0 Consolation (Orlu-iiMll "There's rrnpe on tin1 t'iilttendens' door," said Mrs. I'rotsler. "t.'i..iuuccy has passed away. I'nur Cliatuicey to have been obliged l endure that woman for so louts: It's a wonder ho lived as lon us he ili.l. Wt-11. 1 Kiip pose I must go over :inil oflVr the usual consolation." Now, there was not only a want of reason for Mrs. Ovist's r.nlng over to offer the "usim: consolation," lnt there w:.s a supoi'!:lt,v of reiiion why Bhe shoi'.hl not tin so. .Mrs. Cressler had herwlf been Mr?. Chl'rendon and by good rights should h wc been the Widow. Hut she had tired of (.'hltteu den, sent hlni off and k ( ::red a divorce on the ground of ile.ertiju. On the day the divorce was granted she had mairied Tim Cressler. Chittenden, who had been forced to desert one wo man, clung t aii.it':er anil married her. Cressler win still living with Chitten den's fir- wife, but report s:iid that he was very abusive, the reports ema nating from tils wife, and If he did not mend his ways he, too, would be forced to desert her. Mrs. Cressler's Inten tion was to offer Mrs. Chittenden that kind of consolation which Satan would give a soul he had purchased that Is, he would thrust It Into hell. "Good morning, Mrs. Chittenden. I have thought, considering what we have both been to poor Chauneey, I would come over and offer my sym pathies. Notwithstanding his faults he was too good for most women." "lie was too good for me," said the widow demurely, "but I suppose he wasn't good enough for you. Mrs. - Cressler. or he wouldn't have left you." "I was glad when I saw that you and Chauneey were getting on so well to gether. There was too great a gap between hiro aud me. Chauneey was not a smart man." "His first wife was." "It Isn't that I was very smart," said Mrs. Cressler modestly, "but Chauneey was very dull. lie needed a wife of very moderate Intellect." "Yon were fortunate In getting an other husband the day you got your divorce from the one that deserted you," said Mrs. Chittenden. "Maybe instead of luck It was smartness." "I didn't want poor Chauneey to suf fer from thinking I'd take him back." "It was very kind of you not to make him suffer any longer than he did." "There wasn't any time If I hadn't been married that he wouldn't have been glad to return to his sufferings." "Then It must have been lucky for him that you were married." "We'd see about that some day, only In heaven there's no marrying or giv ing In marriage." "How Is it In the other place? Do you think you're going to have him there T "I'm not going there, Mrs. Chitten-' den, nor Is Chauneey. If there' mar rying there you'll have to look out for a new husband." "You'd have both Chauneey and Tim Cressler In heaven, only there's no more bigamy there than marriage." Mrs. Cressler was not getting ahead in the game. Her thrusts were vigor ous, but they were parried with great skill. There was one thing she had come over for that thus far she had not gained a knowledge of what funds Chittenden had left his widow. She had a vague hope that the law might look kindly upon her aud consider her a fraction of that widow. "I hope Chauneey left you comfort- , able, Mrs. Chittenden." she said lu a tone to Intimate that she would like to get back to her purpose of offering con solation. "It's you he's left comfortable," re plied the other, "because he was noth ing to you. He left me uncomfortable because we were everything to each other." "They say you made a frugal wife and he left a penny or so In the bank." "He did, and to his widow." "There's alimony due me." "I hope you may get It." - "If it's due the law '11 allow It." "Yes, If It's due. Yon got your di vorce at noon and married at 1 o'clock. There's alimony for one hour due you." "I suppose It wouldn't look well for me to come to the funeral." "Chamicey's funeral, so far as his first wife is concerned, occurred long ago." "Of course I'd like to show my kind ly sympathy for you. The neighbors might .think it queer of me to be here, but It would show them that I'm not malicious." "Oh, .they know you haven't any grudge against me. Why should you have? It was I who made It easy for you. Chauneey was well enough satis fied with the desertion plan after be met me." "H'm! They all know that I wouldn't stand him any longer." "He told me he was afraid you would." "I'd hnve Just liked to hear him say that In the flesh." There was a step ia the back room the room where Mrs. Cressler supposed the eon i m was lying a man's step, and wl'.'i ' hould walk Into the room but Chnun.vy Chittenden. "I.;'k ii mercy!" exclaimed Mrs. Cress ler. "! thought you were dead!" "Thii s the fellow In the other flat." "Vv'l "i have you beeu lying to ro for t! is v. .iy, Mary Chittenden?" , . "I h,iv...,'t been lying." "AvA rr'i, Chauneey Chittenden I a ways 1ji 'iglit you were nbove eaves dropji'.ic " 'V cur; i.jb can't eavesdrop. I am onlj a corps" m far ns you are concerned. I neaid what you thought of me alivo Ions ;,;:. I'm glad to hear what yon. thin!; o: l ie dead." Mvs. f.' .easier flounced out MARION MAY HOLT. SHORT STQRIES. A little soap beaten tip with milk and flour Is added to bread by some bakers for the sake of lightness. A soldier who stuttered wns recently cutvd n the Philippines by being shot through the throat by a Mauser bullet. The cost of the army appropriations for l!)0(l-0? Is about the same in Uer mnny ns in France, $l5tt,tHK),H. In Great Britain it Is $144,!)K7,(HH); lu the United Htntes, $71.MT.1Uft. American tourists spend nearly 4, tXIO.oilO a year In Kgypt. The number of visitors exceed 10,000, of whom 00 per cent come from America. The average sojourn Is two months. South Carolina's efforts to promote emigration from Europe hnve already borne substantial fruit lu the decision of the North German I.loyd company to operate an emigrant vessel directly from European ports to Charleston. Tho Canadian government has not Is sued a loan since IS!)", but It must soon go Into the market to meet a se ries of maturing loans and to raise money for the construction of the gov ernment portion of the new transcon tinental railway. In Belgium a servant Is engaged on probation for eight days. If In this time she does not prove satisfactory, she can be dismissed without notice. If she Is retained beyond that time, eight days' notice must bo given on either side before leaving. ENGLISH ETCHINGS. Four English girls have been arrest ed near Manchester for poking fun at ! an aged spinster's curls. The proposed memorial to the late I Lord Salisbury In Westminster abbey i will be In the form of a recumbent fig ure, which will be placed In the "Del fry." A tobacconist of High Wycombe, England, has been lined every week for nearly live years for opening Ms shop on Sundays. The fines began, at 13 shillings, but are now 7s. M. The popularity of Victoria Vails, Rhodesia, as a winter resort for Eng lish men. and women Is Increasing to such an e::tent t'vit It has been finnd necessary to a-iment the railway service and to Increase the hotel "ac commodations. , The lire department of Nottingham, England, turned out the other day to rescue a cat which tho chief had no ticed for several days on the roof of a house and which wns apparently un able to get down. When the firemen reached the roof the cat retired down an open skylight. PLAYS AND PLAYERS. Owen Wlster, author of "The Vir ginian," Is at work ilpon a dramatiza tion of bis latest story, "Lady Balti more." Reerbohm Tree Is considering re vivals of "Antony aud Cleopatra" and "Macbeth," to be made at His Maj esty's theater, London, during the course of the season. Mine. Schumann-IIeink has been granted the gold medal of arts and sciences by Prince Leopold of Bavaria In recognition of the impression She made at Iialreuth last summer. "The Moon Man" Is the title of a new comic opera, with music by A. Baldwin Sloane, Tho book, which de:ils with the results of modern financial inethixls npplleil to a south sea Island com munity, Is by Campbell Casard, the magazine writer. ' I PITH AND POINT. ! No man Is greater than his smallest act. Bravery is reckouo ! by what we do, not by whut wo"T!mi,'en to do. Men with money can keep their friends by not lending It to them. Nothing takes the ambition out of men more effectually than an easy chair. The average man no sooner gets out of trouble than . he plunges . Into It again. See that you have plenty of sand be fore starting on the road to success, for It's somewhat slippery. There Is no reason why men shouldn't love their enemies as they love them selves, especially If they happen to be their own worst enemies. Chicago News. HOME HINTS. Old sheets, cut In strips, rolled tightly and then fastened with a safe ty pin, make splcn '.id bandages. To clean your . powter, first wash It b very hot water, rub with fine sliver and and when quite dry polish with a leather; - Never put pickles and catchup in any thing that has held grease, and do not let them freeze. If they do they will be entirely spoiled. . . . ' In running ribbon through - beading hnlf the time and annoyance will be saved by not removing the bodkin from the beading until the last hole Is reached. If the ribbon is fed In Utralght It will not turn In the bending by this method. SOME AVERAGES. The average man Is bald at forty. The average minlstVr marries 1,000 couples. The average cat mother blesses the world with 100 kittens. Classes for old ago are adopted on tho average at forty-three. The yearly sale of newspapers throughout tfie world averages 7."0,000 tons. The world's gold mines yield on an average $500,000, or 28,000 ounces of gold, a ycar.--I'hilndelphla Bulletin. ; BREVITIES THE HALL OF FAME. Tom Parr, "the oldest man of mod ern times," was born in England In 1 -183 aud died lu KU5. Kelr Hardle, tho labor member of the British parliament, commenced his tvngo-earnlng career by delivering hot rolls In the morning for a baker, who paid him less than $1 a week. Tho oidy known survivor of the ita i val battle of Navarluo, which took place In 1827, Is still living near Rhydo namely, John Stnltier, who has Just passed his hundredth birthday. Stabler was midshipman's steward on board the Talbot. Miss Constance Uoddard DuBols has Just completed for the University of California an Important Investigation of the ceremonies, myths and religion of tho Indians of southern California In connection with the ethnological and archaeological survey of the state. From his cell In the county Jail, Port land, Ore., 8. A. I). Puter, king of the Oregon land fraud operations, Is to tell In look form tho story of bis part in the looting of the public domain, cover ing a period of fully a quarter of a century all over the Pacific coast. James J. Hill, the big railroad man, has carefully cultivated a knowledge of agriculture with the aid of his model farm near St. Paul. Thus he has been ublc to tell farmers what they can best grow for their own profit, for by doing so they profit the Great Northern road. Dr. Jose Carlos Rodriguez, editor of the Jornal de Commerelo of Illo do Ja neiro, la a wonder. He has been a po litical fighter and an exile, a corre spondent of mauy papers from many countries, and he knows national ns well as International politics thor oughly, i. Dr. Hiram W. Thomas, president of the World's Teace society, In a recent address In Chicago predicted that tho next meeting of the international peace tribunal at The Hague would develop Into a "world's legislature," by which a general agreement upon disarma ment would be reached. One of the very few women lu Eng land qualified to captain a seagoing ship Is Lord Bute's sister, Lady Mar garet Stuart. She Is passionately fond of the sea and, not content with, (he or dinary Joys of yachting, has studied navigation to such purpose that she holds a master's certificate. , The latest "fellow" of the Boyal Bo tanic Society of England Is Baroness von Eckhardsteln, who for years has devoted herself to the study of botany and Is now a recognized authority on certain phases of plant life. The bar oness, who Is a daughter of the late Sir Blundell Maple, spends most of her time lu the country following her fa vorite hobby. GERMAN GLEANINGS. Umbrellas can be hired in Berlin at some of the ships for 2 cents and a deposit of 60 cents. A sausage four feet long and one foot thick formed the wedding cake at a Berlin butcher's wedding. t There lias recently been opened at Dessau, (ieriuauy, n school for Women chemists. Graduates can earn from to $48 per month. Autoiuobllists entering Germany must pay au entrance fee of $:t.C7, good for five days, or $0.r2 for a month. After tine month's sojourn owners must pay the tax for the whole year, ranging from $5.05 for a six horsepower ma chine to $273.70 for ft 100 horsepower siotor. i According to the Kolulsche Zeltung. there are in Germany more Insurance policies than Inhabitants 80.000,000 policies as against a population of un der 60,000,000 which shows that a large proportion are Insured in two or more companies. Th Indemnities paid by the German Insurance companies amount to about $24,000,000 a mouth. EDITORIAL FLINGS. A balloon race has one advantage over au automobile race there is much less likelihood of killing Innocent by standers. Baltimore American. That dry. hacking sound Is Phila delphia laughing as It reads that H. O. Wells, English novelist, calls Boston "a dead city." New York Herald. The future of the American boarding house Is assured. California expects to harvest 110,000,000 pounds of prunes this year. Alliance (O.) Leader. Colorado surgeons cut a man open and found a gold nugget in bis ap pendix. These searchers will go any where in the mad race for gold. Balti more Sun. Dehorned spelling will never do. We "Jernllsts" would never consent to hav ing our time honored slogan converted Into "the pen is mitier than the aord." Peoria Herald-Transcript. MODES OF THE MOMENT. Strapping, both braided and stitched, Is noted on almost all tailor made suits. Eulire street suits of the dressy or der will be made of checked velvet In dark, harmonious olorlngs. Many all black hats arc adorned with ostrich plumes, and some, especial ly the turbans, show tho glint of Jet. Some of the now skirts are Bhirred nt the top, but the Paris style of shir ring all round Is not likely to be a strong favorite lu this country. Tho "Jumper" waist Is meeting with a good deal of approval. Taking, as it does, very little material and needing no great skill In the cutting, it Is a garment that can be easily added to the wardrobe of the woman of mod erate moatns. New York Post. Cuts the As you know fully one-half supply used for fuel and illumination in tnuny cities and towns lieing made from common soft coal. The ordinary stove in burning soft coal allows litis gas half of the fuel to pass up the chimney ' unburned, thus wasting it as a heat producer. Cole's Original Hot Blast Stove, by means of the patented Hot Blast draft and other patented features, distills this gas from the upper surface of the coal, utilizing it as a heat producer along with the fixed parbon or coke in the coal, thus burning all the coal. This is why i i rtf m 'AHA - 1 4! till - Shows Stova VKKTN LKf Burning ftiWtS SOFT COAL Would You Lose $50.00 That is what you do when you buy a cheaply constructed, putty jointed, showy made imitation stove.' Like all successful inventions, Cole's Original Hot Blast has many inferior imitations, avoid them. They all lack the patented features and careful construction, which make the Original Hot Blast a great success. They do not stay tight and soon open seams and cracks which render them worthless as fire keepers. See the name JJ " Cole's Hot Blast from Chicago " on the feed door. None genuine without it The Keystone Hardware Company Near Postoffice. Reynoldsville, Pa. THE BUTCtlEtt "SY. How He llfiiiemlin fit Di.Tprent Petiili In tic S:'in!e. Tho butcher' 1oy w-u : '. a bright little chap th:'.t the fm-: Ii tloor wouimi etigtgvil 1 1 i 111 hi tJi!v.T."ii;ioti while writing out her order.. "You hnve all the H-t.V' of tiil-i liou e, haven't you?" she n i!...i. "Yos'in." "And lo you call f.'.j nil the orders the wnme ns here?" "Yes'in." "And I suppose you , to o ber build ing tooV" "Yes'M, lots of 'em." Tho woman loo!:c;. nt h!:n adtnlr Ingly. "Pear mo." she said, "what n splen did head you nitt.it have to rj; member so ninny things! Dou't yj.i g.-t people mixed sometimes?" "No, ma'am,'' ho siild. "I used to," he added, warming Into speech under her genial smllo, "but I don't any more. Anyhow, I'd never get mixed about the families In this house. I know 'em too well. When the boss toll-: me to co::ie over here and get the orders be doesn't even have to call the fam'HeJ by name. We've g t this building down line, all of U:fellows lu tho sh ip b:;'. because tliere Is always so nii , li music going ou. The first floor folks have n piano, and whon the boss se.ids me tj them he says, 'Go and see what tho piano wanti this morning.' The second floor I: th cornet, tTi V third '.':. :'. and tho fifth Is the banjo. Even tins folks In t'.ie basement go lu for music. Tho boy il-iwn tliere has a moit!i organ." The fourth Uo;ir woman imiled still 1 1 jre broadly. "f have noticed the confusion of : i"nds," she said. "Brit what about i j fourth floor? We have no musical :..8.runieiit at all. What docs the boss ; .:y when he sends you to uV" "Oh, we fix that all riylit," was the uiry reply, "lie says, iust drop In, Willie, and sec what t'nif v.- ;:i uu with tlie foghorn voice ,'vants 1 1 i-iy.' " v And that en. led the co tversatiou. New York I'ress. Toi bote. "Professor , 1 prs. ..jc?" said he. "Yes, sir." "Are you alone-:" "Ye, sir." ".May I lock the du.ir?" And he did so. Then, having satls i I himself that no ore cl-e wns In, l,i placed a lura b.uidle liiao up In a jcllow handkerchief on the table aud o,.cnod It "There, look ut that." "Well," said the professor, "I see it" "What do you call that professor?" "1 call it Iron pyrites." "What" said liio mau. "Isn't thai Fuel Bill ' For Soft Coal, Lignite or Hard Coal the carbon available for heat in Cole's Original Hot Blast Saves the Dollars and makes a ton of common $3.00 soft coal or lignite do the work of $9.00 worth of Your old stove and imitation Hot Blast are not air tight, do not save the escaping gases and do not give you a warm house at night. You cannot afford to say to yourself " My old stove will have to do this winter." The old stove is eating up the price of a new stove every year. Not only that, but on top of the cost is the unsatisfactory result it gives. It . is always out the coldest morning. Even Heat Day and Night Fire Never Out Cole's Hot Blast is so perfect in construction that fire keeps all night, and when the draft is opened in the morn ing will burn two or three hours with the fuel put in the night before. No other stove does this. Fire, therefore, never goes out, and the rooms are kept at an even tem perature all the time. OUR GUARANTEE I We guarantee saving of one-third in fuel over any1 lower draft store of the same size, with soft coal or slack. 1 We guarantee Cole's Hot Htast to use less hard coal Mr heating a given apace than any base burner made with name heating surface. J We guarantee that the rooms can be heated from one to two hours each morn ing, wnn me son coai or naracoai put mine stove the evening before. 4 We guarantee that the stove will hold fire with soft coat j6 hours without attention. V 5 We guarantee a uniform heat day and night, with soft coal,tard coal or lignite. V 6 We guarantee every stove to remain absolutely air tight as long as msed. ? We Euarantee the feed door to be smoke and dust oroof. V i ne Bnnve gunramee is be operated according to directions, aud set up with a good flue. For Hard Coal Saves Hal ' The perfect control over the drafts, the slow economical r k. combustion and the large positive radiating surface make 5 Cole's Orieinal Hot Blast Hard Coal stove made. Cole's Hot Blast is cost in fuel every winter. in Fuel to Save $1.00 on rold?"' -'.N'o," said the proi Oosor; "It's good I r uothlng it's j.y rites." And, putting some In a shovel over t!ie flro. It soon evaporated un thechlm fey. "Well," said 1'ip "CiM-rv;n'y man. v.lth a woebegone look, "there's a wid ow in our town has n whole bill full n" that and I've been and married I er."-Tlt-Blts. Georre" (lame. nastasla Don't you play cards nt .i ' Iuuocentla No, but Oeorge says he's !. ling to teach me after we're married. Aimstasln I suppose he'll teach you i nino or euchre first. Innocentla No. He says there's a 'Tfectly fascination game called "sol : lre."-Cathollc Utruulard and Times. Wliii Jifnllr C'ri. "But don't the repairs on your au tonriblle cost you a grent deal?" we ..ii-sttoned. Xo." he replied as he perused his e::;-rnse book. "Tbe fact Is. .the cost of ;'ie repairs Is -nothing compnred v!'!i the cost of hauling the machine 1 1 the repair shop." Detroit Tribune. Sltolleil In the Mnklnsr. "Nature designed me as a poet," re marked the visitor, handing over a li:a:;iiscrlpt. "Ah! May I ask what yeemcd to In t""' re with natur-'s plan':" replied the editor, returning tl.e paper. Rldgway's M.'tgnslne. The Only TUri to Do. V v j j : Hvri'j,'?l U .:clier Who vent lnt:i tho ni'k? Hobby I s'p ) o everybody did that didn't have umbrellas. Brooklyn Ea gle. Before- TaUlns; "But I thought," complained the sit ter, '.'that you gave your customers thirty days' tlnie."i "We merely permit them to believe that so they will look pleasant." re plied tho photographer. Houston Post. Ysn r in Hal soft coal i& gas, the entire eas hard coal. mane won ine unoersinnning tnflt the store the most economical anil the heat the modem heater and will save its Buy on for your home now. the Cost of Your Stove? OrlarlMl art l'ael iWktV Captain Roger Stem, the father of tbe author of "Tristram Shandy." was the original of t"aol Toby. As captain of Chudlslgb's regiment of , foot, a marching regiment ever on the move. Roger Sterne and his family tasted tbe most varied military and domestic ex-, perlences in Flanders, at Gibraltar and! finally at Jamaica, where the old caui-j palgner died of "country fever." A j simple minded, good natured, but shift-; less and rather peppery Irishman, Rog-i er bore bis disappointment bravely and! carried his load of debt with a light j heart. "My father," says Sterne, "was; of a kindly, sweet disposition, void of j all design and so Innocent in bis own! Intentions that he suspected no one, so! that you might have cheated him ten; times a day if nine had not been sufll-j clent for your purpose." Sucli a cbar-j acter and such a father supplied tbe; germ from whlc'i the genius of the son developed his conception of one of the; most perfect mid delightful portraits In; the gallery of Knglish fiction. Sea aad rteblrih. The theories concerning the possi bility of our having previously existed seem to be endless. Of them all I think the one best which suggests that sex is reversed at rebirth and that when we turn tip eons after we previously ex isted we ilo so either as men or women according tt whether we were women or men aforetime. This largely ac counts for the suffragette and for the long haired, thin voiced creatures who potter around boudoirs, play tbe piano like "sweetly pretty" things and caves' themselves men. Presumably the besf material of which we were fashtonw e Des sitlon. J good then is now used In our composition, for the most manly women and effemi nate men generally have some points about them. But if one keep on jierforming these Trotean feats through nil ages it hardly seems worth while worrying over sex problems. It seems to me. In tbe long run, that we shall each get about equal, according to this arrangement. London World, The nrm.-.rknhle Rhrn. "The ruea of Sorth" America markable bird," oald nn ornltholo; lologWB The male rh.i hatches out the eggs, lie nud mt the female is the setter.! lie sets always in a quiet and deaolato place, where tliere is no food, nothinirj to attract enemies, and as soon as thu young are born the question Is how to feed then. The rhea answers that question in advance. Th'.eo or four davs before the earita are to open he; shoves a couple of them out of the ne i ner! J c with his bill and lays them In the. What is the result? Tbe result b the hot South African sun decomi' the cfrcrs. and the father breaks thorn ns the j oimg birds begin to appear In the nest, and the flies settle on themj and In twenty-four hours they are ajive with worms tender, juicy. deHclon-. worms, the best food iu the world for the nest of new born blrdlings." '
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