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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-11-13
An Endemic of TOOthachc.

One of the most curious features of
the Chitral campaign is the extraor-
dinary prevalence of toothache among
the officers. The matter is receiving
the serious attention of the medical
authorities, and it is hoped that some
very interesting statistical results will
be gained from the careful investiga-
ton which is now taking place. The
epidemic first made its appearance
after the active operations were over,
and the various regiments had re-
ceived orders to stand fast for the
summer, and reached its most violent
form just before the long-expected
order to partially evacuate the coun-
try had arrived. Is not an epidemic
OF toothache something very unusual?
Westminster Gazette.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-11-13
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Potatoes should be dug as soon as
the skin sets.
Winter grain sown in the fall is bet
ter fully ripened before cutting.
Marsh hay is the very best material
for a winter mulch for Strawberries.
Why not utilize spare moments to
gather dry road dust for winter use?
French gardeners tie up their plants
with twigs of the white vine clematis.
Is your hen-house roof in such
order that it can withstand the fall
and winter storms?
The more docile the COW the more
likely her energies to be devoted to
her masters interest.
OF what good is it to save seeds
unless they are kept carefully sepa-
rated and properly labeleda
Put tincture of iron, "A teaspoonful
to the gallon, in the drinking water Of
the fowls. 1t is an excellent tonic.
Don't set out too many early
apples The winter kinds are the
most valuable and are good keepers.
Calves taken from their dams when
young, will often, months later, learn
to suckle COWS to which they have &C.
cess.
II you are going to pack eggs for
winter use. select those from hens with
which the cocks have not run. Eggs
containing no germs, keep much bet
ter than others.
Lean meat or green bone is an ex-
cellent food for moulting hens. A pint
of linseed meal may also be divided
among twenty five hens daily at this
time.
Now is a good time for the farmer
who is anxious to stock his farm with
pure bred poultry, to make his pur-
ohases of good fowls. Breeders are
often willing to sell cheap in the fall
rather than to carry their stock over.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-11-13

Prizes of pigs and kegs of salt beef
are the objects for which the Samoans
play cricket. The game, which is en-
.livened by the music OF native band,
takes large number OF players.
sometimes thirty or forty being en-
tered on side. The Somoans have
also taken kindly to large boats built
after European models, and these
have almost entirely taken the place
of the large canoes in which they
formerly travelled. Instead of work
ing, the men use large part of their
time in travelling in these boats from
island to island, talking politics.
Some of the boats require thirty or
forty oars for propulsion, and are be-
tween seventy and eighty feet long,
the latest addition to the fleet IN cas-
uring 100 feet in length.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-11-13

The number of men building and
repairing bicycles exceeds to an enor-
nous per centage the number of men
at work among horses who are dis
placed by the common use of the new
vehicle. In 1894 in the United States
200, 900 bicycles were made. This
year the product will reach 400, 900,
and manufacturers predict the future
of 700, 900 wheels in 1896. The con-
struction of bicycles furnishes en-
ployment to vast army of workmen.
Every part of the machine must be
prepared by skillful men. The ma
terial for each bicycle cost but S12 or
S15, and the difference between that
small sum and the large cost goes to
the workmen and the employer.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-11-13
FOR FARM AND GARDEN.
RAPID BUTTER MAKING.

Butter churned in five or ten min
utes is very apt to be little of.
There is nothing that gives butter so
fine texture and keeping quality as
to be churned at low temperature.
Cream churned at seventy degrees will
make harder butter than cream
churned at seventy degrees and then
cooled to sixty degrees. New York
World.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-11-13
"Is Life Worth Living 2,

Life is worth living, II we live Alright,
Eyes to the front, the final end in view,-
The end when all aims trivial or untrue
Must burst like airy bubbles on our sight
Life is worth living, II we do our best;
Our best is often greater than we dream.
Immortal souls with mighty forces tcem--
They are revealed by him who makes the
quest.
Lite is worth living when our secret thought
Hides no least wish or impulse, hope or aim,
That can bring disappointment, sorrow,
shame,
Or hurt to any fellow beings lot
Life is worth living when we strive TO be
or greater use tomorrow than today,
Moulding ourselves from rough unsightly
clay
To something lovely for the world to see.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX, in Youths
COMPANION.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-11-13

The Bureau of Statistics at Berlin,
recently gathered some statistics
which proves that accidents from
lightning strokes have greatly in
creased of late. This is said to be
due to the disappearance of forests,
the use of electricity in various indus
tries and to the carbon vapors arising
from towns. The number of such ac-
cidents in France, where records have
also been kept, is also very much
greater than at the beginning of the
century.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-11-13

West Australia is outdoing Okla
homa in the celebrity of its city build
ing. Coolgardie, the centre of the
newly discovered gold fields, two
years ago didn't exist. The site of
the future town was mere clearing.
Even now you can only get by railway
to within 100 miles of it, and have to
finish your journey by coach. Yet, in
spite OF this drawback. Coolgardie is
already perhaps the most marvellous
mushroom city that ever raised within
the short space of eighteen months.
Hotels abound. "There are many
shops and business premises worthy
of q European capital" says Lord
Fingall, who was out there, the other
day; theatre with really excellent
performances" constant subscription
dances, various fourishing clubs, a
stock exchange, and, IN fact, all the
concomitants OF what we have agreed
to call civilized life. 1t must he a
thirsty kind of place, though. for you
can only get water when it rains
(which is seldom), and you have to
pay e6. 40 q bottle Tor champagne.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-11-13

"Bless my heart, sir Bydcn's Point
is seven feet under the water by this
time"
"And Miss Chaloner?" "shrieked Mrs.
Elton.
"The Lord have mercy on her
soul!" solemnly uttered the old man,
taking off his cap
ooh, Juliet Julietl" gosped Mrs.
Elton, wringing her hands, "whot shall
/ say to my brother when he asks for
you?"
The soft light of shaded lamp fell
across Juliet Chaloner's eyes, MS she
ope ned them with vague sense of
having passed through wild, troubled
dream.
"Where am ~" she murmured.
You here, Clnrence?"
my love-" tenderly responded the
well known tones.
"But how came here?" she asked,
shuddering, as she remembered the
sands and the water.
Then Clarence Seville told her how,
coming from the nearest railway sta
ton by boat, instead of the stage
route, he had caught sight of white
object on the sands at Bruden's Point.
Bidding the boatman row up to it
with all possible speed, he found him
self just in time to rescue her from
death.
Goods hand guided me there dear
est" he said lmpressivoly. "My
noble girl were it possible to love
you better than l did before, this act
of self-sacriiico would move me to do
so."
From that hour Mrs. Elton cherished
and reverenced Miss Chnloner as if
she had been saint; for to her there
seemed something more than human
in the noble sclf-nbnegntion of Juliet's
courage New York News.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-11-13

The Rock Island Railroad recently
adopted an excellent plan to test the
honesty of its conductors. They we're
informed that spoilers would no
longer be employed on the road, and
that the money thus saved would be
applied to an increase in the wages of
the conductors. The plan is said to
be working to the entire satisfaction
of both the company and those direct
ly affected.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-11-13

A complaint has arisen in England
regarding the impositions borne by
social visitors at country houses, who
are constrained to divide large sums
among the servants, under penalty of
being blacklisted by the gamekeepers,
buffers, coachmen and housemaids
upon whose offices they are dependent
for many comforts. 1t is said that the
tips distributed by a single visitor
sometimes aggregate thousand dol
lars.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-11-13
THE GRAY BIRCH.

The gray birch is easily grown from
seed, and succeeds well in the most
sterile soils. 1t could probably be
used for nurse tree in the starting
of pine and other trees, which will
not grow in such places without some
protection when first sown. The
young shoots of gray birch are much
used for hoops in the making of fish
barrels, nail kegs and other coarse
cooperage. American Farmer.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-11-13
VALUE OF sAwDUsr FOR MANURE.

Sawdust varies IN kind, and at the
best is a poor kind of manure on ac-
count of molding. Pine sawdust is a
damage to land, as it is slow to decay
and by encouraging mold it endangers
the crops. Hard wood sawdust il not
so Objectionable if it is rotted, and
when it is used for litter in stable,
and is saturated with the liquid and
mixed with manure, it will rot quick
ly, after which it will make n useful
fertilizer, best for clay land. With
clay soil almost anything that loosens
it and opens it, making it more reten-
tive OF water, acts beneficially, al
though it may not contribute any
plant food. This is the case to some
extent with sawdust of even hardwood
which has more mineral matter in it
than the soft woods. Pine sawdust
will be better burned, and the ashes
used, than used in its natural condi-
ton. The hardwood sawdust fur
nishes some food for crops, but from
its loose character it is not desirable
for sandy land under any circum-
stances. New York Times.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-11-13
buckwheat, and this is administered
in small doses. American Agricultur-
PROGRESS IN METHODS.

PROGRESS IN METHODS
A correspondent writes: "When in
1868 we began dairying on the old
homestead ! snid 1 should never be
satisfied until we had reached 200
pounds of butter per COW. AT that
time from 100 to 100 pounds was con-
sidered good average. 1t was not
long before we reached 900, and oc-
casionally reports came in of some
who had actually exceeded this by 90
pounds. | remember well the posi-
tiveness with which certain persons
declared they knew no dairyman who
ever produced such quantity by hon
est means The standard has been get
ting higher and higher, until today
400 pounds per COW is far more com
mon than 200 pounds was at that
time
"Not so very many years ago n
dairyman who was looked upon rs
man of good intelligence, and fairly
we'll educated, denounced the Jersey
COW rs the poorest of all poor stock.
and yet to-day he owns as fine herd
of grade Jerseys as one could wish TO
see. l have heard him say that the
liquids from his COW stables were
only nuisance, and not worth the
trouble of trying to save; and yet he
has arranged his manure drops and
stables so as to carry all the solids
and liquids to the field every day.
How do this things come about?
Very largely through the relation of
experience of practical farmers in au-
thoritative journals. Men of intel
ligcnce have told in m intelligent
manner what results have been ac-
complshed by them, and the Sc ed
has taken deep root.
at seems passing strange to mo
while / nm looking over the half
dozen agricultural and dairy journals
that come to our home every week,
aud in every one of them find some
thing of value to me in my business,
that SO many farmers can endure to
plod along, shutting themselves out
from such fund of information as
others have and yet be content.
''But ] am sorry to say there are
too many farmers like one l met
few years ago whom asked to sub
scribe for n paper. His reply was
that he knew enough about his busi-
ness without any of the book -farmin'
fellows trying to teach him. l was
not very well acquainted with him,
but it was my fortune to pass his farm
II short time since, aud took especial
pains to note what | could in passing
without pnrticularizing. From the
broken-down barnways, unhinged
barn doors, old rubbish In the road.
side, &C., / concluded he would al
ways he found in the large lass who
continually complain that 'iarmin'
don't pay
"There are methods aud methods,
and there are precious few of us so
wise but that we may learn something
useful from careful consideration of
all of them. "-Couutry Gentleman.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-11-13
CLOSE PAsTuRrNa OF PASTURES

Much is said in some farm journals
about the evil of close pasturing. But
with tough June grass or red-top
sod the best results will be got by
feeding closely. The short heritage
is sweeter and more nutritive. If
either of these grasses begin to grow
stems for seeding cattle will only crop
off the heads and leave mass of
woody stalks aud lower leaves. 1t is
often said that this is necessary to
protect the roots during the winter.
Timothy does need such protection,
for its bulb at the surface of the soil
is very easily injured. But June grass
roots need no protection. Any super
fluous heritage left in fall shades the
ground and prevents it being early
warmed in the spring. This is the
reason why the Indians used to burn
over the prairie every fall so as to
make an early and fresh growth the
following spring. Boston Cultivator
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-11-13
Nothing in IL.

Mrs. Billus- Don't you believe it's
true, John, that a person partakes to
considerable extent of the nature of
the creatures he eats?
Mr.. Billus-No. I've been eating
fish all my life, and l can't swim n
stroke. Chicago Tribune,
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-11-13

The consumption of meat in England
has increased considerably during the
past few years. 1t now amounts to
119 pounds per head year. As this
is only 18th of pound apiece day,
it is evident that good many get
very little meat.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-11-13

The New York Journal has discov-
cred that Andrew jackson looked for
ward to the bicycle era, for he was the
originator of the good roads agitation
in this country.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-11-13

France has furnished fewer immi-
grants to the United States than any
other nation in Europe. During the
ten years preceding 1890 only about
10000 persons left France for
America.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-11-13
Not Eneryescent.

Gladys-So Charley has at last
popped the question, eh9
Gwendolin--'Popped" is hardly the
word. ! had to draw it out. Puck.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-11-13

At recent sale in England 639-
acre farm brought S2S, 800. Four
years ago it was mortgoged for $40,
O00
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-10-02

enjoyed only local reputation. His
career as chess player has not been
of the brilliant order, but rather one
of constant advancement. Pillsbury
is twenty-five years old, and his chess
playing dates from his sixteenth
birthday, when he first learned the
moves of the game at which he has
now proved himself to be the inter-
national champion.
Addison Smith, leading member
of the Boston Chess Club, became in
terested in the young man shortly
after he began TO play, and Pillsbury
was not slow to take advantage OF
Smiths valuable experience. He be-
came an active member of the Boston
Chess Club, and enjoyed reputation
among Boston enthusiasts as a coming
player.
Pillabury's first important success
was gained over Champion Steinitz,
who unsuccessfully tried to concede
him the odds of pawn and move. He
was entered in 1890 in the American
Chess Congress, receiving odds from
Burrille and other leading players.
Young Pillsbury defeated Stone at
evens with O score of 5 to 2. He also
played match with Barry, a strong
New England player, winning by a
score of to 4.
All of the leading devotees of the
game played at Hastings. The cham
pion Lasker, Tschigorin, Blackburne.
Burn, Bird, Gunsberg, Tarrasch, Yer
gani, TinsIey, Won Bardeleben, Telch.
mann, Albin, Mason, Janowski,
Pollock and several others, among
them Walbrodt, also a very young
man, like Pillsbury, played. Lasker
was looked upon as probable win
ner, with Tschigorin, Steinitz, Black
burne and Tarrasch as dangerous
rivals, while Pillsbury and the others
were in the dark-horse category.
Pillsbury's victory against such an
array of talent is therefore the more
remarkable, as he was pitted against
men whose experience in tournaments
and matches was calculated to at least
overcome the younger and less ex.
perienced players.
Pillsbury is an active member OF
the Brooklyn Chess Club, and on his
departure for the scene of his great
victory was the recipient Of a cordial
demonstration at the hands Of that
organization.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-10-02
Early Use of Grnpowders

War destroys, and at the same time
is the incentive for the creation OF
new things. War and iron are in
separately linked together. The dis.
covery Of gunpowder caused com.
plete revolution in the manufacture
of iron. The mixing of sulphur, salt
petre and coal as q toy had been
known for q long time. Hence, to
speak of the discovery Of gunpowder
in the fourteenth century only refers
to the application Of powder during
that century for the purposes OF war.
To credit the Monk Bertold Schwarz
Tor Black) with the discovery Of gun
powder is incorrect. However, hii
investigations into the nature OF
powder and it's constituents for use az
an applicable force in guns produced
radical change in the then CUSTOMARY
warfare, and from that standpoint
Bertold Schwarz deserves to be rec
ognized as the promoter of modern
warfare. Many hundreds OF years
before Schwarz the Chinese used gun
powder. The invention of field guns
is credited to tho Chinese Emperor
vitey, or Wu-ti, who lived 140 years
B. g. During the eleventh century
the Tartars learned the use of gun
powder from the Chinese. The Arabs
&C quired the knowledge of gunpowder
from the Tartars, and are said to have
used cannon at the siege of Lisbon, in
1147. The Greek fire was Invented in
66s A. D., and besides setting fire to
the enemies ships and cities, was used
to shoot leaden balls out Of metal can
non. Marcus GRACIOUS, who lived A.
D. 1904 1851, describes gunpowder as
o mixture of two pounds of coal, one
pound of sulphur and six pounds OF
saltpetre. e.-The Iron Age.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-10-02
CLOTH GOWNS,

While fashionable tailors will use
rough.surfaced fabrics-tweeds, chey-
lots and boucle cloths-for the greater
number of gowns, they will adhere to
the smooth lady's cloth for their more
elaborate dresses, as they have always
done.
The tailors who we're slow to adopt
large sleeves and very wide skirts are
now loudest in their praise, and in
sists on commencing them for winter
use. Certainly their long lines are
most suitable for the cloth and velvet
dresses made by tailors. where draper
les and Aounces would not be effective.
The coat-waist will be used for gowns
of these heavy fabrics, thong b round
full waists will not be abandoned by
the small slight women who find them
becoming. An effort will be made to
do away with the godet back OF these
coats. commonly known as the ripple
back" and substitute fat fanlike
folded pleats. The back is to be very
short, falling only few inches below
the waist, and is to have but few
seama, though it is closely fitted. The
front may be Tapped slightly to allow
the use of very elegant buttons, or else
it falls open straight and belt is
passed around the waist, going out
side the back but slipped inside the
under-arm seams, end fastening under
the open front. Square long tabs arc
Oh these fronts, and they are merel y
edged with fur. A novelty that ls
very effective on fitted single.breasted
waists is double revers, the lower
revers cut in slender points that lap
in ichu fashion.
The trimmings for cloth gowns are
re7ers and vest of cloth OF O contrast
ing color, bias bands OF the cloth OF
the dress stitched on in rows or in C
design, narrow bands of fur, and tin
oily tho very ricn braidin5 III gold
and other meta,s ia which tnilors ex'
eel. -uarper's EAzar.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-10-02

dame with vein of originality con-
ceived the idea of the picture hat,
built after the fashion of some famous
painting, and wore 1t, notwithstand-
ing the fact that it was not mode.
This slight departure from established
rules spread far and wide, and it has
now come to Paris.
Frenchwomen are quite open to the
suggestion of indlvidualism in fash
ion, and women in prominent social
positions who are fair, clever and ad-
mired have become advocates of the
new thought. They are now taking
the "ideas" for the works of art in
the wardrobe from the picture CALLER
les. The great masters, whose works
decorate the Louvre. are made the ar
bitrators of what is worn.
The rule is to try the various
styles, and when one is accepted, it
should be worn at least two seasons.
Another chronicler of fashions as
serts that the hoopskirt is bound to
be with US again before another SIX
months. We can only hope, adds the
Chicago Times-Herald, that the first
woman to reappear in one will not share
the fate of her unfortunate sister who
wore one in the streets of New York
in 1910. She was arrested by the po-
lice.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-10-02

lection from the winds, says the New
York Recorder.
The capes are perfect loves, and
keep right in the first rank of favor
with women in general, for there is,
nor can there be, no more comfortable
covering than loose cape. The sleeves
ore still tremendous, one of the most
marked features of the fall bodice.
and O jacket, even with the fullest
kind of sleeve, seems crampy and out
of order. One hates to crowd and
push lovely big sleeve, all soft folds
and puffs, into coat sleeve, no mat
ter Of how big proportions; there is
sure to be more or less crushing.
Velvet is, as was predicted, in espe-
cial favor for fall wraps-but more Of
this later; there nre no end OF lovely
confections already seen in this rich
and universally becoming fabric.
The sketch shows one Of the new
capes in a dull, slate-colorcd Lyons
velvet, with such wonderfully thick
pile, and showing such beautiful white
lights. 1t is circular in cut, falling
from the shoulders in rich folds, and
bordered with straps OF cream white
broadcloth. Broad revcrs and q high
rolling collar of white have strapped
edges. A double clasp OF pearl orna.
ments the front. With this is worn e
fat, Raring brinmed hot, OF warm,
san- colorna braid, simply but olishly