Bellefonte, Pa., Sept. Ii, 1891. THE GOOD OLD WAY. There was a nice young fellow As ever you did see ; ikewise a nice young lady, Just as good ashe; And so they chanced one day to meet, When they were feeling gay, And so, of course, they fell in love, The good old way. He feared he should not get her, So he was was feeling blue; And she was in conniption fits For fear he would not, too; But such thin trouble did not last, I am real glad to say: hey soon were married firm and fast, The good old way. Then were the gossips watching, The tattle bage perplexed, And Mrs. Grundy itching, For what was coming next; Some thought they’d have a family, Some blockheads answered, nay. They raised ten children, yes, they did, The good old way. They lived and helped each other, As they agreed before; And so God's blessing came to them, In basket and in store ; They knew enough to save a cent, Safe, for a rainy day; And peacefully through life they went, The good old way. They lived long, useful Christian lives, In all good honest pride, : Till old Time banged them with his seythe, And then, of course, they died; They had great, splendid funerals, The best words folks could say ; Then side by side we buried them. I'he good old way. This is a song and sermon too, And true memorial rhyme ; And folks who live so just and true Are blessed, all the time; A splendid loving, useful life, Such always find its pay, . ‘Who walk like these, my kith and kin, The good old way. Their graves are green, they may be seen, Their monuments I see: 3 And memory gives them back again, For all their love to me; : Love rules the world with power and ‘might, Love guides us home to stay, ; And heaven shines bright to kindly light The good old way. —From the Brookiyn Eagle. SHE LIVED AGAIN. Imagine a perfect morning in June. A lovely woman leanad on the window- sill of a low roofed, many gabled coun- try house, situated in a picturesque hol- low, surrounded by wooded hills, or- chards and meadow lands. There was an abstracted look in the deep gray eyes lifted unconsciously from the spring-grasses and budding roses, and all the wild, riotous life in the garden below, to the far distance, where the pale green of the maples rested against the blue of the June sky, and delicate, fleecy clouds drifted silently to the far West. She was in a reverie and wondered if life meant to her what it did to other women. She has read of hearts torn with contending passions, of women who had given all for love and thought the world well lost. She had read but could not understand. Was she then capable of feeling ? : She glanced back over her past life, her unromantic courtship and prosaic marriage. Only a family arrangement” cemented by the nuptial knot. Did she love her husband? Not, certainly, as some women loved. Her eyes had never lighted, her cheek had never ‘flushed at his approach. She was a stranger to the pangs of jealously. Why had she been denied the bliss, the torment, of love and hate? Why must her life be colorless, like ‘the pale tints in yonder western sky ? The crunch of horses’ feet upon the gravel announced the return of Mr. ‘Cameron, and with him a stranger. Leaning down among the roses, she looked straight into a pair of eyes, soft, velvety black, that held her gaze for just one instant with their eubtle magnetism. A blush dyed her cheek as she left the window, and with back- ward glance, woman like, at the mir- ror, she swept down the wide stairway to greet her husband and his guest. Reginald Brentand and Fairfax Cam- eron had been fast friends in youth but drifted apart, as men will, only to meet after ten years’ separation. Cameron was a broad shouldered fellow, not ex- actly plain, but commonplace—the last man in the world, seemingly, to play the hero of a girl's love story. Regin- ald Breatand, on the other hand, was tall and slender, with dark hair, olive complexion, and magnetic eyes, shad- «d by long, curling lashes; eyes which became at times dangerously beautiful. For just one moment Violet's rose leat ofa hand lay in his, yet the touch -of her palm sent the hot Southern blood bounding tumultuonly through his veins. She stood before him in a flood of sunlight, her brown hair like waves -of gold, her even pulse beats rising and falling calmly, her red lips just parted ~—such a sweet tender mouth !—the rest of her face pale and cold, and he ‘marveled at her beauty. Later, sitting on the wide, old-fash- ioned porch, while the yellow moon flooded the earth with its mellow radi- ance, hie watched her, and wondered why this woman, the wife of aaather man, should stir his soul to its pro- foundest depths, and awaken feelings dormant in his breast for many a year. “You must jook out for Brentand, WViclet,” said Cameron, when husband and wife were together. “He is an im- pressionable fellow, and scems greatly taken with you.” “Is that a joke, Fairfax?’ she asked, coidiy. ff so, 1 confess Ido not like iL? “You take things too seriously,” said her husband, jovially. “I speak oan the young man’s account, not. yours, my fair ice queen.” “Mr. Brentand knows I am a mar- ried woman,” said Violet, “and will find that 1 am not given to flirtation. Aad now tell me of your journey, Fair- fax” The month of roses slipped away, yet Brentand stayed on, a welcome guest, and though Violet drew about | her the wit and beauty of the country and town, he only saw her calmly the melody of her finely modulated voice. at the entrance of a vine-draped arbor. | It was a glorious night; the heavens bent low above them, and pulsing through the purple twilight stole the sweet, sad strains of a waltz. rude touch, and then paced back and sky, throwing one parting, regretful glance backward at the stormy, pas- sionate face uplifted to her own. Andin emotions. knew also that she, as a true woman, should tell him so; but she could not and gazed with longing eyes far out on gro, fishing and dozing in his boat, and the fairy island, to be taken from it an | & It lay | pl black hair. for many long weeeks, blissfal uncon- sciousness, low and level, a tangled mass of ver- dure, save for one precipitous rock, like a warning finger pointed seaward. and stood silent and solitary, looking westward, where the declining sun glimmered across the blue waters like a golden pathway to heaven. She bared her head to the refreshing breezes failed to arrest her attention, clasped hands and steadfast gaze she stood like a beautiful statue, until a an impatient climber, fell with a sharp, metallic ring upon the rocks. with the object of her thoughts—Re- ginald Brentand. his dark face flushing at sight of her. Crusoe until I caught sight of your cameo-like profile so clearly defined against the pale azure of the sky.” formally, trying to appear at ease. umphing in her confession. ing seat upon this boulder,and I will lie at your feet.” and he picked up a little blue and gold volume lying on the ground and began to read, his mellow voice a melody in itself. How handsome he was! she thought, watching his bright, expres sive face. looking straight at her, said : soon ? I wonder if you will care ? SRY ‘One sultry summer evening they met His heart beat madly as he gazed into her eyes which drooped beneath | his ardent glances. swept vine caught in the meshes of her hair. ous fingers he gently disentangled it. He felt her sweet, perfumed breath on his cheek. Ah, she was so perilously near ! Suddenly a wind- Bending over her, with tremul- Suddenly he encircled her with his arms. With a frightened cry Violet slipped from him and was gone. He watched th flutter of her white garments as she fled like a frightened bird from his forth upon the terrace until the dreamy YY CSO ing nearer and nearer and once a great | wave dashed up to their very feet. It was evident that the whole island would be submerged. Would succor never come ? In vain they strained their eyes to see a coming sail ; no boat dared ven- ture outin such a terrible storm. At last they could get no higher, the aves had them at their mercy. Al- ready they stood ankle deep in the treacherous flood. Then Violet crept to Brentand, and like a tired child, hid her unprotected head upon his breast. barriers between them now; a short hour at the most and they would be struggling for their lives out there on the storm tossed waters. There were no Hush—what was that—a shout—a cry? Ah, surely, that was her hus- band’s voice! catch the sound—again, and nearer— they were saved! A long answering She strained her ears to waltz music ceased, the lights were out ! cry, and a boat was tossing under the and the guests departed. Tbe moon dropped down the western strained convulsively to his then he fastened the rope thrown him about her waist and tenderly lowered rocks. One moment Brentand held Viole heart; her room Violet knelt with tears 1 her/| her to the waiting arms below. eyes, and a heart torn with contending After that Mrs. Cameron passed among her guests coldly,quiet as ever; her husband least of all dreamed that under her calm exterior beat a heart of fire. She knew that after what had passed between them Brentand had no right to linger under his friend's roof— banish Cameron’s friend, she urged in weak excuse, without arousing his the knowledge of his friend's treachery. One day, tossed by conflicting emo- tions, she wandered down to the shore the blue waves, until her eyes rested upon a little island reposing like an emerald on the bosom of the lake. “How quiet it looks out there!” she murmured. “How peaceful! And, oh, how I long for rest! And to think that I should once have pined for this tum- ult of soul I”? She came presently upon an old ne- with his assistance was landed upon hour later when he returned. Slowly she climbed its jagged side, which toyed with the moist rings of her golden hair. A bout gra ting on the beach below | a With | li bit of stone, loosened by the foot of She turned, and stood face to face He laughed gayly, “I was fancying myself a Robinson “You are complimentary,” she said He smiled, understanding and tri- “Come,” he said, ‘here 1s a charm- She obeyed his gesture in silence, * Suddenly he closed the book, and “Do you know I am going away She paled slightly, but answered “All right, Brentand,” cried Camer- on. “Look to yourself now, old fellow —T'll keep a lock out here.’ Brentand crawled cautiously to the edge of the cliff, and dropped iuto the seething flood. tled with the waves, but his limbs were chilled, andthe pitiless billows flung him back against the sharp rocks. Ie rose to the surface and struck out for the boat ; a dozen hands were stretched forth; he sank, but strong arms grasp- ed him, and they laid him, limp and | suspicions. Kind honest Fairfax! He | li suspected nothing ; why pain him with Manfully he bat- feless at her feet. Slowly Violet awoke to a confused murmur of many voices, and opened her eyes to find Cameron bending anxiously over her, his kind blue eyes full of tender solicitude. knew her heart—how wicked, how un- true! Ah, it he but The storm was oyer, the stars were shining, and down on the beach a crowd had gathered, the twinkling of many lauterns shadows on the With hushed voices they toiled up the weary slope. the pall-like covering, and tor one moment Violet's eyes looked down on throwing grotesque weed-strewn sands. The night wind lifted corpse, with matted blood on its tem- es, and sea weed tangled in its coal One glimpse, and then, After a lingering convalescence, Fairfax Cameron carried his wife away for a change of scene. turned she seemed qnite like her old self again, though a trifle quieter and colder; but ever in her heart one thought lay uppermost, “It was I who killed him, as a good woman should, he would be As strength re- Had I sent him from me ving yet. Ah, surely, my punish- ment is greater than I can bear.” Whatever Fairfax Cameron divined of his wife’a secret, he held his peace. He was only a commonplace man, but loyal when two sunny-haired babies clung about Violet's neck and wooed her from her sad memories, the hidden fire in her tense nature burst forth unfettered, and putting the past resolutely behind her, she lived again—and loved. and brave. And by-and-by, The N egroes. We have had something to say about the great Southern Expositon to be held in the city of Raleigh, N. C., and that one of its leaders is Hon. Jon. T. Pat- rick, of Raleigh, who is Secretary. Con- nected with the Exposition is what is known as the Colored People’s Depart- ment, presided over by Rev. J. C. Price, D. D., a full blooded negro of fine appearance, as black as black can be, as eloquent as any man in the United States, white or colored. He is said to be by all odds a much smarter man than Fred Douglass. the Livingston College, of Salisbury, N. C., an institution for colored people, with an attendance of more than three hundred pupils. has done more for the advancement of He is president of This is the man who calmly enough : “So soon—and why 2” “Because you are able to strangle my soul in a mesh of your gold colored hair,” he quoted in tones inconceivably | But she turned her back on the elo- quence of his pleading eyes. “What nonsense you men think it necessary to talk to women,” she said, lightly. “I wonder what has become of my sable boatman? It looks as though we were to have a storm.” She would not even glance at him, and frowning, his eyes sought the Why had the sunshine faded out of the western sky? Why this darkness from: which the very birds fled affrighted 2” An ominous stillness rested on the glassy surface of the lake, and present- ly a low, moaning wind, ending in a shriek, lashed the white capped waves into long, huagey tongues, lapping ont tor their prey on the rocks below. Violet turned to Brentand in af- “Shall we be in danger?” she asked. “I am a terrible coward in a storm.” “Ne, no!” he said reassuringly, though his face was set and white as he watched his boat float from ite “We are beyond the reach of the waves, and the old fisherman will surely remember.” Just then the great black cloud that hung so threateningly above their heads parted, and a fiery sheet of lightning filled earth and sky with a blinding through the heavens and the rain fel] Through the dim, awful light Violet saw as In some hideous nightmare Brentand’s face as he carefully adjust ed his coat about her trembling form, and drew her to a sheltered spot, where a huge boulder partially protected her from the fury of the tem pest, Moments seemed hours to these two watchers, perched on that dizzy cliff smiling face—his ears drank in but over the seething, boiling waters. They could hear the billows stealthily creep- his race than any other negro, living or dead, and it was a fitting honor to con- fer upon him the position of Chief of the Colored Department of the Ex- position. It willbe worth a trip from any Northern State to see the progress the negro is making * in his Southern home. Every Southern State has its colored organization, with a State Commissioner to work up its colored exhibit. The State organizations have under them an organization in each county. The ne- groes are more thoroughly organized in this work than they ever were before fur any purpose. They have had set apart for them separate buildings in which to make their displays. This display of the negro will show whether ornot the race is improving during freedom. Tt will show on what terms the white and colored people live together. The round trip rates from New York, Baltimore and Washington during Oc- tober and November will be less than fifteen dollars. The price of lodging in the temporary hotels on the Exposition grounds will be fifty cents per day. The hotel charges will be from one to two and a balf dollars. Accommodations ean be secured in advance by sddsessing Hotel Department of the Southern Ex. position, Raleigh, N. C. Large numbers of Northern manu- facturers will have machinery and goods on exhibition. The management ad- mits all classes of mannfactured goods made in the Northern States. er———— Bright Skies for Campbell, CoLuMBUSs, Sept. 2.—Senator Calvin S. Brice, chairman of the Democratic national committee, was here Tuesday, and took occasion to remark that Gover- ernor Campbell will surely be re- elected . He said : “Governor Campbell will gain largely with the farmers and with the workingmen, and will be supported by the new voters and young men, with whom he is a prime favorite.” Brice also said that the northwest was getting into line again for the Democratic nom. inee, Roanoke’s Wonderful Record. The Story of Its Growth Briefly Told. Roanoke has a population of over 22- 000. Its citizens are from pearly every State in the Union. Eight years ago it had 600 people. Its growth at present is on a more solid basis and more rapid than ever before in its history. Roanoke is located at the junction of the Shenandoah and Roanoke valleys, its altitude is 907 feet and it is surround- ed by a rich agricultural and mineral country. Roanoke is distant just eight hours’ ride from Washington and Norfolk, nine from Baltimore, twelve from Phil- adelphia, and fourteen from New York. It is situated at the junction of the Shenandoah Valley and Norfolk and Western railroads, both trunk lines, and is easily reached from any section of the country. The Roanoke and Southern railroad is now being built to this place from Winston, N. C., and will open up the trade of the Carolinas to this section next fall. The Valley branch of the Baltimore and Ohio runs to Lexington, forty miles distant, and a road filling the connecting link will be constructed to Roanoke in ashort time. The growth of the city dates from 1882, when the headquarters of the Norfolk and Western were removed here from Lynchburg, the Shenandoah Valley road was completed, and the Roanoke Machine Works, employing at present 1,700 hands, was established. Since then millions of dollars have flow- ed into the city in the establishment of manufactures and other business. Coal and iron and the rich agricul- tural lands of the section have contri- buted to the growth. Roanoke has sixty five miles of streets and eight miles of street railway inside the corporate limits. A dummy line extends to Vinton, a distance of two miles eost and to Salem, six miles west. Throughout the city electricity, in a short time, will take the place of horses as motive power. The water works are sufficient to furnish a city of 50,000 inhabitants. The supply comes from a pure. cold spring bat gushes from the side of Mill Mountain, and is without equal in any city in the country, It is undoubtedly a specific for mauy forms of kidney disease. Light is furnished by the Gas Com- pany and the Electric Light ana Motor Power Company. The property valuation, according to the assessment of this year, is nearly $9,000,000, besides the railroad property and the Roanoke Machine Works. The increase in the value of reality was about $5,000,000 over the previous as- sessment of four years ago ; but present values are many millions in excess of those given. There are four fine hotels—Hotel Roanoke, the Ponce de Leon, the Con- tinental, and Hotel Felix--besides a number of smallerones. All of them are crowded and constantly turning away guests. Roanoke is well supplied with BANKING FACILITIES. The First National Bank has a capi- tal of $100,000, with a surplus of $100, 000; the National Exchange Bank a capital of $101,000; the Citizens’ Na- tional Bank a capital of $100,000 ; the Commercial National Bank a capital of $100,000 ; the Roanoke Trust, Loan and Safe Depesite Company a capital of 250,000 ; thie Traders Loan, Trust and Deposit Company a eapital of $100,000, the Fidelity Loan and Trust Company a capital of $200,000 ; and several private banking concerns transact a large finan- cial business. The Roanoke Machine Works, with a capital of $5,000,000, pays out $65,000 per month in wages to employes. About $5,000,000 a year is paid in the city for wages. Some of the important MAN®FACTURING PLANTS are as follows : Roanoke Machine Works.... woe $5,000,000 West End Iron Co......... 500,000 Crozer Steel and Iron Co... 500,000 American Bridge Works ve 200,000 Ritfe’s Hydraulic Engine Works...... 50,000 Roanoke Canning Factory... ie 50,000 Roanoke Rolling Mills...... «200.000 Roanoke Spike Factory........... au 50,0.0 Roanoke Iron Co., {onsisiing of a 200 ton Furnace, Muck Bar Mill and Plate WH Nl 000 .. 500,000 Roanoke Brewery................ . 75,000 Bridgewater Carriage Company. of Roanoke...... beraasiravescisversons serisionss 75,000 Gambill Fiouring Mill Co. sie Roanoke Milling Company 25,009 Roanoke Gas and Water Co.. 250,000 Roanoke Electric Light Co 50,000 P. L. Terry Milling Co 25,000 Diamond Ice Co. 55,000 Roanoke Ice Co.. 35,000 West End Brick and rl 20,000 Adams Bros.& Payne Brick Co 25,000 Five Planing, mills... ssereen 100,000 Two Tobacco Factories... 50,000 Two Cigar Factories.... 5,000 One mattress factory... 25,000 Cold storage company.... 60,000 Norwich Lock Manufacturing Co. 350,000 Duvall Engine Works........... 60,000 Virginia Blanket Mills Co.. - 50,000 Roanoke Glass Factory.........ueeeeerenne 40,000 DEVELOPMENT COMPANYS. Some of the most important compan- ies organized for the development of Roanoke and this section are : Roanoke Development Co Virginia Development Co... 5,000,000 Buena Vista Land Co... . 300,000 112 Land Companies...... eee 1,000,000 This list 1s in'no sense a complete one. {¢ 8 given to show the diversity of in- dustries in Roanoke. Scores of enter- prises, em sloying capital of from $5,000 to $25,000, are omitted for lack of space. Numerous enterprise, with hundreds of hundred thousand, are necotiating for a foothold in this South- western Golconda and are coming wanthly, weekly, almost daily. COMPANIES ORGANIZED IN 1890. During 1890 132 companies were organ- ized in Roanoke, with an aggregate minimum capital of $10,246,300. These companies are briefly summarized be- low: Seventy-five land and real estate in- vestiment companies, with an aggregate capital of $5,864,300. Two cigarette machine conipanies, ag- gregate capital ot $400,000. capital $75,000. One coupling company, capital $100, 000. One slicec manufacturing company, $30,000. One paper bag manufacturing com- + pany, $100,000. Five marble companies with an ag- gregate eapital of $220,000. employes and capital reckoned by the | One grocery and milling company, ! One bridge and iron company, au- thorized capital, $500,000. Two power companies, azorecate cap- ital, $95,000. Panics Aggresa Two paving companies, $20,000. One street railway company, $15,000. One engine company, $150,000. One cold storage company, $50,000. Two Banking companies, $150,000. Four loan, trust and finance compan- ies, $200,000. Academy of Music eampany $150,000. One steam generator company, ¢250,- 000. One drug company, $4,500. Three oil companies, $92,000. One brewing company, $75,000. * Five coal, coke and iron companies, $740,000. Ten building companies, with capital ageregating $4,330,000. For the year 1800 the charter books show that forty-nine charters were granted, with an ageregate minimum capital of $1,721,250. The increase in the number of char- ters in 1890 over 1839 will be seen to be eighty-three, and the increase in the minimum capital $8,525,050. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. The real estate tiansactions last year amounted to $17,067,960 from 5,103 transfers. For 1889 the real estate transactions amounted to about $7,000,000 from about 8,000 real estate transfers, so that the increase in Roanoke real estate transfers during 1890 over 1889 was ap- proximately $10,000,000, and the in- crease in the number of deeds 2,000. The building operations in Roanoke in 1890 amounted to over $2,000,000. The progress of Roanoke in 1890 may be summarized as follows : IN DRHAINGS...c.s scree iesnnses senssseriossiss $ 2,000,000 Real estate transactions, ... 17,000,000 Companies organized....o.........