filf St iP in independent journal devoted to the interests of Reynoldsville. Published weekly. One Dollar por year strictly in advance. . VOLUME U. REYNOLDSVILLE, PENN'A., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBEIl 11, 1905 NUMBEfi 21. Cuts the Fuel Bill in Half For Soft Coal, Lignite or Hard Coal As you know fully one-half the car1 -n; available for heat in soft coal i& gas, the entire gas supply used for fuel and illumination in i;-....,y cities and towns being made from common soft coal. The ordinary stove in burning soft coal allows this gas half of the fuel to pass up the chimney unburned, thus wasting it as a heat producer. Cole's Original Hot Blast Stove, by means of the patented Hot Blast draft and other patented features, distills this gas from the upper surface of the coal, utilizing it as a heat producer along with the fixed carbon or coke in the coal, thus burning all the coal. This is why lftftii!.iililiiKM0l k. (Ch 1 If H mmk rf (0 in iFPniiP PBT5i Original ot Blast mm few If I JF J5Sii4S - JS Show Stove 'JSs ft!!0B? E0FT C0AL Eaves the Dollars and makes a ton of common $3.00 soft coal or lignite do the work of 59.00 worth of hard coal. Your eld stove and imitation Hot Blast are not air tight, do not save the escaping gases and do not give you a warm house at night. You cannot afford to say to yourself "My old Move will have (o do this winter." The old stove is eating up the price of a new stove every year. 'Not only Hint, but on top of the cofI is the unsatisfactory result it give:;. It is always out the coldest morning. Ev-'.'n L 'eat Day and Night Fire Never Out ' '. TIol Blast is f o perfect in construction that fire keep.. u:l i.k,hi, and when the draft is opened in the morn ing w ii! bin n iwo or three hours with the fuel put in the night before. No other stove does this. Fire, therefore, never goes out, and the rooms are kept at an even tem perature all the time. OL'R GUARANTEE 1 We eunrnntce n sivin of one-tliint in fuel over any lower draft stove of the s:i!iie Me. villi sut'l eeril or slnek. 2 We ejinnniu e Cult 's Uni Mast to use less hard coal for heating a given space than any hnse bin net- nimle with same lienliug surface. 3 Wc guarantee that t lie looms can be lieateil from one to two hours each morn- iiiK- 'i''1 Uie sot't coal or html coal put in the stove the evening before. 4 We uaiuntce that the, stove will hold fire witli soft coal 36 hours without attention. 5 V.'e Kiiarnniec a uniform heat day and night, with soft coal, hard coal or livnite. 6 We guarantee everv stove to remain absolutely nir tight as long as used. 7 We j.Miarantee the feed door to be smoke and dust proof. The above guarantee is made with the understanding that the stove be operated according to directions, and set up with a good flue. For Hard Coal Saves Half The perfect control over the drafts, the slow economical combustion and the large positive radiating surface make Cole's Original Hot Blast the most economical and the best Hard Coal stove made. Cole's Hot Blast is the modern heater and will save its cost in fuel every winter. Buy one for your home now. Would You Lose $50.00 in Fuel to Save $1.00 on the Cost of Your Stove? That is what you do when you buy a cheaply constructed, putty jointed, showy made imitation stove. Like all successful inventions, Cole's Original Hot lilast has many inferior imitations, avoid them. They all lack the patented features and careful construction, which make the Original Hot Blast a great success. They do not stay tight and soon open seams and cracks which render them worthless as fire keepers. See the name "Cole's Hot Blast from Chicago " on the feed door. None genuine without it. v KEYSTONE HARDWARE CO. Sole Agents. Reynoldsville, Pa. MWHUMMIVillllUI! Who among us doesn't like to be well-dressed ? Plenty of men would like to, but Imagine that It necessitate a tailor and a price which they can't afford. They have gone on from year to year buying the ordinary over-the-counter clothes suits made in sweat shops, and designed by some Inexperienced cutter at fifteen dollars a week. Why not change all that. Why not at least take the trouble to try on a Ciothcraft suit, and see for yourself if it isn't better? When we tell you positively that Cloth craft Clothes are designed by high- priced designers, cut and handled by the most expert workmen that high wages and a model factory can pro cure, and moreover made absolutely and exclusively from all-wool fab rics, remember that we are simply stating facts. These things are true, and it is because they are true, that Ciothcraft Clothes are superior to other ready-made clothes, and equal to custom-made garments yet cost less. Try on a suit and see. You needn't buy if you don't want to. The Standard and Euclid, Ciothcraft sack suits here, are offered in a great variety of patterns all Bt $10 to $25. At fcl l i It I W1 111 shown wool. EL;"3 Reynoldsville, Pa. JOB WORK of all kinds promptly done at THE STAR OFFICE. Wedding Invitations and Visit ing Cards neatly and prompt ly printed at The Star office. FIGHTING THE FLAMES AT THE EXPO. i J1 k l 4 'J -, 1 V'rv' '.-t".-- .- -Ait , r,. -.; t .r A 1 i 'J 7 ",ri i.r 1 ' The close of the seventeenth season uf the Pittsburg Kxpositiun is nigh. On Saturday evenine;, October 21, Sous.i mi l lria Imnd, who will return to I'itts burn for the last week, will bring one of the most successful seasons of the memorable seventeen to a brilliant conclusion, livery day ut the Point witnesses (soinethiii); new, and there is already a fet iiitu of ivret that the eijjht weeks of pleasure could not have been extended well into November. Hut for the remain ing days of the Expo there wdl be found a fund of aiiiunemeiit and entertainment, even eclipsing that of the first weeks of the show. Sorretitino will be the musical attraction duritiR the week of October 9. The Banda Rosa is so well known to Pittsburg' rs th it it needs but litlle introduc tion. Por several years these Italian musrci;-s, headed by the handsome, powerful conductor, have thrilled thousands in the immense auditorium of the Expo, and Sorrenlino's re1 urn eng.i emeiit bids frir to et lip?e the successes of his previous visits, pollowing Sorremino will come S.tni, the " March King." To elalxarate on Sousa ami bis blind would be a wa te of words. His name is synono mous with everything that is pleading to the car. He sx-nt one week at the Exposition this season and packed Music Halt ta siifFocation at every concert. Por his second week he has arranged a numlererf programs for the special enjoy ment of the hundreds of out-of-town visitors who are wont to take til the Expo in the afternoon. Ivach day brings enlarged crowds to the Point this year. While six weeka have passed since the opening night, almc si as nxuiy people have registered so far at the turnstiles as in the entire season lst ya-. Over f2oo,ot was spent in rejuvenating the seven acres of amusement find htitniction buildings, and the Western Pennsylvania Exposition Society feels that it has been amply repaid for this vast expenditure in the returns of enjoymeii' manifest by every visitor. " Pighting the Plames," the wondrous fire fhow which has astonished all of Western Pennsylvania, is well worth a visit in itself to Pittsburg. Never in the history of the spec tacular has such n production' Ixen attempted in the Smoky Citv. The Pittsburg newspapers have lieen filled with thrilling accounts ef the half-square of burning buildings ; the realistic street scene preceding the show, in which 12s people take part ; the jumps of the Ik el inmates from the windows, and last of all the daring rescues of the imprisoned dangling from the windows of the doomed buildings. During every performance the crowds have become so enthused that on a number of occasions the audience stood up en masse and shouted with excitement. Thousands from the rural districts have pk-niud valuable information at the Canadian agricultural exhibit during the past few weeks. . This display of fruit, maple sugar, grain, honey, vegetables, ctx;., showing the productive cppabilities of the Canadian soil, has been of particular interest to the rurabtes, and has brought vast returns to the Old Dominion in the way of inquiries as to immigration to the Northwest territory. All of the other new features are being thoroughly enjoved these days the Chamber of Commerce relief map of Greater Pittsburg, the model of the Pennsylvania railroad terminals in New York and Philadelphia, the gallery of notables, the Theatorium, 'the immense Perrls wheel, the "About New York" travel pictures, and the innumerable other wonders. The miracle painting, "In the Shadow of the Cross," and the electrical sensation,' "Creation," please im mensely. The Suburban days, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, at the Expo are more than popular ones. v On Thursday, October 12 and October tq, will be the last general excur sions, all roads entering Pittsburg granting one fare for the round trip on those days. CHINESE CARVINGS. Artistic Ornament Cat Out at Nat and Tiny Fruit Stonea. The- niost curious objects which are mndo subjects of the carver's art In China are the various nuts and fruit stones. Among the Inttcr class may bo named the stones of the olive, plum, peach, cherry, and of the former the most common are made upon the shells of walnuts and cocoanutH. These seeds and nuts are collected with great cure and carefully cleaned and dried before being taken to the carver, who has an Invariable standard of size, proportion, Weight, hardness, etc. When every de tail has been carried out to the satis faction of the artist a nut or, seed Is selected by the designer, who roughly traces upon Its surface nn outline of the future picture. This Is handed over to apprentices, who block out the de sign by cutting through the ligenous tissue along the lines drawn. The crude carving Is again passed to the designer, who sketches a second and more intricate series of outlines, when it again goes forward to the subordi nates, who cut out the indicated chan nels. After tills the designer gives the object its finishing touches, and the as sistants prepare it for market by pol ishing, oiling and waxing the carvings. These nut and fruit stone carvings are shown In the shape of buttons, watch charms, sleeve links, earrings and brooches. Collections of them strung on silver, copper or gold wire are also used as bracelets, anklets, necklaces, rosaries and official ornaments. The carvings represented upon these seed and nut ornaments are frequently of a very high order of conception and display much of the carver's clever ness and dexterity. The writer has seen single cherry seeds upon which were plainly and artistically outlined a dragon, two crickets, a cornflower and mid nuts are represented entire trees and their fruits and leaves, vines with leaves, flowers nnd vegetables attach ed as well as buildings, bridges, tow ers, temples and fences. Among the second group, which are usually com posed principally of animal figures, the horse, lion, tiger, elephant, camel and bull are most generally represented. Exchange. TO WIN POPULARITY. Have n good time, but never let fun degenerato into license. Rejoice ns genuinely In another's success as in your own. Learn to control yourself under the mo.':t trying circumstances. Have n kind word nnd a cheery, en couraging smile for every one. Meet trouble like n man, and cheer fully enduru what you can't cure. Ilclieve In the brotherhood of man nnd recognize no class distinctions. Do not be self opinionated, but listen with deference to the opinions of oth ers. Never utter witticisms at the risk of giving pain or hurting some one's feel ings. Be ambitious and energetic, but nev er benent yourself at the expense of another. Ho as courteous and ngrceablo to your lufurlors as yon ore to your equals and superiors. Success. Faiulllea Share Cnrrlncea. A curious custom exists In Genoa. Many of the well to do people as well as those hi moderate oircumstances do not own either horses "or carriages. They own only nn Interest in them. "ur or Ave or hnlf a dozen great fami lies club together and buy a carriage and bories; then they arrange among themselves the da3s the dlffereut fami lies wU use it. IN COLONIAL DAYS. Fhe Flrat Iron Mine nnd Flonr Mllla In Virginia. In 1019 the London company, the proprietors of the colony of Virginia, sent over a Mr. King and 150 skilled Ironworkers to erect furnaces on Fall ing creek. These men camo chiefly from Warwickshire and Staffordshire and when ouee In Virginia named the vuiage mat grew up about their Iron works Warwick. Mr. Kins soon dropped, out of the enterprise, and a Captain Bluett su perintended the erection of the works. Hut his career was a short one, after which John Berkeley, son of Sir John Berkeley, a nobleman of much dis tinction, succeeded to the superln tendency of the establishment and conducted It ably until one day March 22, 1022-the Indians, under Opitcha pan, a brother of Powhatan, surprised the village and murdered Berkeley and 150 men,rfind women. In 1700 mills were built upon the ruins of the Iron furnace. In those mills was ground the first flour export ed from America, much of It going to South America. From that time on Warwick grew rupldly until it became nn Important manufacturing and ship ping village, as It was at the head of navigation. Shortly before the outbreak of the Revolutionary wor Colonel Archibald Cary acquired possession of the vast estate known as Ampthlll, that lay on the James river nnd Inland along Falling creek for a distance. The es tate was named after one In England. Colonel Cary was chairman of the committee that drafted the first bill of rights and state constitution In America, that of Virginia. When the war broke out he took an active part In the military operations of his coun try in the south. Tarleton, the British general, sailed up the James river and burned War wick and Colonel Cary's mills on Fall ing creek. The old Ampthlll house occupied by Colonel Cary at the time is still stand ing, and the present owners are de scendants of the Cary family. Scien tific American. THE BAROMETER. A LOST TREASURE. The Fanny Old Clrona Clown of the Dnya That Are Gone. I feel kind of sorry for the poor little j oung ones that grow up nnd never know what a clown is like. Oh, yes, they have them today after a fashion. They stub their toes and fall down the name as ever, but there is a whole mob pf them, and you can't take the Interest lu them thnt you could In the one, the only, the Inimitable' clown there used to be, a character of such Importance that he got his name on the bills. The ringmaster was a kind of stuck up fellow, very important In his own estimation, but he didn't have a spark of humor not a spark. And he'd be swelling around there, all so grand, nnd the clown, Just to take him down n' peg or two, would ask htm a conun drum. And do you think he could ever guess one? Never. Not a one. And when the clown would tell him what the answer was he'd be so vexed at himself that he'd try to take it out on the poor clown and cut him with his long whip. Yes, sir; there are heads of families today, I'll bet you, that have grown up without ever having heard a clown King a comic song and ask the audience to join In the chorus. And if yom say to such people, "Here we are again, Mr. Merryman," or "Bring on another horse," or "What will the little lady have now? The banners, my lord?" they look nt you so funny. They don't know .what you mean, and they don't know whether to get huffy or not. Well, I suppose it bad to be that the funny old clown, with all bis songs and quips and conundrums and comical re marks, should disappear. Perhaps he didn't pay. Eugene Wood in Mc-Clure's. A Stone With a Hiatorr. A stone with a remarkable history la kept at the British naval offices In Portsmouth. In the fifties of the lost century It saved a vessel of the queen's navy. The frigate Pique ran ashore on the Japanese coast, but was refloated In what was thought to be an undam aged condition. It proceeded to Ports mouth nnd was docked, when it was found that the stone had imbedded It self firmly in the planks of the ship's bottom. The stone prevented leakage, and bad It dropped from its position during the homeward run there is little doubt that the Pique would have been lost. Something- Like Benjamin. In a Philadelphia kindergarten school a teacher was telling the little children all she knew about a clock. "Now, this," she said, "Is the pendulum this thing that swings back and forth. Did any of you ever hear the word pendu lum before?" A child put up her hand. "Yes, teach er," she said. "Pendulum Franklin. I've heard It often." A Man c.f HI Word. "Here! This horse Is blind. Whv did you tell me its sight was good?" I didn't. I said Its slcht was never better, and It's gospel truth. The beast was Dorn Diinu." Inelilent Thnt Ltd to Its Invention hy Torrleelll. The barometer was Invented by Tor rleelll, a pupil of Gallic!, In 1013. In ntt'-mptlng to pump water from a very deep well near Florence he found that In spite of all his efforts the liquid would not rise higher In the pump stock than thirty-two feet. This set the young scientist to thinking, and as ho could not account for the phenome non in any other way he was not slow in attributing It to ntmosphcrlc pres sure. He argued that witter would rise In a vacuum only to such a height as would rentier the downward pres sure or weight of the column of water ju:t equal to the atmospheric pressure, and, further, that should a heavier fluid be used the lutht of the column could be much reduced. To prove this he selected a glass tube four feet long and after sealing one cud filled It with mercury and then Inverted It in a ba iln containing a quantity of the same peculiar liquid. The column In the tuiie quickly fell to n height of nearly thirty Inches above the mercury in tho basin, leaving In the top of the tube a vacuum which Is tho most per fect that hns ever been obtained and which Is to this day called tho Tor rleelll vacuum In honor of its discover-' er. The name of the Instrument means "air measure." and Its fundamental principles cannot be better Illustrated than by tho above described experi ment. GAM3LINQ. Why It Wna Forlildilen In Ancient Home nnd Knrrliind. Games "depending partly on skill and partly on hazard, with n view to tho pecuniary gain." 'were forbidden by the Romans both under republic nnd empire. This was not done be cause these games tended to demor alize the populace, but because It tend ed to render them effeminate nnd uu manly. During the saturnalia, which was a period of license, these games wore permitted. Rome was "wide open" then. And a like indulgence at other seasons was extended to the old men both among tho Greeks nnd the Romans. It was one of the privileges of age. Tacitus mentions the existence of the vice of gambling among the b clont Germans. In England, as In Rome, gambling was prohibited, not because It demor alized, but because It rendered Its dev otees effeminate. An net passed hi loll had in view tho double object of "maintaining the artillery nnd debar ring unlawful games." An act passed during the reign of Queen Anne de clared that all bonds or other securi ties given for money won nt play or money lent at the thne to play with should bo utterly void, nnd all mort gages or Incumbrances on lands made ou the same consideration should be mndo over to tho use of the mortgageor. This continued to be the law until 1845. The I nk. Yaks, which are the beasts of burden in Tibet, are very sure footed, and a good one will carry a load of over 200 p mnds safely along the steepest hill side. They can exist on the scantiest grass, but grain food suits thorn for a few days only. Eight miles a day 1b good average work. A recent traveler ti led leather boots for his yaks without success. Tame-yaks are white, black, gray and brown nnd all intermediate graduations of these colors. Tho wild yak Is Invariably black, and In early spring his winter coat almost sweeps the ground. At such seasons wild and tnme are almost 'indistinguishable, and a story Is told of a big game hunter In Tibet who shot his own baggage ani mals by mistake. The Home Cheittnat. Why "horse" chestnut? Ninety-nine out of n hundred will answer, "Don't know; never thought about It." All ever the small branches-you may find t-ie minute horseshoes that give It the n ime. Where a bygone leaf has been tic shoo, curve downward, with nail marks complete, is printed ou the bark. nd It Is said that among the twigs may be found some with tin odd and lifelike resemblance to a horse's foot and fetlock. The Onenlnn; In the Tomb. The perforation of the timb was al most certainly Intended as a door of exit for spirits. Even In later times, when the dead wero burned, holes 01'ten bored or knocked in the urns that contained the ashes for the same pur pose. Some cinerary urns have been found with little windows, as it were, made in them and a niece of o-inaa piaceu over tne Hole. Gratitude: Gratitude is the fairest blossom that prlngs from the soul, nnd tho hnnrt of man knowefh none so fragrant, .T.hlle its opponent, ingratitude, Is a' deadly weed, not only polsondus In it self, but impregnating the very atmos phere in which It grows with fetid vapors. The Alan of It. He There are some irlrls I'd triva flip world to kiss and Some I don't wont kiss at all. She What kind do you kiss? lie- Auy kind I get e chance to.-
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