IK VOLUME 3. ItEYNOLDSYILLE, l'ENN'A., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1895 NUMBER 13. A. D. DEBMER & CO., AENOtD BLOCK. SilkS t course you will want some Silks this spring. Every lady will want a silk waist or two. We have some elegant styles for ladies' waists. They are simple perfect and very cheap. LlnlnQS We have the new Sleeve Linings, which are indispensible this season. WdlStS We liave an eu,l" less assortment. See them, in all styles for the coming spring. Wrappers Yes, we have them in all the Latest Pat terns and Styles. You can save money and labor by using one of them. Muslin Underwear we carry a large line of these good, including Night Dress es, Chemise, Corset Covers, Drawers and Skirts. Black Sateens-or of Blk. Sateens embraces all prices. Wo have them in the plain and colored figures. Seroes Take a look at them. We have them in all the leading shades, 46-in. wide, and price very low. White GOOdS Embroder ies, India Linens, Plaid Indias and Striped Dimitys, Swiss Nainsooks. Table Linens one of the best values you ever saw. The weight is excellent and so is the quality. Teazle Downs Teazle Downs are known as Outing Flannels. We have them. The season is now here for that class of goods. A. D. Deemer & Co., The Leaders, Not Followers. ReynolHe Haraware Co., DEALERS IN HARDWARE. STOVES and RANGES, TIN, SHEET IRON and COPPER 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. 3 JOB WORK!: fHE- Job Work Department The Star Office Is replete with the Latest Styles of Types. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE STAR -AND GET Local, County and State ShOeS We take particular pride in having Nice Stylish Shoes for the young men. Don't fail to see our line. You are sure to get what you want. Ladies Yes, the last freight in landed for us sev eral dozens of Fine Shoes, new and sightly styles. Do not fail to see our line. Gentlemen This week we can show you the best line of Dress and Working Pants ever shown in the town. Call in. We like to tear them up. Hats Our line is composed of the newest shapes, and prices low. Look at them! That will convince you. Sweaters You will be sin prised at the Good Qualities and the Low Prices which we are selling them for. Muslins Now we can sup ply you with nil the Staple Brands in Bleached and Brown at prices lower than any other competitor will ask. The prices are so low on good goods one would think you was being shown inferior goods. That is not the case. Only good goods at the low est prices. Groceries Call in and get our prices. That will con vince you that we really do have them along with our other goods, which makes one of the best general stores to be found in Western Penn'a and prices the lowest. OIL TAKES THE PLACE OF liANOEROUf GASOLINE. fiOEl IN ANY STOVE. XI X CHEAPER THAN W000 OR COAL WAJTT AGENTS on alary or commission. Sena Tor catalogue or Prices and Terms. NATIONAL OIL BURNER CO. eea Ccdan Ave. CLEVELAND. OHIO. Neat Work Done on Short Notice! ALL THE- News lor $1.50 a Year. THE NOW AND THEN. The globe, like nil the universe Tluit fllli the ntchu profound. Whirls on ae endless cycles tick Its hlph npnolntcd round. The omit of need In Inld on man. Be meet It with till will; Their contact brings forth fnto, and Jack And Jill went up the hill I Oh. baeelnv fabric of the alrl Oh, youth's enchanted lnndsl What eastlea made of drenma are wared On fancy ' shifting aandal Awhile an Eden la the lot Of every eon and daughter Ere gives unto the wnrlcL They went To fetch s pall of water. What are we but the toy of fatet Dark courses In the sky Map nut to erudition's gate Where auna lived tat to die; Voiron oca yawn and Jtbo at man, Hit morka the enrtltrimikn'a laughter. Then Jack fell down nnd broke hie crown, And Jill came tumbling after. Each heart aome trnre of Egypt has, Where mine, deaerta, He, And o'er them all the sphynx looms up With ita eternal why. Pcrhnpa the hill the pair went up Wna a tank built by the town And scared to death they f fared Ita banks Might break era they walked down. Philadelphia Tlmoa A MEAN PIECE OF BUSINESS. An Incident That Miakee One's Faith In the Chivalry of the Modern Man. Thia la n bit of genuine sc., -'nl. Ev erybody liken scandal. It is nU'.nyssnch it comfort to And oneself n littlo better than ono'g noiKhbor. This bit of scandal ia true too. Thero in a young iiiiui now living iu ChionRo who used to livo in Washington. Ho wna engaged to a Washington girl, out ruinorHcunucrning her reached him out in Chicago. Thoy said, those rumors, tlint sbo linil gone out to supper after tlio theater, and looking on tho wino when it was md had bocomo just a littlo boisterous. Her immaculate ilanco came to Wash Ingtou. Ho did not say a word to hex of the rumors wbioh bad filled his soul With horror, hut he took her to the the ater and to Buppur afterward Tho Widow Cliqnot was tho third party at the supper, and the girl, like every othor woman on earth, likos ohampagua Her sweetheart urged her to drink, assuring her it would do her no harm whatever. She drank. In foot, she conjugated the verb to drink in more than one ten no. Site became un mistakably intoxicated. Then the gal lant young man slipped her ongngumont ring off, bundlod her into a oarriagoand took her homo. She hasn't seen him silica Of course ho couldn't think of marrying that sort of a girl, yon know. It is things like that that keep one's Volief in the innato chivalry of the modorn gentleman from dying. I un derstand tho man considers It a tromon dous joke, and you may bn able o gee where tho laugh comes in. 1 nm not Washington Post THE SMALLEST BOOK. A Late Parisian Publication That la Smaller Than Postage Stamp. Tho smallest book evor printed has just boon issued by Messrs. I'alrault of Paris. It is tho story of Perrault, Little Hop o' My Thumb. This diminutive volumo oontaius four engravings, mid it is printed in movable typo. It contains 80 pages of printed matter. The book is 88 millimeters long by 28 millimeters wide. The thickness of this volume is six millimeters and ita weight is tlvo grams. The "dwarf book" of tho Chicago ex hibition could bo hold on a postage stamp of tho Columbian variety, but it is qnite surpassed by this product of the French pross Tho littlo French volumo, with its illustrations and its 80 pages of printed matter, is not much larger than a 1 eent picoo. , It is a oomplote book in every respect, the binding being porfoot, tho pugos duly numbered,, and the title page ap pearing with all the formality of the most dignified volume. The pages can only be read by the use of a microscope, but then it is found that the proofread ing has been excellently dona Several Frenoh swells are carrying these volumes inside their watch covers. A oopy presented to a Frenoh library has been duly entered in the catalogue and laced on the shelves. St Louis Post lispatoh. TO SEARCH FOR DIAMONDS. A Promising Field For Them Bellaved to Exist In Alaska. From the Alaska Nows it is learned that John Q. Brady, one of the most prominent oitizens of Alaska, has a sobeiue on foot to explore Mount Edge combe with a diamond expert and searoh for diamonds, wbioh are thought to ex ist there. Late last fall a hunter and prospector brought in some brilliant looking lava ashes to Sitka and showed them to Mr. Brady. The latter sent them to an expert in San Franoisoo, who returuod word that an investiga tion should be made at the earliest op portunity. The contents of that letter contained astounding information pumioo stone and scoria had all the ele ments for the presenoe of diamonds, Mr. Brady has perfooted plans to reaoh the extluot crater of Mount Edgecombe as soon as the snow and weather will permit, with the help of the expert, searoh the lava beds and pumloe stone high and low, and will delve into the earth with searobiug scrutiny to learn if nature has had the elemonts there to crystalline carbon into its purest gem the diamond. If they find diamonds on Mount Edgeoombe, there will certainly be a rush of people to Sitka, FORTUNES IN FRUIT STANDS. Big; Money la Small Business by E co- nominal Italians, Few of the thoughtless passersby and chance patrons of the corner fruit standi on the city streets realise the compara tively large profits reaped by those who have their capital invested in this ap parently instRnifloant business. To the average onlooker as he casts careless glnuoe at the vender of fruit and candy probably the only thought that oooura is that here is a poor unfortunate for eigner oast on our shores, who manages by this simple means to eke out a liv ing for himself and a large family of mall children. Indeed a closer inspec tion into the comfortless lives of these seekers for gain, involving long hours spent in continued application to work, the short remaiuing time passed in squalid homes or on the streets, wonld reveal little of the true state of affairs. There Is avast difference in the indi cations from outward appearances. Borne of them carry an air of prosperity in neatness of dress and carelessness of air. Others seem to wish to advertise their poverty by a show of tat tered gar ments and generally destitute nppoar auoe. But in general those appearances are deceitful. The man in rags may or dinarily be regardod as more fortunate than his apparently prosperous brother. He Is making more bocauso it is not so much what is made in prollts as what is saved, and iu a small business, liko that of tho corner fruit dealers, this general principle is especially truo. The amount of the gains possible to tho astute dealers is seen from a few ex amples of unusual prosperity. A short time ago an Italian who hud been in the business on a down town corner for ten years closed out his business to a successor, receiving from him f 3,300 for tho privilego of his location. This amount ho added to a fortuuo of f00, 000 already accumulated. In tho stock yards region a similar sale was mndo iu consideration of 300. In the same neighborhood tho death recently of a veteran iu tho business rovcaled the fact that he had been possessed of proporty amounting to f 17,000. Some of our largest busiuoss blocks, notably on State nnd Halstod streets, aro now owned by those who started in business In this way. Cbioago Journal. Sense of Taste In Insects. The entomologists have dotootod and duly noted a singular dovolopmcnt of the sense of taste in insects of tho but terfly family. The larvro of bnttorflios and moths all eat foods which are not adapted to the wants and tastes of tho perfect insect, nnd which, in some in stances, is positively obnoxious to the fully dovelopod creatura Take, for an instance, the horrid "hog nosed cater pillar," which lives on the loaves of tho prickly ash and also makes lifo bur donsomo to the orange growor. Its par ents are Mr. and Mrs. Papilio Cres phontos of the ordor Lcpidoptorn, fam ily Papilioulduo, and are the largos t and most beautiful butterflies found in the latitude of Missouri. The full grown insect of this species will not touch the loaves of either of the trees mentioned above, but on them it doposits eggs, and whon those hatoh the substance of tho leaves furnish the propor food for the larva). Are we to infer from this curi ous habit that the foniale butterfly of this species romombers her early exist ence, and from that argues that prickly ash and orange loaves are tho proper food for her young, or are wo to say that "instinct" guides her to a proper selection of food for her progony? Is it not a faot that we attribute things to "instinot" bocauso we are ignorant that is to say, bcoause we do not know where "Instinot" loaves off and reason begins? St Louis Ropublia , Critical Logle Failed. The late Sherlock Holmes had a fa vorite diotum: "Eliminate the impos sible, and what is left, however im probable, must be the troth. " This was not at all in accordance with the saying of Vlotor Bngo: "Nothing is so immi nent as the impossible. What must be always foreseen is the unforeseen." Most of as will agree, from experionoe, with Hugo rather than with Holmes. The impossible does happen. When "Moroy Philbriok's Choice" was pub lished in the "No Name" series, the critics were agreed that it seemed to be written by Helen Hunt Jackson. But, as those who knew her love for flowers and aoquaintanoe with nature also pointed out, she oonld not be the au thor, for there were several glaring mis takes in the naming and plaoing ol blossoms in the story. Yet; as was aft erward disolosed, she did write it So all the theorizing went for nothing. Philadelphia Press. Becoming Popular. "The cause of equal rights in Lexing ton is evidently becoming popular," says The Press-Transoript "Upon the register for those friendly to enfran chisement of women are the names of many of our most influential people, members of the bar, oolloge professors, physicians, leading bustnoss men and soores of names of our prominent wom en, while long list of names is also seen of those who approve of women Voting for school trustees and making Women eligible for posltlous on school boards. This list of names for school luffrago is to be tout to the next legis lature to help enforce the olaims of wouieu to this school suffrage. " Pembina, the Dakota city, Is said to have an Indian name meaulug red berry. MASSACifc FOR BLACK EVES. Batter Than Paint nnd Beefsteak For Ob literating Kvldrnee nf Flstle Encounters, Those who make a business of oblit erating evidence of flstlo encounters In tho shape of black eyes by painting thi damagod optics no longer enjoy a mo nopoly of suoh business. This I was told by a pugilistic acquaintance whose ex perience entitles him to be regarded as an authority on the subject "Massage treatment of the region af fected, " ho said, "will beat paint and raw beefsteak all hollow. But it should be applied immediately after the injury Is received In order to prove thoroughly efficacious. It does not require an ex pert to do It All that is necessary is to move the fingers rapidly nnd firmly over the bruised surface and to keep it up nntil the last vestige of discoloration has disappeared. The explanation is easy. Where the blow has been received the blood becomes congested. It is tho clots of blood showing through the transpar ent skin that produces the black effect Tho pressure of the fingers gradually loosens tho clotted blood, which passes off into the general currents of circula tion, nnd fresh and proporly colored blood takes its place." However, ns a rule, the professional "pug" does not bother himself about accelerating tho disappearance of a black eye. It is a sign which proclaims the fact that its proprietor has recently fill ed an cngngnment, and ns such ho is an object of envy to his loss fortunate brothreu. It is tho man about town, whoso overiiidnlgonoe occasionally causes him to forget that discretion is tho hotter part of valor, who is apt to profit most by tho knowledge that mas sago, promptly applied, will remove the signs of mourning from an eyo that has boon in violent contact with soino other fellow's fist, and thus obviate tho neces sity of inventing a story to account for it, which, howovor ingenious, will bo sneered nt by skeptical and inorodulous acquaintances, soino of whom may have "been thoro themselves. "Now York Herald. WANTS TO BE A 8LAVE. A Young Married Woman Who Refuses to lie Emancipated. Very often whon a young marriod wo man starts housekeeping she is favored with a circular from the Women's Emancipation league as woll as with various more or less tasty literature dealing with "sexual" matters from an advanced point of view. The Emanci pators address hor in this strain: "Hecoguiziiig that the slavory of sex is tho vgot of all slavery, and that in justice to womanhood, especially injus tice within the family, is the perpetual source of nil other injustice, it (the "league") seeks tho legal, politioal, so cial and industrial emancipation of wo men, as the vital and indispensable con dition of all other true lasting reforms, and affirms these claims as paramount to all porsouul, soctiouul or party con sideration whatever. " I have a deep rooted aversion to slav ery iu all shapes. Thoro are women slaves among as, as thero are men slaves. When I find a woman Blave, I shall bo happy to assist iu emancipating her. But this does not proveut my sympa thizing with the writer of the following lettor: "Sir I am a married woman I think I may say girl of three months' standing, just entered with joy and hope fulness upon what I have been taught to believe the highest and noblest duties of woman. It may be that my beliof and my hopes are delusions; that I am no hotter than a slave, and that if I sub mit to tho injustice In store for me I shall become a party to all tho other wrongs in the world. But is it kind to toll me this juBt now? Mightn't I be left to find out my mistake for myself? When I do, won't it be time enough to join tho Emancipation league? I think it would, so I am trying to keep my de lusion and my annual subscription nn til I have I seen how my lord and mas ter treats bis unfortunate slava" Lon don Truth. Quotation Marks. "Quotation marks are not infrequent ly misused in signs, " said a stroller, "the marks being placed about names, as, for instance, the nume of a place, or about some descriptive phrase iu a sign, though the word or the phrase may really not be a quotation at all, but I am never surprised at any misuse of quotation marks, for I oaunot forget a very singular idea oonoerning them that I bad mysolf in my earlier days. I used to think that single quotation marks about anything meant that the words inclosed were sort of partly quot ed, more or less, whatever that may mean. Perhaps that isn't a very distinct statement, but I remember well that I was quite tiokled when later I learned that quotation marks were not signs to be used at the fancy of the writer, but might properly be used only to indicate aotual quotations. " New York San. Irony of Fate, It was the irony of fate that both Dr. Looiuis, the celebrated New York spe cialist in pulmonary disoosus, and his first wife should die of pneumonia. Dr. Loomls wag one of the first prominent New York physicians to sond his pa tients to the Adirondaoks to try the oura tlve properties of the air there, and nearly SO years ago he built a cottage of his own iu the North Woods, then only half explored and boasting ouly one hotel where now there are soores, New York Correspondent PERILS OF A MESMfcHIU trt. They Brora a tlesnectahte, Clean Shared Lawyer Into Whltkera. A well known lawyer who has always taken considerable pride In the classic mold of his clean shaven fsoe appeared in the county courtrooms recently with well developed growth of very unbe coming beard. Every friend that ha met wanted to know why he didn't gel shaved, and finally he corralled half a dozen of them in a corner and told them the reason. He had never Jasf ned the art of shav ing himself and had always patronized one barber. Not long ago the barber dropped into the habit of telling hint that he (the lawyer) bad a mesmerio eye. The lawyer didn't mind muoh what his barber thought of his eye so long as he shaved him satisfactorily. Bat hav ing discovered tsjat the lawyer's eye was mesmerio the ( barber wont a step further and onct la awhile, after mak ing a slip with tho razor, would explain that it was because he was mesmerized, so that he did not know what he was about Matters went on this way for a week or so, the barber insisting that he wos mesmerized every time the lawyer looked sqnnrely at him, nnd the lawyer took it for granted that the mesmerism business was a dodge to exouse tho oc casional cuts from tho razor. A different aspect was put to the case, howovor, tho last time t he barber shaved his lawyer customer. Leaning over him nfter ho had finished, ho asked if the lawyer thvught a man wonld be exonsa Mo for cutting tho throat of one who mosmcrizod him. Tho lawyer said he certainly would not be excusable nnd got ont of the chair as quickly ns pus sibla Ho learned nfterward that the barber had developed into a porfoot crank on the subject of mnsmorism, nnd nothing will persuade him that he did not hove a vory nnrrow escape. Ho will probably go to nnothor barbor some time, but nt present his nerves are so shaken by tho ocourrenco that ho pre fers to wear nn unbecoming beard to sitting down in any barber chair. Chi cago Tribune. THE EARTH IS RUNNINQ SLOW. But the Scientist Need Not Alarm Ont Nerlnnsly Yet. Lord Kelvin estimntes that the "run ning slow" of the enrth iu its daily ro tation round its axis amounts to 23 sec onds por century. The main cause of this retardation is the friction caused by the tides, which act as a brake, the aotion of whicli has been calculated by this eminent physi cist to be equal to a weight of 4,000,000 tons applied on tho equator. Othor causes have also to be taken in to account as, for example, tho increase Iu tho sizo of the earth, dne to tho fall ing on it of moteorio dust, whioh, if de posited nt tho rnto of one foot in 4,000 years, would produce the obsorved re tardation by itself. Suoh a phenomenon as the annual growth and molting of snow and ice at the poles is introducing irregularities Into the problom, the growth at the poles, by abstracting water from the other parts of the ocean, accelerating the earth's motion, and tho molting, by restoring tho water, rotarding it Against tho retarding forces thero has to be taken into account a probable bo- , coleration, due to the gradual sinking of the curtb by cooling, but this Lord Kelvin believes to be very small per haps not more than ono six-thonsnndth part of tho retardation due to tidal frio tion. Professor Nowcomb has declared from astronomical considerations that tho earth went slow and lost seven seconds between 1850 nnd 1863, and thon went fast and gained eight seconds between 1803 and 1873, changes of rate explica ble by possible changes in the earth's shape, so slight as to be quite nndisoov erablo in astronomical observations. Chicago Times. Out of Place. "What, " asked the king in the play, "are those Roman citizens doing over there?" "Your majesty, " rejoined the her ald, "they are believed to be forming a plot" "Tell them they mustn't," com manded tho monarch, with asperity, not nnmingled with ennui. "Admonish them that they are throwing their time away. Plots have no place in this kind of dra ma." With which the king turned to tho audience and song with fine effect, "Her Auburn Tresses Wouldn't Stay In CurL 'Detroit Tribuna A KeaJIsMo Dream. "Taking the other day, as a brief re spite from labor, a little nap at my desk, " said a man, ' I dreamed that I was smoking, aud that I had swallow ed a lot of smoka I awoke coughing. Wasn't that kind of curious?" New York Sun. u hum uoea 'a tu v The Courteous Attendant (at the the ater) Yos, madam, this is the place to cheok your large hat The Lady (to her esoort) Well, let's go to our seats. Tho Courteous Attendant (politely) Not yot, madam. Kindly pass ou to tht next window and check your big slaevos, Chicago Trlbaue. Cuptula Sweeney, U. S. A., San l)lo go, Cttl., says: "Shlloh'i Catarrh ICom edy is the first medicine I have ever found that will do me any good." Price 30o. Sold by J. C. King- & Co.
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