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Gloucester County Democrat., 1908-07-09
How to Protect Packed Bedding.

Do you ever have clothing or bedding
that you want to pack away in the gar
ret or some other place, perhaps for
months at time, without being looked
after? Just try this plan before pack
ing the box: Get box of cayenne pep
per and sprinkle it thick on the bottom
of the box. When all packed, put
plenty of cayenne on the top. You
can rest assured that no rats or mice
will want to investigate that box.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1908-07-09
How 10 Relieve 4 Sick Headache.

To cure a sick headache drink quick
ly cup of strong catnip tea. It prob
ably will induce vomiting. After the
stomach Is well cleared out drink an
other cupful of the tea to quiet and
soothe the stomach.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1908-07-09

gardener that will put away his
tools without cleaning them will prob
ably be equally careless in keeping
weeds out of the growing plants.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1908-07-09

Keep the ground well stirred. Pre-
vent baking of the soil after rains and
keep out the weeds and insects. These
rules constitute the law and the gospel
of gardening
Gloucester County Democrat., 1908-07-09

The sweet pea is one of the universal
flowers, like the rose and dahlia, pop
ular in all countries and with all class
es. Planted in clumps or rows, used as
an outside ornament or an indoor bou-
quet, the sweet pea is ever fragrant and
charming.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1908-07-09

Perennial phlox grows in popularity
and in new varieties year by year. A
Scotch gardener says that he has 600
varieties, and others report numbers
almost as large.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1908-07-09

1t is literal fact that those who will
not work shall not eat vegetables out
of their own gardens, for there will be
none
Gloucester County Democrat., 1908-07-09

Some one has said that the lawn is
''the canvas upon which the gardener
plants his flower bed pictures and land
scape effects" That is a good way to
put it. And because of lack of work
or of taste how few of the resultant
paintings are worth hanging in ma
lures gallery
Gloucester County Democrat., 1908-07-09

It does no harm to keep the barn
clean, sweeping out the mows when
emptied and the floor still oftener.
Clean stalls each day. Industry a
fork, a shovel and broom will work
wonders.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1908-07-09

A thousand beautiful effects may be
made with climbing roses. Bowers Of
loveliness, quaint and delightful cor
ners, shaded and fragrant summer
houses. stately pergolas, cozy conceal
ed walks, porches screened with bloom
all of these and many more enchant-
ing things may be given US by the
climbing roses.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1908-07-09

Trees furnish an excuse for winding
walks and for other quaint and charm
ing effects.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1908-07-09

It is a source of comfort to know
there is some use for weeds Many of
them are employed for medicines. They
may even be made source Of profit
Consult your druggist and get the
name of some firm that uses weeds in
the manufacture of medicines.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1908-07-09

There is no reason why a gardener
should be lugubrious and wear face
long enough to eat oats out of a ehurn.
There is no calling out of which more
JOY can be extracted, especially if one
is on good terms with the soil.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1908-07-09

A lawn is to house what setting
is to a gem; rather it is what both
the setting and polishing are to the
gem. If 10 per cent of the money put
on some houses were subtracted and
put upon the lawn the combined re-
suit would be a vast improvement.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1908-07-09

One of the latest inventions is a
lawn cleaner for picking up scraps Of
paper, leaves and other rubbish. 1t
consists of a light roller fitted with
little spikes and with pan in front.
Run it like lawn mower, and the
sharp points will do the rest There
is no end of new inventions, but this
looks like 1t would work.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1908-07-09

Few shrubs look well in isolation.
Group them.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1908-07-09

The object of this department is not
so much to tell you how and when to
plant, concerning which you may know
more than the writer, and probably do,
as it Is to stir you up with the desire
to plant A campaign for more beauti-
full lawns, gardens, parks and land
scapes, for more slightly villages and
cities, for more charming effects on
farms, is the supreme need Of this
country The writer's dream is to
have some small part in this work and
to push it until it becomes nation
wide crusade. Are you ready to help? !?
If so, write and give your ideas and
encouragement.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-10-28
Church Work.

The national board of church ex-
tension of the Christian church Is try
ing to raise $1,00O0O0 by the end of
next year.
The new buildings of the Wesleyan
East End mission, In London, cover
one and three-fourths acres and are
the result Of twenty-three years work.
The first payment has been made on
the three and one-half acre tract of
land in Baltimore which is to be the
site for the Episcopal cathedral in that
city.
The summer vacation work of the
Episcopal City mission in Boston costs
about $1,000, being devoted wholly
to the care of women and children who
need fresh air.
There are about 1000 churches in the
missionary territory over which Rev.
O. A. Wooddy acts as superintendent,
he being an agent Of the Baptists in
Montana, Idaho, Washington, Califor-
MIA. Oregon and Nevada.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-10-28
SEA AND LAND.
The Way They Meet and Clash and
Finally Harmonize.

Finally Harmonize.
In "The Wonderful Adventures of
Mis-" translated from the Swedish of
Selma Lagerlof by Velma Swanston
Howard, is the following pretty de-
scription of how sea and land meet:
You see that sea and land can meet
In many different ways. In many
places the land comes down toward
the sea with fat, tufted meadows, and
the sea meets the land with flying
sand, which piles up in mounds and
drifts. 1t appears as though they both
disllked each other so much that they
only wished to show the poorest they
possessed. But 1t can also happen
that when the land comes toward the
sea 1t raises a wall of hills in front of
it, as though the sea were something
dangerous. When the land does this,
the sea comes up to it with fiery wrath
and beats and roars and lashes against
the rocks and looks as If II would tear
the land hill to pieces.
But in Blekinge it is altogether differ
ent when sea and land meet. There
the land breaks itself up into points
and islands and islets, and the sea di-
vides itself into fiords and bays and
sounds, and it is perhaps this which
makes 1t look as If they must meet in
happiness and harmony.
Think now first and foremost of the
sea! Far out 1t lies desolate and emp
ty and big and has nothing else to do
but to roll its gray pillows. When it
comes toward the land it happens
across the first obstacle. This it imme-
diately overpowers, tears away every
thing green and makes 1t as gray as
itself Then 1t meets still another
obstacle. With this it does the same
thing. And still another-yes, the
same thing happens to this also. 1t is
stripped and plundered as If 1t had
fallen into robbers hands Then the
obstacles come nearer and nearer to-
gether, and then the sea must under
stand that the land sends toward it
her llttlest children in order to move ii
to pity. 1t also becomes more friendly
the farther in 1t comes, rolls its waves
less high. moderates its storms, lets
the green things stay in cracks and
crevices, separates itself into small
sounds and inlets and becomes at last
so harmless in the land that little
boats dare venture out upon it. 1t GER
tainly cannot recognize itself, so mild
and friendly has it grown.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-10-28
Time Reminders Unpopular,

A west side woman who wished to
entertain a great deal one day won
dered why her guests always seemed
50 uncomfortable
1T is because of your clocks" said
candid friend "There are three
within hearing distance of your draw
ing room that strike. don't know
of anything that makes company feel
quite so uncomfortable as to hear a
clock strike. Somehow it is bound to
give the impression that we have out
stayed our welcome and the hostess
Is anxious to get rid of us. OF course
that is purely matter of fancy, yet
somehow striking clock always seems
to say, You'd better be going The
wise hostess knows that and if she
wants her callers to be thoroughly
comfortable she shuns a clock that
strikes" New York Times.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-10-28
A HUMAN MACHINE.
He Was Able to Correct Language
He Did Not Understand


When Max Muller was preparing his
edition of the Rigveda he had, so the
story goes, an illustration of the in
stinctive wisdom Of the compositor.
In providing the manuscript for about
6,000 sheets of print the author nat
urally tripped from time to time.
= henever he did trip, there ON his
I oof was the error queried in a care
lnl hand. Surely, he thought, some
unknown scholar in the university
must be overlooking his proofs with
kindly interest and making the-correc-
tions for him. Inquiry showed that
this was not tho fact. The corrections
were the corrections of the man who
set up the type. did this man, then,
know SanskritY Muller asked Not Il
bit of it. Use and Won't enabled him
to detect the errors as hungry child
scents cooking dinner. The discov-
cry originated through his arm rather
than from any intellectual doubt, and
that arm was palsiedl
This printer had sustained an acci-
ucht, icu' hiii Win uh pau liy
paralyzed. and as this made him slow
er with his setting his masters turned
him ON to Sanskrit, with which he had
had no previous acquaintance. He had
to learn upward of 300 types for the
work, but he learned them and accus-
toned himself to the work. Now
many of the letters in Sanskrit cannot
follow each other or, if they do, must
be modified. In writing Muller some
times forgot these notifications, but
they were all marked on the proof
Muller was so interested that he sought
out the printer to ask him how he
was able to correct language which
he did not understand. The explana-
tion was remarkable: you see, sir.
my arm gets into regular swing
from one compartment of types to
another, and there are movements that
never occur. So if | suddenly have to
take up types which entail a new
movement | feel it and put a query"
What a dogs life the "nu spelling" or
Artemus Wards. which is the same
thing, would have caused that marvel
Gus human machine!-St. James Ga
Zetto
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-10-28
When Children Smoked.

Every one has read that Hawkins in
troduced tobacco into England and
that King James inveighed against it.
Elizabeth liked to sit ON IL low stool and
watch Sir Walter Raleigh putting
away. In Anne's reign almost every
one smoked. In Charles lis reign
children were sent to school with
their pipes in their satchels, and the
schoolmaster called halt in their
studies while they smoked"
In 1902 Jorevin spent an evening
with his brother at Cara ways coffee
house, Leeds, and writes: II was sur
prised to see his sickly child of three
years old fill its pipe of tobacco and
smoke 1t as audfarandly as man Of
threescore. After that second and
third pipe without the least concern,
as 1t is said to have done above a year
ago"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-10-28
His Spasm of Economy.

Speaking of misdirected economy"
said the lecturer, reminds me of an
old man who lived in my town. The
old man had lost four wives and de-
sired to erect for each headstone
with an inscription commemorative Of
her wifely virtues. But inscriptions,
he found, were very expensive. He
economical in this way: He had the
Christian name Of each wife cut on a
small stone above her grave-'Emma,'
Mary Hester Edith Under each
name hand pointed to large stone
in the center of the lot, and under each
hand were the words:
"'For Epitaph See Large Stone.'"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-10-28
Women Smokers In Ireland.

The comparison between women
smoking in England and in Ireland,
says correspondent is hardly on all
fours. In Ireland many of the older
women whose lives are spent in hard
toll smoke in the country districts but
they would utterly disdain cigarette.
They smoke short "cutty' pipe and
the very strongest and most pungent
tobaccO-Limerick roll. 1t Is no un-
common thing for a man to hand his
lighted ''cutty" pipe. black with long
seasoned smoking, over to a woman for
a draw" as it is called. In Ireland
the pipe has long been the solace of
the poor, aged, Woodworking woman,
and the habit has its origin in the use
Of tobacco for allaying the pangs of
hunger in famine days.-London Chron-
icle.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-10-28
A CHEMICAL FURY.
Fuorine Is Rabid Gas That Nothing
Can Resist.

Ian RESIST.
The fury of the chemical world is
the element fiuorine, although, strange
ly enough, 1t exists peacefully in COM
pany with calcium in fluorspar and
also in few other compounds.
Although this element was known
and named good while ago, It long
resisted the efforts of chemists to iso-
late it-that is. prepare 1t in pure
state, unmixed chemically with other
substances-for the instant the COM
the free fluerine attacked and combined
with whatever substance composed the
vessel containing 1t. 1t was finally
isolated by the great French chemist
Moissan.
Fluorine is rabid gas that nothing
can resist. 1t combines with all met
ais, explosively with some, or If they
are already combined with some other
nonmetallic element it merclessly
tears them away from it and takes
them to itself.
In uniting with sodium, potassium,
calcium, magnesium and aluminium
the metals become heated, even to red
ness, by the fervor of its embrace.
Iron filings slightly warm burst into
brilliant scintillations when exposed to
1t. Manganese does the same. Even
the noble metals, which at melting
heat proudly resist the fascinations Of
oxygen succumb to this chemical siren
at moderate temperatures.
Glass is devoured at once and water
ceases to be water by contact with this
gas, which, combined with its hydro
gen, at the same moment forms the
acrid, glass dissolving hydrofuoric acid
and liberates ozone.
Even hydrofuorlc acid eats into and
destroys every known substance ex-
cept platinum and lead.-Exchange
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-10-28
Facts From France.

The Paris Gaulois says that Taft's
nomination is due to Mrs. Nicholas
Longworth.
In the little town of Venauson, in
France, man named Guigo has been
elected mayor, his brother clerk and
his six sons municipal councillors.
Although France has had compul-
sorry education for about twenty-five
years, the percentage Of illiterates
reaches the high figure Of forty per
1000 men and sixty per 1000 women.
The former residence Of the Gath
olic bishop at Marseilles, France, is
now used as police station, while his
chapel is used for an assembly room
for the officials. this being one of the
odd turns brought about through the
expulsion Of the church from France
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-10-28
Some people only believe half of
what they hear, and then invariably
select the wrong half.-New York Tel.
Pleasures OF Uanoe,na.

The canoeist is the most Independent
Of men. He can push his craft through
stream three feet wide ard five
inches deep, and he can safely negc-
tiate any bit of water that II catboat
or moderate sized launch would care
to attempt. Canoeing is popular be-
cause it brings its devotees out into
the open freedom and lets them live
their summer life as they WILL The
canoe does for humanity what the BIZ
cycle failed to do The bicyclist was
tied to roads, was dependent upon ho-
tells and restaurants for food and lodg-
ing. When the hill was steep he must
alight and walk. When the road was
bad or the foot of the hill dubious he
must do likewise. The cnnoeist suffers
none of these restrictions. lie carries
with him his place of abode-iis bed,
his food and the means of preparing It.
He is not confined to well Worn high
ways. He IS able to penetrate and ex-
plore out of the way streams and pitch
his tent in spots inaccessible to the
average wanderer.-Ydchting
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-10-28
The Oldest Treaty.

The Oldest text of real treaty now
in existence is that of the convention
between Rameses H., king of Egypt,
and the Prince of Kheta. which en-
braces the articles of permanent of
fensive and defensive alliance, with
clauses providing for the extradition of
emigrants, deserters, criminals and
skilled workmen. This treaty was
drawn up in the fourteenth century
B. C.Nand is the earliest record that
we have Of any international transac-
ton,
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-10-28
ONE TOUCH OF NATURE.
A Display of Courtesy an Memory of
Old Virqnia."

All the seats were taken in the car
which entered one morning in early
April An old colored man sat next the
door. 1t is not often in these days that
see that type of black man. | used to
see that kind on the old Virginia plan
tation, where he was "Ung Lige" or
"Ung Sambo" to all the household.
His days were devoted to useful toll
and his evenings to his banjo and the
old plantation melodies that no one
can ever sing again as musically as
they were sung then.
"Take this seat mistis," he said, ris-
ing promptly. "Mistis" sounded very
"homey" and pleasant to me. 1t had
been so long since I was "mistis" to
anybody.
THANK you, uncle" said |. Keep
your seat. would just as lief stand"
'Scuse me, please, mistis, but faint {
ftten fer you ter stan; you mus set"
he admonished respectfully.
took the seat thanking him for his
courtesy. Soon departing passenger
left vacancy.
"There is a seat for you," said to
the old man.
Between the ladies, ma'am" He
hesitated.
"Yes," said
He bowed apologetically to right and
left and took the vacant place. Just
before leaving the car / slipped a sill
yer piece into his hand, saying, "Un-
Gle, get you nice luncheon with this
in memory of old Virginia"
THANK you, my mistis," he said.
opening his hand to look at the little
gift and then closing it. l left the car
with a SUMMER feeling in my heart be-
cause of the chance meeting, but with
no thought that l should ever again
hear of my old Virginian.
That afternoon received bunch of
arbutus which had been left for me by
an old colored man-"fer the tall lady
with long blue coat an white hair
In memory Of ole Virginia an dem old
time days."-Lippincott's Magazine.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-10-28
THE LAND OF WORSHIP.
The East Believes Too Utterly to Care
il Others Disbelieve.

il Others Disbelieve.
Prayer pervades the east, Far Off
across the sands when one is travel
ing in the desert one sees thin min
arets rising toward the sky. A desert
city is there. 1t signals its presence
by this mute appeal to Allah. And
where there are no minarets In the
great wastes of the dunes. in the eter-
nal silence, the lifelessness that is not
broken even by any lonely, wandering
bird. the camels are stopped at the ap-
pointed hours. the poor and often rag
ged robes are laid down and the brown
pilgrims PROSTATE themselves in pray
er. And the rich man spreads his car
pet and prays, and the half naked
nomad spreads nothing, but he prays
too.
The east is full of lust and full of
money getting and full of bartering
and full OF violence, but it is full of
worship-of worship that disdains con-
cealment, that recks not of ridicule or
comment. that believes too utterly to
care if others disbelieve. There are
in the cast many men who do not pray.
They do not laugh at the man who
does. like the. unpraying Christian.
There is nothing ludicrous in prayer. In
Egypt your Nubian sailor prays in the
stern of your dahabiyeh. and your
Egyptian boatmap prays by the rudder
of your boat, and your black donkey
boy prays behind a red rock in the
sand. and your camel man prays when
you are resting in the noontide watch
ing the farolf, quivering mirage. lost
in some wayward dream.
And must you not pray, too, when
you enter certain temples where once
strange gods were worshiped in whom
no man now believes ?-Robert Hichens
in Century.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-10-28
Glaciers.

1t has been demonstrated that the
glacier does not move in one block,
but flows, accommodating itself to the
channel in which it moves. Professor
Tyndall planted row Of sticks In q
straight line across glacier, and after
few days the line had become a
crescent, with the concavity upward,
showing that the middle of the glacier
moved faster than the sides, just as in
river the stream is stronger in the
center.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-10-28
BARNUM'S OLD LION.
How the Great Snowman Turned His
Death to Account.

DcatH ~ FNSSouits
Among the features of the parades
of the Barnum circus there was for
merly one that never failed to attract
attention. On the top of one of the
wild beast cages lay an enormous lion
He was not confined in any way, and
nervous people watching the parade
would shudder at the sight and con-
template the terrible possibility of the
lion springing into the midst of the
crowd.
But the venerable old king of beasts
had reached the leonine dotage, and
stiffeneG muscles and blunted claws
rendered him harmless. He was as
mild as kitten and in the winter
quarters, where he was allowed to
roam at will, sometimes had to be pro
tected from the onslaughts of irrever
ent and mischievous puppies.
One night he wandered from the
quarters. In the course of his travels
he CHANGED on a barn where a meek
eyed COW was placidly chewing her
cud. A faint flicker of the slumbering
jungle spirit stirred his pulse, and.
with crashing blow of the huge fore
paw, the COW was slain; then, lying
down beside his victim, he went to
sleep and dreamed of the time when he
was shaggy little whelp playing with
his brothers under the bright sun of his
faroff African home.
In the morning the owner of the COW,
stalwart female with the blood of
Irish kings in her veins, entered the
barn with milk pail in hand. She was
filled with wrath at the sight that met
her gaze With keen edged ak in her
hand and grim determination in her
eye she fearlessly approached the sleep
ing lion, and when the men sent out to
search for him arrived he lay cold in
death. Barnum promptly paid for the
dead COW and engaged to appear on
exhibition "the woman who in mortal
combat had slain a lion"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-10-28

Notice is hereby given that an application
will be made to the Governor of Pennsyl-
vanIa on the sixth day Of November. 1905.
Iutz and A. j. Meek, under the Act Of
Assembly entitled "An act to proyide for the
Incorporation and regulation of certain cor
porations," approved April 30, 1874, and the
supplements thereto. for the charter of al
intended corporation to be called Rea Bee
and Honey Company, the character and
object Of which is for the raising, producing,
buying and selling honey bees and their pre-
ducts and the manufacturing and selli1
of beekeepers' supplies and their equip
ments, and for these purposes to have, pos
sess, and enjoy all the rights, benefits ard
privileges OF said Act of Assembly ard
supplements thereto. M. NJ. DAVIS,
Solicitor.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-10-28
Golf and Brains.

The radical type of golf enthusiast
Is exempli6ed in the retort of st. An
drew's caddie to the university pro-
fessor, "Onybody can teach a wheen
looms Latin and Greek, but gowf, ye
see, gowf requires held"
Lady entering breathless)-I want
to stop the divorce suit Lawyer
Why, you said your husband was an
abominable, beastly brute and you
wanted to be rid of him at any cost!
kady-Oh, yes; know. But now an
automobile has run over him, and I
want you to start suit for damages
Lippincott's Magazine.