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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-23
DIFFERENT NOW
Athlete Finds Better Training Food.

1t was formerly the belief that to
become strong, athletes must eat
plenty of meat.
This is all out of date now, and
many trainers feed athletes on the
well-known food, Grape-Nuts, made of
wheat and barley, and cut the meat
down to small portion once a day.
Three years ago." writes a Mich.
man, having become interested in
athletics, l found | would have to stop
eating pastry and some other kinds
of food
Il got some Grape-Nuts, and was
soon eating the food at every meal,
for | found that when | went on the
track, l felt more lively and active.
Later, | began also to drink Postum
in place of coffee, and the way |
gained muscle and strength on this
diet was certainly great. On the day
of field meet in June l weighed 124
lbs. On the opening of the football
season in Sept, | weighed 140. / at
tribute my fine condition and good
work to the discrimination of i'm
proper food and coffee, and the using
of Grape-Nuts and Postum, my prifci-
pal diet during training season being
Grape-Nuts.
Before | used Grape-Nuts l never
felt right in the morning-always kind
of out of sorts with my stomach. But
now when / rise | feel good, and after
a breakfast largely of Grape-Nuts
with cream, and a cup of Postum, 1
feel like a new man." There's
Reason"
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read THE Road to
Wellville," in pkgs.
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full of human
Interest.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-23
a Sure Remedy.

A young man who experienced
much trouble in managing head Of
hair which manifested an unpleasant
inclination to stand on end, wrote to
a weekly paper for plan by which
his troubles would be at least less
ened
He was given the following recipe:
"One part molasses, three parts bees
wax, four parts india rubber, four
parts glue, IL raw eggs; boil on a
slow fire for two hours and Is min
utes, and while cooling stir in enough
cod liver oil to make the mixture slab
and good. Apply hot, and while grad
ually cooling pass lawn mower back
and forth over the head"
He didn't take 1t.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-23
Lin

The wiseacres of the neighborhood
were discussing the question of COM
mon sense, sitting about the black
smith shop, waiting for their horses
to be shod, when silence that had
suddenly fallen warned old Limuel
Jucklin that it was time for him to
say something.
Yes" he remarked, good, hard
horse sense is of so rare a quality that
1t is nearly always taken for genius.
All that most any man needs is a
little Judgment, the very governor on
the machinery of this life; and bein'
so needful it is what we seem to be
most lackin' In. To know how to do
a thing isn't much more important
than KNOWN what not to do. Known
when to do IL is real genius. II
you cut your wheat before it's ripe
you get sappy straw for your labor.
If you wait too long you get but dry
straw. Jedgment comes from expert
snce, and common sense is the wis
dom beat into the heads of men that
have gone before"
You leave out education" spoke up
a schoolmaster.
"Oh, no, don't. for education is the
experience of the mind 1t goes back
beyond all books, and the first book
must have been written out of expert
ence. But to read Of the common
sense of the other men don't always
give us common sense Of our own. In
my house is book written by a man
named Kant; he calls it the 'Critique
Of Pure Reason Well, since I have
more or less let up on hard work I've
given a good deal Of attention to the
books that fortune and little lookin'
around have thrown in my way, but
this here one stumped me. I read 1t
forward and I tried 1t backward, up
and down, and it seemed like ! want
goin' to get thing out of it. My wife,
seein' how I was bothered, begged me
to throw it away and eat boiled din
ner that she put on the table. did
eat, but all the time l was thinkin'
about that thing all set out there in
words plain enough, but what didn't
appear to have any msanin'. After
dinner I took 1t Up again and fought
with it, holdin' 1t this way and that,
up and down, in the sun at the win
dow and in the shade; but I'll be
hanged If I could get at the Juice OF
it. Finally, however, I struck one
thing that paid me for all my trouble,
and it was this, as near as ! can re-
member It: "A man may read all
books and understand them, and he
may be able to speak all languages,
and yet all this cannot atone for a
lack of what we know as mother wit.
Mother wit-horse sense-you under
stand
But how are we to get or rather
I should say, after maturer considera-
ton, how are we to proceed toward
the requirement of that quality de-
nominated by the great German phil
osopher as mother WITT" protested the
schoolmaster, and old Lin replied:
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-23

There came a day in my own life
when / gave up all thought of being
president. l said to myself: "It will
be hard work to get the attention of
the public In this thing. Many will
not know who | am or where I came
from, and perhaps if l do get the
nomination on the Independent prohi-
the day after election and find that
some totally different person has won
the prize, and I'll be extremely NOR
tilted and absolutely put to it to pay
my legitimate election eXpenses-to
say nothing of the illegitimate ones"
So l put this possible honor from
me. Heavens. it wasn't that I did
not appreciate the honor. A man has
a right to feel proud when millions
of his fellow citizens, many of them
unable to read or write or think, elect
him to the proudest position in the
gift Of any nation. l weighed the
whole thing pro and con and then
said, deliberately and firmly: mo,
sir. | am going to lead Wagners
simple life. I'm going to get simpler
and simpler and perhaps I'll die con-
tented"
Look at Horace Greeley He was
not content to be the Nestor of Ameri-
can Journalism; he must try to be
president. Said he'd rather be presi-
dent than write.
The result was too lamentable to
Jest about. | was mere boy at the
time but it saved me from the presi-
dency. 1t was the turning of the ways
Like Rutherford B. Hayes, I went into
the egg business; but unlike him
or maybe it would be more accurate
to say that like him-I never was
president de jure. But that is by
gone. Twenty years ago If / had said
that many people would have frothed
at the mouth. Many people still froth
at the mouth, but the froth is apropos
of other matters. Significant name
that-froth.
No, fellow countrymen, let us be
contented. 1t Is not likely that over
20, at the outside, of those Americans
who are now living will ever add lus-
ter to the presidential chair-or even
sit in it. Let the rest of us go about
our bus mess with contentment, and
every four years let us elevate one of
the 20 with good grace, and for
four years thereafter let every man
mind his own business-and see that
he has business to mind-and this
country will stride forward as it has
not yet striddeu-or is 1t strode?
Copyright, by James Pott a Cab
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-23

the former cowboy and literary man
the hero of thousands of young men,
is president of this mighty people and
might be yet again if he were to al
low his name to be used?' But, as
say, my boy, it's a lottery and this
country of ours is opposed to lotter
ies-officially.
Emerson" | would say, continuing
the conversation-for you to under.
stand that this is a hypothetical case
and that therefore the boy has got to
stand still and Emerson said,
Hitch your wagon to a star but you
may make a mistake and hitch it to
a comet and then, where is your wagon?
There are plenty of likelier horses,
my son, and in these days of auto.
mobiles it isn't necessary to hitch your
wagon to anything. Just make up your
mind where you want to go, be sure
you have motive power enough to get
there, and then turn on the current
But put the presidency out of your
mind once and for ALL"
The presidency am not talking
to my son now, but just to you, dear
reader-the son escaped after all, hy-
pothetical though he was-the presi-
dency is, as general rule, equiva.
lent to ii life sentence. Few there be
who survive its term of Office many
years. There have been solid excep-
tions, but as a general thing when a
man has passed through four years
of hand-shaking and politician shaking
he is willing to wrap the drapery of
his couch around him as Bryant did ot
! the age of 10. Bryant lived for some
40 years after, but no former president
ever did. Not one.
And on the other hand Bryant
never became president. There's Bry.
ant who could and who did write
''Thanatopsis" at the age of 19 and
he's the only man in the history of the
United States who ever wrote it, and
| he never became president, never in
| his life. And there's Andrew John.
son, who at the same age could Meth.
or read nor write, and he became pres.
ident OF course it's a lottery. and
I'm opposed to lotteries on principle.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-23
Couldn't Fool Him.

A custom house clerk, who, prior
to his entry into Uncle Sans service,
was schoolteacher "a good many
years yet" as he proudly informs his
associates, was standing on the corner
of Fifth and Chestnut streets one cold
day last winter, deeply engrossed in
studying a legend which appeared on
a dairy mans wagon, as follows:
"Pasteurized milk" etc.
His face wore a puzzled expression,
but finally betraying evidence of dawn
ing intelligence he remarked to a by.
stander:
Amt these here Philadelphia milk
men a-gettin' to be just as deceitful
as anything! Pasturized milk eh?
But they can't fool me, cause l lived
in the country, and know you can't
pasture cows in winter"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-23
A Mere Fad.

John D. Rockefeller, Jr., was talking
to a member of the famous Bible class
about economy.
But economy, like everything else,
may be carried to extremes-may be
made a mere fad Of" said Mr.. Rocke.
feAer.
There is farmer out near Cleve.
land who makes a fad of economy.
Every time he drives into town he
carries a hen with him tied to the
seat of his buggy.
"A friend rode with him one day
and found out the use OF the hen.
When, at noon, the farmer lunched
under a tree he gave his mare feed
from a nosebag. The hen, set on the
ground. ate all that the horse spilled
from the bag, and thus there was no
waste"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-23
"I'I be blowed If I know"

"Tll be blowed If I know"
Then education Is useless" said the
schoolmaster
"Oh, no, but sometimes it does
seem like an experiment. There are
two sorts of education, you know
one of memory only and one that
teaches a feller how to think for him
self l knew a feller that could hear
a sermon once and could come away
and repeat every word of it, but he
didn't have ability enough of his own
to write a notice and tack 1t on a tree
announcin' that he had a mule for
sale. He was like a blanket that is
rained on. You couldn't wiring out of
him any more moisture than fell on
him. Yes, sir, common sense is mighty
nigh everything. And when it rises
into sort of enthusiasm it is inspira-
tion. Sometimes ignorance takes fire
and in its light we see beautiful pic
lures. If the man is altogether un-
lettered we call him crazy. But If he
can write he may prove to be a gen
ius 1t is a sudden Iurch of common
sense, an overbalancin' as 1t were"
Then you call genius insanity"
said the schoolmaster.
mo, not that, but 1t is sort of
passion that don't halt to reason by
slow means, but that sees all reason
in one flash. Now there was Shakes
peare-"
Written by Bacon; but proceed"
broke in the schoolmaster.
Il don't care if it was written by
| ham, lard or soap grease, its senten-
ces are staked off with stars, snatched
out of the sky on a June night. 1t
took the world several hundred years
to catch up, and neither the railroad
train nor these pantin' wagons that,
bull-eyed, plunge across the country
what 1T? A torch held high by COM
NOR sense. lantern ray flung into
| the black face of human nature. Up
shows grim countenance, and then
we wonder how a man could have
been SO smart. OF course, the man
that wrote that book had to have
words, but common sense finds all the
| "OIuS lfldl are HSSulul W llb pOSSS,
all the words there Is If there should
be a demand for them, and then
make a few"
The schoolmaster shook his head.
Those immortal plays were written
by man of the world, and a world
man, of that day, could have come
from no place other than a univer-
sity."
That's all right and it may be true,
but the university is a premium put
on common sense. It's a flower
bloomin on the top of the buildin'
And l believe that it would be better
for every man and every woman to
go through a university. 1t is the
warehouse of the ages. 1t might not
teach us how to make better livin'
but it would enable us better to en-.
Joy the livin' We have. l don't be.
Eeve in this fool idea that ignorance
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-23
Unpoetic Feet.

Josselyn was feeling blue. He had
come home from his visit to New
York manager with his drama-"in
rimed hexameters or something like
that" in his wife's phrase-under his
arm.
AS he sat gloomily turning the
pages of his rejected manuscript, his
wife fixed her eyes on him somewhat
critically He looked disheveled and
untidy as we'll as detected, and she
could not help noticing it. But she
was ready to do the wifely part and
encourage him to fresh efforts.
'If only you would pull up your
socks a bit" she said, you might
easily make a hit."-Youth's Com
DanfOn
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-23
HADN'T WALKED ALL THE WAY.
Prisoner at Least Had Change While
Crossing River.

Down in Alabama" said John D.
Fearhake, there's a deputy marshal
who doesn't let any such trifles as ex
tradition laws stop him. Term OF
court was about to begin at one time,
and a gentleman who was out on bail
was reported to be enjoying himself
over in Georgia. Deputy Jim went
after him. Next day he telegraphed
the Judge: L have persuaded him to
come A few days later he rode into
town on mule, leading his prisoner,
tied up snugly with clothes line. The
prisoner looked as IL he had seen hard
service.
"Why, for heavens sake, Jim,' said
the Judge, you didn't make him walk
all the way from Georgia, did you?
"'No, sir said Jim.
"I hoped not said the judge.
ono said Jim, part OF the way l
drug him, and when we come to the
Tallapoosa river, he swum.' WON
ans Home Journal.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-23

is any ways kin to bliss. l know
what the sayin is, where ignorance Is
bliss, and so on, but the world got it
wrong and thought 1t was a plea for
ignorance. And neither do think
that a little learnin' is as dangerous
as much ignorance IL a mans &C.
little the chances are that he'll get
more. II we've got mother wit, and 1t
has come out of nature, let us thank
nature for it and try to improve 1t.
But trace 1t on back and mebby you'll
find that 1t comes from some care that
our forefathers took of themselves.
One of these days we'll be forefathers,
and right here, l want to say. rests
somethin' of a responsibility. Let US
all try to light up the future with
common sense"
Old man Br1zintine said that he was
willing. He was sure that he was In
debted to his forefathers. His great
grandfather had been noted as the
best horse trader in the state, and"
he added, "if it hadn't been for him
/ might not have been such good
Judge of colt"
Yes, might not have been here at
ALL" Limuel spoke up. But, not
wishin' to do the old man an injustice.
I may remark that horse sense don't
particularly lend itself to horse swap
| pin.
Brizintine had begun to swell with
a resentful reply when the schoolmas-
| ter spoke. But giving genius the
place of high common sense, undergo
peculiar evoutions, don't you believe
that 1t sometimes goes through this
world unappreciated?"
well, l have heard folks say that
they want taken at their worth.
know some that haven't been
taken at their word. Recoilect old
Gabner Hightower, over on the creek!
He had q son that was a born geniuR
His name was Elihu and he booked
1t all right. They didn't want him to
soil his hands for fear that II might
smirch his genius. His mother wanted
him for the church because he want
strong in body, and his dad wanted
him for the law, because his habit
of silence would prove him a good
| jedge. In the meantime Jim, Elihu's
brother, worked in the field. Well.
they first tried the pulpit and then
they tried the law, but Elihu had too
much genius for either one. Then
they thought he was designed by ma
ture to write hymns, and he tried
his hand at it, but failed. They tried
many things before they found out
what he had a genius for
And what was it?" the schoolmas-
ter inquired.
We'll, nothin' but for Just leokin'
like genius. And Jim, his brother,
invented an evaporator for maxim
sorghum molasses and now owns
about third of the county. Yes, sir,
boss sense"
Copyright, by Opie Ready
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-23
a Mans act.

Nobody but Mr.. Henley would have
place.
Miss Farley" he said, "if you
could make yourself over what kind
of hair and eyes would you have?"
"If / could make myself over" said
Miss Farley, Il would look just ex-
actly as ! do now"
You would?" exclaimed Henley in
honest surprise, and to this day he
can't understand why Miss Farley
thinks him a man of little taste and
less tact.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-23

broad land of ours, and nearly every
one of them has been told that he has
chance to become president if he
will only regard his book and be
good boy and do moro right than
wrong.
For my part, | think we ought to
take our children aside and tell them
frankly that they have mighty little
chance Think of a bright boy toiling
on at school, avoiding athletics and
burning the midnight oil and his
brain as well-for there's much con-
sumption of brain as there is of mid
night oil in these nocturnal studyings
think of his pushing on in every
state in the union hoping for the
presidency, while We know that for
the next so years we can't expect to
put more than five of the children Of
to-day into the great position.
For my part I'd say to my child:
"Rollo. there's the presidency. It's a
lottery. No man ever knew from the
beginning that he was going to get it.
Washington was real surprised, Hayes
had his doubts even after election day.
and Roosevelt often goes off by him
Dslf and says. is 1t really possible that
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-23
The Mean Thing.

She (eyeing the refreshment booth)
Dearest, while we are waiting for
good idea to take something?
He-Yes, darling; and since it is
such a beautiful moonlight night, let's
take a walk
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-23
The Expensive Part.

Does it cost much to live in the
city," asked the old lady from the
small village.
20, no. replied her city nephew, 1T
doesn't cost any more to live in the
city than it does in the country, but
it costs three times as much to keep
up appearances" Chicago News.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-23
Try Murine Eve Remedy

For Red, Weak, Weary, Watery Eyes
Murine Doesn't Smart-Soothes Eye Pain.
All Druggists Sell Murine at Scots. The 4s
Page Book in each Pkg. is worth Dollars
in every home. Ask your Druggist.
Murine Eye Remedy Co., Chicago.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-23
Comfort in That,

"I see there's a new weather proph-
ct out west who declares all the rivers
in the country will dry up in time"
"Wel, so will he. thank goodness.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-23
ONE one with a

)ME one with a
taste for figures
was telling me
the other day
that since the for
nation of the
United S t a t e 9
somewhere back
in the century be-
fore the last, only
rs A N e ri C a n s
have become pres
ident-and not a
single foreigner.
Doesn't this fact
put parents and
teachers in rath-
er An unenviable
position as re-
CARDS sincerity?
Here we have to-
day at least ten
million innocent
children in this
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-23

The romance of a spinster is apt tc
be one sided.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-23
philanthro-whAt

Hes a regular philanthro-what
do you call it?'
"Wot's he did,"
why, in de last week he's give
away two dozen 'Deadwood Dick an
q dozen Nickel librariesi"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-23

Use Aliens Foot.Ease
Cures tired aching sweating feet. 25c. Trial package
free. A. 5. Olmsted, lie Roy, n. Y.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-23

Mrs. WinsIow's Soothing Syrup.
For children teethng softens the gums, reduces In
hammation allays pain, cures wind coC. 25c bottle.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-23

The prettiest flowers are not neces-
sarily the most fragrant
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-23
CAN'T BLAME TOMMY Much-

Tommy, were you fighting VITA
that Carter boy?"
Yes nav"
Didn't tell you not to quarrel with
anyone?"
yes, nav; but / thought all bets
were off since you quit speaking to the
Carter boys nav"
Opposites Cause and Effect.
"They say that there is more crime
committed in hot weather"
YES heat seems to conduce tn
wickedness"
Now that's strange, that a close at-
mosphere should cause loose prtnct-
pies"
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1908-12-17

look in the eyes, and shortly falling;
some never getting on their feet again,
and two dying within ten minutes of
first symptoms. Two OF the others
were saved (although not 30 badly at
fected) by large doses of castor oil
and glauber salts. l inelose twig, as
it is not commonly known"
The botanical name of the yew to
which the twig belongs Is TaXus bac-
eata, says the Country Gentleman.
This species Is native In Europe,
and from it many cultivated varieties
have been derived. II the Cyclopedia
Of American Horticulture ten varictio1
and several forms are described: The
Irish Yew," TaXus hibernica Of gar
deners, is there referred to variety fas-
tigiata, which is described as having
crowded, upright branches and branch
let's and dark, glossy, green leaves
| The leaves Of this and other species
| of yew are reputed to be poisonous
| to horses aud cattle, the poisonous con
| stituent being an aikaloid called tax
Inc. Our common species, Taxus can
andensis, is a small half PROSTATE OF
ascending shrub found in the northern
and eastern states growing In raTinsi
or in rocky, shaded places, and wher
accessible to cattle is apparently
avoided by them IS a source of food.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1908-12-17
Notice..

A LII PERSONS are hereby for
n hidden to hunt with gun or dog
on the following described tract of
land in Halifax county, and in Pal
myra township, under penalty of the
law, to-wit:
That tract of land lying on Roam
oke river and known as the j. Davis
Reed" land. and bounded on the east
by the run Of Roanoke river, and on
the south by said river, and adjoin-
ing thelands of Claude Kitchin, w.
w. Kitchin and j. P. Futrell, and
others, and contains several hundred
acres.
This November 18th, 1908.
THE REED GUN CLUB,
]. E. LEWIS,
11-19-4t President.