i
ON THE VrriGE OF THE UNKNOWN.
An F-nnrrfnirlit Thnt Mnkm
I'D Auk.
"Wlmt I f-nmlns?"
Mr. W. II. I'rwro, chief ptiKinrrf nnl
rliTtridnii to tlw posto'Dcp, Ims jutt hjiii
wiro n mile Ioiik on tlio const nrnr Lnv
rrnock iiinl a nlmrtcr one on Fliillmliu. 11
littlo lsliiml tlirre miles olT in thn 1'rintol
clmiiiicl. llolitliil tlio InttiT wlro will1
n "sonncler" to rrreivo iiipssiikps. nml
font a iiipssiiko tliroiili tlm forinpr from
b powerful telephonic ppiiprntor. Tli.it
niPR:mKP on i' nmiiihiticl tviis illstiiictly
hriiril on tlin Ishinil, though nothing cull
lice-toil the two. or. in other worils, the
possibility of n telephone between pliiees
unconnected by wire wns conclusively
PHtnhlisliril.
Thrre is ll possibility hero of (nter
ll:mctai y ('oininiinicntion, u kmm1 1 - 1
iMoro worthy Attention thmi nny scheme
for milking KiKiiKtl'.' clcttric flashes. Wo
do not know if wo enn cotnniuniciite liy
telephone through thn ether to New
Vork or Melbourne) with or with. ml
cnbles, lint we do know that, if wo enn
not. the fault is in our i?cncrntors nml
rounders, nml not In nny prohibitory mil
urnl law.
Will our habitual reudc: birr with im
for a moment n wo wander into another,
nml. ns many of them will think, nsupra
wnsunl region? Tim thought in n man's
lirain which causes him to advance his
foot must iiiovp something in doing it.
or how could it bo transmitted down
thnt flvo or six feet of distance? If it
moves a physical something, internal to
the body, why should it not mvo nlso
something external, a wave, ns wo nil
ngree to cnll it. which on another mind
prepared to receive it lilted with n
sounder in fact will makn an impact
hnvingnll the effect in t ho conveyance
of suggestion, or even of facts, of ti e
audibility of words? Why, in fact, if
0110 wire enn talk to another without con
nection, save through ether, should iiot
mind talk to mind without any "wire"
at nil.
None of us understands accurately, or
even as yet approximately, what thecon
ditions nre, but tunny of us know for
certain that they have occnsionally, mid
by what we call accident, been present
to particular individuals, mid thai, when
present, the communication iscompleted
without cables, mid mind speaks to mind
independently of nny machinery not ex
isting within itself. ,
Why, in tho name of science, Is thnt
more of a "mirnclo" that is, an occur
rence prohibited by immutable law
than tho transmission of Mr. Preece's
message from Lnvemock to Flatholm?
London Spectator.
A Raltuinikpr to He llppemlrd rpon.
Frederick W. Root is n Rood deal of a
hoodoo. Ho gracefully acknowledges
the charge himself. It is a singular fact
thnt whenever ho apKars to deliver a
lectnro tho rain begins to fall. Ho is so
good n rain producer that he hnsserious
ly considered the idea of utilizing his
talents for that pnrposo in the arid re
gions of the west.
While tit Silver Lake Assembly, in New
Vork state, ho delivered a lectured on
musical tastes or a kindred Bubject. He
had delivered the snnio lectnro a half
dozen times In the west, and tho refresh
ing shower enmo along each time before
he had half finished it.
But when ho reached the Silver Lake
Assembly grounds tho sky was bright,
and Mr. Root congratulated . himself
upon having shaken off his evil spirit.
He mounted tho rostrum, cleared his
throat, and when ho hnd got 'as far as
"Friends and fellow citizens" the rum
ble of distant thunder grated harshly
npon his enrs. Yet ho gathered up his
conrngo and went on, nnd beforo ho had
delivered n quarter of his lecture the
rain came down in torrents.
"Indeed," said Mr. Root, "I never saw
it rain so hard before." After tho ad
dress a witty young Chicago woman who
knew of tho hoodoo Im iness suggested,
for the convenience of tho public, that
next year Mr. RViot should write n lec
ture npon a, dry subject. Chicngo Post.
Iturlnl fiiMniiiti In Kentucky
In tho mountains of Kentucky when a
husband dies his funeral sermon is not
preached until after tho death of tho
wife, nor that of a wife until tho hus
band nlso is dead. Tin n a preacher is
sent for, friends nnd neighbors are
called in, and tho respect is paid to both
together.
More peculiar is tho custom of having
the services for one person repeated, so
that thef dead get their "funerals"
preached soverul times mouths and years
after their burial. I heard tho pitiful
story of two sisters who had their moth
er's "funeral" preached once every sum
mer ns long as they lived.
In strange contrast with this rogard
for ceremonial observances is their neg
lect of the graves of their beloved, which
they do not seem at nil to visit when once
closed or to decorate with those symbols
of affection which are the common indi
cations of bereavement. "Bluo Grass
Region of Kentucky."
Photography mid Mrdical IMugnoali.
It seems there must be added to the
ulready numorous applications of pho
tography that of an agent in medical
diagnosis. A Berlin holy was having
her photograph taken. The faco in the
first negative came out covered with
Bpot:i. Examination showing nothing
abnormal in the sitter; a second was
taken with the same result, so it could
not lie the fault ef tho plates.
What was it? In a week tho poor
woman died of smallpox. The cleverest
physician could have pprceivednothing,
hut the sensitive til in of the photograph
ic pinto hod detected an actinic.' altera
tion of the skin where the postules were
to develop. London Tit-Bits.
rbllteneiia and Ilout.
The reaBonwhy it is the custom for
an inquiring person in a New York tene
ment house to interrogate the residents
of tho top" floor 'first is because he re-'
ceives plenty of polite attention, whereas'
ir one uegms at ine tower noor aim pro
ceeds upward, he will get short answers
and little satisfaction. The top floor ten
ants pay the smallest rents. New York
Sun,
A LITERAL MINDED MAN.
An Intrrrntril ftprrtntor Who TnnH Po
ll! I Hi Slnry In flood Faith.
The most curious person in tho audi
ence of n story teller is the literal minded
man. When General Ilx ran for gov
ernor there was great discussion ns to
his age. It was one of tho controversies
nf the ennvnss. His opponents t l. l ined
that he was tooold to fulfill (he functions
of tl e ofllce. Singularly enough, the
lilngraphtcnl dictionaries differed ntiout
ten ; enrs. I wns making a sppoi'h nt
Wn eitowii to n very big audience. I
wns running nt thnt time ns a liliernl
Republican for lieutenant governor npun
the smne ticket with Francis Kerni'ti. It
wns an Immense ontdoor audience. In
front of me stood a man who watched
me during thp thrpo hours of thnt sppecli
for thn purpopof cntchlng mo on some
material point.
1 finally took up the question of Gen
eral Dix's age, gave the dates of tho va
rious biographical dictionaries and en
cyclopedias, and based a theory on how
old he must have been In the wnrof IHpJ,
where ho was a lieutenant, nml finally
said that the only really authentic data
hnd been revealed by somo recent re
searches in the colonial records of Mas
sachusetts. It hml been discovered that
when the pilgrim fathers Innded on Ply
month rock they found General Dix
standing on that historic spot and shout
ing that unless they matin him a justice
of the ieace b1 would go over and join
the Indians, the point of which was tli.it
the general had changed his politics sev
eral times, and every time he got an ofllce.
My critical friend saw his opportunity
and grasped it nt once. Ho sprang tip
with n shout that could bo heard to the
C'nnndian border. "Mr. Depew, that, is a
lie!" I looked nt him for a moment to
see whether ho had swallowed the bait,
nnd found that he bad taken it in hook
nnd line, bob and sinker, w hole ami all.
Then I stepped to the front of thn plat
form and said with great emphasis and
indignation. "Sir, I have told that his
toric anecdote from Montank point to
Niagara falls to hundreds of thousands
of the intelligent nnd educnted ieopleof
this great commonwealth, nnd you nre
tho only ninn who ever hnd tho nudncity
to deny it."
"It ain't truo, Mr. Depew," he repent
ed, "beennso thnt happened more than
2r0 years r.go." I was told when In
Wntertown last fall that although this
happened in ISTSthnt man hnd never
been ablo to coma into town since.
Clmunccy M. Depew in Now York
World.
Tile Wnvprly links.
Tho great oaks at Waverly, Mass., are
survivals of tin oak forest that must
have existed in that region, according to
tho geologists and students of trees, as
far back as tho Tenth century. They
bear every evidence of great age, and an
elm treo in the iieighorhood, now almost
dismantled, with its great limbs lying
on the ground nnd nearly nil of its
brandies d' rayed, is tho moRt venernblo
object in tho lino of trees that can prob
ably bo displayed in New England. It
is well worth a visit to Waverly just to
see this venernblo elm. It is immense in
tho sizo of its trunk, nnd its dignity in
decay is very impressive. The dozen
oak trees in the neighborhood are of the
sort thnt attain a very great ugo and
that maintain their virility unimpaired.
Wo know of only on other onk tree
iu New England that can bo compared
with them. That is located in Ipswich,
nnd is larger and moro venerable appar
ently than any of tho Waverly oaks,
and that and tho Waverly oaks, we aro
glad to know, have been inspected by
tho state park commissioners and are
likely to be preserved. It is worth one's
whilo to seo and study theso majestic,
oaks. They aro Been to great advantage
In the winter, when their rugged limb
aro bare and their imnienso Btrength is
revealed, end in summer, when they are
covered with foliage, they aro objects of
wonderful lieauty. Boston Herald.
Til a roe try of Shopping.
Tho poetry of shopping comes in with
those shoppers who aro starved for ex
citement, variety and beauty at home.
It is not lawful; they have no right to do
it; but they havo no society to satisfy a
hunger for tho beautiful with jewols
and fine dresses on others if not on
themselves. They cannot afford tho
theaters; they go to the shops. Thoy
look at tho luces and long; they
go to tho embroidery counters and
fancy; they educate thomsolves in tho
matter of India shawls; they seek the
silkroom, brilliant with gas lights and
electric lights, and look at brocades fit
for the court of a princess, at silks whose
flamboyant scarlets burn in tho illumi
nation, whoso tender bluo is the blue of
spring skies half robbed of rain, whose
green is the breaking wave of tho sea,
whose violet is the hue of mountains far
away in autumn mists, and they picture
themselves or those they love robed and
radiant in theso tissues. And if the poor
shopman is weary when they go away,
they themselves aro refreshed for a long
season of further denial and renuncia
tion. Harper's Bazar.
A Medical llorlnlon lu 1T18.
In 1713 a cellar digger having been
ttiflcd at Jena, the medical faculty of
the university dei.ided that the cause
was not tho direct action of the devil,
but a deadly gns. Thereupon Professor
LocBcher, of the Univoreity of Witten
berg, entered a solemn protest, decluring
that the decision of the medical faculty
was "only a proof of the lamentable li
cense which has so taken possession of
ns, and which if we are not earnestly on
our guard will Anally turn away from
us the blosiring of God." Dr. Andrew
D. White in Popular Science Monthly.
strategy.
Small Boy Mamma wants you to send
her up two barrels of those apples she
wns lookin at.
, Dealer AH right, sonny.
"Say; couldn't you pour the two bar
rels into' one' big barrel?"
"Eh? What for?"
"Thon she couldn't get it through the
floor of .the Jock.closet." Good, News.
A New rhntnursphlo froeeM,
An effective and greatly simplified
method of producing a phntographlo
representation In tho form of an intaglio
engraving, or, as it is generally called, a
"photogravure," Is lielng Introduced.
The new method is intended to reduce
the time occupied In the process, which
usually takes many dnys to a few hours,
nnd to dispenso entirely with the supple
mentary nid of the skillful engraver.
Its essential fentnrn lies In the fact that
tho picture. Instead of being obtained
from n graduated depth of the engraving,
is produced from a sunken surface of
mi i form depth, the grndations of light,
half tone nnd simile licing effected by
minute lilies and stipples of varying
thickness, but of uniform distance apart
from center to center.
The picture is made up of equidistant
stipples, varying from n microscopic
point tip to a size where they coalesce in
a solid Mark, the half tones com-istingof
stipples about t-HHith of an inch in di
ameter. If n course stipple is used the
effect varies from that of mezzotint and
approaches more tienrly that of a line of
engraving, thn light shades being mndo
up of perceptiblo lines nnd stipples, like
the effects of a steel or copper plnte en
graving of equal texture. Pittsburg
Dispntch.
A Comparison of lllrtli Kate.
There nro S1S.000.000 peoplo lu France,
and during the last five years the In
crease in population has only been 121,
000. In f5 departments out of a total of
BO there is actually a diminution. It is
not due to nny high average of deaths,
although infant mortality is higher than
it should lie. It is due tothn small num
ber of children born. Tho average birth
rate hits fallen to 21 or S3 per 1.KJ0 in
habitants. This is a phenomenally low
rate when contrasted with IIS to !!! in
Germany, 115 or 11(1 in Italy, 11:1 in Eng
land and ill) in Switzerland. Tho per
lentngo is lower in France than in nny
other count rv; so thnt there Is a rapid
Increase iu rival countries and Franca
remains stationary. Chicngo Herald.
A Monument to Loyola.
Ignatius Loyola's followers have erect
ed n monument to his memory over tho
spot where the fortunes of war decided
that Lnnndii should lie a free liritish
country. "Tho Jesuits' Retreat" stands
in the city of Quebec on tho ground
consecrated by the blood of English sol
(tiers, and in front of it has been placed
a colossal statue of the founder of tho
order. Toronto Mnil.
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Here is a lieantiful extract of one of
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Phelps;
I have just been reading Cation For
rnr's sermons on the "Eternal Hope,"
and I agree with him in the title of one
of them, that "Life Is Worth Living,"
oven if one can't sleep the biggest part
nf it away. Thee nnd I get moro out of
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who sleep o' night. I quite sympathize
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AT
In adaiiRi-roiisemprKi'iiej', Avr.irsCiiKnnT
Pkctohal I prompt to net "ml sum to
cure. A ilese taken on tin? (list symptoms
fit Crnup or llrom-lillK eheekt further limn
rcss of these ci'iiiplulnts. It softens Mm
phlPRm. K'Hilhcs tin) Inflamed Inrmlirnne,
nml fndiiees sleep. Ai a fined)- fur mills,
ciiiii'Iis. Iini of voice, h rrippe. piieiimmilil,
uinl even eonsiiin;t iivi. In i!: early sini',
AVER'S
Ohcrry Pectoral
i nil similar pri pnr illniK. It l eii
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"I'min repented tests In my own family,
Ayr's flurry 1'eetiHHl Ims proved Itself a
. : ; i nii'li nt remedy for colds, rnnulis, nnd
l i i' various disorders of thn throat, nml
ll.il-s."A. V. Ilnrtlett, rittsflrM, N. It.
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. i.i :.sMired that Its use hits
Saved My Life
I aive reenmmended It to hundreds. I find
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Do You Wear Shoes?
Do You Deal With Us?
-:- I F NOT, WHY NOT ?
LOOK HERE!
Wo nro going to sell our Shoes nt n very small innrgiii nnd
turn our money oflener this year. We nro now in
1893,
World's Fnir year. We commence NOW. Watch our win
dows every week.
You can tell better by railing and examining Shoes. We lend.
Henry A. Reed's Shoe Store.
Here it is!
TRUTH ml SQUARE DEAL! .
And they know where to get it. Here is another slice of
news that will create another
BIG SENSATION
In this Community. ;
Kvery person that studies the interest of themselves, their
wives and families will take, or rather should take,
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s Tiie orioiiMors
Possessing that steadfast determination not to be outdone
by our competitors. All our goods will undergo
another Great deduction. This Great Diminua
tion will keep thinkers thinking, and 't will
also puzzle our liival's Thinkers, especially
when they commence to think and
realize that we possess the courage
to do it. It will )K a
Perfect Boom
Trousers that will leave our
WILL BOOM ITSELF.
And customers will help to
your selection
hundreds of Overcoats,
hundreds of Suits,
hundreds of Ulsters
$5, $7, $9 $10, $12, $14.
Worth, without the faintest shadow of exaggeration, forty
to fifty per cent, more than the above charges.
Wishing to aid all by our Small Profit System,
and thanking the public: for past favors
We remain, always sincerely,
BOLGE.R BROS.,
The recognized Lending Clothiers, Hatters and Gents'
Furnishers of Reynohlsville, Pa.
Just in
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Then! is not an article in this paper
that in more worthy of consideration
than this one: What the people want ia
ohm Small profit System.
1
And one that won't require self
booming because every Over--coat,
every Suit, every pair of
establishment
boom it for us. You can make
commencing to-morrow.
Season !
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AND
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IN THE
COUNTY.
will be found"