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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-04-04
WIRELESS CAUGHT BY KITES
Messages Received Through Bodies
of Two Men on the Ground.

Experiments were made by Dr.
Alexander Graham Bell, near Arling-
ton, Va, by which wireless telegraph
messages were received by means Of
DR.. Bells famous tctrahedral kites
Messages were received from the
Washington navy yard, from Gallilee,
on the New Jersey coast. near the
Atlantic Highlands, and from the
steamer Bermudian, 100 miles out
from New York, and more than $50
miles from the kites.
The kites were up 1000 feet, car
ryins 400 feet OF wire. At the end OF
the wire stood A. Potter of the
United States Weather Bureau with
his hand on the wire. His other
hand clasped that Of G. d. Macdon-
aid, who had hold of the receiver, so
the operator caught the messages
from the kites 1000 feet in the air
through the bodies Of two men.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-04-04
TELEGRAPHic BRIEFS.

Richard lvans, charged with the
murder of Mrs. Bessie Hollister in
Chicago was found guilty of first de-
gree murder and sentenced to hang.
The bill, providing for a two-cent
railroad fare in Iowa, was killed in
the house by vote Of 81 to 40, after
a hot argument.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-04-04
KILLED BY INDIANS
Seven Persons Shot Down by Yaauis
in Mexico.

A dispatch from Los Angeles. says:
News has reached this city of the
murder in Mexico of seven persons,
FIVE members Of the family Of Pedro.
brother-in-law of Frederick Hart
mann, president Of the William
Hoege company, of Los Angeles. and
two friends. They were massacred by
Indians within a few miles of their
homes and their bodies left in the
road between Ortiz and La Dura un-
III a sufficient number Of Mexican
troops could be sent to oyerawe the
ralding outlaws and bring in their
victims.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-04-04
Reoraanizina Consular Service.

The conferees Of the Senate and
House have agreed on the bill to re-
organize the consular service. The
House amendments classifying the
service were accepted as to every i'm
portant post except Manchester. Eng
land. and this remains consulate in
Glass at $4,000 a year.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-04-04
Celebrates His 1os,h Birthday.

William Welch. VINO is said to be
the Oldest surviving member of the
Union army in the Civil war and the
Oldest member of the Masonic order
In America, celebrated his one hun
dred and sixth birthday at Lempster,
N. Fl. He was born in ST. Andrews,
N. B., March 20, 1900.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-04-04
MUTUAL LIFE RESERVATIONS
Vice Presidents Grannis and Gillette
and Trustee Gerry Retire.

Vice Presidents Robert A. Grannis
and Walter h. Gillette, and Trustee
Elbridge 7. Gerry, of the Mutual Life
Insurance company, rendered their
designations at a meeting OF the board
of trustees. Messrs. Grannis and Gil
lette resigned both as vice presidents
and trustees. The designations were
accepted.
Directors of the Equitable Life elect
ed John n. Beach, dry goods mer-
chant, as a member of that board.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-04-04
aridae Trust Man conyie.ed.

Henry Hughes of Fremont, O., the
first of the is bridge agents and cor
porations to be tried on joint in-
dictment returned by the Erie county
grand jury charging violation OF the
Valentine antitrust law, was found
guilty.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-04-04
Emigrant Rush for Canada.

The Salvation Army in London
has been unable to secure sufficient
accommodation for emigrants desiring
to go to Canada. Already 1900 have
been sent to the Dominion and pas
sages for 2,G00 more are booked.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-04-04
TROUBLE COMING IN AFRICA
Great Britain May Have War With
Abyssinia on It's Hands.

The situation in Southland, near
the Abyssinian frontier, is causing
anxiety, in view of the recent death
of Ras Makonnen, Governor of Har-
rar, who had powerful pro-British in
huence over the turbulent tribes.
During the last two months Abys-
sinian tribes have on three occasions
raided the frontier tribes under Brit
ish protection, and it is expected
Great Britain will be forced to take
action TO protect her subjects.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-04-04
wranael Almost Destroyed.

4 cable dispatch dated Juneau,
Alaska, March &c. from United
States District Attorney James J.
Boyce. says that the town Of Wrang-
ell. Alaska. has been almost destroyed
hy fire and appeals for aid for the
sufferers. The dispatch states that
every store in the town burned. The
custom house was saved.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-04-04
TO REBUILD FAMOUS SHIP
5attleship New York Is Now 100 Small
for Her Class.

Stripped Of her guns and engines,
and every vital working part, with
nothing but the mere hull left, the
armored cruiser New York, the flag
ship of Rear Admiral Sampson at the
battle OF Santiago, now lies at the
Boston navy yard and will be rebuilt
and renamed Trenton
Since she was placed in commits
sion at Philadelphia, August /,
1893, then one of the most modern
fighting ships. she has become anti
quated To modernize her more than
81. 100000 will be spent.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-04-04
FOUR FIREMEN KILLED
Explosion Skaters Buildings and Pre-.
vents Fire Spreading.

Four tiremen perished and about n
score of firemen and citizens were in
jured in fire accompanied by series
Of explosions that demolished six
story factory building at Bedford and
Downing streets on the lower west
side of New York city. That the
damage, which Is estimated at from
$500, 900 to $A00, 900. was not far great
er, was declared by Chief Croker to
be due to the explosion, which shatter-
ed the building and crushed the blaze
beneath tons of debris at the moment
when the flames were completely be-
yond control and threatening to
sweep the entire block
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-04-04

Already it has become necessary to
rebuild the Brooklyn Bridge. because
il was not intended for such tremen-
dous traffic. Let us build our lives
for the greatest possible destiny.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-04-04

The Mexican Supreme Court has
affirmed the sentence of death against
Richardson, Mason and Harle, con-
victed of having murdered Mitchell
and Devers at Chihuahua four years
ogo to collect insurance on their
lives.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-04-04

Tho report is circulated in New
Yorl; that Charles A. Peabody. presi-
dent Of the Mutual Life Insurance
cnmnany is soon to resign.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-04-04
SMITH M. MoCREIGHT,
ATTORNKY-AT-LAW.

Notary Public and Real Estate Agents. -
lsotions Will receive prompt attention. 0D1o
ln the Reynoldsville Hardware %. nuill11A
Main street, Reynoldsville, Pa.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-04-04

hppis5 Dbl. l...........'..... ........ 351
Potatoes-FAncy white per bu. S
Cabbage-psr ton. ........... 10 90 Is
OnioDs-per barrei............. 200 q
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-24
THE MASTERL LESS MAN =

bulk os these words will perish in tie
future as they have perished in the
pest. 1t ls certain, too, that some few
of these words will live. and bv those
words only will our children be able
to Judge Of the phases OF our genera
ton Now we desire beyond all things
to stand well with our children. But
when our story comes 10 be told We
do not know who will tell II: there
are many tellers, and they are all .a!lx-
ing together. Even if we knew tbom
we must not kill them But thar ter-
rible instinct which led our ancestors
to Kill the original story-tsller warns
US that we should not do wrong If we
challenged any man who shows signs
of being afflicted with the magic of
the necessary words.
IL anything short OF undisputed and
distilled truth be handed down. how
shall orr achievements profit use The
record Of our tribe is just it's enduring
literature fhe magic of Iiteraturs
lies in the words and not in
any man Witness, a thousand excel
lent strenuous words can leave as quite
cold or put US to sleep while n bare
half hundred words breathed by some
man in his agony. in his exultation pr
in his idleness generations ago can
still lead whole nations into captivity.
can still open to us the doors OF three
that we can scarcely bear the look of
our souls. II Is miracle, and one that
happens very seldom. but each master.
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-24
Manners in Eating an Egg

One or tho deep, dark, irnpenetrabie
mysteries 10 the average American is
a matter OF table decency." remarked
an Eastern visitor gazing attentively
on an early morning scene in one of
greater San Francisco's curbstone ro-
tisseries. Only an Englishman. it has
been drUmmed into us. can eat an egg
from the shell without rendering him
self offensive. And when cultured
Engifshman sees an uncultured Ameri-
can beat up three eggs in teacup.
drop in hunk of butter. a pinch of
salt and dash of pepper and go for
the mixture with d dessert spoon. he
Invariably leaves the table. There are
many fine fellows who never eat soft
boiled eggs. no matter how fond OF
them they may be, because they have
l saw a man in the Palace Hotel grill
several DAYS before the fire at break
fast drinking eggs from cupl The
beast, His act drove several people
from the dining room
Jimmy Dolan takes his cold. soft
boiled egg in his left hand. cracks off
the lid and proceeds TO enjoy the lux
urv. He dips the tip of his spoon into
a mixture OF black pepper and salt.
which he carries in bit OF white pa-
per. conveys IL TO the tempting oVule.
removes "a delicate quantity OF yolk
and alhumeu and with firm hand trans
fers it to the eager proximal terminus
of the alimentary canal to tickle q
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-24

less man with the words is hoping or
has had hopes that the miracle may be
repeated again through him.
And why not? If q tinker In Bedford
gaoi If pamphieteer shopkceping in
London, IL muzzy Scotsman, ii a Ger
man Jew. II "a condemned French thief
or an English admiral can be the me-
diIno for making the necessary words,
why not any man at any time? And
our work. which is only concerned in
the perpetuation of the record, sane
tions that hope as kindly and just as
cruelty as nature sanctions love 1t
suggests that the man with the words
shall wait upon the man Of achieve
ment. and step by step with him try to
tell to the tribe. All it demands is that
out to the uttermost by every means.
fair and foul. that the mind Of man can
suggest.
There is no room for pity, mercy or
respect. for fear or even for legality,
between man and his feliow-man when
the record of the tribe comes TO be
written. That record must satisfy the
keenest and deepest self-iSuowiedge OF
the present. and satisfy also the shame-
less curiosity of the future. When IL
has done this 1t is literature. OF which
literature ii will be said in due time
that il fitly represents its age. l say
in due time. because ages, like individ-
uals. do not always appreciate the ner-
its of record that Durports to repre-
sent them
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-24
How Clothespins Are Made

so many matches. These lengths are
rapidly split by another saw into thin
sialss. which are in turn converted into
long thin, square strips by gang saws.
Deft hands toss these strips on re-
against stili other saws and turn them
out in the form of oblong blocks
Failing onto moving belt. the
blocks are whiTied away 10 a number
Of iathes II the blocks are to become
pail handles they are bored and turned
in most Ingenious fashion at & high
rate of speed: IL they are destined for
clothcspins the boring is. of course,
dispenGe1 with and they are simply
turned into the desired shnpe.
From the .athes u belt conveys the
clothespins 20 a 'slotter." which rap
idly cuts tic slot; the pins emerge with
borne n still q third belt TO the upper
floor where they ard the pail handles
are dried iE vast heaps at a high tenn
perature ia the dry room. bieached
with sulphur and finally polished with
wax in hEge revolving drum. Thence
tiicr descend again % the packers
and all the pins that are not rejected
axe packed ia DoNes .ap.slsd = o. IS. i.c-
The rate OF production is amazing
vet few are injured in the making,
nearly every pin ard handle emerging,
aftor its tortunns journey, in perfect,
polished form.
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-24
NY nUDyARp KlrLING.

There is an ancient legend which
tells ns that when the first man
achieved the first noble decd he wished
to explain 70 his tribe what he had
done. but as soon IS he began TO speak
he was sm:tten with dumbness, he
lacked words, and sat down. Then
arose--according to rlle story---a mas
terless" man who had taken no part
In action, no special virtues, and was
'affiicted"--tilat Is the pbrase-with
the magic of the necessary words. lie
spoke. ne explained the action 20 the
tribe in such fashion that we are
assured that the words ''hvea,uo alive
and walked mp and Gown ip The nsarts
of ol. his hearers"
Thcreupon the tribe seeing that the
words We're alive ard fearing that the
man with the words might be telling
untrue words 70 their children arose
and Killed MIN. But later they anw
that the magic was In the words, and
rot in the man. Well, we nave pro-
gressed in many directions since the
time of this early and destructive criti-
ctsm. but SO far W. do no: seem to
have found z sufficient substitute for
tho man with tle necessary words ns
the final record TO which all achieve
inent must look. Even today those
who have Gore s. thing must wait until
all has been said by the nasterless
man with Tic words.
1t is certain that the overwhelming
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-24
Prof T. ia gqar.

spirat;on he has made his announce
ment of a great scientific need. should
some pubiic-spirited persons afford an
endowment to establish an American
laboratory OF seismology, such will be
the story of it's birth.
Had there been such a laboratory in
existence it would have been repaid
manifold by the savings even by the
avoidance OF the disasters OF only five
recent years. The losses at Galveston.
st. Pierre, Calabria. Naples and San
Francisco would have been less appall-
ing.
Running over the history OF disas-
ters. one is overwhelmed by the whole
sale loss of life: Sixty Thousand persons
killed by Vesuvius in 10 A. d.; $4,000
Catanians killed by Mount Etna in 1853;
5000 more killed by Vesuvius IN 1881:
only twenty-six persons escaping Tom
boro Mountain in 1915 from a popula-
ton of $4,000, in the Island of Sum-
bawa; only one man surviving the St.
Pierre four years ago, and Japan since
1891 has lost $4,000 lives. Added TO this
doleful chronicle the loss of property
mounts to incomprehensible sums.
Spending his life in the contemplation
of such facts of nature. noting the
scanty equipment which scientists in
this subject have at present, and realiz-
ing the vast sums spent on other sub
jects of less compelling Importance,
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-24

tion announced to my dear mother by
an old star gazer or tea -grouter, that
through life / should be favored by
persons of high rank. How fortunes
are read from the sediment in the tea
cup the present writer knoweth not
The process is to turn the cup upside
down in the saucer, and then, return
ing the cup, to draw intimations of the
future from observation of the posi-
tions assumed by the grouts. An al
lusion to the performance may be found
in somewhat unexpted quarter. Ros-
setti, in Dante ct Verona" says:
Wherefore should we turn the grout
In drained cup?"
The grouts or stalks play another
part when they float on the surface of
the tea. Every one knows that float
ing stalk indicates the coming of
stranger; but perhaps every one does
not know that if you test the stalk
with the teeth and find it soft. the COM
ing stranger is female; if hard,
male. Again, to continue the divina-
ton. you should put the stalk on the
back of the left hand and strike it
three times with the back on the right
If the tea stalk fall off the stranger
will not come after all; if 1t adheres,
he is bound to arrive. 1t is curious
that form of this stranger supersti-
tion exists in Japan. The late Miss
Bird in her ''Unbeaten Tracks in ia
pan," tells us that in the north ''if
stalk of tea falls into the tea-cup and
remains upright for a second a visitor
is expected from the direction in which
it falls.
One or two lesser known fancies are
associated with tea drinking in various
parts of the country. If you put milk
in your tea before sugar, you lose your
sweetheart. The late "Cuthbert Bede"
has recorded that he knew woman in
Rutland village who, on returning
from a visit, brought with her a tea
pot, which she gave as a present to a
young woman friend. She explained
that she did so, because no one had
good luck until she mad made tea out
of her own teapot" The good woman
said this was an old saying, but it will
probobly be new to many Another
Midland woman once remarked that il
was bad luck for two TO pour out of
pot. Many and devious are the ways
of good and bad luck and few there
are who know them all---or half of
them.
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-24

palate rendered sensitive by six hours
of honest toll Your average diner in
the swellest OF hotels presumes to hide
his clothes under a napkin while essay
ing to cart the contents of a soft boiled
egg, shell on. standing in an eggcup in
his plate TO his buccal cavity. and when
he is through with his job of gouging
and scooping he needs a Washbasin and
towel
Il imagine it is dus largely to ner-
vousness that we do not oftener eat
soft boiled eggs from the shell. Hence
and therefore every child should be
taught the Dolan art of procedure. II
is easy. and there is nothing more de-
licious than a breakfast eaten out OF
the she'll. with a bit OF buttered toast
and a cup OF coffee on the side. Instru-
ments are made for biting OF the top
of the shell without cracking the main
body. The cost is insi gniicant unless
you have them made of gold. But one
accustomed to the delicate art of eat
ing soft boiled eggs from the shell
would snser SupsrciliouSly at the use
of an article like u cigar cutter for
removing the liza Eggs. of course.
unless hard boiled or cooked well done
in an omelef or scramble are messy.
and to eat them elegantly requires
much taste and discretion. Possibly
the safest way for the novice Is to have
them fried on both sides and blind in
the middle. in which condition they are
competent to qualify for the Olympic
games as discL"
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-24

rev peIsoas ever wonder where
ciothespins ce'ne from: few ever heard
OF Rryanf-s Poa5. tie, and get man
There las been quietly turning trees
intc ,iotneSpiss for YEARS and supply
ing ts,a wcrld witt; tnen, s.plassiDg in
rhe olacess as comfortable fortune
ss n,anv mar makes IN a mere pre-
tcDtious business in soDt~ money cen
ters. Ills name IS Lewis Mann, anc he
began with a capital CT $500. with
which ne pnrch ascd az old. disusec mill
and began the manufacture Of clothes
p.ns. To-Day re is tAc largest indivlaual
,naksr Of this very necessary article ia
the world.
How large the clothcsria industrS
really IS may h@ gathered froae The
fact .hat no less tiian I.2oo.19) hVe-
gross boxes are manufactured every
year in the United states aione. MncA
Of tie best 5rachirery now used "y
Mann IS the resalt OF ris own inventive
genius and that Of he son Edwin.
Marr's machines tur3 oUt %o.ccO,0e0
matt n:.nSles, wbBe Sf aiEh grade
.Iothesrins .aey produce more than 3D.
800 fve-gloss boxes, or 36.060,cse 4
sesr
Ia the winter g'eat piles OF oircf
loex are accumulated about the mills
10 feed .le great saws wiich snip
hem into two and One-hai! foot
engths as easily ss though they were
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-24

Professor Jaggar has appealed for safe
guarding apparatus
He compares the need of such appa-
ratus with the expenditures made In
other branches.
''Thr arnlaments of the world are a
source OF protection of nations" SAYS
he. maintained among the largest
items of the public budget Japan has
lost more lives by earthquakes and
their subsequent tidal waves than ia
the whole Russian war. The United
States Weather Service is maintained
to study the movements of the atmos-
phere and thereby aids commerce.. navi-
cation and the public safety The serv-
ice publishes monthly bulletin and
many maps. There is no parallel serv-
ice anywhere in the world 10 study the
movements of the earth with it's watery
and atmospheric envelopes. AstronOmi-
cal observations are at work every
where. Occasionally they make prac-
tical contribution to navigation or
geodesy. but almost all of their mod
ern work is theoretical. None the less
est value 20 the progress of mankind.
And yet, for economy, the measure
ment and study OF our own earth and
its movements. and for the maintenance
of such study, there is no institution in
existence. The nearest approach to
such an establishments was the appro-
priatiOn by the Carnegie Institution OF
money for a geOphysical laboratory.
This laboratory is doing theoretical
work of the highest value Gin pure
science But such work. following the
methods of the physical and chemical
laboratory. does not concern itself with
the earth as a laboratory. There is
needed an institution which shall be
devoted TO the observation and meas
uremeut OF earth movements. and pri-
marily with a view to the practical
application of such studies.
To this Professor Jaeger adds
prophecy for the future-"The time has
come when some money should be spent
on the earth's internal energies" he
says, forces which. if properly con-
trolled and adequately guarded against.
may eventually replace coal in furnish
ing man with power"
OF his confidence in the results OF
the work he said. Il think IL we could
get at Harvard or anywhere a prop
erly endowed laboratory for the study
of earth movements. with a view to
the protection of human life-and only
with that in view. because it is neces-
sary to have some kind of limit TO
scientific wOrk-we might be able in
few years to make earthquakes and
volcanoes ordinary risks for Insurance..
and also succeed in preserving a great
many human lives that are lost under
present conditions"
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-24

Viii man, heretofore the HELPLESS VIC
tim OF the wild outbursts of earth
forces. soon be able BY his scientific
knowledge &C forecast the furies of
volcanoes aad earthcuakese Can the
scientist, by the study Of modern data.
give warning of subterranean tllrault
and avert destruction of life and prop
erty2 Are populations still to be over
whelme0 by unforeseen catastrophes
% the earth's unrest. or has the mod
srn man arrived at that sapient age
when he is capable of mastering the
infuriated forces of nature, not only to
escape harm, but clever enough to har-
ness these infinite powers to do his
will?
Professor Thomas A Jaggar Jr of
Harvard University. an eminent spe-
cialist in the subject of earth forces.
has just announced. upon his return
from study of the recent eruption of
Nesuvius, that the time has arrived
when man must make some practical
resistance against such phenomena as
recently wrought havoc IN Italy and on
the Pacific Coast. He believes that the
time has come when systematic
scientific study of earth physics will
reduce the risk from earthquakes and