y WHEN? When will we remit (he end of thin Thnw Vusiness in the courts? Universal inquiry. What is the answer? Bay, can't you pueos As long aa the money holds out No less! Oh, money's the power That makes the law Handle the linker so it will not draw; Money's the dope That crazes the mind Of the man who kills a human kinil And makes his deed t By the size of his wnd, NothinR more tlinn an "act of God." Then money again Obtains the call, And shows that the killer Wasn't crniy at all. Money's the stuff. That works the liluff. Going and coming and plenty enough. The law is the law, Majestic, grand. A bulwark of safety to the land; And, say. wnteh it stand, And stand and stand With outstretched hnnd ' As long as it hears the money command. Courts of justice Are not for sale: The bench and the bar Will never fail In the duty they owe They will fceep up the fight As long as a dollar stays in sight; They're honest enough The law's delav l)epends upon whether or not it will pay; That's the answer. And there'll be no end As long as there's any Thaw money to spend. Put that on the docket, Please. W. J. Lampton. in the New York Times. 0 1 The Reason t 9 "You needn't read any longer, Mar 6 ret," said Benson. "Somehow I'm not In the mood for It." The girl closed the book very soft ly and turned slowly to look at the white face on the- couch. "You are tired, Ted?" she asked. "No," said he with a dry smile, "not tired, but querulous and rather peevish, I'm afraid. I used to think, at the first of it, that I had some pluck; but I'm rapidly being disil lusioned. I haven't the nerve of a chicken." "Oh, haven't you, you splendid hoy?" she said. "I would like to know who but you would have laid here as bravely and uncomplainingly and faced the things you have the past year?" "There are thousands of people who would have done it much better than I," said he gloomily. "The thing Is getting on my nerve. Good Lord, I can't stand it! I can't! I can't!" She moved her chair closer to the couch. Her face suddenly paled with tenderness and pity. "Ted, hush!" Bhe said soothingly. "You mustn't talk like that that. Think of your splendid courage all these long, long months since the accident. And every month puts you so much nearer recovery." His eyes were turned away. She aw his fingers working nervously. "That's the rub," he confessed. . "What is?" she asked quickly. "The chance of getting better the chance of ever being of any use in the world again," said he. "Gordon told me this morning very frankly that It was a question whether or not I would ever walk again. I wish he had told me that in the first place instead of carrying me along like this with his ill-conceived kindness' of false hopes." The girl's face grew paler. "He told you that?" she asked. "Yes. He said I had the right to know. He was perfectly correct there, too. Only, as I say, he should have told, me in the first place, if he had any doubts about it." "Why?" said she. He moved uneasily. "Oh, for many reasons," said he. "Things would have been utterly different. I could have stood It better, I believe, If I had known it then." "But it isn't at all certain you are going to be helpless permanently," she declared. "Gordon is simply tell ing you that to warn you In case the worst happens and the worst Is not going to happen," she ended cheer fully. v "As to that, we can only make sur mises," said he. "Time alone will Bettle the question, and from what Gordon said, and the way he said It, I am rather inclined to the opinion that It won't do to have too many hopes." The girl said nothing. She was poking out the window at the first green leaves on the street, and her eyes were dim with tears, Benson, too, was looking at the. leaves. His face was stern and set, and about his mouth were hard lines of stubborn determination. "And so," said he, quite as if their talk had not been broken by the little period of silence, "I want to be very frank with you, Margaret. Let's not have any foolishness or any quixotic iuslness about this affair. I was brown from the horse and very ap parently I am in this fix for the rest of my life. Well, very good! I was very childish Juit now to cry out so against it. What Is done is done, and cannot be helped now. But that needn't necessarily upset the whole universe." She. 'looked ; at him questloningly. Bhe had never heard him talk like this before. His had always been a cheerful, hopeful nature, even after the bitter accident had left him to spend his tedious, endless days on the couch. "First," said hf, "give me the ring, please." ' The girl merely looked at him in unbelief, "Give me the ring, Margaret," h( repeated sternly. Slowly she drew the diamond from her finger and laid It in his out stretched hand. He put it in the pocket of his smoking coat and the lines about his mouth grew more tense. "Now," said he, "yon are free. This matter of a woman tying herself to a crippled man has been tried be fore! It is all nonsense. It doesn't work except in theories and senti mental fiction. You are not to come here again not while things are as uncertain as they are at present, at any rate. You arS to forget me forget me, do you understand?" The girl pressed her hand to her white cheeks. "Ted," she said in credulously, "what are you saying? What does all this mean? Are you trying to test me? If you are, it is most ill-timed. You know very well I would never break it off, no matter what had happened. You are slan dering me insulting me." His face twisted for a moment. Then he smiled grimly. "I am doing nothing of the sort," he declared. "I am simply talking good, cold, common, everyday horse sense. It Is better so. Can't you un derstand me?" "No, I can't," she said brokenly. "Then let me make it plainer," said he. "I wish It. I suppose I am not very noble nbout It but a man in my condition Isn't supposed to be noble, or If he Is expected to be he falls far short of the mark. I wish It. Do you realize all that means?" "It means," he went on, "that we are not suited to each other not now. In the old days it was different, but we have to face new conditions, now. I am exacting, peevish, broken. I shall probably be so for the rest of my life. 1 have got to face the fu ture coldly, calmly. In that future you won't fit. You are too sympa thetic, too solicitous, too sensitive. You make me aware every hour of the day that I am a crippled wreck, and if I am never better It will be like that through all the future a future, frankly, I don't dare face with you. Have I made it all plain, now?" The girl's face was burled in her hands. She was shaken with sobs. She could not see the worn, pitiful expression on Benson's own face. "Of course, all this is very hard for you to listen to, and very hard for me to say. Still, 1 think it is far bet ter to say it now than to go on ma king some horrible mistake and find ing it out when it is too late to rem edy it." , There was a long silence, brokon only by the girl's sobs. Benson's face was turned to the wall. He did not dare to look at her. "You will forget me In time," he said. "You will marry some other and better man, and I shall, mayhap, marry some woman who is fitted to my peculiar position in life. There are such woman I thoroughly be lieve." Again the silence. At last the girl slowly rose. Her eyes were red and her shoulders hook convulslvelj. "If you wish it, of course," she said and turned away. Benson bit his lips. His face was gray and drawn. "Good-bye," ho said shortly. The gir'. was looking at him close ly. Suddenly she dropped on her knees beside the couch, and burying her face on his shoulder, wept with out restraint. "Ted," she cried in a choking voice, "you were lying, lying. Tell me it is so. Tell me that you were lying for my sake.' I can't bear it!" She felt his hand on her shoulder. Then she heard his voice, strangely shaken. "Yes, It was a He, Margaret," he was saying, "a ghastly He. I thought I was strong enough to carfy it through for your sake. But I'm not. Here is the ring. Put It on again, dearie." New Orleans Picayune. 9 -ST' A India produces about 7,000,000 tons of coal yearly. Australia has more unexplored area in proportion to the population than any other country. The microbes in city air are four rp.eBtimes more than in country air. There are nearly 160 languages, derived from nearly twenty linguistic sources, spoken in India. After working for Heathcoat & Co., lace manufacturers, of Tiverton, England, for seventy-one years, Will lam Huxtable has just retired. The water that pours over the falls of Niagara Is wearing the rock away at the rate of five yards In tour years. Mr. S. P. Edge, two years ago, at Brooklands, accomplished the un precedented feat of covering 15 SI miles In 1440 minutes in a motor car. Morning milk is best for babies- fresher and fewer germs than the previous night's milk, but slightly weaker In cream. Yokoboma's foreign population at the end of 1908 was C409, Including 3789 Chinese, 1221 British, f47 Americans, 291 Germans and ISO French. Wortm I Profanity I at the Telephone . The' Court of Anneals of Iowa is renorteri to have decided that a tele phone company cannot refuse to provide service for a householder be cause he swears .at the operator, or apparently, because he is in the hab it of eavesdropping on party lines, says the New York Sun. The text of the decision is not at hand and its full effect therefore cannot b. stated, but evidently the company is declared to be without power as a censor of the language and manners of its customers. What recourse u telephone operator assailed with in decent, violent or profane language would have the newspaper despatches do not set forth. It might be in a prosecution for disorderly conduct, threats and even assault. For the creature who listens to conversations over the line he uses, boiling in mush Is not too severe a punishment. The temptation to profane and vinlent lnneriiaep over the telephone is felt and acknowledged even by those strong men who resist it. Why Is the number busy at the moment when we want to arrange for to- morrow'fl picnic? Probably it isnt at. all: that lazv elrl Is simply neg lecting us and flirting with some clerk over the wire. Then comes strong language; a relief for the feelings, it may be. but we have been inform ed that it reaches the ears not of the operator for whom It is Intended but of a callous person whose sole duty it is to listen to the abusive outbursts of Irate customers. fThere was once a popular series of atorles of "flirtatious operators." What foasls had these yarns? we never encountered an operator who was other than coldly businesslike Our Instinctive "Thank you!" is cut In halves by the pulling of a plus or lifting of a jack, or whatever me chanical action disconnects me wue. Will vnn Dlease" we begin when our watch has run down. "Ask In formation" comes over the wire wun a decorousness thnt is anytning but enticing. "I am much obliged" is cut oft In the flower of Its polite youth 'by the final click. It may be that our voice is not attractive to the young woman at the central of fice. Aa for swearine at a telephone op erator, It belongs In the same class with kicking the door on whloh a night groping householder has bang ed his head. The instinct to such useless acts goes deep into numan history. Professor THISANDTHAT asserts that it is a survival from that stage of development In wnicn each rock, tree, river, pool nnd moun tain had its spirit to be propitiated or punished aa the victim of its good will or malice believed discreet. But who has not longed "to take It out" of the transmitter and receiver when the essential guest blandly lniorm ed him from twelve miles away, Just as the butler was announcing din ner, that, "he had been forced to change his plans and couldn't get over tonight"? Of course profanity Is never defensible, but men are weak. Let the man of the house send his wife to the telephone when the guests are arriving. She does not swear, though only Heaven knows how Bhe restrains herself from hot words a thousand times a day. There are, of course, timid souls who are valorous at the other end of seven miles of wire. These are they who, having got a number they did not want, arrogantly tell the man who has risen from his easy chair to answer the jingling bell to "ring off" In a tone that conveys their conviction that he is disturb ing them on purpose, and that they would punch his head gladly could thev reach him; but to such pro fanity Is of no avail. Answer them calmly; give your full name, Dusiness address and home address; remark that you will be at any spot at any hour that may suit their conveni ence; declare that you are out of condition, but still willing to have a go with any person who boasts his prowess from a safe distance; and add that the extermination of muck ers is a subject of the deepest inter est to the man who keeps his tem per and his decent manners when telephoning. INDIANS' 8UDDEN WEALTH. They Wanted Their Money In Green backs for Display. Wealth has suddenly come to the French River Indians through the sale of the valuable timber on their lands near Lake Nlpisslng. For many years the late chief of the Ojibways sternly repulsed the advances of the lumbermen, "but his son has yielded to their solicitations, and it Is stated that altogether the band will ulti mately be entitled to something like 200,000. The distribution is being made by Indian Agent Cockburn at Sturgeon (Falls. The assembled braves' listened stolidly to the ex planations of the agent that the piece of paper each received meant that a large sum of money was in the Quebec bank to their credit, which could ' be obtained when re quired. A short lecture on banking and the convenience of the savings department followed, after which the recipients marched solemnly to ths) bank and drew the face value of th checks. Burdened with wealth, they return ed to the agent's office, where each Indian piled his money upon the ta ble and Joyfully regarded the stacks of greenbacks which spelled ease and comfort for some time to come. One Indian infested on having bills of small denomination and was loaded up with a mountain of greenbacks. With a grin he staggered into the of fice, money 'bulging out of every pocket. Slowly, unpacking himself, be piled his treasure on the table, making a 'bigger display than any ol his red brothers, which afforded him the greatest satisfaction. With difficulty the men were dis suaded from carrying off their money to the reserve, twenty miles across Lake Nlplsslng; font finally, after making generous purchases and pay ing their bills, nearly all deposited their wealth In the bank. It Is stat ed that the sale will mean an in come to some families of 600 a year. A not unnatural result of this) sudden acquisition of wealth has been the frequent and prolonged vis its of young buoks from other tribes, who are finding new attrac tions among the imaidens of the Dokls families. The matrimonial market has shown quite a boom. One wedding has already taken place and and Indications are favorable for many more in the near future, as ev ery Dokls maiden represents an Im mediately cash value of about 200 and a prospective yearly income of 60. London Telegraph. TORRENT FROZE IN NIGHT. Mountain Stream Turned to Ice In Remarkably Short Time. The phenomenon was one tnat 1 have never before experienced a run ning river frozen solid In a night. When we arrived the waters of thli stream, tumbling over the great bowld ers and rushing -through the tortuous channels, made a deafening roar. Gradually, but almost Imperceptibly, the tumult decreased, while, worn out after a hard day, we fell asleep. A few hours later, .when (we awoke, a deathly silence prevailed, and on looking out, to my Intense surprise, I found that the rushing tor rent of the previous night had been transformed Into a solid mass of Ice. I In this reelon of extreme tempera- j tures I had on other occasions seen i torrents frozen, but never under such startling conditions. On looking round we found that everything we possessed was also frozen solid. In ! eluding our saddle of mutton, which was merely a block of Ice. We were ravenous, but we got no satisfaction from gnawing at lumus, of rock which ought to have been a succulent Joint, and so, despite our hunger, we had to content ourselves with a lit tle tea to make which we melted Ice and a few biscuits. J. Claule White, in Wide World. Cubical Cantaloupes. C. E. Parrish on North Yakima, Wash., marketed cantaloupes here this week that are perfect cubes. Parrish has been doing novel things with fruit and vegetables for several years, but says that his Idea of growing cantaloupes In the shape of cubes is the most practical of any thing he has undertaken. He had troughs made from heavy lumber and these are partitioned to make an in terior size of 4 inches each way. As soon as new cantaloupes are seen to form on tho vines each fruit is placed in one of the partitions in a trough. Tho fruit continues to grw and gradually assumes the shape of the cubical house in which It lives. To prevent the top from becoming round Parrish places a heavy top on the trough in time to avoid It. As soon as the cantaloupes have filled up the cubic shape allotted to them, they are taken out by remov ing the bottom of the trough and packed away to ripen. Parrish already has larger troughs nartitioned off. In which he Is grow- j ing square watermelons, and all over i nls appie, pear ana peuuu ubco ut j has hundreds of cubical shaped boxes hanging, each tilling wun iruit. Charleston (News. Chinese Pork Not Wanted. The first shipment of Chinese hogs to England bids fair to be the last The Peninsular and Orient Steam ship Company believed that the car casses could be imported in refrig erating ships and that the trade mlgnt prove a competitor with frozen beet and mutton. The carcasses sold well In the wholesale market, but the retailers find that the public will not have the meat. Some 5,000 hogs were brought over on a. trial shipment and placed on sale at the shops for the first time Saturday at 25 per cent below the price's charged for other import ed' hogs. But the public prejudice, even in the poorer classes, was so pronounc ed that the butchers had in most cases to raise the price of other pork, such as American and Euro pean, before they were able to dis pose of their stock. Good Roads Mean Money. The people need to be educated to the fact that money spent for good roads is not money thrown awav, whereas money spent for makeshift improvements Is worse than thrown away. Louisville Courier-Journal. No race Is safe turn cholera. It is deadliest to negroes. TATTOOING OUT OF 8TYLE. Od Facts About a Custom That Is Re ferred to In the Bible. One bf the customs of the past ages which is now going out of use al most entirely, Is that of tattooing, or marking the skin Indelibly by puno turlng It and Inserting a coloring mat ter. The practice of tattooing arose among primitive people In many dif ferent ways. With some it was a mark which served to signify subor dination to a chief, very much as farmers at this day brand their cat tle. Among the Sandwich Islanders It Indicated the district in which the person lived. ' With many others It bad a religious significance, and sac red emblems were marked upon the body. Some superstitious service of the dead was evidently Indicated in early Bible times by tattooing, for the book of Leviticus contains this command: "Ye shall not make any cuttings on your flesh for the dead, not print any marks upon you." Among other people tatooing has been resorted to from shee vanity, and the practice, so far aa It has sur vived in modern times, has been the result of a mixture of vanity and su perstition. Occasionally the "dime shows" and the "side shows" contain a tattooed man, some of whom were willingly marked over their whole bodies, while others were tattooed by their captors when they were tak en prisoners In savage wars. At the present day it Is sailors and soldiers, among civilized people, Who practice It chiefly, and their arms and the backs of their hands are of ten decorated with anchors, shields, and all sorts of fantastic devices, or with religious emblems. In Europe workingmen frequently decorated their arms with entire sen tences. Some one 'of the great Iron works at Neullly, France, has been observing the tattooed arms of the workmen and has found upon them the following sentences, the first three being very common among French workingmen; "No luck," Child of misfortune," "Thin for life," "Death to the un faithful," "Born under an unlucky star," "Glory, honor, fatherland," and "All for the fair." Many representations of clasped bands and emblems of occupations, such as hammers, squares, compasses, of anchors were also found. Some extraordinary tattooing has been observed among the native re cruits' for the French service In Al geria. One soldier had tattooed upon his breast an elaborate picture of a lion hunt, while his back was orna mented with a representation of a cavalry charge. As the process of tattooing is painful, the man who bore these works of art must have suffer ed greatly. Many men who have had the backs of their hands tattooed In youth, and have at that time regarded the docor ations as something to be very proud of, or who, as workmen, have been proud to bear the emblem of their trade, have very earnestly wished, in reaching maturity or in working their way to wealth or social position, that they might be rid of the marks which they took such pains to get, but the marks remain tenaciously and indi cate with almost perfect certainty that he who bears them was either a very foolish boy or that his early life was passed among bad associates or in a menial occupation. There are, however, fewer and fewer men who bear such decorations, and It is probable that tattooing will, before many generations, disappear among enlightened people. Pittsburg Gazette-Times. Identification Difficult. The late A. J. Cassatt, at a dinner at the Philadelphia Country club, was asked his opinion of the fashion of women riding horseback astride. "I don't altogether favor it," said Mr. Cassatt. "It sometimes leads to con fusion. "I was driving one afternoon on Lancaster pike when a rider was thrown violently from a spirited bay horse. Luckily, the accident happen ed In front of a pharmacy. The pro prietor ran forth with his clerk. He propped up the head of the uncon scious rider, and seeing a gold cigarette case lying on the ground, he took is up and read 'P. S. Browne, No. 1838 Wal nut street'- " 'Jack!' he shouted to his errand boy, 'telephone to Mrs. Browne, No. 1838 Walnut street, that her husband "But just then a ting gold hand mir ror with a powder puff attachment fell from the rider's trouser pocket and the pharmacist called: "Jack! I mean telephone Mr. Browne that Mrs. Browne has fallen ' "But at this point the clerk, who had been burning a feather under the rid er's nose, tickled her lips with It, and she smiled and murmured, 'Jim.' "And then the pharmacist shouted: " Telephone Mr. and Mrs. Browne that Miss Browne has fallen off her horse.' "Everybody's Magazine. Those Delightful Swedes. "Ay tank Ay go across the street and get the tailor to mend my valet," drawled the Swedish foreman, show ing his employer a very ragged vest "All right, John." In a few minutes the Swede re turned with bis vest untouched. "Aren't you going to have it mend ed?" asked the boss. "Ay tank not In that shop," replied the Swede. "Ay ask him vhat he charge an' he say, "Two dollar.' Then Ay ask hLm, 'Vlll you take the vaiat in part payment?' an' he wouldn't do It." Everybody's Magazine. ACTIVITY 18 GENERAL Purely Distributive Trade Display Slight Falling Off, but Sea son Nearlng Close. R. G. Dun & Co.'s "Weekly Review of Trade" says. "The price situation in leading de partments of trade is proving a fac tor of overshadowing Importance and in some directions causes marked conservatism In purchases., but Uh demand to replenish stocks, which will grow more urgent as the need be comes greater, is expected to soon start an unusually active buying movement. Industrially the outlook is as brilliant as ever, particularly In the fundamental iron and steel trade, in which prosperity cannot exist, ex, cept that the crops promise abun dantly, and the other productive poir ere of the country are profitably em ployed. In New England, the cotton mills continue active although the primary market for - cotton goods la for the moment quiet. Men's wear mills are busy, but In footwear, facto ries are awaiting returns from sales men only recently started out. Hides and leather are gradually adjusted tm new conditions, but prices are firmly maintained. "Statistics of building operations testify to the activity in that direc tion. Taking the country at large, there l a notable freedom from indus trial disputes. The very satistfactorjr employment of labor must soon add to retail purchases, which now expand slowly. "Retailers are numerous In the dry goods market, but purchases are conservative. Following the Gov ernment report on cotton,' prices In the primary market steadied percep tibly and the position is now regarded as strong, although new business is of moderate proportions. "New business In footwear Is still held In check by the price situation. Shoe salesmen are on the road for Now England premiers and It is anti pated that another fortnight will wit ness a much better movement. MARKETS. PITTSBURC Wheat No. t red t Rye-No. 2 x Corn No 2 yellow, ear... . 88 fl No. yellow, shelled 81 81 Mixed ear 88 us Oats No. S wlille M rl No. 8 white V) ,vf Flour Winter patent 875 180 Fancy straight winters Ilsy No. 1 Timothy 18 50 1 00 Clover No. 1 1200 i m Feed No. 1 white mid. ton ;8 00 21 00 Brown middlings 2601 it SO Brim, hulk 2700 .'8 00 Straw Wheat 8 00 )s) Oat 8W 15) Dairy Products. Butter Elgin creamery I 29 30 Ohio creamery 25 SS Fancy cnetry roll 19 16 CheeBe OhlifTnew 14 is New York, new M 15 Poultry, Etc. Bens per lb I 17 It Chickens 'Ironed sso 24 Kggs Pa. and Ohio, fresh 28 H Fruits and Vegetables. Potatoes Fanfy white per bu.... too 1 in Cabbage per ton 55 0 1 50 00 Onions per barrel is) t 09 i BALTIMORE. Flour Winter Patent I l 79 i 93 Wheat No. red 1 08 Corn Mixed 70 71 Eggs m Bultsr Ohio ersamery as SS PHILADELPHIA. Flour Winter Patent t ? Wheat No. S red 1 07 Corn No. 2 mixed 75 76 Oats No. 8 white 61 j Butter Creamery 28 28 Eggs Pennsylvania firsts NEW YCRKa Flour-Patents I i ' Wheat-No. S red I 1 Corn-No. 8J Oats No. white...., 6 Butter-Creamery 2S Bsgs State and Pennsylvania.... 30 LIVE 8TOCK. Union Stock Yards, Pittsburg. CATTLI Extra, UM to 1000 pounds 0 6) 4 '75 Hrlme, 1300 to 1400 pound 0 30 4 6 81 Oood, 1200 to 1H00 pounds 5 75 4 6 2S Tidy, WW to 1150 pounds. 6r ill! Fair, Wl to 1100 pounds 4 10 MO Common, 700 to 900 pounds. 8 00 4 4 00 Bulls !7. 800 4 4 74 LOWS 200J vrtotUJ BOOS Prima, heavy 8 50 4 8 70 Prima, medium weight 8 60 4 8 " post oeavy xorKers n av 9 o ou Light Yorkers. 8 00 i 8 20 Pigs. 7 75 8 83 Houghs. 7 50 4 7 75 - BUSINESS CKRDS. JUSTICE 07 THX PEACE, Pension Attorney and Real'Estata RAYMOND E. BROWN, attorney at law, Brookvtllb, Pa. .,m. Mcdonald, ATTORNEY-AT- LAW, Real estata acent. natonts secured, rol- ectlnns mad promptly. Offlc In Syndicate winning, tteynomsviiie, ra. SMITH M. McCREIGHT, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, - Notary public and real estate agent. Ool lections will receive prompt attention. Offlae m the ReynoldsvlUa Hardware Co. building, Kaln street Beynoldsvllie, Pa. )R. B. E. HOOVER, DENTIST, - Resident dentist In the Hoover buildlag Main street. Gentleness In operating. QR. L. L. MEANS, , DENTIST; Office on second floor ot ?se First National bank building, Main street. DR. R. DeVEIIE kinq, DENTIST, Offlre on second floor of the Syndicate build jig, Main street. Keynoldavllle. Pa. HENRY PHI ESTER UNDERTAKER. Black and whit funeral can. Main street, BoynOHIsvkUe. Vv J