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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-01-01

Constance Candy-Three cups
white sugar, one-half cup water, one
half cup vinegar, one-half tablespoon
full butter, one tablespoonful vanilla.
JUS before done dissolve pinch of
soda in little water. Stir in. Do
not stir while boiling. Boil from
twenty to thirty minutes.
Ripe Tomato Pickle - Buy half
bushel best quality large, round to-
matoes; wipe thoroughly; place In a
large stone crock; sprinkle little
salt on each layer. IN the centre of
tomatoes place bag containing one
quarter pound each of allspice and
cloves (whole). Cover tomatoes with
two gallons of vinegar. Tie over top
a strong piece of cotton cloth.
Green Corn Salad-Eighteen ears
corn, three green peppers, four large
onions, one large cabbage, two tea
spoons mustard, two quarts vinegar,
one-half cup salt, one and three-quar-
ter pounds sugar. Chop onions, cab
bage, peppers; mix onions, cabbage,
peppers, sugar, mustard and salt to-
gether; add vinegar and bring to a
boil; add shaven corn and cook until
tender.
Fruit Cake-Four eggs, beaten
separately; one cup sugar, two cups
molasses, one-half cup sweet milk,
one and one-half cups butter, one
pound each figs, dates, raisins, cur
rants and nuts; one-half pound each
candied orange and lemon peel; one
half pound citron; one teaspoonful
each of cinnamon, spice, cloves and
nutmeg; one teaspoonful baking soda.
sifted with five cups of -four. Chop
and -four well separately all fruit.
mixing little at time in the batter.
Put in a well-greased pan and bake
In a slow oven two and one-half
hours.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-01-01
Mistakes in Entertaining.

A series of letters now running in
Good Housekeeping goes to show that
1t does not matter how much one en-
tertains, unless one does it in the con-
ventional way. One woman writes
that several years ago she entertained
hundred friends in series of in
formal afternoon teas. She took them
in congenial groups of ten or dozen,
and every one seemed to enjoy them.
Many remarks were also made on the
good sense of these simple informals
and the pleasure they gave, in con-
trast to crowded receptions. But the
hospitality was not returned. A few
of the guests asked the hostess to
similar informal functions, but those
giving more formal ones left her out.
It appears that people want the same
kind of entertaining that they give.
Another woman asked her friends,
one or two at time, to luncheon, to
dinner, to Sunday night tea, for cards
in the evening, to concerts, to the
theatre, with little supper after
ward, and her pleasure in her hospi-
tality for time blinded her to the
Act that she was rarely asked to any
zeal parties" never to share
such hospitality as her own. She no.
ticed the neglect first when she found
the pretty gowns she expected to wear
q returning her own civilities grow
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-01-01
Honey in Short Supply.

Some industrious statistician has
estimated that the ordinary beehive
contains about 10000 bees. When
these bees are not on a strike and
make full time from sunrise to sun
set and work with hearty good will.
they secure about 100 pounds of
honey per season, and in order to do
this they must take the honey from
some 100000 clover blossoms, as
it requires the honey from 3,000,000
of clover blossoms for each pound Of
honey stored in the hive.
New York State is quite large
honey producer, and the Grocers' Cri-
terion, of Chicago, recently in dis
cussing the honey crop of New York.
reports that but twenty pounds of
honey Is expected from each hive.
With dry weather and a short clover
crop the bees seem to be kept busy
providing themselves with food, with
out storing up the usual surplus that
constitutes the available supply for
the market. t
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-01-01
LACONICS OF NOTED MEN.
Origin of the Word and Many Illus
tratiOns.

Origin of the Word and Many Illus
trations.
Laconians, whose chief was Sparta,
were famous in ancient Greece, not
only for their success in war, but for
their scorn of luxuries and their brew
ity of speech. When King Philip of
Macedonia, father of Alexander the
Great, threatened them, saying: IF
enter Laconia will level your city to
the dust" they sent back the reply:
IF" Their short answers give to
the English language the word Ia
comic"
There were not few famous la
conicisms of later times. Talley-
rand, when told on one occasion that
a certain notorious parsonage, sick
and in great pain, was suffering the
torments of the lost, made the wicked
reply, Already"
John Wesley once met clustering
fellow in a narrow path, who con-
fronted him, saying: Il never make
way for fool" Il always do" re-
turned Wesley, quietly stepping aside.
Dean Hole, being in a railway car
riage with man who bored him with
many stupid questions, was finally
asked by him; what comes after
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-01-01
A Little Sermon For To-day
BY GENERAL WILLIAM BOOTH,
the Venerable Head of the SAL
walton Army.

The average crusade against vice
Is wrongly directed. 1t does not go
high enough. The boy who places
his quarter or his dollar on the horse
at the races does so for the excite
ment that his work and life deny
him. The woman who buys herself
alcohol does so to drown the sorrows
that society has made possible for
her, and the girl who buys and sells
the sanctities of love is only doing
what is applauded in the divorce
courts, where the rich seek annul-
ment of the marriage vows.
Let us go higher up and crusade
against those whose selfishness and
rapacity not only refuse to prevent
the crime by the substitution of bet
ter conditions, but actually make it
worse through examples that influ-
ence the more ignorant and less capa-
BILE to debauch themselves in the
crimes that are discussed as the real
dangers of a city. Besides the rapa-
city of the rich and powerful these
fleshly sins of the submerged are al
most infinitesimal.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-01-01
Domestic Happiness.

The foundation of all domestic
happiness is laid on a clean hearth.
There can be neither health, pros
perity, nor peace in an ill-kept home.
Some peoples idea of a poor house
keeper is woman who runs the
house on business principles. We
know that no man can make sue
cess of his business without paying
strict attention to detail and system;
also, systematic housekeeping has a
telling effect upon ones success as a
housekeeper. 1t is all accomplished
by being we'll versed in all parts of
household work and doing 1t by a
systematic plan. System means plan
ming. Try formulating plan for the
day while dressing in the morning,
making the allowance for any dis
arrangement of your plan. which is
almost sure to occur every day. Plan
and arrange the work of each men,
Der of the family so that all may
work together for the good of the
whole.
In order to meet the pressure of
modern life, home-maker needs ex-
act knowledge and scientific training.
The modern American girl has re-
ceived mans education, and in the
majority of cases has no knowledge
whatever about home-making. Sad
experience teaches many lessons, but
much money and untold nerve energy
Is wasted in the progress. American
mothers, more than any others, err
In not teaching their daughters the
proper care of household, and every
year sees hundreds of girls marry
with no more idea of how to cook
or keep house than they have of the
North Pole.-Mrs. w. w. Simon, in
Farm Stock Journal.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-01-01
HOW TROLLEY LINES LOSE MILLIONS. IN FARES.
Dishonesty of Conductors and Failure Collect Blamed For
Ten Per Cent Loss.
From the New York Times.

Indicates an enormous increase of
theft In the present year, in which
the affairs of the company have been
prominently in the public eye.
There are 1850 conductors en-
ployed on the New York City Rail-
way lines. In 1904 1457 conductors
resigned and 3491 were discharged,
3436 of the latter being less than a
year in the service. In 1905 1882 re-
signed and 3019 were discharged, of
whom 1854 had been less then n yonr
in the service In 1906 1884 re-
signed and 1915 wore discharged. ~
whom 4776 had been less than a
year in the service. In the first six
months of 1907 922 resigned and
1855 were discharged. of whom 3144
had been less than a year in the SER
vice.
That Is at the rate of 1914 resig-
nations and $3.50 discharges of con-
ductors for the year 1907, total of
1874, or nearly three times the en-
tire force of conductors employed
on the surface lines in one year. The
tremendous extent to which these
discharges have been for stealing is
indicated by these figures:
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-01-01
Dining-Roorr Table Marks.

find the most practical way to
prevent hoA ''7h"- from marking your
1'ring-room table Is n got niece
table, either round or square, put
under your Dad, md then put your
cloth on. And v'Nere hot dish Is
placed on the table yor are sure there
will be no mark If at times you
have to enlarge rnrr table have the
oilcloth split through the centre, and
that way 1t can be slipped to the ends
and afford protection where most
needed.-New York World.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-01-01
Care of Piano Keys.

To keep piano keys clean and pre-
vent the discoloration of the ivory
dampen piece of muslin with alco-
hol and with 1t rub the keys. The al-
cohol can do no damage, and II fire.
quently applied the keys will stand in
want of no other treatment, but II
they already have begun to turn yell
low rub them with cotton flannel wet
with cologne water. Cotton flannel
cloth, wet with saturated solution
of oxalic acid and water and laid up
on the keys, will remove all stains.
Care should be taken in the use Of
such a bieacher as this that 1t does
not touch anything from which the
color is not to be removed.-New
York World.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-01-01
Prompt.

There is no foolishness about re-
ligion in Southwestern Missouri, I"
said st. Louis man. II had occa-
sion, recently, to visit a town in that
section, and, while waiting the pleas
ure of the president of the bank / had
business with, caught sight of the
following notice posted on the door of
church across the way:
"'There will be preaching here
next Sunday, Providence permitting;
and there will be preaching here
whether or no on the Sunday follow
ing upon the subject. He that be-
lieveth and is baptized shall be saved.
and he that believeth not shall be
damned at 11.30 q. M Harper 8
Monthly.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-01-01
A Common Adventure.

When the boy went through the
car with papers, Elva Merrill bought
one and glanced carelessly through
its pages. Presently her eye fell on
paragraph which she. read through
twice, with the color rising in her
face. Only strangers were near, but
she looked about at them nervously,
and then, folding the paper, sat STAR
ing uncomfortably out of the win
dow.
She was remembering this incident
in her own experience:
Four girls, coming out Of a matt
nee performance, stopped on the
sidewalk.
Come on" one of them exclaimed.
Lots of girls do. Why, in New
York Dorothy Grant went to the stage
entrance to thank Maude Adams for
her acting, and got an invitation to
call at the hotel and an autographed
picture. Think of that! No, we
won't speak to him, of course, but
he'll know we're the same girls that
sat down in front and applauded so.
Wasn't he magnificent, and didn't he
look straight at us when he sang
that encore, Elva? Oh, I'm always
going to get front seat after this.
It's lots more fun. Come on, girls,
do! It's just step up in this
alley"
The stage people were already
coming out as the girls ranged them
selves In the front row of curious
onlookers outside the door, and soon
the watched-for hero appeared, so
close that they might reach out and
touch his arm. Instead of doing so,
they clutched each other with the
excited whisper, There he isl" And
although he did not hear, the grizzled
man to whom he was talking gave
him nudge, and nodded with a grin
toward the row of rapturous young
faces.
For one instant the girls were
thrilled by glance from the hero
himself; then, with a sickening drop,
they heard him mutter, Poor little
fools!" as he stalked on with his
companion.
1t was medicine-bitter, but good
for their malady.
That was the memory in Elva's
mind, and the editorial comment that
had grated so unpleasantly upon it
was as follows:
1--WE are all familiar with the bald
headed dudes who line up at the
side doors of theatres to ogle the
chorus girls as they come out. A
more pitiable and equally disgusting
spectacle is that of silly matinee girls
waiting at stage entrances for a pos
sible glance or word from some
cheap actor whom they, in their ro-
mantle little minds, have lionized.
Unfortunately, this sort of adven-
ture is extremely common-in both
senses-and it is notable fact that
these girls are by no means exclu-
sively from the untaught, homeless
classes. From the Youths Com
panion.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-01-01
GaEISESE1
NNp9NEwEST
W..NEASHI0MS
iN...Kx&&x1

The lace yoke gives smart touch.
The handkerchief blouse still holds
good.
Two shades of brown make a rich
gown.
Some of these rows of buttons ap-
pear actually to button.
In many smart examples TRY but
tons are formed into solid lines.
Self color laces ornament many os
the most elegant of the autumn CO.'S
tunes.
The range of colors comprises all
the rich, warm tones the dyer's art
can create.
The belt line has dropped down in
to its natural lines in front and raised
the tiniest bit in the back.
Panels for the skirt and yoke for
the bodice of baby lace constitute a
simple and beautiful trimming.
A pointed toe-cap in preference to
plain vamp will give the appearance
of length to short, stubby foot.
One sees a great deal of colored
embroidery on plain net and tulle,
both in white and the dyed laces.
Some of the new brooches are
frightened with touches of gold and
silver thread, picking out the pat
tern.
Skirts are rather full and very lit
tie trimmed, except in fiat embroid-
cry or lace insets with bands of the
material.
Strong blues, wine-reds, pansy
tones, castor, olive, the dark greens,
grays and the bronze browns may be
said to predominate.
The somewhat fiaring shade of fla
mingo red is not by any means uni
versally becoming, and needs careful
study before being decided upon.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-01-01

itchin'?" "Scratchin'," replied the
dean, wearily.
Douglas Jerrold, meeting a bore in
the street, found himself promptly
buttonholed by the latter. What's
going on?" asked the bore. 81 am"
said Jerrold. and did so.
To an opponent in argument who
denied the existence of purgatory a
Catholic cleric replied: you might
go farther and fare worse" = Chi
cago News.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-01-01
Household
Matters.
Lessen the Darning.
SSseee ~ +essss

The weekly darning day may be
done away with entirely II one will
follow this plan. After buying hose,
match them at once in crochet cot
ton and then weave toes and heels
just as you would II hole was there.
Do not be sparing of your thread, and
If the darn is made to cover all the
weak places you will find in time that
darn has outworn the hose.-New
York World.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-01-01
Pension For Mothers.

The pensioning of mothers by the
State is advocated by University of
Chicago lecturer. The professor
thinks the pension should increase in
amount up to the third child, and
then decrease until the advent of the
sixth, when it should cease. This
seems to be sort of compromise be-
tween anti-race suicide and Social
tsm.-New York Press,
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-01-01
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ing passe in disuse. Even then she
did not perceive the reason, and 1t
was only when a friend remarked,
What pity you don't like to enter
tain! You could do 1t so WE'LL" that
she woke up. After that she decided
not to offer people the substance of
hospitality when they felt defrauded
at not having the shadow.-New York
Tribune.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-01-01

In the present year. therefore, II
the average for the first six months
is carried out, the entire force Of
conductors on the surface lines will
be discharged virtually twice over for
dishonesty alone. These ratios have
enabled some of the Inter-Met. d.
rectors to appreciate with a warmer
interest than ever before the humor
Of the divorce case in which alimony
on a $50 week basis was asked
from an s1S week man because he
was a conductor on the New York
City Railway.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-01-01
American Aristocracy.

Here If matron can trace her de-
scent to a signer of Declaration of
Independence, a little over a century
ago, or again to some person who
came over in the good ship May
hower-and that person, being a
Puritan, must necessarily have been
of the lower middle class-she takes
ra--.k as an ristocrat.-"Him," in
Nsgue.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-01-01
Dividing the Graft.

Various statements of what this
system of graft was worth to indi-
vidual men have been made up, but
only as estimates. One man high up
in Inter-Met councils said that for
mer valet, who was put in on the
road as motorman found that his
share of the daily graft was from
50 to SO under normal conditions.
1t Is explained in this connection
that 1t is wise for a conductor to
have motorman in his confidence,
inasmuch as the latter Is in a posi-
tion to drag" the car--that Is, make
1t get behind on its schedule suffi-
ciently to fill up very full of passen-
gers. Knocking down fares is a much
easier matter in a crowded car than
1t Is In relatively empty one where
passengers can see the cash register.
When the loss of fares has been
reduced to terms of a percentage of
the gross income of the road, and
runs In the estimates as high as in
the present case, it becomes an i'm
portant factor in the schemes of re-
organization. Leading interests in
the board of the Inter-Met. make no
bones of admitting this to be the
fact and are therefore moved to place
the more Importance upon the intro
duction of the pay-as-you-ente car,
under the new traffic regulations
proposed by the company and recon-
mended in the main by the police ex-
perts whom the Public Service Com
mission has been examining. The
new car, according to the plans, will
be operated on the basis of a seat
for every passenger, so that both
the company and the travelling public
will enjoy whatever benefits may fol-
low its introduction.
There Is another thing that com.
plicates the situation, according to
information from inside the traction
merger. That is the very large in.
crease of transfers used, properly
and improperly, which has steadily
reduced the return to the company
per passenger carried until in recent
times 1t has run as low as 1926 cents
per five cent fare. With this is com.
bined an increasing competition with
the Subway, which brings in its owr
results to the Interborough-Metro
politan Company, but does not sim.
plify the management of the New
York Railway as an independent
proposition supposed to take care oi
it, own affairs in the system.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-01-01

In count of its wealth of trees
Paris finds that in the city and sub
urbs there are eighty-seven thousand.
or one tree for every thirty-two in
habitants.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-01-01

Statistics show that there is les
sening of all diseases in New York
City excepting heart and kidney
troubles, cancer and acute respira-
tory diseases.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-01-01

There has been revival of the
whaling industry. A few years ago
the annual industry dwlndled to $50.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-01-01

During the last century war caused
the death of over 100000 civilized
men.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-01-01

The daily consumDtion of pens il
3sFAQ.000.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-01-01

A Methodist church in Winona,
Mimi, has chime of bells de-
scribed as "an exact duplication" of
the Grace Church, Broadway, New
York City, ch.me-except that there's
one more bell in it.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-01-01

A thermometer can be bought for
a quarter, but there is one used at
the Johns Hopkins University in
Baltimore known as Professor Bow
lands thermometer, which is valued
at 10000. The graduations on the
glass are so fine that it requires a.
microscope to read them.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-01-01

A Methodist church in Winona,
Mimi, has a chime of bells de-
scribed as "an exact duplication" of
the Grace Church, Broadway, New
York City, except that there's
one more bell in it.
The second of its kind in the coun-
try is the picturesque temple of wor-
ship which 1000 Greeks at Lowell,
Mass, have built, 1t being $780,
900 structure, with brilliant golden
dome and two golden turrets.
Frank Seyk, Sr., celebrated his
104th birthday at Kewaunee, Wis,
by playing clarionet solo and sing
ing song to demonstrate that, not
withstanding his advanced years, his
ears had not lost their sense of har-
mony.
A herd of Burmese sacred cattle
which Tom OConnor, a stockman, of
Goliad, Texas, imported from India
about two years ago, has done so we'll
that the variety will soon be found
upon many of the ranches of South
west Texas.
The greatest ride on horseback
ever done up to his time was done
by Cowper Thornhill, Huntingdon
shire, England, April 20, 1745, who
rode 213 miles in twelve hours and
seventeen minutes to win wager OF
500 gulneas.
"Petrel" and petrol both descend
from petra" rock. Petrol"
comes directly enough, through "pe-
troleum," rock oil, but "petrel"
through st. Peter, after whom the
bird was named, because 1t appeared
to walk upon the waves.
Mr.. Singer, of sewing machine
fame, paid 100000 for pair of opera
glasses. The lenses are, of course,
the best obtainable, but it was the
fact that the GLASSES" were of solid
gold, surrounded by Tyre incrusted
with diamonds and sapphires, that
accounted for the price.
A thermometer can be bought for
quarter, but there is one used at
the Johns Hopkins University in
Baltimore known as Professor Bow
lands thermometer, which is valued
at 100000. The graduations on the
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-01-01

The second of its kind in the coun-
try is the picturesque temple of wor-
ship which 1000 Greeks at Lowell,
Mass, have built, 1t being $780,
900 structure, with brilliant golden
dome and two golden turrets.
Ellsworth American., 1908-01-22
DIED.

CROCKER-At BluehiIl, Jan 20, Thomas
Crocker, aged 80 years, II months.
FARROW-At Winchester, Mass, Jan IA,
Joshua Farrow, aged 50 years.
FREETHY-At Brooklin, Jan A. Mrs Marietta
ii Freethy, aged SO years, months.
HARRINGTON-At Ellsworth, Jan 49, Mrs
Daniel Harrington, aged II years. 6 months.
kEEF-At Hancock, Jan 20, Mrs Mary Eliza
beth keef, aged ~ years, months, 10 days.
kING-At Lamoine, Jan 81, Lewis King, aged
Soyears, months, days.
LEVERTON-At Mt Desert Jan H. DIR
Charles Fl Leverton, aged 66 years, month,
IL days.
MARTlN-At Ellsworth, Jan II, Byron Kit
tredge Martin, aged 90 years.
MOORE-At Bangor, Jan Is, Mrs William H
Moore, formerly of Ellsworth Falls, aged "a
years.
PARTRIDGE-At Orland Jan 20, Elizabeth,
widow of Henry Partridge, aged 81 years.
PARTRIDGE-At Orland, Jan 20, Lottie, wife
OF Fred Partridge.
ROBBINS-At Sedgwick, Jan Is, William b
hobblns, aged 7S years. II months, 20 days.
SAWYER-At Southern Pines, C, Jan 20.
Mrs Judson Sawyer, of Bar Harbor.
TAPLEY-At Portland, Jan Is, Hattie Blod-
gett, wife of William C Tapley, formerly of
west Brooksyille, aged AZ years.