry parish. It is
understood that the canal will tap
the Cocodrie bayou, about two niles
above Washington, from whence It
will take a sonthwesterly course
across the great Mamou prairie and
extend as far as the Mssrniasentajdi in
Acadia parish. This win open up to
rice vast area OF land well adapted
to its culture, but which heretofore
could not be supplied with the nee
essary water. Thousands OF acres Of
land in this section has changed
hands within the past two years, and
its price has increased from a few
dollars per acre to $40 or $50. The
land lying along the proposed canal
will now go up still higher, and il the
plan succeeds, this great section will
soon become thickly populated with
a new and thrifty people. 1t is be-
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1902-05-24
lieved that the waters Of the Cocodriei

lieved that the waters Of the Cocodriei
will be ample to furnish the necessary
water, and this without materially
iniuring the utility Of the Courta-i
bleau, which is fed in part by the
former. The Picayune correspond
ent is informed that the company be-
hind the project is composed of we'll
known men, and that the necessary
capital has been secured to push it to
a t,iic successful conclusion.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1902-05-24

The Meatherford Herald editor
tells how be courted his wife. That
when / first came to see her ! showed
a timid heart, and even when the
lights were very low, we sat thus
far apart;
but as our love grew warmer we
learned the joy and bliss; we knocked
out the spaces and sat upcloseiikethis.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1902-05-24
Eboul't Take GsaEosrseg.

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without the evil effects. Pleasant Z,
take as lemonade, acts mildly and elfee.
tnaiiy, cures all liver diseases, billion,
ness, constipation, indigestion, sick
headache, clears the complexion and
prevents malarial poison. Price IS cts
per bottle. Sold and guaranteed by Il.
j GODDARD, Abbeviile, La.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1902-05-24
sIpulsGers al mis- Past.

II recall now with horror" says Mail
Carrier Burnett Mann, of Levanlla, O.,
"my three years of suffering from Kidney
trouble Twas hardly ever free from dull
aches or acute pains in. my back. To
stoop or lift mail sacks made mo groan.
felt tired, worn out. about ready to give
up, when / began to uss Electric Bitters.
but six bottles completely cured me and
made me feel like new man. They're
nnrivaled TO regulate Stomach, Liver,
Kidneys and Bowels. Perfect satisfac-
tion guaranteed by A j GODDARD. Only soc.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1902-05-24

"My grandmother, she said,
Twas married when she was 15, and
my mother when she was IT, '.Do
you think" he asked, edging a little
nearer to the door. stthat this sort OF
thing can be hereditary ?''-Chicago
Record-Herald.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-07
Eurnu sdap aamrarg 1907

the young men going to that city for
their dinners because they could not get
whatever they wanted to drink, and
could there have all they were able to
pay for.
One result of the trustees voting this
heretofore forbidden privilege is that al
ready number of dinners arranged for
during the winter and spring at Boston
hotels have been Cancelled by the COM
nlittees appointed by the Harvard or
CARNATIONS which had planned to hold
them, and will instead be served in the
Harvard Union in Cambridge.
The undergraduates, as well as the
alumni of the university, are overJoyed
at the important step which has been
taken by the trustees, as they regard IT
as an indication that the overseerS or
the university and the faculty will take
a more liberal view of the relations
which the university should bear toward
the student body.
President Pritchett. of the Massachu-
setts Institute of Technology, several
weeks ago declared himself in favor OF
allowing the students Of that institution
to drink beer at their class meetings,
and altho he has been bitterly assailed
by ministers and the temperance organi-
cations, he has persisted In MS course,
and besides defending himself against
the attacks made on him, he has even
justified his course, and now "kommers'
are regular feature Of student life at
s.tTech -
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-07
A Shrewd Adxartiser.

Washington, Jan. THE enterprise Of
3 local Washington merchant has re-
suited in a ruling by the treasury de-
partment that it will no longer permit
the issuing of paper money in sheets
containing four notes each. The mer-
chant In question advertised that he
would make all change in new treasury
notes which had not yet been cut from
the original sheets. Thru an arrange
ment with an employee in the United
States treasurers office he was enabled
to get large number of these sheets of
81 bills. The novelty of the enterprise
appealed to many people. and there was
such rush at his store that general at
tenion was attracted to his scheme. An
investigation at the treasury depart
,nent followed, with the result that or
ders have been given that no more
sheets of money be issued. The enter
prising merchants scheme had nothing
illegal in it, as he paid value received
10 the government for the sheets. The
novelty of being able to cut 81 bills out
of sheet was what appealed to the
public.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-07
EVACUATION OF CUBA.
Getting Ready to Turn Island Over to
the Cubans.

Getting Ready "a Turn Island Over TO
the cubans.
Washington, Jan. 7.-Acting In accord
ance with q Recommendation made by
Gen. Wood. military governor Of Cuba,
Secretary Root has directed that the
third squadron elf the Eighth Cavalry,
comprising the entire garrison of Ruer-
To Principe, be brought to the United
States at the first favorable orportuni-
ty. 1t is admitted that this is practical-
lv the beginning. of the general with
drawal Of United States troops in CUBA
preparatory to the transfer of the con-
troll of affairs to the civil government to
be installed during the coming summer.
So far as known there will be no FUR
Their withdrawal Of troops, however, un-
fill the final arrangements are made for
the formal transfer of the government
10 the newly-e!ected officials CT Cuba.
Upon recommendation OF the CUBAN
secretary of justice Governor General
Wood has granted full pardons to twen-
ty-seven prisoners confined in the jails
OF the island. He also has granted par
tial pardons to Manuel Lorenzo FORBADE
and Enrique Cagidas Junco, imprisoned
for the crime of Justification Of official
documents. The audencia of Havana on
July 20, 1901, sentenced them to impris-
onment for fourteen years, eight months
and one day. This has now been COM
muted to "absolute perpetual disqualif1-
cation and imprisonment during three
months,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-07
AMERICAN METHODS PRAISED.
German Naval Constructor investigates
the Shin Building Industry.


Berlin, Jan. 7.-Tjard Schwartz,
German naval constructor, who was
recently sent to the United States by
the marine general staff to investigate
shipbuilding there, has submitted ms
report. Schwartz says that all the prln-
cipal shipyards in the United States ia
cilitated his Investigations in every way.
His descriptions are accompanied by
masses Of photographs and drawings OF
new machines, especially of pneumatic
contrivances, used in shipbuilding.
Schwartz says that materials for the
construction Of steel ships are lower
in price in the United States than in
any other country and that the only
thing to be complained Of is the fiuctua-
ton of prices, which makes competition
with foreign shipbuilders difficult.
Schwartz says in this connection that
within four months the prices Of ship
building materials in the United States
have f1uctuated 200 per cent from lack
of stability of the market, and that this
is the principal reason why some Ameri-
can shipbuilders are combining with the
steel producers.
Schwartz refers to the splendid body
of American workmen earning wages
from 80 to so per cent higher than those
paid in Great Britain. and 100 per cent
higher than the wages paid on the con-
tinent, and says that wage bills in the
United States are counterbalanced by
economical processes of machinery,
which are not found in European yards.
He reports that, Notwithstanding the
wages paid, freighters are being built
on the great lakes as cheaply as tramp
steamers are built in Great Britain.
He says that the most striking differ
ence between German and American
ship yards is found in the use of pneu-
matte boring, hammering. and riveting
machines and pneumatic cranes in the
United States. The investigator saw
seventy-f1ve pneumatic machines work
ing at once in the yards of an American
shipbuilding company in Chicago altho
only two ships were on the stocks. He
says that British ship builders are ar
ranging to obtain these pneumatic ma
chimes from the United States
Schwartz reports that the new consol-
idation OF shipbuilding companies in the
United States is the largest and richest
shipbuilding concern in the world, and
he says that 1t will devote its resources
to economic shipbuilding, to reducing
the present method of obtaining materi-
al to uniformity. and to the centraliza-
ton of ship construction and its man
agement. He concerns himself in his re-
port almost entirely with statements OF
fact. but in conclusion he says:
we see, therefore. that the Ameri-
cans are striving with all the means at
their command to put their shipbuilding
industry in position successfully to
compete with the established Eng
lish builders on the one hand and on the
other with the younger but rapidly de-
yeloping shipbuilders of Germany"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-07
Measures Before Committee.

Washington, Jan. 7.-Chairman Payne,
of the ways and means committee, said
yesterday that OF the two important
measures before that committee, Cuban
reciprocity and reduction of war tax
es, the former probably would first be
considered. To that end Mr.. Payne has
written to the gentlemen of the Cuban
delegation to learn their wishes as to
time of hearing, and pending an answer
no arrangement for hearings has been
made. The committee will later fix the
time of hearings on the war tax reduce
ton bill If 1t is considered necessary to
open up the subject by hearings, which
has not yet been decided.
Representative Hepburn, chairman of
the interstate and foreign commerce
committee, has been advised by the sec
rotary of state of a cable notification
concerning the willingness Of the Pana-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-07
Iowa at WASHINGTON.

Washington, Jan. AFTER a busy
day receiving callers and examining inn
portant routine methods at the treas
ury department Governor Shaw de-
rarted for Iowa last night.
Raymond c. Langdon, of Clinton, was
today admitted to practice before the
supreme court upon presentation OF
Senator Dolliver.
Hamburg has been admitted to prac-
tfce before the interior department.
Private Secretary Julian Richards ar
rived this morning and was with
Speaker Henderson at the capitol to-
day.
Senator Dolliver will leave for Iowa
tomorrow evening.
NEW POSTMASTERS.
Posmasters Commissioned = David
Powers. Adelphia; Fred L. Houston
Ryan; Francis Trunkry, Elma; VIM
w. Boylan, Hubbard; Jonn w. Palm
Mt. Pleasant; Arthur r. Curry. Shelby
Rodney q. Hakkins, Wapello.
Rural free delivery service will be es-
tablished az follows;
Granville, Sioux county, two carriers;
length of routes. 4S miles; population
served, LILO; carrier, j. w. Pielstick-
err.
West Branch, Cedar county, one car
rier; length of route, 25 miles; popula-
ton served, 525; carrier, Almus " Mills
IOWA PENSIONS.
Original (war with Spain)-Wm. G
Wilson, Audubon, Sc. Increase-Wes
ley Harack, Cedar Rapids, 49, DAME
Bishop, Keokuk, IS; Oscar Lefevere
Albion, $40; James H. Payne, Burling'
ton. SO: Adam Nimocks, Ida Grove, $40
Jair Wildnan, Iowa City IS; VIM. H
Mudgett tdead), Britt, So. Origina
Midows-Hannah r. Clifford, Webster
City. IS: Celia III. Miller, Shenandoah
IS: Rebecca A Johnson. Perry, IS. Re.
newal--Onfe Barnes, Tama, $12
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-07
BURIAL PLANS ARE CHECKED.
Supposed Dead Child in Michigan Still
Clinqs to Life.

Benton Harbor, Mich, Jan. Ca
mile, the 10-year-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs George Chamberlain, of Hart
ford, who had been Ill short time,
died late Saturday evening, or 1T was
thought by the attending physician and
those at the patients bedside that she
was dead.
Preparations for the funeral had been
made by friends here when a telephone
message from Mr.. Chamberlain an
nounced that Camille had returned to
life, having been in a comatose condi-
ton.
However, the little girl, who is suffer-
ing with acute Bright's disease is
gradually growing weaker and her
death is hourly expected. the physician
having pronounced her ultimate recov-
cry impossible. She is blind and in an
unconscious condition.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-07
No. 375.-NumericaI Enigma.

am composed of forty-nine letters and
form quotation from Byron.
My Al, 6, 43, ID, 20, 3s, IL, %, 46, %
was great poet Of nature, and my l, 80,
43, 49, is the month in which he was
born.
Ny Z, 40, %, II, SO, 8. 40 was the
compiler of dictionary.
My 10, SO, 3, 10, 16, As, IS is the first
name of the greatest English poet.
My Is, 5, q, q, Al, 8 is town in
England, famous for its abbey, which
was founded in the seventh century.
My 81, 80, 26, 81, %, 35. % was a
great Elizabethan poet. My II, A, 80
was "a lovely ladie," the personifcation
OF truth, which this author wrote about.
My 81, "a, 10. 13 is the name Of one
who wrote several books of the Bible.
My 4. 80. %. q, 40 is the author of
many familiar hymns.