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REYNOLDSVILLE. I'ENN'A., WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBEK 20, 1S05.
VOLUME It.
NUMBEK 18.
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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.
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Frames, Flooring,
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Rough and Dressed Lumber,
Etc., Etc.
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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
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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.
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