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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1892-05-25
on SEEING HIS FIRST GRANDSON.

"rls strange To me to think that
A grandpa have become;
Indeed I cannot well deny
Itstrikcs mo almost dumb.
Hut what II stranger far than this
Most truly singular
oh, partner ~ my woes aud bliss.
II makes You ginn,lmnmmai
find II hard To realize,
Fen when this babe scc,
That you, so youthful In my eyes,
A grandmnmma can he.
For though we've dwcli together now
Some twenty years aud more,
Time rests ns lightly on your brow
Az back In sixty -four.
And yet he's here, this little boy.
How hc will bill and zoo
When ho discovers, 10 his Joy,
Ills grandmamnn IN you'll
And how he'll laugh 10 look at me.
His funny old grnnddadl
Ali little one, you seem Ia he
A lucky sort of lad
John X. bangs In Ilarpcr's Iiazar.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1892-05-25
An Awful Indian Custom.

In India, up to within the last few
years, the wife, either according to her
wishes or otherwise, was cremated on
the same funeral pyre that converted
her dead husbands remains into ashes.
Philadelphia Press.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1892-05-25

1t is one of the "minor morals" that a
borrowed book should be carefully used
and returned without being defled by
dirty hands, or disfigured by marks and
turned down leaves.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1892-05-25
Amusement of Texas Engineers.

Engineers of railroad trains in Texas
and most of the western states carry re-
volvers and often rifles in the cab for
contingencies that might arise. They
amuse themselves by shooting at the
telegraph poles or any other mark while
running at full speed, and attain Won
derful skill in craftsmanship. st. Louis
Republic.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1892-05-25

In England the broad arrow is the
recognized symbol with which the gov.
ernment property-including army wag-
ons, mules, provision bags, and the gar
ments of convicts is regularly stamped,
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1892-05-25
BUFFALO. ROCHESTER, & PITTS.
- BURG RAIIWAN

The short line between Duliois Ridgvay,
bradford, Salamanca, BunulO, Rochester,
Niagara Falls and points In the upper oil
region.
ON aud after November I'D, 1871, pusscn-
ger trains will arrive and depart from Falls
Creek station, daily except sunday, ~ fol-
lows:
7,IO \. bradford Accommodation For
points North between Falls Greek and
bradford.
O:55 \. M.--Builnlo aud Rochester mail For
BrockwayVillc, Ridgway ,Johnsonhurg, MI .
Jcwctt, Bradford, salamanca, Buffalo and
Rochester; connecting NJ JOhnsonhurg
with u, 4 u. train 3, for wilcox, Kane,
Warren, Cory and Erie.
1O:lJ \. M.-AccOmmodat iOu-FOr Dubois,
sykes, Big Run and punNsutawncy.
30 l.. Bradford Accommodation IOr
Bccchtrec, BrockMayvillc Ellmont, Car
mon, Ridgway Johnsonbuig, Mt. Jcwctt
and Bradford.
l:55 u. M.-Mail- For Dubois, Sykes Rig
Run, punNsutawncy and WnlstOn.
S;55 Accommodate tiOu-FOr Dubois Big
Run and PunNsutnWnCy
Trains ArrtNc-1:lO n. NJ, Accommodation
PunXsulawncy; 0:55 \. NJ, Mail from Wal
ston and PunNsutawncy; lOl5 A. NJ, Ac-
commodatiOu from bradford; l:2O y. NJ,
Accommodation from PunNSutawncy; i:hb
y. NJ, Mail from bHtllO and Rochester;
s:N 4. NJ, Accommodation from bradford.
Thousand mile tickets at two cents per
mile, good for passage between all stations.
J, II. MCINTYRE Agent, Falls creek Pa.
GRO. W. BARTLETT. Jos. J.. THOMPSON
General Supt. Gen. Pas. Agent
Bradford, Pa. Rochester, \. Y.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1892-05-25
Gone ON Ahead.

II see most of your hair is gone" said
Brown to Burton.
eyes," replied Burton, "it's left for
parts unknown."-Kate Fields Wash
ington.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1892-05-25

John" said the dealer, "where is the
key to this self locking safeY
'Insoide, SORT. It'll not be losht there,
sorr," returned John.-Harper's Bazaar.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1892-05-25

The stupendous results of the steam
engine may all be traced to the boy who
sat watching the steam which came
from the nose of the teakettle.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1892-05-25

The new bridge over the Tay at Dun
dee. Scotland, is seventy-seven feet
above the water, has eighty-five piers
and Is over two miles long.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1892-05-25

Professor John Marshall, of Universi.
ty college, London, says that yawning
may be accomplished by the will, but
Is often the result of involuntary imita-
Lion."
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1892-05-25
COMMERCIAL HOTEL,
BROOKNILLE. PA,
JAS. H. CLOrER. Proprietor.

sample rooms an the ground nour. House
heated by natural ga. Omnibus to and from
all trains.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1892-05-25
HE COULD SHOOT TOO WELL,
AND WE HUNG HIM.

''''''''' ~ '''''''''' 's'' s'ss'''
"Rather ghastly comment on our SO
called civilization, was it n0tY'-Chicago
Mail
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-01-02
THE LATEST,

TIE leader of the Glendale train rob.
bers has been arrested in California.
He proved to be Adelbert d. Sly. whose
parents live at Independence, NO.. AID
whose wife and children live at St
Joseph, Mo- lie was recently dis
charged from the Missouri peniten
tiary.
A PASSENGER train on the East Ten.
nessee road was wrecked five miles
from Bristol. Tenn. by broken rail
Two coaches rolled down the embank-
ment Nobody was killed but dozen
passengers were slightly injured.
The coroner's jury censured the New
York Central for the wreck at Hastings.
Brakeman Herrick was charged with
manslaughter.
GEN. GARCIA was murdered by his
troops who afterwards fed into Texas
to join Cara and the revolutionis,s.
The situation was quite serious.
THE handsome Army AMI Navy club
building at Washington has bsen
opened
TEN thousand dollars was stolen by
daring mail robber at Vienna the
other day.
THE American Radiator Co. has Or
ganized with capital stock of SO, OO0,-
900. 1t includes the Detroit radiator
works, the Michigan Radiator Co, of
Detroit. and the Pierce Steam Heating
Co., of Buffalo.
AN accident occurred on the railway
between Minski and Smolensk, Russia.
An express train ran into the rear of q
train carrying troops. Twenty persons
were killed and 100 Injured.
Miss RACHEL SHERMAN, daughter of
the late general, was married at WASH
ington on the 3Oth to DIR. Paul Thorn
dixie, of Boston.
Bishop JOHN LoUeHLIN, of the Catho-
lie church, died recently at Brooklyn.
Flags of the city were displayed at
half mast
Z Two men were blown 70 atoms at
the SHOEMAKER quarry, Milwaukee.
Thay were thawing out dynamite.
THE Arkansas Pass railroad sstrike'in
Texas was growing warmer. Engin-
GERS have been arrested for refusing to
take out mail trains.
BOYEI. & Sons. furniture, the Savan-
nah steam laundry and a dozen small
buildings in Savannah. Ga, have been
burned. The total loss Is $4,000.
WHILE hunting 10 Greer county. Tex
as, young man named Mcfarland was
killed By friends who mist0ok him for.
deer
GEORGE FREE1fAN was found dead ina
1otion patch near Denton, Tex. Deputy
sheriff ]. ". Durbin hod shot him 81
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-01-02
Ne WAS a RAlN.MAKER.


All Ho Had TO DO was TO Have HE Shoes
shlned.
His clothes were ragged and he said
he was hungry when he drifted onto an
Alabama plantation and nccosted ONE
Df the men.
I'm playing in pretty hard luck" he
said, land II you could give me some
thing 10 cat and an old coat L"
The man shook his head.
''llear me out" protested the tramp.
81 don't ask for charity. / will repay
you we'll Once I was New York
swell, but have fallen to this. was
one OF the best dressed men in New
York. but the stock exchange-wcll.
look at me now. Do this little for me,
and-you need rain here?'
IL should say we did"
'l'll bring II down. You saw how it
was done in New York;"
81 read about II" s~'T
81 can beat it. I'll bring storm that
will make you put on rubber boots to
go to the barn. Will you help me?"
First get your RAIN" was the sem
tentious reply of the plantation man.
''lts CO." said the tramp But
first must get ready. Take me to the
house."
He was taken there and then he
called for some shoe backing and a
blacking brush.
'Its necessary" he explained, rs he
carefully polished his shoes. II have
to get in the proper shape for the ex-
pertinent"
He put in ten minutes in getting the
finest possible shine on the old shoes
and then asked:
'Wcll, where's the coat and the
grub"
But the rain?' asked the plantation
man.
It'll be along inside of forty
minutes" said the tramp. confidently
ut never fails to come when have
my shoes shined, and the better the
shine the worse the rain. 1t never
failed when was swell. gave You
the best shine know how."-Chicago
Tribune,
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-01-02
The January Wide Awake.

OF especial interest will be found Sal
lie Joy Whites description of the new
Leland Stanford, Jr., University in CAL
ifornia-that tender and magnificent
memorial by Senator and Mrs. Leland
Stanford. Mrs. White calls the article
"The Boy who built n College," and al
though the great school is built rs n
memorial it was still so clearly the
fruit of the dead boys desires that the
title is no misnomer. Molly Elliot Sea-
we'll has delightful characteristic tale
of school-boy life, 1.-Two Schoolmas.
ters," and Miss Adams Double Christ
mas at st. Martins" is u good story of
boarding-school life. The serial stories
of Jack Brereton's Three Months
Service" and THE Lance of Kanana, {"
a striking Arabian story by Add ell
Ardavan," already grow absorbing even
in their second installment. The Amer
lean pale-face woman who was adopt
ed by the Seneca Indians, Harriet Max
well-Converse. has another interesting
sketch of Seneca life in Tho Straw
berry Feast at the Long Houses" Zitella
Cooke tells charming story of the cell
ebrated Mexican general Santa Anna
and his jealous pet bird; and Otis I.
Mason has something TO say of Profess
sor Marsh's giant lizards, sixty feet
long. The poems in the number :re by
Celia Thaxter and Clara Doty Bates.
Other verses and sketches ill out a
most interesting number of WIDE
AWAKE, which is, as usual, well illus
trated and so carefully made up us to
prepare tempting feast indeed for the
myriad young people who eagerly await
and as eagerly welcome it.
WIDE AWAKE is published at 20 cents
per number, 81. 40 per year. All book
sellers keepit
D. LorHRoP Co.. Pubs, Boston.
THE prodigal son was young man WAC
went wrong; but he came back again.-
Picayune.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-01-02


While shooting on Queen victoria'a
Osborne premises the duke of Con-
naught accidentally wounded Prince
Christian, of Schleswig- Holstein. the
husband of one of his sisters. One eye
was destroyed
The bodies Of FIVE miners were re-
covered from pit at Castleford, York
shire, Enee, which had been on fire for
fortnight. The bodies were so cre-
mated that the ashes hardly filed a
bucket and were buried in one coffin.
A DISPATCH from Mitau, capital of
CORTLAND, Russia, states that the po-
lice have arrested Baron Hahn, a we'll
known landowner, for tearing down
the imperial coat of arms which stood
over the door of the courthouse at that
place.
THE countess of Clancarty, formerly
well known rs Belle Billion, the Lon
don concert hall singer, is the mother
of boy twins
ALFRED COLLIER, the English com.
poser, is dead. He had been suffering
from influenza for about two weeks
and on that account was unable to fin
ish the orchestration of 1.-The Mounte.
banks" the comic OPERA which is the
joint work Of himself and w. S Gill
bert, in time for production at the date
first set
EXTENSIVE bush fires have swept
over the districts of Albany, Wagga
Wagga, Temora and Nudge, Australia,
causing immense damage to the crops
A large number of live stock vera
burned to death.
The wholesale tweed and wooden firm
of Mills & McDougall of Montreal, Can,
owing to n succession of bad seasons,
has been forced to call meeting of its
creditors The firms liabilities are
stated to be S95O,OOO.
HERETOFORE the Southern Pacific
company's statements of earnings and
operating expenses have been given
regularly to the press, but an order
just issued by President Huntington
forbids this in the future.
The Canadian minister of customs
has inflicted n fine of $50 upon China
man Mt Victoria, u. c., for endeavoring
to defraud the department by person
ating another individual with view Of
obtaining permit to return to Canada.
Mr. GLADSTONE celebrated his Sad
birthday ut Biarritz on the Goth.
THE congress of India met Mt Nagpur
on the 10th. The addresses were
couchcd in friendly terms of the Brit
ish government.
THE regular administration of Peters
pence and of the vatican finances will
henceforth be entrusted to commits
sion of seven cardinals The deficit
brought about through the mismanage-
ment of Mgr Folchi amounts to s4,-
600, 900.
The North German Gazette says that
it learns from reliable sources that DIR.
Won Holleben, at present German min
lister TO Japan, will be transferred to
Washington, where he will represent
Germany in place of Count Arco Valley,
who died some time ago.
The leaders of the striking printers
in Berlin and Leipsic have intimated
to the masters that the men are willing
to resume work Internationally.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-01-02
GENERAL

A DISPATCH from Tehersn, Persia,
says that the shah has issued procla-
nation ratifying the abolition of the
tobacco monopoly.
The governor of Durango, Mexico,
reports deaths from starvation. Gov
eminent relief measures are ordered
INVESTIGATION by the Russian au-
thorities shows that the grossest crimes
were committed in the recent sales OF
grain for the starving. Life sentences
to Siberia viii be the outcome.
The British war ship Royalist has
shelled the houses of the savages on
the Solomon islands in the South Paci-
&c where four whites were recently
killed
The oyster steamer Albatross has
been wrecked ct Archnchon, Frauco
and her crew Of eleven mon drowned
a siolzer alone escaped
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-01-02

PATRICK EaAx. nephew Of the min
lister to Chill, was arrested ut Spokane
Falls, WASH. when about to be
married. Egan was n cattle king and
was about to we'd Mrs. Matilda Wilder,
widow OF the late auditor OF the
Spokane & Kootenai Reservation Navi-
CATION Co. He was charged with Sc
ducing Mrs. Wilder's daughter.
c. j. HARRIS has been elected princi-
pal chief of the Cherokee nation to sue
coed j. b. Mayes, who died recently.
Harris has been prominent in Cherokee
politics for the past twelve years
THE Chicago grand jury has indicted
Thomas j, Elderlin, Thomas Nelson
and Robert Lindholtz, officers and
members of the scar ems union, for
conspiracy.
THE situation ut the burned eastern
Michigan insane asylum Mt Pontiac was
much improved the day after itwas de-
stroyed. The 500 inmates found quar-.
tiers in neighboring asylum cottages
and in houses. Only one man was
missing. The loss was $500, 1000.
THOMAS s. APPLEGATE, proprietor OF
the Times of Adrian. Mich. died sud-
denly Of heart disease. He was one Of
the most prominent republican politi-
clans in Michigan.
CHARLES MAYER, pioneer of Indiana
and n millionaire wholesale merchant
of Indianapolis, is dead, aged TO-
CHICAGO city railway stock has
touched SlS Only few days before
considerable OF it changed hands at $50
HEAVY rains in western Oregon
caused rapid rise in the Willamette
river, and merchants along the water
front in Portland were preparing to
move.
UNITED STATES MARSHAL WIswEI.L,
of Wisconsin. left for the Stockbridge
Indian reservation in response to a
telegram stating that the Indians there
were rioting.
In snowslide at Alicante, a mining
camp of Colorado, John A. Smuss was
instantly killed and number OF other
men seriously injured.
A MISTAKE in orders caused COLI
sion on the Hannibal road near Wheel
ing, Mo. Three men were killed and
three others badly injured.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-01-02
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary OF the Daily News.
WASHINGTON NOTES.


IT Is stated that the United States is
trying to buy an island off Ecuador for
a South American coaling station.
WASHINGTON physicians are iudig-
nant ut the unjust criticisms of DIR.
Wales in connection with the late SEN
ator Plumb's case.
A PROPOSED amendment to the fed
eral constitution to forbid state or'fed-
eral aid to any religious sect is to he
laid before congress when 1t shall re-
assemble.
THE president has signed remission
of the unexecuted portion of the SEN
tence OF suspension imposed by court
martial May 4, 1890, upon Commander
Bowman II. McCalla, of the navy, who
was convicted for cruelty to his subor-
dinates durisg cruise of the United
States ship Enterprise Of which he was
in command and sentenced to suspen-
sion for three years.
THERE is unwonted activity in the
navy department. and Secretary Blaine
and CHILEAN Minister Montt held an I'M
satisfactory interview. 1t is denied,
however, that war is feared. 1t is the
general belief that trouble with Chilli is
almost certain. Secrecy of the depart
ments heightens the belief.
THE president has denied the s,ppli-
cation for pardon in the case Of Harper,
who was convicted on n charge of en-
bezzlement of funds Of the Fidelity
savings bank, Of Cincinnati, and sem
fenced in 1887 to ten years imprison-
ment
The terms of the reciprocity ar
rangcment between the United States
and the British West Indian colonies
have been made public.
SENATOR WAsHBURN denounces rs
pure fabrication the interview pub
lished in the Boston Record that he
said Mr.. Blaine told him that he would
accept the republican nomination for
the presidency.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-01-02
THE EAST.

JOHN OINENS, TIC mlSSluS ucH W
$3.50, 1000 in Cortland, n. v, was found
in Wheeling, W. Va, and taken home.
He had been tramping for two years.
AT meeting of the Boston chamber
of commerce resolutions were adopted
recommending the passage of the bill
to transfer the revenue cutter service
of the United States from the treasury
department to the naval establishment.
SII.As Z. CHENEY, a large property
owner in Asbury Park and Litchfeld,
Conn, and also heavy stakeholder in
the New York Tribune, has been miss
ing for over month and his relatives
are alarmed. The missing man was n
brother-in.law of Horace Greeley.
An insane man made a call at the
house Of Cornelius Vanderbilt but was
arrested before harm was done.
On the Sixth avenue elevated road,
New York, one of the engines jumped
the track, causing blockade. While
this was in progress train crashed
into the rear car Of blockaded train.
The rear car was derailed and but for
the guard rails would have toppled over
into the street below
NJ. PATENoTRE, French minister to
the United States, has arrived ut New
York.
ELEVEN cases of death from Ia grippe
were reported by the New York health
board in that city on the 9th.
In collision caused by the running
away of a freight train near Mount
Carmel, Pa, twenty cars were wrecked.
DIPHTHERIA has broken out at Kitan-
ming, Pa, over dozen cases of q ma
lignant type being reported The
schools have been c,osed.
The British steamer Southgate has
arrived at New York from Alexandria,
Egypt, with 1900 bales of Egyptian
cotton. It is considered superior to the
American cotton and will be mixed
with it
The Maine cattle commissioners have
posted quarantine against Massachu-
sets cattle because of tuberculosis,
but the regulation shall not apply to
western cattle coming through Massa-
chusetts into Maine for the purpose of
slaughter"
NEGOTIATIONS are in progress for the
purchase of the Hostetter Coke Co. s
pant in Pennsylvania by the Prick
Coke Co. for 81, 500, 900 in bonds in the
latter concern. II the deal is closed it
viii give the Prick company almost q
monopoly of the Connellsville Coke
trade.
The New York court of appeals de-
cided the senatorial election contests,
giving the democrats two seats and the
republicans one and declaring an elect
ed republican ineligible. The senate
viii be 10 to Is.
GEN. THOMAS ALLcocK, inventor of
the porous plaster, died at New York
recently. He was born in Birmingham,
England. a years ago.
Gov. RUssELI. of Massachusetts, re-
fused to sign the pardon recommended
for James Dunlap, who was sent to
prison in 1873 for rObbing the North
ampion bank
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-01-02
THE SOUTH.

THE notorious Bob Sims band of out
laws in Choctaw county, Alabama, shot
three people dead, MORALLY wounded
two others, wounded three more and
burned the house. They proposed to
burn other houses.
EX-UNITED STATES SENATOR HERE
FORD, of West Virginia, died at his
home in Monroe county, that state, of
pneumonia.
THE Bob Sims gang of outlaws was
pretty we'll eXterminated in Choctaw
county. Ala. A piece OF artillery was
brought to bear ON Sims house, when
the gang surrendered to the sheriff. A
mob later on took the desperadoes and
hanged them. The next day two more
of the gang were lynched.
NINETEEN business houses were de-
stroyed by fire in Chattanooga, Tenn.
on the 9th. The loss was $3.50, 900
with $500, 900 insurance.
WILLIAM r. CHURCHILL, OF Louisville,
KY, part owner of Churchill Downs,
where the jockey club race track is To-
Gated, died of la grippe.
A MAD dog in Texarkana, Tex, bit
three persons before he was killed.
THE San Antonio & Arkansas Pass
railroad in Texas has been tied up by u
general strike.
NEAL SINS, brother of Bob Sims, the
notorious Alabama outlaw lynched
Christmas dav, has formed band to
avenge his brothers hanging. The peo-
pie are all prepared.
The excitement on the Texas border
over the Cara raid is rs great as ever,
but SO far nothing sensational has oc-
Cured.
In fire in cabin in Shelbyville,
Tenn, two small colored children were
burned to death.
The bank at Fordvce, Ark, was en-
tered by burglars the other night and
the outer and inner doors blown open,
but the burglars were unable to open
the burglar proof box and got little.
Four OF the crew OF the British
steamer Ocean Queen, which has ar
rived ut Norfolk, Va, were lost during
terrific gale in midocean on December
81.
THREE desperate prisoners sawed
their way out of the steel cages in the
jail at Fort Worth, Tex, and escaped.
The Imperial hatel, of Baltimore,
formerly the st. Clair hotel, which,
run by Tommy Baylor, was the most
noted resort for the theatrical people in
the south, is now in the hands of sher-
if S bailiffs.
The Baltimore Manufacturers Rec
ord makes an excellent report of the
progress of the south during the past
year. Property is increasing in value
at an unequaled rate.
A WALL of the ruins n. Chattanooga,
Tenn, fell the other day, injuring sew
eral wcrkmen.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-01-02
What is
It For?


ed boys. Life is an interrogation
point. "What is it for?" we con-
tinually cry from the cradle to the
grave. So with this little introduc--
tory sermon we turn and ask: What.
is AUGUST FLOWER FOR :" AS easily
answered as asked: 1t is for Dys-
pepsia. 1t is a special remedy for
the Stomach and Liver. Nothing
more than this; but this brimful.
We believe August Flower cures;
Dyspepsia. We know it will. We
have reasons for knowing it. Twenty
years it started in a small country
town. To-day it has an honored
place in every city and country store.
possesses one of the largest manu-
featuring plants in the country and
sells everywhere. Whyisthis! The
reason is as simple as a child's-
thought. 1t is honest, does one:
thing, and does it right along--it
cures Dyspepsia. 9
G. G. GREEN. Sole Man'fr, WOOdbury,NJ.