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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-01-09
A SMILING VOICE.
cultivate a smiling voice. "

cultivate q SmlllnP voice.
That was Miss Jessie A. Fowler's
last word to the Rainy Daisies at the
Hotel Astor, on Personality in
Wbice," and when the Daisies in the
front seats raised their eyebrows in
q4ery, says the New York Tribune,
"$mile, then speak, and you'll know
what l mean," explained Miss Fow-
lee.
Character is always seen in the
voice." went on the speaker, who is
petite, blond person, with very
feminine pipe of her own. Why,
II II have to engage stenographer
over the telephone I can always tell
by the voice whether l want the ap-
plicant or not. Through the tele-
phone character is revealed in a way
they little know of.
"Pitch has great deal to do with
revealing character. A high pitch
shows one form of character, low
pitch another, staccato pitch an
other. If you will let me use your
voices in demonstration / will show
what I mean"
Here she swung round on her heel,
and, pointing an accusing forefinger
In the direction of gray haired dow
ager in a green velvet turban, de-
manded: did you vote at the polls
yesterday"
NO." chirped up the owner of the
turban in still, small voice. scared
out of her wits.
, "A strong, womanly quality that
devotion to the home," interpreted
the speaker.
There's Mrs. Jones in the room
ASK her something" urged the
president.
Turning the searchlight Of her in
terrogatory in the direction of small
elderly woman attired in black silk,
with a black bonnet tied under her
chin, Miss Fowler asked. sweetly, If
Mrs. Jones thought there was some
thing scientific and feasible in what
she had just been saying.
NO, l DON'T" replied the Mrs.
Jones thus appealed to, in a deep,
sub-cellar, sonorous organ. ''The
suavest people I have ever known
have been the most treacherous, the
coolest have become my warmest
friends
You haven't caught my meaning"
Miss Fowler fastened to say. "Your
own voice illustrates it exactly. l
would expect to find you conscien-
tious."
There was a stout Daisy in brown
with ecru passementerie on her bod
ice sitting over by the piano. The
speaker fell on her next.
Now, Mrs. Smithson," she said,
coaxirgly, II hear you're a dear.
How long have you been a member
of the Rainy Day Club?"
The dear" acknowledged to five
years.
"Are you member of any other
clubs?"
Thirteen.
do you go to all the meetings?"
; "No."
Tho voice of the brown and ecru
study, who is club president her.
self, had been gradually fading away
all the while, till now it was reduced
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-01-09
WISE WORDS.

It's awful extravagant to get d.
vorced from a rich wife.
The best way never to settle
question is to go to law about 1t.
We should always like to see our
relatives II they never came near us.
It's hard work to make love to a
girl Just because she thinks you
ought to.
Even bald-headed men have the
nerve to crltlcise the way others part
their hair.
A woman would be willing to study
mathematics If 1t was good for hef
complexion.
There's not much practical use in
being good unless you let everybody
know about it.
About all you have to do to make
people hate anything Is to tell them
1t is healthful.
A funny thing is the way woman
can keep her feet warm by wearing
a pearl necklace.
A man looks eligible to girl
either because he has money or a
handsome mustache.
A woman has hard time convinc-
ing herself that her boy would be
smarter IL he had more brains.
A theory looks like the most val
liable thing in the world till you try
to do something useful with 1t.
When a man would rather go to
grand opera than football game he
doesn't know how to tell the truth.
When a girl shakes hands with
man either she is afraid he will
squeeze her fingers or that he won't.
A man always tries to make out
that 1t Is much worse for woman
to have a pet dog than for him to
have bad habit.
There is nothing makes man fee!
30 queer as to marry widow and
always be stumbling on photographs
of her first. f-
When a millionaire runs over you
with his automobile he thinks he is
mighty considerate of you to pay for
your funeral.
There Is nothing that arouses
mans ridicule SO much for the fellow
that wrote them as the old love let
ters his wife keeps until he finds they
are his own.
A woman would like to be man
II she could wear her hair long, have
the same kind of clothes she now has,
and think 1t was exciting to go bug
gy-riding with one.
When you try to kiss girl in the
dark and find out that it is her moth
er the only way you can square your
self is to pretend that was the very
thing you meant to do.-From Re
fections of Bachelor" in the New
York Press.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-01-09
A Dazzling Prospect.

A poor Mexican laborer who
chanced upon pay ore returned after
his fortunate find to the doorway of
his miserable hovel, and sat down to
enjoy at leisure the prospect Of riches.
At first, ne conflded afterward to his
old employer, his thoughts we're
hardly thoughts at all; they were
vague, delicious, golden vision In
which details were ignored. After
time, however, 1t occurred to him
that he might as well make up his
mind definitely what he would do
with his money when he got 1t.
He could decide upon but one
thing. but with that he was quite
contented. Screens in that region
were unknown, and insects trouble
some. but he had heard Of a remedy.
He would apply it freely where it
was most needed.
when / get my money" he told
himself, proudly, Il will go to the
store and spend It, I will spend gen.
erously. / shall have no need to be
mean. I will buy'~fiy paper-good
sticky fly paper. Sheets and sheets
of it will buy. Then I will return
to my house and paper the walls with
1t. and I shall be no more troubled
with files.
"Ah. saints! but 1t is indeed no
BILE thing to be the owner Of gold
mine!"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-01-09
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

Roumania has accepted an invita-
tion to participate in the jamestown
Exposition.
It is reported that the United
States recently purchased war ball
loon In Paris.
Water Register Padden reported
an increase of nearly 100000 in the
water revenues.
Alexander Greger, Russian diplo-
mat, horsewhipped Count Rodellec
du Porzic in Paris.
The most complete veterinary col
iege In the world is contemplated by
the University of Illinois.
Constantine Walwyaski formerly
n policeman, has been indicted in
Chicago for arson and burglary.
Investigations were begun into two
recent suicides from private sanitar-
iums in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
immigration into the United States
at Mexican border cities was heavier
In November than for many years.
Secretary Taft reports that relig-
ious differences in the Philippines are
approaching a satisfactory settlement.
During the past year S193 indict-
ments have been returned against the
Standard Oil Company by various
grand juries.
Thirty thousand persons are seid
to be starving in Lodz, Poland, aad
many murders have been committed
b. Socialist workmen.
The New Zealand conference of
Trades and Labor Councils has re-
solved that the poll tax on Cinnamon
be increased to $4,000 a head.
Solicitor General Hoyt, in an ar
gument before the Supreme Court on
the Kansas case, declared that the
nation had right to intervene when
the action Of one State affected an-
other.
Lindon Wallace Bates, engineer
and canal authority, criticised Presi-
dent Roosevelt's canal message.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-01-09

Two rich girls OF Cincinnati are de-
scribed as living the simple life. The
older is sixteen, the other almost fif-
teen. They have travelled all over
Europe and have been in. Egypt and
Mexico. They learned French in
France, italian in italy, German In
Germany. They drive automobiles, ride
saddle-horses, play tennis and other
outdoor sports, have lessons on the pi.
ano, mandolin and guitar, go to bed
at p. m. and breakfast at 8 a. m.
What, after the amazing calm Of their
early years, may these girls not do.
marvels the New York World, II they
decide to try the strenuous life?
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-01-09

to a shy whisper. Embarrassment.
which had struck terror to the heart
of every other woman when asked to
reveal her character through her
voice. seemed to have paralyzed her
vocal powers. too.
Miss Fowler was not abashed.
Couldn't be deceived In that voice
so sympathetic" she announced.
heartily, though weaker than Mrs.
Jones's."
'In voting" Miss Fowler summed
up, I'VE should vote for people by
the shape of their heads. not the
amount of money they have or the
number of addresses they can make.
And we are coming to, more and
more. The shape Of the head-the
shape of the head tells the story?"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-01-09
See Them Scatter.

1t takes canny Scot to disperse a
turbulent crowd without reading the
riot act. A street preacher in a
West-of-Scotland town called pass
ing policeman, says a writer in the
London Daily News, and complained
about being annoyed by a certain
portion of the audience. He asked
to have the Objectionable persons re.
moved.
''Weel, ye see." said the officer,
thoughtfully, ut would be deefficult
for me tae spot them; but I'll tell ye
what I'd dae II I were you"
"What?" eagerly inquired the
preacher.
Gust ga roun' wi the hat!"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-01-09
What! whiskers?

1t is very sad. If true, that wom-
ans admiration for the man with the
clean-shaven face is waning, and that
a revival of the detestable mustache
is imminent. If 1t is really true.
hope it will not stop at the mustache.
Whiskers have not been worn for
thirty years and they could be made
quite dandified and D'Orsayish If re-
lntroduced.-The Lady.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-01-09
venison Once Cheaper Than Pork,

Venison Once Cheaper Than Pork.
Time was, along in the early 40's
and in tho early SOS, 30 the last of
the old settlers say, that from the
wilds of Morgan and Brown counties
hunters would bring venison to mar
ke< and sell 1t much lower than pork
was sold in that day. pork being pre-
ferrsd by the Hoosier then to the red
deer Of the woods. 1t was in that
tins than an entire wild turkey, full
grown, would sell at price far
below the present appraisement of a
scrawny spring chicken; and a dozen
quail could be bought for less money
than it now takes to buy a dozen
links of sausage-neither was the
quail required to masquerade as
'"short billed snipe. ."-Indianapolis
News.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-01-09

n orIcHicr.
"Yes." he said, sadly, and there was
a tear in his eye. "Yes, my business
has driven me to the wall"
And he went on posting bills.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-01-09
WOMEN ASTRIDE.

While watching the eQuestrianS on
the Boulevard the other day l be-
came interested in the number OF
women who rode astride. 1t was a
revelation, as we'll as revolution.
Twenty years ago l should not have
liked It, but now II seems quite the
proper caper, and there is no offense
against propriety In 1906. 1t is the
woman on side saddle who now
looks out Of place.-New York Press.
ACCEPTING A COMPLIMENT.
1t is the way woman takes
compliment that stamps her place In
society.
A blush denotes the debutante.
A glggle, the silly or unsophistl-
Gated.
A brusque protest, the sensible but
unpublished.
But the quiet, unelated smile. with
a quieter THANK you," II reyly be
necessary, Enthusiastically denotes the
woman of social training, the one ac-
customed to compllments.-Phila-
delphia Press. ....
WOMAN ELECTS ENGINEERING.
Miss Nora Stanton Blatch, grand
daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
has been appointed member Of the
city's staff of civil engineers in charge
of the s161, 100000 Catskill water
system.
Miss Blatch's appointment was not
due to any pull, but was made on
merit.
Miss Blatch is an unusually pretty
young woman, athletic, active, and
fond of outdoor life. She distin-
guished herself two years ago, while
a senior at Cornell, by swimming
Cayuga Lake, distance of two and
one-half miles. The feat was an easy
one for her, and her friends declared
at the time that she could have swum
the entire distance back.
She decided to follow engineering
on entering college, and applied for
membership in the American Society
of Civil Engineers. She was ad-
mitted recently, being the first wom-
an ever received into that organiza-
tion.
She is the daughter of Mrs. Har-
riet Stanton Blatch, noted New
York clubwoman and lecturer, and a
daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Mrs. Blatch lived in England for
fourteen years.-Boston Advertiser.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-01-09

Potatoes-Fancy white por bu.... 40 50
Cabbage-per ton ............ 9W UJ
Onions-per barrel.............. 200 u
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-07-20
SMOKE CAUSES sNus NOSES.
A Remarkable Indictment Against
London Nuisance Drawn Up.

London.-Sir William Richmond,
the well-known member of the Royal
academy finds instances from unex-
pected directions that drive home his
arguments in his hitherto unsuccess.
full campaign against the London
smoke nuisance.
He told his hearers that the late
springs and early falls here are caused
entirely by London smoke. The pallor
of Londoners is also due to the same
cause, for smoke excluded the sun
light and where there was no sunlight
there could be no color. He went SO
far as to ascribe the physical def.
ciencies of the poor to his pet aver.
sion.
Promising that nothing could grow
without light, he declared that poor
Girls often went toothless. while the
nnslshtly sEtb noses aud retreating
shihs so coMmon among the poorly
bred natiyei of London were largely
due 10 the absence Of Light.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-07-20
MAINE HAS A UTOPIA |
COMMUNITY OF TEMPERANCE
ADVOCATES THRlVEs.
Vice Unheard OF In Benedicta-Is
Without Jail, Poorhouse, Free
from Debt and Has Cash
on Hand.

Boston.--Benedicta, in Maine, is the
Roman Catholic Utopia and the dream
Of the W. G. +. U. come true. II is
tabloided Home Rule. Irish Catholics
settled in 1t. Their descendants
sturdy Americans, run it, Only Cath.
olics live there now, and probably
only Catholics will ever live there.
1t Is crimeless, jailless, poorhouseless,
free from debt and ideally admins
tered.
AS community Benedicta is more
ideal than Moore's utopia" or Ba-
cons New Atlantis" Though 40
miles from any other town and 100
miles from a railroad, Benedicta has
electric light service, municipal
water supply, several fine buildings,
and all the conveniences of thor
oughly modern city.
Benedlcta is not only free from
debt, but has a surplus in the treas.
ury. Moreover there is not a poor
family in the place and there never
has been any occasion for the estab
lishment Of any of the usual institu.
tions for the poverty stricken or peace
breakers.
When Fenwick started his colony
he purchased more than 10000 acres
OF fertile timber lands, comprising
the western half of a township in
Aroostook county. There he began
to build up an ideal community of
temperance residents.
Though many of the younger gener
alton have gone to cities for work,
leaving their elders on farms, the cen.
sus Of 1900 showed that the colony
numbered $50 persons.
Benedicta got its charter as town
in 1874, the name being bestowed in
honor Of its founder.
The nearest place where any liquor
can be bought is Houlton, A miles
away through the woods to the east
and the nearest point of railway con.
nection is Bangor, more than 100
miles to the south.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-07-20
SAFE LAMP ron MINERS.
inventor Proposes to Make Use OF
Liquid Electricity"

Tests have been conducted recently
with lamp that may prove great
advance on the miners lamps now In
Use in the coal fields of the United
States. While the inventor has not
fully described his lamp in his demon
stratlons practical men have thor
oughly Investigated It and term 1t the
liquid electricity lamp" The lamp
weighs five and one.half pounds ana
is not intended to hook on the miners
cap. Instead of the cap hook, 1t has
large metal hook, which Is to be
caught on the mine wall and the heavy
glasses sighted toward the point where
the miner is working.
At distance of ten feet 1t is possl-
BILE to read newspaper by 1t, and two
lamps in one room make It as bright
as day. BY two sockets the lamps are
charged from a 110-volt dynamo To-
Gated in a separate room in the nine.
The lamps are intended to be placed
In this room after every working DAY
and are in charge Of special work
man, familiar with charging them, the
charge lasting eight hours The lamps
are expensive costing in the neighbor'
hood of SIS each. One of the features
that is most expensive is the small
tubes and film that meet at a point
where the light is projected the
breakage of these adds materially to
the cost of the lamp. The miners are
somewhat divided as to the value OF
the lamp many of them obiecting to
the weight in carrying 1t in and out OF
the mine, while all believe that 1t gives
more perfect and satisfactory light.
The officials believe that the men VIII
overcome this dislike as they become
more familiar with the lamp.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-07-20
THE MONUMENT TO SHELLEY.
IL Will Stand on the Shore Of tho
Gulf Of Spezzia, Italy.

A colossal monument TO Percy
Bysshe Shelley, the poet, is shortly to
be erected near San Terenzo, Italy,
where he passed the last of his life.
The entire design is TO be about 45
feet high. and It is to be attached to
a cliff facing the Sasa Magni, in which
he and later Byron lived, says the
New York Sun.
The work is being executed by the
italian sculptor Fontana The key.
note is taken from Shelley's tragedy
'Prometheus Unbound" 1t displays
the figure of the Titan writing on the
rock with the lightning which, like
Jupiter, he grasps in his hand, this in
scription: ITO Shelley from the World
Unbound"
Shelley's heart, snatched from his
funeral pyre by Trelawny, is buried
in the Protestant cemetery at Rome,
of which he wrote: 1T might make
one IN love with death to think that
u would make one in love with so
sWeet q place" But the character
OF the place and the surroundings
made II undesirable to locate any
great monument there. At Viareggio,
where his body came ashore on July.
lis. 1e22-ten days after he was
drowned on his way from Leghorn
td San Terenzo-and where 1t was.
burned While Leigh Hunt poured wine.
and incense on it and Lord Byron
read poetry there is already Shelley.
monument and besides, the fiat coast
affords no opportunity for Fontsna's
desiSni The shore of the gulf of.
'Spezzia and the neighborhood of his
last abidlng place were therefore
chosen FOR this greatest tribute to his
memory.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-07-20
Too Swift for Him.

The old broker handed the messen-
ger boy yellow slip and then point
ed to the bronze statue of Mercury
which stood on the desk.
"My boy said the old broker, sol
emnly, ) do you see that statue? Well,
that is Mercury. the swiftest messen.
ger boy on record. Now, want you
to take this message and go as fast
as Mercury"
Jimmy shifted his chewing gum and
toyed with the ends of his dog.eared
novel;
"Yer'll have to excuse me, mister"
he responded, but can't do anything
of de kind. In de first place, I've got
more clothes on den dat lobster, and,
in de second place, II ] was caught
running like dat I'D get turned out
of de union"
And then Jimmy winked at the Jan.
itor and started off at the same old
gait
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-07-20
NOTES ON FASHION.

Gray lizard skin elaborately cut into
open.work embroidery is one of the
many little extrayagances in the shoe
line These shoes are high, but ex.
quistely supple, while the openwork
displays the embroidered stockings
underneath.
Square sunshades are an innovation
of the season. VIII bizarre effects
never cease?
Grassgreen or rose-red shoes are to
be fashionable with thin white frocks
The variety OF bows for wear with
blouses in Infinite, and indeed the but.
teriy bow has a most prominent place
among this seasons accessories.
Strawberries are well to the fore
among millinery decorations.
A curious feature OF some OF the
latest hats is that they show on di.
viding line between the crown and
brim. Some women wear these hats
set right back from the face, so they
entirely cover the nape OF the neck.
Colored boots matching the color OF
the belt are much worn with sum.
nier gowns, Modore shades are I'm
great favor, also royal blue.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-07-20
WINS FORTUNE IN ALASKA.
Miner Patents Piece Of Ground over
looked by Famous Company.

Sioux Falls, s. D.--John Johnston,
former resident OF western South
Dakota, according to letters which
have been received from Juneau,
Alaska, where he now is, has Struck
It rich" and is in a fair way to be.
come millionaire
He at present is having contest in
The courts with the famous Treadwell
Mining company over strip of valu-
able mining ground which the com
pany was supposed to own, but which
It is alleged was never properly loca-
ted. Johnston located the strip under
the mining laws of the district and
applied for patent, but this was held
up and delayed by vario..s court pro-
cesses until recently when the appli-
cation for the patent was granted
The railroad of the Treadwell COM
pany, part of one of the company's
great mills, and some new oil tankS
belonging to the company are all on
the strip of ground to which Johnston
has obtained a patent The strip is
between the big dividend payers OF
the Treadwell company, and 1t was a
serious proposition to the company to
learn that so valuable piece OF
mining property had been overlooked.
In addition to this strip, Johnston
has received patent for a group OF
copper claims on Kouperinoff island,
for which he has been offered the sum
of $4,000 He also has recently con-
cluded a sale of some property on
Douglas island for $150000. Johnston
announces that he viii make visit
to his old home in South Dakota this
summer.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-07-20
CITY BUILT ON Ru5lEs.
Mogok, Burmah, Has Been Scene OF
Awful Crimes Of Cupidity.

Looking at the quaint, picturesque
town of Mogok, Burmah, Graded in
wooded hills dotted with temples and
bungalows, who would dream that its
life has been a life of dread mysteries
and awful crimes?' So writes vii.
liam Fitzgerald in the Technical World
Magazine yet the Ruby City has
seen things not to be recounted, be-
cause of its treasures, from King Sol
omons day to that of King Thebaw.
Indeed, were it not for the red glow
ing stones king would now be reign
ing at Mandalay
"ln Mogok they see everything In
a ruby light, men, women and chill
dren. Every visitor must want to
buy, they think. However hungry or
thirsty the traveller may be on ar
rival, the first thing he hears spoken
of Is rubies. All Mogok seems to be
fishing with bamboo holsters. And
they are fishing-for rubies, in the
precious 'byon,' that rivals in richness
the famous blue ground of Kimber-
ley"
An exceedingly interesting story of
the continual search for rubies which
is going on at Mogok follows.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-07-20
GOES TO PRISON AT 81 YEARS
Dangerous counterfelter Is Sent to
Penltentlary at Advanced Age.

hiladelphia.-"OldS Sam" Tate, said
to be the most dangerous counterfeiter
in the country, has been sent to the
eastern penitentiary by Judge Holland
for eight years.
Since 1872 Tate has spent more
than half of his time in Jail, and It Is
probable that his sentence will fin N
him, for he told the court yesterdi y
that he was 81 years old. William
higher and Charles Busramonte, who
were tried with him, were sentenced
TO IS months and three years re.
spectively.
Only last March Tate was on trial
for counterfeiting, with George Ward,
Michael Joyce, James Gaughan and
Catherine ODonnell, but by shrewd
coaching of the other defendants Tate
was acquitted. Ward, Joyce and
Gaughan were sent to prison, and the
O'Donnell woman, although convicted
was released in her own recognizance
Tate put up hard fight His coun-
sci declared that he was being "sys-
tematically bounded" by the secret
service men; that he was a reputa.
BILE junk dealer and that in the course
Of his business he had come into pos
session of the supposed counterfeiting
material found in his house by the
operatives.