V I SHICK & WAGNER -The Big Store- I SOME AFTER XMAS BARGAINS A case of Bates' Seersucker Ginghams A regular 12Mc Giugham for 10 Cents. This is a special for only as long as the one case of ginghams lasts. Children's Heavy Dresses We have a few children's heavy dresses to clean up at a price. Jit Furs, Cloaks and Suits None over 75c on the dollar. All Suits, Coats and Furs are cut to a price that must suit you. Furs 50 per cent to 75 per .cent off regular value. Come early to get a selection. This in eludes all coats ladies,' misses' and children's. Blankets and Comforts We have"a complete line of wool and cottonJblankets.".CoId weather will soon'come and you may need these. Wecarry the celebrated Laminated comfort a pure cotton direct from the cotton plantations'of the south and it is a' warm cotton the only cottonjthat you can wash without the objectionable feat ure of havingthe cotton roll up in a ball, leaving foart of the comfort without any warmth. Shick & Wagner Cor. Main and Fifth Street. Reynoldsville, Penn'a. A Warm Greetingjis Extended To all his patrons of tbe pant year by Humphrey, the plumber, who is ever iwady to do (food work at abort notice . Jtud who charges the fairest prices of .any man In the business. Leaky pipes rot frozen ones may reBult In big dam mge. Gil my services quick, and it will 08t you less. If jour furnace smokes let me know I did good work for you 2a 1903 and I will do it in 1909. G. E. HUMPHREY Plumber Etruscan Vase. The famous Etruscan vases were wrongly named, for, though made In Btruria, they were the productions of Greek genius. They are elegant In form and enriched with bands of beau tiful foliage and other ornaments, fig ures and similar subjects of a highly artistic character. One class has black figures and ornaments on a red ground the ifatural color of the clay; another has the figures of the natural color and the ground painted black. The former class belong to a date about 600 B. C, the latter date about a century later and extend over a period of some 300 or 850 years. New York American. ' Whin the Cost Comes Tn. "Do you find the cost of living any higher In New York than it was In tbe little old townr "No. Living doesn't cost so much more, bat a fellow has to pay ablg price to keep from getting lonesome." Chicago Becord-Herald. Labor Lost. "A man kin alius fix up arguments to quiet his conscience," sal. Uncle Eben, "but 'taln't no use. No matter how much you turns de clock back, sundown gwlnter come jes' de same." Washington Star. That Family Skeleton. Mrs. Whistler Tell me, Mary, why it Is that yon always cry so when papa sends yon to bed In the dark when you are naughty? There's no such things as ghosts, and the dark doesn't hurt you, does it? Little Mary No, mamma, but I'm afraid of that skeleton Mrs. Jones says we got In our closetBal timore American. A New Sensation. Mrs. Bullion I wish I knew Home thing to do that would provide me with an absolutely new sensation. - Mr. Bul lion Go out and pay cash for sonie-thing.-Llfe. An Easy Task. "Johnny, 1 will give yon a quarter if yon can get me a lock of your sister's hair." "Gimme 4 bits, an' I'll git you do whole bunch. I know where she hangs It nights." Houston Post The Penholder. Hehad lent her his stylographlc pen, and she commenced to write a letter. She Oh, it writes beautifully. I de clare I'm in love with this pen. - . He I'm in love with the holder. Bhe saw the point THE PRISON BIRD. Tyrannical and Jealous Feathered Beauty of Africa. ' The peculiarity of the prison bird, a feathered beauty of Africa, Is that he is the most tyrannical and jealous of husbands. Imprisoning his mate throughout her nesting time. Living- j stone' watched the bird's habits while In Monpour, and in bis subsequent ob servations referred to the nest as a prison and the female bird as a slave. The nest Is built In the hollow of a tree through an opening In the bnrk. As soon as it is completed the mother bird enters carefully and fearfully and settles down in it. Then papa walls up the opening, leaving only Just space enough for air and food to pass through. He keeps faithful guard and brings food at regular Intervals with out fall. The female thrives under her Enforced retirement. But If the prison bird Is killed or In any other yay pre vented from fulfilling his duties the mother and her little ones must die of starvation, for she cannot free herself from bondage. Normally the Imprisonment lasts tin tii the chicks are old enough to fly. Then the male bird destroys the bar rier with his beak and liberates his family. "It Is charming," writes Liv ingstone, "to see the Joy with which tbe little prisoners greet the light and tbe unknown world." Doctors-Did yon SKstl now my directions? Did he take the medicine I left for him religiously? Patient's Wife I'm afraid not doctor. He swore every time I gave him a dose. Boston Transcript - THE NORMAN "OYEZ." A Legacy of William the Conqueror to the Courts. Everybody who has ever been In a United Stntes courtroom knows that when the judge walks out of his cham bers and ascends tho bench the court crier drones out: "Oyez, oyez, oyez, the honorable court of the (whatever district it may -be) is now in session." Not many persons, however, realize that the crier says "oyez, oyez, oyoz," Instead of "barken, barken, barken," because of a chance visit that William the Conqueror made to nn English court almost 000 years ago. William had overrun England, seized the government and placed himself at its head. Happening to enter a court room, he heard the crier call the as semblage to order in English. William rebuked him and on the spot decreed that ihe business of nil English courts should be transacted In Norman French, his native tongue. Afterward the courts went back to English, but to this day "oyez, oyez, oyez," clings to court customs wherever the English language is spoken as a reminder of the great Norman who whipped King Harold in the battle of Hastings. Scrap Book. One of Life's Tragedies. He had expected a teuder embrace from his sweetheart but her greeting of him was cold. He could not under stand it. "Dnrllng," he exclaimed in ngony, "what is the matter?" But she remained silent, her Hps tightly closed, and motioned him from her. He fell upon his knees. "My love," he cried, "tell me what 1 have done to offend you? I swear I have done nothing wrongl I confess I kissed tbe Simpson girl last night at the party, but on my oath I I thought she was you." Her lips closed even tighter, but she uttered not a syllable, and, in despair at her unbending demeanor, be fled from the place, he knew not whither. Would yon know, oh, reader, the rea son of the conduct by which a Woman blighted two young lives? 'Twas sim ply this: She had left her false teeth In the bathroom. Probably She Meant It. Luclle, a carefully brought up little girl of five years, returned from her first party in great glee. "I was a good girl, mammn," she an nounced and talked nice all the time." "Did you remember to say some thing pleasant to Mrs. Townsend just before leaving?" her mother asked. "Oh, yes, I did," was- the enthusi astic reply. "I smiled and said: 'I en Joyed myself, Mrs. Townsend. I had a lot better dinner than I thought I'd have.' "Delineator. One on the Judge. "Here you are," said the Judge to the colored prisoner, "complaining that you can't get along with one wife, and yet Solomon had hundreds of 'em." "Yes, yer honor," was the reply, "but you must rlckollect dat de last testi mony he give in wuz dat dey wuz all vanity an' vexation of splritl" Atlanta Constitution. . Still Hold Good. "There was a time," exclaimed young Spenders, who bad gone through a for tune, "when people used to say I had more money than brains. They can't say it now." "No?" queried the caustic cad. "No. I'm down to my last penny." "Ah, but you have the penny." Phil adelphla Press. frlE PARACHUTE, Leonardo da Vinci Was the First One to Suggest It. - Credible accounts exist of an English Benedictine monk, Oliver of Malmes bury, in tbe eleventh century having tried to fly by precipitating himself from tbe height of a tower with tbe assistance of wings attached to bis arms and bis feet. It is said that, hav ing gone along a little way, be fell and broke his legs. He attributed his acci dent to failure to provkld his appara tus with a tall, which would have help ed preserve bis equilibrium and mnde bis descent a gentler one. In the sixteenth century Leonnrdo da Vinci first demonstrated that a bird, which Is heavier than the air, sustains itself, advances in the air, "by render ing the fluid denser where it passes than where it does not pass." In order to fly It has to fix its point of support on 'the air. Its wings In the descending stroke exert a pressure from above down, the reaction of which from be low up forces the center of gravity of Its body to ascend at each Instant to the height at which tho bird wishes to malntnln It. Some sketches which have come down to ns prove that Leonnrdo occupied himself, like Oliver of Malmes bury, with giving mnu the power to fly by the assistance of wings suitably fixed to tho body. We owe to Leonardo also the inven tion of the parachute, which ho de scribed In the following terms: "If a man hnd a pavilion each side of which was fifteen braces wide and twelve braces high ho might cast himself from any height whatever without fear of danger." It may be said, too, of Leo nardo da Vinci that he was the first to suggest the Idea of tho screw propeller. Awkward. A pretty schoolteacher, noticing one of her little charges Idle, said sharply "John, the devil always finds some thing for idle hands to Ao. Como up here and let me give yon some work" "-Judge's Library. Esperanto. "When I first started out hunting apartments I went through a long, po-, lite dissertation," said the woman with a haunted look and weary feet' "Now: I go in and say to the elevator man or Janitor: 'Apartments?' Rooms?' Trice? 'Keep 'em.' I get along Just as well, and it saves lots of time. Try It" New York Times. A SAUCY DUCHESS. Her Audacious Fight For Gay and' His "Beggars' Opera." When tho "Beggars"Opera," by Gay, was produced in 1728 it took positively by storm. The king still clung to Han del, but the nobility, with the Duchess of Queensberry among them, flocked rapturously to the "Newgate pasto. rol." The "Beggars' Opera" hnd a run of sixty-two nights, unprecedented in those days, and ns one result of its success Handel became bankrupt. Sud denly there came an order from the lord chancellor to stop the new piece. Why, is not exactly known unless It was because the prime minister consid ered himself to be too falthtfully rep resented therein. However that may have been, the theater had to be closed, whereuponThe Duchess of Queensber ry took up Gay's cause and vehemently championed It. very busy was she in tnoso anys, driving about In her conch asking for guinea subscriptions for printing cop ies of the forbidden play. And so heed less was Kitty that she carried her list to tbe queen's drawing room' Itself and had the audacity to ask the king for a subscription. This was a little too much, and her grace was requested to withdraw from the court, Kitty an nouncing, with characteristic , compo sure, that tho -command was very agreeable to her, as she had never gone there for her own diversion, but to be stow civility upon the king and queen. Papua Island. Papua island was so named by the Malays, and the word means "frizzled," in reference to tbe hair of the Inhabit ants. It Is generally supposed that Papua or New Guinea was originally part of the mainland of Australia. It was discovered by the Portuguese in 1520, though It was probably sighted by A. Dabreu during his voyage fifteen years earlier. The Australian govern ment realizing the danger that would arise if an enemy seized land so near their coasts, frequently urged England to annex the eastern portion of the island, and after two or three unau thorized annexations a British protec torate was established there In 1884. Clipping Their Wings. The costume of the Tu Yuan Pen-Jen women in the Shnn states is very strik ing, consisting of a cloth hood, an open Jacket and a pair of short white trou sers reaching barely to the knee. But the most Important though tbe least noticeable part of their costume is their colored cloth gaiters. These the women are obliged to wear, as without them it is believed they would be able to fly away, leaving their husbands and sweethearts sorrowful. NOTICE OF 8weet and Low. A young man named Sweet engaged to marry a young woman named Lowe. A few Sundays previous to the wed ding the happy couple attended church together, and as they walked along the aisle the choir began singing the song "Sweet and Low," entirely unconscious of tbe musical pun that was being per petrated. Thrifty. "Well, parson, Is your flock llb'ral in their 'nevolences?" "Liberal? Well, I should say dey is not that Why, when I asted them to sing 'Ole Hundred' dey done sung The Ninety and Nine. "Harper's. Talk. -"It takes a baby mos' two years to learn to talk," said Uncle Eben, "an den it takes de res' of its lifetime to learn to keep fum talkln' too much." Washington Star. Two Bad Bites. Diogenes being asked "What is that beast which is the most dangerous?' replied. "Of. wild beasts the bite of a slanderer and of tame beasts that of the flatterer." ' Those who want friends to whom to open their griefs are cannibals of their own hearts. Bacon. . Application for License Order of tho Court of Quarter Sessions axing the time ut which implications (or liquor license! may be beard, etc. And now, October 3rd, 1898, It Is ordained as fallows; 1. That the third Monday of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, and each ana every year thereafter, at nine o'clock In the forenoon of each day, (being the second Monday of the January term In J ' I ! u U I. kilo DUIIIO IB UCI.U. J as the time at which applications for license tn null splrltous, vinous, malt or brewed ' liquors shall be heard, at which time all persons applying or making objections to applications for said licensed may be heard by evidence, petition," remonstrance or counsel. t. That licenses then granted shall take effect and be In force one year from the sixteenth day of February next following the granting of the same. 8. Applications for places not heretofore licensed will be required to establish (I) the fitness of the applicant and (2) the neceslty for such licensed place, and In contested cases not more than three witnesses on a side will be heard on the question of the general character of the applicant and the necessity of the place for which a license lb desired. 4. Supplemental petitions and remon strances in writing, also specific objections " to the petition or bond of the applicant as well as specific charges made against him oli all be reduced to writing and filed In the case at least five days before the time fixed for hearing said application, otherwise they will not be considered, and no evidence will be heard In support of them, by the Court. This rule shall not apply to disqualifying causes arising within the five days proceed ing the hearing. 5. No splrltous, vinous, malt or brewed liquors, or any admixtures thereof, shall be furnished or sold by any licensed vendor between the hours of 10:UU o'clock, p. m., and ' 5:cl) o'clock, a. m of each day on which snld liquors may otherwise be legally sold. 6. All orders and rules, cr parts thereof now In force, which may bo inconsistent with the foregoing order and rules, are hereby, rescinded. By the Court. John W. Reed, President Judge.Q The following applications for license to sell liquors have been tiled In the olllce of the Clerk of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Jefferson County for January Sessions, 1900; Retail. 1. Jacob B. Svk-, residence, Bykesville borough, Hotel Sykos. i. n. j. nuiniiKiuii, residence, urookvuie borough. Hotel Longvlew. 8. C. E. Kadnker, residence, McCalmnnt townshln, Anita hotel. 4. John Jackson, residence, McOalmont township, Jackson house. 5. W. V. Wiley, residence, Reynoldsville borough, City hotel. o. runup j. Aiieeier, residence, urook vllle borough, The New JolTerson hotel. 7. Alexander Watson, residence. Winslow lunusuifj, ijuiei ouiuier. ft. 11. 0. Heplogie, residence, Brookville borough, Central hotel. 9. S. A. Hunter, residence, Brookville boiough, Now Commercial hotel. 10. Frank A. McCdnnoll, residence, Reyn oldsville borough, Frank's New Tavern. 11. Schuyler J. Emery, residence Falls Creek borough, Falls Creek hotel. vs. uscar 1'. ninermiin, residence, urook vlilo borough, Brookville House. is. David W. Naylon, residence. 4th Ward, Punxsutawnny borough, The National hotel. 14. It. it. McKlnlev. residence. Brookville borough, Union Hotel. in. u. it. narciay, residence, wasmngton township, Hotel Barclay. 16. Robert T. 'mlth, residence, Bykesville borough, Hotel Smith. 17. Thomas Green and John Oonser, resi dence, Reynoldsville borough, The Imperial hotel. is. Tom Kevnolds.- residence. Kevnolds- vllle borough, Mam-Ion hotel. 10. William I). Googe, residence, 4th Ward, Punxsutawney borough, City Howl. 20. Richard K. Clover and Harry D. Edelbluto, residence, 4tb Ward, Punxsutaw ney borough. Hotel Pantall. zi. joiin yuinnsK, residence, otn ward, Punxsutawney borough, The Parnell House. 22. Patrick J. Casev. residence. Falls Creek borough, Taylor Avenue hotel. 23. Jacob B. Uuag, resldenco, 1st Ward Punxsutawney borough, Hotel Waverly. Z4. w.b. boss, residence, west ueynoius ville borough, Ross House. 25. John J. Conrad, residence. Henderson township, Wayne houso. 26. Samuel E. Barrett, residence, 5th Ward, Punxsutawney borough. Hotel Haley. 27. John Mansell and George Roberts, residence, Winslow township, Central hotel. gs. f. a. nunters p.ii.verstine, agents ior, trustees of and In behalf of the American Hotel, residence. Brookville borough. Amer ican hotel. 29. John O. Burns, residence. Reynoldsville . a Dorougn, uurns House. flu. j . j. ruoiDiuie, residence, tteynoias Vllle borough. National hotel. 31. Edward F. I.vman. residence. 1st Ward. Punxsutawney borough, Washington hotel. 82. E. E. Shaffer, residence, 1st Ward, Punxsutawney borough, Hotel Whitney. nj. a. Vj. uennis, residence, isc n aru,L Punxsutawney borough, Hotel Benms. 84. Mark 8. Stringer, residence. Biff Bun borough, Hotel McClure. m. K. u, KudolDh. residence. Biff Kun borough, Hotel Anderson. 38. Lester E. Brown, residence, 6th Ward, Punxsutawney borough, Lindsey hotel. - 87. Thomas Fleckensuiin, residence, 3rd Ward, Punxsutawney borough, Continental hotel. 88. Courtis A. Curry, residence. MCCal- mont township. Hotel McGregor, 89. John A. Donnelly, residence, McCal mont township, Park Hotel. 40. I). (J. McClelland, residence, winslow township. Hotel Hughes. Brkwbrs. 1. Minn u Alfirnter. residence. Brookville borough, Hpring Brewery, Brookville, Pa. 2. Brookville Brewing Company, a cor poration, Brookville, Pa. 8. Bernard Schneider (residence, Punxsu tawney borough) and E. B. Henderson, (resi dence, Brookville borough) doing business under the tirm name or The r,m Kun Brew ing Co. The Elk Run Brewery, 2nd Ward. Punxsutawney borough. , 4. Punxsutawney Brewing Company, a corporation, Punxsutawney Brewery, 4th ward, runxsutawney norougn. Wholesalb. . John O'Hare. residence, Reynoldsville borough. 2. w. H. tiecKenunrn, m. uougnerny, jonn Zodek and Thomas McMillen, doing business under the tirm name of W. H. Heckendom & Co., 1st Ward, Punxsutawney borough. DlRTILLSRS. 1. The Reynoldsville Distilling Company, cornoratlon. at the distillery of the Reyn oldsville Distilling Co., In Winslow township, county of Jefferson and state of Pennsyl vania. Uyrcs H. Blood, Clerk of the Court of Quarter Sessions. Brookville, Pa., December 80, 1908. JIBEL IN DIVORCE. .. Josephine Balserate vs. Joe Balserate. No. 14. April Term, 1908. !Plurles Sub poena In Divorce. JEFFERSON COUNTY, BS: The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. To Joe, Balserate, Greeting: " C We command you, as twice before you were commanded, that all matter of business and excuses being set aside, you be and appear In your proper person before our Judge at Brookville, at our Court of Common Pleas, there to be held on the socond Monday of January next, to show cause, It any you have, why your wife, Josephine Balserate. should not be divorced from the bonds of matrimony which she hath .contracted with you the said Joe Balserate, agreeable to the Petition and Libel exhibited against you before our said Court, and this you shall lu no case omit at your peril. Witness The Hon. John W. Reed, President of our said Court at Brookville the 9th day of November, A. D., 1908. Allowed by the Court. rm . ,. gyrus H. Blood; Prothonotary. i . You are hereby notified to uppear before the Honorable Judge of the Court) of Com mon Pleas at Brookville, Pa., on the second Monday ot January next, to answer as set forth Ut the l$jffifanoamt Dec. 7, 1908. R3ru Sheriff.
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