y Stat mm VOLUME 11. REYNOLDSVILLE, PENN'A., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1902. NUMBER 31 Clothing at a Marked-Down Sale Unjustified marked downs on the finest makes of clothing made to reduce the stocks immediately. Examine the goods, see the deeply cut prices, and be convinced we are straight forward in presenting the Radical Reduction Sale. $3.75 is the Clearance Price for Men's $5.00 Overcoats. $5 00 is the Clearance Price for Men's $7.50 Overcoats. $7.50 is the Clearance Price for Men's $10.00 Overcoats. $9.50 is the Clearance Price for Men's $12 & 12.50 Overcoats. $11.50 is the Clearance Price for Men's $15.00 Overcoats. All Men's Heavy Winter Suits at greatly reduced prices. BOYS' WEAR AT DEEPLY CUT PRICES. $1.15 is the price ot'Bovs' $1,50 Reefers. $1.50 Is the price of Boys' $2.00 and $2.25 Long Overcoats. $2.25 is the price of Boys' $2.75 and $3.00 Long Overcoats. $3.75 is the price of Boys' $5.00 Long Overcoats. All Boys' Winter Suits at reduced prices. YOUTHS ALSO HAVE A CHANCE TO GET A SUIT OR OVERCOAT CHEAP. Youth's Overcoats that sold for $2.75 Sale Price $2.00. Youths' Overcoats that sold for $4.00 Sale Price $3.00. Youth's Overcoats that sold for $5.00 Sale Price $3.75. Youths' Overcoats that sold for $6.00 Sale Price $4.25. Youths' Overcoats that sold for $7.50 Sale Price $5.00, Youths' Overcoats that sold for $10.00 Sale Price $7.50. Youths Overcoats that sold for $12.00 Sale Price $9.00. A Liberal Reduction on all Youth's Heavy Suits. The iron clad rule of closing out each season's merchandise before the beginning of the next one is the cause of this Clearance Sale, which starts this morning. We are willing to stand a loss of profit and in many cases an actual Joss besides to clean up our stock at a sweep. The reductions are important ones because they are bona flde. This is a rare op portunity to get clothing at this early in the season at such greatly reduced prices. Call and see what we will do for you in this line. ft W. EftSON & CO.. Hoover Building. Next door to Postoffice. Reynoldsville, Pa. -THE- COLUMBIAN LEADS THEM ALL. CT - jpl L. : ' We have just received another carload of The Celebrated Columbian Stoves and Ranges And can show you the finest display of stoves of every description evebnught to Reynoldsville. j Remember the Columbian stoves are GUARANTEED to give perfect satisfaction and you run no risk whatever in buying them j KEYSTONE V R D WARE COMPANY. IRST NATIONAL BANK OF REYXOLD8 VILLE. Capital Surplus $50,000 $25,000 t). Mitchell, President caUIWetfell tnd.Vlce Pre.. John II. Itaacfaer, flashier. Director! O. Mitchell, Beolt McOlelland, J. O. King John H. Oorbett, Danlnl Nolan, O, W. Fuller, J. H. Kaucher. Does a general banlclnirbuslneuand solicits the account of merchants, professional men, farmers, mechanics, miners, lumbermen and others .promising the most careful attention to the business of all persons. Bate Deposit Boxes for rent. First National Bank building, Nolan block Flr Proof Vault. -OO TO- BON TON BAKERY JOHN H. BAUM, Prop., For good first-class baked goods such as fine Marble ake, English Wine Fruit Cake, French Fruit Dev iled Cake, Angel Cake, Lady Fingers Jelly Drops, Kisses, Maroons and lots of other good cakes. A fine selection of all kinds of cookies; a good line of Fresh Bread and Parker House Rolls, Buns, Coffee Cakes. A nice selection of pies always on band. Wedding and rartie a Specialty. Give Ma a Call. Maklnsjt and Carina Dimple.. A pretty, lifelike dimple can be made to appear en a lady's ehcok by melius of a speelnlly designed knife with A very small and very sharp blade, a daintily tiny, keen edged, silvered coop and a very fine needle. A small, straight Incision is first made in the flesh. The little scoop Is then used to remove a small portion of the underlying fat, while the sewing to gether with the needle the edges of the cut completes the operation, in a day or two the stitches nre taken out, with in a week the wound being usually en tirely healed, leaving the becoming lit tie depression In the surface of the skin thut Is called a dimple It Is not often that a woman desires the removal of a natural dimple, but occasionally n limn who considers the murk to be a budge of effeminacy de sires to get rid of It Intend of re moving the superfluous fat from be neath the surface a small portion of the skin Is cut a way. The edges of the dimple are drawn together wltb stltcheM. the Incision heals and the de pression disappears. Plnhtlnu l.lsards. The ring mi ked llsuml of the Arizona dese.rts Is not n mere devourer of weak lings, -lie Is always ready to fight, whether he Is rhnlletiged by another or cornered by a man. When brought to bay In some hole, be opens his Juwa und dashes bravely out, snapping at everything which opposes htm. and so fierce and sudden Is bis rush that It la tmHsKlble in luce It without flinching, liy holding two of these lizards loosely by the small of the buck und allowing their lunula to clash as they struggle to escape, one may be able to Induce combats such us must occur every day lu the desperate lizard world. Forgetting that they were captives', they would seize upou each other und vent their thwarted rage to the utmost In u light which, but for timely Inter ference, would doubtless lead to the death of one or the other. Such bull dog pugnacity Is rutber uulooked for In lizards, but a student of character could easily read iu the set juw und pouched throat of this species the signs of lighting blood. Country Life In America. Billiard Terms. "What are the principal shots in mil liards?" asked the fair young damsel of the wise young man. "The kiss, the follow,, the bank and the draw," he replied. "How lovely 1" she exclaimed. "It la almost like a courtship. First, the lover gets a kiss, then be follows the girl all about and then" "And then." Interrupts the man who aspires to pessimism "and then they get married and be goes to the bank and draws, for thut Is bis cue, unless ho wises to be frozen." (For the bene fit of the uususpecting reader, adds the Baltimore American, we will state that "cue" and "frozen" also are billiard terms. There nre still more than might be worked Into the little Jeu d'esprlt, such as "scratch," "break." "drive," "tip," "table." "run,H etc., but lack of space prevents carrying the theme to the bitter end.) Mlnvte Parte of a Watch. The minuteness of the parts of a watch Is shown by the following fig ures: It takes 150,000 of one ccrtuln kind of watch screws to tnuke a pound. The pivot of the balance wheel Is only one-two-hundredtbs of an Inch in diam eter. Each Jewel bole Into which a pivot fits Is about one-flve-tbouBunths of an Inch larger than the pivot, to permit sulllcleut play. The finest screw for a suiull sized watch has a thread of 200 to the Inch and weighs one-one-hundred-aud-thlrty-thousundths of a pound. A pallet Jewel weighs one oue-bundrcd-and-tlfty-tbousaudths of a pound: a roller Jewel a little more than one two bundred-and-flfty-slx-thousandths. The largest round hair spring stud Is four-one-hundredtns of an Inch In diameter and about nine one-bundreths of an inch iu length. Aa Ambidextrous Artist. Conrad Cook, son of E. W. Cook, R. A., told me that be used to bold the paper while Land seer drew one animal wltb bis right band and a different animal wltb Ills left, writes J. A. Mun son In "Sir Edwin Latidueer, R. A.1 Tbls species of dexterity comes from practice no doubt, and Is akin to the udroit manipulation of the accom plished pianist, but Is nevertheless ex traordinary, and several cases are re corded lu which Sir' Edwin fairly as tounded the onlookers by such displays of manual skill. A Lesson With His Aataarrapta. An admirer once wrote to Lowell de scribing bis autograph collection and concluding wltb the remark, "I would be much obliged for your autograph." The reply came, bearing with it a les son on the correct use of the words "would" and "should," which deeply Impressed Itself on the mind of the re cipient The response read: Pray, do not say hereafter, "I would be obliged." If you would b obliged, be obliged and be don with it. Say, "I should be obliged," and oblige yours truly, JAMES RUSSKLL LOWELL. far to Follow. "Hello, central!" called the man at tha phone. "Ulve toe the gas office." "Yes, sir," replied the operator, "but 1 must warn you In advance that we cannot tolerate any bad language over Its iwlr" Spare Momenta.. How Itorkets Are Mnde. Skyrockets nre mode for two pur pones, for signaling and for decorations or celebrations. For signals the charge consists of 12 parts of niter, 2 of sul phur and 3 of charcoal. The decorative rocket Is the one we see used on the Fourth of July. It Is composed of 122 parts of finely pulverized powder, 80 of niter, 40 of sulphur and 40 of cast iron filings. The main part of the rocket Is a case, made by rolling stout paper, cov ered on one side with paste, around a wooden form, at the same time apply ing considerable pressure. The end is then "choked" or brought tightly to gether with twine. The neper case thus made Is placed In a copper mold, so that n eon lea I cop per spindle will pass up through the choke, and the composition Is then poured In and packed by blows of a mallet on a copper packing tool made to lit over the spindle. The top of the case Is then closed with n layer of moist plaster of purls one Inch In thick ness, perforated with n small hole for the pussage of the flame to the upper part or "pot." The pot Is formed of nn other paper cylinder slipped over and pasted to the top of the cuse and sur mounted by a paper cone Oiled with tow. Ills Name Obliterated. In some country districts In Ireland It Is not unusuul to see the owners' names simply chalked on curts and other vehicles, lu order to comply with legal regulations. Unfortunately, this custom lends Itself to the playing of pranks ou the pnrt of "bboys" mali ciously inclined, who sometimes rub off the lettering and thereby gets the cart owner into trouble with the police. A case of this kind having occurred, a constabulary sergeant accosted a coun tryman whose name hud been thus wiped out unknown to him: "Is this enrt yours, my good man?" "Af course It Is," was the reply: "do you see any thing the mutter wld It?" "I obsnrve," said the pompous pollcemau, "that your name is o-blitherated." "Tbeu ye'r wrong," quoth the countryman, who bad never come across the long dictionary word before, "for me name's O'Reilly, an" I don't cure who knows HI" Liverpool Tost reellnn; a Pearl. The lapidary was skinning a pearl, according to the Philadelphia Record. He had on gloves of a very delicate sort of kid and the glasses that he wore had lenses of such great magnify ing power thut his ryes through them looked as big as saucers. "I wear gloves," he said, "because the hands perspire freely In this work, and per spiration bus often been known to dis color penrls. Tbls stone was Injured by the accidental dropping on It of some ucld. The disaster discolored It, you see. With tbls very delicate little tool I am removing the outer skin, and If I And that the add tins filtered through and discolored the inner skin also I may remove that aa well. A pearl, you sec. Is composed of concen tric layers or skins, and you can, if you are a clever workman, peel It down and down until It disappears." Knlm and Tomahawks. John Chalmers, the missionary friend of Robert Louis Stevenson, and every Inch a man. once telegraphed to Eng land: "(letting In trim for next sea ton. Ask Jones send one gross toma hawks; one gross butchers' knives. Going east: try make friends between tribes." Londou was convulsed over the mis sionary's peculiar way of promoting friendship wltb the New Guinea canni bals, says a writer In the Rochester Post-Express. Chalmers bad learned that no other two articles were so like ly to do this. The knife and the toma hawk were popular for purposes of barter among people who would have bad no use for copies of the "Encyclo pedia 'Brltnnnlca" or cuts from a fash Ion magazine. The telegram was In congruous only to the ignorant Insurance Aaralnst Accident. The usuul'odds luld by an accident company are 1.000 to 4 that you do not die from an accident in a year. Supposing that the whole population of the country were Insured against ac cidents In one office, each person pay ing 4 and being guaranteed 1.000 in case of death by mishap, the premiums would reach the figure of 140,740.808, and the sum to be paid for deaths would amount to 14.008,000, leaving, after the deduction of a few millions for working expenses, the very respect able proUt of 130,000,000. London Tlt-Blts. Told the Train. Excited Fisherman (to couutry hotel keeper) There Isn't a bit of Gulling about bore! Every brook has a sign warning people off. What do you meau by luring uuglurs here wltb the promise of flue Ashing? Hotel Keeper I didn't ay anything about flue fishing. If you read my ad vertisement carefully, you will see that what I said was, "Fishing unapproachable." he Radat Time. Olivia Didn't you ever bave a pro posal, Viola? Viola (gloomily)-Yes; a man once asked me to marry biin, but I forgot myself and told him I badn't time. Detroit Free Press. FLIGHt OF THE SNIPE. " 111 Doitsrlng tomes From the A noes tral Method of Avoldlnsj Foes. Tho flight of the snlie Is swift, vigor ous and usually for the first few yards erratic. Tho bird gets under way smartly, nnd as a usual thing goes bor In up wind In a style rather sug gestive of a feathered corkscTew. A series of electrical zlgzngs get him to top speed, whereupon his progress steadies a bit and lie darts away iu something more like a straight line. As a general rule a (lushed bird springs a few feet Into the air, hangs for the fraction of a second, then begins to twist and dodge as though the Old Roy was at bis tall. It would be very in teresting could we discover the original cause of the dodging. Possibly some ancient foe, now long extinct was best baflled by that mode of flight for there usually is some such explanation for peculiar actions ' by wild things. Because the (light happens to be puis sling to n gunner Is no guarantee that the bird dodges for that purpose such nu expbinautlon would Imply a deal more Intelligence than the entire tribe of snipe are possessed of. Snipe, of course, dodged ou the wing long prior to the appearance of firearms, and It Is extremely unlikely that the errntlc (light has anything In the nature of protective tactics against the devices of human foes. Edwyn Sandys in Out ing. A Plea For Let. are. Individuals will rather helplessly re ply to a plea for leisure by saying: "What are we going to do? Competi tors 'bustle' and we must do the same or starve." Some will urge that the American temperament demands con stant occupation, that "bustling" Is our national trait Well, I have no desire to Insist that we go buck to stagecoach days. Rut all of us bave plenty of opportunity to tone down a little. And why not try It? A na tional trait may be dangerous as well as usefuhv-may need control. If the average Individual would make more leisurely use of his leisure there would not be nearly as many cases of nervous prostration as there are now. Put on the brakes a bit. Take things a little easier when you can. 1 kuow people who are never content unless they are "doing" something. Such abnormal de sire for activity is not natural; It Is au unnatural craving. It will be well for US n,otto. be so eager to gratify it A "Man of Steady nablts." It was a very angry man who met an acquaintance on the street the other day. "I thought you told me that D. was a man of steady habits," were his first words following the usual salu tation. "I said I required a man of absolutely steady habits, and you were very positive In your assurance that the man In question was such a one." "Well, bos he proved otherwise?" "Why, man, be Is drunk nil of tho time; In fact, I do not think he has drawn a sober breath since be has been with me." "Then what are you Jumping on the for? Your own statement bears out Just what I told you about blm. I have known I), for the past ten months, and I know that ho has been drunk during all of that period, end if that isn't being a 'man of steady bablU' I'd like to know what It Is." New lork Times. For Wounds From Rosty Malls. Very often we read or hear of some one who has met wltb the accident of baring a rusty nnll thrust Into bis foot or band, which frequently causes lock jaw. A writer supplies the following simple remedy, vouching for Its effi cacy, and certainly It might be tested ' without much trouble and no danger. It Is simply to smoke thoroughly any bruise or wound that Is Inflamed wltb burning woolen cloth. It Is said that twenty minutes In the smoke will take the pain out of the worst case of Inflammation arising from such a wound. . ,' Ru-Ma on Humility. I believe that the first test of a truly great man Is his humility. I do not mean by humility doubt of bla own power or hesitation in speaking his opinions, but a right understanding of all the relations between what he can do and say nnd the rest of the world's sayings and doings. All great men not only know their business, but usually know that they know it. only they do not think any better of themselves on that account John Ruskln. She Woa Her Bet. Mr. Tlmmld I er no doubt, Misa Tartley, you may guess what I er have come to say to you this evening, and er Miss Tartley Yes, and I've got a bet with Madge Brown that you won't bave the nerve to say it Philadelphia Press. THE REYNOLDSVILLE BUSINESS COLLEGE Winter Term Com mences Jan. 1st, 1903 Special Rates To all students enrolling for the full term (night or day sessions) before January 10th, 1903. Our Purpose To double our already large enrollment before February 1st, 1903. Our Graduates Have Positions Our graduates have positions. We can place many more. En roll at once. Special rates good only un til Jan. 10, 1903. BETTER HEALTH Comes With COLE'S ORIGINAL HOT BLAST STOVES. A Because the temperature 2Lk is even day and and nisrht. and cold rooms are only a memory. Then there is comfort in dressing in a warm room without start ing a new fire. All these comforts, and more if you buy - COLE'SORIGINAL HOT I3LST Beware of imitations which unscrupulous dealers show you and claim are Just like Cole's Hot Blast. There is no other stove made like it and none that will give you the satisfac tion therefore insist upon getting the GENUINE COLE'S HOT BLAST which is sold only by KEYSTONE HDWE CO., Reynoldsville, Penn'a. mm.
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