A BARNUM TRICK. Getting Hit Posters Into Canada With out Paying Duty. One of P. T. Bnrmini's most success ful feats of bainbodzli'iuciit was pluyed upon tbe Canadian customs authori ties. The veteran showman's tours were' always planned fur iu advance, and one winter be made up his mind to take his great circus and menag erie through Canada during the sum mer after tbe next This gave blm about two years in which to mature his plans. One important item of a sbowmnn's expenses consists of bis advertising placards, and Mr. Barnum was always lavish these gaudy prints. lie was aware that the Canadian govern ment imposed a high duty ou this class of imports, and yet be wanted to paint Canada red, yellow, blue and green with a lavlshness that no show man hud ever displayed in that coun try before. Now. there was no printing house anywhere in Canada that could begin to turn out tbe kind of work that Mr. Barnum required either in size, color or finish. Nevertheless his immense posters came under the same classi fication nS much smaller lithographs and printed colored matter did. and he knew that tbe Dominion custom nu . tborlties would not ubnte one Jot of the full toll, but would rather rejoice at the opportunity to mulct the foreign er who would convey so much money out of a country. So Barnum studied tbe question awhile and finally sent on at once a great lot of circus posters of the most gorgeous designs whereon yellow lions and clawed striped tigers and brown bears fought with blue hippopotamuses till gore flowed into beautiful crimson backgrounds. No agent appeared when the posters were detained by the Ca nadian customs ollicers to pay the 4ltity. They were accordingly held for twelve months, then duly advertised for sale for three months more and finally put up at auction with a lot of other unclaimed parcels and were des ignated In the catalogue merely as "colored prints." Nobody took any Interest In them when the auctioneer t ailed for a bid, and Anally the whole batch was knoek d down for a song to a secret agent of the circus who bad been sent op by Mr. Barnum for that express purpose. THE CROCODILE. Terror of the Stealth of the Conning Brute's Approach. One of the reasons given by old writ ers for the crocodile being worshiped in Egypt was the somewhat cryptic one that it "laid threescore eggs and lived for threescore years," bat from twenty to thirty Is tbe common num ber of eggs found in a "clutch." In the reptile's easy code of ethics, how ever, its parental responsibilities end with the act of oviposltlon, for, tonv Ing covered the eggs with a layer of sand, it leaves tbe sun to do the rest whence doubtless Shakespeare's "your mud and the operation of your sun") and leaves It ulso to tbe ichneumon to do its worst. In some places it seems that water tortoises, too, eat croco diles' eggs, but the Ichneumon Is the real desolator of crocodile homes, scratching up tbe nests and eating or breaking the entire "sitting" at a meat. -Crocodiles' eggs, however, are absurd ly small, a mother twenty feet long being content with an egg no larger than that of a goose, and the newly hatched young, hardly more formida ble than a common newt;, are preyed upon by birds, which a little later the rapidly growing crocodile would like nothing better than to get within its reach as well as doubtless by many other things, Including old crocodiles themselves. The real horror of tbe members of the crocodile tribe lies in their usual nolselessness. "They swim with great silence, making scarcely even a ripple on the water," says M. du Chaillu, and the terror of the stealth of their ap proach Is well conveyed in Rudyard Kipling's "Ripple Song:" "Walt, ah, wait." the ripple satth. "Maiden, wait, for 1 am Death!" London Times. The Fault of the Dutch." It was to Sir Charles Bagot, minis ter at The Hague, that Canning in the course of a tariff dispute with Falk, the Dutch premier, addressed his fa mous dispatch in verse, which, as we have seen it wrongly quoted on sev eral occasions, we venture to append: In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch la riving too little and asking too much. With equal advantage the French are content. So we'll clap on Dutch bottoms at twenty per cent. Twenty per cent. Twenty per cent, Nous frapperons Falk with twenty per cent. -"Links With the Past" A Real Consolation. Little Molly's father can't quite see where Molly got her information. One day when her unmarried aunt was vis iting at their bouse Molly became Im pressed wit 11 her aunt's solitary state. --"Haven't you any husband, Aunt Mol ly?" she asked. Aunt Molly's pretend ed grief over tbe fact that she was busbandlewi was so real to Molly that he undertook tbe task of consolation. "Never mti.d, dear Aunt Molly, hus btnda scold." Delineator. ' His Neighbor. "We are told. Tommy," said the Bun .etay school teacher, "that we should lore our neighbor. Now, who la your neighbor, Tommy" But Tommy Tucker merely blushed, ung bis bead and said nothing. He -fMnt want to tell tbe little girl s aname. Chicago Tribune. Catting Red Tape. Many amusing stories ure told of ways ( which postotllce otSclals. In clined to keep too rigorously to tlie letter of their regulations, have own thwarted. On one occasion a uiun asked for 240 penny stamps ami ten dered payment In copper. Tbe ofllclul declined to receive it, whereupuu tbe man began buying aud paying for one stamp nt a time. Before he had got a dozen Iu that way the postotlice olllcliil had surrendered. ' It must have been the same man or a near relative wlm one Sunday went into postolllce that was open for telegraph business only. He handv-d In a sixpenny telegram und asked to be supplied with two srnnipi besides. No, he could not have stumps telegraph business only was transact ed. Innocently he asked If he might have his telegram back for a moment to ndd .something. lie added four words to It and tendered the additional twopence. The form was returned to him with the stamps to bIBx. Cross ing out the four additional words, he affixed tbe sixpenny stamp, pushed the telegram under the counter rail and walked out with his two stamps. Lon don Tatler. Extreme Absentmindedness. "The queerest case of absentminded ness that I have ever known of." re marked the night clerk of n certain hos tel, "was that which happened nt this hotel early yesterday morning. Two fellow boarders, one .Tones by name and the other whose name Is Brown, occupied a room oh the third floor. "Well, Brown requested me to have blm wakened at 3 o'clock so as to al low him to catch the 4 o'clock train. He was awakened at the requested time, and In his hurry to dress himself lie put on Jones' clothes by mistake. He did not discover his mistake until he reached the depot, and, would you believe it" here the speaker paused "when he found out thnt he was wear ing some one else's clothes be imme diately returned to the hotel and went right to bed." "I don't see any absentmindedness about that," broke In one of the listen ers. "You don't? Why, he thought tbat I had awakened the wrong man." Life at the Pole. Life at the pole is a perpetual battle with nature, in which man Is often worsted. "He was frozen to death" Is the end of many biographies. While a man is in health they speak of .him as "stronger than death," as if death were a watchful enemy always waiting for his chance. But life is on a large scale up there. Instead of the petty alterna tions of night and day they have tbe great seasonal succession, and, -whether they are waiting for the long light of summer or tbe long dark of winter, they enjoy a keen delight in tbe pros pect of a change such as we can -never know In tbe tamer arrangements of our climate. Tbe long dark does not keep them wholly Inactive. We read of expeditions after bear and hunting on the ice by torchlight, but in tbe main their winter Is given up to story tell ing, conversation and contemplation. Bored No More. "Yes," said the famous M. R, "I used to be pestered to death 'by a bore. My secretary was a good nalur ed, obliging chap, and be could never find it in his heart to turn tbe bore away. Just as sure as I was In the bore was certain to be admitted. "One day, after an hour's martyr dom at the man's bands, I determined to end tbat persecution. So I called my secretary and said to blm mys teriously: " 'Parton, do you know what makes Smith come here so regularly? " 'No, sir,' said Parton, 'I can't say I do "Well, Parton,' said I, I don't mind telling you in confidence tbat be'a after your Job.' "From tbat day," concluded tbe M. P., "I saw no more of the bore." Lon don Scraps. Seventeen Year Locusts. Tbe seventeen year locusts are some times called Pharaoh's locusts because they make a sound that resembles the repeating over and over of that historic name. Tbe notes or songs are not what might be termed vocal, as they are pro duced by the rapid vibrations of two very thin films tbat cover a small cav ity at tbe base of tbe abdomen. In some localities the sound produced is somewhat different from that beard in other sections. Along streams, espe cially along the Ohio river, tbe notes are more bass, while on the highlands and especially In tbe mountain regions the sounds produced are more shrill. Omaha World-Herald. An Advantage. , - A well known Scottish clergyman got Into conversation In a railway car riage with a workingman, who Inform ed him that he had been a coupler on a railway for several years. "Ob," said tbe minister, "I can beat that! I have been a coupler for over twenty years." "Aye," replied the workman, "but I can uncouple, and you canna!" . f A Mortal Intuit. Mrs. Dlmuleton I want you to get another doctor right off. Dlmpleton What's tbe matter with this one? Mrs. Dlmpleton What do you suppose he Bald about baby? He told me I must treat him like a human being! Brotherly Resentment. Young Mother (proudly) Everybody says tbe baby looks like me. Bachelor Brother (amazed) The spiteful things don't say tbat to your face, do they? Secrets. "Don't complain of people tellln' yoh secrete." said Uncle Eben. "Dey wouldn't do It if you hadn't stabted It." -Washington Star. The Nature Student's 8tory. "In my boyhood 1 once captured a nest of three young thrushes. I put them in a gilt cage by an open win dow, and their mother uime and fed thein regularly with worms und grass hoppers." The speaker, a suture student, sigh ed. "The mother," he resumed, "must have expected her little ones to be soon liberated. She fed tbem, us 1 said, regularly for three days on fle.ri food. Then one evening at sunset she appeared with a sprig of green In her mouth. She thrust the green In through tbe Rilt bars. Then, singing a sweet, sod song, she flew away. And she never came back. Her off spring the next morning lay dead, side by side, on the bottom of tbe cage. The sprig she had brought them, which was nearly consumed, was n sprig of the deadly larkspur. 'Free dom or death! Death, or freedom!' That Is what must have been the bur den of her farewell song." The narrator paused, aud from his listeners a low murmur arose, a mur mur perhaps of sympathy, perhaps of angry disbelief. A.i American Grammar. Bobert It. Illtt, who at the time rep resented our government In Parts as a secretary of legation, went to Egypt in regard to a matter Involving the life of a Greek American subject. He landed In Alexandria aud went to the Hotel Europe and fouud ,the rooming clerk busy assigning rooms to the new ly arrived passengers, a regular poly glot in languages. He beard blm speak Arabic, Greek, French, Italian and German. So when it came Mr. Hltt's turn to register he Jocosely said, "Do you speak American?" The clerk promptly replied: "A leetle. Der vas one American here lately who gave me an American grammar." Mr. Illtt asked to have a look at the book. The clerk promptly told one of the garcons to get the book out of bs room, and while the book was being brought the clerk said, "De grammar Is phonetic." When the book was brought, lo and behold, it was a copy of Petroleum y. Nasby's letters. D. It. Locke while In Egypt had presented a copy to the clerk, telling blm It was an American grammar. Telling the Age of a Fish. The age of a fish can be determined with accuracy by inspection of tbe oto liths, or bony concretions which are found in the auditory apparatus. These otoliths increase in size during the entire life of the fish, each year adding two layers, a light colored layer formed in summer and a dark layer formed in autumn and whiter. Tbe alternate layers are sharply contrasted and very distinct, so that there Is no difficulty in counting them. The num ber of pairs of layers Is equal to tbe number of years the fish has lived. Scientific American. gHERIFF'S SALE. By virtue of a writ, of Fieri Facias, etc., Is sued out of the Court of Common Pleas of Jefferson couuty, Fa., and to me directed, 1 will expose to inilillo sale or outcrjMtt the court house In Brookvllie, Pa., on Friday, December loth, 1909, ( 1.00 o'clock p. m., all the following de scribed real entitle, to-wlt: All those two ceruin pieces or lots of land lying und being altiiHted In the boroujtb of bj kewviliti. county of JetTerHon and state of I'euiiHyivHnlH, bounded und described ub folio s: First. Heiitnnlng Ht a post at corner of Grant street und un alley; thence south seventy earees east one hundred und fifty feet 10 a post ut un alley; thence north seventy degrees and forty-six minutes earn fltty feet to a post; thence north seventy three degre s west one hundred und fifty feet to a post on Grant street; thence south sixteen decrees forty-six minutes west Bfty fuet to a pout, plaui of beginning, containing seven thousand Ave hundred square feet, und being lot No. til) of town plot of Bykes vllle, made from land of J. U Hykes. Second, Beginning at u post on Orunt street, uud at corner of lot No. 69; thence north sixteen degrees and forty-six minutes east along said Urant street ten feet to a post ou lot No. 70; thence south seventy-three de grees east thtuugh said lot No. 70 one hund red and fifty feet to a post on an alley; thence south sixteen degrees forty-six min utes west along said alley ten feet to u post, at corner of lot No. Ml; thence north eeventy three degrees west along line of lot No. 09 one hundred an . fifty feet to a post, the place of beginning, containing fifteen hund red siua:e feet. Being the same two pieces of land conveyed to Oulseppe Mazza by Lutltla Mansfield and J. B. Bykes, by deeds dated August 3rd, 1U03 and January 10, l!KH, recorded In Deed Books Nos. 101, pane 181. and page 313, respectively, and same land conveyed by A. W. Sykes to said Qulseppo Maiza by deed dated October 8th, 1908, re corded in Deed Book Vol. 121, page a-0. Having thereon eree'ed u dwelling house containing six rooms; a good barn; chleken park und necessary nut buildings; all In good repair, und a good well of water with pump. Excepting and reserving all coal and coal rights, aud all minerals, oil and gas as fully us same have been excepted and reserved from conveyunces fur said land by prior owners. Poized and taken In execution and to be sold as tbe property of Uuiseppl Muiru at the suit of. Antonio Orlstluno, Fi. Fa., No. 48, McDonald. TEKMS: The following must be strictly compiled with when property Is stricken down: 1. When the plaintiff or other lien credit ors become the purchaser, the cost on the writs must be paid, and a list of Hens, Includ ing mortgage searches on the property sold, together with such leln creditor's receipt for the amount of the proceeds of the sale or such proportion thereof as he may claim must be furnished to the sheriff. See furdon's digest. Hth, Ed., page 446. Hmlth's form, Page 384. 2. All bids must be paid In full. All sales not settled Immedlatley will be continued until two o'clock p. in., of day of sale at which time all property not settled for will again be put up and sold at the expense and risk of the person to whom first soldi All writs staid after being advertised, the cost of advertising must be paid. A. K.fJALBKAITII, November 18, 1909. Sheriff HUGHES & FLEMING. FUNERAL DIRECTORS. Main Street. Reynoldsvllle, 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 12.50 per day and up. Theonly moderate priced hotel of rep utation and consequence In PHILADELPHIA These Clothes Look New as Long as they Last A suit that will look smart and hold shape until it's worn out is wort A 100 Per cent more than one that looks shabby and out of shape as soon as the newness wears off. Isn't that so ? Clothcraft AU-Wool Clothes will wear out in time. But until their last day, they will hold their snap and their style. They are skilfully and honestly made out of nothing but pure wool cloth. That's why they last long and look well as long as they last. Each suit carries a Signed Guaran tee that insures you against disappointment. And they cost no more than common clothes $10 to $25. They art the ONLY guaranteed pure wool clothes at these prices in America. If every man in this town knew how good these wonderful clothes are, we would have to double the size of our store. You can find out how good they are today. Bing-Stoke Co. It. Costs Just a Post Card to learn how to increase your income on your savings and how to bank by mail and how to insure yourbank deposits, without cost, with a fund of ten million dollars. Write today for Interesting Free Booklet Capital and Surplus, $10,000,000.00 "In Capital and Surplus, there b Strength." Tt(pLoAALTRV5TMPA4Y (SAVINGS BANK) 317 Fourth Are. 314 to 318 Diamond St PITTSBURGH, PA. GRAND HOLIDAY OPENING BreaKeys Racket Store Saturday, November 27th, 1909 i v Santa Olatjs Has been to our store and made satisfactory arrangements by which we are to furnish all the good people of Rcynoldsville and vicinity with his toys and gifts at the lowest possible fees. Santa's choicest Dolls, prettiest Books, dainty China and Glassware from his factory in ToylandwiQ be on display from Novemder 27th until Christmas Eve at BREAKEY'S RACKET STORE. DOLLS All sorts, white, blaok, ran, kid, keeping;, talking dolU boy. girl and clown dolls. 6c, 10c, up to price of the floe, fancy, life-like dolls.' Every taste, every price la suited. Bring the little gfrls and let thorn look a long as they like. We have tbe Stuffed Monkles tha won't bite the girls and the Fur Kitty that pleases tbe baby. SLEDS, GO CARTS and BUGGIES- Just what will please ton boys and girls. Hobby-Horses for tbe little tola and Shoo Flys for the baby. Do you like a nloe Christmas Tree? We have an unlimited sup ply of decorations the finest in tbe market. All kinds of Rattles and Bell Toys to please baby. Building and ABU blocks. Drawing Slates, Paint Boxes and ' Kindergarten Helps. DRUMS All prices? from the 10c toy up to the military. Mechanical Toys. Hill Climbers, Moving Trains of Cars, 8witch Engines, Steam Engines and Railways. Beautiful line Xmas Story Books. GAMES Croklnnle Boards, Parobesl, Diabola, Bean Bag aud a variety of card games. MUSIC TOPS TOY PIANOS, to make music for doll's party. TOY FURNITURE Prom upholstered parlor suites to the fur nishings of Doll Kitchens. Stoves, Tables and Chairs, TRUNKS for Dolly to takn a trip to visit friend. Toy Dishes, tbe kind tbat makes Dolly's table sblne. ' FANCY GOODS Toilet Cases. Work Boxeo, Band and Easel Mirror and many other fancy articles that make a nice proeM, for a friend. CHINA GOODS Fancy Salads, Cilery Trays, Cups and Sau cers. A large variety at genuine bargalnrlce. Fancy Lamps, Lemonade and Wine Sets, and other articles In glassware useful and ornamental. IN JEWELRY we have some nice Rings, Beauty Pins, Cuff Buttons and Cuff Links. GLOVES, MITTENS and Handicerohlefs suitable for a present to a frinnd. ' STATIONERY A nice box of paper will please your filerd. You nef d but see our line of Holiday Poxtal Cards to select what your friends will like. Our line!of maples are clean and up-to date and at the lowest nrlcn considering quality. D Come Early and Select the Arte Remember, we will, upon a part payment hold the goods for you. Thanking our friends for their patronage in the past and requesting a continuance of it, we bee to state that our motto is, "Fair and impartial treatment for all" Come to headquarters for your Holiday Goods and you will be convinced I we can furnish you Just the kind of presents you are looking for at the lowest price, BREAKEY'S RACKET STORE IN P. O. S. OF A. BUILDING. REYNOLDSVILLE, PA. -J
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