A ISTID STJItvOyCIEEe, 19Q6. ! Don't Put Off Buying You —« Help That New Spring Suit. Boys. mg for . .i -i it i „ i • 4 ., especially ii vou admire pretty* fabrics, Get OriC no .V, while there is <J bronu VJlictV *" artistic tailoring, accurately fitting gar .!yles and fabrics to choose from—be among the £«' Btluu 8tluu " re """ irt Hmi be " aders of fashion. < 'nine. bring the little men with vou, l 11 you'll take the time to come here and ex .mine ur stylish Clothing for Spring and Summer you dress wear that will captivate your fancy , ] '. . ■ » i . . and vour purse the mometit you see them Vill be convinced that its the sort you want. Norkfolk Jacket Suits t'T'h#a cti;|pc nrn Hnu/n !,i Ihp with Idoomer trousers—the season's most nit styles are jown-to-ine , avored , t vi t ._i,, attractive fabrics of minute and cLverly expressed wear-like-iron ({Utility, stayed, double I with a dash of smartness that stitched and reinforced; sizes Bto lfij will appc*; Ito you. lh ' mater- years; regular 7.00 values, <£ K iais are thoroughly good and in JuTenileE , SprhTsuite. those weaves and coionngs ar- ~, u , ~ XT j i . i • r sizes .t to S years—novelty Mouse, Nor pl ;Veu by lasmon ascoirect. folk and Sailors, in plain and fancy fab- The tailoring is as near per- ' o crjfn A fection as the most skilful artis- *r.OV-J ans can make ic The lit of each ;;X,'i' n?t ' k ' 11 '"' boyß wear ' from hat garni- ill, in every size lor stout, slim, short or tall men. is peift ct. Our prices are as low as really , : ,usl re " e,v f <l ,ull I h, ; e °! SI T'„ *\ w r i i . l j i thing up to date. Ladies and Clu dren. good clothing can be sold lor. Pric ,„ HEN'S SPRING SACK SUITS [l "- ( uality tifiht. Come at oncel r, t iO to s"'"s while the stoek is complete and all ord* YOUNG MENS SPRING SACK SUITS, at Bso to S2O. Headquarters for s The '(. orrc ct Halerdasherv and GentS Furnishings. Hat I- r Spring and Summer HAT« IVN TADC 1 at a \v!d • range ot fair prices. HATS AND CAPS Jacob M. Wihton, MUNCV VALLEY, PA. I No. 2 Folding 112 |B^wnie I A wonderfully capable and accurate camera | built on the Kodak plan. Good enough to I satisfy experienced photographers, yet so simple that children can use it. PICTURES 254x3#: inches. Loads in daylight with film Cartridges. I Fitted with meniscus lens,; and shutter with iris diaphragm stops. Full description in Kodak Catalog FREE / at any photographic dealers or by mail. EASTMAN; KODAK CO., Rochester, N. Y. y WINCttfSTEKI fc , FACTORY LOADED SHOTGUN SHELLS H "New Rival" "Repeater" Bj DF you are loo'.in;? for reliable shotgun am- || munition, t!;e Kind that shoot'j where you h| point your gun, f»ity Winchester Factory || Loaded Shotgun Shells: u Nc\v Rival," loaded with Ha *'i Black powder; "Leader" nnd "Repeater," loaded l?j 112 , with Smokeless. Insist u 1011 * having Winchester B Factory Loaded Shells, nnd accept >no others. H ✓"< >N HK.WKI) KI'ToKT it] the condition of The National Bank at Di.sbore, in the Stat« ••f Pennsylvania at close of hiurfncss April <»t>t liK'ti. HKSOURCES. 1-on is and discount* (X» I . s HtiiuU m «u*cure circulation *«o.»*K) !)<• Premium on Is. Bonds I..*>ooUo Moek srrurities 7.">«K>o 00 Kliruiiurr «.MR)*K) l>tn* from Bank» and approved Res. Agt. 69.tffd41 Ucdetnntiou tun.l I'. Treasurer J,f>oono Social and Tender notes 25.1719* Total $118,618 44 iiaiolitiks, "apital jao urn on surplus »in«l undividtni profits 2504095 t'livnlata n 19,10000 I l>c]Kisit:» 2*#»i.477 40 j Total &ÜB.CIB 43 state <if Pennsylvania County of Kulli van ss. 1. M. I». Swarts ea>hier of tin- aliovc named I tank do solemnly swear that the above statement > ti ue to the best of my knowledge and lielief. M.!>• s\\ UM\s csihliier. , Subviined nnd sworn to before me this Uth , tiny of Apr. huxi. AI.BKUT K. HKKSS. My c<iiunussion •■xplres Fehy J7/09. Notary Public. ! Correct AtteM: K.<J. BYLY \HIA. i J No. j> KKK-hK. Directors. SAML'KL COLE. ) Ti? 99 m The Best place to buy goods Is olti'n askeJ by the pru pent housewife. Money saving advantages irealways being searched for Lose no time in making a thorough examination of the New Line of Merchandise Now on SlßlflONi MNNHNIWMHNHIHN JfrJlC )K ♦ ?????? ? ? ? I STEP IN AND ASK ABOUT THEM. All answered at Veraon Hull's Large Store. n«nin am MeCftll PftlUrni mM is iH* Stun i fc«n uf 4«» othti m%km • Tfc» t» M M4.OUUI uf their tlyk, ««iui«c? *•"< PRISON ART CENTRE. i SING SING ESTABLISHING QUITE A REPUTATION IN THAT LINE. Several (ieniiiNeti Already Dlsc«T«refl—A Primmer Who llentgiied ami llullt Tnro Lui'i:e Orgmiß- A Kemarkablc Negro Woodrarver Convict. ' J As an art centre Sing Sing Prison i Is establishing a reputation. Already , the warden has made the school qf design and decoration there one of the ' most efficient in the United States. ; The classes are for thoroughly practi- , cal work, and the students, all of whom are "doing time," receive an education that makes it easy for them to earn a living honestly as skilled workmen af ter they have served out their sentences and are discharged into the world out side. The warden has discovered several geniuses already. One of these built j the large reed organs in the Catholic j and the Protestant chapels. He did ! all the work himself and learned how ! to use tools after lie entered the prison, i His experience in carpentering or any \ mechanical work had not gone further than driving nails in packing boxes be- , lore the law took charge of him. He i had a good ear for music, though ho j < ould not read a note, and he had ; played organs "on the road" three sea- j tons of three months each for a manu- j facturing firm in Canada. 1., this ' work he had helped at packing and un- ! jacking dozens of instruments and had 1 I become familiar with the arr...lament j of tin- l- i'ds mid Uie general anatomy c 112 the instruments. He had never I vorked at organ building nor had he done any of the practical work of de signing or construction. But the most remarkable fact about tlie building of these instruments is that the man who made them thought ! out everything to the minutest details j before he made even a rough sketch of the work he wished to do. Without ' CHAIH MADE AT SING SING. a model or tools or pencil and paper j to help him, he brooded over his plans j for twenty-tive months. Then he had conceived every detail clearly in his j mind, had computed the exact propor- i tions of each of the 14,000 parts, and j had assembled these parts mentally. | When liis cogitations had evolved the i orgun he dropped a note to the warden in one of the various letter boxes the 1 I warden has placed about the prison { grounds. He wrote, lie said in this ( note, to usk for permission to illustrate • ! on paper the ideas he had on building an organ for one of the chapels. The ; warden sent for the would-be builder, ; at d was so impressed with the man's j Intelligence and earnestness that he j told him togo ahead; that he should ha\e pencil and paper and all the' d:awing instruments he needed. lie! had never made a sketch in his life, but he smin made a hundred intelligible illustrations that made it possible Cor ! others to see what before had been visible to him only. The warden sent these drawings to j organ builders in New York, and asked I for expert opinions. lioth critics re- | plied that the d signs were excellent 1 and practical, with the exception of j | one point. They doubled if a reed could | lie made to give the tone produced by ! | the sixteen-foot organ pipe. They be- ; lieved eight feet v/as the limit for ' reeds. I The genius said that if the warden j | would let him go ah fid he would show the manufacturers how easily it could Ibe done. The warden said "All right" I and the result is the two splendid or- j j gans that attract so much attention in the prison chapels, j The one in the Catholic chapel is the I largest reed instrument in the world, and has a tone that even an expert i listening at a little distance would be j lieve came from a pipe organ. Organ j ists have remaiked the rich, deep, full I I pipe tone time and again. This in- ! i strument has 7:11 notes. All of them ; are true, from the voix celeste- the •'impossible" sixfeen-foot pipe tone -to j the highest the human ear appreciates, j There are three manuals and four com- ! plete keyboards. The player can cou i pie the swell, the choir or the great 1 organ with the pedals or he can give j a pedal solo, not using his hands at j all. There aie 14.000 separate pieces in this instrument; NiiO of these are small shutters which open or close by pulling or pushing a balance swell ped al stop. The pressure nece.-sary to put down a key is three ounces, and • his three-ounce pressure moves HOfl deces of the mechanism. The bellows i are about eight feet long, and hold an air supply of 115 seconds, so the or ganist can play for nearly two minutes with one breath. Another genius whorn the warden's art school has dlscovt-rcd would be driving cab* to-day If he h..d behaved himself. Cuder the head of previous occupation he is down on the prison 1 list as "coachm in, butler, colored." lie is still colored, but It In not probable th.it he will e\er drive or wait i r. doors or dinner tables again. Instead of meat he will curve wood, and hi attention to doora and tables will be with i view to ornament. lie Is th» chief Mar In (be art school galaxy, and does exquisite work i \% • fill "Catty" is a wrlpht still in one in the treaty ports of China When the Chinese Hr«i -old ie» to the Kuropeaim they Ineloned It In lltttle U. <|uer r;i« which each « dished a "cutty" and In due ttin*- »e ■ illea tc catties, ami at last lea caddie*. » GOOD THEY'RE SMALL. | It Ants Were l.nrg< r 'lli«v Would tfn. ! ilonb cill i (Inn lh« Kurih. If ants were largo enough they would rule the earth. As it is, they predom inate the politics of their own sphere, and have many human characteristics. The longest time for which an ant sleeps is three and a half hours. On awakening, they stretch their legs, yawn, and then carefully clean them selves, by applying their legs to their mouths and rubbing them over their bodies, very much in the style of a cat washing her face, after which they comb and SruVn their heads and bodies with the natural comb which nature gives them. The most remarkable thing about this is that almost every necessity for which we are obliged in our case to employ more or less complicated me chanical contrivances is provided for by the physical structure of the ants. Ants clean themselves both before and after sleep, and also after eating. Frequently one ant will lick and brush another all over, limb by limb, the ant operated on sprawling on her back, relaxing her muscles and abandoning herself to the enjoyment of the opera tion. They are great hunters, attacking snakes, lizards, rats, mice, centipedes and beetles. 'l'hoy even kill the great African python. It is said that if a python has killed an animal, he dare not gorge himself with it until he lias made a wide circuit and satisfied himself fhat there are no driver ante in the neigh borhood. If. however, he meets with any, lie abandons his prey to them, and discreetly retires. A certain spe cies actually keep cows—in other words, plant lice. When the ants are hungry they actually milk the apli ritles l>.v tapping them briskly on the sides of the abdomen with their an tennae till the fluid exudes, when it is at once sucked up by the ants. They shut them up in cowhouses and use them for days, i Ants act as soldiers in a very real way, and it is no stretch of the lan j guage to call them pitched battles be | tween ants of the same species, and I raids of one species upon the nests of I another, sometimes to carry off the 1 larvae and pupae as food (a modified I ! form of cannibalism), and sometimes | to supply their own nests with slaves. ! Certain ants are agricultural, and j allow ant rice to grow up in a circle ! round their nests, while every other plant is carefully cut down as fast ; as it appears. They sow the crop reg i ularly. tend it.and harvest it. When the seeds fall they are carried into the nest, and the stubble is cleared away. When the grain in the nests gets damp ed by rain these ants carry it out into j the open to dry. Kut*|il Hail System. The United States post office depart- ; 1 ment has officially adopted and coin- | . menced to operate a postal wagon, . ! which is intended to replace the major i ity of the star route postoffices in the I United States. The star route offices | are those which are called fourth-class ! postofflces, and the postmasters in charge of these hrve been paid a per j centage on the postal business they j transacted. As fast as possible these I wagons will be introduced throughout the United States. Each state will be | divided into circuits, these circuits be i ing of the length that a wagon can | cover in a day The postal clerks in j charge of these wagons issue money i orders, register letters and transact a general postal he iness. The mail i is delivered cither at the houses of the people along the route or placed in j what is called a rural free delivery box i near a residence. 'I he [postal clerk has otic key to this box and the occupants jof the residence the other. In this J way the pustoffice comca to the peo i ■* ... - ! COt.I.J-A i'INM JJAIf. 'N COrXTKY KOAD. I i pie instead of the; going to the poat- I iftice. The Inventor of tips pos; office wagon s Kdwin \V. Shriv: of Westminster, j Vld.. who was for y • . a purser on the ! i Iron Steamboat line between New York and I.in- branch. Mr. Shriver h; . ii appointed h stal clerk of the 1 wagon which began operation last i ! .Monday. I: is estimated by the postofflce de- I ; partment that about 40,000 of the minor rural piuti fi. \ill be done away with ; i i>y the US', of tin-.- wagons. I <• i r«»ii:• r\ Nearly everyone h is had the bright ■ ile i that i: mi'st be a tremendous ! imouut of work tog- up a diction- I iry. but ft ',- have any notion of the i i real s'ze nf ih • t •■<)<. When Johnson ' irnt his fsmo'.s dictionary started he | I calculated the. with six assistants, he I j could comi ■«" :! in three years i It took him nine veils instead. I! > re- | reived the small r>-. onipense of s7.f>oo. :ntl had to jay his as. slants out of | that. i Webster wor! • I ;'l years before his I !lc'b)ir:ry made r • bow to the world. i • was very punctilious In his j definition!-:, and >« |, : ist'iklng that ti ! was a wonder In completed the work j when ha did. The words which i: \ the compiler of a dictionary th' mit trouble are the i mile on» • yllab! - \ m word i. Their i hlstorj' ex'ciu's ! \ Into the Saxon period, and tl ; .iiing has b. ome In mac.v di: e.-dons. Words i ,l ! i rec- are ?h< ha riles: to trace V.'hfi a new dictionary Is projected one man l.i <e!»ctcd edltor-lu chief 'and he ii'iiclnts h.~ -übedllors. Then tpy—ls in nt oui to Uttrnry people | !n general for voluntary c ntrlbutioiw ii tile r It lire of rare ninl ciirlouii >iiid '. There ar' i ver 1 (WO people aH' bi\ ' ihc> service* In.he ■m» of a dieti<a* rv n nv mil inje Thev ire to i »d standaid «(>'•!> ancient ind modern, in lbs enreh 1- r etirinni el<*ii, their ' Olid ineanlns thee i irrti, vfl* "'i * p* of DDper. are Ml In th>' nil* if p'eei II hole*. o\er I X too.* l»f r' i*' I. ive been put awav. i ,in iiM i ■' •• 'ii a > Hut only 1 msi.Oi, ' " I 1 a* I, Tin .miouut tif work i 'i ptopeily »ort thene U c\tdo.it, j To the People: Rich s Famous All Wool Sock has fallen into competition with a very inferior article. The imitation is so perfect that only an expert is able to detect the counterfeit with its cotton and shoddy mixtures, until the sock is put into service. Unscrupulous competitors are representing the soc/fc as Rich's All Wool, thus deceiving tin- customer and injuring our reputa: tiort. To protect ourselves and the trade, in tlie future Rich's Socks will bear a Red Seal Trade Mark printed in White, a fac.simile of which is shown above. Respectfully, John Rich & Bros. Woolrich, Pa. 2* Banking by Mail ? is simply a matter of dropping a ' letter in the post office —• Write f«r booklet telling how it is done. We pay 3 per cent, interest on savings, and a capital and surplus of $450,000.00 assure the safety of your money. LACKAWANNA *23M3a&E223mm COMPANY 404 Lackawanna A venae SCR ANTON, PA. Tl\ « Jfllo PATENT Good Itfui hi! r Syn Z7£.Ta?r£ i! U IV. tj 111 THE PATEHT RECORD, *,.J 8»ltlm#r», M4 t> • *fp> Tl'-W* «1.00 POT IMI» Royal Baking Powder is made of Grape Cream of Tartan Absolutely Pure. Makes the food ' more Wholesome and Delicious. ISIO LIFE, NO AMBITION, NO ENERGY. Tlu'h-- nrc ("tuiiioti t'\|T(-«Mont> not* a ms Hinl the linjji-r jioul dial |<oint with ||'il lliny : I'CUrHI'V 111 It IMTVOUH MyatV!!t oillvl ill KM vil*litY l>\ overevei'tioi. ■V.I "inun .>r I fun 1 e kind. That ||V. !,<■ -hull,l lillmv |!||M I'Olhlilioil togo 11 coin,.lcic 11n ili.ll |.|ivnicul or Mtsual uin : s ii F-nrt*iy 11111*1 it m-glecleil, in a . .mi' 11■ me w hen ilif cure ia ai hand P A. \V rioi-f'n N«v« I'lllk—a • •liinie il.'fignivl f*|in*nly tor thin ooii in-»i.—m molii'iin- 11 HI cure* to may 11 r« ! 1.. riiiiinilvii u the very MMtitial of 'ilr- NVrte Force. Mi . \\\ t'. of 2'JO K. ■th St., IllootuHlitity, l*» t , say a:- 1 'filing iit\ nervou* and verr 1 111 1 ,low 11 Iti-l winter when 1 wn\tr A. U <'liH»r'» \ertr I'illu reeoni -1 ii>li 1 t.ir Kuril ii i.mtilliow. i „'t>l it hug 1 tri. l tlirin. I he) hate done me a •. I< ' imml 11 (■ Mint MrenglheiirtJ (•i i .'.-neralh, niMilr in* nerve* •tmi »i-ady (ml |i«r me it leelmg . mid *igor. l it# inedirin* M a gixxl ■ll m.ir nn I frl.inlilrr ami I can r»e- IHVIMI 11 in*:lily lo anyone nerdm* A 1 <-r» r ami general lomr." M* a ho* si .1. i'i •1 r I'r. \. IV. t'liita* Medicia* • i. 1'.i11i1... V V *e* iliti porwata .•ii .»» \ W. i lia»e N. l>. HI ,« 1.111 ii.ul.ur
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