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VOLUME 2.
UEYXOLDSYILLK, PEXX'A., WEDNESDAY AUGUST 23, 1893.
NUMIJER 15.
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He Unparalleled
SUCCESS!
-Of our sales for Summer of-
Men
s and Boy's Suits
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m
la due wholly to the
fnrt that we give
you one hundred
cents' worth of val
ue. Why doet
everyone nay that
Bella are always do
ing something ? Be
cause we have the
Goods and give you
Good, New, Fresh
Goods always. No
old, second hand
stuff on our counters
We have a few more
MEN'S SUITS
we are selling for the sum of
$7, 7.50 and $8.50,
actual values $10, $12, and $14, so if you care to secure one
of these Gems and at the same time save $3 to $5 in cash
you will have to come at once.
SCHOOL SUITS,
$2.
Reduced from $2.50 and $3.00.
School will soon commence again and many a boy wil
be in need of new clothes. We will offer 1,000 Boys' Good,
Durable and Stylish Cassimere, Cheviot and Jersey Suits,
sizes 4 to 14, in all different new styles (see above cut) at
the unequalled low price ot 1 wo Dollars.
BELL BROS.,
Glotmers. - Tailors - and Hatters.
REYNOLDSVILLE, PA.
A ROUMANIAN FOLK SONQ.
IT" whom I loved no well
I In his Inn-.r, Inni? stoop.
Vet 1 lament him not.
Frit he told mo nut to weep.
More dear to him the tfrnve
Than 1 rnuhl ever In.',
For thonvh I ko to Mm,
He does nnt rnme to me.
1 envy not the yrnve
What yestri'lay tvns mine,
Put bow my head ntnl sny,
"Keep him. fer ho In thine.
But k'"'p iv.t, itrnvp, my youth,
Which cannot profit thee.
My emtio nntl my Hunt step
Uhf Kive them hock to mo."
Bnt the grave answered, "No.
For them thing mill are dear,
fiinre he, deprived of thorn,
Would be too lonely here."
Then to the dead I pray,
"Hestorc my youth to me.
That when we meet again
I be not old to theel"
Bnt he nor hear nor sees
For his ryes like mine are dim.
Bo to his grave I come
To get t hem back from htm.
For only In the grara
Are tears no longer shed
And tho living happy made
Beside the happy dead.
R. II. Stoddard in Harper's.
COAL TAR PRODUCTS.
REMEDIES THAT HAVE BECOME FA
VORITE MEDICINES.
During the Past Ten Years Many New
Pruga Have Ileen Brought Into flervlee
For Diseases and Complaints Which,
Though Common, Were Hard to Treat.
Only a few years ago coal tar was
looked upon as a "waste product." At
the present day, however, it Is no longer
treated as such, for through the almost
ceaseless activity of the German chem
ists enough new remedies have already
been obtained from coal tar to fill a good
sized pharmacopoeia.
About the first one of these products
to attract any considerable attention was
antipyrine, which made its appearance
some 10 years ago and became popular
ly known during; the epidemic of la
grippe of several yours ngo. This was
soon followed by antifebrin, which, al
though it had a new name, was an older
drug than antipyrine, having been
known for several years ns acetanilid, a
name derived from the substances from
which it was made. It is prepared by
the action of acetic acid on aniline oil.
The acetanilid is now used by many
doctors in preference to antipyrine. Tho
principal feutures in its favor are small
ness of dose, less danger of a depressing
effect on the heart and cheapness. The
price of Bcetnnilid is hardly one-tenth
that of antipyrine.
rhonacetmo is another dmg of this
class which has met with much success
and apparently deservedly so. It has
been used with excellent results in the
treatment of influenza, the hyperesthe
sia or soreness of la grippe and rheuma
tism, both muscular and articular.
The drug is often combined with salol
and quinine in the treatment of the above
mentioned affections, and the results re
ported are invariably of a vory satisfac
tory nature.
One of tho most interesting of the coal
tar derivatives is saccharin, a substance
that is 280 times sweeter than sugar. The
medicinal properties of this drug are an
tiseptio and sweetening. As a substi
tute for sugar it is used in the dietary
of gout, diabetes and all diseases in
which saccharine foods are contraindi
cated. It has also been used to disguise
the taste of medicines for children. To
give one an idea of the sweetening power
of saccharin it is only necessary to say
that one grain of .the drug will sweeten
an ordinary cup of coffee. If sugar were
used at least a half ounce or a table
spoonful, would be necessary.
In the treatment of mental disease snl
phonal is considered a very valuable
agent. Tho drug could hardly have
achieved success had it been introduced
under its chemical name, which contains
Just two letters more than the entire al
phabet. Diothylsulphondimethylmethan
is the "jawbreaker" by which it is known
technically.
The value of nulphonal as a hypnotio
seems to be pretty well established. It
has been used with marked success in
the treatment of sleeplessness caused by
fatigue and worry. It is also said to be
of equal service in cases of acute mania,
imbecility, melancholia, dementia, epi
lepsy, hallucinations and acute alcohol
ism. One observer stated that in every
case treated "the slumber was accom
panied by no disturbances of circulation
or respiration and lusted from two to
five hours or longer." From 15 to 80
grains are usually given as a dose. Even
in very large doses the digestive func
tions are not disordered, and there are no
disagreeable after effects beyond a slight
drowsiness and a feeling of lassitude the
next day.
In combination with kyoscine hydro
bromate, sulphonal is said to form a very
good treatment for the insomnia and
restlessness of opium habitues. When a
coal tar product is introduced, it can at
most be taken for granted that one of the
four medicinal properties is claimed for
it. The four properties are antipyretic,
analgesic, antiseptic and hypnotio.
Trionul, which hails from Elberfeld,
Germany, is brought forward as a candi
date for therapoutio favor. It possesses
the last named property. Brie of Bonn
has found trional of value in treating in-
omnia or hysteria and neurasthenia in
cases of great obstinacy and which bad
failed to respond to any other treatment
In maniacal excitement and paralytic
mania, he reports excellent results in 00
per cent of tho cases treated.
Salophen, although not distinctly n
"coal tarderivative," is partly so, as one
of its component parts, carbolic acid, is
derived from coal tar. It is said to be a
valuablo remedy in the treatment of ar
ticular rheumatism. The dose is from
13 to 20 grains three or four times a day.
The very latest in the long line of coal
tar products is gallnnol. It is prepared
by boiling tannin with anilino. It is in
troduced as a substitute for pyrogallio
acid, having tho advantage of being non
toxic and nonirritant. In the treatment
of skin affections it has been used with
success.
Cazeneuve, the introducer of the drug,
reports great success in treating psoria
sis by painting the spots with gallnnol
suspended in chloroform and covering
them with a solution of gutta pnrcha in
chloroform, called tranrnaticin. New
York World.
A Lie Told la School.
It has always been father's purpose to
give his children a fair education, but as
the family increased in sire and numbers
and father's salary would not grow in the
same proportion, he found it necessary
to cut down some of the avenues of ex
penditure. One of his first thoughts was
that of the shoe bill for the family. Said
he, "I'll be the cobbler when any shoes
need repairing after this." Unfortunate
ly my shoes gave out first, and the next
day was set for repair day. Father
brought from the shop where he was
working some jif the old belting that had
been laid by. This leather was thorough
ly saturated with oil, and as I entered
the schoolroom next day with new tBps
on my shoes the oil would form a mark
on the floor, just like a footprint on the
newly fallen snow, and what good ex
cuse to tell I couldn't think of.
It became an eyesore to the whole
school, and I was wishing somehow I
might take a vacation. Finally the
teacher noticed it. I was called up to
the desk, leaving my track all the way,
and asked to explain. Shaking like
leaf, I told the story. My brother Jack
and I had got to fighting the other day
in the cellar, and he threw me in a pan
of grease that was near by cooli. i.
That lie settled the teacher, but the other
element of the school were not satisfied
until they stood me on my head and
looked at my shoes. Cor. New York
Recorder,
In a City Restaurant.
A trifling incident noted not long ago
in a city restaurant tells its own story
and needs no spoken moral. Two girls,
possibly attendants in a shop, were sit
ting together eating their luncheon, and
one was holding forth to her companion
on an experience which had just befallen
her.
"I came in here," said she, "and got
this seat, but wan't long before nn old
lady came in and sat next to me. She
took oil one pair of glasses and put on
another. Then she stared and stared nt
the bill of fare and laid it down. I
thought first she couldn't read a word.
Then she turned around to me.
" 'Will yon let me sit next to thewin
dowr says she.
"I didn't take any notice, and in a niln
ute she said it ngain. Then I answered
her:
" 'No,' says I, 'this is my seat, and I'm
going to keep it.
"She turned 'way round in her chair
then and looked me all over. Then sho
looked away. But I guess she knew I'd
got the best ot her, for she did have tho
manners to say:
" 'I beg your pardon.'
"She spoke real low, nnd I noticed she
looked kind of surprised. Youth's Con
paniou.
SUcks In Mercantile Life.
Many young men choose a mercantile
position for the present only without
thought or intention of making it a per
tuanent business. The result is that of
tentimes we find these men at 80 years
receiving no more pay than they did
when only Is.
There is an army of this class of young
men behind counters today. They are
an aimless, pitiable class. They stand
listlessly in their departments and are as
unobservant of what s going on around
them as are tho inanimate figures which
one sees at the entrance of clothing estab
lishments.
Many of them lot slip grand opportU'
ni ties of becoming great business factors
in the commercial world and have
doomed themselves to the treadmill of
common drudgery. Singleness of pur
pose implies self reliance, without which
a young business man is not thoroughly
furnished for a successful business career,
Dry Goods Economist.
A BATTLE STRANGELY WON.
Pleasure In the Heavens.
There is a satisfaction in learning the
names and positions of the stars that
does not belong to the study of the
planets. The stars apparently never
change so far as their position relative
to each other is concerned. The planets
are always moving, and to those who do
not watch the heavens with particular
attention it is a cause of surprise very
ofteu to find a "new stur " adorning
certain section of the heavens. If, how
ever, this newcomer be carefully ob
served from night to night, it will be
found to change its distance from the
fixed stars, and tho observer will discover
that it is auunet and at liborty to wan
der about from place to place nndor the
sole condition that it obeys certain rules
of motion. When the bright stars that
grace the heavens become fumiliar to ob
servers, they will know just what to ex
pect on each succeeding season. New
York Times.
An Army Pnt to Plight by One Man and
With the Loss of Only One.
It was probably one of the most re
markablo buttles that was ever fonght.
The advance had been well planned by
the attacking force, the idea being to
surprise the enemy at the dead of night.
Every detail had been carefully consid
ered. The advance would be hidden by
a wood, and the first the enemy would
know of it would be when the troops
swept out of the wood and carried the
ramp by storm. There were apparently
po pickets in the wood, ond there seemed
to be no possibility of a failure.
The colonel In command was gloating
over his expected victory, when one of
his officers called his attention to a
bright light some distance to the left of
the advancing column.
"What is it?" asked the colonel anx
iously.
'I don t know," replied the officer.
"It flashed np there only a minute ago."
"Well, if any one suspected we were
here he wouldn't go along swinging a
lantern to make a target of himself," as
serted the colonel.
The column had barely begun to move
again when a light appeared on the right
and a little to the rear of the one that
had just disappeared. Another halt was
made, and the colonel was tempted to
order a volley in the direction of the
light, but of course that would betray
the exact whereabouts of the column
and would be almost suicidal.
'We are being surrounded!" exclaimed
one of the officers excitedly.
Then a light appeared in the shrubbery
immediately ahead of the retreating col
umn. The first man yelled "Rifle pit!"
and cleared the whole thing at one
bound. The second man was not so for
tunate. Ho stumbled and fell, and as
he fell he instinctively made a reach for
the light. He was the only man killed,
bnt his death completed the panic. Ranks
were broken, and the retreat became a
wild race to get ont of the wood.
And the lights seemed to dance here
and there, appearing at the most unex
pected points and adding to the confusion.
When the excitement was at its height,
a man climbed out of a pit some distance
in the rear of the retreating force. Ho
stretched himself and peered after the
fleeing soldiers.
"Hanged if I wasn t crannied in that
hole," he said. "I suppose I might as
well turn a cannon or two loose just to
wake the boys up and scare those foot
racers a little more."
Ho lay down on the ground at the edge
of the pit, reached his hand down to
some keys on a sort of switchboard, and
in an instant cannon boomed out. Then
he raised himself to a sitting jrasture, lil
a pipe and chuckled to himself.
Two or three men rushed up and
breathlessly inquired what the trouble
was.
"Oh, I had a little brush with the ene
my," replied the man with the pipe
calmly. "They tried to surprise tho
camp."
"And you beat them?"
"Why, they're running yet"
Quite a crowd from the camp had
gathered by this time, and one of them
cried, "Throe cheers for the electrician!"
but tho man with the pipe raised his
hand to stop them.
"The credit is not all mine," he said.
"Remember my able force of linemen
who ran wires through this wood and
mado it possible for me to win this vic
tory." Just then some of the men who had
gone into the wood after the retreating
enemy rotnrnod with the news that one
man had been killed.
"What!" cried the electrician, jump
ing up. He hurried to the place where
the body lay.
"Too bad! Too bad!" he said regret
fully, "but then accidents will happen.
even in a battle. He had no business to
catch hold of a live wiro."
"Oh, well, there's no use feeling bad
about it," put lu one of the officers. "A
victory has been won, and only one life
has been lost.
"But why have one lost?" asked tho
electrician. "Of course it was tiresome
work in that pit, and when I got them on
the retreat I was glad of it, but I never
supposed any one was going to grab hold
of the light. It's too bad!"
And the man who had won the victory
could not beconsoled. Chicago Tribune.
A Famous Steamboat Race.
The famous race between the Hanni
bal City nnd the Ocean Spray occurred
In 1859. Prior to this race the Ocean
Spray had splendid records. The race
was from St. Louis to Keokuk. The
early part of the race was very close,
and the excitement was intense, When
nearing Bisscll's point, the Ocean Spray
found the Hannibal City passing her.
The mate on tho Ocean Spray, one Davis,
becoming desperate, ordered the head of
a barrel of turpentine to be knocked in.
His men were then ordered to dip the
wood in this turpentino before putting
It in the furnace, the object being to
qnfckly Increase the steam pressure.
The Ocean Spray was supposed to carry
only 160 pounds of steam, but Duvis
thought that by "putting another nigger
on the safety valve" he could run the
pressure up to 200 pounds and distance
his rival. In carrying the dripping wood
to the furnace the track became satu
rated with turpentine, which caught fire
from the open furnace. The flames quick
ly reached the barrel. An attempt was
made to throw the barrel overboard, but
it exploded, and the burning oil being
scattered all around the boat was soon a
mass cf flames.
Scott Matson was captain on the Han
nibal City. He was a brave and gener
ous man, and in this instnnce these two
qualities made his name famous. Not
withstanding the imminent danger, he
ran his boat alongsido the burning one
and rescued every person on board. Da
vis, the mate of the burned boat, was
afterward convicted and sent to the peni
tentiary for such gross violation of the
rules of safety. He was later pardoned.
St. Louis Letter.
The Goliath of Dig Basin.
In Big Basin, Santa Cruz county, Cal.,
there are thousands of giant redwoods
that will measure from 10 to 83 feet in
diameter. But the Titan of them all is a
giant known far and near as "the Goliath
of Big Basin." This monstrous vegeta
ble growth is 23 feet in diameter at the
ground and is perfectly solid, a fact noted
as a rarity in those colossi of the forest,
Goliath is a fraction over 200 feet in
height, the lower 100 feet of the trunk
being free from branches or unsightly
excrescences. Experienced woodmen de
clure that the tree would weigh more
than 100,000 tons and that it would "cut"
1,000,000 feet of clear board measure
lumber, besides 100 cords of wood that
ould be gotten out of the limbs and
Waste. St. Louis Republic.
An Irish Greenback.
A 3 Irish greonback, issued by "John
O'Mahoney, agent of the Irish republic,"
under date of March 17, 1800, and pay
able "six months after the acknowledg
ment of the independence of the Irish
nation," was presented for payment in a
grocery store in New York one day last
week.
Somebody's Father.
I think that one of the saddest inci
dents of tho war which I witnessed was
after the battle of Gettysburg. Oil on
the outskirts, seated on the ground with
his back to a tree, was a dead soldier.
His eyes wero riveted on some object
held tightly clasped in his hands. As we
drew nearer we saw that it was an am
brotype of two small children. Man
though I was, hardened through those
long years to carnage and bloodshed, the
sight of that man who looked on his
children for the last time in this world,
who, away off in a secluded spot, had
rested himself against a tree that he
might feast his eyes on his little loves,
brought tears to iny eyes which I could
not restrain had I wanted. There were
six of us in tho crowd, nnd wo all found
great lumps gathering in bur throats and
mist coming before our eyes which al
most blinded us.
We stood looking at him for some
time. I was thinking of the wifo and .
baby I had left at home and wondering
how soon, in the mercy of God, sho
would be left a widow and my baby boy
fatherless. We looked at each other and
instinctively seemed to understand one
another s thoughts. Not a word was
spoken, but we dug a grave and laid the
poor fellow to rest with his children's
picture clasped over his heart. Over his
grave on the tree against which he was
sitting I inscribed the words: "Some
body's Father. July 8, 1863." Blue and
Gray.
Esplodad Traditions at Old Tale.
Both South college and the Athenmum
have their now blasted traditions. As
to tho former, it has been alleged in New
Haven and at least one prominent ar
chaeologist has indorsed the story that
about the time the college was built
there was a mysterious hiatus of grave
stones in the old cemetery on the New
Haven green. The tradition then averred
that these stones had been built into the
fireplaces of South college, whore they
would be found when the structure woe
pulled down. Here was the fine hint for
a college ghost story, based on a spectral
apparition of the affronted owner of one
of the stones, but, if ever penned, it ia
outlawed now by the discovery that
every fireplace in Old South was of sim--pie
brick.
Then, again, President Stiles' diary
notes the confession of a student that he -had
stolen the college Bible, dropped it
between the courses of mason work dur- -ing
the building of the Athenaeum (1768).
and that there the sacred volume had
been bricked np a myth proved so now
by the fall of the Athenaeum's walls
withont the filched bible's reappearance..
New Haven Cor. New York Post.
The Order Pleased the Cook.
The following story is toltl on a mis
sionary of the China inland mission, a
bachelor keeping house for himself in the
southern part of China: One morning.
In ordering his dinner, he wished to tell
bis cook to buy him a chicken. Instead
of saying "ye" for chicken he aspirated
the word, saying, "Buy me a 'che.'"
His cook thought that was an eminently
proper command and went about hi
marketing in high good humor. At noon
the missionary found no chicken cooked
in fact, no dinner at all, for his cook had
not returned. About dark the man
came back, saying: "This was not a
good day for buying wives, and ' I have
been all day looking for one, but at last I
found one for you. She is rather old and
not pretty, but you can have her cheap.
I have promised $ 10 for her." New York
Independent.
The first European bank, founded at
Barcelona in 1401, issued no bunk notes.
The first ones circulated in Europe were
from the Bank of Stockholm in 1068.
Turkish toweling in pure white is con
sidered the most correct thing fur tho
covering of chairs and coucboa in the
summer sitting room.
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