Sonse of Proportion. I The sense of proportion Is sadly I lacking In most people. It Is hard to V make them realize that the more in- J$- terests they have In life the better for xneir special vocation. The woman who thinks it Impossible to do any thing but the darning in the Inter vals of worrying the servants to death is the woman who gives her unfortunate family potatoes boiled every day. To be a good housewife, a woman must have her general ln , telllgeuce well developed. Sarah Grand, in Dally Graphic. The Ignorant Waitress. "No, madam," said the waitress; "I'm sorry, but don't know the Dame of .that flower. In fact, I can't tell you the names' of any of the table flowers. We had only a year of bot any In college, and I am not familiar with the flora here." This reply to Idle questions proved a staggerer to the guest of a fashionable hotel on Lake George, leaving her for a mo ment unable to speak. At last, re gaining her composure, she raised her lorgnette and, staring at the young waitress, said: "It strikes me, miss, that a person of your attain ments had better be doing some higher order of work." "Thank you. madam," was the response. "I hope oon to be doing something better, but It is the money I have earned a waitress that haB enabled me to I learn. I shall be graduated from col- lege next year, and I have been prom- ised a position as teacher in the 'prep.' school I attended." .Curious ly enough, the woman of fashion found it difficult after that to main tain the air of superiority and patron age she had affected toward the wait ress. A friend of hers recalled that she had enjoyed only a grammar achool education. New York Press. Married Sweethearts. Pretty decorated medals are fash ionable in Paris as a present from a husband to a wife on the various an niversaries of their wedding day. The first anniversary is the cotton wedding day. Secondly comes the paper one, and the third Is the leather one. so solid that it has to last two years. The next anniversary that lias its special attribute Is the fifth, one of wood, and yet another gap occurs before the seventh, or woolen event. The tenth anniversary is called d'etain, the tin wedding day, and the twelfth sotle, or silk. This is fol lowed by leaps and bounds by the , fifteenth, or porcelain, the twentieth, or crystal, and the twenty-fifth, or silver, wedding day, the one moBt commonly kept of all. Pearls are tru, appropriate symbol of the thirtieth anniversary and rubles of jthe fortieth significant, no doubt, of the prosperity that has at tended the hard-working husband's efforts in business. When he takes home to his wife a golden wedding gift it is to grace the fiftieth anniver sary of their nuptials. London Daily Mall A Disputed Heirloom. A curious case of a pearl necklace . has been before the High Court. Miss Lucy Henrietta Catherine Kills claimed the pearl necklace belonging to her aunt, the late Duchess of Ser moneta. The pearls are valued at 30,000, and the question Is whether they shall be handed over to the Italian executors or to Miss Ellis. By her will the late Duchess of Ser moneta directed if the necklace should be in London at the time of V her death it should go to her Italian VAWUIVIO. . I 11 1, 11 DIM? UICU IUC 11U1.IV lace was found -in Florence, and on this Miss Ellis based her claim. The . Italian witnesses made affidavits that the duchess often wore more than four rows of pearls in the necklace, and it was contended on behalf of the Italian legatee that the necklace was made up at one time of ten rows of pearls. The necklace was produced In the Judge's room-, and two experts arranged it on a dummy bust. As it was shown it consisted of eight rows four found in England and four in Florence. The Judge held that the pearls found in London were not part of the pearl necklace which was awarded to Miss Ellis. Nor could the pearls found in London go to the Italian executors. On photographic proof as to four rows his lordship did not rely much, as the pearls had been restrung since the earlier photo graphs were taken. The Sketch. Hoydens of the Past. Not long ago a few of the very young women among the guests at a country house finished a busy day by a confidential chat in the room of their guiding spirit, and that person relieved her mind on the occasion of some matters with which it .had been mnch occupied during the day, "Mrs. A.," she said, "was moralizing to Mrs. J. for an hour this morning about our outrageous tomboy be havior. She declared that the women of past generations would have been bonified at our conduct, and that It is because of our want of decorum that men now show so little respect to women. She Is greatly concerned I as -to what the quality of the wires and mothers of the future will be when they must be chosen from young women who 'throw all dignity to the winds and behave like factory firls out for a holiday.' But. al though Mrs. A. could no doubt find thousands to support her in her opin ion, I don't believe we're so bad, after all, or that we are one whit worse than the young women of the past. "You know my great-grandmother was a great belle in her 'day, and ac cording to her account she and the companions of her youth possibly some of Mrs. A.'s respected ances tresses were among them conducted themselves In a way that would make US feel as if we were literally 'no where.' They were not ill educated, and they were beautiful to look at, but they romped and played practi cal jokes and apparently Indulged their boisterous spirits without let or hindrance. Yet my great-grand mother and many of the friends who joined in her romps became wives and mothers who were above re proach. It seems that the noisiest, maddest, most mischievous maids of slity years ago were often the most sincere and affectionate of their sex and became the best helpmates and housewives. The hoyden of the past has turned but very well, and Is now an example of her descendants, so lqt us bear up bravely under the re proaches of Mrs. A. and her kind. Some day we may he models, too." New York Tribune. A Graceful Carriage. That a woman may look like a doll the world admits, but the fact that she walks like one Is bringing down on her marcelled head oceans of scathing sarcasm. A writer In an English periodical Is responsible for the latest teapot tempest, and the faults which he has found for which to arraign the gentler sex prove him an innocent bystander of more than ordinary acuteness. "To walk beautifully," he says in beginning his attack, "Is a gift of the gods, one which In these degenerate days they appear to withhold Jeal- OHsly, more especially from the An glo-Saxon and Teutonic races." Probably he has met with a differ ent class of foreigners in England to what we see in America, otherwise the average Chicago woman might take exception to the statement that follows: "They bestow the gift with a niggard hand among the Latin peo ples and royally only on the Orien tals." "Women," he goes on calmly to say, "are a despair. They shuffle, they stride, they waddle, they prance, they scurry, they do anything but walk; and, what Is worse, they never realize their vile mode of progression. If a woman danced or played games or sang as badly as she walks she would have but few opportunities to display her deficiencies. And she walks like a mechanical toy. "The deplorable lack of dignity to modern women is one cause of bad walking. Dignity was understood by our forebears and is inherent in the Oriental, but the age of hustle is upon us, and hustle and dignity will never meet. "People say that to argue from statues is absurd, but conceive of the Venus of Mllo as she must have been when she left the sculptor's hand, and then imagine her stepping down from her pedestal in the Louvre and walking up the long gallery! Could any one. doubt the divine beauty of that progress? The modern Venus understands nothing about the beauty in movement all she cares about is getting over the ground." Chicago Post. Darned nets are shown with floral and conventional designs. For evening and dancing frocks fancy bordered chiffons are charm ing. Beneath the long or short coats the skirts are adjusted to the hips like a glove. One of the effects of white collar and cuffs on the coat of color is to give it a cool look. Many nets have a deep boder of lace, and matching the lace bands for the sleeves and bodice. If the sleeves are not all of the Nippon shape, most of them at least simulate this simple cut. There are belts of stitched kid alternating with lines of colored tin sel galloon Bhaped to fit the figure. Longer and longer grow the sleeves of gowns and separate waists, the longest of them just disclosing the finger tips. The yoke or collar that extends in a stole-like line down the front to the waist-line is among the new neck' wear recently Imported. There are extremely wide belts of harness leather in the nataral color. made of several narrow strips, stitched together so as to perfectly fit the figure. A new waist is called the Boule, and is very becoming. It is usually of embroidered linen and val, and shows no visible seam, as the waist and sleeves are put together in one piece. Of course success is largely a mat ter of luck, unless it happens to bs our success. TEXAS TO-DAY. A Journey Across tKc Gone past recall is the Texas wot if shlped of our boyhood. That heroic region of the golden Vest whose life appealed to us so vividly from the pages paper-bound novels dear to the heart of the A. D. T." and every other flesh-and- blood boy who began life with the proper American ambition to end it In a career of ruthless outlawry, is a delusion an imposture. The pistols, gambling, rough riders, sombreros, and deeds of dar ing end vlllulnly have all passed as completely as Indians from the place where they made the treaty with William Penn up In Kensington. That man who remembers the best Joys of his youth, and who would cherish the Texas which was the promised land of his dream days, will do well to keep without the. borders of the Lone Star State. We ourselves have tasted no pleas ures as satisfying as those we gained while dodging maternal reproof In the garret, the while to reveal in the heroism of "Cowboy Bill, King of the Texas Rangers." We have thrilled when our turbu lent hero on the high roAd enacted his favorite role of a primitive So cialist, who robbed the rich that he might aid the poor. We adored his picturesque appearance as he sat on his mustang, like king on a throne, his lariat across his high saddle, a brace of pistols and bowle knife at his belt, a sombrero with a flaring front upturned, so that all might see his raven hair, the fearless eye and frowning face, scarred and seamed from bullet and knife weunds. Our hearts were with him when he rescued the maiden in distress, and at such times we would rather have been his humblest retainer than have gone into the White House. We hoped during the trip to the Southwest early this Bprlng we would find some survival of this life In Texas, If only an occasional outlaw who would recall to us the kind of ruffian we once aspired to be when planning to Inflect some terrible ven geance on a school teacher who had dealth hardly with us. We counted the hours till W9 should reach Texas. The Indian Territory had been rather disap-polnt- Ug. Not a single Indian rewarded a day's search from the observation car. But Texas would make good for it all. We couldn't doubt that. Some thing would certainly be there to give reality to pictures formed In youth. Across the Red River. In the promised land at last. From the window we strained fond4y for a glance at the soil of the cowboy hero, but we had not gone five minutes into the State before the awakening was under way. In the front of the Pullman, Topsy Hartsel, Shreck, Murphy, Monte Cross and a couple of others were playing a harmless little game of poker, with the stakes sadly limited by the fact that a ball player's salary doesn't start till the. championship season is under way. The conductor, who during the transit of Missouri, Kansas and In dian Territory had watched the game with sympathetic and expert eye, stepped into the car, his face fixed with the purpose of a stern resolve. "Gentlemen," he said, "I'm sorry, but you'll have to stop that game." "Why?" came a surprised chorus. "Well, you're in Texas, where poker is a misdemeanor. The laws of this State absolutely forbid the playing of cards in public places, evan where there are no stakes. If you continue you are liable to be taken from the train at the next sta tion and thown into jail." Shades of the master genius who Invented poker, and of the writers who have found it a fecund theme! What of a thousand stories of stern faced gamblers, pistols at hand, play ing for huge stakes and taking the first sign of crookedness as signal for shooting? No poker in Texas? Nantucket 'Camels." When one reads in Nantucket rec ords of nearly seventy years ago that ships were taken across the bar by the aid of "camels," a picture of stretches of hot sand, oases of palms and great "ships of the desert" mov ing in procession is presented to the mind's eye. The vision, however,, is out of the way, geographically bo tanlcally and zoologically. The sand borders the cold New England shore, the palms are wanting, and the cam els bear no relation whatever to those of flesh and blood. The author of "Nantucket Scraps" explains the mys tery. In 1S32 the Penn arrived off Nan tucket, laden with thirteen hundred barrels of sperm oil. lit was the first ship taken across the bar by camels, and the event was considered so im portant that the town bells were rung, the gun fired, and the whole population turned out in a general rejoicing. The bar, which blocked free way to Nantucket docks, stretched out in dangerous menace to heavily laden vessels. It was the custom to break tho cargo outside and land the oil in boats; but this was aa expensive and tedious process, and the invention of the camels was hailed with eagerness. The camels were two huge boxes one hundred and thirty-five feet long and nineteen feet deep, fitted with water-gates and pumps, so that they could be raised or sunk at pleasure, They also possessed an engine, pro peller and rudders. They, were of Disenchantment Lone Star State As well expect to see a Wall Street without a ticker. Some one was thirsty at the next station. The shock of the poker ex clusion made recourse to stimulant seem a most commendable impulse. A fifteen-minute wait promised am ple time for that solace which some men find only when the elbow is crooked and the toe suspended on a polished brass rail. But a quick search up and down the principal street revealed no saloon. At last the natives were ques tioned, with the result that one of them dealt this broadside: "Very sorry, sir, but this is a local option town. No liquor can be pur chased here, but you can get excel lent Ice cream soda at the drug store." And this is Texas! Where were the famous bibbers, the bad men of the novels who used to count that day wasted when they failed to stow a quart under their red shirts! Ice cream soda! We hurried on the train, least the mayor of the town come out and ask - us to play beanbag. Worse to come. We rode from the northern boun dary down through Texas to Galves ton. We stopped at Dallas, Fort Worth, Dennlson, Waco, Marlla, 3re mond and Houston. We were In the big cities and villages. We crossed plains where cowboys guarded cattle by thousands, but we never saw a pistol or a lariat. "Oh, gracious, no!" said one horri fied Texan, whom we questioned about the absence of shooting Irons, "no one dares carry them. There is a fine of $100 for having a pistol, and a man who doesn't pay the fine gets jailed for a month." We could have spared anything but the pistol. Its absence shattered the fondest of our dreams, for we had all along cherished frightened hope that it might bo our gooq fortune to see a genuine Texas killing. No pistols? Why go to Texas at' all? The roof garden of the Madison Squc.re Garden can do better thaa that. Dallas, at the. ball game, saw ihe finishing blow administered. A great crowd had gathered to see Rube Waddell pitch for the Athletics against the home team. Every place in the stand was taken. A man and a woman paused in the front row, in such a position as to- cut off tad view of half a dozen spectators. We had thought that no true Texan would speak gruffly to a woman, no matter what the griev ance, but a strong-lunged fan, intent on seeing the game, yelled: "Aw, git a move on, lady! You're no lookln' glass! " We cheered up. Surely this would start something. In a dime novel it would have meant nothing less than a killing, perhaps several. Recall ing the chivalry of the border, we couldn't figure but that the la-.v against pistols would now be Ignored and half a dozen guns pop out to avenge the Insult. But again came disappointment. The age of shooting is past. Texas has bowed to Its lawmakers. Instead of dropping his hand to his hip pocket, tho escort of the lady turned politely and said: "Oh, I beg your pardon." Then the pair meekly moved on. Not a shot, not an angry word, not even a scowl. Goodby, Texas of the dream days. We must have a housecleanlng in the memory department and hurl out a hundred worshiped heroes and ten thousand deeds of valor. Next time we -vant to read a dime novel we shall select one whose scene is laid in the South Sea' Islands, for the chances are we'll never get there to have reality choke the life from our expectations as it did In Texas. Philadelphia North American. yoked side to side with fifteen chains. The approach of a vessel was Big naled from the tower of the Unitarian Church. Fires were then kindled in the camels, which started out to meet the ship. With the chains lengthened to form loops deeper than the keel of the vessel, the camels ranged them selves on each side of the ship, sank, stretched their chains taut by the aid of thirty windlasses, rose and lifted the ship with them, until the whole did not draw more than five feet of water. Then they floated, with their burden, up the harbor. The ponderous contrivance proved to be an expensive economy, and when, after five or six years, the cam' els came to need repairs, the owner did not think it profitable to make them. So the camels of Nantucket went to decay, and their bones lay to many years in the docks. i A Chance For Hens. A new use has been found for the domestic hen. The shells of the diur nal egg can be used as a mantle for the flame of acetylene. A French Inventor, Emlle Louis Andre, has proved by experiment that the shell does not shatter or break, but is a serviceable mantle, and emits a pleas ant, soft light All that is needed Is to perforate the shell at each end and insert the burner. Where is the hen that will lay eggs with shell thin enough to serve as a substitute for the ordinary gas mantle? Rochester Post Express. T MANY ORDERS FOR 8TEEL Dun's Weekly Review Shows Gener ally, Favorable Situation at Opening of Fall. It. 0. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review if Trade says: Retail trade Increases nt the lead- In cities as the vacation season closes, and the opening of fall lines Is attended with most satisfactory results. As the staple crops are so ured and marketed, there Is a prompt Improvement In , mercantile collections throughout the agricultural ilstrlcts, and the decline In prices was sspecially helped In stimulating ex sort trude. Postponed business Is coming more 'reely to the steel mills, and there la esi disposition to wait for more fav- jrable conditions. Structural steel ihapes are constantly ordered, espe- 3lally for bridge work, and the rail ways seek all forms of supplies in larger quantity than was expected for jome months on account of the flnan ilal pressure. Bessemer Iron Is main tained by the small decrease In out put, several more furnaces being blown out for repairs last month than resumed. Primary markets for dry goods are teasonably quiet, without any evi dence of weakness. Manufacturers of cotton goods are In a Btrong posi tion, having large contracts on hand, and prices are well maintained Reports from worsted mills Indicate fnliiy full activity, but there Is con siderable Idle machinery In the wool en mills. Footwear shipments are holding close to the highest movement ever recorded from the Boston market, but the winter season Is not opening as well as most manufacturers antici pated. MARKETS. PITTSBURG. Wheat No. 8 red f "" 9) Kyn-No.2 71 Corn No 'I yellow, ear 71 n No. 8 fellow, shelled 65 Mixed ear "1 Hi Oats No. white 91 5! No. S white '. r,l Flour Winter patent ' l 4 71 Finer strnliiht winters i1" 4 91 Day No. 1 Timothy I" 9 18 W Clorer No. 1 M 00 Mm feedNo. 1 white mid. ton 4 10 i 5) Brown middlings K 3 9 Bran, hum -' ! 00 Straw Wheat 10 W low Oat 10W UW Dairy Products. Batter Elgin creamery I tl S7 Ohio creamery 21 Fancy country roll 1 Cheese Ohio, new 11 IS New York, new l 13 Poultry, Etc. Hens per lb I W Chickens dressed I a Eggs Pa. and Ohio, tresb W 81 Frutlt and' Vegetables. Potatoes Fancy white per bu.... W 85 Cahbage per ton ' HW Onions per barrel I" M BALTIMORE. Flour Winter Patent $ 4 n 4 81 Wheat No. red 7 7 Corn Mixed M 47 Eggs , W Butter Ohio creamery f PHILADELPHIA. Flour-Winter Patent f 4 VI 4" Wheat-No. 8 red V W Corn No. a mixed 47 49 D.r. Kn a wtiitA 44 45 RuttAr Creamerr 8 28 Eggs Pennsylranla firsts 84 8 NEW YCRK. Flour-Patents I 4 0 4 TO Wheat-No. 8 red ?' Corn-No. 8 f t Oats No. 8 white 5 " ,U.KH--Vin.UlD, .............. Q. U... lll.ta.nd Pflllliirlflinlft ' " . - " - - LIVE STOCK. Union Stock Yards. Pittsburg. Cattle. E.tr. 1 1!W1 in I Ml lh I S SO S 6 Prime, l.inioto l,M lbs 6 00 40 Good, l.aoo to l.W lbs 5 TO 9 J Till. 1 IHI to t.lM lbs S 9J 9 VI Common. 700 to 8U0 lbs 4 (, 4 90 Onto 8 7J 4 11 Bulls 0 4 7. Cow, 1 M 71 Heifers, 7110 to 1.100. 8 5) 4 41 Fresh Cows and Springers 16 ml 50 J) Hogs. Prime heavy $ 5 TO Prime medium weight 9 BO Best henry Yorkers 9 90 Oood Ifght Yorkers Pigs 9 W Hough 9 On Stags IM Sheep. Prime wethers, dipped i f 91 Oood mixed Fair mixed ewes and wethers 4 50 Culls and common 8 0) Limbs 9 W Calves. Veal calres 9 00 Hear ind thin calres 8 W ft) 6 no 7 0) 7 00 7 00 an 4 00 9 6) 941 5 10 811 731 8 00 4iJ A TIMELY WRINKLE. . Now that the time is come for blouses to be worn without coats this wrinkle will be found useful. Take a piece of elastic about three-quarters of an inch wide, and long enough to go tightly round tile waist. Stitch firmly at each end a piece of tape the same width as the elastic and an inch long. Put button and buttonhole the tape makes a firm foundation. Now, fasten this round the waist, over the blouse; arrange blouse to desired fulness and It will be kept neat and smart for the rest of the day. New York Journal. Recent automobile accUcr.ts have resulted in the death or injury ot the persous responsible for the dis aster, and have consequently not re ceived the attention of the courts The criminal negligence is there Just the same, urges the Nrv York Call and it Is a fair questiou for the courts to consider wnether ihers should not be publl? action taken tc prevent thto form of self-destruction There seems to be no bone of reck less men learning to be careful. Re peated warnings appear only to mak them more Indifferent. BUSINESS CARDS. JUSTICE OP THE PEACE, Per.slon Attorney and RcallEstate Agent. RAYMOND E. BROWN, attorney at law, Brookvillk, Pa. q. M. Mcdonald, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Rent 'oatat X I lections made promptly. Office In Syndicate building, Keynoldsvllle. Pa. gMITFT M. MdCREIGHT, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Notarv nubile and real estate agent. Col lections will rece'tre nrjinut attention. Offlc In the Keynoldsvllle Hardware Co. building, Ualn street Keynoldaville, Pa. fjlt. B. E. HOOVER, DENTIST, Resident dentist. In the Hoover building Main street. Gentleness In operating. Dr; L. L. MEANS, DENTIST, Office on second floor of the First National bank building, Main street. TJR. R- DeVERE KINO, DENTIST, Office on second floor of the Syndicate build Ing, Main street, Keynoldsvllle, Pa. HENRY PRIESTER UNDERTAKER. Black and white funeral cars. Main street. Keynoidsrllle, Pa. J-JUGHES & FLEMING. UNDERTAKING! AND PICTURE FRAMIN3. The n. 8. Burial Leasue has been tested and found all rlcht. Cheapest form of In surance. Becure a contract. Near PublUl Fountain, Keynoldsvllle Pa. TJ. H. YOUNG, ARCHITECT Corner Grant and Fifth its.. Remolds rllle, Pa. NEWSY GLEANINGS. There are 1257 deaf people in Maine. Brazil is spending $15,000,000 on battleships. Russia and Japan have agreed to protect China. A huge meteor dropped into the Bea near Amagansett, L. I. Indianapolis has 417 private switches within its city limits. Secretary Root was discharged from Muldoon's Sanitorlum as cured. Fifty people were burled alive by a vast avalanche ot snow at Juncal, Chile. Many Americans returning from Europe are unable to get first class passage owing to the homeward rush. Owing to the protests from Boston, the plan to move the frigate Constitu tion from that city has been aban doned. President Roosevelt haB planned a world peace conference to be com posed of the Ambassadors at Wash ington. It was officially announcsd In Toklo that Japan would yield nothing to China in the matter of Korea's boundary. A modns vlvendl with the. United States to cover the Newfoundland fisheries for the present season was signed at London. New Jersey's State Commissioner fancies that "fashionables" are losing interest in the automobile and going back to the horse. Reports of committee of educators declare that one-third of all the school children In the United States are retarded in their studies by phys ical defects. The registrations as compiled by the Auto Directories Company show that about 230,000 registrations of automobiles have been taken out la this country, covering forty States. , LABOR WORLD. Prison guards in New York State are asking for more pay. The leather workers of Toronto will ask for an increase of wages. The Eight-Hour League of America has been organized for the nniversal sight-hour day. The waitresses of Phoenix, Ariz., demand a ten-hour day. They have been working eleven and twelve hours. It is the intention of the Interna tional Photo-Engrarvers' Union to es tablish a fund for aid of consumptive members. Members of the Milwaukee Sign Painters' Union have had their wages raised. The Increase ranged from fifty cents to $1 a day. The percentage of unemployed In Great Britain In 1906 was only 4.1 per cent., or 1.3 less than in 1905, and 2.4 less than in 1901.' Drug clerks in the West are rapidly Joining the Retail Clerks' Union, and it Is predicted that this movement will spread toward the Atlantic Coast. St. Paul union painters will receive forty cents an hour the present sea son. An agreement has been signed between the union and the contrac tors. The International Association of Machinists of Greater New York and vicinity, 15,000 strong, has voted to demand an eight-hour day in the near future. Diamond workers, members of the Diamond Workers' Union ol America, are demanding better wages from the diamond manufacturers of America, the Association of Gem Dealers. The Scottish Conciliation Board de cided to concede six and one-fourth per cent, advance in wages at its meeting in Glasgow, to come into ef fect at once. This is the third ad vance in the present year. The con fession affects 80,000 miners. Says' the Rochester Democrat ana Chronicle: "Modern power boating is wholesome as well as fascinating. In order to enjoy it one need not neces sarily be a trained steam engineer. At the same time it is a pastime which is not without Its perils; and not the least of these perils is buffeting whlta capped waves with a disabled engine or an empty gasolene tank."
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