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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-08-31
A Narrow Escape.

Thankful words written by Miss Ada
Z. Hart, of Groton, $. ID. ''Was taken
with bad cold which settled on my
lungs; cough set in and finally terminat-
ed in Consumption. Four Doctors gave
me up, saying could live bat a short
time gave myself up to my Savior
determined if I could not stay with my
friends on earth, would meet my abb
sent ones above. My husband was ad-
vised to get DIR. Kings New Discovery
for Consumption, Coughs and Colds q
gave 1t a trial, took in ali eight bottles.
1t has cured me, and thank God | am
now well and healthy woman Trial
bottles free at II. A Stokes Drug
Store Regular size SOC. and $I.00.
Guaranteed or price refunded.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-08-31
Not Infallible.

Harriet Martineau, the English au.
thor was shrewd and practical and had
what men are pleased to call "mas-
culine intellect. But she was not al
ways correct in her deductions, fact
illustrated by the following anecdote,
told in her "Memoirs, by Sir Charles
Murray, who was then the English con-
sui general in Egypt:
One afternoon we met ut the villa of
my old friend, S. w. Larking, on the
banks of the Mahamoudieh canal. In
the course of our stroll through the gar
den we came to small gate, the. pat +.
tern of which was new to Miss Mar
tineau, who was walking in front.
She stopped, and looking at the gate
in an attitude Of intense admiration ex-
claimed:
"How truly oriental! What wonder.
ful taste these easterns have in designv'
She went on, and as Larhing and I
followed through the gate he whispered
to me, II got it out last week from
Birmingham"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-08-31
Paradise.

You can sit and hear the humming of
the separator at most every barn.
p. NJ. Wells and wife spent Sunday in
Big Run.
Quite number of the folks attended
the OK roast at Emerickville.
Lewis Ludwick is erecting cider
mill to run by water power where cider
will be made to order.
j. NJ. Sheesley, while working in the
barn slipped and fell through knot
hole in the floor. He did not get hurt,
only sprained his left knee above the
ankle.
f. S. Syphrit is learning Alfred Shees-
ley to dig coal. ALI. says when his
light goes out he can't see little bit,
For neat shave and hair cut you
should call on Thomas Gathers. Every
thing done up to perfection.
G. +. Heller made an oats stack about
so feet high. He says he will get flag
and use it for a flag pole.
Mr.. and Mrs. Martin Strouse visited
friends in Big Run last "Wednesday.
About sixty OF the young folks of
Reynoldsyilae spent very good time in
Paradise last Thursday.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-08-31

A 12 inch rifle is 3S feet long, with
feet external diameter at the breech,
and weighs 4S tons. Its $50 pound shot,
driven by 43O pound charge of brown
prisnatic powder, leaves the muzzle
with velocity exceeding 1, 400 miles
per hour and would reach q target at its
effective range of az miles in "a Sec
onds, while it would take the report of
its discharge % seconds to traverse the
same distance. At u range of ~ miles
this shot would perforate 10 inches of
solid steel.
The $50 pound projeotile of the 8 inch
rifle will penetrate foot of armor at
the range of mile. The six inch
rapid fire guns within the superstructure
each deliver eight 40 pound projectiles
in a minute, while the twenty pound
ers distributed over the vessel can be re-
lied upon to clear an enemy's decks or
to disable torpedo boats by maintaining
q terrific hail Of explosive shell, capable
OF destroying any unarmored position.
The final offensive resources of the cita-
del are the four torpedo tubes, each pre-
pared to launch automatic and dirigible
destpyers containing 100 pounds Of
gun cotton. n.-Chautauquan.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-08-31
WAYS OF THE BLUE CRAB.
Some of It's Peculiarities as Observed a,
New York's Aquarium.

Some of Its Peculiarities as Observed at
New York's Aquarium.
While the blue crab is not commonly
thought of as a swimmer and does in
fact spend the greater part of its time
on the bottom, yet it can very easily
sustain itself in the water and swim at
very fair rate Of speed. It swims end
wise, and when swimming it carries
one big claw thrown forward and bent
back at the middle joint, making a
point projecting at that end of the
body, while the other big claw trails
straight out astern. If it changes direc-
tion, it crooks the claw it had been car
rying straight and let's the other go
free. II it sustains itself in the water
without progressing, it carries its big
claws in front of itself as it would nat
urnlly do under ordinary circumstances
ON the bottom, but it has to keep its
little claws in motion to sustain itself.
and in swimming the little claws are
kept actively at work. Besides making
a good degree of progress through the
water in swimming the blue crab can
change its course or swim to higher
or lower level with facility. When
frightened, the blue crab moves off side
ways, but when moving about at home
and undisturbed it may move straight
forward. Its body may be inclined at
any angle to the line of progress, bat
its motion still be forward the big
claws carried crooked around in front
1t may be seen moving thus in one of
the larger tanks at the aquarium, in
which there are blue crabs, Holsters and
other things. The temperature of the
water now just suits tho crustaceans,
and they are very lively. Blue crabs
may be seen swimming here, and also
walking about, stepping down from
stones that are as high as they them
selves are wide with perfect dignity, if
not grace of manner, and walking or
carrying their claws before them
New York Sun.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-08-31
STERN DISCIPLINE.
Is Necessary In War and the Soldier
Must Learn tn subinit.


One of Detroit's retired officers. who
Fought in two wars and belped for years
to rcgtrain the savage outbreaks of our
Indians, thus delivered himself To the
writer:
"Tho very hardest lesson 4 youns
American has TO learn whom he enters
The army is that Of obedience. .Sr tho
first time, his Individual au; 'rity is dc.
throned. Eo is ms fractions ns n thor.
oughbrcd colt that long rebels against
the whip and spur. 1t is hard for him
to understand that his freedom Of action
must be subordinated To military necrs.
sity. He chafos, if he does not openly
rebel hut when oncn whipucd into line
he makes tic best soldier on earth.
my first drilhnaster had been MY
friend and the friend of my family from
my boyhocd up. We had hunted and
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-08-31
II Was n Pretty Hat.

A young lady of the east end had Just
received several proofs of different styles
of photographs of herself and had kept
them until the usual semiweekly visit
of her best gentleman friend. He was
punctual in arriving that night, but he
never imagined that it was to be his
last call for an indefinite period.
He had no sooner seated himself in
the parlor than tine young lady brought
in the photographs for his inspection.
HE looked them over very carefully and
finally selected the only one of the sew.
eral pictures showing hat on the SUBJ
ject 1t was a pretty big hat and beau
tifully trimmed. The piece of millinery
caught his eye at first glance, and he
most innocently remarked:
81 think this is the best photograph
The hat is so pretty. 1t is very fine
picture Of the hat
The young man did not notice his
fatal error until too late. His visit was
short and uninteresting that evening,
and now he wishes that the art of pho
Biography had never been discovered.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-08-31

A story told by John Ross Dix in his
"Pulpit Portraits" shows how strong n
current of life ran in the veins of DR..
Lyman Beecher when he had passed
the allotted threescore years and ten.
When about 75 years of age, he spent
fortnight in tho eastern part of
Maine. A party of gentlemen at Calais
went with him some 30 miles up q
series of lakes to Indian territories.
When about to embark upon chain
Of lakes in the birch canoes, the Indian
guide, Etienne, rather objected to 50
old man attempting the adventure,
fearing that he would give out.
The doctor padded with the best of
the youngsters; caught more trout than
all the party together and returned each
day from the various tramps in the
lead ate his fish on a rock, with q sea
biscuit for a trencher and fingers for
knives and forks; slept on the ground
upon hemlock branches under the tent,
and at length the Indian guide went
from the extreme of depreciation to the
highest expression of admiration in his
power, saying;
"Ah, old man, all Indian!'
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-08-31
Dickens In Evening Dress.

When Charles Dickens was to make
lis first appearance in Boston before an
American audience as reader, an inn
mense crowd awaited him. The en-
thusinsm OF the people for the most
popular novelist then living had risen
to fever heat. One of the ivost ardent
of his admirers aftcrward told , is lit
tie incident Cf the evening:
with few gentlemen who wished
TO welcome and show him attention |
was in the little room at the back Ct
the platform when Dickens entered it.
He was rather stout man with some.
what red face, and l saw to my sur.
prise, that he was dressed in un cxag
geratcd scrvitity to tho extreme fashion.
More than this, he wore bouton-
Mere i'll each buttonhole, and two
watches, the chains of which were
strung aggressively across his chest.
There was II gaudy bad taste in his ap.
pearance which his friends regretted,
knowing how distasteful it would be to
most of his admirers who appreciated
his genius and enjoyed his writings.
"No one of course. could broach the
subject to him, and he appeared that
night and every other night of his ell
gagement in the same attire The uni
versal comment was, why, this is a
petit maitre. How can man with such
tastes be the creator of Tiny Tim and
Sam WellerV'-Youth's Companion.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-08-31

sin the harbor Of Hauticgo de Cuba,
Fnys Maturin NJ. Balluu in Due South,
"a sInken wreck Is pcint5h tut, par
TALLY visible at low tide. lst far from
the shore. Only thc ribs ard sauchions
are still held tcStlhcr L., lu ndt keel
timbers and lower thcItJi.r This
wreck has lain here urLCc.'cG fh years,
yet what story these old timbers
might tell had they only tonguo with
which to give voice to their experience
literally the experience Of ages. p"
Reference is made to the remains of
the old st. Paul, one of the ships of the
great Spanish armada that Philip IL
sent to England in 1858, being one of
the very few of that famous notilla
that escaped destruction Mt the time.
What n historical memento is the old
wreck! After checkered career, in
which this ancient craft had breasted
the waves of innumerable seas and
withstood the storms of nearly three
centuries. she was burned to the wa
ter's edge here in the harbor of Santi-
ago few years since and sunk, where
her remains now lie, covered With slime
and barnacles-a striking embl EN- of
the nation whose flag she once proudly
bore. New York Tribune.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-08-31

At a meeting of the Poor Clergy Re-
lief society in London story was told
of Bishop Waldegravc of Carlisle and
"wicked" Lord Lonsdale The bishop
rode WELL and on his going up to Low
ther castle Lord Lonsdale admired his
horse and his management of it. The
bishop pleaded the cause of clergyman
passing rich on $40 year, whose we'll
educated wife took in tourists washing
to add to their scanty income.
Lord Lonsdale said: Everybody
looks on me as very sinful man, be-
yond all possible hope of salvation. You
have spoken to me as gentleman; you
have spoken to me like good servant
of the great head of the church; you
have spoken to me encouragingly about
the salvation of even my poor soul you
have pleaded the cause very nobly for
that young clergyman. Here is my
checkbcok. Put down what you like,
and will sign it,"
The bishop said, "No; that is mat
ter between God and you. :"
Lord Lonsdale gave the bishop a
check for el0, 900 and afterward two
further checks for 100000 for poor
clergy of the diocese of Carlisle.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-08-31

The natives of these Jaman villages
had never seen white man before, and
l noticed ut first with some surprise
that those Of our actions which inter.
ested them most We're the simple and
commonplace ones. To such matters as
eating and dressing they gave the clos
est attention. Every morning when I
emerged from my tent found large
audience waiting patiently for the per-
formance to begin, and when took my
place ut the washstand "a crowd closed
round, forming large circle. They fol-
lowed the whole process with the great
est enjoyment, discussing and explain
ing to one another the various details
and now and again raising shouts of
applause as some peculiarly amusing
feature of the performance tsuch as tho
use of the nailbrush) occurred. When I
produced my toothbrush and proceeded
to put it to it's natural use, there was
much anxious discussion, and when l
brushed my hair up and made it stand
on end they yelled with delight.
AS for the opening of bottle of
hnmpagne, which occurred on one oc-
casion after an unusually long march)
it simply brought down the house, al
though the spectators somewhat abrupt
ly dispersed and viewed the remainder
of the performance around the corners
of adjacent huts Freeman's Travels
and Life IN Ashanti
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-08-31

In the 40 years that elapsed between
the battle of Waterloo and the fighting
in the Crimea the British army attain
ed maximum Of inefficiency. It is
only now, when the chief actors in the
great drama Of the struggle with Russia
are dead, that the public is beginning
to learn the extent of the incapacity and
inefficiency of the men responsible for
the equipment and training of the Brit
ish army. But for the courage of the
British private the Crimean campaign
would have been disastrous failure.
Indeed but for the accident of q fog ON
the morning Of the battle of Inkerman,
which enabled a handful of British
troops to impress 10000 Russian SOL
diers with the idea that they were more
numerous and better supported than
they really We're, the English army
would have been driven into the Black
sea and the subsequent history of Eu-
rope altered beyond recognition.--Lon-
don Standard.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-08-31
Eyeglasses and speotaolss.

fou say you never wore spectacles?''
said the near sighted man. "Well, il
you ever put Oh pair you'll never
wear anything else. wore eyeglasses
Tor years. thought they looked better
on me, and then imagined that they
We're more convenient; tina. could
take them off and put them ON more
readily and allthat. But after wearing
a pair of spectacles once for few days
II had put them on, as 1 thought at
Srst, temporarily-I discovered that
speetacles were. the glasses for comfort.
There are, to be sure, people who
DO not wear glasses all tho time, but
only for reading or writing, and SO ON.
to whom eyegla sses may be more con-
venient, and then believe that eye
glasses are made nowadays that have
more scientifically adjusted grips, and
all that sort of thing, but I tell YOU
that the thing for real comfort is speo-
taoles. New York Sun.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-08-31
The Black Hole of Calcutta.

A scientist, writing of the black hole
of Calcutta and its atmosphere, says:
"On the 20th of June, 1856, about s
o'clock in the evening, LAG men were
forced at the point of the bayonet into
a dungeon 18 feet square. They had
been but few minutes confined in this
internal prison before every one fell
into perspiration SO profuse that no
idea can be formed of it. This brought
on n raging thirst, the most difficult
respiration and an outrageous delirium.
Such was the horror Of their situation
that every insult that could be devised
against the guard without and all the
opprobrious names the viceroy and his
officers could be loaded with were re-
peated to provoke the guard to fire upon
them and terminate their sufferings--
Before 1 O'Clock the same evening onsc
third of the men were dead, and before
next morning only 23 came out alive,
but most of them in high putrid fe-
yer. All these dreadful effects were oc-
casioned by the want of atmospheric
air and by their breathing a super
abundant quantity Of nitrogen emitted
from their lungs" I
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-08-31
NUMBER Is.


Tho winter palace of the car sur
passes any other palace in Europe 1t
is Oh tho banks Of the Neva and owes
its existence to the Empress Catherine
H. that most extraordinary woman, ex-
traordinary in ability and in vice, the
surprise of all her contemporaries and
the wonder Of all who have stud ed her
character. The building is four atories
high Of light brown color and highly
ornamental in architecture. It is a
wilderness of balls, stairways and
apartments. The Nicholas hall and the
st. Georges hall will never be forgot
ten by those who have seen them.
One of the most interesting rooms il
that where Nicholas died. 1t Is in the
upper story Of the northeast corner of
the building and is approached by four
doors and finally by narrow passage.
1t is u small room, only about 8 feet
long and IL feet wide with two small
windows, and is the place where the
emperor spent most Of his time when
not officially employed. II is the room
in which he died, some say by poison
administered by himself in fit of mel
ancholy induced by the outcome of the
Crimean war. The room remains Just
as he left it. Near the center is plain
iron bedstead. Some chairs and few
cheap pictures adorn the room, and
dilapidated, down at the heel pair of
slippers complete the furnishings of the
attic room in the palace.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-08-31
RUFFALO, ROCHESTER, & 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 July 3rd, 1898, passen-
ger trains will arrive and depart from Falls
Greek station. daily, except Sunday, as fol-
;7.25 I'm, lao and 45Op m for Curwensville and
Clearfield.
1857 m-Rochester mail-For Brock
wayville. Ridgway, Johnsonburg, Mt.
Jewett Bradford. Salamanca and
Rochester; connecting at Johnsonburg
with p. 4 E. train ., for Wilcox, Kane,
warren, Cory and Erie.
aO.27 m-AccOmmodation-Fo Sykes Big
Run and Punxsutawney.
10. a m-For ReynOldsville
u.l5 m-Buffalo Express - For Beech
tree, Brockwayville, Ellmont Car
mon, Ridgway, Johnsonburg Mt. Jewett
Bradford, and Buffalo.
LID p. m.--AccommodatiCn for Punxsu-
tawney and Big Run.
40 p. m.-Mail-Eor Dubois, Sykes, Big
Run Punxsutawney and.C .Clearheld.
7-sOp m-AccOmmodation Cor Big Run and
'Runxsutawney.
Passengers are requested to purchase tick
cts before entering the cars. An excess
Charge of Ten Gents will be collected by con-
ductors when fares are paid on trains, from
altstations where Il ticket officeis maintained.
Thousand mile tickets at two cents per
mile, good for passage between all stations.
j. II. MCINTYRE, Agent, Falls Creek, Pa.
Il. y. LAPEY. Gen. Pas. Agent,
Rochester NY.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-08-31
A Young Girls Experience

My daughters nerves were TERRIBLY
out of order. She was thin and weak:
the least noise startled her, and she
was wakeful at night. Before she had
taken one package OF Celery King the
change in her was so great that she
could hardly be taken for the same girl.
She is rapidly gnowing well and strong,
her complexion is perfect, and she
sleeps well every night.-Mrs. Lucy
McNutt, Brush Valley, Pa. Celery
King for the Nerves, Stomach, Liver
and Kidneys is sold in 25c- and soc.
packages by H. Alex. Stoke.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-08-31
Rathrnel.

Mr. Nichols, manager of the Eleanora
Jefferson Supply Co. Store, had business
here last week.
Miss Jennie Mcpherson, who has
been visiting at Crcnshaw, for some
time, returned home Saturday last.
a few Of our citizens met near Henry
mine Saturday and enjoyed quiet
picnic.
Rev. o. II. Sibley, pastor of the NJ.
+. church, preached Saturday evening
and held communion on Sunday even
ing last.
There will be an ice cream supper in
the p. o. S. Of A. hall Monday, Sep
tember 5th. Ice cream and cake will
be served afternoon and evening on the
third floor.
The Clearfeld Coal and Iron Co. have
just finished three houses at this place.
which are already occupied. There is
a great demand for houses here at pres
cnt.
Miss Jennie Cunningham, of Cren-
shaw, is visiting friends here.
Rev. G. w. Headley, of Harveys
Lake, is visiting his daughter, Mrs. A.
l.. Keagle, and family here. He
preached Sabbath morning and evening
in the Church OF God.
c. V. Clock, of Dubois, and the
Misses Clock and Dilbun, of Covington,
were visitors here last week.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-08-31
The First Teacupe.

Even after tea was introduced into
Europe and had come into general use
teacups were scarce. At the same time
coffee was introduced; but, apart from
Constantinople, the first coffee cups in
Europe date back only as far as 1915 in
Venice, 1859 in Paris, 1862 in London
and 1894 in Leipsic. From the first,
however, the conventional oriental cof-
fee cup without stem or handle, was
little Used, and in Germany not at all.
The Chinese teacup was used for tea,
coffee and chocolate as we'll Specimens
OF porcelain were undoubtedly intro
duced into Europe in the middle ages.
yet not till the sixteenth century were
cups imported from China in any great
quantities. and even then il was as ar.
cles of vertu. Most of those found the;
way back into China again, as COLI IA.
ing porcelain is lasting fad there e.
high prices are paid for good spec; t..
The collection of Chinese porce,
only the genuine specimens are q ne;
requires immense study and know 81.
as the Chinese are skillful inn. r
and put numerous falsifcations O.. :,
market.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-08-31

The motto OF the proprietors of DIR. Henry
Baxters Mandrake Bltters is, "the greatest
good to the greatest number" and so sell Il
large bottle OF valuable remedy for the
small price of 25 cents, and warrant every
bottle to give satisfaction or money refunded.
Far sale by ii. A. Stoke.
Arnica OIL Liniment is very healing and
soothing, and does wonders when applied to
old sores. For sale by II. A. Stoke.
common cold should not be neglected.
Downs Elixir will cure 1t. For sale by II. A.
Stoke
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-08-31
Individual Odors.

Every human being has specific
odor of his own, according to A. Betao
IN the Archiv der Gesammten Physiolo.
gle, by which he can be recognized not
merely by dogs but by persons with sen
sitive organs of smell. The case is men,
toned OF man who blindfolded could
pick out each individual in company
of 30 by his odor.
The smell is not born with us, but
develops gradually till the ago of puber-
", after which it remains unchanged.
Members of a family have kind of
common odor, which persists even when
they have lived apart for a long time.