PHILOPENA. We had both of tin Mild we would rathor It be "k)t or take" plillnp?no TVhat.w one mv to tlie other In anjr wajr during thnt c'on The other should mirf ly rpfiy, A gift end A kerimitkt In W. Slio meant In jtoml fnllh I will ny. Hut I well, who could Imvo Illumed met For soon n our eunp"t wt;f :1'I 1 krvo her klsnon (lie thcrli Tnllonenn!" I cr!H, 'ynu tnnt yl"M And pur me another next v e -'i." 6he had promised: ho knew hIiu wm rinucht. And the bright ertlir inpntl. -I her brow. And she unld, "1 wt!l i itv If 1 nuvht. But let It lxnvrr willi-n rvl" Abblo F. nnv. n In Vnnkee ttlmle. The Cost of ChmenT. In England wo hnv lin n nrrmtotned to pay hiRh prices nt certain times for Srnfrs, auch m quinine, cociino mi l Other, bnt A dnn is wrd in New China which in nrtnal vnlno far euri.ies any thing which hits 1xn known here. The substance in question in called ginfeng and is the root of Aralia qnin quefolia. It is so highly valued ns a tonio and stimnlant medicine in China that it is sold at from 20 to 250 times its weight in silver, somotimos for 500 times that amount. Authorities state, how ever, that it possesses no important medicinal properties. Next to China the drug is produced in good qnality iu Core and is the principal article of ex port from Corea into China. So much is this the case that the Corear.s arc loath to part with any seeds of the plant lest their practical monopoly in this root should be invaded. The wonder is that with such a much used commodity at such a price steps are not taken to cultivate it in sufficient quantity so as to adjust the balance be tween supply and flcmand. Tlio reduc tion, for example, in the price of qui nine was largely the result of increase 1 cultivation of the cinchona plant, nnd the same may be said of cocaine in re spect to the cocoa plnnt. Pearson' Weekly. The Man Got a Whipping. Somo few years ago in the depths of winter an old pair had ascended the "wooden hill" for their niulit's rest. They had been there some time when the old clock struck 2. The next minute they were startled by their bedroom door opening, and in walked their son 'Will, with a face as long oh afoddle. "Well, Will," exclaimed the fond father, "what is the matter?" "There's a man in the house." said the hopeful. The father jumped out of bed, snatch ed up the poker, the wife following suit with the tongs, and they went down stairs, followed by Will. The house was searched, but no man was found. "Where's the man'" said the fathor. Will, with a twist of the few bristles on his upper lip, straightened himself, nd pointing to his breast said: "Father, here he is." It wus his twenty-first birthday! Be got a whipping for it, man or no man. Yankee Blade. Wholesale riatlng. One of the most remarkable illustra tions of progress in electrical appliances is electrolitio painting. Hitherto if cop per or other metal had to be deposited electrically a bath of solution was need ed. Now all this is changed, and a ship's hull can be plated as easily as a spoon or a teapot. Instead of a bath, insolu ble salts, ground to a fine powder and mixed with water are used. This mix ture is painted on the metal to be plated by a fine wire brush, to which one pole of a dynamo conductor is attached, the other pole being connected to a plate. Not only pure metal, but all sorts of al loys can be used. Exchange, What Aluminium I. There are many misconceptions about aluminium that are widespread and which it seems difficult to correct in the publio mind. Aluminium is not, section for section, a very strong metal. It is only one-half as strong as wrought iron. It has a very low elastic limit. It is not rigid, bnt bends nnder a trans versa strain readily. It is in its alloys that its utility commences to appear. With 8 to 12 per cent of copper or alu minium bronze we have one of the most dense, finest grained and strongest met als known. New York Telegram. "or the Canary Bird. Canary birdg are often covered with vermin. They may be relieved of them by placing a clean white cloth over their cage at night In the morning the cloth will be covered with minute red spots, so small that they can hardly be seen with the naked eye. These are the para sites, a source of great annoyance to the birds. Philadelphia Press. TeryVollte. "How do yon like your new musio master?" "He is a very nice, polite young man. When I made a mistake yesterday, he said, 'Pray, mademoiselle, why do you take bo much pains to improve upon Beethoven? " Philadelphia Telegraph. The throne, the grandees, the high ecclesiastics, the captains general, the admirals and the ministers of state in Bpain wield a very powerful influence in Bpanish politics and control the upper house of the cortes. The thinnest tissue paper measures 1-1200 of an inch in thickness. The ' Ernpp gun works claims a machine which will roll iron so thin that it would take 1,800 sheets to moke an inch. Teach children to say, "Yes, mother (or father)," and "No, mother," and to ay, "Yes, sir (or madam)," to old peo ple or to those who adhere to the old ways of speech. The advice of your dentist should be sought as to the proper tooth powder to use, as many of the compounds on the market contain harmful acids and gritty substances. ' Travelers by rail in Russia are divided into three classes civil, military and oonvict, with the further subdivision ef paying and nonpaylng. A Maa Sleeping ta the Street, A well dressed man leaning against lamppost and apparently sleeping th ilcep of the just created a great deal Interest in a busy London street t other day. He sat on a box which had been earning. Evidently, being suddenly overcome witn drowsiness, he had placed the box on the curbstone, and sitting down upon It had fallen asleep. To those who sno seeded in getting close enough to the man his gentle, restful snore dispelled the fear that he might be dead. The ride of his face was exposed and be trayed no sign of intoxication. It was the judgment of every one that he was ober, in good health and simply taking i quiet snoozo. When the crowd became so deep as to threaten a blockade, the supposed sleeper luddenly jumped to his feet, mounted his box, and flourishing a couple of bot tles over his head exclaimed: "Now, gents, seein that you are all Here, I rise to a question of privilege, ind after thankin yon for this most oor lial reception, which I assure you will long remain npon the tablets of my memory, I wish to call your attention to my world renowned corn and bunion sradicator." Exchange. Reading of the Schoolboy. Habits are contracted and characters formed early in life, and it is probable that the color of a person's reading is mainly determined during the time of liobbledehoydom, when he is in process )f passing from the limp and lanky tchoolboy to the set and rigid man. Just it this time is a most critical period in lis career, for now it is that he obtains new outlook into life. Previously he las been concerned with the miniature world of school and looked at the great n world only with the eyes of a school- ooy. But now, entering a business or a profession, he enters into a larger life and oegins to look about him with an air of leeper inquiry. And the more he reads )f contemporary literature the worse loes he become, for the air is thick with sontroversy. Nothing is too sacred to e contradicted, and the spirit of "sweet reasonableness" seems to be dead. hambers Journal. Pretty Cold Weather. Two boatmen on the Ohio river were Miking about cold weather and of a cer ain severe winter. "It was just awful," laid one of them. "At Cincinnati the river was froze tight, and the thermom eter went down to 20 degrees below 2airo." "Below which?" asked his pnzzled sompanion. "Below Cairo, you blubberheadt You tee, when it freezes at Cairo it must be pretty cold, so they say so many degrees lelow Cairo." But light was bursting in upon the ther. "No, they do not," he exclaimed lagerly. "You've got it all wrong. It's io many degrees below Nero, I do not mow what it means, but that's what ihey say when it's dreadful cold." Har per's Young People. Mayor and Wooden I.o-- Mayor Willard of Argentine, Mo., un strapped his wooden leg and beat into a tractable mood a claimant who was too persistent in his attempt to collect an unjust bill from the city. It does not follow that all wooden legged men would make good mayors, but such a man as Willard, with a woodon log, has points of advantage over a man with a wooden head and towns east of the Rocky mountains have had that kind of mayors. New York Commercial Advertiser. The Aopetlte of the O.trlnh. It is never safe to drop any article when walking near a covey of ostriches. The ostrich will eat anything, seeming apparently to have no sense of taste. A story is told of a young girl who was visiting a ioo where a large ostrich snatched her kid gloves, which were rolled into a ball, and ate them. The next day the girl returned with the fam ily contribution of a half dozen pairs of gloves, all of which were as readily wallowed. Detroit Free Press. Two Strange Meeting. At table d'hote in a New York hotel rwo strangers met about a year since, kn interesting conversation ended by warty pledges of mutual friendship. ?reciselysix months later to the day ind almost to the hour they again met, without the slightest prevision or prear angoment, at the same hotel and the ame table. During the interval each lad traveled around the world, one east ward, the other westward. Exchange. Choke, Mot Jokes. "Don't send the horse reporter to any nore hangings," said the proprietor of a Texas paper to the managing editor. Managing Editor Why not? Proprietor In this report of the double tanging he has it that the two entries ame in neck and neck. In reporting ixecutions levity is out of place. Texas liftings. Mr. Gladstone is one of those can lous people who do not destroy letters. Tie venerable statesman is said to have collection of 60,000 letters deposited in i strongroom at Hawardon castle. A farmer noar Spartanburg, S. C, had nissed many eggs of late, so he decided o set a trap aud catch the offender. The Lief, he cluims, proved to be a large rog. Educational accomplishment has al vays been desirable, but its need is now nore plainly felt than ever before, and ts attainment is better provided for. In a perfect state of being, wit and minor could not exist because both de icnd upon imperfection or incongruity or their matter. A copy of the first dictionary, made by Chinese scholars in the year 1108 B. C., I still preserved among the archives of he Celestials. . dollar loaned for 100 years and com pounded at 84 per cent will amount in that time to $2,651,799,404. at VlVtj In "The Arabian Nights" we read of wise sage who enred a great king by a decoction with which he anointed the handle of a stick with which the king was in the habit of playing a game at ball, to the end that when the royal hand perspired in the vigor of the play the open pores might receive the medica ment. The translator speaks of this stick as a "golfstick" (sic), but it is plain from the context that the game was played on horseback. It was, in fact, polo. In deed the illustrations of the very same edition show the said king playing tlr game on horseback. Black wood's Maga zine, Fie Won't lie Expelled. Mouldy Mike By all th' saints, has yer lost yer mind? Wot you carryin that saw for? Ragged Robert It's all right. I stop at houses an offer to saw wood fer me dinner. "You'll be expelled from the Travelin Gentlemen's union." "No, I won't After dinner I tell 'em I can't work till I file me saw. They lend mo a file an tell me to go way off where thoy won't hear me filin. Most any saloon will give a drink for a good file." New York Weekly. Deteetlng a Cnlprlt. The Rev. Joseph Haven, who preached in Rochester, N. H., dnrlng the last quarter of the last century, has been al ways remembered for his genial spirit and his inexhaustible humor. One story told of him has many parallels, but it is quite as likely to be true in his case as in any. The boy had been guilty of some grave offense, and yet would not confess it. "I can tell who did it," said the parson, and accordingly he called together all the boys suspected and explained to thera that he had confined a rooster under a kettle in a darkoned room. One after another they must pass in and touch the kettlo. When the guilty boy touched it.he might expect to hear the rooster crow. The Uds filed in and out again and were made to display their fingers. All but those of one lad were sooty. He, the guilty one, had not ventured to touch the telltale kettle. Youth's Companion. Showing That Plant Can See. Can 111 an Is am? Darwin ffKffA If. am tila opinion that some of them can, and an Indian botanist relates soma miriniia In. cidonts which tend to verify the belief. unserving one morning that the tendrils of a convolvulus on hi veranda Val A. cidedly leaned toward his legs as he lay in an attitude of repose, he tried a series of experiments with a long pole, placing it in such a nosition thnt tha loivna would have to turn away from the light in order to reach it. In every case he found that the tendrils set themonlvaa visibly toward the pole and in a very few hours had twined themselves closely around it. London Publio Opinion. A Solentlflo Pact. A ladv asked an astronomer if tlm moon was inhabited. "Madam." he renliod. "I know of nna moon in wnicn there is always a man ana a woman. "Which is that?" "The honovmoon." Journal Amn. nut. ItHerr llrtttrotie. Q MITCHELL, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Office on ivpHt Mnln Htreet, opposite) the I'onimctvliu Hotel, KuynolUHvUlu, l'a. jyn. 13. E. HOOVEH, REYNOLDS VILLE, PA. licMUlent dclitlKt. In hnllflliiif m.Mr Mol lin. uiM. ciiuivii, impimtto Arnold hiock. UeutlO' nuMt In oiM'i-ut iiik. StotcU. JJOTEL McCONNELL, REYNOLDS VILLE. PA. FltAXKJ. 11 LACK, Proprietor Thn linillntr twilnl rtf tltntjiu-n 1Tifil..itfi- torn for romnu'ivlitl nit'ii. Htvum heat, free MUM Itlilll fin II I1U llllfl uLunlu mi no.iwu fl.u.x Kiimplo nxmiH, billiard room, tutaphono con- I1UCUOIM JJOTEL 1JELNAP, REYNOLDSVILLE, PA. UliEEX d- CUXSElt, rroprktmv. I lint cImhi In every nurt lriiliLr. Tnrntorl In tli verv immiIiv of tlio tmHliiPMH nnrt f town. Krt 'Imih to uiifl from trutim nnd eoinmndlnuti summ room lor I'oinmurciu, travulurtt. QOMMERCIAL HOTEL, BUOOKVILLE. PA.( P1UL P. CA 7iJilEIit rroprktw, KlLmnlp ronniH on Ilia irrnuiifl fltior. Umiaa ih'Uhmi ny litituriu run. UmmUUB to unU from Ull t TlllllH, 1 System Renovator CURES ALL Liver, Kidney L Stomach DISEASES. Rvstflm Rannvatnr la tha only remedy In the world tbut truly purines the bluod and acts up on the kidneys, liver and boweli without making them weak. Most medicines undertake to eleunae without bulldlug up. Thia la wrong, aud It weakens the organs. Renovator buitdt vp while it is cleansing the system. V rlee, fl.OO per Dome, or six lor ao.w. After veara nl aiinwa at his Office. Dr. Bur goon has eoncluded to nut up bis tape worm remedy in such a manner tnai pauenia can treat themselves St their own homo. This Is a blessed boon to sufferers from this terrible aflUo tlon who live at adlHtanee. Write. lit. liargooa'M UuUtalcml Cuuoer Cure baa no eiual on the luce of the earth. It positively cures all kind of cancers-Internal and external, without the use of the kulfe -scrofula, syphilis, aud all sorts of blood poisons and nuiuors. ruis reuieay is in mw reavu ui an. S'J-ounoe hntf Ia. un H-wHf ks1 treatment, for S8.00. These medicines are fully endorsed by the best pnysicians. witn eocn oi mem mere is a guar' mnuMi io aura nrnu i uvniiunuwi. nvuuruiux1 gist does not keep tbeui, lusutt that he does, or uraer uiwu grow . Va. J. A. Bunuwn, 0T fenn Ave., riltsbuTgb. Bend stsms for book of Instructions tVFor sale at H. Alex Otoke's drug store. Town - Talk ! Bargains ! The general topic of the people Ib Where they get fains. Their reply re-eclioea from the woodland and the valleys: ST THE- RACKET STORE. You know they are always busy in every town where there is one. Why? B6C31IS6 les are the same to all. ' ' goods are of lst-class quality. " money is always re refunded if not satisfactory. ' ' an apportionment of of goods ishandled that is in daily use. " they buy for" cash and sell for cash, which enables you to get ROCK BOTTOM PRICES, and you do. Yours Respectfully, M. J. Gouie, REYNOLDSVILLE, PA. The First National Bank o! Reunoktsvllle. CAPITAL 0380,000.00. f . milrliHI, lrraldrut Nrott IW'CI'IIiiii1, vice Prra. John II. KniH'lier, C'aahlpr. Director)! O. Mltclwll, Hi-ott Mcflollnnil, J. C. King. Jom-pli StrnusM, JoMjli llvnclmnon, U. V. I'ulliT, J. I II. KnuL'hur. Pop a gonernl bunking ImslnrHH nnd snlli'ltH the arrountH of ntnivhiihlM, profi'MHimml men. fiirmcin, nici'hiinlrx, minora, lumbermen unci othpin, pninilalng the most direful intention to tlio uuhIiichk of nil Pomona. Tonipornry iiuiirtont In Coiitcnnlitl Hull niilldlng, opiMixllo Hotel llelimu. tofe flORlsT (UNSiCTARIAH.) NO PAPER LIKE IT ON EARTH Unique not Eccentric Witty not Funny. Religious not Pious. Not for Sect but for Souls. WHOLE SERMONS IN A SENTENCE. Send a dime In stamps (or three weeks trial. THE RAM'S HORN, $1M WOMAN'S TKMPLI, Read Per Year. CHICAGO It once. ONLY PAPER THAT EVERYBODY LIKE their Repltell i Ha are Co., DEALERS IN HARDWARE, STOVES and RANGES, TIN, SHEET IRON AND . COPPER WARE, AMMUNITION, - FISHING TACKLE OF ALL KINDS, - HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS, WOOD AND IRON PUMPS. And. everything kept In a Roofing and Spouting Done to Order. REYNODSVILLE, PA. N. HANAU. Ho Fancy Prices, Though quality 5? tlio brrt. We mako the statement for the benefit of those who are not our customers, and so may not know it: Orn mhckb MAKE Cl'STOMKRH OF ALL WHO COME. A full line of Dress Goods, The Best and Cheapest ever brought to Reynoldsville. A full line of Henrietta at 25c. in all shades, 40c, 50c. , and 1.00. Silk warp Henriettas. Summer Silks for 50c. per yard. Ladies Coats and Capes the finest and cheapest in town. A nice line of Children's Jackets from 2 to 12 years. GIOtllllKJ, Men's suits the best and cheapest you ever saw for the money. We don't say so except we can convince you. Men's Suits, four button cutaway from 10, 12 to 15, worth 14, 16 and $18. Men's straight cut worsted for 10 to 12.50, wortli 1(5, to $18. Children's Suits 2.75, are worth 3.50 to S?5.00. A fine line of Boys' and Men's Negligee Shirts. N. H anau. Grocery Boomers W BUY WHERE YOU CAN GET ANYTHING YOU WANT. FLOUE, Salt Meats, Smoked Meats, CANNED GOODS, TEAS, COFFEES H U AKD ALL KINDS Of T FHUITS. CONFECTIONERY, TOBACCO, AND CIGARS, Everything In tho line of & Fresh Groceries, Feed, Etc. (IihhIh ilcllrcrert free any o jnure tit town, Call on vh and yet price. W.C. Sclmltz &Son N First-class Hardware Store. Country Produce ASK FOR NnAW. FINE CANDIES. IN SEALED PACKAGES AT H. HUEX. BTOKE'B, THE LEADING DRUGGIST, Rrynoldsvllle, Pa. GENTLEMEN I i I am positive that I have somethinir rk'h In Btore (or yon If you will call at my tullor shop. I have received an ex collont selection of Spring and Summer Goods. I enn show you the finest selection of poods In thlB city. All fits guaranteed to he perfect. One trial of tho excel lent goods and work is convincing for all. Hoping that I may receive a call, I remain Your uhcdlunt servant, J. G. FROEHMGH, Reynoldsville, Pa. fSTNext door to Hotel McConnell. Gitu Meat Market I buy the best of cattle and keep the choicest kinds of meats, such as MUTTON, VEAL BEEF, TORK AND SAUSAGE. Everything kept neat and clean, Your patronage solicited. E. J. Schultzc, Prop'r. J. S. MORROW, PRALER IN Dry Goods, Notions, Boots, and Shoes, Fresh Groceries Flour and Feed. GOODS DELIVERED FREE. OPERA HOUSE BLOCK Reynoldsville, Pa. LOOK ! FOR THE People's . Bargain store, Quick Sales and Small Profits. General stock of Ladies' and Gentlemen's Furnishing Goods and Shoes. A. KATZEN, X Proprietor. J Subscribe for "The Star." $1.50 per year.
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