8T1UV1N0 TO PLEASE. THE ADVANCE AGENT TELLS HOW HI9 FRIENDS OBSERVED THIS RULE. A Mfinngrr of ryroti-etinlo Ahow Who Didn't Wrnit to ttlanppnlut III A nin eties A Mi.nnim-nt Wlilrh Prow Ttmt Hid MTitrU Were AnnrrrlMrtl. "I olwoys strivotoiilfn'i'," remnrl;rrt the drniiintlo fflitor, n ho srrntohnl tho WiiTil "bin tliiliR" cult of thn mlvniirn notice lie win wriHiiK nnl milwtitulpil "liirKiithrtiini iif!Knn:itim. " "1 hunks, I mil sure-," snitt tlin ml ranee ancut, n he ivml ovt-r thn ton Hum thn drnnmtio critic vi niviiiK to him, Hud currfully pnt biii-k into l" pen kct the half column notice he lutl first lrnvu on thn 1. o. "I prt'sniiie, " smiled thn tt. ft, "tlmt you nlwuy sti-ire to pli iine, too, don't you?" "Notnlwny" inawnildimiiipointcrt tone "hut I need to havo a friend who did. Ho teiilly was the wont self deny Iiir rhiip I ever snw, aud what he wouldn't do to plciiM on andieuce vrnsn't worth doing." "Where in he uowl" "Dead." "Doiid?" "Yet, it killed him. It wan thlswny: He us in the pyrotechnic brunch of the dramatic art ami uwid to give shows at one of those imitation Cone Inlands to he found on nearly every sand bar in nearly -t-r river tributary to the Mis sissippi. Ho had been the originator of thn firework feature at this place, and bii phenomenal snoces had made him no proud that he would sooner have died than had a failure. One Fourth of July he wan going to give tho grandent dis play of hia life, aud the feature in the biggest letter ou the bill wui a ret piece, 100 feet high, with an enormous balloon loaded with firework to go up from the top as a grand finale. There were ten time ns muuy people there that night ns there had ever been, and my friend waa feeling no good yon could ace it in hi walk. "Everybody waa on edge, too, for the grand blare of glory the niauugemeut had been advertising for weeks, and when, promptly at the hour of 10 o'clock, my friend stepped forth like a peacock to let off the grout display with bis own hand there was a round of ap plause, followed by dead silence us the audience sat breathless wiifl hing for the burst of blaring glory. But some how it didn't burst The professor fired the train and retreated to a safe place, but the powder wouldn't born. It fizzled and went out instead. Once, twice, thrice, it fizzled, sputtered and went out, and then the crowd began to growl and guy, aa crowds always will, and the professor began to get wild. "Several other attempt to set the piece off were no more successful, aud at last, with a smothered scream of crazy rage, he shot np the ladder of the tower to its very top, where he had a platform stored with all sorts of inflam mable and explosive things arranged to go off at the proper time. Ho stood there a moment silhouetted against the sky, the crowd indulging in gibes and jeer, with now and then throat as to what he might expect if be would only oorao down to the ground. This was his time to show what heoonld do to please hi audieuoe, and in a minute, aud be fore anybody had any idea what he would do next, be caught np an armfnl of the explosives about him, fastened them to his clothe and hung wreath and ring over hi neck and shoulders, and, sotting the whole thing afire, be swuna: out into the air in the balloon. which was already tugging at it anchor. "A the balloon shot np it wa a ter riflo light, and the poor devil's shrieks added to the intensity of the scene, al ready lurid with red and blue lights, while the air was filled with all manner of bursting bombs and crashing explo sive. Women fainted, men ran help lessly about ahouting, and still the bal loon swept upward with it fiery freight and passenger, until, when it had reached point 1,000 foe above tbe earth, it caught fire and the whole burning mas shot like a blazing ball atraight to the ground. "Yon will be safe in betting those people never saw such an exhibition as that before, nor will ever again in all probability, and when it was over," concluded the agent, "the audience seemed to realise what the professor bad done to please them, and they chip ped in and built blm monument where be fell, having on it, besides bis name and the proper dates, no other in scription except ' He strived to please. ' " The dramatic) critio waa at least half a minute in recovering hi speech after the recital of this remarkable tale, and before ha could ask any questions the advanoe agent had folded his tent like circus and stolen away to tbe office of the next dramatio critio be had to call upon. Washington Star. A Toad aa Tallaiaaa. The Western Morning News reports a remarkable case of superstition. A young woman in Penzance bad suffered from fits, and she adopted a remedy wbioh would be to most people almost as repulsive aa tbe disease Itself. She procured a live toad, placed it in a bag, hung it around her neck and carried it next her body. The woman wa cured of her fit, but she was being medically attended at the Peusance infirmary at . the same time. Tbe woman believes, however, that this vfa a coincidence) and that her strange talisman was the instrument of her onre. South Wales News. , ' A Different Matter. Thn Man (expectantly) Then you will be my wife? Thw Girl No, Indeed. I simply suid X loved you. New York iiedger. To Uv. To live i to have justice, truth, rea son, devotion, probity, sincerity, com mon ren bo, right aud duty welded into the bwirt. Victor Hugo, SERVANTS IN JAPAN. They Rfftf1.r K.1l.n ftarvle. If The Are Treated With Connhlnratlon. Jnpnnrse servnnt are excellent if you choose them with discretion ami treut them with tho established consideration of the country. There 1 a universal so cial compact in Japan to make lifo plensnnt by politeness. Everybody is more or Iw well bred and hates tho man or - woman who is ynkamashu uoisy, uncivil or exigent. i'enpla who lose their temper are al whvs in a hurry, burnt doors, swear and swagger, find themselves ont of place in a land where thn lowest cooly lenrua 'and practices an ancient courtesy from thn time when hn wnlililes about an a baby upon his mother's back. Therefore to he treated well in Japan as perhaps, indced.elsewhere you must treat every body, including your domestics, well, uml then yon will enjoy thfl most pleas ant and willing snrvico. Your cook will doubtless cheat you n little, your jiurikisha man will now and then take too much sake, the mns mu and the boy's wife will gallop all over the place about everything yon do, ami the gardener and the coachman will fight cocks in the back yard when your back is turned, but if conscious of your own you can forgive the little sins tit others. Yon can hardly full to become closely attached to the quiet, soft voiced, pleasant people, who a soon as they havn learned your way will tako real pleasure In making life ngrceulilc to you. A present now and then of u kimono to the maids, of toys aud sweetmeats to the children, a day' holidny now and than granted to the theater or thn wres tling match are richly rewarded by such bright faces and unmistakable warmth of welcome ou arriving and of good speed on going aa repay yon tenfold Respectful as Japanese servants ore and they never speak except ou their knees and faces they like to be taken into the family conversation and to sit sometimes in friendly abandon with tho master and mistress, admiring dresses, pictures or western novelties and listen ing sometimes to the siuuiseii and koto as children of the household. Edwin Arnold ill Scribner'a. QUEER LIBRARY FREAKS. Fanny Keqawrt. For Hooks That A inane and Amaso Employees. Once in awhile tbe clnrks in the pub lic library get hold of a good joke through the ignorance of people who come there to take out books. It was not long ago that a woman who wa anxious to join tbe Daughters of the American Revolution came there to look np her family history and get her facts and claims ready to submit to the committee on membership. She went about it in rather a queer way. After looking about aimlessly through the in dex for a time she discovered "Lossing' Family History of the United States. " She wtote her request for the books on one of the cards provided for that pur pose aud was quite indignant with the clerk who handed it to her because it did not contain what she wauted. It was not long after this incidout that another woman, who, -from her dress and appearance, the clerks though t. might be literary, wrote on one of thn cards a request for "Tbe Autocrat of the Breakfast Table." "Holmes' 'Autocrat, do yon wan(?" politely asked the clerk. "Ob, I don't rare whose it is, " wa the reply. "I only want to find out if it i proper to use toothpick at the break fast table." Another request for a magazine which the applicant said was called Bruin kept one of tbe clerks busy huntiug half an hour before be discovered thut what wa wanted was tho magazine called Mind. Still another olerk was shock ed the other duy by a request for Wash iugton Irving' "Alabama." The olerk mildly suggested "Alhambra." Cbi- oago Times-Horald. Daafness. It ha been stated that three person out of every five in thi country who have attaiued the age of 40 year are more or less deaf in one or both ears. A large proportion of thia deafness is caused by catarrh, and medical treat ment for difficulty of hearing is usually directed to the catarrhal souroe. In Eu rope much of the deafness is hereditary Dr. James Kerr Love of Glasgow re .oeutly read a paper on deafness before the Royal society of Edinburgh, from which it appeara that congenital deaf ness may be either hereditary in the di rect line or in collateral branches, and that it depends ou not one, but many anatomical defects. Intermarriage of deaf persona perpetuate but doe not accentuate the tendency of deafness. The bearing brothers and sister of deaf mute are a likely to have deaf mute offspring aa if they had been deaf mutes themselves. Consanguinity of 'parents emphasize family defect, and in thi Way many case of congenital deafness occur. One of the most singular points of Dr. Love' paper was tbe assertion that the state had tbe right to control the marriage of person belonging to familie badly tainted with deafness. . Ancient Tombstones, The custom of insoriLlng upon tomb stone wa iu vogue among the Greeks and Roman. The Greek only did this, however, in the case of their illustrious men, but wben a Roinun died he was duly buried near a highwuy, and ou his tombstone was carved a suitable inscrip tion, which in tbe majority of coses be gan with "St a, viator" (stop, traveler) About 10,000,000 of the bovine spe oie are now to bo fouud iu the Argen tine Rcpublio. They are all descendants of eiuht cow aud one bull which were imported into Bruzil in tho middlu of the sixteenth ocntury. "Honors of wur" i the priviluKo al lowed to the enemy, on cupvtnlatioii, of being permitted to rutuiu their arms. Thia is the 'highest honor a victor oiin pay a vanquished foe. Swlftneee of Things. Below will be found a list showing how far certain things, animate and in animate, will travel in a second of time: The snail, one-half inch; n man walk ing, 4 feet; a fast runner, 88 feet; n fly, 84 feet; fast skater, 88 feet; ocean waves, 70 feet; a carrier pigeon, 87 feet; swallows, 220 feet; tho worst cy clone known, 880 feet; the Krakatoit wave (at thn volcanic catastrophe of Aug. 87, 1898, in tho Sundit islands), 1)40 feet; sound in the air, 1,003 feet; tho surface of the globe at sea level on the equator, 1,500 foot; the moon, 8,800 feet; tho sou, h milts; tho earth, 18 miles; Holley'sooinet in the perihelion, 885 miles; electric current on telegraph wires, 7,0(0 miles; induction enrreut, 11,040 miles; electric current in copper wire armatures, 81,000 miles; light 180,000 miles; discharge of a Leydon bottle through copper wire of one-sixteenth inch in diameter, 878,100 miles. This lust la the greateat rapidity so far measured. Does It Pay to be Sick ? Hosldi's tho discomfort and suffering. lllii"RK of any sort Is expensive. Hundreds of penplH commit the doctors every day about cough and colds. This Is bettor than to suffer the dls'-nsH to run along, but those who tic Otto's (Jure for the throat and lung's do hvtter still. It costs less and tlm euro Is certain. You cat: got a trial bottle free of our ugt-iii, II. Alex. Stoke. Laiye size :'."(. and iilc. X- - "7s O s 'i o Si t- Q O CO ro ea. CO O RED LETTER Clearance Sale ! A. D. DEEMER & GO. for the next ten days offer La dies' Oxford Ties, worth Lancaster ginghams, 5c. ' NORMANDIE "6c. BEST CALICO PRINTS, 4 and 5c. CHALLIES 3c, LAWNS G, 8 and 10c. EMBROIDERIES that were 8c. reduced to 5c; 10c. and 12lc. kind to 8c GENTS' DRESS SHIRTS that were 50c, 75c and 85c, reduced to 87c. STRAW HATS, 50c. kind at 83c. A Few DRESS PATTERNS that were 6.00, 6.50 and 7.00, to go in thin wile at 4.00. Ladies' Shirt Waists will be sold regardless of cost or quality. fl. ' A Note From the Editor. Tho editor of n loading state paper writes: ''If you had seen my wife last Juno and wore to sen her to-day you would not believe ulio was the mime woman. Then she was broken down by nervous debility and suffered terribly from constipation and slek headache. Hiieon's Celery King for tho nerves made her a well woman In one month." H. Alex. Stokn will give you il freo sample package of thin great herhul remedy. Largo slue 2.V'. and ."(. , WANTK.II-KAITIII ( I. MKN tilt WOMEN " i travel f. it- l-e-iniHili. etiilili-hfl liitiii. in lYmt-ylvunhi. Hulniy 971 utid ex 'llsiH. t'lWltloh pi-MMlincht. IOfcrenct. Knelt'' srlf-n(t(lri-f.l,(l Mtalnlied rnvelfH. Tim Nntliimil, .-Mtir liisiiniiu-e lllriff , I'lilriiao. First National Bank o r it e rxoL us villi:. Capital, Surplus. 850,000. 85,000. C. .TllirlM-ll, Prraldenli roll .Tfi-4'lrllniid, J'lce Prra.t John II. Kanchrr. Cashier. Directors! C. Mitchell, Pcntt McClellnncl, 3. C. King, .liilin II. CurlH'tt, O. E. Brown, U. W. Fuller, J. II. Kuuclier. Does a ffenernt bnnkltuthiislnessanrt solicits the Ht'cmints of merchtiiit. iirnfcKslntuil men. farmers, mechanic, miners, lumhcrtneii and iithei-H, promlsluir the mimt cui-ufiil attention to the IiuhIiicn of all pel-son. fafe Deposit Itoxes for rent. First. National Hunk. hiillilltiR, Nolan block Fire Proof Vault. L. M. SNYDER, Practical Horse-slioer and General Blacksmith. Horse iHM'Ina dnnn In the nontent miinnpr Rnrl hy tho hi tout Improved niellitxlM, Over hKidllTrrtMit kind of Hhwfl niHch' for correc tion of fuulty union himI dUvKwd ftttt. Only the hvnt make of sho nm nutU urd. He piililtiK of nil klmlft rim-fully find promptly don. Hatih faction llUAHANTKRii, Lumuer men'MRiipplieMon IihimI. .Tnt'ktjon CM. near Fifth, Iteynoldnvllle, Pa. TANTET FAITIIKTIj MEN OK WOMEN " to triivel for i-eHiHiiiHlhln eitnhlUhed limit? In lVntirtVlvanlii. Salary 07nO and ex- IieiiMfM. roxmon permanent. Kererenru. Cm low elf-nddresMed Mtaniped envelope. The National, Htar Iriuiirance BUItf., Chicago. $1.00 at $ .80 1.25 " .98 ' 1.50 " 1.00 1.75 " 1.00 2.00 " 1.50 D. Deenier & Go. I will close stock of DRY GOODS, Clothing and Furnishing Goods at less than mfg. prices. HENRIETTAS, sold at 75c. and 85c, " 65c. 60c. " 50c SERGE, 1 1 1 1 DRKSS FLANNEL, i c it RED FLANNFL, it it it it 65c 60c 30c. J0c ' 75c 50c 50c 25c. 20c i 1 1 . White Flannel at the same price. LADIES' RIBBED WAISTS, sold at 25c, " " " " 15c 10c. RED TABLE DAMASK, WHITE it CORSETS formerly sold at $1.00 now 79c; now 57c; formerly 50c, now 89c. CAMBRIC at 3Jc. a yard. TAFFETY at 8 and 10c a yard. O. N. T., Clark's Cotton, 4c Spool Silk 4c CLOTHING Childs' Suits $1.00, now .75 Boyis' Suits $7, 8.00, now 5.50 1.50, " i.10 lt 5.00, 3.75 " " 2.00, 44 1.50 Men's 14 4.98, 44 3.85 44 44 2.50, 44 1.85 44 44 5.00, 44 3.75 44 44 4.00, 44 2.75 44 44 5.00, 44 2.75 Men's Fine Worsted Suits reduced from $10.00 to 6.50. GRAND ARMY SUITS reduced from $8.50 to 5.50; from $10.00 to 7.50. Shirts reduced from $1.00 to 75c, from 90c to" 67c, from 75c. to 62c , from 50c N. We are always receiving new goods and can always give you good values in Dry Goods, ISTotions, Clothing, Hats and Caps, Shoes, Etc. We carry a complete stock of everything and you will find our GROCERIES and PROVISIONS always up to standard in quality, and the very lowest , price. We invite a share of your trade. w, JEFFERSON SUPPLY CO. out my entire now 57c. 49c. 42c. 39c. 49c 45c. 21c. 57c. 57c. 40c. 38c 19c. 15c. now 19c 10c. 08c. 20c. 45c 57 Ac. 32o. 20c. formerly 75c, 25c 50c. 75c. 50c 40c. 25c 1 1 ii to 42c, from 35c to 25c. HftNftU. j
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