' I Wt Star. . AN INDEPENDENT JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF REYN0LD3VILLE C. A. STErilESsOy, Editor ami PuWrhrr REYNOLD 3 VI LLE, PA., FEBRUARY . 1903 ' The miners' demands for increase of wages, ns rend in tlie sonic conference nt Indianapolis Friday, are as follows : "Ab solute run-of-mine fmsis for tlie entire com petitive field. A flat differential of 7 cents per ton between pick and machine mined coal. An advance of 12M, cents a ton on pick mining, A 3Q per cent advance on all in side day labor based on the Columbus day scale for all outside day labor with appropriate advance with the mining rates. That drivers and engers shall Ik paid the same as track layers and timlwr men." The day returns and brings in the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man, help us to per form them with laughter and kind faces ; let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go blithely on our business all this day, bring us to our resting leds weary and content and undishonorcd, and grant us in the end the gift ol sleep. Amen. Prayer of Robert Louis Stevenson. The legislature of New York i9 now enacting a law prohibiting the defacement of nature and scenery by unsightly adver tising boards and posters.' Speed the day when this form of advertising shall be uni versally banned. The newspaper is the natural medium between seller and con sumer. One does not like to have a pretty scene spoiled by glaring advice to take Dr. Somebody's Tills ' or eat the latest Patent Breakfast Food. Partisan polities entirely aside, it is re freshing to have a man in the gubernator ial chair who is something more than a politician. In preparing his inaugural ad dress Gov. Pcnnypackcr dug down into ancient historical lore and made some sur- prising comparisons. Pennsylvania is but one state among more than two score others, yet she has within her borders more people than many ancient Furopean coun tries whose power was felt around the globe, and her wealth is far greater. But there is this difference : the wealth of old was spent in prosecuting wars, the wealth of to-day is invested in business enter prises ; the men of old spent their lives striving for martial glory, the men of to-day have no interest above their private bus iness. They secured immortal fame, but wc have peace and contentment they never knew. For some reason there is a prejudice against convict labor. Labor unions gen erally oppose it on the principle that the extreme cheapness of their work would in jure honest labor, but another principle which should not be overlooked in this con nection is that the prisoner who has in jured a community through the commis sion of crime, and whose capture, convic tion and punishment have added to its liunncial burden, should, if possible, do something to benefit the community which lie has injured. Nearly all ot the Southern states have adopted a method which gives but little offence and accomplishes much good, and at the same time secures more expert labor than could lie obtained from unskilled free men. Convicts sentenced for terms ranging from one to ten years are formed into gangs and forced to work con tinuously in macadamizing or otherwise improving the roads. Owing to their long service the convicts often attain considcr erable efficiency, yet this efficient work costs the state only 80 toOOcents per day. Temporary camps are erected, or a port able house on wheels follows the gang and a strict guard is placed over them. The state, and therefore the people, clearly gain by this system, and as for the prisoners, the out-of-door work not only keeps them healthy, but the experience "gained often enables to secure a good position after their sentence expires. An American standing on his native soil, say nt Niagara Fnlls or along the river, looking across to the fair shores of Canada, cannot but leel a pang of keen regret that this land so like our own, should yet be long to the Briton across the sea. It is worthy of note that a strong party is now forming in Canada favoring annexation to the United States, and probably the strongest factor in drawing us together is the growing trade relations. During 1902, according to otueial publications, Canada bought produce to the amount of $120,000,000 from the United States, an increase of nearly ten million dollars over the preceding year, while from the mother country she bought but little more than a third of that amount. A bill has been introduced in Congress to increase the salary of the President of the United States to $100,000 per year, just double his present emolument and four times the amount received by Presidents previous to Gen. Grant's administration. It is a curious fact that the salaries now paid to the highest government officials, fixed in days of democratic simplicity long since past, are now scarcely large enough to cover their necessary social expenses alone nt Washington, and it would be im possible for a man not possessed of private wealth, to maintain the dignity of his office. The Youngstown Vindicator says: "Boys, you shouldn't use tobacco till you get well sot on your constitution. Don't be in a big hurry t there'll 1 lots of time after you're 21 to smoke and chewand puff and spit to your heart's content, and after that age it won't hurt you so much. Wealth is a fine thing to have, boys, but good health knocks it into a cocked hat. Take care of it while you have it. Don't smoke yourjyoung lives out and be going around like a lot of sunken-eyed, thin-legged, dish chested idiots.' Women don'tcare for such men, nnd it's no wonder. A woman likes n vigorous, healthy, manly man, one who has vim and vitality. That's the reason so many women admire priie-fighters, gladiators, warriors and good looking coachmen." Hon. Summers M.. Jack, congressman from this district, returned recently from a tour through Cuba and Central America. During his four years' service in Congress Mr. Jack visited nearly all of Uncle Sam's new colonial possessions, having made a trip to the Philippines last year. In a recent lecture the chief of the United States weather bureau declared that the weal her forecasts sent out daily saved to agricultural interests of the country twen ty million dollars a year. Life is too short for one moment of drudgery. 2 ths wise nAH, Dignity is not valuable until you forget that you have it. It is only by labor that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labor can be made happy. Ruskin. If we believed more in the goodness of bad people, and less in the badness of good leopie, this world would seem far brighter. Many a man prays for a blessing on his dinner who never asks one on his vote. You can never tell by the size of a colt how many hands high the horse will be. The richest people are those who have the fewest wants. It sometimes happens that the man who howls and groans every time his wife wants a little money, will bury her in a rosewood casket, The wisdom of the coward resembles the light of a torch ; it is not clear because it trembles. There is but one thing worse than dis. content that is to be contented. ENON CUT-OFF, P. R. R. Orders Contract! Let for Work to Cost Six Milllom Yard at Red Bank. The directors ot the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and the Pennsyl vania Company at their meetings In Philadelphia Wednesday had before them the plan for a low grade freight cut-off to run from fenon on the Fort Wayne road, to Red Dunk, on the Al legheny Valley railroad. The officials approved the plana and prdored that the contracts be let at once. The road will be doukle tracked, with enormous freight yards at both ends, and will cost at least 10,000,000. It was snld at the meeting that tracks of the Allogheny Valley, Philadelphia ft Erie and Northern Central roads were In good shape to handle the new t radio which the low grade route will give them, but thut big transfer yards must bo built at Bunbury, where the Philadelphia & Erie road will hand over the freight to the Northern Central. The yards will cost about f0,000, and It Is soral-offlclally announced that the Northern Ccntrul will soon let contracts for their construc tion. Thecut-olT from Enon to Red Uank will enable the Pennsylvania to send all through freight to and from the west around Pittsburg and relieve the congestion at that city, and when It Is built and the freight road through Lancaster and Chester counties U com pleted, the Pennsylvania will have a low grade freight roud stretching from tlio Allegheny rlvor to the Delaware. The route from Red Bunk Is by way of the low grado division of the Allegheny Valley road to Driftwood. The road Is expected to bo opened from the Allo gheny to the Delaware within 18 months. Pittsburg Comiwtrial-datritr. THE HIGH SCHOOL . . BULLETIN . . EDITORIAL STAFF Editor Helena Black. Assistant Editors Will Reynolds. L&WHon Heed. Local Editor Jennie McGaw. Tho Shakespearean Literary So ciety elected the following ofllcors: Pres., Nulu Ncalo ! Vice Pres., Ed. Hardman; Sec, Anna Klahr; Critic, Clyde Mur ray ; Program Committee, Cora Mc Crelght, BeSBle Sensor, Tom Nolan; Editor, Helona Black; Assistant Edi tors, Will Reynolds, Lawson Roed ; Lo cal Editor, Jennie McGaw. Wednesday of last week was Par enta' and Patrons' Day In public schools. A large number of the parent visited the sohools on that day. A large num ber visited the high School, among whom was Rev. P. A. Runo, who talked to the pupils for a few rulmiteK On account of Friday helng the dn.V for Mothers' mooting the Shakespear ean Literary Society did not havo a mooting but spont part of the hour set apart for society In reviewing arith metic . Friday, Jan. 16th, the society ren dered a special program In the form of a "Mock Country School.", Considering the short time in which they had to prepare for it, it was very good. - Since reading an article in one of our papers on coasting it is evident to many of us why none of tho girls will take a rear seat going down the hill. The Sub-Juniors reoolvod a warn ing that If they didn't soon begin to study harder the tenth grade pupils would be ahead of thorn in algebra. The Hawthorne Club appeared be fore a large audience in the Assembly boll last Thursday evening when they rendered an excellent program. . The date for the next number of ' the lecture course is next Monday when F. R. Roberson will deliver an illustrat ed lecture on St. Pierre. Prof. G.1 W. Lenkerd visited the schools and at the chapol exercises gavo a vary Interesting talk on the calouUar. , Why did two of the Seniors; the largest and the smallest, use. two pr three more tablets than usual last week? ' it was not the High School Bulletin tut a bulletin from room 13 that' was oo late for publication lost week. Geneva's Interpretation of Rule Allen and Greenough's grammar : "A noun or a pronoun with a participle may be put In the ublatlve to define circumstantial evidence." It was the day following the show and it had left an improsulon on hor youthful mind. With the going of the snow ths season for "upsets" will end, but the memory of thorn still remains. The Seniors had the great pleas ure of listening to the Juniors reoite geometry ono day last week. During tho absence of Miss Duilcy Friday, January 23rd, Juy ' McGa taught room 13. Coo Snuffer returned to school lot week after an ubbouce of nearly two weeks. Last Monday Mr. M. C. Coleman gave a short talk before the pupils. We Endorse It. Following Is one of the resolutions passed at the recent Joffursou County Teachers' Institute, which Tins STAit hourtlly endorses: . "Itesolved, That in view of the unex ampled prosperity which this country now enjoys, in consequence of which the wugus of all American wage earners have been iuorcusud' from ten to ono hundred per centum, we do most earn estly urge the directors to consider these conditions and to fix the salaries of teachers at figures which will en courage the best members of the pro fession to remain in the work." A Legacy of the Grip Is often a run-down syBtom. Weak ness, nervousness, lack of appetite, en ergy and ambition, with disorderly liver and kidneys often follow an at tauk of this wretched disease. The greatest need then is Elootrlo Bitters, the splondld tonic, blood purifier and regulator of Stomach, Liver and Kid neys. Thousands have proved that they wonderfully strengthen the nerves build up the system, and restore to health and good Bplrlts after an attack of Grip. If suffering, try them. Only 60o. Perfect satisfaction guaranteed by H. Alex Stoke. , At A. G. MUtiron's new grocery store at corner of Main and Fourth street, will be found fresh Hue of groceries at low prices. Tour to California. The second Pennsylvania Railroad Personally-conducted tour to California for the present season will leave New York and Philadelphia on the "Golden Gate Special" February 19th, going via Cincinnati, Now Orleans, San Antonio and El Paso to Los Angeles and San Diego. Three days will be spent in New Orleans during the Mardl Gras fostivitles. Should a sufficient number of passengers desire to travel under the care of a Tourist Agent and Chaperon, a delightful month's Itinerary In Cali fornia has been outlined : and a return ing itinerary to leave San Francisco March 28tb, visiting Salt Lake City, Glenwood and Colorado Springs and Denver, arriving in Now York April 6. Rate $275 from all points on the Pennsylvania Railroad east of Pittsburg, covering all expenses of railroad trans portation, side trips in California, and berth and meals going on tho special train. No hotel expenses In California are lncludod. Tickets are good for re turn within nine months, but returning cover transportation only. For de tailed Itinerary apply to ticket agonts, or Address Geo. W. Boyd, Assistant General Passenger Agont, Broad Street Station, Philadelphia, Pa. Washington Twp. Prohibitionists. Tho Prohibitionists of Washington township have nominated the following ticket for February eloction I Supervisors John Nobles, Matthew S. Kearney. School directors James G. Smith, Joseph Ross. Tax colleotor Robert Hunter. Auditor Andrew W. Smith. Register Upper precinct, J. Lloyd Williams ; middle precinct, A. Kosoo Smith ; lower precinct, Emanuel Nof sker. Judge of election Upper precinct, James G. Koarnuy ; middle precinct, R. A. Smith ; lower precinct, Frede rick B. Harvey. Inspector Upper preflnct, Archie MoCullough ; middle precinct, A. T. Strang ; lower preolnct, William Ket sell. Bucklen's Arnica Salve, The best and most famous compound in the world to conquer aches and kill pains. Cures Cuts, beula Burns and Bruises, subdues Inflammation, masters Plies. Millions of Boxes sold yearly. Works wonders in Bolls, Uloers, Felons, Skin Eruptions. It cures or no pay. 25o at H, Alex Bloke's drug store. ' . ' Remember that it moans a .saving of 25 per cent by dealing at Mlllirons. Just received 600 pounds best but torlne at 2?o pur pound. J, H. Poubleg, 2nd door east of No. 2 hose bouao, Wlshaw. Did the ground hog see his shadow ? Sleighing is about gone In this town Patronize the fourteenth inst. valen tine Mr. Deemer was In Reynoldsvllle on Saturday. George Syphrit moved to this town a few days ago. Clyde Smith, of Soldier, visited this place on Sunday. Flem Douthlt drove to Sugar Hill on Saturday evening. Charles Dickey, who was on tho sick list, is able to be around again. H. M. Tedrlck, our merchant, flllod his loe bouse lost week. There will be preaching at the Para dlso churoh next Sunday and all are Invited. It will take about one week to finish the new block of houses -at this plaoe, which will make thirty-two In all. They are occupied almost us soon as completed. Millions put to Work. The wonderful activity of the now century Is shown by an enormous de mand for the world's best workers Dr. King's Now LIfo Pills. For Con stlpation, Sick Headache, Biliousness, or any trouble of Stomach, Liver or Kidneys they're unrivaled. Only 25c at H, Alex Stoke's drug store. Hot soups, coffee, sausage, beans, saur kraut and welners, liver, potatoes, chickens, oysters in all styles etc., etc., at the City Hotel restaurunt. If you are In need of underwear to peloo the winter out visit Mllllrens. Letter List. List 'of unclaimed letters remaining In post office at Reynoldsvllle, Pa., for the week ending Jan. 31, 1003 : Miss Nellie Snider, James Fat-roll, Gilbert Groves, Geo. F. Henry. Rev W. G. Grltman, Arthur Steoley. Foreign Marco Posca, Plotro Bout- tttto, Plcholl Natalo. Say advortlsed and give date of list when calling for above. E. C. Burns, P. M. S6,ooo,ooo 8ocurity, Capital, surplus and profits of this amount seoure the depositors of the Pittsburg TruBt Company, 323 Fourth avenue, Pittsburg, Pa., 4 per oent. in tereat on savings and 9 per cent, on checking aooounts. Bank by mall. A now steam table has been Installed In the City Hotel restaurant which will make this restaurant oomplote In every detail. You can at all times got a good warm lunch. W. M. Dlllman, and effi cient and experienced restaurant man, presides ovor this department. Hats at cost at Mrs. Smith's. Typewriters for sale or rent. Inquire Rcynoldsvlllo Business College. See Gibson's optical ad. This is the time of year that Mllllrens demoralize competition by slashing prices. 3? Eyesight is Priceless Yet how many pornon neiiloot It or lutrimt It to I n com io lent optlcluns V I will vinlt tho Imperial Hotel, HeyuoltlMVllle, Fob. 0, and the Amerleim Hotel, Hrookvlllc, Feb. 10th nnd 111 1a. AH tho liitttHt intHhodHof tent- ttiK the tilirlit and gliiN ground to nifet the wuniH 01 inc eye. G. C. Gibson, Expert Optician Special Inducements Want Column. Ratem One cent per word for each and very luaerUon, Lost Three keys tied together with green ribbon. Please leave keys at The Stab offloe. For Sale Brown and white single comb Leghorn and Plymouth Rock etrgs for batohlng In season. Inquire of J. J. Hoffman. Spinners Wanted Apply to Brook vllle Woolen Mills. For Sale Lot on Main street. In quire of L. J. McEntlre. Wanted Girls to learn cloth picking, winding and weaving. Apply at En terprlse Silk Company offloe. For Sale or Rent A good property, Including a store room, on Worth street. Inquire at STAit office. ' ' , For Sale A seven room house, loj, ! 60 by 150 feet, in West Reynolds v(U. j M. E, Weed. I 1 for One Week Only at the Cash N. Y. Racket Store New Mines at Sykeavilts. J. B. Sykes, who was In lows, yester day, Is quite optimistic with regard to the future of Sykesvllle, his namesake (own. The occasion for this Is due to the beginning of extensive mining operations them last week by the Good year coal syndicate and to the fact that Sykosville Is to bo the terminus of tho Buffalo & Susquehanna .railroad' which I being rapidly extended In that direc tion from a point on the Little Blnne- mnhonlng creek In Clinton county, also owned by the Goodyear. The sinking of a shaft near the Junction of Stump Creek and Beech Run on the Shaffer lands was begun laRt Thursday and the work Is being prosecuted night and day. At that point It will be necessary to go down 150 feet below the creek level to reach coal,' where, according to tests, a vein six feet In depth Is found which underlays that entire section both north and south of Stump Creek. The coal company will also begin the erection of 500 coke ovens which are to bd com pleted in time to consume the output of the mines In tho early stages of de- velopement nil of which will necessitate the employment of a large number of men and add correspondingly to the population and material growth of Sykesrtlle. The opening, which was begun on this tract, Is 1(1 feet square and Is now about one-fourth completed. It Is located between the public road and tho B., R. & P. 1. R., a short dlst ance cast of the town. Punxsutawney Spirit. Saved Her Child's Life. ''In threo weeks our chubby little boy was changed by Pneumonia almost to a skeleton," writes Mrs. W. Wutklns, of Plcusant City, O. "A terrible cough set In, that, In spite of a good doctor's treatment for several weeks, grew worse every day. We then used Dr. King's Now Discovery for Consumption, and our darling whs soon sound and well. We are sure this grand medl cine saved his life." Millions know It's the only sure cure fur Coughs, Colds and all Lung diseases. II. Alex Stoke, the druggist, guarantees satisfaction. 50c, 11.00. Trial bottles free. We will sell the following articles I Large lot of Ollolotb, 1-to a yard Large lot oj Ladles' Floeoe lined Hose, Do pair Best Cotton Crash, r So per yard Ladies' heavy Fleece-lined Waists, 100 each. Men's All-wool Sojr, 0o pair Best 2J yard Lace Curtulns, 37 oents (Ask to see our full line.) Men's J2.B0 Corduroy Pants, - 11.00 10c Mantle, .... 8 cents Bust Linen Collars, lOo each or 3 for 25o Men's Heavy Cotton Underwear, 18o piece LWe guarantee every article sold at our etore at, 7 ., '. ttaeae prices, ; . Just u few overcoats left at Mllllrens that will go at almost half price. EGAL NOTICE. Notice Is hereby irlvon tliat an aimlli'atlon will l riiirto toMipUnvertiiirof I'unimylvnnlu Scummy 4.IIU, iiim, iijr n . ii. eiunit'y, A. II. wartxaml J. t Hivarli. under thn rnriMiru. Hon Ai l of INT4 ami Its miilnmints, tot the runner 01 im lnieiitieo cnriHirHi ion 10 ne ran cl "lmnn.r t o il, I 'nke and MniiiirartiirlnK Uonipiiny," tlie cliarurtur anil tilijm'luf which are nilnlnir, iiiiiirryliiK, excavaihin, tiorliiK in i UN,.. iiiurnioiiU) nun cnty, piHlim, Uliry' tea. lend ore, line ores. Iron ureu. tho tdilii, pliiK the u mi) to market and the nitle thereof In crude or niiiliiifiietiired form, to ucqtilro, hold mid dlHIioku of real entitle hy sain, Inane orolhoi'M lNi,, and of const ructiiiK and cMkuoh Inirof dwelllnuH anil nil klndH of hiilltliiiKx, erect Ioiih, machinery and aiipHaticon und the mamifm'liiie it nil nulu of coke, lime, hrlck, IthiHH and llru-hrlfk anil of any article or arttrles of commerce In whole or in part comiMncd of or produced from any or all or tlie raw imalerluln above mentioned or rcfetred to, ncpiirutcly or In combination, and for tbene liilMMtHPH to hitve. iioh4ihh Hnii enjoy all tho rlnhln, Ih'iii'IIih unci prlvlleKcs mild Act ot AwMnbly and the mippliMiienu lliureio. Vt. II. I.TA Mr'T, Solicitor, Huyiioliisvlllo, Pa., January 27, uwa. W'ANTKn-KAITilFt'I.t'EKHON TO TP. A V el for wcll-eHtuhlh.ipd houne In a few conn, ties calliniron retail merchants and Hirontii. f.ocal ten llory. Hiihuy turn u year and ex pennen, pnyablo flu. 70 a week In cunh and ex jienHOH advanced. I'onltlon permanent. Huh Im'HH niiccennful and iuhIiImk. Nlandard iiouhu.;j.I4 Dearborn St., Dhlcaxo. IRST NATIONAL BANK OF REYNOLDS VJLLE. Capital Surplus 1150,000 f25,000 l!. Mlti'liell, FrrttUolltl Mcotl Hi Iclluiid, Vice Prrn.t Joint II, Knuclier, aliler, Directors)) U. Mitchell, Scott MuOlolland, .I.C.King jotiu u. I'orbeit, jianiei nonin, O. W. Fuller. J. II. Kaueher. Dock a ffcni'iul ImnklnKhUNlnpsnand lollclt the accountH or mcrchunlH, prorennlonul men, farmer, ini'cliiinicn, mlnert. lumtiermen und others, piDiiilnlnir the iniiNt direful attention in i ne DUMiiest. or an ptirwinn. 9afe Ihionll llnxen for rent. . First National Hunk building, Nolan block Fire Proof Vault. Cash New York Racket Store 0, Friedman, Prop, I doors below P. O, -GO TO- BONTON BAKERY JOHN II, PAUM. Prop., For good first-class baked goods such ns fine Marble Cake, JJnglish Wine Fruit Cake, French Fruit Pev iletl Cake, Angel Cake, Lady Fingers Jelly Drops, Kisses, Maroons and lots ot other good cakes. A fine selection of all kinds of cookies; a good line of Fresh nread and Parker House Rolls, Buns, Coffee Cakes, A . nice selection, . of pies . always on hand. WtxUUnv und l'artle it tipecMtif, UivetiH a Cull. Northamer and Kellock's Just received a new line of "' BOOKS' from the best writers. - . A full line of . . Picture Frame Supplies, so we can make you an up-to-date frame at a very low price. All Framed Pictures to be Sold at Cost Now to make room for our ever Increasing stock of new thlngg. Northamer & Kellock. LOOK e Read This. While in Reynoldsville call on W. H. Cumins, the Peoples' 5th street Blacksmith. He will shoe your horses, repair your waeons, buggys, carts ana sleighs, and make you any kind of stone tools you may need. His price will be moder ate. Don't forget the place. W. H. CUMINS, ,55th Street. Reynoldsvllle, Pn. GOLD SEAL RUBBERS FOR THIS WEATHER Made of Pure Gum Will outwear two pair of any other kind you can buy. Price Misses, 50ci ladies," 60c ; Men'p, pop, C7 Try a pair of Gold Seal tod , you will save money. We are nolo agent for Suag Proof footwear. Robinson s
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