REESER, KESSLER WIELAND CO. BIG STORE WITHESH LITTLE 8 SAYRE, PA. WE FILL MAIL OR- DERS AND PREPAY FREIGHT OR EX- PRESS ON PUR- CHASES OF S$s.00 OR OVER. » Evenings Succeeding the low cash price we make. Besides we have plans for tion. We have nothing to values. Now about one-half | incoming Spring | osition. offer but stylish, roing cut wkhart | or equalled See rice, that are the best. For bed or bath robes od to $1.75 $3.50 value reduced to $2.75 now $4.37 A good selection in fancy gs at O8¢c. Better ones 1.19. £2.00 now $139 2.25 now $150 is 124c reds, blues and were $1.50, now Ladies’ 50c Men's and 39 and 19¢ to furnisn their Why ? Because our prop you Call on the third floor man- Street Floor Linen Edge. Our price now lie , ROW have Jocatad it « (ESS SR % 0 ~ #7 Wi) Neh bY SRS — . Bring Your Job Printing to From four to eight skilled job printers and a new, up-to-date equipment are at your service. say we have the to please. We keep Talmadge Bullding, Eimer Ave., Sayre, Yalley Phone |28x. WE PRINT The Valley Record W. T. GAREY, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE Ofce Maney & Page Block, Rooms formerly occupied by the iste John IL Murray, Office hours: —9 to 10a. m.; 6:30 tol p,m At other times during day st Valley Record offiee. SE ————————L BLACKSMITHING HORSESIHOEING AND GENER- ERAL REPAIRING, Have bad over thirty years’ ex- —— A STRANGE TRAGEDY Io his work of exploration in Egypt, Nicholas Gemsohd, the famous archae ologist, unearthed the sarcophagus of Lo ancient queen He shipped 1t to his bome in Paris, and there opened It with the most exquisite delicacy, In order that the mummy It contained might not be disturbed. He found the body In a perfect state of preservation, enwrapped In mummy cloths and shrouded in cloth of gold He removed the body from the sar- cophagus and set It up io his study He _called In his servant and told her the mummy must not be touched, wuch less dusted, as it was very pre clous and exceedingly fragile The dead queen stood In ap alcove of the Egyptologist’s study, the ob- ject of an almost hieratic reverence on his part. He longed to remove the gold and resin that clothed her and gaze upon ber face and form, but knowledge that one touch of his hand would destroy forever the fragile flesh within caused him tg curb his curl losity and to worship with his eyes | alone. Once a month Gemond took a | feather duster and, reverently and In | trepidation, whisked from his treas ure the dust that had settled upon it No other hand but his was ever jald upon her who in life had reigned over Ezypt and who io death reigned with no less authority over this quiet study in Paris. He was ber high priest and she was his goddess. But Gemocnd was alone io his wor ship. His servant, a plous, practical Frenchr woman, saw with grave disap- proval this corpse, that ought to be un derground, standing In her master's study. the fact that it had lain buried thousands of years rendered the sacri lege no less implous Io her sight But it was the dust which gathered upon the mummy that most shocked her tidy soul, and ber busy fingers fairly itched to take off those golden robes aud give them a good shaking and beating at an open window Fear of her master alone restrained her, but she would sulff with contempt at Gemond's efforts to keep the mummy clean with a feataer duster Farldlan study for several months, her high priest went out one day and for got to lock the door of his room that was his shrine. The faithful Gabrielle eized the opportunity to tidy up a bit She dusted the books, she shook the rugs, she placed her master's papers in peat plies, she washed the windows and wased the floor and polished the mirror and did all the | things that only a woman's sense of neatness impels. At last she stood be fore the sacred mummy and looked | with ever-increasing rebellion at the | ven of dust that enshrouded it Ev | erything elise in the room shone, and this alone stood dusty. CONIFATY *™ whal 00 Men auuw asvul neatness, anyway’ She took the cloth of gold from the shoulders of the queen; despoiled her of the royal death robes and shook them out of the winuow. Then she brushed them care fully and laid toem waside Having begun her work she deter. mined to finish {t, and make a good job of it. So she began to remove the brown mummy cloths in which her Egyptian majesty had slept for all these thousands of years, determining to give them a good cleaning. But, what was her horror when she discov- ered that they fell to pleces in her hands Gabrielle stood as If transfixed The soft brown linen dropped, bit by bit, flaking away and crumbling as it fell She selzed the golden robes and hur. riedly draped them upon the silent forms, hoping thereby to hide the rav ages her hands had wrought. But as she worked—too roughly Io her hurry —she felt the whole mass crumble un- der her bands, and the cloth of gold fell in a shapeless heap over a plle of brown dust . At this moment Nicholas Gemond entered the room. QGabrielle jumped from her task and stood facing him, her eyes wide with fright. The savant looked at the spot whereon had stood Lis anclent queen, and beheld f(t empty. He seized the golden draper- fes, and found beneath them nothing but a handful of dust. Then he turned in speechless wrath and put a bullet through Gebrielle's heart. } The faithful servant fell dead at his feet Nicholas Gemond, the famous Egyp- tologist, sits to-day in a cell in a Paris prison, a convicted murderer, awaiting -N. Y. World What Riot Costs, The trying days of 1877, when Pitts- burg was !n the hands of destructive rioters during the railroad troubles of that year, are recalled by the fact that on January 1 Allegheny county will wipe out the debt that was laid upon her by these disorders For 26 year: that county has been paying for prop erty destroyed. It has now provided for the final payment of $364 000, and when that has been turned over the county will be cleared of a debt of §J - 500.000 which was caused by the burn- ing of property by the rioters. Banda for the total obligation were issued 'n 1880 and since then the payments have been made In several Installments, large amounts being taken from the Property of the Penn in Pitts- burg and vicinity was destroyed, as and the end of that heavy reck- oning is pow happily lu sight. Sport “Hazardous, “What was the mortality amongst Ray Hosmer spent Sunday at Spencer, N. Y. T. L. Hudson was in Towarda today on business. A. J. Roell of New York, is the guest of friends in town Mrs. Clarence Peck and children were in Elmina Saturday. Hon. 1 T. Hoyt returned to Harrisburg this morning. Edward Payne of Cornell, spent Sunday with his parents. Bruce Meade and wife were call- ing on Ulster fricnds today. Mr. Correy of Buffilo, Sunday with Vine Crandall The oil well was down 386 feet at midnight Saturday night Mrs, J. L Bartrand was in Elmira on business Saturday. spent Miss Gray sang a solo at the Teachers’ Institute in Sayre Sat urday. The business men n will hold their regular meeting this evening at city hall. Judson Preston of Elmira, spent Sunday with Charles FF K-11 gg in Athens. Harry K. Crandall | goes to New York tonight to remain in the city a short time. John Brown of Doanetown was was in Athens over night enroute for Dushore this morning. Miss Jessie Bullard came from Vanetten Saturday afternoon and spent Sunday with her parents, re. turning today. The ladies of the Universalist church will hold a valentine social at the home of Miss Martha Stulen Wednesday evening. Miss Ella Hassert of Bloomsburg Mrs Harry Thompson and Leon Fice of Trinket, spent Sunday at the home of John D. Fice. The Misses Jennie and Laura Carson visited at George Jackson's, Welles avenue, over Sunday aad returned to New Albany this morning. A R. Brown lost a fine pair of nose glasses somewhere on Main street and if any one finds them they will be suitably rewarded if they will return them The P. 0. S. of A will have a debate at Sanford's hall tomorrow evening. The subject will be: Resolved, That the Promise of Re- ward Is a Greater Incentive for Good Than the Fear of Punish ment. The members have the subject well in hand and some strong arguments will be presented. Admission ten cents. E B. Gavitt, while working with his team, cutting ice on the Che- mung river, back of the Mat Long place, Saturday, came near losing his horses. They got into an air hole and floundered around in the river, nearly freezing to death be- tore they could be rescued. They were finally got out by getting chains about their necks and draw- ing them up by main force. The next entertaioment of the high school course will be given Monday evening, Feb. 19, when the Blanche Vaughan Wales com- pany will appear in Athens for the first time. They are exceptionally good and their program includes music and readings of a very entertaining character. Tickets are now on sale at Sanford’s drug store. The company will arrive in Athens Saturday evening and will be the guests of -some of our citizens over Sunday. Very Cheap Traveling Beginning Feb. 14 and continuing dai- ly until April 6th, the Erie R. R. will sell colonist tickets to all Pacific Coast and numerous interior points at ve low rates, which will be quoted and all other information given by calling on or writiog any Erie ticket agent, or J. H. Webster, D. P, A, Elmira. N, Y, I38-eod Quickest Route to Chicago, 17 Hours and arrive EPOKANE, Wash, Feb. 12 Samuel Glasgow, manager of a milling com. pany of Spokane and Segttle, sald that | | he had received from William Burtt,’ uy, newspapers and letters which say that the Chinese Interpretation of a speech made hy William J. Bryan be | fore Chigese werchants at a dtaner | given by them In bis honor hax been used by Chinese agitators to stir up renewed antipathy to American prod ucts, Previously to this speech by Mr Bryan at a meeting held by about fifty commercial representatives and dele gates from the various Chinese guilds of Shanghal, Canton and Hongkong the delegutes Lad agreed on twelve proposed modifications of the Ameri- ean Chinese exclusion law. The Amer ican representatives agrecd to have thelr houses urge these on congress, and the Chinese agreed Immediately to call off the hoycott. Then, accord. ing to Hongkong papers, Mr. Bryan was entertained by the Chinese mer chants at a dinner and made a speech. One of the « hine=e merchants at the dinner reported the proceedings to Chi nese newspapers. He quoted Mr. Bry. au as declaring that the labor party was so strong in the United States that Chine