A Hit Lebatrr Found.
Tliero In a lobster fnnn.or pound, as It
I called, 12 apron In extent nt Boutliport,
Me. This pound lit the most succrasiful
on the const, whence 1, 0()0,0()0 lobsters
re slilpped each year. The pound Is
formed by building a solid dnin ncroM a
tidewater cove. This dmn does not quite
rUo to high water mark, uat across the
top Is placed a fence of Iron rods, per
mitting a -Jily change of water and pre
venting the loWers from (-scaping. In
tho spring nml fall business is most brisk.
When the fishermen bring the lobsters
to the pound, the "fish," as they are
called, are hoisted to the dam, measured,
and those which are more than 10 j
inches long, the legal limit.are thrown in.
If a lobster Is clever, his life in the pound
may be long and full of joy. If he is
stupid, he will be fished, out with a drng
seine and packed in a barrel, with a piece
of ice for a pillow, and sent to Boston.
The seine is made of stont twine and Is
weighted at the bottom with a heavy
chain. Along the top is a row of corks,
which sustain the weight of the seine
while the chain drags on the bottom of
the pound.
A single cast of this seine will bring
up lobsters enough to All 14 barrels. The
chain as it sweeps along the bottom stirs
tip the lobsters, which immediately shoot
backward into the slack twine. In tak
ing them ont the men wear heavy mit
tens, though even then they are often
nipped. In the pound the lobsters are
fed on salt herring, men rowing about
In skin's and pitching the herring over
board. This is called ' 'feeding tho chick
ens," and it takes about six barrels to
make a light luncheon for the flock.
Boston Globe.
The Cat In Anelent Timet.
The cat was so very highly regarded In
England nt one timo, both as a rat nnd
mouse catcher, and as an ornament to
society, that we find the following salu
tary law passed by one of the princes
of Wales:
"If any one steal or kill a Cat that
guards the Prince's Granery, he is to
forfeit a milch Ewe, its Fleece and
Lamb. Or, as much Wheat as, when
poured upon the cat suspended from its
tail, with the head touching the floor,
would form a heap high enought to cover
the tip of the former."
Though the Welsh had a high opinion
of the cat, tho ancient Egyptians hail a
still higher. Those intelligent nnd civ
ilized peoplo treated cats with great dis
tinction. It was a crime to kill them,
and when they died they received a pub
lic burial, at which the people mourned,
having first shaved off their eyebrows as
token of sorrow. The most prominent
cats were upon death embalmed in drus
and spices, and cat mummies have Wn
found side by side with those of kings.
When Cambyses, the Persian, attacked
the Egyptian city of Pelusis, he cunning
ly provided his soldiers with cats in
stead of shields. When the host ad
vanced, the Egyptians retired in confu
sion upon discovering that they would Imj
unable to do damage to their enemy
without seriously imperiling the lives of
vast numbers of cats. And so the city
was taken easily and without the loss of
blood or of a cat. It cannot be disputed
that the ancient Egyptian cats must have I
enjoyed life very much. St. Louis Post- I
Dispatch.
"Yankee Doodle."
The tune of "Yankee Doodle" has had
even or eight treatises written upon it
in the last 80 years, ascribing it to vari
ous dates and origins, even back to Tho
Netherlands aud the days of Cromwell
and the Charleses. Dr. George Grove of
London, author of the "Dictionary of
MubIc and Musicians," has investigated
thoroughly the various musical libraries
and the British museum in England,
finding no traces of it whatever, thus ex
ploding all the mystical, traditional and
apochryphal accounts thereof.
But "Yankee Doodle" had an origin
and has a history. It was written by
Dr. Richard Schuchburg, whose com
mission dates 1737, in the French and
Indian war of 173S under General Jef
frey Amherst and was intended as a
"take off" on the "rag, tag and bobtail"
recruits of the colonies that came into
the army. It "took" so well, however,
that the Americans have ever adopted it
and would not part with it for anything.
The first words.
Father and I went down to camp,
were in the Boston Journal in 1768, and
the first record of the tune is in Arnold's
"Two to One," 1780, so that "Yankee
Doodle," although written by a British
surgeon, is really American. Boston
Transcript.
KooDomjr In Foot Wear.
The neatest and most economical pos
sible .foot wear is a low cut shoe of a
special pattern to be worn with gaiters
to match each dress. This style of foot
clothing has many advantages. The low
shoe is easily aired, and the inner sole
will retain the edors of the feet with the
neatest of persons if not properly aired,
especially when one walks much. The
gaiter breaks the apparent size of a large
foot and forms a very attractive finish
when matched to costumes.
Skirts rubbing against the front of
high kid boots will wear the seam, while
the lower part remains in perfect condi
tion. Gaiters, upon the other hand, can
be changed as soon as defaced and worn
with the same boot. Many pretty gaiters
are possible for different occasions and
styles of dress Jenness Miller Monthly.
Effect of Music on Fenu.
Walter Savage Landor introduces Pe
terborough in conversation with Wil
liam Penn and makes him appluud Peun
cynically, when tho latter declares that
there is something in a violin if played
directly that appeareth to make hot
weather cool and cold weather warm
and temperate, not, however, when its
cords have young maidens tied invis
ibly to the end of them, jerking theui
up aud down in a strange fashion before
one's eyes, and unless one takoth due
cantion wafting their hair upon one's
face and bosom, and their very breath,
too, between one's lips if peradventure
one omitteth to shut them bitterly and
hold tight. Musical Courier.
Men la Ike Women's ReJIitlaf.
Somebody had been calling the attest
Won of the wife of the Maharajah of Ku
mirthnla to objects of special Interest at
Jackson park. "So that Is tho Woman's
building," she said as the great white
"rncture was pointed ont to her. "Do
ney allow men Inside Its wallsT
The question Is amusing In itself, and
yet a great big Interrogation mark of
the same kind has appeared before the
blurred visions of a thousand men who
have paused nt its threshold.
It cannot fall of notice that the man
who wanders through the Woman's
building seems invariably embarrassed
and ill nt ease. If he goes alone, he looks
conscience stricken, glancing furtively
about as If expecting to be ejected. He
doesn't allow himself to become deeply
interested in anything, and when he
finally reaches the bronze statue of Leif
Ericson at the west portal he feels re
lieved. Naturally enough the married man ac
companied by his wife shrivels into in
significance in this atmosphere. lie be
comes merely the husband of the woman
and looks on meekly as she makes the
rounds. He feels about 11 years old and
8 feet 7 Inches in height lie may have
been always the self assertive, domineer
ing lord and master of his household, but
IS minutes of the Woman's building re
duces htm to a minus quantity. Hi feels
submissive to a painful degree.
Yea, the women allow men Inside the
Woman's building. But In the nature
of things they can't encourage such In
vasions. Chicago Record.
Slow Compliance With Law.
Few of the railroads have yet taken
steps to conform with the law passed
last March regulating safety appliances
for cars and locomotives in coupling.
The number of cars at present fitted with
automatic couplers is something over
108,000 freight and company cars, 117,
000; passenger cars, 20,000, and leased
cars, 23,000, in round numbers. Accord
ing to tlie latest statistics of the inter
state commerce commission, the numlier
of cars in the United States is something
over 1,215,000 freight nnd company
care, 1,034,000; passenger cars, 28,000,
and leased cars, 133,000, In round num
bers. It does not follow, however, that
the first group of figures the number of
cars fitted with automatio couplers
will remain untouched by the new legis
lation, for uniformity must be observed,
and consequently a large proportion of
the 100,000 cars already equipped will
have to undergo repair. On the other
hand, the number of cars equipped with
the master car builders' coupler, which
is the slnglo kind most generally in nse
and which satisfied the provisions of the
bill, is also large. New York Post
A Very Glrllah Young Man.
The police of this city and some be
sides were last night treated to the sight
of a rara avis in the person of Frank
Smith, who came off the steamer Gem
City and was at once made the guest of
tho city at the police station. Mr. Smith
is a young man about 17 or 18 years old
and seems to make a hand to mouth sort
of living, principally by impersonating
female characters, at which he is un
doubtedly an adept. He resembles a fe
male so perfectly that he is constantly in
danger of arrest even to his hands and
feet, his walk, his talk and all the gentle
manners of the fair sex but he is not a
woman, notwithstanding the resem
blance and the added fact that he does
all sorts of womanly things, even to oc
cupying his idle time with sewing. He
was this morning given permission to
depart, and in a short while he had been
stopped by people as far ont as East Al
ton, where he was arrested as a woman
in men's clothes. He is making his way
to St. Louis. Alton (Ills.) Telegraph.
Who Goes FlretT
I have been consulted by my charm
ing hostess of this week as to the order
of precedence to be followed at informal
dinners in this country, I find all New
port somewhat stirred up over this ques
tion. The presence of royalty and the
establishment of the Pauncefotes there
have led to various complications in oth
er households. I gave the rules for Eng
lish precedence in a former paper, and
it is needless to repeat that royalty al
ways goes first As for the rest, I will
simply quote a remark I heard last sum
mer, which amused me greatly and is
more than ever to the point. Lady B.
asked a clever New York man how the
question was determined in America,
She wanted to know in what order peo
ple were sent to dinner. "In the order
of cash," was the reply. Vogue.
School of Naval Architecture.
We have received from the Massachu
setts Institution of Technology an an
nouncement of the establishment at
the institute of a course of instruction
In naval architecture. It is a four years'
course. It aims to provide a thorough
training in the theory and methods of
designing and building ships, and ita
graduates receive the degree of bachelor
of science. It is an optional branch of
the mechanical engineering course.
There are to be lectures twice week
during the third and fourth years, and
students are required to make the calcu
lations and draw the construction de
scribed in the lectures. Engineering
Record.
A Strange Coincidence.
It is a strange coincidence that the
rumors that one choir pusher at the fair
had captured the heart of a rich Califor
nia widow and another had eloped with
pretty London girl visiting the fair
were circulated just before the chair
boys' strike collapsed so lgnominiouBly.
Chicago Dispatch.
Two basket mills at Dover, Del., are
now turning out 0,000 peach baskets per
day. The work is done with great ease,
rapidity and precision. The fastest bas
ket maker In the Dover mills makes
from 250 to 800 baskets per day. He is
paid 1 cent per basket
A new lettor carrier tn Plattsburg is
credited with anxiously inquiring if he
would be expected to deliver the letters
If it rained.
This Year's tnivy Melon.
It is one comfort that financial strin
gency hasn't hoarded up and hidden
way all the peaches and melons. The
quality as to most fruits is hardly up
to the customary mark this year, and a
good many apples fail to attain their
customary size and flavor. Even the
tomato is inclined to Indicate a little
falling off. The watermelons are good.
If the market does not show quite such
huge ones as a few of the big southern
melons seen here In most years nt this
season, the supply of good sized ones Is
abundant and the quality good.
The only criticism is that while they
were probably harvested and sent north
at the customary time not all of them
for some reason have fully and complete
ly ripened this time. In the heart of
many of the sweetest will be found a
streak or two of nnripeness. But this
criticism does not apply to all. Some of
the southern melons are as sugary as
they are juicy, and how good they are
these hot days, especially after a few
hours of cooling near the ioel Those
who have not tried them in the morning
before breakfast have something to learn
of their excellence at that hour. Hart
ford Times.
The Kew ttelehetac.
Statistics have just been published tn
Berlin which give some interesting in
formation concerning the composition of
the new reichstag, so far as members
are concerned. It appears that 80 be
long to the Evangelical church, 187 to
the Roman Catholic church, while 4 pro
fess the Jewish creed. Three of these
latter are Social Democrats, the greater
majority of whom are designated as un
denominational. Rather more than one
fourth of the members namely, 102
are of noble birth. The Social Demo
cratic party contains one of these, Herr
von Vollmar, who was the only candi
date of noble birth who was returned at
the late elections for the Bavarian diet.
About 100 different occupations are rep
resented in the new reichstag. Fore
most come the landed proprietors and
farmers, of whom there are 140. The
legal profession has 110 representatives.
Besides these there are, among others, 40
authors, 86 professional military men,
28 clergymen, 18 burgomasters, 1 pho
tographer, 1 former secretary of state
Count Herbert Bismarck and lastly
one master chimney sweep.
Women Atk For a Severe Penalty.
In consequence of the alarming in
crease recently in this state of felonious
assaults, the action of the women of the
Christian Temperance union in Chester
county in preparing a memorial to the
next legislature, asking that the grade
of that crime be advanced to a capital
one, will pretty generally be commended
throughout the state. In some respects
the crime is more atrocious than that of
llfetaking. Regarding it in this light,
the present laws providing punishment
for felonious assault are totally Inade
quate, and it would seem eminently
proper to change them so as to increase
the possible but not necessary penalty.
It is the sentiment that the laws do not
properly meet the heiuousness of the of
fense that has much to do with the
alarming increase in the number of
lynchings in other states. Philadelphia
Ledger.
Brooklyn Churches In Vacation Time.'
For a city as to which it is popularly
said that the churches are all closed 60
religious advertisements make a very
good showing. Of course those figures
represent only a small part of the edifices
in which congregations gather on Sun
days in summer. The truth is that there
is probably no denomination the mem
bers of which can excuse themselves for
staying at home because there are no
services provided. Brooklyn Eagle.
A Narrow Keeape.
A narrow escape from "a mysterious
dispensation of Providence" Is reported
in Aroostook county, where a farmer was
tending a horse fork, unloading hay, with
a lighted cigar in his mouth. He placed
the fork, and as the forkful started
it hit the cigar, which flew out of his
mouth and went up with the hay. But
his bivhlings are yet standing. Lewis
ton Journal.
The Humors of Hoarding.
One of the humors of the financial
situation was a woman's act in locking
npin her strong box a draft on New
York. Another woman has $20,000 in
currency tucked away in her safe depos
it vault, when it might be paying her big
Interest and doing lots of good besides.
Springfield (Mass.) Homestead.
Choloo Woods on the Farm.
There is money in tho choice woods of
the farm. A letter from a prominent
New Jersey tool manufacturer offers $30
per 1,000 for beech seasoned one year and
$30 for apple wood. Birch, maplo, cher
ry, elm and hickory also sell for much
more than they are worth at the wood
pile. The wood must be sawed in some
shape and con be sold in a great many
directions, principally for making plane
nd other tool handles. Detroit House
hold. A Scathing Rebuke.
Visitor (In editorial sanctum, with ele
vated nose) It strikes me the condition
of that towol Is not just what it should
be bah 1
Editor (loftily) Sir, to the pure all
things are pure. Truth.
The city of Dunkirk, Franco, ien. a
celebrating next year the etr.teimi - . ;
the siege of that city by the Du.. ,.i
York. A statue of Victory by Lui .ru r
will be unveiled during taefoto, vl, n
is to laBt two days.
A tinv elephant, 8 years old, 86 Inches
high) 8 feet lbngand weighing 108 pounds,
is on exhibition in Berlin. The dwarf
phenomenon is from Bumatra. Its nor
mal kin weighed at the same age from
i to 81 tons.
An American "peornge" has been late
ly published. It includes all titled Amer
ican ladies from Timbuctoo to Paris, and,
better still, appends a list of Unmarried
Scions of the British nobility.
trtlrllan
MITCHELL,
ATTOUNKY-AT-LAW.
Office on Went Main street, opposite the
Cimitiirrrlul lintel, Kejncildxvllli-, Pa.
D
It. H. E. IIOOVKK,
REYNOLDSVIIjLE, pa.
Rfolili'iit (leiitM. In IiiiIIiIIiiii ni'nr Metlin
f1lt rhnt'i'li, npiHMlte Arnold hliH'k. Ileal lo
ueNN In niierittintf.
Oolrte,
II
OTEL McCONNELL,
TtEYNOLmviLLE. PA.
FUAKKJ. JIl.ACK, Prnprlrtnr.
The leading hotel of the town, lliiiliiinr
ters for ciiniinerelnl men. Hleinn lieul, free
Iiiim, tintli room nndeliwets on every floor,
sample moms, 111 1 1 1 lit il room, telephone, tun
tiet'tlolm Ae.
JJOTEL HELNAP,
HEYNOLDSVILLE, PA.
fIREKN it VOSSEH, Proprietor.
Klrnt i'Iiiks In every piirtleulnr. .orated In
the very rentre of the Imilneit. imrt of town.
Free 'Inn to and from trnliis nnd eommndlous
c
OMMEHCIAL HOTEL,
imoOKVILLE, PA.,
PHIL P. VAUKIKIt, Proprietor,
Sample room on the around floor. Mouse
healed hjr nntiiral gus. Omnlliim to and from
all train.
Grocery Boomers
W
DUV WHERE YOU CAN
GET ANYTHING
YOU WANT.
FLOUR,
Salt Meats,
Smoked Meats,
CANNED GOODS,
TEAS, COFFEES
AMI AM. KINIIS Of
L
T
FRUITS,
CONFECTIONERY,
TOHACCO.
AND CIGARS,
Everything in tho lino of
Fresh Groceries, Feed,
Btc.
(JimhIh tlellreretl free mn
place In town.
Call on il nnd yet price.
W. C. Sehultz & Son
&
N
The First National Bank ot
Reunoldsvllle.
CAPITAL SJSO.OOO.OO.
'. Mitchell, lrellent
ftrott .Ye4 lelland, Vlee Prr.
John II. Kanelier, 4 ahler.
Directors:
1'. Mltrhell, Kent t McClolliind. ,T. C. King,
Joseph HtnuiMH, .loHeph Henderson,
O. W. Fuller, J. II. Knueher.
Does n penernUinnklnirtniKlnoftnnri solicits
the nrrounts of merehiints, profi'MMlonsI men.
furmet-M, mechiinlm, miner, lumliermen ittiq
nthem, promising the most eiireful attention
to the IniHlneHs of all persona.
Tempomry quarter In Centennial Hull
HulldhiK, opposite Hotel lleltmn.
,THF.
J&MS iiobK
A Religious VreWy
(UNKCTASIAN.)
NO PAPER LIKE IT fcN EARTH
Unique not Fcern'.rlc.
W'my nut Funny.
Re.if(iui not Finui.
Not for Sect but for Suult.
WHOLE 8ERMON3 IN A SENTENCE.
Send a dime In itampt for three peck trial
THE RAM'S HORN,
1.50 WOMAN'S TIMPH. Reei
Per Year. CHICAOO It once.
ONLY PAPER THAT EVERYBODY LIKE"
JS1. Every Yol.:.,..
1 ulii.T ino. tV.y rcUiMi...0
medicine.
Dr. FEAL'C
PENNYROYAL FILLS.
Are prompt, eafe nnit enrt tin In remit. Tho ruru
Inefur. I'Kul'ti nover nmioiooL.t. bunluuywliei'O
11.00. Peat JUeHiclne Co , C'lev. lun.'., u.
Sold by II. Alex. Htoke, driimrlst.
KNOW ME BY MY WORKS.
Country Produce
.IT
i r S
Are you koIiik to attend the I'll tslilirir Ex
position and uva tliti Wonders of the Woridr
Tho ureiiti'st unci urundest In that of Dr. II uf
goon. Hid you ever uou thousands of tupe
worntH and runeem In one eolluct Ion? Btop at
Or. HurtfiNiirsolltce. Iie7 l'enn ave., lMttsburtf,
nve minute walk from Union station, unci
see thenit their equal huit never been seen.
Dr. Ilurifoou has taken ;iu tape-worm In 40
months, aud haa cured thotisuuds of people
of eaneer without tho use of thu knlfo. Use
Hystuin Itenovator aud live, for aalo at all
DruK HI ores. Catarrh, purasltls, tape-worms,
ete.t Heei'ut dlseasea of men and women a
speelalty. Ho duties the world to show us
many eurea of so-called Incurable disease as
ho can. Uoutembor now ait dress; seud slump
fur book. .
SOT PENN AVUNI K,
aMHeburg, Pa.
y For aule at II. Alex Btoko'i drug store.
N. HANAU.
1 Fancy Prices,
Though quality in tho l'nt.
We uinko the Htatenmit for
the benefit of tlione who nro
not our cuptoinerH, mul ko
tuny not know it: Orn .mucks
MARK CT8TOMKK3 OK AM, WHf
COMIC.
A full line of
Dress Goods,
The Wept and Cheapept ever
brought to Ileynohlsville.
A full line of Henrietta at
25c. in all phadep, 40c, 50e.,
and $1.00.
Silk warp Henriettas.
Summer Silkfi for 50c. per
yard.
Ladies Coats and Capes the
finest nnd cheapest in town.
A nice line of Children's
Jnckets 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, 1(5 and 18.
Men's straight cut worsted
for 10 to 12.50, worth 16,
to $18.
Children's Suits 2.75, are
worth 3.50 to 5.00.
A fine line of Boys' and
Men's Negligee Shirts.
N. H
anau.
TOWn Till
Bargains!
The general topic of the
people is
Where they get their
Bargains.
Their reply re-echoes from
the woodland and the valleys:
KT THE
RACKET STORE.
You know they are always
busy in every town where
there is one.
Why?
B6C3US6 prices are the same
to all.
44 goods are of lst-class
quality.
44 money is always re
refunded if not
satisfactory.
4 4 an apportionment of
of goods ishandled
that is in daily use.
44 they buy for cash
and sell for cash,
which enables you to get
ROCK BOTTOM PRICES,
and you do.
Yours Respectfully,
M. J. Goyie.
REYKOLDSVILLE, PA.
ASK FOR
U
FINE
CANDIES.
IN SEALED PACKAGES
AT
H. ALEX. STOKE S,
THE LEAPING DRUGGIST,
Rcynoldavltte, Pa.
LISTEN!
Till I toll you of somothlnjr that In of
irrt'Bt Intorost to nil. It mimt bo re
lnomtxTod that J. C. Froohlich is tlie
Popular Tailor of KeynoldHvllle, and
that In what I am ifolnu to dwell on at
thia time. Never mind the World's
Fair for a few moment, at his exhibit
of (food la BomothliiB on that scale. The
tremendous dixplay of seasonable suit
lnifs, especially the fall and winter as
sortment, should bo seen to lie appre
ciated. A larger line and assortment
of fall and winter jroods than ever. I
ask and Inspection of my goods by all
gentlemen of Kcynoldsville. All fits
and workmanship guaranteed perfect.
Yours as In tho past,
J. G. FR0EHLIGH,
Reynoldmvllle , Pa.
3TNext door to Hotel McConnoll.
Gltu Meat Market
I buy the best of cnttle and
keep the choicest kinds
of meats, such as
MUTTON, PORK
VEAL AND
BEEF, SAUSAGE.
Everything kept neat and
clean, Your patronage
solicited.
E. J. Sclmltze, Prop'r.
J. S; MORROW,
I'F.ALER IN
Dry Goods,
Notions,
Boots, and
Shoes,
Fresh Groceries
Flour and
Feed.
GOODS DELIVERED FREE.
OPERA - HOUSE BLOCK
Reynoldsville, Pa.
M. J. Riggs,
Proprietor ol ttie Glieap
WEST MAIN ST..
Has an elegant and fresh
line of
Groceries, Provisions,
Flour, Meats, Confectionery,
Tobacco, Cigars and every
thing kept in a First-class
Grocery.
Farm Produce always on
hand.
Goods delivered free to any
part of town.
Call and get prices.
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