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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-12-23
Weiuhinu Smoke.
starch.)

Did you ever near the story of how
Sir Walter Raleigh made wager with
Queen Elizabeth that he could weigh
the smoke that came from pipe full
of tobacco? How do you suppose he
did it? If you can guess you are
more clever than Queen Elizabeth,
and yet the solution is simple.
He weighed the tobacco carefully
OF some scales before he put it in
his pipe, and after he had smoked il
he knocked out the ashes and weighed
those. The difference, of course, was
the weight of the smoke.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-12-23
OLD LONDON STONE
Visitors Attracted to Relic OF
Homer's Days.
Legend Around Piece of Masonry Says
British Capital viii Last as
Long as Rock Is
Preserved.

London.-Visitors to the worlds me-
tropolis usually take great interest
in curious piece of stone, let into the
side of a wall in Cannon street, just
around the corner from the Bank OF
England. 1t is an unpretentious NOR
sci, and above It is the brief legend,
London Stone" The two words sig
Nifty great deal. In the first place,
this is the oldest piece of famous ma
sonry in England, if not in Europe.
AS for it's ancient history, it is said
to have figured in the Trojan war, for
the exact date of which kindly refer
to Mr.. Homer, who has written exten-
sively on the subject
Carefully screened behind an iron
grating fixed to the south wall OF st.
Swithin's church is the blackened and
crumbling old relic, which is not only
supposed to date back to the very
foundation of London, but to act as its
palladium, or safeguard.
Tradition declares that the stone
was brought from Troy by Brutus, and
| laid by his own hand as the altar
stone of the Temple to Diana.
$50 long as the stone of Brutus is
safe, so long will London flourish,
says the legend.
Possibly it has been largely owing
! to this superstitious belief that the
stone has been so jealousy guarded
through the centuries.
Many and various have been the
suppositions put forward as to the
origin and use of this landmark, but
the one now most generally accepted
is that it was the old Roman mil
larium," or milestone, from which, like
the one in the Forum at Rome, all dis
tances were measured.
Waiting street, of which Cannon
street is a continuation, is supposed
to have been the principal street o.
Roman London, and, according to Matt
land, the historian, the stone wa:
placed at the conjunction of the mill
tary roads.
Stow, the ancient London historian
states that in his day the stone wa!
on the south side of the street. Il
was fixed in the ground very deep
fastened with bars of iron, and other
wise so strongly set that if carts dc
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-12-23
PRESIDENTS NEW OFFICES
Taft Will Handle Affairs of State
over Spot Where Roosevelt
Played Tennis.

Washington.-Pres Taft's first
love, the Philippines. has ousted for
mer President Roosevelt's hobby, ten
mis-. and where once the strenuous
president batued with the opponents
in his tennis cabinet Mr.. Taft will
sit at his desk in new room which
will constantly remind him of the
Philippine archipelago.
The new executive offices have
been finished and they are works of
art, pronounced in Washington as
the most sumptuously furnished of
any of the host of magnificent Offices
in the capital. Mrs. Taft has inspect
ed the new offices and she is we'll
pleased with the decorative scheme.
Two large offices in the rear will
be devoted to President Taft and Sec
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-12-23
MANY TOYS ARE IMPORTED
Millions of Dollars Worth Come into
United States, Mostly from
Sonneberg, Germany.

Over $50,000,000 worth of toys have
during the last ten years. During the
same period something like s. 100000
worth of toys were exported.
During the last fiscal year the high
water mark has been reached in. so far
as export trade in toys is copcerned.
The total value of exported toys, dur
ing that time has for the first time ex-
ceeded $1,000,000,
The value of toys imported has fall
en- somewhat since 1908, when the. to-
tai value, of imported toys was $7,250,-
600. This year, according TO the Inde
pendent, the figures were $5,O00,0 600 i'm
round numbers.
Toy manufacturers in the. United
States had investments in plants and
in stock of less than $1,O00,000 in 1880.
In 1905 such Investments had grown
to $4,750,000. The value of importa
tions of toy merchandise has in the
meantime shown constantly increas-
ing trend, Trade in toys has largely
been developed during. the last ten or
dozen years. .
Toys are very largely made in Ger
many" That is to say, Germany is by
far the largest source of supply in the
United States. The little German
town of Sonneberg, in the duchy of
Sake Meiningen on the Rothen, is
perhaps the largest toy manufacturing
center. In addition to it's summer re-
sort business it has been credited with
the annual production of some 24,00O,
900 toy units, having an aggregate
value of $4,000,000
Nuremberg and certain other sister
cities are also to be reckoned with as
toy makers. The value of toys import
ed into the United States from Ger
many in 1908 was $6,5OO,OOO, out of a
total of $7,25O,0OO imported that year.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-12-23

retary Carpenter The presidents is
large room, oval in shape and deco
rated in green and white. The walls
are to be coated with burlap. The
furniture will consist of new chairs
and settees covered with a Philippine
product, carabao or water buffalo
leather. The floors will be parquet of
callae wood and other lumber import
ed from the Philippines. Mr.. Taft
will use the desk of mahogany which
was turned over to him by Mr.. Roose-
welt. Presidents Secretary Carpen-
ter's room will be smaller in size, but
furnished similarly, Philippine woods
also furnishing the flooring.
new feature of the executive Of
fees will be congressional waiting
room Heretofore representatives
used the same rooms as the senators
to wait on the president. This room
was also used as cabinet room. T11e
new scheme provides cabinet room
in which the senators will wait q
congressional waiting room and the
same old room, renovated and re-
painted, for the general run of Wis.
itors at the White House. The press
room has been fixed up to look like
new and more commodious and COM
Portable quarters for the assistant
secretaries, clerks, messengers and
telegraphers have been provided.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-12-23
Secret
Societies
i'm Our
High
Schools
By PAUL H. SMART

and the played by the faemies this struggle
desire Offices control
power endless Their ambitions advanced to the great derment
of their morals and principles 1t open question whether they have
any.
But granting they of thc these morals and
stand against such conditions exist the societies and
their policy dctates This hghaned overbearng policy with
opposition and illegal employed such opposition.
Ballot boxes Stuffed graft of description
who has had to deal with hhool politics will admit This graft is
exercised chiefly by the secret societies. Being the minority they
find elect their candidate and what way than by
graft and ballot-box "suIing" r ~.
The limited to class Offices
The managerps of the afford excellent opportunities
control In school, where there managerhps
filled by appointment these five positions held solely by
This accomplished through weknown process The manager
of society and he appoints
This assistant is the logical choice manager
system all managhp filled by cesocetv men,
These societies onmes the only obstacles
ue democracy preventing the and scholars
Through feeling of the best are to be
advanced. The secret society also
causes factions and develops friction "A n >,
in the student body. O0N1 ET. Nroo>N
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-12-23

game the object is the same as IN
the old type-that of assembling the
various parts to make a whole an
imal or birds, as the case may be
but it is in some respects more diff
ficult The cards can be printed eth
er with a part of only one object on
one corner or. with parts of various OBJ
jects on all the corners or along the
edges. In playing the game the.
idea is to see who can make
up the greatest number of these
objects, either in a given time
or in an unlimited time. Though
it may not appear so, this type of
puzzle is unusually difficult, as there
are no curiously cut edges by which
the various pieces may be identified
by neighbors. The animals, or what
ever the objects may be, are formed
by the matching of lines entirely, and.
a knowledge of the appearance of the
objects in question aids greatly in
forming them.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-12-23
Monster Found by Scientists.

under the charge of Mr.. Walter
Granger, went to the Wind River
basin, in Wyoming, where it's most i'm
portant find was skull of the cory
phodon, creature which somewhat
resembles the hippototamus of the
present day This expedition also
found some five hundred smaller speci-
mems which are of great value in
filling in connecting links in the chain
of evolution
The expedition Of Mr.. Brown, which
went to the Lamarie formation, re-
suited in the unearthing of the fossil
skeletons of new reptile of the cera-
topsia variety and of one of the pre-
dentata family hitherto unknown to
scientists.
The ceratopsian specimen, whose
classic name translated means horn
face" is dinosaur, and is closely al
lied to the triceratops, of which there
is a complete skeleton in the museum
The body measured % feet in length
and seven in height, while it was full
| ly four and a half feet across the
back. The skull was missing, and
some other expedition will have to get
| him head. The frame of the reptile
is lighter than that of the triceratops
The accession from the predentata
race is a lizard which walked about
like a kangaroo Three skeletons were
found, but no head, and it is now fol
another expedition to see that he does
not remain acephalus.
The new reptile measures sever
| feet from tip to tip, and when he stood
up he was probably five feet high
The preparation of the specimen!
which have been gathered by these
two expeditions will require a year!
work and research.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-12-23

whole thing upside down" or invert
it. Rest it on a table, and the top of
the table will press the paper so
firmly against the edges of the glass
out
Now you carefully withdraw the pa
per, and the water is still kept in the
glass, this time by the tabletop alone,
When anyone tries to lift the glass
the water will at oace come out.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-12-23
WHAT'S THE ANSWER?

What Indian woman was called
lady Rebecca?"- ?"-Pocahontas.
Who wrote "Snow-B Bound ?"-J. G.
Whittier.
Who was THE Poet Painter?'-
Thomas Buchanan Read.
Who was the most celebrated
American poet?-Longfellow.
Who is the "Hoosier Poet?"-James
Whitcomb Riley.
What father and son were presi-
dents John and John Quincy Adams.
What Indian gave land in Rhode
Island to Roger Williams?-Canoni-
Gus.
Who was the author of Home,
Sweet Home?"-John Howard Payne.
Who was the Sage of Concord?"-
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
What Indian chief was the grand
father of Thomas Rolfe e?-Powhatan
What writer was known as H. H.?
Helen Hunt Jackson.
Who was the Bachelor POet?'-
John G. Whittier.
What state is known as the "Prai
rie te?"-Illinois.
Who invented the thermom eter?-
Fahrenheit.
Who was Jenny Linda famous
singer of Sweden
What is remarkable about the site
of Fort Sumter?-lt is built on an ar
tificial island.
What is the meaning of Costa Rica'
The rich coast.
What author was known as Boz
Charles Dickens
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-12-23

No organizations of the American high
school have been so universally criticised
some people would say abused-as the Sc
cret societies. Students, teachers, masters
and outsiders have attacked them, not
through ignorance, but because of charac-
teristics and conditions in these societies
themselves
The ordinary pupil, constantly thrown,
as he is, into close connection with the So
cieties and their members, can easily see
the rivalry and strife that exist, both be-
tween the different societies and between
them and the whole school, The struggle
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-12-23

Hey-diddle-de-didd
There runs an old riddle
That a COW jumped over the moon;
But if she did so
We would much like to know
How she ever got down so soon.
And in that same riddle
4 cats in fiddle;
But how did she ever get there7
For no door has a fiddle
At end or at middle;
So that is most strange, | declare!
And that riddle does say
That on that same day
a dish ran away with a spoon!
But alas and alaCk!
AS they never came back
They must have gone up to the moon
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-12-23
Gs~9 Il. Sroad

Tie present rush of homeseekers from
the middle west to Texas is something ex-
traordInary.
Sturdy farmers from Illinois, Iowa, Ne
braska and Michigan are pouring into
Texas by the trainload and it is safe to
say that rs per cent. of them will buy
land, with view of locating permanently
in the southwest.
Only the other day | met party of 25
of these immigrants from Illinois who had
already picked out their location and were
going to make final arrangements before
moving their families.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-12-23
A Lady.

So far, the best definition of a lady
seems to be that OF Charles Dana
Gibson: "a lady is woman who al
ways remembers others and never fer
gets herself"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-12-23
JIGSAW PUZZLE WITH CARDS
Part of Animal on Each PasteboarGI
and Object is to Assemble Them
to Make One Complete.

A variation on the iigsaw or ordin-
ary cut-up puzzle has been designed
by d New York man. In this new
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-12-23
Texas
Great State
for Broom
corn
By E. R. HANDY
OF San Antonio

Naturally supposed they would start to raising cotton and grain
surprised they explained that their for choosing
that had all the rest OF the United States beaten to fraze
a producer of broom
plant brings good profits and there will always be
strong demand and brushes items of domestic
necessity
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-12-23

girl may be angry at a man
for trying to kiss her, but just the
same she admires his good taste.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-12-23

a thousand other common interests between and
women besides love making.
Mrs Charlotte Perkins Gilman, an apostle of to-
morrow predicts that as the women share in the larger
life of the larger world there will spring up big
mon reading rooms and playrooms and sitting rooms
where men and women will meet each other in the
same delightful friendly natural way Otherwise put,
the big world itself will grow homelike cozy socable
companonable There will be cold, hard outside
world Every place will be home, sweet home.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-12-23
World
F'ireSide
Each Mother
to Have Her
Art or Trade
BY ADA MAY KRECkER

HE FASHIONS coming in with revolutionary changes but
they revolutionary than the changes that are
oertakng fashions business and education and home
toms few years ago it was outre for girl to to
college. Now is entirely correct The tables are turned
Last June thousand young women were gradu-
aed from college than young men.
few years ago it distinctly bad form for young
go into business Now there are over SIX millions
American women trade and industry and more
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-12-23

following them constantly.
There years when shoes and candles and
all the individual houses Now they prepared
in follows suit the home will be
left place and and play work Each mother Will
have profession engage part of her day And the
children will have chance with other children meeting
big pavrooms Fairgrounds and kndergartens
Expert educated will take charge of the children their
on They will be who love children Women who not
fond children will choose other professions The mothers meantime
will than has the usual housewife but they will be
perform specialized experts who
WELL amateurs jacks of all trades who know little of each
tangled industries that make the business of house
keeping
much genuine leisure and playtime with the
than But will not be spoiled by the
"beng the way" while mother tends the holy cookstove
friendships thought amusing, if impossible
But they will be perfectly possible and natural when there will be
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1909-04-13
8ie 1T Iold1 elm SoIein BON gnt

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Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1909-04-13
giertes &apitel.

Guf Der SeIfenbure entitanb in Der
Sriibe bes Wicreens cine lebbafte Be-
ipegung. Sas Serannnben zines
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gu iiberfaIen.
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feline @erIeaenbeit 81 bemerfen. fort:
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Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1909-04-13
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