STOKY TELLING OWLS THEIR FUNNY YARN3 MADE THE ADIRONDACK3 RING WITH MIRTH. The Jnvlnl HlrHa Vre So T.niiglttrr Pro ToVlnuTlint the Ulilr Rnllttlng- roiitiijrlon Spread to lliilr Iliitiian Auditors, and Ercn the f.niina Ilonlvd Willi Delight. "What ntntici1 our p-rt? mot np In the Adirondack," tmid a Scrnnton mnn, "was nn entertninuient given to ns by a flock of story tolling owls. Our camp Iras nw.iy back in tlio wilderness of Herkimer county, and wo had hardly turned In for tho night whon n flock of owls nlightpd on ft tree over na and be gan to tell stories nnd laugh. Every owl listened in ilenco to tho ono that was talking, and when the tale wna fin ished the whole flock laughed aa though they were tickled half to death. "They reminded ns of a lot of drum mers in a smoking car, and they had such jolly fun it became contagions. We all rolled and laughed over tho fun the big eyed birds were having np in the tree, and before long tho Bide splitting contagion attacked some loons out on the lake, which fairly yelled with de light whenever the fun loving owls guf fawed and shrieked mid shouted over a right good yarn told by one of their number. "Once in awhile a story was so funny before the knob was reached that we could hear two or three of the feathered listeners snicker and chuckle under their breath, and when the end came the en tire flock made the woods ring. The jovial birds had met expressly to swap experiences of the night before, and they talked so plainly that we could easily keep a ran of their anecdotes as we lay on our beds of spruce boughs. "One of the owls told about how a big rat that he had caught by the back yanked itself loose nnd showed fight. The owl described how he had let the rat flatter itself that it was going to lick him, how he finally bit his tail off at the root, and how the rat then went squeal ing and rigzagging around with no rud der to guide its movements. The picture so amused the eager auditors that they fell into the most violent fits of laughter, some of them tumbling from their perch, they were so tickled. "Anothor owl described the tussle he had had with a tough old jack hare in a swamp. He said that the hare had car ried him along through the rushes and over logs for some distance after he had got his claws in its back, and that he at last brought the hareup standing by keep ing one claw in its hide and catching hold of a bnsh with his other claw. The hare rolled over and over as soon as the owl let go of the bnsh, nnd tho owl said that bis feathers pointed in all directions when he finally got the best of the hare. Peal after peal of laughter followed the narrative. "Another owl told about biting a snake's head off and trying to swallow it. The head stuck in bis throat, nnd he would Surely have choked to death, he said, if bis mate hadn't come along just then and pulled it out with her claw. The story teller's predicament was such a funny picture to the imagination of the listening owls that they responded with yells of wild delight. "But the story that fairly upset the whole party of nocturnal roisterers and made them hoot and screech and flutter all over the tree for at least five min utes was told by an owl with an alto voice. He said that he folt like kicking up some mischief the night before, so he sailed out to the settlement, settled down on the window sill of a house in which there was no light and began to tap on the panes with his bill The folks were asleep, m he flitted to the opposite side of the house and tapped there. Nobody stirred, and he kept going from one side of the house to the other till a woman got np, struck a light and began to try the windows to see if they were fast. 'When she came to his window, he peered in at her, and she started to scream so hard that in a moment her husband sprang out of bed, and four chil dren in their nightclothes came running down stairs and shouting, 'Mamma, what's the matter? The woman couldn't tell what the matter was, although her huBhand and young ones kept coaxing her to, but at length she caught her breath long enough to say she had seen a spook at the window. "At that the man dashed out and be gan to search around the house, and the owl said he flew to the top of a balsam tree, where he sat till the man went back, when he alighted on the window ill again. The man was angry at his wife for making snch a rumpus about nothing, so he drove the children back to bed and went to jawing her like six ty. She jawed back, and they had it hot and heavy till the man got np and cuffed her. Then she threw a dipper of water on him in the bed, and in jump ing out at her he knocked the lamp off the stand and put out the light. The owl said he listened to their quarreling and fighting in the dark till he could stand it no longer, when he flew back to the woods. His recital filled his listen ers with merriment, and it was several minutes before they calmed down for another anecdote. "Well, sir, those jovial owls continued to tell stories till 8 o'clock, when we all became so sleepy that we lost all interest in their amusing tales. The loons out on the lake laughed like all possessed whenever the owls did, and the two gangs of midnight merrymakers kept up their racket till we had to go ont and drive the owls away by firing our re volvers." Soranton Letter. Colored Servant!. "Do you still have colored servants, Hicks?" "Well, in a sonse. We don't have negroes any more, but we've got three of the greenest girls you ever saw in the house now." Harper's Bazar. Mo Ideals Shattered. 3he Why don't you murry her? He Beoauue it is so much more de lightful to love her. Truth. A0AW3 NAIVETE. A lTomnn Dr-fenda tho Pint Man Prom Cliars;. of Continue. And the Lord said, "Hast thon eaten of tho tree whereof I commanded thee thon shonldst not eat?" The man said, "The womnn whom thon gavest to bo with me she gave mo of the tree nnd I did eat." This, it has been hold for cen turies, was Adam's great sin, for which he was driven ont of the garden nnd his descendants, even to the present gen eration, compelled to work for a living. In nddition to bearing the consequences of his error Adam has been denounced through nil sncreeding centuries for his cowardice And lack of gallantry in try ing to throw the blame upon tho woman who had been given to be with him "God's first, best gift to man." We are glad, therefore, that even after ,000 years f unmerited condemnation which the memory of our great pro genitor has had to bear there has arisen one person who dares to speak for him. And it is all the more fortunate that that person is a woman a member of the sex whom Adam's words, by a wrong interpretation, were held to have maligned. This person is Mrs. Caroline F. Corbin, a distinguished authoress. In her latest book she says of Adam's pleat "This is not the expression of cow ardice, but of the innocent and native belief that anything which this lovely being, fresh from Clod's hand, proposed must be right, and right or wrong must be done. It is a trait which has come down in unbroken continuity of inheritance to the latest born of Adam's sons." The thought is a new one, but there is not a man alive and capable of appreci ating Mrs. Corbin's argument who will not indorse it. Where is there a man to day, barring a few crusty old bachelors, who would not have done the same thing under like circumstances? The woman was beautiful, the apple waa good, and Adam was an unsophisticated, ingenious young man unaccustomed to the little social arts and deceptions that the daughters of Mother Eve have learned from her example. We insist that Adam is vindicated, and that Mark Twain's tears over his grave were a deserved tribute. Now, let the building of his monument pro ceed. And lot it be recorded thereon that "he was a kind, loving and obedient husband." Troy Tinie.i. Small Fortune lletwoen the Creeks. A cigar dealer was recently compelled to move from his down town stand, which he had occupied for 83 years, be cause of the demolition of the old build ing. He packed his belongings with many a sigh of regret When he had got his things all out, he turned to the work men, who were waiting to begin tearing down the building, and remarked in a rather sarcastio tonei "Well, boys, you may have all you find in this old trap." The workmen began on the old floor, which had been worn into hollows by age. It had not been replaced since it was originally laid. One of the men ripped up a board with his crowbar, raising a cloud of dust. When he got it out of his eyes, he saw something shiny in the crack. He picked it up, and it proved to be a dime. Further investigation revealed the fact that the crack was lined with silver. This was an incentive to the workmen. They plied their crowbars with remark able energy for men poorly paid. In this instance they were amply rewarded. In every crack of the floor silver dimes were found. Some of them bore dates of nearly half a century ago. The men gathered the coin in bandfuls. The cigar dealer, in speaking of the oc currence, said that he hadn't the slight est idea that so much money could be lost through carelessness and a poor floor even in 83 years. "But it won't happen again," he said. "Whon I heard of it, I Immediately gave orders to have my new store refloored with hard wood, and no cracks, at my own expense." New York Herald. A Striking Presentiment. It is curious how future events are oc casionally prefigured by some anticipa tory token which, unlike presentiments and premonitory dreams, makes perhaps no impression at the time on those whom they concern. Here is a striking example. One of Charles Dickens' sons, from some childish oddity of expression in his large, won dering eyes, was given by his father the very unique sobriquet of the "Ocean 8pecter," by which he was always called. The great novelist never knew of the weird significance his playfully bestowed appellation was to bear, for he himself had been nearly two years in his grave at the time his little "Ocean Specter," then a lieutenant in the royal navy, died and was buried at sea. London Tit-Bits. Caeleaa Purchase. Two eminent French gentlemen, who were great friends, used to relate an amusing story of their impecunious days. Neither fame nor fortune had come to them, but they were always hopeful. The years had weighed heavi ly enough upon Jules, however, for him to have become entirely bald. One day Alphonse met him with a beaming coun tenance and cried gaylys "What do you think, Julesl I have been buying a strong box!" "Then, Alphonse," re plied Jules firmly, "I shall buy a hair brush. "Argonaut George Eliot. George Eliot suffered from melanchol ic moods, and from her thirtieth year had severe attacks of headache. As a child she was poor in health and ex tremely sensitive to terror in the night She remained a quivering fear through out her whole life. New York Times. Vihj the Liked Then. Boston Woman Oh, I do so lore the fields of our New England farms. New York Girl-Why? Boston Woman Because they aro so cultivated, you know. Boston Courier. 1 THE INTERSTELLAR ETHER. Ethereal Wave Which Afreet the Ere and the Photog-rnnhlo Plate. Our eye does not act by detecting heat; In other words, it is not affected by the whole range of ethereal quiverings, but only by a very minute and apparently insignificant portion. It wholly ignores the ether waves whose frequency is com parable with that of sound, nnd for 80 or 40 octaves nliove this nothing about us responds; but high np In A range of vi bration of the inconceivably high pitch of four to seven hundred million per second a range which extremely few accessible bodies are able to emit, and which it requires some knowledge and skill artificially to produce to those waves the eye is acutely, surpassingly and most intelligently sensitive. This little fragment of total radiation Is in itself trival and negligible. Were it not for men and glowworms and a few other forms of life, hardly any of it would ever occur on such a moderate sized lump of matter as the earth. Ex cept for an occasional volcano or a flash of lightning, only gigantic bodies like the sun and stars nave energy enough to produce these higher flutelike notes, and they do it by sheer main force and vio lencethe violence of their gravitative energy producing not only these, but very other kind of radiation also. Glow worms, so far as I know, alone have learned the secret of emitting the phys iologically useful waves, and none other. Why these waves are physiologically useful, why they are what is called "light," while other kinds of radiation are "dark," are questions to be asked, but at present only tentatively answered. The answer must ultimately be given by the physiologist, for the distinction be tween light and nonlight can only be stated in terms of the eye and its pecul iar specialized sensitiveness, but a hint may be given him by the physicist. The etheral waves which affect the eye and the photographic plate are of a size not wholly incomparable with that of atoms of matter. When a physical phenomenon is concerned with the ulti mate atoms of matter, it is relegated at present to the vaguer group of knowl edge summarized under the head of chemistry. Sight is probably a chemical sense. In the retina may be complex aggregations of atoms, shaken asunder by the incident light vibrations, and rapidly built up again by the living tis sues in which they live, the nerve endings meanwhile appreciating them in their temporarily dissociated condition a vague speculation, not to be further countenanced except as a working hy pothesis leading to examination of fact, but nevertheless the direction in which the thoughts of some physicists are tending a direction toward which many recently discovered experimental facts point Professor Lodge in Fortnightly Review. The Turkleh Harem. In a recent lecture on "Turkey," Mr, Oscar F. Straus, ex-minister of the Unit ed States to that country, threw some in teresting light upon a most interesting phase of Turkish life the harem. The lecturer admitted that his knowledge came entirely from hearsay. He had never been in one and had never known a diplomat who had. Ho pronounced the institution not altogether unattractive. Turkish women-are not secluded in the harem as in a prison. They are abso lute mistresses of that sido of the house and free to exercise their rights indis putably. A Turkish husband would not dare to enter his wife's apartments when it is not her pleasure that he should, and she has only to place her slippers outside the door to indicate such desire for se clusion. . In many ways the oriental wife makes her caprices felt, and her spouse can only submit with what grace he may, like his occidental brother. The right to divorce is vested with the husband, but the divorcee retires with allhor property to her family and may marry again at once. And this right to bold property separately from their hus bands which English and American worn en have only lately acquired has been the privilege of the Turkish wife for a thousand years. A One Volume Man. A curious example of generous obsti nacy was a stout countryman who in quired for a nice book to read "one with a story in." On several being placed before him, he examined them attentively and picked out the middle volume of a "three decker" with the re mark, "This 'ere's my sort What's the price?" "Oh," was tho reply, "this is only the second volume. The story goes through three. The set is half a crown." ' 'Hauve a crown t Well, I'll gie ye that for that one book. It's a pretty un enough." "But won't you have the other two asweU? You'd betterl" "Nawl I don't like th' beginnin of a story; I can't get forrudwi' it An I don't like th' en din; I don't knew as 'ow it's corned about But in th' middle un I'm into f thick of it right off. No, I'll only tak' th' middle un; it'll set me up for a month." And, cramming the book into bis pocket he put down his half crown and disappeared with a "good night" before the other volumes could be given to him. Chambers' Journal. The Prince Coniort's Will. One of the morning papers, in a some what high flown notice of the late 6ir Arnold White, states that the "myste ries" connected with the will of the prince consort "were locked in his faith ful bosom." There were no "mysteries" in connection with the prince consort's will except that the queen, to whom the whole of the prince's property was be queathed, would not allow the will to be proved in the ordinary form, nor has it ever been deposited at Somerset House, London Truth,' ' Peculiarities of Phrasing. . New York Who stole my hat? Philadelphia Who stole me hat? Boston Who has appropriated my bat? Chicago Who swiped my hut? Brooklyn Life. A Metal That Hardens Steel. The reason that the mixture of tung sten with steel gives the latter so great a degree of hardness that it readily scratches glass nnd quarts seems to be revealed by a discovery recently made In Germany. A definitely crystallized compound of iron and tungsten has liecn discovered, the crystals being so hard as to scratch topaz. Tnngstcn is a brittle white metal, almost ns heavy as gold. The crystals, remarks The Taper Trade, aa formed by Its combination with iron, in the proportion of one atom of iron to two of tungsten, are silver gray and very brilliant It is thought that when tung sten is alloyed with steel some of the compound just descriled Is formed In the mass, thereby producing tho remark able Increase in the hardness of the stool. This is an Interesting example of the value that one metal may lend to the oth er, for, until the discovery that it could be used in hardening steel, tungsten, al though it occurs in considerable abun dance, was practically useless and with out value. New York Times. Aa Ancient Article Indeed. "That must be an antique," remarked a visitor to a collector of bric-a-brac, who was exhibiting hla chief treasure a handsomely carved oak table. "Indeed it is," replied the other proud ly. "I believe it to be the finest and oldest specimen of furniture extant" "It may be the finest, but not the old est," remarked the other. "Why, I have an Arabic table at home which dates before the beginning of the Chris tian era. In fact it is known to be more than 8,000 years old." "You surprise me," said the collector, not a little nettled by the remark. "I had no idea there were any tables as old as that. Is its history authentic? What is its character?" "Oh, It's very simple," added the other. "It's the multiplication table. Its history is perfectly authentic, and as for its character, why, that is perplexing at least to the small boys." New York Herald. Men in f ectiooats. It will probably be a matter of sur prise to the general reader to learn that the petticoat was first worn exclusively by men. In the reign of KJng Henry VII the dress of the English was so fan tastio and absurd that it was difficult to distinguish one sex from the other. In the inventory of Henry V appears a "petticoat of red damask, with open sleeves." There is no mention of a woman's petticoat before the Tudor pe riod. Exchange. One of Hla Tricks. "I thought you said you were going to bring a friend home to dinnor with you," said Mrs. Chngwater. "He couldn't come, Samantha," re plied Mr. Chugwater as he snt down with great satisfaction to the first good dinner he had had a chance to attack for a long time. Chicago Tribune. Kaoms to Let. Mrs. Fangle Have you secured a Sodger for your second floor yet, Mr. Goslin? Goslin (horrified) I haven't been look ing for a lodger, madam. Mrs. Fangle Why I'm certain my husband told me you had rooms to let in your upper story Waif. ItllecrlUtnroit. QimiHlcLLrvv' ATTOrtNEY-AT-LAW. Ollli'n on Went, Muln Htrwt, npnoalto tho Comiiicn'hil Hold, KcyiiliUvllU Pit. JJU. H. K. HOOVEH, REYNOLDSVILLE, PA. ltmldviit, dentin!. In building near Melho dlst rlinri'h, omiamlte Arnold liliirk. Uontlu IIHHS In nHriit Iiik. Ootcle. JJOTEL McCONNELL, REYNOLDS VILLE. PA. FRANK J. BLACK, Proprietor. The lendlnK hotel of thu town. Ilciidimr tom (or comnierulul men. Hn-nni hiat, (rue Ihim, hutli rtNtum mid cloMota on every floor, anmnle rooms, billiard room, telephone con neclloim &c. JJOTEL BELNAP, REYNOLDS VILLE, PA. a BEEN a CONSElt, Pmpritto Klrst class In every particular. I.orat lom. Imrtli-iilur. Ifvntiiri In tlio very centre of the uunliiiiwipart of lown. 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