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VOLUME 16.
REYNOLDSVILLE, PENN'A., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1908.
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DIDN'T DREAD DEATH.
Volunteers For tha Gallows In Place
of Those Condemned.
OH more than one occasion volun
teers for the scaftold have offered
themselves to tnke the place of tlio
condemned.
Thus on the eve of the execution of
Dr. Dodd. ' famous as the author of
"The Beauties of Shakespeare," a man
Presented himself at Newgate and ask
ed to be permitted to suffer in his
etead. Ills request was deemed so ex-
traordlnary that he was taken in
. charge as a lunatic. But he was Able
to convince the magistrate, before
whom he was brought the next day,
VI Ilia sanity uuu hu whs uiscuttrgeu.
All be asked as the price of his self
sacrifice was 200, to be settled on his
mother.
In another instance, which happened
only a few years ago, a man who. said
be suffered from an Incurable disease
.'wrote to the home secretary offering
Himself as a substitute for a certain
eminent scholar who had murdered
his wife in a fit of passion. He asked
neither fee nor reward, being, as be
explained, tired of his life.
Then, too, there was the case of Ell
za Fennlng, which created so much
pity that five persons came forward
w annnd voluutcered to suffer in her stead.
lOf course no notice was taken of their
requests, the culprit; a pretty young
" girl, being executed in due course.
er London Chronicle. .
VENEERING.
It It Produced by Two Methods, Saw
ing and Slicing.
"There are two kinds of veneering
sawed and sliced but It takes an ex
pert to tell the difference," says a man
ufacturer. "The process of manufac
ture is simple and Interesting. The
logs, delivered at the factory in the
rough, about thirteen feet in length,
are first aooked In hot water vats to
make them soft and workable.
"It does not matter how green they
are. After being thoroughly cooked
they are placed on machines designed
for the purpose and either sliced by a
powerful knife the length of the log or
cut by a circular saw into slabs about
one-twentieth of an inch thick.
"These slabs are the full length "f
the log and when first cut are so pi;
ble that they can be bent double wiili
(jut breaking. The uniform thickness
or thinness of the slabs is preserved
m by the action of the machinery and
does not vary so much as a hnlr's
breadth In the entire length of the
slab.
"After the slabs are sliced or sawed
they are seasoned by steaming. This
requires only about twenty-four hours,
and then they are ready for the mar
ket Some of the huge oak logs that
come to the factory show by the ring
In them that the trees were from 250
to 400 years old." Washington Herald.
A Goraeoua Fiah.
One of the most gorgeous fishes in
the world is found, straneelv enoush.
not in tropical waters, but off the
coasts of England, where the waters
are gray and deep and cold. It Is the
opah, or klngfish. This snecles reaches
a weight of from thirty to a hundred
Bounds anil Is Rhnno.l n HHIn Ilka hn
JLatJkflht sunflsh of the Atlantic ocean in
I American waters. The fish hnu im.
Ifjpense eyes, of which the Iris is a
hrtpht Mfnrlof Tim ertU AAirjini aim
green and cold, and the rest of the fish
Is flashing red and green, over which
bcre play sheens of purple and gold.
Again, over this sheen there is another
, smi more transparent film of silver.
which plays in large, white spots over
the rest of the bright colors. The fins,
Which are large and sword shaped, are
a vivid red.
- London and Paris.
There is evidence to show that Lon
don was a considerable town before
' 0a Roman invasion. Its Celtic name
was Lyndin (lake fort). Tacitus, in the
first century, calls it Londlnlum and
describes It as a flourishing place. The
earliest notice of Paris Is in "Caesar's
Commentaries." Caesar called it Lute
tla and described It as a collection of
mud huts. Lutetia began In the fourth
century to be known as Parlsia, or
Paris, and In the sixth' century was se-
' lected by Clovls as the seat of govern
ment Of the two cities London Is un-
t doubtedly the more ancient, though
w mucn oiuer it is impossible to say.
'
Easy Dancing.
Little Alfred's mother had sent him
tar the dancing school. He came home
In high spirits.
"Well, Alfred," said his father, "how
did you like dancing? Did yon find It
, difflcuitr -
"Oh, no," answered the little fellow:
fit's easy enough. All yon have to do
to keep turning around and wiping
your feet" H
. Tomato Toast.
Ck down till thick hnlf a can of
joeB 'wlth a pinch of cloves, half
. luuspooiuui or sail, a aasn or cay
nne, half an onion, minced fine, and
teaspoonful of minced parsley; have
raK buttered toast without crust and
jur this over without straining.
arpers i?azar.
ASSASSINATIONS. '
Crimes That Have Changed the Hlev
tory of the World.
Step by step throughout the world's
history assassination Ims been a factor
In determining the rniirso of events
and in molding the life of nations.
Frequently the assassin's weapon
which sent a ruler to dentil has sent
upon the world's stage u suceessoi
whose career set Irrevocable milestones
upon the pathw ay of the peoples of tin
world. Especially was this true In
those days wheu conquest was the
guiding star of the rulers of the world.
Probably one of the most Important
and early assassinations was that of
Philip of M:k.-edon, which occurred In
the year 330 B. C. Not only did It ter
minate the career of one of the most
remarkable men of bis time, but It led
to the accession of Alexander the
Great, an event which very likely
would not have taken place at all had
Philip continued to rule and had him
self selected the successor to his throne.
Philip of Macedon then was at the
height of his power, and the battle of
Chaeronea bad made him the undisput
ed blaster of Greece. When leaving
the theater In which his sister had been
united In marriage to Alexander, king
of Epirus, a man sprang toward the
ruler and thrust a sharp, short sword
into his side. As the assassin ran to
ward a swift horse his sandal caught
In a vine stalk, and his pursuers killed
him with their spears and tore him to
pieces. 4
Olyinpias, his former wife, was said
to have aided in the conspiracy. This
assassination, one of tbe earliest In
point of time, bore a strong resem
blance In its surroundings to that
which claimed President Abraham Lin
coln's life. In both cases there was an
individual murderer, the scene was a
theater, the act was done with Incredi
ble audacity In the presence of a large
concourse of people, and the murderer
was crippled by a misstep after the
fatal blow.
In tbe history of ancient Rome there
stands out one political assassination
which marks the first occasion on rec
ord in which the conflicting economical
Interests of different classes in a re
public were settled by resort to the
weapon of the assasslu. This was the
murder of Tiberius Gracchus, which
soon was followed by the enforced sui
cide of his brother, Cuius Gracchus.
This deed was the direct result of the
former's attempt to enforce an agrarian
law passed as an act of justice to the
poorer classes of Uonian citizens.
In the turmoil that nf tended the vot
ing of the tribes 'i ilierlus was struck
down to death by om of his own col
leagues, a tribune of toe p.'ople. This
chapter of death was written in 133
B. C. History has dealt at length with
the assassination of Julius Caesar on
the Ides of March the 15th of the
month in the year 44 11. C and of the
Import of this event In the history of
ancient Rome.
At the time of the assassination of
Julius Caesar the Roman people had
reached a degree of perversity and de
generacy almost impossible of modern
comprehension. His death had a most
demoralizing effect upon the people.
The band of the master who might
have controlled the unruly masses and
restrained tbe degenerate nobility lay
palsied in death. 'Later events had
their mainspring from this source, and
the years from 37 to 68 A. D. were
marked by the assassinations of Tibe
rius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero.
New York Herald.
A Lost Compliment.
An eminent singer of foreign birth
whose appetite Is such that it almoBt
rivals the fame of his voice dined at a
table where all the women were rea
sonably mature, with tbe exception of
the nineteen-year-old daughter of his
hoBt, who sat at the greut mon's left.
The artist paid avid attention to his
plate until tbe latter stages of tbe re
past when the dishes began to come
slowly enough for him to engage in
conversation with the young person, to
whom In the Latin manner he paid a
Latin compliment assuring her in her
private ear that to him she "seemed
like a flower among vegetables."
' "Then I can scarcely hope to occupy
first place In yonr thoughts at dinner,"
she responded demurely.
And the eminent singer could not
think of an answer. Harper's Weekly.
Had Practiced.
Cardinal Richelieu once listened to
an earnest sermon by a shoemaker.
The man was simple and unaffected
and apparently not at ail dismayed by
the presence of the cardinal.
"How could you preach to me with
so much confidence?" Richelieu asked
him in evident surprise.
"Monsigneur," replied the shoemaker,
"I learned my sermon by reciting it to
a field of cabbage heads in tbe midst
of. which was one red one, and this
practice enabled me to preach to yon."
Doing Very Well.
"How's your son making out In busi
ness?" asked the first capitalist
"Very well indeed," replied the other;
"he's got a quarter of a million."
"Why, you started him with a mil
lion, didn't you?"
"Tes, and It's two months now since
he started, operations In Wall street"
RESULT OF THE GENERAL PRIMARY-ELECTION
In Reynolds ville and West Reynolds ville and the Total Vote
of the Candidates in the County, Unofficial.
REPUBLICAN.
CANDIDATES
Congress
George E. Arnold
Joseph G. Beale
Gillespie
Langhain
Smith
Senate
Kurtz .'.
North.
Wilson
Assembly
Campbell
Longwell
Miller
Mitchell
Porter
Small
Snedden
Snyder
County Treasurer
Bell
BuHlngton
Caldwell
Curry ,
Gay ley
Gourley
Lnckard.
Murray
Scheafnocker
Sheriff
Brlllhart
Galbralth
Mayes
Walker
Register and Recorder
Campbell
Darr
Lucas
MUlln
Prothonotary
Allen
Irvin
Mundorff
Seller
County Commissioner
Barr
Cooper ,
Frampton
Ingles
Jordan
Kelly...
McClure
Reltz
Assembly
A. D. Deemer
C. W. Flynn
Irvin W. Simpson
County Commissioner
M. C. Coleman
Tbos. Cummlngs
C. M. Dinger
Thos. J. Dunkle
S. H. Harding
E. T. McGaw
W. T. Pifer
M. P. Singer
NOT IN A HURRY.
A Royal Funeral and an Embarrass
Blundering Official.
The Comtesse de Bolgne's memoirs
contain an interesting account of the
departure from life of Louis XVIII.,
an e'-ent which the king himself had
long been anticipating:
"He was a great stickler for eti
quette and gave tbe most minute in
structions about bis obsequies. All
tbe ceremonials observed at tbe de
parture of the kings of France were to
be respected, and as he had an ex
traordinary memory he settled the
procedure down to tbe smallest details.
At the last the royal almoner made a
mistake In reading .the prayers for
those In extremis. Louis XVIII. inter
rupted him and corrected the mistake
with a preseuce of mind and calmness
which never left him for a moment
The family was assembled at the end
of the room and was deeply affected.
The doctors, the attendants on duty
and the clergy were uround the bed.
The first gentleman of tbe chamber
held the curtain. When the chief
pbyBlcIan gave the Flgn that all was
over, he let It full and. turning around,
bowed to the princes. Monsieur left
the room Robbing, and madame pre
pared to follow him. Hitherto she bad
always taken precedence of her hus
band as the king's daughter. When
she reached the door, she suddenly
stopped, and through the heartfelt
tears with which her face was stream
ing she said with difficulty, Take pre
cedence, Dauphin!' He Immediately
obeyed without any hesitation or re
mark. The first gentleman announced
'the king.' The courtiers repeated 'the
king,' and Charles X. reached his
rooms.
"Tbe master of ceremonies made
some slight blunders over the royal
funeral. Charles X. overlooked them
and spoke kindly to the embarrassed
official. 'Oh, sire, your majesty Is
very kind, but there were many de
fects. Next time we will do better.'
Thank you, Breze,' replied the king,
with a smile, 'but I am not in a hur
ry.' Thereupon M.- de Breze col
lapsed." A Human Failing.
"Pa, what Is the meaning of Incon
sistency?" asked Freddy. .
"Inconsistency, my son," explained
pa, "means a man who growls all day
and then goes home and kicks the dog
for barking at night" Exchange.
Tf la rilfTlmilt- 4i aa-w .fi A .M
the most fnlschlef, enemies with the
worst intentions or friends with the
best Bulwer.
KEt rtOLUSVlLbK t i WEr en
IstlTe. 2nd Pro. 101111 UEVN. TOTAL
5 6 12 0 474
33 4li 79 21 1100
7 1 8 2 i:i4
fi!) 82 151 " 32 2T.17
64 01 115 20 2457
73 ' 05 138 '19 843
01 89 150 34 2400
49 42 Ul 27 1330
20 18 ' 38 8 1343
01 76 137 23 2370
54 81 135 19 1097
67 86 153 20 2250
8 14 22 10 952
27 34 01 37 1008
28 17 45 8 778
74 00 134 21 1954
125 115 240 31 1392
0 5 5 3 1434
0 2 2 0 153
2 2 4 3 310
0 0 0 0 348
'3 0 3 0 287
4 0 4 3 1104
35 33 08 11 039
20 39 59 31 Ml
00 71 137 47 782
43 40 89 17 2404
52 01 113 15 2008
10 15 1 31 3 1008
43 ,28 71 12 2050
03 83 140 28 1398
42 42 84 29 1189
21 37 68 11 1090
32 57 89 19 1525
81 60 141 21 1846
18 10 34 7 1281
45 07 112 31 1849
34 4 0 74 1 9 1849
41 . 02 103 21 1980
8 1 9 3 , 568
20 9 35 2 817
4 9 13 2 020
49 59 108 42 2779
74 102 176 24 798
86 65 161 42 2401
R A T I C.
20 37 6r 1051
27 &5 112 743
10 37 47 1012
8 .0 14 81
12 3 110
7 20 33 , 223
0 0 0 223
0 0 0 31
13 02 75 ' 643
II 2 270
0 2 2 324
Queer Names,
"We Chinese," said the law student.
"give our children queer names. Our
girls, for instance, are not called Ma
bel, Jenny or Matilda, but Cloudy
Moon, Celestial Happiness, Spring
reach or Casket of rerfumcs.
"Our boys get less delicious names.
Boys are made for work and wisdom
rather than for dancing and pleasure,
and their names show this, as Prac
tical Industry, Ancestral Knowledge,
Complete Virtue, Ancestral Tlety, Dis
creet Valor.
"To our slaves we give still another
set of names. Yes, those dear, pathetic
little slaves of ours, some girls, some
boys, who do n hundred various little
tasks nbout the . house, these lowly
creatures have names like Not For
Me, Joy to Serve, Your Happiness and
Humble Devotion." Cincinnati En
quirer. Sitting on a High Hat.
"If I wero to offer to wager that I
could sit squnrely on my silk hat with
out crushing it, you would take me up,
I suppose," said a clubman to a fellow
member. "Well, you would lose," be
continued. "A good silk hnt should
support the weight of a man sny 140
pounds without yielding, providing the
weight is applied gradually and care
fully. The way to do It Is to place the
hat on a smooth, strongly supported
surface, crown downward, and lay a
bonrd across the rim. In the hollow.
On this seat yourself steadily and slow,
ly, and you will find tbe hat does not
yield. Of course, a hat that has once
been bent or broken will not do. Nor
is the rule invariable. It applies only
to good hats. Have I ever tried It?
Yes, I have, but not on my own bat."
Philadelphia Record.
Tha Significance of Small Duties.
Don't object that your duties are so
insignificant They are to be reckoned
of infinite significance and alone Im
portant to you. Were It but the more
perfect regulation of your apartments,
the sorting away of your clothes and
trinkets, the arranging of your papers
"Whatsoever thy band flndeth to do,
do It with all thy might" and all thy
worth and constancy. Much more, if
your duties are of evidently higher,
wider scope; If you have brothers, sis
ters, a father, a mother, weigh earnest
ly what claim does lie upon yon on be
half of each and consider It as the one
thing needful to pay them more and
more honestly and nobly what yon
owe. What matter how miserable one
Is tf one can do that? That Is the sure
and steady disconnection and extinc
tion of whatsoever miseries one hat in
this world. Thomas Carlyl.
A FRANK CRITIC.
8he Contrasts the Opera With a Can
tata at Home.
It was Itufus Choate, who was not
musical, who once at the opera gazed
helplessly nt his libretto and, turning
to his daughter, who was musical, said:
"Helen, expound to me this record, '
lest I dilate with the wrong emotion."
Mrs. Blnus of Dtilverton, who Is also j
unmusical, recently attended the opera !
with her dougliter and felt that her ;
emotions there were hardly satisfac
tory. I
"Yes," she told ber friends on return- j
lug to the vlllnge, "Loulsy took me to
the opery, and it certainly was a sight
It 'was real Interesting looking round
before It begun, and I enjoyed It some
afterwards, too; really I did. There
was so many folks in it and such a lot
of going and coming and marching and
grouping It made quite a picture.
"And the music, too some of It bad
quite a swing to it most as good as a
p'rade. But It went on and on and on,
and I begun to get pretty tired of It
and it kep' on and on, and I got tlreder
and tlreder.
"You see, 'twa'n't like a cantata at
home, where you know the folks.
That's different It don't matter then
how long the story strings out nd
singing any kind o' story does string it
out ridiculous; but, knowing tbe folks,
there's always something interesting
you can turn your mind to and for
get it
"Now, when the Choral club gave
'King Ralny's Daughter' there was all
their clothes to look at first off. And,
my, there were some clever makeovers
amongst 'em too. You remember Sa
tiny Meade's dress for tbe princess she
got out o' that old stained wedding
satin o' Great-grandmother Barclay's?
If that wa'n't a Job to be proud of I
don't know what Is!
"And Sam Giddlngs' trousers well,
they weren't trousers exactly, but
those things be wore on his legs Sam
felt he oughtn't to hire, and Jane Old
dings made 'em herself 1 How she ever
did HI I'd as soon try cutting out a
nit 0' court clo'es for tbe emperor of
Cbiny myself.
"Then I always find it kind o' enter
taining to' watch out for Lonny Ba
ker's gold front tooth to flash when he
opens wide on a top note, and oh,
well, you know how 'tis. There's al
ways something.
"But at the opery there ain't, and
by the end of an hour of bang and too
tle and tum-te-ttim and tra-la-la I'd had
all I wanted, and but for hurting Lou
isy's feelings I'd ha' left. She says
'twas grand, and I dare say 'twas, but
give me tbe town hall and borne tal
ent every time." Youth's Companion.
BIRD VISION.
Keen Eyeiight of the Kingfishers and
Water Birds.
So far I have determined that tbe
keenest eyesight is probably possessed
by water birds and kingfishers, al
though every kind of bird possesses
keener eyesight than does man. It is
a fart that tbe eyesight of man is go
ing t get worse in the future and la
getC.i ; worse all the time that Is, we
are growing more nearsighted. Tbe oc
cupations of a majority of men la
cities compel them to do their work at
very close range. This removes tbe
necessity of the farslghted eyes with
which most ' men are endowed. It Is
probably a good thing that we are be
coming nearsighted.
As an example of the visual capacity
of some birds one has to think for a
moment of a hawk poised several hun
dred yards above a meadow in which
a field mouse or a small chicken is
hidden. In a few seconds after tbe
quarry is sighted It is seized by the
bird, whose sharp sight has not only
detected it but whose wonderful ac
commodative apparatus permits of a
sure and continuous fixation from hun
dreds of meters to less than a meter
within an incredibly short space of
time. Variations In the character of
this acute vision are seen In many
Other birds in the bumming bird, that
darts here and there so quickly that
tbe human eye cannot follow it and
yet comes suddenly to rest on an al
most Invisible twig; in the woodcock,
that flits through the dark woods.
avoiding every tree, shrub and branch
as if they were nonexistent; in the owl,
that combines good diurnal with good
nocturnal vision, and in the kingfisher,
that sees as well In the air as he does
In water. Dr. C. A. Wood in Chicago
Inter Ocean.
Some people think that they are fond
of literature Just because they like to
read novels. Boston Globe.
JEWELER AND
OPTICIAN..
Opposite Imperial Hotel.
Reynoldsvllle, Pennsylvania.
Gunninanam
TOMB OF THE MINGS.
It Is a Risky Place For a Traveler to
Visit Alone.
Every traveler In China goes to the
tomb of the Mings If he stays more
than a few days in Shanghai. The
Chinese consider tbe Mings the great
est rulers of the ancteut kingdom, and
they rank second only to Confucius.
Tbe tomb Is composed of two colossal
figures facing each other and elabo
rately carved in the style affected by
Chinese artists centuries ago. Seen In
Central park or Versailles they would
look grotesque enough, but standing as
they do among bleak and lonely hills,
outlined against the clear blue oriental
sky, they have a rude grandeur and
imposing simplicity which make them
seem fit guardians of imperial dust
It is not an easy Journey the tourist
must take if be wishes to pay his re
spects to the stone giants, nor is It
trip advisable for a woman to under
take, as it lies through a region where
hatred of the "white devils" is consid
ered as much a part of the Chinaman's
religion as the worship of bis ances
tors. A donkey and a guide are neces
sary, and it is also wise to get a party
of sightseers together for the excur
sion if possible and to go well armed,
for once a foolhardy traveler started
forth alone from the hotel on the Bub
bling Weil road, Shanghai, to visit tha
tomb of tbe Mings, and he was never
heard of again. There are many places
in the purlieus of Shanghai even where
It Is imprudent for a white man to ven
ture alone In broad daylight An ex
tra donkey is also needed to carry pro
visions as well as the cameras, for
most tourists want a picture of the
towering images which have so suc
cessfully withstood the wear of the
centuries. New York Press.
Odd North German Custom.
In northern Germany a familiar fig
ure of the rural districts Is a quaint
old gentleman whose hat is very much
decorated with flowers ' and particol
ored ribbons and who carries a staff
to the top of which is tied a huge
bunch of real or artificial flowers knot
ted to it by long streamers of similar
ribbons. According to the district, bl
costume also is old fashioned and un
usual in other ways. He is the "hoch
Beltbltter," or person employed among
the country folk to go from house to
house and Invite guests to attend a
wedding. He delivers himself of a set
speech in an old "Piatt Deutsch"
rhyme when he arrives at each place,
accompanying It with wagging of the
head and stamping of .the staff, and Is
generally in rather a Jovial condition,
by tbe time his day's labors are ended.
Milton's Retort.
John Milton was not a wit yet he Is
reported to have made a crushing re
ply to a question from Charles II.
"Do you not think," said the king,
"that your blindness is a judgment on
you for having written in Justification
of my father's murder?"
I "Sir," replied the poet, "It is true I
have lost my eyesight but If all tha
calamitous providences are to be re
garded as divine Judgments your maj
esty should remember that your father
lost his head." ,
All That Didn't Sink.
"I suppose yon have considerable
floating population here?" inquired the
visitor.
"Yep," replied the native of the little
river town, "specially durln' the rainy
season." Puck.
Plenty of Advice.
"What are you doing for your cold?"
"Nothing. My friends are looking?
arter .it" Harper's Weekly.
Tbe Zambezi, a great river two miles
wide, falls sheer 420 feet Niagara Im
only 158 feet high and about half a
mile wide.
Flowers Galore
at the
Crystal City Floral Stand
Reynoldsvllle, Pa.
Easter Lilliee,
Sweet Smelling Hyacinths,
Carnations for Bouquets,
Palms for Decorating,
Broad Leafed Rubber Plants,
Brilliant Hued Roses,
Tulips and Geraniums,
And Many Other Kinds.
See the Window Display next door to
Strauss Bros., Music Store.
A. BURT. McCONNELL, FROPRIETQB.
Watches, clocks, jewelry,
silverware, cut glass,
china, umbrellas and
sewing machines. : : :
Typewriter ribbons, safe
ty razor blades, sewing
machine needles and sup
plies. Umbrellas recov
ered and repaired.