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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-06-07
Pittsburg, Pa.

Pittsburg, Pa.
William Brown, Princeton, KY,
Wait. am coming down that way
this week. S. s. BROWN.
For an answer this came back:
Can't wait WILL.
And this was the reply:
both. Bring her home. FATHER.
But ii was not so fated. Will
Brown, undisputed heir to the larger
share of his fathers millions, did not
bring his bride home. She brought
him home-in a coffin. Almost the
next day he fell i'll and was dead
within a week. The bride-widow, al
most i'll with her grief, met her ia
ther-in-law and went straight to his
heart.
you must stay here with us, my
dear" said the millionaire, "and be
my daughter, too. | know Will would
have wished it So"
Old Mans Daughter Dead.
So the girl stayed along with the
old man, and year after year made
herself better loved by him. Then
came another blow-his only living
child, his daughter Nellie, died in
Italy.
Il am afraid my poor old heart will
break said the old man, bowed un-
der this added weight of woe.
There was no one to turn to save his
daughterin-law now. He called her to
him one day soon after the funeral,
and said:
Stay here with me, for I am left
alone. Be the head of my household,
and when l die you will be the same
in my will as if you were my own
daughter. And why not? Are you
not the wife of my dead son, my only
boy?"
But the girl did not need this prom
Use. She loved the old man as the
father of her boy husband. Her sis
ter came to live with them and she
took her place at the head of the
Brown household. The servants were
instructed to obey her in everything,
and wherever she went she was in
troduced by the millionaire as my
daughter Grace, my sons widow, dear
to me as my own"
Everywhere it was understood that
the young widow was to be his heir
ess Folks were told that Mr.. Browns
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Gently purchased from Heren Bros.

Gently, purchased from Heren Bros.
Tenth.-"I also give and bequeoth to
Miss Martha L. Lewis aforesaid, first
mortgage bonds of the Pittsburg Brew
ing company to the aggregate par value
of $4,000, which | direct shall be de-
liVered to her by my executors within
80 days after my death; and il for any
reason the said bonds are not delivered
within the period aforesaid, | direct my
executors TO pay to her on the first day
of the month following my death the
sum of Sl25 and a like sum monthly
thereafter until said bonds are deliv-
cred to her"
The library from which Miss Lewis
was empowered by the will to select
one-half of the books is worth $4,000,
and one of the most complete libraries
in the city. The Astoria racing plate,
which also went to Miss Lewis, was
of gold, valued at $4,000. 1t was
won by Sue Smith.
Received Many Presents.
BY the will Miss Lewis got in all
100000. This was only small por-
tion of her benefits. When she was
2S-her last birthday-Mr. Brown
handed the delighted girl $4,000 in
new bills. Only a few months before
he had given her beautiful big house
on Greenfield avenue, worth $4,000.
This is where the bride will live when
she returns from her honeymoon. She
got $4,000 worth of diamonds, too,
and in all $125000 in cash, say Mrs.
Browns friends, before the old mans
death.
The Browns have taken the daugh-
ter-in-law to their hearts. She is
again mistress of the old Brown man.
sion, there to stay as long as she
pleases. w. Harry Brown, the broth
er, even wealthier than S. S. Brown,
who inherits the bulk of the estate,
is understood to be against Miss
Lewis claim.
There was a tragic scene when the
will was read. Mrs. Elizabeth Will
lard, sister of the dead man, knew
nothing of it. When she heard ii
gave the young widow but 100000 in
beer bonds she burst out weeping and
ran from the room crying: "Oh, Sam
uel how could you have done this
thing?"
a strange feature Of this strang case
Is that the millionaire provided bet
ter for the young widow after her
death than during her life. A niche
by his direction has been reserved Cor
her In the rich marble mausoleum out
at the cemetery. There she will rest
with the others OF the family's dead.
And whether an old mah's tickle
fancy changed at the last or a design.
ing g:rl succeeded In q plot 10 secure
wealth at the expense of reputation
and standing In society, Is the quea.
tlon.
Probably II will be answered In ths
courts.
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Martha Lewis Appears.

Mrs. Browns sister married and
she went back TO Kentucky with her
for visit That was the beginning
Of the end. When she returned she
found that Miss Lewis had been asked
10 live 40 the Browns.
Grace" said the old millionaire. by
way OF making clear how things stood,
Just take Marty and buy her some
things. and show her how 10 wear
them"
Marty" was what Mr. Brown elect.
ed TO call the pretty eirl he had in
stalled as his protegc Ia the biz house.
Young Mrs Brown bsIbci some. but
she aid a. she was told But she
refused 90 introduce the Girl 10 her
friends. aud she SIN sas Mr.. Brown .
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Bum Restaurant.

"Paw, what's that orchestra playing
here for?"
Money, Tommy. They couldn't pos
sibly be playing for the kind of meal
they would get here. Chicago Tri-
bune.
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Her Legal Status.

The Dominine-Are you your moth
er's little darling?
Baby Ethel-Only half the time.
You see the court decided that papa
was to have me for six months every
year.-The Wasp.
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Ineeption Of Romance.

Fifteen years ago William Brown
the milionaiTes only son, was sent
TO Kentucky to superintcnd the build
ing of a railroad in which his father
was interested. There he met a blue
grass belle-beautiful Grace Mcleod.
win. barely turned 1G
The boys head was turned. II was
plainly love at first sight. There was
an ardent courtship. and the youthful
sultor won That day there came to
the old man ia Pittsburg this dis
patch.
Princeton, Ky.
s S. Brown. plttshurg Pa.
! HW going tn hr married o. the dea rest
EIft iu the world. Will.
That same day this wire went back
20 Kentucky:
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had long been in love In fact. they
loved each other before he was taken
I'll.
Here we're the provisions Of the will
concerning the young women in the
case:
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A W0MAN'S ORDEAL
BREADS D0CTOR's QUESTIONS
Thousands Write co Mrs. Pinlsham, Lynn,
Mass., and Receive Valuable Advice
Absolutely Confidential and Free

There can be no more terrible ordeal
TO a delicate, sensitive, refined woman
than to be obliged to answer certain
questions in regard to her private ills,
even when those questions are asked
by her family physician, and many
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from me and l will not trouble her"
Apparently, however, the aged mil
lionaire was still fond of his sons
widow. She spent a part of the sea
son with Mr.. Brown last year and as
the Christmas holidays were approach
ing she received a hurried call to come
to the old mans bedside.
He was dying.
The young widow caught the first
train. But as she sped through the
darkness another will was being made
in Pittsburg in the old Brown man
sion. With a few strokes of the pen
all she had believed was to be hers
was blotted out. But no one told her
this when she reached Pittsburg the
next morning.
Young Mrs. Brown was received
with open arms. Twenty days later
Samuel S. Brown died. During those
20 days the deathbed will did not
come to light. Mrs. Browns friends
say that it was purposely hidden so
that she would know nothing about it
until it should be too late. The mil
lionaire died, surrounded by his fam
lily, while Mrs. Brown kneIt at the
bedside.
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Bequests to Martha Lewis.

Second.-'I give and hequeath to the
Union Trust company of Pittsburg first
mortgage bonds OF the Pttsburg Brew
ing company to the aggregate value OF
$4,000, In trust nevertheless, 20 pay the
net interest and income therCfrom to
my daughter-ln-law Grace NJ. Brown
for and during the term Of her natural
life, If she so long remain a widow and
from and after her marriage or death,
in further trust to divide or distribute
the principal of said trust fund to the
persons hereinafter provided for in the
case of my residuary estate and | au-
thorize and empower said trustee, to
sell said bonds, and to reinvest the pro-
ceeds of sale at its discretion"
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idolized. When they grew up moth.
ing was too good for them.
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life was insured for 100000 in her
favor.
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NINTH give and bequeath to Miss
Martha E. Lewis, of the city of Pitts
burg, one-half of the residue of my
library wherever the same may be sit
uate at the appraised value thereof,
she to have the right to select books to
the amount of one-half. l also give
and bequeath to the said Martha T..
Lewis my Astoria States Bacng trophy
and the box of silverware which l re-
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In striking contrast with this are
the clauses in which Miss Lewis bene-
fits in the following sections of the
same will:
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VIII Kept Secret.

Never were greater efforts made to
keep will from becoming public. 1t
was filed secretly. The authorities
were ordered to keep it secret and
meekly complied. The family lawyer
furnished an extract to the newspa-
pers, but all reference to either of the
young women i'll the case was careful
ly eliminated.
That's all we care to give out to
the newspapers, was the lawyers
curt rejoinder when pressed for an ex.
PLANTATION.
But the New York Sunday Worlds
correspondent in Pittsburg made
things so interesting for all concerned
that finally the entire contents of the
will were made public as provided by
law.
Then the storm broke. The feud
became public property. Promptly
there came a demand from tire officers
Of the Mary Brown church that Miss
LOWS resign her position in the Sun.
day school.
Forced 20 Leave Sunday School.
The church had Mr. Browns S7O..
900. They cared no longer. They had
bowed to his viii In life. and they
had installed his protege to a posi-
tlon OF distinction In church affairs.
Now they would have no more OF her.
At public hearing she was asked
TO resign. and she did.
Then she announced that she in
tended marrying and that was her
ostensible reason for retiring She
aud william Arthur Porter. race
track employe 0f old man Brown B..
The Lamar register., 1906-01-10
THE yellow birch WITHE

Last spring when l was digging
for den of young foxes in the old
Mariaville burying ground | came mp
on rotten coffin that had been
wrapped in birch withes for more
than seventy-five years. The ash
boards crumbled at the touch of my
spade. The coffin plate was rusted so
that l could not make out any name.
But those coiled and twisted limbs of
sapling yellow birch were still strong
enough to hold yoke of oxen.
ut seems as If those old chaps who
cleared up farms for us and then i'm
poverished the soil so it could grow
no crops were associated pretty inti-
mately with withes from the time they
came into the world until they quit
1t for good. The hood of the cradle
was made from yellow birch limbs
woven in basket work.
THE first time and every time the
child went wrong he received an ap-
plication of yellow birch in the place
where yellow birch did most good.
From early manhood to old age withes
were the most useful and the most
needful articles about the farm, and
when death stepped in and wound up
the business a sheaf of birch withes
enwrapped the coffin and held it in
shape until all inside had turned to
dust. New York Sun.
The Lamar register., 1906-01-10
YEAR ONE OF GREAT PROSPERITY
sands the


The Washington officials who deal in
the statistics of manufacturers hold
that there is every apparent indica-
ton that the prosperous showing of
the last year is to be more than du-
plicated in the year that is to come.
1t is a fairly well established fact
that coming unhappy events cast long
shadows before. The students of the
situation look not only at the matter
Immediately in hand, but they look at
all the conditions of commercial life:
the state of the country's finances.
the likelihood of tariff changes, the
possibilities of commercial wars, and.
in fact, at all other things upon which
government agents make reports.
They look at all these things before
they attempt anything of prophecy,
and when they do consent to prophecy
they do not put it IN black and white
because there is always a chance of
the arising of something hitherto un-
known; but they do consent to give
an expression of their belief in the
future, founded upon the best knowl-
edge which is given to them from all
available sources. 1t is only the crop
expert who in the winter, the time
of the death of vegetation, refuses to
say one word as TO the future, for the
time of long distance weather fore
casts has not yet arrived.
The view of the coming year as 1t
touches exports and imports and the
manufacturers of the country is to be
expressed only by the much-used and
apparently well-liked word, rosy.
Should there be those who look
only to the purse as the standard of
a peoples happiness. it may be said
that there is more money in circula-
ton among the inhabitants of the
United States to-day than ever there
has been efore. Despite bank troub-
les here and there the financial inst!-
trtional solidity and prosperity of the
country seems to have foundation
of rock which cannot readily be worn
away. The light SHINES ahead.
The Lamar register., 1906-01-10
youNG GIRL HvccED DEAR

had gone but short distance when,
about hundred feet away. we saw a
large cinnamon bear browsing among
the bushes. Knowing that all the an
imals in the park are more or less
tame, we approached the beast. | held
up my hand and the bear, thinking
that | had something for him to eat,
stood on his hind feet and reached
up, but, finding that he had been de-
ceived, shook his head angrily and
walked away. My young companion
then ran back to the wagon and re-
turned with few cookies. Again We
approached the bear and Miss Wells
held one of the cookies in her hand.
The bear repeated the same perform
ance he had gone through with me,
but this time he found something.
Miss Wells gradually drew back her
hand while the bear was reaching for
1t, until the animals head was over
her shoulder, and then, while he was
eating the cookie, she reached around
his neck with her other arm and
hugged him tightly. My heart seemed
to stop beating, but | dared not yell.
for the animal would be startled and
attack the girl. When he had finished
eating the cookie, she reached around
dropped down on all fours again and
my experiences | had never seen a
more reckless or daring and even
dangerous action by young lady"
The Lamar register., 1906-01-10
AVIS REACHED THE SUGAR

Half dozen of them climbed the tin
side and poised on the edge. One fel-
low crept down the rim intoSthe wa
ter. The others watched This strug-
giles Tor while and then went back
to their friends on the table top. They
held council of war and swung
around in echelon and left the table
by one of the legs | was getting curl
Gus. Then thin, black line ascended
the wall and wriggled along the cell
ing. 1t broke into reconnoitorial par
ties, and then one group formed up
there right over the sugar bowl.
watched that group spellbound. The
scouts were called back and every ant
on that ceiling made for the group
over the bowl. Then the group moved
and one ant dropped from the ceiling
straight into the sugar bowl. Then
another and another followed. until
there was perfect line of ants falling
from the ceiling into tle bowl. When
the fall finished l woke the other boys
up and showed them the bowl full of
ants. Never saw anything like it Ete
fore il ny life-never.
The Lamar register., 1906-01-10

Before the days of cheap twine
and cheap wire on spools. said Bill
Remick, when a farmer or woods
man wanted to fasten anything so
that it would be there when he called
the next time he used withe.
suppose most of the rail fences used
by the first settlers in Maine were
he'd in place with yellow birch withes.
Il have seen them used 10 bale hay,
and tie up bags of grain, and splice
from leaping out of frames. and to tie
out calves while feeding, and TO fasten
the names of work horses about the
collars. and to hinge the swinging
part of threshing fail to the handle.
and to bind loads of wood and pota-
toes and apples and hay when they
were taken to market.
Fifty years ago bundle of withes
was as necessary at a funeral as a
dead body. All collins were made by
the local carpenters then, without
paint or varnish. Such articles as
beckets were unknown.
Instead of having silver mounted
handles. a bundle of stout withes was
twisted about the coffin near the head
and near the foot, and when the bear
ers were ready to proceed they took
firm hold of the withes and went
along.
The Lamar register., 1906-01-10
MA ny SNAKES IN SARA WAX

mon species is the green viper, which
reaches a length of two feet or more.
The head is large and shaped like
an ace of spades. This creature is a
tree snake and very sluggish. The
b vigarus' are of several species. one
'bungarus fasciatus.' of length up to
foLr feet, being black with yellow
rings. 1t Is called the 'ular buku tebu'
(sugar-cane joints) by natives. There
are also sea snakes of many species.
The tail of a sea snake is fattened
and oarlike."
Sarawak has other snakes: "Of
the pythons there are two species.
python. reticulatus' grows to an enor-
nous size, over twenty feet. 1t is
very fond of pigs, but varies its diet
by various animals. including even
children. The oil OF this snake is
used by Malays as an embrocation
for bruises. The other species of py-
thon, python curtus. is interesting in
that its flesh tastes like that of fowl,
at least so Dyaks say, and they arc
authorities on snake flesh. for they
eat a number of the large snakes"
The Lamar register., 1906-01-10

Ants are intelligent enough TO
know when to come in out OF the wet,
said a mining man of Colorado. "and
| have seen them find food under puz-
zling circumstances. Only "A few
months ago a swarm of ants invaded
a little cabin that l and three of my
mates lived in. We drove chem out of
everything except the sugar, and moth
ing we did could keep them away from
that. We put the sugar in bowl and
set that in the middle of tin dish
full of water. We reckoned the ants
that succeeded in swimming across
the water to the bowl would deserve
the sugar.
Sure enough, next morning the
howl was swarming with black regi-
ments of ants. AMI the curious thing
was that there was only one ant
drowned in the water. That went on
for three or four nights, and decided
to sit up and watch the campaign.
About midni ght securing party OF
ants came up the table leg and ma
nenyered along the top of the dish.
The Lamar register., 1906-01-10

Bear hugging is an amusement
which few people, especially youag
women, would care to indulge in, and
it is seldom that one would have the
chance to embrace a real live Brun
in his native haunts, even if he-or
she-had the nerve and the inclination
20 try it, says the Seattle PostIntelli-
gencer. The opportunity, however,
came not long ago to Miss Bessie
Wells, pretty little Texas lass, who
visited in Seattle recently. and she
startled w. d. Cameron, who happened
to be with her at the time, by giving
full-grown cinnamon bear in Yellow
stone park a good squeeze around the
neck. The bear, however, much to the
relief of Miss Wells companion. did
not reciprocate the caress, although
he seemed to enjoy 1t.
Miss Wells Is the 15-year-old daugh-
ter of wealthy cotton dealer of Aus
tin, Tex. She is beauty of the true
southern type. imbued with the daring
spirit and nerve that so often are
is large for her age. Mr. Cameron,
who came to this city a few days ago,
described Miss Wells daring escapade
as follows:
Our party had stopped for the noon
hour luncheon and while the meal was
being prepared Miss Wells and l
started out to pick few berries. We
The Lamar register., 1906-01-10
DISASTERS DURING THE YEAR.
Earthquake in Italy the Worst caIam-
ity Recorded in 1905.

Earthquake in Italy the Worst Calam-
ity Recorded in 1905.
Disasters were numerous during
1905, though there was no calamity
involving such great loss of life or
such horrors as accompanied the burn
ing of the Iroquois theater at Chicago
in 1903, or of the steamer General Slo'
cum at New York in 1904. Leaving
out of consideration the Russo-Japa.
nese war. the greatest disaster of the
year occurred in Calabria, Italy, where
400 lives were lost through an earth
quake Sept. s. Nearly as many deaths
were recorded as due to the collapse
of a partially constructed reservoir
near Madrid, Spain, April s.
The most serious disaster in the
United States was the tornado in
Texas, April 30. At Laredo 100 lives
were lost. A tornado in Oklahoma,
May IL, caused nearly as many deaths
in the town of Sidney. A fire in
shoe factory at Brocton, Mass, re-
sulting from an explosion. March 20.
also resulted in 100 deaths.
Railroad accidents probably have
not caused so many deaths as in 1904,
but several serious ones occurred dur
ing the past year. In collision on
the Western Maryland railroad. twen-
ty-eight miles from Baltimore, June
/, twenty-three persons were Killed
In each of three other wrecks twenty
lives were lost, and two wrecks
caused twelve deaths each.
By an explosion in the Rush Run
and Red Ash coal mines. near Thur
mond, w. Va. March 10. twenty-four
lives were lost. A gas explosion in
mine at Ziegler. ILL.,. April 13, en-
tombed fifty miners. July IL more
than 100 miners were killed by an
explosion in the pits at Wattstown.
Wales.
OF disasters on the water the most
serious was the wreck of the South
ampton Railway company's steamer
Hilda, off St. Malo. English channel.
in which 100 lives were lost. The
explosion of the boiler of the United
States gunboat Bennington in San
Diego harbor. July 81. caused the
death of sixty of the crew.
The Lamar register., 1906-01-10
ANNUAL TREK OF CA RIBOV

briskly. When. as was often the case.
fifty or eighty of the animals went
by together, the rafting of their feet
gave out a curious sound. unlike any
thing else in natures wilds.
The writer saw hundreds of them
passing one day over the Topsails, as
the highest mountain ridge on the
island Is called. There is very little
shelter there, as, owing to the alti-
tude, the trees are dwarfed. but little
If any cover is needed by the hunter
at such times. provided the direction
of the wind is carefully noted
More than ever was 1t made clear
upon this expedition that the caribou
does not rely particularly upon its
eyesight. but places its main depend
ence upon its sense of smell. For
hours the animals sauntered along.
many of them almost within touch.
dozens of them in full sight of their
human observers.
About the head waters of the Harry
river the caribou appear to herd more
closely than elsewhere, and it was
here that 800 caribou were actually
counted at one time, no notice being
taken of fawns. Many of them had
from thirty TO forty points on their
ont from under a dry thicket of dead
horns, and when several were close
branches.