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Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-28

NHuaman arrived here tonight and Of
fered rewards for the arrest of Ernest
Bryan and Dan KerraII, prominent men
in the vicinity of Scooba, who are sus-
pected of having something to do with
NichoIsOn's murder.
By Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 27.-That
white men protected innocent negroes
and that every effort is being made by
the whites to punish those "hoodlums"
of their own race who were responsible
for the Christmas riots in Kemper
county, Miss, was the information in
detailed accounts arriving carly today
from the little towns which were the
scene of the bloodshed.
"A conference has been held" these
dispatches say, between the civil and
military authorities at which evidence
was produced that will establish the
identity of the five white men Of good
families of the county who ok part in
the lynchings."
Made Efforts for Capture
District Attorney Currie i IS made a
public statement in which he says:
Il found upon investigation that the
trouble was caused by lot of hoodlums
and outlaws who openly violated all
laws of God and man and decency
1.-The four men killed Christmas day
were not connected with the affair in
any manner, and l ann informed that
the houses burned weNe occupied by
negroes who were not even in SYM
pathy with any of those who were con-
nected with the outrages. These men
will be captured If it is in the power of
the state of Mississippi to do So"
Mob Element FIees
The dispatches say that the total
death list is probably twelve. The mob
element among the whites has mostly
fed toward the Alabama state line,
while negroes in terror have gathered
at Scooba md Wahalaka to place them
selves under the protection of troops or
of citizens
The killing of a ~egro named Calvin
Nicholson is reported as zone of the
most brutal which has occurred since
the days of reconstruction"
Nicholson was a negro of the best
class. While posse was searching for
a negro named Simpson who had killed
deputy they entered Nicholson S
house and several persons began shoot
ing at him. Deputy Sheriff Alexander
and two others rushed to the negro,
shielding him with their bodies.
They protected him until overpow-
cred, after which he was shot and his
house burned. District Attorney Currie
says he has fixed tn blame for this
murder on three men and will arrest
them if they still are in the state.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-28

Everything you want YOU will nnd IN
the classified page One cent word.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-08-09
SOME QUEER WEDDINGS.
Humorous Incidents of NuptiaIs
Performed by u Noted
Cleric.

1T is hard to look over my record
of marriage services without continuous
merriment," wrote the Rev. John Hen
ry Barrows, president of Oberlin Col
lege. In a memoir of her fathers life
Miss Barrows gives some of his eX-
perience in his own words.
II recall the marriage where the
awkward father of the bride, who was
himself nearly seven feet tall tried
to knell when his daughter knelt and
who required help to bring him to his
feet again.
Il remember the loving groom who
had come to my house to be wed, and
who, after the ceremony, tenderly re-
marked:
Jennie has no friends here, doctor.
[ should be so glad if you would kiss
herl'
II think of the young man in church
who walked with five other young
men up one aisle, while the bride and
five other young ladies walked up the
other aisle, the two forming a straight
military line before the altar, and who,
when / whisperingly asked him his
first name, replied in loud tones, I do
and who. at the close of the service
took out ten-dollar bill and presented
it in the presence of the entire congre-
cation.
81 think of the couple whom I called
by wrong names, saying, DO you,
George?' DO you, Martha?' when l
was really addressing John and Jane.
In hurriedly glancing over the license,
I had read the names of the brides
father and mother instead of those OF
the bride and groom"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-08-09
why the Actor Smiled.

The late Joseph Jefferson used to
enjoy telling, in his quaint way, of the
sad case of a player in the old days
A company had been sent out from
New Orleans to visit the towns along
the Mississippi river up to st. Louis.
Business had been anything but good
and the meager receipts at the box
Office had resulted in a heavy reduc-
ton of salaries before the company
had been out for many weeks. Ono
night, after the performance, the
stage manager, who also was the
leading man, took exception to the
manner in which one of the players
had interpreted certain death
scene.' why" exclaimed the stage
manager. Indignantly, you actually
smiled in that scene!" "Yes," re-
piled the player who had been re-
buked, ''in view of the salary that
you now pay me, death seems a pleas
ant relief. Success Magazine.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-08-09
CHAPTER XVII.
DINNER. IS SERVED.

Monsieur Pierre, having uttered this
ejaculation, stepped back and rested
his fat hands on his fat hips. AS he
surveyed the impromptu butler, a
shade of perplexity spread over his oily
face. He smoothed his imperial and
frowned. This groom certainly looked
right, but there was something lacking
in his makeup, that indefinable some
thing which is always found in the
true servant-servility. There was no
humility here, no hypocritical meek
ness, no suavity; there was nothing
snug or self-satisfied. In truth, there
was something grimly earnest, which
was not to be understood readily.
Monsieur Pierre, having always busted
himself with soups and curries and
roasts and sauces, was not profound
analyst; yet his instructive shrewd-
ness at once told him that this fellow
was no servant, nor could he ever be
made into one. Though voluble enough
in his kitchen, Monsieur Pierre lacked
expression when confronted by any
problem outside of it. Here was the
regulation swallow-tail coat and
trousers of green, the striped red vest,
and the polished brass buttons: but
the man inside was too much for him.
"Diable You luke right. But no,
| can not explain Eet ees on zee
tongue, but Get rayfuse. Ha! haf eet!
You lack vot zay call zee real. You
make me t'ink uf zee sairyant on zee
stage, something bettair off; eh?"
This was as near as monsieur ever got
to the truth of things.
ITO Be Continued
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-08-09

Are you wise to the fact that every
thing is changing in this old world of
ours, and that since the advent of fuss
wagons even the old-fashioned idea Of
courtship has been chased to the woods?
It used to be that on a Saturday even
ing the young gent would draw down
his six dollars worth of salary and chase
himself to the barber shop, where the
Dago lawn trimmer would put a crimp
in his mustache and plaster his fore
head with three cents worth of hair
and dollars worth of axle-grease.
Then the young gent would go out
and spread 40 cents around among the
tradesmen for a mess of water-lilies
and bag of peanut brittle.
The lilies of the valley were to put
on the dinng.rom table so mother
would be pleased, and with the peanut
brittle he intended to fill in the weary
moments when he and his little geisha
girl were not making goo-goo eyes at
each other
But nowadays it is different, and
Dan Cupid spends most of his time on
the hot foot between the coroner's Of
flee and the divorce court,
I've got hunch that young people
these days are more emotional and
like to see their pictures in the news
papers.
Nowadays when clever young man
goes to visit his sweetheart he hikes
over the streets in a benZine buggy,
and when he pulls the bell-rope at the
front door he has rapid-fire revolver
in one pocket and bottle of carboliC
acid in the other.
His intentions are honorable and he
wishes to prove them so by shooting
his lady love if she renigs when he
makes a play for her hand.
| think the old style was the best,
because when young people quarreled
they didn't need an ambulance and a
hospital surgeon to help them
make up.
In the old days Oscar Dobson would
draw the stove brush cheerfully across
his dogskin shoes and rush with eager
feet to see Lena Jones, the girl he
wished to make the wife of his bosom.
"Darling." Oscar would say, 81 am
sure to the bad for love of you. Pipe
the downcast drop in this eye of mine
and notice the way my heart is bub-
bling over like bottle of sarsapari-
la on a hot day! Be mine, Lena! be
mine."
Then Lena would giggle. Not once.
but seven giggles, something like those
used in a Spasm.
Then she would reply: mo, Oscar;
it cannot be. Fate wills it otherwise" >"
Then Oscar would bite his finger
nails, pick his hat up out of the coal
scuttle and say to Lena False one.
You love Conrad, the floorwalker in the
butcher shop. Curses on Conrad, and
see what you have missed, Lena.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-08-09
"she Thinks She Is a sibson Girl"
Puffenlotz


walks into the parlor to see Miss Imo-
gene Cordelia Hoffbrew.
"Wie gents. Imogene!" says Con
salvo.
"Simlich!" says Imogene, standing
at right angles near the piano because
she thinks she is a Gibson girl.
"Imogene, dearest" Gonsalvo con-
tinues; 81 called on your papa in Wall
street yesterday to find out how much
money you have, but he refused to
name the sum, therefore you have un-
told wealth."
| Gonsalvo pauses to let the Partisan
clock on the mantel tick, tick, tick!
He is making the bluff of his life
you see, and he has to do even that on
tick.
Besides, this furnishes the local
color. Z
Then Gonsalvo bursts forth again:
'Imogene! Oh! Imogene! will you be
mine and | will be thine without
money and without the price"
Gonsalvo pauses to let this idea
get noised about a little.
Then he goes on: BE mine, Imo-
gene! You will be minus the money
while | will have the price,"
Gonsalvo trembles with the passion
which is consuming his pocketbook.
and then Imogene turns languidly
from a right angle triangle into more
of a straight front, and hands Con
salvo bitter look of scorn.
Then Gonsalvo grabs his revolver
and, aiming it at her marble brow.
exclaims: Marry me this minute or
I will shoot you in the topknot, be-
cause | love you"
Then papa rushes into the room and
Gonsalyo politely requests the old gen.
tleman to hold two or three bullets
for him for a few moments.
Gonsalvo then bites deeply into
bottle of carbolic acid, and just as the
coroner climbs into the house the pic
lures of the modern lover and lover
ess appear in the newspapers, and
fashionable society receives a jolt.
This is the new and up-to-date way
of making love.
However, l think the old style of
courting is the best, because you can
generally stop a jag before it gets to
the undertaken.
What do you think?
Copyright, 1901, by G. w. Dillingham; Col
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-08-09

When he would recover strength
enough to walk down town without at
tracing attention of the other side
of the street, he would call on Lena
and say: Lena, forgive me for what
| done, but love is blind-and, be-
sides, | mixed my drinks. Lena, |
was on the downward path and | near
ly went to hell"
Then Lena would say: Why,
Oscar, | saw you and your bundle
when you fell in the well, but | didn't
know it was as deep as you mention"
Then they would kiss and make
up and the wedding bells would ring
just as soon as Oscars salary grew
large enough to tease a pocketbook.
But these days the idea is altogether
different
Children are hardly out of the cradle
before they are arrested for butting
into the speed limit with a smoke
wagon
Even when they go courting they
have to o>play to the gallery.
Nowadays Gonsalvo II, Puffenlotz
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-08-09
CHAPTER XV.-coNrINuED.
Copyright, Ioo4. The Bobbs-Merril Company.

CHAPTER XV.-CoNTINUED
How adroitly he had sown the seed!
AT that period he had no positive idea
upon what kind of ground he had cast
1t. But he took that chance which all
-far-sighted men take, and then
waited. There was little he had not
learned about this handsome American
with the beautiful daughter. How he
had learned will always remain dark to
me. My own opinion is that he had
been studying him during his tenure
of Office in Washington, and, with that
patience which is making Russia so
formidable, waited fer this opportu-
nifty.
shall give the Russian all the JUS
tice of impartiality. When he saw
the girl, he rather shrank from the
affair. But he had gone too far, he
had promised too much; to withdraw
now meant his own defeat, his gov
ernment's anger, his political oblivion.
And there was q Zest in this life of his.
lie could no more resist the call of
intrigue than a gambler can resist the
tfouplGI Nldhe SOui BCilllC-
meni" l believe that he loved the girl
the moment he set eyes upon her. Her
beauty and bearing distinguished her
from the other women he had met, and
her personality was so engaging that
her conquest of him was complete and
spontaneous. How to win this girl
and at the same time ruin her father
was an embarrassing problem. The
plan which finally came to him he re-
%pelled again and again, but at length
he surrendered To get the parent IN
his power and then to coerce the girl in
case she refused him! To my knowl-
edge this affair was the first dishonor-
able act of a very honorable man
But love makes fools and rogues of us
all.
When the American returned to the
world. his cigar was out and his coffee
was stale and cold.
"A million francs" he murmured
h'Two hundred thousand"
The seed had fallen on fruitful
ground.
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do not recall this fact as reproach:
| make the statement to bear me on in
what | have to submit to your dis
cerning intelligence. | doubt if there
is another woman. here or abroad.
who knows you so well as /. Your
personal honor is beyond impeach-
ment but Russia Is making vast efforts
to speckle it. She will succeed. Yes.
| could force you to marry me. With
word l could tumble your house of
cards. | am worldly woman and not
without wit and address. | possess
every one Of your letters, most of all
have treasured the eXtravagant ones.
To some you have signed your name.
If you have kept mine, You will OBJ
serve that my given name might mean
any one of a thousand women who are
named Grace Shall you marry me?
Shall | tumble your house of cards?
| could go to Col. Annesley and say to
him that If he delivers these plans to
you, shall denounce him to the secret
service officers. | might cause his ut
ter financial ruin, but his name would
descend to his daughter untarnished." :"
you would not dare!" the count
interrupted.
What? And you know me so well?
have not given you my word to re-
veal nothing. You confided in my rare
quality of silence; you conflded in me
because you had proved me. Man is
not infallible, even when he is named
Karloff." She lifted from vase her
nnwers from which She shook the
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-08-09
French "Dull.'

The following verbal "bull' is cred
tied to a Frenchman who, while prom
enading with friend, noticed a pass
ing cab drawn by a pair of horses,
one black and the other white
Look" said one; 'you don't often see
one harnessed together"
"That's So" was the response. "Do
you know why the black horse is on
the near side?"
No"
"Why, they always put the horse
that isn't the same color as the other
on the near side"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-08-09

Late shipping returns compiled bN
Iloyd's prove quite conclusively that
the great cargo carrier of the world is
still the mediums tramp steamer
which can get in and out of all ports
OF consequence in the known world
and on a draft of from % to 25 feet
carry from 5000 to 10000 tons of car
Ev. The extent to which vessels OF
this type predominant over all others
has oeen frequently shown in Lloyd's
Reg gister, and, despite the fact that
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-08-09
1T IS WAR. THEN?'

water. Laws have been passed or an
nulled; laws have died at the executive
desk Who told you that this was to
be, or that, long before it came to
pass? In all the successful intrigues
of Russia in this country, whom have
you to thank? Me. Ordinarily wom-
an does not do these things as a pas
time. There must be some strong mo-
tive behind. You asked me why | have
stirred you so. Perhaps it is because
| am neither two-and-twenty nor you
two-score 1t is these little barbs that
remain in a woman's heart. Well,
do not love you we'll enough to marry
you, but love you too well to permit
you to marry Miss Annesley."
That has the sound of war. | did
love you that night, mot without a
certain nobility.
"siow easily you say that night!
Surely there was wisdom in that smile
of mine. And | nearly tumbled into
the pit! l must have looked exceed
ingly well that night" -
drily.
you are very bitter tonight. Had
you taken me at my word, | never
should have looked at Miss Annesley.
And had ceased to love you, not even
you would have known it."
"Is it ssible?"-ironically.
'It is. l have too much pride to
permit a woman to see that | have
made a mistake"
sTban ya,r cnncilar in tbo pracanf
instance that you have not made
mistake? You are frank"
"At least l have not made a mistake
which | can not rectify. Madam, let
us not be enemies. AS you say, owe
you too much. What is it you desire?"
with forced amiability.
deprive Col Annesley of his honor,
that, as you say, is inevitable; but l
love that girl as I would a child of
my own, and I will not see her caught
in a net of this sort, or welded to
man whose government robs him of
his manhood and individuality"
"Do not forget that hold my coun-
try first and foremost, t,"-proudly.
Love has no country, nor laws, nor
sailing Illulilo VI lhICi llIlut. l4ofS
magnificent only in that it gives all
without question. You love this girl
with reservations. You shall not have
her. You shall not have even me, who
loves you after a fashion, for l could
never look upon you as a husband in
my eyes you would always be an ac-
complice."
ic war fhap
"War? Oh, no; we merely sever
our diplomatic relations" she purred.
Madam, listen to me. l shall make
one more attempt to win this girl hon
orably. For you are right; love to
be love must be magnificent If she
accepts me, for her sake l will become
an outcast, a man without country.
If she refuses me- | shall go on to the
end. Speak to the colonel madam; it
is too late Like myself, he has gone
too far. Why did you open the way
for me as you did? | should have been
satisfied with a disconnected clerk.
You threw this girl across my path,
indirectly, it is true; but nevertheless
the fault is yours"
Il recognize it. At that time | did
not realize how much you were to
me-
you are a strange woman. | do
not understand you"
"Incompatibility. Come, the car
riage is waiting. Let us be gone"
'You have spoilt the evening for
me-" said the count, as he threw her
cloak across her shoulders
ION tie contrary. l have added a
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-08-09
CHAPTER XVI.
THE PREVIOUS AFFAIR.

Mrs Chadwick had completed her
toilet and now stood smiling in a most
friendly fashion at the reflection in
1.-THE long oval mirror She addressed
this reflection in melodious tones.
Madam, you are really handsome:
land let no false modesty whisper in
your ear that you are not. Few women
in Washington have such clear skin,
such firm flesh. such color. Thirty
eight? 1t is nothing. 1t is but the
halfway post: one has left youth be-
hind, but one has not reached old age.
Time must be very tolerant. for he
has given you a careful selection.
There were no years of storm and
poverty, of violent passions; and if
have truly loved, it has been you, only
you You are too wise and worldly
to love any one but yourself And yet,
once you stood on the precipice of dark
eyes, pale skin, and melancholy
wrinkles. And even now, if he were
to speak Enough! Enough Of
this folly. | have something to ae-
complish tonight" She glided from
the boudoir into the small but luxuri-
GUS drawing-room which had often
been graced by the most notable men
and women in the country.
Karloff threw aside the book of
poems by De Banville, rose, and went
forward to meet her.
Madam, blending and brushing
her hand with his lips, Madam, you
grow handsomer every day. If | were
40, now. I should fear for your single
blesSedneSs."
"Or, if | were two-and-twenty, in
stead of eight-and-thirty," beginning
to draw on her long white gloves.
There was challenge in her smile
"Well, yes; if you were two-and-
twenty"
There was time not long ago."
she said, drawing his gaze as a magnet
draws a needle, when the disparity
in years was of no matter"
The count laughed. THAT was three
years ago; and if my memory serves
ms, you smiled"
perhaps | was first to smile; that
is all"
81 observe mental reservation, -
owlishly.
Il will put it plainly, then. | pre-
ferred to smile over your protestations
rather than see you laugh over the
possibility and the folly of my loving
you"
''Then it was possible with inter-
est.
Everything is possible and
often absurd"
"How do you know that | was not
truly in love with you?'-narrowing
his eyes"
ut is not explanatory; it can be
given only one rame-instinct, which
In women and animals is more fully
developed than in man. Besides, at
that time you had not learned all about
Colonel Annesley. whose guests we are
to be this evening. Whoever would
have imagined a Karlof accepting the
hospitaIities of an Annesley? Count
hath not Thy rose a Gamer
"Maiam!" KarlST was frcWning,
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-08-09

"My stars!" exclaimed sympathetic
old lady who had seen a man fall on
the icy pavement
you are mistaken, madam" re-
sponded the man, sitting up and blink
ing; they're mine"
Rising stifly to his feet he went his
way.-Philadelphia Ledger.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-08-09

have tickets for a swell chowder party
next Tuesday. All! farewell forever"
Then Oscar would walk out and
hunt up one of those places that Car
rie Nation missed in the shuttle and
there, with one arm glued tight
around the bar rail, he would fasten
his system to a jag which would last
for a week.
Despair would grab him and he'd
be Oscar with the souse thing for
sure.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-08-09
Exercise.

Exercise.
You consider walking the best ex-
ercise?"
"It used to be-" answered the ply
sician, until the necessity of dodg-
ing street cars and automobiles made
1t SO violent. Washington Star.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-08-09

peculiar zest. No. let us go and ap-
pear before the world, and smile, and
laugh, and eat, and gossip. Let the
heart throb with dull pain, if it will;
the mask is ours to do with as We
may"
They were, in my opinion, two very
unusual persons.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-08-09

'Well, Borroughs has moved to Lex
ington'
"Yes, and miss him. too"
For how much ?"-Louisville Cour-
ier-Journal.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-08-09
MEDlUM-SlZED SHIPS IN FAVOR.

there has been an increase in the num-
Der of large SHIPS, the increase in the
number of smaller ones is fully as
pronounced.