We ¥ Ma z the Right Prices. i {Author of ** Cheerful Americans,” ac. } Tr (Copyright, wes. by Joseph B. Bowles.) Mr. Pelgreave was an inventor, bat pot of the Edison-Marconl-Taompson | school. His Iuvenlions were never quite practicable, and yet I doubt If} any Inventor ever experienced any | more happiness than fell to the lot of | Mr. Petgreave. He lived In and with | his Inventions, and when be had con- structed a 21 day clock, whose winding | took an hour and a half, he was super- And, to thelr credit be It sald, the neighbors did rejoice. Why. Mr. Eli- phalet Farnham immediately ordered | itodian of IL He sald It would be { ary process for him to wind it. The { boy hated the idea, after he had wound the clock once, and folks say he ocon- structed a machine to do the winding {In five minutes; but I don't like to be- lieve it, for Mr. Petgreave had worked tion of his clock, and It showed a want of sympathy iu a boy to try to improve ‘on the Invention of an old man. Then there was the balloon that Mr In order to do that we will, ON ALL - WAVERLY, WIRE YOUR FEET ever have any real feet at an ing to warm your ores ie Equip your with our Foot Warmer a Where Cats Are Eaten. ite article of food, even though peopls | are forbidden by law from pariakiog! { of the animal. Indeed, cals are fat-| great care and the Italians believe good quality, The method of cooking the animal is to roast it in an oven] ley, bay leaf, red wine and some frag- rant herbs other than those mentioned. Bex Against Sex. He occupied the seat; she was swing- ing on a strap. She was trying to shame him into politaness; he woulda’ t! shame worth a cigarette. A lurch of the car threw her against him and in| the scramble she landed on his feet! with both heals. “You're on my feet,” he growled. “If you had beem on your feet ii never would have happened,” sald she sweetly. —Datroit Free Presa Misunderstanding, “1 beg your pardon, walter.” sald the tourist in the rallway restaurant. “Did sou say that I had 20 minutes to walt or that it was 20 minutes to eight?” “1 sald payther,” answered the Hi- bernian attendant. “I sald ye had twinty minutes to ate, an’ that's all yoz had. Yer thrain’'s gone now!"— Cleveland Leader. Expensive. De Style—What is your son's college ery? Gunbusta—For money, N.Y. Times generally. —- f Come now Strictly One Price Lumber In the South, The cost of getting out lumber has sot increased in Mississipp!, but the thousand feel. Since the forests of the supplies at stiffening prices must be drawn more and more from the south- for many years and can keep up the supply by avoiding the mistake of cut ting the timber recklessly. There is vulimited wealth in the forests and it last indefinitely by proper forestry. The Businms View. “What do you think of our scenery?” | asked the enthusiastic native. “Well,” replied the practical business man, "I don’t know. What do you ex- pect to do with It?" —Chicago Record- Herald. Charitable. First Parrot—1 wish that canary over there would stop screeching! Second Parrot—Ob, well, it's got Ww do something! Poor thing it can't swear!” —Detroit Free Press To Fit the Crime. Woodby Riter—I've always thought it would be fine to be a poet. Editar—It certainly should be fine, or {mprisonment or both. —Phlladelphia Press. The Brute. Mrs. Henpeck—DBefore | married you, you sald you would die for me. Mr. Henpeck—Yes, and now [| wish |1 had. —~N. Y. Times making it easier for house painters to It was about as something like $50 to construct it When the day for its exhibition came it was hitched by a hook to the top- most rung of the biggest ladder In town—one owned by the fire depart- ment, requiring two men to ralse it or- | dinarlly. The balloon did all that was expect- ed of it, and more. It took less than an hour to fil the big silk bag and i i THE VEHICLE MOVED after that, so well had Mr. Petgreave understood its capabilities, it did not take a minute for the ladder to begin But Mr. Petgreave had been so in- tent on raising the ladder that he had not reflected on the balloon. He should have tied a rope 0 it in order to cons trol It, but he had neglected to do so. So the balloon went on up with the Iadder and stove a hole in the cupola of the town hall, and then sailed over toward East Dayton. and descended in Patterson's meadows, and they Lad w send the hook and ladder compan) after it in order to recover it. Then there was his washing nia to save poor people from work hard. He gave an exhibition of hat fo the town hall. Dayton people never derided Mr. Petgreave. He was a lov able, absent-minded old man, and | think he must have had a certalo amount of magnetism about him, be- cause whenever he announced in the Dayton Independent that he was going to give an exhibition of a new inven- tion, he called out pretty much every man, woman and chilq la the three Daytons People knew that whatever might be lacking in his inventions, they would at least work. And 30 it was with his washing machine. Mrs. Tom Beverly allowed him to wash the Beverly undergarments in his exhibition trial. The machine was constructed on much the same plan as the machines that have since come into general use, only it was much bigger, The cylinder was as big as a hogshead, and the motive power was Mr, Pet- ne wo eave's Old white mare, Nance d (hey always ‘found it} Bard to make both ends meet. [t was really a kindly act in Mr. Petgreave 10 do their washing for them. The clothes were put in, the soap he called “multiple cogs” to the axle of the washing ma- chine, and the cylinder revolved like lightning. I remember that the exhibition was’ 8 complete success as far as the work! faults to be found with the machine; that he had not thought of that, own-! fug a horse himseif—and the clothes | were reduced to fragments. The Beveriys felt that they had con- tributed to the cause of science, and the Ladies’ Ald soclely bought them new undergarments, and the old ones perfectly clean and cousisting, when dried, of fragments not larger than aj hall dollar, were exhibited In the win- | dow of Barton & Hadley's drug store They were white as snow—those that | were not red, and there is no question but that they were absolutelyiclean. It is my humble opinion that some one cribbed Mr. Pelgreave's idea and | modified it somewhat, for it was not a! year after that before a clothes washer that did not need a horsa to run it and that did not shred the clothes was on the New England market, and | under- stand that the inventor made & fortune out of it. Bat Mr. Petgreave did not care. He had enough to eat and enough to wear and all out doors to roam in whén he was not working in his little shop; his head was in the clouds all the while At least five years before automo biles were an accepted fact it was ru- mored that Mr. Petgreave was at work that would run over the roads with- out visible means of locomotion. At last Mr. Petgreave announced through the medium of the Dayton Independent that he would give an exhibition of his new “locomotorator” at the Oak Hill race track on Washington's birthday. | Pretty much everybody who was went out to the race track the after noon of the day appointed. At last a great cheering announced | Pelgreave and his | locomotorator, which enormous and somewhat unwieldy vehicle was drawn | Mr. Petgreave had some- thing of a sense of the dramatic fitness of things, aod he did not wish to begin bis exhibition too soon. The old man had announced that the | machine would go onmce around the track, so when he got opposite the) judge's stand he unbitched the horses, | which had been attached to the vehicle by means of a rope tightly bound | around the body of It. The three se- | lectmen, the pastor of the First church | and old Dr. Wharton sat in the judges’ stand. Dr. Wharton was an old sport | and did not look out of place up there, | but Rev. Mr. Melvil did. Perhaps that is why Mr. Petgreave with a smile in-| vited him to come down and ride with | Aim. The pastor stepped Into ihe "l0c0- motorator,” followed by (oe = Iver- halred laventor; the doclér gar: the signal to start by firing ou a pistol, and then amid the silenceof the assem. ' bled multitude, the machine—did not go : There was not a person there who was not sorry for Mr. Petgreave at that | moment. But In about a minute the wish to see the locomotoralor move was gratl- | fled No smoke curled up from anywhere; no odor tagged behind; there was no whir of electric’ y. Bul the locomo- ator began to move. There were inter- | nal noises, loud aud heavy and possibly disconcerting to some of the women | spectators, but the vehicle moved; and not only moved, but went at the rate of at least eight miles an hour. Here at last was a complete triumph for the old man, sald everyone to his neighbor. A fortune awalted him If the machinery did not prove to be too | complicated. The vehicle was as big! as a circus van, but that very fact made the triumph greater. If so big a thing could move so fast. a smaller one would go faster, unless the machinery | were necessarily cumbrous Everybody who was anybody. and all The Cumalative Prosperity Of six years foretells such a demand for goods 4s can be furnished only by a store whose prestige and resour- ces call on the best markets of this country. JHE GOOD QUALITY G00DS) Now in demand suggests the one dealer who handles nothing else— the store whose reputation, stock and methods, are alike above re- proach. THR PROSPECTIVE SCARCITY In staple goods suggests the one concern that is best prepared to meet instanter all the demands of its patrons at any time or in any quan- tity—today or the “day before Christmas." THE INTELLIGENT BUYING Necessitated by prevailing condi- tions suggesis the one dealer whose stock equipment and facilities insure the promptest service and the most helpful counsel in gift selections. Signet Hat Pins with initials en- graved, 50c each Signet Rings, with monogram, $1501 Pins, with monogram Silver Tea Spoons, 50c each up (old Cuff Links with monogram $2 per pair Silver Umbrella and Hat Markers with initials engraved 25¢ Watches—Ounr stock is complete. Prices from $2 to $125 Prices Gold Lockets with monogram en- graved from $1.50 to $20 Toilet Tost in Sterling silver from $40 Beautiful Gilt Clocks $1.15 5 WV ery one warranted Equal to Every Occasion Embodies our reputation. There's a sense of security in knowing that you have at your command the largest stock in this section with prompt, accurate and reli- ab’e service backed up by a responsible and honest guar- antee that you will get the right quality at right prices. it is not. The locomoterator returned to fits place of departure, easily, swiftly and Atl that time aulomoblley wers still largely things on paper, bul hers was Dayton, all the Daylons went wild, The inventor and the pastor stepped from the vehicle and were lmmedisle- ly surrcunded by a howiing crowd; men, women and children swarmed order to Inspect the machine at closes range. The selectmen and ‘he doctor came down the outside of the judges stand io their eagerness to grasp the hand of the local great man. Peopls men slapped women on the backs; small boys punched each other's heads and laughed over it. and Washinglon's atfained a new Importance. And then dear old Mr. Pelgreave, his head more over on one side than aver, hiz hair dancing on his coat collar, his eyes blazing with excitement, led.the way to the locomotorator and sald: “My friends, this is fhe happiest day of my life. There ia no secret that I this thing. [t's pertectly simple. What I have made, others can make. The I don't even mean to get Sul K patent. I give my Invention to the American people!™ Hé stepped to the Gack of the vehicle and then we noticed for the first time that there was a big door In it. He put hiz hand into his pocket drew oul & key, unlocked the door and opened it. It was not steam; it was not gaso? lene: it was not electricity; it was not; clock work that supplied the J power. 2 It was a treadmill worked by Mr. Peigreave's old white mare, Nance. Mother Earth Shaking Herself, Mother Earth appears to be going through a series of lively tremors. Tha recent disastrous earthquakes in Italy have been followed by a number of less serious perturbations, while Cuba, Jae maica and other places on this side of the hemisphere are having a Mlvaly shakeup The connection which seems to exizt between these manifes tations at widely different points is subject of great interest to students of seismology One Girl's Werk. Grace Wales, a 13-year-old farmer girl living near Sedgwick, Is worth a trainload of butterflies that gad the street, flirt and chew gum. This sea- a tivated 20 acres of corn, ploughed 40 acres of wheat, harrowed 40 acres of ground and mowed 50 acres of hay. — Kansas City Journal, Mine Under Ocean, The Levant mine. situated near te Land's End, England, goes down var- tically for 2,100 feet, and Is worksd laterally under the bed of the Allan. tic, considerably over a mile from the fool of the cliffs. The mine gives sm ployment to 515 men and 176 boys, and practically runs the village of St. Juty The Russian Writer, Mme. Maxime Gorky protests against the story so often told of her husband, that he was born in poverty and vaga- bondage. She Inzists that he was. 8 son of well-to-do parents, and although be did not attend school, his grands father, who was a painter, gave him Arctic Post Office. : Berved during the . winter by dog permanent post office bal been established by the Canadian au= thorities at Fort McPherson, in the and 2.000 miles north of Edmonton, the capital of the new province of Alberta Iceland's Birth Custom. In Iceland, that country of gentle and old-fashioned customs, It has a= ways been the fashion ta present to the taby when its first (ooth appeared. a lamb, to be its very own, cared for and tended as no other pet could be, and pever to be parted with, Does Away with Soap. Clothes-washing by electricity, with- out soap, is the idea of an Hungarian. The stream of electrified water is claimed to remove all pot and dirt, and the 300 garments held by the machine are washed In less than 15 minutes. a ——.... ————, SILVER Chatelaine Watches, $4.50 10 $15.00. Nappies, (five inch) $1.00. ; S WATER SETS, . . . . $6.76 Bowls, (eight inch) $3.50. =
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