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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-08-23
LITTLE TRIALS.

There was once floor cleaner In the
palace of Il sultan, who quarreled with
and grumbled to workman who had
come to mend a step. 1t took good
while properly to finish the work. and
this annoyed the sultan who every day
had to pass through the room where
the step was being mended. The sui
tan complained of the annoyance and
the floor cleaner said he didn't see how
such a great sultan could be put out
by such a little thing. The sultan
heard of the remark and sent for the
floor cleaner. who greatly feared that
the remark would cost him his head.
He was greatly surprised when the
sultan told him that he would give him
a palace, money, servants, horses,
every luxury that man could desire,
all upon one condition. This condition
was, that every day OF his life he would
come to the sultan's palace and receive
4 slight tap on his cheek, this tap to
be administered by the sultan himself
or one of his servants. The first time
the floor cleaner complained he was to
be thrust back into his original poverty.
AS the years went on this man grew
rich and powerful, and finally it be-
came great trial for him to present
himself every day at the palace and re-
ceive q tap on his cheek. This was
especially trying as his flatterers and
servants sympathiZed with him and
told him it was q shame that SC great
man should be subject to- such an
insult This became the trial Of his
otherwise happy life. He felt that he
could no longer endure it. One day the
sultan was i'll, and his cook was sent
for to administer the tap to the floor
tcleaner. The floor cleaner flew into
violent rage and hammered the cook in
the face until the sultan appeared.
When he saw what had happened, he
condemned the floor cleaner to his
former poverty saying, you now see
how even a little trial may become
great cross il one has always to bear
t."-Indianapolis News.
AN INTELLIGENT HORSE.
In the city of Oakland, Cal, lived a
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-08-23
GUIMPES POPULAR.

Guimpes and stocks with long cuffs
or undersleeves to match and surplice
effects are the fancies of the moment,
and, indeed, promise to be worn all
season. Black gowns in particular in
thin materials, with these lace or lin
gerie accessories, are seen on num-
bers of smart dresses.
The white guimpes are not only a
soft setting for almost any face, but
they possess the merit of being re-
movable so that they may be laun-
dered, as do also the separate under
sleeves, and as it is around the neck
and sleeves that the summer dress is
usually soiled q number of these sets
are essential.
Freshly cleaned or laundered mulls.
iaces and lines appeal to every woman
of refinement far more than richer
materials and accessories that cannot
DE cleaned, and it is more than prob
able that the present reign of lingerie
accessories for runabout shopping,
travelling and gowns for other cere-
monies will continue.
Short skirts-and they seem to grow
shorter every week-with short Etons
having elbow sleeves and cutaway
necks. many with the V shape. are
now the popular liking. Sometimes
these gowns are elaborated upon, es-
pecially the lingerie waists which are
worn with the Eton jacket. They are
extremely simple in every detail, per
haps the most elaborate decoration
they hnve taken on being that Of a
great fall Of lace in the sleeves.
Plain braid of good quality is used
as trimming on many and some have
lace Of plain pattern for decoration
Many do not require trimming at all
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-08-23

few years ago horse as beautiful, in
telligent and affectionate as ever q
horse could be. prince" was his name,
and we'll it fitted him.
The readiness with which he under
stood what was said to him was re-
markable, says Our Dumb Animals.
prince" his mistress would say, 81
would like to visit Mrs. Y" and, as
Mrs. Y was particular friend of
his, Prince would trot most readily and
rapidly to her house. Again, Miss
c. would tell him to so to the bank
for money, and there he would go; or
to the stable where oats, bran and hay
were to be ordered, and he would trot
there at lively rate.
He was always spoken to exactly
as a person would have been. Once q
lady who was riding with Miss c.
was surprised to have him take her
home and stop before the house.
"Oh, Prince" she said, won't you
give me little longer ride"
He shook knowing head and raced
around the block twice, stopping then
as before, as If to inform her that the
trip had been Of reasonable length.
No end Of little incidents Of like
nature might be related Of him.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-08-23
Valuable Stamps.

Two stamps were once put into an
offertory box by lady in Georgetown.
They were two-cent stamps, issued in
British Guiana in 1850. The lady had
come across an envelope among her
papers bearing two of these stamps.
The incumbent, Canon Josa, sold the
envelope with the two stamps on it by
auction, and it realized $1,000. The
following year the same two stamps
changed hands at S3250. The new pur'
chaser sold them for $4,000 to Ger.
man dealer who sold them to Rus.
sian nobleman for $5000.-Philadelphia
Ledger
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-08-23
Some odd Customs.

1t is unlawful in Norway for women
or girls to serve in public houses.
In Spain, street performers on the
guitar are licensed, while organ grind
ers are vigorously suppressed.
The pupils in Mexican schools who
have been perfect in their lessons are
allowed to smoke cigarettes after the
recitations.
A curious custom still holds good in
the village of Waddesdon, in Bucliing-
hamshire. England, where, on any
morning person can claim a free
drink of new milk from a cow specially
kept for the benefit of thirsty wayfar.
ers. This animal is known locally as
the "alms cow" and when she dies an.
other has to be provided by the war.
den
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-08-23
--ssszs
Missing the Train.

To have a guest at breakfast is smart
quite London like. But there are
qualifications upon the enjoyment Of
his society in suburbia. The morning
meal is only too likely to begin on such
an occasion two minutes later than
usual The extra one minute and
thirty seconds spent on the grape fruit
moves the clock hand forward at a
dangerous clip. We're seven behind
the game at the end of the oatmeal.
The bacon appears simultaneously
with the chugging automobile outside.
With the coffee half consumed in the
cups the practiced ear of the commrter
notes that the train is already pulling
out of the station three miles up the
road. There's nothing else for it.
"Say, old man, suppose you tell me the
rest of the story on the train. You
know you said you must be in town by
0 o'clock. I'll retell it to Priscilla this
evening" Yet they miss the train
after all.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-08-23
AbsentIninled.

Having finished his meal, the absent
minded professor got up, put on his
nat, and was starting away when he
found himself confronted by the bow
ing waiter.
"Ah," said the professor, grasping
and heartily shaking the outstretched
hand, Every glad to have the pleasure
Of meeting you again, sir-very glad,
i.,ieed. 1 remember your face dis
tinctly, but-ah-I must confess that
your name has escaped me."-Chicago
Record Herald.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-08-23
Xynmen,s Hands Larger.

"The fondness of women for outdoor
sports is having its effects on their
hands," said a Twenty-third street
glove dealer. 1--WE make woman's
No. glove materially larger than we
did five years ago, but the woman who
wears q No. 6 glove doesn't know it,
She is satisfied with the figure on the
stamp. Some women don't care. But
there are many who would drop tennis
and golf like hot potatoes If they
thought it made their hands larger"
New York Press.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-08-23
TEDDY's FIRST POCKETS.

81 want pockets in my new pants"
said Teddy.
"You are too little" said mamma.
"Please, mammal Teddy pleaded.
"Pockets go with pants. All the big
boys have them"
"Well," mamma replied, 81 suppose
you must have them. Yes, I will put
some in."
"Nonsensew exclaimed Aunt Emily.
"Clara, you don't mean to let that baby
have pockets? He will have them full
of rubbish and in dreadful condition
all the time. He's too little for trous-
ers, to say nothing of pockets"
But mamma put the pockets in, and
Ted was happy. He went round with
his hands in those little snuggeries,
feleing very proud and grown-up, and
trying to whistle; and by and by he
began to put things into them.
"If had the darning cotton, would
mend the stockings" said grandma,
"but it isn't in the basket"
"Here it is" said Teddy, taking a
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-08-23
Civilization and the Kaf1ir.

On bare feet, of which the skin grew
so tough as to enable him to run over
the sharpest rocks without fiinching,
the old Kaffir could easily walk as
fast as a horse trots, fifty miles
day; the Kaffir who still goes bare
foot can do so to-day. He used like
wise to be able to get light-the
"boy" who is constantly bothering one
now for matchcs-by rubbing two
sticks together; now he is as helpless
in the davk as ourselves.-Pall Mall
Gazette
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-08-23

1t surprises most Maine people to
learn that Names largest city is To-
Gated in Massachusetts, and yet this
condition of thing is figured out by the
promoters of the new State of Maine
Club, which is making such prosper
Gus beginning in Boston. They say
that in what is known as Greater BOs-
ton there are now living over 90, 900 ma.
tives of Maine, while, according to the
last census, Portland, which most of
us have regarded as the largest Maine
city, had only $4,000 natives of Maine.
OF course, figures cannot lie, and still
it will not come easy to us to speak of
Boston as the largest Maine city
Kennebec OIe.) Journal.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-08-23
The Physical Ills of Temper.

Would you be we'll? Then control
your temper. Do you not know that
fits of passion, this giving way to the
worst that is in you, does you not only
moral and mental, but actual physical
harm? Temper invariably interferes
with the process of digestion; it carves
ugly lines on your faces; it wears upon
the tissues. and leaves us physically
and mentally exhausted, as well as
morally weaker after each indulgence.
st. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-08-23
About Ants.

New facts concerning those intelli'
gent insects, the ants, are still coming
to light. That they keep aphides a,
we do cows, in order to milk them, and
that they have slaves, was discovered
long ago, but now we hear of a South
American variety making flower gar
dens in the tops of trees. The gardens
or baskets contain certain plants
which are duly tended by the ants, and
the insects plant the minute seeds
whence the plants spring.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-08-23

The state militant of the world is
affecting the headgear of women and
children. The George Washington and
Napoleon styles are omniprescent. A
tot of two or three looked positively
portentous in the defiant shape of hat
worn by the great Emperor, and the
mild hammered old ladies become jaun-
uly aggressive in the Colonial style.
The psychological question is, Does
the hat cause the mental state or does
the mental state cause the hatI
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-08-23

where hive you been" asked Mr..
McGruff, as his wife came in the draw
ing room all excited.
"Why, l have been down to the gen.
ealogist's," she replied, proudly, "and
he has traced my ancestors back a
thousand years. Here is the list. You
will notice that after some of them
stands the letter p"
"H'm! What does that stand for?"
"Why, either poets or painters"
"You don't say? 1 thought perhaps
it stood for pirates or pedlers. s."-Chic-
ago News.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-08-23
WHEN MOTHER TAKES THE
STOCKING-BAG.

When mother takes the stocking.bag we
children gather round,
For she's the jolliest mother anybody ever
found
She sits and rocks and darns the socks and
tells us tales that day.
l think you'd like to be there on stocking.
darning day!
"Now, once upon time"-thats how she
starts the story going
And Bob threads darning-needles and Jen
takes up some sewing,
And Ted plays with the scissors, but l
don't do thing
But look and look at mother and sit
a-listeHing.
Most times they're bout the time when she
was Just a little girl,
With pinafores and sunbonnet and many
little curl,
A regular tomboy, mother ,nys, a-tearing
round the farm,
And climbing trees and jumping off the
big beam in the barn.
And sometimes they're bout Indians away
off there out West,
And Bob and Ted and mel guess we like
that kind the best,
And sometimes they're bout kings and
queens who lived so long ago,
Jen says it's history dressed up, and be-
lieve that's so.
We children wear our stockings out at a
tremendous pace,
So mother says, that smile Of hers all shin
ing in her face;
But we are glad when the stocking-bag is
full as it can be,
For good times go with darning, don't you
see?
Harriet Crocker Leroy, in Youths Com
panon.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-08-23
THE PERFuMED BATH.

No woman of fashion fails to perfume
her bath in these days. By this method
the body becomes saturated with n
faint, delicate odor. Tablets for per-
fuming the bath come in all sorts of
bouquets. One Of these dropped into
u tub Of water will perfume not only
the bath and the bather, but the room
and the whole house.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-08-23
CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT..

Emily, laughing. "Your pockets GER
tainly are the most useful ones in the
family. You don't happen to have q
box Of chocolates, do you"
NO." Teddy replied soberly, "but I
have some candy that isn't chocolate.
Mr.. Smith gave it to me. It's taffy."
Aunt Emily laughed again. "There,
Clara" she said, II told you sow-Eliz-
abeth Hill, in Youths Companion.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-08-23
INIQUITY OF HUSBANDS.

The miscreant is common enough
from what one hears who won't trust
the strings of the household purse to
his wife, who doles out gold or pence as
the case may be, but won't lay down
a regular weekly sum for the regular
weekly expense. We are all quite con-
vlnced, and rightly so, of the iniQuity
of this roceeding.-Madame
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-08-23

Young men in China who have some
smattering Of English are opening
what they call Anglo-Chinese schools
In Shanghai and neighboring towns.
One of these schools frankly adver-
tises its limitations: English taught
as far as the letter Omissions Bull
letin.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-08-23

Mrs. Thurston's successful novel,
"The MasQuerader." is being trans
lated into Swedish. Norwegian and
Danish.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-08-23
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women preferrlng the simpleness OF
the entire outfit. There are elaborate
frocks to wear for ceremonial occa-
sions, and these are just the thing for
outings and shopping. -........
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-08-23
-SoE. HE farmers Of the United
4 y States are waking up to

a fact Of great economic
Importance and one which
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-09-13
Good, Useful, Old Age.

The pessimists to the contrary not
withstanding, there is man in
Lincoln, Nebraska, who feels himself
still to be a useful member of his COM
munity. Although ninety-two years
of age, he is to-day serving actively as
city treasurer. He puts in a full days
work six days Of each week and acts
as spry as youth of fifty. He will
not use cane, and only seldom needs
the aid of glasses. Another man, who
has just died in Forest, Ohio, at the
age of eighty-five years, leaves the
proud record of never having owed
anybody an account. That triumph
suffices, whether or not he accumu-
lated fortune, to stamp him as
final .ial genius.
In this connection it is interesting
to know that Donald G.. Mitchell, whom
world Of readers love to call Tx
Marvel" recently celebrated his
eighty-third birthday at his farm home.
EdgeWood, New Haven, Connecticut.
He was young man in point OF
calendar years SO long ago that 1t is
no shock to the multitudes who know
him as the bachelor who INDUCED in
reEeries to be told that the birthday
party was attended by his numerous
grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-09-13

beauty as the finest type of classic
architecture, except the White House,
and this is the verdict of many
foreign architects who visit the
Nations capital. Around the outside
of the building are sixty-six Ionic
columns, each thirty-fve feet long and
three feet in diameter, many of
which are monoliths or single stones.
About three years ago these columns
were cleaned by the sand blast
method, but the results were not at all
satisfactory. Before cleaning, the
Treasury was one Of the darkest,
grimiest buildings in the country, its
particular kind of stone appearing to
catch and retain all the particles of
SCOT and smoke in the air. Withal
it has to many eyes always retained
grand, if somewhat gloomy appear
ance, embodying great strength and
solidity, a fit repository of the worlds
greatest financial institution.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-09-13
Bob" Evans japanese Servant.

Admiral "Rob'' Evans, in a recent
conversation with a group of officers,
threw a great white light upon one OF
the methods, at least, by which the
japanese have attained that splendid
adaptability to European and Ameri
can ways.
When | commanded the New York
some years ago." he said, Il had jap
servant with whom was especially
well pleased. He was prompt, remark
ably quick to learn, and took such a
deep interest in everything, that some
times, to amuse myself, I devoted not
little attention to explaining things
that he appeared not to understand.
a good waiter, too, he was. Well,
finally he disappeared.
Some time later, when on the
european station, / made a call on a
Jap battleship lying in the harbor of
Marseilles. The captain met us at the
gangway and escorted us to his cabin.
AS we We're seated, he suddenly turned,
threw off his hat, and whipped a nap
kin over his arm.
The captain would drink? be. said,
In tone | remembered.
kato!' cried, jumping to my feet.
ne same, he said. bowling. 81 Cap
tain KatQ Of the Mikado's naYy,'n
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-09-13
RESTORING THE TREASURY.
Government Strong Dox wifi Resem-
bic Building In Time Of Andrew
jackson.

While a number of the Government
departments have been having d gen
eral washing of their dirty linen,s the
United States Treasury building is
having its outer walls cleaned by a new
system invented by a Marylander,
James +. Bruce. Several weeks ago
Mr.. Bruce explained to the officials a
method which he had discovered of
cleaning granite and sandstone which
gave results much better than accom-.
plished by either brushes or sand
blasts. He showed them what could be
done with small granite block. Dip
ping a large brush into a bucket OF
murky looking liquid he covered the
Stones surface, after which, by the aid
OF a jet of water from a garden hose
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-09-13
Ohio's Municipal Farming.

The city of Cleveland, Ohio, has
taken an advanced step for the ac-
commodation of the sick, the erring,
the unfortunates who need the care of
the municipal o government , by the Pur
will be grouped hospitals and reforma-
tories, where the work of healing, safe
guarding and reforming the defective
and delinquent will be carried on along
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-09-13

broad, humane and useful lines. The
establishment of this farm colony plan
is far better plan than the grouping
of snowy buildings in the city, where
there can be no way of giving outdoor
employment so effective in the treat
ment of persons under restraint.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-09-13

money, and he is more careful of the
lars. Through methods as inexorable
as the laws of nature nothing ever goes
to waste in the Rockefeller household.
From morning till night the daily rou-
tine is one of studied economy in its
every phase. bordering on parsimony.
Like his father young Rockefeller is
a hard worker, and he has the same
Immortality in purpose and aim.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-09-13
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, .yR.

The Worlds Coming Millionaire
Knows Well the Value of the Dollar.
This man, in his Both year, is heir
to the vastest fortune the world has
ever seen. His health has never been
good, being sufferer from stomach
trouble, no doubt inherited from his
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-09-13

father, the Standard Oil magnate,
who though GO years of age, has more
rudy complexion and really more
vigor than the son. The young man
has recently returned from half
years health seeking stay in Europe,
but was little benefited. Like many
another rich man, he has particular
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-09-13

fancies, his being to play the violin and
teach Bible class in the Fifth Avenue
Baptist Church, and for the latter two
or three evenings a week are spent in
preparing his address. He is an early
riser, spends eight hours day at his
desk in the Standard Oil Building, &c
Broadway. His tastes and manner of
living would meet the demands of Pas
tor Wagner's Simple Life
ALarge Bible Class.
Mr.. Rockefeller,s Bible Glass has
membership of over 300 persons, but his
connection with those constituting it
ends in the church. 1t is said that he
is a keen observer of men and knows
whether they come to his class for
spiritual comfort or to "get next to
him and it has now come to be well
recognized that the Rockefeller class
is not an institution for the disSemina-
ton of Wall Street tips nor an employ
ment agency for the Standard Oil Com
pany. If he has given other than spir-
itual help to his pupils it is not public
~ known. He is a ready talker and
maker of epigrams and said in a late
address that character, friends, health
and success are the four things to
strive for in life.
Is Expected to Take His Fathers
Place.
With the gradual and systematic
withdrawal from business participation
in his various business enterprises, the
father has endeavored to seclude him.
self from the public eye, and coinci-
dentalwith this subsidenceis the greater
projection Of his son and namesake-
the worlds prospective Millionaire. The
son has been taught the value Of
pennies than many man is Of the dol.