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VOLUME 2.
ItEYNOLDSYILLE, PENN'A., WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 27, 1893.
NILMBEIl 20.
The
SUCCESS!
o-
-Of our sales for
s and
Men'
la due wholly to the
fact that we give
you one hundred
cents' worth of val
ue. Why does
everyone nay that
Bells 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
1
We have a few more
MEN'S
we are selling for the sum of
$7, 7.50 and $8.50,
actual values $10, $12, and $14, bo 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
Reduced from $2.50 and $3.00.
School will soon commence again and many a boy will
be in need of new clothes. We will offer 1,000 Boys' Good,
Durable and Stylish Cassiraere, Cheviot and Jersey . Suits,
sizes 4 to 14, in all different new styles (see above cut) at
the unequalled low price of Two Dollars.
BELL BROS.,
Clothiers. - Tailors - and - Hatters,
REYNOLDSVILLE, PA.
Summer of-
Boy's Suits
SUITS
SUITS,
II.
DEGENERATE CAPTIVES.
Where waters tremhle Into MIMile llithts
From rocky rreviees nml slintli-fl pools
The wllil sing pstm-s, watch, fulwhlle lit
cools
fill ehsjH-ly limbs. Iiln proud head towered
the heights
Re lifts to look In contemplative mood
On his companions fredln freely there
From nature's lavish feast, spread every
where.
And asking ns man's friendship or his food.
Where men betake themselves In tarlt shrifts
Of city fonlness rnns a deer (Men girt
With close set barriers. Here, tamo, Inert,
The deer caress men's hands for paltry Rifts.
Clara Dixon Davidson In Uotler's.
Seeking Fortunes In the Johnstown Rales.
While workmen were taking sand out
of the rirer bed near the stone bridge
they fonnd the skeleton of a flood vic
tim. A large number of men are at
work every day and also at night in the
bed of the river in a search for valu
ables. Local officers say that the craze has
reached such a pitch that the river bed
Is seldom Resorted at any hour of the
flay or night now, every find of any
value being magnified until the fever
has caught every idler in the place and
several who have given up steady em
ployment at surVpay to seek their for
tunes among the remains of those who
lost their lives and belongings in the
flood.
Some valuable finds have been made,
two of them during the last 24 hours.
One man came upon a crock buried in
the sand, with its cover on, in which he
found 18 solid silver spoons, 13 solid sil
ver forks and a heavy silver cup inlaid
with gold. Another found a package of
gold eagles mixed with some 5 gold
pieces, in all 380. wrapped in what was
either a woolen cloth or an old stocking,
which was rotted to a pulp in most
places. Three prospectors, who have
been digging in partnership, have taken
out spoons, forks, silverware, jewelry,
vases and in several instances valuable
unbroken cut gloss pieces, and have al
ready sold more than :I00 worth of the
stuff to dealers in Pittsburg.
One of the ghastliest mementos which
the findor is preserving as a relio is a
plain gold ring, close to the frame of
most of the hand, from which the flesh
has long been gone, the ring being kept
on by the finger being crooked and the
joint not having fallen apart at the an
gle There are three fingers on the hand
left, evidently those of a lady, as the
ring would probably not have been worn
by a child, and the skaleton is too small
for a man. Johnstown Cor. Pittsburg
Dispatch.
A Telegraph Line llcfure Morse's.
Honor to the polncers in tho vast field
of science! Mr. John Sime lias published
at tho Chiswick Press in pamphlet form
a very interesting memoir of Sir Francis
Ronalds. Twenty years before Wheat
stone and Cooke or Morse had patented
their improvements in the telegraph, in
deed while the first two wero respective
ly lads of 12 and 14 years of ago, Ro
nalds had sent messages over eight miles
of overhead wires of his own construc
tion and had laid and worked a service
able underground lino of telegraph of
sufficient length to duinonstruto tho
practicability of communication ly tele
graph between long distances.
Details of his overhead telegraph wires
were published by him in 1823. Ro
nalds' residence at Hammersmith, where
these experiments were carried out, is
the house now and for long past occu
pied by Mr. William Morris, the poet,
who has caused a tablet to be placed on
tho wall bearing the inscription, "The
first electric telegraph, eight miles long,
was constructed here in 1810 by Sir
Francis Ronalds, F. R. S.," etc. Au
autotype facsimile of a portrait of this
father of electric communication ac
companies the publication. London
Telegraph.
Bistort's Dual Mature.
I have never met with a mnn nuilm..
ate, fiery actress than Rlstori, with on
possessed to the same degree by the
demon of tragedy. Yet when she came
to Paris for the first time she was nurs
ing her last child. Well, on the days
she was acting she brought her baby
with her to the theater, nni I tr. aln
and went to give it the breast during
me intervals or "jnyrrna," which Is sim
ply the most monstrously passionate of
all dromatio works. Did the
nurse detract from the part of the tragio
actress? By no means. Did the part of
the tragio actress detract from the part
of the nurse? No more than in the oth
er case. I am, no doubt, quoting an ex
ceptional fact, which may be solely ac
counted for bv the strength nf nrfrn titra
tion possessed by Mme. Ristori, but La
ja.au Dran aiso snowed ns numberless
contrasts of feeling altogether unlocked
for. "Recollections of Sixty Years."
The Champion Cantaloupe Farm.
Buck Anthonv. colored, nf FnrW .nnn.
- - j w um
ty, Ga., is said to be the best cantuloupe
raiser in the state. His methods am i..
described: "He fertilizes them with moc
casins, adders, coachwhips and such
other snakes as he can conveniently
catch in the sru-W. which 4
them the finest flavor Imaginable. He
also raises the most delicious rattlesnake
watermelons."
They Were Not Voting.
Foreiim Vlafr- Ah vr ,. . v...
J j v . v mm ioau-
tiful country and ft noble system of gov-
fill) man t-a-e-AVAlV man s fOUInon nil
- j (twuiBu auu ttu
equal. What is that great crowd about
tViot V,l0 A At J-l m a
axo tuvy voting ior and
against some new law?
Imnrlnnn rSf i
COBS il tonninar thera..--.NAur Y7.vlr Waalr. i
v m " s v iiwsv
A Tile Lie In the riltory.
Weeks before tho royal wedding it
was openly whispered that tho Duko of
York, a gallant sailor and n gentleman,
had made a false step, hnd boon forget
ful of his princely and knightly duties
and obligations, and had, In fact, been
secretly married and involved himself in
a mesalliance, repugnant to his sense of
honor and illegal in the eyes of tho well
known statute law. That law is simple.
None of our blood royal can legally con
tract marriage without the consent of
the reigning sovereign. Morganatic
marriages have been recognised as such,
and such love inspired sanctity as at
taches to these unions when faithfully
adhered to. The world knows all about
them and sympathizes with them. But
what said the quidnuncs, the tattlers,
the irresponsible, the chattering spar
rows who build under the eaves of pal
aces? Blankly this, that George of Wales
was married; that the name of the place
and the name of the lady, alleged to be
the daughter of a naval officer of high
degree, were known, and both names
and places changed and fluctuated as the
price of scandal shares rose or fell in the
gossip market. Like ill winds, the ugly
rumor grew apace over the dinner table
and afternoon teapot. Men talked of it
more shame to them women mur
mured it with giggles and Innuendo; the
very "outsiders" got hold of it, and all
the time the story was positively and ab
solutely untrue. Think you for an in
stant that the head of our church would
have married our prince and princess
had he not first satisfied himself, as we
have reason to know he did, that the
silly story was wholly untrue, absolutely
baseless? The question carries its own
answer. We contradict it direc tly with
authority. London Gentlewoman.
A Woman Who Oo Along.
The ability of a woman to get on alono
in the world is sometimes questioned by
her big brothers. But there are plenty
of instances where women have been
left in circumstances which would try
the powers of the stoutest hearted man
to the utmost and have come out tri
umphant. One of these was mentioned
to a reporter the other day in connection
with a rough side hill farm in a remote
part of Bn inland town. "There," said
our informant, pointing to the place,
"lived Aunt Abby S when her hus
band died. She then had three tm:.ll
children, and another was born soon
after. The farm was in poor condition
and had about all the mortgage it con 11
bear. Her husband's old father, feeble
and fussy, was left on her hands.
"Did she send the old man to the poor
farm, think you? Not a bit of it. She
kept him a year or two, and he was so
fussy she couldn't live with him. Then
she hired a neighbor to take him, and Mia
paid his board 13 years, when he died.
She raised her children and brought
the farm into good condition. She pai 1
the mortgage, and when she died lie
left a good property free and clear of nil
debts. Tho boys hadn't tho old lady's
spunk, for there's a mortgago up there
now, and nothing in the world but lazi
ness did it. They had everything left
ready to their hands and ain't had no
drawbacks, 'cept Iosin their mother, but
somehow the weeds have got the start of
'em, and I guess they'll keep it." Low
iston Journal.
Will's Crave.
"That grave on the right hand of the
path as you go down to the porch door;
that heap of airth with no growth, not
one blade of grass on it that's Will
Pooley's grave that was hanged unjust
ly." "Indeed! But how came such a shock
ing deed to be done?"
"Why, you see, sir, they got poor
Will down to Bodmin, all among stran
gers, and there were bribery and false
wearing, and an unjust judge cumu
down and the jury all bad rascals, tin
and copper men and so they all agreed
together, and they hanged poor Will.
But his friends begged the body und
brought the corpse home here to his own
parish, and they turfed the grave, und
they sowed the grass 20 times over, but
'twas all no use, nothing would ever
grow he was hanged unjustly,"
"Well, but, Tristam, you have not
told me all this while what this man
Pooloy was accused of; what had he
done?"
"Done, airl Donel Nothing what
ever but killed the excise man!" Rev.
R. S. Hawker.
In Northern Alaska.
Juneau is the most northerlv stnnnlnn.
place on the regular Alaska exoursiun
route, and while it is not sufficiently
near the cole to meet the midnfrrhfc .,
there is time durintr the Summer ami ui in
of the year for a good deal of light work.
wuat most troubles strangers is to
know when to go to bed. The sun Is ap
parently nnwillinor to nans and lu. lin
halo behind.
Twilitfht waits for dawn, nr If tWa la
an interval between I have not dia-nv.
ered it. It is not difficult to rend nr.H.
nary print at 11 o'clock, and sitting on
me uecic at wmnlgut (the ship keeps San
Francisco time) watching the shadows
cast upon the smooth water and thn
snowcapped peaks at a few miles dis
tance is not unoomrortauie with an over
coatCor. San Francisco Bulletin.
Suffering on the Marshes.
"Have you had a good season?" asked
a tourist.
"Maw." ronllml tha aiuuilda I
- ummmmmamjm mm
"Why even the niosnultnea hava nanrls
starved to death." PUladelnuia Press.
Experience With Lightning.
Ernst Tobel, whoso little girl Llzxle
Was killed by lightning recently, is re
covering, and to a reporter told how he
felt when the bolt struck him: "W
were hurrying along the road and watch
ing the clouds that were coming up rap
idly. It hadn't begun to rain, although
a few drops had fallen. All of a snddon
there was a terrible glare of light in my
eyes, which blinded me so I could not
see anything. The crash of thunder
must have been very loud, though I enn
hardly remember hearing it. At the
same time ihat I saw the light I felt as
thongh something had hit me a terrible
blow on the back of my legs. The shock
was a hard one, and I went over on my
face. It seemed as if my legs had been
knocked right out from nuder me. I
must have been unconscious for a time.
When I came to myself, I saw the others
on the ground, all except Mr. Meyer.
"I tried to get np, but somehow I
couldn't stand on my legs. I fell down
gain and managed to crawl over to
whero my little girl was lying. Mr.
Meyer ran for help, and I lay on the
ground there until the ambulance came,
when I was lifted in and taken home. I
felt no pain then and haven't since, ex
cept a kind of numb pricking In my legs
as if they were asleep. It makes me
very nervous and restless, but I do not
suffer. I have no control over my legs
below the knee, but the doctors think
they will bring me round all right. 1
think my legs are not as stiff as they
were. They have been rubbed a good
deal, and the doctor has put something
on them, and I guess I will be all right
again soon." Brooklyn Eagle.
Days of Gunpowder Numbered.
It begins to look as if the days of gun
powder as a charge for the guns in the
British navy were numbered. Recent
experiments just concluded at the gov
ernment proofbutts, Woolwich, appear
to prove the decided superiority of cor
dite. A 8 inch quick firing gun was
loaded with 9 pounds 13 ounces of the
ordinary black gunpowder and yielded a
velocity of 1,800 feet per second, with a
pressure strain on the gun of 10 tons per
square inch. The same gun was charged
with 14 pounds 8 onnces of cordite and
gave a velocity of 2,274 feet per second
and a pressure of 15.2 tons. More im
portant still, after 250 rounds had been
fired there were no signs of erosion.
The new substance is manufactured at
the government powder mills, Walthnm
Abbey, and contains 66 per cent of nitro
glycerin. 87 of guncotton and 5 of min
eral jelly. The velocity of the shot nlong
the bore of the 0 inch gun was calculated
to the millionth of a second from the
first moment of being set in motion.
Minute as tills may appear, Lieutenant
H. Watkin, R. A., has invented an in
strument which, it is said, will measure
fractions of time to the nine-billionth
part of a second. Chicago Tribune.
Asleep on Niagara's llrlnk.
A story of a man snatched from the
brink of the gorge is related by James
lo Blood and John Thomas.
Monday night while walking np the
long, narrow, winding roadway from
the Maid of the Mist landing to the top
of the gorge on the Canadian side, their
dog became uneasy when they Beared
the top and began to bark loudly. The
men made a search along the high bank,
and to thoir surprise found a young man
lying on the very edge of the bank, with
his head banging over. He was in a
stupor or sleep, and his hat had fallen
over the cliff, and any move on the part
of the man would have hurled him over.
The men resolved to grab the man sud
denly and pull him buck out of danger
before he could awake. This they did.
He was found to be Charles H. Moffat
of Buffalo, a wealthy young man who
had been on an extended spree. Niaga
ra Falls Cor. Rochester Union.
Tan Shoes-
The tan leather shoe is abroad in the
land, and no self respecting man, wom
an or child is without a pair or two.
They are worn with that charming lack
of discrimination that is one of our na
tional characteristics in matters of dress.
Their proper use is with neglige or so
called "outing" costume, but they are to
be seen on men wearing frock coats and
silk hats, and not long ago I saw a chap
one evening on the street in dress clothes,
dinner coat, etc., of most correct style,
terminating at one end in a straw hat
and at the other in a pair of russet shoes.
I really cannot see how we ever existed
without this most comfortable and use
ful shoe. Only a few years ago and the
tan leather shoe was unknown. Thus
speedily does a luxury become a neces
sity. Harper's Bazar,
Liquids Daring Meals.
If we lear in mind the whnln
Ism of digestion, it will readily be seen
mat in cases or weakness or want of
tone on the Dart of the inmu.li nf the.
stomach, when every part of the food
cannot oe properly presented to the ao
lion of tho digestive juices, the introduc
tion into tho stomach at a mnilnmta
amount of water may be of no slight
benefit. The mass of food will become
more pliable and so more easily operated
upon by the weakened muscles. Youth's
Companion.
The Five Great Oceans.
The following are the latest estimates
of the five great oceans: Pacific, 71,000,.
000 square wiles; Atlantic, 85,000,000
square miles; Indiun, 28,000,000 square
miles; Antarctic, 8,500,000 square miles;
Arotio. 4.600.000 sauaraniilua.Mt Tinio
n in.
nepuuiiu.
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The nesutj of Wrinkle.
And now an authority inveighs against
steaming the face as a preventive against
wrinkles, alleging that this is the swift
est and surest process by which to pro
duce them. "The second layer of the
skin becomes attenuated, and there la a
decreose In bnlk of the superficial Iny
ers," is the technical explanation which
the laity will not understand and does
not need to. The simple fact is suffi
cient. But why shonld wrinkles be snch
a red rag to every woman? They must
Inevitably come if one lives long enough,
and barring the suppression of the bnbifc
of frowning and the avoidance of dan
gerous cosmetics it seems useless to light
them.
Time was when we were taught that
they were the lines of character, and
time is when character, as shining forth
in the expression of the face, makes tho
wrinkles forgotten. Watch the soul be
hind the wrinkles. Take as much earn
of that as you strive to of the outer layer
of cuticle, which is its external sem
blance, and the wrinkles will be lost or
overlooked in the serene and steady eye
and qniet bnt smiling mouth. "Think
lofty things," says a preacher, "and the
countenance will show the thought."
New York Times.
The Natives Had Hcruplos.
Once an amusing story was told me
by a South sea trader, writes Mrs. Rob
ert Louis Stevenson. He had been in the
habit of carrying all sorts of tinned
meats, which tho natives bought with
avidity. Each tin was branded with a
colored picture a cow for beef, a sheep
for mutton and a Ruh for sardines.
It happened that the firm who fur
nished the mutton thought it a good
plan to change their labels, that their
goods might be more easily distinguished
from others. The mark chosen was :i
red dragon.
The natives came with their copra to
trade as usual. The new tins were
shown them, bnt they recoilod with hor
ror and gave the trader to understand
that they had had some religious in
struction and were not to be deluded in
to eating tinned devil.
The trader was forced to eat his stock
of mutton himself, for not a native could
be persuaded to touch the accursed
thing.
"More Haste, Worse Speed."
Of all the "tournaments" I ever saw,
one among the "dairy maids" at an ugri
cultural show was perhaps the last to
associate itself witli that beroio proced
ure which such a word suggests. There
were about 40 of them armed with
"churns" and started at the suuio mo
ment to make butter ugainst time. Eacii
came provided witli a watch, and tho
temptation was almost irresistable to
turn the handle of the macliino as quick
ly as possible. But no, butter must be
"humored," not driven. The silent lists
were filled with tho provokiugly delib
erate "flip, flop" of 40 churns. One of
the slowest combatants won the race. I
never realized more plainly that "most
haste is worst speed." Cornhill Mag
azine. Just Like a Iliislness Man.
Kunnifus (in fruit store) Which is
correct now, "these peaches are a cent
apiece," or "those peaches are a cent -
each?"
Fruiterer Neither is right Those
peaches are 60 cents a dozen, or S cents
if you only want bnt one.
Kunnifus That's just like you, Bald
win; never can sink the shop, Boston
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Striking Far a Raise.
"If," said Mr. Tenaweek wearily as
he came out of tha proprietor's office and
walked sadly to his place behind the
handkerchief counter; "if an injection of
gold will cure the liquor habit in all its
forms, why will a similar judicious use
of whisky or a like beverage not be a .
sure cure for heartless miserliness and .
hard fisted penury?" Boston Herald.
.m. genuine Know-nothing,
"Well, I see congress has met,"
"Bhe has?"
"Yes."
"What's congress?"
"Don't yon know?"
"Ain't I askin your
"Whv. von know abont tha rnnnev
stringency?"
"An what s Btingency?",
"The devU!"
"Hit is?'
"My friend, thoro was a war in this
country at one time,"
"Whereabouts?" Atlanta Constitu
tion.
A Minister's Scheme.
A Lewiaton minister hna awitiinnitAl
the ridinir of a bicvele with thn f n dv tt
A rose Colored Schema for nttnrhinir a
small sail to the front of the wheel and
ior increasing the speed of the steel
horse to abont that nf the, lii.htninc op
press train. He has made one or two ef-
M X At. . .
ions to muse tne scheme work and is
sure that it will succeed. Home good
friend of the reverend gentleman ought
to see that his memory is refreshed with
the HtorV of thn fata nf riurinu flraan
fore it is too lute. Bangor Commercial,
Maine' Loss From Forest Flros.
A million dollars la nnf n 1a.. ..u
- Hwv mm .ttu COU-
mote of the dumage already done in
Maine bv foreut tl ta tliia sniiiimaii XT.
ef ... -ww euutlUCi
county has been spared. Lewiston Jour-
A Wlsa Lad.
"If fishes knew enough to H
ground instead of wator," remarked
Frank, "they could get all tho worm
they wanted without hooka in them."
Harper's Young People, x Uj