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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-11-18
To Can Turtleg.

A number of local capitalists at
Cortland. N. Y, have organized q
scheme for canning turtles in the
West Indies for sale in New York and
Europe, where green turtle soup and
turtle steak arc now among the
choicest and most expensive delica-
cies. Turtle eggs are also to be laid
on our tables at little more than cost.
Robert p. Porter, late superintendent
of the census, is said to be interest ed
in the enterprise.
The plan which the Cortland capi-
talists regard as most feasible is to
either charter or purchase a sailing
vessel, and equip her with lumber and
other necessary articles to construct n
canning factory, including few huge
kettles in whieh the turtles will be
boiled, together with provisions for
the supply of the men who will be
employed to put up the building and
maintain those that will do the work
OF boiling and canning. The natives
will be utilized to catch the turtles.
As soon as cargo of turtles is
canned the vessel will return to New
Orleans or to New York and the goods
will be consigned to agents who will
place them on the market The
United States will DO supplied first,
and then shipments will be made to
England and France.
1t is thought there will be great
demand for canned turtle in the
country towns, rs it is a toothsome
dish when made into soup or turtle
steaks. New York Journal.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-11-18
Rclov Lodging Houses.

Nenr the big sugar rednerics soi
Williamsburg the landlords of the
numerous lodging houses are at their
wits ends just at present over the
solving of the problem Us to what to
do with all their guests.
The cause of this perplexity of the
landlords and landladies is caused by
the fall increase in the number OF
workmen employed in the re6neries,
which this year is unusually large.
The married workmen have their own
homes, but the single men rent
"relay furnished room"--as the say-
ing goes.
Kent avenue, in the neighborhood
of Grand and South Fifth streets, has
a number of these relay lodging houses,
which simply swarm with masculine
humanity all day and all night For
instance, in one good-sized room there
are four beds, and these four beds fur
nish rest for twenty -four muscular
Poles, Germans and Scandinavians.
OF course they do not all sleep at
the same time, but, as the sugar re-
fineries run all night, the workmen
hire the use of bed for eight hours
out of the twenty-four. Each man
nrranges for his chance to sleep ac-
cording to the hours he worked, but
no matter whether he sleeps during
the day or night, he is only entitled
to eight hours, and it is only on rare
occasions that one of these relay lodg-
ers fails to sleep until he is routed out
of bed by the man entitled to take his
place.
Each Of the relny sleepers pays sew
enty-five cents week for his fifty-six
hours of sleep. They are ali healthy
and usually clean, and as their work
is hard, they find little difficulty in
living strictly regular life. They eat
their meals in boarding houses in the
neighborhood, and il there is any
time for recreation they stand about
the street or saloons and discuss sub.
jects of general interest. No matter
how tired and sleepy they happen to
be, however. they are unable to retire
until the exact minute scheduled for
their beds to be vacant.
There are in all about 1000 sugar
house relay sleepers, and, fortunately,
most of them are good natured. New
York Journal.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-11-18
A Rubber Horseshoe.

II the latest phase OF modern in
genuity proves q success, says the
New York Tribune, there will be no
more heavy trampling and the rhyth-
mic clicking of the hoofs of four
footed steeds. There has been in.
vented new horseshoe-a steel frame
about which is built cushion of vul-
canized rubber. The advantage
claimed for it is that as the rubber in
stead OF metal strikes the ground there
is no conclusion or jar, and the horses 8
hoof, leg and shoulder are saved.
Thirty three per cent of the dis.
eases OF horses. it has been said, are
maladies Of the foot, and there is but
little question but that even the best
shoeing, as it is done now by burning
the hoof, is in measure injurious.
This new horseshoe is to be put on
cold, and the hoof simply pared or
cut to fit. 1t is nailed on in the or
binary way. An additional advantage
Of tho rubber sole is that it will take
the horse frmer hold upon wet or
treacherous pavemonts, and by seour-
ing him good purchase. enable him
to go npor come down steep hills with
a heavy load far more easily than al
| present.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-11-18

The readiness with which tales of
incorrigible liars are accepted is re-
minder of how history is too often
made. but reports of scientific obser-
vations are more severely scrutinized.
Unfortunately, however, even scienti.
dc men, accustomed as they are to
weigh evidence and reject improba-
bilities, are sometimes deceiveds Not
long ago an account was given OF some
great potatoes, weighing something
like 100 pounds each, and as the de-
scription was illustrated with cut of
. man staggering under monster
tuber mounted upon his shoulder, it
was acknowledged that new marvel
of plant or soil had been found, until
after time it leaked ont that the
picture was trick OF an amateur
photographer, who had invented the
story to fit his clever combination Of
two Photographic exposures. The
trite announcement of the fall of me-
teorite covering two acres was a more
clumsy invention, calculated to deceive
only the very credulous One OF the
most successful scientific canards see ms
10 have been the report of some Swiss
experiments, in which rifle bullets and
artillery proisctiles were alleged to
have been detected to q distance Of
many yards by electrically charged
wires parallel to the firing range,
this report having been generally pub.
lished and commented upon by scien-
titic journals throughout the world.
In exposing this reprehensible joke,
N. @. E. Guillaume shows that it
really had basis in scientific fact.
Another recent statement is that q
body estimated to be forty-dve miles
In diameter and only 1000 miles away
had been seen to GROSS the suns disc.
the ridiculousness Of this being APP
parent when 1t 10 considered that such
: body wonld have an apparent diame-
~ Of i've times that Of the sun.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-11-18
Well to Remember.

What is good for one is not always
good for another. This is illustrated
in short tale told come time ago
about o French medical student.
While in London on a visit the student
lodged in tho house with n man very
sick with fever, who was continually
besieged by his nurse to drink very
nauseating liquids which were luke
warm. The sick man found this al
most impossible to do. until one day
he whispered to his nurse:
"Bring mo salt herring and l will
drink MS IN uch as you please"
The woman INDUCED him in his re-
quest; he ate the herring, drank the
liquids, underwent the required per-
spiraton and recovered.
The French student, thinking this
very clever, inserted in his journal,
"Salt herring cures an Englishman of
fever"
On his return to France he pre-
scribed the same remedy to his first
patient with q fever. The patient
died. On which he inscribed in his
journal: IN. B.-A salt herring
cures an Englishman, but kills a
Frenchman. ."-Harper's Round Table.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-11-18

One of the most grewsome additions
to the military equipment of the Ger
man empire is the crematory. Here
after every German regiment in time
of war will be accompanied by one of
these grim reminders of huge kind
of baking oven mounted on four
wheels. 1t is said that the soldiers
resent the innovation on the ground
that the machine Is too vivid re-
minder OF the horrors of war. The
inventor claims that the machine will
dispose of the killed in few hours,
but it is not improbable that some OF
the wounded might be cremated by
mistake. The invention does not find
favor elsewhere, and it is to be hoped
that such grewsome object will not
become general.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-11-18
Contaminated Oysters.

Some months since barrel OF oys-
ters was sent from French seaport
to an inland town. A large number
of persons partook OF them cooked in
various ways, and nearly a score of
individuals ate of them raw. OF the
latter, all were seriously i'll. About
half of them recovered in less than
two weeks, half dozen were ill for
three or four weeks with extreme
prostration and intestinal pains OF
great severity; and two patients de-
veloped clearly defined cases OF ty-
phoid fever. one OF them terminating
fatally. 1t has been suggested that
oysters taken from beds where there
is a possibility OF contamination be
kept for week at least Immersed in
sea-water that they may have oppor-
tunity to free themselves from what
ever impurities they may have taken
from the water in which they have(
lived. The Ledger.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-11-18

Our tars have many advantages
over the sailors of other navies, notes
tho New York Sun. One of these is
peculiar one. 1t is the freedom that
our Jackies have in the matter of how
they wear their hair. Your French OF
Russian or English man-o'-war's man
must go clean shaven or wear full
beard. He is not allowed to indulge
in q mustache alone. This may seem
small matter, but it results in Civ
ing different appearance to the
crews, taken in bulk or separately.
The rule abroad applies to officers
and men alike. Perhaps our method
is the better one. Our defenders ought
not to be subject to regulations such
as are applied to butler or foot
man.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-11-18

There are ten or twelve thousand
grocers in New York City and Brook
lyn, largely Germans, hard working
economical set of people, who do not
mind toiling sixteen or eighteen hours
a day if need be, living on what they
can't sell and sleeping under the
counter, if necessary, and those will
ing to fight in that way for existence
are bound to survive, even to make
money, and that in dull times.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-11-18

The last vessel OF the series to be
lost at sea without leaving any sign
behind to explain matters was the brig
Epervier, commanded by Lieutenant
John Shubrick. When the terms Of
the treaty between the United States
and Algiers we're dictated to the Dev
at the point of the cannon by Decatur
in 1916 copy of the paper was sent
home by the Epervier. The brig
passed the strait of Gibraltar on July
12, 1916, and from that time all trace
of her was lost. She sailed out upon
the ocean and was swallowed up BY
the sea that has wrecked the hopes
aud ambitions OF SO many. New
York Advertiser.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-11-18

see. We've got our duty to be done;
there's flag of distress Come on,
boysl'
'They seen the boys gettin' ready
to come out on the schooner and what
do you 'spose they done9 They
wouldn't let those toys run any such
risks Down comes the flag of dis
tress, to the bewilderment of the men
on shore. Up it goes, reversed, tell
ing: We don't need help; we can
help ourselves 1t dazed the boys on
shore. Not need help with the sens
threatening every moment to over
whelm them? Had they gone crazy |;
were they daft; did they want to die?
Yet there was the flag they had re-
versed. Out of the fury of the sea
they had spoken. Out of the wildness
of the tempest came back response
like one from heaven to the trembling
women on the shore who had implored
their husbands not to go out in the
lifeboat in that sea. They didn't
want helpl
"The moments seemed like hours.
Then we seen a boat lowered from the
schooner, mere cockle-shell, and we
understood. The men on shore were
not to be sacrificed. 1t was the no.
blest thing to see those men tumble
in their little boat and pull gallantly
toward the land. Upon the land was
the wife of the captain. When the
flag was reversed she uttered wall of
anguish. He will not take help; he
will not, will not she moaned. Had
not the boat been lowered from the
schooner the men would have gone
out at any hazard. How they watched
the cockle-shell A hundred times
il arose. Heaven seemed to watch over
il, because OF the gallant deed of the
captain. 1t seemed preserved by some
special act of providence in recogni-
tion of the bravery of the crew in ac-
quiescing in such course. On it came ;
up and down; nearer and nearer. The
crowd raised their voices, now inspired
by hope, encouraging them to new eff
forts. They held their breath as q tre-
mendous wave bore them along on it's
horrible kissing crest with the speed
of an express train and then left them
in n hollow to be borne down by the
breaking of the wave. But they
arose, and the next moment men
rushed into the surf and drew them
safely to land, sound to man, while
the schooner, like poor, helpless
bird, beat herself to death upon the
distant rocks. Then the women, every
one of them, rushed to the captain,
kissed him and blessed him with united
voices. 1t was sight never to be
forgotten-never to fade in impress.
iveness. The sea has its heroes as
we'll ns the land. But this deed should
long be remembered by the life-boat
men. That captain deserved medal,
for in the face of death, with possible
help near at hand, he thought OF
others who might be made widows and
orphans, and reversed the flag. God
bless him !"--Detroit Free Press.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-11-18

Prairie schooners bound east are
the spectacles to which Nebraskans
around Arapahoe are treated now.
Tho people are being forced away
from the southwestern country by
drought
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-11-18
Goldenrod.
Murk and mist of the morning,
Glnre and clnmor of dnv.

Murk and mist Of the morning,
Glare and clamor Of day,
Dream and lnnguor OF eventide
When the shadows, idly play;
Flower OF the faith that clingeth,
Gift OF the loving God,
Giving glory to everything,
The beautiful goldenrod
The prodigal OF nature,
The spendthrift OF the spring,
Bold givcr in the summertime.
To which the glamours cling,
Covering the earth with beauty,
Hiding the ragged sod,
And never 10th to plight its troth,
The beautiful goldenrod
As with tired feet we wander
Along the weary path,
With the ghosts Of broken forests
Bewailing the storm kings wrath,
CLEAN lights up the shadows,
And, springing from the sod,
It heals the earth with blessings sweet,
The beautiful goldenrod!
1t hunts out humble places
Whero roses never bloom,
And where the rarer proteges
or the spring neer seek for room,
And there, in loving kindness,
Where unseen feet have trod,
It weaves its yel.,w mantle bright,
The beautiful goldenrod!
And here is taught lesson
That all should try to heed,
That not alone in palace hall
Is written the kindly deed:
That from the humble hovel
Go sweeter prayers to God,
AS in the lowly places blooms
The beautiful goldenrod
Hamilton ia
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-11-18
Having Fun With Him.

And the dude thought he would
have fun with the old doctor to whom
he said; "What had best do. doc
tor? When even take light exercise
/ breathe in short, quick pants"
"Gvt pair OF trousers stretch
ers"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-11-18

While the death rate of the Austrian
cities averages over twenty five per
thousand, the rate OF thirty-three
great towns in England and Wales is
only 1873.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-11-18
REVERSED THE FLAG.
Hamilton Jay.

Twas standing on the wharf, watching
the sailors unload a cargo of fish from
a schooner which had just returned
from the banks. The boat had fared
we'll, reporting 60, 900 pounds of hall
but, and it was sight well worth see
ing to note the great fish, some of
them weighing several hundred
pounds, being brought to the wharf.
The schooner had had quick run
and the crew we're cheerful rs became
men who had turned over few dollars
80 speedily. Besides, the market price
was good, there having been dearth
of fish recently. Great Boston was
eager for that cargo of fish and was
willing to pay the advance in price
which naturally followed the condi-
tions of the hour. 1t was q pictur-
esque sight, this unloading of fish
schooner. The old wharf, lying pro-
tected in the harbor; seward the
open ocean; down the harbor q small
forest of spars, belonging not to ma
jestic merchantmen, but to the
sprightly, agile, attractive schooners
which shoot in and out of the harbor
at all times and in all kinds of weather.
1t is spectacle that yachtsman
would enjoy-the coming and going
of these boats. In such a masterful
manner are they handled that they
glide in and out among tho other ves-
sells, always without mishap, some-
times performing evolutions which
seem almost impossible to the lands
man.
The crew we're bronzed, with fuces
like leather. A group of women had
drawn near to greet them home, and
brief as had been tho trip, the well
come back was none the less fervent.
Most OF them, however, had no one
in port to greet them. They were
mere outcasts of the ocean tramps of
the sea; working for while and then
spending all their wages in riotous
living.
Among the women on the wharf
that day was one who asked for
''chicken halibut."
''Here's one, Liz" called ont
80, kar G.l l. 81,
looked miniature, indeed, compared
to the other monsters of the deep.
sis it fresh?" she asked, handling
the "chcken" suspiciously.
"Cut it and see, was the response.
At that she took out knife and
hacked bit out of the tail.
eyes; it bleeds all right" she an
nounced. This is q test that never
fails.
| Near me on an old mackerel box
was an old salt who had retired from
active service, but who always liked
to see the boys come in. He sat
around and sat around. That was his
occupation-sitting. He would sit all
morning aud all afternoon on a box
or keg and never tire. He was mar.
vel at sitting and spinning yarns. The
old fellow never forgot, though, and
told you the same story twice. Here's
one he told about figure we'll known
in loucester-with most of the dia-
lect eliminated:
"Never heard what he done when
he was driving toward the shore in a
big nor'-easterp Why. it was the
noblest thing sailor ever done. They
seen him from the shore and they
made up their minds the schooner
would leave her ribs on the rocks.
But the lifeboat boys We're going to
put out. just the same. was stand
Ing there and heerd them talk. Its
mighty rough, boys. The chances
are agin it, but 1t must be done.
! Them sens were just rollin' in. you
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-11-18

The Queen of Italy has taken to
the bicycle. This is all the more note
worthy, as only few years ago lady
OF the house of Savoy was virtually
banished by King Humbert from the
court because she was devoted to the
too democratic wheel.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-11-18

1t is claimed that during the Inst
twenty-five years but one person for
every $500, 900 carried by the rail-
roads of Denmark has been killed.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-11-18

The schools in Winncbngo county.
Iowa, will be warmed with corn this
season. At ten cents bushel it is
much cheaper than coal.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-10-09
Money Made In a Minute.

have not made less than sixteen dollars
any day while selling Centrifugal Ice Cream
Freezers. Any one should make from five
to eight dollars selling cream and from
seven to ten dollars selling Freezers, as it is
such wonder, there is always crowd want
ing cream. You can freeze cream elegantly
in one minute and that astonishes people so
they all want to taste it and then MANY of
them buy freezers as the cream is smooth
and perfectly frozen. Every freezer is guar
anteed to freeze cream perfectly in one min
ute. Anyone can sell ice cream and the
freezer sells itself. My sister makes from
ten to fifteen dollars day. j. F. Casey &
Co., HAS St. Charles ST., St. Louis, Mo-.
will mail you full particulars free, SO you
can go TO work and make lots of money any,
where, as with one freezer, you can make a
hundred gallons OF cream a day, or II you
wish, they will hire you ON a salary.
NARY A.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-10-09
Elk City Items.

w. S. McFadden, the we'll
known Corvallis lawyer, spoke
here Friday evening to a good
sized audience of Mckinley and
Bryan people, in behalf of the
Bryan contingency of the dem
ocratic party, which is now a
part of the populist party. The
Judge plaintively compared him
self to Paul, the apostle. He
said he had in the past perse-
cuted and ridiculed the populists
as the apostle did the Christians,
but now he had the scales knock
ed from his eyes and saw clearly
that the populist party had been
right all the time, and that now
being regenerated and free from
the stencil and odiu1n of the old
democratic party, represented by
Cleveland, Carlisle and Palmer,
the populist wing of the old dem
ocratic party and the populist
party itself would clasp loving
hands and march right along to
victory. He said he was glad
the old democratic mule was
dead.
The judge was full of fun
and anecdotes, but gave us but
little argument upon the great
questions that so vitality affect
the interests of the people. He
seemed to desire to confuse and
''hoodoo" the audience rather
than convince them by sound
reasoning. He evidently scorn-
ed to discuss the real issues and
grave matters of the campaign.
The judge succeeded in making
several votes for VIM. McKin-
ley.
Prof. Geo. Bethers has moved
with his family to our town and
take charge of the public school,
which opens Monday. Mr..
Bethers is very popular and
successful teacher and we are
very glad to have him and his
family with us. =.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-10-09
WHY SILVER IS CHEAP.

The last issue Of the Chicago
Timberman contains the report oil
a lumber association, at which a
brief speech was made by Mr.. B
F. Mcmillan This gentleman has
had four years experience in the
silver mining business. The fol
lowing interesting statements
made by him, show how immense
is the stake for which the mine
owners are playing. Silveris enor-
mously plenty. and everything
which would increase the outpu,
would decrease the price eventu-
ally, because oil increased supply
Read what Mr.. Mcmillan aid:
eThe production of silver is
dependent entirely upon the price
Unlike gold and some other metals
there is no apparent limit to the
supply of workable ore if the price
of the bullion be high enough
There are whJle mountains which
run from five to ten ounces pei
ton.
"Given sufficient price for the
ore and as much silver can be turn
ed out of the mountains of Colo
RADIO as iron from the Gogebie
range.
ssThere was il time not long age
when at so cents an ounce moth.
ing under Is ounce ore could be
reduced, but processes have been
changing and new mines opened
! up so that III spite of the decline
in silver from It's coinage value ol
$1.29, the production is very large
| ly increased"
This improvements in mining and
reduction methods is constantly
going on, and Sir Mcmillan doubt
ed If it would ever be possible to
bring silver permanently back TO
/ a parity with gold at the ratio OF
] 16 to /. That ratio means bull
/ lion value of silver of $1.29 pei
ounce, measured III gold. He fur
ther said:
ssIf the whole world should all
|of a sudden adopt free coinage of
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-10-09

silver at that ratio, the Price might
sharply advance for iig1ie, but it
is altogether improbable that he
production would be so increased
as TO swamp the silver markets oi
the world.
Any material advance over the
present price of bullion can be
stopped and is sure to be stopped
by an increase in the output. so
that while on the old methods of
mining and of reduction, silver
occupied a comparatively fixed re
lation to gold, it has now reached
Il point where it is bound to de-
crease in value simply because of
the greatly decreasing cost of pro
ductlon and the possibility OF a
production which may be measur
ed in tons avoirdupois rather than
ounces troy.-Toledo Blade.