ic Watdnan “Bellefonts, Pa., November 8, 1889. THE FARMER'S DAUGHTER. Pretty Ke ithleen there she goes, ; dow, Bean ving half in Fini Nhe is loved the countrs Fer ker truth and swe Hath t! Eldest of we Know, wo who ask | k was very fond of mon- that he quite starved it, or hid itup a chim- nis fire, or lights, | or a pillow, pat vet so very as to bye on the verge of mis > having fallen ove Beggars | harvest from hie purse or and match makers could make jee sion on his bachelor heart. Peter Bus sekivk saw through the latter serhood with- 10 as well as the former, nd buttoned up in 1e presence that of a olded docu- in his breast-pocket. The men >d to rob him, the women to mar- ry him. The last was the worse. Not that Peter hated the women: on the ¥ even at fifty he was rem arka- | bri eye put him women as wives or Fray were expensive, proverbially extravagant. ¥ one. sh 1e would spend ived, and dead. And, 1 before him. Peter the shoals of matrimo- th of bewitching prope A) as in f seedy gentleman with a ment - while he he was terror as one inconvenience in this owever. This was the volv ed a servant beds.wash dish- short, the ser k was always the bane ot 1g aud drinking in a } of the t wasting nd each chs ange in the followed of towels and | Il ware. There Mr. Buskirk. He ah and May and Ar Iiew 10 “Th ere Ww a certain Mrs tea parties mnu- would marry.” wl x . 3 433 Ned Das ii : ‘Economical I" velled Peter: “my ar ym {A}, | proval. fond of it]. and slender little woman, with a remark- kably pretty face. She wore no hoops, and her dress cleared her ankles. The sleeves were close, and the skiet had perhaps three breadths in it. The dress itselt was of very plain merino, and she { wore neither brouche nor bow—ouly a { white linen collar. Several of the ladies exchang- | ed glances, a faint giggle was heard: { and, if by a common consent, the two were left tete-a-tete in a corner.— “Pleasant day,” said Peter, to com- mence the conversation. “Pleasant day, but cold.” “Ah.ves, but I dislike , said the lady. | “Don’t agree with you, ma'am.’ “0, that's not it. 1 am never ill; { but cold is so expensive. Lights early | and coal dear.” proceeded the lady. | “Money slips through ene’ jfingers:and I | never waste things.’ “My case exactly,” said Buskirk. t's astonishing how things cost. Now ere is butter—say a pound a fort old weather,” :0, T never eat butter: it much,” said the lady. “Ah ! sugar and tea and coffee.’ costs too “If you indulzein such luxuries,what | | | K vou expect?” said Mrs. Barlow. | “Thev are artificial wants, altogeth- said Mr. Buskirk. second nature.” | er, so they are,” ‘But then, habit is _“Extravagun habits ruin | said Mrs. Barlow. ‘Oh, 1 { when I look at those flounces. | waste of material.” “I've often thought,” said Peter. “And vou don’t wear them?" “11 said Ln Barlow. my senses, sir. aw ork- re years. “Indeed!” said Peter. “And I sup: pose some ladies buy oneevery month.” b= very ten days said Mrs. Rarlow. “0, I blush for my sex, Mr. Buskirk, I i | do. indeed.” { Peter was charmed. He began to think Mrs. Brown right. The cost of | such a wife would be a mere trifle, and { what an eve she would have to the ex- pense of a household. Ere the evening was over he had de- | cided it would be cheaper to marry than { to remain single, were Mrs. Barlow his helpmate. “She'd net be { would cheek me in gances,”’ said he. She would be in- | valuable te me. Sa wears one dress ten vears. The fates must have her tc searth form benefit.’ No after due consideration, Peter { solved to court the econ omical widow, and that lady being conveniently domi- | ciled at Mrs. Brown's he found avery opp ortfunity. It was a very inexpensive courtship. He gave her no presents. She expect ed none. He took her nowhere save to church. swhere neither of them ever saw the plate, and both were happy. And at last Le proposed. She blush- ed. and begged time to conside At! last she said: “I'm afraid to say yes, Mr. Buskirk. I love you but you are so terribly extravagant. and coffee, and eat butter, and really I | should fear coming to want, I indeed.” “1? Why, I am the most economi- eal soul living,” said Peter. “Extravagant people always think that.” said tl “No, I am afraid S Jes deed you were Such a “1 have I've no wish to die in i | | | I've had this dress ten saving her sent 1 y spec ial i e lady. to He > went aw idenly to ng mal i ] He dismisses k to Wid “My money, w hands tiran in mir 1 “Marry me and keep me from his servi be judged from the faet that weeks from that date they were united, the ¢ lergys nan made the pr “Now Peter looked ap- | in the front parlor: another was arrang- ing curtains. le rushed up stairs. There sat another woman work. also at are you “Mrs. Buskirk's regular seamstress, please, sir,” said the woman. many,” | shudder | self, but she | my little extrava-| You drink tes | should | t the widow's answer was mav | three | “Ard where is Mrs. Buskirk ?" | “Here love. said a voice. And there entered from the adjoining A woman was making up a carpet | Again hegasped the question. “Who { room, a lady dressed in silk, and in ex- =} pensive crinoline, with bracelets, { brooch, ear rings and a little cap worth a fortune. “The furniture is ordered, painters are here, and I've and the engaged all the servants, Mr. Buskirk,” said the the lady: “and cook wants to know whether vou like beef rare or well + done. : In such things vou shall have vour choice always. There was no time to make a pudding to-day, so we | only two shillings a basket. | “Mrs. Buskirk, have you gone er ! zy,” cried Peter, “or am I dreaming?’ | “I'm wide awake, at all events,” cried the lady. “I've starved long | enough, and worn that brown merino | until I hate it. dress—" “Fond of dress!" repeated Peter: “and love good things!" “Love good things,” repeated the | spouse, “and now I'm married, I mean to bave them.” “But if—I had—known—I—I— began Peter. “Wouldn't have married me, 1 sup- pose,” said the bride. “Well, my cousin, Mrs. Brown, told me that, you know.’ Peter looked at her. plain at l:st. He tried to speak, but could not. He stared at five minutes by the rushed out of the house muttering, “Taken in! taken in!" It is said that Peter Buskirk never recovered from theshock. Against his ill he lived luxuriously ever after, and I always was fond ot The truth was clock, and then = Will by her magnificent attire and parties. But nevertheless Peter 1 self expired in 1 grand him- last wordz on h lips were said to be “Taken taken! . | Two Phases. aw Traveler Early in the morni > birds have begun to tw | in the locust trees, a lusty voice shouts: John, oh, John!" | A sleepy boy turns over in bed. | | fo, John!" “Yes, sir.” “Git up now. and feed rq.” vour hoses. ully somnolent the morn- very bloom of sweet and of a dream s back upon the pill he exclaims. footsteps. He mut toward the able: with the 8 don’t belie f selves to death. Hope there'll come a hen I can lie in bed as long as . This thing of snatching a fel- low out of bed at such an hour 1s oT re hogs and the dogs are I've got poke round 3 Wi h I wer > fuel w whic get time to do ar nything. passes 0 Ww twitte a- | s than a year: and the | crows and | way: aa Must Season’ Awhile. An old Henry county farmer , w ho is a Democrat, caught on to the North- west the other day, and backing him in- to the corner of the drug store, said : “One of my Republican neighbors had a dream the other night.” ‘Yes: well—" “He dreamed he died, and on the other shore came to a fork in the road. A sentinel in uniform stood there and challenged his polities. ‘I am a Repub- lican and voted for Protection last fail, answered my neighbor. ‘Turn to the left,” said the sentinel, ‘it's but a little you'll see the smoke room soon.’ “1 see. What next happened >’ “Well, my neighber saw a fierce-look- ing devil roasting a sleek cunning-look- ing chap, and asked who he was. ‘That,’ said the demon, as he piled on a fresh scuttle of coal and brimstone, ‘that is a protective tariff shouter.” A little further on another devil with his sleeves up and sweat pouring down his temples, . : . | was tucking up the brands around a must have ices. Strawberries, too, are | big fat fellow whose lard was running { merrily down into the embers. “ ‘And whois the | quired my neighbor in his dream. “That,” replied the devil,}as he lean- ed his spade against a pile of coal and | mopped his brow—‘that is a protection monopolist.” Farther on still, in a cor- ner not very hot, my neighbor man hung up with a piece of binder twine.” ”’ “Indeed! that was singular.” “Yes, it struck my neighbor so, and | he inquired of the devil what it meant. “Jesso! Well “The devil who stood there told my | { neighbor that the hoodoo hung up with his lady for | his wife astonished the neighborhood | binder twine, was a Republican farmer who voted for Trusts and Protection last fall. A and it was concluded that the best thing to do would be to hang him up and let him season awhile !"— Napoleon Northwest Put itin the Law. There is one other thing that ought to be made is that of doubting the statements of a! Fish have | man who has been a-fishing. been caught ever since hooks were in- vented. The fish were made to be caught. They rather expect it. Itis no trick at all to catch fish. And ve as Jones returns from bis vacation he i stopped and asked : iI presume 2 e in people working them- | “Been away 7" Caught some four pounders, I caught seven pounds.” “H'm! Good-by!" Jones not only caught one weighi seven pounds, but a number w d five and six pounds apie ¢ £7 up bis the next fat victim? in- | saw a | He was too green to burn yet, | a penal offense, with a mini- | | mum fine of at least $200, with impris- | s onment of not less than six months. It | one which weighed | Watered Milk The iuilkman who waters his goods generally does so under the impres that the water poured in incorporates it- ed except upon chemical analysis. This shows gross ignorance The milk will hold only its own fluid ; all foreign fluid will be precipitated if the mixture is allowed to stand a couple of days. Any housewife may spot a dishonest milk- { man with very little trouble. Let her take a long slender bottle, ciense it gb and let it dry out. If, then, it is filled with milk and allowed to stand ' | in & cool—not cold—place for forty-eight hours, all the foreign ilaid will be precipitated—that i is, it will settle to the bottom of the bottle. The soured milk will then fill the middle of the bottle | and the fatty substance will be floating on top. Sometimes the top will be a layer of cream, then will come a layer of albumen. Another artificial device is to | make the milk look rich; then will come the soured milk and at the bottom will be the foreign w~ater. The whole scheme of deception can be read by a | elance at the bottle after one has had a single lesson in the rudiments of milk inspection. This sort of work is not scientifically satisfactory, but it will al- ways develop the fundamental fact— whether or not the milk is normal. Sheep in Small Floecks. | A member ofthe Oxford, O., Farmer's | elud. in some remarks on Sheep growing, said: Sheepare profitable and healthy | when kept in small flocks. They are good scavengers, and with the exception | of ticks and “grubs not lable to diseases. | For grubs this farmer's preventive is a | very simple and very effective one. It consists of a log with two-inch holes i bored into it. Salt is placed therin and the edges of the augur holes are kept smeared with tar. This keeps tar on the sheep's nose g protects against the in which produces grubs in the . His protection against ticks is ; dip,’ and against scab and foot-rot the exercise of care in buying new sto : “Be careful how i z at the stockyards.” | ——— Way His Paper Was | I Labpensd to be in the office of the Me cantile Review and L Stock Journal | on W ednes re last in time to hear one of the ons ever given for A Ger | ping a newspaper an boy en- tered, removed his hat, and asked : | “Is Mr. Vepsder in Li “He is? lied Char & mass the reply. Exit your self with the milk and cannot be detect- | All Sorts of Paragraphs. —Even the homeless man nay have 4 title clear to mansions in the skies. —They boast in Minnesota of a pota- | toe yield of 250 bushels per acre. .--The slot machine to test vour weight is one of the weighs of the world. —There has been of late a marked rise in the rice of quinine. Men with malaria feel shaky. —The way to put the sugar trust i the soup is to refuse to put the sugar | vour tea or coffee. n n — Buggy wheels of steel on the princi- ple of a bicycle wheel will be made by 4 Pittsburg concern. —The late Henry Charles Westover, coachman to the Prince of Wales, left 4 fortune of about $50,000. —When the carpet manufacturers’ Trust gets started the American house- keeper will indeed be floored. —An Onion Trust has been organized in New York. There is nothing two strong for a Trust to tackle. —Ex-Senator J. McDonald's friends claim that he would have been worth $1,000,000 had he lett politics alone. —There is another war cloud over Europe. The Autocrat of all the Russ. ias left Berlin with a Czardonic grin on his face. —The faithful lover doesn’t where the World.s Exposition i while heis holding the world’s fair his arms. —Massachusetts machines pair of shoes in twenty minutes. Chicago market is, however, not plied by Massachusetts. —The woman who carries a hanker- chief in her corsage should remember fate of the man in the fable who arm ed a wiper in his bosom. —Not much of that 80,000 majority will be left when the farmers and wage earneis get through with their reckoning with candidate Boyer. —The great trotter Axtell has be purchased 2] ol Conley, of Chicago at $105,000, the highest price ever paid for any horse 7 the world. — A De ratic postmaster in Virgin- ia holds on to his office, because, he says, he “b a great many goods from Wanamaker. Can such ‘things be ? —Mr. Europe, nrbar country may be i by the confidently predict Serv ice. Signal a young lady begins to st an interest in the arrangement a yourg man’s cravat he wants to be us careful as he tan px - be or he is gone. —The Chicago fined a pray girl strange n against uty like a her The poo men of must be protected at all haz- a Dinah, sensation ian who the denegam i ’ in Paris, land mn nauve refusal of the United S Company to ship notes denominations from Washin banks thr I ] than tl Ceylon’s Cinnamon Gardens. unloading time event. : drive thro an gy earth. A visit pd Arabi Pacha and b broth rs inexile isa very ibuins S
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