VOLUME 15. REYNOLDSVILLE, PENN'A.. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1906. NUMBER 24. Prralia Light OItIb Animals. A peculiar llsht giving nnlmnl found In southern Cullfornlnn waters is the heteropod. The heteropods, duzxllug white and. almost shapeless, cun ofteu be seen floating on the clear water. Their bodies are almost trnn.tpnreut, and they have In addition to it long tail a powerful sucker, by which they cling to seaweed. When these crea tures are Irritated they seem to emit a light from nil over the body, tlnugli one writer describes one In which the light red In this case seemed to radi ate from' the center of the nnlimil. Of all the light giving animals the snips. Is said to be the moat wonderful. 1,1 lie the heteropod, this animal is provided with claspers that enable It to fasten to seaweed and rocks. 80 plentiful are ' they In Callfornlan waters that the Santa Catallna channel, which Is from . eighteen to twenty miles wide and about forty-five miles long, Is at times literally covered with them as far as the eye can reach. Covering the entire surface and gleaming like gems In the sunlight, they present a beautiful pic ture. These animals constitute a del icacy much sought for by whales. Some of them shed a silvery light, while others yield blue and others red light Rivers That Flow Backward. Near Argosto.ll, a town on one of the Greek Islands, four little torrents of aea water, rolling on an average flfty- V Ave gallons a second, penetrate Into the fissures of the cliffs, flow rapidly Viand and finally gradually disappear Y the crevices of the soil. Two of lie water courses are sufficiently Aerful to turn all the year round the yrtvheels of two mills constructed by f an enterprising Englishman. , Tills I seems at first sight absurd on the face f of It, but It Is quite easily explained. The hills of the Island are of soft, cal careous rock, full of fissures, and suck up water Hke immense sponges. In consequence the pools In their subter ranean caverns are always lower than the surrounding sea, so to restore the balance these little brooks, fed by the wave, are always descending Inland. The carious yet natural result of the constant evaporation of the sea water Is that gigantic masses of silt crystal:! are constantly forming In the caves. Strand Magaslne. Korea Is perhaps the oldest country In the world, and the customs and ac tions that go to make up the daily life of the people are not at all governed ly the logic or tradition which moves tit on our enlightened way. They have no clearly regulated sports, nothing ap parently that could be likened to a national game. They pass most of their recreation hours swinging In straw rope swings and seem entirely happy In the sport The straw rope. If well made. Is extremely durable and can stand considerable weight, as may be Judged when three ablebodied young men Impose their weight upon the swing, standing on the shoulders of one another after the manner of acrobats. It may lie very tine pastime, but the averave American, It Is safe to sty, would find In It very little appeal. The Old Greek Dlvaro Law. . A clergyman was lailln; against di vorce. "We ought to have the divorce law that was enforced In ancient 3reece," he said. "If that old Greek , -clause was tacked to every separation, I am persuaded that divorces would foil off 00 to 70 per cent. This law -was that when a man got a divorce he could not under any circumstances marry another woman younger than . his ex-wlfe. Au Innocent law, a brief law, not much to look at, but how many divorce suits would be nipped -. in the bud If all husbands knew that after the separation they could not marry younger women than the wives .they had cast off!' Philadelphia Bulletin. Water on the Veld. Water Is sometimes very scarce and precious on the South African veldt according to a writer, wUj says: "In our veldt cottage we had no well, only large tanks, and about August onr condition usually became desperate. If you washed your hands you carried "the precious fluid out to pour It on some thirsty plant or vegetable; the bath water the same, port of It being first saved to scrub floors. Cabbage and potato water was allowed to cool aHd then used for the garden or to wash the dogs in first, so that these waters did three duties." Enthusiast to lif End. An enthusiastic French physician, while dying, made careful observa tions of bis condition, detailing his symptoms to his son nnd attending physician In order that they might make a record of them. At the very end, when he wns on tbe point of pass ing away, he surprised the friends at his bedside by saying, "Yon see I am dying." Helped Ont. The Father So you think you con support my duughter? The Suitor I'm quite sure I can, sir, If you will help ,us out. The Father I'll help you out all right all right! Whereupon the suitor dashed madly down the front steps with the father a close second In the race. Cleveland Flaln Dealer. THE AMERICAN BISON. Ulllluns of llnffnloe Onre Raaared the WeMtern Plains. The early explorers who describe the buffalo numbers do not give us any thing more exact than superlative ex presslous, such as "countless herds," "Incredible uuiuliers," "teeming myr iads," "the world oue robe," etc. I have endeavored to get at a more ex act Idea of their numbers. The total area Inhabited by the buf falo was about 8,000,000 square miles. Of this the open plains were one-half, According to the figures supplied 1110 by A. F. Totter of the forest service, the ranges of the Dakotas, Moutanu Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Colora do, Texas and Oklahoma (a total of about 750,000 square miles, or half of the plains) were, according to the cen sus of WOO, carrying 24,000,000 head of cattle and horses aud about 0,000, 000 head of sheep. This means that when fully stocked they might sustain a number of buffalo at least equal to the number of cattle and horses. The buffalo hnd to divide their heritage with numerous herds of mustang, an telope and wapiti. On the other hand, a buffalo could find a living where range animal would starve, many of the richest bottom lands are now fenc ed In, and we have taken no account of the 0,000,000 sheep. Therefore we are safe In placing at 40,000,000 tho buffulo formerly living on the eutlre plains area. Their prnlrle ranse was a third as large, but It was vastly more fertile Indeed, the stockmen reckon one prai rie acre equal to four acres on the plains. Doubtless, therefore, the prai ries sustained nearly as many head as the plains. We may safely set their population at 80,000,000. The forest region was the lowest In the rate of population. For its 1,000,000 square miles we should not allow more than 6,000,000 buffalo. These figures would make the primitive number of buffalo 75,000,000. Many other calculations based on different data give similar or slightly lower totals. From these facts It will appear very safe to put the primitive buffalo population at 00.000,000 to 00. 000,000. Ernest Thompson Seton In Scribner's. JUSTICE OF THE HEARTH. A Standard That Mlht Weil Be - Adopted br All Soeletr. Over the dinner table a husband was telling his wife of the financial mis dealings of one of their social ac quaintances, a wealthy and popular man. He had contrived the ruin of a certain company and Its subsequent reorganization, a process which bad put money Into his pocket and taken money from Innocent stockholders. The husband touched the facts light ly, because he thought that a Woman could not be Interested In them or un derstand them in detail. This wom an's understanding throughout her hus band's narrative was occupied with one or two simple questions. "I. ho to be punished?" she asked. Tuulslied? How? Ills conscience won't punish blm indeed, be probably thinks he has obeyed fie rr.les of busi ness. The law te -!;n:,-ni!y Is broad enough to cover his ease, Ivtit It Is hard to get evident You see, the 'Islrlot attorney nni.t"- ' 1 "Excuse me for Interrupting, dear. Kxplaln that to me later. I think we shall not dine there next Wednesday. I will write a note to Mrs.' Berry." "Not dine then? Why not?" "Because he Is not 11 fit man to re ceive In our house or for m to visit." "But nonsense! He's Just ns good a fellow. Just as respectable" "One minute. By your own words you prove that he Is a wicked man, taking what Is not his. I listened to your story until there could be no dou'.it that yon yov.rse:? condemned him by the facts, which I do not un derstand. If what you say Is true he and I meet no more as equals." And her Judgment stood. Of course ber neighbors and friends pursued the usual course of ncceptlng a man In social' relations whom their husbands distrusted In business. But the standard of the hearthstone shall it not some day be the standard of all society? Youth's Companion. "Dead" Leaves Not Dead. Leaves do not fall from the tree be cause they are "dead," which wo may take as equivalent to saying because they are 110 longer receiving the con stituents of their being from the sap and from the air, but as a consequence of a process of growth which devel ops Just nt the junction of the lent Mem with tbe more permanent por tion of the tree, certain corUlike cells which have very little adhesion, so that the leaf Is very liable to be broken nway by influences of wind and changes of temperature and of mois ture. Ills Guna. "What would you do If yon had a million dollars handed you?" "Well, of course I can't say precise ly, but the probabilities are that I'd become mean and grouchy, break oway from all my old friends and put In the rest of my life trying to skin mankind out of another aiilllon." Phll adeluhla Bulletin. Tho Endless Procession. A myriad of men are born. They la bor and sweat and struggle for bread; they squabble and scold and light; they scramble for little mean advantages over each other; age creeps upon them; Infirmities follow; shames and humilia tions bring down their prides and their vanities; those they love are takeu from them, and the Joy of life Is turn ed to aching grief. The burden of pain, care, misery, grows heavier year by rear; at length ambition is dead, pride Is dead; vanity Is dead; louring for re lease is In their place. It comes at hist the only uupolsnued gift earth ever had for them and they vanish from n world where they were of no consequence; where they uchleved noth ing; where they were n mlstahe mid a failure aud a fooli dnitMs. Thtw t.iey have left no sign that they !..:ve ex isted 0 world which will 1-rment them a day and forget thorn for.-ver. Then another myriad takes t'liM- pl.tc1, and copies all they did, and g ie.-i along the same profltle-is road, and vanl dies as they vanished to make room for an other, and another, and a million other tnvrbids, to follow the nnuie rrld path through the same desert ruj aeeom pll.di what the first myriad and all the myriads tliut came after It re ompllslied nothing. From Mark Twain's Auto biography In North American Review. Oriirla nf tlie llnllmta. The word balloon means "a large ball." To Monl jlller of Annonay, France, the Invention of tho balloon l. credited. It Is said that he was led to turn his attention to balloon making from the following Incident: A French laundress, wishing to dry a petticoat quickly, placed It on a basket work frame over a stove. To prevent the heat from escaping by the opening at the top of the pettlcout she drew the belt strings closely together and tied them. Gradually the garment dried and became lighter, and as the stove continued to give out heat and rarefy the air concentrated under the basket work frame tbe petticoat began to move and Anally rose In the air. This bo astonished the laundress that she ran to her neighbors and asked them to come and witness the strange sight. Montgolfier was among those that came in. The petticoat suspended in midair suggested greater things to him, and he returned home with "something to think about" He at once began studying works on differ ent kinds of atmo-pbere, and tbe In vention of the balloon was the result. , No I!scnse Accepted. French officials nre said to be par ticularly strict In their discipline of tourlstg. A lately returned traveler tells several more or l"-s apocryphal stories to Illustrate the state of affairs. An American lost his fojting, slipped down an embankment a:ul fell Into a small, shallow pond. As he scrambled, dripping, up the embankment to Die footpath he ' was confronted by an arm of the law. "Your name? Your nddrcs?" de manded this uncompromising periiou, notebook In hand. "But I fell," be ::n the astonished American. "I only' The man waved his arm. "It Is for bidden to bathe In this lake," he said firmly. "I am not here to listen to extenuating circumstances." A Quotation. A correspondent wrote to a newspa per to ask the author of this couplet: How much the fool who has been sent to Rome Excels the fool who has ben kept at home! He had barely written when he an swered his own query, having found the source of the II vim and how he bad misquoted them. T' cy ure from Cow per"s "Progress of Error" and read: How much a dunco that hath been sent to ronm Excels a dunce that hath been kept at home! Wo are not sure but that, as Is fre quently the case with misquotations, the popular version is better than the poet's. New York Tribune. Brains of Great Men. Brains of great men vary very much. It Is found that men of encyclopedic mind have lnrge and heavy brains Gladstone had to wear a very big hat with an enormous bed of gray matter and numerous convolutions. On the other hnnd, men whose genius Is con centrated upon one line of thought are of small brain and, consequently have small bends. Newton, Byron and Cromwell were In this class. Kanso City Journal. v i f ! " . . J I V ' ' Scene from "The Rollicking Girl." A Complete Stock of Fall and Winter Merchandise. You can save many dollars by buying qavgepJJ right and stockB sufficiently large from which you can select suitable for your needs. Special for A Week. We have secured a line of 104 Cotton Blankets which we are offering at a bargain. We could get only one case assorted Plain White, White with Pink and Blue border, Gray and Tan while they last A complet line of Underwear in all grades. ' We can supply you with anything you can use. Cloaks, silts and Furs. We have new Coats iu Ladies,' Misses' and Children's coming in every day. Do not delay your buying. You will need a wrap later, when you will find it very hard to get what you want. Good styles are selling every day. We have also an unbroken line of Suits yet, but this line will also be broken in sizes shortly. Get your suit now. We have Just received our Furs and are showing all the newest things in this line. We believe we have the best for the price that the manufacturers of Furs have turned out this year. Corner Main and Fifth Streets Meeting of Stockholders. You are hereby Informed that the annual mciMlnjt of the stockholders of tbe Bummer vllle Tolenbone Uomounv will be held at the oflloe of tbe C'onipiiny, on Muln Street, in the HoroiiKb of Summervllle, on Wednesday, the Utb day of Jnuimry, A. D. 1WI7, at the hour of ten o clock A. M., lor tne purpose or eii-ciins u Board of Directors for tbe Company for the ensuing year, and for the transaction of su'li other business as may properly come before said meeting, and a meet (nit of the stock holders Is hereby called to convene at the general otllco of the said company on the Dili day or January, iuu7, to ihko action on iip-ni-oval or dlsiinnroval of tho proposed In crease of the capital stock of said company Tniiii s 'IMHNI in . .mm. Anil iiirinui'. uiai action will be taken to provide funds for Increasing the capacity of the plant, lmprov lim im system and nerfecling Its service In such manner and form as mav lie approved by a majority vote or tne stocKiioiuers present. All stockholders are renuestrd tr- be present and vole to approve or disapprove the alaive resolutions winch nave ncun onereu netore the Hoard nf Directors, and to be Hnallv passed upon at the stockholders' annual meeting on lue uaie auove mouviouuu. Dr. J. K. brown, Jos. 8. D ahhond, Trosldeut. 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