THE NEW SONd. Before my life had tasted pnlh I Bang In pensive, minor key; How Unlit soe'er my heart, my strain For others was a threnody. But since I know the stress of care, I sing of Hope and courage line, That other hearts with loads to hear May sain no added weight from mine. Youth's Companion. PREACHING ...AXD... PRACTICE. By Eben E. Rbxford, in Home and Flowers. Josiar is a man that b'lleves in what lie calls systum. Have a place for things,- says he, an' lteep things in their place. That's where they b'long. Live tip to that rule, an' you'll a'lays know where to find things when you want "em.- An" do things when they need doln". Josiar's ideas are good I ain't a go .in' to deny that but the fact is, he don't jest live up to 'em. He has places, for his things, but the things ain't always there. Only last week he wanted the hammer. Wanted it bad, an' right off, an' the way he went through the house a huntin' for it, au' co!din' 'cause it wa'n't to be found nas a caution. "Have you looked behind the cellar door?" I asked. That's where he made a place for it, an' ordered us to put it. whenever we used it, the ruin nit we'd got done with it. "Looked behind the stiller door!" (ays he, dretful savage. "Wall, I sh'd ay I had! That's where I looked first. That's where I expected to find It where I would ha' found it if you or the younguns had did as I told you 'bout puttin' it back where it t'longs, after you'd used it. I swan, It does make me awful mad to think none o' you'll take any pains to do 's I've told you." v "But I hain't had the hammer," says I. "1 hain't had no use for it. An' I don't b'lieve the children had it. It's most likely where you left it." "Hear the woman talk!" says Josair, an' he jest glared at me. "I'd have you know, ma'am an' you do know that I don't go leaving things 'round as you an' the rest of 'em do. If you'd try jest try to have some kind o' system about you. I wouldn't mind it bo much, but that's the meanness of It, you won't try. You jest set out to be contrary, an' you encourage the children in it If I told you to leave the hammer a lyin' 'routtl, you'll put It up ev'ry time I'd know right where to look for it. Hain't had it? How'd you know you hain't had it? How Iciig'd you remember whether you'd liad it or not? You'd forgit afore you'd tuned 'round. But of course you'd declare, up hill an' down, that you hadn't had it or seen it. It's enough to make a man swear. If I ever find It flg'in I've a good mind to put a padlock on it, an' carry the' key 'round with me." "What Is it you're huntin for now, pa?" asked Jimmy, who'd be'n some'rs on a arrant, an' hadn't heard the rum pus. ' "The hammer," says Josiar, like a, enapin' turtle. "Your mother ays ehe hain't had it, but that don't prove she hain't, by any means. ; Have you Been it?" . "It's up on the scaffold in the barn, where you nailed them boards yes't'dy," eays Jimmy. "You didn't bring it down, when you got through." When I -heard that, I laughed. I couldn't help it, considerin' all Josiar'd said. . He heard me, an' it made him mad. "Oh, laugh, Till ye?" says he In a low, awful tone. "You think it smart to make fun o' me, right afore the chil dren, don't ye? Laugh! Laugh! Why don't ye? But don't carry your foolish ness too fur, for you're fatter'n any one o' your Polan' Chinys, an' it might bring on apoplexy." Then he went out, an' slammed the kitchen door so it 'most jarred the clock off the shelf. All summer the stiller stairs has needed fixin'. There's a board loose an' ev'ril times I've come nigh takin' a fall. I've spoke to Josiar about it tnore'n a dozen times, but he never foi 'round to fix it. We got into the habit o' sayin' ev'ry time any o the fam'ly went down suller, 'Look out fer that step!" More'n once I told Josiar about it, an' ,said 'tain't livin' up to his idees o' doln' things when they needed doln' to let it go so, but he gits contrary if you keep a tellin" him, an' by'meby I see 'tain't no use o' wast in' breath on the matter, so I hain't ald anything to him about it lately. Thinks I he'll be more likely to get Yound. an fix it sometime, if I let him Ve. Wall, last week he began to dig the p'tatoes in the garden, an' when they'd got dried off, an' the children . had picked 'em up, he went to rarryin 'em down suller in bags. He made three or four trips 'thout anything happ'nin, but the last time he went down he happened tojptep jest right on the stair board to give it a flip, an' it flipped, all right, an' down he went. Such a noise as there was! He hadn't tied the bag, but jest hel' his hand 'round the end be'd gathered up, to save a string an' tyln', an' of course when he went down, he had to let go an' the p'tatoes Jest roiled all over the suller floor, an' I Eh'd say be bumped hisself good'n hard on ev'ry step, judgin' by the sound. But the worst sounds of all came out o' his mouth. ' It was relly frightful to hear him. The way he frightful to hear him! He's a church member, in goot an' regular standin', but I don't b'lieve he would be long, If U. , mlnister'c be'n there to neai what he said, as he sot there on th suller bottom an' said things. I went to the suller-way an' looked down. An' says I "What's the matter, Josiar? Has anything happened?" "Happened?'' says he in one o' them awful tones o' his. "Happened? Oh, no. Don't git that Idee in yer head. I wan Jest Flidin' down the suller stairs for fun, of course." He said that sarcastic "Be you hurt?" I asked, "No, of course not," says he. " 'Twouldn't be likely to hurt a man o' my heft to fall the hull length o' them stairs, with a two bushel bagful o' p'tatoes a lar'in' on top of him. Oh, no, I ain't hurt any. Then he groaned jest dretful. "You'd o't to a fixed it," said I. "I've told you about it, times enough. II you'd live up to your idees" "There it goes!" says he. "I knew you'd come in with your everlastln' 'I told you so!' I never knew it to fail. Why in thunder didn't you put me In mind of it when I went to brlngin' In them p'tatoes? You're al'ays a can tiouin' the children-to look out for the sul.er-stairs, but not a word not one so;itary word! did you say to me this mornin' about look'n' out. Wanted me tp fall an' kill myself, an' cut a swell n.V get married ag in, iike's not. Wall, 1 shouldn't wonder if things 'd turn out as you'd like to have 'em. Nigh's I can make out three ribs is broke an' my stummick feels all staved in from strikin' it ng'inst your old soap barrill. Confound it all, Sarah, why can't you put things where they b'long, an' not leave that old barrill right where any body'd be sure to fall ag'inst it or into it, if they fell down, stairs. I never se anybody quite so sbif'less as you be." "If you'll take the trouble to think buck, you'll remember that that's jest precisely where you put the barrill yoi.rself," says I. '"You' knew I want ed it in the corner, but you said you wa'n't agoin' to bother to move it." "Oh, that's right, twit an' fling!" groaned Josiar. "Couldn't you move it yourself, if you wanted it moved, I'd like to know? But tain't anyways liKely I'll be here to be blamed for ev rything, must longer." Then he groaned some more. "If I live through it, I wouldn't wonder a bit if I was laid up all the rest o' the fall. Right in the busy, season, too. "An' you can't get help for love or money. I swan, it nui lies me so mad to think of it! Why in in " "Be careful what ye say," says I. "The children might hear you, an' it'd git out what languidge you'd be'n us in'." Josiar jest snorted.. "Why'n thunder don't you make a bii'ger fool of yourself than natur' did," says he. "But you couldn't do it, if you tried," says he. "I forgot that. But why didn't you tell me to look out for the stairs? Say what's the reason?" and Josiar fairly shouted up the sul-ler-v.ay at me. "You needn't holler eo loud, I ain't deef," says I. "1 didn't tell you to be careful because I didn't happen to think of it, 1 had told yon times enough afore, but you didn't pay any 'tention to what I said. It don't look very well for you to go to callin' me shif'less, Josiar, s'long's you don't see to things when you're told about 'em. It looks to me as if it was a kind o' jedgrcent on you for not practicin' what you preach, an' blamin' other folks for it. Do you want I should get the arnitky, Josiar, or had I better send for the doctor?" I ain't goin' to tell another word o what Josiar said, 'tain't tellable. But he wa'n't half so much hurt as he thought he was, when be come to get limbered up. He fixed up the stairs, I notice, afore he took any more p'tatoes down 'em. But he hain't got very good natured yet. THE "CAMPBELL SYSTEM." It Means Only Exercise of Intelli gence, Care, Patience and Industry, What Western people have become accustomed to calling the "Campbell system of dry farming" consists sim ply in the exercise of intelligence, care, patience and tireless industry. It dif fers in details from the "good farming" methods practiced and taught at the various agricultural experiment sta tions; but the underlying principles are the same. These principles are two in number. First, to keep the surface of the land undelr cultivation loose and finely pul verized. This forms a soil mulch that permits the rains and mejting snows to percolate readily through to the com pacter soil beneath; and that at the same time prevents the moisture stored in the ground from being brought to the surface by capillary attraction, to be absorbed and placing it in the best possible physical condition for the ger mination of seed and the development of plant roots. The "dry farmer" thus stores water not in dams and artificial reservoirs, but right where it can be reached by the roots of growing crops. Through these principles, a rainfall of 12 inches can be conserved so ef fectively that it will produce better results than are usually expected of an annual precipitation of 24 inches in humid America, The discoverer and demonstrator of these principles de serves to rank among the greatest of national benefactors. He has not merely made two blades of grass grow w here only one grew before, but he has made it possible to cover with wheat and corn, alfalfa and other useful crops, tens of thousands of square milos of fertile land on which nothing but sage bush, cacti, Kansas sunflow ers and bunch grass are now found. From John L. Cowan's "Dry Farming the Hope of the West," in the Century. To Cure the Blues. The woman . who eats fluffy flum mery should take a more nutritious diet. The woman who stays home too much should make up her mind to get out every day for fifteen minutes, though the heavens fall. The woman who is entirely dis gusted with her round of daily trivial ity should break away once a week and have some fun, though she has to spend good money in the cause. A Girl's Allowance. How much should a girl's allow ance be? If yours Is smaller than another girl's you foci Just a wee bit abused, as though you were not treat ed well. But, you see, mother gives you what she can, and maybe her al lowance is not as much as her friends find in their purses. Until you are there yourself you fancy that father and mother do not want the things they cannoot have, but I assure you, this Is not so. Very often they want their something quite as much as you want your something. If, then, yon ask how much allowance should; a girl have, I can only say Uiat mother Is the best judge of that. When Engaging a Maid. When engaging a servant be care ful to explain her work to her. Also show her that the work must be done In 5'onr way and not hets,"br the way her former mistress had it done. Whien she does well in her work, en courage her by a few words of praise. Never reprove her in the presence of others, and above all while she is serving a meal. Retain your temper at all times. Give your orders for each day as early as possible, and if it seems necessary write them down very distinctly and clearly on a piece of paper, and fast en it up in the pantry, kitchen "or some other convenient place. See that she is extremely neat In her dress. Hair neatly and simply arranged; no jewelry worn; a perfect ly clean apron, collar, cuffs and cap and a spotless gown. It Is well to give strict orders In re gard td the hours when the servants are allowed to have visitors. Tell the maid who opens the door never, to let the visitors stand in the hall, but to show them Immediately Into the drawing room. Instruct her carefully what she must say in reply to messages left at the door, or when persons who call are not to be admitted. Most persons prefer to have the maid say that "Mrs. Brown is not at home," meaning that she is not at home to callers. It Is purely a mat ter of form, and Is not considered an untruth. However, some persons are scrupulous In this matter, and pre fer to have the maid say, "Mrs. Brown begs to be excused this afternoon." Ideas for the Hostess. Does it worry you to have you hus band bring home some men to din ner? I mean, do you feel afraid ttiat your guest will notice that you have a misfit set of tableware and that your maid is not well trained? Rec ollect that if your guest notices these things to your detriment he Is not worthy of you, says the Philadelphia Press. You are just as good as the best person who could" possibly visit you. If you're not, it's your own fault. Do the best you can with your service, be sure to have your food well cooked and palatably seasoned, and then treat your guest as simply as you know how. If he acts as If he were better than yon, he surely is not as good as you. If he accepts your hospitality in the same spirit In which you offer It, he is all right and you'd better have him out again. But it is not worth while for either you or your husband to bother with people who cannot accept your ways of living. If the man who Is coming out awes you because he is rich, try to remem ber some ancestor-of yours who made the world better worth living In. If your guest awes because of his cul ture remember that you are trying to make life worth living to your hus band and your children (perhaps you're out, but you really ought to). But if the man who is coming awes you because of his blue blood, remem ber that "kind hearts are more than coronets," and tell him his grand mother was a monkey. It'll break the Ice. The Destiny of Women. The first requirement in the ideal of a woman is that she shall be a satis- , fled woman and that she does not at all wish to be anything but a woman. The creed of pisslmism and despair is, "It were better not to be!" yet I would give no more for, "I would greatly have preferred to be some thing else!" Woman should not be satisfied to accept herself at this valuation, though that, doubtless is better than to revolt against her fate; but she shoitld ap praise herself, feel the high dignity of her position, recognize the advan tages of life under the special form in which she receives it, and which, in nobility, is equal to that bestowed upon man. In a word, woman should have the courage and pride of her sex. We often meet yciing ladles who would like to be boys. In speaking among themselves of certain others of their set they say: "There is a girl who ought to have been a boy; she Is a boy lost!" There Is no harm In this inasmuch as it is no more than a joke and a fashlcn of speaking. It amounts to saying that certain young girls have altitudes which ordinarily are charac teristic of young boys. But these have never prevented a woman from being truly and gracefully womanly. What we wish to Indicate and stig matize here Is silly scorn of that which we already possess; a refusal to put It Into operation, to employ it and the dangerous Illusion which lies In think ing that we should have done greater work in this world If God had wished to make us something other than that which he has desired. Pastor Wagner. Woman Guarded Treasury. When the followers of Salvador raided Malolns one night they avoid ed the treasury . building, and well they might, for seven Americans well armed, stood guard and not the least among them was Mrs. Goodheart, a plucky American woman, who armed herself and stood prepared to join in the defence of the building should the outlaws covet the provincial funds. The town of Malolos, Province of Bnlncan. was taken by surprise by a band of iadiones. It was certainly a bold and tinting deed to perform, es pecially in the capital of a province. At about 7 p. m. they entered the town from the western quarter, ap parently unarmed, but It turned out that they were armed and ready for a good fight if necessary. The , first thing that they did was too bolo the sentry and take his gun and ammuni tion from him. Then the gange of about twenty men rushed the cuartel and had a hand to hand fight with the few that were below. It was an easy matter to overcome them. Then thev rushed on up stairs and quickly captured the guns, which were about twenty-five In number, with about twenty belts of ammuni tion. Next a short fight took place, which lasted about twenty minutes. The killed and wounded. are consta bulary, two killed and two wounded seriously and .some wounded slightly. The treasury was quickly guarded by about six or seven Americans and Mrs. Goodheart, an American lady, who certainly deserves credit for her cour age. She armed herself and was ready for anything that might happen. Fashion Notes. An afternoon gown of gray taffeta is embroideded with gray silk that ex actly matches. A small amount cf embroidery In Persian colorings is permisslbte on white serge costumes. Square and diamond shaped crowns are occasionally seen on the lingerie hats, but are less favored by the 1906 summer girl than the full tarn or gathered ruffle crown. Lavemler gloves for men's morning wear hpve come In again, says London Men's Wear. They come high and they don't last long two distinct advan tages from the glover's point of view. (Ribbon embroidery Is fascinating work because such realistic and beauti ful effects may be obtained with the materials used, and because the de signs develop so rapidly under skilful fingers. Black and white is very becoming to the black-haired girl, especially if she is blessed with a clear skin. Many young women of this type have dis covered this and are not slow to take advantage of the vogue of the combi nation. 'The best girdle for the stout figure Is black, whenever that is permissible with the remainder of the toilette, with double points at back and front. Many stout people, however, will wear no other waist circlet than the plain, narrow, close-fitting belt. Lace bows or butterflies wired so that they stand up crisply are grow ing In favor tor hair ornaments. A bow of filmy val is charming for an elderly lady's evening hair ornament, the daintiness of the lace adding seem ingly to the beauty of the soft white hair. "Storm" coats of cream colored sat in are so beautiful that the name seems almost absurd, but the material is shower proof. .and they are really very serviceable for evening wear and to slip on over handsome afternoon toilettes that require protection from the dust. PEARLS OF THOUGHT, Don't save your money and starve your mind. Vigorous thought must come from a fresh brain. "Keeping alive that spirit of youth," Steven-scn used to say, was "the it eni:ial spring of all the mental facul ties." A man may build a palace, but he can never make of it a home. The spir ituality and love of a Vioman alone can accomplish this. Tens of thousands of people fail be cause they love their ease too much. They are not willing to put themselves out, to sacrifice comfort. If we are contented to unfold the life within, according to the pattern given us, we shall reach the highest end of which we are capable. By proper training, the depressing emotions can be practically eliminated from life, and the good emotions ren dered permanently dominant. Every time you crowd Into the mem ory what you do not expect it to re tain, you weaken its powers, and you lose your authority to command its scvlces. No lifo amounts to much until it has a program something definite, something particular. Nothing e!se can take the place of it. Education can not, talent can not, genius can not, hard work can not. Until there is a definite aim, the energies will run to waste, the ability be squandered. The faculties deteriorate when working without a definite aim. Business Is not only a great clvilizer of nations and of peoples, but also the greatest edncator 'and developer of character in the world, for it is a per petual school, a great life university where we do not go to recite and hear lectures for three or four hours a day for a few years, but where we are con stantly studying and practising, almost from the cradle to tho grave. Success Magazine. WORK OF THE WINDS. Moving Sand Dunes That Eury Vil lages and Shoal Sounds. The prevailing winds from a little west of south have rippled the hetero geneous sands on Halterns just south of the cape, on Shackleford at Its souhtwest extremity, and on the south west 'Side of Smith's island. These wind ripples, started in sands exposed by the removal of a strip of forest next the shore, have grown in size to great sand waves, which are advanc ing on forests, fields, and homes. As tho sand wave has 'advanced it has taken up several feet of the loose soil over which it has passed, undermin ing houses, laying bare the roots of trees and exposing the bones of the dead in the cemeteries. Diurnal winds from ' the sea have piled the sands into small wandering dunes and hillocks, and even some times into sand waves, which are marching steadily inward and shoal ing the waters of the sounds. At Nag's Head a largo hotel, constituting a solid obstruction,1 soon had a sand wave built up a short distance in its rear until the level of its roof was reached, when the wave moved for ward and engulfed the hotel. In the Immediate neighborhood two cottages suffered a similar fate. Here the land gained on the sound 350 feet in ten years. On the northern end of Hatteras isl and a fishing village had been similar ly buried, while the sand has entirely crossed the Island at several places north of the cape. This movement of the sand was started just after the civil war by the cutting of trees next the shore for ship timbers, and the section Is still known as the Great Woods, though not a Btick of timber stands upon it today. Pamlico sound for two miles from the Hatteras shore Is growing steadily shallower from the deposit of blown sand. On Smith's island a pilots' village has been buried beneath the sand wave for a number of years, but this has been quite recently resurrected, and its houses are again occupied. On Currituck, below Caftey's inlet life saving station, the sand has advanced entirely across the land, and one man, moving before the advancing sand, has at last built his house on piles In the sound. National Geographic Mag azine. Romney's Many Pictures. George Romney is an artist whose popularity, although the man himself has long been dead, seems to increase every year. Eight of his canvases went for four figures during the sea son just closed, and one of these, which brought 130,000, was quite ac cidentally discovered rolled up, much creased and t soiled with dirt In a house in the north of England. Rom ney is believed to have painted nearly 1000 works, chiefly portraits, and sev eral that have appeared In the sale room of recent years have been brought to light in the most improb able places. Roman Altar Discovered. ,A perfectly preserved Roman altar, four feet In height and o fsquare form ation, has been discovered at the site of an ancient Roman camp at New stead, near Melrose, England. An in scription upon It in accurately chisel ed Roman letters, reads: "To the great and mighty Jupiter, Carolus, cen turion of .the Twentieth legion, the valiant and victorious, cheerfully, will ingly and deservedly raid his vow." Bid For Matrimony. "An advertisement from the York shire Post: "Would any laify of means care to marry a poor, crowded out clerk, aged thirty-seven?" ENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. Sc hedule In Effect May 27, 1900. trains leave reynoldsville : For New Bethlehem, Kid Bunk, and prin cipal Intermediate station, Oil City and riti.hiir,0:W, 8:(W a. Di, 1::!'. 8:07, 7:." (New Bethlehem only) p. m. week-dayg. Sunday e.illi ii, in., 4:20 p. ni. For Hullois. llrlftword, and principal inter mediate stations, ilarrisburc, Philadelphia Baltimore and Washington. 6:39 a. m., l2:5i t:S5 p. m. week-days. Sundays 12:19 p. m. For I Hi Hols only 11:42 a. m. week-days, 9:S p.m. dally. V. V. ATTEHBmY, .1. R. Wood, Gun. Manager. Passenger Traffic Mgr Cir.d.JV. Hovd, General Passenger Agent, BUSINESS CARDS. JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, Pension Attorney and Heal Estate A font. RAYMOND E. BROWN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BltOOKVlLLE, Pa g, M. Mcdonald, ATTORNEY-AT LAW, Notary public, real estate spent, patents teemed, eollectlotiK miKle promptly. OttlcB In Syndicate building, Ueynoldsvllle, Pa. C. SMITH, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Justice of the peace, real estate atrent, col lections made promptly. Office In Syndicate building, Keywildsvlllc, I'u. SMITH M. McCREIGHT, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Notary public and real estate agent. Col lections will receive pr.impt attention. Office In the Keynoldsvllle Hardware Co. building. Main street, Keynoldsvllle, Pa. DR. B. E. HOOVER, DENTIST, Kesldent dentist. In the Hoover building Main street. Gentleness in operating. DR. L. L. MEANS, DENTIST, Office on second floor of the First National bank bulldlim, Main street. DR-R- DeVEREKING, DENTIST, V,, office on second floor of the Syndicate build Inp, Main street, Keyuoldsville, Pa. PRIESTER BROS., UNDERTAKERS. Black and white funeral cars. Main street. Reynoldsville, Pa, J, H. HUGHES, UNDERTAKING AND PICTURE FRAMING. The V. 6. Burial Leu cue. has been tested and found all right. Cheapest form of in surance. Secure a contract. Near. Public Fountain, Keynoldsvllle Pa. D. H. YOUNG, , ARCHITECT Corner Grant and Fiftn its., Reynolds, ville, Pa. JOHN C. HIRST, CIVIL AND MINING ENGINEER, Surveyor and Draurhtsinnn. Office in Syn dicate building. Main street. WINDSOR EOT EL, Philadelphia, Pa. Between 12th and 13th 8t on Filbert St. Three minutes walk from the Reading Ter minal. Five minutes walk from the Peno'a K. K. Depot. European plan 11.00 per day and upward. American plan t!. (XI per day, Prank M. Sctieibley, Manager. Lubacrlbc for The -X- Star if you want the New ft i Leech's f i Planing Mill I $ West Reynoldsville i Window Sash, Doors, Frames. Flooring, 3 ' STAIR WORK Rough and Dressed Lumber, Etc., Etc. S Contract and repair work given 2 prompt attention. m Give us your order.' My prloes J are reasonable. W. A. LEECH, Proprietor. m ' Picture frames? PICTURE FRAMES Splendid line of picture frames. Just what you afe looking for. Call and see our samples, make 3our selections and get our prices and you will be surprised how cheap you can buy a pretty frame. M Hughes & Main Street. Plemiuo I
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