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BUFFALO. ROCHESTER, g. PITTS
~ BURGH RAILWAY.

The short line between Dubois, Ridgway,
Bradford, Salamanca, Buffalo, Rochester,
Niagara Falls and points In the upper oil
region.
On and after Nov. 18th, 1896, passen-
ger trains will arrive and depart from Falls
Creek station, daily, except sunday, as fol-
lows:
7.25 q m and lbs p m for Curwensville and
Clearheld.
1000 "a m-Buffalo and Rochester mail--For
Brockwayville, Ridgway ,Johnsonburg, Mt.
Jewett, Bradford, salamanca, Buffalo and
Rochester; connecting ut Johnsonburg
with =. 4 Il. train 3, for Wilcox, Kane,
Warren, Cory and Erie.
1927 n m-Accommodation-F Sykes, Big
Run and Punxsutawney.
10.2S m--FOr Reynoldsvile.
lis y m-Bradford Accommodation - For
Beechtree, Brockwayville, Ellmont, Car
mon; Ridgway, Johnsonburg, Mt. Jewett
and Bradford.
1.25 p. m.-Accommodation for Punxsu-
tawney and Big Run.
4,25 D. m.-Mail-For Dubois Sykes, Big
Run PunXsutawney and Walston.
T.40 p m-AccOmmOdatiOn for Big Run and
Punxsutawney
Passengers are requested to purchase tick
cts before entering the cars. An excess
charge of Ten Cents will be collected by con-
ductors when fares are paid on trains, from
all stations where IA ticket Office IL maintained.
Thousand mile tickets at two cents per
mile, good for passage between all stations.
J. II. MCINTYRE. Agent, Falls Creek, Pa.
r. q. LAPEy, Gen. Pas. Agent
Rochester NY.
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NUMBER 8.
TIMING BIG PROJECTlLES.
How Their Initial Velocity Is Calculated
In Tests at Sandy Hook.

To the layman one Of tho interesting
by which the initial velocity of tho
projectiles is calculated. When he hears
that the modern high power guns often
expel shot ut an initial velocity of
1000 feet a second, a rate that if sus-
tanned would mean mile in three sec
onds, he realizes the difficulty of calcu-
iating the speed. An ordnance officer
must have accurate knowledge of the
velocity of Il projectile, that he may pre-
dict its range and penetration and de-
termine the accuracy Of the gun. II is
II comparatively easy matter, however,
with the new instruments to calculate
accurately the initial velocity of pro-
jectile, and any one who is fortunate
enough to visit Sandy Hook when big
guns arc being tested may SEQ how it is
done.
Two open frames are set up 100 feet
apart i'll front of the gun. Wires are
stretched back and forth across these
frames, making II screen through which
the shot must pass. The wires in each
screen form Il complete electric circuit,
which includes also an electric battery
and an electro magnet. The projectile,
after leaving the gun, flies through the
wine in the first screen, interrupting tho
circuit and releasing the armature Of
the magnet. In space Of time so small
rs TO be hwdly conceivable the proicc-
tile has covered the distance between
the two frames and pierced the wire in
the second, interrupting its electric cur
rent and releasing the armature Of its
magnet, as in the first case. The inter
val between the drop Of these two ar
natures represents the time spent by
the projtc;ilo in travo ling $50 feet.
This time is indicated by the chrono-
graph i'll the laboratory near hy. Wires
run from each screen TO the laboratory,
which is cd up with batteries and
switChboalGs.
The armaturc of the first electro mag
net is an iron rod about feet long,
which j. suspended vertically This rod
falls when the second electro magnet is
placed II little below the first. and when
it is released il acts as u knife, and,
striking the side of the falling rod,
makes slight mark The distance Of
this cut rmark from the end Of the rod
indicates tho distance through which
the rod has dropped while the projectile
is passing from cne screen to another.
This forms the unit for the calculation
of the projcctile's velocity in feet per
second New explosives and high power
guns have increased the initial velocity
of projcctiles wonderfully in the last
few years Projectilcs may be expelled
now with force that will make them
effective at range far beyond ordinary
eyesight. New York Sun.
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For Bicycle Riders.

The mere fact that dozen or 30
wheelmen are off together for a.day's
run does not give them the right to take
possession of any country hotel they
may stop at for dinner, nor does it give
them the right to take possession of the
road along which they are riding, nor
the right to become noisy and trouble
some to the people whom they may
meet either on the road or where they
stop. There have been so many in
itanccs of late in the vicinity of large
iitics where dozen young men, indi
vidually well bred and gentlemanly,
have made themselves so disagreeablc
that hotels and stopping places have
been obliged TO make certain rules, such
as preventing the wheelmen from com
ing into the dining room i'll bicycle cos
tune or from sitting i'll the public
rooms, except perhaps the cafe, for the
proprietors have found that the moment
the members Of party dress in civilian
costume they again realize their re-
sponsibility as individuals to the com
munity, and that while they remain nv
their bicycle costume they seem to think
they have no responsibility whatsoever.
This sort of behavior does more harm
to the general bicycling fraternity than
can be well estimated. A few men 60
ing to place and making themselves
obnoxious to all there will spoil that
particular house for bicyclists for many
q day to come. The others are treated
like intruders. Each one is stunned by
people for fear he is another Of the first
gang Regulations such as the above
are posted up in plain view, making
him, so to speak, restricted person,
and in general many quiet people who
are fond of bicycling trips have their
pleasure marred simply from this lack
OF responsibility on the part Of few
who have preceded them.-Harper's
Round Table.
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France and American Students.

The Sorbonne in by no means satisfied
with simply allowing its students to
listen to courses of lectures. 1t therefore
provides ON large scale system of
conferences or cours fermes, which are
designed to drill the student in special
problems and questions, as we'll as for
explaining and developing in detail
these subjects which the professor can
nu fully dwell upon in his regular
coarse. The instruction hero is given
mostly by assistant professors, but it
must not be inferred from this title that
they are tyros i'll science. In the depart
ment Of mathematics tine teachers at
the Sorbonne include men who, in addi-
tion to holding very high rank among
the mathemuticians of the world, have
displayed that force and elegance in
tlpating their subject which has long
been II feature of French science and
who have prepared textbooks unequaled
fcr clearness and precision.
Heretofore admission to these courses
has been mostly confined to holders Of
the French baccalaureat, but there is
n0 regulation absolutely requiring this
qualification. II any American student
who has taken his bachelors degree
washes to enroll himself at the Sorbonne
as a student, he will experience no diff
ficnlty except that arising from the in
creasing numbers who flock thither for
instruction. At conference at which
the writer was present the number at
tending was so great that any individ-
ual must have felt himself somewhat
at disadvantage. Professor Simon
Newcomb in Forum.
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into his hand snuff box (hc was Han
overian and took snuff containing. not
snuff, but $50 bank note.
A few hours before the theatre opened
Wallie Dinsmore had met Geoffrey Bel
lingham in that general rendezvous of
American celebrities the corridor of the
Fifth Avenue hotel.
1--WE been looking for you for the last
twenty-four hours he said, "but this is
the last place expected to see you in"
Maybe that's why I'm here" respond.
ed Geoffrey laconicaly.
81 wanted you to dine with me yester-
day"
II went to Delmonico's."
Europe has demoralized you."
Perhaps. saw Hamilton Jocelyp
there, and lnigo. That fellows scoun-
drel."
"Inigo:''
"Jocelyn. Do you know what he has
been doing: They had both of them
been drinking and it leaked out. He
has been dcfmudiug Miss Randolph of II
part of her salary-nbout twenty-five or
thirty thousand dollars"
"Thcn the agreement was for four
thousand"
lingo paid that to Jocelyn for her
Jocelyn kept back part. It seems to
have hoena sort of arrangement between
Jocelyn and luigo-I imagine Ipigo al
lowed it to keep Jocelyn quiet. 1t was Il
rascally transaction, as told them; the
fellow ought TO he locked up. He's not
20 be found today. and ! expect he's
cleared out.
"Very likely. That Nine. ~Benax
reems to have had something against
him. too But if this new Mariana can
only he naciiiel | shall be content to let
the rest 20. OF course you will be at
the opera tonight
NO"
"That's ab urd! You must come"
NO; WY should |? Yuu have chosen
TO suppose tH'.t there was something be-
tween Miss nandolph and me. never
cared to undrccive you-it would have
been giving the affair too much iinpor-
tancn. But, whatever there might have
been, there is certainly nothing now
nor ever will be-
"If was deceived then | don't see
why you refuse to come tonight
~ simply don't care to-" said Balling-
ham abruptly.
Walie looked at him, and decided that
the wisest course would he not to press
him any further. They parted, and Bel
lingham went to his rooas, lit n lamp,
and sat himself down to read. But
when the hour for the Performance ap-
preached lie closed the book, dressed
himself, ana drove to the theatre. He
could not rest iiis iinr .. VII l.o
arrived the otor. lgc was i,,.5t O. r.iud-
ing. II sha' II /, able to gct pllce, -
he said to M sr.s; lit is Just rs we'll. "
But when Ii. resented himself ut tho
ticket Office IA, CLERK. who recognized
him, remarked with smile, "Just one
seat vacant, Mr.. Bcllingham, and that
is the one you used to occupy the first
Of the season: will You have it?' 1t
seemed like manifest destiny. "All
right" said Bellingham. He took the
ticket, entered the house. and sat down,
As he did so the curtain rose.
ITO BE CONCLUD sDl
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-30

One who accustoms himself to think
Of pure and holy things, who sets his
affections on things above and strives
to reach whatever things are lovely, will
grow upward toward the things he loves
and thinks upon. But ono who let's his
mind turn habitually to debasing
things, things unholy, unclean, sensual,
will find his whole soul bending down
ward and growing toward the earth.
j. Il. Miller, d. ID.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-30

Help, helpr cried the drowning
man. II am drowning"
"Jove! What an opportunity!" cried
the reporter on the shore, whipping out
his notebook. "Quick, tell me your SEN
sations, and III give you send Off in
next Sundays paper.
But IL was too late The man had
gone down for the third time. -Har.
per's Bazar
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-30
VOLUME 6.
lluiiruun Ctntr Tubtrs.
O~J~ON-~0~-~-0eCO0~0~cNOOr
DENNSYLNANIA RAILROAD.
IN EFFECT MAY l6. 1897

Philadelphia & Erie Railroad Division Time
Table. Trains lea,c& & &nriitwood.
for Sunhury, wiikGsharrc scranton,
Harrisburg and the intermediate sta
,ons, arriving at philadclphia G:9 p. m.
New York, $3.50 y. M; Baltimore, $500 p M;
Wnshington, 7;l5 y. M Pullman Parlor rni
from 'Willlnmsp9,t and passenger coaches
400 u. m.-Train q. daily except sunday Tot
Harrisburg and intermediate stations, ar
rvinr at Philadelphia 4;30 A. NJ; New York,
i:p \. NJ Pullman sleeping cars from
Harrisburg tu philadelphia and New York.
Philadelphia passengers can remain IN
sleeper undistuibcd until 1;M \, VI.
$40 y. m.--TrHin !, daily for Sunbury. llnriis-
burg and intermediate stations, ariiy wing ~
Philadelphia, d:52 A. NJ; New York. N:B
An On week days .SG ana 'oS N,M,, NJ. On sun ia
AN. Pullman cars from Erie and VII liams-
port to rhiladelphi9. rnssengcis In sleeper
transferred into Washington sleeper NJ Ilar-
rSuurg. Passenger runcHcs from Erie to
Philadelphia and Wlliumsrpm to Bati-
''''' WESTWARD
5:.i Il. m.--Trnin l. daily except sunday fur
Rdgwuy, Dubois, ticrmoni and inter
mrdintc stations. Leave. Rldgway NJ 3:io
T.. NJ for Erie.
$3.50 II. n.--Tioln 3, daily for Erie and inter
5:I5 y. M --rrain Is. daily except sunday for
Kane and intermediate stat ions.
TlnorGll, ,THAIN;s, fo& nEflltETWooh
TRAIN IL leaves Philadelphia $3.50 4. M.
Washington, $50 \. "; Baltimore, $3.50 \. ";
Milkcsbarrc, lO:l5 \. NJ; daily except sun
day. arriving AZ nriftwUOd ~ i:45 y. VI. with
Pullman rnrlor ear from Ihindclphia Ia
WtlliumSpOrt.
TRAIN . leaves NcwYurlt NJ :: ~ u. m; phllu-
drluhia ll;-u y. MI Washington, 1910 D. M;
Raltimurc. ll.i0 p. M daily arriving at
DriftNoud nj N;i0 t.. m, Pullman -lccpiuI
cars from Philadelphia To Erie and from
Washington aud Baltimore iu Nilliamspuit
and through passenger coaches from l'hilu-
dclphin tn Erie and Baltimore 10 Williams
port.
TRAIN leaves GcUovo at $3.50 .. m. daily
except sunday, arriving at Driftwoud 1:2l
a.
JOUNSONBTRG RAILROAD.
DAILY except sunday
TRAIN ~ leaves Bidgway ~ g:li n. M; John
sunburg at g::m a. M, arriving NJ tletmont
~ 1880 n. M.
TRAIN - leaves tlcrmont at lO:4O II. IN. ar
r,iug at JohnSOnbuIg NJ :3b Il. IN. aud
Kidgway NJ II l:i5 u. ~.
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A Note From the Editor.

The editor Of IA leading state paper
writes; If you had seen my wife last
June and were to see her to-day you
would not believe she was the same
woman. Then she was broken down by
nervous debility and suffered terribly
from constipation and sick headache.
Bacon's Celery King for the nerves
made her we'll woman in one month. ;"
II. Alex. Stoke will give you u FREQ
sample package of this great herbal
remedy. Large size 25c. and soc.
Subscribe for THE STAR and rnt nh
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A LLEGHEN VALLEY RAILWAY
"A COMPANY commencing Sunday,
May l6, 1897, Low Grade Division.
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WANTED n-FAITnFuL MEN OR woMEN

w to travel for responsible established
house In pennsylvania. Salary $50 and en-
penses. Position permanent Reference.
ENCLOSE self addressed stamped envelope.
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CONNECTIONS. y Wulnm,uurt with
hilYAclphirN EuudiugR X. NJ Jersey Shurc
with Hall Hipuk Railway. At Min
HAL with Central Railroad ul Pennsylvania.
Vt Philippians. With Pennsylvania ltallrnld
aud Altoona ~ philip-hug Connecting Il. X.
At Clcariicld with Buffalo, Rochester y
Pittsburgh Railway Al MahatlCy aud
Patton with Gambia \ tlrariicld Division
of Pennsylvania Sailrpud. At Mahui'cy with
Pennsylvania % Nouh-Nc~trru Raiitond
\. g.. PALMER 4. T.. HERMAN
superintendent. Gcu'l Pass Agt.
philndcIbhn Pa .
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Trains daily except Sunday.
DAVID MCCARGO, GEN'L. SUPT
JAS. p. ANDERSON GEN'L PASS. ACT.
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Philadelphia & Erie Railroad Division Time
Table. Trains leave priftwOod.
EASTWARD
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DIDGWAY X CLEARFIELn II. Il.
IL AND CONNECTIONS.

DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY.
NORTHWARD.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-13
SCHRADER IS TRAPPED
K0KOMO PREACHER PREPARES
TESTS FOR "DIvINE HEALER,
Said He Could Take Poison and Not
Suffer, but His Nerve Failed
Hmm. e. Conference.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
KOKOMO. Ind, Sept. 12-"Divine Heal
er" August Schrader, who occupied quar-
tiers on the fair grounds near the race track
and the "Hooche Coochie'' tent, had a
rather troublous and unsatisfactory week.
The blessings were plentiful but the
free will offerings IN return were scarce.
Rev. T. H. Kuhn, pastor of the Main-street
Christian Church, hired a cab and drove
to his hotel with four patients, two blind.
one paralyzed and one deaf, to test the
alleged powers of the healer" Rev. Kuhn
carried the helpless into the house and
carried them out in the same manner, none
of the afflicted receiving any benefit from
the treatment. Rev. Kuhn then denounced
Schrader as a fraud and a sacrllegious i'm
poster Schrader and his work was de-
nounced in nearly all the pulpits of the city
to-day. Rev. Parr of the Grace Methodist,
Father Lordeman of St. Patricks Catholic
and Rev. Kuhn being the most severe.
Schrader is still here. He preached at the
Monroe-street Tabernacle tonight. His
new wife goes to New York this week to
assume control of THE Healer" Schrader's
paper.
To-day Rev Kuhn gave Schrader another
test. The latter said his faith was so
strong he could take deadly poison and it
pulled a vial marked poison out of his
pocket and asked Schrader to drink it, but
the latter refused to do So The bottle con-
tanned nothing but Epson salts, prepara-
ton, that was hxed up. for the occasion by
Rev. Kuhn.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-13
OPERATORS CONFUSED.
VIII Not Sign Contract Until They
Hear from Illinois.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Sept. 12-There is
considerable confusion as to what will be
done in the Indiana mining field as a re-
suit of the Columbus settlement. The In
diana operators have not been consulted at
any time and have said they will be guided
by the result in Illinois. Some of them will
try to start their mines tomorrow at the
56-cent price, which is the dfferential on
the 65 cents for the Pittsburg district, but
they also say that they are willing to pay
this price at present because the market
price of coal will warrant them in doing
so. They also believe that the Illinois min
ers will make a strong fight to bring their
operators to terms and at least while this
effort is being made. Indiana can pay the
price, but that if the Illinois operators
again begin mining coal under the Indiana
price, Indiana miners will have to accept
a reduction as they did for the same reason
last May. 1t is not known if the miners
organization will ask the operators to sign
contracts to run until the joint conference
in December 1t is not probable the opera
tors will do so if asked. They have no as
surance as to what their competitors in
Illinois will be paying during all the inter-
vening time. President Knight, of the
miners, has not returned from Columbus
and until his arrival the question cannot be
passed on.
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value of the bullion. has been for years less
than the coinage value, so that one thou
SAND dollars worth of bullion would pro-
euce when coined, considerably more than
one thousand dollars in silver dollars. The
difference between the $1,000 in money paid
Tor the bullion and the two thousand silver
dollars more or less, resulting from the
coinage of that bullion, is the gain of
seigniorage. You will observe therefore,
that there can be no gain or seigniorage
until after the bullion has been converted
into coin, and you will see, Also that there
can be no such thing as coming standard
silver dollars from the seigniorage." No
part of the bullion owned by the United
States is seigniorage, but a considerable
proportion Of the standard silver dollars
coined from that bullion would be seign-
forage.
Now as to the purpose for which silver
dollars are coined. BY the act of Feb.
y, 1878, the secretary of the treasury was
directed to purchase not less than two mil
lion ounces of silver each month, and to
coin the same into standard silver dollars.
TheSe dollars. when coined. were TO be PAID
out by the government in liquidation of its
debts, and when so paiG out they might be
redeposited by the owners, and silver GER
tificates taken in their place. These silver
certificates We're mere receipts for the sill
yer dollars deposited in the treasury and,
of course, the government holds the silver
of the certificates. You will see that the
coinage of standard silver dollars precedes
the issuing of the certificates, and that the
coinage of such dollars is not for the pur-
pose of retiring the certificates, but That,
on the contrary, the greater the coinage the
greater the circulation of the certificates,
since very large proportion of the dollars
paid out is invariably returned to the treas
ury for the certificates. All the silver GER
tiicates in circulation are outstanding un-
der authority of the acts of Feb Is, 1878,
and Aug. 4, 1856. which see.
The act of July IA, 1890, superseded the
act of Feb. IS, 1878. 1t enlarged the pur-
chase of silver bullion. but provided for
payment of the bullion purchased by the is
sue of treasury notes. 1t also provided for
the coinage of so much of the bullion pur
chased as in the discretion of the secre-
tary of the treasury, might be necessary
to redeem the treasury notes. if they should
be presented for redemption in silver dol
lars. Please observe the. distinction be-
tween silver certificates and treasury notes,
as shown in the acts of 1873 and 1890. Both
the acts above mentioned provided that the
gain, or seigniorage, arising from the coin
age of the silver bullion purchased should
be deposited in the treasury, as the prop
erty of the United States.
The total coinage of standard silver dol
lars from 1878 to June 30, 1897, was $451,-
993, 49, of which $37S, 166, 1893 were coined I'M
der the act of Feb. %. 1873 $6S74S,417 under
the act of July ID, $780, and So 01S,472 under
the act of March g. 1891
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LONDON, Sept. 13.-The Times to-day. in
its financial article, which records the uni
versal condemnation of the alleged pro-
posal of the Bank of England to maintain
fifth of it's reserve in silver, says: ut was
suggested, rather than asserted, that our
correspondent had only one end of the story
and that the bank had given it's consent
subject to conditions such as the establish
ment of bimetallism in France and the
United States, and a guarantee from the
home government that the bank should
suffer no loss
The Daily News. in it's financial article,
says: 1T would not be worth discussing
whether the Bank of England had reached
such decision did not an uneasy feeling
exist that well-known bimetallist members
of the government may have given the
American delegates some sort of under
standing on the subject. 1t is not for mo-
ment believed that any radical tamperng
with the gold reserve is contemplated.
Any concessions in this direction or for the
reopening of the Indian minis are always
understood to have been conditional on the
establishment of international bimetal-
lism.' We hope the next meeting of the
proprietors of the bank will either explain
or deny these mischeivouS reports"