7 5? An independent journal devoted to the interests of lieynoldsulle. , Published weekly. One Dollar per ye&y strwtiy in advance. REYNOLDSVILLE, I'ENN'A., WEDNESDAY, AL'KIli 12, 15)0.-). VOLUME 13. NUJ1BEB 17. JffafV N A. Jk. 'Ill il I rtOaSWBSStSEKBaKDBSSffliiHMlW DAVFII WllKKt.KII, I'llW. John S. IIowahd, Hec'y unit Troiw. duo. W. Svkkh, V. I'm). KnllKIIT I'AIIIUSH, AuB't Hi'c. Paid-Up Capital $125,000.00. Open for business Saturday nights for one hour, from 7 to 8. TUB SUCCIiSS ofany liuancial institu tion may be accurately gauged by the measure of liberality with which its atrons are treated. Ve arc young, but watch us grow. Come, be our friend there are many reasons why you should be our friend. Come in and let us ex plain them. Here arc a few of the many things we can do, and will do. Receive deposits subject to check. Cash your check on other banks. Will pay 3 FER CENT INTEREST on time de posits. Make farm loans, Etc. Tell us what you want and we can ac commodate you. We respectfully solicit your business and guarantee you.iu ad vance a uniformly courteous treatment, whether your account be large or small. Nobody can please everybody but we will try. ' Reynoldsville Trust Co. Next door to postoflice. I mn i'iwh if it tii ,i n1" i" (71 ruaui MEANS STANDARD OF MERIT. Acquire the "Queen Quality" Habit. Trice S2.50and (1.00. Specials $2..W. The smartest things in ladies' shoes are our OXFORDS for spring. Our oxfords are so designed and made as absolutely to prevent slipping at the heel and gaping iat the sides. G)ovo fitting, yet easy. Two eyelet Christy Ties and Three Eyelet Gibson Ties with broad ribbon laces are charmingly artistic and fashionable. In all leathers Patent Kid, Rus sia and Willow Calf, Vlci Kid, brown and black. ADAM'S SHOE STORE Foul-Filters KEVNOLDSVII hEt I'ENN'A. irst Nati onal Bank OFUEYNOLDS VILLI.. Capital Surplus $50,000 $50,000 ScoU McClelland, Prenldent; M. C. King, Vlee President; John H. Kauclier Uler. Director: Scott McClelland J, 0. King Daniel Nolan John H. Oorbett J. H. Kaucber G. W. Fuller E. U. Wilson Does a Reneralnanklnjtbuslnesnand ollotts the accounts of merchants, profotwionHl men, farmers, mechnnlcs, miners, lumbermen and otbenvpromtslnn the mom careful attention . to the buslntwn of all persons. , Safe Deposit Boxe for rent. Flrmt National Bank buildln;, Nolan block. Ft re Proof Vault mi B ANK . Y MAIL This th Centtiir bank ing method brings ibis strong, old bank to everf post nice In toe world. Write for Bunking b Mull booklet Founded, 1862 Asset., $14.000 000.00 4 par cent. Interest paid PITTSBtkOH BANK FOR SAVINOS of Plttsbucgb, Pa. D0CT011S IN ENGLAND THE 8CHEMES THEY USE TO GET IN THE EYE OF THE PUBLIC. Shrewd RxpedlrnlD lt Which l.tirrn le rrarilrrs Are Arqulrrd mill lr Whteh Thor DoiIko 1lie Unle of Hie rrnfrnalotl AkiiIkkI Ailvertlnln. A. young dortor hcKlnnlng to practice in terribly handlriippod by the rule under which any medical mini who ad vertises is expelled from the profes sion, says the Lectin Mercury, lie limy lie an extremely gifted physician or surRcon, anil yet If he hes not eiip ltal to buy a practice or Interest with the governors of Home hospital. he does not succeed III earning enough during the tlrst few years to keep hotly ii ltd soul together. Of coin-He the result Is that nil sorts of tlotlues are adopted to evade anil de feat the rule against advertising. It is well known In the profession that reputation and n In rue clientele IficAnl more on the success with which this Is accomplished than on real sclentllle ability. A celebrated Loudon surgeon once admitted to the writer that he rose to the top of the tree by gel ting Into his carriage several thuiM a month ami driving at. a torrille pace through a half dozen streets. Sometimes he va ried this by forgetting to take a neces sary Instrument when visiting a patient and then sending bis driver back for it hot haste. Naturally people were much Impressed by the procedure, believing .that Surgeon I), must be an excellent surgeon since he was so often called to desperate cases. Another Loudon .T'sculaplus owes an Income of H),(lOD a year to ilu ingen ious stratagem, on which be risked the last couple of hundred pounds he had In the world. Having a very intelligent Bister who was desirous of helping him, he explained to her the dllliculty of making a practice by simply putting a brass plate on the door and hanging out a red lamp and Induced her t. be Ills accomplice In what was not far re moved from a fraud jmi the public. Her part In the plot was to take a drug which paralyzed her limbs and gave her the appearance of being In the last stages of fatal illness. Then she was taken In nn ambulance to apartments In a fashionable wi st end street, in or der, so to speak, as a forlorn hope, to place herself under the euro of Ir. X. Dr. X., her lu'nthcr, had meanwhile takeu rooms in a neighboring street, put up his brass plate and hired a car riage with a spanking pair of horses. Three times every day ho spent an hour with the Invalid, while the car riage drove up and down the street, lie cleverly managed to have it report ed that his patient had been given up ns a hopeless case by all the big med ical men of London. At the end of two months he had cured her, ami iMitlont.4 began to pour Into his waiting room. Hut the most successful method of all Is to write a popular medical Isook or a senilmedlcal magazine nrtlcie or even a letter to the dally press. One medical man found that a religious poem which he sent without any ulterior motives to a widely circulated church lnagar.lne proved better than a Klondike gold mine. It is also known that the best paying patients are not the really sick, hut those who Imagine they nre. These foolish people devour dictiona ries of medicine and medical Journals, and no ono knows this better than the pushing doctor. In fact, the medical Journals are more extensively read by the laity than by the medical fraterni ty, and the doctor who can get a clever article published in ono of them is sure to draw patients. Letters to the news papers on occasions such as an epi demic, the vivisection agitation and the like are equally effective. And no doubt they would bo more numerous but ror the curious fact that the study of medicine seems to destroy the power of writing well. But probably t;he best advertisement' a doctor can have is to be employed in' some cause celebre. This Is partly the explanation of the extraordinary spec- tacie now and then witnessed in the courts of three or four medical men swearing that a certain wound could easily be self inflicted, or that death was undoubtedly due to arsenic, while three or four more pledge themselves that the wound could not by any pos sibility be self intllcted and that ar senic had nothing whatever to do with .the death. Great is the scheming to get engaged in one of those trials, for the publicity Is worth a diamond mine. SUII another pJau is to get up a. hos pital for the cure of some special dis-J eijse. For this purpose several doctors often club together and with funds of their own, phts what they can get from' the charitable public, open a hospital for skin diseases or deformities or ail ments of any and every organ. Their names are not only advertised in the press, by circulars and at all kinds of dinners nr.! annual meetings, but often they are put up on a large board .out side the hospital, and they who would otherwise remain obscure become fa mous and get patients from the four corners of the kingdom. One of the most famous ways of ad vertising is the issuing of bulletins about the health of some man of note. Evou If lie have only a sty in his eye the public is kept acquainted with Its progress. In that case the doctor al ready has neartr alj the reputation and patients he cares for, but lesser lights often havo their names associated with the crack physician, ami every bulle tin Is worth a hundred guineas to them. A doctor would give a deal to have It announced In the papers that he has returned from a well earned holiday 111 Norway or the Mediterranean, nnd many a medical man owes his com fortable income to the friendly editor who says something about him In the column of personal news. , Most of these methods are open ouly to the city practitioner. Tho men who nettle In small towns have to adopt dif ferent means, (lenernlly they mako use of all their arts to make .friends with tho ladles. They try to bo very charming nt garden parties and ba r.ars, attend church regularly and some times have a note brought to them In the middle of service and hurry away. They endeavor to make themselves popular In the local clubs, or get re markable by the possession of a spir ited horse, or bleach their hair to look wise, or give a public lecture. Some times they win nlli'iillou through the efforts of a tactful wife. Auolher very good plan, open to Ihe provincial its well as the city doctor, is to send testimonials to some wine or mineral water Importer or to u liuiiiii factiuor of Biiullniy clothing and occa sionally to a quack medicine vender. In this way they get their names con stantly in the local papers without in fringing the rule against advertising. The worst of It all, from the public point of view, Is that It Is not the best physician or surgeon who gets the greatest reputation, but the best man of business. And while patients crowd to the fashionable houses of mediocre doctors who have cleverly advertised themselves the most skillful physicians and surgeons of all grow rusty and all but starve In back streets. MIDDLE AGED FOLKS. The Imiiice M hli h linn Come Over (he Spirit of I In- Time. In the middle of the iiinet ith cen tury a man of forty-live was regarded almost elderly, and a woman of the saint' age was expected to have long since cut herself adrift from all ties binding her to her youth and to assume the appearance and deportment of a klald. exemplary matron. All this has changed In a particularly Interesting j way, of which the prominent feature Is i a seeming contradiction. If the three- year-old child of today Is ns knowing j as was tho six-year-old of half a cen- tury ago, nnd the ten-year-old boy of ; today Is lii many respects qulto as j much a man as was his grandfather at I eighteen, ono might naturally expect I that in due gradation the modern mid- I die aged man should be old beyond his years. Hut such Is not the case. Middle age, so far from hurrying on into senility, so fur even from standing still, would seem actually to have step ped backward and marched alongside of youth. There is a Jauntluess, a buoyancy, an elasticity, about tho mid dle age of today at which our fathers Would have shaken their heads ns un seemly. The gulf which once separat ed the middle aged parent from his children has been tilled up. The cur tain which shrouded the middle aged man generally from the eyes of youth and which caused him to bo regarded with respect if not with nwejias been lifted, and In obedience to tho same In fluences which have mndo the school master the friend of tho schoolboy and the regimental otilcer almost tho com rade of his men the middle aged man of today is never so happy as when working or playing upon an equality and actually in competition with youth. As with men, so it Is with women. Social statisticians tell us that tho ago at which women are considered most eligible for marriage has been very not ably advanced of lato years, and we know that the lament of many a match making mnminn Is that the most dread ed rivals of her darling are not to bo found so much among the girls of her own age as among women who not many years ago would have been rele gated to the ranks .of hopeless old maidenhood. The fact that the middle aged woman of today Is much younger in maimer and tastes Is, of course, not the only reason for this, but It Is among the most potent. London Spectator. MAN'S INVENTIONS. Oliver Wendell Holme. Mrs. Rebecca Harding Davis writes of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes: 'Thys icnlly ho wns a very small man, holiU lug himself stlllly erect his fnce insig nificant as his figure, except for a, long obstinate upper lip ('left to me,' he said one day, 'by some 111 conditioned great grandinother'), and eyes full of d won derful fire and sympathy. No one on whom Dr. Holmes had once looked with Interest ever forgot the look or him. He attracted all kinds of people as a brilliant excitable child v04Jd at tract them. Hut nobody, I suspect, ev er succeeded in being familiar with lii n. I remember one evening Unit he qtvitod one of his poems, nnd I was forced stupidly to acknowledge that I did not know It. Ho fairly jumped to the bookcase, rok out the volume and read the verses, standing In the middle of the romuT his voice trembling, his whole body thrilling with their mean ing. 'There. ho cried nt the end, his eyes Hashing, 'could anybody have said that better? Ali-ti!' with a long Indrawn breath of delight ns he put the book back." Mnnr f Ihe Mens I'sed Were Stolen Directly I'roul Nnture. Utilises are hot tho Invention of man. The Idea was borrowed from tho swal low. When the world was young Its Inhab itants were trogloilyatos. They dwelt III holes In dill's. Ono savage, more enter prising than his rcllows, puzzled his brains to Hint out a way to construct i cozy dwelling. On one occasion lie caught sight of a bird gathering bits of clay with lis beak. It was a swallow, and lie wnlehed II build a nest oil a ledge of rock. "Wonderful," said he. "I'll do like wise." lie set to work at onto and built a clay hut. Ill neighbors called him the "mudhole dweller" ami laughed at his house. Hut, when Ihey discovered that he was more snug than they, up went other hills. The savages lived In mud huts until the beaver came to visit them. In build ing n house for himself lit' gave early man 11 lesson in architecture. Tho bea ver not only showed him how to build houses that would stand all kinds of weather, but Instructed him In tho art 11 f dam and bridge building. The gentlemen of the stone ago had boats. This has been proved by the tilings left behind them. It Is doubt ful, however, whether they Invented vessels themselves. A well known antiquarian declares that the savage stole tho Idea for tho sailing boat from a small shellfish hav ing n kind of lln ullaclietl to lis back. Ity restlu- on n wave ami erecting tho fin It can skim over the waters ut great speed when the wind Is behind ft. It Is generally believed that man In vented the thatch to keep barns and ricks dry. As a matter of fact, It wns tho weaver bird that gave the idea to hlni. Willi Its beak It constructs a per fectly made, large, rainproof shelter, or thatch, over Its nest. Tho Zulu huts In the Transvaal are roofed In almost the same way today. Dame Nature was a glassmaker long before man was created. Natural glass resembled the glass of which beer bot tles are made, and it Is to be found In Iceland, Spain, Italy, Sardinia and al most every locality In which volcanoes have been at work. Its proper name Is obsidian, ami there are enough cliffs of glass to fill all the window frames hi (Irene Hritnln. Mica Is another form ot natural glass nnd Is largely used In the making of chimneys for Incandescent gaslights. It Is dug out of the ground, will stand great heat anil needs nothing but split ting to be made uso of at once. Old brown Windsor soap, so common ly used Tor the toilet, Is- not the real thing at all, but merely an. imitation. Tho only soap of that niune Is not made, but comes from the bulbs of the Porto ltico soap plant, ami It was used for washing purposes long before man thought of manufacturing soap from fat anil. other substances. Its smell Is exactly the same us London made old brown Windsor, and there Is no doubt Whatever thai the latter Is tin exact Im itation of the natural son). At one time the world wns lighted at night with "farthing dips," long sticks of compressed fat with a thin string through the center. Heforo this the seeds of the tallow tree, which grows in Algeria, Sumatra nnd China, were used for lighting purposes. The seeds, which are of a good size, need but a wick to burn with a clear, will to flume. It will therefore be seen that the Idea for both ancient nnd modern candles was Btolen directly from nature. Pear son's Weekly. Kind KelKliliorn. When Miss Jenkins, after spending fifty-six years in tho city, of her birth, decided to buy a small farm In the country she determined to miss uouo of the delights of farming life. "I'm going to have a steady horse and two cows, and some hens," she an nounced to her brother, to whom sho proudly displayed her new property. "Tho Adams boy from the next house will help me about everything. He'll drive the cows nnd milk and teach me how to harness, and of course 1 shall feed the hens nnd tho little pig." "The little pig:" echoed h'er brother. "Do you' propose to keep a pig? And where, I should like to know?" "There's room for a small pigpen back of the barn, away from the road and everything," said Miss Jenkins calmly. "Ir. Adams has some cun ning little pigs, and that Is what I wish. Anil I asked "ho Adams boy If he thought when the pig had outgrown tho pen I could find some one to take him and give nie another little ono In ex change, and ho seemed sure I could. You've 110 Idea, brother, how obliging the people are hero In the country." "Don't you' think tho custom of throwing rice nt a newly married couple is Idiotic?" asked the fluffy hair ed maid. "Sure," answered the savage old bach elor. "Mush would bo a great deal more appropriate." Chicago News. 1 Genealoa-r. Small Hoy (Just home from school) Mamma,, Miss Simpson ' says I'm de scended from a monkey. His Mother iKlancliig severely at her husband) Not ou my side, darling. Harper's 1 1 i The People's Bargain Store j A. KATZEN, Prop. SPRING OPENING Spring is here nnd our store i9 fully prepared for it with a large line of spring and summer merchandise fresh from the city. Remember every article mentioned here we carry in stock and guarantee the price and quality to be the lowest and best that you can find anywhere. Don't for get to ask for one of our new Dank and Merchandise Trading Stamp Books. v ' DryGoods Lancaster ginghams, formerly (1 and 7 cents, now 5o. Best .'i'l Inch unbluaohnd muslin, worth from 0 to 7o, now ou. Fast color prints 5o. 40o white table olotb, a bargain at 25o a yard. Ufa) linen window shades, now lllo. Klrst-clttBB oil cloth, 12 yards In a roll fancy patterns (food for anything ffir which oil cloth can bo used, worth 1.80, now ' I.B5. Largo lino of laco curtains from 4fo up to $2.25, Wo carry tho largest lino of laco and embroidery at pricuB from 2c up to 35o a yd. Men's, Boys' and Child ren's Clothing, Boys' kneo pants from 19c to 50c. Largo assortment of mon's pants from 75o to $4.25. If you need a now spring suit como in and soo our lino. Prices range from $.'.75 to $i:i. 50. : Hats, Caps, Shirts, Etc. H Tho best assortment of men's and 1 boys' caps new stylos prions wore .'15 and 40c, now 25o Men's still and soft hats, up-to-dato styles, 50e, 75c, $1.25, , $1.05 nntH 2.25. Tho blggost assortment, wo havo over carrlod In men's and boys' nogllgoo shirts fancy patterns, for spring and sum mer in a prloo ranging from 25o up to $1.25 Ladles' summer gnuno shirts from 60 to 25c. Children's summer gauo shirts from Co up to 15o. , Ladies' 00o wrappers at 05o Shoes. We also havo a largo lino of mon's, boys' and children's shoes -all mado from good leather at prices which wo can guarantee. Every pair of shoos purchased at our store will give satisfactory woar. Wo do not handle paper soled shoos. Only honest goods sold at this storo. Remember our store is filled with good goods at honest prices and our motto is 'Quick sales and small profits.' Don't miss this opportunity. We do not charge anything for examining our stock and will be pleased to show you anything in THE PEOPLE'S BARGAIN STORE, A. Katzen, Prop. Reynomjhvillr, Pk.v.vsylvania. N. HANAU QOME to the cheapest store in Reynoldsville. You can buy the same goods for less money, you can save irom 15 to 30 per cent. I am getting new goods every day. MOHAIR In black, brown, grey, bluo, rod. Prices from 48c to $1.35 WASH GOODS Buttorfly Batiste, in blue, brown, tan, linen color In dots and figures. Prices -10 and 12c JACKETS Ladles' spring Jackets ; tan and blacks, covert cloth 1 'rom - - - - $1.75 to $8.50 SKIRTS Ladies pleated Skirts, tan black, bluo and brown. COLLARS Ladies turnover Collars PERSIAN LAWN LACE CURTAINS Lace Curtains from CLOTHING CLOTHING SUITS Mon's fine suit Fine Suit for - . Suit for BOY'S SUITS Same reduction. KNEE PANTS for 19 cents. at 5 cents 40c to $5.00 CLOTHING $5.00, former price $7.00 $6.00, former price $!).0O '$7.50, former price $10.00 VMe give Trading Stamps wltH very lO cent purchase. N. HANAU, Single Copies of The Star May be Secured at The Star Office at any time and in any quantity. Price per copy, Three Cents. JOHN C. HIRST, CIVIL AND MINING ENGINEER, Surveyor ana Draughtsman. Office In Sol Bhafforbuildlns, Main street. yy L. JOHNSTON, JUSTICE OP THE PEACE. Ofllre four doors from Rosa Ilouse. Went UeyuolUsvlllo, Pa. pRIESTER BROS., ' UNDERTAKERS. Black and white funeral cars. Mian street. KeynoldsviUe. Pa. J H.HUGHES, UNDERTAKING AND PICTURE FRAMING. The U. S. RurlHl Leucue has heen tented and found all ricbu Cheapest form of In aiirnm'e. ."enure a contract. Near Pubhi) ' fountain, KeyuohUvlllo l'a. A
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