VOLUME 3. RKYNOLUSVIU.K, PKNN'A., WKDXE.SDAY, FKIJKUARY 21), 1RU5. NMII5EK 10. WHEN YOU BUY A BiGUGle Remember that GootfSWkdbuNTa" ' lll.w lire pood cycles and the world loos not product' a better. Special No. 1 Roaster, weight '27 U.K., 85.50; No. 2 Full Roadster, weight '25 11 n., 8100.00; Model No. !) Li?ht Roadster, weight 2'2 Urn., 100.'l)(); Model No. 4 Ariel Hacer, weight 18 to In addition to the above, I am agent for the Celebrated reatherstone: Line of Bicycles, comprising nine different styles, ranging in price from $'20 to $80. All lUeycle guaranteed For Due Year. The only Complete Line of Base Balls, Bats, Gloves, Masks, Sporting and Outing Goods to be found in the town. STOKE, Reynolflsville Hariware Co., DEALERS IN HARDWARE. STOVES and RANGES. TIN, - SHEET IRON - and COTTER WARE, AMMUNITION, HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS, WOOD AND IRON PUMPS. And everything kept in a First-class Hardware Store. Roofing and Spouting Done to Order. REYNOLDSVILLE, PA. Do You Want THE - NEWS? Then Subscribe for TlvSTAE, Published - Every - "Wednesday, '20 11., 1'25. Catalogues Free! Druggist, Bookseller and Stationer. Mf KJRfcSI HA1H. 1 know n path nil fringed with ferns, A woodland mth with ninny turn, Whcrn In tlie ovcnirrtiliiR tn-, Thnt tow, their heads In every hrcrso. The wild birds enrol sweetest Inya In vesper song and mntln iirnlim. I sit me down, and nt my fift The light nnd shnde. coquetting, meet. The harshest sounds thnt greet my ear Are tinkling belli. In pasture nenr. And tippling waves thnt to the shore Repent their story evermore. Oh, fitful Inknl so llko my henrt. Thy moods strange thoughts wtthln ma start. Like thee, I sometime seem at rest, put oft by surging enres oppressed. Yet not today to wearied brain Phall vexing problems come again. The lake Its soothing mmne hath. And blessed peace my forest path. -Anna B. Hunt In Boston Woman's Journal. MARS' TOM'S GRAVE. A Faithful Old Colored Servant Devoted to His Late Master. "I saw a pntbetlo instance at Greens- boro of a negro's fidelity, " iinid W L. Williams, a traveling man. "About ten miles from the town I saw n grave with n mnrMo plnb nt its bond. 8011 tod near it wns on old negro with a bunch of flowers, which ho wns placing over the liioniul. I stopped my horse nnd spoko to him " 'Whoso grave is thnt. miolo?' I nfk cd. " 'Mnrs' Tom's, boss. 1'zo his niggn ' " 'Oh, no Yon nro no mini s nijwr now. Didn't you know thnt yon wcro free?' " 'Dnnnn nafTiu bout dnt, sail. I'ze Mnrs' Tom's nigga, sah, nn ho s wnitin fob me sunh up dnh. Dpho linn's done tote 'im from dat plnco dry call Shiloh, nn ho died while I wnh a-totin 'im. Jest closed he eyes nn went tor sleep, an when 1 comes ter cross de ribbor of Jordan be jost bole out his ban's an he tells de angel at de gate who 1 be, an be let me in. I dreamed 'bout it las' night, boss." "I was Interested in the old fellow and wanted to hear his story The slab at the grave told me thnt it was that of 'Colonel Tom Winn, killed at the battle of Shtlob, ' and I questioned the faithful negro further: " 'How old are yon, uncle? " 'Most a hundred, 1 reckon, Bah. ' " 'Was you in the war?' " 'Went wif Mars' Tom, sah. I'ze his niggn, an he's In benbeu. I'ze Jest a-wnitin till dose ole bones, wenry trnb bling over de road, '11 tnke mo tor do ribbcr, when Mars' Toia'll help his ole nipga ober.' " 'Were you with him when ho was killod?' " 'I was right dnr, boss. Dono pick im np an toted im tor dnt place dey call Corinth. Den I found a trniu; got tor do place dey call Chnttauoogn. Do nos' day we wnh in Atlanta. Mars' Tom den in his glory Dis henh niggn lof ter 'ten his body. Dey buried Mm when I got 'im henh, an dis niggn jest lof tor 'ton his grabe nn keep do ilnwcrs hynli. "I found upon inquiry thnt the story wns truo, and for a qunrter of a century the faithful negro had done nothing but attend the grave of his young master, whoRO body bo brought from northern Mississippi to central Georgia. " Cin' oinnati Enquirer. The Application Embarrassed. There lives in a certain small town a poor ministor who bns a lnrge family which his snlnry does not begin to cover (litnrnlly), so the csngrcgatiou hnve do- nntod cast off clothing for tho children, and even tho poor minister's wifo goes to church in the Inst year's bonnet and olonk of a deaoon's wifo. The poor lady bos grown nsed to this and does the best she can with the conglomeration of drosses, clonks and bats whioh are sent her, though the rosult is sometimes rathor tragic However, she bos always folt that she did nobly by tho children, and if the drosses and coats and cloaks and trousers were misfits none was ever unkind enough to say anything about it One Sunday, however, she dressed the nine hopefuls with great caro and marched them to the church. She was a little late, and just as she opened the door and started up the aisle her hus band thundered from the pulpit, "Even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of those. " He did not see the joke, but the congregation tittered, and the mother was reudy to cry. Indian apolis Sentinel. Dispelling an Illusion One of my readers wants to know the correct pronunciation of the word "Llanthony. " It is always a paiuful thing to me to dispel the prevalent 11 lusion that newspaper editors know ev erything, but owing, 1 suppose, to the fact that I was taught Latm and Greek in my youth, whon I onght to have been looming tho tongues of tho living, I have grown up ignornut of the proper pronunciation of Llanthony. All 1 onu boast of is a general idea that in Welsh most of the consonants are vowels and most of tho vowels sounds which no Englishman oau hope to imitate. Bat if any of my readers can throw any light on "Llanthony" 1 shall be happy to as gist in spreading it London Truth. Curran's Retort. Curran'a frieud was tickled by the orator s retort apropos of the jury sys tem. The friend was bragging of his at taobment to it and said, "With trial by Jury 1 have lived, and, by the blessing 01 uoa, with trial by Jury J will diel "Oh," said Cnrran in amazement "then you've made np yonr mind to be banged, Dlokl" The Indians vailed tue crimen nroso, iver Tockyeete, the "Little Roarer. " NO DOO IN HER HOUSE. A Boarding flnnnn Keeper Tells VTIiy fllie Una Made Tills Utile. Persons with dogs nnd other pcM I meet with a cold nnd clammy reception in Now York boarding houses. They mny occasionally steal into fashionable flats, whero the landlord or agent Inn no direct means of circumventing them, but when it conies to the boarding house things aro a little more definite. A uloe looking married couple went into a Twenty-third street boarding bouse the other dny and wnro made 00111- fortnbla After the first dinner the lady was observed scraping togother some dainties from the board to tnke to her room. The Inndlndy, who is a wnmnn of great decision of character, heard of it, and hor knock wns shortly afterward heard at the door of the new boarders, i The latter were immediately notified that either they or the dog must vaonte at mice. "If I cannot keep my darling Xouo- ; phon.wo'll niovo," protested tho owner of the dog, who practiced tho principle of "Lovo 1110, lovo tny dog." "Then yon llhavo to move, "said tho landlady firmly. "I'm Hot kei plug a dog kennel. " "How in the world they ever got thnt dog in hero without my seeing it, "said she, nflcr tlin obnoxious Xcnophon hnd been disposed of, "is lnoro than I can understand. I'vo hnd all I want of dogs, j A gentleman used to keep a siniill but ferocious bulldog in li its room where I oneo lived. Ho was tho ugliest brute I over laid my eyes on tho dog, not the mnn. That dog wouldn't let anybody but his owner tamper with him. The mnn nsed to lug him around with him everywhere ho wont One night, when the man onuie in, he wns feeling so ob livious to enrthly things that he left his dog locked in the vestibule. The next boarder who eame in got no farther than the vestibule and landed down the steps with a square yard of trousers missing. Ho was soon joined by another boarder, who wanted to come to bed. They rang the bell until several of. us eame down to soe what was the matter. On opening the door the dog sprang for ns as if ho hadn't been fed for a week and wanted anything that came handy, bat we slammed the door to again just in time. As we could not nwuken the owner we had to leave tho dog there till morning, and those who wore outsido had to go to a hotol. In tho morning everybody hnd to go and comoby tl:o servant's ontraiico nutil tho owner of tho nuiinnl came down and got ns out of the fix." "What did he say?" "Snvl Why, ho abused ns nil ns n set of brutes for keeping his dog locked up thero nnd gathered it up under his oris and took it up stairs ns if had boon a piece of Dresden chinal And tho board ers who had been locked out loft the house for good tho next day. Wo got rid of tho dog, but not until it had half de populated tho establishment "Chi cago Tribune. The Awakening Tiger. Botwoon tho drowsy sleep of the noc turnal animals and the bypersonsitive sleep of those whioh spend their lives in constant fear of their enomios a pluco must bo found for the form of slum bur enjoyod by the large carnivorn and that of domestic animals. The former have no enomios to fear except mnn, and the latter, protected by man, onjoy to the full the blessing of natural rest Tigers aro frequently found fast asleep in tho daytima Native hunters have been known to track them after a "kill" to the place in whioh thoy were lying fast asleep and gorgod with food and to shoot them as thoy lie. When taking his midday repose in districts whore it is little disturbed, the tigor does not always retire to a place of se curity, like the bear, or even tho leop ard, whioh usually sleeps on the branch of a tree. It just lies down in some con venient spot, either shady or warm, ho cording to the weather, and there sleeps almost regardless of danger. Thoy have been found lying in dry nullahs, under trees and even in the grass of the hill sides unobserved until their disturber cam within a few yards of them. General Douglas Hamilton, whon shooting in thoDandilly forest, oauie upon a tigress and two cubs lying fast asleep on thoir baoks, with their paws sticking up in the air, under a dump of bamboos. When be was within a few yards of the group, one raised its bead and without moving its body quietly looked at him along the line of its body between its paws. Tigers kopt in cap tivity awaken gradually, stretching and yawning like a dog. London Speotator. Dutch Toast. Dutch toast is a simple dish for using up scraps of bread. Crumble the broad and place in a frying pan with a slice of buttor or drippings. Add salt, pepper And sage if liked. It should be seasouod quite welL Add a small quantity of boiling water, cover olosoly so the steam Will soften the bread, stir several times and servo hot What with cream toast, codfish and fruit toast, we may bavo this turoo cooked bread frequently with out its becoming monotonous. Phila delphia Ledger. Women's Ages. Somebody has discovered the ourions foot that the reluotanoe of women to tell their age is no pleoeof modern sen sitiveness. It is as old as the bills. In the Old Testament, although great num bers of women are mentioned, there is but one Sarah, Abraham's wife whose age is recorded. New York Times. JAPANESE RITES. Frederick VllUera tiearrllies I'linrrnls Afte? tho llattlo of ring-Yung. Many of tho sick mid wounded win dlo are cremated. Their nhes nro col lected, placed in small square boxes, in terred for a ti 1110 in the little eoiucicry outside the foreign sett lenient nt Che mulpo, and nfter nwhilo exliuinnd mid Sent to Japan. Tho ceremony I beheld in Chemulpo after I lie fight nt Pirn,' Yang wns not Impressive or solemn, but simply curious. Eighty bodies hnd been cremated in various parts of the country and forwarded to the treaty port in small boxes. These were plneed in two lnrge, black cases at tho hospital, and preceded by a motley group of coolies, citizens and soldiers were carried to tho burial plot First enmo coolies with branches of foliage and white streamers in their hands. Then a few soldiers, marching With reversed nrnis. Immediately pre ceding the black caws wns a Shinto priost in yellow kimono nnd n Mack gauze shako. Round his neck vas n purple cord, nt tho end of which hung n fan. in his right hand was a (Jute, which from time to time ns thu profession Wended its way ho tooted on, producin:; nn Inharmonious sound which remindi 'I 1110 c.f my own attempts on that instiu wont wle n a hoy. The coolies, tho fol lowers nnd tho lookers on seemod to treat tho whole thing more us n good joko than 11 solemn lvmctinn nnd chat ted nnd laughed to their hearts' content. Arrived lit tho comctery, the proces sion halted beforo the altar, on which Wero placed bottles of snki, fruits, eggs and birds of various kinds, including a live rooster. Behind this hospitable bonrd wero placed tho remains of the 80 bodies. Tho Shinto priest, who stood alone before the edibles, stretched out bis hands nnd made several passes with bis fan in the direction of the roostor, groaned aloud, thou olnppnd his hands three times, after which lie indulged a little on the flute. Then ho groaned again, straightened himself, retired a few paces, took several paces to tho left and right, then advanced again, groaned and tooted. He then requested by a sign one of tho mourners to advauco nnd take his place. Ho thou banded one of the branches of folinge to tho gentleman nnd retired. Tho mourner proceeded to lay the brnuch on a small table in front of the altar, then saluted nnd moved awny to allow nnother mourner to tal.o his place. When all tho branches were piled on the tnblo, tho blnck cases wero opened and tho small square boxes taken out by tho coolies nnd carefully interred. The Shinto priest rotired to tho bosom of his family, with tho saki bottle, tho livo rooster and thorostof tho chow. In lien of tombstones, tho Japs use, when cam paigning, small wooden posts to mark the resting placo of thoir duad. Fred erick VillierH. A Quid Fro Quo. He was only first consul then, nnd I wns consul geuornl for tho United States of course and we wore vory in timate, notwithstanding tho dilTcrcnco in rank, for I waived that. Ono day something offorod tho opening, and ho said: "Well, general, I suppose lifo can never got entirely dull to on American, because whenever ho can't strike up any other way to put in his tlmn ho can always get nwny with a few years try ing to find out who bis grandfather was," I fairly shouted, for I had never heard it sound hotter, nnd then I was back at him quick as a flash: "Right, your exoolloucy. But I reck on a Frenchman's got his little standby for a dull time, too, beoause when all othor interests fail be oau turn in seo if he can find out who his father was. " Woll, you should have heard him just whoop and cackle and oarry 011. He reached over and hit me on the shoulder and said: "Land, but it's good! It's immense' ly good I I Georgo, I never heard it said so good in my life before. Say it again." So I said it again, and he said his again, and I said mine again, and then he did, and then I did, and then he did, and we kept on doing it and doing it, and I uevor had such a good time, nnd he suid the same. In my opinion there isn't anything that is as killing as ono of those doar old ripe pensioners if yon know how to snatch it out in a kind of a fresh sort of original way. Murk Twain in North American Review. American Cities a Hundred Years Ago. When Washington was inaugurated, Philadelphia, thou tho metropolis of the country, had only about 43,000 people, New York but 133,000, Boston 18,000, Baltimore 13,000 and no other city any whore near 10,000. Even aftertho lapse of half a century, during which Now York bad overtaken Philadelphia, so that in 18-10 it hud 813,000 inhabitant) to the latter city's 858,000, Baltimore and New Orleans were tbo only other places with more than 100,000 people, and exnept Boston, with 03,000, all of the fow remaining cities fell short of 60,000. During the formative period of the new nation, therefore, all but tho merctt fraction of its citizens lived in places of small population, the local uf fairs of which wore easily administered through town nieetiuga or othor such simple mnobinery. New York Post. Uooa AdTIc. Be sura you are right, and then stop, if there i any danger of your going wrong. Picayune. THAWINQ OUT FROZEN MEAT. A Dark Itniim Treatment lleforn leaving tlio Cold Ntttrnge. Ifonne. According to tho process invented by Messrs. Nelson Bros, for thawing frozen ment in such a way as to pnt it on tho market in n sound condition nnd avoid the many objections to which tho sale of the meat while still in a frozen state was open, tho chnmbcr of tho ap paratus Is provided with donblo doors, ono of which Is extremely thick, so as to shut out, ns fnr ns possible, nil exter nnl atmosphere The chamber has no windows, but is supplied with electric ht On entering one sees only some 80 qunrters of beef hanging in rows on books over a slightly raised open pint form, with a ennvas curtain nt the back. Under this plntform, howevor, there is a series of steam pipes, while behind the curtain there is a series of pipes filled with compressed nmmouln, similar to thoso used in connection with the ordi nary freezing processes. Thostenm pipes nnder tho moat cnuso n enrront of wnrni air to ascend all nround it, nnd ns soon as this current readies the top of this chnmbcr it is drawn to the freezing pipes behind tho curtain, by which all tlin moisture is frozen out of it, on to the pipes themselves. It accumulates thero in tho form of snow somo threo-qiinrtcr of an inch in thickness. Tho snow has to be scraped off the pipes from time to time, nnd it Is stated tuat tho accumulation during five flays, In tho thawing of 1)0 qunrters of beef, has resulted in no fewer than 1(18 pounds of water. During thnt same period the moat has lost only 1 por cent in weight. The purpose of the canvas curtain is to divide tho ascending wnrm current from the descending cold current, and it Is claimed that tho offect of this incessant passing of tho nir first over the steam pipes nnd then over the freezing pipe is eventually to free it from all mois ture. Whon tho meat is first hung, the tomporaturo of tho room is almost at freezing point, but on tho fifth day the toniperaturo of tho chamber has been rnisod to thnt of the nir outside. By this tinio tho frost has all been thawed out of tho meat, which Is then in a con dition to bo sent to market London Invention. ROMANY'S PRINCE WILLIAM. lie Lives Near East Hartford His Tribe Aro Noted Horse Trainers. Ono of thu most famous representa tives of Romany Ryo in this country is Priuuo William, ns ho is called, who, with bis family, lives near East Hart ford. Thero nro brunches of the family nt Now Haven and Bridgeport. Tbo East Hartford brand of tho family is tho main brunch. Thu Williamses are all borso dealers. Attached to their rosidence are stubles which, in winter, always contain a stock of line blooded draft horses. Ono of tho interesting sights nt the stables nro thu wagons tiint are used by Prince Willinm and bis family when they go oil on thoir annual noimidio pleatiiiro trips. These wngous cost from $1,000 to $3,G00. Prince William's private wagon cost $3,000 and is fitted up in regal stylo. In these trips around the country tho whole family joins. Those trips ore made in tho summer, sparo horses being taken along and sold or traded. This menus a cuvnlcade of a dozen fancy wagons and about 100 horses. Tho start is mado about the 1st of August, tho entire family men, worn eu and children being taken along. Tbo party keeps together, traveling by easy stages, about 20 miles a day being considered a good jonrnoy. When in a hurry, they oun make 40 miles a day. The place selected for the night's rest is usuully a grove. Thero the wagons are drawn np in a circlo, fires are light ed and the eveuiug meal prepared. After suppor the wholo party gather -around Priuoe William's tent or wagon, and the affairs of the family are dis cussed. A watchman patrols the camp all night to watch the horses. New York Times. Compound Rhyming Words. In the south they have a very expres sive phrase for one indifferently well "frobly-mobly" and to be in "mubble fubble" signifies low spirits. In Leeds, whon a person is overpowered with as tonishment, he is said to be "much struck," a phrase forcible but scarcely polite. "Huck-muck" is an expression of like character, meaning foul, miry, and in Devonshire a bedraggled, be smirched person is said to bo "mucksoii up to tho hucksou. " In Gloucestershire a wavering, un stable or worthless man is called a "inecklu-keeklo follow," and it is worthy of remark that in Derbyshire poor ore is called "kucklo-meoklo. " An awkward simpleton is en I led "hanvey guuvey" in the neighborhood of Leeds In Warwickshire they stylo such a one nt, "hobgobliu," or olse it is from "hob," lout, and "bog, " a lump. "Gobbin shire" Is the ubode "that uuver was writ in the traveler's chart" of un couth fo!k. Thoy say of a slovenly loufur in south Choshiro: Qobblnalilro, Oubblniulru of Qobbiunbiro Uretu, The runkent owd bror us ever was soon. All the Yoar Around. First Patent la America, . The first pa tout grauted. in Atnerlou Was issued by the general oourt of Boa ton, March a, 1646, to Joseph Jenks for his invention of it water wheel. A fac simile oopy has recently been placed in the patent office.
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