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GOODBR, The JEWELER
REYNOLDSVILLE, PENN'A
AUCTION SALE
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We must raise money at once, therefore I offer my complete stock of
amonds, Watches, Jewe
ocks
Out Glass, Silverware, Umbrellas, Etc., at Public Auction to the
Highest Bidder Without Reserve. .
Sale to Commence Friday, January 29, at 2 p. m. and will continue
every afternoon aid evening. We wish to impress upon your mind
it is not often you get an opportunity to buy goods atyour own prices.
Uhairs will be provided tor the ladies.
GOODER, THE JEWELER
Reynoldsville
Perin'a
TIRING OUTTHE STAG
A "Deer Take" In England's Old
est Deer Park.
HOUNDED UNTIL HE GASPS.
The Game Animal Is Mercilessly
Driven Hither and Yon, Through
Lake and Wood,' Until Ho Falls Ex
hausted, Though Undaunted.
Tarts of ccrtalu grent parks in Eng
land, such as Erldge park, the oluosl
door pnrk In tho kingdom, nre kept
practically wild in their original forest
state, while near to the ensile Is the
cultivated homo park. Erldge piirk
contains 3,000 acres and Is tho only
CKtatoin England, with one exception,
where deer takhi.r wlih In inula is utiii
eauried on. L'rldgo par!; once forme
part of tho royal chase. It still retains
the wild beauty It then had, although
there are more than seventy miles of
lovely (irives In It, not counting Ihos,
of the homo park.
Deer taking is entirely different from
deer hunting. The object Is to take
tho animals alive so that tiny may Le
transferred to the home park to bo fat
tened and eventually turned into vor.
isun.
The syurt is by no means ns tame us
Jt kouuc1;;. " Asevcn to nine yevr old
I'd deer Is an awkward cu-lorr t .
tackle. Ho Is powcrfiil, sialic si.d wt'.l
armed with antlers and hoofs
' 'When there Is to be a deor (aLing at
Erldge park tho meet Is planned for 11
o'clock at ihe par!;, keeper's hou:;o.
The tinderkeepors, with fresh hounds,
are scattered through the park to head
off the stag should ho como their way.
The undcrkeepers having spread
,tb.emsclvos over tho park, the park
keeper, with the "field" (those follow
ing mounted and on foot) sot off to
find n deer which loots ready for fat
tening purposes. Having selected one,
It is the work of,tbe keeper to get blm
Bepnrated from the rest and then to
Blip his hound and set after him op
hard as we can gallop. The pace, of
oourse, is tremendous, and as rabbit
boles abound the risk of a fall is even
betting or, rather, a trifle of odds on
the certainty of our "taking n toss."
As our deer bounds away with bis
wonderfully easy, elastic movements
he niaKes-for the. wildest part of the
park, expecting to escape his pursuers.
Iu one place after another he is met
with hidden keepers and fresh hounds,
till with the Instinct of his species he
Jturns to what he thinks is his snne
jtunry the lakes. With open mouth
and tongue outhangtng he plunges o
good fifteen feet Into the water and
swims for the opposite bank. Gasp
Ine ana Urine, he. lands on what be
hopes Is freedom from his pursuers.
But, alas, no! Yet another fresh hound
is after him. What can he do? He Is
too pumped with his already hard
burst to face the hill before him.
He turns around and tears down
through the bracken with a hound on
each side of him, rendy to pull him
down if they get but half n chance.
It Is n dlngdnng race, under trees,
through bogs and bracken, tip and
down dells and breaks, smashing head
long through everything, nnythlng, to
reach the shelter of tho friendly
water onco ngaln. With n mighty
spring ho Is In again. For a moment
there is breathing space, for now tho
keepers and hounds, yet some way off,
are making for tho poor beast, which
Is in the middle of the lake. Away ho
swims with graceful movement of his
noble bend, glancing all around at bis
pursuers, but with his mind fixed on
his lino of retreat. He reaches tho
shore, and, with dripping sides, he Is
out upon the bank.
Again ho makes an effort to baflle
and leave behind those clinging hounds
that would bear-hlm down. And now
two great hounds arc stretching them
selves out to their utmost pace. Side
by side they race after their tiring
quarry; In another minute they will
have him. The stag, however, man
ages to make a spurt, though he is
now KtllTenlng rapidly, and just
reaches some park palings surrounding
tho big lake.
In uu Instant he has turned on his
pursuers, mid with head dcrwu and up
raised f ore leg he Is prepared to li.Tht
to tho death. A bound rushes In, but
In a twinkling he Is on his back,
hurled away like a piece of wood.
This checks tho other hound, which
dodges and bays around tho stag.
Seeing that things are now gelling a
bit too warm for hiin, the stag sudden
ly turns round and, smashing tho pal
ings like match wood, finds himself
again In the Icy water of tho big lake.
Away and away ho swims, up this
long stretch, the water seeming to re
vive him, for ho swims tho eastern
length, three-quarters of n mile, and
then lands at the far end while we
follow on the shore. Ho swims till his
feet touch tho ground and stands fac
ing us.
All we can do now is to end the situ
ation ns speedily as possible. A keeper
deftly throws a rope with a loose
knot over the stag's antlers. In a
moment four burly keepers are haul
ing him out by the ropes. It Is now a
slow march to his feeding ground in
tho homo park. Slowly tho procession
moves, never a slackening of the rope
or tho hold on the antlers. Through
the gate dividing' the parks he is
brought, an unwilling prisoner, though
undaunted. This ends the doer taking.
Town and Country.
Never think that intollect is nobler
than the heart, that knowledge Is
greater than love. Not so! A thou
sand times no. Frances Power Cobbe.
A CROSS ON HIS BACK.
It Wat Made With Chalk, but Wat
Too Heavy to Carry.
There Is a story of nu envious tailor
current with the French peasantry.
He fancied that ills neighbor, who re
ceived a pension for the loss of an arm
Incurred while fighting for his coun
try, was better off than himself. Both
men went to pay their rent on the
same day.
"That's n lucky man," said tho taller
to the landlord. "He gets well paid
for his arm." '
"But who would be willing to part
with an arm, even If he were paid for
It?" said the landlord.
"I would," declared the tailor.
"You!" cried the landlord. "Why,
man, you wouldn't be willing to bear
nnythlng of the sort, no matter how
much you were paid for it."
"I wish some one would try me."
: "Now, see here," said tho landlord,
who had studied human nature, "I'll
tell you what if you'll wear even so
much ns n chalk mark on your back
I'll remit jxur rent ns long ns you
wear it on your coat so it can be seen,
the condition being that you tell no
ono why It Is there."
"Agreed," said the tailor eagerly.
"That's an easy way to pajr rent."
So the chalk mark in tho form of a
cross was made on the back of his
coat, and the delighted tailor sallied
forth upon the street.
Strangers rnd acquaintances hailed
him to tell him of the mark on his
back. Jokes were made nt lils ex
pense, children biuhed and pointed nt
him,' and his wife annoyed lilrii with
.questions and wlih conjugal familiari
ty told him be was a fool. The usual
ly amiable man grew surly and mo
rose; he shun iicd men, women and
children and frequented back streets.
Before the week was up the tailor
found himself embroiled In n quarrel
with his best friend, his wife had
threatened to leave his house, and he
considered himself miserable and 111
used.
Finally one night he took off his
coat and rubbed out the chalk mark
and said: "There! I would not wear
that cross on my back another week,
no, not if I could have all tho money
there is In rnris!"
ROBIN HOOD NOT A MYTH.
Hero of Sherwood Forest Had a Court
Place Under King Edward II.
Many famous men have their names
linked with Sherwood King John, the
three Edwards, Richard III., Cardinal
Wolsey and Charles I. but the hero of
the place, the "genius loci," is Robin
Hood.
Some think that the famous outlaw
of the ballads was a myth, a mere po
etic conception and a creature of the
popular mind, but Mr. Hunter in bis
research into the person and period of
"-Ma Hood holds that he was born
between 1285 and 1205, living tlirougn
the reign of the second Edward, and
into the early years of the third. 1 Ho
was ofa family of some station seat
ed near Wakefield and supported the
Earl of Lancaster In his rebellion
against the government. When the
carl fell and his followers were pro
scribed Robin Hood took to the woods
and supported himself by slaying tho
wild animals found In tho forest and
by levying a species of blackmail on
passengers along the great road which
united London and Berwick. This
continued for about twenty months,
from April, 1322, to December, 1323,
when he fell Into the king's power,
who for some unknown reason not
only pardoned him, but gave hlin a
placo at court. Anyhow, a man of tho
nnnio of Itobyn Hodo was a "varlet"
of tho king In 1324.
Dr. Spencer T. Hall says that Robyn
was created Earl of Huntington by a
London ballad "writer hard up for a
.word to rhyme to Llttlo John. Be
this as It may, Robin Hood will always
bo tho hero of romance, and those who
love romance will refuse to believe
that he never existed. London Globe.
Bismarck and Music.
Bismarck's utterances regarding mu
sic are compiled in a book by Keudell,
"Furst und Furstlu Bismarck, Erln
nerungen nus den Jahren, 1840-1872."
Kendell once saw the man of blood
and iron shed tears during n perform
ance of Beethoven's Sonata Appaslo
nota. nis favorite composers were
Beethoven and Schubert. The only
thing he' did not like In their works
was the variations. These, he said,
"do not speak to the heart." Concern
ing tho sonata just referred to ho re
marked: "This Is like tho singing and
sobbing of a whole human life. If I
heard this music often I should al
ways be brave."
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Mansfield's Lonely Meals.
There were two meals which Mans
field alwayi. ate alone breakfast and
the light repast of broth and oysters
lato In the afternoon. An empty stom
ach attacked his nerves and set li i s
temper on edge. In tho morning ho
was In no convenient mood until ho
had tho Invariable coffee and bacon.
After n somewhat rigid abstinence
during the balance of the day and
evening the falls-no of a performance
edged his nerves (ill his midnight sup
per, which, with n troop of friends
about him, warmed him Into tho sun:
nlost humor of the day. A book or
play was tho companion of his solita
ry meals. raul Wllstach In Scrlbuer's.
The Very First One.
The visitors in the historical mu
seum gazed curiously at n small feath
er pillow wbl'ii nestled In a glass case.
"I don't seo anything unusual about
that pillow," remarked ono of tho vis
itors, turning to the guide.
"It's a very valuable pillow," replied
tho guide. "That is Washington's
original headquarters." Llpplncott's.
A Zoological Question.
Tho director of tho zoological gar
dens was on his vacation. He receiv
ed a note from his ' chief assistant,
which closed thusly: "The chliupanzeo
seems to bo pining for a companion.
What shall wo do until you return?"
St. Louis Republic.
Two Word.
"There are two words that I feel
scrry for."
'And they are?"
"Blithering and egregious. Nobody
ever uses 'em except to call some one
en Idiot, or an ass.H Louisville Courier-
Ma Meant Well Anyway.
A young woman overheard an old
negrees call to a pickaninny, "Como
back, Exy, Exy!"
"Excuse me," said the young woman,
"but isn't that a queer name for a
baby, aunty?"
"Dat ain't her full name," explained
the old woman, with pride; "dnt's Jos'
de pet nanio I call for short. Dat
chllo got a mighty grand name. Her
ma picked it out in n medicine book.
Ycssum, do chile's full namo Is Ecze
ma." Ladies' nomo Journal.
"Tho worse of Ppongely is he never
pays anything," said drabbles. -
"Oh, doesn't he, though? Ask him to
;ay yon a visit and see," retorted
lllcks.
A Warm Greeting is Extended
To nil his patrons of tho past year by.
Humphrey, tho plumber, who is evor
ready to do good work at short notice
and who charges the fairest prices of
any man in the business. Leaky pipes
or frozen ones may result in big dam
ago. Git my sorvicesquick, and it will
cost you less. If your furnaco smokes
lot know. I did good work for you
in 1 DOS and I will do it iu 1909.
C. E. HUfflPHREY
Plumber
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