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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-07-26
Profits on Little Neck CLANS.

Despite the prevailing depression in
many lines Of business, one industry in
this section employs large number of
hands and is running overtime. 1t is
that of gathering the delicious bivalves
about the size of a silver dollar known
as Little Neck CLAIMS. The catch in this
vicinity averages nearly 100 barrels a
week. for which wholesale dealers in
New York pay So to $40 barrel.
There are usually about $500 clams
in a barrel, but sometimes when they
are running unusually small there may
be 5000. When New Yorker enters q
"swelf restaurant and pays 40 cents for
seven or eight Of these little bivalves, it
can readily be seen that q barrel con-
tanning $500, and costing about $40, will
yield the proprietor something like $780,
There is a market for Little Neclls all
the year round. but it is difficult to
catch them during the winter months
Norwalk Conn., Cor. New York Times
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-07-26

An extraordinary kind Of flying ma
chine has been designed by Horatio Phil
lips of Harrow, England. In appear
ance it might be compared to q long
board on which are pair of window
blinds, so mounted that the shutters are
nearly fat. The frame is boat shaped in
plan, 25 feet long and feet wide. 1t is
supported on three small wheels and
carries a small compound engine work
ing screw propeller o. feet in diameter.
The sustainer. or wings. consist of n
number of wooden blades or Stats
mounted one above the other in a steel
frame. Each slat is 10 feet long and II
inches wide, the combined surface of all
the stats being 140 square feet. The
frame is placed in vertical position and
arranged transversely to the line of mo.
ton.
The weight of the whole machine in
working order is $50 pounds. It could
not, of course, be allowed to soar away
unfettered, as 1t is too small to carry any
person to guide its flight. 1t is therefore
attached to a pillar by means of wires
which confine its fight to circular path
82S feet in circumference. When 1t is
desired to operate the machine, steam is
turned on and the propeller set to work.
1t has made II turns around the track
without any of the wheels touching
ground at speed of 40 miles an hour,
and this with enough dead load to bring
the total weight up to 1856 pounds. This
is equal to lifting load of about 2i
pounds per square foot of sustainer sur
face when all the conditions are taken
into account.-New York Telegram.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-07-26
Chnlern In NIeccn.

Not often in the holy but unciean city
of Mecca has the cholera been more de-
structive than it is this year. The deaths
from it, as stated in such reports as can
be procured, range from 500 to 700 a day,
without taking account of the mortality
along the ways leading to the city. The
cases must be numbered by the thou
sand. We suppose that large proper
ton of the victims must be pilgrims, for
the settled population of the place is but
little over 100000 The number of pill
grims this year, especially from India
and Persia, has been inordinately large.
The ordinary sanitary laws are disre-
garded in Mecca as in other cities of the
Mohammedan world. Anything like
scientific treatment of the cholera is un-
known. The fatalistic believers regard
a visitation of it as the decree of Allah.
They are willing that it shall bring them
death, If they but die within view of the
holy city or on the way thereto, as para
disc is assured them. The cholera was
in Mecca last year. 1t is almost as con-
slant there as it is in the delta Of the
Ganges. 1t often RACES fiercely there
without approaching any part Of Eu-
rope.-New York Sun,
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-07-26
Strange Gods OF Ignorant People.

There is a sect in Orissa, in the Bengal
presidency, who worship Queen Victoria
as their chief divinity. Colonel Graham
discovered that her majesty was also an
object of worship in the temple Of the
Phodonga-Lama, at Tumlong, in Thibet
A sect in the Punjab worshiped deity
whom they called Nikkal Sen. This
Nikkal Sen was no other than the re-
doubted General Nicholson, and nothing
that the general could do or say damped
the enthusiasm of his adorers. M. du
Chaillu tells that some Of the African
savages looked upon him as superior
being, and the South Sea islanders wor-
SHIPPED Captain Cook as deity. Even
when they had killed him and cut him
into small pieces the inhabitants of Owhy-
hee fully expected him to reappear and
frequently asked what he would do to
them on his return. Lander, in his Niger
expedition, says that in most African
towns and villages he was treated as o
demigod. Lord John Lawrence has been
worshiped among the Sikhs in northwest
India.-Boston Globe.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-07-26
transformations Charity.

William c. Todd of Atkinson, N. H.,
is a philanthropist wise in his giving.
The Boston Public Library is $50, 900 rich
er for his generosity, and his largess is
to be invested so as to secure perma-
nent annual income Of $4,000 to be ex-
pended in maintaining a newspaper read
ing room in which papers from every
large city in the world will be found. II
it did not require struggle to overcome
the temptation to found some weak in
stitution bearing his name instead Of
burying his gift in u great organization
already established, Mr.. Todd is man
of less than averagevanity. Itwould be
hard to find an investment in the direc-
ton of popular education likely to be
more beneficial than this one. A read
ing room makes little show. 1t is infu-
ential nevertheless. New York Tribune.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-07-26
DAY s GONE BY.

Oh, the Gays gone byl oh, the days gone byl
The apple In tho orchard, and the pathway
through the rye;
The chiruup of the robin. and tho whistle Of the
quail
As he piped across the meadows sweet rs any
nightingale,
When the bloom was on the clover, and the
blue was in the sky,
And my happy heart brimmed over, in the
days gone by.
in the days gone by, when my naked feet were
tripped
By the honcysuckle's tangles. where the water
lilies dipped,
And the ripple OF the river lipped the moss
along the brink.
Where the placid eyed and lazy footed cattle
came to drink,
And the fitting snipe stood fearless OF the tru-
ants wayward cry,
And the splashing of the swimmer, in the days
gone by.
Oh, the days gone byl Oh. the days gone byl
The music of the laughing lip, tho luster OF the
eye,
The childish faith in fairies, and Aladdin's
magic ring,
The simple, soul reposing, glad belief in every
thing
When life was like n story, holding neither
sobnor sigh,
In the olden, golden glory OF the days gono by.
james Whitcomb Riley.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-07-26
Canada,s New Governor General.

Canada is to have new governor gen.
eral in the person Of Lord Aberdeen, one
of the most brilliant and rising Of the
younger statesmen of Great Britain. He
will be ably seconded by Lady Aberdeen,
described by The Woman's Herald of
London as one of the half dozen famous
women Of the world-one who believes
in women as an active force in politics.
1--WE should work side by side. men and
women, each endeavoring to accomplish
something, and thus make the world a
little better than we found it," Canada
stands with maple leaves in her hands to
extend the heartiest of welcomes to the
Earl and Countess of Aberdeen.
and Daughters
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-07-26
DENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.
IN EFFECT MAY 81, 1893.

Philadelphia & Erie Railroad Division Time
Table. Trains leave Driftwood.
9:W A Miriam s, daily except Sunday for
Sunbury, Harrisburg and intermediate sta
tions, arriving at Philadelphia $3.50 r. NJ,
New York, 9:35 2. M. Baltimore, d;45 r. NJ;
Washington, S:l5 p. NJ. Pullman Parlor ear
from Willamsport and passenger coaches
from Kane to Philadelphia.
3;m +. M.-Train ., daily except sunday for
rivlng at Philadelphia $3.50 a. NJ: New York,
40 4. NJ. Through coach, from Dubois TO
arrisbsPPs to- phadeipha and NeW S YopR icp
Philadelphia passengers can remain In
sleeper undisturbed until 700 M.
935 Il. M.-Train 4, daily for Sunbury Harris
burg and intermediate stations arriving at
Philadelphia, $3.50 A. NJ; New York, $3.50
A. NJ; baltimore, $50 A. NJ; Washington, 1880
M Pullman cars and passenger coaches
from Erie and Williamsport TO Philadelphia.
Washington will be transferred into Wash
i"s'on sleeper WEsTWARbs. VI sfIy,sPaps
7;s5 a. M,-Train |, daily except Sunday for
| RidGway, Dubois, Clermont, and Inter
| mediate stations. Leaves Ridgway at 300
p50 a. M.--Train o. daily for Erie and inter-
b;27 p. M.--rrain II, daily except Sunday for
Kane and intermediate stations.
rHRouGH, TRAINS =, FOR BRENTWOOD
TRAIN ii leaves Philadelphia $3.50 a. M;
Washington, $50 A. NJ; baltimore, s;45 A. Nj
Wilkesbarrc, 1918 A. NJ; daily except sun
day, arriving at Driftwood Mt 6:27 T.. NJ with
Pullman Parlor car from Philadelphia TO
Williamsport.
TRAIN . leaves New York .at p. M; Phila-
delpha, 1l:20 p. M. Washington, 1910 a. M;
Baltimore, 1l:40 p. MI daily arriving mt
\ Driftwood at $3.50 Il. m. Pullman sleeping
cars from Philadelphia TO Erie and from
\ Washington and Baltimore To Williamsport
and through passenger coaches from Phlla-
delphia to Erie and Baltimore to Williams
port and to Dubois
'RAIN leaves Remove ut 6;35 u. M, daily
except Sunday, arriving ut Drlftwood 7:a5
II. m.
JOHNSONBURG RAILROAD.
DAILY except Sunday.)
TAIN 10 leaves Ridgway Mt 0:40 u. M. John
pnburg at $3.50 II. M, arriving ut Clermont
i 10:45 a. m.
FTAIN 20 leaves Clermont at 1885 II. m. ar
wing mt Johnsonburg ut 11:i0 Il. m. and
fdgway at 1l:55 IL. m.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-07-26

Every summer the question about how
TO deal with mosquitoes or mosquito
bites is presented by many correspond
ents. Perhaps the following counsel on
the subject from 81 Massachusetts, paper
may be useful:
The best antidote for the bite of a
mosquito undoubtedly is ammonia weak
ened with little water or salt and wa
ter. Some people go so far as to press
the poison out Of the bite with some
small metal instrument like the point of
watch key before applying the anti
dote. This prevents the painful swell
ing that sometimes occurs As in other
cases. lone mans meat is another man
poison" and the same remedy will not
apply to all individuals. Some find cam
phor most efficacious, and salt and wa
ter will not avail. Ammonia. however.
seems to be generally successful as a
neutralizer of the mosquito poison.
Where there are large quantities of the
mosquitoes and no reason for their ap.
peanance is apparent it is well to look
about the premises for something which
attracts them. An uncovered barrel of
rainwater will bring them In hordes,
and damp places and stagnant pools are
spots where they delight to congregate.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-07-26
"Ry the Wish of His Wife. I"

1t is generally believed that the money
which the Duke of Portland wins at rae
ing is given to charity, according to the
direction Of the duchess, and the duke,
not content with this, seems determined
to hand down to posterity tribute TO
her wholesome influence. In the center
gable of the new fine almshouses lately
erected ON his Welbeck estate for the
widows of those employed on it there is
a stone with an engraved inscription
setting forth that the buildings were
"erected by the sixth Duke of Portland
by the wish of his wife," Thereafter
follow the names of the successful race
horses and their victories. Tit
Bits.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-07-26
The Deacon's Reputation Is Safe.

Lawyer French, who represents Pitts.
field ih the legislature, passed around
the other day among his fellow solons
card which he found on his table upon
returning to his law office. He had left
the card bearing two words-"Return
soon." During his absence client had
written underneath it, This is d-d
lie." A second visitor to the office dur
ing the interval had been worthy dea-
con who had called to see Mr.. French on
church business, and apparently not
noticing the language already inscribed
had added his own message and signed
his name. Fortunately Mr.. French was
able to distinguish between the two
handwritings, and the deacon's standing
remains secure.-Springfield (Mass.)
Homestead.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-07-26
A "Cooiinr or Process mt the Shore.

The Bowery is the favorite lair of the
representative professional and business
men of Coney Island and the mecca of
all the Jays" as the visitors are termed
who come down from the city to "cool
off," Close observation of the habits of
these lays" reveals the fact that the
popular method of cooling off" is to
pound with large mallet in vain at
tempt to register some impossible num-
Der on dial overhead, to blow into a
"lung tester" until one is black in the
face, to mount a yellow wooden giraffe
and be swung around "carousal" to
the music of bronze steam organ, to
drink bad beer and to listen to all the
unpopular airs sung by yellow haired 81
rens with the sea fog air in their throats.
had seen several thousand citizens
engaged in this :'cooling Off process,
which, by the way, frequently landed its
votaries in what is known as the "cool-
en-" before it occurred to me to inquire
what mesmeric power led them to act in
this manner. My researches brought
me face to face with the representative
Coney Island business and professional
men-the worst band of fakirs that the
world has ever seen.-New York Cor.
Boston Herald.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-07-26
Where Discipline Is Essential.

1t seems to us that we have this year
an inordinate number of reports of riot
GUS and obstreperous conduct on the
part Of students in institutions of learn
ing, especiallyin colleges and academies,
and even in seminaries for young wom-
en-. Making due allowance for youthful
frivolity, we take occasion to say that at
all hazards order must be preserved
among the students and discipline en-
forced by the faculty of all educational
institutions. When students are suf-
fered to override the rules set up by the
faculty, 1t is to their own disadvantage;
when professors fail to apply these
rules, it is evidence of their incompetent
cy; when an institution gets name for
disorderliness, it is on the road to ruin
New York Sun.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-07-26

worm when kept in the water, but why
not a horses hair as well as cows hair
or deer's hair2 Science had better not
tell any of the eew old settlers Of north
ern Pennsylvania or any other locality
where the pioneers were frequently their
own tanners that cows hair and 'deer's
hair will not turn into worms under GER
tam conditions or science will get
black eye. In the pioneer days, when
settler wanted leather for boots or shoes,
it was not an uncommon thing for him
10 make n vat by following out pine
log, and using wood ashes instead of lime
In removing the hair. When the hide
was taken out of the vat II would be
placed in a,creek to soak out the alkali
have more than once heard the sons
of such pioneers tell of finding curious
worms swimming about these hides
where they were lying in quiet pools.
These worms were about two inches
long, somewhat thicker than o cows
hair, and always in various stages of de-
velopment from the hair as it came off
the hide, some being for a partvpf their
length simply hair, while the rest was
the living worn, white and sernitrans-
parent. Some would be still fast to the
hide, but wiggling to get loose, when
they would swim about with hair for q
tail. These worms were never seen ex-
cept in the pools with the hides, either
COW or deer. The more think oe these
well authenticated COW hair wonms the
more am inclined to defy science and
hold out for the horsehair worm.--New
York Sun
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-07-26
How He Saved Them.

When Captain Dutton of the Servia
gave orders to go ahead at full speed
after the collision with the McCallum,
he probably thought of the experience of
the Trave about n year ago, when her
bows cut sheer through vessel which
she struck on the ocean, and suffered
scarcely any damage. But he builded
better than he knew. BY his action he
succeeded in saving every soul but one
on board the ship which he ran down.
The story of the suspension of the Nc
Cullum on the Prov of tie Servia long
enough to enable her crew to be rescued
reads like page from a romance
York Tribune.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-07-26
VOLUME 2.
sailrunn Ttrnr Cnhiro.
BUFFALO, ROCHESTER, Il PITTS
- BURGH RAILWAY.

htf AlJDs INONfIlT THp i NV " ! I l. ~
- BURGH RAILWAY.
The short line between Dubois, Ridgway,
Bradford Salamanca, Buffalo, Rochester,
Niagara Falls and points In the upper oil
region.
On and after June ath, 1898, passen-
ger trains will arrive and depart from Fails
Creek station, daily. except sunday, as fol-
lows: -
400 A. M.-Eiadford Accommodat tlon-tor
points North between Falls Greek and
Bradford. 7:t5 II. m. mixed train Tor
punxsutawrcy.
IO:ObA. .M.-Bufralo and Rochester mail-Iler
Brockwayville, Ridgway ,Johnsonburg Mt
Jewett, bradford, Salamag'ca, Butlalo and
Rochester; connecting at Johnsonbutg
with 4. & T.. train ., for wilcox, Kane
Warren, Cory and Erie.
1O:36 A. M.-AcoommOdntioti-FO DUBOIS
Sykes, Big Run and punNssltawncy.
n 30 y. M.-B1slford Accom- nmodation-For
Bcechtrcc, Bpockwayville, Ellmont, Car
mon, Ridgwpy, JohnsonlurE, Mt. Jcwctt
and Bradford.
$40 r. M-Mmsl-For Dufisis, Sykes, Bir
Run, Punxsutawney and Malston.
S:22 pM.-Acc1mmodation Dubois, big
Run and PunXsutawney.
8:2O A. M.-Supday tran-Hor Brockwuy-
vile, Ridgway and Johnsonburg..
,6:13 P.M.-Sundsty train-For Dubois, Sykes
Rig Run and Hrnxsutawney.
Thousand mile tickets at two cents per
mile, good for paaaagc betwoon all stations.
J. IL. MCINTYRE. Agent, Falls creek, Pa
d. H. BARRETT T.. &. LhpEY,
General Supt Gen. l.,s. Agent .
Bradford nn. Rochester n. Y.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-07-26
Death of .'AIother shipton. :"

Mother Shipton is dead, or at any rate
the real author of her famous prophecies
is no more. In other words, the book
selling world has to deplore the loss Of
Mr.. Charles Hindley, who long ago con-
fessed to the innocent imposture. He
wrote good deal in one way or another,
partly to the press and partly in books,
but Mother Shipton was his most fa-
nous achievement. He died at Brigh-
ton, where he used to carry on the bust
ness of bookseller. Globe.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-07-26
Didn't Hear OF the War.

Edie Hickam, an old negress. is the
plaintiff in perhaps the most remarka-
BILE case ever tried in the courts of tits
county. She is an ex-slave and brought
suit against her master, Joseph Hickam
OF this county, for $5 month wages as
family domestic for "a years, during
which time she claims to have been kept
in ignorance of her emancipation. The
suit was instituted here in 1889 for
$1,400 and resulted in a judgment in
her favor for $700. Defendant appealed
to the Kansas City court of appeals.
which remanded the case to the circuit
court Of the county, which now renders
a decision for the defendant. A motsn
for new trial has been fled.--Boone-
vile Cor. st. Louis Chronicle.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-07-26
NEW GREEN GOODS METHODS.
Dressed In Feminine Attire, the Swind,cr
Lures His Victims.

Lures His Victims.
Accompanied by Police Constable lrv-
ing and friend, gentleman whose ac-
cent afforded indisputable evidence that
he is of German extraction walked into
the detective office last night and there
related a most remarkable experience
which, he stated, had befallen him. His
name is Frank Hohlbein. he is the rep
resentative Of o tan bark company, aud
in the register of the Red Lion hotc3 he
has given his address as Dashwood, Ont.
His business has taken him all over this
country and the adjoining reeublic, and
he has only recently returned from the
southern states.
His story to the detectives is to the
effect that on Saturday evening, having
nothing to do, he paid visit to the
musee on Yonge street, When the per-
formance was over, he came out to the
street and was about TO return to his
hotel when he noticed very plump,
rather handsome young lady. who ap-
pears to have had power enough to
charm him away from his original in
tention to go home. Neither seems to
have objected TO the others company,
and, to make long story short, the tive
strolled away up the street arm in arm.
Hohlbein is q stranger in the city, has 10
knowledge at all of its geography and IL
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~" Ia, ;,,sor,,,ad I,;,,, ,ros hor hone
with sora bos;totion ba accented ON IN.
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,,.,;on stannad haoh ava re;s;no hor
band I;ftod nff hor hot ond , Wiz aud to
h;a ;rtansa a,naza,nent uoh,Io;, s.,,.
tbot ha ,,,os IN tbe rresapce nor of :,
,ro,nan hrt 90 n man Another tv.ist ,r
tha y.r;st ana the man had renoved =,
;aotot ,ra;st ond sLirt or5 tbore ,o
stood" yorna man IN ord;rarv n,le
att;ra ~
Uoh,,,o;,, ,s n. n loss 90 ..or,, e.,
.h;s yor, stronao netomornbos;s ,nd
orosred , revolver which he c,rr,ie,.
sr;th h;n, dstorn;,,ed to defend h;,rsolt
sho,,d tha oooas;o, r;se Tho stro,,,,o,.
ho,,.a,,o, ,.oo,,asted h;n, 70 ha oolr, o,i
Of his e,se as no harm would come to
L;,n Ha tbo,, ,,rod,ced some sann,os
nf h;,o wh;oh ba handed 70 Hohlio;r
With tho reo,est that the latter evnrcss
on on;n;on as 20 what thew were
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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-07-26
NUMBER II.
Memories of 1871.

On the last week in May each year tho
French socialists are accustomed to cell
ebratc the "bloody week." which wit
messed the downfall of the Paris cor
mune in 1871, the killing Of $4,000 of +
Inhabitants and ~" "xiling oe ~
others. AS early eS under th0i,
ership of Gambetsls 81 the mode.
Republicans, & rvr amnesty
voted, with only g.. six excspti..
to the participants OF the commune.
Is significant also that many Of the mu-
nicipal regulations which the commu-
nists demanded were afterward granted
by the chamber of deputies.
Bloody week" began on Sunday, May
81, when the Versailles troops entered
Paris by breach in the fortifcation
wall which the national guards had neg;<
lected to defend. They came in by the
Bois de Boulogne, and terrible street
fights continued daily until on the fol-
lowing Sunday, May 2S, Marshal Nc
Mahon was in full possession of the city
and declared the commune at an end.
On May 90 the Versailles troops cap
tured the Central Market halls and
threatened General Bergeret, who was
stationed at the Tuileries. He was
forced to retire, blowing up and burning
the Tuileries rs he left, but managed to
save the Louvre, which some of his 81,
lowers wished t;ye to destroy. ~
fighting was m,ssv done by natio,t
guardsmen agaisr' heavy odds and =
suited in fearful daughter; hence ..
week has obtained ITS name.-New fToi i
Herald.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-07-26
Lived OH Elk and Eagle Meat.

Four hunters were snowbound in the
mountains at the headwaters of the
Wynoochee river, Washington, for five
weeks during February and part Of
March. When the storm which showed
them up came, they exhausted their stock
Of provisions and had killed II elk.
They lost their game and were three
days without food when they killed an
eagle. Later they found an elk power
less in the deep snow. They lived on
elk and eagle alone for over month.
The snow was s to 10 feet deep, and they
could not make any progress through it.
Eventually they reached o deserted camp
and found. an ak with which they split
wood and made rude sn9WShoes, by
means Of which they got back to civi.
lization.