An independent journal devoted to the interests of Reynold sville. Published weekly. One Dollar per year strictly in advance. VOLUME 12. REYNOLDSVILLE, PENN'A., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1903. NUMBEK 4. i The Kewanee flir-Pressure TanK . . ; Is the modern system of water supply and fire protection For farms, public build intra Kiid humus. Ilcts less than an elevated tank or tower, neri r freezes op blows over mid will last until the tiiiiln In your house crumble uway. : : ! : With H windmill nltitched ynu ('nil have a. constant wntor pressure equal to city water supply. Fop further Information ask ALBRIGHT ' THE PLUMBER Solo Agent, Roynoldsvillc, Pa. Prove it, She will understand why we sell so many of them. They have all the style, comfort and durability of shoes costing 50 cents more. ROBINSON'S WE BUT Next J. It. - You Auto See - That your eyes aren't strained by wear-' Ins imperfect glasses. Set O. A. JENNER, The eye specialist, .. ' as he has fitted over 40 pair of glasses in Reynoldsville that give satisfaction. ' ' ' - CITY HOTEL Parlors, Rcynoldauille. Re. ' ;Visiting'Cafds Artistically Print w niiliill -r ' L- ' We are selling MeCormick Binders, Reapers, Mowers and Rakes, Universal Plows, Conklin and Champion Wagons, Oats Straw, Oak Boards. Special to close out A car of No. 1 Spring wheat Flour at $1.10 per sack. KING & CO. Dculors In General Merchandise. Ladies ! If a woman will put her feet into a pair of our 83.00 Shoes on or li 82.50 Oxfords DO NOT WANT YOU To buy any of our Furniture, Car pets, Etc., if you do not want to. WE DO WANT YOU To come and take a look at what we have. Our goods have been selected with great care and we will guaran tee them to b just as represented. door to The National Hotel HILLIS & CO. Tha Cure .hat Cures Coughs,h Colds 9 LCHppe) Whooping Cough, Asthma' Bronchitis and Inolplent ) Consumption Is A Valuable Publication. On June .'. tho Passenger Department of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company will publish the 1003 edition of the Summer Excursion Route Book. ThU work Is designed to provide tho puhllo with descriptive notes of the principal Summer resorts of Eastern America, with the best route for reaching thorn, nd the rates of fare. .It contains all the principal seashore and mountain resorts of the East, and over seventeen hundred different routes or combina tions of routes. The book lias bi'on compiled with the greatest care, and altogether is the most complete and comprehensive handbook of Summer travel ever offered to the public. The cover Is handsome and striking, printed In colors, and the book contains several maps, presenting the exact routes ovor which tickets are sold. The book la profusely Illustrated with fine half-tone cuts of scenery at the various resorts and along the lines of the Penn sylvania Railroad. On and after June 1 this very Interest ing book may bo procured at any Penn sylvania Railroad ticket office at the nominal price of ten cents, or, upon ap plication to Geo. VV. Royd, Assistant Ceneral Passenger Agent, Broad St. Station, Philadelphia, Pa., by mall for twenty-cents. Startling Evidence. Fresh testimony in great quantity la constantly coming In, Declaring Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption Coughs and Colds to be unequaled. A recent expression from T. J. McFar- land, Bentorville, Va., sorves as ox- ample. He writes : "I had Bronchitis for three years and doctored all the time without being benefited. Then I began taking Dr. King's New Discov ery, and, a fow bottles wholly cured me." Equally effective In curing all Lung and Throat troubles, Consump tion, Pneumonia and Grip. Guaran teed by II. Alex Stoke's, Druggist. Trial bottles free, regular size 50c, and 1.00. Reduced Rates to Baltimore. For the benefit of those desiring to attend the Twentieth Triennial Nation; al Samgerfust of the Northeastern Sii'ngerbund, at Baltimore, Md., June 15 to 20, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company will sell round-trip tickets to Baltimore from all stations on its lines, except Woodberry, Harrlsburg, and in termediate stations, Columbia, Frede rick, and Intermediate stations on the Northern Central Railway, Lancaster, Harrlsburg, and intermediate stations, and stations on the Philadelphia, Balti more and Washington Railroad (ex clusive of stations south of Townsend, Del., from which tickets will be sold,) on Juno 13, It, and 15, good for return passage until June 22, Inclusive , at rate of single faro for tho round trip, plus one dollar. Side-trip tickets from Baltimore to Washington and return will be sold and good going June 18 and 1!), at rate of II. (iO for the round trip. Those tlckots will be good to return within two dayB, date of sale included, and will bo valid on all trains except llic Congressional Limited. Worst of All Experiences. Can anything bo worse than to feel that every minute will be your last ? Such was the experience of Mrs. S. II. Newson, Decatur, Ala. "For throe years" she writes, "I endured Insuffer able pain from lndlgostion, stomach and bowel trouble. Death seemed In evitable when doctors and all remedies failed. At length I was induoed to try Electric Bitters and the result was miraoulouB. I Improved at once and now I'm completely recovered." Fpr Liver, Kidney, Stomaoh and Bowel trouble Eltctrlo Bitters la the only medicine. Only 50orIt'g guaranteed by"H.Alex Slioke, Druggist. " "7 You Can Have $ioo Without notice out of your savings deposits, bearing 4 per. cent. Interest, in the Pittsburg Trust Comnanv. 323 Fourth avenue.FitUburg, Pa. $6,000,000 capital, surplus and profits. Start with 11.00. Bank by mail. Driven to Desperation. Living at an out of the way place, re mote from civilization, a family is often driven to desperation in case of annl. dont, resulting in Burns, Cuts, Wounds, Uloers, etc. Lay in a supply of Buck Ion's Arnica Salve. It's the best on earth. 25o, at H. Alex Stoke's drug store. Your Next Suit, Let it be for business or dress can be got here at a saving of 15 to 35 per cent. Blng-Stoke Co. Shoos for the whole family at Mil llrens. Just received a new Una of walking sklrU at Mllllrens. mftui'i Ifd sjegaeet. The best thing that Emerson bat left IS Is his spirit, fine and high, stern and tweet He took life In a royal way, rind bore himself toward the eternal mystorlea with serene courage and dauntless hope. Ills essays, which are bis most characteristic work, have their chief value not as retentions of the moral order of life, not as discoveries of the Dual meaning of things, but as disclosures of his own spirit. There la In these essays an Immense mass of truth, uttered in picturesque and mem orable words. There In In tliein also an Immense mass that Is not true. Tho Emersonian hit find miss are upon every puge, and side by side with a golden and perfect sentence oue find sonorous eccentricity. The origin of this strange compound of oracle and Imposition in Emerson lies In the con fessional character of his writing. He speaks from within, and his generalisa tions bit or miss according as his per sonal experience embodies a law of humanity or a mere Idiosyncrasy. That Emerson speake so often and so royally for man is his great distinction. That he speuks so frequently for the Idlosyn. cratlc, the Isolated and vain is his chief fault. We have a right to bold him at his best, and through the richness and mnjesty of the confession we are brought face to face with the confessor. Rev. George A. Gordon, D. D in Atlantic Corn Breeding Fields. In breeding corn a small field usually an acre In size is used. The land 14 pre pared and the seed bed treated as for the ordinary field. They are usually about 120 hills long aud thirty rows wide. Each row Is planted from a sep arate ear. The barren stalks, poor stalks and all undesirable stalks, such as suckers, are removed before the tas sel appears. The field Is protected or Isolated, so thnt no mixture can take place from other varieties or from any source. In the fall these rows are husked aepurntely, and tho seed for the .next year's crop is selected from the rows giving the highest yields per acre, of best composition, with the least bar ren stalks and of the best type. In this way the yield per acre of the variety If Increased, the quality Improved and the type preserved and developed. By this plan wo are able to give personal at tention and direct selection to the In dividual stnlk aud ear, which would be Impossible in a large Held. Cosmopoli tan. A Hla-h Triced Frloaaeee. Lord Alviinley, a noted wit and blgh liver in England a hundred yenrs ago, insisted on having an apple tart on his dinner table every day throughout the year. On one occasion he paid a ca terer $1,000 for a luncheon put up in a basket that sufficed a small boating party going up the Thames. Being one of a dozen men dining together at a Lendoa club where each was re quired to produce bis own dish, Alvan ley's, a the most expensive, wen him the sdvnntage of being entertained free of cost. This benefit was gained at an expense of $540, that being the price of a simple fricassee composed entirety of the "noli," or small pieces at each side of the back, taken from thirteen kinds of birds, among them belug 100 snipe, 40 woodcocks and 20 pheasants In all about 300 birds. A Cool Soldier. Remarkable for his self possession even In the most trying moments of battle was the famous Marshal MacMa hon. One day he was dictating a letter to his secretary In the midst of an ac tion when a shell from the enemy's camp fell directly upon his tent and exploded within a few feet Pale with fright, the secretary spraug up, leaving his letter. "What's the matter?" asked the mar shal. "Tho shell, gasped the frightened ubordlnute. "And what has the shell to do with the letter you are writing? Go on with your work, sir." Bar Ram. Bay rum Is manufactured from the dried leaves of I'lmento acrls. Bay rum Is procured by distillation snd this In a very simple manner. The leaves are picked from the trees and then dried. In this state they are placed in the re tort, which is then filled with water, and the process of distillation is car ried on. The vapor is then condensed la the usual way and forms what is known a "bay oil," a very small quan tity of which is required' for each puncheon of rum. The Touring Blorcle China Wants. Consul John Fowler of Cbefu writes In regard to the need for a touring bicycle in China. It la strength, he says, that Is wanted, not style or flim sy adornments. The tool bos should be complete, and the tools made o( steel or some other metal not easily broken. There Is a good demand for wheels among the Chinese, and a plain, strong, durable machine will sell widely at a remunerative price. Hew Coal Field. , A railway Is being construct?' jito the great anthracite coal field ycent ly discovered near Cumberi' Brit ish Columbia, and mines or oelng de veloped.'' It is expected that this coal will be in the market by autumn. OWEN MEREDITH. A Dinner Speech of III Thnt Elicited llonl of Derlalon. t once ant at a banquet given In Lon don by Wilson llnrrott to Lawrence Barrett, soys a writer In nn English magazine. Earl I.yttnn presided, a curled, oiled, effeminate, supercilious fop. He Imd a Roman tragedy to sell to Wilson Barrett. That was why he camn. Ho eulogized Wilson Barrett In n speech. "1 believe," ho said, "that Mr. Barrett won some success wllh n piece called (consulting his notes) 'The Lights of London. I suppose It was the work of some drnmutlc hack." George 81ms sat facing him and never sAil a word. Then his lordship went drawling on: I next And on tho list of Mr. Barrett's successes something culled The Silver King.' Here again I know nothing of tho autiMrsliip. The names of those dramatic carpenters do not Interest me." At which Henry Arthur Jones glared and a flush enmo Into tho face of poor blind Henry Herman. "Finally," said Lord Lytton, "Mr. Wilson Barrett has placed on his boards what ho humorously calls n Ro man tragedy. I refer to 'Claudlan,' at tributed to ono W. G. Wills, of whom I have never heard." This was too much for the banqueters. All of them were personally acquainted with lrvlng's pet poet, the modest Wills. So they howled derisively. And Earl I.ytton's tragedy, produced a month Inter, was a dismal failure. Snpprwtttlnn Aliont Cain. In the Monfernito it Is believed that r.II the cats who wnuder about upon the roofs during the month of Febru ary are really witches, whom It Is law ful and even necessary to shoot A German superstition has It thnt If a black cot sits upon the Iwvl of a sick man It Is a presage of his death, while if after his doceaso it la seen upon his grave It Is enough to arouse doubts as to the locality to which Ills soul has departed. In Hungary It is thought that cats generally become witches be tween the ages of seven and twelve years. A French belief concerning tho cat Is that If the animal be carried In a cart and the wind blow from It to the horses they immediately fall tired. If any part of tho horseman's clothing be made of cat's skin, tho horso will feel as though It carried a double bur don. In other countries, however, su perstition Is favorable rather than ad verse to the cat. A variant of tho fa mous story of the Kilkenny cats Is found lu Piedmont, tho cuts being, however, replaced by wolves. Life Snvlng Devices. Mimicry among butterllles, moths and other Insects would be comic were It not a matter of life or death. Not a few moths hnvo nt tho hinder ends of their wings n black murk and two or more tails resembling tho horns of their own heads. A veteran lu warfare not seldom has theso portions mlsRlng, a proof of tho value In having saved his llfo. Thus the lizard's brittle tall, which, first attracting the enemy, comes off at his touch, lets his would be prey escape. When at bify, crabs distract the enemy by throwing off their claws, and lobsters do tho trick more neatly by seizing tho enemy with a claw and then throwing off limb and enemy. Thus the bushy tall of the squirrel Is accounted for. There Is a chance of escaping the enemy minus ouly a mouthful of fur. The Mlaalonarr Apple Tree. In the rectory garden of Pysford, near Woking, England, there stands what Is familiarly known as the missionary apple tree. Tbo trco is n largo ono and of a good ago and has been so named for the reason that for many years past It has been tho custom of tho rec tor of the parish to collect the fruit, soli it in the best market and devote the proceeds to the missionary socie ties of the Church of England. Quite a largo sum of money has been raised In this way, and tho apples, which nre of the Blenheim orango variety, always And a ready sale at excellent prices among the gentry and farmers of tho district . African Natives and Suit. To obtain salt the Bukalulua aud oth er African natives burn banuun leaves and cortaln grasses and, collecting tho ashes, place them in a largo funnel In geniously mudo from large banana leaves. Through this they percoluto water and then evaporate the filtered water by boiling, obtulnlug a fairly white salt composed of a very small amount of chloride of sodium and a very large amount of chlorate of potash aud other salts. Prior to the advent of the traders and the missionaries this was the ouly salt they bad to satisfy the natural craving of a vegetable eat ing people. ' Thar Was a Difference. Bockson Buskin How did you like my Hamlet? , Olde Stager Ob, it was your Hamlet, was it? Well, I did not recognize It as Shakespeare's. Brooklyn Life. .ku. of Areramenf. '.' ' Dick Do you ever get the last word nrt.H wviip txrlfA? Charles Oh, yes, but I have to say It to myself when I get out on the street Detroit Free jress. DOING THE GRAND ENTRY. How a Clrcns Horae Enjoys His Part of tho performance. Tho experiences of a farm horse that Unexpectedly Joins a wagon show circus Is described by Sewell Ford in "norses Nine." Calico Is the name of the horse. At night he has a hard time pulling the band wagon over the country roads, but he thoroughly enjoys his part In the performance und-r the main tent The author describes Calico's feelings as follows: Ah, that grand entry! That was something to live for. No matter how bad tho ronrts or how hard the hills had been, Calico forgot It all during those ten delightful minutes when, with his heart beating time to the rat-tat-tat of the snare drum, he swung prancing- ly nrouiid tho yellow arena. It all began in the dressing tent with a period of confusion In which horses were crowded together as thick as they could stand, wbllo the riders dressed and mounted In frantic haste, for to be late meant to be fined. At last the ring master clapped bis hands as a sign that nil was In readiness. There was a mo mentary hush. Then a bugle sounded, the flaps were thrown back, and to the crashing accompaniment of the band the seemingly chaotic mass unfolded Into a double line as the horses broke Into a sharp gallop around the freshly dug ring. Tbo first time Calico did the grand entry he felt as though he had been sucked into a whirlpool and was being carried around by some irresistible force. So dazed was he by the music, by the hum of human voices and by the unfamiliar sights that be forgot to rear and kick. He could only prance and snort.. He went forward because the rider of the outside horse dragged him along by the bridle rein. Around and around ho circled until he lost all sense of direction, and when ho was finally shunted out through the dress ing tent flaps he was so dizzy be could scarcely stand. TI-c Candle Flah. One of the piscatorial curiosities of the north PaclUc coast, especially plen tiful along the shores of British Colum bia, is the fish known to Indians, whites nnd half breeds as the "candle fish." To the scientists be Is the eulachon (Tbalclchthys paclflcus), and Is highly esteemed for two reasons. The fish It self Is about fourteen Inches long, re sembles the smelt In general appear ances and is caught In large quantities by west coast fishermen during the months of February, March and April. It Is the fattest of all fishes, for which reason large numbers of them are dried and smoked to be used as a warm ing food during the long rigorous win ters so common In that region. Largo numbers of them are also run through crudo presses, which extract the oil. This Is preserved in skin bags and used much In the same manner as whale's blubber is used by the Eski mos. This "candle fish" gets Its com mon name from the fact that when dried it burns with a bright white flame until entirely consumed. It Is much used by the "coasters" both of Columbia. and Alaska, either with or without a wick passed through Its body. The Victoria Medal. The Victoria medal is made out of bronzo from Russian guns captured In tho Crimean war. The design Is the work of tho prince consort of Qticen Victoria. The medals ore made sep arately and only when one is needed. Thus when some soldier or sailor, no matter what bis rank may be, has shown "conspicuous bravery or devo tion to tho country In tho presence of danger," ns the act reads, the war office sends to tho royal Jewelers the bronze needed for the metnl. It Is carefully cast, filed smooth around the edges and then tho design Is brought out by chasing. The soldier's medal Is sus pended by a red ribbon and that of the sailor by a blue piece of silk. A Letter to Mother. "You promised mother a letter. Write it now," la one of the mottoes on the walls of tho Nagasaki Home For Sea' men, a motto that it Is asserted, bus restrained more men from going wrong than almost any other influence of the plnce. Wanderers over the globe 'are not thu only ones who need such a re minder. Iudecd they might be uble to give lessons In filial duty to niuny who have never realized how fortunate they aro that home aud mother ure not fur away, but ncur at hand. Youth's Com' punlou. rue cost of It. City Man What makes rents so high here? Villager This is an incorporated town. . . "Things don't. look very metropoli tan." "X-o, but the taxes are." New York Weekly. . A Milder Aapecaloew The statement by one of the victims thnt a liuindryman Is In the "Iron and steal'.' trade is undoubtedly a slander. Accurately stated, he 1 lu the "uiunglo and . lose" business. Pittsburg Dis patch. , . , . 'i .' f'ncOutaiutnated, ' ' "Wliat a pure, serene fuco Miss Fair child has!" ' ' ' r "Yes; she does look as though' she laid never been to the theater lu her life." Harper's Bazar. . Clerk at the Speaker's Desk. The speaker's right hand msn Is call ed "clerk at the speaker's desk" Snd Is one of the most useful men in the house of representatives. It Is his busi ness to know things, all things; in ract, everytmng connectea wun -legislation. He must know parliamentary law, precedents of the house and must have them ready at a second's notice, so that they may be cited by the speak er or the chairman of the committee of the whole house whenever a point of order Is raised or a parliamentary point la to be decided. Ho must know all the members of the house and from what state they come In order to tell the speaker or the chairman how to rec ognize them when they address the presiding officer. He must know all the Secretaries of the president snd clerks of the senate, so as to tell the presiding oIHcer when there Is a mes sage from tho president or the senate to be received by the house. He keeps the time on men who are addressing the bouse, end the "hammer" falls when he says that a man has consum ed his allotted time. Of sll these tasks the greatest Is to be well In formed upon parliamentary law. There Is no index to parliamentary rulings, and many points are found, by the msn who will delve and dig and stddy the subject all the. time. Washington Post Infant Oenlaaee. When he was but a schoolboy in the Jesuits' college at Dijon Jacques Bos suet was known as one of the best classical scholars in Europe. At eight Louis de Bourbon, prince of Condc, was a perfect Latin scholar. Three years Inter he published a work on rhetoric, and at seventeen he was appointed governor of Burgundy. Feuelon displayed so much precocity that he won fame as a preacher of rare eloquence when ho was but fifteen years of age. Pascal wrote treatises on acoustics at twelve, at which age he was busily occupied in constructing elaborate circulating machines, and at sixteen he published his treatise on "Conic Sections," which Descartes re fused to believe was not the work of a great master. John Stuart Mill was studying Greek, at three, had practically mastered thei ' language at seven and a year later j, was acting as schoolmaster to his: younger brothers and sisters. John! Ruakin actually produced a manu-j script work In three volumes before! ho reached his seventh birthday. j Mark Twain In a . Fog. Mark Twain's former lecture man ager told this story of an entertain ment given by the humorist in London during a heavy fog: "One night the queen's concert rooms were like a smokehouse, and I saw from my chair In the royal box a shadowy dress cost supported by a pair of shadowy trou sers, girdled by the fnlnt halo of the Ineffectual footlights. A voice was in the air, but It was difficult to locate It with any degree of certainly. The ap parently headless trunk of the lecturer told what he knew of our fellow sav ages, the Sandwich Islanders, and at Intervals out of the depths ascended the muffled murmur of an audience In visible to the naked eye. Mark began his lecture on this occasion with a del icate allusion to the weather and said, 'Perhaps yon can't see me, but I am here.' " Improving oa Horse Power. In Venezuela many years ago a wealthy agriculturist wss appointed minister of marine. Being a hard worker, he asked at once for particu lars of the fleet The secretary brought him particulars about the only war ship. The details gave length, tonnage and horse power. At this last the min ister stopped the secretary and bade him write down quickly an order to the chief of customs, "Take out these 120 horses at once, and I will send you good mules In their places," explaining that mules were much more econom ical, both as regards food and ability to withstand fatigue. Cossack Cnatoma. Many queer customs and usages aro prevalent among the Cossacks. No man changes his clothes on a Monday. On Thursday no fat or flesh meat must be pickled or corned. . Wool is not spun on a holiday. A hen is always given an uneven number of eggs to batch, cover an even numb'er. Bones left from a dinner at a funeral are thrown Into tho river, and at tho same meal no one dare cut bread; It must always bo broken. Apollo'a Favorite Inatrnment. ' Apollo was the old god of music, and his favorite instrument the lyre, was Invented by Mercury. When the latter was four hours old be found the shell of a tortoise and made it into a lyre with nine strings In honor of the nine muses. This Instrument Mercury gave to Apollo, who became a wonderful player upon it The lyre was used by the Greeks in olden times, and from it was fashioned the barp. Matrimonial Dyspepsia. "Well, bow do you like married life?" inquired tho friend.. L . "Not at all' replied the man who naa murricu money una was suffering for It "I'm a case of matrimonial dys pepsia." -"Matrimonial dyspepsia V "Yes. She never agrees with me; she's too rich." Philadelphia Ledger.
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