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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-11-11
Soap Economy.

Bits of soap should never be flung
away, but placed in a glass or china
jar until number have been accum-
ulated. They should then be dissolv-
ed in boiling water into soap jelly,
which may be used for various pur-
poses. That made from the par re-
served for toilet soaps may be used
for the bath. and that from kitchen
and laundry soaps may be used for
laundry purposes. Care should be
taken to see that every bit of soap
added to the jar is clean. 1t is by no
means an uncommon thing to see
soap looking anything but attractively
clean.-New York Times.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-11-11
Hot Food Injuries Teeth.

There is no doubt that most people
ruin their teeth and digestive system
by taking food al toe high temper
ature. One cannot get into n hot
bath il II is over liz degrees; 105 de-
grees is dangerous, and even 100 de-
grecs is warm. But from expert
ments made il appears that we eat
meat at 115 degrees temperature,
beans at 1872 degrees, potatoes at $50
degrees. The average temperature
of tea is 1876 degrees, and it may be
slipped, but cannot be swallowed in
large quantities, If it exceeds 142 de-
grees.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-11-11
The Immoral Hat,

The hat, feminine or masculine. is
not necessarily a moral issue. We
doubt if even st. Paul thought it was,
under all circumstances. 1t is plain,
however that the hat can be carried
too far. And whatever is carried too
far is in some degree immoral. Very
deferentially we inquire of the ladies
whether they do not think that two
hats occupying car space designed
for five persons are not extensively un-
civil and intensively oral?-Inde-
pendent.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-11-11
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

Critisicm is the friend of success.
An occasional failure doesn't dis
courage hustler.
The love of money is the easiest of
all roots to cultivate.
A woman says that all men may be
equal, but none are superior.
The wise man who has a good opin-
ion of himself keeps it to himself
It's easy for a man to get in the
swift class If he's on the down grade.
Beware Of the little fellows. Mos
quitoes are more bloodthirsty than
lions.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-11-11

In view of the large number of
deaths caused annually in Burma by
snake bites it has been decided to
distribute as widely as possible
through the province the lancets de-
signed by Sir Lauder Brunton for the
treatment of snake bite with perman-
ganate Of potash, the efficacy Of
which, if the treatment is at once ap-
piled, is now established.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-11-11
General Lees spvoIasses.

Edward r. Dellinger of Washing
ton county, has a spyglass that one
belonged to General Robert E. Lee.
General Lee lost it while crossing the
Potomac at Williamsport with his
troops. It was found shortly after
ward, with some other things, in a
box floating down the river. It is in
first-class condition, and Mr.. Dellin-
ger prizes T. -hly.-Baltimore Sun.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-11-11
Colored Gloves,

If you are tempted to cover your
hands in the colored gloves that are
now "in"-beware! Both feet and
hands should be of perfect proportions
before one plays tricks with them.
Pronounced colors are not size-de-
creasing, and pronounced, nay Shrek
ing, are some of the new gloves.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-11-11
MEAT EATERS, BEWARE.
Prof. Metchnikoff Warns Against In
du!aence in Fieshy Food.

SN'SS'SS ~ 'NS''J SON'
Paris.-Dyspeptic, gouty and rheu-
matte men and sufferers from dia-
betes are scientifically warned by
Prof. Metchnikoff that the present
popular idea on the danger of eating
much flesh is well founded.
He reports that the human intes-
tine encloses 'putrefying" microbes
of at least three classes. One of
them, discovered by an American saw
ant, produces violent toxines. The
second, of Belgian origin, is as poi
scnous, but its toxines act less ener-
getically than that of the American
discovered microbesn This is the
case with the third microbe, which
was discovered by an English baeter-
iologist.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-11-11


five wgars ago with
dull backache, which
got so severe in time
that | could not get
around. The kidney
secretions became
badly disordered and
at times there was
almost a complete
stop of the flow. I
was examined apain
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-11-11
New Occupation for Women.

A new occupation for women is that
OF the grateful patient" Well.
dressed women are hired by unscrup-
ulous men in Paris to sit in their
waiting rooms, enter into conversa-
tion with genuine patients, and hold
forth in glowing terms on the benefits
derived from the doctors reatment
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-11-11
Woman's Town.

Norway, Maine, boasts that it IS
the most distinctive woman's town in
America. Every line of commerce
and finance, trade and profession, is
successfully carried on by women.
Women not only clothe, hat and shoe
the population, but they own and run
the meat markets, the three hotels;
they bury the dead and marry the liv-
ing
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-11-11

and again and treated to no avail and
kept getting worse. have to praise
Doan's Kidney Pills for my final re-
lief and cure. Since using them I
have gained in strength and flesh and
have no sign of kidney trouble"
Sold by all dealers. so cents box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-11-11
Luggage Vans for Ladies', Hats.

A correspondent of Belgian jour-
nal suggests that travelling nowadays
might be considerably simplified If
number of luggage vans on each rail-
way were reserved for the exclusive
transport of ladies' hats.-London
Daily Mail.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-11-11
CGsssiFIEo E5vERrIeEMENrs|
,URE FoFk piles
On Wife's Tombstone.

Here lies our wife, Samantha Proctor,
Who ketched a cold and wouldn't
doctor,
She could not stay, she had to go
Praise God from whom all blessings
flow. Judge.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-11-11

In Madagascar there is natural
fortress with precipitous walls 1000
feet high. The only means of ac-
cess is a subterranean passage.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-11-11

H. II, GREENS Sons Of Atlanta Ga, are
the only successful Dropsy Spec ai-ts in the
world. See their liberal offer in advertise
ment in another column of this paper.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-11-11

A large painting. representing the
seven Bishops who we're committed
to the Tower of London in 1888. has
been presented to the Archbishop of
Canterbury for Lambeth Palace.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-11-11
ijj

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children
teething, softens thegums, reduces ntlamma'
tion, allays pam, cure.\ wind cohc, 2oc bottle.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-11-11

A quadrangle screen, which opens
or closes as door to which it is at
tached at the top is opened or closed,
invented by Kansan, is said to pre-
vent flies and other insects from en-
tering a house.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-11-11
Ns==z=sz5== -
{MZaAASCIENCEENH9

About l,2O6,v0O gallons OF blood are
pumped through the adult human
heart each year.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-11-11

Those who think that invention is
approaching its limits would do well
to consider the fact stated by M.
Abraham, an authority on this sub
ject, that the best telephone does
not transmit to the ear more than
one-one-thousandth of the energy that
1t receives from the line.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-11-11

Experiments are being made in Eu-
rope with microphone for the dis
covery of the presence of shoals of
fish. The instrument is sunk into
the water, and the constant tapping
of the fish against it as they pass
warns the fishermen.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-11-11
KEPT GETTING WORSE.

'ive Years of Awful Kidney Disease.
Nat Anderson, Greenwood, S. c..
SeYs. "KidnoY tronIhe hegnn ahnnt
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-11-11

According to a Grismby (Eng) pap
er, an important series of secret ex-
periments is being made on behalf Of
the Government by two local trawlers,
the Algorna and the Andes, which
Sor several days have been in the
English Channel testing the efficacy of
their trawl net in bringing up dunn
my submarine mines. The trawl
sweeps the bottom of the sea, and is
of immense holding capacity while
the network is eminently suited for
removing explosives. Stray mines
broken from their moorings would
also be caught by the same means.
The shippers not only know, every
inch of the North Sea. but they can
maneouvre trawlers to sweep the bed
of the sea at any given spot in remark
ably quick time.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-11-11

A French scientist, NJ. Bertin, in
dealing with the subject of coast ero-
sion, mentions that the island OF
Jersey once formed part of the Conti-
nent of Europe. He has also broaght
to light the interesting fact that there
still exists an ancient charter by
which a certain abbey was compelled
to furnish the necessary plank for
communicating with the island from
the mainland at low water. The ex-
tent to which the sea has encroached
on the land is evident from the fact
that the journey from the mainland
of France to the island by steamboat
now takes an hour.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-11-11
FACTS FOR SICK WoMEN.

For thirty years Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female ills,
and has positively cured thousands of
women who have been troubled with
displacements, inflammation, ulcera-
tion, fibroid tumors, Irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, that bear
ing-down feeling, tlatulency, indiges-
tion, dizziness sornervous prostration.
Why don't you try it?
Mrs. PinlIham invites all sick
women to write her for advice.
She has guided thousands to
health. Address, Lynn, Mass.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-11-11

A poison having the popularity of
being fatal only to the rat tribe has
been discovered in the English sea-
onion or squill. Testing its efficiency,
a German Investigator ground some
sea-onions with potatoes, and fried
the mixture with fat to crisp cakes.
This food surprised him by killing
forty-three rats in his stable the first
night. Remaining rodents were shy
on following nights, but after three
months second trial destroyed thir.
ty-two, and no signs of survivors have
since been seen.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1908-04-15

holes: After nightfa,l. these. give him
no light. But the illumination of q
lamp or candle comes down the stair
way as he pc sses higher up. He calls
Marina: are you. there:" and enters
the chamber at the top of the. tower.
|: 1t is lighted by lamp and fitted mp
for occupancy. There Ii a, little bed
in. it, some old chairs. and an oaken
table. Upon the bed are a bunch Of
'cyclamen MOWERS and articles Of WON
ans apparel He flies to examine
them. They are not those of his wife
Upon the table is. an envelope adj
dressed. -:
Lieut.. Edwin Gerard Anstruther."'
Its contents, written in the same
hand as that of Narina's letter, makes
the young mans eyes roll in his head:
Mon Cher 'Anstruther: -. -
l. have been watching; your coming. over
the hills. following the cyclamen flowers
the charming Marina 50 astutely dropped
into the path to bring you here-and ain
prepared for your VISIT. -.
l. thought you would be attracted to the
light. in this chamber: when all else was
dark. -
. AS you read this you are already trap
Do you think I: will spare anyone who
brought about my brothers death? Ask
Tomasso. who is already gone
Do. You: imagine. English lieutenant.
who call yourself. husband to the woman
I have decreed shall. be mine. that you
shall be scathless-: -. -.
The sharp. crang of the doors below
makes: Edwin drop. the letter and
spring like topman down the stairs.
Though he is: quick. somebody is
quicker: The strong doors are closed.
AS he reaches the lower step. he hears
steel bars falling into their sockets out
side. From. without jeering laugh
makes him know this has been
planned This is confirmed. by the
creaky turning of great key.
.:URlock this door," he commands in
quarterback tones. =: ..
Without a. word; Anstruther dis
charges his revolver into the lock of
the door He has exhausted his three
remaining cartridges. when the i'm
pingement of the bullets shows that
the lock is protected by steel and his
attempts abortive. -
He is interrupted by. loud cries Of
terror from almost beneath his feet:
Hang 1t. quit that shooting!. Do you
want to blow US up? saw that scar.
faced chap shove: sticks of nitro.
glycerin all around in the creyices.
This towers mined, and that sc0un-
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1908-04-15

drel has got a fuse or electric wire
running to it."
His own language with a Yankee
twang coming from below startles Ed
win. He has some matches in his
pocket; strikes one. looks round and
sees trap door In the flooring almost
beneath his feet. He pulls it up and
peers down. His eyes glare into those
of another man gazing up from an I'm.
foreground vault. Holding the match
so that he can see the face he gasps:
Great guns. Emory! I thought you
dead" o. o.: 80.
I'm almost Dead" growls the detec
tive. Edwin, almost stunned by sur
prise. gazing at him petrifled. by
the living lingo. where's Barnes? !
guessed some of you'd find me out, y
adds the Pinkerton man in relieved
voice. Il reckoned you'd rescue a
chap who's been risking his life and
getting good deal the worst of it in
your employ" O..
Il came to find my wife," cries Ed
win shortly. Have you seen herr"
''Oh. there's lady. I think, in the
house. s.
In the house? And they have
cooped me up in this tower" Anstru.
Their : frantically assaults the door
again.
4: "Oh. L reckoned they'd be doing
something underhand to YOU" calls
Emory. Come down and help me out
first"
why don't you come up? There's
a ladder" a."
u can't. Dash it. they've got leg
irons on me. They feed me on SOUP
and bread and don't even leave q
spoon with me to dig out was seized
and struggled from St. Tropez in that
fishing craft that followed your yacht
Just the moment l had it fixed SO I'd
hear their plans They're crafty as
snakes"
"A Pinkerton man like you captured
in this disgraceful' way!" says An.
struther sternly. For he thinks had
Emory kept his eyes open and done
his duty, Enid would have escaped alb.
duction and the rest never have come
to pass.
TO BE cO.STINuEDa
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1908-04-15

further. to the. east. Best take a by
path: -. :.:.. :.
Edwin takes the road pointed out to
him: he wishes no, delay with these
+ Italian worknen, whom, Imported in
great numbers into the. island. the. Cor
sicans. would probably butcher to a
man did not their natural laziness
make them prefer to. let the "Luc-
cheese" live and work for them.
e. But the by=path dOesn' rid him en-,
tirely of the ..'Lrcchese." Just after
he has left the. village he finds him
self confronted by some hundred Ital.
ian werkmen.s who .threateningly de-
mand drink money, and unfortunately
noting the ..cyclameh. flower in the
sailors hand, the red being the color
of the candidate they do not. favor,
they rush at him with appraised pitch
forks and scythes. :.
&C. But the lieutenant, remembering Ma
poleon's recipe for. mobs, pulls out his
pistol: Dodging one yolley. of stones;
some Of which come dangerously near
to him, he dashes on. and there are
two wounded ''Luccilese"' as he rides
away-and three empty cylinders in
his revolver =. .".
Here a broken cycfamen branch
makes him forget all else, and riding
hurriedly. after. some hours of noun.
tain vistas. he reaches a little hill. and
gazes at a view which causes him for
one moment to pause. The dark emer-
aid of the woods descending quite
rapidly. reaches the paler, emerald of
the sunfit Tuscan sea. - =.
Few sails are: ON the quiet waters
Of the. tropic' sea. though sailing
fisher craft of some burden is an
chored of the shore.
But what holds most strongly the
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1908-04-15

hungry eye of Edwin Anstruther is
the foreground of this wondrous pic
ture
Running into the gentle waves about
half a mile from him is cliff, topped
by fairy green of foliage; upon it
stands ruined turret. Its time-stained
stones indicate it had been q watch
tower OF the nGenoese in olden days
and that from its top centuries ago
had famed beacons warning the fee.
ing people that the galleys of Barbary
pirates were ravaging these shores.
The mass of ruined masonry rising
above the foliage has been now appar.
emily repaired. The Englishman sees
the sheen of glass in some of the little
loOp-holed windows. Beside it on. the
same cliff some so yards away is a
comfortable C0rsican farmhouse. in.
creased by. long modern addition
whose windows are large and whose
portico is spacious. OF a sudden he
thinks he sees a white hand waving
some piece of woman's lingerie from
: thO to"Si. ouu Soiiopo uo"A euC iodu
careless of all except that it may be
his wife. Though it is nearly dusk,
the cyclamen flowers still greet him
with their perfume He rides across q
little bridge that spans a chasm awful
in its depth through which the sea
rushes. 1t is light enough to see very
indistinctly. and he finds himself ON a
lawn planted with lick. citron and
orange trees. On one side is the farm.
house; on the other the lone Genoese
tower
Some. broken branches of cyclamen
(: flowers lead him toward the turret., A
light is now streaming from its upper
story. Riding his horse to the low.
arched masonry that is the entrance
to the lower story. he springs of to
.alight upon cyclamen blooms. The
odor of the flowers issues from the
building itself.
The heavy .oaken doors of the en-.
trance. are open invitingly, but he
scares notices them There is only
one tho:.eht in his heart: rs my wife
+ upstairs.
. With his revolver ready in his hand
he dashes rapidly up the circular stone
stairway, upon which open little loop
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1908-04-15

Charley, DEAR" said young Mrs.
Torkins, II wish you wouldn't pay so
much attention to the personal popu-
larity Of horses this year"
What do you mean" {.
you have dreadful habit of pick
ing out animals who are favorites be-
fore the race and absolutely friend
less after" :.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1908-04-15
STUDY NOT a NECESSITY.
End and Aim.of Woman's Lie, - IN.
derstood By 'Rosie's Mother.

In one of the Philadelphia public
schools is q little girl pupil whose an
cestors and coreligjonists have ever
held that the principal end and aim Of
the LIE Of a woman Is marriage. This
little girl. is we'll up In most Of her
studies, but she has an inveterate dis
like OF geography and 1t seems impos-
sible to teach the study to. her. The
other day her teacher. made impatient
by her seeming. unwillingness to learn
her geography lesson, sent to Rosie's
mother note requesting her to see
that the girl studied her lesson. The
next day showed no improvement.
however, and the teacher asked Rosie
whether she had delivered the note.
."Yes. ma'am," was the reply.
"And did your. mother read the
note. Rosie" said the teacher.
Yes, NAM"
what did she say?"
MY mother said that she didn't
know geography. an she got married.
an. my aunt didn't know geography.
an she got married. an you know
geography. an you didn't get mar
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1908-04-15
ONE LESSON WHOLLY WASTED.
Little Surprise Planned BY eilli9es
. MeSWat Not Success.

"Lobelia," asked Mr.. McSwat. who
was rummaging in one of the closets.
have you done anything with that
old coat of mine that used to hang on
the last hook in here?"
"Yes," answered Mrs. McSwat Il
gave 1t to the Volunteers"
You did, did you?" Well, you'll
be sorry to learn, perhaps. that there
was a fve-dollar bill in 1t which. /
was going to give you II l found that
coat undisturbed at the beginning of
March" 80.
%, think not, Billiger. I searched
1t thoroughly before gave it away"
you're a pretty smart woman.
Lobelia. but it didn't occur to you to
look inside the lining"
%, yes. it did, and found the five
dollar bill. I spent 1t for the rubber
plant in the front parlor that you have
admired so much and wondered how
l managed to buy out of my allowance.
You're a pretty smart man. Billiger.
but there are times when you don't
look the part
There being no further business be-
fore the house, Mr.. McSwat adjourned
without form.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1908-04-15
REV ARRIVALS n CANADA
NEARLY 100000 N 1907.
ABOUT SIXTY THOUSAND FROM
THE UNITED STATES.

! Now that It. Is. known that In the
year just closed nearly. sixty thou
sand from the United States declared
their intention of making their homes
in Canada, it might not be out Of
place:to search for some reasons that
would bring this about. These people
are but following the example Of the
fifty-five or sixty thousand who did
the same thing the year previous. and
an almost equal number who the year
before that but, followed the example
of the thousands of the year proceed
ing. An excellent climate, certain and
positive crops of grain Of all kinds.
good markets for. their produce. land
and good land. too at low prices.
easy terms of payment, mot forget
ting the 160 acres of land given free
by the Government. particulars of
which the Canadian Government Agent
whose name appears elsewhere will
tell you about and then the splendid
social conditions. The situation Is
pretty. well sized up by a writer In one
Of the magazines. : Quoting from this
article, we find this Those Of US
f. who made good in the States" inter
jected another settler as il to con-
tinue the story of his neighbor, have
had 1t easy from the start; q little
money is q mighty good thing on COM
ing into q new country. But those
who make an entry, or even buy lands
at low rates, are able to square things
In two or three seasons crops. There
are hardships in building shanties.
and then with Increasing prosperity
getting things into shape for better
homes. But affairs go much as In the
States. We have the largest liberty In
the world: there is more home rule IN
the Provinces than In the several
states Of the Republic. Taxes are
light and with only q few million peo-
pie west of Winnipeg we don't get in
each others way. Ones friends over
the line probably thought we would not
live through the winter; and while it
is cold. real cold. It is free from the
moisture experienced in the east.
Schools are good as encouraged by
the Government: the enterprising
American promoter and Yankee drum
mer see to 1t that we take notice Of
the latest improvements and best agri-
cultural machinery. Altogether We are
as near to affairs as we would be on
our own farms in the States. Winni-
peg bears the same relation to us as
Chicago did at home; and Edmonton
with the surrounding region advances
as Omaha did in the days when we
were as young as the boys yonder.
We get together much as they did In
the oranges over the border; the gov
eminent has established experimental
schools Of agriculture. and progress in
every line is stimulated. This is a
great region for grazing" we hear the
Calgary citizen continuing, land then
with building elevators of wheat at
enc dollar q bushel, many of MS find
time to go over to the live stock ex-
hibition in Chicago or visit old friends
during the course of the winter.
Every man is taken for what he Is
worth or for what he can raise: and
In this good air and on this fertile soil
we intend to show our old friends
that we are made Of the right stuff
that We are chips of the old block
who built up the American West"