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Come and see the
beet of everything
for Xmaa.
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But a Gost Sale
Of the Largest Stock of Fine Jewelry, Out
Glass, Silverware, Umbrellas, Clocks
and Christmas Novelties Ever
Brought to Reynoldsville.
For Sale from this Day Until
Christmas Eve.
Competition compels this sale and goods must go at any
price, even less than auction. Come in, get prices and be
convinced.
REMEMBER
The goods we sell you
are
HAND
ENGRAVED
FREE
OF
CHARGE.
GOODER'S JEWELRY STORE
In People's National Bank Building
Reunoldsville
, Pennsylvania.
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liNDES SHEPHERDS.
Trench Pea.ants Who Are Expert. I
Walking on Stilts.
There is a vast district In France
where the entire community goes
About and transacts Its business on
tilts. This district is called "Let
landes."
I The Inhabitants, who are among tin
poorest peasants In France, gain then
subsistence by fishing, by such little
agriculture as Is possible and by keep
ing cows and sheep. The shepherds
make use of their stilts for two pur
posesfirst, because walking 1b quite
Impossible on account of the sage and
undergrowth of brush, and, second,
because the height of their stilts gives
them a greater range of vision.
The stilts generally are about six or
seven feet high. Near the top there is
a support for the foot, which has a
strong stirrup and strap, and still
nearer the top a band of leather fas
tens the stilt firmly to the leg just be
low the knee. Some stilts, especially
those made for fancy walking and for
tricks, are eveu higher than seven
feet, and the man who uses these
and he must be an expert can travel
as fast as ten miles an hour. The
lower end of this kind of stilt is
capped with a sheep bone to prevent
its splitting.
Some of these Landes shepherds are
.wonderfully clever in the management
of their stilts. They run races, step
or Jump over brooks, clear fences and
walla and are uble to keep their bal
ance and equilibrium while stooping
to the ground to pick up pebbles or to
gather wild flowers. They fall prone
upon their faces and assume their
perpendicular without an effort and
in a single moment after they have
thus prostrated themselves. Technical
World Magazine.
A VICTIM OF WORRY. -
"The Man Who I Always Expecting
Some Kind of Trouble.
There is always a cloud on his face
because he is constantly expecting that
something unfavorable is going to hup
jen. There is going to be a slump lu
business, or he is going to have a loss,
or somebody is trying to undermine
ixm, or be is worried about his health,
or fears bis chlldreu will be sick or
go wrong or be killed.
In other . . rds, although he has
achieved quite u remarkable success,
jet he has never really had a happy
day In his life. All his life this man
baa been chasing rainbows, thinking
tit be could only get a little farther on.
a little higher up, he would be happy,
but be is just as far from It as when
a boy.
. . I believe this condition has all come
ifrom the habit of unhapptness which
jbe formed during his bard boyhood
and which be has never been able to
orarcoma. He has learned to look for
trouble, to expect it, and be gets It.
I have been bis guest many a time.
He has a beautiful home, a very
charming wife, a most delightful fam
ily, but there is always the same cloud
on his face, the same expression of
anxiety, of unhapptness, of forebod
ing. A little properly directed training In
his boyhood would have changed bis
whole career, and he would have been
a happy, Joyous, harmonious man in
stead of being discordant and unhappy.
There is everything In starting right.
What is put into the first of life Is put
into the whole of life. Success Maga
zine. Self Control.
The Belf control ot the Japanese,
eren In times of the utmost stress,
and their courtesy, which begets quiet
ness and discretion, are both brought
out by a writer in St, Paul's Magazine.
"Cry. It will do you good," I said
once to a poor Japanese woman who,
crouching beside her dying husband,
was controlling herself with an effort
that would, 1 feared, make her ill.
She laid her little slim brown finger
upon her trembling red lip and shook
her head, then whispered. "It might
disturb blm."
"Cry, It will do you good," I said
the next day, when the man was dead
and she seemed almost prostrate with
grief and overenforced self control.
"It would be most rude to make a
hideous noise before the sacred dead,"
came the soft reply.
Bread and Pip Baker.
The lecturer at the cooking school
sometimes enlivened ber remarks with
an anecdote.
"The eighteenth century baker," she
said, "was a pipe cleaner as well. Just
as the barber a little earlier was a
surgeon. Everybody in those days
smoked clay pipes, provided the same
as cups or spoons by the coffee houses.
Well, each morning a waiter carried
bis master's Btock of pipes, some hun
dred perhaps, to the nearest bakery.
The baker would boll them, then dip
them In liquid lime, then bake them
dry. They came out of the oven as
sweet and white as new." Philadel
phia Bulletin.
Seme and Sensibility.
For some days the dining room had
been disturbed by the Invasion of the
new boarder. She was fat, fifty and
very sentimental, and her tender na
ture led hor to whisper so many rap
turous confidences in her neighbor's
ear that all the rest of the table feu
uncomfortable, so uncomfortable that
one day after a harassed breakfast
the neighbor determined to make a
struggle for liberty and genernl con
versation. Her opportunity came that
night at dinner.
"Sweet flowers of spring!" murmured
the sentimentalist, apostrophizing the
nodding daffodil centerpiece. "Aren't
they dear? So full of poesy! And
ion't tou think that we ought always
to call them daffadowndillies Instead
of daffodils?" she whispered.
"No, 1 don't," answered the neigh
bor uncompromisingly and quite out
loud. "Just think how awkward It
would hnve been for Wordsworth If
he'd had to write:
"And then my heart with pleasure Allies
And dance with the daffadowndillies!"
For once the sentimentalist was si
lenced. Youth's Companion.
ing clouds of spray, tne somber rain
forest, the 1 strenm of the Zambezi
shimmering far above the trembling
earth, the lunar rainbow, combine to
make an inimitable picture.
Where the Zambezi takes Its mighty
plunge of ,a sheer 400 feet the river is
over a mile wide, or, to be exact, 6,808
feet Baud Mall.
Degree, of Hunger.
"I'm simply starving!" cried the
short story writer at the Hungry club.
"I wiBh they'd begin dinner."
"I never saw you when you weren't
starving," said the poet.
"I'm never as hungry as you are.
though," the short story writer declar
ed, "because I write prose." New
York Press.
Qood Imagination.
Teddy, after having a drink of plain
soda water, was asked bow be liked it.
"Not very well," be replied. "It
' tastes too much as though my foot bad
gone asleep In my mouth."- Success
Fact. About Hail.tones.
If it was not for the countless trll
lions of dust particles tuat float sep
arately. Invisible lu the atmosphere,
there could be no raindrops, snow
crystals or hailstones. From a per
fectly dustless atmosphere the mois
ture would descend in ceaseless rain
without drops. The dust particles
serve as nuclei about which vapor
gathers. The snow crystal is the most
beautiful creation of the aerial mois
ture, and the hailstone la the most ex
traordinary. The heart of every ball
stone is a tiny speck of dust. Such a
speck, with a little moisture condensed
about it. Is the germ from which may
be formed a hailstone capable of fell
ing a man or smashing a window. But
first it must be caught up by a cur
rent of air and carried to the level of
the lofty cirrus clouds five or six or
even ten miles high. Then, continual
ly growing by fresh accessions of
moisture. It begins Its long plunge to
the earth, spinning through the cloud
and flashing in the sun like a diamond
bolt shot from a rainbow. New Vork
Tribune.
The Thunder 8ounding Smoke.
The Victoria falls, the native name
for which Is Mosl-oa-Tounya. or Hie
Thunder Sounding Smoke, have right
Is hien palled the most beautiful gem
in the whole of the earth's scenery. No
pen picture or photograph can give tne
fnintaat idea of the tuarvelous gran
deur and beauty of the scene. The
majesty and mystery or the gigantic
crnnrna. the foamlns torrents, the won
derful atmospheric effects all come
upon one with a farce and power as
though nothing bad ever before been
read or beard In connection with
them. The falls by moonlight are a
truly fascinating spectacle, fhe roar
Hone or Beef?
The first day horse was served out at
Klmberlcy some of it was cooked for
the officers' mess at the mounted camp.
At the table I'eakman said:
"Gentlemen. 1 am sorry to say that
we were unable to get all our ration In
beef today and had to take part if It
In horseflesh. This which 1 am carv
ing is beef; the horse is at the other
end, and any one who prefers it can
help himself."
Nobody did prefer it, and so they all
ate beef and made a good dinner.
When they had finished I'eakman sud
denly exclaimed:
"Rv Jove, centlemen. I find I have
made a mistake In the Joints! This is
the horseflesh and the other Is beef."
It was Just a dodge of his to get
them started on the horseflesh. Diary
of Dr. Oliver Ashe.
Needle Dust.
In factories where needles are made
the grindstones throw off great quanti
ties of minute steel particles, with
which the air becomes heavily charg
ed although the dust is too One to be
perceptible to the eye. Breathing the
Anst nhnwa no Immediate effect, but
gradually sets up Irritation, usually
ending In nulmiinarv consumption. In
effective attempts were made to screen
thA air hv eauze or linen guards for
nose and mouth. At last the use of
thA mnimet was suKirested. and now
masks of magnetized steel wire are
worn by workmen and effectually re
move the metal dust before the air is
breathed. London Graphic.
Not Entertaining.
A vender of fresh shrimps bad bad
a very unexciting day. Money was
scarce. Eventually In a dreary street
a woman stood shouting at the door,
Hurrying up. he asked eagerly, "A
en'ortb, mum?"
,"No," she replied sharply; "a hap
orth. D'ye think we've got company?"
-London Scraps. .
HOLIDAY GOODS
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"Mrs. Hiram Horsier was ftoin' V git Hiram
a pair o' lace curtains fer Christmas, but
she's made up her mind t' buy him a Booster
Kitchen Cabinet like you got fer John."
Make your wife happy
and save her steps with
one of these cabinets
It seems as If about one-half the hus
bands in Reynoldsville are going to re
ceive Hoosler Cabinets for Christmas.
And the other half are going to give
He osier Kitchen Cabinets to their
wives.
The Hoosier Special Is the ideal
kitchen servant.
THE
gOOSIER SPECIAI
We never had so many
beautiful Christmas goods.
Furniture, Dishes, Rugs, Bissell's Sweepers, Brass Goods,
China and Etched Glass.
FOR THE CHILDREN Doll Go-Carts, Wagons, Wheei
Barrows and Brooms, High Chairs and Rockers.
C. R. HALL, Reunolflsville, Pa.
What Ha Lacked.
"lie's got no license to talk the way
he does."
"Oh, he's got a license, all right:
What he lacks is a muzzle." Cleve
land Leader.
Disagreeable.
Aunt-I can tell at a glance what
other people are thinking of me. Niece
(absentmlndedlyi-How very disagree
able for you, auntie!
Although the world la full of suffer
ing. It Is full of the overcoming, of lt-
As it is only a few days until you will be buying
Christmas presents for your friendB, we want
to call your attention to the
Finest Line of Rockers, Rugs,
Devons, &c.
that we have ever had in our store and the prices
are to suit the times. Call in and see our stock
before buying elsewhere.
J. R. H1LLIS & CO. .