A mm , , H VOLUME 16. REYNOLDSVILLE, PKNN'A... WEDNESDAY, MAY X 1908. MWHEK 62. WHEN THE EARTH DIES And When Our Other Planets and Our Sun Are Also Dead. STILL THE HEAVENS BLAZE. Tha Infinite Space Shall Always Ba Filled With Sunt and Worldi and 8ouls, For In Eternity There Can Ba Neither Beginning' Nor End. The earth was dead. The other plnuota hud died, one after the other. e suu whs extinct, but the Btnrs were still twinkling. There shall al ways be stars and worlds. Ia the immeasurable eternity time, which Is essentially relative, Is deter mined by the movement of each of these worlds, and In each world It Is felt according to the personal Sensa tions of their Inhabitants. Each globe measures Its proper period of time. The years of the earth are not those of Neptune. Neptune's year equals 104 of ours and is no longer In the abso lute. There exists no proper common measure of time and eternity. In the empty space time does not ex ist. There are no years, no centuries, but there Is a way of measuring time upon a revolving globe. Without peri odical movements one can have no conception of time whatsoever. he earth existed no longer; neither did Us celestial neighbor, Mars, nor beautiful Venus, nor the gigantic Jupi ter, nor the strange universe of Sat urn, its rings gone, nor the slow plan ets Uranus and Neptune, nor even the sublime sun, whose rays had for centuries mode fertile the celestial countries suspended In Its light The sun was a black globe, the plan ets were other black globes, and this L, In-vlBlhle system continued to course In te starred Immensity at the bosom of ue cold darkness of space. t From the viewpoint of life nil these rorlds were dead, existed no longer. They survived their antique nistory as do the ruins of the dead cities of As syria, which the archaeologist discov ers In the desert and revolved dark in the Invisible and unknown. Every thing was covered with Ice, 273 degrees below zero. No genius, so snge, could have brought back the days of old when earth sailed through space bathed In light, lta beautiful green meadows Vfwakenlng with the rays of the morn ing sun, Its rivers flowing like ser pents through the green fields, its woods reverberating with the songs of 4 be birds, its forests enveloped in ma' jestic mystery. Then all this happiness seemed eter nal. What has become of the mornings and evenings, the flowers and the lov- lers, the harmonies and Joys, the beau- lies ana tne dreams? Ail nave disap peared. VThe nurth Is dead, all the planets are lead, the sun Is extinct The solar Vsteni gone. Time Itself even annul led. Time flows Into eternity, but eternity Vialns, and time revives. Before the earth existed, during a whole eternity, there were suns and worlds, humanities filled with life and activity as are we today. For millions and millions of years our earth did not exist, but the universe was no less brilliant After our time It will be as before. Our epoch Is of no impor tance, t -Xby'dead and cold earth carried in yrtSeJi. however, an energy not lost, its movement around the sun, which en ergy transformed into heat would suf fice to melt the whole globe, to reduce It to yaoor and to begin a new history for Tt, which, it Is true, would not last long, for' if this movement aronnd the sun should suddenly cease the earth would fall into the sun aul cease to "xlst It would rush towari it with er increasing speed and wo :i reach sixty-five days. hen the earth is dead, o" r worlds come. There will ta c' r human- other Babylonian, o.r Thebe- her Athenians, o'."or Romes, 'ises, other palaces, other tem- glorles, other loves, other heir turn, to ts f'owed by tn. At i cr I the future t Milky Wtj center of r Lse formldaL.a r n, whose er tome populate 1 ! "t ti far r aU the . rzzh to ' i 1 form , i.&ter of l worlds ; l'Jign IIt i rould i:em v, b us. finite space s'-t'.l h worlds and t' 1 eternity .tall r tys be j and : rarer, j nor can be neltT t Flammt- 'A Matter of " ,1s the age of i t :i tie ' Trpted tf rf s r i ner speaker. ;t me to nuzz-vt," 1 Wn courteouy, tithe reporters y kt last word."! 'friend are'. French JT; : SEA AND LAND. The Way They Meet and Claah and Finally Harmonize. In "The Wonderful Adventures of Nils," translated from the Swedish of Belnia Lagerlof by . Velma Swanstou Howard. Is the following pretty de scription of how seu and land meet: Vqii see that sen n ml land can meet In many different ways. In nmuy places the laud comes down toward the sea with Hat, tufted meadows, and the sea uieets the land with flylug sand, which piles up In minimis and drifts. It appears as though they both disliked each other so much that they only wished to show the poorest they possessed. Hut It can also happen that when the land comes toward the sea It raises u wall of hills lu front of it as though the sea were something dangerous. Wheu the land does this, the sea comes up to it with fiery wrath and beats and roars and lashes against the rocks and looks as If It would tear the land hill to pieces. But in Bleklnge It Is altogether differ ent when sea and land meet There the land breaks Itself up into points and Islands and Islets, and the sea di vides itself into fiords and bays and sounds, and It is perhaps this which makes it look as if they must meet lu happiness and harmony. Tliluk now first and foremost of the sea! Far out It lies desolate and emp ty and big and has nothing else to do but to roll its gray billows. When it comes toward the land it happens across the first obstacle. This It imme diately overpowers, tears away every thing green and makes it as gray as itself. Then It meets still another obstacle. With this it does the same thing. And still another yes, the same thing happens to this also. It is stripped and plundered as If it had fallen Into robbers' hands. Then the obstacles come nearer and nearer to gether, and then the sea must under stand that the land sends toward It her littlest children In order to move It to pity. It also becomes more friendly the farther In It comes, rolls Its waves less high, moderates its storms lets the green things stay In cracks and crevices, separates Itself Into small sounds and Inlets and becomes at last so harmless In the land that little boats dare venture out upon it It cer tainly cannot recognize Itself, so mild and friendly has it grown. ONE TOUCH OF NATURE. A Display of Courtesy "In Memory of Old Virginia." All the scats were taken in the car which I entered one morning In early April. An old colored man sat next the door. It is not often in these days that I see that type of black man. I used to see that kind on the old Virginia plan tation, where he was "Ung Llge" or "Ung Sambo" to all the household. His days were devoted to useful toll and his eveulngs to bis banjo and the old plantation melodies that no one can ever sing again as musically as they were sung then. "Take this seat mlstls," he said, ris ing promptly. "Mlstls" sounded very "homey" and pleasant to me. It had been so long since I was "mlstls" to anybody. "Thank you, uncle," said I. "Keep your seat I would Just as lief stand." "Scuse me, please, mlstls, but 'taln't fltten fer you ter stan'; you mus' set" he admonished respectfully. I took the seat thanking him for his courtesy. Soon a departing passenger left a vacancy, "There Is a seat for you," I said to the old man. "Between the ladles, ma'am?" He hesitated. "Tes," I said. He bowed apologetically to right and left and took the vacant place. Just before leaving the car I slipped a ail ver piece Into bis hand, saying, "Un cle, get you a nice luncheon with this In memory of old Virginia." "Thank you, my mlstls," be said, opening his band to look at the little gift and then closing It I left the car with a sunnier feeling In my heart be cause of the chance meeting, bnt with no thought that I should ever again hear of my old Virginian. That afternoon I received a bunch of arbutus which had been left for me by an old colored man "fer the tall lady with a long blue coat an' white hair in memory of ole Virginia an' dem old time days." Lipplncott's Magazine. A Distinction Without a Difference. Five-year-old Deborah bad been in vited to take luncheon at a restaurant with Miss E. "Do yon like cocoa r she was asked. When the answer was "Yes," the beverage was duly brought, but re mained untaBted. At last Miss K. said, "Why don't you drink your cocoa, Deborah, when 70a said you wanted It?" "I didn't say I wanted it, replied the child politely. "I only said that I liked It" Woman's Home Companion, The Wiae Ones. "Some people don't never seem to learn nuthiu' as they grow older," re-mp-' etl the Squedunk sage. Vorne people don't need ter," re f ' 3 the Pohlck philosopher. "Some I ' j 1 ows It all from the start" I :..e Courier-Journal. COSTLY MATTRESSES. The Kind That Are Used on the Big Plate Glass Wagons. Probably about ns costly a sort of mattress as any is one that Is made not to sleep on at all, hut to spread on the long, broad table or platform of the wagons built for carrying pinto glass. These mattresses, which ore made of curled hair, are very thin, scarcely thicker than n comfortable, and must be made with tha greatest care to In sure perfect uniformity of thickness. A lump anywhere would be likely to break the plate of glass resting upon It, and there would be still greater danger If the weight of two plates of glass was rested ou the lump at once. A mattress for a plate glass wagon costs, according to size, from $00 to $75. Iu use the corners of smaller plates carried on It cut into the tick ing covering, anil sooner or later It has to be made over. Simply to make over such a mattress costs from $20 to $25. Ou the table topped and mattress covered glass wagons the biggest plates are carried with confidence and sofetjr The table is built to remain absolutely rigid, and the thin but uni form mattress protects the plate from Jar. Before plate glass store fronts bad come Into common use, when the han dling of a big plate was counted as a good deal more of a job than It Is now, they used to carry - a great pane of glass lu a sort of frame, which was put on the wagon with the glass lu It. At its destluatlon this frame or sup port was worked carefully across the sidewalk to the store front, where the glass wos dislodged from It to be set, and altogether the settlug of a great plate of glass was then quite an un dertaking. Now, with the settlug of such plates a common dally occurrence and with men skilled in the handling of them, they simply carry a big plate out and lay It on their mattress covered table topped wagon and carry it to whero It Is to go and there slide It off, to rest It for a moment on blocks on the side walk, and then they pick It up and carry It to the window front. Then they run under the lower edge of the glass lifting straps, by which men standing inside the window as well as men standing outside can lift on It wheu the glass Is put Into place In the window frame. There again It Is raised on blocks until the straps can be withdrawn, and then the blocks are taken out and the glass secured In place, all this being done with great care, but still with comparative ease and quickness and with certainty, aud In these times great panes of glass are thus moved and set on ail but the windiest days. Cleveland Plain Dealer. DOG INTELLIGENCE. The Clever "Malamutes" That Carry the Mails In Alaska. The Eskimo begins to train his dog for sledge work before It is a month old. One of the most Interesting fea tures of Eskimo villages are puppies tied to the pole of a tent They pull on the rope with all their puppy Btrengtb In the effort to break away and Join In the frolics of their elders. Not until a dog bred for mall service Is one year old is It put In training for the trail. It begins by running ten miles with the team; then it Is dropped out Next day it runs the same dis tance. Gradually the distance Is In creased until It reaches Its fifteenth month of life, when It becomes part of the regular service. The life of a mail dog Is from three to four years. No greater punishment can be Inflicted than to lay a dog off from service. When unruly they are often threat ened with a lay-off, and with almost human Intelligence they seem to un derstand the disgrace It Implies In the eyes of their fellow workers on the trail. All fight to bu leaders. A con stant spur to an uuambitlous dog Is the "outsider," who will quickly take away the leadership not only In the mail service, but la teams maintained chiefly for the pleasure of the sport The Intelligence of the malamnte Is re markable, Its scent wonderful, Its In stinct, as a rule, unerring. Some dogs are better trail followers than others, as some are better lead ers. In a blizzard the beat of them lose the trail, but Invariably find It When on the trail they never eat bnt once a day, then at the end of a Jour ney. After feeding, like weary chil dren, they fall asleep and are never quarrelsome. It takes on an average twenty pounds of food a day for a team of eleven dogs on a bard route LIda Rose McCabe In Et Nicholas. Natural!. Towne Sleep well? Stnbbs Like a top never lose a wink. "Great Scott I What do yon taker "An alarm clock to my room and then set the alarm for half an hour after I ro to bed. As soon as It rings I naturally roll over and go to sleep P PIck-Ue-Up. A Good Talker. "They say her conversational pow ers are Immense." "Is t-at so?" "Tes, sir. They tell me that girl once talked clear through 'Parsifal.' " Lonisvi:: Courier-Journal HOLLAND MUSTARD. Some of the Virtues Ascribed to It and One Way to Make It. Hollanders use enormous quantities of mustard and thrive on the condi ment. There is a small spot In Overys sel. I think it Is near Uoor, where the land slopes gently down to the river Ijsel and Is n brown gray clay. This Is fushioned Into the cutest little Jugs you ever saw, holding about a pint eurh, and the genuine Dutch mustard, made only In that pocket borough, ac cording to n sei-ret process handed down for many general Ions, Is hermet ically sealed therein. It will keep for (cars and Is ns delicious as the finest confection. It Is butter, cheese and condiment to the Hollanders who can ulford It And there Is uo other place on earth where that mustard can he bought You might ask, "Why do the Hol landers eat so much mustard?" The answer Is: The Holland mustard is a most delightful stomach stimulant. "It makes the food slide down." It cures the worst cases of dyspepsia. It keeps the liver In line tdinpe. It Is an anti dote for the most deadly poison cor rosive sublimate. It Is lu large doses a non-nnusentlng emetic. It Is the only counterlrrltnnt handed down to us by our grandmothers the mustard plas ter. The Dutch girls use It sparingly on their velvet checks to give a rosy complexion. When a person Is down and nearly out a drink made of pure mustard and oil will fetch htm around. A mustard "stoop" Is a certain cure for catarrh In the nasal cavity. Here Is one Dutch method of pre paring mustard for the table: Mix equal portions of black and white seeds and grind to a flue powder. Boll this lu the best vinegar till thoroughly mixed. Orate some fresh horseradish, squeeze out the Juice and add to the mustard. Then 1 put In n little salt, a little sugar, a little turmeric, a little fenugreek and a little white hotiey. Yon will eat this on your bread, cake, pie, battercakes and waffles, your meats, fish, game and poultry. New York Press. PRESENCE OF MIND. A Madhouse Doctor's Experience With His Crazy Cooks. A celebrated Scotch physician tells a story of a madhouse doctor whose presence of mind alone saved his life: "A great friend of mine was for u Considerable time the medical superin tendent of 11 lunatic asylum near Glas gow. "One night In making hla customary rounds he had occasion to visit the pa tients In the I lli hi'ii. who were paring the dlii'ier. Ther. v. ere revcu of them, all big. sdml, .Vilows, were believed fo bp harmless. T!i keeper only looked In upon them uov, and again, feeling (hat his cousin n; presence was untjecmsnry. "The doctor unlocked the lrou barred door of the kitchen and went In among the lunatics. "There were five large boilers r-n talnlng scalding water ready for mak ing the day's dinner for the patients "One of the lunatics pointed ut :': boilers full of hot water and. Joying his band upon the doctor's shoulder, said, 'Doctor, you'll make a fine pot of broth.' And the words bad no soon er been uttered than the other six mad men shouted . In a voice of delight 'Just the thing,' and, seizing the doc tor, were In the very act of putting him Into oue of the large boilers of scalding water when the doctor bad tho presence of mind to say, but not a second too soon: " 'Capital brothl But It' would taste better If I took my clothes off.' "The madmen, with a yell of delight, said 'Yes,' and the doctor asked them to wait a moment while be went aud took his clothes off. But as soon as be got out of the kitchen he turned the key In the door and ordered the keep er to see to the lunatics being put un der restraint. "The doctor's presence of mind saved him, It Is true, from a terrible death, but be died shortly after raving mad. The experience bad destroyed his rea son." Origin of the Postal Card. In 1S69, while Professor Emanuel Herrmann of Vienna was seeking a vast amount of information by corre spondence for bis notable book, "The Qnlde to the Study of National Econ omy," the thought occurred to him that many advantages wonld result from the adoption of a means of cor respondence cheaper than the sealed let ter. On Jan. 20 he went before the Austrian post director with his Idea, an open, stamped card, and his sugges tion was almost Immediately adopted. Within a month the Austrian postal authorities printed and sold 1,000,000 postal cards and thus established this indispensable means of communication. Navy Is Never Dene. A navy, like a railroad. Is never done. There never comes the grateful moment when the work can be said to be finished and the sole task left to be discharged la that of operation. As the roadbed, track, equipment of a rail road must be constantly maintained and Improved, so If there Is to be any navy at all equipment must be con stantly improved and brought up to date, even under- the policy ft "re Dlacament and reoalr." -fT' "' ' 'Nr A TRICK 0FJTHE TRADE. Bear This In Mind When You Pur chase Art Treasures Abroad. A warning to picture buyers that was published in Paris by tho versa tile and fiery Frenchman, M. Hoche fort, may well be laid to heart by wealthy Americans and others who are disposed to purchase works of art on their face value aud without challeng ing the credentials that ore lavishly paraded. It Is of course the picture dealers In Taris who need to bo spe cially watched, and M. Rochefort tells a good story In Illustration of the care that should be used. A customer hud bought nn authentic picture by an old moster In nn excellent stato of preser vation and expressed bis Intention of taking It with him. The dealer, on the other band, insisted strongly on send ing It borne by one of his employees. "If you nre afraid that we will change the picture, you have ouly got to write your name on the back," said the shopman. But the customer had his way. When he reached home, he undid his pur chase and discovered that a copy of the original canvas had been nnlled behind the genuine picture, so that If the customer had placed his signature on the back of the picture he would have written It on the copy. The deal er would have maintained that that was the picture he had bought, and the original would have remained In the possession of the dealer. Argonaut. TOO STRONG A BLUFF. The Boy Meant Well, but Carried His Instructions Too Far. The proprietor of one of New York's fashionable hotels was talking about the crush that restaurants experience on New Year's eve, Washington's birthday and other holidays. "But I must not boast," said he. "It is bad luck. A grocer in my boyhood told me that Tho grocer said that ho had once engaged a new boy and had ex horted this boy always to give custom ers the Impression that they were very busy. "'Whether we are actuolly busy or not, say we are busy,' the grocer said. 'Tell people we are, for they like to deal with brisk, go ahead firms that do a large trade.' "Well, an hour or so later a brough am drove up, and the rich judge's wife entered. She did not stay long. The boy looked after hor. And on her de parture the grocer said to the boy: "'Did Mrs. Judgo Brown leave a. very large order, James?' '"She was goln' to,' said the boy. 'She hod a list as long as yer arm. But I looked mad and told ber we was so busy I hardly seed how I could stop to tend to ber, so she said, beln' as she was In a hurry, she'd just go next door.' "Exchange. The Art of Saint Gaudena. His angels and caryatids are not clas sical goddesses, but modern women, lovely, but with a personal and par ticular loveliness, not insisted upon, but delicately suggested. And It Is not the personality of the model who chanced to pose for them, but an In vented personality, the expression of the nobility, the sweetness and the pure mlndedness of their creator. And in such a figure as that of the Adams memorial In Bock Creek cemetery In Washington his Imaginative power reaches to a degree of impresslveness almost nnequalcd in modern art One knows o nothing since the tombs of the Medici that fills one with the same hushed awe as this shrouded, hooded, deeply brooding figure, rigid with con templation, still with an eternal still ness, her soul rapt from her body on some distant quest Is she Nirvana? Is she the peace of Ood? ' She has been given many names. Her maker would give her none. Her meaning Is mystery. She Is" the everlasting enigma. Kenyon Cox In Atlantic. Fishing With Forty Foot Rode. In sea fishing at Blarrlta, France, some remarkably long and heavy rods are employed. We think a twenty foot salmon rod or roach pole Is a pretty good length, but our friends at Biarritz use rods over forty feet In length. In fishing from the walk at the lighthouse the rods are balanced on the railing by means of a wood rest fitting the Iron bars. A line about the length of the rod Is used, three or four hooks and a light sinker. At La Polnte Plate rods of lesser length and weight are used, but even these are not featherweights by any means. Seels, according to VIcomte Henri de France, are known to these sea anglers, but are seldom used. London Fishing Gazette. Wrong Interpretation. "I declare," remarked Ber. Mr. Good ley, "I never really knew what profan ity was until I met Mr. Tuff." Tes," put In Dnmley. "Ain't he ag gravate', thought I don't blame yon a bit, for he'd make a saint swear." Philadelphia Press. Speaker of the House. BInks Very few women hare any knowledge of parliamentary law. Jinks Ton should hear my wife. She has been speaker of the house for the test twelve years. Nsw York press. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. Properly Charges in Jtffersoi County Put Upon Record. Frank E. Bussard to W. E Stormer, for one half Interest In 20 acres 9 perches In Wlnslow township, $1,250. April 6, 1908. Frank P. Sackett to Robert B. Horn, for 16 34 acres in Wlnlow township. $1,900. April 15, 190H. F. S. Douthlt to S. K. D .uthit, et. al.. for 100 acres In Winalow township. $500. January SO, 1908. Frank Slraitwell to W. L Lingen felter, for 100 acres in McCalmont township. $1 00,- April 7, IWiS. J. L. Boardman to Joseph It. Laver ick, for 10 acres In Winslow township. $400. April 22, 1908. John Extrom to George K. Depp, for lot in Big Run. $0.00. January 31, 1908. Home Building & Loan Association to Leon H. Hoffman, for lot In Mo Calmont township. $1.00. April 11, 1908. Leon H. Huffman to H. R. Martin, for lot in McCalmont township, $150. April 22, 1908. Reynoldsville BulldiDg & Loan As sociation to Charles C. Herpel, for lot In West Reynoldsyllle. $1,800. April 10, 1908. William J.' Morrison to Maurice M. Raybuck, for 92.4 acres in Washington township. $2,000. April 11, 1998. Graduated with Honor. Albert J. Feicht, brother of C. M. Feicht, of this place, on Tuesday was graduated from the Pittsburg College of Pharmacy. Mr. Feicht took first honors in a class of about 150, and bis closest rival was Mrs. Pearl J. Davis, of Pittsburg. Although a Reynoldsville boy, Mr. Feioht'g honors will be good news to bis many friends in Punxsu tawney, where he has been assooiated with bU brother. He will take the ex aminations before the state board May 24, and bis high standing In the Pitts burg college loaves no doubt of his suo eess. Punxsutawney Spirit. Albert Feicht is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Feioht, of this place. Lace Curtains. With each pair of lace curtains ooat Ing one dollar or more we give white oak or mahogany poles free, Gillespies. . 1 - t See If you can't get your piano tuned for nothing. Hustle down with your order as soon after twelve o'clock as you can Wednesday, as the first one will be tuned for nothing. John Strauss. Come to Adam's and have a fit. Dry goods of all kinds at Horwitz' at low prices. Come In Thursday evening and see the bargains we have to offer you In our After-Supper Sale. Blng-Stoke Co. 'Tan and black oxfords for children will be out 10 per 06nt Thursday, Fri day and Saturday at Nolan's. DR. A. W. CHASE'S OH ft CATARRH POWDER &Dfi la sent direct to the dimmed parts by the improved Blower, ueeia the oleera, clears the air punaffee, stops dropping in the throat and permanently cures Catarrh and Hav Fever. Nn harmful dmmi. 26c blower free; all dealers or Dr. A. f. Chase Medicine Co., Buffalo, N.Y. For sale by Stoke & Feicht Drug Co.' JJUGHES & FLEMING. FUNERAL DIRECTORS. Main Street. Reynoldsville, Pa. "ubatcrlbe for The Star If you want the News If you have anything to sell, try oar Want Column. WINDSOR HOTEL W. T. Bruhaker, Mgr. Midway between Broad St. station and Beading Terminal on Filbert 16. Booms 11.00 per day and up. The only moderate priced hptel at rep utation and consequence In PHILADELPHIA