REYNOLDSVILLE, PENN'A., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1907.
VOLUME 16.
NUiMMB 25.
JOYS OF A COLLECTOR.
Picking Up a Valuable Painting at an
Auction 8 a la. j
' Collecting will always have Us ro-,
payees. I know of one that occurred
6t the sale at Christie's of the effect!!
Of the late Sir Henry Irving. Some i
one I knew had been to see the collec- j
tlon before the sale. He came across .
a portrait with which he was familiar
ibecause he had seen it thirty years
iiefore. On consulting his catalogue he
discovered that the portrait was de
scribed as being ' that of a man un
known, and, further, the artist was
also unknown. Now, he knew that the
portrait was thnt of a famous actor by
a famous English painter. He longed
to buy It, but decided that it would
go at too high a price. Ho went to the
auction with very little hope. The
Whistler and the Sargent were sold,
and then it was the turn of this picture.
Nobody recognised It. Finally he had
ito Start the bidding himself, and Hits
jhe did. Only one man bid against him,
fcut he soon stopped, discouraged, ami
then the picture was knocked down to
the man who had never expected t
get It. He hurried to the desk to pay
toe Email amount and to carry off hli
prize. "Do you happen to know any
thing about that portrait?" the auc
tioneer asked him as a porter took it
down to a cab. "I know it very well,"
leald the new owner, conscious that It
1 V. ! .. 11. t .. n
W&8 nuw Bnieiy ma inuiitii,. u t,
' portrait of Buckstone, the actor, by I
Daniel Maclise. There is an engraving
of It In the Maclise portrait gallery ."
wtfrs. John Lane In Pearson's Magazine.
Started the "French Walking.
The celebrated Dr. Tronchln, friend,
of Voltaire, Rousseau and Diderot, was,
(the Inventor of walking. In France
itratll his epoch (1709-81) the lelsured
class never walked either for health
or recreation. Walking was only prac-,
Jtlced by the Tiers Etat Folks footed
It from one place to another simply
(because they possessed neither coach
nor sedan chair. Dr. Tronchln, an
initiator In many other respects, In-,
duced "les elegants et les elegantes,"
writes a historian, to take what Is now
willed a constitutional. To stroll,
ft) 1itvo A WAfl nimod "ftvinMilnai" nftor
jthe inventor, and for their airings both,
eexes had special costumes and shoes,
ithe latter being more especially neces-j
sary. The verb "tronchlner," by the.
,way, has not had the fate of our "to.
iboycort," having passed Into disuse
long ago. Westminster Gazette.
Do You Belong , to
"The
This committee is
made up of the men who
siv around an excava
tion for a new building,
whittle pine sticks, spit
tobacco juice on the
fresh dirt and watch the
other fellows work.
It's all right to show
interest in new build
ings, in town develop
ment and progress, but
there's a better way.
You can do more
good for yourself and
the community by re
signing from "The Citi
zens' Committee" and
getting into the General
Progress Committee.
This committee is
the one that PUTS UP
THE NEW BUILDINGS,
brings new business into
town to occupy them.
Com
paints the old houses, keeps the sidewalks in good repair,
beautifies the front yards, cleans up the back yards and
.otherwise makes this town a better town to live in.
The General Progress Committee is the Unofficial
Town Booming Committee, ft really ought to be- organ'
ized and made official Let all of us work together for
the advancement of the town we five in, and there will be
more room around new excavation for the fellows; at'
work to throw out the dirt.
Eternal industry is the price of progress.
Let's all tali in line for the General Progress Commit
teeand then
JUST WATCH THE OLD TOWN
GROW.
Home Grown Motor.
Even a book agent sometimes falls
of achievement through unforeseen
misunderstanding. "Colonel," said one
of them affably to a Texan whose rec
ord he had looked up beforehand,
"those are mighty flue boys of yours."
"The finest in the country, stranger,"
said the colonel. "The finest In Tex
as." "I reckon you buy them anything
they want?"
"Why, stranger, I buy them any
thing they need, whether they want it
or not."
"Then, colonel, let me sell you a cy
clopedia for them. There's nothing
else will do thein so much good."
The colonel looked at him In nstou
ishment. "Why, stranger," he said,
"them boys of mine don't need any
cyclopedia. They ride mules." Youth's
Companion.
Put Crape In Windows.
rnssengers on the Second avenue
elevated road witness one custom thnt
seems peculiar to the people living lu
the flats along that lino of travel. They
frequently see streamers of crape tied
to the second and third story front
windows that open on fire escapes.
Somehow the bereaved relatives feel
that crape on the flat house door will
not indicate with sufficient clearness
which family has Buffered loss, so to
point out exactly the rooms where
mourning exists the windows are hung
with crape. New York Press.
Aa London 6eea Ua.
In an article on smoking the West
minster Gazette of London says:
"At Washington senators not only
smoke in committee rooms, but in the
senate itself. Often a Washington 'or
ator' has been known to deliver a per
ipatetic speech, attending to his cigar
at regular intervals, and followed by a
crowd of reporters eagerly taking down
his utterances."
Hit Harder.
"Woman Is considered the weaker
vessel," she remarked, "and yet"
"Well?" she queried as she hesitated.
"And yet," she continued, "man is
the oftener broke." Exchange.
Be rich In patience If thou In goods
be poor. Dunbar.
The word idea formerly meant a
completed performance, whether men
tal or physical.
lite?" $
SCOTSMEN IN KILTS.
That Is One Sight You Will Not Sea
In Edinburgh,
A writer of the Loudon Tatter has
been in Edinburgh and reports as fol
lows: There is one thing that always
disappoints the visitor to Edinburgh,
and that is n complete absence of kilts,
or, rather, the absence of Scotsmen in
kilts. If you meet a man wearing a
kilt in the streets of the Queen City of
the Forth it will be a grave mistake to
suppose that he is I lie laird of Gor
muck or some olhei equally famous
highland chieftain. He is nothing of
the sort. As a matter of fact, his name
Is Ilodgklns, and ho is employed dur
ing eleven mouths of the year licking
up envelopes for a firm on the shady
side of Lothbury avenue, London, E. C.
Another mistake which strangers are
apt to make lies in supposing that the
good people of Scotland talk Scotch. I
shall never forget my surprise on the
occasion of my first visit to Edinburgh,
when a policeman nt the corner of
Frederic street, to whom I remarked
pleasantly that it was "braw. In-lent
nlcht the nlcht, whateffer," told me to
push off nnd stop asklug him conun
drums. Scotsmen do not as a rule talk
at all. They possess the gift of silence
to u really remarkable degree. I kuow
a gillie named Donald, who lives In
Perthshire, In whose society 1 have
sometimes spent whole days stalking
the elusive stag without his ever
vouchsafing a single remark of any
kind. I remonstrated with him once,
pointing out that such silence as his
almost amounted to taciturnity. He
promised to try and cultivate a certain
measure of garrulity, nnd after we had
walked across the heather for five
hours, during which time I could see
that his brain was working feverishly,
he suddenly turned to me uud exclaim
ed, "Yon's a fearfu' earthquake they
had in Jamaica!" after which striking
effort he relapsed once more into his
habitual attitude of respectful silence.
"OLD GLORY."
The Way This Name For the Stars and
Stripce Originated.
The term "Old Glory." used to desig
nate the flag of our country, is a favor
ite, and the expression is a very happy
one.
It Is said by those who claim to be
vll Informed that the name originat
ed with William Driver, captain of the
bark Charles Doggett. This statement
ap)enrs in a history of the Driver
family, and from tills we Uud the fol
lowing facts:
Driver was a successful deep sea
sailor and was at the time making his
vessel ready for a voyage to the south
ern Pacific. In 1SIJ1. Just r.s the brig
was about to set sail, a young man at
the head of a party of the captain's
friends saluted Driver ou the deck of
the Doggett and presented to him a
handsome .American flag 1'.) by 3S feet
in' size. The banner was done up in
:lops, and when it went aloft uud was
lluug to the breeze Captain Driver.
sa;s the tradition, then and there
named it "Old Glory." The flag was
cr.rr!ed to the south pens an.l ever aft
crv.ard treasured by l.s owner.
Driver removed to Nashville, Tenn.
lu 1S37 nnd there die 1 in 1SSU. Before
the outbreak of hosti'liles between the
north and south Old Cloi-y flew daily
from a window In the captain's Nash
ville house, but when the rumors of
war became facts It was carefully se
creted. When the war broke out the precious
flag was quilted into an Innocent look
ing comfortable and used on the cap
tain's bed until Feb. '-!". 1.S02. when the
Sixth Ohio marched Into Nashville.
Then the flag came out of its cover
ing, nnd the captain p vsented it to the
regiment to be hoiste 1 over the capl
tol. The-.-e It floated r.r.i!' it began to tear
in rinlions, when It -' is taken down
an.l a new mut ):: .' i the building.
A'r the tfer.th of ' 'iln Driver the
fir. t Old Glory v. us ;,: en to the Es
sex institute at Salem, whrro it is still
preserved and may be seen by the curi
ous. Kansas City Journal.
A Frenrfi Joke
Two' doctors were called to attend a
man who bad suffered an accident to
his hand.
"We shall have to amputate' three
fingers," said one.
"No, two," said the other.
"Three," maintained the first
"Oh, well, three, then," replied the
second. "We won't quarrel over a lit
tle thing like that" Nos Loisiri.
Eaey Permieeion.
"Willie, did you put your' nickel In
the contribution box in Sunday school1
today?"
"No, mamma: I ast Eddie Lake, the
preacher's son,- If I' couldn't keep It'
an' spend it fer candy, an' he give me
permission." Denver News.
' They who ' menace our freedom of
thought and of speech are tampering
-with something more powerful than
gunpowder. Conway.
What He Said. '
"I once gave a waiter a two dollar
tip."
"What did be anyr
"To me he expressed bis thanks, but
I heard him say to nnither waiter that
I couldn't have real good sense."
Louisville Courler-.'o'irnal . ,i
P BALANCE IN THE AlrVj
The Necessity For Equilibrium In Bl-d
Flight.
It is likely that the bird's superb
ease and grace In the air are due to Its
ability to maintain absolute balance.
If a gull makes the mistake of bend
ing until the wind strikes Its head
and wings on the top It will tumble
Instantly. And the sailing birds,
though they make no flapping motion
of their wings, are constantly balanc
ing themselves, like a man on a tight
rope. Some scientists have maintained
that the air sacs make it possible for
the bird to manage minute changes
that are very valuable In restoring
equilibrium. It Is known that the
wing Is Joiued to the body of the bird
by what is called a universal Joint
enabling the erentm-e to make almost
every possible motion. The body of a
man is heavier than water, but If he
gets Into n position of perfect balance
he will float. In some such way, it Is
claimed, the bird floats In the air. But
as the bird would fall much more rap
Idly In the air than a mail's body
would sink In water the necessity for
a far more subtle ability to keep the
center of gravity on the part of the
bird Is apparent; hence, according to
this theory, the bird. Is provided for
this purpose with the most sensitive
equipment, made up of nerves and
mysterious air ducts, many of the wing
feathers perhaps acting as sentinels,
warning Instantly of the slightest ap
proach of shifting currents. Every
body's Magazine.
ENTERTAINING THE DUKE.
Rudely Interrupted While He Wat
Chatting With Royalty.
The dally papers do their best, but
not even their ubiquitous representa
tives garner all the store of good things
which attend a royal visit to Ireland,
says the London Sketch. No paper at
the time printed the cream of the sto
ries which grew out of a visit of the
Duke of X'oniniught to the Emerald
isle. f;.''tlcoine to Ireland!" said a
man as he saw the duke ou the steps
of it hotel in the little western town In
which h. was staying. "Welcome to
Ireland, your royal highness. I hope I
vee your royal highness well." "Quite
well, thank you," answered the duke.
"And your noble mother, the queen. I
hope her ould leddyshlp is enjoyln' the
hest of health?" "Yes, thank you. The
queeH Is very well Indeed," said the
duke, vastly amused with the easy fa
miliarity of the peasant. "It's glad I
am to hear it. And tell me, your royal
highness," the oilier went on, "how
me ail your noble brothers nnd sis
ters?" Before the duke could answer
an nld-de-camp appeared, with, "Here,
;.ot along there." The peasant looked
up with Infinite scorn. "Arrnh! What
are yen interruptln' for?" he exclaimed.
"Can't you see that me and his royal
highness Is bouldin' a conversation?"
Explanation Vas Ncoeseary.
As the Trays' dog was at last de
tached from Ihe trousers leg of the
:unv milkman by Mr. Pratt's vigorous
efforts the victim of the onslaught be
S.:n to express his mind with consider
able freedom.
"1 wouldn't keep u dog like that," be
said Indignantly, but Mr. 1'ratt broke
In before he had time to say more.
"He's only playful, that's all," he In
sisted, and nt the same time ho pressed
something Into the new milkman's
hand.
The man glanced at the wad of
green, and then as he transferred It to
rt safe pocket his expression changed.
"I guess I can take n little fun as
well as anybody." he said dryly. "But
till you explained It I had a notion
thnt dog was in enmest when he bit
that piece out of my trousers."
Youth's Companion.
Seeing tlio Sight3.
Eveu in these days of liberal educa
tion the young women sometimes show
'tow confused are the Ideas shut up in
their beads. Illustrative of this Is the
native blunder which Edmondo de
Am his recounts in his story of a voy
::ge from Genoa to Buenos Ayres:
The captain of the steamer which
timbered the charming youug blun
derer among Its passengers met her
one morning and said:
'Slgnorlua, we cross the tropic of
cancer today."
"Oh, Indeed!" she- cried with enthu
siasm. "Then we shall see something
:tt Inst." . - .
A Zulu Rain Charm.
The Zulus employ a rain charm which
Is very remarkable considering their
usual fierceness and cruelty. They
catch a bird, and after' the- tribal wiz
ard has consecrated1 it and mude it a
"heaven bird" they throw It Into a
pool of water. Ito' spite- of their own
Indifference to the- sufferings of ani
mals they believe' tliat the sky. which
they conceive to be' u' iiersouality, will
be full of woe at the death of the bird
and drop sympathetic tribute in show
ers of rain.'
To tell our own secrets is generally
folly, but that folly Is without guilt
To communicate those with which we
are intrasted Is always treachery, and
treachery for the most part combined
with folly. Johnson.
The bounty of nature Is too little for
the'Kreed.v man. Seneca.
AN EXTINCT ANIMAL""!
The Saber Too'ied Tiger Was a For.
mldabls Creature.
The most remarkable of all the ex
tinct feline animals are those known
to naturalists as the saber toothed
cats or tigers, a group comprising the
greater part of all the fossil forms.
They date back to the earliest times of
which we know anything about the
family In North America and reach
down to the time of man himself. A
large nnd powerful species described
from the Indian Territory by Copo
lived contemporaneously with the
hairy mammoth, as evidenced by the
commingling of their skeletons. There
j can be little or no question but that
the hairy mammoth was contempora
neous with man in North America
as well as in Europe. Its geological
range Is from the close of the eocene
to the latter part of the pleistocene.
The chief peculiarity of the animal
is the extraordinary elongated canine
teeth. The tall Is of unusual length
and the legs are short. The animal
measures about seven feet In length
aside from the tall. The lower Jaws
have a downward projection in front,
due to a flangelike wlden'ng of the
jawbones, which doubtless served ns a
protection to the teeth, preventing their
Injury or loss. In some of the lnrger
forms from South America this flange
was not present, while the canine
teeth were even more elongated than
is the case with this species, attaining
a length of over six Inches nnd pro
truding fnr below the jaws wbeu
closed.
A FAMOUS ROAD.
India's Tree Bordered Highway 1,200
Mi let In Length.
The road I hnve in my mind Is In
Indiu and stretches 1.200 miles from
Lahore to Calcutta. It Is the famous
Grand Trunk road. Let me explain Its
nature, though one cannot do so by
comparison, for there Is no road of five
miles in England that is anything like
it. It Is level. Indeed, there is not
above a mile the whole distance where
even a lady need dismount to walk.
The material with which It is made is
called kunker, nnd If you care to turn
that word into concrete you have an
Idea of what It is like. It is exceeding
ly hard and as smooth as a prepared
pavement There Is no dust. When I
first, got on this road and 'enjoyed the
luxury of easy traveling I said, "This
is magnificent, but lu a little time I
suppose it will become gritty and un
even." I went 150, 100 miles, 200 miles,
COO, 000, 700 miles, nnd It was always
the same, with not even n small stone
to give a Jog. Nearly the whole of the
way is lined with a double row of ma
jestic trees.
With two friends I rode ncross India
during the hottest time of the. year, In
April nnd May, nnd was never serious
ly inconvenienced by the heat, for at a
pace of fifteen miles an hour one could
create a draft. Chambers' Journal,
Roadiide Wit.
lie who matched wits with the au
thor of "The Ancient Mariner" had in
deed a lively task before him, for Cole
ridge was never caught napping. The
poet was so awkward a horseman that
his riding often attracted comment of
anything but a complimentary nature.
One day he was riding along the turn
pike road In the county of Durham
when a wag who met him fastened
upon hhn ns an excellent subject for
sport Consequently he drew rein nnd
said in an impertinent drawl:
"My graceful friend, did you happen
to meet a tailor on the road?"
"I'm inclined to think 1 did," said
Coleridge meditatively. "I was not
sure at the moment, but he said some
thing about my meeting a goose far
ther along the road."
The wag put spurs to his horse, and
the poet jogged calmly on his way.
Past Salaries of Aotort.
A number of autograph letters of
Edmund Kenn supply some Interesting
Information about the salaries of actors
early, in the nineteenth century. One
relates to an offer by Mr. Ellison offer
ing Kean 3 a week ns acting man
ager of "the new theater in Wych
street." Later this rose to 27 n month.
In 1820 Kean was offered $12,000 a
year to go to America, in the prime
of his popularity he received 200 for
a week In. Edinburgh nnd apparently
reached the highest point when Mr.
Bunn wrote from the Theater Royal,
Dublin, on Feb. 8, 1S20. and offered
him 50 a night to play In Dublin and
Cork. Liverpool Mercury.
Horn Influences.
Each one of ua Is bound to make the
little circle In which he lives better
and happier; each one of us 1b bound
to see that out of that small circle the
widest good may flow; each of us may
have fixed hi his mind the thought
that out of a single household may
flow lnflr. which shall stimulate
the whok- commonwealth and the
Whole civilized world. Dean Stanley-
Got Too Important.
"What has become of the mold you
thought such a prize?"
"Oh; I had to let her gbC repllea
the second fashionable woman. "After
her operation for appendicitis she
thought she was one of us" rbUadel
ohla Ledoer-
His Dear Old Mother.
"My dear aid mother, who is now
eighty three years old, thrives on Elec
tric Bittt-rg," writes W. H. Brunson, of
Dublin, Ga. "She has taken them for
about two years and enjoys an excellent
appetite, feels strong and sleepS well."
That's the way Electric Bitters affect
the aged, and the same happy results
follow in all eases of female weakness
and general ikbility. Weak, puny chil
dren too, are greatly strengthened by
them. ' Guaranteed ulo for stomach,
liver and kidney troubles, by Stoke &
Felcht Drug Co. druggists, SOc, Reyn
oldsyille and Syktrsville.
Don't miss the closing out sale of
$4,500 worth oj goods at the Cash New
York Kucket Store. All goods must
be sold. Going to quit business.
Ice Cream
In many flavors. Allourcreatns
are made of the purest and best
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in season.
YOUR DINNER -
will surely be a success, if you
order some of our delicious Ice
Cream for dessert.
REYNOLDSVILLE
CANDY WORKS,
.When you want real
good M-E-A-T go to
HUNTER
MILLIREN
in their new rooms,
one door east of Mc
Entire's Drug Store.
We carry a line of
choice home dressed
Beef, Veal, Pork,
Lamb, Poultry, Butter
and Eggs. Your pa
tronage solicited.
Here are some of the
important things
you want in your
repair work of watch,
clock and jewelry
repairing :
Best of Workmanship
Best Material.
Right Pricr s.
Prompt Service.
All these you can get
when you leave your
work with
Gooder, the jeweler,
in the Peoples
National bank
building.
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