0 A DREADFUL DISEASE INFORMATION OF VALUE TO EVERY BODY A30UT APPENDICITIS. A Itancrrnn Kiipi-rlliiHjr rnpular Krmm tn tlin flnbjrrl flnw to Hrrngnlxe thu Dnimrr Blciw - Itrlwrrn the Aim of Trn ml Thirty It In Mint to IIk rrd. Them in n finpnlnr mid fiiW lint Inn tfmt tipiirndV'itiit i cnuned lijr n Krtijie nvrd.nii nriuiK seed or some other fnrcijjn liilwtnneo getting ito ttin vermiform tiprteiiilix. The true ennso is tlio netting tip ( f Itifliiiiiiimtiniwiiiilcniiiieqiieiit pun greiie iu the tioano of tho uil'iidix, tiB oully due to iuBiiflleietit rirruiation of Muoil iu tlin fiart itself. In tlicuiunls of iierntioim Tvlileh have taken pluee many in tinio to save the life of the pa tient nnd umiiy too late there is not me autheiitieiiteri rami of 11 foreign inh ntnnee, aueh nn a Ford, being found in the appendix. Thin will b more fully Jculizrd when olio litis in mind that tho interior of tho appendix is only hig rnmigh to admit a medium xized darn ing needle, ltd great liability to difeaso is due entirely to its low order of vital roHistunce that Id, it Ik an organ wliieh appear to have no act mil line iu the present limehiiiery of man, but in the earlier stages of man' development it 1h believed to have breu a larfie poueli that played nn important part in the digestive operation of the human (sys tem. Hy apes of dinnso it has gradually Mmmk to its present diniensioiiH and is known to Fee nee as a vestigial organ, one whieli is only n remnant of it- former self mid possessing but a vestige of its original hitietions. This beeomi s more clear if some other parts of the Imkiv which m w seem to liavo no usn nro considered. The tonsils are in tliH clu-s ami al -n tlio wi.-coiii teetli, and both aro peculiarly subject to disease. Tlio appendix is in one of tlio mwt delicate anil vital parts of the body, in the peritoneal cavity, usually to the ripht of the center of the abdomen. But in raw instances it lias been found on tin) left side, and still mom rarely otherwiso displaced. This discovery, mado very recently, lias caused tlio sur geons to bo extremely careful to locate tlio trouble before using tho knife. But seienco never stands still. It al ways pushes its investigations beyond more appearances, and nut of tho niyte rics of nature develops facts which give it power and might. When it was once proved that tho poison which produced septic peritonitis canio from tho break ing dowu or decay of the npiciidix, the very root of one of man's worst physical foes was laid bare. Further practice established beyond a doubt that iu a largo majority of cases the appen dix could bo removed by a simple sur gical operation ami tlio patient restored to vigorous liculth, if the diseuso wus discovered in time and correctly diag nosed. Tho surgeons now regard the opera tion itself us ono of tho most simple, but to obtain tho best results it should tnko plueo within a few hours after the paticut bogius to suffer from tho disease. In fact, the sooner tho operation is hod tho better ore tho chances of recovery, . while if the kuifo is not resorted to death is snro to eusuo very promptly or after lingering miseries from the deadly poison perambulating through tho sys tem and coming to tho surface in ab scesses. The symptoms are so plain and nn mistakablo to tho surgeon of today that any sufferer may know them for himself: First. Tho attack is always sudden. It comes ou when the person is appar ently iu tho best of health and without the slightest warning. Second. A sharp pain is felt in the very center of the abdomen. This is al ways the case, whether the appendix bo in its correct place ou tho right side or displaced to the left Third. A soro and tender spot, very painful to the touch, is located exactly where tho incision must be made to find the appendix. ""leae nro tho three plain symptoms have her u found iu thousands of . -( irith scarcely a variation. is it is that many sudden deaths C to persons iu robust health. They .bought to have a colic or a vertigo, n the truth is that niinerablo and -ss little organ, the uppendix, has ith some kind of an accident and f saogs the wholo machine. r Appendicitis usually occurs between the uges of 1 0 and 30 years. It is ex tremely rare ubove or below thoso ages. - f VUiucb more frequent among mules t yfcmulcs, the proportion in all c Ves being 30 per cent females to I cent mule. vuuse for this difference is of I'eoerrt discovery, and is not even V-, generally among the medical nro" 4ou. Dr. Cludo, a French surgeon omparative immunity of the fe I from the malady, and disoov- a 1 e I J J . o' t the appendix in woman has an ood vessel that does not exist in This dweovery was hailed with i by the surgical world. It was Ij m bit of new knowledge of in value, but was an additional proof theory that the collapse of the udix is (tlwuys dne to its wuut of Jt resistance. New York Journal. ' ' jrhaps uo country in the world is. ( ,tt:r ulted for the cyclist than Hol land, where yon may run for mile without meeting with an incline that . even suggest bill. In The Hague ' cycling is a u'uivcrsul amusemuut, horse exorcise) for ladies being the occasional txqepUou. A strong microscope shows the single hairs of the hcud to be like course, round ruxpg, but with teeth extremely Irregular mid jaggud, ,i According to au estimate In a work on building, three plusterurs, with one helper, will put ou 450 yards of two tout work in a duy. WAMPUM. What It ! and How the Inillnns TorA to Mnkc It. When Columbus diseovrrc d America, ho found tho Indians carrying on trade from tribe to tribe with wampuin. Any thing that has value may be used ns money. In ancient Hyrncnse and Britain tin was used as money, and we And that Iron was so used at one time in Spuria, pieces of silk in China, cuttle in Homo and (icrniaiiy, leather among the Car thaginians, nulls in Scotland, lead in Burma, platinum in Russia, rubes of pressed ten iuTartary, slaves inm-ng the. Anglo-Saxons, salt in Abyssinia, etc. Wampum is from nn Algonquin word meaning "white." The Indians have everbien fond of ornaments, particu larly of beads. They used to make beads of seashells ill tho following way: A fraptnent of stono was with much earn "worked dowu" to the size of a small nail, having one end quite pointed, and it was then fastened to a piece of ratio or a reed. With this simple tool the In dian workman chipped off a bit of the inside of a conch shell or a pnrt of the shell of a hard clam and rubbed it down to tho size desired. This bit of shell ho hold in his hand, placed the sharp end of the stone against it and then turned the stone around and around until a hole was drilled entirely through the shell. Tho shell leads thus tediously manu factured were called wampum. These beads were citl.i r white or of npmph color, the last being valued much higher than the first. It was the very laborious way of making wampum that pave it value. The wampum was artistically strung upon hempen threads and used as necklaces, bracelets and rings, orten it was woven into belts about 8 inches iu width and !i feet in length. The wampum belt served many pur poses. It was sent from tribo to tribe with solemn pnimis"s and messages, it wus used in making peace, in asking for uiirin time of war, for personal adorn ment and also as a "circulating medi um." The coast tribe Indians wero tho wampum makers. The interior Indians spent their time hunting and exchanged game of all kinds for tho wampum mudo by tho coast trilics. For a long tiiao after white peoplo had settled iu the new world small coins wero scarce nnd wampum wus used as "change. " Finally tho "pule faces" set up lathes by treadles for tho purpose of making wampum quickly, and soon the Indian wampuin makers wero, us wo say nowadays, "out of a job." Philadelphia Times. WAS IT FUNNY? A rrmrtlrml Jnlta of Whoso Humor tli Victim Wu Doubtful. "Would you mind telling me somo thing?" ho asked, with some hesitancy. "Certainly not," the reporter an swered. "Yon sco a great ninny newspapers?" "I huvo to read considerably. " "And you ought to bo nblo to tell whether a thing is funny or not." "Can't you tell for yourself?" "Ordinarily. But I have a case hero that needs an expert opinion. Some time ago I was employed by a man to look after his stock in trade, which consisted mainly of beer. Some peoplo cume in, and in order to entertain them I showed them a few tricks that I hud learned. One of them said to mo that ho knew a good trick, and that if I would help him out ho would show it. I wus willing to do anything I could to make it pleasant for the company, and when he asked luc for an auger I handed him a small one that happened to bo handy. Ho went over to a keg of beer and bored a holo iu it. He told mo to put my thumb over the hole. I did so, and he bored another hole iu tho keg. At his request I put my other thumb over the other hole. " "Then what did he do?" "Then h began to treat the crowd to everything in sight All I could do was to reason with them about their conduct. I didn't dure take either of my thumbs off, for the result would have been a geyser that would hove ruined the new wall paper. When they had helped themselves to all they wanted they went away and left mo. It was two hours be foro the proprietor cume uud plugged up tho holes and released me." "Does tho owuer hold yon responsi ble?" "I don't know whether he does or not. I haven't been back, and the next time I go to work it will be iu a dry goods store or a grocery. All I want to ask you is this: Was that a good joke, or was it a rase of fulse pretenses? Which ought I to do laugh and be merry or have some people arrested?" Washington Star. Lincoln's Oravs. About miles north of Springfield, His., Abraham Lincoln lies buried uuder towering pile of marble, granite and bronze. The height of his monument is ISO feet The cost wus $260,000, the money being collected through popular contributions. Several attempts have been mudo to steal the body. Not until the leuden coftin was sunk deep iu the crypt and covered with six feet of con crete did the robbers desist New York Press. Lou or it. "Yes," said Luugly as the clock bauds ueared the midnight hour, "I think I shall accept the presidency of that gas compuuy." . .. "I should think you would be. Attest for the position, " she replied: Phila delphia North American. , . The Siberian -railway will measure exactly 4,741 1-8 miles from Toliulia hinsk, on the eastern side of the Uruls, and at the gate of Siberia., to Vladivo stok, the Kuxsiuu port pu the sea of Japuu. Tim totul cost is estimated at $175,000,000. At the present rate of production over $800,000,000 worth of fresh gold will enmo from the mines before" uuother presidential election is held. SCHUBERT'S SAD LIFE. MI Slisll I 1st to Pnrslc From lloor to tlniir to lies ly ttrrail." One of the bitterest disappointments in Schubert's life was (loot he's indifTer rnee. In I HI 8 he sent n selection of his compositions to tho poet's songs to Wei mar. What precious pearls of tnusio were among tho collection tho songs of "Mlgnou" and "The Harpist," those from "Faust," tho sad melodies "Long ing," "Nights.-Ttg," "The Wanderer's Nightsong," "The Karl King," "Hai deroslein," "The Fisherman," "The Burd," "The King of Thnle" and tho music to "Claudine of Villa Bella." Hoethe, who had nn enr only for the stiff compositions of Zvuustei g mid Rein hart, then in fashion in Weimar, tixik no nfitice of Schubert's music and left hts letter unanswered. Not until 18110 after Schnliert's death did Goethe learn to appreciate tho extraordinary value of the impositions that lay neglected in his drawer. It was then that Wilhelniine Schroder Devrient sung "The Eurl King" to him. It was Schubert's greatest delight to make some little excursion wilh his friends to the picturesquely situated vil lages iu tlio Wilnerwald or on the Kah lenberg, and it was iu the arbors of the small inns, with n glass of pnro country wine before him, that inspiration came most easily. But even these modest de lights were imbittered by tho malieo that pictured him ns u drunkard who composed his songs when he was full of wine. It is nn al (ilutn fact thr.t he did not lose the faculty of urtisticwork even under . the saddest circumstances. He composed the greater part of the "Mil ler Songs" whilo he was lying ill in hospital in lN2it. He was quite right when he wmto to his friend Kuppcl wieser in March, lSi4, "Those of my compositions which huvo been inspired by pain Seem to please peoplo hist." And ill a letter to Bauemf-dd he com plained: "What will becoiueof poor me? Like (4i:ethe's harp player, I shall have to sneak from door to door nnd beg my bread. " Tho only ray of light that fell into his dark lil'n was when, through the kindness of Count Joluuin Kster hazy's niauugi r, linger, the father of the famous prima doniiu, Unger-Snba-tier, ho was appointed music muster in the count's household in Zt lees, where ho spent some happy summers, tho hap piest of his life. It was iu Castle Zelecs that ho is supposed to huvo fallen in love with Caroline, his patron's beauti ful daughter, who was his pupil, uud who probubly never learned tho secret of tho musician's heart, though it is strange that one so gifted and so beauti ful should not have married before she was well into tho thirties. Bitter dis appointment followed this short spell of a life free of cure, Loudon Telegraph. W'ANTKII-l AITMI t I, MKN oil WOMKN " to lilivel fr K'-piMi-ihlc c-tiihll-lird house In I'ennsylv nnln. Hnlniy frso mid ex lieuses. roslltnn neinmnetit. Itefcienri. i I KmcIiim' sclf-uddi esscd Hiiitiiit'l cnvclupc. i The Nulleuid, Klur Insurance It 1I;;.. 1 1 ti-n uo. I IMlsiMHlyZgiirg Free Trip to 9 IV, urn WE will f urninh transportation from Reynoldsville to Niagara Falls and return over the B., R. & P. li'y, and two days' board at Hotel Imperial, one of the leading hotels ut Niagara Falls, to the person who will secure the largest number of Gash SuDscrlbers to THE STAR before June 15th, 18i7. Subscription price to be fli.OO, striotly cash in advance. See partic ulars of this oiler elsewhere in this issue of THE STAR. ' 1 ' jf Is Marriage Failure? Huvo, vim been trying to get tho liest out of existence without health III your family? Have you been wearing out your lim from the clTei is of Dyspepsia Liver Complaint and Indigestion? i v Jon sleepless lit lily hi? I) i you awake In tho morning feeling languid, with coated '.imp lie mid sallow, hagpurd looks? llon't ih it. A shout In tho camp tells how Macon's (Vei-v King has otuvd others; It, will euro you. Trial package free. Large sizes ."'V. and i"e. nt ! nild' Drmr Hn'c F.r1y English Itlmllnir. During the reign of Elizabeth the fashion In binding underwent a consid erable change, tho graceful simplicity of tho early work, with its rather severe and restrained ornament, giving place to a heavy, overdecornted style, in which a tiicrnbuiiiluiice of gilding hid pover ty of design. This stylo reached its height in tho bindings produced for James I, which were commonly dotted all over with flowers-de-lueo or thistles, whilo tho corners wero filled with a heavy block of coarse design. During tho reign of Charles tho bindings wero as a rulo copied from French work ami tho designs curried out with very smnll tools; but, though foreign infliienco was strongly felt at first, tho English bind ers soon struck out a line of their own, and Samuel Meamo, tho binder to Charles II, produced some admirable work and seems to have introduced tho quaintly shaped panel which gave the uuiuo of cottage binding to a certain class of work. At n little later dato an Edinburgh binder whoso naino is un known, but whose work is easily distin guishable, executed somo marvelous pieces of work on very dark green mo rocco. At la nienin. Why? Why is it that a common poet, when ho wishes to composo a bountiful poem on niiy subject, us Venico or ;-ouHt, al ways instinctively begins, "(i Venice," or "O youth," when it is well known that no line beginning iu that way is worth a cent? It is strange, too, that when a begin ner at story writing wishes to make a sad scene, ho always brings in "bitter tears" and "breaking hearts," when it has long hern known to tho trade that the rending public run read about bitter tears and breaking henrts all day and never miss a mcul. Detroit Free Press. Itfttilnrea. Mistress Why, Bridget, what on earth are you doing with all tho broken dishes ou the shelf? Bridget Sure, mum, yez towld me Oi wur to repluco every ono Ol broke. London Answers. When n dentist iu China is pulling a tooth for u patron, an assistant hammers ou a gong to drowu tho cries of the victim. It is just us well to know that opholia, a new color, is a pule mauve. Niagara Fails! maw ,:-zt.?:y-x-i' C. A. STEPIIKNSON, Ed. and Publisher. s Ladies' Capes and Jackets. Children's Coats. Ladies' Capes, regular price s4. 00 .and fi.00, at .. ri0. Ladies' Capes, regular price s.'i.OO, (5.00 and 7.00, at s.'S.oo and 3. HO. Ladies' (.Japes, regular price .;. 00 to 10.00, at sfi.OO and (5.00. Jackets, the same reduc tion. Child's Coats, regular price s?2.00, 3.00 and 4.00, at $1.25 and 2.00. Oeat Reduction in Men's, Youths and Boys' OVERCOATS. Also in Men's and Boys' Woolen Underwear. Boys' Knee pants, regular price 50c, at 25c. Special hanau Ctarii Sale ! Lace Curtains, Curtain Swisses, Laces and Thursday, Friday and Saturday. A. D. 1 3J -g -J. H c J no c ,2 n Cu u O H 5.2 a, o p b 5 9? A to .2 'fer.-S 0 .2 - - J3 O V 5 t 9 15 S e -a .a 3 S Ch - rt ej 3h rt a u a S3 h S 3 5 3 rt bO to s 9 -a V h SO 5 o o 3 ti r "5 'O "1 M L. M. SNYDER, Practical Horse-slioer and General BlacKsmitn. Murte sluieliitf (time In tlio nontext manner unit liy the lulcsl lliiil-ovell methods. Over MiOdltrercht kiiuln nt xlinc nuifle for t-orrec-tlun of fit it 1 1 y ik-iIoii iinil dlwHst'd fei-t. Only (lie tH'it run ko nf kIkm". nnd iniili u..d. Ke piilrlnniif nil klmU eurefi.lly nnd promptly dime. Hatisfaction (ii'AHANTKKii. 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