WILY HETTY GREEN. Peculiarities of a woman worth $60,000,000. Sha hold FmIiIiiiiihI In Anpenrance, fin. rly Plnln In ttrrnt, but the Prrannlfl cation of Khrewilnpu When Financial Transaction Are Involved. Not n nnnll jmrt of the fume of Brook lyn cnn be laid to tho credit of the re markable women who have lived and live now within ltd borders women who have token rank and honor in almost ev ery walk of life. It is a well known fact that a very nrg proportion of the real estate of the city is hold in the names of women. It is not a widely known fact that the woman who Is reputed to be the richest in the United States lives in the City of Churches and right in the clas sic section known as the heists too. Her wealth is variously estimated at from 140,000,000 to 00,000,000, and her .name is Airs. Hetty Green. Her name and personality are more familiar to Wall street than they are to Brooklyn society. That is because Mrs. Green has chosen to devote all her time to the man ipulation of her fortune and has let so ciety get along without her. Hetty Green at an Ihpetonga ball would cre ate a sensation Indeed, but it is not like ly that snch an occasion will ever be re corded by society writers. Hosts of people have brushed elbows with a shrewd and rather calm faced woman, apparently 50 years old, rather short, wearing a plain, old fashioned shawl and a bonnet so far beyond fash ion's pale that no one would ever suspect it had been in it, even years ago. No body ever saw her with a dress which was not severely plain, and seldom has she been noticed when she did not carry an old style and well worn black satchel Her appearance would never cause the uninitiated to think that she was any thing more extraordinary than an old fashioned woman of moderate, means and simple tastes, who wus on her way to the corner grocery or the bakery on the block below. Yet, if money is pow er, this same staid looking person is one of the most powerful human beings in the country. In an old fashioned house ou a corner in Pierrepont street Mrs. Green and her daughter Sylvia have lived for several years. The modest apartments they oc cupy are hired from a pleasant faced woman, who keeps the house and who lias an admiration for Mrs. Green, which she docs not conceal. The rich est woman in the United States has a son, who has been spending some time in Florida seeking to improve his health. Mrs. Green has been a widow for many years, and her daughter is about 20 years old. Since the death of her hus band Hetty Green has becomo a finan cier of nnuBttal shrewdness. She has in dicated by her actions that she has small faith in brokers, and that if she wants anything done the best way is to do it herself. The weather beaten satchel has carried securities representing millions of dol lars. It has knocked about Now York and Brooklyn and other big financial centers with precious burdens, and Het ty Green has always had a tight grip on it. She does dot behove in spending her money on things Bhe does not want, and as she wants very little she spends but little. Her children and her fortune are the sole objects of her solicitude. Mrs. Green is said to be very anxious to have her daughter become one of the leading actors in the famous Four Hundred of Manhattan inland. Something of an ob stacle in the way of this is the daughter herself , according to report. Miss Green is credited with caring as little for the dazzle and newspaper notoriety of a so cial career as her mother. She is a girl whose tastes are quiet and to whom dress is a matter of little consideration. Mrs, Green, by way of a foundation for her daughter's social debut, some time ago settled a large sum of money on that young woman in government bonds. The amount is stated to be 13,000,000. Incidents in the career of this remark able woman have stamped her as a bold yet cautious operator in stocks and se curities. When the financial panio of 1884 occurred, Mrs. Green had a large deposit in a firm of Canadian bankers named Cisco & Co. of New York. In formation reached her that the bank was in an unsafe condition, and without waiting to hear more she went to the in stitution and withdrew her entire de posit. The firm had no alternative, and after paying her her money was com pelled to suspend and finally failed com pletely. Hetty Green Is the largest property owner in the city of Chicago. She holds title to block after block of land in the business section, and her son assists in looking after her interests there. For many years she lived in the western metropolis, and she spends much of her time there when away from Brook lyn. 1 Her characteristic bargain with ex Judge Henry Hilton is fresh in the minds of financiers. The money which the jndge wanted so badly is generally con ceded to have been used in buying out the interest of his son, Henry G. Hilton, in the dry goods firms of Hilton, Hnghes & Co. and Hilton Bros. He went to Mrs. Green, or his lawyers did, and made a request for a loan of $1,200,000 in cash. Mrs. Green was willing to lend, but in sisted on having a mortgage on the mar ble palace at the corner of Broadway and Chambers street, New York, the Stewart building, which, with the land, is supposed to be worth $3,000,000. She would take no other security, and after a two months' search of the title the lar gest mortgage ever given on a single piece of property in New York was recorded. But Judge Hilton needed the money be fore the search had been ooncluded, and after he had placed in the hands of Hetty Green title deeds representing $10,000,000 worth of property she advanced him $600,000. And in addition to this the shrewd speculator forced him to sign a paper agreeing that she should hold the deeds until the mortgage was executed. "-Brooklyn Eagle, UNCLE SAM'S MAILBAQS. When Worn Out, Thry Jnut Itegln to Bo Really of Service To see the government economically administered, go where they mend mail bags. When a msijbag Is worn out, it is considered as Just fit for service. A new matllmg Is stiff, nnylelding. When it has knocked about the world, had the starch taken out of it and its weak places discovered, it grows pliable, gives when It enn't force Its way nnd Is now prepared to do business successfully. Like a human being, the mailbag has had its experience. The most active mallbags now in the service have scarce ly a hand's breadth of the original fabric. The ordinary jute mailbag is mended by women. This is one of the now few branches of the public service outside of the civil service rules. The women who mend mailbags are appointed by con gressmen or publio ofllcers in the old way. A more democratic gathering can not be found In Washington. It Is dirty if not difllcult work. In the numbers of women clod in their worst clothes, their heads hidden in paper fools' caps with long curtains, their hands guarded by leather bands and at work on sewing so rude that it seems like a travesty on the gentle art of the needle, it is difficult to detect from one another the delicately nurtured woman, the sturdy foreigner and the negro. They are all there work ing in perfect amity. Each woman sits on a low chair. She has exchanged her street dress for her working clothes in the commodious dressing room. She receives every morn ing a mailbag holding 10 bags. Five of these are comparatively good; five are more or less bad. It is a mild sort of lottery, which these women experi ence twice or three times a day, and the element of chance is not the less excit ing though it lie in the depths of a dirty mailbag. , Bad or good the women are paid 8) cents a bag. For the woman who can not earn at least $1.07 a day there is no place in this room. They earn on an average about $1.80 a day, and some women exceed this amount. Each wo man works with a darning needle and twine thread. Her first acquirement is the sailor's stitch. With thin she can aicn, aarn or embroider, when she as finished the bacs. thev are carried to a central table, where on a bulletin board her name is scheduled. There her work is examined by one of three men and checked off accordingly. Not all sew. Some string the bags at the neck and put on the tags and locks. One of these is a blind negress. She has not seen since a child, but she works rapidly and deftly while she tolls with pride how she can embroider and sew at home. These women from such varied walks in life work together in perfect accord. When to the foreman the dusty air and unsightly work seem to have depressed the workers, he suggests to some one, generally a colored woman, to start up some music. The wave of sound gath ers until the whole room has Joined in. It is usually a hymn, for hymns come most easily to women's lips. The government is a kind taskmaster. The room is finely lighted and venti lated. The washrooms are abundantly and finely equipped with marble mount ed stationary stands. At noon a tea and coffee bureau is opened, and the workers have all the tea and coffee they desire at the expense of their country. Washing ton working hours are easy. Vacations of a month are given, and certain sick leaves are provided for. The sweat shops of the government, where the new mailbags are made by contract, are in this city. Now York Sun. A Pornglan Superstition. The girls of the Perunrtnn highlands believe as firmly as any heroine of The ocritus that a person possessing a lock of another person's hair can will pain, disease and even death to the owner of the hair, and thns when maidens give their betrothed lovers the customary plaited tress it is virtually their life and all their power of suffering that they give into those trusted hands. If the man should prove unfaithful and disease doscend upon the unhappy woman, she is not, however, utterly lost, the experienced matrons of her village have means to transfer the complaint to a tree, to an animal or to cast it into running water. The patient must rise in the early dawn, touch a certain plant in a certain manner, saying, "May thou wither and I flourish again," or bind her complaint to a tree in a given fashion, taking care never to pass again before that tree lest the disease, recognizing its former possession, return to her again. London Athensaum, lea Cream PoUonlng. This is a reproach to tho professions of medicine and chemistry. Year after year, with mournful reiteration, there are many reports of fatal cases. The deaths from this source must immensely exceed those from hydrophobia, but Pas teur institutes spring up like mushrooms in every country, while the doaths of the victims of poisoning by the cream are passed over in silence. Would it not be well to look into this matter? Would it not be well to prove or disprove the theory of a writer that the common ice cream freezer is often an electrio battery decomposing toxio products by means of the mixture acting as an electrotype? Medical News. A Stammering Mute. Hobbs and Dobbs were discussing men who stammer. "The hardest job I ever had," said Hobbs, "was to understand a deaf and dumb man who stammered." "How can a deaf and dumb man stum mor?" asked Dobbs. "Easily enough," replied Hobbs. "He hod rheumatism in his fingors.1 Lon don Tit-Bits. Lacking In Tut. Maud Why did you break off you r en gagement with Charley? Ellen Well, you see he would wear shirts and neckties which didn't become my complexion. Chicago Record. MECHANI8M OF A WATCH. A Wonditrfal Mttle Machine That Took Itonilrede of Years to Perfect. Open yonr watch and look at the little wheels, springs and screws, each an In dispensable part of the wholo wonderful machine. Notice the busy little balance wheel as it flies to and fro unceasingly, day and night, venr In and year out. This wonderful little machine is the re sult of hundreds of years of study and experiment. The wntrh carried by the average man is composed of 98 pieces, and its mannfacture embraces more tlmn 2,000 distinct and separate operations. Some of the smallest screws are so minute that the unaided eye cannot dis tinguish them from steel filings or specks of dirt. Under a powerful magnifying glass a perfect screw is revealed. The slit in the head Is 2-1,000 of an inch Wide. It takes 808.000 of these screws to weigh a pound, and a pound is worth $1,(585. The hairspring is a strip of the finest steel, about 9) Inches long and 1-100 inch wide and 27-10,000 Inch thick. It is coiled np in spiral form and finely tempered. The process of tempering these springs was long held as a secret by the few for tunate ones possessing it and even now is not generally known. Their manu facture requires great skill and care. The strip is gauged to 20-1,000 of an inch, but no measuring instrument has yet been devised capable of fine enough ganging to determine beforehand by the size of the strip what the strength of the finished spring will be. A 1-20,000 part of an inch difference in thickness of the strip makes a difference in the running of a watch of about six minutes per hour. The value of these springs when fin ished and placed in watches Is enormous in proportion to the material from which they Bre made. A comparison will give a good idea. A ton of steel made up into hairsprings when in watches is worth more thon 121 times the value of the same weight in gold. Hairspring wire weighs 1-20 of a grain to the Inch. One mile of wire weighs less thon half pound. The balance gives five vibrations ev ery second, 800 every minute, 18,000 ev ery hotir, 482,000 every day, and 157, 680,000 every year. At each vibration It rotates about 1J times, which makes 197,100,000 every year. In order that we may better understand the stupen dous amount of labor performed by these tiny works, lot us moke a comparison. Take, for instance, a locomotive with 6 foot driving wheels. Let its wheels bo run until they have given the same number of revolutions that a watch does in one year, Bnd they will have covered a distance equal to 28 complete circuits of the earth. All this a watch does without other attention than winding once every 24 hours. Locomotive Engi neer. Effect of Lightning on the Dad j. In describing the recent death of boy by lightning a dispatch stated that an accurate picture of trees and foliage in the vicinity of the accident was made on the boy's body, which phenomenon was supposed to have been produced by the lightning In a manner similar to that of making pictures or photography. This, however, is not correct. While such marks are observable occasionally on the bodies of persons killed they bear no relation whatever to foliage of sur rounding trees, although they bear a cer tain resemblance to those objects. There is really no photographing of the image of the trees ou the body. That the ac tual cause Is quite different can be proved by experiment in the laboratory. When electricity is discharged at high tension, as lightning is, on the surface of a body having a poor conducting power, a lu minous arborescent image is formed, showing the path of one or more of the parks resulting from the discharge. This was most beautifully shown in the experiments carried out with high tension currents in London by Swin burne. The current would exhibit scat tered lines of light that would develop into most exquisite tracery and take the form of plants or trees. The theory of this phenomenon is that the irregular courses taken by the spark may be due to the compression of air in the path of the discharge, or to superior conductiv ity of some parts of the surface of the body, St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Win Advlee. ;.u the "Life of Rowland Hill," by Mr. Charlesworth, published in London some years ago, there are many anec dotes of that remarkable man. At one time when Mr. Hill was preaching for the benefit of a charity a note was handed to him, the writer of which asked whether it would be right for a bankrupt to contribute to the good cause. "No," said the preacher after he had road the note, "but, my friends, I would advise you who are not insolvent not to pass the plate this evening, as people will be sure to say, 'There goes the bankrupt.' "Youth's Companion. Algiers Has a Stream ot Natural Ink. In Algiers there is a small stream Which the chemistry of nature has con verted into real ink. It is formed by the union of two rivulets, one of which is very strongly impregnated with iron, while the other, meandering through a peat marsh, imbibes gallio acid, another ingredient in the formation of ink. Let ters and manuscript matter are satisfac torily written with this singular natural compound of iron and gallio acid. Ex change. Quick, but Seldom. Mrs. Watts Goodness! Aren't yon afraid you will ruin your digestion by eating at so rapid a rate? You ought to eat more slowly. Hungry Hlgglns I may not eat slow, mum, but I eat mighty seldom. Indian apolis Journal. HU Forte. Hill MacShorte has sold a poem to Scribbler's entitled "Ode to a Fair Lady." Hulls Has he? Well, he is more com petent to write verses entitled "Owed to ft Landlady." London Tit-Bits. Duration of Hoah'e Flood. In Gould's "Notes and Queries," vol ume 6, page 284, the following questions are asked: "Are the floods known as Noah'sf Ducalion's and the Atlontean deluges considered to be one and the same?" The editor refers the question to his correspondents, and Mrs. L. T. George of Chicago onswers it, inciden tally giving the following curlons par ticulars and minute details concerning the "great breaking up of the waters:" "The di.'lugo was threatened In the year 1586 and began on Deo. 7, 1056, B. C, nnd continued 877 days. The ark rested upon Mount Ararat on May 6, 1657, but Noah did not leave it until Dec. 18 fol lowing." Any reader who imagines that it would be an easy task to figure these details from the Biblical account can find a basis for his calculations in the seventh and eighth chapters of Genesis. St. Louis Republic. addle on the Wrong Horse. An emaciated dude applied to a Har lem livery stable and wanted to hire ft horse, but a deposit was demanded. "Yon want $30 deposit. Do you think I am going to run off with the horse?" asked the dude. "No, bnt I'm afraid the horse will run off with you," responded the livery tableman. Texas Siftings. The Jeffft-Jeruialem Railway. Rather a striking illustration of how trade and money getting make strange bed fellows is furnished by the Jaffa Jerusalem railway. The concession for the railway was obtained by a native of Jerusalem, It was built by a French company, while the engines and car riages, manufatured in the United States, run over rails mm'o in Belgium, and most of the remunerative part of the passenger trafllo is drawn from British tourists. London Tit-Bits. The lluelneee of Hotel Keeping. Some idea of the enormous proportions of the business of hotel keeping has as sumed in this country may be gained from the fact that there are in the United States upward of 50,000 hotels, exclusive of what may properly be termed inns and taverns and what are commonly known as apartment houses, although the latter are in many instances conducted as hotels in that they have common kitchen and dining room. A Fastidious Dog. Gentleman (after throwing a piece of cutlet to bis dog) Hullol Ceesar won't eat that moat. Is it possible that the sa gacious animal knows that his mistress cooked it herself? Schalk. When Dandy, Colonel Huliug'a fins horse, died at the Pennsylvania state camp the mastiff which had been his companion pined and sorrowed and had to be removed from the corps by force. Then he transferred his affections to an other horse, Dude. A silken prayerbook Is a costly novel ty that it has taken the looms of Lyons three years to finish. The prayers are not printed on the silk, but are woven in. Theatrical Item. Tom I can't understand why you ap plaud such miserable acting? Dick I do it to keep myself awake. Texas Siftings. ttllarrllnttrott. QMlrciHEiZrw ATTOHN EY-AT-LA W. Office on West. Main street, opposite the Coninit'ri'liil Hotel, Kcynoldsvlllo, Pa. jya. H. E. HOOVEH, REYNOLDSVILLE, PA. ItcHlricnt dontlst. In hiilldlnu near Metho alMt t'hui-i'h, opposite Arnold liWk. Gentle ness In nHtrtmiiic. flotrle. JJoTiiLTMCt)NELr REYNOLDSVILLE. PA. FRANK J. 11LACK Proprietor. The leading hotel of the town, Headquar ters for commercial men. rUenm hem, free bun, Imtli rooms Hull closeta on every floor, ftitinplti rooms, billiard room, telephone con nections &c. JJOTELi BELNAP, REYNOLDSVILLE, PA. GREEN & VO.XSER, Proprietor. First class In every particular. Located In the. very centre of tho business pin t of town. Free 'bus to anil from trains nnd commodious ample rooms for commercial travelers. QOMMEUCIAL HOTEL, BROOKVILLE, PA., FHIL P. CARRIER, Proprietor, Pnmnlo rooms on the irrounrl floor. House heated hy natural gas. Omnibus to and from all trains. Grocery Boomers W BUY WHERE YOU CAN GET ANYTHING YOU WANT. FLOUR, Salt Meats, Smoked Meats, CANNED GOODS, TEAS, COFFEES H U AND ALL KINDS O FRUITS, CONFECTIONERY, TOBACCO, AND CIGARS, Everything In tho lino of Fresh Groceries, Feed, Elto. Good delivered free any place in town. Call on uh ami get prices, W. C. Schultz & Son & N Country Produce N. HANAU. Fancy Prices Though quality in the bent. We make the statement for the benefit of thone who nre not our customers, and so may not know it: (h it imucks MARK CT8TOMEKS OF ALL W1K. COM K. A full line of Dress Goods. The Best and Cheapest ever brought to Ueyiioldsville. 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, worth 16, to $18. Children's Suits 2.75, are worth 8.50 to 5.00. A fine line of Boys' and Men's Negligee Shirts. N. Hanau. The First National Bank ot Reynoldsville. CAPITAL 9SO.OOO.OO. C. Mitchell, President! droit .1 lelland, Vice l'rei. John II, Kiitirlirr, (ashler. Director: O. Mitchell, rVott Mcf'lellnnil. ,T. C. King, Joseph Strauss, Joseph Henderson, O. W. Fuller, J. II. Kauelmr. Pooh a general hiinklwrhunlneKs and solicits tho accounta of merchant!, professional men. farmers, mechanics, miners, lumlwrmen una others, promising the most, careful attention to the business of all persons. First National Hank bulletin:, Nolan block ' A Ecliflous VeeWy (UHeOTASIHJ NO PAPER LIKE IT ON EARTH Unique not Eccentric. Witty not Funny, Religious not Pious. Not for Sect but for Souls. WHOLE 6CRM0N3 IN A SENTENCE. Send a dims In sumps for three jreeks trial. THE RAM'S HORN, 91. M WOMAN'S TEMPLE, Read Per Year. CHICAGO It once, ONLY PAPER THAI; EVERYBODY LIKE KNOW ME BY MY WORKS. Are you Kolnir to attend the l'lttshunr Ex positions ami wu tho Wonders of the World? The Kivatt-kt and irrandest la that ot Pr. llur froon, Ihd you ever sen thousands of tape worms and cancers In out collection? Klop at lr. ilui'voon's olllce, IK'7 I'eiin live., I'll tabu in, Ave minutes walk from Union station, uiiu see them; their isUal has never been seen. lh Hurttoon has taken :slu tape-worms in 40 months, and has cured thousands of people of cancer without the use of tho knife. Use Hystcm Itcuuvator and live, for sale at all IfruK Hlores. Catarrh, parasltls. tape-worms, eto.i secret diseases of men and womeu a specially. Uu detles tho world to show as many cures of so-called Incurable diseases as ho can. Uemembvr now address; send stamp for book. (K)T PENN AVKNCB, Hltaburg, V. ;a"Kor sale at II. Alex Btoke's drug store. ASK FOR 7X FINE CANDIES. IN SEALED PACKAGES AT H. ALEX. STOKES. THE LEADING DRUGGIST, Rcynotdavlllr, Pa. LISTEN! Till I toll you of something thut is of Croat Interosl to all. It must, ho rn- 9 -M j inembored that .1. C. Froohllch is the Popular Tailor of Jloynoldsvllle, and that Is what I am going to dwell on at this time. Never mind the World's Fair for a few moments, as his exhibit , of goods is something on thatsoale. The ' tremendous display of seasonable suit ings, especially the fall and winter as sortment, should be seen to be appre ciated. A larger line and assortment of fall and winter goods than ever. I auk and Inspection of my goods by all gentlemen of Keynoldsvilln. All fits and workmanship guaranteed perfect. Yours as In the past, J. C. FROEHUCH, Reynoldatvllte, Pa. (W Next dxr to Hotel McConnell. Gltu Meat. Market I buy the best of cattle and w keep the choicest kinds of meats, such as MUTTON, PORK VEAL AND BRIEF, SAUSAGE. Everything kept neat and clean, Your 'patronage solicited. E. J. Schultze, Prop'r. J. S. MORROW, HF.AI.EIt IN Dry Goods, Notions, Boots, and Shoes, Fresh Groceries Flour and Feed. GOODS DELIVERED FREE. OPERA HOUSE BLOCK Reynoldsville, Pa. M. J. Riggs, Proprietor ot ttieGHeap Cash Grocery Store, WEST MAIN ST., Has an elegant and freeh line of Groceries, Provisions, Flour, Meats, Confectionery, Tobacco, Cigars and every thing kept in a FirsVclass Grocery. Farm Produce always on hand. Goods delivered free to any part of town. Call and get prices. Subscribe for "The Star," $1.60 PER YEHR.
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