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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-12-24
IN THE LIME-LIGHT.

Joseph Jefferson caught a trespasser
fishing in his well-stocked lake on his
Louisiana farm, the other day. The ven
cradle actor went up to him and called
his attention to the fact that he was
fishing in private preserve, in violation
of the law. The stranger smiled, sadly
You are mistaken, sir" he replied
I'm not catching your fish; I'm feeding
them. | haven't landed one, and my
bats nearly all gone"
1t is exactly half a century since Sir
Henry Irving took his first real lesson
in elocution in class held in the city
of London. He was described at that
time by fellow pupil as "a tall, good
looking boy of about Is, dressed in a
black jacket suit, with deep Elton COL
lar, and conspicuous with a mass of
raven-black hair and the brightest pair
of eyes | have ever seen. When he gave
his first recitation he took us by storm,
and we knew that new star had risen :"
Charles Frohman, the theatrical man
ager, regretfully concludes that his ap-
pearance lacks distinction in some way
He bases this opinion on recent expert
ence at the door of the Broadway theater.
Il was passing in on my way to a rehear-
sal" he says, when young man, evi-
IDENTIFY one of the justly hated ticket
scalpers, touched my elbow and offered
me dollar. Say he mumbled, do me
a little favor. will you? Go up to the
box office and buy me two 50-cent seats
for tonight | should not have felt in
suited concluded Mr.. Frohman, were
it not that | aspire TO look like a man
who might safely engage a box or at
least an orchestra chair without exciting
suspicion"
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miles in length, have 40 stations and
20, 800 feet of bridges. AS Corea is
mountainous the road will have to fol-
low river valleys and mountain gaps
where possible and provision has been
made for 81 tunnels, one of them a
mile long. The first section is already
open to travel. The Seoul-Wiji rail-
way (under the auspices of the Corean
government, with French engineers
and French materially was designed to
tap the coal and gold mining regions,
but though there has already occurred
the official opening of the section from
Seoul to Sangdo, owing to a lack of Co.
rean funds the road has been tempor-
arily abandoned
A system of waterworks In Seoul
has been begun by the American COM
pany that furnishes light for the city.
The telephone is in use in Seoul, and
lines are being extended to Chemulpo.
kilograms may be sent in Corea in
certain specified foreign languages, in
the Corean, Chinese and Japanese
tongues. The postal system, highly
satisfactory one, is under French direc-
tion. CHRISTOPHER WEBS"ER.
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related that the Virgin had appeared to
her. The apparition was repeated sew
eral times, and at last a wonderful
spring issued from corner of the grot-
to where it had been seen. 1t was soon
proclaimed that the spring possessed
miraculous qualities, and it says much
for the power of the Roman Catholic
religion, that on the faith of Berna-
dette's story hundreds of thousands of
persons have visited the cave annually;
and hospital and converts, hotels and
houses, have been built to meet the
wants of the pilgrims. The girls Wis
ion was declared to be authentic by
the Bishop of Tarbes, and the place
attracted such a multitude of pilgrims
that a railway was built to bring them TO
the town.
In 1876 35 archbishops and bishops
presided over by the Archbishop of
Paris and the Apostolic Nuncio, gave
their seal to the story of Bernadette
by assisting at the dedication of a
handsome basilica, built in the thir-
teenth century style, which was erect
ed over the cave. This was only a
short time before Bernadette who had
become nun, died in a convent. The
many chapels and corridors below the
church are lined with votive offerings
Generals leave their orders and brides
their wells. The walls of the upper
church are also entirely covered with
similar offerings. The first chapel on
the left records the Is appearances of
the Virgin and the singular words
which Bernadette described her to have
spoken: Go to the fountain, eat of
the gras side it, pray for mankind,
tell the ?, to build me a chapel;
am the Immaculate Conception" From
the upper church paths lead through
strawberries to the grotto beneath, fac
ing the river. Here the rock is covered
with the crutches of cured cripples On
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COREA PROGRESSING
Foreign Traders Seeking Acquaint.
ance with the Hermit Nation.
Americas Part In RevoIutionizina
the Quaint, Antique Methods of
the Empire - Pressed on All
Sides by Con nHictinE Interests.

Corea, once happily a hermit nation,
practically out of the world, ever since
attaining to the dignity of an independ-
ent state and the publicity attendant
upon the change, has had her hands
full of responsibility. And being new
to the business, the responsibility has
proved irksome, perplexing, and is
proving so now. Would-be acquaint-
ances from far-off lands continually
knocking at her doors asking that her
ports be opened to grant King Com
merce, whilst equally troublesome
neighbors forbid her acceding to the
request. The problem of the present
moment is this-the United States re-
spectfully request that the city of Will
on the Yalu river be opened for free
trade. The Russians oppose the open
ing.
From a political point of view Co
rea's position is most unfortunate;
there is Russia, colossal, energetic on
one side; China, with her ancient
claims, pressing close; and nearby ia
pan whose history and traditions are
so closely linked with her own. Then
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-12-24
BRICK MADE IN THE u. S.

OF vitrified brick, in 1902, there were
617,192 thousand, valued at s.. .744, $50. or
S9.31 per thousand.
The quantity of front brick produced
in the country amounts to ass. .391 thou
sand, valued at $5,31S, S,OOS, or $11.6O per
thousand.
Enameled brick, the entire product of
which in 1902 was valued at $471 ,1G3.
was made only in California Illinois.
Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, Ohio
and Pennsylvania.
A little over 40 per cent. of the total
value of clay products is in common
brick. The production of brick of that
class in 1902 amounted to S,475, ,O67 thou
sand brick, having value of $4S, 1885,, 1863,
They brought an average price of S.. n
per thousand.
The value of fancy or ornamental
brick amounts to $S06,453, of fire brick,
to $11 970,5 ,511; of stove lining, to $780,
924; OF drain tile, to $3,506, 1877; of sewer
pipe, to $7,174 1892; of ornamental terra
Gotta, to $3,526,906; of fire proofng, to
$3,175. 1893, and of tile to $3,622 1868.
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the one side is the famous fountain, on
the other pulpit from which a priest
directs the devotions of the pilgrims.
Special trains bring countless invalids
to Lourdes, and the sight of so much
human suffering gathered in one spot
is deeply pathetic. There are numer-
Gus bands of volunteers at the town
who skilfully undertake the organiza-
ton of the throngs of pilgrims, most
of whom are of the poorer class. and
who have spent what is to them large
sum on the journey. The majority of
the invalids, unfortunately, return as
they came, but their faith is unshaken;
they have not had sufficient faith they
say.
Apart from the religious excitement
which has made Lourdes one of the
most prosperous towns in the south of
France, it is a picturesque and beauti-
full place, with its old church and mod
ernized.
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there are the energetic foreigners, in
square miles.
Poor Corea! And yet what would
she be in this day and age if foreign
enterprise were to let her alone, had let
her alone?
Missionary, trader and engineer have
worked theirinfuences, and Corea to-day
has Christian churches and schools, has
hospitals, dispensaries, newspapers,
railways, iron bridges, electric lights
and street railways. Mr.. William Ell
liot Griffis, in his book America in the
East" thus lauds the part our own
countrymen have taken in undermining
Corea: The first railway from Che
mulpo to Seoul, with its iron bridges
and modern equipments, and the first
electric lights and street railways in
Seoul, the exploitation and develop
ment of the mines, have been begun
and carried out by Americans. The
renovation of the capital city from the
similitude of a pigsty TO one of the
brightest and cleanest cities in the
east Is luG NOIh Vi udllNe OIlCeIS WHO
had experience in Washington"
OF course it was the war of 1S94-5
that made preparation for the nation S
progress and in these subsequent years
the progress has been almost reyolu-
tionary. In and about Seoul is an cleo
tric railway IS miles in length rail
way that is now very popular with the
natives, although at first they disap-
proved of the innovation to such an ex-
tent they tore up the tracks and de-
stroyed buildings. The railway from
the seaport Chemulpo TO the capital
Seoul, distance of 2G miles, is in sue
cessful operation.
A Japanese syndicate is building a
road between Fusan, on the southeast
coast, to Seoul, road that is to be 2S7
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-12-24
VISIT TO LOURDES
Annual Pilgrimage to This. Little
Village in Southern France.
Holy Spring Which Religious Fervor
Credits with Many Miraculous.
Cures-DevOut InvnIids
Flock ThIther.

In this twentieth century we are apt
to smile at the superstitutions which
religious fervor may produce and fos-
ter. 1t seems almost incredible that
there are thousands and thousands of
poor invalids who believe that the wa
ter from q certain holy spring will cure
them of their complaints. There is
something poetic and medieval about
such unquestioning faith. The annual
pilgrimage to Lourdes j. a case in
point. Lourdes. in the Hautes Pyre-
nees, in the south of France, which was
once little unknown village, has now
a European reputation, having gained
it solely through the numbers of pill
grims who visit the place annually.
This town, which is beautifully situ-
ated in valley opening towards snow
clad mountains, IL miles southwest of
Tarbes, dates it's prosperity from the
year 1858. In that year a young peas
ant girl, named Bernadette Soubirons,
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thing which through centuries he has
died for and suffered for, enduring
prsons and stripes and many fears
The synagogue is not closed as our
churches are on a weekday to those who
would commune apart in meditation
and prayer. 1t is always open; a per-
petual token that religion is not a
weekly exercise, but daily bread 1t
opens at five o'clock in the morning
One poor Jew told the writer that for
many weeks, when he was out of work
and homeless, he used to wait for the
synagogue to open at early morning, so
that he might slip in and stay there for
few hours. But go as early as you
will, there in the dingy pews, with the
faint light struggling through the din
gier panes, Jews will be bending and
swaying in prayer Lord, | love the
habitation of Thy House, and the place
where Thy glory dwelleth." These are
the words with which each Jew enters
the synagogue; and if in the dark syn
agogue the words, How goodly are
thy tents, o Jacob, thy dwelling places,
o Israel" have no material appropri-
ateness. their spiritual fitness in the
mouths of the reveTent worshippers
who utter them is apparent.
There is a wonderful fervor in the
service; not the hysterical fervor of
the Salvationist or of that weird sect
known a generation ago in England as
the Ranters, but the fervor of emotion
deeply felt and half suppressed. In one
of NJ. Renouard's drawings he has de-
picted a woman in mourning. There
was something so poignant in her grief
that one almost expected to hear the
congregation break into tears and la
mentations; to see them rending their
clothes and pouring ashes on their
heads.
There are not, as we have said, many
ceremonial occasions in the Jewish SER
vice. On some feast days, the Scrolls OF
the Law are taken from the Ark, and are
carried by the priesthood round the
synagogue, all the people leaning for
ward to touch. them, and to hold uL
their children so that they may be
blessed by the sacred writings. But in
all that goes on within the synagogue
there is y solemnity and sincerity
which confers a splendid impressive
ness; and perhaps not the least of the
factors of it's attribute lies in the de-
meanor of the congregation.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-12-24
In TEE WORLD OF LEARNING

Mile. de Fiaudre has been given the
degree Of doctor Of science W the fac
ulty Of sciences of Paris, with honorable
mention.
kuno Fischer, the eminent historian
of philosophy, has at last been obliged
to give up his professorship in Heidel-
berg. He is in his eightieth year and
has been at Heidelberg since 1872.
President Eliot thinks late lunches are
running the stomachs of the students, so
he has ordered the proprietor of an all
night restaurant located on college prop
erty to vacate the premises.
DR.. Albert d. Mead, professor Of COM
has returned to the United States after
a thorough inspection of all the i'm
portant laboratories and experiment
stations in Europe.
Prof. Edward Wheeler Scripture, the
psychologist, director of the psyche
logical laboratory of Yale university
has arrived in Munich, with the object
of conducting experiments on the hu-
man voice by means of the gramaphone.
The Carnegie institute is furnishing the
funds.
Glen Harrison, aged 13, is teaching a
country school in the Ozark mountains
near Gainesville, Mo-, and probably is
the youngest pedagogue in the country.
He has 20 pupils, several of them con-
siderahly bigger than he, but he has
whipped one or two of them and Is now
treated with the respect due an edu-
Gator
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-12-24
OF LITERARY INTEREST.

An attempt Is being made to have DR..
Sigurd Ibsen, son of the Norwegian,
come to this country next year and lee
ture on his fathers plays.
Alfred Deakin, prime minister Of the
Australian commonwealth, is an insati-
able devourer of novels, and never en-
ters the legislative chamber without one
or two. He settles down comfortably
into a corner Of the treasury bench and
reads away when business is dull.
An intimate friend of the poet set him
self to find out the rules of Tennyson's
versification, and collected from his
poems an immense n"mher of laws and
examples. Look here, friend
what wonderful laws you o,-srye!"
'Tt's all true" replied the poet; II do
observe them, but | never knew it,
Ruskin.
Alfred Tennyson Dickens, the eldest
surviving son of Charles Dickens, has
strongly protested against the published
reports of his fathers i'll feeling toward
Thackeray. He recalls the fact that his
father was the chief mourner at Thack-
cray , Ill heDSdl NITeeu anu dlSO
wrote biographical sketch which "did
full justice to the genius and merits of
the author of Vanity Fair and Pen
Dennis" Mr.. Dickens adds that many
a time he has heard his father speak in
the most glowing terms of Thackeray's
wonderful versatility
A familiar figure in Toronto is Cold
win Smith. Every fine day e takes his
carriage drive, and one es a shrunken
old man, as thin as he tall, silent and
grave of demeanor, preoccupied, it would
seem, with his own thoughts. zone
might make the mistake of supposing,"
said an observer, that the aged citizen
he has celebrated his eightieth birth
day-was dyspeptic pessimst, that
life had lost its charm for him and that
time had forgotten him in its merciless
march toward a future that is never
overtaken. Such is one picture of the
old professor-a mental snap shot taken
! from a curbstone."
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-12-24
PEOPLE OF MANY LANDS.

During his hunt In Styria Emperor
Franz Josef killed his two thousandth
chamois.
Robert Caterson, of New York, recent
ly purchased the far-famed granite
mountain, of Texas.
WI Ting-Fang, formerly Chinese
minister to this country, has been ap-
pointed vice president of the newly Gre
ated department of commerce in his
home government. 1t will be his prov
ince specially to look after the foreign
commerce of China.
DIR. Hans Meyer, the famous German
explorer, passed through New York city
the other day on his way home from
Ecuador, where he spent all last sum-
mer studying the glaciers and ice fields
OF the high Cordilleras. 1t was DR..
Meyer who reached the top of Killiman-
jaro, the highest mountain of Africa,
after about 20 vain attempts had been
made by others.
Lord Miner, at present British high
commissioner for South Africa, began
life as a newspaper man, his first work
being done for the Pail Mall Gazette.
His writings attracted the attention of
Lord Goschen, who procured for the
young Journalist good post under the
government of Egypt. Ever since that
time he has been in the public service,
and now occupies one Of the most re-
sponsible positions under the crown.
The office of colonial secretary was
pressed upon him by Mr.. Balfour, but he
preferred to remain in South Africa.
Peter Maher, the Irish pugilist, was
knocked out in one round in Philadel-
phia, while fighting to secure naturaliza-
tion papers. He failed to answer the
questions properly. For instance, on be-
ing asked: How is the president elect
ed?" he answered: by a great major
ity." do you know anything about the
constitution" Its great" said the
Irish champion, enthusiastically. Never
felt better in my life. Me constitution
is all right. I'm trained to the min
ute. The declaration of independence?
Something to do with the time we
licked the English, ain't it?" The COM
missioner turned him down and Maher
departed sadly, saying to a friend:
That was the hardest fight of me life,
and sure | lost"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-12-24
THE LONDON GHETTO
Two Impressions Which the Observ-
er Receives on Visit There.
Tire1ess Energy of the Jews Both Old
and Young-The Religious De-
- vOtiOn which Makes Up
Large Part of Life.

In the great London ghetto, each year
growing larger, the observer is perpet-
ually asking himself which of his two
impressions is the chief. His first i'm
preston is of the extraordi
nary energy of the Jew. 1t
continues from morning until
night; the loafer is as conspicuously
absent in the Yiddish quarter as once
he was conspicuously present in these
streets of East London; and the energy
lasts from childhood unto age-old and
young seem ever occupied. BY this we
do not mean that the Jew is always at
work. In the long array of restaurants
which have sprung up to meet his for
eign habit of taking his meals abroad,
he spends larger part of his time than
does the English worker of the same
class in any such places; larger time,
indeed, than any but the more leisured
classes in England. But in his restau"
rants he is still busy, yolubly arguing,
busily writing, sometimes debating to
the professional letter-writer; and even
when playing dominoes, still doing 1t
with an air of concentrated business.
1t is the same with the children as
with their elders. The Yiddish child,
when the board school lessons are
done, promptly goes to the Talmud
Torah school, where, with unaltered
energy, he attacks the rhythmic verses
whose learning gives him at least one
more language than the English child
with whom he will one day be a COM
petitor, and that a language which is
kind of Volapuk, a passport, a free
masonry, among the most pushing of
races. Here, in the Talmud Torah
school, the Jewish child learns the be-
ginning of that ritual which, however
diminished in its effects by his after
career, must remain lasting influence
in the life of the great number of Jews.
And that leads us to the second i'm
preston which is created in the mind
of the observer in Yiddish East Lon
don, which is the large share that re-
ligion plays in the lives of the alien
immigrants. Heine once wrote of the
different ways in which various peo~
pies regard liberty. One might in the
same way think of the differing regards
that people have for religions; and
think of the religion of the Jew as
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-12-24
MARTIAL STRAINS.

The 16-inch gun has proved so salts
factory in every way that the question
of using calibers larger than II inches
need not be complicated by the question
of practicability.
The late Lieut.. Goldschmidt was the
oldest musical conductor in the German
army. For 80 years he had been leader
of the band of the Kings grenadiers
His band played at Sedan. In 1898 he
was pansioned.
At The close Of the Boer war "a .OOC
British soldiers sought employment as
coachmen, grooms, porters, carmen
etc, and places were promptly found IL
England for $4,000. Lately the number
of unemployed former soldiers has in.
creased, owing to the present service q
three years with the colors instead O
seven years as heretofore.
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A MATTER OF YEARS.

The average age of senator's is SO
years; eight are lees than As.
Prof. Marcus ,illson, of Vineland,
n. j., author of d successful school series
and many other works, was 80 years old
recently, and is believed to be the oldest
American author still able to do literary
work. He was unable to attend birth
day reception in his honor rendered by
a historical society, excusing himself on
the ground that he was hard at work
on a new book, and was also perfecting
patent which would surprise his
friends.
EX-Gov Horace Boies, of Iowa, is now
living in retirement, and shows no in
clination to figure again in public af-
fairs. He is living on his large farm near
Eldora, Ia. where the former popular
! idol of the Iowa democracy lives in ease
and comfort the life of a farmer. His
farm consists of 1900 acres and is in a
fine state of cultivation. He has aged
rapidly since the death of his son. A
valuation of $500 900 has been placed on
his farm.
My life has been strangely ruled by
the number nine" Plus X. is quoted as
saying previous to being chosen pope
Mine years was a school boy at Riese;
nine years a student at Padua; nine
years curate at Tombolo; nine years a
priest at Salzano; nine years a canon at
Treviso; nine years bishop at Mantua;
now for nine years have been cardinal
patriarch at Venice. If | become pope
as long as God Wills; perhaps another
nine years"
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FRESH FROM FRANCE.

France has, within six months, paid
in subsidies for new ships S3S 500, 900.
M. Gaub, the French chemist, says
that if the hair crop could all be shorn
from the women of France for one year,
it could be made to produce 1922 200
pounds of iron.
The total production of sugar in
France in 1902 amounted to ,051 $3.50
tons, of which 320,74 tons were exempt
from duty, as the official estimates had
fallen that far short of the actual re-
turns.
Lucie Felix-Faure, the daughter of a
former president of France, who late
ly married George Goyan, is a distin-
guished woman of letters. She has
studied the philosophy. literature and
theology Of many countries.