VOLUME 7. KEYNOLDSVILLE, PENN'A., WEDNESDAY. FEMMJARY 22, 1899. NUMHEK 39. V DON'T go somewhere and buy your Furniture and Carpets till you have consulted the Style,, Quality and Price at our store.. We aim to give you good goods at the lowest prices. Give us a call and see for yourself. Undertaking a specialty. Brumbaugh & Hillis. (Successors to Hugos k Kelso.) Opposite Postoflice. bacrlbe for The -X- Star, If you want the New. Nobby Suits To Order ! JOHNS & THOMPSON. ICt TI t 1 i. -i oucut?Hur iu iiHmoiei cc awanzj Merchant Tailors, Feel confident that we can give satisfaction in both cut and make up W. A. Thompson, a cut--ter with Forty Years' Experience, will do the cutting. We respectfully ask the people of Reynolds ville to give us a call before ordering elsewhere. Johns & Thompson. ACTIVK SOLICITORS WANTED EVKRV where for "The Story of the Philippines" hy Mn rat HuUtrad, ixininiisslonrd hy the Government s Onli-lsl HlHtorlHn to the Vr .... lOopartment. The book wh written In army rvmnH t rn r ntnciHco.on the rurmc witti ienerul Merrlt, In the lipltHl at Honolulu, in Hour Kong, In the Aaierlcan trenches at Manila, In the lnHtiritunt camp with Again utldo, on the deck of the Olymplu with IH'W iy, and In tho roar of battle at the fall of Manila. Honanr.it for k'i. Brimful of or iKiiinl pictures taken by government photOK Tmpherson the spot. Liukb hook. Low prices. Mli proHU. KrelKht paid. Credit Riven. Drop nil traithy utiotttchil war books. Out lit free. Address, R T. Harbor, Sec'y., Star Insurance Jildg., Cblcatio. 8 o 55 K o c ti -X- o ed a.' 0 t 8 CD O "3 r3 Q w MM T o o -3 LETTER FROM HAVANA. Conclusion of Capt. Beer's Letter, Begun in Our Last Issue. CampOou mhia, Havana, Cuba. Pub. ", 1800. Mrs. II. D. Bkkr, Reynoldsvllle, Pa. You asked mt about tho land here. You remember Hint red limestone- land of Clui-ion county; well, this Is qulto ' similar to that. Soil Is very thin, but Is exceedingly rich and but a few In. 'lies under ground there is a bed of llino rocks which covers tho whole country at-ound hero. The water wo pet hero Is taken from the ncqueduct which sup plies tho pity and is as puns and sweet as our own spring wntor at homo. Wo hauled water for uboiit a month, but we now have it pied Into our camp. It Is hard to describe this country; these landscapes that greet your eyo here are such as yon will find nowhoro else. The land Is rough, but nearly all of it Is un der cultivation. The most beautiful valleys, made picturesque by numerous royal palm trees, towering a hundred feet above the earth, which Is usually covered with thick growths of various kinds of plants. Cocounut palms, banana trees, or where under cultiva tion tho tmpicnl luxuriance Is such that It makes tho country seem like ono vast green garden, which It really Is. Their gardens and lawns here are something that, could you folks drop in here now from your dreary wintry homes, you would scarcely believe your eyes. Flowers of every hue; fruit of all kinds: oranges, bananas, pineapples; some ripe, ready to bo gathered, and you will see some trees with blossoms; fruit just-commencing to bud and fruit matured, all on the same tree. One odd looking tree that grows here Is a gourd tree. To look at tho tree, with out seeing tho green fruit on it you would be almost certain that it was nothing but a dead trunk, but on closer Inspection you will find growing right out from the body, without bloom or stem, the gourds from which tho tree takes its name. The branches will strike each other and grow rlghturound themselves, as you have seen a tree grow around a wire, Intertwining amongs each otherf forming a network of branches through which It Is most impossible for tho sun to penetrate. Along the beach here the undergrowth of vegetation Is so thick that It is im possible for a man to get through, ex cept through narrow paths which havo been cut out. ' A crop here will mature In forty days. Vegetables of all kinds can be raised in an Incredibly short period. If the peo ple had modern means of cultivating the land, what they could grow on one acre of land in a few years would place thera in comfortable circumstances, but their farm implements (except on the large sugar plantations) are of the crudest kind. Take down your old Bi ble dictionary and look at the old plows that were used In tho time of Moses and you have a picture of their present mode of tilling the soil here. It's curious, some of the scones that moot our eyee here. For instance, wo will see living in tho same houso, all under ono roof, a family of four or Ave children, two or threo calves, as many goats and sheop and chickens. You find gazing out on you from a door or win dow three or four children and aealf or goat, the latter looking at you with peaceful eyes, as much as to say: "I am one of the important members of this household and havo to bo looked after accordingly." At the end of tho house, if the family is wealthy enough to af ford them, you will And their oxen and horses. About the place you would ex pect to find their parlor door you will find a door to drive their carriage into the house, and It seems they consider thoir front porch just the finest kind of a place to keep their farming Imple ments, as there Is generally a plow or two leaning up against the house In a very conspicuous place. Ono place I havo never described to you is one of the cemeteries I havo vis ited here; ono of the lnrgost on the Island, too, by tho way. The Maine victims are buried thero undor u mound of earth about 14x20, all thut remains of our noble boys who met such an aw ful death at tho hunds'of tho blood thirsty Spaniards. These bodies, as will all tho rest of the bodies of Ameri can soldiers who die here, be exhumed and shipped to their respective homes. To continue my description of tho cemetery: I wont go into detuils as there are portions of it that aro simply horrible; for itiBtunco, tho dead houso which you have to puts through to got Into tho ceinotery, where there aro nudo bodies of puupers piled two and three deep, awaiting burial, from which a stench arose the duy wo went over there that was simply awful. I mudo my stay around thut pluco very short and passed on Into tho cemetery, where in one portion they were digging up the bodies of thoso who had been buried five years and their friends had so nearly forgotten them that they had failed to pay their rent. These; people here aro like tho Irish tenants; they never get post tho point of paying rent, and if they don't pay rent they Bre thrown out. I tell you Its a sight for Dante's Inferno to see these ghoulish looking beings digging up the bones from tho different graves. In a number of Instances I have seen them snatching and grabbing for a chance piece of Jew elry, which had belonged to a being once nnimutcd with all the hopes of life and love of which the human mind Is possessed, and these same little pieces of jewelry were carried to the lust rest ing place with fond memories of the donors, only to full Into the hands of the utmost Inhuman beings whose duty It was to exhume the bones and thr w them Indiscriminately into one la ge muss which wo looked at, where thore were thousands and thousands of unfor tunates' bones piled up In ono insepara ble mass. One comlort about it, If there Is any soclublllty about skulls and shin bones, there is certainly plenty of com pany for the fellows that find them selves so badly mixed up In that great heap. Hut there aro portions of this ceme tery which are just simply Indescribably beautiful; monuments and tombs of the most costly construction, and all Inter spersed with flowers and plants of tho grandest beauty. One thing thut brings us to realize that these people aro not entirely devoid of feeling tow ard their dead Is a monument erected to some city firemen who lost their lives in a city fire here In Havana some few years ago, a monument carved from the purest of white marble und erected at a cost of thirty thousand dollars, which was donated by the city. On ap proaching the cemetery it appears to be one muss of crosses and, In fact, that Is the main feature of the graveyard, plainly Indicating that thero is hut one religion on the Island. I visited yesterday tho old cathedral where Columbus' bones were said to havo rested, and was pointed out the place from which they were just recent ly taken. The building is an Interest ing old place, with tho old stylo of architecture and finishings of mahog any. Tho mahogany used in the build ing alone is worth thousands of dollars. If American capital can be interested here it will not be long until this old Island will be brought up to one of the most wealthy places possible to im agine. All the natural resources that could bo desired: plenty of good native coal, all it requires Is the raining; the streams here all havo such a fall to them that they afford s natural water power for manufacturing almost un equalled. There is stream here al most as great as our awn Niagara, with scarcely a manufacturing institution o it. A city tho size of Havana at home with a stream like this running so close to it would be lined with factories anal different raanufacturingestablishmenU, and if1 the Island la kept under Unolo Sam's protection for a few years, I ven ture to say that It wont be long until those natural advantages are utilized. Health of the men continues very good. Just at present we are all more or loss "knocked out" with our Bore arms, but outside of that and a Tow cases of measles there is but little sickness in the regiment. All of the men we left at home on sick furloughB have been discharged. They would not return them to us here. We wore notified yostorday that there would be a number of the reglmonts of the corps mustered out und corps re-organized. We are not on the list to be mustered out. Rout. Spain'a Greatest Need. Mr. R. P. Olivia, of Barcelona, Spain, spends his winters ut Aiken, S. C. Weak nerves had caused severe pains In the back of his head. On using Elec tric Bitters, America's greatest Blood and Nerve Remedy, all pain soon loft him. Ho Bays this grand medicine is what his country needs. All America knows thut it cures liver and kidney trouble, purifies tho blood, tones up the stomach, strengthens tho nerves, puts vim, vigor and new lifo Into every mus cle, nerve and organ of the body. If weuk tired or ailing you need it. Every bottle guaranteed, only CO cents. Sold by H. A. Stoke, Druggist. Headache for Forty Years. For forty years I Buffered from sick heuduche. . About a year ago I begun using Celery King. Tho result was grutifylng and surprising, my hetiduchos leaving at once. The headaches used to return every seventh day, but thanks to Colory King, I have had but ono headucho In the last cloven months. I know that what cured mu will help other. Mrs. John D. VanKouron, Saugurlics, N, Y. Celery King for the Nerves, Stomach, Liver and Kidneys is sold In f0o. and 23 o. packages by II Alex. Stoke. Silk Mill Notes. Twenty-six looms have already been Btut-ted in the new section, making tho actual weaving machinery in operation 17(1 ((Minis. The whole force of 200 looms may be running by March fith or 10th at the latest. Knlsomlners, roof-fitters and steam- fitters are availing themselves of the fine bright days we havo hnd of late to put tho finishing touches to the second floor. Probably next week the parti tion separating tho warping department from tho wrecked place will be removed and all machinery set up In its original plncn us of old. Loom-flxur George Preston was sick on Monday. Twister Dick Flaherty also was sick on the same day, probably from effects of the same cause. Many young girls of the winding and quilling department had too much slelghrlding last week. Some of them caught colds and had to be excused from work, thereby losing a certain amount of wages which would have been theirs had they not been sleigh ing so late at night. Activity continues to rule at tho silk mill and almost every day huge trunks of woven material of every color and every drescrlption of weave are shipped to New York and then, after being fin ished, ro-shlp-d to all the cities of our prosperous Union. Black John, Ex-Loom Fixer. Look! Look! Every Saturday we offer special solo prices. You con save money by spend ing It here. J. C. Kino & Co. Tell your nolghbors If they want choice creamery buttor to go to Robin son & Mundorff's. Special Low-Rate Excursions via P. R. R. to Washington. The Pennsylvania Rullroad Company announces that on March 1 and 24 it will run special excursions from points on the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad, Erie to Lock Haven, Inclusive, to Wash ington, for the benefit of all who may wish to visit the National Capitol. Round-trip tickets, good going on all regular trains March 1 or 24, and good returning on any regular train leaving Washington not later than March 11 or April 3, will be sold at greatly reduced rates. Special sleeping cars will be run through on train leaving Erie at 4.30 P. M. Holders of special excursion tickets to Washington can purchase at the Penn sylvania Railroad Ticket Offices In Washington, excursion tickets to Rich mond at rate of $4.00 and to Old Point Comfort (all rail) at W.00; at the offices of the Norfolk and Washington Steam boat Company, (not Including meals and staterooms on steamers) to Olu Point Comfort or Norfolk, Va., at S3.fj0, and to Virginia Beach, Princess Anne Hotel, at 14.50; Washington to Mt. Vernon and return, via electric railway, 150 cents. For full information consult small handbills, apply to ticket agents, or ad- dross E. S. Harrar, Division Ticket Agent, Wllliamsport, Pa, (No. 54) AN ORDINANCE changing the grade of side or footwalk, twelve feet wide on Main street (south side) from tho west side of Fourth street, com mencing at an iron peg, to the east side or r'ine alloy. Skc. 1. Bo It ordained and enacted by the town council of the borough of Huynoiusviuo, una it is hereby ordained und enuoted by authority of , the same, that the grade of present side or foot wrlk, six feet wide, on Muin street, as now located (south side), from the west side of Fourth street, commencing at an iron peg, to the east side of Pine alley, bo and tho same Is hereby changed as follows: Beginning at the west sido of Fourth stroot, at an Iron peg, and on tho south sido of Muin street, making the width of the present side or footwalk, twelve feet; thence descending at the rato of eighty-six one-hundredth (80-100) feet per hundred (100) foot for a dlstanco of one hundred (100) foet; thence level for a distance of one hundred and twenty (120) foot; thence ascending at the rato of six ono-hundredth (ti-100) foot per hun dred foot for a dlstnnco.of seventy (70) feet to the eust sido of Pine alley, as shown by the accompanying chart or survey. Skc. 2. That so much of any ordi nance as may coniliot with or bo sup plied by tho foregoing be, and tho same is, hereby repealed. Ordained and enucted Into a law In council this 1st day of Feb., A. I). li!l. s. B. Elliott, Attest: Pres. of Council. L. J. Mt'E.NTlRK, Clerk, Feb. llth, 1H!M, the above ordinance oxamincd and approved. H. Alux. STOKE, Chief Burgess. Bucklen's Arnica Salve. The best salvo In tho world for outs, bruises, sores, ulcers, suit rheum, fovor sores, tetter, chupped hands, chilblains, corns und all skin eruptions, and posi tively cures piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satis faction or money refunded. Price 25 cents. nor box. For sale by U.Alex. Stoke. CHARLES STEWART PARNELL Hot the tirent Irish Lender ('nine to Knter Polities. Charles Stewart Parnell was 1!H years old before he made his entry Into the political arena. How the step was taken Is thns described by Mr. R Bnrry O'Brien In his biography of the grunt Irish leader "One night dnring tho general elec tion of 1874 Parnell dined with his sis ter. Mrs. Dickinson, In Dnblin After dinner Cnptnin Dickinson said 'Well. Charles, why don't yon go Into parlia ment? Why don't yon stand for your native t-onnty ?' "To the surprise of every one ut the table. Parnell said quickly 'I will Whom onght I to sect' " 'Oh.' said Dickinson, 'we will see about that tomorrow The great thing Is yon have decided to stund. " 'I will see about It ut once." said Parnell. 'I have made np my miud. and I won't wait Whom ought I to sect " 'I think Gray of The Freeman's Jonrnal. ' said John, who was ulso pfes ent. ' ' 'Very well.' said Parnell. rising from the tublo. 'I shall go to hi in ut once. Do you come with me. John. "The two brothers then went away to gether It was now 11 o'clock, and they found Gray at The Freeman's office He was amazed when Parnell entered and said. 'I have come to say. Mr Gray, that I mean to stand for Wit-blow as a Home Ruler ' It was only the year after that, on the death of John Mitchel. Parnell was re tnrned for Month At first it is plain that Parnell hnd few If any followers The ability of the representative from Meuth was questioned. Butt was thi n the controlling power It was only in 1880 thnt Pnrnoll became the leader Hritft-efl. The chronicles nf 14H6 speak of 150 vessels in Its basins aud of German mer chants carrying away over 2,000 pieces of cloth to the distant Innds of KusKia aud Poland. It wns the exchange of En rope, possessing in the fonrteentb ecu tnry 63 guilds nnd 160,000 inhabitant, more than three times as many as it now oontains. Among its wnres we rend of leather from Spain, wool from Eng land, silk from Italy and Persia, linen and cloth from Brabant, hemp and flux from Hnllnnd, wine from Portugal, Greeoe and Frnnce aud hardware from Germany, which included every variety of objeot in ivory, bone, wood, filavs, tin, copper, lead, iron, silver aud gold It hnd its fnotories, its onrriers, its dy ers, and its taxation considerably ex ceeded that of Ghent. Rut at the com nieuoemetit of the fourteenth oeutury its troubles began troubles from within and from withnnt. The Snene was tendered useless by the invasion of sand as far as Sluis (Ecluse), treachery, slaughter and po litical jealousies aud rivalries completed the full, and lu 1644 its inhabitants bad diminished to 7,696. Then came the re ligionswara and persecutions from 15(i to 1684, the fanatios and tbe Gnenx de stroying what remained, leaving little for tbe French revolutionists. Good Words. The Rwl.i Partlnmenl. Switzerland differs from other conn tries iu many things, and one of the most remarkable is- tbe way in wbicb its parliamentary debates are oonduct ed. A Swiss member of parliament can express himself iu Frunoh, German or Italian, aud tbe privilege is freely used When tho president of the federal as em lily speaks in German, his remarks are trunuluted by a secretary In close proximity to him. All the luws and resolutions, before being voted upon, are drawn np iu French, German iiml Italiun, and every official report Is pub lished in thoso three languages. Bir mingham Post. Maklna- It Clear. Somebody bus discovered that a Ber muda onion enten row will clear the bead. A Bermuda onion eaten raw will do more than that. It will dear an en tire room. Ad active Bermuda onion is a complete clearing bouse all by itself Take one Bermuda onion only one and let the lips of beauty close npon it, and love will turn to hatred and honey to Rail and bitterness. Clear the bead? Why, a Bermuda on ion in fairly good health will clear tha bead of navigation 1 Exchange. The Germans huve introduced whut amonnts to slave labor in their east African colouies Each native villas must fnrnihh a certain number of in habitant to lubor for the imperial gov ernment, on plantations or elsewhere without pay A mun who is overshrewd In his business relations is pretty svtro to learn In the conrse of tiinu that tho world is shrewd enough to protect itself against nim. Somerville Journal. A Wonderful Creature, The polyp is tbe most rumarkablo creature ou cuith. If cut truusversoly or longitudinally into soverttl purts, eueli will became a perfect animul. Trembly turned them inside out uml they ate and enjoyed themselves as much as ever. He lit two longitudinully, placed the halves together, aud united them iuto two uuimuls. Ho divided two truusverse ly aud creuted cue with two beads. He pushed oue down the throat of another, a third dowu tbe throat of the second, and thus formed a creature with three heads.. 1 OMAR KHAYYAM. Dfpp In the Rprlnit their empty pltrhnr dips, Iilps whnrn of old n th-nea!.-! Nnrruwn fell. ForirPt not, whllo tin- i".irrtl1:t!r -ntr s!:p Lightly from enrthen thn nt, tho slhnt well. Arthur 4. Htrlnsi-r In Bookman. ISOTHERMS. Farts Almnt Inotlirriitle Mnps Tlmt Are Itnrely l.enrnrri nl prtino!. Here nro some definitions of isotherms thnt nppear In American textbooks of geography: "Those lines which are drawn through places with an equal n vertigo of temper Btnre are cnlled isotherms. "Isotherms are lines connecting places having tho sumo mean tempcra tnro for p.trtienlar periods, us the wholo of tho year, the winter or summer months, etc. "If npon n map all pbices having thn snme mean temperature ure coit-nt-t"d by lines, such lines are called isothiTmal lines or simple isotherm. " These definitions are part of the truth, bnt not the whole of it. It may not be a reat calamity, bnt the fact is that most boys nnd girls leavo school with a mistf mcept Ion as to what an isotherm is. nnd they rarely find out in later years. They all know that two elements, latitude nnd altitude, are the main fac tor! In determining the mean temper atnro of n place ; that the farther a place is from the oqnutor nnd tho higher it stands above feu Kiwi tho cooler Its climate is. But they do not know that Isothermic maps take into acconnt only ono of these elements, and that is lati tude. They eliminate tho Influence of altitude. The isotherm pussing over the top of Pike's peak does not show the mean temperntnre at tho snmmitof the mnntitnin. bnt what the mean temper ature would be In that Immediate ueigh borhood if the land, instead of rising hif.'h above tho sea. stood at the level of Coney Inland Do yon see tho reason for this! It may ha ensily explained. Most of the lnnd does ntit rise so high above the sea that tho temperatnre is irt-ently affected by altitude. To the majority of man kind latitude is a far more important climatic element than altitude. Now, the effects on temeratnre of both lati tude und altitude cannot well bo shown on ono man, and isothermic maps were devised to show the effects of latitude and some other element, such as posi tion near the sea or in tho far interior. An isolhermic line, therefore does not show the actual mean temperatnre of a place on it unless that place is at sea level. Bnt it Is easy to deduce from the isotherm the actual mean temperature of a pluce, if wo know its elovution above the sea. How this is done is very clearly explained by Dr. H. R. Mill, the British geographer, as follows: "The air grows cooler by 1 degree F. for every 270 feet of elevation above sea level, bnt -isothermic lines show the sea level temperature. In nsing isother mic maps we mast therefore remember that places 600 feet above the sea level have a temperatnre 2 degrees lower than the Isotherms indicate: places 6,000 feet above the sea. 23 degreed lower; thoso 12,000 feet above the sea, 45 degrees lower, Bnd the mountain slopes 18.000 feet above the sea no less than 06 degrees lower than the sea level temperature shown by the isotherms. This acconnts for the fact that none of the important towns in tho temperate xones is situated more than 2,000 feet Brieve tho sea, while In the tropics they are built at os great elevations as 8,000 or 10,000 feet." Weuther charts are an exception to this rule. They record the actual thermometrieul rcadiiif at the points of observation. New York Sun. lie Wasn't a (iorniand. That wnry old fellow, Bailie Macduff, was enticed into a fiiend's house the other night, and his host uiauagud to win 60 shillings from him at "uap. " What is more remarkable, whou the bailie had parted with his last shilling he rose, full of wrath. "Won't you stay to supper?" pressed his hnt-t. " We have a flue bit of ham waiting. " "No, not 1. Due ye think 1 eat 60 shillings' worth of bum?" Loudon An swers. A Trifling; Chnnire, "I guess I'm willing to go, " said the fanner, when they told him his hours would ha but few. "It is just a change from havin my nose to the grindstone to bavin it to the tombstone. " Iudiun apolis Journal. In aucient Egypt when a cat died in a private bouKe tho inmates shoved thoir eyobrows. The killing of a cut, even accidentally, was considered a capital offeuso. The psaltery of Spain ia suppojed to bavo been introduced into that country by the Moors. It is still iu common use among the peueuuta fnn't llolil Arnc-rlcu Down. "Why, sir," suid the geologist, "tho ground you wullc on was ouco under wuter. " "Well," ropliud tho frieud, who is nothing if not patriotic, "it simply goes to show you can't hold Amcricu down. " Washington. Star. A southern mun says that tho differ ence between yellow fever and dengno fever is tint is when one has tho former ho is afraid ho will dio and when thu latter attuuks him be is fearful thut he will not
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