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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-06-20
Won Two Prizes.

Frcd Kline, formerly of this place,
now at New Keusing,on. won two prizes
in u mile handicap road race, nj that
place Saturday. He started ON scratch
with the best riders and won the time
prize and first place He will enter tho
Goblc ~ mile race at Pittsburg Sntur-
day. There will be- about 60 entries.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-06-20
Tra veiers' Guide .
a Little Of Everything.

Williams for shoes.
Yes, we'll celebrate,
Johns & Thompson, tailors.
Come TO Reynoldsvile July ith.
Leather belts of all kinds at Millirens.
Summer shoes now ready at Robin
sons.
Hon. w. c. Arnold, of Dubois, was in
town Friday.
The A. V. R'y pay car was over the
road Thursday.
A full line of Union-made clothing at
Shick Il Wagner's.
John G. Dunsmore, of Phillipsburg,
spent Sunday in town,
Miss Gertrude Vandcrvort visited in
Brockwayville last week.
Miss Cora Case, of Brookvile, visited
Mrs. j. o. Johns last week.
Good COW for sale. Inquire Of Philip
Koeher. West Reynoldsville.
DR.. II. o. King, of Curwensville, Wis
iting relatives in this place last week
Fifty pair of misses shoes that were
formerly sl.50, now sl.00 at Williams
The Reynoldsville Building and Loan
Association sold 81, 900 Monday evening
All our syrups made from selected
fruit-any flavor. Reynolds drug store,
You get the biggest values in shoes
at Robinson's. High and low, button
and lace.
Wanted--A shirtwaist ironer and a
plain ironer at the Reynoldsville Steam
Laundry.
Frank Bussard has gone to Butler to
clerk in the grocery store of his uncle,
Il. A. Reitz.
For rent-Five-room house on Jackson
street, near Fifth street. Inquire of
L. M. Snyder.
Scott Horn had the thumb Of his left
hand badly lacerated while at work at
tannery Saturday.
The vacation of the Jefferson county
lawyers begins next Monday June 25th,
and ends July 23rd.
Mike Grass, an Italian, had his right
leg badly injured in Big Soldier Satur-
day by fall OF coal.
Judge John w. Reed will hold argu-
ment court at Brookville next Monday,
June 25, at 2.30 p. m.
Rev. j. f. Dean preached in the Bap-
tist church of this city last Sunday
evening TO a large audience.
The Winslow township public school
financial statement will be found in this
issue of THE STAR. Read 1t.
The Hopkins saw mill is Handicapped
too low to get the logs to mill dam.
Fine, large, fresh country strawber
ries for sale by basket or crate, whole
sale or retail, at Plyler & Chitester's.
Lost--A black and tan female hound
Any person knowing OF such stray ami
mal is requested to notify Ward Eason.
A collection, amounting to over $40. OF
was taken In the Presbyterian churct
Sunday morning for the famine suffer
ers In India.
Monday was the 18th anniversar,
Of the great conHagration at Dubois
The Courier was printed on red papel
Monday morning.
DR.. r. r. Hillard, OF Widnoon, Pa.
formerly principal Of our schools, wa
married last week to Miss Anna B. Nc
Elravy, Of Tidal, Pa.
The Daughters Of St, George cleared
q snug sum out OF the ice cream, cake
coffee and sandwiches served In the Be-
Hive building Thursday.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-06-20
Little Girl Scnlded.

Sadie, young daughter of W. II. Ford,
had her legs badly scalded yesterday
forenoon by upscttine II pan oi water on
herself
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-06-20

Invitations arc out for the marriage
Of John Reddeclir and Miss Jessie Rob
artson which occurs onu week from to-
day, June 9th.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-06-20
Death from Diphtheria.

William Chester O'Donnel, son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. A. O'Donnel, jr., OF Camp
Run, died Thursday, June 18th, at 4.30
p. m. William Chester was years,
months and 20 days old. Death was
caused qy diphtheria. Funeral services
were held at residence OF parents June
18th at 300 p. m, conducted by Rev.
]. r. Hicks, pastor Of Emerickville NJ.
f.. church. Interment was made at
Emerickville.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-01-12
REED AND HIS MUSTACHE-
The Man from Maine Was Proud o.
1t Till a Barber Did 1t Up
for Him.

"The members OF the last two congresses
viii recall the smooth-shaven visage of
former Speaker Reed" said an old attache
of the house TO Times reporter the other
day. And the older members viii likewise
remember that Reed at one time wore a
mustache of few struggling hairs, so often
seen on the upper lips Of extremely feshy
men. How Mr.. Reed parted with his hirsute
apology can best be told by certain barber
in the house of representatives who attended
to that gentleman's wants.
Zone day the big man from Maine settled
himself IN the BARRIERS chair and requested
a shave. When the operation was completed
Mr.. Reed Strengthened himself and asked:
Have you any of that old-fashioned pomade
TO wax mustaches with:
1IThe barber hustled among his pots and
jars and produced French preparation in
vogue quarter of century ago, and then
proceeded TO wax the ends OF the Maine
statesman's few wirelike hairs.
When the man of snapshot sentences
arose and contemplated himself IN the glass
he turned to the astonished barber and said:
Cut this blanked-blank mnstache off, for
you have made me look like confounded
catfish
@Since then Mr.. Reed has not worn any
covering beneath his nose. Washington
Times
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-01-12
"TOMMYn BY THE ACRE.
The Space That VIII Be Covered on
the south African VeIdt by
British Soldiers.

If a civilian were asked how much
space upon the veldt a battalion Of our
infantry would occupy when marching,
he would in all probability make guess
which would be utterly wide of the
mark. It requires an expert to tell how
a body of moving troops are distrlb-
uted over a stretch of country.
A battalion is generally about 500
strong, and when in column of route
it occupies about $50 yards. When the
march has been continued for more
than an hour, however, 20 per cent.
must be allowed to this estimate for
struggling.
A field battery upon the march occu-
pies about 240 yards, but as horses do
not lag as men do only ten per cent.
need be allowed for struggling.
Cavalry, when marching III sections
that is, four abreast-occupy as exactly
as possible as many yards as there are
men in the force. The rates of march
Of the various troops are as follows:
A small body of infantry can travel at
three miles an hour, or, at a pinch, the
rate can be increased to about three
and half miles.
Cavalry walk four miles an hour, trot
nine miles an hour, and gallop fifteen.
Artillery walks al three miles an hour.
trots eight miles, and when galloping
into action their speed cannot be defin-
itely estimated 1t depends almost en-
tirely upon the type of gun and the
kind of ground which it has to traverse.
1t must not be forgotten, however,
that just as the weakest link of chain
represents its true strength, however
strong its other parts may be, the speed
of combined force upon the march is
London Mail
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-01-12
SETTLING THE WEST.
The Original Iowans Got Tired of
Climbing Hills in Other
States.

Westward of the Mississippi the dra-
matte play of physical nature against
the migrating viii of human beings as
sumes many times the interest and i'm
| pressiveness that it had in the move
ments from the Alleghanies to Illinois.
| The struggle of the settler with the
swamps and marshes and malaria OF
Indiana struggle which lasted TO
within the most recent generation
was but proem to the hardships and
conflicts that followed when the Iowa
immigrants crossed the big river, and
the Missourians that were to be forsook
the hills of Tennessee.
Iowa. itself, excluding the considera-
ton of the warfare with the doughty
Sioux, was not such basis of tragedy,
nor was Missouri geographically so,
but Iowa and Missouri furnished the
basis of the exodus to the further west.
and in doing so gave both the genesis
and the nemesis to many a habited
place on the way to the Pacific. Iowa
itself is an illustration in a minor way
of the law of least resistance. and Mis-
souri, is an illustration of the law of
greatest endurance.
The excess of population from Illi-
nois would doubtless have gone over the
Missouri as well as the Mississippi and
have stretched across the plains of Ne
braska 20 years before the Union Pa
cific rails were laid. had not Iowa's sur
face been as it is and the nomads grown
tired of rolling up and down the undu-
lating hills, and decided that the easiest
thing to do was to settle in the attract
i've wooded wales and stick their plows
into the deep, loamy. corE-producing
soil. The thousands who remained
have always been of the remaining,
sticking kind-steady. Industrious,
thrifty, but eircumscribed by the hills
from whose outlook only hills are TO be
seen.-Ainslie' Magazine.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-01-12
HISTORY OF THE BEDsTEAD.
Brief Account of Its Evolution In
Great Britain-The Old Time
Four Poster.

The late Lawson TAFT was a man OF
many parts, and if he could not WELD
the pen so skillfully as the knife, at
any rate as writer he was by no
means to be despised. Perhaps the last
article contributed by him was on the
Hygiene of the Bedroom and Bed
stead 1t traces almost lovingly ana
in language picturesquely descriptive
the evolution of the bedroom and OF
that now necessary article of furnl-
ture in Great Britain, the bedstead IT
self. 1t tells US that in the days OF
the cave-dwellers, and through the
various stages of savage and nomad
life, the dwelling space was used for
all purposes in common, and that 1t
was not until the wandering hunter
had, so to speak, settled down that he
saw the advantage of setting aside
portion of his dwelling for sleeping
purposes.
After brief reference to the times
of the Briton in Britain, the story
brings us to- the Norman era in that
country, and shows as that the Nor
man-albeit his castle might be grim
and forbidding outwardly-yet had
very fair notion of what constitutes a
comfortable bedroom and bedstead- as
well as more than rudimentary ideas
on effective hygiene. The walls OF
their castles were thick and solid, thus
securing a fair uniformity of tempera-
ture, while the downfall of cold air
was modified by the hangings of
tapestry. For their bedsteads there
was no need of hangings. We are
told that the Saxon farmer, on the
contrary, had perforce to live under
very different conditions. His houses
were of wood, and as he was no adept
at carpentering the doors and win
dows were Hitting, and draughts
were in consequence the rule rather
than the exception. Hence was evolved
that abomination of denominations, the
four-poster bed, or, as Lawson TAFT
preferred to put it: "A small apart
ment was constructed inside the bed
room in the shape of huge four
poster hung around with curtains,
into which a whole family must have
/ crowded, possibly with the addition
of occasional visitors" 1t is shown
how strenuously the conservative
Britisher chung to his time-honored
four-poster until the fifties, when, as
TAFT satirically said, the dawn of do
nestle sanitation as we know it oc-
CURED, and was not fully appreciated
till well on in the seventies.
A pathetic picture is drawn of the
trials attending the unwary visitor to
London even in the seventies, when it
was the rule to have vermin in all
bedsteads used by the public, and bugs
were made the subject Of chronic
Jokes in all humorous writings and
pantomimes. The story goes on to tell
that the first step in the right direc-
ton was the introduction of metallic
bedsteads, and TAFT related that he re-
membered very well the Juror of in
dignation with which they were met
for nothing annoys an Englishman SO
much as any interference with his
personal habits or belongings. 1t is
related, however, that finally all
scruples were overcome, and that at
last metal bedsteads have had their
way. Thus is traced in brief the evolu-
ton of the bedstead in Great Britain.
-Philadelphia Press
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-01-12
He Is Tanned Now.

About two years ago fairly well-knowr
young man of this town who, ID the days Of
his bachelorhood, was addicted TO the habit
of conversing through his head-covering
was delivering himself oracularly on the sub.
ject of the duties of paternity. "A man
who II wheel baby carriage" he perforated.
loftiy, is triple-plated, quadruple-expan
sion ass" One Sunday afternoon lately he
was observed-al of the customary ear
marks of sartorial economy distinguishing
his make-up-placidly trundling a perambu-
lator through Lafayette park. A huge, fat
baby goo-gooed In the perambulator, and g
little lady with bulgy, homemade bonnet
walked at his side. Silence is ready money,
and there's lot of pathos IN the spectacle
of tanned man4-Washington Post
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-01-12
Natural Scam,

Near Ashcroft, in British Columbia,
are a number of small lakes, whose
shores and bottoms are covered with a
crust containing borax and soda in such
quantities and proportions that when
cut out it serves as a washing COM
pound. The crust is cut into blocks and
handled in the same manner as ice, and
il is estimated that one of the lakes con-
tains 10000 tons of this material
Youths Companion.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-01-12
EnsIand.s Armored Trains.

The magnificent armored trans used BY
England in her war with the Beers will trans
port her troops, protect bridges and tele-
graphic communications IN about the same
way that Hostetter's Stomach Bitters drives
dyspepsia from the human stomach and then
mounts guard that II does not return. The
Bitters has won IN every case of indigestion
past fifty years. Ii is invaluable at all times
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-01-12
HOw's This.

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured
by Halls Catarrh Cure.
z. j. Cheney 4 Co., Props, Toledo, o.
We, the undersigned, have known F. =
Cheney for the last Is years, and believe him
perfectly honorable in all business transac
tions and financially able to carry out any
obligations made by their firm.
West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists, To
ledo, O.
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally
acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. Price 75c. per bot
tie. Sold by all Druggists. Testimonials
free.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-01-12
Only One

The Manager-You are the young
man who was recommended to me as
having no bad habits.
The Applicant-Well, I can hardly
say that, sir; I snore a little.-Yon-
kern Statesman.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-01-12

1t would be as easy for one TO be sick and
well at the same time as If would to b:
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-01-12

Sunday must be the strongest day, since
day is broken oftenest-Elliott' Magazine
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-01-12

We have not been without Piso's Cure for
Consumption for 20 years---Llzzie Ferrel,
Camp ST.. Harrisburg, Pa, May 4, "a.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-01-12

The veracity of figures often depends upon
the honesty of the chicago
Daily News
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-01-12

Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar re
lieves whooping cough.
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure In one minute
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-01-12
Halls Family Pills are the best.

"Horseshoes bring good luck, If is said"
Did you ever have your wife take fancy
to a gold one set with diamondsg"-N. o.
Times-Democrat
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-01-12

Probably the most difficult man IN the
world to please is the one who doesn't know
what he wants.-Chicago Daily News.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-01-12

PUTNAM FADELESS DYES produce
the fastest and brightest colors of any
known dye stuff. Sold by all druggists.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-01-12

Some men show good Judgment by show
ing lack of self-confidence.- Chicago Daily
News.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-01-12
To Cure a Cold i'm One 10.

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. A
druggists refund money if il fails to cure. %
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-01-12
Used
7uenty Years


We do not know of any other
hair preparation that has been
used IN one family for twenty
years. do you?
But Ayers Hair Vigor has
been restoring color to gray ham
for Fifty years. and It never
fails to do this work. either.
You can rely upon II for
stopping your hair from falling
out. for keeping your scalp
clean and healthy. and for max
ing the hair grow rich and long.
sl.e0 bottle All druggists.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-05-29

time h. has visited many different de-
nominations n hbs extensive travels. ant
has mad. personal observations AS II
their reasons for failing a. reach the
masses embods .ug his experiences and
receptions IN The form II An interesting
story.
Choosing living characters - represent
the different conditions % Church life.
and the evils existing. through the de-
sire on the part % its member 10 hrsnK
il down to The arena = pleasure.
All through this interesting narrative
there is carried on an animated controv-
ersy between the social and spiritual elc-
ments. describing the lack 81 :orce and
power in spiritual life ~ the e~ncroach-
ment upon il % social pleasure.
II also shows The abuses made posi-
BILE by The power and Influence Of some
OF lis rich members who frequently use
the Church as j cloak for the advance
ment Of their selfish ambitions and de-
signs. and are often made social lions.
licensed To 20 mostly As they please. be
cause OF their wealth. Depicting very
truthfully how so,ue Of the Clergy
thoughtlessly lavish time ana affection
upon these pious piutocrats whiie the
more faithful are frequently neglected
ana allowed 10 slip away from Church iu-
fueuCcs. While the book has 4 religious
favor. At the same time Il dvances sorlc
very strong themes OF morality aud philo-
sophy. Throughout its pages 4 vein OF
helpful humor is found. and written IN
such an original manner as To Win FOR the
book = marked favor with the reading
public.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-05-29

The boys feared grown up interior
cnce and nothing had been san about
the affair to any II not engaged III
the work. But little Esther Merri-
weather had overheard the boys talk
ing ahou it and she told her father,
big Sheriff M~crriWeather. and Just
about the time that they were ready
for the swing he was ON his way to
the amor from MaNon City mounted
on his broncho.
There We're ten fellows interested
in the scheme and not one of them,
but was crazy to nave first swing,
but as Morley had planned it he in
sisted upon being the first to try it.
lie put 4 piece Of stout clothes line
in his outside pocket. drew on q pair
OF gloves 50 that he wouldn't skin
his hands and hen he slid down that
rope to the seat as cOoily as if he had
hcen in his sisters eight foot swing IN
the back yard.
D,rinu nc the bovs we're they all
held their breath as he made his way
down for they knew he had not one
chance i'm = million if he lost his hold.
Tut Morley had muscles of iron and
ba didn't lose either his oriD or his
n,.;+ h,,t made bio v,v 10 tbe seat
ana tban lacb.d himself 70 #
r,,t viii Won believe is Those
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-05-29

MaNon City did the whole job with
out nelp from their elders.
The thing that interested me most
was the fact vOuched for by all the
boys thai Morley fastened the
ropes in place after the beam was
secured instead Of trying them on be-
fore they put the beam across Yes.
sir. he walked over TO the middle Of
the canon on that i inch beam and
he got down on mis- knees and calmly
tied first one end and then the Othel
end of that rope with nothing but
1000 feet between him and the Lit
tlefOrk River below.
The seat had a hole in either end
through which the rope had been
passed before it was tied to the bean
and when Morley had finished his joi
they played out the rope slowly with
the seat at the end of it until il
swung in the breeze one thousand fee,
below.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-05-29

triyancc for giving people rides in
Inc air and he had actually seen the
rit1eI Tower. for he had accompanied
his father to France on one of the
,%arttr'> business trips and it became
his ambition upon his eturn o devise
something equally big that should
Jr engineered entirely by boys.
BRONSON Canon was about three
miles from NaNon City and it is 1000
feet deep. or 1000 feet high according
fo YOUR position in relation to it. 1t is
.n~, fifty feet across and one mile
long and nj it's bottom unS the Lit
tr-ort River.
one day Morley and his bosom com
,auio0. \rdsley MerriWcathcr. Il boy
OF auol Z the same age. were standing
90 'hr edge OF the canon looking
across.
"WoulIn't that be Il great pole
igap." said ~\rdslcy. looking access
;ap GREAT chasm.
"Nmm." said Morley. but sup
pose the pole broke or you didn't
quite clear it,"
Eoth boys stood ON the edge Of the
canon with their toes over the brlnl
and looked down the sheer 1000 feet
III would be easier TO fail doNvi
'Hrrc than to come back" said Ards
leg. without Il SEudder. II his moth
rr had known what he a doing she
Nod,d have tainted just as promptly
Us She could, bat fortunately n dl(
BOT see him. and as Norcley~S as clea1
beaded - he. he did not faint OF thlni
OF >1ch q thing. He gaZed into IN
gloomy abyss and thought q minute
running his eye mp and down tn
canon with Il swinging motion. Ihel
How'd YOU like to swing i'll tn
cla~u""
"IIow do YOU mean" asked Ards
IrE.
"Nhy ! mean how would you lik'
f." pat Il great beam across to tn
other side and then have Il rope abou
'"" thousand feet long and make
swing out OF it. Wool. wouldn't i
make % fellow tineIe to 90 sveepin!
through the air."
"(ou bet it would. What if yo'
~aropprd?"
"'h. Ed tie myself to the seat. Il
l.~@ IT if there was Il swing there
Say suppose we make one It'll b
,Ho biggest thing of its kind in til
'"|'rd States"
Ho can We"
Why we can set a beam across III
."n "h1 then tie Il rope to it. 1t
'"'h II question Of length. \ lively
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-05-29

y.rf cali il Bronson Canon because
W. :..r its name and the people
." ro live IN the vicinity DO not Ike
V'l r,lE,d about. When | said |
~ .,q.no to write up the immense
they begged me to give 4 hctl-
" name aud | promised that !
lg although why they should
Wv nunlicity / am sure don't I'M
r.,.na as they did nothing NEAR or
IHaorhuud.
,l.,l.\- Bacon was the one who
a..I tine swing and Morley is Il
uf about twelve years. | guess,
t.nJ~ome little fellow with the
'..I nr a inventor. When ] say he
the head Of an inventor | mean
,I., BE, has invented a number Of
I.,a. and therefore he is an invent
...rI as he has Il head for 1t. it must
rhr head of an inventor.
Morley had read about the Ferris
wheel. an enormous mechanical con-
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-05-29
MOZLEY'S LEMON ELIXIR
A pleasant Lemon Drink. Regulate:
The Liver, Stomach, Bowels and
Kidneys.

For biliousness, constipation, and ma
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For Indigestion sick and nervous mead
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For sleeplessness. nervousness and
heart failure.
For fever, chills debility and Kidney
diseases, take Lemon Elixir.
Ladies, for natural and thorough or
canic regulation, take Lemon EiiNir.
Fifty cents and 81 per bottle at drug
gists.
Prepared only by Dr.. H. NJ. Motley, At
lanta, Ga.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-05-29

~ T0IT"N % Jho Boys 70 FOLLOW "
" "'am viii stand the strain all
boys If Won think I'm carpenter
'..3" t" TELL YOU just how those
.."~ did that engineering job
'' mistaken. Morley has told me
'@'' dozen times since / decided to
. ms up bUt ! must confess to
I'''h stupidity about such things
vI. 1oh know how they did it but
""'" / saw it, after the AFFAIR. # was
aaoa 'lr chaSm all right and in no
VI slipping and the boys Of