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.
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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.
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