4.
detained In
the Role.
By CARL WILLIAMS.
Copyrighted. 1909, by Associated
Literary- Press.
Melrose was aog wltb excitement.
Tlio locnl billposter was bunging the
paper of the Denhnni Ilopcrtolre com
pany for u three night run. And Mag
gie Deiilmm hailed from Melrose.
'Jlnrgnret Denham" she was billed,
lint Melrose recognized her.
It was the first time that what Mel
rose called "a real theater troupe" had
.Visited the little town. This In Itself
Would have meant much, but Maggie
in addition created an epoch in town
history.
Melrose could not know that she was
to be a star only for this brief engage
ment In Melrose. Maggie had happen
ed to mention that she had been born
In Melrose, and the astute manager
had changed the name of the company
from the .Metropolitan to Denham Re
pertoire company for the three night
Btny.
IIo well knew the value of a local
name In a small town. Occasionally
Maggie bad let fall some scrap of in
formation as to her departure from the
town that told the rest of the old story
of the girl who had run away from
home to go upon the stage.
Maggie's story differed from most,
for she had succeeded In achieving her
ambition. She bad , become a fairly
M
"I'M GLAD HE DIDN'T 8KB MB LAST MIGHT
. AS THB ADVENTURESS."
nseful player of parts In the smaller !
companies.
This was her second season with the
Metropolitans, and she smiled confi
dently when Qulnlin, the manager,
asked her If she felt strong enough to
play the star part for three days.
It Involved a little extra rehearsal,
but Maggie was delighted. She would
show Tom Chambers and the rest of
Melrose that she bud made a success.
Tom came ahead of the rest of Mel
rose, because there had been a time
nrben they two were1 almost engaged,
and she still thought tenderly of those
courtship days.
She looked about eagerly when the
company arrived; but, though every
one else In town appeared to have
come to the train to stare curiously at
Maggie Denhnm's troupe, Tom was
aot there.
With a curious sense of blankness
Maggie climbed Into the ramshackle
bos that was to convey the company to
the hotel Her triumphant entrance
Into ber home town bad gone for
, naught just because one man was not
there.
She was angry and surprised to real
ize that she still cared more for Cham
bers than she bad ever admitted when
he had tried to win her. -. -
plie had not long to wait, however,
for Information about the recreant
one. Presently a string of callers !
came to the hotel, and all of the
friends of her school days crowded the
hotel parlor, all talking at once.
From the babel of voices Maggie
gathered that Tom had left town the
flay before with the evident purpose
of avoiding her The blood throbbed
In her temples. 1
It was to give Tom a lesson that she
wanted to show to Melrose how well
ehe had succeeded. Now he would
not witness her triumph, and she turn
ed strangely depressed until the man
ager, versed In the handling of the er
ratic omen of the stage, sensed the
Situation.
'Anyhow, yon can do your best,"
(Qulnlin reminded her, -"and leave be
hind a record that he will be proud
of."
"And who may 'be' be?" demanded
Maggie truculently.
" "I don't know," confessed Qulnlin
promptly, "but there la usually a 'he'
somewhere, and since he does not seem
to be around I thought yon might like
my suggestion."
s Maggie waved him off with a jesting
remark, but her heart was lighter.
Here was something that she could
do. So It happened that even her fellow
-players wondered that evening at the
brilliancy with which she played ber
part.
"You'll land on Broadway yet," they
vtsured Tier, but even this promise of
reaching the goal of all actors did not
. cheer the fclrl, and when the perfurm-
mice was over she hurried hack to the
hotel, only to creep Into bed and cry
herself to sleep.
On the third and hist day of the en
gagement Tom appeared, suddenly In
towu, and, though she could nut see
; blm in the badly lighted auditorium
thut night. Maggie felt that he was
there, and she acted with u touch of
tenderness that lent uew beauty to a
naturally sympathetic role.
John Benjamin, one of the impor
tant eastern theatrical men, hud stop
ped over to wait for a train and had
drifted into the opera house, where the
manager overwhelmed him with atten
tions. As he watched the girl work he
nodded his head.
"I'd like to steal your leading wo
man," Benjamin said to Qulnlin. "1
can place ber In a road company for a
year under one of my good stage direct
ors and then bring ber into New York."
"Go ahead and stenl," invited Quln
lin. "She's a nice little womnn, and
If you can place her the contract she
made wltb me won't bold her back.
I'll tell her to write to you."
The big manager nodded bis thanks,
looked at bis watch and hurried off to
make his train.
Maggie only nodded carelessly, when
Quiulin hurried back with word that
the way to Broadway was open to her
at Inst.
She could not think of business when
Tom was out there in the darkened
auditorium watching her. She needed
to give all of her attention to her per
formance, and she played the last act
with a rich sincerity that won the audi
ence completely.
Not until the curtain had fallen and
the other players crowded around to
congratulate ber upon the opportunity
she had earned did she seem to realize
what It all meant, and then she ac
cepted listlessly what the other women
of ber profession would have given
years of their life to attain.
She slipped from the stage door alone
to go to the hotel, but as she emerged
Tom stepped forward with outstretch
ed bands.
"I had to come to see you," he said
brokenly. "At first I vowed that I
would stay out of town while you were
here, but I had to come back, and I'm
glad I did.
"I thought that you would be tough
and common, Maggie, like the rest, but
you can't be that and play as you did
tonight. That wasn't acting, and when
I saw you as you really are, and not as
I thought that you would be, I want
ed to get up and shout to you to come
right to me and we'd get married, as
we used to plan when we were chil
dren. Will you come and marry me,
Maggie? I've got a fine farm now, and
you'll never regret it. dear."
"1 don't think I will regret It."
agreed Maggie bupplly. "but I didn't
think you'd want me, Tom."
"You know what they think about
actresses here," he reminded her. "I
guess I thought pretty much the same,
but you well, when I saw you come
on the stage looking Just as you used
to do I knew you were my Maggie
still!"
He clasped ber bands, unable to say
more, but Maggie understood. To the
Melrose minds all player folk were
followers of the devil. Perhaps the In
genuous role she bad played bad won
Tom. He wanted for bis wife the wo
man she bad played. And sbe knew it
would be easy to continue In that role
with Tom as opposite.
Sbe felt that she could continue her
success in that part, and so she let him
kiss her before she pushed him gently
from her with a whispered command
to come to the' hotel In the morning.
Together they would see Qulnlin and
secure the release from her contract.
As sbe entered the hotel the man
ager was waiting for her. He bad tak
en from his trunk her contract for the
season, and this he handed to her.
"This sets you free, my girl. You
can go to Benjamin and Broadway,"
he said smilingly. "I'm glad that at
last the Metropolitans have contrib
uted a real star to Broadway."
"I'm not going to Benjamin," replied
Maggie. "I'll play the season out for
you if you want me to, but I made a
real human hit in the part tonight, and
I'm going to keep on playing it for
Tom here In Melrose. Gee, Mr. Quln
lin, I'm glad be didn't see me last
night as tbe adventuress."
Ice Sport For Danish Children.
In Denmark one of the favorite
forms of exercise on the Ice Is a game
wherein the skaters can have their
run and also the tots who prefer to
ride upon sleds.
A large pole Is fixed upright in the
middle of the frozen pond, and a cross
beam Is attached, the whole affair be
ing kept from toppling over by means
of a large wagon wheel, through whose
hub tbe upright pole Is thrust and
which lies flat upon tbe Ice. To the
end of the longer section of the trans
verse beam a string of sleds Is at
tached, and then eight or ten of the
large lads and lassies begin to skate In
a circle, pushing the beam around
with them, while the little ' fellows
climb on the sleds.
Around and around they go, faster
and faster, amid shouts of delight, un
til the string of sleds la Hung out
across the ice like the lash of a long
whip. It often becomes necessary for
those who are furnishing tbe motive
power to slacken speed In order to let
the coasters get back Into a better po
sition, centrifugal force having stretch
ed them out sometimes almost to the
banks of the lake. Pathfinder.
Had the Proof.
"I wonder if Jones is married."
"No."
' '"Did you ask him?"
"I didn't have to. I heard him tell
ing what he would do If any wife of
his came out in a directolre gown."
BUSINESS METHODS.
The Value cf Imngina'-kn as an Indus
trial Asset.
Let us assume that tomorrow you
decide to embark in the business of
manufacturing u toilet Boap to com
pete with some of the well known mak
ers It Is Important that It should
have a signlllcnnt or attractive name.
But. right nt the outset, you discover
that It Is almost impossible to secure
any satisfactory name for a new soap.
Its color, transparency and clearness
suggest the title of "amber soap."
Ye3, surely, "amber soap" does have an
attractive sound. But you cannot ue
the word "nmbcr," for you find that
this is one of a list of twenty-four pos
sible names for a toilet soap pre
empted by registration as a protec
tlonury measure years ago by one of
the leading American soap makers.
They have covered over a hundred
names In the past quarter of a century,
willingly paying the registration
charges of $25 for every title. Ot
course they do not Intend to use them.
They register them to fight off compe
tition, believing (and here Is the Im
portant point) that no clever business
I man would embark lu the enterprise
I of manufacturing a new soap when
from the start he was prevented from
employing the powerful weapon of
Imagination In giving It a suitable
name. If an establishment like this,
directed by some of tbe ablest heads In
the business world, believes that It
can discourage competition by simply
depriving the would be competitor of
the appeal to the imagination In the
naming of his soap, how great a value
mutt we attach to Imagination in busi
ness? Loriu l Delund In Atlantic.
TRAPPING RABBITS.
The Auttralian Method of Dealing With
the Pests.
Rabbits ore the greatest pest the
Australian pastorallst has to contend
against. If these rodents are at all
numerous on a station property, they
do enormous damage to tbe grass, but
the pest Is kept down to the lowest
possible limit In every district of the
commonwenlth at great cost.
The most effective methpd of deal
ing with th?m Is hereunder explained.
In summer when any water that
might have been lying about has been
dried up by evaporation and the grass
has become dry rabbits swarm toward
the tanks, damn or other water, holes
that have been sunk for stock drink
ing purposes.
Pnstoralists take advantage. of this,
and every evening after the cnttle
have partaken of their Inst drink a
strip of w ire netting is run around the
tank or dnm.
Outside tills netting fence boles are
dug in the ground and filled with poi
soned water, and these in turn are in
closed by another strand , of netting,
pegged down to within a few Inches
of the ground, being sheep proof, but
allowing plenty of room for rabbits to
get under.
The rabbits make for tbe dam; but,
as their way Is barred, they drink at
the poisoned holes, with to them disas
trous results.
In the morning are to be seen hun
dreds and thousands 'of dead rabbits
scattered about the country. Mel
bourne News.
An African and a Boa Constrictor.
At M'Geta, German East Africa, a
native who, like all those belonging to
the tribe of the Waluguru, regarded
snake flesh as an especial delicacy
found a huge boa constrictor lying in
the middle of a field. He confided tbe
discovery to one or two others and ar
ranged with tbem to kill it during the
hours of darkness, so that they might
enjoy the delicacy together. Toward
nightfall the man, armed with a stick,
attacked the huge serpent The boa
constrictor, aroused from its npparent
torpor, suddenly seized the unhappy
negro and slowly' crushed him to pulp
and then gradually swallowed him.
Tactless.
"When Clubber gets arguing he
loses all tact."
"As for instance?"
"Why, last night he told an oppo
nent who Is lame that he hadn't a leg
to stand on, another who squints that
he was sorry be couldn't see things as
he did, and a man who stammered he
urged not to hesitate In expressing an
opinion." Stray Stories.
Color Blindnese. '
Forty men and four women in a thou
sand are cither wholly unable to per
ceive certain colors or can recognize
them only with difficulty. All attempts
to overcome color blindness by edu
cating the color sense have failed.
There are three theories of color vi
sion, all of which are' based on- the
workings of tbe sensitive fibrils of the
Inner eye.
Odessa's Working Day.
The legal laboring day at Odessa,
Russia, Is twelve hours, with two
hours for rest Workers less than sev
enteen years old must go to school for
three hours dally. Christians are not
required to work Sundays or feast
days nor Jews and Mohammedans on
their holidays. Those who have to
work on Sundays have the next day
for rest
Knew Her Weakness.
Master John! Servant Yes, sir.
Master Be sure you tell me when it
Is 4 o'clock. Servant Yes, sir. Master
Don't forget it I promised to meet
my wife at 2:30, and she'll be pro
voked If I'm not there when she ar
rives. London Answers.
The mctfo of chivalry Is also the
motto of wisdom to serve all, but love
only one. Balzac.
The FooMsh Railroads.
The stage fare from Ilmitsvllie to
Glasgow twenty-five miles was $1.00.
This stage carried t tie mail, and It hud
to go. Wheu the roads were so mud
dy horses could not pull the stage a
double yoke of oxen took their places.
It was slow traveling, hut they got
through. The steamboat fure from
Glasgow to St. Louis in the early fif
ties was $7. That Included stateroom
and meals, and if the boat was held
up a week or two on a sand bur tbe
accommodations went on without ex
tra charge. The steamboat owners
never believed the railroads could suc
cessfully compete wltb them. The way
they looked at it people wouldn't be
willing to travel 100 or 200 miles tied
down to one seat In a small car when
they might be enjoying the freedom of
a big and handsomely furnished boat.
"Then bow are they going to find room
for an orchestra and a dance?" an old
river captain wanted to know. "No
place to eat or drink; no room to move
about; just sit still all day long on a
little woodeu bench. Why, It's down
right foolishness!" Macon Republican.
The Eye' on the Red Flag.
There are many odd bits of bunting
unfolded to the breeze In New York
harbor, but the oddest of all perbnps
Is tbe ensign that flutters from the
staff of a little craft that rounds the
Battery sea wall promptly at noon
every day and then disappears up the
North river. It is u triangular flag
with a flaming red background, from
which stands out In bold relief a great
cyclopean eye. Inside the pilothouse
Is a man in blue coat and brass but
tons, who views the water front and
passing craft through a long telescope.
This Is the supervisor of the harbor.
His duties are to see tbat the regula
tions are observed lu the East river,
the upper bay und the Hudson river,
that tbe channels are kept free of ob
structions and that the city's docks
and ferries are being looked after as
they should be. As soon as be steps on
board his vessel the unique ensign Is
raised. It signifies to all nautical folk:
"I've got my eye on you. Watch out!"
New York Sun.
8ome Handicaps.
"Sir, I wish to marry your daugh
ter," faltered the young man.
"You do, eh?" exclaimed tbe fond
parent "Well, I have been rather ex
pecting this, and, to be thoroughly or
thodox, I shall put a few questions to
you. Do you drink?"
"No, sir. I abhor liquor."
"You do, eh? Smoke?"
"I never use tobacco In any form."
"Well, I didn't suppose you ate It
Do you frequent the race tracks?"
"I never saw a horse race (3 my life,
sir."
"Um-m-m! Play cards for money?"
"Emphatically no, sir."
"Well, young man, I must say you
are heavily handicapped. My daugh
ter Is a thorough society girl, and I
con't for the life of me see what she
Is going to do with you. However, It's
her funeral, and If she wants to un
dertake the Job why, God bless you
both!" Washington Post.'
Woman's Work.
After dinner tbe other evening Mr.
and Mrs. Brown started to speak of
their respective duties, und soon an
argument as to whether the husband
or the wile had the hardest work to
perform wus In full swing. First
Brown warbled und then wlfey sang.
"A wife," argued the good lady, "has
to cook, wash dishes, clothe tbe kids,
scrub tbe floors, sweep the bouse,
mnke tbe beds, build the fires, carry up
coal, nail slats on the back fence,
dlg"-
"Is that all?" sarcastically Interrupt
ed Mr. Brown.
"No," was the prompt rejoinder of
Mrs. Brown. "In addition to those
duties every wife has to keep ber hus
band from making a fool of himself."
Philadelphia Telegraph.
Anchored Him.
"I was at a reception with a certain
young lady the other night" snld a
man who ulways tells tbe truth, "and
her father was there too. He doesn't
think much of me, and he followed us
about from room to room wouldn't
let us get out of bis sight for a min
ute. Well, 1 knew tbe old man was an
awful tight wad. so I thought up a
scheme. 1 carelessly dropped a half
dollar on the floor while he was look
ing, ne moved over and put bis foot
on it and never stirred nntll tbe party
broke up. Meanwhile daughter and 1
beat It and enjoyed ourselves." Cleve
land Leader.
Saving Cuff Addresses.
Folded up with tbe laundry bill was
another slip of paper, on which were
several lines of fine writing.
"What is this?" asked the new cus
tomer. "Those are the addresses we copied
off your cuffs," said the clerk. "We
always make a record of the addresses
we find on cuffs and return them with
the laundry, so if our customers have
not put them down any place else they
won't be lost" New York Press.
When There Was More of It
An old chap .with hardly a hair on
his head snapped at the young 'barber
on the completion of a hair cut:
"You are not the thorough workman
your father was, my boy. He used to
take a good half hour to cut my hair."'
More Than Liberal.
Mr. Highmus You gave your son a
liberal education, did you not? Mr.
Muntoburn Disgustingly liberal. His
four years at college cost me $27,000.
Chicago Tribune.
The greatest man in the world may
stand as much In need of the meanest
as the meanest does him. Fuller.
Town Booming
Helps
IV. -Rah! Rah! Rah!
Two Americans meeting in En
rope, one of them said, "I am from
Jones' Siding."
"And I," said tfce other, throwing
out his chest, "am from Chicago."
."Seems to me I've heard of that
place. About how far is it from
Jones' Siding V
The Jones' Siding spirit is the
kind that helps a town. This man
considered his own home THE FIN
EST PLACE IN THE WORLD. If
there are many more there like him
Jones' Siding will some day he
crowding other places off the map.
He was the kind of man who
spends his money at home, who pat
ronizes home industries, talks up his
home town and helps to build it up.
HE WAS A DESIRABLE CITIZEN.
The mail order houses couldn't do
business with him unless they were
located in his own town, for he
knows that, as far as he was con
cerned, Jones' Siding was the center
of the earth.
Think it over and see if we can't
work up some of that Jones' Siding
spirit right here !
LET US GET TOGETHER AND
MAKE THINGS BOOM.
Every letter that is posted here
should be an advertisement for the
town, even the love letters, for we
want the right kind of people io
come here and settle.
Let's advertise ourselves, our home
industries and our good prospects
IN EVERY WAY POSSIBLE.
Every Price 8hould Have Reason.
It must be remembered always tbat
It is not tbe price of un article which
is important, but the reason for the
price.
Tbe bankrupt stock, the fire sale, the
manufacturer's remnants, tbe annual
clearance, tbe removal sale, the disso
lution uf partnership sule-whut are
theie and many more but arguments
for tbe price? And note this one point
that without the argument the price
is powerless. Reduce fur llued over
coats from $100 to $io iv.il your liberal
discount attracts little attention. Why?
Because there-is uo reasonable expla
nation for the reduction. Why should
you present overcoats to the public?
But unuounce that owlnir to an ex
piration of your lease and the impera
tive cotumnqd that you vacate your
present store within two weeks you
will reduce the price of your fur lined
overcoats from $100 to $00 and you
may sell easily all you have to offer.
Instinctively the public sees the whole
picture the proprietor's anxiety, the
inevitable removal, the lessening days,
the final sacrifice and the store' full of
eager buyers, quick to seize such an
opportunity. This Is only half tbe'
reduction previously considered. But
one is business without Imagination,
and the other Is business with It
Lorln F. Deland in Atlantic.
The Characteristic National Meal.
It Is not only lu, Scotland thnt break
fast Is tbe characteristic national meal.
Travel where you may, the first meal
of the day Is the one that strikes tbe
foreign note, luncheon and dinner hav
ing gradually absorbed cosmopolitan
qualities tbat ure not even confined to
hotels. But you, never feel so much of
an Englishman as when Switzerland
gives you rolls and butter and boney
and nothing more wltb your coffee or
when France makes this Into one ex
quisite crumbling "croissant." with an
inch or two from a yard long loaf, or
when Denmark adds cream instead of
milk to the coffee and a dangerous
piece of pastry to the black bread and
round white roll. Yet our English
breakfast became nu Institution only
In the eighteenth century. Before that
only royalty breakfasted off meat
bread and cheese and ale. The com
moner, such as Pepys, took merely a
morn.lng draft of buttered ale.- '
The Ideal Oil for either
cooled or water-cooled 1
chines. Distilled from Pel
avlvanla Crnda Oil llaht
color, which mean absolute
freedom from carbon.
' WATERLT SPECIAL, I
a thin oil. feeds freely through
ut strle lubricator, and wilt not
conceal in we coldest weeuen
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Financial Statement
West Reynoldsville School
District for Year Ending
June 7, 1909.
W. B. BTAUFFRH, Tax Collector, in acrount
with Went Reynnldsvllle Pcbool District
for year ending June 7, 1909.
SCHOOL TAX
DR.
To am't duplicate S15N0 2I) -
To am't lit, added on i-'HS 77 . 17 44 l,5f7 79
CR.
By am't exonerations 5422
" returned 110
" IS rebut n on ftOfl 81 41 40
" 2'C Col. on im hi.... 18 20
' S Col. 00 !! 50.... 14 83
5 Col. onJlKO 00.... 9 80
" ,. Treas.'re.olpui 1,45s OH
To Balance due district ... 39 73
DR. ,1'897 70
To balance due 1IKMI tax . ... y 17 117
CR.
By am't Sit on II 17 00
" treasurer's tecelpts. .. lit 1 17
JJR.
To balance duo 1907 tax. . 91 (IS 9165
CR.
By am't 5 Ool. on tin 05.. 458
" exonerations 1 00
" trtasurers' receipts... 86 07
ti 85
ANNUAL DISTRICT REPORT
Bcliool District of West Reynoldsvlile, Pa.,
for year ending June 7th, 1B09.
Whole number of schools 4
Average number of months g
Number of male teachois employed 1
Number of female teachers employed 8
Average salaries male m no
Average salaries female 50 no
No. mills levied for school purposes.. 9
Am t levied school purposes. 11,680 26 f 1,580 28
TREASURER'S ACCOUNT
RECEIPTS.
Btate appropriation year ' '
endliii June7,li)(,9 ,101 38 '
Hal. on hand last year. ... 38 17
From Uol. taxes of all kinds 1.542 21
From County Treasurer.... 8 92
From all other sources, in
surance, liquor tines, etc... 2,027 12
aj 777 78
EXPENDITURES ,
Error last settlement nj
Building & furnlsh'ng bouses 607 08
Renting, repairing, etc "118 40
Teacher's wages 1,720 00
Am't paid teachers attend-
Ing institute 40 00
School text books 209 23
School supplies, Including
maps, globes, etc 115 52
Fuel and contingencies 59 65
Salary Secretary and Treas. 50 00
Salary Janitor 100 00
Debt and IninrABt. n kk
Otherexpenses... ..' 3ti3 85 '
13.605 24
RESOURCES.
Due from collector j. . .. 29 73
Can lion hand (1,178 54
11,202 27
E. L. Johnston, )
T. O. McEntkbr, V Auditors.
S. W. bTAUFFJCR, )
Financial Statement
Of Winslow Township School
District for Year Ending
June 7, 1909.
TREASURER'S ACCOUNT.
Monkt Received.
Tax for school purposes I 7 024 64
oulldlng j,3io 80
State appropriation 4,953 17
From collector 5,325 54
Loans 3,1(10 00
County treasurer 290 24
Dog tax 203 69
All other sources 42 33
113,914 98
. Paid Out.
Transportation ..
Miscellaneous
lVachers' wages
Rent and repairs .
Fuel and contingencies
Treasurers' percentage
Secretary's salary, postage and exp.
Printing and auditors' fees
Debt and Interest
Enforcing compulsory law
Text books
Supplies
Tuition
122 10
163 89
0,385 00
m 20
290 47
2 87
150 50
49 24
864 63
88 00
257 88
,. 637 27
107 44
113,016 49
Amount uncollected . 1 1,841 57 ,
Cash on hand 898 49
Debt of district 2,201 51
John Smith, I .
D. J. Thomas, f Auditors.
If you have anything to sell, try
our Want Column.
HUGHES & FLEMING.
FUNERAL DIRECTORS.
Main Street. Reynaldavllle, Pa.
WINDSOR HOTEL
W. T. Brubaker, Mgr.
Midway between Broad St. Station and
Reading Terminal on Filbert st.
European 11.00 per day and up.
American 92.50 per day and up.
The only moderate priced hotel of rep
utation and consequence In
PHILAOFLPHtA
If jrou have any difficulty in
Obtaining
Waverly Special
from year dealer or carafe, com
municate with us at once and we
will see that you are supplied.!
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