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KKYXOL-IWVIIXK, PENX'A., AVEDNKSDAV KOVEMIlKIt 15, UVM.
NUMBER 27.
Dm Unparalleled
SUCCESS!
Of our sales for Summer of o
s and Boy's Suits
Men'
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
u
A !
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,
of these Gems and at the same
you will have to come at once.
SCHOOL
pii )
I Li y
J fl o of
$2.
Reduced from $2.50 and $3.00.
School will soon commence
be in need of new clotheB. We
Durable and Stylish Cassimere,
sizes 4 to 14, in all different new styles (see above cut) at
the unequalled low price of 1
BELL
Clothiers - Tailors
REYNOLDSVILLE, PA.
1
SUITS
so if you care to secure one
time save $3 to $5 in cash
SUITS,
again and many a boy will
will offer 1,000 Boys' Good,
Cheviot and Jersey Suits,
wo Dollars.
BROS.,
- and - flatters,
Ml.
I SHALL NOT DIE FOR THEE.
For thoc t rhnll lint die.
Woman lli:li of fame nnd tmmat
FonlMi ni'-n limit miivit lny,
1 um.I llu y arc tmt ll.v Mime.
Why xhniild I expire
For tho Urn of mi eye,
Slend'-r xttiM or nvnnllke llmbr
I't for thorn thr.t I rhonlri dirt
The round breast, tlio frcali kln,
VeIti erlnwm, luilr mi lyitRiiM rlchi
li(.ved, Indeed, I elmll not 'Mm,
1'leane (tod. not I. Cor any Mich.
The Rniilrn hnlr. the forehead .iln.
The chaste mien, the grnclnnt e..
The rounded heel, the litnuuld tone
Foola alone llnd death from theae.
Thy ihnrp wit, thy tierfert culm.
Thy thin plm, like the era. foam)
Thy white neck, thy bluo eye.
I ihnll not die for thcie alone.
Woman, graceful as the in.
A wise man did nurture me;
Little palm, white neck, bright eye,
I (hall not die for ye.
Douglas Hyde In London Ban.
An Old Fumlly.
Several years ago theru was an old
family In Pennsylvania, named Rotli,
Indeed the long line of Roths was nbont
all the family had to show by way of
distinction, and bo tnncli did they make
of the long branches of the family tree
and the Niagara of blue blood that had
in centuries past coursed through tlielr
veins that people of the more recent gen
erations really begun to think thes9
Rolhs were of sow..' account.
.One evening there happened to be a
party in the little town of M , and
beside the great Kotn ramuy tne guests
numbered among others young Dr.
Sharp, lie was a popular and rising
physician and considered by matchmak
ing uinniuias a particularly desirable
catch,
Mrs. Roth had four marriageable
daughters, so at tho first favorable op
portunity alio cornered the young doctor
and sought to impress upon him the im
portance of her wonderful family.
"Why, doctor," she said, "we all came
over on the Mayflower, so I know you
will not think mo bold in asserting that
the Roths are really one of the first fam
ilies." "Pardon me," replied the young phy
sician, "but I have no hesitation in say
ing that your family enjoys even a great
er distinction."
"Oh, doctor," gushed the old woman,
giving herself a congratulatory hug on
her coining triumph. "Indeed you flat
ter us."
"Not at all," he replied, "for I know
you are tho first family."
"Who told you that, dear doctor?"
"The Bible," he replied reverently,
"for it says the Lord was Roth." Bos
ton Budget.
Count D'Orsajr nnd Lady Hollnnd.
A story going the rounds is one told of
the famous Count d'Orsay. On the oo
casion of his first visit to England, while
he was very young, very handsome and
not easily dlsconcertod, be chanced to be
seated at dinner next to the brilliant and
singular Lady Uolland.
That remarkable and many sided wo
man was in, as it happened, one of her
imperious humors, and tier young neigh
bor soon felt its weight. She dropped
her napkin. The count picked it up gal
lantly. Then her fan, then her fork, then
her glaBS, and as often her neighbor
stooped and restored the lost article. At
last, however, the patience of the youth
gave way, and on her dropping her nap
kin again he turned and called one of
the footmen behind him. "Put my plate
on the floor," said ho. "I will finish my
dinner there. It will be so much more
convenient to my Lady Holland." New
York Times.
Growth of tho Human Heart.
Dr. Benecke of Marbnrg has made
known his observations on the growth
of the human heart, the fact appearing
that the increase is greatest and most
rapid during the first and second years
of life, its bulk at the end of tho second
year being exactly double what it origin
ally was. Between the second and
seventh years it is again doubled in size.
A slower rate of growth then sets in and
continues during the period of maturity
of other portions of the body. After the
fifteenth year np to the fiftieth the an
nual growth of the heart is about .061 of
a cubio inch, the increase ceasing about
the fiftieth year. Leisure Moments.
Royal Pin Money.
The Princess of Wales' long retire
ment has enabled her to save much of he
pin money 10,000 a year and bring
opto a comfortable amount. In the pa
Alexandra has had plenty to do wit
that allowanoe, dressing herself mo
elegantly, her daughters very much less
so, and fitting ont the boys. Times have
changed, her children have an annual
income of 36,000 to divide among them
selves, and the princess has lived aloof
from London society since the death of
her eldest son, thereby incurring but lit
tle expense for dress. New York Adver
tiser. "Neither is a dictionary a bad book to
read," says Emerson in his essay on
books. "There la no cant in it, no ex
cess of explanation, and it is full of sug
gestion the raw material of possible
poems and histories. Nothing is want
ing but a little shuttling, sorting, liga
ture and cartilage."
German papers give detailed descrip
tions of six statues recently unearthed in
a crypt under the sacristy of the "Peter
Paul Kirche" at Liognlts, in Silesia. The
statues, which are all connected with one
another, are supposed to represent apos
tles, and to date from the twelfth century.
A TRAPPI3T REFECTORY.
Cold and Olnnmy ftnfTotindlnga and
ftennty Kill of Fare.
Wo reached the Trapplst refectory. A
irrent cold room, with whitewashed
wnlls nnd five long, nnrrow tables, with
benches on each side, stretching from
nd to end, was the place wl-ero the
monks took their very Cure? Vienls.
TV tsfc! were laid fc n meal.
There were no cloths, nnd it is almost
needless to add that there were no nap
kins, although these are considered so
essential in France that even in the most
wretched aulierge one is usually laid be
fore the guest. Trappists, however, have
little need of them.
At each place were a wooden spoon
and fork, a plate, a jug of water, and
another jug a smaller one of beer, and
a porringer for sonp, which is the chief
diet of the Trappists. Very thin sonp it
is, the ingredients being water, chopped
vegetables, bread and a little oil or bat
ter. Until a few years ago no oily matter,
whether vegetable or animal, was al
lowed in the soup, nor was it permissi
ble, except in case of sickness, to have
more than one meal a day, but the ne
cessity of relaxing the rule a little was
realised. Now, during the six summer
months of the year, there are two meals
a day namely, at 11 and 8, but in win
ter there is still only one that is called a
meal, and this is at 4. There is, how
ever, a gonter just something to keep
the stomach from collapsing at 10 in
the morning. No fish, nor flesh, nor ani
mal product, except cheese and butter,
is eaten by these Trappists unless they
fall ill, and then they have meat or any
thing else that they may need to make
them well. There is, however, very lit
tle sickness among them.
The living of each Trnppist probably
costs no more than sixpence a day to the
community. Assuming that the money
brought into the common fund by those
who have a private fortune the fathers,
as a rule, are men of some independent
means covers the establishment ex
penses, and the taxation imposed by the
state, there must remain a considerable
profit on the work of each individual,
whether he labors in the f.elds or in the
dBiry and cheeserooms, or concerns him
self with the sales and the accounts, or,
like the porter at the gate, tests with an
instrument the richness of the milk that
is brought in by the peasants, lest they
who have been befriended by the monks
lit sickness and penury should steal from
them in return.
To devote this surplus obtained by a
life of sacrifice, compared to which the
material misery of the beggars whom
they relieve is luxury, to the lessening
of human suffering, to the encourage
ment of the family, offering the hand of
charity to the worthy and the unworthy,
expecting no honor from all this, and
not even gratitude, is a life that makes
that of the theoretical philanthropists
and humanitarian philosophers look ra
ther barren. Temple Bar.
Origin or tho Poach.
Nothing is now more universally ac
cepted than the fact that the peach is an
improved variety of the almond. The
almond has n thin shell aronnd the
stono, which plits open and shows the
atone when mature. This outer skin
has simply become fleshy in the peach,
so that it is all that gives it its specific
character. It seems now clear from in
vestigation in the history of ancient
Babylon that in their gardens, nearly
4,000 years ago, the peach was cultivated
then as it now is.
It must have been many years before
this that the peach was improved from
the almond, and this fact goes to show
the great antiquity of the fruit Possibly
gardening in some respects, at least so
far as it relates to many of our cultivated
fruits, was as far advanced 6,000 or 8,000
or perhaps 10,000 years bock as it is to
day. Phoenicians, many thousands of years
ago, as is proved If the records, had in
their gardens almonds, apricots, bananas,
citrons, figs, grapes, olives, peaches,
pomegranates; and even sugar cane was
in extensive cultivation. Certainly this
shows how far advanced these nations
were iu garden culture many years ago.
Detroit Free Press.
Blnaloal Tones.
' A stringed instrument suspended in a
favorable position near a pianoforte will
sonnd when tones corresponding to the
open strings are produced on the piano
forte. The volume of the answering
tone will depend upon atmospheric con
ditions, the quality and color cf the per
suading tone and the sensitiveness of the
responding material. There is a famil
iar anecdote told of a famous tenor, who
by singing the tone that was consonant
with that of a wineglass, could moke the
glass shiver so violently that it would
fall to pieces. It is because of this tonal
sympathy that the cause of a harsh, rat
tling tone that may suddenly appear in a
pianoforte is detected with difficulty.
Though it may appear to be in the in
strument, it is often far away and may
come from a loose globe or pendant on a
chandelier. Even a key in a door has
been known to be the guilty cause. fit
Louis Globe-Democrat
Collar Mad.
Eonora Oh, missis, Mr. Vanderwa
ter has hung himself to the chlndeloor,
an his eyes do be stickin out like tayonps.
Cholly Vanderwater (after being cut
down by committee of boarders)
What means this wnde intwnsion? I am
pwepawing my neck fob a highah call ah,
and I do not wish to be lnterwupted.
Go Vayr New York Recorder. :
FLOWER SUPERSTITIONS.
Maiden' llnrometrrn Pur IHthilng (ho
lleptha of Their Sweethearts' l.oe.
It is singular to see how tunny tiinnn
Inglcss ceremonies are now practiced by
young women ceremonies which were
formerly used In enrnet as love charms
tr incantations. Most of these linvo in nm
.tory origin, and in connection wvth not
a few certain flowers arensed. presumably
as a means of foretelling the future. In
several parts of New England when a
yonng lady expects a visit from her lover
she will pluck a marigold, take It In her
hand when he Brrlves nnd entry it nnrll
the end of his visit, when from Its fresh
or faded condition she will judge of the
strength of his affection.
A German girl, after having been
called on by her lover, will pnt a star
flower or dandelion In witter nnd leave it
there nntil his next visit, drawing an
omen from its condition, while a Spanish
maiden will take a moss rosebud, wear
it on her breast, and if it expands to be
come a perfect flower the omen is con
sidered exceedingly fortunate. A super
stition of the same kind Is shown by the
Enst Indian maiden who places a poppy
in her hair. In England the primroso is
nsed for the same purpose, nnd In coun
try districts of New England the spikes
of the rib wort plantain are taken,
wrapped in dock leaves, placed beneath
a stone, and if the next day signs of new
bnds appear the omen la considered
happy.
In France yonng Indies desirous of
ascertaining the extent of a lover's affec
tion take the common daisy and pull off
its leaves one by one, with the question,
"Does he love me? Does he love me
little? Does he love me much? Does he
love me with all his soul?" Marguerite
in "Fanst" nses the common blue bottle
with similar questions. In England the
ash leaf is sometimes employed to ascer
tain the faithfulness of an absent lover,
and the Irish maiden learns of her future
by putting a shamrock in her shoe, after
which she walks abroad, and the first
man she meets or one of his name will be
her hnsband. New York Advertiser.
Some New York nrenkfasts.
Nearly every German bakery on Third
avenue serves breakfast nnd luncheon to
the furnished room popnlation of tho
east side. Some serve eggs and cold
meats, coffee, tea and chocolate. The
majority, however, provide only coffee,
tea, rolls and cakes. Nine ont of ten
of the customers take coffee and cake.
The latter is not the French or Ameri
can kind. It consists of four varieties
dear to the German palate apple,
peach, prune and sugar. The last
named is also called cinnamon. It is
made of bread dough on tho upper sur
face of which is spread some butter,
sugar and cinnamon. Then it is baked
hard.
The peach and apple cakes are made of
thinly rolled bread dough, surmounted by
slices of apples or peaches, as the case
may be. When a little butter and sngnr
have been placed between the slices, the
baker has approached as near perfection
as possible. Tho dough of the prune cake
is made like the other and covered
thickly with mashed stewed prunes.
In the best bakeries a slice of any of
these cakes from four to five Inches
square is sold for S cents. A good cup of
coffee or tea with milk and sugar costs
the same. Those who like light and sweet
breakfasts can thus be satisfied for 10
cents. Probably 5,000 east aiders eat
such breakfasts in the bakeries every
morning. New York Sun.
Tho Origin of Starching-.
The course of history carries ns back
no further than the year 1504 for the
origin of starching in London. It was
in that year that Mistress Van der Plosse
came with her husband from Flanders
to the English metropolis "for their
greater safety," and there professed hor
self a starcher. The best housewives of
the time were not long in discovering
the excellent whiteness of the "Dutch
linen," as it was called, and Mistress
Plasse soon had plenty of good paying
clients. Some of these began to send
her ruffs of lawn to starch, which she
did so excellently well that it became a
saying that if any one sent her a raff
made of a spider's web she would be
able to starch it. So greatly did her
reputation grow that fashionable dames
went to her to learn the art and mystery
of starching, for which they gladly paid
a premium of 4 or 3, and for the se
cret of seething starch they paid gladly
a farther sum of 30 shillings. New York
World.
A Hair Splitting BUhop.
It is recorded of a certain hair split
ting English bishop, who was accus
tomed to compose his "charges" in the
train, and whose desk was always placed
opposite to him, that he invariably treat
ed it oa though it were a living vis-a-vis.
The train being very full on one occa
sion, a would be passenger inquired if
this place was taken, and the bishop,
with his sunniest smile, expressed regret
that there was no room. "I don't think
that was quite right, my lord," said one
of his fellow passengers. "What was
not right?" inquired his lordship urbane
ly. "To say that the place was taken."
"Pardon me, I did not say that it was
taken) I was particularly careful to use
the word 'occupied.'" Son Franoisco
Argonaut
Her Preference,
"How is it your little baby sister goes
to sleep as soon as your father takes
her?"
Little Four-year-old I 'spec' it's 'cause
she'd rather do that than stay awake
ind hear him sing. Beau Monde.
GENESIS OF THE STEAMBOAT.
Ancient Oaf Thnt Foien:il"v-iI tho
Modern Greyhounds of the Sen.
The first steamboat was built by Den
nis Papin, who navigated it si;fi l.v iViwn
the Fulda ns lotu hko as 1707. Crfnr
tunntely this pioneer craft wfil. vi veil
y jeMtitvi sailors, n:id tvt very
memory cf it was loci for . trters
of a centnry. In 177.1 Perrier, another
Frenchman, built an experimental steam
vessel at Paris. Eight yenrs li'ter, in
1783, Jonffroy took up the Idea that had
been evolved by Pnptn nnd Perrier nnd
bnllt a steamer, which did good service
for some time on the Saone.
The first American to attempt to ap
ply steam to navigation was John Fitch,
a Connecticut mechanic, who made his
Initial experiments in the year 1785. To
what extent Fitch was indebted to the
three illustrious French inventors named
above we are not Informed, but that his
models were original there is not the
least doubt In the first ho em
ployed a large pipe kettle for generating
the steam, the motive power being side
paddles worked after the fashion of ours
on a common rowboat In tho second
Fitch craft the same mode of propulsion
was adopted with the exception thnt the
paddles were made to imitate a revolv
ing wheel and were fixed to t!i ptorn
clearly foreshadowing the present stern
wheeler. This last mentioned boat was the first
American steam vessel thnt can be pro
nounced a snccess. It made its flrt trip
to Burlington in July, 178. Pul, nfter
all, it was not nntil after tho opening of
the present centnry that stenm naviga
tion started Into nctnal life. In 1807
Robert Fulton (who every school child
knows was an American), in conjunction
with one Robert R. Livingston, built tho
Clermont, and established a re'tlnr
packet service between Now York nnd
Albany,
Tho snccess of this undertaking wns so
satisfactory that four new boats were
built before the end of 1811, at least two
of them being designed for servicoin oth
er rivers. St. Louis Republic.
The Mnn In the Iron MnHk.
A letter to Louvois by Louis XIV,
written in cipher, has been long in the
archives of the ministry of war and has
at length been deciphered. In it tho
king orders Lonvois to arrest General
de Bnrlonde for having rnised the sicgo
of Conti withont permission, to send
him to Pignerol and to conceal his
features under a lonp, or black velvet
musk. The order wns executed, nnd the
presumption is therefore violent that the
"Man In the Iron Mask" it was a black
velvet one with iron springs was Gen
eral de Bnrlonde. The story tallies with
the known fact that the prisoner made
repeated attempts to communicate his
name to soldiers; that he was treated
with respect by his military jailers, and
that Louis XV, who knew the truth of
the whole affair, declared it to be a mat
ter of no importance. The difficulty is
to discover the king's motive for such a
precaution, but he may have feared dis
content among his great officers or the
soldiery. It must, however, be possible
to discover from the lists in the war
office whether General de Bnrlonde was
recorded as "missing" or "dead" about,
the right time. Saturday Review.
Tricks In All Trades.
The young doctor was sitting in his
consultation room chatting with a friend
when some one entered the outer office.
He stepped out, and the friend heard
him say:
"Pray take a seat I'll be at liberty
in a few minutes."
Then he came back into the consulta
tion room and closed the door after him.
"I'll skip," said the friend.
"Not for the world. Sit down," said,
the doctor.
"But you have a patient waiting.""
"Well, it's a woman. Let her wait
about 13 minutes."
"Yon may lose her business."
"On the contrary, I'll get it regularly.
I always make them wait"
"Why?"
"To give the impression of a rush of
business. It is the only way to keep a
woman. If she thought I wasn't rushed
to death, she'd lose confidence in me and
go somewhere else." Chicago Record.
A Cabman's Uerenge.
A good story is told of a stipendiary
magistrate in a Yorkshire town, not
given to err on the side of leniency, who
heavily fined a cabman for fast driving.
A few days after the magistrate, de
tained rather longer than usual in the
court, was hurrying along to catch his
train when, seeing on empty cab handy,
be hailed the driver and directed him to
proceed to the station, telling him that
he was pressed for time. The driver,
however, heedless of the hint, kept to a
gentle trot "I say, I say, my man,"
excluimed the fare, with his head out of
the window, "drive faster than thisl"
"It can't be done, sir," replied the driver.
'Ye see, if we drives faster we're had
np afore the 'beak,' and we gets fined,
so we has to be careful." He did not
alter his pace, and neither did the "beak"
catch his train. London Tit-Bits.
Sonpatono In China.
The Chinese in utilising soapstone,
which is found in their country in largo
quantities, make of it trays for pens,
slabs for rubbing ink, flower vases, in
cense boxes, sandul wood burners, flow
er baskets, candlesticks, chessmen, cups,
bowls and lamps, all sorts of emblems,
animals and the idols which the disci
ples of Confucius revere with so much
favor.