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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1905-08-03
BY MARGARET E. sANGsTER.

Copyright, 1905, by Joseph b. Bowles)
Examinations loom large in school
life, because they are tests of prog
ress. When the school year is at an
end, and you look back over its course,
as over journey from one point to
another, the examinations stand out
In memory like milestones on the road.
In some schools there are weekly tests,
in others reviews come monthly, and
in nearly every school there are half
yearly examinations which very fair
ly show the work that has been as
signed and demonstrate the faithful
ness with which it has been done.
A student whose work is fairly well
performed every day, who never brings
half-learned lessons to recitation,
who never shirks task or accepts
help, instead of working out problems
for herself need have no dread of ex-
aminations. They will take care of
themselves. But there are girls who
have an easy way of slipping through
their tasks, who are not at all
thorough, nor diligent, and yet who
manage to seem prepared when they
are just the reverse. | have known
such girls, brilliant and superficial,
who glanced over their work at the
last moment, and hoped for an easy
question, or who looked as if they
knew so much that the teacher passed
them over, and put her query to
duller girl in the next seat. These
sketchy girls when examination time
comes are obliged to cram" They
spend frantic hours in making up in
a hurry what ought to have been at
their fingers ends throughout the
term. They possibly pass a written
examination, and send in papers that
receive high marks But in the end
they will be distanced by other girls
who were faithful all through
Girls who are merely clever are like
merchants who put all their goods in
the shop windows, and have nothing
on the shelves. Unless we have plenty
to draw from besides what we put
In front for the public to see. we shall
soon find our working capital exhaust
ed, and our resources hOpelessly
crippled.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1905-08-03

"a few men," said Uncle Eben, will
give you advice case dey honestly want
to help. An "a whole lot will do it foh
de satisfaction of remndin you of yoit
hard luck an putin on airs. Wash
ington Star
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1905-08-03

If you wish beautiful, clear, whit
clothes use Red Cross Ball Blue. Large
OF. package, ) cents.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1905-08-03

The fellow who runs down other peo.
pie generally manages to save a few
words to sing his own praise.-N. Y.
Times.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1905-08-03

household, and too often all the doc
toring does no good.
If woman finds her energies are
fiagglng, and that everything tires her,
dark shadows appear under her ewes,
her sleep is disturbed by horrible
dreams; if she has baclzache, head
aches, bearing-down pains, nervous
ness, whites, Irregularities, or despon-
dency, she should take means to build
her system up at once by tonic with
specific powers, such as Lydia L. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound.
This great remedy for women has
done more in the way of restoring
health to the women of America than
all other medicines put together. 1t is
the safeguard of woman's health.
Following we publish, by request, a
letter from young wife.
Mrs. Bessie Ainsley of Gil South 10th
Street, Tacoma, Wash, writes:
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1905-08-03

The best way to profit by your mis-
takes is to have them debited to some one
else-Puck
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1905-08-03

1t is an odd fact that the most expert
marksman cannot equal the unerring ac-
curacy of the stray bullet in reaching the
mark.-Baltimore American
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1905-08-03

l wonder if you understand pre-
cisely what l mean? 1t is so inpor-
tant that a woman should in these
days be equipped at every point, for
her home life or her business o7por-
tunities, or her profession, whatever it
may be, that no girl at school can af-
ford to waste her opportunities. You
have been told over and over until!
the words seem but an idle tale, that
you are in life's morning. that these
are your best days, and that if you do
not make the most of the present, il
will never be in your power to re-
trieve the loss.
Half the time you listen to this sort
of preaching with bored resignation,
when it comes from parents and
teachers. But dear girl, it is true.
The mill will never grind again with
water that is passed. What you lose
to-day you cannot gain tomorrow.
The real value of education to girls,
is that it is preparing them to take
their places in the world, and to make
the world better in days to come. A
girl who does not make the mos. of
her time in school will not only be
sorry later on, but will be surpassed
by others less clever than herself, but
more conscientious,
Occasionally one meets a very com
monplace woman who has few ideas.
no conversation, and very little inhu-
ence. People pass her by without
paying attention to anything she says,
and express surprise when told that
she is a graduate of some conspicuous
college. How did she ever manage
to secure diploma? may be asked.
Well, there may be more than one
explanation. She may have done her
work mechanically, or she may have
had remarkably good memory. or
she may have studied hard for exam
nations and used up her strength too
lavishly. Unless one is developed
systematically in brain and heart and
body, she will have to take a back
seat in the audience when others are
on the platform, directing the pur-
poses of the assembly. She will be
in the rear, and the procession will
finally drop her from it's ranks.
I want to say something to encour
age the dull girls, who have to work
tremendously for all they secure. In
talking one day with noted educator.
man under whose eyes hundreds of
pupils had passed, and who had made
a profound study of the possibilities Of
young people, | was impressed with
something he said. 1t was this: 81
am not very much interested in the
clever and brilliant girls who toss off
their work as if it were a bagateIle
They may be trusted to achieve some
good results, unleGs they depend too
much on their native quickness. or
they prove failures. A plodding pupil
who has to wage a battle for every
inch of ground gained, awakens my en-
thusiasm and stimulates me to offer
all the help that is in me. | love to
see the triumph of logged persever-
ance when difficulties have thickened
In the way"
Perhaps the point made here by the
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1905-08-03

KOeGoi EysgopGsa C.ETo
EigeoEs what yo- SaeA
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1905-08-03
THE IDEAL WIFE
Shapes the Destiny of Men-The Influence of
Healthy Woman Cannot Be Overestmated

Seven-eighths of the
men in this world marry
a woman because she is
beautiful in their eyes
because she has the quail
ties which inspire admira-
ton, respect and love.
There is a beauty in
health which is more at
tractive to men than mere
regularity of feature.
The influence of women
glorious in the possession
of perfect physical health
upon men and upon the
civilization of the world
could never be measured.
Because of them men have
attained the very heights
of ambition because of
them even thrones have
been established and de-
stroyed.
What a disappointment,
then, to see the fair young
wife's beauty fading away
before a year passes over
her head! A sickly, half
dead-and-alive woman,
especially when she is
the mother of a family,
is a damper to all joyous
ness in the home, and u
drag upon her husband.
The cost of a wife's con-
stant illness is a serious
drain upon the funds of a
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1905-08-03
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-

"Ever since my child was born have suf-
fered, as hope few women ever have, with
inflammation female weakness, bearing-down
pains, backache and wretched headaches 1t
affected my stomach so that | could not en-
JOY my meals, and half my time was spent
in bed
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1905-08-03
THE PlTTS5URG. SHAWaUT G.
NORTHERN R. r.

Through Passenger Service Between
Bt. Msrys, Brockwayville, Shawmut Smethport,
oiean, Friendship, Angelica, Hornellsvills
Wayland, Buffalo, and New York.
Effective Sunday, May29, 1907
Eastern Standard Time.
Time of Trains at St. Marya
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1905-08-03
Pennsylvania
II RAILROAD.

PHILADELPHIA AND ERIE RAIL ROAD
VNTNT
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-10-04

Same as above burning from dusk
until two o'clock a. m, at $3.50 per light,
per month.
Same as above burning from dusk
until dawn, at $3.50 per light, per
month.
GA nominal 1000 C. p. arc lamp"
$50 watts, and the kind of arc lamp the
grantee shall use under this contract
shall be the enclosed arcs.)
Lncandescent lights. 80 c; p, for street
lighting, burning from dusk until twelve
o'clock midnight, at s1.00 per light, per
month, including renewals.
Same as above burning from dusk
until one o'clock a. m, at 1920 per light,
per month, including renewals.
Same as above burning from dusk
until two o'clock a. m, at s1.35 per light,
per month, including renewals.
Same as above burning all night and
every night at $1.55 per light, per
month, including renewals.
Article 4.-Be it further ordained that
during the term of ten years of this
ordinance and contract said City of De-
corah shall pay said grantee, his. asso-.
ciates or assigns, each month. of said
such electric light is furnished in full
for each and every lamp used by the
city, and located as directed by the
the rates provided for. in the foregoing
schedule. And said city hereby agrees
to use and pay for during each month OF
said ten years not less than the number
now supplied to said city by the Deco
rah Electric Light Co. under Ordinance
204 Said lamps to burn from dusk un-
til such hour mentioned In above sched-
ule as the Council determines The kind
and the number thereof to be determined
by said city, and said lights to be run
upon such schedule as the city may
from time to time determine, but such
schedule is not 20 be changed by said
city oftener than once a year and in case
Of any changes thirty days notice In
writing shall be given to the grantees
herein.
Be II further ordained that In case
any such light shall fail to operate. the
city shall have the right to deduct from
tbs monthly bills of the grantee herein
p sum equal to that which said grantees
would have received according to the
schedule under which they may then be
operating. Such deduction shall apply
to the first night of such failure to
operate and for each succeeding night
ia sum equal to double schedule price
may be deducted unless such failure to
operate shall be due to causes beyond
the control of grantee, or to malicious
damage, in which event the deduction
shall not exceed the amount which
grantee would have been paid had the
Article 5.-That this ordinance is not
to be binding on the said w. Fl. Burtis
his associates or assigns, nor the City
of DEBORAH, unless he or such assigns
shall within two years of the date OF
tain water power plant hereinabove re-
Article 6.-That this ordinance shall
,e in force and take effect from and after
it's publication as provided by law and
| it's acceptance by the grantee herein and
to be filed with the City Clerk
r M HTTGHES CITY Clerk
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-10-04

Ordinance No. 22O, relative to purchas-
ing the plant, the conditions thereof
shall apply to electric motors, driving
mechanism, and necessary connections
furnished by grantee for pumping pur-
poses.
Article 9-That it is expressly agreed
that the Mayor, City Council and Water
Works Committee shall have free access
| to pumping stations at all times to in
spect the same. take readings of indi-
the requirements of this contract are
fulfilled
Article 1O.-That this ordinance is ex-
pressly conditioned that before start
| ing to operate under this ordinance and
contract the said w. Fl. Burtis, his assoc
ciates or assigns, shall execute to the
| City of DEBORAH Iowa, good and SUI :
cient bond in the penal sum of Two
Thousand Dollars (S2,000.00) with sure
| ties to be approved by the City Council,
terms, conditions and obligations of this
ordinance on his part, for the period Of
| ten years, and a failure on the part of
| grantee herein to furnish said bond at
! the time above mentioned shall cause a
forfeiture of all the rights of grantee
! of the City Council.
Article 11-That this ordinance or
contract is not to be binding on the said
w. Fl. Burtis. his associates or assigns,
years from the date of the passage Of
this ordinance. have in operation GER
| tain water power plant hereinabove re-
ferred to-
Article 12.-That this ordinance shall
after it's publication as provided by law,
and it's acceptance by the grantee here
| in to be filed with the City Clerk.
F. w. DAUBNEY, Mayor.
F. NJ. HUGHES. City Clerk.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-10-04
NOTICE TO BIDDERS.

bids 0, Wiz be received By the City Of De-
sorah in the cSpnty ao Of dc0 WinneshieE
the 18th day of October, A. d. 1905, for
paving with vitrifed brick of Galesburg,
Illinois, Purrinston, make make the n FOLLOW
Iowa, and over that portion of said
On Main street, in the city of DEBORAH.
Iowa. between the west line of WASH
ingtpn street at it's intersection with
said Main street, and the east line Of
Court street, at the intersection thereof
street, between the south line of Water
street, at the intersection Of said Court
street and Water street, and the north
| line of Broadway street. where the same
intersects with said Court street; and
! on Broadway street. between the east
| line of Winnebago street, at the inter-
| section of said Winnebago street and
Court street, at the intersection OF said
Court street and Broadway street; and
on Winnebago street, between the north
[! line of Broadway street, where the same
intersects with said Winnebago street,
and the south line of Main street, at the
intersection thereof with said Winnie
bago street, in the city of DEBORAH, Iowa.
All bids must be addressed to the
City Clerk of the City of DEBORAH, Iowa,
and must be accompanied in separate
envelope by a certified check in the sum
of $4,000, payable to the order of the
City Treasurer of said city, as surety
that the bidder will enter into contract
for doing the work in compliance with
the terms of the bid, and as security also
that he will give bond for the faith
full performance of the work should the
contract be awarded to him. In case
Security Co. bond is furnished as pro-
vided herein 1t must be of and from a
company having a local agency at De-
corah, Iowa.
That payment shall be made by said
city of DEBORAH, Iowa, for such work as
| follows, to-wit:
BY bonds or certificates issued against
| the lots, or parcels of land or parts of
| lots abutting upon such street improve
ments, and on both sides Of streets, and
based upon a special assessment to be
made upon such lots or portions of lots.
or parcels of land to pay for said pave
ment, provided, however, that the pro-
portionate cost of said pavement to be
borne by said city shall be paid for out
of the general city Improvement fund.
The city reserves the right to reject
any and all bids, or any part of any or
| all bids.
The work shall be completed on or
before September LIST, 1906.
That all such bids or proposals will
| be opened and acted upon by the City
Council of said City, in the City
Hall therein, on the 18th day of Octo-
| Der, A.. d. 1905, at the hour of 1880
| o'clock p. m. of said day.
| f. w. DAUBNEY, Mayor.
+. NJ. HUGHES. City Clerk.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-10-04
ORDINANCE NO. aal.

An Ordinance providing for arc and in
candescent electric. lighting in the
streets of DEBORAH. Iowa, and the
rates TO be paid therefore to w. H.
Burtis. his associates or assigns
Be it Ordained by the City Council of
the, City Of DEBORAH, Iowa.
granted TO w. H. Burtis. his associates
or assigns. the right to maintain and
operate arc and incandescent electric
city street lighting including ali ali the
necessary arc and incandescent lamps
and fixtures and to furnish all electric
..urrent and all labor and renewals for
the maintenance and operation of said
lights under such restrictions as are
hereinafter named.
Article THAT the said w. II. Bur-
It's, his associates or assigns, shall be
entitled to enjoy and possess the privi-
leges granted hereby and confirmed, for
the period of ten years from and after
and after the installation and compile
ton of a proposed water power plant
with which to supply the necessary cleo
trio power to operate the light and power
and pumping plants in DEBORAH, Iowa,
or from and after the cancellation of
the existing contract for lighting, name
ly: Ordinance No. 204. between the De-
City or DEBORAH and w. III. Burtis shall
procure the cancellation of the present
contract with the DEBORAH Electric Light
Co. before this contract shall in any
event be operative.
Article 3.--That In consideration OF
the covenants herein contained and the
payment OF the rates hereinafter speci-
fled, said grantee, his associates or as
signs, shah furnish TO the City Of De-
corah arc and incandescent electric
lamps conforming to certain specifica-
ton hereinafter stated and shall oper-
ate said lamps upon certain schedule
of hours and rates determined upon
from time to time by the City Council
of said City OF DEBORAH.
And said City of DEBORAH shall pay
each month to the grantee. his associ
according to the following schedule. viz:
arc lamps of nominal 1000 c, p. bnrnir ?
from dusk until twelve O'clock mid
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-10-04

Article 6.-That this ordinance shall
,e in force and take effect from and after
it's publication as provided by law and
it's acceptance by the grantee herein and
to be filed with the City Clerk
F. w. DAUBNEY, Mayor
F. NJ HUGHES, City Clerk.
The news & observer., 1905-12-15
AT BAPTIST UNIVERSITY.
President Vann i'm an Appreciative Ar
ticle on The Visit of Ernest
Thompson Scaton.

The faculty and students of the
Baptist University had quite a pleas
ant surprise yesterday morning from
nine to ten in the way of a lecture
by Ernest Thompson Seaton, the real
latter was nom de plume. and af-
ter winning his fame he has now re-
turned to his real name.
For more than an hour he thor
Oughly delighted his audience and at
the same time gave them quite good
many suggestive hints in natural his
tory Life in the woods for twenty-five
years has brought the wild animals
very close to Mr.. Seaton. He has
studied their ways with loving SYM
pathy, and has the rare power of in
vesting them with human interest for
his hearers. He awakens an interest
much like that of Joel Chandler Har-
ris. but in a different way and along
wholly different lines. But both sue
ceed alike in bringing their hearers
and readers into relations of init
macy and real friendship with their
forest friends.
Mr.. Seaton is Naturalist for the
Crown in the province of Manitoba,
and thus official business has come
to re-enforce natural taste in the
study of that wonder world of the
woods. He will be pleasantly remem
bered by our school. and warmly well
coined should he ever find it convcn-
lent TO make us another visit.
r. r. VANN,
Pres Baptist University for Women.
The news & observer., 1905-12-15
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The news & observer., 1905-12-15

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The news & observer., 1905-12-15

the Senator's letter to the Green's
boro Chamber of Commerce in the
public prints Inasmuch as the Sem
ator does not cite any other public
declaration / take it that he will be
generous enough 10 admit that his
views have not been gwen very liD-
eral publication
The news & observer., 1905-12-15

so well and fayOrably known by many
OF you when here last Xmas, writes
us To notify the children that he will
be here next Monday evening and be
glad TO see them during the week.
The news & observer., 1905-12-15
R. E. PRINCE,
THE REAL ESTATE MAN.
3Of Tucker Building,
RALEIGH. NORTH CAROLINA.
SALE OF LAND.

S1AlJIL III iI1AND.
BY authority of a judgment of the
Superior Court of Wake County in
special proceedings entitled J. G. Hun,
ter and others. exparte, being a pro.
ceeding for division among tenants in
common, we will, on
Monday. January s, 1906.
at the Court House door CT Wake
County. Raleigh. N. c., sell to the
highest bidder for cash at public auc-
ton a tract of land in Little River
township, Wake County, bounded on
the North by the lands of w. III. Mer-
ritt on the East by the lands of b.
Richardson, on the South by the lands
of Carrie Bell and on the West by the
lands of G. w. Sledge. containing 100
acres, more or less. and known as the
Mamie Hunter land.
w. n. JONES,
j. II. FLEMING.
eod-tds Commissioners.
The news & observer., 1905-12-15

Washington n. c., Dec. 13.-This
Morning Mr. Seth Dawson, prosper
)us farmer who lives near LaGrange.
and Miss Zelia Heath. daughter of Mr..
Thomas Heath. We're married. At
ter the ceremony they left at once for
LAGRANGE.