THE LAND OF WORSHIP. The East Believes Too Utterly to Care . if Others Disbelieve. rrnyer pervades the east, Far off across the sands when one is travel ing lu the desert one sees thin min arets rising toward the sky. A desert city Is there. It signals its presence by tills mute nppi-nl to Allah. And where there are no minarets in the great wastes of the dunes. In tiie eter nal silence, the lifelessncss that Is not broken even by any lonely, wandering bird, the camels are stopped at the ap pointed hours, the poor nnd often rag ged robes are laid down nnd the brown pilgrims prostrate themselves in pray er. And the rich man spreads his car pet and prays, and the half naked nomnd spreads nothing, but he prays too. The east Is full of lust and full of money getting nnd full of bartering ami full of violence, but It Is full of worship of worship that disdains con cealment, that recks not of ridicule or comment, that believes too utterly to core If others disbelieve. There are In the oast many men who do not pray. They do not laugh at the man who docs, like the. unprajing Christian. There Is nothing ludicrous in prayer. In EffJ'Pt your Nubian sailor prays In the stern of your dahablyeh, nnd your Egyptian boatman, prays by the rudder of your boat, nnd your black donkey boy prays behind a red rock In the sand, and your 'camel man prays when you are resting In the noontide watch ing the faro IT, quivering mirage, lost iu some wayward dream. And must you not pray, too, when you enter certain temples where once strange gods were worshiped in whom no man now believes? Robert HIchens in Century. Scared by Frogs. It Is said to be owed to tho frogs of western Australia that that part of the empire Is English nnd not French. About lfiOO a party of prospective French colonists landed on tho west coast of Australia, hut on the first morning they were alarmed by the loud croaking of the frogs, which they took for demons, and retired with nil speed to their ships. Western Austra lia might have preferred the" frog to tho swau as her emblem, Just as Rome might have preferred, Instead 'of the eagle, tho goose that saved the capital. In His Line. "I'm surprised that you should be so Interested In watching those silly dudes." "Force of habit, 1 guess. I'm presi dent of a real estate Improvement company." "Well 7" , "Well, they're a vacant lot." Phila delphia Tress. Paid In Full. Hiram (coming to the point) Sally, I've been o'payln' my respects to you fer five years come next August, ain't I? Sally (blnshlngly) - Yes, Indeed, Hiram. Hiram Well, all I'm o-goln' to say Is that I'm durn Blck uv the In stallment plan! Sally (In his arms) Tn's agreeable. II I ram! St. Louis Re public. tyliasionary Work. "So you once lived In Africa, Sam 7" "Yes, sah." "Ever do any missionary work out there, Sam?" "Oh, yea. sah! I was cook for a can fclbal chief, san!"-Hck-Me-Up. , Hit Mark. f Bewltt Gruet can't write his own, name. Jewett I know it Whenever pe sees a man showing another man Jhvr to make a cross on an Australian 'ballot he thinks he is forging his signa ture. New York Press. . The Pampered Pets. "Sortense, call up Mr. De" Mlllyuns (and ask for Fldo." "Yes, me lady." "Carlo wishes to bark to him over h telephone." Washington Herald. If the brain does not sow corn, U plants thistles. German Proverb. A good countenance is a letter of recommendation. Fielding. We Sell Yinb! on the positive guarantee that if it does not give sat isfaction we will return the entire amount of money paid us for it. We ask all those who are run-down, nervous, debili tated, aged or weak, and every person suffering from Stubborn colds, hanging-on coughs, bronchitis or incipi ent consumption to try Vinol with this understanding. Stoke & Feicht Drug Company Reynoldsville, Pa. JJUGHES & FLEMING. FUNERAL DIRECTORS. Main Street. Reynoldsville, Pa. SEA AND LAND. the Way They Meet and Clash and Finally Harmonize. In "The Wonderful Adventures of Nils," translated from the Swedish of Selina Lngerlof by Velma Swanston Howard, is the following pretty de scrlptlon of bow sea and land meet: You see that sea and land can meet In many different ways, lu many places the land comes down toward the sea with flat, tufted meadows, and the sea meets the land with flying, sand, which piles up in mounds and drifts. It appears as though they both disliked each other so much that they 1 only wished to show the poorest they possessed. But It can also happen that when the land comes toward the sea It raises a wall of hills In front of It, us though the sea were something duugerous. When the land does this, the sea comes up to It with fiery wrath ' and beats and roars and lashes agaliist 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. Thero the land breaks Itself up Into points and islands and Islets, and the sea di vides itself Into (lords nnd bays and sounds, and It is perhaps this which makes it look as If they must meet lu happiness and harmony. Think now first and foremost of the seal Far out It lies desolate and emp ty nnd big and has nothing else to do but to roll Its gray billows. When it comes toward tho land It happens across the first obstacle. This it imme diately overpowers, tears away every thing green nnd 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 lu cracks and crevices, separates Itself Into small sounds and inlets nnd 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 seats 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 thnt type of black man. I used to see thnt kind on the old Virginia plan tation, where he was "Ung Llge" or "Ung Sambo" to all the household. Ills days were devoted to useful toll and his evenings to his 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 stnn'; you mus' set" bfe admonished respectfully. ' I took the seat, thanking him for his courtesy. Soon a departing passenger left a vacancy. "There Is a scat for you," I Bald to the old man. "Between the ladles, ma'am?" He hesitated. "Yes," I said. He bowed apologetically to right and left and took the vacant place. Just before leaving the car I slipped a sli ver piece into his hand, saying, "Un cle, get yon a nice luncheon with this in memory of old Virginia." "Thank you, my mlstls," he said, opening his hand 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, but 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 nn' dem old time days:" LIppIncott's Magazine. A Distinction Without a Difference. Five-year-old Deborah had been in vited to take luncheon at a restaurant with Miss K. "Do you like cocoa?" she was asked. When the answer was "Yes," the beverage was duly brought, but re mained uutastcd. At last Miss K. said, "Why don't you drink your cocoa, Deborah, when you 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. Current Comment. The most dangerous of the revenui cutters Is the tax dodger. Atlanta Journal. Eight men who were Jilted by a Chicago girl have formed a club. Grat itude has strange ways of manifesting Itself. Buffalo Express. "We are not," says Dr. Wiley of the department of agriculture, "a nation of rascals." We are glad Dr. Wiley has confirmed a supposition that we have entertained for a long time. Beading Herald. Borne one has Invented a clock that will run a year with one winding. Now invent something else that will remind the owner once a year that It Is time M wind the clock. Boston Transcript A HUMAN MACHINE. He Wts Able to Correct a Language . He Did Not Understand. When Max Mu'.ler wus preparing hU edition of the ltlgvedu he had, so the story goes, an Illustration of the In stlnctive wisdom of the compositor In providing the manuscript for about 0,000 sheets of print the author nut urally tripped from time to time. 'believer he did trip, there on his ;Mf wus the error queried in a care- nil hand. Surely, he thought, some unknown scholar in the university must be overlooking bis proofs with kindly interest and making tho-corree- tlons for him. Inquiry showed that this was not tho fact The corrections were the corrections of the man who set up the type. "Did this man, then, know Sanskrit?" Muller asked. Not a bit of it. Use .and (Tout enabled him to detect the errors as a huugry child scents a cooking dinner. The discov ery originated through his arm rather than from any intellectual doubt, and that arm was palsied! This printer had sustained nn ncci dent, leaving him with nn arm partly paralyzed, and as this made him slow er with his setting his masters turned htm on to Sanskrit, with which he had had no previous acquaintance. He had to iearu upward of 300 types for the work, but he learned them and accus tomed himself to the work. Now many of the letters in Sanskrit cannot follow each other or, If they do, must be modified. In writing Muller some times forgot these modifications, but they were all marked on the proof. Muller was so interested that besought out the printer to ask him how he was able to correct n language which he did not understand. The explana tion was remarkable: "You see, sir, my arm gets into a regular swing from one compartment of types to another, nnd thero are movements thnt never occur. So if I suddenly have to take up types which entail a new movement I feel It nnd put a query." What a dog's life tho "nu spellug," or Artomus Ward's, which Is the same thing, would have caused that marvel ous human machine! St. James' Ga zette. BARNUM'S OLD LION. How the Great Showman Turned His Death to Account. Among tiie features of the pnrndes of the Barnum circus there was for merly one thnt never fallei to attract attention, un the top or one of the wild beast cages lay nn enormous Hon. He was not confined in any way, nnd nervous people watching the parade would shudder at the sight and con template the terrible possibility of the lion springing Into the midst of the crowd. But the veuerable old king of beasts had reached the leonine dotage, aud stiffened muscles and blunted claws rendered hlra harmless. lie was as mild as a 'kitten and In the winter quarters, where he was allowed to roam at will, sometimes hnd to be pro tected from the onslaughts of irrever ent and mischievous puppies. One night he wandered from the quarters. In the course of his travels he chanced on a barn where a meek eyed cow was placidly chewing her cud. A faint flicker of the slumbering Jungle spirit stirred his pulse, and, with a crashing blow of the huge fore paw, the cow was slain; then, lying down beside his victim, he went to sleep and dreamed of the time when he was a shaggy little whelp playing with his brothers under the bright sun of bis faroff African home. In the morning the owner of the cow, a stalwart female with the blood of Irish kings In her veins, entered the barn with milk poll in hand. She was filled with wrath at the sight that met her gaze. With a keen edged ax in her hand and grim determination in her eye she fearlessly approached the sleep ing Hon, and when the men sent out to search for him arrived he lay cold in death. Barnum promptly paid for the dead cow and engaged to appear on exhibition "the woman who In mortal combat bad slain a lion." m The Oldest Treaty. The oldest text of a real treaty uow in existence Is that of the convention between Rameses II., king of Egypt and the Prince of Khetn, which em braces the articles of a permanent of fensive and defensive alliance, with clauses providing for the extradition of emigrants, deserters, criminals and skilled workmen. This treaty was drawn up in the fourteenth century B. Cv-nnd is tho earliest record that we have of any international transac tion. Her Uncooked Gown. Miss Flufflgirl Miss Newthought has gone the limit with her vegetarianism! Miss Furbelow Why, what Is her lat est? Miss Flufflgirl She actually re fuses to wear anything but raw silk gowns now. New York Press. Facts From France. The Paris Gaulols says that Taft's nomination is due to Mrs. Nicholas Longworth. In the little town of Venauson, In France, a man named Gulgo has been elected mayor, his brother clerk and his six sons municipal councilors. Although France has had compul sory education for about twenty-five years, the percentage of Illiterates reaches the high figure of forty per 1,000 men and sixty per 1,000 women. The former residence of the Cath olic bishop at Marseilles, France, Is now used as a police station, while his chapel Is used for an assembly room for the officials, this being one of fhe odd turns brought about through th expulsion of the church from Franca. A CHEMICAL FURY. Fluorine Is a Rabid Gas That Nothing Can Resist. The fury of the chemical 'world Is the element fluorine, although, strange ly enough, it exists peacefully in com pany with calcium In fluorspar and also in a few other compounds. Although this element was known and named a good while ago, It long resisted the efforts of chemists to iso late it that is, prepare it in a pure state, unmixed chemically with other substances for the Instant the com pound containing it was torn apart the free fluorine attneked and combined with whatever substance composed the vessel containing it. It was finally isolated by the great French chemist Molssan. . Fluorine is a rabid gas that-nothing can resist It combines with all met als, explosively with some, or If they are already combined with some other nonmetallic element it mercilessly tears them away from It and takes them to itself. In uniting with sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium and aluminium the metals become heated, even to red ness, by the fervor of Its embrace. Iron fillings slightly warm burst into brilliant scintillations when exposed to It Manganese does the same. Even the noblo metals, which at melting heat proudly resist the fascinations of oxygen, succumb to this chemical Blren at moderate temperatures. Glass is devoured at once and water ceases to be, water by contact with this gas, which, combined with its hydro gen, nt the same moment forms the acrid, glass dissolving hydrofluoric acid and liberates ozone. Even hydrofluoric acid eats into and destroys every known - substance ex cept platinum and lead. Exchange. Glaciers. ' It has been demonstrated that the glacier does not move in one block, but flows, accommodating itself to the channel In which it moves. Professor Tyndall planted a row of sticks In a straight line across a glacier, and after a few days the line had become a crescent, with the concavity upward, showing that the middle of the glacier moved faster than the sides, Just as in a river the stream is stronger in the center. Her Mild Ambition. "You exp?ct your boy to become a good man?" The mother'o face fell. "He is not a, brilliant child," she made answer doubtfully. "No, I think I shall have to be content if he attains only a moderate success becomes a very rich man, soy, or something like that."-Puck. A Scratch. "How does Mrs. Sleigh get on In the club?" "Oh, she always comes up to the scratch." , "Of course she does the cat!" Kan sas City Newsbook. Some people only believe half of what they hear, and then Invariably select toe wrong half. New York Tel egram. - Pleasures ot Canoeing. The canoeist Is tlia must In-.iepuiideut of men. lie can n.-h his i-rnft through a stream three feet wide live luches deep, and he can safely nego tiate any bit of water that a calhoat r moderate sized launch wjiiM care to attempt. Canoeing Is popular be cause It brings its devotees out Into lue open freedom and lets them live their summer life as they will. The canoo does for humanity what the bi cycle failed to do. The bicyclist was tied to roads, was dependent upon ho tels and restaurants for fowl and lodg ing. When the hill was sleep he niufit nllglit aud walk. When the rjad was bad or the foot of the hill dubious ho must do likewise. The -:in;ei.--t suffers none of these restrictions. Ho carries with ill in his place of abode lis bed, his food ami the menus of preparing it. He Is not confined to well worn high Ways. He ,s able to penetrate and ex plore out of tho way streams and pitch Ills tent In spots Inaccessible to the average wanderer. Yilchting. Wouldn't Risk It. Tired Tatters Say, Weary, wot's de matter wid us walkln' down de rnll- road track? ' .Weary Walker Not fer inc. I nin't goln' to disgrace meself by bavin' peo ple Vink I'm a acr. Chicago News. Church Work. The national board of church ex tension of the Christian church is try ing to raise $1,000,000 by the end of next year. The new buildings of the Wesleyan East End mission, in London, cover one and three-fourths acres and are the result of twenty-three years' work. The first payment has been made on the three and one-half acre tract of land In Baltimore which Is to be the site for the Episcopal cathedral In that city. The summer vacation work of the Episcopal City mission In Boston costs about (5,000, being devoted wholly to the care of women and children who need fresh air. . There are abouf 4,000 churches in the missionary territory over which Bev. O. A. Wooddy acts as superintendent, he being an agent of the Baptists in Montana, Idaho, Washington, Califor nia. Oregon and Nevada. Net Worth Repeating. Kind Lady But that Isn't the same story you told me the last time you were here. The Hobo Course it ain't Youse fltdln't berleeve de odder one. Chicago News. When Children 8moked. Every one has read that Hawkins In troduced tobacco Into England nnd that King James inveighed against it Elizabeth liked to sit ou u low stool und watch Sir Walter Rnlelgh putting away. In Anne's reign u I most every one smoked. In Charles II.'s reign "children were sent to school with their pipes In their satchels, and tho schoolmaster called a halt in their studies while they smoked." In 1702 Jorevln spent an evening " uiuuiiT hi uurranay s conco house, Leeds, and writes: "I was sur prised to see his sickly child of three years old All its pipe of tobacco and smoke It as audfuraudly as a man of threescore. After that a second and third pipe without tho lenst concern, as it is said to have done above a year ago." Women Smokers In Ireland. The comparison between women smoking In England and lu Ireland, says n correspondent, Is hardly on all fours. In" Ireland ninny of the older women whoso lives are spent In hard toll smoke lu the country districts, but they would utterly disdain a cigarette. They smoke a short "cutty" pipe aud tho very strongest and most pungent tobacco Limerick roll. It Is no un common thing for a man to hand his lighted "cutty" pipe, black with long seasoned smoking, over to a womnu for a "draw," us It is called. In Ireland the pipe has long been tho solace of the poor, aged, hardworking vomnu, and thehablt has Its origin lu the use of tobacco for allaying the pangs of hunger In famine days. Loudon Chron icle. His Spasm of Economy. "Speaking of misdirected economy," said the lecturer, "reminds me of an old man who lived In my town. The old man had lost four wives and de sired to erect for each n headstone with an inscription commemorative of her wifely virtues. But Inscriptions, he found, were very expensive. He economized in this way: He bad the Christian name of each wife cut on a small stone above her grave 'Emma,' 'Mary,' 'Hester,' 'Edith.' Under each name a hand pointed to a large stone In the center of the lot, and under each hand were the words: " 'For Epitaph See Large Stone.' " Time Reminders Unpopular. A west side woman who wished to entertain n great deal one day won dered why her guests always seemed so uncomfortable. 'it Is because of your clocks," said a candid friend. "There are three within hearing distance of your draw ing room thnt strike. I don't know of anything that makes company feel quito so uncomfortable ns to hear a clock strike. Somehow It Is bound to give tho Impression thnt we hove out stayed our w!conic and the hostess is anxious to get rid of us. Of course thnt Is purely a matter of fancy, 3ret somehow n striking clock always seems to say, 'You'd better be going.' The wise hostess knows that, nnd if she wants her callers to be thoroughly comfortable she shuns a clock that strikes." New York Times. Transmitted Snake Bite. An extraordinary case of snake poi soning Is reported from a country hos pital in Victoria. An old man was brought In lu a comatose state and showing all the symptoms of having been bitten by n venomous snake. But on investigation it was found he had been bitten by A dog, which died al most Immediately afterward from snake bite. Medical treatment was successful, and the man gradually re covered from the snake poison which the reptile bad indirectly transmitted to him. rail Mall Gazette. The Heiress Abroad. "On your trip abroad, did you see any wonderful old ruins?" he asked. "Yes," she replied archly, "and guess what?" "Well?" "One of them wanted to mnrry me." Harper's Weekly. . Golf and Brains. The rudicul type of golf enthusiast Is exemplified in the retort of a St. An drew's caddie to the university pro fessor, "Onybody con teach a wheeu loons Latin and Greek, but gowf, ye see, gowf requires a held." Lady (entering breathless) I want to stop the divorce suit! Lawyer Why, you said your husband was an abominable, beastly brute and you wanted to be rid of him at any cost! Lady Oh, yes; 1 know. But now an automobile has run over him, and I want you to start suit for damages. LIppIncott's Magazine. He Smoked. "What do you mean by smoking my pipe, young man?" queried the stern father of a precocious five-year-old. "Mamma said If I teased the cat again she'd make me smoke for It," explained the little fellow, "and 1 teased her again." Chicago News. After all, It Is the Imponderables that move the world heat; electricity, love. Holmes. v BEST SY ANY TEST and the best test It its us. "Family Favorite" im? OIL GItm tho nearest to natural of any arti ficial litfht known. 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European f 1.(10 per ("ay and up. American i!M per day and up. The only moderate priced hotel of rep- - -tatton and rnnwqiiencc In - ruiA Dr. F.S. DAVENPORT $ 1 i . Osteopathic Physician J Matson Block " $ 2 X Brcokville, Pennsylvania : Consultation and treatment In Rey noldsville by appointment only. If you want my opinion and examina tion of any chronic case, write me and make an appolnment for any Monday or Thursday und I will call at your home. Dr. F. 8. DAVENPORT. Brook vllle, Pa. T IBEL IN DIVORCE. Eva Syakay Halasy versus Stephen Balasy. No. 21, January Term, 1006. Plurles Sub poena In Divorce. JEFFERSON COUNTY, BS: The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. To Stephen Halasy, Greeting: We command you, as twice before you were com'nandt-d, that all matter of business and excuses being set aside, you be and appear in your proper person before our Judge nt, Brookvllle, at our Court of Common Plciis, thereto be held on the second Monday of November next, to show cause,' If any you have, why your wife, Eva Byakay Halasy should not oe divorced from the bondB of matrimony which sho ihath contracted Willi you the said Stephen Habisy, agreeable to the Petition und Libel exhibited against ymi before our said Court, and this you shall In no case omit at your peril. 11 Witness The Hon. John W. Reed, President of our said Court at Itrookvllle the 13th dny of August. A. I)., l'.WS. 'I'AJlowed by the Court. Cyrus H, Blood, Prothonotary. To Stephen Halasy, Greeting: You ae hereby notllled to uppear before the Honorable Judge of the Court of Com mon Pleas at Brookvllle, Pa. on the second Monday of November next, to answer as net forth In the aoove subpoena. GRANT SCHEAFNOCKER, October 7, 190H, Sheriff. QHARTER NOTICE. Notice Is hereby given that an application will be made to the Governor of Pennsyl vania on the sixth day of November, lilos, by E. A. Hull, George II. Rea, George !. I.irtz and A. J. Meek, under the Act of Assembly entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation and legulatlon ot certain cor porations," approved April 211, 1W1, and I h; supplements thereto, for the charter of a.i Intended corporation to he called Rea Be and Honey Company, the character and object of which Is for the raising, producing, buying and selling honey bees and their prt -ducts and the manufacturing and solll-i : of beekeepers' supplies and their equip ments, and for these purposes to have, pon gees, and enjoy all the rtghta, benefits ard privileges of said Act of Assembly si. a supplements thereto. M. M. Davis, Solicitor.
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