VOLUME 2.
REYXOLPSVILLE, PEXN'A., WEDNESDAY M)VEMI,KK 8, 1)3.
NUMBER 2(5.
The Mrallel
SUCCESS!
o Of our sales
Men's and
Is due wholly to the
fact that we give
you 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
f IN
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.
II a efj)
Vprf
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 BoyB' Good,
Durable and Stylish Cassimere, Cheviot and Jersey SuitB,
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. '
for Summer of o
Boy's Suits
s
SUITS
SUITS,
GRANDMOTHER 8AID.
"Always trt yonr etmlr buck when yon are
going awny;
Don't leave It In the middle of the room or
standing carelessly."
Thil Is what grandmother said, as often, when
a boy,
I Jumped np and ran nnt of doer a reckless
hobble-de-hoy.
"Always act yonr chair back when yon are
going awayi
Don't leave It In the middle of the room or
standing carelessly."
These words, repeated long ago, come ever
fresh to mind.
When little duties are o'erlooked or left to lag
behind.
In the dally walks of busy life, when we think
we haven't time
To be orderly and almost look npon politeness
as a crime.
We are qnlte too apt, from carelessness, to
think, If not to say.
That it mutters not tf we forget to let our
chairs away.
But ft wilt be fonnd that dally life will be
more worth the living
If we blend. In harmony, the precepts of re
ceiving and of giving;
tf We heed the tender chldlngs dealt ont in
childhood's day.
And always "set our chair back when we are
going away."
Clark W. Bryan In Good Housekeeping.
AN OCEAN TRAGEDY.
THE TERRIBLE FATE WHICH BEFEL
THE CENTRAL AMERICA.
A Contest Between Angry Waters and a
Backet Mne, In Whlrh the Latter Lost.
A Cowardly Engineer A Bird (lulded
the Kile te the Rrwu,
And who that tew. hear
without a thrill the name nf the steam
ship Central America, which Bnnk in a
great storm on Sept. 12, 1857, with most
of her officers and crew, nearly 400 pas
sengers and 11,800,000 in gold?
The Central America was crowded
with treasnre laden people from Cnli
fornia on their way to New York. Aft
er leaving Havana on Sj)t. 8 she ran
into a storm. The steamer began to
leak, and Captain Hernden called npon
the passengers to form lines and pass
the backets. Honr after honr the tem
pest howled, and the huge vessel groaned
as the Immense seas broke Hgitinst her.
Honr after honr the men with the buck
ets toiled for their lives; slowly the wa
ter gained on them.
The officers exhorted the bncket gangs
not to pause for a moment if the ship
was to be saved. The wind ronred nnd
the storm increased in fury. Every pas
senger stuck to his post and worked un
til he fell to the deck exhausted. Then
the women offered to take the plnces of
their wornout, fainting husbands and
brothers, but none of the men would h1
low it. As the horror of the situation
gradually dawned on the minds of the
women and children the air was filled
with sounds of terror, but alxve the
raging hurricane and the cries of lamen
tation rose the chorus of the bncket
men:
Heave, oh I heave, oh I stomp and go.
We'll be lolly blather, oh!
All day long they sang this song and
fought for life against the steadily ris
ing water. Mrs. Enston, a bride on her
honeymoon trip, passed bottles of wine
to the heroio men to strengthen them in
their desperate work. All night long
the struggle was continued, and still the
ocean gained inch by inch. The women
begged, with tears in their eyes, to be
allowed to help. They cheered the brave
fellows and wept when they saw them
fall to the deck with white faces and
trembling limbs.
During the next day the peril of the
steamer was increased by the lack of food
and water. The hurricane tossed the
inking hull about and shattered her
spars and masts. While the tired and
sleepless men stack to the buckets the
women knelt and prayed to God for as
sistance. About 2 o'clock in the afternoon a sail
was seen to wind warrt. Guns were fired
and signals of distress hoisted. The
strange vessel, which turned out to be
the brig Marine of Boston, answered the
signals and tried to approach, but the
gale blew her about three miles away.
Then the boats were made ready, and
the women and children prepared them
selves. They had to strip off nearly all
of their clothes and pot on life preserv
ers. Many of the women had gold,
which they could not carry with the
them. Two of them went to their state
rooms and took out bags of 30 gold
pieces, which they threw down in the
cabin, inviting the others to take what
they pleased. The money rolled and
jingled about on the floor, while the two
weeping women explained that thoy were
returning home to enjoy the fortune
which they had made in California, and
that they would be beggars if the ship
was lost. None of the women dared to
take more than two pieces of gold lest it
might weigh them down.
The men still remained at their work,
Baying that they would remain on board
until another ship arrived, as the Murine
could not take all the passengers, and
the women and children must be saved
first. Among those heroes was Billy
Birch, the famous minstrel.
Two of the lifeboats were smashed by
the sea, but three boats were filled with
women and children, many of the latter
being infants. The last boat to leave
carried the chief engineer. He solemnly
promised the captain to return, but the
moment he got into the boat be drew a
knife and threatened to kill any one who
followed him. Later on, when the wom
en and children were put on board the
Marine, the ohief engineer, like the cow
ard and liar he was, refused to return.
Now the sinking steamship was so low
In the ocean that almost every wave
swept her deck. Some of the passengers
got into the rigging, while others tried
to build a raft. Night enme on. The
storm continued to rago. The ship quiv
ered and careened. Rockets soared up
into the bellowing, angry henvens. Slow
ly the vessel filled with water, and the
doomed host clinging to her deck and
rigging prepared for death. There was
no weeping and no shrieking, no wring
ing of hands. The captain stood at the
wheel to the last.
All at once the ship, as if in an agony
of death herself, made a plunge at an
angle of 43 degrees, and with an appall
ing shriek from the engulfed mass she
disappeared, and nearly 000 human be
ings were left struggling among the
fierce waters. The scene was horrifying,
and many who were saved afterward
fainted at the mere memory of it.
A few held on to planks and spars all
through the wild night, and as the day
broke the Norwegian bark Ellen arrived
and picked np 49 of the men,
"1 was forced ont of my course just
before I met you," said the captain of
he Ellen to the rescued passengers,
anA tl-1 I altered my course a bird
flew across the ship once or twice, and
then darted into my face. A few min
utes later the bird repeated its move
ments. I thought it an extraordinary
thing, and while thinking on it in this
way the mysterious bird reappeared, and
for the third time flew into my face.
This induced me to alter my course back
to the original one, and in a short time I
heard noises in the sea and discovered
thnt I was in the midst of shipwrecked
people."
Who shall say what power guided the
flight of the frail messenger through the
Stormy air? New York Herald.
Cannibalism In Rngliallen.
The Vladivostock, a newspaper pub
lished in eastern Siberia, reveals a terri
ble state of affairs among the convicts on
the island of Saghnlien. It would ap
pear that the convicts there have been
treated by some of the subordinate prison
authorities so harshly that the governor
of the island has been obliged to inter
fere for their protection.
A warder named Khanoff and some
of his assistants, who at one time were
convicts themselves and had been raised
to the rank of jailers, have been removed
from their posts. Khanoff s treatment
of the prisoners was so abominable that
a number of them crippled themselves,
cutting off fingers and toes, in order to
be treated as invalids and to be freed
from his terrible cruelties. Others fled
to the impenetrable forest, where they
suffered all the horrors of hunger.
In a satchel belonging to a fugitive
convict who had -been hunted down
were found some pieces of human flesh.
Investigation revealed that this man had
been one of a party of four, and that
only one of them now remained. The
others had been killed and devoured by
their comrades. Similar cases of canni
balism are, according to the Siberian
journal, not infrequent
In Frosen Bussl.
In Russia, where the cold is very in
tense, the markets are very curious
things. The meat is frozen; the carcases
of dead animals, as sheep and pigs, stand
upright outside the stalls; everything,
even game and poultry, requires to be
thawed before it can be cooked, and the
market people's dress is as picturesque
as it is warm and comfortable.
Then the rivers are frozen over all the
winter long, and so thick is the ice that
every one can skate, anywhere and any
time. Stalls are put up on the ice and
busy markets held there.
In the Asiatio part of Russia the peo
ple live chiefly by hunting and fishing,
and the fur of the Russian animals is
very beautiful the ermine, fox, sable,
sea otter and others.
At the end of the winter, when the
snow melts, the huntsman pi' 'ties the
elk, wearing long shoes, in which he
can glide over the snow very quickly,
while the poor elk sinks into the snow
deeper and deeper every step and is at
last overtaken and killed. Good Words.
A Widow.
Our house servant is a Japanese, po
lite as are most of his race. Among his
duties is taking care of the chickens.
One day he chanced to find a nest of fine
eggs at the barn, away from the chicken
yard, contributed by a hen that had es
caped from the others, and as a conse
quence the eggs were not fertile. In Ig
norance of this fact, however, an old
lady of our household a widow imme
diately put a hen to "set" on them. Bid
dy stuck to business, but to no purpose.
When the required time hod more than
elapsed, the lady was very much put
out and puzzled that no chickens had
been hatched. Turning to the Jap, she
said, "What do yon suppose is the mat
ter of those eggs, George?" George
(bowing low): "Excuse me, ma'am, ex
cuse me, bat I t'ink bows again, I
t'ink that hen was a widow." Widow
satisfied. California Review.
Tola at the Liars' Club,
"No sooner was I seated in the chair
than the barber commented on the
weather and directed a current of dis
course into my ears.
" 'Je ne comprend pas,' said I, with
an inward chuckle, thinking his volu
bility would be checked.
"In very good French he started In
afresh. I looked at him as if bewildered
and then interrupted him by asking)
' 'Was sagen Sie?
'He began to repeat In Gorman all
that he had been saying, when I shut
him off witht '
" 'Oh, talk to me with your fingers.
Fm deaf and dumb!' "Truth.
THE STUDY OF A WORD.
Hie Tie sources nnd Variety of Information
It Is I.Ik, ly to Fnrnlsh.
The great dictionaries are a library in
themselves and furnish an exhaustless
source of information. A study of a
single word like cross in fTie Century
Dictionary shows the resources ntid va
riety of information that a familiar
word may furnish. There are 15J col
umns devoted to this word and its com
binations. There are 24 pictorial illus
trations. All in all thero are 257 differ
ent words made ont of cross - fetch have
to be defined. In the great Oxford Dic
tionary there are 11 pages given to this
word, or twice as much as in the Cen
tury. In the Century the study is
highly fascinating. There are 14 radical
ly different sets of definitions to the
word Itself.
The fundamental Idea is, of course,
the cross, the crux for crucifying, but it
has come to 'have a variety of meaning
as a monument, a crucifix, the atone
ment, the Christian religion itself, any
suffering for Christ's sake, anything that
thwarts or vexes, a mixing of breeds in
animal breeding, a term used in chang
ing plants, a joint in a pipe, the acci
dental contact of two electric wires, a
sportsman phrase for a contest dishon
estly decided.
Then cross becomes an adjective, with
several meanings, as falling, athwart,
passing from ono of two positions, per
verse, etc., to the other, being opposed,
being peevish or fretful, ill tempered,
thoroutihly contrary, in the breeder's
vocabulary. Then it becomes an adverb,
meaning transversely or adversely. Then
it becomes a verb, with alllnds of sig
nificance, from the running of a line to
cross a thing, to cancel by crossing, to
cross one's self in devotion, passing from
side to side of a man, to go over a body
of water, to obstruct, to cause to inter
fere, to cross plants, to hoist from the
deck to its place on the mast any of the
lighter yards.
Then there is the preposition, in riding
cross-country or walking cross-lots. All
this with the simple word itself, which
goes cavorting from the most sacred
thought in the world to the breeder's
and the sportsman's language of the
coop and ranch.
After this the mysteries begin. There
are crosses anserated, arellane, bezan
ty, bretesse, catoosed, comtuisse, ere
nele, estoile, fitche, fleury, gringole, lain
beaux, moline, nowyed, nyle, quatre
foil, saltier, sarele, resarcelcd. hen
there are the innumerable compounds of
cross from cross-armed, cross-bated,
cross-biter, cross-bar and cross-bun.
through cross-flucon, cross-ruff, cross
sower and cross-spale to cross-wort.
Then there are a cross-grained set of
crosses, such as croRsarchiual, cross
archus, crossotte, crossopinal, crossop
terygia, crossopterygian, crossoptorygi
dae, crossopturygii, crossopturygia, cross
opterygium, crossopus, crossorhined unil
crossorhininae.
It is incomprehensible that a word sc
simple should have gone rollicking nil
over the earth, into the bowels of the
earth, into tho depths of the sea, among
the fowls of the air, the horse upon the
turf, to card table, to the ships upon tho
sea, to the fishes in their glee, to thu
sharks in their ferocity, to the architect
and plumber, to the farmer in his har
rowing, to the railroad in its building,
to the engine in its working, to the seam
stress in her labors, to the spider in his
webbing, to the spinner at his loom, to
the lawyers in their pleading, to a shrew
in her wrangling, to the gunner in tho
fort, to the miner at his lode, to the
Turk as he sits, to the sword of the glad
iator, to the expert with his telescope, to
the woman in her gazing and in hei
dressing, to the athletes in their wres
tling and to the swindler at his arts. A.
E. Winship in Journal of Education.
Queer Phenomena of railing Bodies.
I am unable to say who first noticed
the peculiar caprices of a stone or other
heavy body dropped from the top of a
high tower, but it is nevertheless a curi
ous fact that such objects invariably fall
slightly to the east of the perpendicular
line. Tersons of inquiring turn of mind
who ask why this is as it is may find an
answer in the following: All falling bod
ies partake of the earth's eastward mo
tion to a greater or lesser extent. There
fore during the time occupied by a stone
in falling from the top of a high tower
or other eminence the earth's rotary mo
tion has carried it an appreciable dis
tance to the east. The initial impetus
of the stone has carried it to the east
ward also, therefore it strikes the earth
to the east of the perpendicular, vary
ing in degree according to the height
from which it has fallen.
A curious article on this subject may
be found in thelipsio Zeitung of May
9. 1889, page 8. The author of the ar
ticle, who has given it the title of "The
Nonperpendicularity of High Towers,"
claims that the tower on St. Peter's ca
thedral at Rome leans 18 inches to the
east. St. Louis Republio.
She'll Know aim Again.
When the king of the Belgians stopped
in tavern ut Spike during a recent rain
storm be overheard the hostess remark:
"I've seen the mug of this tall fellow be
fore." Ere leaving the place the king
presented the hostess with a bust of
himself and later forwarded a large
photograph, with his uutograph. Ex
change, Improving the Breed.
"Why do you out np such antics when
yon feed your turkeys, Mr, Former?"
"Oh, I'm trying to make game of
them," Washington Star,
PULLED OUT HAIR BY HAIR.
A Remarkable Story nf Indian Cruelty Su
perinduced by Jealousy.
Living near this town is n woman
whose prefectly bald hend tells a curious
story of jealousy and Indian cruelty. In
1859 Oswald Thurwald, a Swedish fann
er, had a home in the territory close, to
the Texas border, and his family con
sisted of his wife, two daughters and a
son. The Indians seemed friendly, pass
ing over the Thnrwalds even when slay
ing the other settlers about nnd fre
quenting their place to sell their wares
and to purchase such goods ns Thur
wald brought out from the states for
barter. He was rapidly growing rich
and had mode his preparations to move
to Dallas, where he intended to extend
his business, when the tragedy occurred
that destroyed his home and scattered
his family.
It seems that the chief of the Tonkawa
Indians, who visited that part of the
country from the south on raid iug ex
peditions, had seen Elsa, the elder
daughter, and fancying her offered to
buy her of her father. But Thurwald,
though fond of money, refused, which
gave great offense to the chief. Return
ing home, he incited his people against
the Thurwald, and the following spring
they made an attack on him. Ho and
his son succeeded in escaping, but the
wife and younger daughter, though they
eluded ca'pture the first few days, were
overtaken finally. Mrs. Thurwald sank
under the fatigue of her flight through
a rugged country, and when the Indians
came up with them it was to find the
girl holding her mother in her arms, the
poor woman having just expired.
The next day the girl herself, lagging
on the march from an arrow wound in
her ankle, was shot in the presence of
her sister, who had been seized and held
from the moment of the attack till now.
She was taken to a village and given
into the charge of the squaws until the
men should have returned from the war
trail.
In the meantime the Klckapoos de
clared war on the Tonkawas and raided
the village, when Elsa Thurwald wus
carried ct with such of the Indian
women as were spared as slaves. The
Tonkawas, on returning, found the .
smoking remains of the house and
started after the despoilers, overtaking
them close to the Colorado, where an
obstinate battle ensued, but both bides
then consented to a trace. The chief of
the KickupooB, however, stipulated
that the white woman should be given
him. This was opposed by the Tonka
wa chieftain, who claimed her by right
of priority. This brought on a quarrel,
which was terminated by a baud to
hand fight between the rivals, resulting
in the chief of tho Tonkawas bfing
killed and the bone of contention full
ing to the victor.
He carried her home and confided her
to the care of his squaw with the injunc
tion that if she were injured in any way
the life of the woman would pay for it.
But, fired by jealousy for her successor,
tho woman took advantage of her lord's
absence to wreak her vengeance on the
detested object Binding her to a tree,
she deliberately palled oat the unfor
tunate beauty's hair thread by thread.
This torture lasted several hours, until
the white woman's head was covered
with blood and she shrieking with agony.
When the chief returned and learned
what had occurred, he ordered the witch
burned at the stake. She escaped into -the
bash, but was recovered and the
sentence executed. Thnrwald had now
died, but his son, hearing of his sister
being in tho hands of the Indians, organ
ized a rescuing party and succeeded in
liberating her after 18 months of captiv- -ity.
Her head took weeks to heal, and
it is thought her mind was affected by
her savage treatment, though in 1873 she -married
a farmer in this vicinity. Her
bair has never grown again. Oklahoma
Letter in Philadelphia Times.
A Singular Coincidence.
The chaplain of an American jail
vouches for the following, A little boy
was taken by his parents to visit the
prison, and on passing one of the cell
in which a notorious criminal had been
incarcerated his father playfully pushed
him in and closed the door upon him.
The child, overcome by some vague tcr-i
ror, screamed aloud and could scarcely
be comforted by his mother's caressed.
Years passed. The lad half thought
lessly fell into crime and was only re
called to his better nature on finding
himself, having been sentenced to u tcriu
of imprisonment, in the identical eel)
into which he had been momentarily
thrust as a child.
A Hard Problem.
A certain debating society is discuss
ing the question as to which is the an
grier the htibbuud who goes homo and
finds that the dinner is not ready or the
wife who has dinner ready and whose
husband does not come homo. It is be.
lieved that the debate will ond in a draw.
Worthington's Mugazino.
Just the Time.
Jack How would it do for me to,
speak to your father touight?
Jess Bust time in the world. He got
the bill for my new bonnet just before
we started for our drive. Fachauo.
Their Belluf.
Bloomfleld There are very few infi
dels in Arizona, New Mexico ud the
other territories.
Bollefield Is that so?
Bloomfleld Yesj every man there
believes in a future state. Pittsburg
Chronicle-Telegraph.