Reputations ennnot be joWjt based on statistic. Statistics show that Chicago contains eleven httndvii churches. The question as to whether a tallov made. gown, costing $115, Is a neces sity was disposed of in the affirmative rwently by a New York judge. Of course the later was married and hen peck td. The total Increase, of population In the Dominion of Canada, IncliirttnK the gain by Immigration as well as by nat ural increase, has fallen from 830,0110 In the decade ending 1880 to uOitOOO In that ending 1901. A great national highway, 3000 miles long, extending from the, Atloantlc to the Pacific, would be a. glorious achievement, and a perfectly feasible one. We want one good road In this country, and that ought lo be it, ex claims the Urooklyn Ragle. Of the 3,000.000 square miles, more or lees, within the limits of the United States, excluding Alaska and the Islands, about 1,300,000, or 43 percent are not naturally supplied with rain fall sufliilent during the summer sea son to keep up agriculture with any success. Senator Vest of Missouri, who ended his eulogy of the late Wade Hampton in fho United States senate by quoting from Tennyson, Is said to outrank even Senator Hoar of Massachusetts In his familiarity with the poetry of England and America. It is said that his com mand of quotations Is astounding, ilmt he has one at his tongue's tip for any ease that may arise. He Is a good classical scholar also, and Is ulwnya happy to debate a matter of accents. The fight over the famous Fair es tate of San Francisco lasted over seven years, and cost the heirs, In round numbers, a million of dollars for court and legal expenses Rlope. Mesides this, $500,000 was spent in settling the claims of various relatives. When Senator Fair died his wealth was esti mated at $14,000.tioo, and this, despite the great outlay in connection with the suits, is said to have increased to $17, 000,000. The New England Cotton Manufac turers' asocial Ion is to place a bronze memorial tablet In honor of Ell Whit ney, the inventor of the cotton gin, up on the wall of the Eli Whitney county club house at Rocky Creek, Oa., where Whitney set up his first cotton gin. The inscription upon the tablet de clares the American cotton gin to have been "a contribution to the resources of ciztllzation, and to the material wel fare of the United States." America's place In the scientific world is the subject of an Interesting discussion In Popular Science Monthly. This Journal points out that, while we have produced great inventors and are, perhaps, contributing more than a share to practical engineering, man ufactures end agriculture, wc do not stand equally high In the domain of pure science. If the pure sciences were divided Into nine groups that is to fay, mathematics, astronomy, rhyslcs, botany, chemistry, geology, zoology, physiology and anthropology-psychologyand the United States excelled In one branch, It would be sufficient. It Is, however, admitted we aro inferior to several nations In mathematics, physics, chemistry and physiology, and we are inferior In reputation, though obviously not so In perfor mance, In zoology, botany and anthropology-psychology, but we are proba by doing work of greater volume and value than any other nation In astron omy and In geology. One morning recently eight men launched a surf-boat In the teeth of a northeast gale to rescue a crew of wreckers from a barge stranded on the southern side of Cape Cod. The men were members of .the life-Raving ser vice from the station at Monomoy Point. They fought their wey to the barge, took oil' the imperiled wreckers and turned shoreward again. Then panic seized the rescued men. By their struggles the bont was capsized, nud of the 13 souls on board but one escaped. It U a simple story one that Is repeated, with variations, every year at one point or another along the coast states the Youth's Companion. They were plain, every-day men, these life savers, living simply and lovingly with their little families on their ' meagre pay, ready day or night to risk their lives for a brother in distress. Bis wives are widows, fourteen chil dren aco lathurleuB, and. J be men had no pensions. Rut the world does not see such deeds aa theirs unmoved. The heart of Huston and of Massachusetts ' has provided for these whom they left dependent, and the whole nation will CDerisn weir uieiuuijr. ' .-' - - IVLYi . i ''Vt ftHOSEWHO SHAVE, w ftow tfctlt honor tfwtn,-w DmtHU Dm4 VHS ttTw of Uur1 md tho itttoly taw T With blaxo t kintm fcritffctottlftfj eviriwUV Nay not alone thm cfiMoor pnhm tofag M Tbty will aot Imvo this mvy honoring. 0 ftot ft 1 ow cannon. tokUntf Hm thf imw Not i inrt rallqunfy, writ wttfi ran v Net .l tho Iteranc of ow rovftot tjioom KM all A bulo blown. Can honor thm frown tatotHT wA fit yoatfm ,Nof cu woprabo ale no - -J la tho matttic rvticooce of ttooo i k Not oven owr lyric tvart . Can ha a o thom. ooaiod pwar to thWr ialn1 nay, wo .Ttm mwi oar aufun now of faro Vhetn t ano thia will cenaocrato nam. ma mt tMtr aovta afar t i cttoibani an aaRpJcr atat I'TVejUViN 1 TIT 1IE moon was shining through I , the pines out of a cloudless I sky when they laid him away In the little cemetery at the Marshalltown Old Soldiers' Home. John Labold -was bis name, "Ser geant John," big comrades had called him for twenty years. The worldly possessions lie left behind him con sisted of a pair of worn-out crutches; the only memory that survived him was that of a crotchety, broken-down old man. But every veteran among the seven hundred nt the home fol lowed his body up the bill, for above and beyond his worldly failings wns a record of service that spanned the four years of the Rebellion and on bis sunken breast Inside the coffin rested three medals that testified with silent eloquence to gallantry In the face of the enemy. All the trees and lawns were bathed In the white moonlight when the vet erans fell Into flies In front of the main building and began to march with slow and halting steps behind the hearse. Ahead of the carriage was the band, flanked by the tiring squad. The cemetery was only a few hundred yards away, but It took the old men a long while to reach It, for many In the ranks were cripples. Some, bent with years, looked at the Bag flapping ahead of the line, lis tened to the solemn strains of the "Dead March" and tried In a pitiful and brave struggle to walk as stanch ly and as straight as they bad done thirty years before. Two, mere shells of men with all the tires of life flick ering Into ash, were wheeled along In chairs at the end of the column, They drew up In a hollow square about the open grave and every tns sclled lint came off as four of the younger men lifted the coffin out of the hearse. Off at one side and crowd ing between the grass covered mounds near the cemetery fence were some hundreds of townspeople reverently watching the ceremony, la more than one place In the square the old fel lows, sometimes In a chain of three or four, held bands like little fright ened children might do lu the pres ence of some Indefinite dread. The chaplain said a few words about the dead man's career as a soldier and then the color . bearer, advancing to the side of the coffiu, laid across It a beautiful silk flag, Its folds' falling among the clods of clay around It. "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust." At the preacher's words half a dozen of the close friends of the dead man pressed out of the lanks. and, kneel ing, threw in handfuls of earth. The commander of the gun squad, a vet eran with a long gray beard, took his cue from the uplifted band of the governor and began to give hit com pany of half a dozen the necessary orders, In a tone as penetrating and brusque as if be were directing an operation on the field of battle with WW : j every little beadstono stretched out In front of him nn ambushed enemy. They fired three sharp, uniform Tol leys over the grave, the hollow sqfmre of time-battered soldiers coming to the salute and standing motionless. In- AFTER THE CROWDS HATE 4o!E. to the middle of the little cloud of rlflo smoke tbot hung low on the grass stepped a bugler and as be put life Instrument Hi his lips with a gallant sweep of the arm the moon topped the pines nt bis back and swathed him, like a vision. In a flood of light. Why Is It that the most solemn ser vice ever devised by man, the stntcly husb of a vast cnthedral, the Impos ing robes, the stained glass windows, the pealing organ, nil fade Into In significance beside that soul-stlrrlng, simple net the - trumpeting ont of "taps" over the body of a dead sol- dlerT No mnn who has ever beard It, either on tho field of battle, nt the quiet army post, or In the haven for these weak and shattered units of the Grand Army of the Republic ever for gets It. For the bugle notes seem to take into their own all-embracing cadence the tears, the memories, the shattered hopes and the long fare well. The bugler was a little veteran, a dried up figure with the marks of age all about him, but with the first note of the buglo he seemed to become again the nrdcut young warrior. His earnestness and feeling, entered Into every bar of this the most beautiful, the most piteous, the most haunting of all army calls. The leaves of the trees rustled In the air, but every soul within sound of the bugle seemed turned to the silence of stone. Wben tho bugler finished with a sweet, lingering note that lost itself In its own echo every body still stayed motionless. Not uu til the sound of earth falling on the coffin below startled fheni out of their reverie did nnyono move away. A few moments Inter the baud headed the slow moving lino with n lively air aud all marched . back to barracks. But for hours, despite the cheering music, "taps" rang In the ears of nil of them, bringing buck memories not alone of Sergeant John, but of those four hideous years o't struggle nud death before age bad chained them to his chariot. Far Into the night, nnd when nearly all tho other Inmates of the borne were asleep, two of the veterans still tolled with spndes piling tho enrth Into tho grave and resting every llttlo while to wonder bow long It would bo before comrades were performing the same office for tbem. For the shadow of death hovers close over these old soldiers' homes, and not all tho beauty of nature or architecture can remove the ever present knowledge that nil here are making their Inst defense ngalnst an enemy relentless nnd resistless. John R. Rnthom, lu tho Chicago Record-Ih-.:il.l. Memorial Day Sentiments. This Is our day for all our patriotic saints and heroes. General Anderson. Every boy and girl of fifteen should know the names and places which have made American bravery famous throughout the world. Judge Richards Yates. The nation that cherishes the graves of Its soldiers and assembles to honor them Is the nation that preserves and enlarges national life. Benjamin Har rison. The nation or country that can grow men of such character and such lofti ness of soul that they will go down to death, if need be, for a principle, can rule the world. Webster Davli, at Arlington. jiti A Vnlqne Observance of Memorial Day, Five little villages In Southern New Jersey unite annually In a unique ob servance of Memorlnl Day, They ore all near enough to the sea to be dom inated by the thought of It. So It Is not strange tlint when they come to think of the men who have died for their country their minds turn to the Vast grave at their very doors. There are only Son Inhabitants, nil told. In these Ave Villages, but tno Idea of dec orating the grent sea-graves does not appall them. When Memorial Day comes around the children of the neighborhood, carrying flags nnd gar lands and crowned with flowers, go to a pier which runs ont Into the ocean, where, nfter marching up nnd down nnd singing patriotic songs they throw their flowers and garlands Into the waves, while a bugle sounds nnd n sa lute Is llred. This ceremony of decor ating the common grave of those who have been lost nt sea not only enn be made a beautiful and Impressive onr but has nlso the significance which would appeal to people Harper's Bazar. flratltade. 'America's show of gratitude for the deeds of her soldier heroes Is a fitting monument to patriotism. No nation can compare with ours In the wealth of Its reward for sacrifice. France prides herself upon the greatness of her Hotel des Invnlldcs, nnd England boasts of the vastness of her military hospitals for the "Queen's own," but America's National Home for Disa bled Volunteer Soldiers, ns the final triumph of military asylums, sur passes anything else of the kind yet conceived. Of that vast horde of the youth nnd vigor of this country that freely offered Itself In the cause of union nnd liberty some 20,000 surviv ors are to day In this retreat waiting for the final reveille. While they live tbey live like courtiers of a king, nnd when they die Old Glory's folds en shroud their mortal clay, nnd booming cannon herald their departure on the last grand march. The Grand Army. The passing of the Croud Army of (be Republic Is a sail spectacle. With in the next quarter of a century the participants In tho grent struggles of the Civil War will bo known only In memory, nnd the bravest nrmy that defeated the bravest foe will have dis banded forever. Tho tragic drama will be told in song and Btory, but the actors In the scenes of carnngo whoso charmed lives defied the whizzing bul lets and the screaming shell will bnvc obeyed the immutable laws of Father Time, leaving to their descendants the glorious heritage of a valorous and un sullied name. Memorial Day. It comes! The sacred Jny ' That men have set ailde In honor of tha Heron wi'.o For love of country died Tha day for spreading wresCs And giving volca to praise Of worth that sacrificed ltse'.f- O sacred day of day. Men put their taski aside. And heroes bent and cray Trudge forth to where their comradca -U,v,. And thousand! ruih away To wood and field and lako And whoop and rip and tear, And If they know tha meantnc c' The day tbty never cart. B4 ,A' FAMOUS FLAC. It glgntrt General Sherman's Meeaairf "Hold Hie 1'nrt." Dr. E. P. Mnrdoek had with him f guest nt the Inst O. A. It. Encampment Major A. D. Frnnkenberry, of Point Marlon, Penn., the man who sent the signal from the top of Mount Kenne nhnw to Allntoona, (ln which saved the ammunition nnd supplies of Gen eral Sherman. Dr. Murdoch, wns one of tho signal corps of nine men who received tho messnge sent to General Corse, who wns nt Home, twenty-one rnr siqkai, flao that sated suerman , MOM DEFEAT. miles from Allntoona, ni(i who moved his command of 1.100 mcr to the place where the supplies wen?. Dr. Mur doch snld: "It Is n matter of record that tho Seventh Illinois Iteghufiit, with six-teen-shot Henry rifles, did the bulk of the lighting, nnd bad It uot been for these men the victory would hnve been reversed nnd Sherman would hnve been nnnihllntcd In the enemy's country. The signal upon which the hymn 'Hold tho Fort for I Am Com ing' wns founded wns: 'Corse, Rome, (5a. Move your command to Allntoo na. Hold the fort. I will help you. SHERMAN.'" The flag which was used to send this famous message on the 4th day of October, 1804, is now In tho pos session of Mnjor Frnnkenberry, and Is to be presented by him to the prln pal museum lu Philadelphia. lleeoratlns Soldiers' Graves. The setting npnrt of a day for the decoration of soldiers' graves, a cus tom observed by North and South, bad Its origin with the French colonists. On November 2, All Souls' Day, they would repair to the cities of the dead, there to twine gnrlnuds for the tombs. We hnve made this custom our own, nnd on Memorial Day all over the land the fairest flowers are laid upon the graves of fallen heroes. In the lower suburbs of New Orleans is the ceme terycontnlnlngthe world-famed shrine of St. Roque. Dnlnty, tenderly reared women trudge the long, dusty road from the city to St. Roque, and there their costly flowers ore In Id on the al tnr beside the humble ofTerlugs of the less favored sisters. Within, from tho flower-decked nllnr, the statue of St. Roque smiles down upon tho sup plicant. In recognition of cures and favors granted through the Interces sion of St. Roque mnny hnve caused tablets to be Inscribed and set In the wall. Donohue's Magazine. The Spirit t Memorlnl Uiiy. Memorial Day thoughts are Inevita bly sad. They reflect the sorrows of war, the bitterness of defeat, aud the pulu of costly glory. Yet they betoken a new national life, brighter, better, sweeter tbnn tho old, a life filled with wholesome possibilities replacing dls mul forebodings. Thus ihu sndness of the occasion Is tempered by tho reflec tion t lint the grent sacrifice was for t the gnotl of all, and the flowers strewn over the graves of those who fell In defense of the republic ore tokens of ;h higher spirit of citizenship nnd fel lowship whloh bus regenerated tho people. . TO SrlBII Of THB MIW UEHORML DAT. niiiiiitiiiinmniinminininiimimniintiiminnimn!!!!! THE JEFFERSON SUPPLY COMPANY & B B Being the larprt-t rtiFtribator of Otecral Merchandise in this vicinity, is always in position to give the best quality of roods. Its aim is not to sell ott cheap goods but when quality is considered the price will al ways be found right. Its departments are all well filled, and among the specialties handled may be men tioned L. Adler Bros.. Rochester, N. Y., Clothing, than which there is none better made; W. L. Douglass Shoe Co., Brockton, Mass., Shoes; Curtice Bros. Co., Rochester, N. Y., Canned Goods; and Pillsbury's Flour. This is a fair representation of the class of goods it is selling to its customers. iiiiiiiiiuiiiiiuuiiuiiiiiiuiiuuiiiiutiuuiiiiiiiuiuaummi fire xN-suiisraE. Brookvillc Pa. Since 1S78. 12 FIRST-CLASS COMPANIES. JOHN TRUDGEN, Solicitor, Rcvnoldsville, Per.n'n. .POUTING BREVITIES. All of t'ornell's crew are practicing on the bike nt Ithaca. Pennsylvania defented Columbia In tliclr n ii mini dual track meet. A. II. Fenii established n new record ot 71 for the New Haven Uolf Club links. The- niinmil cruise of the New York Yacht Club will begin ou Monday, August 4. I.akcwood I. leain defenled the Coun try Club of Westchester ut polo by a score of WVi goals to 4. The Marseilles-Paris bicycle rnee wns won by l.iieleu Lesnn. who covered the entire distance In uS hours nud 4!) minutes. Kid Cnrter clearly bested Kid Mc Coy in the six-round wind-up at Phila delphia. There wns uot the slightest chance for two opinions. Thousands of people have been play ing ping-pong during the winter months who have become so fond of the game that they will naturally turn to lawu tennis wheu the sun begins to boil. Word has been received that J. Hop kins Smith, of Portland, Me., (liar vurd, '02), is i.aving twenty-one-footers built to race for the Ueruian Emper or's cup at Kiel, June 28. Blbblck, of Cowes, Is building one. Itobert V. Turner oft'er; to back his younger brother, David L. Turner, 5 to 1, up to ns much as $5000, that he can outshoot any man in the United States with pistol or rifle, agreeing to use the other man's gun In any contest Hint limy be arranged. Since II. Slever, the Englishman who owns Sceptre, the grent three-year-old, for which be refused an offer of 175, OOO from W. K. Yanderlillt, announced bis willingness to mutch her ngnlust nny horse in the world for $,0,ooo n side, weight for ape, at n mile nnd a iiuarfer, there have lieeu some sugges tions that .1. It. Ilnggln might match Wutertolor ngalnst her. Carry Gold In Quills. According to Ie Rous, a French explorer, the natives of Aysslnla have a queer way of carrying to market the gold that they find In tho beds of streams. They find It as dust and as small nuggets, and put It Into large quills, as transparent as glass tubes. The brokers who buy it work it up Into the form of circles of the size of an ordinary finger ring, but without closing the circle, for the purchaser always Insists on twisting It to see that It does not contain any adultera tion. Kxperirnerd fingers can tell at once whether the yielding metal has tho exact malleability of pure gold. Relics of Marie Antoinette. Among tho archives of the Depart ment of tho Seine was recently brought to light the list of articles In tho pockets of the dress worn by Marie Antoinette, at the time of her execution. Tho objects wore a small pocket book In green morocco, con taining a pair of scissors, a small corkscrew, a pair of pincers, a comb and a very small looklngglass, and a small poeUetbook of red morocco; this sold for Bf. 73 cents. The sec ond consisted of three little portraits in green morocco cases, ono of them being surrounded by a metal frame and sold for 4f. 40c, the proceeds of the sale going to Samson, the execu tioner. WHlNTN DOUIIT.TRY " ..A ik.i..... ad htv curd thouMftala Caiel of N crvous Diuitft, iucIk sui)bility, Diiiinau, SlaapUn and Varicocele, Atrophy, Tbv dearth brain, atrnii.B, tha circulation, B.ak dlf tiaa perfect and Impart ft Saaithf vifor loth whoU bain.. Ail Oram and loatea ax cnec Eack4 Strong Again. ltriJ'eudSaSVia" tloa ofun worrlea them into loaanity, CMtuaf woi w uaain. Mauca ieaiea. rnc si pm noni 4 boat, with lroalad legal f unranttcj to uro M tvfutad U amoaay, - &d at baofc ForU by fa. Alfi Stok. BUSINES3-CXRD8. p MITCHELL, ATTORXEY-AT-LAW. OfBce on West. Main street, opixnlte tha Commercial Hotel, Rojrnoldnvllle, ('. m. Mcdonald, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Notury Public, real Mtat arent, Pattat wnired, rollcf lorm mad promi ily. Oilioo in iiomu uiuc-k, noynoiuRTiiie, ia. gMITH M. McCKEIGHT, " ATTOUNEY-AT-LAW. Notary Public and Real Etnte A ;nt. Col lectlone will receive prompt Htter ,on. Ofllca In Froehllch & Henry block, uear pontofnce, lejrooldnvllle Pa. jyn. b. e. uooveu, REYNOLDSVILLE, V A. Resident 1ntlat. In the Itoovrr bnlldlne next door lo poHtofflce, Main etrt-ui. Uaotle ne In operating. J)R L. L. MEANsi DENTIST, Offlre on second floor of Flret Nxllnnal bank building, Mnln street. J)R. R. DbVERE KINO, DENTIST, Offlre on aecnnd flnnr Reynol''Hle Rnak Eetate Bldg. Main street Kejnol.l-vllle, Ce. J)R. W. A. HENRY, DENTIST, Office on second floor of Henry Bros, brick bulldlnc Main street. E. NEFP. JUSTICE OF THE PEACE And Real Estate Agent, RaynoldtvllU, Pa. L. M. SNYDER, Practical Horse Shoer and General Blacksmith, iinrMi -shoeing dnne In tha aeatext marines lii'l hy i lie latent Improved mi ll.od. l(e l airing-of all kinds carefully and promptly dl'lie. BATllirACTIOl) (JUAtUHtttHU. HORSE CLIPPING Have Junt. received a complete of iaa chine liorne clippers of latest style '! pntterB nil htm piepured to do clipptnit lu 'be beet h.hhI Lie nmnner at rpitKonkble ruin. Jackwn ol. near r'lfih, Koynolan'tllV Pa. EVERY WOMJ Sometimes needs a ri;' uoQCUl reKulailuc meOir.u.1 DR. PEAL'S W V1 uKnlYRnYal 1IC m - - - , s Are prompt, snre and certain In result fliegr.! Tor wis by H. Alex. Stoke. YOUNG'S PLANING MILL You will find Sash, Doors, Frames and Finish of all kinds, Kouirh and Dressed Lumber, High Grade Yr-i nishes, Lead and Oil Colurrir in au shades. Ana alsC-jnyy overstock of Nain wi'flu!1 F i win sen cneap. J. V. YOUNG, 1 i i .11 E- T- ii1. i ,sTT iiTsTri . r
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