V t Woman's World Concerning Useless Old Women. The Charm of Tactful Silence. Keep Out of the Kitchen if You Look For Good Results :: :: :: "Whnt Is your dully prayer?" wiih the questiou anked at u recent i;llglous gathering of women. "What petition does each woman here repent day aft er day as the wish of her heart?" Some answered one tiling, Rome an other, hut one little woman excited universal comment hy replying, "I pray every night and morning of my life from the bottom of my heart that i may never become useless In my old age. "I see so uuiuy useless old women," she went on ti explain, "women no one would miss, and In uiotd cases It would lie n mercy for them to be taken away. They are so bored with life, so without resources, so heavily depend ent on those about them, not only for support, but for amusement. They are no earthly good either to themselves or to others. "Selfish, fat old womeu, lean, quar relsome old women, old women who never had a real live interest In the iworld about them, who have been dead ones' all their lives I pray I may never be like them. I may not be one of those famous old women the world misses when they are oae; I may not be a genius, an artist, sculptress, an actress of renown; I may not be a phi lanthropist or a lender among my own sex arriving to uplift them to stronger, better things, but let me at least lie In active touch with the living world to the last. I want always to find the days too short for what 1 have planned to do in them. From being an old lady shivering by the fireside, dependent on my family, heaven deliver me! "I want to be mourned not as a de crepit old foul heaven has mercifully BEADING! STOCK QUOTATION'S, taken out of this life, but as a useful member of society every one will miss." How many of us feel like this wo man 7 Concerning Tact "Tact is supposed to be a womanly Tlrtue," observed Mrs. Brightly, "but you've got to convince me. A man knows at least enough to keep quiet at a crucial moment, and that is tact In its highest form. Many a woman 4oes not possess that particular braud, I can tell you. " 'There Is a time for everything.. and everything has Its time," Is a motto which should hang In every woman's boudoir. "Why Importune a mau when he Is tired, when he Is blue or. worse still, when be is eating? i "I have known women so devoid of tact that they actually recited their petty household woes when their bus bands were reading their atocU ex change quotations and worrying their beads off because they dldu't know Just exactly bow much money they bud lost ' "Just Imagine how Interesting It must be to hear that Bridget burned a bole In one of the best napkins when you raad that Spotted Tail Copper went down five points, the next dividend having been cut In half, and you are wiped out of the game by this thought less move of the directors! "Ob, Joy! Oh, bliss! Ob, rapture! How yon wish then for a wife with enough tact to 'bide a wee' In silence! "There is a time for pots and pans, for frills and for baby talk, and there Is a time for more weighty matters. How many women have tact enough to discriminate?" Just a Hint. I cannot Imagine bow a woman can be foolish enough to keep poking her nose In the'kltchen, annoying the cook lady and disturbing things generally. Many s worthy servant Is lost In this way. "Cookie" does not appreciate the madam's well meant efforts to help. Bbe wants to be left supreme In her domain. - If she Is a good servant, sho )s suffi cient onto herself, and If she is a bad, Incompetent on why keep her? ' MAUD BOBINSON. TASTE IN FURNISHING. Woman Has rrua-renncd In This ni In ISverythliift) ttUe. There was once a man who didn't know much about women. lie was engaged to a' girl he adored, and, with the well meant notion of sav ing her unnecessary worry and labor, he gave her the pleasant (?) surprise of taking her to a Hat which he had fur nished himself all ready for her occu pancy. lie did the best he could, going not by Ills own tastes, which are simple, but by those he fancied women In gen eral had. The plnee was replete with gim micks. There were tassels In the door- 1 IBB COVEHKD III 11 mfJSS. I ways, scarfs were draped here und there, and a bow was even tied on tlw piano siooi. . . .,,-, , The bi hie covered horj eyes and all but wept. . Ills style of furnishing wu one which would have suited tha average woman ten years ago. Hut woman, 1ms pro gressed in gool ta te as well as In ev erything else. Simplicity Is now the keynote of the best furnished homes. Few colors are combined, and these must Invariably be soft In' tone. The draperies are no longer tortured Into weird loops and curves. They hang to the floor In natural folds. Sometimes an entire house has its lace hangings of the same pattern. This presents neat uniform appearance from the street. A single good rase Is decoration enough for a mantel, and the word bric-a-brac has almost gone out of use. Ceilings are plain and wall papers near ly so, the principal exception being tap estry effects for dining rooms. Even these tapestry effects are softened by . the use of simple white woodwork. The lines of the furniture have never been so free from useless ornamenta tion. Truly the piodern woman has cause to congratulate herself on her i emancipation from the trashy and falsely ornate. R. PE LA BAUME. UNATTRACTIVE WOMEN. It la Slaalaltr Which Caaae Thai te Be So. "What Is the greatest beauty of wo man?" asked the sculptor. We basarded different opinions. "You are all wrong. It Is expres sion," be declared, "(live me tbe plain est featured girl alive, and If there are quick Intelligence and expression In her face I can make a portrait of ber the world will call beautiful." Why are there so ninny hopelessly unattractive women In the world? Be cause there are so many stupid ones. Ride in a street car nnd notice the heavy, "soggy" features without a ray DSTOTJRINa CHEAP NOTBIA of Interest In life or Intelligence to lighten them. But they can't help being stupid! Can't they, though? They can eat less and lep less and devour fewer cheap novels. They can banish fashions and serv ants from their conversation and take notice of what Is happening In this big wide world. ' Oh, yes, the unattractive woman has only herself to thank for being both homely and stupid. Tbe bright woman will always be admired. KATUERINE HOLT. THE CHANGE C on-lii :d by J. W. D ARROW. f .Jhim, N. Y, mm Corrafioni1t.nl i.'iw I'orc Stat Urxmur POMONA'S FINANCES. How Rhnll IHonrr ll Raised By Fee r Duenf How shall Hie Tommm grange secure Its finances? is the question which sometimes arises for discussion In Po mona granges. There is one of three ways charge members an Initiation fee alone, or an Initiation fee nnd year ly dues, or let each subordinate grange pay per capita dues to the Pomona grange. A Pomona grange does not need a large sum In Its treasury, nnd yet a comfortable fund for any exigen cies Is desirable, remnrks a writer in the Country Gentleman. Wo believe that the Initiation fee of 50 cents per member, as In New York, will be found to be sufficient for all the needs of most. Pomona granges, nnd this surely Is a most convenient arrange ment for procuring the finances of tbe county grange. If we have a per cap ita tax for both Pomona and state granges, there will be but little left for the subordinate grange, and If annual dues are charged members of the Po mona grange It would require a very considerable amount of labor on the part of the secretary of the Pomona to see that these dues were collected. Where the Initiation fee Is made the sole source of revenue the Pomona should' not admit to Its fifth degree session, and of course cannot, any fourth degree member who has not taken the fifth degree. In other words, to open a Pomona grange1 on the fourth degree nnd perform nil the work In that degree, except Initiation of candidates, would be to give the advantages of the Pomona grange to members of the subordinate granges, whether members of the Pomona or not , DEGREE WORK. . , A Maine Japer Thinks It Coasamea 'Too' Maeh Time. 1 ' ;' Perhaps the , greatest bar to bene ficial achievement In some of the younger and most rnpldly growing1 granges In Maine, says the Maine (Tanner, Is the, almost constant luitln ory work going forward. Not a few of such have scarcely a regular meeting during the active season which Is not devoted to -.vorkjug degrees on classes, which in many Instances are composed Of but two or three candidates. The work may be well done nnd Is of un doubted Interest to those being In structed, but to the members not In the game the constant consumption of time for this purpose sooner or Inter dampens their enthusiasm for", other work of Importance. If the grange In Maine should estab lish a rule that no degrees should be worked In any subordinate grange ex cept at two stated 'meetings during each quarter without a speclnl dis pensation from the state grunge offi cials, we bellevo the effect woiikl be of great advantage to the Order, By this method special -preparation could be arranged and the work madu of n much higher character, thoroughly en joyable to candidates, spectators and those performing the work. Waste of time and consequent ab sence of genuine, enthusiastic discus sion of the Important problems of local and state Interest cannot be neglected by an organization like that which the Patrons of Husbandry baa now be come. Such neglect can mean only tho loss of Influence, 'which never was more needed than at the present tlruo for holding advantages already gained and advancing other essential reforma tory mensures which organized Inter ests In different lines of activity will nse their utmost Influence to prevent being secured. EXPENSES AND PER DIEM. Shoald Delea-atea to tha Stale Qraace Be Paid by the Day or Mileage? - Secretary George R. Drake of tbe New Hampshire state grange, being asked by the editor of this department for an opinion on this subject, suld: "It Is my decided opinion that It Is- better to pay the actual traveling expenses of the delegates in attendance at tbo stute grange, but it does not seem lost to pay their expenses for board. "The New Hampshire state grange officers, the forty deputies and the masters and their wives or husbands of each subsordlnute and Pomona grange In the state draw pay from the state grange for the actual amount of car and stage fare, and each Is paid $1.25 per day for tbe time In actual attend ance at the meeting. "The committee on mileage and per diem can easily make up tbe expense account of the session from the printed list of railroad rates always at hand, which Is 1 cent a mile for the round trip. By paying each delegate and le gal attendant at the session a specified um we avoid any complications and very much simplify any delicate ques tions that might arise concerning any extravagant board bills." Tha Grano and Tamaaraaea. The question occasionally arises In grange communities as to what tbe position of tbe grange Is concerning I temperance. ' At tbe last meeting of the j national grange tbe following resolu- j tlon was adopted: Resolved, That the grange hereby re news Its fealty to temperance In all thlnga; that It emphasise Its belief that tba degrading American saloon ought to be carefully and rigorously guarded until It can be abolished and In the meantime be made and held to a strict responsibility for tha harm It does, and that It believes that every community should b empow ered by law to vote ever? saloon from Its midst or borders. CORN TALK. A Rlndy of Important Points la the JudKliiK of Corn. There appear to be some vital points both us to desirable qualities and de fects In picking out a good ear of coru. Professor V. M. Knoosnillh of the state college bus prepared for the Kansas boys who engage In corn contests a llt-tli- study of corn which furnishes nn elementary guide in corn Judging and Includes among Its twenty-seven prac tical questions and answers the ones here reproduce ' First. Why . ..1 corn be studied as to triteness to typo or breed? So that a better iden may be bad as to the certainty with which the char acters will be transmitted. Corn pos sessed of deslrulilu characters, but little breed type, Is of little value, since these characters may be substi tuted the following season by Intent or hidden characters of little value. Hardiness, productiveness and other Invisible characters may be as distinc tive breed characteristics as the color, shape of ears, etc., and these must be Judged by the type as seen in the vis ible characters. Second. How mny the trueuess to type best be Judged? By studylug the uniformity of the ears in shape, size, stralghtuess of the rows, color, etc., and also by study ing the uniformity of the kernels In size, shape, color and Indentation. The uniformity of ears is studied by com paring wltb the "standard of perfec tion," but as It Is difficult to sufficient ly define the standard of perfection for the kernels a beading "Uniformity of Kernels" Is placed on the score card. Third. Why should an ear of coru be cylindrical or nearly so? Because this Is the only shape which will permit of the same number of rows throughout the length of the ear and also the snme size and shape of kernels In all parts of the ear. In a tapering ear there must ho some short rows or the kernels must be larger or have more space between them at butt than at tip of ear. In such an ear or one of Irregular shape some of the kernels must be of Irregular size or shape, Which will not permit of an even distribution by the planter. " Fourth. What W the proper ratio be tween the length aiid the circumfer ence of an ear of corn? Although there Is not much experi mental data to show that an ear of com should be of exact proportions, most corn breeders agree that the ratio between length and circumference should be about as 10 Is to 7. It appears that enrs which are long and slender are often associated with plants which are not possessed of the great est vigor and hardiness, and also such ears have a relatively small percentage of grain, while ears which are large In ' circumference nnd short nre usually late lu maturing and also often have a I small per cent of grain because of an extremely large cob. . The Irish Cobbler. While not a recent Introduction,' ha v lug been grown for many years In Con necticut and Long Island, the Irish Cobbler potato 1ms only lately nttrnct . ed the general attention of eastern ( growers- as a profitable early market i variety. It Is not ttt first quality Infe I rlor even to Early Ohio but Is such a fine grower and reliable cropper under ordlnnry trucking conditions that It has literally forced Itself on the attention of market gardeners. Its origin ap pears to be something of a mystery. Seedsmen and dealers disclaim knowl edge as to when or where It first got Into cultivation, but have generally been compelled to catalogue It. Seed stock bas not always been easy to ob tain, but will be freely ofTorod the com ing year. Tbe plant is strong and up right In growth, with thick nnd healthy dark green foliage. The potatoes 'In good soil run from medium to large, oblong In shape, with thin white skid nnd rather prominent eyes. They grow rapidly and usually reach marketable size within a week of Early Ohio plant ed pt 'the same time, bnt far outyktld that formerly popular kind. The table quality of the young tubers Is very tol- ' crabie, but falls off as maturity Is leached.' Notwithstanding Its rather unsatisfactory cooking quality Irish Collider has turned out so profitable that It la displacing other early kinds In many localities. Rural New Yorker. Para Water In the Dairy. A good Illustration of the need of pure water in the. dairy Is afforded by experiments at the Iowa station on the quality of butter washed with pasteur ized and unpasteurized water. In every case the butter washed with the sterile water kept better than the other. Adjaatable graft-old. The drawing Illustrates a good ad justable scaffold for painting and Is deserilied by a contributor in New Eng land Homestead. It consists of two brackets of 2 by 4 scantling support ed by long 2 by 6 props, the bracket In turn bearing tbe scaffold board. The construction Is simple. Let the I lower arm of the brackets be Ion- J ger than the horl-, ontal one. There , Is one brace on I each side of the ' I bracket, and the, long 2 by 6 prop goes between tbem. The upper end of tba prop is THE SCAFFOLD. round, and the lower Is cut at an acuta sngle. The scaffold may be raised or lower ad by pushing in or drawing out tba feet of the props. As tbe props are not fastened to tbe brackets, several pairs of different lengths may be used for high or low painting. Those In tha drawing are rather abort M. PRESCRIPTIONS. A Medlrnl Explanation of Why They Are Wrlllri In l.alln. The use jf Latin by physicians In prescription writing Is commonly re garded as a harmless survival of tnedhevnlls:!!. Occasionally a lay writer suggests its abandonment. In com menting on a recent uoto to tills effect In a dally paper, which advocates tho compulsory use of English lu prescrip tions, tho Druggists' Circular and Chemical (Inzetto takes occasion to make a strong defense of tho time honored practice Says this paper: "Suppose the sapient writer quoted, whose utterances tuny sound all right to thoso who know no more of his sub jects than be does, should fall sick and bis physician should decide that the one thing needful to save his life was Geranium robertinnuni. If there wero a law preventing the doctor from pre scribing la Latlu he would have to choose sue of the upward of a dozen English nnmes for this drug. Suppose he chose 'redshanks' and so wrote the word In bis prescription. When the druggist went to prepare the medicine he would find that 'redshanks' was the English name of at least four entirely different plants nnmcly, the one al ready mentioned, Polygonluin am phlblnm, Polygonum perslcaria and Rumex acetosa. "As with redshanks so with hundreds of other drugs. Aaron's heard may be Cotinus continus, Cymbnlarla eym balarla or Saxlfraga sarmentosa. Of snnkeroota there are numberless kinds. Suppose the English writing doctor wanted to be sure of getting the right kind, so specified black snakeroot Then Is the druggist to dispense Clml clftiga racemose, Asarum canadense or Sanlcula marllandlca?" LEGAL ADVICE. A Case Where Proceeding; la Conrt Wero Unnecessary. Two or three Chicago lawyers were discussing the tricks of their trade. "A big, burly fellow from tho Michi gan pine forests came into my office," said one of them, "and told a very mean story about a rich man here in town who, waa trying to cheat him out of 12,000 or $3,000 and who had man aged to get, a pretty tight clutch on the money. The backwoodsman looked and talked like an honest man, and the old miser's reputation wus mean enough io match the story, so I felt in clined to believe It When he had fin ished I looked lii in up and down from head to foot. He asked mo what I was looking him over for. 'Well,' said I, 'I was thinking that If I were over six feet tall and as powerful a man as you I wouldn't hire a lawyer to help me get that money.' Tbe man's excited face smoothed out Into blank astonishment 'What do you mean? ho said. I an swered: 'I mean Just what I say. You are sure, are you, that he has that money lu bis office?' 'He bad it there last night.' 'Well, you don't need a lawyer. - "Tbe man turned on his heel and left without another vt'ord. In a day or two he sent me a check for (50 and bis thanks for my advice." , Krolntlitn ut t Keiniatry. The first chemist were the alchem ists, who for h imlreils of years vainly tried to milk" g l. Uy ro.nihuiii.liiig va rious chemicals. CiicmiK.ry vjs intro duced into Spain by the Moors lu 1130. nnd 'tie Chinese and Egyptians claimed nil oi riy acquaintance with It. Howev er, chemistry 'was not n se'euce until tlie seventeenth century Bierhaave was 'lie first to combine the study of chemistry with itedlcl: e. and sine then Its evolution bus be, mi rapid. A find ' axe. "What's the matter, it-.'.ir?" asked the doctor's wife, ".'.re you worried about Mr. Policy's case?" "Yet." replied the doctor. ""Ai d Is there no hope?" "Ve-y little. Me su.vs he doesn't ex pect : leave eicitcr:i to pay more than one-tl Ird of my llli;"-Answers. T!. c'in",-v !" of clean linen is rf lt"!f a s i' - of rioral strength sec ond ri'y to that of s clean conscience. -Phelps. RHEUMATISM IS CURABLE IF ORKMMS USED . ALL OTHER TREATMENTS FAIL Is It the unhealthy foods we eat or the rapid pace in which we live that cause such an endless amount of Rheu matism nowadays? The disease has cer tainly reached an alarming point, as nine-tenths of the adult population in this country are more or less afflicted with some form of this maddening dis ease. Recent investigation has proven the fact that Rheumatism is a blood disease, therefore, many bright chem ists and physicians bave bad good ground to work upon, and they have succeeded in compounding a remedy, which, if naed aa advised, cannot fall to drive and eliminate from the blood and muscles all trace of man's greatest evil. Poison Rheumatic Acid. URIC-O la the name of this remedy. It is a liquid treatment, made and designed to cure all forms of Bheumatism and good for no other disease. There is no poi son, no alcohol or whiskey entered into the composition of URIC-O. It is sim ply a powerful, dissolvent of Uric Acid and other deposits which seriously affect the kidneys. URIC-0 1s sold at $1.00 per bottle by druggists generally, or can be obtained by addressing. the SMITH DRUG COM PANY, SYRACUSE, N. Y. Samples and literature will be forwarded to all who apply for same. Our advice is nse URIC-O. It may be the means of sav ing your life or may prevent yon frora being crippled for life. Urlco Is sttd In Reynoldsville by the Stoke & Feicht Drug: Co. business chrds.1 " kT'neff' justice of tub peace, Pension Attorney nnd Keul Estate A Kent. J'AYMOND E. BROWN, , . ATTORNEY AT LAW, BROOKVILtE, PA. m. Mcdonald, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, ' RoiU estnle ammt, patent secured, col lections nisde promptly. Office in Syndicate liiilldlnx, ItnynoldHvllle, I'll r C. SMITH, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Justice of the peace, renl estate agent, col lections nmde promptly. Otllce In Byndlcut bulldlnK, KoynoldHvllle, l'. SMITH M. McCRElGHT, ATTORNEY- AT-LAW, Notary public and real estate aaent. Col lections will receive pr.miut attention. Office In the Roynnldnvrlle Hardware Co. building, Main street Unynoldsvllle, Pa. DR- B. E. HOOVER, . DENTIST, Resident dentist. In the Hoover building Main street. OeutlenOHS In operating, . DR. L. L. MEANS, ' DENTIST, Office on second floor of the First National bank bulldlnx, Main street. DR. R- DEVEHE KING, DENTIST, office on second floor of tho Syndicate build Ing, Main street, Meynoldsvllle, Pa. JJENRY PRIESTEU UNDERTAKER. Black and white funeral cars. Main street. Reynuldavllle, Pa. HUGHES & FLEMING. UNDERTAKING AND PICTURE FRAMING. The 0. 8. Burial Leavue has been tested and found all right. Cheapest form of In surance. Hecure a contract. Near Public Fountain, Keynoldsvllle Pa. D. H. YOUNG, ARCHITECT Corner Grant and Flftn sta., Reynolds vllle, Pa. ' . - ' T k v . JOHN C. HIRST, CIVIL AND MINING ENGINEER, Surveyor and f)rauehtstnan. Office In Syn dicate building, Main street, . yiND90R HOTEL, Philadelphia, Pa. 1 Between 12th and 13th fits,, on Filbert St. Three minute walk from the Reading Ter minal. Five minute walk from the Penn'a R. R. Depot. European plnntl.OOperday and upward. American plan 16.00 per day, Leech's Planing Mill West Reynoldsville Window Sash, Doors, Frames. Flooring, STAIR WORK 1 Rough and Dressed Lumber. ETC., ETO. ; ' Contract and repair workiglven t m prompt attention. i & I Give as your order. My prlous J are reasonable. . !f- J W. A. LEECH, Proprietor. N OTICE OF AN ELECTION For the purpose of obtaining tbe assent of the electors of tbe Borough of Reyn oldsville, TO INCREASE THE INDEBTED NESS THEREOF. Notice is hereby given', that In pursuance of ordiouoce No. .'.10, passed by tbe Council of Reynoldsville Bor ough, and approved by the Burgess thereof, on December I6tb, 1906, en titled ''An Ordinance for the purpose of acquiring tba assent of tbe electors of Reynoldsville Borough, to increase tbe indebtedness of said borough, in tbe sum of Tn Thousand (110,000.00) Dollars, for tbe purpose of grading, curbing and paving Main street from tbe end of tbe brick pavement at Seventh street to the Winslnw township Hoe, near Cool Spring Hollow," a publio election will be beid in and for ilio borough of Reynoldiville, County nf .TctTerson ana State of Pennsylvania, on Tucsdav the 19ibday of February, A. D., 1H07, b. -tween tbe hours of 7 a. m. and 7 p. m ," for the purpose of obtaining the assent of tbe electors of said borough to a TEN THOUSAND DOLLAR Increase nf tbe in debtedness thereof; that said Election shall be beld under tbe samo regula tions provided by law for tbe holding of Municipal Ele Hons In said Borough, in Precinct No. 1, thereof, in tbe Municipal building on Main street therein, and in Precinct No. 2, thereof, In the Municipal Building on the cor ner of Willow and Swamp alleys therein, on the day and between the hours afore said, said places and times being tbe places and time provided by law for the holding of Municipal Elections in said Borough. The following is a statement of the amount of tbe last assessed valuation, the1 amount of tbe existing debt, tbe amount and percentage of tbe proposed Increase and the purpose for which the indebtedness is to be Increased, viz: Am'tof Last Assessed Valuation... IBS!,! DO Amount of Exlntln Dbt 13.273 8S Amountof Proposed Increase 10,000 00 Percentage of Proposed Increase. .1.04874t:t Tbe purpose for which the indebted ness is to be Increased is for grading, curbing and paving tbat portion of Main street lying between the end of the present brick pavement at Seventh Street, on tbe West, and the line between Winslow Township and said Borough, near Cool Spring Hollow, where said street coincides with a pnblio road in said Township, on the East. J. B. Neale, Pres. of Council, Attest: L. J. McEnttrx, Clerk of Council. L. L. Gocrley, Burgess. i i