JWisht d weekly. One Dollar per year lrWtly in atlvanm. An independent journal devoted to the interests of Reynold sville. REYNOLDSVILLE, PENN'A., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 190S. NUMBER 12. VOLUME 13. First National Bank OF It E1KOLDS VILLM.. Capital Surplus $50,000 $50,000 Scott TOeClelland, Proldenti J. C. King. Vive Premldentt John II. KaiK licr t alilnr. Directors: Scott McClelland o. King Daniel Nolan John H. Corhett J. II. Kiiuelier Q. W. Fuller R. 11. Wilson Does n xenerul bmiklnirbusinessnnd sulli-lts the accounts of merchants, professional men, farmers, mechanics, miners, lumbermen and others, ipromlsinK the most direful intention to the business of till person. Safe Deposit Boxes for rent. First Natli.nal Hunk tulldtns, Nolun block Fire Proof Vault' R. M. Matron, President. H. O. Beach, Vice Pres. A. 1). Dkkmkh, Vice Pres. D. L. TAYi.OK.tieu. and Treas. J. E. Grist, Asst. Sec. andTrens. W.N.Coniiad, Ally. Brookville Title & Trust Co. BROOKTHtE, PA. Capital . . . $125,000.00. Conducts a General Bunking, Savings and Trust Business. Solicits the Accounts of Individuals, Firms and Corporations. DIRECTORS : K. M. Mutson F. L. Verstlne Q. S. Snyder A. 1). Heemer Gil. 0, RclU II. J. Scott D. L. Taylor W.N.Conrad II. C. lteacli Special Drive for March. Six pounds nice new meaty Prunes for 25 cents. Sold reg ularly 8 cents per pound. Six pounds clear flinty Caro lina Rice for 25 cents. Robinson & Mundorff. mm .... '3?'y 'J. ujj-B-. i HANK Y MAIL Thla 2"tb Century bant tin? method brines tliln slrimit.clilhnnk to eti'ry imstnlllra In the world. Write for Bunking hi Mali booklet Founded. 1862 W8cl8. $l.000 000.03 4. per cent. Interest paid PITTSBURGH BANK FOR SAVINGS oi Pittsburgh, Pa. if IP! m A Shoe Message to Shoe Buyers. If you wish to see the best and most up-to-date shoe for men or women that money can buy Go to HARMON'S. If you desire to wear such a shoe Buy them at HARMON'S. The Satisfactory Store. f UCANT MATCH EM. J txxxxxxxxxxxi a ...-.,4.. Si! Milliren's Meat :: Market I: West Reynoldsville. ; I handle u full line of fresh Beef, Pork, Smoked Meats " j Ham, sliced or whole, Breakfast Ha- conduced or by the piece, Bausairc, a Chickens, Fresh Butter and Ekks, In - fact evcrythlnK kept In a first-class ' ! meat market. Will givo my patrons , J the best meats the markets alford at. r; prices hased on "live and let live" "j rulos. Give mo a trial and bo con- ,j vlnced that no bettor lino of meats Is kept In any othor moat maHict In f j Rcynoldsvllle. .i I. R. Millircn. JOHN C. HIRST, CIVIL AND MINING ENGINEER. Surveyor and Draughtsman. Offlce In ."'ol Shaff or build InK, Main street. yy L. JOHNSTON, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE. Office four doors from Hoss House, West. Reynoldsville, Pa. pRIESTER BROS., UNDERTAKERS. Black and white funeral cars. Minn struot. Reynoldsville, Pa. J H.HUGHES, UNDERTAKING AND PICTURE FRAMING. The 0. S. Burial Lentrite has been tested and found all rlirht. Cheapest form of In surance. Secure a contract. Near Public Fountain, Ueynoldsvllle Pa. WANTF.D TRUSTWORTHY MAN OR Woman to manage business In this county and adjoining territory for well established house of solid financial standing. $-!iiM) straightcasb salary with all necessary ex penses paid weekly by check from head quarters. Money advanced for expenses. Position permanent ; previous experience not essential. No investment required. We furnish everything. Enclose self-addressed en veloe. Adress, Munager, 810 Como Block, Chicago, III. .yTrurrr. r r ::::x:r rrxxrrxn: t: tiJJL.LH.LiLUXxiuxxTXXXX.asan i ti Confederate WRITTEN FOR THE STARj Ui...,..:M .1. .. . .. .... ... ...... I. .... 1. J ." THE first impression of the Yankee at Richmond is ono of disap pointment. Ho looks over the city and thinks what a dilTereneo would be apparent if some of the communities of tlio North had tho chances that seem to bu wasting at Richmond. In the first place, at Richmond there Is found enough water-power to make one of the foremost manufacturing cities of the country. That water-power Is just at the edge of tide-water, so that the city which might use tho enormous energy could distribute its products by water to all tho markets of the world. South of Richmond is the cotton country, from which a supply of raw material for textile manufacturing can be drawn so long as limit shall cultivate the soil. To the westward, In tho great Valley of tho James, is timber, anil coal, and mineral wealth. The rivers and tho bay ulTord harbors, and fisheries, and fertile bottom hinds, until Richmond can justly claim that Nature has over looked hut little In tho wealth or gilts. Even the climato Is such that the in habitant is compelled to make less provision for winter than in tho cities farther North. There are several reasons why Rich mond is not forced by her abundance of facilities to bo a leading manufacturing city, but perhaps the chief ono is that so may other places of the United States have likewise an abundance of resources and facilities, so that the place that lacks energy and a habit of progress is not crowded by lis natural advantages. Richmond somo day will como in, and the., the gait will be swift and decisive. The United States is yet to be built. It was in ltill almost three hundred years ago that Sir Thomas Dale led a colony from Jamestown to commonco a new colony at tho falls of the James River. That was tho beginning of Richmond. When Virginia, ono hund red and fifty years later, sent Washing ton, with tho Forbes' Expedition, against tho French Fort Duquesnos, Richmond, as a community, was just about as old as l'ittsburg is now. The capture of tho fort at Duquesnes mark ed tho beginning of settlement in tho vicinity of l'ittsburg, as tho colony, led by Dale, marked tho beginning of the community which has grown up to make Richmond. Tho contrast is sharp, l'ittsburg has boon growing rapidly from year to ynr. Richmond not so fast. But l'ittsburg keeps up with tho rest of the country. Richmond does not. Tho settlement at tho falls of tho James River is lite oldest ono made by the Knglisl, and now inhabited. It possessed all I lie advantages and op portunities, it has figured conspic uously in history from its beginning, and yet no oilier city of the size of Richmond has taken so long to grow. At this later day shops aro building about Richmond. Down at Newport News is one of the finest shipyards in tho world. Great railroad and steam ship terminals aro arising on tho ter ritory at tho mouth of tho James River. Railroad managers are recognizing tho economic position of tho James Valley. Rolling mills and machino shops are finding Richmond an excellent point. Still it is hard to got away from the dream of what Richmond might have boon to-day if theCarnegies, the Pricks, tho Parks, the Joneses and tho Laugh lins had been boys on the James River instoad of at the headwaters of the Ohio. Unfortunately, they would have been hampered by ono thing, and that was slavery tho datk heritage that England gave to tho Colonies at tho start. Slave labor robbed men of self reliance, which is the greatest factor in tho progress of the human race. In l'ittsburg the boy Carnegie had an unhampered fluid, and ho mado use of tho chance. In Richmond the white boy was 'not encouraged to work, for that was the business of tho slave. In dependence was sacrificed. Luckily, all this is of the past. Slav cry is done ; but tht-ice is not yet all paid. Tho free States gained a start that tho slave States will be long in overcoming, although there Is mi reason why it should not bo over come eventually, for tie.) resources still remain, and nil through Mie South manufacturing Is growing at enormous strides. Already tho lumberman is coming into prominence In tho South. Norfolk Is a great timber market. The most important sign Is that manufacturing is established on a sub stantial basis. When that Is done, the rest comes of itself. Richmond has played its conspicuous part in history but that Is over. To tho eye of the Richmond ii BY BION H. BUTLER, :r.i.rai:.ixnijxr:ir::i.i:::i.:n:a..:i.ra:xxjur traveler, the Richmoud of to-day is chiefly prophetic. The Industrial habit Is a trcmondous one to take hold when It is once started, and ono of these days the censusman Is going to bring out of the Soutli some figures of the rejuve nation of the old towns. Then, Instoad of all tho phenomlnal progress shown at the West, tho tide of progress will be found to havo rolled back on Itself, and tho ground hurriedly run over by the first onward rush will be given new attention with tho same marvelous results. For the United States will not be finished yet, for lo ! these many years. Country Newspapeis' Virtues. Following Is an extract from a paper read before an Editorial Association in Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 27, by Fred L. Purdy, editor of the Indianapolis Sun, a city newspaper man : "Tho country newspaper recognizes its limitations. It does not buy but earns its way. It does not shoot over the heads of Its readers. It is never arrogant. It does not distort facts. It aims at the truth. It seeks to servo Its community. It does not seek to educate its readers, but it does spread information, and that Is the prime ob ject of the sane newspaper. It does not overawe Its readers by the profundity of Its wisdom and learning, but it does talk with them about matters and things that interest them, and it does point tho way to right thinking and acting. "I say that the country newspaper is close to the people. It Is so because its editor is one of the people. He knows his community : ho knows his subscrib ers. Ho meets them on a level. He visits their homes ; ho knows thoir hopes, their feats, their desires, their ambitions, their joys and thoir griefs. ITe sorrows with this one, and ho joins in tho gladness of the other. He is in touch with the heart and soul of his town, county and district. His informa tion Is first band, and ho can know tljat ho Is right before he goes ahead. Tho country newspaper usually bo longs to its editor, and ho usually Is b man who is making his way. Ho tries to win by deserving support and en couragement for his venture, no is a newspaper man pure and simple. He does not depend on thncolor supplement to attract a reader. Ho asks his neigh bors to subscribe to his paper because It is worth tho money. He. does not ask them to subscribe to a book, a sadiron a ehronio or a megaphone withx the promise that, ho will throw in his paper as a side inducement," Strike Hidden Hock. When your ship of health strikes the hidden rocks of Consumption, Pneu monia, etc., you aro lost, if you don't get help from Dr. King's New Discov ery for Consumption. J. W. McKinnon, of Talladega Springs, Ala., writes : "I had been very ill with Pneumnnln, under the care of two doctors, but was getting no better when I began to take Dr. King's Now Discovery. The first dose gave relief, and ono bottlo cured mo." Sure cure for sore throat, bron chitis, coughs and colds. Guaranteed at H. Alex Stoko's drug store, price 50c and $1.00. Trial bottle free. Notice to Advertisers. Tho copy 'for all display advortise ments must be in The Star ofllco not later than 2.00 p. m. Monday of each week to have the advertisement appear in the paper the woek it is handed into office. Incredible Ilrutallty. It would have been Incredible brutal ity if Chas. F. Lembergor, of Syracuse, N. Y., had not done the best he could for his suffering son. "My boy," he says, "cut a fearful gash over his eye, so I applied Bucklen's Arnica Salve, which quickly healed it and saved bis eye." Good for burns and ulcers too. Only 23c at H. Alex Stoke's drug store. Clothcraft Clothes. Quite a few, but not all of our men's Clothcraft suits for spring are now ready for your inspection. $10. to $20. costing you no moro than ordinary kind. Bing-Stoko Co. ' Fertilizing Lime. Wo are prepared to furnish fertilizing lime on short notice. Address all com munications to Cox & Marshall, Reyn oldsvillo, Pa. , J. E. Mitchell, merchant tailor, near Hotel Imperial. The Colonel' Waterloo. Colonel John M. Fuller, of none.y Grove, Texas, nearly met his Waterloo, from Liver and Kidney trouble. In a recent letter, he says : "I was nearly dead, of t hese complaints, and, although I trh d my family doctor, ho did me no good ; so l got a 50u bottle of your great Electric Bitters, which cured me. I consider tliftu tho best medicine on earth, and thank God who gave yo'i the knowledge to make them." Sold, and guaranteed to cure, Dyspepsia, Bilious ness and Kidney Disease, by II. Alex Stoke's druggist, at 5()c a bottlo. Township Auditors Will Meet. ' The supervisors of Winslow township will meet at Frank's Tavern, Reynelds ville, Saturday, March 11th, 1005, to settle nil unpaid bills. Tho following Monday, March l.'l, tho auditors of Winslow township will meet at Frank's Tavern to settle the accounts of tie township officers. J. K. WOMELDURP, Township Clerk. Muslin Underwear. If you think you need any muslin un derwear now, we don't want to boast, but think we've got the most complete line we've ever had. You know what that means. Bing-Stoke Co. Startling .lloriilliy. Statistics show startling mortality, from appendicitis and peritonitis. To prevent and cure theso awful diseases, there is just one reliable remedy. Dr. King's New Life Pills. M. Flannery, of 14 Custom House Place, Chicago, says : "They have no equal for Consti pation and Biliousness." 2'm at II. Alex Stoko's, druggist. For Sale. We are offering for sale our grocery business in Reynoldsvillo. We can con vince you that we have the best li ca tion, tho best retail trade and one of the best stocks of goods in tho town. Sat isfactory reasons for selling. Star Grocery Co. $i oo Block Light $i.oo The Block Light, which is guaranteed to produce a light equal to three hund red candle power, any style or combina tion you wish to select, complete fie one dollar. This offer for 10 days. Bing-Stoko Co. A Penny Saved Is a penny earned. Bing-Stoko Co. sells Widow Jones suits for boys $1.(50 to $(1.00. WANTED! V',f -y-'v ' vy --i 2 Car Load Horses Will buy regardless of age or blemish. Will be at Corner Fourth and Main Sts., Reynoldsville, Friday, March 11th, 1905. SMITH Sc M1I.I.EU Bring in your Horses. Wil' pay Cash. The Cure thai Cures Coughs, x Colds, Grippe, Whooping Cough, Asthma Bronchitis and Incipient Consumption Is 1 CurwWsTO & Vwa" i'vat-ass. ioU fauos'ts. 25 650 (As Sold by II. Alex. Stoke. IlPOWIiER MUFFINS PASTRY FANCY CAKES ALWAYS THE BEST Hi BANNER rBAKINC THE GREEDY TOAD. $ntfl, Cutworm nntl Honeybee Are a Favorlto Diet. The toad is a gross feeder. lie sallies forth usually after sundown In search of his prey, which Includes pretty t'Uiir every variety of Insect and worm, and experiment proves that In twenty-four hours ho will consume Insect food of a volume fourfold the capacity of his stomach in other words, he can fill up four times. Of angleworms he does not seem very fond, though his gluttonous httblt extends to them If they are too temptingly abundant, as after the earth has hail n go id wetting. Ants appear to be his chief delight, with cutworms and thousand loggers, next In order. Then come caterpillars nnd beetles. Grasshoppers and crickets furnish but a small part of his bill of fare, and spiders still less. lie has no use apparently for dead prey, but when an Insect or worm conies near him In motion he makes for it eagerly. A cut worm which has discretion enough when lu his neighborhood to keep curl ed up may easily escape, but as soon ns It begins to travel let It beware. Ills method of capturing a bug Is to dart out his tongue, which, by the way, reverses the usual order of nature, it being fastened in front nnd loose be hind. It Is caated with a gelatinous se cretion, nnd when It Strikes uu object It fastens firmly to It and conveys it Into the toad's mouth. If the object, like a big worm, for Instance, Is too large to go unassisted into his gullet, he uses his forepnws, like n greedy child, to BtufT It down. Most of tho viands which the tend loves nre In their living state pests of the farm and garden. It Is hard to sny Just whore to place ants In this classifi cation. Nearly nil students of nature as well as persons who have nothing but the traditions of their childhood to guide their judgment have acquired a certain affection for the ant. Its seem ing intelligence, Its artistic or mechan ical Instinct, Its untiring Industry, Its courage, its care for Its dead and wounded, its nice domestic economy and Its habit of providing ngainst the "rainy day" nil tend to give It a sort of human claim upon mankind. Still the fact cannot be ignored thrt the ant is an active distributer of plant lice; that it destroys lawns, spoils gar den walks, Infests dwellings and makes itsolf a common nuisance In tho kitch en and pantry, driving the housewife almost to distraction. In the same cat gory with ants is to kurnan regard might be placed the honeybee, whleu the toad will eat when he gets a good chance. One of his tricks is to station himself at the entrance to a hive and capture the belated home comers. As the tond does not spring Into the air for ids food, however, any nplarlst may avoid this danger by raising his hives well above tho ground. Reference has been made to the toad's consumption of food ns being out of proportion to his bulk. But what he can actually do at a sitting Is best told by figures derived from experi ment, nis official' record shows one casa where he ate ninety rose bugs without being satisfied; another where he snapped up eight house flies In less than ten minutes. In one toad's stom ach were found seventy-seven thousand-legged worms, in another sixty five gypsy moth caterpillars, lu anoth er fifty-five army worms, and so on. On the basis of his being able to fill his stomach four times in twenty-four hours, it requires a simple mathemat ical calculation to discover how many of each variety of winged or crawling pest a single toad might get away with in a day If he kept at it and the conditions were favorable, nnd, multi plying this product by ninety, as repre senting the days In a summer for Mr. Toad Is no respecter of Sundays or hol idays we can measure his potential ca pacity for good as the gardener's friend. The Pecnllnr Yaarhan Indian. In Tierra del I'uego the Yuguan In dian leads a remarkable existence. Ho braves the seas of Cape Horn, naked, in a frail bark canoe. He owns no faith, religion or tribal tie other than that of the family, which huddles to gether for food and sustenance. Ills only household goods are the smolder ing firebrands which he carries on n slab of turf in his canoe to each fresh halting place. The women (usually two) paddle the canoe from tho stern. The man crouches in the bow on the lookout for prey. On the shore run one or two dogs to sniff out and turn any lurking otter or sea bird. Tho long kelp that fringes the const serves as a breakwater for the frail craft, whose crew only venture out Into the open channels when their foresight tells them that a calm will be of suHk'i'ent duration to enable them to pass from one Inhospitable beach to another. They are unduly developed In the torso at the expense of the lower limbs, for they pass tbelr lives thus circling th coasts. Fishing without hooks, living on mnssels and fungus, this tribe marks the limit to which man may strip him self of all aid or comfort and yet sur vive. xne Dmnlbm. The omnibus Is probably the slowest, tho least comfortable and the most tmeertilin type of vehicle built tnco the ark. London Express. QUEER JAPAN. H Land Where Lnue'lilcr Hn No I te la 1 1 e n to Pleasure. In "More Queer Tilings About Japan" Douglas Bladen says: "Perhaps one of the severest of etiquettes In Japan Ih that of smiles. When you have lived lu that land of smiles you vill learn In time that when you can understand a Japanese smile you may hope to under stand the people. A daughter-in-law must nlwifj-s present a smiling face to her mother-ln-liiw; the servant must smile when his mistress dismisses hhn. But the news of n death must bo told with laughter. Laughter Is reserved for very special occasions and has no relation to joy. Smiles are used on every occasion to conceal real feelings. They aro not always significant of pleasure. "No wants has tho Japanese," the same writer continues. "Ho can live in his clothes without a tent, ho can live on rice or offal of the sea, and be is so accustomed to carrying heavy weights and running long distances thnt he can bo his own commissariat and CTen his own horse." If the Japanese aro somewhat lax as regards their religion, they nre at any rate believers In cleanliness. The writer says: "Personal cleanliness it) a virtue which nil Japanese servants pos sess. It 1b no unusual thing for a Jap anese servant to apologize to a mistress for not having had time to batho more than three times that day." SERVANTS IN ENGLAND. The lne of Mnefrlnn, Who Wished She Were Dead. The terrors of etiquette below stairs! There once strayed Into my employ a housemaid whose career hitherto had been confined to lodging houses. Up stairs she always looked frightened, and her face had n great attraction for "smuts," but she was very willing and very competent. "It Is not for mo to nsk madam to send Muggins away, but the rest of us will go if Muggins stays. I don't know whero she has lived out before, but she drinks out of her saucer and does not even know that we expect her to be down In our sitting room at half past 4 dressed in her black and ready to pour out the servants' tea." Of course I gave Muggins notlco, recog nizing that the lodging house was her proper sphere, and In tlie month that followed I knew Ue iuffarei martyr Im, wm to Dt 9 F iOr. "4 aa gba TH rfafiprawt i showed her some sympathy. "Thy ain't nice to me downstairs Hke you are, ma'am," sit sobbed, "though I'm doing my boat. 5ok say she won't wipe up lh dlsnsa for tU likes of mo." "Never mind, Muggins. You'll be go ing soon, and, after all, you have lonrn ed a good deal here," I conso'led her. "I wish," said Muggins, "I was dead." Mrs. John Lane in Harper's Baxar. The Bcncftl of Snarnr. A correspondent remarks that sugar has modified tho history of Europe and of tho world in more ways than one. UsojjJ In England four centuries ago alrfiost exclusively In the preparation of medicines and long afterward an article of luxury only accessible to the rich. It has by enlarged production and cheapened manufacture been brought within the reach of all. Tho universal nee of this, practically pure carbohy drate, which is not only a freely burn ing fuel and proteid sparer, but a mus cle food, Increasing tho power of doing work nnd lessening fatigue, must have had widespread and beneficial effects on the national health. Especially In the case of children, whose greed of sugar is the expression of a physiolog ical want, hns that food been valuable In conducing to growth, contentment and well being. St. James' Gazette. A Record Breaker. Among the army of London car riage drivers is an Irishman, noted for his native wit. It stood htm In poor stead one day, however. Pat was en gaged by a gentleman to drive to a hydropathic establishment. On arrival at the gate the fare In quired, "What's your faro, driver?" "Well, sir," said Pat, "the mnnost Jintleman I ever drove here gave me 2 shillings." "Is that so?" exclaimed the gentle man, who was a bit of a was. "Well, here's a shilling tor yon, my man. I like the ldim of breaking records." London Globe. ' To Prevent Runt. A good mixture for use as a slush to prevent the rusting of machinery is made by dissolving an ounce of cam phor in a pound of melted lard; skim off the Impurities nnd add enough black lead to give the mixture an Iron color. After cleaning tho machinery carefully smear on the mixture. It can bo left indefinitely, or If wiped off ufter twenty-four hours will prevent rust for some time. When removed, the metal should bo polished with a soft cloth. Blacksmith and Wheelwright Brotherly Love. Two brothers were fined at the Strat ford police court for Hgh'Jng in ,the street "Ho struck me, nnd I hit him,' pleaded one brother. "P.ut it was quit friendly, sir," ho hastened to add. "II is. my brother, and I haven't seen Mm for a low: time." Lqtidou Mad. .
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