A PREHISTOltlC ROAD THE OLDEST MEMORIAL OF HUMAN ACTION IN ENGLAND. Older fcr r'ar Than the Roman la tke Ancient Wlachater-Canterbry Hlshirar. Which Conata Ita Ace hj Thousands of Years. There runs from Winchester to Can terbury a prehistoric track which Is probably the oldest memorial of men's actlou in England. It is certainly old er than the Itomans that is, it is cer tainly 2,000 years old, and how niuch older it may be than that we have no way of telling, but we do know that Winchester and Canterbury must have been the two great centers of the na tional life In the old barbarian times before the Komans came, and we may therefore suppose without too much temerity that this road Is almost co eval with tho existence of organized human life in Great Britain. Two years ago I explored this road thoroughly. The whole distance Is about 120 miles, and of that one may say that antiquarians had discovered, before my friends and I understood Its thorough exploration, about three-quarters. Of the remaining quarter some part was doubtful and tho rest un known, but this unknown part did not make ono continuous stretch. It was pieced in, ns it were, along the length of the way, a bit here and a bit there. ' Tims ono would have ten or fifteen miles along which the old British road corresponded with tho modern high way; then would come perhaps two miles of doubtful lane, the history of which had to be read and the direction noted before one could bo certain that it was really part of the old road; then after that would come, say, half a mile of pure waste heath or marsh or for est, In which nothing but a most care ful examination, the records of old anps, the evidence of place names, and jo forth, helped one to identify the 'raek of the British way; then the highway would appear again, coincid ing with the old trail, and so forth, long known or obvious Mis i- iming In between short doubtful or unknown blfs, until after Infinite pains we built up the whole of the original track with the doubtful exception of n few hun dred yards. It may interest my readers to know what causes chiefly preserved this road and what have tended to Its oblit eration. The causes which preserved It were three. In the first place. It ran for the main part along the chalk hills which .are known as the North downs, just above the level of cultivation, and chalk is an excellent preservative for a road of this kind. It takes the Im pression of passing trnllio, the weight of which makes a sort of platform along the hillside. It Is not ptisy to cultivate, and people do not build upon Its heights. Moreover, chalk does not wash away, so that such a road, once formed, would remain for centuries. The second cause which preserved the road was tho system of turnpike which wag Introduced, I think, about 200 years ago and lasted until our own time. Men naturally tried to nvold the turnpike if they were on horseback or If they were drovers, and they would turn off the good turnpike roads of the BUSINESS CARDS. JUSTICE OP THE PEACE, Pension Attorney and Real Estate Agent. RAYMOND E. BROWN, attorney at law, Brookville, Pa (j m. Mcdonald, ATTORN EY-AT LAW, Notary iiuhlic, real estate agent, patents htfCured, collections made promptly. OITice hi Syndicate building, lleynoldsville, Pa. W. C. SMITH, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,' Justice of the peace, real estate agent, col lections made promptly. Office In Syndicate building, Keynnlrisville, Pa. SMITH M. McCUEIGHT, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Notary public and real estats agent. Col lections will receive prjmpt attention. Office In the ReynoldsvUle Hardware Co. building, Main street, ReynoldsvUle, Pu. JJR. B. E HOOVER DENTIST, Resident dentist. In the Hoover building Main street. Gentleness In operating. )R. L. Ik MEANS, , . DENTIST, Office on second floor of tbe First National ba.uk. building, Main street. DR. R. DeVERE king, ' DENTIST, office on second floor of tbe Syndicate b ulld Ing, Main street, Keynoldsrllle, Pa. PRIESTER BROS., UNDERTAKERS. -Black and white funeralcars. Main street. y molds vllle, Pa. J. H. HUGHES, UNDERTAKING AND PICTURE FRAMING, The U. B. Burial League has been tested and found all right. Cheapest form of in surance. Secure a contract. Near Public Fountain, UeynoldBvlIle Pa. D. H. YOUNG, ARCHITECT Corner Grant and Fifth sis., Keynolds vllle, Pa. JOHN C. HIRST, CIVIL AND MINING ENGINEER, Surveyor and Draughtsman. Office In Syn dicate building, Main Btreet. WINDSOR HOTEL, Philadelphia, Pa. Between 12th and 13th BU on Filbert St. Three minutes walk from the Reading Ter minal. Five minutes walk from the Penn'a K. R. Depot. European plan 11.00 per day and upward. American plan S2.00 per day, Prank M. Schelbfey, M Hanger. valley,' where they had to pay at every gate, and go along the old free road above the hills. And, thirdly, the pilgrimage to the tomb of 8t. Thomas at Canterbury, which sprang up about TOO years ago, powerfully helped the survival of the road. Winchester was beginning to fall into decay when this pilgrimage arose, and Canterbury was no longer a very important town, but when thou sands of men bud occasion to go from tho west of England to Canterbury on a pilgrimage Winchester became the natural meeting place, and the road from Winchester to Canterbury once again grew in importance. Churches and villages sprang up along it, tradi tions and legends begun to cling to It, and one way and another the memory of It was saved for history nud for ourselves. I have said that there were many places where tlie road was almost or entirely lost. The main cause of this wns cultivation. As the population grew denser It became necessary to plow up the poorer land high up on the hillside, ami as these old roads were not metaled In any way tho moment their surface was plowed up no trace of the road could possibly re main. Another cause was the forma tion of the' great parks which rich men began to inclose and to wall around about ISO years ago and later. If a rich man took u fancy to a bit of ground which used to bo common and through which tho old road went tie would put a wall round it and turn it Into a park and divert tho right of way by a special act of parliament round his new property. There are examples of this till ulom; the old road as, for Instance, at Lord Stanhope's park at Chevoning, at the I.evoson Gowers' place at Titscy, at Lord Ger ard's park at Eastwell and many other places. The old road would also lie lost over marshy ground, and now and then, but very rarely, modern buildings would appear on it, and then, of course, It was impossible to track it out unless one could get a record of what the ground was like before the buildings were erected. London Black and White. Golden Sllonce. Mother You're very fond of your dolly, aren't you, dear? Little Mary Yes. She's nicer than anybody else I know. Mother Oh, no! She's not nicer than your mamma surely? Little Mary Yes, she is, 'cause she don't never 'sturb me when I'm talkln'. Catholic Standard and Times. THADDEUS STEVENS. Hla Sanaa of Hnmor and Hla Vnoaten latlona Charity. Many a joke is credited to Thaddeus Stevens, who led the Republicans In congress during tho civil war and the troublous times after. One of the very keenest of his Jests, which Is undoubtedly authentic, Is so Totnmonplace in sound that one might easily be forgiven for falling to take in Its meaning. In bis last days David Reese and John Chauncey, two em ployees of the house of representatives, used to carry him In a large armchair from his lodgings across the public grounds, up the broad stairs of the capltol. "Who," he said to them one day, "will be so good to me and bear me In their strong arms when you two mighty men are gone?" Such a question Implied nothing short of a sense of intellectual Immortality. When he had taken to his bed for the last time a visitor told him he was look ing well. "Oh, John," was the quick reply, "It Is not my appearance, but my disap pearance, that troubles me!" One day a member of the house of representatives, who was noted for his uncertain course on all questions and who confessed that he never Investigat ed a point under discussion without finding himself a neutral, asked for leave of absence. "Mr. Speaker," said Stevens, "I do not rise to object, but to suggest that the honorable member need not ask this favor, for he can easily pair off with himself!" One anecdote always remembered In connection with Stevens illustrates his unostentatious charity. A beggar wo man met him one morning as he was limping to tho house. "Oh. sir." she said, "I have Just lost all the money I had in the world!" "And how much was that?" "Oh, sir, it was 75 cents." Ton don't say so!" be replied, put ting a five dollar bill In her band. "And how wonderful It Is that I should have found what you lost!" Philadelphia Press. Foods That Make Yost Fat. Potatoes, peas, baked beans, fata, sweets such as puddings, pies and cake ale, beer, sweet wines and even water, when taken with meals, all conduce to obesity. But in lieu of tbe foregoing flesh producers one may sat isfy hunger with a moderate amount of lean meats, poultry, fish; with fruits (excepting figs, dates and baunuus) and with vegetables, such as spinach, string beans, eggplant, celery, beets, etc. I would recommend also that those overfut from a too rich and too gener ous diet abstain from much liquid at meals, but that they drink copiously of water between meals to flush their sys tems. Water, be it remembered, Is an excellent purgative. G. Elliot Flint in Outing. Xot Buried Yet. "There bus never been any decisive action on that bill you introduce year after year." "No," answcretl tho statesman. "That bill lias been of such value In giving me prominence that I should rather re gret to see it removed from active con troversy and buried in the statute Irfxks."-Wuslilugjqu gtar, WEBSTER AND MONEY THE GREAT DANIEL WA8 CARELESS IN FINANCIAL AFFAIRS. H Tranbled Himself Little A boot What Ha Owed nr About What Oth ers Owed Him The War the Famoas Orator Charmed Hla Creditors. As often as nature makes a demigod out of a man she tacks on to him some badge of infirmity, some sigu or token by which the less favored of the race may know that he is not absolutely re moved from them, but is, in certain ways, co-heir with them In common humanity. The "godlike Daniel," "expounder of the constitution" nnd father of the sentlmuut of American nationality, whose eloquence tho "applause of lis tening senators'' did command, was mighty careless about his financial ob ligations, seldom troubling himself about what he owed or about what others owed him. The late Erastus Corning and Web ster were warm friends, and thereby is explained the fact that once upon a tlmo Sir. Corning Indorsed Mr. Web ster's uofe for a considerable amount. As tilings go In this world notes must sooner or later come due, and when this particular note readied maturity It went to protest. But Webster was the "great expounder," and the firm, not wishing to embarrass hliu, paid It. Time passed, and when it was sup posed that Webster's financial condi tion was improved Mr. Corning was prevailed upon by the firm to ask Web ster if he could make it convenient to liquidate the claim. In auswer to Coming's letter Web ster sunt a note abounding In apologies for the trouble he bad put his friend to, and wound up with a most cordial Invitation to tho gentleman to visit him, when he would probably be in a position to pay him, or, at least, to give him some sort of satisfactory se curity. Coming nccepted the Invitation and went to see the expounder. In due tlmo Corning returned home, delighted and charmed with his visit to Marshfield. Entertaining his partners with en thusiastic accounts of the groat states man's hospitality and with descrip tions of the various incidents of his visit, Corning forgot to say a word about the nut in object of the visit. Finally, after Corning had exhaust ed himself In describing the good tlmo he had had, a member of the firm broke In with the remark, "Well, I suppose Mr. Weiister was highly pleased to be able to pay the note." "Highly pleased to pay the note!" re sponded Corning. "He didn't pay any note. lie not only did not pay the note, but lie so charmed and delighted me that he got me to sign another note for him for $5,(XK), nud I am thankful thnt he did not ask me to make It $10,000, for I don't think I could have refused to grant his request." An old Bostonian who knew Web ster well told me some years ago the following story: A Portsmouth (N. II.) tailor had a bill against Webster for several hun dred dollars. When Webster was elected United States senator, the tai lor went down to the "Hub" to see him about bis bill, thinking that he was then In a fair frame of mind to pay It. When the Portsmouth man got to Boston, Webster was holding a levee, at which were gathered the most dis tinguished men of tho nation. Presenting himself at the door, the tailor was denied admission on the ground that Mr. Webster was engaged with affairs of state and could not be disturbed. The tailor sent up his card, which Webster no sooner saw than be or dered tho gentleman to be ushere'd Into his presence. Receiving the man with a cordial hand shake and a look of supreme be nignity, Mr. Weiister Introduced hliu, one by one, to the illustrious company, dined him and wined him, and in the course of time the guests, Including the Portsmouth num. departed. Upon reaching home the tailor was asked If he got the money for his bill. "Money for my l;"l, the mischief!" he replied. "Mr. Webster treated me like a lord. Introduce ! me to more big folks than I ever sivv before in all my life, and do you Hrvpnse I could have ths heart to men'ioii thnt bill to him?" New York American. A Itaactual Artist. One well known and decidedly Inar tistic quality of Lord Leighton was his punctuality. He was once In Damas cus and was urged to remain there, but he declined. His reason was that be had to be In London on a certain day because he had made an engagement with his model. A friend was anxious to learn whether Lord Leighton had ac tually kept this engagement, and he found that when the artist was as cending the staircase straight from Da mascus the model was knocking at tbe door of the studio. Hla Weakneaa. "Alas!" confessed the penitent; man, "In a moment of weakness I stole a carload of brass fittings." "In a moment of weakness!" ex claimed the Judge. "Goodness, man! What would you have taken If you had yielded In a moment when you; felt strong?" Judge. Contradictory. Jack You should have seen Miss -Waldo. Ilor eyes flashed fire, and Arthur That's funny. You said a mo ment ago that she froze you with a glance. Judge thyself with a Judgment of sincerity and thou wilt Judge others With a judgment of charity. Mason. AN INGENIOUS SUGGESTION The ttueatlone br Wblrh a Yoaas Unyer Won Hla Case. At the Metropolitan club In Washing ton a group of lawyers were discussing the value of expert medical testimony when a well known criminal lawyer was reminded of a curious case in Richmond some years ago. "At that time," said the lawyer, "about the most prominent physician In the community was an exceptionally learned and utile medico whose name for obvious reiisons I cannot give. For the purposes of this story It will suf fice to refer to Id in ns Hr. Morgan. "Now, Dr. .Morgan one morning re ceived a visit frpui a young friend, very recently entered upon his practice before the liar of Richmond, who hail Just been retained In his first Importairt case. Naturally lie was very anxious to win In his maiden effort, and it was with reference to certain phases of the case that lie sought the advice of his old friend the doctor. "The .voung lawyer explained to the doctor that he was greatly perplexed. It was a poisoning case, and the youth ful attorney had been retained to de fend the prisoner, a young woman of whose Innocence he had no doubt. It was, however, the lawyer explained, not an easy tiling to prove the girl guiltless of the crime. " 'An Intelligent motive can easily be assigned for the crime by the prosecu tion,' said the lawyer, 'for the reason that her husband, the murdered man, was elderly, rich and III tempered to a degree that made her life a burden. Moreover, the wife Is the only heir. Now, I have reliable information to the effect that counsel on the other side will otfer medical testimony to show arson I en 1 poisoning.' " 'You say thnt j-ou are positively convinced of the young woman's inno cence?' " 'Positively,' was the young lawyer's reply. 'The girl Is innocent, but the cvldenco is overwhelmingly In favor of the state. It will be ensy to prove that the pair lived unhappily, that It was an uncongenial marriage and that the traces of arsenic were found in tho old man's body after n suspiciously sudden death.' "The case looked like a bad one. Dr. Morgan was very quiet and thoughtful for some moments. Then he said: 'The medical experts will probably produce In court the glass tubes containing tho drug. You must ask them whether they tested the tubes fur arsenic before they experimented with the fluids.' " 'I see the point,' eagerly Interrupted the youthful lawyer. 'Ami If they should admit that they neglected to make that test?' " 'Then you will put your question In this form: "I i not ;;iv- nic u ;ed !n the manufacture: of s k!:ii!n .;' glass?" ' "The lawyer acted on t!ie iii"t suggestion. The principal meii'cil ex pert seemed taken by snrpr! o mi 1 finally admitted, after tome :ieii;.,; about tho bush, that he had not t 1 the tubes for arsenic. lie M a i al io Induced to concede that ar.se!! :c -.a sometimes used In certain kind.) of glass. "The young counsel, having obtain ed these two answers, wan clever enough to cease bis cross examination at that point. "When he came to the summing up of the case he dwelt at length upon the possibility that the arsenic bad been 'sweated' out of tbe glass and said the neglect of the experts to test the tubes should certainly be considered as vitiating to a large degree. If not wholly, tho medical testimony. "Well, tbe young woman wus ac quitted. As the other evidence was purely circumstantial, the acquitting verdict was given mainly because tho dangerous force of the medical testi mony hud been weakened by the old doctor's iugenlous suggestion." New York Herald. Mint nnd Money. We all know that a place where metal Is coined is called a mint, but why? Is It not a strikingly curious fact that the two words mint nud mon ey are made from the same Latin word? Yet It is not more so than many other facts disclosed in the study of etymology. There Is very com monly a close connection between the history of events and the making of the words most prominent In the rec ord of that history. Mint is the name of a place for making coins simply be cause when the need of such a name was first recognized the place used for their making happened to be tbe Ro man temple of the goddess Juno, one of whose surnames was Moneta, said to mean literally "adviser." Is Anglo Saxon the word had two syllables mynet whlh show Its origin more clearly than tbe monosyllable mint does. Money Is called moneta In Ital ian and monnale in French, and the French name for a mint Is "hotel des monnales." A Great Earthquake. Probably few people are aware that the greatest earthquake our country has experienced since its settlement was the now almost forgotten earth quake of New Madrid, the first tre mors of which took plnce on Dec. 16, 1811. Strange is that trait of human nature by which even tho most appall ing of nature's manifestations slip rapidly from tho memory, so that only a hundred years later little but tradi tion remains of the earthquake which changed tho configuration of exten sive areas of the Mississippi valley, raising some portions, depressing oth ers, shifting tho course of streams nnd draining old swamps at one point and forming new lakes at others. All this nnd more, however, took place during the successive vibrations which shook the New Madrid region almost con tinuously for a period of many months In 1S11 and 1812.-M. L. Fuller in Pop ular Science Monthly. HANDLING MEN. Directing Others la Bnalneaa De mands Tact and Abliltr. Business men often fall because they dp not know how to handle men. They can do their own work all right, but they are failures when It comes to Di recting others. They lack tact, diplo macy. Many men antagonize others; tbey lack patience, lose temper, fly to pieces over little things. And no man is a good leader who cannot control him self. A great many business men seem to think that It takes a deal of driving, scolding, fault finding, to get the best out of others. It Is, however. Just the opposite. Employees never give up their best In response to forcing meth ods. I know a young man who promises to lie a leader In his line who Is as quiet and gentlemanly In his methods as a modest woman. Ue never raises his voice, never gets nngry. When an employee needs correcting, Instead of scolding or nagging he sits right down and shows him or her Just how to do the thing. lie tries to help them out of their dllllculty, not to confuse them. He does not need to scold, because ev erybody respects him, admires him and knows thnt he Is always trying to do the fair thing, to give a square deal, that he wants only what is Just right and there Is nothing arbitrary In his methods. The result Is he does not need to storm around his establishment and use abusive, profane language. He knows there Is a stronger force, a bet ter way than that. The result Is that he has perfect discipline. Not one would think of taking advan tage of him or trying to deceive him, because he Is so kind, square, true. I know another man lu business near by him who ndopts Just the oppo site method. He storms and swears, scolds, nags, goes through his estab lishment like a bull through a china shop, making everybody feel moan and disagreeable. Nobody respects blm. He rules by brule force, keeping every body cowed nnd afraid of him. They obey him and let him Impose upon them in order to nvold a scene or for fear they will lose their positions. If an olllce boy or stenographer mnkes n little mistake he will go all to pieces, fly Into a rage and make it very un comfortable for everybody about him. People waiting In the outer office often hear loud talking and most abu sive language In his private office. But he is not nearly as successful as his quiet, unobtrusive neighbor. Ho never thinks of recognizing one of his employees on the street. The other man always lifts his hat to the humblest girl In his employ and has a pleasant smile for everybody, be cause he feels an Interest In every body nnd they nil love him. Success. The Vision of Inaecta. A notable fact about the vision of in sects and one which It may be sup posed must largely Influence their view of the external world is the number of facets or lenses in compound eyes. A German naturalist, K. Lelnemaun, has been painstaking enough to count the number of facets In tbe eyes ef no fewer than 150 species of beetle. He finds that in the same species and sex the number Increases with the size of the body. There is usually no perma nent difference between the sexes as to tho number of facets. Occasionally, however, the difference is marked, as In the case of Lampyrls splendldula, in which the male has 2,500 and the female .100. One species Is noted which has the extraordinary number of 24,000 facets in its eye. The number of facets Is greater in the rapidly moving active forms than in the more sluggish spe cies. Philadelphia Record. Classical and Romantic Moalc. Classical composers are those of the first rank who have developed music to the highest pitch of perfection on its formal side, and, iln obedience to gen erally accepted laws, preferring aesthet ic beauty, pnre and simple, over emo tional content, refusing to sacrifice form to characteristic expression. Ro mantic composers are those who have sought their ideals in other regions and striven to give expression to them, ir respective of the restrictions and limi tations of form and the conventions of law composers with whom, In brief, content outweighs manner. "How to Listen to Music," Krehbiel. Preserving Leather. Leather goods, if their appearance Is to be preserved, should not be kept in places that are too dry, as tbe heat will cause the leather to crack. Nor in damp places that will make it moldy. To freshen leather chair seats, travel ing bags, book covers, etc., that have become shabby or spotted, rub them with the well beaten white of an egg. Sole leather bags are best cleaned by using ordinary russet shoe polish, cleaning them In the same way that shoes are cleaned. - The Social Whirl. Fair Hostess I want you to take that lady over there by the door In to dinner. My husband says she Is a bit of an old frump, but ns she has money oue of his greatest friends has Just married her for it, and we must be nice to her. (iuest I am sorry, but you see, I am the particular friend who married her. A II Kill's Opinion. Mrs. Style Mrs. Cashe has a great deal of embonpoint. Mrs. Tnrvenu Then If she has a good deal of It, I know she got it cheap. Baltimore American. Life Insurance was Invented by Tas cal. whose "theorv of nrohnhllitlna" and "law of averages" still govern ths business. f 1 jitfdS 4 You cant bikwkTwII t arry on Itfo'a h III h!'!im!M .i ''- if had. JhrMmiQ win) sniirirs ih iortt-tttt of rheuma tism iMfvt-r lit ii eJusr hnad. We almoin lei KitaiuiiU'u Keystone Liquid Sulphur tn rtirr mfry f t-t jm of MiPimiAllAin. 'J'hnitHati' b f per, i tin who iittvn iiHid thhtPini'ity f ii.iiitrr hrtvo boon mr liuiDfinir tiirptl, i ikI n tnal will eon- VllH-H Oll Of ItS WOIlirtTfUl pOrVftrS. it Is Imply' a .irt'iift'Bilim milphur In ltiiitd form -with nil the .uipurltlea found Id tho eruili drnir It ft out. ri hih! $1.00. KEYSTONE SULPHUR CO. PITTSBURG, PA. "i' uTw 'ii'i 'laiirr S.rMiliZalliiZ Htolte & Fotcht limit Oo.( Distributor. GREEN BONE An excellent feed For Your Chickens during winter. It saves grain, produces results where grain fulls, helps the hens to moult and makes them winter lay ers. Try It. We grind green bone and keep It constantly on band at Hunter & riilliren's MEAT MARKET KEVNOLDSVILLB, PA. 1 1 1 a f Leech's . i Planing Mill s West Reynoldsville $ I Window Sash, Doors, Frames. Flooring, STAIR WORK Rough and Dressed Lumber, Etc., Etc. ui y Contract and repair workigiven 5 m prompt attention. ' X Give us your order. My are reasonable. prices W. A. LEECH. FROPRIETOR. pE ENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD... Schedule In Effect May 27. 198. trains leave reynoldsville : For New Bethlehem, Red Bank, and prin cipal intermediate stations, Oil City and Pittsburg, :;, 8:08 a. m, 1:211, :07, 7:58 (New Bethlehem only) p. m. week-days. Sundays ::i0a, m., u. m. For DuBois. Ilriftwood, and principal Inter mediate stations, llarrlsburg, Philadelphia Baltimore and Washington, 6:39 a, m., u:53 6:2ft p. m. week-clays. Hunuays 12:W p. m. For DuBolsonly 11:42 a. m. week-days, 9:5 p. m. daily. w. W. Attsrburt, i. R. Wood, Gen. Manager. fatwenger Traffic Mgr Gko. W. Boyd, General Passenger Agent. Ths dealer who dosen't have DOEBER-HAMPDEN WATCHES may tell you they are not the best. He wants to sell what he has h's human nature. Before buying, ask the dealer who has them. A. Gooder Jewolor awi'qaagi' saaawaar Hade at the grcat WATCH WORKS AT CANTON,OHIO
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