1 1 ivsn n An independent journal devoted to the interests of nqinoldmlle. Published weekly. One Dollar per year strictly in advance. REYNOLDSVILLE. I'ENN'A., WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBEK 20, 1S05. VOLUME It. NUMBEK 18. y starting Ma Riant T is Halt the fe Battle. WHICN YOU START OUT TO BUY SCHOOL SHOES THIS FALL. IOME TO OUR STORE THK PLACE WHERE YOU can gut SOLID LEA THER shoes. It is economy to buy your school shoes of u for i '.icy wear twice us lung us other makes. We guarantee every pair. If lin y go wrong we give a new pair In place of them. Made in many now shapes unit all grades of leather, light, medium or heavy weight. All we ask is u trial. We know our school shoes are right they will save you money and do your children's feet good. Prices $1.00 mid tip to $2. .10. A tahlut or pencil box with every pair of school shoes. ADAM'S SHOE STORE Foot-Fitters KEYNOLHSV1M.E, I'ENN'A. The Peoples National Bank flieCKSSOIIS TO Sr.KI.KV, Al.K.XANHKR (JO., BANKKItS. 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Single Copies of The Star May be Secured at The Star Office at any time and in any quantity. Trice per Copy, Three Cents. THE TSBURGH Pi XPOSITION OPENS WEDNES DAY EVENING Something New Every Minute ) Seven Acres Spend the Day and Evening there ) of Fun. THE MUSICAL TREATS DAMROSCH, Aug. 30-Sept. 9 CREATORE, Sept. 25-0ct. 7 SOUSA. Sept. 11-16 SORRENTINO, Oct. 9-14 HERBERT, Sept. 18-23 SOUSA, Oct. 16-21 feY WAY OF NOVELTY ABSOLUTELY NEW "FIGHTING THE FLAMES," "IN AfiO ABOUND HEW YCP.K," MIRACLE PAINTING, OTHER ATTRACTIONS $25,000 Canadian Agricultural Exhibit Immense Model of New York City, showing the railroad terminals Gallery of Notables An Up-to-date Vaud eville Theatre and Thealorlum Moving Pictures A Ferris Wheel Roprp. auction of Pittsburgh in Miniature. TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE ONE FARE FOR ROUND TRIP ON ALL ROADS LEADING TO THE SMOKY CUT. :POfc $75,000 $75,000 $150,000 Daniel Nolan John H. Oornett Fuller It. H. Wilson ..' 1 if AUGUST 30 ADMISSION 25 CENTS, " Htmj all Kveulus If Yoa tike. HIT BY A SHELL. I Writer In a Itorr EnR-naement D acrlbe III Feellita;. Soon their pimiiois got our distance, mid shells were screaming nnd burst ing over (he convoy, Bays Robert Mc Caw In "A Prisoner With Ie Wet" In the National Magazine. Several wag ons in front of us were blown up nuil the oxen scattered In writhing masses ou the road. The Kalllr who led our team took fright and bolted, the oxen swerved as a shell burst In front of them, and, the wheels suddenly going into a deep rut, the henry wngon turned completely over, grinding me beneath its weight. My head bursting, I was fulling down through blackness In the midst of a thousand crimson serpents. SomeJjody held my heart in his hand, was squeezing it, and then Thank heaven, this Is death! Ages ofter there was a roaring of waters fur beneath me. Then It thuu dered on my naked brain. A fulnt Btar was shining somewhere. It rushed toward me, growing bigger and big ger, until 1 was swallowed up in It and my eyes were open. The wngon was righted. I was dripping; wet, for the drivers hod thrown water upon me. I heard the boom of the guns and the crash of bursting shells. I tried to rise, but my head seemed to lloat uway from me and I felt myself striking the ground, but I did not feel myself falling. They lifted me on the wagon, and the oxen moved off. My head nnd face were sticky with thick blood uud dust, and I was in such pain that I did not know where the pain was. READ A GOOD BOOK OFTEN. Hut Let the Intermix tletween Rend InKH He Fairly Lonu;. So great has been the affection of readers for the books that have given them delight that literature is full of proofs of gratitude toward noble books, 'there have been countless comparisons and metaphors used to make clear Uie relation between the book and the reader, Perhaps the most original was hit upon by Coleridge, who compares nn excellent book to a well chosen and well tended fruit tree. He says, "We may recur to it year nfter year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification if only we our selves return to it with the same health ful appetite." Hut, though his simile pleases the fancy, It does not quite satisfy the judgment. While the fruit of a tree must yield much the suuio flavor always, the gratification we ex pedience from reading must always (Infer according to the condition of mind of him who reads. It has been said that a traveler can brlnui hoino only what he takes with him, which means that the pleasure derived from traveling is entirely dcpe;ident upon the capacity of the traveler's mind. One's taste may change and one's abil ity to understand and appreciate is con stantly clinn:;ing, all of which points the moral that it Is an excellent thing to read a go d book often, provided the Intervals between readings are fairly long. St, Nicholas. It was a reporter with some humor who stnted that at the end of n local party "the gncsts went homo and the neighbors wont to sleep." Mary ' Ann I've come to tell you, mum, that th' gasoline stove has gone out. Mistress Well, light It again. "I can't. Sure, It went out through tin roof!" Exchange. AT ! Leech Bros,' Planing Mill, West Reyn oldsville, you will find Window Sash, Doors, Frames, Flooring, STAIR WORK Rough and Dressed Lumber, Etc., Etc. Give us your order. Our prices are reasonable LEECH BROS., PROPRIETORS. For sale by Buylo-Woodward Drug Co. H f Coughs, & U Colds, 1 $ , Grippe, B Whooping Cough, Asthma' 1 0 4) Bronchitis and Incipient A 3 cJ Consumption Is fcj WORD ORIGINS. Borne Old Meanlna-a That Are How More or Lew Obsolete. "Many persons," says a college pro fessor, "elbow their way through tho world and yet cannot tell why their own elbows are so named. They for get that the syllable 'ell' was once our name for arm and then for a measure of an arm's length, a sense that Is pluin Btill In the proverb, 'Give an Inch and he will take an ell.' In the light of this obsolete meaning 'elbow Is clearly nrmbow, tho bend of the arm. . 'Finger' Is allied to 'fang,' and so means a grasper, and 'hand' has a similar sense because from the same root as 'hound,' tho game grasper, and with 'appre hend.' 'Null,' being from tho same root as 'nag,' teaches thut nagging Is a figurative scratching with the ends of the lingers. 'Wrist' Is what wrests or turns the hands and Is plainer when we find that 'foot wrist' was an old name for ankle. 'Vertebrae' are also turners, tho bones on which the body turns round horizontally, while haunches, literally 'bends,' analogous to 'hinges,' are what it turns upon up and down. 'Instep,' if still spelled as once It was, 'iustoop, would describe itself as tho foot's stoop or bend in ward to the ankle. " 'Muscle,' which means mouse, takes Its name from Its shape, and the ends which stretch it are tendons, which is Latin for stretchers. Beginners in Lat in are pleased to learn that the uvula, at the root of the tongue, means a grape cluster; that the clavicle, which locks up the chest, means key; that a certain vein is called Jugular, meaning pertaining to a yoke, because near the yoke of the right and left ribs. 'Nos tril' Is nose drill, for It pierces the nose as drills do rocks. 'Artery' etymolog icttlly Is an air tube and so perhaps was once pronounced alrtery. No blood being found in arteries after death, it was natural, since nature abhors a vacuum, to think those empty vessels to be air pipes or ducts for vital spirits which were quite distinct from that in tho veins. " 'Muzzle' Is not a dignified word for mouth, but It has an origin and rela tions worth knowing. It means a biter nnd Is cognate with 'morsel' and 're morse.' 'Muzzle' Is a biter, 'morsel' is what Is bitten and 'remorse' is an nfter bite. Instead of transferring from Latin the phrase 'remorse of con science' Anglo-Saxons translated It tho 'again bite of Inwit,' the title of an ancient poem dating from the year 1340. 'Jaws' would be a plainer word If spelled now as It was In our Bible of 1011-tbat Is, 'chawes' 'I will put hooks In thy chawes. ' Bench, Itnr and Beard. The regulations for shaving observed in the bench and bar probably come down from Itoman times, and the his tory of tho custom among that peoplo Is a curious one. rilny says that beards were universally cultivated as a matter of course till about 300 B. C, when Sicilian barbers, who probably acquired their art from Greece, first came to Rome and Sciplo Afrlcanus set the fashion of shaving every day. Thenceforward it beenmo so much tho vogue in good society that the term pnrbnus, outlandish, was long supposed to mean bearded, In allusion to the un kempt hair of uncivilized nations. In creased accuracy In etymology has shown the real meaning to be akin to bn ll)us, stammering, In allusion to their uncouth speech. For three contorf.es barbers had It all their own way in Roman circles. Then came the Em peror Hntrlan, who, as Plutarch af firms, grew his beard to hide some ugly scars, and forthwlji It became the mode. Lawyers and priests, even more conservative in tholr observances than other folks, continued to shave; hence, It Is supposed, came the traditional practice of the English bar, through the law courts of Italy and France. London Globe. "Fake" Sailor A-plentr. "Fake soilors," said a naval .officer, "work more harm to the reputation of Jack ashore than the real man-of-war's man Is able to overcome by the strictest regulation of his conduct when on land. The navy is popular, and Its sailors are popular, and, realiz ing this, there has sprung up a pan handlers' contingent whose regular business Is the impersonation of Unci Eam's bluejackets. "Somehow they manage to get pos session of castoff naval uniforms. Sometimes, failing that, they go even to the expense of having uniforms made after the naval pattern. Dressed In these, they do a profitable business. Their ship has just sailed without them, and they want money to join her at Newport or they will be court mar tlaled. Some want only enough money to get to the navy yard, where they must report at once. And so on with all sorts of plausible stories. When you see a man In a navy uniform beg ging, take my word for It he is a pan handler and not a man-of-war's man." New York Press. Canaed Los of Sleep. "now do you get along with your new chief of department?" "Oh, only so so. He causes us many sleepless office hours." Be not the fourth friend of htm whn had three before and lost them. Lava- ter. A WELL' KEPT SECRET. How the Keeper Manaajed the Clknrek and Town Hall Clock. ; The old watchmaker of a small, town In the west of England recently re tired, and the contract for keeping the church and town hull clocks In forder was given to his successor. Unfortu nately from the start the new miiu ex perienced a difficulty In getting the clocks to strike at the same time. At lust the district council requested an Interview with the watchmaker! "You are not so successful wljth the clocks as your predecessor," hi was lold. "It Is very misleading to halve one clock strike three or four minutes after the other. Why, before you took them la baud we could hardly tell ttio two were striking. Surely you are as com petent us Mr. II." . "Every workman has his owUj moth ods, gentlemen," replied the watch maker, "and mine ain't the same as H.'s were." "I'm decidedly of the opinion thnt It would he for the general good If they were," remarked one of the councilors. "Very well, sir; lu the future they shall be," came the reply. "1 happened to write to Mr. II. last week about the trouble I hud with the clocks, and but perhaps," he added as he produced a letter nnd handed It to the chairman, "you'd like to see what he said." "Dear Sir (ran the letter) About them clocks. When you get to know what a cantankerous lot of busybodles the council consists of you'll do the same as I did for fifteen years forget to wind up the striker of the town hall clock, and the silly owls won't be able to tell that both clocks ain't striking together."-Tlt-Blts. OLD FAMILIES. One of Them Claim to Hunch Ilnek Beyond the Flood. The most ancient fumlly in France, In so far as tho tracing back of tho an cestry in an unbroken line Is con cerned, Is the royal house of Bourbon, which goes back to Robert le Fort, lu the year 8G1. Next In point of antiqui ty comes the Rohan family, which for the last century, however, has been set tled In Austria, the so culled Rohans In Frunce being not really Rolians, but merely Chabots, their only connection with the house of Rohan being by uinr rlage. Then comes the house of Nurbouue Pelet, the head of which is the Due de Narhonne, who can trace his lineage back without Interruption to the year 910. Of course, In making this asser tion, I do not take Into consideration the somewhat mythical claim of the Duke of Levls-Mlrepoix to be descend ed In a direct and uubrokeu lino from Jacob's son, Levi, lie has among his family pictures one old painting In which the Holy Virgin is represented as requesting the former Duke of Levls-Mlrepoix to put on his hat, which he had doffed in salutation, she being depicted as uttering the words "Couvrez vous, nion cousin." Another picture represents an ancestor of the Duke of Levis-MIrepolx navi gating a small boat on the waters of the deluge, be being too exclusive and high toned to share the ark with the Nonh fumlly and Its belongings. London Chronicle. Ma-her Chlneae Education. Many of our people think of China, as a lund of Ignorant coolies who are 80 inferior to ourselves as to rise scarcely to the plane of human beings. The fact is that China contains a greut er number of educated and cultivated peoplo than any other country In the world. Their culture is not like ours, but it is based upon long study 'of lit erature, ethics and philosophy, and it has been transmitted through many generations. The Chinese have not well learned how to act together. Oth erwise we should never have dared to treat them recklessly and unfairly. Review of Reviews. A War Some Women Have. I have heard that women are dis honest in" the way of sending to mil liners for boxes of bats on approval, keeping them for a week, and, when they return them with a note to say that none sulfa, the owners find thnt each has been worn once, if not sev eral times, and this fact Is betrayed by Innumerable pin holes. I certainly myself have known women who are not above sending for clothes .on ap probation, carefully taking the pat tern and getting them copied by a cheaper dressmaker. Lady Henry Somerset in Black and White. A SmusraTer. Some years ago a tame long haired goat formed part of the regular crew of a passenger steamer on service be tween an English port and a conti nental one. After a time the customs authorities discovered that It wore a false coat many sizes too lurge for it. The goat's own hair was clipped very close. Round its body were packed Igars, lace, etc., and then the false wont wus skillfully put on and fastened by hooks and eyes. "He makes me so angry,"' remarked Miss Bute, "he's forever remarking to me that 'beauty is only skin deep.'. "And when you get angry," remarked yiss Chellus, "It Just shows him how thin skinned you are." Philadelphia rresa, . i A PUEBLO LEGEND. The Storr of the Great Flood and the Monster Turtle. The children of the Pueblo Indians have a Noah's wis of their own, and some of the animals It contains are very curious Indeed such animals, In fact, as civilized young people are not acquainted with. Among them are mountain goats, queer creatures of the cat tribe and prong horned antelopes. All of these animals are mude out of clay and buked like pottery, after which they are painted lu quite an artistic and lifelike fashion. Like most other peoples, the Fueblo Indians have a tradition of a great flood. Tho catastrophe occurred long ago, when they lived In the ancient laud of their forefathers. One duy the eurth began to shake and strange rumblings grew louder and louder un til ut length an opening yawned in the middle of the central squaro of tho town. Out of the opening gushed a mighty stream of water, overwhelm ing the houses and flooding the val ley, so thut the Inhabitants fled with their live stock to neighboring moun tains. Presently there rose out of tho hole In the enrth the head of a gigantic turtle, which towered to the very roof of the sky. Everybody was terror stricken, but the chief man of the town, whose name ought to have been Noah, plucked up the courage to ask the great reptile what it wanted. The turtlo replied that It was hungry and that its appetite cfuld be appeased only by the sacrifice of a young man and a young woman. There was noth ing to do but to obey, and so a hand some youth nnd a beautiful girl were delivered up to the turtle, which took them lu its mouth and sank with them through the hole. Immediately all of the water flowed away, and in tho place where tho reptile hud appeared there rose up a large black rock, which, according to the myth, may be seen to this day, testifying to the truth of the story. Unfortunately, the deluge left things In such a damp and uncomfortable condition, arter' liesu j'.r.s. all of the houses and most of the portable prop erty, that the people thought It wisest to go nway. So they started on a Journey northward, the whole tribe of thorn, nnd the crane, which Is a sacred bird, flew ahead to pick out the driest route. At length they came to the re gion which their descendants now In hnbit nnd which Is so extremely dry that the water supply Is always a sub ject of anxiety. Cnrloattle of Literary Worship, The most, extravagant Instance of literary relic worship on record Uf said to be that of a welt known Eng lishman, who constantly wears, in a small locket attached to a chain around the neck, a portion of the charred skull of Shelley. Of. late, years a great many perspog SMART SHOES FOR . SMART DRESSERS 85c to $6.00 at HARflON'S TnE Home of Honest Shoes. That's all. STO C. m in I 7rJ hu've visited tho former residence ot Victor Hugo to see a tooth of that ce lebrity which Is kept In a small glass enso . with this Inscription: "Tooth drawn from the Jaw of Victor Hugo by tho dentist on Wednesday, Aug. 11, 1871, at Ylanden, in the gardens at tached to the house of Mine. Koch, nt 3 o'clock In the afternoon." In the year 1810 n tooth of the fa mous Sir Isaac Newton was sold ut auc tion by a relic monger of London and was purchased by an English noble man for a sum equal to $3,GT)( in United States currency. The buyer had a costly diamond removed from a favorito ring and the tooth set in I In place. The wig that Sterne wore while writ ing "Tristram Shandy" was sold at public auction soon after the great writer's death for tho sum of 2,000, and tho favorite chair of Alexuwlcr Pope brought 1,000 at a sale In 1822. Meal In Java. Breakfast proper Is served from 7 to i o'clock, but the Dutch have no Idea of breakfast, and Jt Is n very Inferior meal In tho hotels, at any rate, con sisting merely of bread and btitt.-T, both bad, slices of cold meat left from the previous night's dinner and eggs. The chief meal of the dny Is "tittlu," which is composed of a dish peculiar, to Java the rleo tublo or "rys-tafel." This Is a thing to wonder ut It com mences with n soup plute full of boiled rice, which Is handed round in large bowls and served with a wooden ladle. From teu to twenty dishes, all put on the table nt once, are then bunded round and some of each put Into the rice or on a sinull pinto beside tho soup plate. These dishes include fish, fowl, meats of various kinds, curried eggs, fried bnnnnns, shrimp fritters, omelet and curry, finishing up with chutneys of til sorts served In a largo round dish di vided Into many compartments. This concoction Is then mixed up and eaten with a spoon and fork. It is followed by beefsteak, almost raw, and fried po tatoes, and this, again, Is succeeded by dessert. The Pari, Frottenr. Almost every one who has lived In Paris at some time or other made the acquaintance of the frottour, whose sole business ft Is to polish oak floors. The typical frotteur Is quite n charac ter. He Is urlmne and pntronlzlng. Ho confers an Immense fnvor npon you by condescending to beeswax your floors, but he has tact enough not to make you uncomfortable, and so long as you how a proper respect for the profes sion of which he Is a member be Is politeness itself. He never falls to take a great Interest In bis customers and knows all about their friends, their Income and their private affairs gener ally. Idiosyncrasies of the Tarls frot teur have their drawbacks, but, on tho whole, the corporation Is made up of very useful members of society, for whom their customers generally enter tain a kind of amiable woiiknr.-i V Heating f gook stoves Moore's Fire Keeper. A high grade stove beautiful in appearance, practical in construction. Also Moore's Air Tight. carpets 2,000 yards Ingrain at a bargain. 1,000 yards Tapestry at a sacrifice. 1,000 yards Velvet cheaper than ever. Furniture A newer, better, larger stock than ever before. ANYTHING TO FURNISH YOUR HOUSE K. tiftLL
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