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VOLUME 2.
REYXOLDSV1LLE, PEXN'A., WEDNESDAY OCTOItER 25, 1893.
NUMBER 21.
The Unparalleled
SUCCESS!
o Of our sales for
s and
Men'
Is due w holly to the
fact that we give
yon one hundred
cents' worth of val
ue. Why does
everyone say 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
r-
k
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, 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
$2.
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 Cassimere, 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 o
Boy's Suits
SUITS
SUITS,
BESIDE THE BAY OF MONTEREY.
Beside the bay of Monterey,
When morn Is on the mountain,
What Joy to hear and know not fear,
The cry of seaborn fountains!
Across the hay of Monterey
The ilea tog, thinly drilling.
The land reveal or shore conceals.
Soft scenes, like magto, shining.
Beside the bay of Monterey
How sweet to walk at even,
When softened dyes from sunset skies
Steal np the sapphire heavenl
Along the reach of rocky beach
Oh. Joy It Is to follow,
Where blooms the sea anemone
In every waveworn hollow.
On Riant rock that fronts the shock
The spray wet grasses glisten.
Where lircnks the wave on clifT and cat
The flowers bend and listen.
t count the years by all my tears
And all life's stormy weather, r
Since bv the bay of Monterey
We wandered, love, together.
I walk along the changing shore.
Oh, sad and strange It teems!
And if yon hear the billows roar.
You hear them but in dreams.
For you have slept now many a day
Upon the shore of Monterey.
Sarah L. Stlllwell in Overland Monthly.
THE SIAMESE HAREM.
A COMPLETE CITY WHEREIN WOM
AN'S REIGN 13 ABSOLUTE.
Its Government, Amusement and Ilo
manees The Elopement ofalteantlful
Princess Leads to a Trial For Witchcraft.
A Slave's Herole Devotion.
Extremely interesting nre the stories
of bare m life in Slam told by Mrs. A. H.
Leonowens, an English woman who
spent six years at the courts of the late
king. She was employed as a governess
for the king's children, 05 in number,
the present king being one of her best
pupils. Her description of the city of
Nang Harm, or Veiled Women, is full
of interest. The 11,000 inhabitants of
this city, which is inclosed by the inner
of two parallel wy Is around the royal
palace, are all women and children. No
man, save the king and the priests, dare
ever enter its precincts. Here live the
royal princesses, the wives, concubines
and femalo relatives of the king, with
their numerous slaves and attendants.
Connecting the city with the two pal
aces are covered entrances for the wom
en. At the end of each of these passages
is a bas-relief representing the head of a
sphynx with a sword through his mouth
and bearing this inscription, "Better
that a sword be thrust through thy
month than that thou utter a word
against him who ruleth on high." Not
far off are the barracks of the amazons,
the women's hall of justice and the
dungeons, where female justices daily
administer justice to the inhabitants of
this woman's city.
There is also a temple, a gymnasium
and a theater, where the great ladies as
semble in the afternoon to gossip, play
games or watch the dancing girls. In
this city live also the mechanical slaves,
who ply their trades for the benefit of
their mistresses. It is, in fact, a city. It
has its own laws, its judges, police,
guards, prisons, executioners, markets,
merchants, brokers, teachers and me
chanics. Every function is exercised by
women and by women only.
The women of the harem amuse them
selves in the early and late hours of the
day by gathering flowers in the palace
gardens, feeding the birds and gold
fishes, twining garlands for the heads of
the children, listening to reading by
slaves and especially in bathing. When
the heat is not oppressive, they plunge
into the pretty, retired lakes, swimming
and diving like flocks of brown water
fowl. They play at chess, cards and
dice, and some of them are decidedly
skillful.
Mrs. Leonowens describes a trial for
witchcraft which occurred while she
was at the palace. It seems that daring
the king's absence a beautiful princess
disappeared from the harem, and in her
place remained only a deaf and dumb
slave girl. The day of the trial three
women, half stupefied by the foul air of
the damp cell in which they had been
imprisoned, were conducted to the great
court hall of the temple, where the trial
for witchcraft was to take place, A pro
cession of astrologers, wizards and
witches, who receive handsome salaries
from the king, filed into the temple and
took their places.
Then came the chief judge of the su
preme court and his secretary to report
the trial to the king. The prisoners,
when brought in, proved to be May
Peah, who was the deaf and dumb
changeling, and the two handmaidens
of the princess. They were guarded by
60 amazons. The crowd, who looked
upon May-Peah as a veritable witch, was
breathless with expectation. Conch
shells were now blown to summon the
holy man of the woods, who soon ap
peared on the opposite bank of the river,
plunged into it and came and took his
place beside the prisoners. This strange
mortal, who lived the life of an orang
on tang, bad a remarkably fine, sensitive
face and was always called to aid the
court in its spiritual examinations.
At the command of the judge the two
amazons who were on duty on the night
of the abduction testified that a tail,
dark figure, with a dagger in one band
and a ponderous bunch of keys in the
other, bad entered the ball They saw
her go to the cell of the princess, open it
with one of the mysterious keys and
lead her forth. As they were paralyzed
and unable to move from the spot, the
strange figure reappeared, passed by
them quickly into the cell and closed the
door. To the questions of the wizards
May-Peah returned no answer.
At a signal an alarm gong was struck
immediately behind her, and being tak
en by surprise she turned to see whence
the sound came. The wily judges then
shouted, "It is plain that you can speak,
for you are not deaf." She was forth
with condemned to all the tortures of the
rack. The holy man of the woods on
bearing this uttered a wild cry of "Yah"
(forbear) and declared that she was
powerless to speak because under the in
fluence of witchcraft. One of the wise
women suggested that some magio water
should be poured into her mouth. On
opening it they fell back with horror
and cried: "Brahmat Brahma! An evil
fiend has torn out her tongue."
Immediately the unhappy woman be
camo the object of pity and even adora
tion. The ceremony of exorcism was
gone through, and she and her compan
ions were fully acquitted of any com
plicity with the devil, each receiving a
sum of money and being set at liberty.
May-Peah's friends afterward told
Mrs. Leonowens that it was she who
had terrified the amazons, released the
princess and led her to a boat in which
were the lover prince and two friends.
As there was not room for all, May-Peah
refused to leave the companions of her
beloved mistress, and, full of terror lest
by the dreadful torture which she knew
awaited her she might be forced to be
tray those who were dearer to her than
ber own life, she with one stroke of her
dagger deprived herself of the power of
ever uttering an intelligible sound.
Novel Stage Effects.
Some new scientific stage effects vc;
introduced into a recent performance i
Wagner's "Die Walknre" at the Ur;itil
Opera House, Paris. The scene where
the sons of Wot an, mounted on steed
and brandishing their lances, are seen
in the clouds is described as very realis
tic. The foreground is wild and rocky,
and the clouds are seen to send ikyi ss
the sky. This effect is produced by i o
jecting the image of a cloudy sky by nil
electric lantern on a curtain of trmi' lu
cent blue cloth.
The continuous movement of the
clouds for half an hour is produced by
painting them on the edge of the disk of
glass 13 inches in diameter and rotating
the edge past the lens of the lantern.
Three lanterns are employed to blend
the clouds. The wild cavalcade of Wo
tan's heroes is produced by a line of mo
chanical horses, full sized and carrying
real performers. They are supported on
a scaffold and drawn by means of a ca
ble across the scene at a suitable eleva
tion. The mounted men are strongly
illuminated by the electrio light, and
thus rendered visible through the trans
lucent curtain representing the heavens.
Tho scene terminates by a conflagra
tion in which great flames run along the
rocks, while thick fumes, reddened by
Bengal fire, Bpread through tho atmos
phere. The flames are due to fulminat
ing cotton placed in advance on the
rocks and lit by the machinists. Lyco
podium powder is also blown through
holes in the stago, Weird cloud effects
are produced by steam. Exchange.
A Sad Awakening.
In one of Theodore Hook's stories the
bridegroom, departing with bis bride
for their honeymoon, is disturbed by a
continual tapping on the floor of the
post chaise. It begins to bother him ex
ceedingly, "What the deuce is that
noise?" at lost ho mutters. "It is noth
ing, darling," answers the bride sweet
ly. "It is only my wooden leg." Only
that, and nothing more. She had got
accustomed to it from long use, but the
information put him out exceedingly
and cansed a coolness which was perma
nent. Argonaut.
The Duchess of Cleveland.
The aged Duchess of Cleveland, the
mother of Lord Rosebery, who is one of
the last, if not the last, of the surviving
ladies who officiated as bridesmaids to
the queen at her majesty's marriage over
68 years ago, is a lady of great activity
of mind and body. She is just about to
set out on a journey to South Africa.
London Queen.
The greatest naval review of modern
times was by Queen Victoria in 1864, at
the beginning of the Crimean war. The
Beet extended in an unbroken line for
five miles and comprised 800 men-of-war,
with twice that number of store
and supply ships. The fleet was manned
by 40,000 seamen.
It has been computed that in a single
subio foot of the ether which fills all
pace there are locked up 10,000 foot
tons of energy which has hitherto es
caped notice. To unlock this boundless
Itore and subdue it to the service of man
Is a task that awaits the electrician of
the future.
It is an old belief of native Hawaliuns
that the spirits of their warrior chiefs
Inhabit after death the bodies of their
favorite horses. There is a fine white
Italllon in Honolulu in which, it is pop
ularly believed, lives the spirit of Boki,
Who led a rebellion in Tahiti years ago.
A vine at Hampton Court, which was
planted in 1768, is believed to be the
largest in the world. Its branohes ex
tend over a space of 3,800 feet. It usu
ally bears upward of 8,0db bunches of
rapes annually.
Tho stock of paid notes for five years
in the Bank of England is about 77,745,
000 in number, and they fill 18,400
boxes, which, if placed tide by side,
Would reach H miles.
COULDN'T FOOL THE ROOSTER.
fee Parmer Tried to Stop Ills Crowing,
but It Didn't Work.
When Charlie Trifles went out into the
country for bin health, he put np at
Farmer Ellery Cranberrymarsh's place.
Fanner Ellery was something of a poul
try fancior and had one of those big,
melodious, gamy cockerels of Buff Co
chin extraction, with a voice that was a
cross between the blowing of a geyser
and the sound of a three tined whistle on
a boiler factory. About 8 o'clock every
morning the rooster would arise on his
perch, and standing on his tiptoes make
all the hens sick by letting go his voice
like the sound of many waters.
It also broke up Charlie Trifles' slum
bers, and he was unable to woo them
back by cigarettes or philosophy. He
made considerable complaint to Uncle
Ellery, and the old gentleman hunted
over his poultrybook and read as fol
lows: "There is one simple device by which
a rooster can be reduced to complete
and acceptable silence. The bird can
not crow unless ho is able to stand erect
and raise his head to the fullest extent.
Now if a plank, or even a lath, be placed
above his perch so that he cannot gain
an upright position, be cannot possibly
lift up his voice."
Here was the solution, and Uncle El
lery arranged laths above all the perches.
In the early dawn before milking time
Uncle Ellery crept out to the hennery to
see bow the device worked. The cock
had just awakened and was trying to get
np to turn his lungs loose in his UBual mat
utinal vociferation, but he was unable
to raise his bead, A hen opened one eye,
and seeing his dilemma smiled and
dropped off to sleep again. Uncle El
lery chuckled.
But the rooster was not to be foiled.
Recognizing his dilemma, he dropped off
the perch to the floor, got a good grip
on an adjacent crack in the boards so as
to take up the recoil of the crow, raised
himself np on tiptoe and let out his
lungs in a way that pulled Charlie Trifles
out of bed and drove him to cigarettes.
Then after a satisfied "cut, cut, cor-r-r-r-r,"
the rooster kicked a hen or two
off the roost and dropped off into a con
tented slumber. Minneapolis Journal,
An Escape In the Sky.
Once in awhile a meteor plunging in
to the atmosphere of the earth is neither
consumed by tho beat developed through
friction nor precipitated upon the surface
of the globe, but pursues its way out
into open space again.
Its brief career within human ken may
be compared to that of a comet traveling
in a parabolic orbit, which, as if yiolding
to a headlong curiosity, almost plunges
into the sun and then hastens away
again, never to return.
In July, 1803, one of these escaping
meteors was seen in Austria and Italy,
Careful computations based upon the
observations which were mode in vari
ous places have shown that it was visi
ble along a track in the upper air about
680 miles in length. When at its nearest
point to the earth, it was elevated 43
miles above the surface.
From this point it receded from the
earth, its elevation when last seen being
no less than 88 miles.
Although the resistance of the atmos
phere was not sufficient to destroy the
motion of this strange visitor, which con
tented itself with so brief a glimpse of
our globe, yet it carried the effects of
that resistance out into space with it
and can never shake them off.
No matter what its previous course
may have been, tho retardation that it
suffered during its passago through the
air sufficed to turn it into a different di
rection and to send it along another
path than that which it had been follow
ing. Youth's Companion.
InstantaueotM Photography.
A recent improvement in photography
enables the artist to overcome to a con
siderable extent the difficulty of preserv
ing the natural expression of the sitter
during the necessary period of exposure.
It seems that, notwithstanding this pe
riod has been greatly shortened in vari
ous ways, particularly by the adoption
to such an extent of the magnesium light.
with its unique advantages, nervousness
is so prevalent among those who sit be
fore the camera that the operator has
still found the interval too prolonged for
the perfect accomplishment of his work.
Herr Haag of Stuttgart claims to meet
and overcome the trouble in question by
means of a change in the management
of the magnesium light, making for this
purpose what are called lightning car
tridges, which cause a tremendous de
velopment of luminosity and are set
alight in ono-tonth of a second by means
of electricity. The so called natural
photographs taken by this process are
said to preserve the mental expression
and momentary play of the features with
extraordinary clearness and exactitude,
but the operation requires so much skill
and practice that it is said to be carried
on only by a single photographer in Ber
lin. Berlin Letter.
' The Vaulty of Sparrows.
A correspondent informs the London
Spectator that his daughter writes to
bun from Bangalore that she is "obliged
to cover up her looking glass with a
towel, for the sparrows come in, sit on
the frame and tap at themsolves, making
on both glass and dressing table a horrid
mess. At first the towel kept thorn
away, but they were always on the
watch, and if any one threw back the
towel they would be there in a minute.
But now they hold back the towel with
one claw, hold themselves on with the
other and peck away at their images,"
Vegetation and Climate,
The time was when Florida was an Im
mense sand bar, stretchiug into the gulf
of Mexico, and probably as barren ns can
be conceived. But in the scniitropical
climate under which it exists, in the
course of ages the amis carried to its
shore by the sen, and the winds, and the
myriads of birds which find it a resting
place have clothed it withluxurlaut veg
etation, interspersed with tracts of ap
parently barren sauds.
Its main features illustrate the absurd
ity of the common notion that tho land
scapes of tropical and semitropical lati
tudes are superior in luxuriance of vege
table production to those of itw temper
ate cones. The truth is that in tho hot
regions it is only where there is constant
moisture that there is a strong and rank
growth of plants. Generajjy aridity
prevails, the hillsides are Wrelt of vege
tation, and an air of parched up uud
suffering nature characterizes all that is
seen.
It is only when we come north that
our landscapes glow with universal veg
etable profusion; that the forests stand
out in bold relief on the hillsides'; Unit
the earth is carpeted with vernal green,
and prodigality of vegetation reigns su
preme. In tho tropical landscape the
l - m n , ., ...
auunuuiiue vi uowers, which bio Klip
posed to be peculiar to warm climules,
are exceptional phases.
They exist, but it is in tho recesses of
the swamp where the burning sun is
checked in its offulgeucy. In theso re
cesses, and favored by Brtoi;?8 of water,
we have in Florida tho wildest t fiVets.
Wo have flowers and vines nml dtriir.'.'o
leafings and glantic trees as nowhere
else to be seen; but they are always in
bidden places. The open tropical land
scape, we repeat, is arid and desolate.
Picturesque America.
Leopard Shooting.
The first time that I saw a wild leopard
in the junglo might havo been easily also
the last timo for my seeing any wild
leopards. I was creeping along under
tho trees on the sloop of one of tho little
hills at Chittagong, just inside tho tan
gled fringe of briers and grasses tit tho
edge of the covert. I was stalking, or
rather sneaking, after one of those beau
tiful pheasant which we used to call the
mathoora (Euplocamus horafieldi) and
listening for its footfall on tho dry leaves,
for this pheasant rather disregards the
precaution of moving Bilently,
Suddenly there was a slight noiso of a
broken twig on the projecting branch of
a tree almost overhead, in front of mo.
A glance showed to me a leopard stretch
ed out nlong the branch and gazing ear
nestly into tho bushes below it.
Tho leopard was hunting tho mathoora
after his fashion, hoping to pounce on it
from the tree. Ho was so intent on his
work that bo seemed not to huve board
or studied or seen me. In a moment I
raised my gun and fired a charge of No.
6 shot into his head just behind tho ear.
The leopard foil dead almost at my feet,
nearly all the shot having penetrated the
brain. But if I had not been so lucky
as to see the leopard and also to kill it,
it might perhaps have jumped (lowu on
me and broken my neck, or in its dying
struggles it might have bitten and maul
ed me. It was great luck forme, but
bad luck for the leopard.
It was a very handsome yonng beast,
apparently full grown, though leopards
vary so much in size and length that it
is not easy to say when one of them has
reached maturity. This adventure hap
pened many years ago, I still have the
animal's skin, but it looks rather dingy
and dirty now. Longman's Magazine,
The World's Parliaments.
The British parliament compares fa
vorably in size with those of other na
tions. With 670 members in the bouse
of commons and over 668 in the upper
bouse, it is far and away the largest in
the world, France comes nearest with
684 in the chamber of deputies and 800
in the senate. Spain comes next with
431 in congress and 861 in the cortes.
then comes the Austrian reichsrath
with 853 and 245 in the lower and upper
houses respectively, followed by Ger
many with 827 in its reichstag and 68 in
its bundesrath. The United States has
BSD representatives in congress and 88
euators. London Tit-Bits.
Raphael. ,
Raphael experienced temptations to
suicide. He himself says: "I tied the!
fisherman's cords which I found in the
boat eight times around her body and ;
mine, tightly as in a winding sheet. I
raised hor in my arms, which I had kept
free in order to precipitate her with me '
Into the waves. At the mo
ment I was to leap to be swallowed for-
ever with her, I fult her pallid head turn
upon my shoulder like a dead weight
and the body sink down upon my knees."
New York Times.
The Truth Out.
Clara Therel I knew it. He has pro
posed this evening and she has accepted. .
Dora They are acting like other peo
ple. Merely polite, that's all.
"That's only a blind. Look at her'
yachting cap."
"It's on hind side before,"
"Yes. A mancan't kiss a girl under
one of those peaks," New York Weekly. 1
.
. Women's Patents.
Among the patents recently taken out '
by women are ones for a new foldlug'
bath, folding dish nap and glass holders
cor uso on smpDoaru, improvements in
irtiflclul eyes, new method of sounding
whistles and the like in combination
with bellows, and a regulator for (low
combustion fireplaces,