AN EPISODE OF WAR. The Only Coward Evans Ever Saw In tha Naval 8ervlee. After Admiral Evans bad been 80 grievously wounded In the attack on Fort Fisher during the civil war he was picked ttp by n marine named iWaamouth and carried Into compara tive shelter. Wasmoutb was killed a few minutes later. Evans' own ac count continues: "After Wasniouth was killed I soon fell asleep, and when I awoke It was some time before I could recall my surroundings. The tide had come In, and the bole lu which 1 was lying was nearly full of water, which bad about covered me and was trickling Into my ears. I could see a monitor tiring and appar ently very near, and the thought cauie to me that I could swim off to ber if I only had a bit of plnnk or driftwood, but this 1 could not get. It was plain enough that 1 should soou be drowned like a rat in a hole unless I managed to get out somehow Dead and wound ed men were lying about in ghastly plies, but no one to lend me a helping band. By this time 1 could not use my legs In any way, and when I dug my bands Into thp sides of my prison and tried lo pull myself out the sand gave way and left me still lying In the water. Finally I made a strong effort -and rolled myself sideways out of the bole. . i "When I got out 1 saw a marine a short distance away nicely covered by a pile of sand and tiring away deliber ately at the fort. I called to him to pull me in behind bis bar of sand, but he declined on the ground that the Are was too sharp for him to expose him self. I persuaded blm with my re- : Tolver to change his mind, and in two j seconds he had me In a place of safe-' ty that Is to say. safe by a small mar gin, for when he fired the Confederate bullets would snip the sand within a few Inches of .our beads. If the ma rine had known that my revolver was' soaking wet and could not possibly be fired I suppose I would have been . burled the next morning, as many oth er poor fellows were. As soon as I could reach some cartridges from a dead sailor lying near n;o 1 loaded my revolver, thinking It might be useful before the job. was finished. "When I was Jerked in behind this pile of sand I landed across the body of the only coward I ever saw In the naval service. At first I was not con- ! sclous that there was a man under me, so completely had he worked himself Into the sand. He was actually below the surface of the ground. The monl- ' tors were firing over us, and as a shell came roaring by he pulled his knees up to his chin, which hurt me, as It Jostled my broken legs. I Bald: 'Hello! Are '' you wounded?' 'No, sir,' he replied; 1 am afraid to move. 'All right, then,' i I said, keep quiet and don't hurt my legs again. The "next shell that came over he did the same thing and the next notwithstanding my repeated cau tions. So I tapped him between the eyes with the butt of my revolver, and be was quiet after that" j Tha Glova en the Pole. A quaint custom In an English town, Honlton, Is "proclaiming the fair." The town obtained the grant of a fair from the lord of the manor so long ago as 1257, and the fair still retains some of the picturesque characteristics of by- gone days. The town crier, dressed In picturesque uniform and carrying a pole decorated with gay flowers and surmounted by a large gilt model of a gloved hand, publicly announces the opening of the fair, as follows: "Oyezl Oyezl Oyezl The fair's begun, the glove Is up. No man can be arrested till the glove Is taken down." Hot corns are then thrown among the chil dren. The pole and glove remains dis played until the end of the fair. run anu viii.. Nobody la so much alive as the dead beat No man wants to quit work early an go hnmn on wash rtnv. OLD WINTER IS COMING Along as urnia!. Ho Is liable to make his ap pearance any day now. Are you redy for htm? Sure you will be able to kiep the house warm when cold weather comes? If not bel ter see us quick. Lei us ml k steam heat to you f or a llu le wbtle. When we prove how effective It Is, how much cleaner and more economical It in, ask us for an estimate of how little It will cost to have us put steam heat In your place. C E. HUMPHREY Plumber JHARTE..l NOTICE. Notice Is hewliy gtvrn that en npnllrailnn will be mado to lh Governor of Pennsyl vania on lhc flxih dny of Novemht-r, IWJ8, by ti. A. bull, Umine H. Kea, Cit-orie . 1-iilis and A. J. Meek. und-r the Act nt AHHemhiy entltlt-rt "An art to provide fnr ine lncoritorat.lon and te uUUnn of ci-riain cor porations," approved April 29, JK7I, Mid I lie supplement! thereto, for the rtaa'i r of an Intended corporation lo b called Kea Itee and Honey Company, the clia aMf-r and ol'Jfx-I of which i for the raisins, pnidunlux, buying and a-I Iuk liony bees and their ur. (liiris snd the manufacturing and selling of beekeepers' supplies ar.d their equip ments, and far thte purposes to have, pos se's, ami enjoy all the Tights, bneflis and privileges of said Act of Assemii'v and supplements thereto. M. H. Davis, f . Solicitor. OCEAN LIN EC'S CARGO. Four Hundred Husky Longshoremen to Load One Ship. Down on the wharf the rush was at its height. Under the sputtering bluish arc lights, amid endless clang miJ rum ble, the produce of America came In. From the prairies,, the mines and the mills, from the forests, the cottou plan- uiiuua iuvuilu in. mil, uiLuuiun uiivj j ! vlneynrdsfrom the oil fields and meat : packing houses, from tha grimy fac- ' torles, large and small, ponderous en- glues of steel, harvesters, reapers, au tomobiles, bars of silver and yellow bricks of gold, bales of cotton and wool and hides and tobacco, meats. barrels of flour and boxes of fruit, hogshead of oil and casks of wine tens of thousands of things and ma- chines to make things piled up on the i wharf by the acre. And still nil night the teams clattered In and the tugs puffed up with the barges, anil from hundreds of miles away the trains were rushing hither, bringing more boxes aud barrels and bags to be packed In at the last moment, i In gangs nt every hatchway the 400 men were trundling, heaving, strain ing, a rough crowd, cursing aud Joking at the hoarse shouts of the foremen, ! while from the darkness outside heavy black rope nets dropped down to gath ' cr gigantic handfuls of cargo, swing thoiu back up to the deck of the ship 1 and then down Into her hold; So all through the night and right up to the hour of sailing the rush went on, for the great ocean liner's work Is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars a month. And the ship must sail on ti me. Every body 's. HUNTING WILD HORSES. How Brumbies In New 8outh Wales Are Trapped and Broken. Hunting "brumbies," as the wild horses are called there, Is a .favorite sport In New South Wales. Districts like the Clarence and Stephens and Manning river watershed are still the home of numerous droves of brum bies, and hunting them Is declared to be a very exhilarating pastime. The first step taken is to stake out a corral and make all secure except a narrow entrance, which can subsequently be gated. On either side of the entrance and projecting from It funnelwlse a "booby fence" is nfepared. To the simple minded brumby it presumably looks like a stockade, and pieces of fluttering cotton make It look Impregnable. When this Is ready, the young bloods, well mounted, gallop out and round up the wild horses, driving them with shouts and much loud snapping of stock whips toward the mouth of the funnel. In a group of brumbies there Is al ways a leader, and when once the hunters have got the leader beading for the corral they are pretty certain of the rest of the drove. The flutter ing cotton rags of the sham fence are sufficient to deter the brumbies from breaking through the flimsy barriers, and In less time than it takes to tell the wild horses are safely corralled and the big gate shut on them. Then they are left for four and twenty hours without food and water to reflect on the situation, and after that they can be broken In without much difficulty. London Standard. Hearn aa a Creative Artist. Hearn's creative faculty began where creation is commonly held to end, with the material given. Of the creative gift In the sense In which the phrase is applied to the poet he had not a par ticle. He was not a maker, but a sbaper. Dr. Gould puts the matter bluntly when he says, "He had no ' original thing to say, for he was en tirely without creative power and had always to borrow tbeme and plot." And again: "Clearly and patently It was a mind without creative ability, spring or the desire for it. It was a mind Improcreant by Inheritance and by education, by necessity and by training, by poverty Internal and ex ternal." The truth In these words be comes evident when one recalls the failure as fiction of every one of Hearn's attempts In this field and the fact that his greatest successes were won In reclothlng tbe ideas of other men. Forum. Vary Clever. Tbey tell a story In London of a cer tain peer who had never before shown the slightest Interest In horse racing that he surprised a young man of bis acquaintance by asking him apropos of f nothing whlcb horse bad won the Der by. The young man told him. "Thnt was very clever of him," replied the peer. "Was It tbe first time he tried - It 7" The young man stared, but said "Yes." "Then I call It very clever of him," replied the noble bnt Incomplete sportsman, "to win the Derby the first time he tried for It" ' Pleasant For the Lander. "There." said Dubley. adding up the ' column of figures, "a total of $052. I I guess that's all. Oh, no; there's $30 I j rorgoti ueei i wiso someooay wouia lend me $682. Can you do It old man?" "What for?" demanded Markley. "Why. I want to get out of debt" Philadelphia Press. A Holdup, i De Roads Mister, I found tbe dorg your wife Is advertisln' a reward or $5 fer. Mr. Jaw-You did, eh? De Roads Yes, and If you don't gimme $10 I'll take It back to ber. See? Phlladelpbla Inquirer. , . Made Hia Mark. "Well, young Dr. Bllcer has made his mark already, hasn't be?" "Tes; did It on bl first rase." "Great Scott! What did be dor "Vaccinated blm!" THE SCOURING RUSH. A Queer Plant That Can Be Changed Into a Mineral, The scouring rush. Equlsetum hle male, is an interesting plant which has been put to practical use. In old times Its hollow, flinty stems were in great repute for kitchen cleaning purposes. j The status are hollow and are easily separated at the joints. If one wonld satisfy himself as to the peculiar prop erty luat first suggested the use of this rush for scouring purposes he has ouly to draw a joint across the edge of his teeth to find it like a file. A very pretty chemical experiment is frequently made with the rush. If j one takes a small vial of nitric acid i Into which any ordinary lead Is Im- ; mersed he will quickly see It dissolve, literally eaten up by the acid. But what does the scouriug rush do under such circumstances? Immediately upon Its Introduction to the acid the sizzling process begins. The green pulp of the stem Is grad ually consumed, the tube, however, still retaining Its shape, becoming paler and paler lu color until after a few hours the specimen Is transformed into a pure white alabaster-like column whlcb defies any further attack from the acid. On taking It from the vtul and wash ing It carefully In running water the operator holds In his hands a beauti ful tube of pure, glassy flint, or silex. an object of great microscopic beauty of construction. The scouring rush Is no longer a vegetable, but a mineral, and lu Observing Its skeleton of stone the secret of its utility as a scouring brush Is easily understood. New York Tribune."""""' DUTCH STREET CARS; The Conductor Carries More Docu ments Than a Congressman. Countries may be known by their street cars. The rush and Jar of our big cities are exemplified in the rapid, rude transit of its inhabitants. So the character of orderly little Holland may be gathered from observation of ber car service. Says J. U... Hlglnbotham in "Three Weeks In Holland and Bel- glum:" Street car rare in Holland is 8 cents ' room and looks after the other walt a trip, and for 4 cents you receive a ers and then makes an Income larger return ticket. The conductor carries than thtt of a university professor, all more documents than a congressman, out of his tips. For every fare he opens an aluminium j After supper at one of the delight box about 4 by 6 and hands out a re- ful open air cafes of the capital It was ceipt or a return ticket as the case found that approximately oue. shouhl may be. , j give a half krone (flvepence) to tle When the passengers pay their tick- head waiter who took payment, two ets he places the tickets lu a leather pence to the underwnlter who brought pouch hung by a strap round his neck It Is Important that you retain the re ' celpt given you, for at uncertain in tervals a "controlleur" gets on the car and examines all receipts, puts his O. K. on them with' a rubber stamp and compares the result with the man ifest or log carried by the conductor. It is quite the correct thing to tip the conductor with n Dutch cent or two. Each car has a card Inside stating how many places there are. and on each platform is another saying how many people may stand thereon. When the seats and both platforms are full the sign "Vol" Is put up and no more are permitted to get aboard Our car probably had thirty people in it and on the platforms and was turn ' lng business away nt every crossing. Color. . - Of the light rays that fail upon an object some are taken up by the object , and others are reflected. It Is to the reflected rays that we are to turn for the explanation of color. For Instance, a sheet of white naner is "white" be- 1 cause all the seven kinds of light are I reflected from Its surface, while tbe sunflower Is "yellow" because when , light falls on it the violet. Indigo, blue and green rays are selected for ab sorption, and yellow principally Is re flected. The reflective rays, received by. the eye, produce the sensation of color. This Is an explanation of near ly all the colors that exist Poison Hemlock. Water hemlock Is a deadly plant common In most country neighbor hoods. Its roots are eaten often Ir spring by mistake for some edible foot, and death frequently results. Cattle are often poisoned by drinking water in marshes where it grows. Tbe poison hemlock from which the Greeks made poisons is a near relative to the water hemlock. It stands from two to seven feet high and has clusters of small white flowers and large, parsleylike leaves. The stalk, being hollow. Is of ten made Into whistles by country boys, and many children are poisoned In this fashion. Handicapped. "What profession do you think our boy Joe bad better adopt?" asked Mrs. Brown. "I dunno." answered her husband. 'Joe Is rather handicapped by circum- stances. The only profession he's nat urally adapted to Is that of a capital- 1st and I don't quite see where he's goln' to get the money." A Tip. "Look as If you was feel In' pretty good today, James." said the first waiter. - - "Tes. tiptop." replied the other. "Some streak o' luck maybe?" "Tes; tiptop tip." Kansas City In dependent An Empty Form. ' Little Willie-Say, pa. what does It signify when one woman kisses an other? Pa About as much as when one man In business: calls another "old chap." my son. Stray Stories. . If requires little exertion upon orr part to bring misfortune upon- our selves. Menander. JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS. Tha Way Ha Came to Write His "Unele Remus" 8loris. Many great works of genius, as Is . well known, have been produced by accident and an author Is seldom the best judge of his own work. When ' Joel Chandler Harris wrote the first of his "Uncle Remus" stories and pre sented It for publication he did so with a hundred misgivings. He was not sure that his venture lu negro folk lore would prove successful. He could not know that tbey would bring him worldwide fame. At the time described Mr. Harris was a young man of twenty-eight, em ployed on the Atlanta Constitution. Sam W. Small, afterward a revivalist, who had been writing for the same paper a popular column of negro story and dialect, had Just resigned from the staff. The managing editor of the Con stitution, wishing to continue the fea ture, said to Harris one day: "Joel, It seems to ma you could do that sort of thing to a tee. See If you can't turn In something tonight" The young writer's memory flitted back to his early days on a plantation. All the quaint settings of negro life the little cabins, the fiddling darkles, the wrinkled story teller, the black "mammies," the noisy corn shucktjigs, the bobtalled rabbits disappearing along the road came hurrying from the past. Late that afternoon he turn ed In his copy. The next day his repu tation was made. Current Literature. . TIPPING IN BOHEMIA. Even the 8treet Car Conductor Ex- pects Hia Gratuity. ' In the city of Prague a tip to the tramway conductor Is considered de rlgueurt The orthodox tip consists of but 2 heller, or two-tenths of a penny, yet as "strap hanging" Is allowed for in considering the carrying capacity of the car the conductors should have got a goodly pocketful of the minimum coin by each day's end. Tipping. It was ascertained In an other of Bohemia's larger towns, is so fully recognized that the head waiter at a cafe pays a rent for bis post, sup plies . all the Journals for the coffee the Tlands and a halfpenny to the boy who brought and even brought again as one glass was fnlsbed the beer. iunuuii nronicie. Don't 8y Cologne. She sprinkled eau de cologne liberal ly In the batb of pink marble. "It Is this perfume," she said learnedly, "which makes "us think that the towu of Cologne must be scented. Johann Maria Farina Invented 200 years ago In Cologne a perfume made of the oils of ncroli, citron, bergatnot, orange and rosemary. He called the perfume aft er his city, eau de Cologne water of Cologne. By the same token, bad he beeu a Londoner, he'd have called It eau de London, lu that case the illit erate would now. think London a scent ed city, and Instead of saying correctly,' Tut a few drops of perfume on my handkerchief,' they would say, 'Put a few drops of London pn It' In fact, It Is a very vulgar and -silly error to call all perfumes cologne. You might as well call them Chicago or Denver." New York Press. I No Satisfaction. I The Edltor-Eh, what's wrong? .' The Correspondent in that letter ot 1 mine that you printed this morning ' several gross errors were permitted to appear. Look at this. 1 wrote "No body has any desire to impeach the rugged quality of Mr. Bklmmerhoru's honesty," and you turned "honesty" into "hosiery." Look at It! - "I see it And. what's more, I see nothing wrong about it. Anything else?" "Yes, here's another. This Is what I wrote: 'Mr. Sklminerhorn's rlpffexperl ence and his respect for honor must not be forgotten.' And you speak here of bis 'trlfie experience and his 're- spect for Homer. i "Yes, that's so And they're both highly commendable virtues. Oood morning, sir." Clevelnnd Plain Dealer Tha Hurry Fad. Mr. Cleveland," said a Princeton lecturer, "had little sympathy with the rush and hurry that tbe American business man so complacently affects- no sympathy with train and boat die- , tatlon, with the lunch table telephone, j the letter phonograph and the other blufrt. " 'Don't rush so,' Mr. Cleveland once said to me. 'Lightning might do a great deal more If it wasn't always In such an awful hurry.'" Washington Star. Tha Mora Notable. "Which would you call more notable, the prima donna's debut or' ber fare well?" "Her farewell. Wouldn't you?" "Don't know that I would. She can make but oue debut" One Thing Left. Elderly Uncle Spent your entire pa trimony, have you, Archibald? Cone through everything?, Scapegrace Neph ' ew Yes. nncle; everything but the bankruptcy court. Chicago Tribune. . A woman may not be logical when Fhe undertakes .to argue, but If she is ' only, pretty enough that doesn't make j any earthly difference. Somervllle ! Journal. I THE OLDEST ESTABLISH Capital and Surplus $125,000.00 Drafts find Money Orders issued on all parts of the world. Interest compounded semi-annually on savings accounts, having excellent withdrawal privileges. Libernl treatment and every courtesy consistent with . sound banking is assured all at ThePeoples National Bank REYNOLDSVILLE. PA. OPEN SATURDAY EVENINGS THE PEOPLES BANK BUILDING. . -iS , fM, -Af fit- - Gold and Silver Mounted Umbrellas, Watches, Jew elry, Cut Glass, Silverware. Lockets and Chains, Bracelets (all kinds and sizes), Phonographs and Records. All goods new and up-to-date at prices to suit everybody. We engrave all goods free when purchased at OX We pay particular attention to Watch Repairing. ALL WOOL That suit or overcoat you're go ing to need mighty soon ought to be cut in the latest style else you won't look well dressed and up-to-date-Ought to have all the finish all Ought to be made of wool material all wool pure wool clear through else you won't have clothes that will keep color, hold their shape and wear right. Now, that's why CLOTHCRAFT. Realizing just what you ought to have we've put in a full line of CLOTHCRAFT Fall and Winter the superior points i in m a k i n c an d tailoring use you won't have clothes that fit and look well- Bing-Stoke Co. Puncture Proof Bicycle Tires at Manufacturers' Prices. For a short time we will sell the Famous Hedgethorn Puncture Proof Tires for only $4 80 per pair. $4.80 is the manufacturers' prices in Chicago and they send same by express collect, which cimts you 60e, making the tires cost you $5.40. Remit us $5 4') and we will ship by express ALL CHAKUES PRKPAID, one pair of these tires. Tires cost you but $4.80 witli 60c added ar the express charge. We save you several days time. Address OTTO X NUPP, Dealer ia Bicrc'et aJ Sapplin, s SYKESVILLE, PA. This offer holds good In Jefferson, Clearfield, In-, diaua, Armstrong, Clarion, Forest and Elk counties, Pa. mm t .50 PUNCTURE SBZBO oer oair. I J To Introduca Wo Will Soil You m Samplo Pain oi Only NO MORE TROUBLE FROM PUNCTURES. tA.i.lt nf 1 f vaara fwrinfl In fir W$8 making No darner from THORNS. CAC TUS. PINS. NAILS. TACKS or GLASS. Vriuus punctures, like intentional knile can Jt vulcanized like any otlier tire. Two Hundred Thousand pairs now la actual Uja. Over 6aventy-five Thousand pairs sold last year. ED BAN K IN THE COUNTY Resources $500,000.00 GOODER'S JEWELRY :: STORE In the Peoples National Bank Building Reynoldsvllle, Pa. S10--$25 suits and over coats. You'll find your size exactly; you'll find just the pattern you like. You'll find the style, the finish, the tailoring all right. ' You'll find only ail wool materials guaranteed and another mighty strong reason for CLOTHCRAFT It's the only all wool clothing for from $10 to $25. - PROOF TIRES ? " kX Sis&Si.-rittM Notice the thick rnbbee treed A" and panstara stripe and ," a!ao rim strip "H" to preTent rim cutting-. Th! tire will ontlast any ethee make-SOt'T. MJUITIO aa4 KASV BIOIHQ. 9 HAILS. TACKS USfi& -sf-k . .UgOR GLASS Pi-i' -1 vt " ; 7 V 1 "Vi" WON T LET t2S.CJJ. i Mt-U J -ft-7 1
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