V Wll II llllll TKcir8imnBMi WBKSfJP' FIRST NATIONAL BANK B 1 THE OF REYNOLDS VI LLE. Capital 75.000 Surplus $90,000 Total $163,000 OFFICERS J. C. Kino, Vlee-Pres. DIRECTORS J. C. King Daniel Nolan J. S. Hammond John H. Kauchek, Pres. John H. Rancher Henry C. Delble SAFE AND CONSERVATIVE BANKING. EVERY ACCOMMODATION CONSISTENT WITH CAREFUL BANKING. fig PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD Sixteen Day Excursions to Atlantic City, Cape May, Anglcsea, Wildwood, Holly Beach, Ocean City, Sea Isle City, Avalon, New Jersey, Rehoboth, Del,, Ocean City, Md. Train leaves Reynoldsville 1.29 p. m. July 5 and 19, August 2, 16, and 30, 1906. tlO Round Trip, tickets good only in couches. $12 Round Trip, tickets gned nly in Parlor and Sleeping Cars in connection with proper Pullman lirki is" Proportionate rates from other stations. Tickets good for passnge on train leaving Pittsburg at 8.50 p. m., awl connections. Slci )tnjr car passengers tor Atlantic City only will use Special Train leaving Pittsburg at 11.4.'. p. in. For stop-over privileges and full information consult nearest ticket agent. V. W. ATTERBURY, General Manager. J. R. WOOD, Passenger Traffic Manager. GIFTS IN ABYSSINIA. OHU'lnls Will Tnke Tlirm If They Are Presented In the Rlprht Way, The agent of the British government who visited Abyssinia some yenrs ago wished to return the favor of a nntive official by some suitable present. The bestowal of this was. however, n mat ter quite beyond the knowledge of one brought tip In the court circles of west ern civilization. His experience was Instructive. "The arrangement was badly ban tiled," he says, "and when 1 arrived several iiorsons liesldes the high offi cial were present. After a few light topics had been d;scu.-ed I mentioned my object hi making Hie visit, and us no offer was made to dlsiiiiKrf the by standers I exhibited my donation. 'In an instant I was aware that I had made a false step. A frown of mingled surprise and Indignation clouded the hitherto serene brow, and tones of fathomless integrity declined the proffered gift, while strong Inward feeling found vent in a rocking motion of bis body. "'You have utterly misunderstood me,' said he. T'r friendliness which 1 have shown yo ; has been extended colely with pure n -olives of kindness to the stranger in the land. Devotion to my sovereign and country Is amply re paid by the Internal consciousness of rectitude. Your intentions are doubt less good, but greater happiness will await me from the knowledge that you will now recognize how disinterested my conduct has been.' "My offering was firmly waved away, and for some period his frame continued shaken by Inward emotion, to the great edification of the bystand ers, whose eyes remained fixed on the ground. "It was undoubtedly very discomfit ing, and my apologies for so great a mistake were profuse. I declared that I could not quit this abode until re stored calmness had given me the As surance that bis feelings bad recovered their usual serene tone. As fortunate ly this soon happened, I left, properly enraged at the miserable management which had occasioned the awkward ness. "Naturally I consulted a native au thority who bad witnessed the trans action and the mistake which I had committed, but be was so tickled by the circumstances that I extracted from him for some time little but laughter. Ills eventual view of mat ters was confided in a few words: " 'Try again, bnt take more and have no witnesses.' "On the next occasion I found the governor alone, and when I opened the object on which my visit was found ed his eyes twinkled, nud he said: " 'From the first moment when I saw you I had a presentiment that we were ordained to be great friends. I do not know if Europeans have these super stitions, but with us they are general, and we do not find them deceptive. Yon may have heard and I am nware It Is generally stated of us by foreign ersthat we are deceitful and avari cious. Do not believe this. All coun tries contain bad men, and your ex perience has perhnps been unfortu nate. But we shall remain always friends. And what are presents, after all, but external emblems of esteem?' "There were no difficulties on this occasion. He was obviously much pleased and finally said that the bless ing of Providence would be sure to at tend the exertions of a man who was thoughtful of the saddened circum stances of others, and he was 'poor, ery poor.' "Youth's Companion. Some piauts, as the peach tree, send forth their (lowers before the leaves have started. The stamens of the common barberry will draw buck when touched, as tAough unpleasantly affected by the sensation. The flowers of many trees, like the oak, elm and hickory, are so Incon spicuous that they are popularly sup posed to be altogether lacking. In floral mythology red flowers are supposed to be derived from sacred blood. Thus the red anemone Is said to Imve originated from the drops of blood which fell from Christ's wounds. K. I.'. rVlllVKKHS, Cashier. John H. Cot belt It. H. Wilson tiEO. W. BOY I), (ieneral Passenger Agent. "Division" In Pnrllnment. When a division is called a bell rings to enable all SI. P.'s to collect from the smoking room, the library, etc. Then the outer door is closed, and the speaker puts the question. There is a shout of "Aye!" and of "No!" on which he declares that either the one or the other "has It." If this be challenged he says, "The 'ayes' to the right, the 'noes' to the left" This means that the "ayes" and the "noes" go into re spective lobbies. This takes some time, for they go leisurely. When at length they are both within their respective pens all the doors leading to them are closed, and after a minute or two the one door through which the prisoners In each lobby are to make their exit Is opened. Before reaching the exit they have to pass on either side of a desk at which two clerks sit and check off on a printed list of members those who vote. After this they pass In single file through the exit door, which Is a few yards from this desk. Just out side this exit door stand two tellers, one representing the "ayes" and one the "noes." Their business Is to call aloud one, two, three, four, and so on, as the members pass. Consequently for each division four tellers are nec essary, two for the "aye" lobby and two for the "no" lobby. London Truth. An Old Family goelety. The Buchanan society, as the name denotes, Is composed of Individuals of the name and clan of Buchanan and is the oldest named society In Scotland. It was Instituted in Glasgow so far back as 1725. At a friendly meeting of some of the name of Buchanan held there on March 5 of that year the fol lowing proposal was made: "That the name of Buchanan, being now the most numerous name In the place, and many poor boys of that name, who are found to be of good genius, being lost for want of good education, a fund might be begun and carried on by the name, the interest of which In time might enable some of them to be useful In church and state." This society has since gone on with almost uninterrupted success. It has attained a position of high Importance and is of great practical use. London Notes and Queries. Nana Are Shrewd Shoppers. "Most people take It for granted that when women enter a convent they lose 111 sense of the value of worldly goods," said a member of a dry goods firm in discussing the patronage of re ligious houses. "As a matter of fact, nothing conlcj he further from the truth, and nuns are recognized every where in the trade as shrewd purchas rs. Hard buyers, the trade term, might be applied to many of them. Having taken the vow of personal pov erty, they are nevertheless as canny as any business men when it comes to a business proposition or an Invest ment of the moneys of their order, and It Is a well known fact that some of the most farsighted real estate investments of the United States arc made by the superiors of religions houses. Like most feminine customers, nuns change their minds, and wo are frequently called upon to take back or exchange goods which have been purchased for habits, veils or household supplies. Some firms make a specialty of re ligious trade, and separate apartments are fitted up where the sisters can rest examine the goods and trans act business 'far from the madding crowd.' "New York Press. That All Anxious Inquirer Miss Do Mude, do tell me what Is to be the correct thing for summer wear at the seaside re sorts this season. Fashion Authority The usual coat of tan. Chicago Tribune. Jumping; Jack. Oh, Jack he said to fair Louise, "To love me will you try?" And when she gave his hand a squeeee high. were they Hla spirits But fair Louisa Bhe said to Jack, "My answer must be 'No!' " And when she gave bis presents back His spirits they were low. PUZZLED THE SHARPS STORY OF THE CLEVEREST OF ALL THE COUNTERFEITERS. ! The Taylor-Bredell Crowd Originate ed a Scheme Thnt limited the Secret Service Men For Years They Even Mnde Counterfeit In .fall. I The men wh.i make Uncle Sam's treasury notes soiuclimes achieve won ders In the way of finished workman ship. Yet any experienced secret serv ice man will tell y m that the counter feiters' device is n surprisingly simple one In most Instances and in what is perhaps the most famous of all cases of this kind the Taylor-Hredell case In Philadelphia in 18!MS-I7 an apt illustra tion Is found ol' this fact. That case was run down by Chief Jolm K. WllUie of the secret service and Ills men until the two arch conspirators were 'safely in Jail, and still the counterfeiting con tinued. The crowning feature of the whole story came when It nppeared that Taylor nud Bredell actually coun terfeited twenty dollar bills In the Phil adelphia jail and sent them by Taylor's brother as a confederate to be worked off on the outside. That they could do this Is one thing which secret service men will point to when they say that tounterfeiting is really an amazingly simple undertaking. Yet Arthur Taylor and Baldwin S. Bredell, expert engravers and chemists of no mean ability, hit upon a device for duplicating the currency of the land that marked a new epoch in the history of counterfeiting In tills country. In the middle nineties at the Philadelphia sublreasury one day there turned up a "Monroe" hundred dollar bill on which the red seal on the face nppeared to be altogether too light In color. Otherwise the bill was to all intents and purposes perfect. But It wouldn't go through witli the light red seal, and It was sent to Washington for examination. There the government experts took it, sub mitted It face and reverse to every known test without being able to de tect through any of the recognized symptoms the counterfeit, and final ly, as the last resort, split it, to find to their great astonishment that the "Mon roe" $100 was as a matter of fact the halves of two one dollar bills which had been split, as one splits a bit of birch bark, and pasted together again. Many mes before had split bills lieen discovered by the department, but almost Invariably the workman ship on the face and back bad borne some defect that gave away the coun terfeit immediately. In this bill, how ever, no such defects were traceable. The myriad lines which the geometric lnthe had apparently put In the border about the figures and the printing were so near like the lines which bona fide lathes had put In the borders of hon est currency that no clew was offered, even on a second and third inspection, to tlie nature of the new counterfeit. The letters themselves and the general printing work 'on the bill measured tip with the letters and figures on the original to the last fraction of a milli meter. The portrait was a perfect re production, and, generally speaking, the bill was as near "the real tiling" as it could possibly be all but the red seal; that wasn't dark enough. So they started up In Philadelphia the most notable counterfeiting hunt of the cen tury, and when a warning hail boon sent to all banks and other large han dlers of money and to the stibtreusu ries throughout the country various other "Monroe" hundred dollar bills turned up with the light red seal in the corner. Several of them were traced to a well known race track, and finally a man naincd Taylor, who generally made and paid his debts by hundreds, came undir suspicion. Yet the princi pals In the case could not be penned down, and It was evident that this Taylor who passed the money was sim ply a subordinate In the gigantic swin dle. So the government men bided their time. But they took Arthur Taylor, n broth er of the race track spender, and his associate, Baldwin S. Bredell, under surveillance. Mouths passed. The newspapers which had taken up the case at first dropped it, and so far as any one knew the mystery of the "Monroe" $100 was In a fair way to go down In history unsolved. Chief Wilkle's men, however, never for a minute lost sight of Arthur Taylor and Baldwin Bredell, and finally they fol lowed them on a trip to Lancaster, Pa., where they had a conference with the firm of Jacobs & Kendig, cigar manu facturers. As a result the revenue stamps that went on the Jacobs & Kendig cigar boxes were rather care fully examined by the secret service men. and the arrest of everybody con cerned, including Taylor, Bredell, the cigar manufacturers, ex-Assistant Dis trict Attorney Ingam of Philadelphia ind a Philadelphia lawyer named New Itt followed. One thing that puzzled the govern ment sleuths even after the arrests was the fact that the counterfeiters appeared to have -no very extensive plant, riates were found of the "Mon roe" hundred dollar bill and also of a "Lincoln" fifty dollar bill, so perfect thnt the government tliauked their stars that none of them had been put Into circulation. Various preparations of acids' were discovered nNo. but noth ing to explain how the remarkably ac curate reproduction of the engraving could have been brought about Final ly A. E. Francis, an expert In photo en graving, who had worked with the gov ernment men before, was called Into the case, ntid as a result of his Investi gation a theory was formulated that held together throughout the trial and resulted in the conviction of Taylor and BredelL Francis discovered that the men bad a preparation which would remove the green bik from the reverse of a now bill. Tills explained how they got the Daper on which their counterfeits were made, for, having washed out the backs of two bills, it was possible to split them and put the two clean halves together so as to escape nuy or dinary attempt at detection. The coun terfeiters were then supplied with the government's own paper on which to work, and the presence of the red and blue and green hairs in the woof of It, intended to act as a safeguard against the very thing they were doing, be came their greaest protection. The next thing was making the pinto, and it wiis this that had puzzled the vrot service men worst. Francis fig ured out, however, that if an ordinary copper plate were sensitized by the common photographic process it was the simplest thing In the world to ap ply to it one-half of a split bill, with the engraving down toward the plate. When this had been exposed to the sunlight for a sufficient time that por tion of the plate which djd not fall beueath the lines of the engraving be came hardened, while the ink on the bill left a myriad of lines exactly fol lowing those ttflilch the government geometric lnthe had made in the gen uine certificate. It remained now only for the counterfeiter to put the plate in n bath and allow the acid to eat its way into the copper surface in an exact reproduction of the original neg ative. When this was done It was the easiest thing in the world for an expert engraver to touch up the plate wher ever that might be necessary, and, with a supply of the necessary Inks, every thing was ready for the priutlng. 'laylor and Bredell were convicted, but before they could be shipped off to state prison they were held In the Philadelphia jail with a view to get ting them to testify against Iugaiu and Newitt, who had acted as their le gal advisers. It was represented to them also that if they disclosed the whereabouts of auy more plates recom mendations of a commutation of sen tence might be made by the secret service olticlnls, who would thus be re lieved of the worry of running down additional counterfeits. In this shape the matter stood for several weeks un til out at the race track where the orig inal "Monroe" hundred dollar bill had appeared there turned up a new coun terfeit twenty dollar bill that fell short only in the shude of the ink used In printing It. This, like the "Monroe" hundred dollar bill, was traced to Ar thur Taylor's brother, and when he was arrested for it had been thought wise not to take hltn in on the original roundup Taylor and Bredell confessed that they had actually been counter felting the twenty dollar bill while they were In the detention section. of the Philadelphia Jull waiting to appear as witnesses against Ingam and New itt. The process was much the same as had been used In tlie first Instance, ex cept that Taylor, who had been figur ing all the time to discover a washing solution that would remove the black Ink from the face of a bill us well as the green Ink from the back of it final ly hit upon a formula that . would ac complish this desired result. As he was confined In the detention seeliou, It was possible for bis brother to visit him, and from night to night Taylor figured on his chemical formula and sent the symbols representing It out by his brother on slips of paper to be compounded at a chemist's. Test nft er test was made of the fluid that the brother smuggled back in little vials until the final result was reached. Then It was only necessary to make a plate by the old process und print on a hand press, so small that Taylor was able to carry It around In his pocket, the Jail made twenty dollar counter feits. Taylor and Bredell confessed after ward that their intention in getting up this new series of bills was in the .be ginning merely to get up n plate which they might turn over to the secret service men in consideration for a com mutation of sentence, but when the bill Itself turned out so well the temptation to "spend" a few of them became too great to resist, and the brother took up the old trick of passing them off at the race tracks. Taylor and Bredell went to prison. So did Ingam and Newitt. New York Times. A Grecian Monastery. A traveler In Greece tells how he took shelter during a snowstorm in the mountains within an Isolated mon aster' called Our Lady of the Defile: "We looked and felt like scarecrows. The monks piled high the wood fire in the guest chamber and served us with coffee and the liquor called masticha. Nlcolai, our boy guide, would not par take. He stood in tlie doorway, far from the fire, millng. Ouce he laughed outright. I was seated upon a couch supported by what I Imagined to be a heap of skins. Suddenly they moved, und a corpulent, black bearded monk rlowly rose from beneath me, rtiblied his sleep dazed eyes and started around. Then he placed his hands dolefully upon his stomach, sighed and asked a question, of which the Inter pretation was: 'I am 111. Is there a doctor here!' I offered him a cigarette, nnd when I added a quinine tabloid he sighed again and said, 'You place a burden of gratitude upon my shoul ders which all the years of my life will be too short to remove.' " What Was Taking Him. A Catholic priest of an eastern city is fond of telling a story nt his own ex pense. "I was coming out of church one day," he says, "and directly In front of mo were two old women who did not know that I was within ear shot. 'And did ye- know, Mrs. MtilK gnn, that Father Blank was going to Europe?' said one to the oilier. 'In dade, I did not, thin, Mrs. McS.wlpes. An what's tnkin' him there?' wa9 the Immediate query.. 'My 10 clnts and your 10 clnts, Mrs. Mulligan, and that's what's tnkin liiiu,' replied the Informa tive d:tme, vrltli n significant toss of her gray head." RECKONING TIME. The Watch of the Man In the Street la let by the Stars. Tine is a perennially interesting sub ject. Before tlie chronometer In tlie jeweler's window a procession is con stantly passing. The banker pulls out his $700 repeater, compares It with the chronometer and moves on. Tlie office boy with just as much dignity consults the dollar timepiece thnt bulges his lit tle waistcoat. Both are equally under the spell of time. As most persons know, England sup piles the world with that valuable but Impalpable commodity, thnt purely ar bitrary tiling which we call time, Tlie meridian of tlie lloyal observatory at Greenwich Is the point from which tlie day of the civilized world is reckoned, but In America the United States Naval observatory In Washington determines Greenwich time and distributes it by telegraph. In the end the watch of the man in the street Is set by the stars. Out of the vast number In the heavens there are some 000, visible either to the eye or the camera, which are known to be practically Invariable. The astronomer selects one of them. Through the transit instrument a telescope pointed at the meridian he watches, telegraph ic key in hand. On tlie lens of the telescope are eleven hair lines. The center one marks the meridian. As the star crosses each of these lines the operator presses his key, the wires of which connect with an automatic re cording clock called a chronograph. This shows at what tlmo the star crossed the meridian. Astronomical ta bles determine the time nt which It should have crossed. Comparison of the standard clock with these tables shows whether or not tlie clock Is right. , The time Is distributed at noon. Throe minutes before 12 o'clock thou sands of telegraph operators sit In si lence waiting for the click of the key which shall tell them that the "master clock" In Washington has begun to speak. At one minute before 12 It be gins, beating every second until the fifty-fifth. Then, after the pause, comes n single bent, which marks exact noon, and for another dny the world knows thnt It has the correct time to the fraction of a second. Youth's Com panion. A FEW DON'TS. Don't be reckless, especially In your lying. Don't give to the Lord and then go out and rob a widow. Don't acquire the borrowing habit, or the day will come when you will run out of friends. Don't marry an indolent man expect ing him to brace up, or you may have ta take In washing to pay for the brace. Don't be so mean minded that you can see no good In a man. Ho may be the first to loan you money In time of need. Don't lay up everything for a rainy day and go hungry all through life. Besides, where you are going it may never rain. Don't spread butler on both sides of your bread Just because you have $3 in your pockets. An earthquake may come along and shake the change out of them. Denver News. Development of n ( hick. The development of n chick within tlie egg is one of the most wonderful things In nature. At the end of the fifty-eighth hour of Incubation the henrt begins to beat, two vesicles are seen nnd a few hours later the auri cles niso appear. On the fourth day the outlines of the wings may bo per ceived and sometimes of tlie head also: ou the fifth day the liver is visible; on the sixth other Internal organs appear. In 100 hours the beak Is fully formed: In 200 hours the ribs are clearly devel oped; In 240 hours the feathers are vis ible; In 208 hours the eyes appear; In 288 the ribs are completed nnd the feathers ou the breast; in 3110 tlie lungs, stomach nnd breast have ns rm;:ed u natural appearance. On the c'.gM.'sntli dny the first faint piping of flic chick Is sometimes audible. Noisy Old London. Modern cities ure not as noisy as !lue of other days. For example, in I .am' on in tlie time of King George II. '.lie rtreets were still cobbled and tlie pad; horse of Elizabethan memory had !s?on replaced by heavy carts and wag ons. Barrels of beer and he.ivy casea were draggeil about on drays of Iron without wheels, nnd to add to the tu mult heavy signs In Immense frames of ironwork hung out in front of shops and houses and croaked Interminably. Street cries never censed for a moment oil day. All tlie smaller necessaries, such as plus, thread, string. Ink, straps, fish, milk, cakes, bread, drugs, herbs, matches, were hawked in the streets. The Modern Way. "My dear, you must really take Fred dy in hand about the way he uses slang. Today he asked me what en tomology was, and I told him the sci ence of bugs." "Well?" "Then he asked me If an entomologist was a crazy man." Baltimore Ameri can. . A Good Answer. A shopkeeper had for his virtues ob tained the name of "the little rascal." A stranger asked him why the appel lation had been given to him. "To distinguish me from the rest of my trade," quoth he, "who are all great rascals." London Mail. Proved. Stella Professor Lee says candy is a c-ure for fatigue. Bella That's true. A man who brings me chocolate never makes mo as tired as a man who does not. narper's Bazar. Wanted GIRLS To learn Winding and Quilling. Apply Enterprise Silk Co. Peoples SawgsBank awoo"? PITTSBURGH. Banking by Mail. Our plin of receiving deposits by mall appeals especially to those who have never had a bank account, hut, who would like to lay aside foi the inev itable "rainy day," thereby providing for those who are near and dear to them. Bend for booklet, Ranking by Mail. m itt. f Leech's I Planing Mill West Reynoldsville jjj Window Sash, Doors, Frames, Flooring, I STAIR WORK Rough and Dressed Lumber, Etc., Etc. Dt Contract and repair work given S prompt, attention. Give us your order. My are reasonable. prices W. A. LEECH, Proprietor. DISTRICTJEPORT. Annual District Report op School Directors of West Reynolds ville District for the School Year Ending Monday; June 4, 'Oti. Whole number of schools. . . 4 Average no. months taught. 8 Number of male teachers employed 1 Number of female teachers employed jj Average salary of male teachers per month 5 00 Average salary of female teachers per month 40 00 Number of male scholars.. 79 Number of female scholars. 103 Whole no. In attendance.. . 182 Average dally attendance.. 124 Average percentage of at tendance po Coat of each pupil per mo. .. 127 Number of mills levied for Bchool purposes 6 Number of mills levied for school building purposes 2 Amount levied for school purposes 1,112 61 Am t levied for school build ing purposes 825 01 Total amount levied 1,437 52 Receipts. Stats Appropriation 649 65 Hal. on hand from last year 210 11 From Collector 1,333 48 From County Treasurer. ... 4 73 From all other sources 12 00 2,282 27 Expenditures, Building & fuiiiish'g house 106 97 Reparing 17 50 Teachers wages 1,517 00 School text, books 34 91 School supplies lss 43 Fuel and contingencies... . MSB Fees of Col. and Treasurer. 77 30 Salary of Secretary 21 00 Other expenses 78 60 2,155 tltl Cash on hand 10(161 Am'tducdlsi.fmnllsources 14 44 Total resources 121 05 P. J. Wahi Collector, In acceunt with the Bchool District West Reynoldsville, Pa. DR. To bal. due on 1002 and 1003 duplicates 8 "2 I 6 72 CR. By am't. exonerations 5 31 iiy Treas. receipts 1 41 DR. " '" To bal. due on 1M4 dup 76 08 76 08 CR. By am't exonerations 6 20 By 5H Col. on W9.8M 3 411 By am't Treas. receipts 66 311 76 08 DR. To am't due 1905 dUD.school 1,112 51 To am't 5 added on 8125.85 9 20 1.118 80 CR. By am't, of exonerations. .. 6109 By 5 rebate on t76.22 33 91 By 3 Col. $ on Srt7S,22 20 35 By 5 Col, on t J46.45... . . 12 32 By 5 Col. on I02.01 5 10 By Treas. receipts 970 69 t , , 1.1" 3ft Bal. due 14 4V DR. To am't due 1905 duplicate school building 325 01 To sm't 5$ added on 33.02. 1 65 326 fl CR. By am't exonerations 9 81 By i rebat e on t!16.49 10 82 By 3 Col. on $216.49 6 49 By it Col. on Va,(. 3 M By 5 Cot. on IS.31 1 27 By Treas. receipts 204 99 Audited June 4th J. W. Campbell, I .,.. A. J. Wells. f Auditors. If you have anything to sell, try our Want Column. nW--, e , . , tf-?oris"asjssssisi4sJ.V O
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