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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-03-31
SneeZing.

The custom of saying God bless
you!" after sneezing must be at least
as old as the fifteenth century, as a
reference to it appears in the first
edition of Cations Golden Legend"
After describing a certain malady
which broke out among the early
Christians-the result, apparently, Of
their Incorporate habits-Caxton
proceeds: I'm this manere somtyme
snesyng, they deyed; so that when
any persone was herd snesyng, anone
that were by said to hym, God helpe
you, or Cryste helpe, and yet endur-
eth the custome." A curious SUPER
stition with regard to sneezing still
fingers in the villages of Devonshire.
1t has found expression in the follow
ing couplet:
Sneeze on Sunday morning fasting,
You'll enjoy your own true love to
everlasting.
In the highlands of Scotland 1t is
believed that newborn child is under
the thrall of the fairies until 1t
neezes.-London Chronicle.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-03-31
Last winter nv brother was al 9

Last winter my brother was at .
dinner given by the Mems Society Of
the Church of the Covenant, which in
years gone by has sometimes been
known as the Church Of the Govern
ment.' A gentleman sitting at his
right told him that selfsame story as
having happened to him, and a few
minutes later one of the chief speak
ers of the evening incorporated 1t in
his address as personal experience.
have never seen the story In Lon
don Punch, but l am sure that by the
time 1t shall have reached its major
ity, four years hence, the editors will
have appreciated its merits, and that
l shall have the pleasure of seeing 1t
in American papers reproduced, with
due credit, from that famous English
weekly. Only l am afraid they will
substitute methylated spirits for am
monia.
Now, what want to know Is this:
Will any one now believe that this Is
really my story, and that 1t actuallys
happened to me about 715 o'clock
on the morning of November "a,
1891?
In conclusion, let me say that l
have ceased telling the story.-Har-
per's Weekly.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-03-31
Hadiey Points Out Danger.

President Hadley of Yale writes:
"In the year 1889 the whole French
people was in state of political ex-
citement. They seized eagerly upon
everything sensational. A young
Journalist named Camille Desmoulins
shared this feeling and took advan-
tage Of it. He wrote series of arti-
cles called Lamp Post Talks to the
People of Paris, in which he urged
that anybody who was not friend
Of the people ought to be taken to the
nearest lamp post and hanged. He
was not himself bloodthirsty man.
He chose his title chiefly because it
sounded so picturesque. After a time
he saw that they were executing q
great many innocent men and women
and began to tell men so. Then they
said that he was not friend of the
people any longer, and hanged him.
This story has a moral for us in
America to-day. 1t shows the dan
gers that come to people which
reads newspapers for the sake of ex-
citement, instead Of for the sake Of
information"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-03-31
Piles Cured In o to II Days.
Pseo Ointment is guaranteed to cure any
case Of Itching. Blind, Bleeding or ProtrudAe-
Piles In 8 TO IA days or money refunded. 900.
Administering Oaths.

A witness before court in Cam
den, New Jersey, declined to take the
usual oath, saying Il do not know
whether there is God or not" and
the court excused him. The witness
was handwriting expert, and says
he has been testifying for 20 years,
and he was never ruled out before.
II one were to analyze the PROPOSE
tion involved in this incident, he
would probably come to the conclu-
sion, that a man who didn't believe in
the existence of God would be quite as
good witness as the man who did
believe there is a God, and was In
constant revolt against him, violating
his laws, profaning his name and des-
ecrating his own life. Why wouldn't
a man who didn't believe there is
God come nearer telling the truth
than a man who is constantly defying
him by low and vicious life?
1t seems we ought to have some
change in this court swearing busi-
ness. 1t is terribly misused. We
might have new oath, with a life
duty in it, and a prison alternative
projecting fiercely from it.-Ohio
State Journal.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-03-31
Feeding For Eggs.

Hens will not refuse to lay provid-
ing the conditions which surround
them are favorable for egg produc-
ton. OF course hen cannot keep on
laying all the time, nor will some
hens lay even for a majority of the
time, but the farmer who provides
the correct conditions of housing.
feeding and general management will
find that he will not be entirely with
out eggs at any time of the year. OF
course, it is not the hens nature to
lay at this time of the year, but II
she is comfortably housed and well
fed, the farmer will find that the
hen after all really has little senti-
ment as to just which season she
shall produce her eggs.
Getting eggsis not entirely mat
ter of feeding, yet II we feed correct
ly the hens will not have that as all
actual obstacle to laying. Maturity
and vigor are two important things
in the hens that are to be heavy win
ter layers. Keep the hens in thrifty,
vigorous condition. and be sure and
feed variety. These things count
for great deal toward success.
Corn. oats and wheat are the three
principal grain feeds, but there are
others that may well be fed by way of
variety, and the meat and green stun
In some form should never be ne
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-03-31
Neglected Agriculture.

There are two branches OF agri-
culture which pay larger than any
others for the investments in them in
the Central Western States, that are
the most neglected. We refer to the
dairy and poultry industries. 1t is
true that in way they are both pur-
sued on the farm, but back in the
years when butter sold for six and
seven cents a pound, chickens $1.00
dozen, and eggs at five and six
cents per dozen, the men on the farm
tabood them. and thought these in
dustries were too trifling, and they
have never gotten over 1t. It is a
good illustration of the force of early
habits, for 1t sticks to most farmers
yet, though dairying and poultry de-
mands and prices have quadrupled In
price In many respects. The ancient
cows which made but two or three
pounds of butter a week, and the
dung-hill chicks that were in the
same scant class, probably had some-
thing to do with forming this habit;
but now that we have passed these
things by, isn't 1t time to take notice
more generally and to give the most
profitable industries of the farm
greater and more methodic attention?
1t is also to be said of the dairy in
dustry that it is one of the greatest
factors In keeping up soil fertility.
Experience has shown that where
dairying is followed as a leading fea-
ture of the farm, that the average
yield of corn and other crops are de-
cidedly increasing. Corn and corn
silage are leading features in the in
dustry, as by this method, the greater
productions of the farm are returned
to the soil to enrich 1t. Rotating
corn and clover, both of which are
required In dairying, insures the nit
rogen and humus so essential, in the
soil. Glover, or alfalfa where 1t can
be grown, along with corn and corn
silage make good ration for cows.
and make good rotations. With
these farm crops but little bran and
cottonseed meal are needed in dairy
feeding to make a balanced ration.
Indiana Farmer.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-03-31
World Wave Of Extravagance.

Three of the great powers, the
United States, Great Britain and
Germany, are about to wrestle with
the deficit question. The British
Liberals estimate the gap between
revenues and expenditures which
parliament must make good by new
taxation as $50,0OO,000, while the
Conservatives, after the manner Of
opposition, put it at s70,000,000. The
German government wants $11S,000,-
900 more revenue at once, and here
in the United States we know that
when the books are closed at the end
of the current fiscal year there will
be deficit of more than s100,000,000.
Congress keeps right on as II there
was no such thing as inadequate rev.
enues. In all three countries big mil
itary and naval appropriations are
largely responsible for the excess Of
expenditures, though in neither Great
Britain nor Germany is the proportion
Of the taxpayers money devoted to
fleets, pensions, and armies as great
as in our own.-Boston Transcript.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-03-31

good off at one side of derrick and
one horse hitched on end of rope
will handle the fork all right.
Put hay fork on pulley as shown
IN diagram. Haul hay or buck 1t up
under guy rope No. 1 and leave der
rick lean as it Is and load fork and
start horse, and when the fork gets
to crotch let horse pull 1t over and
jerk trip rope as 1t goes, and 1t will
throw hay good distance. One man
can stack after this device and build
a stack twelve feet wide, thirty to
fifty feet long and sixteen to twenty
feet high. When you get fork un-
loaded pull derrick back and load
again; one man can load fork and
trip 1t with a long trip rope and pull
derrick back without getting off load,
ard little boy can handle the horse
or fork. Stake guy rope No. off a
little from one side, not much. just
enough so rope rubs stack good on
one side, and stake the pulley that
horse is hitched to rope on the other
side so 1t will pull straight and not
upset.-E. A. Mcmillan, in The Econ
omist.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-03-31
The Price of Pearls.

Consul-General William H. Mich
ael, of Calcutta, reports that scheme
has been set on foot to regulate the
Indian pearl market and to prevent
q repetition of the disastrous expert
ence of last year, on account of the
money crisis in the United States.
An agency is to be formed in India
with several branches, and head Of
fee at Bombay, to collect pearls and
to dispatch them to the London mar
ket at a fixed price. but subject to
offers. Against these parcels a small
advance will be given in Bombay,
while the price is being cabled for to
London. The promoters of the
scheme say that there is great fu-
ture in store for the Indian pearl in
dustry il it can be properly handled.
The syndicate intends to extend its
operations to the Australian fisher
les.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-03-31
Sheep and Wool.

E. d. King, In recent address be-
fore the Kansas Association of I'm
proved Breeders, made this compari-
son in behalf of sheep and wool pro-
fits as compared with cows. He said:
Zone hundred good grade ewes
will cost about the same as ten good
grade cows, will eat about the same
the year through, and at the same
per cent. of increase will return
eighty lambs, worth $4 each, and
1000 pounds of wool, worth $175, as
against eight calves, worth $40 each,
and 1000 pounds of butter, worth
$500. Quite a difference in favor OF
the sheep, and they will run in the
pasture caring for themselves, and
any of you who have MIXED ten cows
through the year and handled the
calves, as you must to get the butter
returns, know that there is great
deal Of labor attached to that work
II the farmer does not have the
alfalfa or clover to go with his corn,
the sheep will thrive admirably upon
prairie hay, wheat or fax straw, corn
fodder, or sorgum or kafir corn, but
as these are all highly carbonaceous,
he should feed some bran or oats or
oil meal with the corn to balance the
ration. In 1901 my flock was con-
fined entirely to corn fodder and a
half bushel per 100 head daily of a
ration composed of wheat and cotton
seed meal in equal parts, and did
fine.
II fattened some old ewes for mar
ket upon cottonseed meal and a very
light feed of poor shock corn. Some
OF the professors whom we consulted
said: Don't feed any cottonseed
meal to pregnant ewes But some
twenty head ran with the fattening
flock up to lambing and did we'll and
raised good lambs"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-03-31
The Walrus' Dcfenses.

A full grown walrus will weigh as
much as 1000 pounds; mountain
GUS mass of muscle and blubber, says
the st. Nicholas. He is armed with
tusks of ivory, sometimes two feet in
length, and when from his upreared
bulk these formidable weapons are
plunged downward upon an enemy,
they are as resistless as the drop of
a guillotine. Such a thick layer of
blubber lies under the skin that he
is practically clad in an armor i'm
pervious to teeth and claws alike.
So, unless the bear is greatly favored
by luck, he has, little chance to over.
throw his antagonist.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-03-31
NON-SPlNNING ROPE
AS MINING 1NVENTION.A
Twisting Prevented by Peculiar
Construction Of Strands, u
Promises 20 Be Useful.

A non-spinning rope has been re-
Gently made for use In quarries,
mines and similar places where It is
desired to hoist heavy weights with
single rope, says the Washington
Herald. With the use OF the rope of
standard design the load has ten
dency to rotate, because the action Of
the weight is to untwlst the strands.
and this tendency must be overcome
by the use of guide rope, by which
the load is controlled on It's journey
through the air. AS test block of
marble suspended by the single line
was raised from depth of more
than $50 feet without making a half
turn in It's ascent. No guide rope was
necessary.
In the construction of this rope an
inner series of wire strands is wound
in one direction over a core and an
outer series of wire strands Is wound
in the opposite direction about the
inner series as core. The wires
which make up each of the individual
inner strands are twisted in the same
direction as the lay of the strands,
but In the outer strands the indi-
vidual wires are laid in opposite d.
rections to the lay of the strands.
The number of strands required for
the second or outer layer must, OF
course, be greater than the number
Of strands in the inner layer. For
this reason the inner layer has the
wires as we'll as the strands all laid
In one direction, as described, there
by giving them tendency to untwist
very much faster than IL they were
twisted in the direction opposite to
the lay Of the strands. The wires In
the outer layer, being laid in an op-
poslte direction to the lay Of the
strands, do not tend to untwist as
fast as the inner layer.
The strands In the outer layer.
however, counteract the tendency of
untwisting the rope as a whole.
When weight is applied to the end
of the rope the greater number of
strands Of the outer layer have ten
dency to untwist in one direction,
whereas the fewer strands of the in
ner layer have tendency to untwist
very much faster in the opposite d.
rection, and 1t is found in practice
that these two actions almost perfect
ly balance each other.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-03-31
Hay Stacker.

We think we have a good device
for stacking alfalfa or other hay and
fast, too, that might be helpful to
some Of the readers and farmers and
that is to have two four by four
pieces of timber thirty feet long that
are clear of knots and bolt together
at top. Dig couple of holes In
ground foot deep and fifteen feet
apart, opposite each other and place
those four by fours In those holes
and put two guy ropes one in each
side and pull them up and stake good,
but give them enough rope to let
them have eight to ten feet each way
from straight up and down, fasten
pulley at crotch, tie end of one rope
at crotch and put pulley on 1t and
then run 1t through pulley at crotch
and down to another pulley staked
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-03-31

elected. Give any kind of meat
scraps or prepared meat foods, as 1t
pays. Try to keep the hen under
conditions as near like those in ex-
istence at spring time as you can, and
you will not suffer severely from an
egg famine. This Is nothing impos-
sible, and, briefly, only means COM
Portable housing. a variety Of feeds,
green stuff and meat scraps, and san
itary quarters.-Epitomist.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-03-31
LESS MEAT
Advice OF Family Physician.

Formerly people thought meat nec-
essary for strength and muscular
vigor.
The man who worked hard was
supposed to require meat two or
three times day. Science has found
out differently.
1t Is now common thing for the
family physician to order less meat,
as In the following letter from N.
Y. man:
Il had suffered for years with dys-
pepsia and nervousness. My physi-
clan advised me to eat less meat and
greasy foods generally. ] tried sew
eral things to take the place of my
usual breakfast of chops, fried pota-
toes, etc., but got no relief until
tried Grape-Nuts food.
After using Grape-Nuts for the
cereal part of my meals for two
years, | am now well' tran..~ Grape
Nuts benefited my health far mere.
than the s500.00 worth of medicine I
had taken before.
my wife and children are health
Ter than they had been for years, and
we are very happy family, largely
due to Grape-Nuts.
I'VE have been so much benefited
by Grape-Nuts that 1t would be un-
grateful not to acknowledge It,"
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read .The Road to
Wellville," in pkgs. There's Rea-
SON."
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full Of humss
interest. "
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-03-31
THE SONG OF THE AUTOMOBILE.

! am humming along, am singing song,
Il am merrily clipping the miles,
Till the road all the way is n ribbon Of
gray,
With blur for the fences and stiles.
There are horses behind that | passed like
the wind,
Their chagrin they cannot conceal,
at having to take all the dust that make,
For l am an automobile.
o. where is the car on this giddy old star
That can match me for beauty and
speed?
II must be allowed I've a right to be
proud,
Since I'm always the one in the lead
There is nothing so fast in this universe
vast
As my body of scarlet and steel,
The wind and the swallow behind me must
follow,
For | am an automobile.
-Minna Irving, in Gunter's Magazine.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-03-31
Has Immigration
DebaSed Us2

an this country" says Professor
e. A. Ross, discussing "The outlook
for Plain Folk" in Everybody's, "the
thronging in from the backward, be-
nighted lands hurts socially the call
ing and circles that the immigrants
enter. Their habits cause Americans
to shrink from them as from lower
caste. Their helplessness invites op-
preston. Certain official brutalities
peculiar to us-white peonage, po-
lice clubbing, the 'sweat-box,' the
third degree, the convict-lease sys-
tem-got their start in the abuse of
the friendless alien. Their wage-cut-
ting, scabbing,' and strike-breaking
foment violence, which leads to the
ready bayonet, State constabularies,
and the denial of home rule to cities.
Their political crudeness brings re-
proach on democratic institutions.
Their clannishness delivers them to
the shrewd boss who gives them rep
resentation' on his ticket. Finally,
our increasing diversity In blood and
tradition, by permitting race preju-
dice to be played upon, divides and
weakens the people in their fight for
self-government.
Nor Is this all.
"The startling inequalities Of
wealth that have sprung up in a gen.
GRAFTON threaten to establish class dis
tinctions hostile to democracy. For
the tendency of such abysmal con-
trasts is this: The ultra-rich vie in
extravaganza. The spectacle of their
baronial estates, princely houses, ljv-
cried lackeys, Sybaritic luxury, and
elaborate ostentation infects even
the worthy with the worship of
wealth. Success comes to be meas
ured by the sheer cash standard. The
young and ambitious realize it, and
shape their course accordingly. Peo-
pie fall apart into as many social
groups as there are styles of living,
and forget how to meet their fellows
on the level. The rule Is, snobbish-
ness toward those below you, and
toadyism toward those above you.
The rich are gangrened with pride,
the poor with envy. There is no
longer public opinion, there are
only clashing class opinions. Honest
labor is felt to be more disgraceful
than mean parasitism. The toiling
millions cease to be respected, even
by themselves. The upper classes
claim and are conceded the right to
lead, finally the right to govern.
Such would be the course of the
malady. Unless democracy mends
the distribution of wealth, the mall
distribution of wealth will end
democracy.
And yet-summing up-the ball
ance inclines in favor of democracy.
The forces on its side reach deeper;
they are civilizational. The swarm
ing in of low-grade immigrants and
the mal-distribution of wealth are
manageable things. They can be, in
fact elsewhere have been, successfully
dealt with by organized society.
They are matters for craftsmanship.
So it is more likely that democracy
will cut the roots of privilege than
that privilege will cut the roots of
democracy.
Let the half-stifled muck-raker,
the faltering soldier of the common
good, the down-hearted reformer
leave his trench for a moment and
climb to the hilltop that looks out on
all the peoples and on all the forces
of the age.
He will see that the lips of the
morning are reddening!'
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-03-31
Feminine Aggression.

(, A New York woman tackled fee
ing burglar SO successfully that she
was dragged through a window and
into yard some feet below. As she
did SO we'll on her first attempt,
little practice ought to make her
eligible for one OF the big football
elsveps.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-03-31
Safe and Sure.

Among the medicin9s that are recon-
mended and en- niorsed by physicians and
nurses Is Kemp's Basam, the best cough
cure: For many years 1t has been regarded
by doctors rs the medicine most likely to
cure coughs, and II has a strong hold on
the esteem Of al well-informed people.
When Kemps Balsam cannot cure cough
we shall be at loss to kGow what will,
At druggists and dealers, Csc.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-03-31
Municipal MANAGEMENT.

Controller Metz's suggestion that
city employees do a full days work
every day is so obvious that 1t should
not have taken years and all the re-
cent agitation against waste to make
public officials think Of 1t. But the
employees won't all do a full days
work, for there is not full days
work for all Of them to do.-New
York Tribune.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-03-31
Might Happen.

He-"Nothing could ever come be-
tween us, could 1t dear?" She-I
can't think of single thing, unless
should happen to become engaged to
some other man before we get mar
ried. Stray Stories.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-03-31
Dutch Centenary.

The Dutch intended to celebrate
the centenary re-establishment Of
their national independence by a
world exposition, to be held at The
Hague in the year 1913. The expo
sition ground and guaranty fund have
already been secured.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-03-31

room is taken up, and at the same
time individual pieces of timber touch
at very few points, thus permitting
air circulation on all sides of the
wood. When quick drying and sea-
soning is wanted, Fig. 8 shows a bet
ter method and the one commonly
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-03-31
Piling Wood to Season.

The climate has much to do with
the best method to be employed in
piling green wood so that 1t will sea-
son. In the humid sections of the
United States, says Farm and Home,
1t should be piled with plenty of