DISTRICTJEPORT. Annual District Report op School Directors or West REYNOLDS ville dlstrkt for the school Year binding Monday, June 4, '00. Whole number of schools... 4 Average no. months taught. Number of mule teachers employed 1 Number of female teachers employed Average BHlury of male teachers per month I no 00 Average salary of female teacher per month 40 00 Number of male scholars... i Nuinher of fetnulo scholars. JIM Whole no. In attendance.. . 1K2 A venule dally attendance.. 124 Average percentage of at- tendance w Cost of each pupil per mo. . . 1 27 Numherof mills levied for school purposes o Number of mills levied for chool building purposes 1 Amount levied for school purposes M'2 51 Am t levied for school build ing purposes.... . 828 01 Total amount levied M" Si Rkcku-tm. Plat? Appropriation 649 65 Hal. on hand from last year 310 11 From Collector 1,U 4H From County Treasurer.... 4 id ,,. From all other sources 12 00 2,2112 27 K.XI'KMUTtlllKS, Building ft fuinlsh'g Iiouse 106 B7 Keparing 17 5lj Teuchers waucs 1.51 ( 00 School text books 114 111 School supplies 15S 43 Fuel and contingencies... . 1.111 Hil Fees of l.'ol. and Treasurer. 77 110 Salary of Secretary 25 00 Other expenses 78 60 2,155 6(1 Cash on hand 106 61 Am'tduerilst.f'mallsources 14 44 Total resources 121 05 P. ,T. WAiti), Collector, In account with the School District-Went licynoldsvllle, Pa. DR. To bal. duo on 11102 and 11103 duplicates t 8 72 t 72 CR. By am't exonerations 5 31 By Treas. receipts 141 0 72 DR. To bal. due on I!X)4 dup 76 09 76 08 CR. By am't exonerations 6 20 By 5 Col. on?ttl.88... 8 40 By am't Treas. receipts 66 80 76 08 DR. To am't duo 1905 duo.school 1,112 61 To am't 6$ added on 1125.85 5 20 1,118 80 CR. By am't of exonerations... 6199 By i rebate on H7H.22 33 91 By 8 Col. on fcl'8,22 20 35 By 5 Col, on !46.45 12 32 By 6 Col. on 1102.01 5 10 By Treas. receipts 870 61) Bal. due 14 4 1 DR. am't due 1005 duplicate school building 325 01 Tojim't 5 added on 133.02. 1 65 326 BO CR. By am't exonerations 9 81 By6rel)ateonril(l.49 10 82 By 3 CM. on 216.49 6 49 By 5 CoY on f,69 3 J8 By 5 ColV, on $25.31 1 27 By Treas. rV'elpw 294 99 " 326 66 Audited Jnne 4th. J. W. Campbell, I Auditors A. .1. WBI.LS. f Auul,or8- If you have anything to sell, try our Want Column. KEYSTONE LIQUID SULPHUR HAS NEVER FAILED TO CURE RHEUMATISM It is Nature's Best Remedy for Natures Worst Disease A GREAT DISCOVERY The Keystone Sulphur Co. has discovered a process for liquifying sulphur, retaining all of the excellent curative qualities of the well-known remedy, but eliminating the impurities found in the crude drug.o A SURE CURE FOR RHEUMATISM KeyBtone Liquid Sulphur positively cures every form of rheumatism. 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Passenger Traffic Manager. THE HUMPBACK WHALE. Moat Deiiaierate and nnnsfrnm of All Marine Ministers. A "whale factory" In always located til souiu scu allly populated sencotist harbor, for the odors tlmt rise from the chimneys when it whnle Is being tiled out would speedily n rouse un urban population to molt violence. The Ht earn er Is a stout Utile emit or KKJ tons' burden, on pu bio of milking twelve knots an hour, and In strongly built and braced to enable It to withstand n chance blow from Hie mighty dukes of a maddened levlalhnn. I'sunlly a slugle shot from the harpoon gun re sults lu spetdy dentil, but occasionally, when the weapon fulls to strike a vlttil point, the frenzied monster will career wildly about the ocean for hours, drag ging the ship, with engines reversed, over the water like a cork. Most desperate and dangerous of all marine monsters Is the humpback whale. AVherl wounded, the humpback will charge the ship and attempt to destroy It, there being a case on record where a small Norwegian whaler was sunk and all hands lost In such an en counter, while another steamer had a narrow escape from a similar fate in Newfoundland waters. On ouo occasion an unusually pow erful hull bluebnek, harpooned In a nonvltnl spot, towed a whaler for twenty-six hours around PlacenUn. bay, doubling back and charging the ship repeatedly and requiring three har poons to dispatch It. Another time a l.unipbuck made a fourteen hour light against a whaler 'off Capo Race, the ship's winch being demolished by the furious tugs the creature made as It tried to rid Itself of the harpoon. A third Instauce was where a whaler, having shot one "fish" Just before sun down, transfixed another soon after ward and spent the whole night In a most perilous fight with his two vic tims, whose diverse movements fre quently threatened to overturn the vessel. When a whale Is harpooned he usual ly "sounds," or dives downward until he can go no farther. The rope at tached to the harpoon Is drawn out through the ship's hawse pipe so fast that the chafing causes the woodwork to (.moke, and it has to be sluiced with sea water at Intervals to prevent com bustion. The wounded monster next bounds upward and projects himself clear out of the sea, bellowing madly the while and falling back Into the brine with a noise resembling thunder. Then he races oft furiously over the ocean, towing the ship behind and div ing or rising at Intervals until ex hausted, when the whaler can ap proach and finish him. A full grown fish, If not vitally hit, can tow the ship for hours and may often require a sec ond shot to give him bis quietus. This, however, Is more often done by launch ing a boat with two or three men, who row up to the spent victim and pierce him to the heart with a thrust from a sharp spear, when he sends up a last snout of siir.ay and blood aqd expires this offor atonco, for you "will never sold by all druggists at 50c and $1.00. GEO, W. BOYD, General Passenger Agent, FISHERS AND OMENS. ODD SUPERSTITIONS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD. Incidents and Frniinn Thnt Are Con sidered Inlnrky ti- the Toilers of the Sea Some Queer Notion Thnt Were Held by the AnrlenlH. Ono of the commonest of supersti tions among fishermen Is the alleged 111 lurk caused hy woman. In the Isle of Skye If a woman crosses thu wuter In course of the fishing the luck Is doomed. At Flamboroitgli, England, If a woman happens to enter a cottage when the men are preparing their lines she Is not allowed to depart until she has knelt down and repented the Lord's I'rayer. In Lapland the fishermen avoid spreading their captured tlsh on thut part of the shore frequented by women, as the next expedition would he a failure. On ninny parts of the coast ot Eng land It Is considered most unlucky for a woman to walk over the nets or any of the Ashing tackle, although women take an nctlvo part In collecting bnit. Some of the English herring fishermen have nn Idea that hy heating their wives they can draw the fish lu. In the Hawaiian Islands after the fisher men have prepared the Inn nielometo (a Mllet of wood used as a decoy) with the proper Incantations rare Is taken that a woman does not step over It or outer the canoe In which It Is placed, as lu that event the decoy would lose Its power, and the kahuna (sorcerer) would have to go through the opera tion again. The Influence of the minister Is hard ly less adverse than that of women, and the practices noted as connected with the 111 omen of feminine Interfer ence npply also to the clergy. The herring are suld to have nil left one part of the Irish const hecause they heard the new parson say be was going to tithe the fishery, and In Lapland and on the coasts thereof fish are never looked for where a church Is In sight On the coast of Lancashire, England, the fishermen have a custom of setting sail on Sunday. A clergyman of the town once prnyed against tills breach of the Lord's day, as he called it; but, to neutralize his prayers, the fishermen made a small Image of rags and pious ly burned the parson In effigy. The avoldnnre of the neighborhood of churches referred to Is necounted for by the fishermen's belief In the great quickness of hearing of fishes. In Sweden, for instance, the church bells are not rung In the brenm season, lest the fish should take fright, and where the pilchard are fished the peo ple arc no less careful of their sensi tiveness to sound. The Romans believed that the ser rated spine on the tall of the sting ray was so venomous as to he capable of causing Injury to even vegetable and mineral substances, trees losing their verdure and even rocks being af fected. They also considered It bad luck If a person with a love or Inwsult on hand met a remora (sucking fish) when bathing. Albertus Magnus ad vised a suitor In a law case to place a perch under his arm and the Judge would thereupon become his friend. When they catch certain species of flat fish the Finns make the sign of the cross. The Irish will not eat the skate, sometimes called the maid, becnuso It Is supposed to bear a questionable re semblnnco to some of the grotesque mediaeval delineations of the Virgin Mary. The Dutch fishermen believe that they can discern the image of the Virgin In ench scale of the drum, and the Swedish fishermen believe that the pike turns Its head toward the shore on St. Gregory's day, March 12. The origin of certain species of fishes arc to be accounted for in various ways. When the Brittany fishermen happened to catch the lotto they threw them back Into the water, as they were supposed to turn Into eels. In parts of England eels are supposed to be bred from dew In the months of May and Juno or In other sections from tho hairs of horses or kine which drop Into cart ruts or Into drinking troughs and springs and there quicken after rain. This latter superstition Is widely prev alent In this country. The ancients supposed that eels were engendered of mud or that when tired of living they rubbed, themselves against tho rocks, and from the detritus Issued a new breed, while still others believed they came from tho carcasses of animals. Soles, nccordlng to tho French fisher men, are bred from prawns. Tho Eng lish fishermen think thnt the pike Is begotten by the west wind, while the gudgeon Is believed to- be generated from the brains of horses. Burn the teeth of fish you catch, or your luck will be bad next day. Tins found In church make good fish hooks. In Scotland a quarrel on the beach, If ))lood Is drawn, will drive the herring from the coast for the rest of the sea son. In Sweden stolen tackl.o Is lucky. In uorth Germany herrings eaten on New Year's day bring luck all tho year through. To witness the plunge of a pike before noon was considered an unlucky omen In Bohemia. In New England If you catch a fish you don't care to keep don't throw It back Into the water until you have finished. If you throw it in before It will toll all the other fish what you are doing, and no more will bite. The Hawaiian fishermen sometimes prepare a bait from the flesh of the oc topus and the juice from the blossom of the lllma plant. An exact number of flowers is always used, aa the fish ermen believe that If an odd number were employed the bait would have) no power. Many of the English fishermen will not put to sea If any one mentions a pig while they are baiting their lines. Should they meet a hare on tberway to their boats they will give Tip fishing for tha day. In Scotland the salmon la equally nnmentlonable and Is alluded to only as So-and-so's fish. Usually It receives for a pseudonym the name of tho tux coliect-jr of the n'-nre.t village, as he is generally the one least liked: In the Hawaiian Islsinda when the lls!icnncu are ready to embark they are givatly exasperated rluitild a person etimo along and stand lu.lolently gns Ing at tin in with his hands behind him, lis they believe It gives them bad luck. The car bones, or otoliths, of the lake drum are often carried as amulets by the negro fishermen and others of the Eouth and are also prize! by the boys of Wisconsin and elsewhere In the west who call them "lucky stones," )::'luips hi allusion to the fact that they are marked by a figure which re sembles tho letter L. The New Eng land fishermen carry a lucky bono which they find In the head of the cod fish. It Is shell-like and narrow, with a lonp.tb of three-fourths of nn Inch. The edge Is notched, while the color Is a pearly white. Many of them con sider It a good plan to carry two bones, as that will make their luck doubly sure, but they both should be from the bend of the same fish. In the Hawaiian Islands the appear ance of the uliil, a small fiat fish which visits the Islands only occasionally. Is regarded as a -sure precursor of the death of a high chief or one of the roy al family. Tho nnclents supposed that the seal enjoyed Immunity from lightning, and among those who borrowed the protec tion of Its skin was the Emperor Au gustus, who always wore a belt of seal fur. The Idea arose from the fancy thnt the seal sleeps most profoundly In thunderstorms. The crab was believed by the nnclents to grow only during the waxing of the moon, anil this Is still a eurreut belief, the writer having found It lu various parts of this country, par ticularly In Alaska. This seems to have more foundation than the belief thut hi thunderstorms lobsters cast their large cutting claws. The brain of the carp was supposed by the an cients to grow and diminish as the moon waxed and waned. Fearls were supposed to he sea dew which the oys ter drank lu and by some mystic chem istry transformed Into gems, which were soft until the sun shone on them, and then they hardened. It was sup posed that on cloudy nights the oyster secreted dark pearls and on moonlight nights clear white pearls. The Japanese fishermen rarely If ever utilise the turtles taken in their nets, but, writing some characters on their backs, turn them loose. It Is be lieved that a turtle so treated will guide the fisherman back to land should he ever be lost at sea. New York Tribune. II U One Shot. Colonel Evans In his book on Califor nia speaks of "buck fever" ns being one of the most violent diseases which ever nttneked tho human system. It has been the undoing of mnny an ex perienced hunter, but In the case cited by Colonel Evans It proved-to be the making of a reputation. A farmer In Illinois nnmed Wheeler had never fired a gun. One winter, however, he heard so much talk about the sport of hunting that his ambition became excited, nnd, borrowing a gun, ho started out. When he came buck he brought n magnificent buck, shot by himself square In the middle of the forehead. He said little about his achievement, but got the credit of be ing a crack shot, a reputation which, although he went hunting no more, he held for several years. Then one day he told his story and lost his name as a sportsman. lie had seen a doe drinking out of a creek nt the foot of n bluff about twen ty feet high. With wild excitement he got his gun to his shoulder, shut his eyes, set his teeth and pulled the trig ger. To his astonishment he saw the doe bound away unhurt, while at the same time a glorious buck pitched headlong from the bluff Into the creek, stone dead. " The buck had been looking down at tho doe, and Wheeler hnd not seen him at all, but his shaking gun sent its shot on a fntnl, although unintended, errand. 5 Making; Sparrow! White. The Japanese are ruthless In their tampering with nature. If they de cide thnt they want a bird or an nn Imnl of n certain shnpe or color they set about manufacturing the article, so to speak, by the exercise of exceeding ly clever Ingenuity nnd untiring pa tience. Here, for example, Is how the white sparrows nre produced: They se lect a pair of grnyish birds nnd keep them lu a white cage In a white room, whore they are attended by a person dressed In white. The mental effect on a -series of generations of birds results In compKely white birds. They breed tho domestic cock with enormously long tails after the same principle. They first select a bird with a good (all, giving him a very high perch to ftnnd on; then with weights they drag the tail downward, carrying on the same system with the finest specimens of his descendants till a tall almost as long as a peacock's is produced at last Yearly Picture Taking;. Some families make It n enstom to visit the photographer's yearly, all go ing together to sit for portraits singly or lu groups. It Is a good custom, but has to be strictly observed or It may begin to be honored In the breach. One family permits no postponement of the yearly trip to the photo gallery. A day Is set, and every one must go. There are no penalties for nonattendance at this family reunion before the camera, because there are no Infringements of the rule. The custom began with this family many years ago, when the first baby came to . Today it has a com plete photographic record of family life for almost a generation. Some of the children are married and an Aow photographed with their own chtloraa, while 'death has made vacancies la the later groups. New York' Press. HOW BEAST MEN AKt MAUfc. The lIMeoan nnd Crnel Prnetlee of Klonh Sculpture In China. "Victor Hugo in "The Man Who Laughs,' " said an ethnologist, "tells of the sculptors of living flesh those hor rible people of the middle ages who kid naped tender little children and turned them into all sorts of monsters, dwarfs, hunchbacks mid the like, selling them afterward for Jesters or for showmen's freaks. "The hideous and cruel practice of flesh sculpture still continues. There Is a tribe of Chinese gypsies who steal children nnd turn tbeni Into so called wild men. Tho practlco Is, of course, Illegal. "A kidnaped child la flayed alive, bit by bit, and the shaggy skin of a dog Is grafted on him. This takes a year. At the yenr's end the poor creature Is shaggy, like n bear, from head to foot "The child's vocal chords are destroy ed with charcoal In an unspeakably cruel way. Ho can never speak there after. Ho can only growl and tooao llko a beast "He Is Imprisoned In a perfectly black hole until every vestige of reason leaves blm. Nine months Is usually a suf ficient confinement to accomplish this. "Flnnlly, speechless, shaggy, lunatic, the victim Is sold to a traveling show mnn nnd Is exhibited throughout China ns a genuAie wild man or beast man. I am bound to sny he looks the part." HOQ MONEY. Orlffln of the Curious Old 9raa Colna ot Bermuda. 'Hog money" Is ths name by which tho brass money which began to be struck la Bermuda la 1630 came to bo known. On one face of It was a bog, on the other a ship of that period. These old coins are very rare and high ly prized by collectors. The history of this device Is curious and interesting. A Spanish vessel, commanded by Juan Bermudez, on its way to Cuba with a cargo of hogs, was wrecked there. This was In 1515. Lat er In tho same century, when the Eng lish discovered this land, they; found a country Inhabited by bogs; It Is also Interesting to note that the English discovered It In the same way as the Spaniards. An English ship was wrecked there. Is It any wonder that the treacherous coast got from Spanish and English alike the name of Devil's Laud? Yet It Is one of the most beautiful coasts in the world, and It has been claimed that In brilliancy Mediterranean effects are not at all equal to those of Bermuda. Bermuda is said to be the Island of Shakespeare's "Tempest" The strange noises which mariners beard coming from tills Island, and which they did not then know were produced by bogs, caused them to say that it was haunt ed and to report weird things of it Pearson's. PUELIC IMPROVEMENTS. Money Wlnelr Expended In Safelr. nnd Profltablr Expended. Beautified utility is never too costly. Over ami over again the cost benefits of public improvements have bee proved, defined, established. It Is tru of puMic betterments of a saulta: character; it is true of public bette meuts that look to commercial at vancement; It Is true of public better ments that have primarily an art val ue. Tho pracUcal and the ornamental betterment are alike In this that mon ey wisely expended for good purposes is safely and profitably invested. The limitations of expenditures for civic betterment are of course very ob vious. The work undertaken must be good lu Itself and serve some good purpose. Money expended for a worth less filtration plant, for example, is money worse than wasted. Money, spent for bad art Is not always consid ered as so completely lost as money that might be wasted for worthless sanitary apparatus. The statue causes no 111 health and may be avoided by, passing down the next street, while an Impure water supply brings death and destruction to many helpless persons. Homes and Garden. EiiRlJxh and Scotch Precedence, m At the coronation of Charles I, the kingdoms of England and Scotland having been united during tho reign of his father, considerable friction took) place with regard to the order of pre cedence of tho English and Scottish! noblemen. An arrangement satisfac tory to all parties was finally conclud ed. In virtue of which English peers whilo In Enlan.I took precedence of Scott;.':i r " of the same rank, wbilo in Scotlnnd this order was reversed, and the Scottish peers went first The Shepherd' Crook. Although most people have seen a shepherd's crook, many do not know the use of It Some people think that all the shepherd carries it for is to use it as a walking stick when be tramps to and from the fold. But the crooked end Itself serves a purpose. It enables a shepherd to catch refractory sheep. If a sheep shows signs of running away the crooked end has only to be placed round his leg, and ho la a cap tive. London Standard. A Long War Off. Creditor (determinedly) I shall call at your house every week until yon pay this account sir. Debtor (In the bland est of tones) Then, air, there seems every probability of our acquaintance ship ripening into friendship. Lota of Chatter. "What Is he playing!" "Oh, Mendelssohn's 'Songs Without Words,' yon know." "Hm! Wall, the audience seems to be doing their best to supply, the deft clency." London Bystander. ! The words of the good art like a ItA3 la a slippery place, Hindoo HAUfa ' Are The One to Suffer by the "penny-wise pound-fool fen" poller of mixing yonr own paints. Buy Lawrence Ready Mixed Paint prepared from the best pigment and the purest linseed oil with scientific accoJ racy. Guaranteed by the maker. Lawrence Ready Mixed 3 PAINT Sold by Keystone Hardware Company. 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