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An independent journal devoted to the
interests of Reynoldsville.
Published weekly. One Dollar per year
strictly in advance.
VOLUME U.
REYNOLDSVILLE, PENN'A., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1905.
NUMBEB 22.
GREEK ATHLETES OF OLD.
THE WAYS OF A -HEX
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You all know where POINT VIEW is situated in or near Reynoldsville.
It ia not away back in the country, but handy to every point of importance in the
town. POINT VIEW is only five to 10 minutes walk from postoflice and with
the foot bridge built at foot of Fourth Street, there is no part of POINT VIEW
that you cannot reach from the postoflice in five minutes walk. POINT VIEW
will have all the conveniences of Reynoldsville and all the charms of the country.
POINT VIEW will have gas and water. Point View Land Company has reserved
a fine location for a school building. Trolley line to Sandy Valley and Falls
Creek will pass through POINT VIEW. Most all of Reynoldsville's industries
are just across the way from POINT VTEW. Men who work in our factories
must have homes for their families. POINT VIEW is about the only desirable
home site left in Reynoldsville where you can buy lots at any reasonable figure.
Reynoldsville realty has increased 50 per cent during the past ten years.
A Lot in Point View will be Worth Double
What you Paid for it in a Short Time.
POINT VIEW is, without the least exaggeration, the greatest realty investment
opportunity ever offered in Reynoldsville. The wise man buys realty and always
wins oat. Stop paying rent, own a home in POINT VIEW for the same expend-.
ituie.
POINT VIEW Jots are 50 x 150 feet. Good wide streets and
alleys. $100, $1 !0 and 200 on easy terms. Five dollars down
and five to ten dollars a month pays for it.
No Interest. No Taxes for Two Years.
No Notes. No Mortgages.
General Warranty Deed.
5 Per Cent Discount for Cash.
Buy a lot now and by spring you'll have a good portion of it paid. For there
is one thing certain, ycu will never miss paying for a POINT VIEW lot at the
rate of from five to ten dollars a month. And it is equally certain that each year
will see your lot increasing inj value. By the time your lot is paid for you
would not take double for it.
See the plan of lots. Take your wife or best girl and look over POINT
VIEW, You'll be surprised at the number of houses that will be built in POINT
VIEW in next few years. Get prices on desirable lots in Reynoldsville and com
pare with prices in POINT VIEW. Note the difference.
Point View Land Co.'s office over Reynoldsville Hardware Co.'s Store.
Call and look over the plan. One of our agents will take you over
and show you the advantages of owning a lot in POINT VIEW.
Point View Land Co.
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woo f cook 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
C. K. HALL.
Single Copies of The Star
v May be Secured at The Star Office at any time and in any
V quantity. Price per copy, Three Cents.
. KATZEN
The Jeweler, ,
keeps a full line of the
famous .
Eloin Watches
Next Door to Postoflice,
KEYNOLDSVILLE, I'ENN'A.
NOTCE OP APPLICATION FOR A
CHAKTEH
Notire Is hereby irivcn that mi application
will be mude to the Governor of Feimsylvu-P.'tto,",t,'u-7,lh
day of October, 1W5, by J. o.
K.lelblute, Henry Ueddlim, V. F. Conp, John
(JHarr and Henry Inenian, under the act of
UMwnibly entitled "a,, act to provide for the.
incorporation and regulation of certain cor
porations" approved April Mh, 1HT4, and the
BupplcmentH thereto, for the charter of an In
tended corporation to be called The Imperial
Oil Company, the character and object of
which Ih the niin loir and boring for petroleum,
buying, twIHnx, producing, Htoring, trans
port log and shipping t he mime, with the right
or purchasing, leasing and otherwise aciiuir
Ing, ( eyehiping, hoUiliig.sub-leasing and sell
ing oil lands and other real estate and prop
erly which may he necessary or convenient
for the purposes of Its organ tuition and busi
ness, with the right of constructing such
tanks and other structures as may he neces
sary for t lie storage and transport at ion of t he
oil produced by said company, and for these
purposes to have, possess and enjoy all the
rights, beuellt and privileges of saldactof
assembly and supplements thereto.
Clemknt W. Fi.vnn, Solicitor.
THEY ARE WORTHY OF MORE STUDY
THAN THEY RECEIVE.
Some or the Peculiarities of Thin Do
mestio Fowl, Which la at Once
About the Wisest and Mont Foolish
Animal That Live.
i Half wild, with the ancestral habits
of the jungle fowl about her and the
wnrluess of fear apparent in every
energetic act, and still half tamed,
with the senseless confldeuce of ig
norance In evidence and showing plain
ly in many acts, the domestic hen is
worthy of more study than she receives.
Poultry fanciers by long practice can
predict almost to a feather the creature
that will result from any given cross
between two marked varieties and can
foresee how many eggs new breeds
from crosses will lay In a year, and so
mark out the course of the unborn off
spring from mixed mating that we
have but little to discover from ob
servation. But the color and character
of the plumage, the amount of egg pro
duction and the weight and edibility of
the new generation are not all there is
to a hen.
The domestic fowl may not have a
noul, but she has both a gizzard and a
crop, which shows she has the advan
tage of the human race. Surely, she
does not reason, else she would not act
its she does, but she holds certain men
tal attributes which serve better, than
any reasoning power could hope to do,
nnd thus gains her ends without going
to the trouble of thinking.
Take two dippers and place In one
two quarts of yellow flint corn, such
as In grown in Maine, and put In the
other two quarts of gold dollars, such
as are still minted in San Francisco.
Now empty both dishes among the
gravel of the henyard nnd note how
the poultry will pick up and swallow
the corn, leaving the gold to He out and
mingle with the common earth.
To an unthinking observer a gold dol
lar bears a fairly close resemblance to
n kernel of yellow flint corn. Both aro
reddish yellow; both are nearly of
equal size. To human senses both are
hard and odorless nnd, until broken
open, tasteless. By what organ of
sense does the hen distinguish the dol
lar from the kernel? From the human
standpoint of Ihe senses of taste and
smell you cannot tell one from the oth
er. The extra weight of the gold coin is
not the reason why it is discarded, be
cause a hen will pick up oats as well
as corn, though one holds thirty-two
nnd the other fifty-six pounds to the
even bushel.
If the contents of the two measures
had been spread out In front of men
the choice would not have been made
according to hen conclusions, for the
renson that men have learned how gold
dollars nre constructed. But If a hen
bad never seen a kernel of corn or a
gold dollar before during her existence
she would have chosen the corn just as
quickly. Why was she led to make the
choice?
Among the most interesting features
in raising poultry is to note the rever
sion to ancestral types which crops out
in the young. The custodian of the
coops . may walk about the premises
for days and weeks without creating
any gossip among the hens, but let a
stranger come along, and the outcry
of danger is made forthwith. This in
herited dread of o foe crops out to n
marked degree In the young. If a hen
steals her nest and incubates her
young nnd brings them to the door to
bo fed every chick in the lot will scoot
away and hide as soon as a human
being appears on the scene.
Among game fowl nnd tho smaller
breeds thU fear continues for weeks,
though it ncnrly disappears when tho
chicks become adults. The family dog
may loaf about tho yard for weeks and
never raise a squawk of protest, but
let a new dog approach the premises,
and the outcries of the poultry may
bo heard from afar. A skunk will
drive the poultry into hysterics, though
a black and white striped cat that be
longs on the place can sun itself in the
runways for hours and never be wak
ened by poultry outcries.
At what ago and by what manner do
chickens learn to distinguish their
friends? navlng been made able to
understand that the man who has
charge of them is their protector, why
do they not extend this confidence to
ajl human beings?
Hens are at once the wisest and
most foolish animals that live.
If a dog receives punishment a few
times for visiting a certain spot, It
will acquire wisdom from contact with
the switch and will either shun the for
bidden place entirely or will wait until
the human dealer In vengeance has
gone away. But no form of punish
ment invented by man can wean a
hen from Invading a garden and
scratching among the plants. If we su
perior humnn beings could fathom the
mind of the humblest, hen and could
learn all there is to know as to her
mental processes we might write a
book thnt wonld astonish the world
and outdo Darwin In probing for the
secrets of life. Bangor News.
Well Carved.
Bobbles What does tills author mean
by saying that the hero had "well carv
ed" features? Dobbles Perhaps be
shaved himself.
Their Strenuon Training-, Their
Came and Reward.
"A modern athlete would scarcely
feel strange at the great games of
Olympla," says a writer. "He would
find the usual special grounds carefully
prepared for the various events, the
runners' course freshly dug and rolled
In the stndiou, soft earth for the long
junipers in the gymnasium and for the
wrestlers In the palestra. As to the
athletes themselves, the most striking
difference, perhaps, would be that he
would find thut It was the exception,
not the rule, to specialize in a partic
ular event, for though the greatest
glory was to win the stadlon, or short
foot race, next to this in honor came
tho pentathlon, with Us five events
running, long jumping, throwing the
discus, hurling the Javelin nnd wres
tlingand the winner had to succeed
in three of these. In earlier days ques
tions of diet do not appear to have en
tered much Into Ihe training, nllhough
we hear of certain athletes preferring
special foods and that all alike ab
stained from any form of alcohol. But
In oilier respects the Greek nthlete evi
dently went In for quite ns strenuous n
course of training as his successor to
day. For Instance, before the Olympic
games ten months' preliminary train
ing was compulsory for all competitors,
who had further to be medically passed
before entering.
"In view of the fact that tho great
games of Greece were part of religious
festivals and thus had a position of
tremendous Importance In the lives of
Greeks, the prizes bestowed on the vic
tors sound strangely Inadequate, for all
the successful competitor obtained In
theory was a branch o!' olive, which was
carried home and che:Ulied as pivimlly
ns any of the cups a:nl medals prosi'tit-d
nowadays. But In practice the rewards
of victory were such as seem to us
absurdly great, for the city whence
the victor came loaded him with gifts,
conferring fin him freedom from taxes,
maintenance at the public expense and
other privileges.
"In contrast to this the unsuccessful
competitor was treated with a surpris
ing nnd surely undeserved amount of
contempt and derision, for In one of
Pindar's odes there Is a vivid descrip
tion of one poor beaten wretch slink
ing home by byways and dreading the
reception that must await him. Possi
bly the dread and shame of defeat
sometimes induced competitors to
cheat; certainly at Olympla there still
remains an Imposing row of bases on
which once stood the bronze statues
erected out of fines levied for breaking
the rules of tho games.
"These rules were ninny and various,
and many were Identical with those
laid down now, but one rather curious
one was that if a competitor withdrew
from a contest after he had once en
tered he was to be subjected to a
heavy fine. Of course the games only
gradually developed Into the compli
cated and elaborate affairs that they
were In historical times. The very first
beginning of them was, according to
legend, Ihe Institution of the short
foot race."
Mcdlnevnl Diplomacy.
Vonleo was tho leader in mediaeval
diplomacy, and its ambassadors were
compelled to keep close watch over all
Venetian interests in foreign places.
According to a luw of 1208, ambassa
dors were not allowed to bo accom
panied on their missions by their wives
lost state secrets should leak out.
They must, however, tnke their own
cooks to avoid being poisoned. No
present could bo received without the
consent of tho state. After 1288 each
envoy was required by law to filo a
written report of his ministry with the
keeper of the archives. Later it was
made unlnwful for an ambassador to
hold conversation with strangers or
to write letters on political questions
addressed to persons not connected
with tho government. So severe were
the regulations that it became a diffi
cult matter to obtain the best men for
tho foreign service. Fines had to be
Imposed upon the appointees who re
fused to depart for their posts.
Old Time Simple Manner.
Kichitrd Evelyn, who died in 1700,
laments In his diary the vanishing of
"tho simple manners that prevailed in
his younger days." "Men," he says,
"courted and chose their wives for
their modesty, frugality, keeping at
home, good housewifery and other eco
nomical virtues then in reputation.
Tho virgins and young ladles of that
golden age put their hands to the spin
dle, nor disdained they tho needle; were
obsequious and helpful to their par
ents, Instructed In the manager? of the
family and gave presages of making
excellent wives. Their retirements
were devout and religious books and
their recreations In the distillatory, tho
knowledge of plants and their virtues,
for tho comfort of their poor neighbors
and use of their family, which whole
some, plain diet and kitchen physic
preserved In perfect health."
Frovldenttal.
Teacher Now, I have explained what
"providential" means, and I want some
of you to give me an illustration.
Bright Boy Please, ma'am, I can.
"Verywoll. What Is It?"
"The holes In a porous plaster."
"Hum! Why?"
-When yeh pull th RlHSter tiS lb
holes don't hurt"
Queen Quality
Seasonable Styles
Autumn styles of "Queen Quality" Shoos exhibit special features
throughout. New designs, now heuls, now odo effects have been added
and tho assortment now presents an unusually complete range of styles
from which to mako a selection. Patent leather for dress and semi-dress.
Gun metal and kid for general wear In Blucher, Button and Lace De
signs are all represented, perfect In lit, luxuriously comfortable and
economically priced.
$3.0.0 and $3.50,
ADAM'S SHOE STORE
Foot-Fitters
KEYNOLDSVILLE, I'ENN'A.
The Union Piumbing Co.
Has an over-stock of FANCY GLOBES which will be
sold at
10 Cents.
These are not the cheap kind.
Our Never:Br6uK Mantle
1 Has no equal. You could hit the fixture with a club
V and could not break it. Out-wears ten other mantles.
Costs a little more but there is a reason. Guaranteed
not to break. Gives better light.
We Have the Cheap Kind, Too. f
THE UNION PLUMBING COMPANY,
Next Door to Coruiln's Photo Gallery.
Sacrifice Sale at H. Miller's
Now Going On.
Look for the Red Sign Main Street,
Near Fifth Street.
Selling out the entire stock of ready-to-wear garments, fur
nishings, shoes, rubbers, etc., for men, women and children,
Regardless of Cost.
This is the greatest sacrifice sale ever known in Jefferson
county, Come and be convinced by prices and quality.
Attention, Surrounding Farmers
I want to see you to make arrangements for your produce.
LOOK FOR THE RED SIGN.
H. Miller,
Main Street, Near Fifth Street. Reynoldsville, Pa.
The Star's Want Column never fails to bring results
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF REYNOLDSVILLE.
Capital , 875,000
Surplus . $75,000
Total 150,000
OFFICERS
J. V. Kino, Vloe-l'rcs. John II. Kauciieh, Cashier.
DIUEOTOKS
J. C. Klnit Daniel Noliin
Scott McClelland, Pres.
Scott McClnlliind
John H. Kuuchvr
U. V. Fuller
John H. Corbett
K. H. Wilson
SAFE AND CONSERVATIVE BANKING.
EVERY ACCOMMODATION CONSISTENT WITH CAREFUL BANKING.