An independent journal devoted to the interests of Reynoldtville. Puilisied wcthly. Ont Dollar per year ttrietly in advance. VOLUME 13. REYNOLDSVILLE, PENN'A., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1904. NUMBER 26. From the Big Hardware Store Mis9 Georgia Corbctt has rcturnctl from a two weeks' visit in Pittsburg. There is no place like home especially when you have a Pen insular Hot Blast Stove to keep you warm. Miss Ella Secley has just returned from the city, where she pur chased goods for her usual holiday display. 36 hours and has large ash pan and a door with mica glass to illuminate the room, fits air tight. That keeps the floor nice and warm so the children can be on the floor withoutj taking cold. If so we would advise you to get a Peninsular Hot Blast. Every stove guaranteed. If not as we represent it to be, we will refund your money. Now that your turkey is ordered for Thanksgiving, call and see our beautiful carving sets. Mrs. E. Wciscr and Mrs. Emanuel Schugars, of Emerickville, were in town Thursday and after examining the different kinds of hot blasts, ordered a Peninsular with a large ash pan. We have a few second-hand cook, heating and gas stoves which will be sold cheap. Call and examine them. Dr. Charles Hammond, of Wishaw, was in town Saturday and of course ordered one of the greatest heating stoves in the world the Peninsular Hot Wast with ash pan. Reynoldsville Hardware Co. Fi"lf Tha mm Eldredga haa stood for tht Wl BEST In Iht Sewing Machine W orld. rr- . Her U New Eldredge; BETTER I hirrV than EVER, and Superior to all " others, rostivc take-up; aelf let w ting needle; aelf threading Shuttle; I fil fC autopiatic tefiKionreleane;automatic Wttl O bobbin winder; positive fourmotion feed; capped nedille liar; nolaeleaa aelf ad jutting roller bearing wheel, aleel pitman; five ply laminated woodwork, with a beautiful act of nickeled ateel altaclimenta, Aak your dealer for the Improved Eldredge B" and do not buy any machiue until you have , saca It. National Sewing Machine Co. EELV1DERE. ILLINOIS. C. JF. HOFFMAN, AGENT. JleunoldHVlUe, Fa. Wedding Invitations and Visit ing Cards neatly and prompt ly printed at The Star office. 9 NEWS- O say ! Have you seen those beau tiful enameled gas stoves in our win dow ? They are warranted not to crack or change color. The Star Glass Company, who ex perienced some difficulty in turning out a good quality of glass at the beginning of the fire, are at present making some of the finest glass ever made at this plant. Miss Clair Brosius, of Hawthorne, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Dr. J. C. Saycrs. Do you want a stove that is a stove ? One that will burn slack and consume all its smoke. One that you can regulate the heat so as to keep the temperature at a certain degree all the time. One that will hold fire ir in For An Informal Call at Clothcraft Single Breasted SacK Suit it most appropriate. It combine dignity with nap and daih, and has a dressiness that the occa sion demands. Its fit Is faultless as with all Clothcraft suits. Back hangs without a wrinkle, fronts remain as smooth as when they left the tailor's goose, lapels lie cloie to the collar, trousers hang faultlessly over line and heeL The illustration shows how one of the "Cloth, craft" models looks la actual service. Materials are fancy Worsted, Cherlots.T weeds and Mixtures In light and dark colors. Get on of these suits to wear when you make your seal call and you'll bo strictly la good form. Wo hare thorn from f 10 to f 25. ling-Stolio Go, Reynold villc, Pa. FAfvTi Liar 'hospiTXUity. In War Vlllnarers In the Orient Ka. tertaln raisin gtrnnsrer. The villagers who entcrtntn the Itrnnger in their houses naturally enough expect him to talk to thnui, for thus only can he give thorn the return they anticipate for their hospitality. As a general rule they will accept no remuneration for the food nnd shelter tlioy give, but they do expect pnyment for the feed of the auluiiilH. The conversation one hns to curry on with the host and the other villagers who drop in to see and pay their re spects to the atranger In entertaining and even amusing as long as one is a oorlce In the country. hecntiHe It la angophlatlcated prattle, such as one must have beard in Europe in the mid dle ages. One unfailing topic Is the rotundity of the world, the negative tde of the question being always de feuded. They cannot believe that the un remains stationary, for why should they disregard the evidence of their own eyes, which shows them that it docs move across the vault of heaven? They ask you how much tribute your countrymen pny to their padlshah (whom we wrongly call sultan), whose foot Is upon the neck of all nations, as they firmly believe. They Inquire mi nutely luto your business nt homo and your reasons for travel in their coun try, etc. They handle with childlike Joy and amazement your ritlo and re volver, your knife, pen, pencils, your helmet and clothing, und the women can never have enough of feeling und fondling your socks, which ore more evenly and closely knit than their backwoods homemade article. One must submit to an examination of this kind wherever one stops, often several times a day, finally It pnlls on the traveler unless lie Is gifted with the patience of Job, and from that mo ment he tries to avoid village hospital ity. A further reason for such avoid ance is the fact that the acceptance of the hospitality of villagers makes It impossible for the traveler to put Into durable form bis road notes of the day while matters are still fresh in his mind. For the scientific traveler or the archaeologist this is of the utmost mo ment. Now, among Turks writing iu the bouse of your entertainer would simply be impolite and a boorish re turn for the bospitullty, but A rubs re gard the man who writes or draws as a spy, and will not permit it at all. J. U. 8. Sterrett iu Harper's Magazine. THE STEAMER STEWARD. A Dr Man Who Carries a Heavy Load of Responsibility. The comfort of the passenger de pends perhaps more on the vigilance and executive ability of the chief stew ard thun any one else. lie it is who or ders the supplies for the voyage, has a mtuute kuowledge of what the store rooms and refrigerators contain and aces that the menu for each meal is ample, well cocked ttud daintily served. He makes arrangements in port for the entire trip, pluus each day's meals at sea and with the assistance of the chief cook get.i up the menu card. You will find him mornings in his office. Just off the grand staircase, making up his books and records, but during the rest of the day he Is all over the ship, now taking a look at the store rooms far below to see that groceries and provisions are rightly served out to the cooks, now Inspecting the re frigerators to note the temperature and ugain watching the butchers with precise knowledge of how meats shall be cut and seolng that they are deliv ered to the cooks on time and In the rlgh quantities. All these things he is responsible for. But that is by no means all. He must also keep a minute record of all trans actions of this sort and must have a watchful eye upon the passengers to note that bis lieutenants among the meu are giving them prompt and cheerful service. He hns a record of every pusscuger traveling with him and all the details connected with bis Journey. If you sailed with hi m lust year or twenty years' ago be' can refer to bis books and tell you the date of the voyage, its duration, your room and seat and table and Just what the stewards served to you. Booklov ers' Magazine. Blamed It on the Mountain Air. A new guest arrived at a New Hamp shire farmhouse where a Boston gentle man happened to be holding forth on the piazza. The newcomer was much Impressed by the speaker's fluency. "I declare." be remarked to the land lord, "that man bus an extensive vo cabulary, hasn't be?" The lundlord was mightily pleased.., "That's so." be said. "That's what mountain air will do for a man. He ain't been boardln' with me but two weeks, and I know he must have lot his wulstbuud out much as four times." Rochester Herald. Miss Gabble It's strange that s girl who used to wear her hair so neatly Js so careless about it now. She has to keep brushing stray locks back with ber hand. Miss Chellus That's not trange. She's got an engagement ring'. '-Philadelphia Press. Manage as we may, misery and suf fering will always cleave to the borders of superfluity. Jacob!. fatal Cooa Fortune. Thero is a story told of a miner to whom sudden good fortune brought as sudden death. He was a man who touched ill luck at the start and could not get away from It. Not a grain of gold could he find In his own claim; his capital wrs exhausted; he could not even obtain a livelihood as a la borer for others. In the depths of de spair he wont to the owners of a mine long worked out and begged permission to go down the shaft. It was granted. He went down, and 200 feet from the surface he drove in his pick and dis lodged something. He came up with it and asked that his find might be ex amined and weighed. That was done. "Is it all mine?" he asked. It was, they told him. "It's not the govern ment's?" No, it was not the govern ment's. "Nor anybody else's?" No, nor anybody else's, "It all belongs1 entirely and solely to me?" It did. The nameless wanderer had found one of the biggest nuggets unearthed. It weighed 100 pounds of pure gold. They turned to congratulate him, to find that Joy had killed him. The story Is said to be 'rue. Bnii Button Acts, Acts were passed in the reigns of William HI., Anne and Oeorge I. which mado It illegal for any tailor to make or any man to wear clothes with any buttons other than thoso mado of brass appended thereto. The low further enacted that not only should any tailor who committed n breach of it be fined 40 shillings, but also that he should not be able to recover from his customer in a court of lnw the price of the suit which ho Imd ndorued with the offending but tons. The whole object of the act was to protect the Birmingham metal but ton makers. A case which came be fore the courts In the year 1854 or 1855, In which a man, on being sued by his tailor, raised a successful de fense relying on the acts In question, that the buttons on the clothes which he hud ordered were bone and not brass, called attention to the existence of the anachronism, and the restric tions were soon after abolished. Lon don King. Othello" In Main? Theater. A correspondent writing In the Aus tralasian thus describes a performance of "Othello" In a Malay theutor: "It wrs all in Malay, of course, but where they had got the European costumes from I cannot Imagine. They were of all kinds and descriptions. Othello was dressed as a toreudor, with tennis shoes on; CsspIo, as Henry VIII.; Iago In a black velvet court suit, with a barrister's wig well down over his nose; Desdomonu, in a short Spanish dancing girl's dress; Iloderlgo, a green Druid's gown, With pink stockings nnd tanned boots. Hut the Joke of the whole tiling was the music. There was a Malay orchestra of banjos, mand'. Hns, etc., but they played swircely any native music. They ull simply love European music, to which they set their own Malayan words. The whole piny was interspersed with songs, Junt like our comic operas." Charitable Doctors. Doctors give away more than any other class of men on earth. It is stat ed that tho gratuitous services of phy sicians hist year to oue large Philadel phia hospital amounted to over $500, 000 at ordinary fees. Upon this the Wisconsin Medical Recorder remarks thut "If any individual or any society had given $500,000 to any io the fuct would have appeared hi all the dailies with large headlines, but this free work of the physicians has come to be considered as too common for no tice. "And this was only one hospital In one city. How enormous this free work in the whole country must bavo been lust year!" A Japanese Bint. The proverbial politeness of the Jap anese has resulted in the development of a number of neat little customs. One of the best is the manner In which one hostess gets rid of an unwelcome guest She does not hint that the time is about up for bis stay or that she is going visiting soon, but sets to work preparing a dainty luncheon, which she packs in a little box, ties up with ribbon nnd paper and bands to the guest some morning. It isn't an insult, either; it's Just a bint, and one that is always taken. Behind the Bars. If you are an amuteur photographer and have a negative of some friend whom you would like to see locked up for a long term, put your printing frame Just inside u wire mosquito net ting when you print the next picture from the negative. The result will be a print showing your friend behind the burs. The effect will be almost startling. Mistaken. Jack I thought that the author of this book was famous for bis keen un derstanding of women. Jane Well, do you doubt it? Jack Of course. He Buys thut the heroine suffered in si lence. Kansas City Independent Tit For Tat She The Bwelllngtons called on us last week, you know. He Yes. She Don't you think It Is about time wt should retaliate? New York Frees, WORN AWAY BY SHEEP. tnltfnrnln Uenlnarlat Tells How Ann cairn islnnd la IMsnpuearlnir. That thfl Island of Aimcnpa, one of the Hnntu llarbaru channel group, Is Slowly disappearing in the ocean Is the rather startling statement of Fred Johnson, who with n party of scien tists from llerkeley, t'al., recently vl.i tied the place, says the Chicago Inter Ocean. And more curious still,' John son claims that this phenomenon is due to the presence of 4iK) sheep on the barren rocky Island. These sheep, ac cording to Johnson, are actually wear lug away the rocks. On the south side of the Island they run along the top of precipitous cliffs, forming deep path ways about three feet from the edge of the cliff. Haln soaks into these ruts, and from time to time parts of the bluff fall Into the sea. On the north side of the Island are canyons and hollows where the soli tins collected, .Between the rock nnd the upper crust the soli washes out and caves sometimes ns deep as twen ty feet are formed. The sheep run over tho top of these, wear ruts in the earth, which in turn Is washed into the sea. Another remarkable statement of the scientists who visited the Inland is to the effect that there is no drinking wa ter on the Island for the sheep. All the refreshment nnd nourishment they get comes from the leaves of the prick ly pear plant, which the sheep very dexterously manipulate so ns not to be hurt by the thorns. The only man on the Island Is the sheep herder, who draws his supply of drinking and cook ing water from a cistern in which be collects rain water. THE THANKSGIVING TABLE. Rnasrestlona For Itecoratlnar the Fe tnl Hoard. Something colonial by way of decora tion Is always In order on Thanksgiv ing. Bays Harper's Bazar. A pretty centerpiece may be made of wheat and small artificial pumpkins, the wheat, bought at the florist's in a set piece, will need to be opeued and rearranged in a small sheaf. Smaller sheuves may he set down the length of the table if it Is sufficiently long, and the yellow may be still further carried out in bon bons and In the candles and shades, and the Ices may be served either in little pumpkins or may be molded In that shape. A tiny card bearing the name of the guest may he tied with yellow rlbbou around the neck of a small turkey and put before ench cover. These turkeys, by tho way, come at ull prices aud In every variety, from the little feathered fowl which costs but a few cents to a really artistic iridescent bronze bird which will serve as a paperweight later on. The colonial Idea may be suggested In the sherbet cups made of black pa per in the form of quaint hats, such as John Aldcn wore. A spray of wheat may lie under cuch hat with good effect. DIPLOMATIC JAPANESE. A Merchant's Method of Appreciating Courteales Shown His Friend. Jupune.se diplomacy was illustrated the other day wbeu a small party of Japanese merchants were visiting the Commercial museums In Philadelphia. One of the attaches, a secretary, had the visitors in charge and was very at tentive to the party, taking pains to fully explain everything of interest in the museums, and more particularly the features that most Interested the Japanese, says the Philadelphia Rec ord. When the merchants were leav ing, their lender, stating that he de sired to reciprocate in a small way the courtesies that bad been shown his friends, produced a beautiful silk band kerchief, showing a composite design in colors of the American and Japanese flags, which he presented to the mu seum attache. . "It is a little token of the amity that exists between our nations," he re marked. 'Mnpnn Is on a friendly foot lug with all the world. I have hand kerchiefs with composites of the Japa nese flags and flags of all other coun tries. Wherever we visit we leave some of them us souvenirs. They are small things, but it is such little things that tend to promote the friendly feel ing between peoples. Perhaps," he concluded, with a smile, "we will be distributing handkerchiefs bearing composites of the Russian and Japa nese flags in Russia before long." Waterlogged. A little girl, when recovering from scarlet fever, drank a great deal of wuter. Her nerves were wesk, and she cried for slight causes. "I wouldn't cry," said her mother, as the tears begun to come. "How can I help It," sobbed the child, "when I am so full of wuter?" , Hla-hlr Considerate. "But. do you think. Ilichurd," ques tioned his mother, "thut the young person will muko you the sort of a wife u man like you should seek?" "Well," be returned nonchuloutly, "she'll make me the sort of husband a girl Witt her should find." Chicago Journal. Men attending the puns in salt works re never known to have cholera, smullpox, scarlet fever or lutluonza. PRIMITIVE MINING. the War Ruble Are Found, Weaned and Sold In Burma. The system practiced for obtaining rubles In the mining districts In Burma Is of the most primitive description. Tho mining shafts nre simply bole about two feet square sunk to a depth varying up to fifty or sixty feet The shoring up of the walls of the shafts is must crude, the sides being supported by posts at the comers and brandies of small trees secured against the sides by stout sticks. The miner carries a tin pot similar In shape to a blunt ended cone on his head. He squats down In ono corner and digs between bis knees in the op posite corner. The earth, or byon, as the ruby bcurlng earth Is called, is con veyed to the top as fust as it Is excu vnted In small buckets let down from above. The apparatus for raising and lowering the buckets is slmplo in the extreme. A stout bamboo post about twenty feet high, culled a maungdine, Is fixed upright in the ground at a con. venlent dlstnnce from the pit or dwln and a long, thinner bamboo pivoted horizontally into the upper end of It so as to project an eighth from the mine aud the long arm toward the mine. Prom the end of the long arm hangs s long cane fastened to a longer thin bamboo, tho latter ending in a double hook, and from the short end bangs a basket of stones. The buckets are raised by the inner arm with its hook, while the stones counterbalance the weight. Usually three men work In a dwln one down below, one hauling up tho baskets, nnd the third operator piles up tho byon as it Is received. Tho byon Is excavated by means of a straight, strong tool about two feet three Inches long, with a broad blade. The baskets are shallow and circular, with loop cane handles. When enough byon hns been plied up it Is taken off nnd put into a stone paved circular Inclosure resembling a bath under a full of wuter and shov eled about with a mattock till the mud and clay aro washed away and the stones nre all collected In a deep nolo at the end of a narrow channel. These aro then strained, sieved and Anally sorted aud all rubles and sapphires pluced In a little bamboo cup full of clean water till tho wash Is over. They are then transferred to a little calico bag, which every mine owner carries, and nre finally transferred to the un clean bunds of the money lending fra ternity, who flock around In crowds on the bazaar days to buy any stones found during the week. Scientific American. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. The very best a man can do la not very much. Some way It causes a smile when a married woman announces that she Is tuklug music lessons. To be a fool Is always bad enough, but to be a fool and be in love Is the most fatal of all the combinations of fool. Remember when you run away from' punishment that punishment has a greut bublt of waiting around till you come buck. One of the most pitiful sights in the world is an Intelligent energetic, pro gressive woman married to a worthies muu who doesn't know much. When a girl buys ber wedding outfit she should leave ber father enough money to pay for the relief expedition be may be compelled to send to ber later on. Atchlsou Globe. Fin Money For the Rich. The devices of the daughters of rich men to make their own money are perfectly well known to the mana gers of women's exchanges, which aro established solely to help poor women put their work on the market One day I was in an exchange when a wo man, evidently a lady's maid, came in and registered some embroidery in ber own name. The superintendent took up the work and in a casual way asked the supposed artist to show her bow to do a particular stitch. The woman pleaded lack of time and went out em. burrnssed and guilty looking. "I thought so," sold the superintendent "She brings ber mistress' work.- Her mis tress is the daughter of a very rich mun, but she has no pocket money, and the poor thing has to cheat the ex change by selling her work here under ber maid's name," Everybody's Mag azine. What Did the Roman Smoker At a depth of nine feet underground at the old Roman fort of Allso, near Haltern, the surface of which was proved to have remained undisturbed since the Roman occupation, fifty-four fragments of various clay pipes were found. Their shape was almost uni form, and they could be divided Into three groups, oue of which was char acterized by clumsy and very rough workmanship. The other groups were of much finer make and decorated with figures und Roman characters. From murks found on all of them It was evi dent that they had been used for smoking. London Standard. Sympathy la due any woman whose husband has dyspepsia. It closes up the path to bis heart Atchison Globe. lie who begins many things finishes nothing. BUuniona, DRUGS AND THE EYES. Certain Polaona That Have a Most Injurious F.lfert, Certain poisons possess tho property of acting in a decided manner on the eye. Atropine enlarges the pupil nnd for this purpose has lecome Indis pensable In ophthalmology. Santonin causes ono to see yellow. Disturb ances of virion have furthermore been observed as secondary effects of cer tain medicines; for instance, after the use of quinine, iodoform and nnphthn tln, which, in a case of Intestinal ca tarrh, caused a cataract. Tho worm disease in tho district of the Ruhr in Germany hns furnished an opportunity for the observation that .the popular fern root, much employed ns a remedy, may give rise to serious ocular injury. The use of this remedy iu the case of two miners led to Incurable blindness. In the trades there tire also poisons which net especially upon the eye. Very dangerous, above nil, Is lend, which produces Inflammation and atro phy of the optic nerve. "Workmen In mustard factories," says a German medical Journal, "often suffer from In flammation of the cornea In conse quence of the sctlon of the mustard vapors upon the eye." I.ntterly serious Visual disturbances have been pro duced by chloric oxide nnd chloric di oxide, poisonous vapors generated by the use of magnesium flashlight pow ders for photographic purposes. Jew elers' Circular Weekly. THE WORD "CHIC.1 Prohnblf Derived From a Herman Word Meaning Clever, The Word "chic," which comes to us through tho French, but is probably derived from the German gescblckt, clever, smart, has no exact equivalent In our language. Murray, In his stand ard work, suggests us another possi ble derivation that It may bo nn ab breviation of chicane, iu the sense of a deft twist or turn. "C'blc," used either as a substantive or as un adjective, implies such style and clever finish us gives an nlr of dis tinction to a person or thing and marks some excellence of fashion or taste. Applied to the One arts It de notes the faculty of producing effec tive work with ease and skill, and from this its society application to correct grace and elegance nnd smart ness follows very naturally. Lever, in "The Mnrtlns of Crom arty," says; "The French have invent ed a slung word, and by 'chic' have designated a certain property by which objects assert their undoubted superiority over all their counter felts." Some have connected the word with the Spanish chlco, or cblca, a diminu tive expressive of approval. London Standard. RENOUNCED THE VIOLIN. Wellington Never Touched It After He Became n Field Oflleer. The Duke of Wellington played the violin as a subaltern, but gave It up when he became a field officer. The reason for this renunciation la sup- . piled by the following extract from a letter written by Mrs. Stuart Macken zie to tho Duke of Sutherland In 1862: ' "Every one knows that to the lust the duke was fond and a fine Judge of mu sic. In youth be was a performer on the violin, that, giving up a great deal of time to It, be begun to fear lest the hereditary taste should get the better of him, and in one duy be broke the spell, laid aside his violin and never afterward touched it. This circum stance occurred during the time of bis early attachment to my dear friend the duchess, who has often repeated, it to me with pride as an omen of what was to be expected from his great aelf com mand and firmness of decision." It may be added that the Duke of Wellington inherited his love of muslo from his father. Lord Mornlngton, who was a doctor of music and a composer of no small merit Pearson's. Costlr Flahea. The most beautiful and costly fishes In the world come from China, and the rarest of all is the brush tall goldfish. Specimens of these have sold for as high as f 140 each, and in Europe the prices range from 50 to 100. The brush tall goldfish Is so small that a half crown piece will cover It and prob ably there is no living thing of its size and weight thut Is worth so much mon ey. London Mail. CoEnparlna? Notee. Mrs. Apollo Your cook seems to have a very refined appearance. Mrs. Brooks She says she Is a Vassar girl. Mrs. Cunningham She worked for me once and then said she was a Wellesley girl., Mrs. Devtne She told me she bud been a cook at both colleges. Smurt Set Throush the Teleaoope. Upgardsou You were lu a railway car once when It was telescoped. Whut was the sensation? Atom It made me see stars. Exchange. Of Course. Tommy Pop, whut makes the foun tain play? Tommy's Pop The water works, my son. Philadelphia Record. 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