at 0 pa off CRA EE PR Wd A ETA orvalic: ald Du Beliefonte, Pa., Sept., Il, 1891. THE CLINK OF THE ICE. TWotably fond of musie,I dole on a sweeter tone “Than ever the harp has uttered or ever the lute has known, . “When I wake at five in the morning with a feeling in my head 2 Suggestive of mild excesses before I retired to bed— “When a small but fierce volcano vexes my, sore inside. And my throat and mouth are furred with a fur that seemeth a buffalo hide. How gracious those dews of solace that over my senses fall 4t the clink of the ice in the pitcher the boy brings up the hall. Boy, why so slow in coming with that gracious saving cup? : «3, haste thee to the succor of the man who is burning up! : Bee how the ice bobs up and down, as if it wildly strove : To reach its grace tothe wretch who feels like a red-hot kitchien stove. : ‘The piteous clink it clinks methinks should thrill you through and through— An erring soul is wanting drink, and he wants itp. d. q.! . : And, lo, Bd en pitcher, too, falls in so dire a fret , That its pallid form is presently bedewed with a chilly sweat. ‘Bay blessings be showered upon the man who first devised this drink : That happens along at 5 A. M. with its raptu- rous clinketi clink ! irs I never have felt the cooling flood go sizzing down my throat : But what I vow to hymn a hymn to that clink. ety-clink devote ; 5 Fo now in the prime of my manhood I polish this lyric gem or the uses of all good feliows who are thirsty at5 A. M. But specially for those fellows who have krown the pleasing thrall “5f the clink of the ice in the pitcher the boy brings up the hall. : — Eugene Field. ‘Thrilling Incident in Border Life. The old settlers of Kentucky are fami- diar with the name of Captain Christo- pher Miller. He was one of those bold and dauntless spirits to whom we are indebted for the rescue of our State from isthe dominion of the bold and bloodtkirs- wy savage. History has recorded many «of his heroic deeds and melancholy pri- vations ; but one of the most thrilling -and mysterious incidents in his eventful life has never met our eyes, until we Zound it in Finley’s Autobiography, and as many of our readers may never have zeen it, we will give a short account of it, Christopher Miller and his brother Henry were taken prisoners by the In- «dians, when they were quite young, and remuined with them till they had learn- «ed many of the customs of those wild in- habitants of the forest. They were ex- ert hunters, and had learned to love the zavage freedom of their captors. They were adopted to an Indian family, and it seemed they were much attached to their mode of living, hunting and fish- ing being their chief and almost only enjoyment. Finally Henry began, when about twenty-four, to think of re- “urning to the white settlements, and he mentioned his thoughts to Christo- pher, but he would not think ot réturn- tng with him, so Henry set off alone, and after much suffering and privation fe reached Kentucky where he lived for several years, when, in 1794, the In- «dians becoming troublesome, an ex pedi- ion was gotten up under General Wayne to chastise them. Henry joined £his expedition and set out with it. On the march Gen. Wayne, in order to avoid the possibility of an ambuscade, «@rdered Capt. Wells to select four angers to keep in advapce and reconi- ter the country, The judgment of Capt. Wells did mot fail to detect in Henry Miller the wery man for such an expedition, and ‘he was accordingly selected. During “the march, Henry found but little to do, #0 Indians being fourd on the route. “@n reaching Greenville, Gen. Wayne, having no intimation as to the future “intensions of the subtle foe, determined £0 send out Capt. Weils and his daring «comrades to capture an Indian, in order that through him the plansof the In- dians might be discovered. They ac- «cordingly set out across the country, crossing St. Mary’s, and proceeding to the Auglaize ; they turned up the riv- @r for several miles, when the keen eyes of the rangers discovered a smoke. Hitching their horses, the gallant little band left two of their number to suard them, while one other three, Hen- ry Miiler being one of them, crept along in the direction of the smoke, which they found to be on an elevated piece of ground surrounded by three In- «ians, engaged in roasting venison over the fire. They were now far out of gunshot, and our gallant rangers discovering a fallen tree, behind which they thought they could approach within gunshot of #he Indians undiscovered, retraced their steps, and going round, got the fallen tree, (the top of which was coverad with Aeaves) between them and the enemy. They then stole along as Jightly and ‘moiselessly as panthers, until they reach- «d the point desired. Here the plan was quickly arranged. It was agreed that Miller and one of his comrades each his man, leaving the third, who was swifter than an Indian on foot, to give chase to and capture the remaining Indian. Mil- der was to shoot the oneon the right, and his comrade the one oa the left. The sharp piercing crack of two rifies wii heard, and the fated red men lay Hifeless on the ground. Before the smoke had cleared away, the reserve, one McClelland, was far in the direction of the Indian who was doomed to be captured. The Indian observed him as he came bounding to- wards him with the swiftness of a roe- buck, and be sat off at the top of his speed. McClelland was rapidly coming up with the retreating Indian, when «coming to a bend in the river, the latter *aaw he must soon be overtaken, and leaped off into the river, a distance of ‘twenty feet, where he sank up to his middlein the mud. McClelland made a.leap after him, and sank down in like manner, when the Indian drew his knife and McClelland his tomakawk., A par- ley ensued, and the Indian threw down ‘nis knife. In the meantime, Henry and his companion came up, the two were rescued from the mud, and the prisoner securely bound. He appeared sullen. and re'used to answer any questions asked him. He was then washed, to rid him of his coat of mud, when it wus dis- covered that they had taken a white man instead of an Indian. The party returned to their horses and began at once to retrace their steps toward the camp at Greenville. On the journey, the prisoner continued moody and silent, until Henry, recollec- ting that he had a brother among the Indians, and thinkin: this might possi- bly be him approache | and called by his Indian name. He answered with seem- ing surprise, when the two brothers im- mediately recognized each other; for the prisoner was none other than Christ- opher Miller. He had been in the mid- dle when the fatal messenger of death had overtaken his associates, and by this trifling circumstance was saved to answer the wise ends of an allwise providence. He returned to Greenville with his captors, determined to remain, and after- wards rendered the white settlers the most important aid in their future con- sists with the wild savages. Most of his descendants still live in our midst, and enjoy the fruits of. his well spent and eventful life, and the reputation of his name.-—~Kentucky Paper. “Money, Dan, Money.” The following extracts from letters of Daniel Webster and his brother Ezekiel will indicate how the young men had to struggle with poverty through their col- lege days. The reader will remember that the home farm was mortgaged to pay Daniel’s expenses through college, and when it was proposed to give Eze- kiel similar advantages the father and mother held a council. “The farm is already mortgaged,’ said the old gentle- man, ‘and if weisend Ezekiel to the coilege it will take all we bave; but the boys think they can take care of us.” It did not take the strong-hearted, sagacious woman long to decide the matter. “We can trust the boys, she said. So the matter was settled. Daniel went back to Hanover, while Ezekiel went, bundle in hand, to Dr. Wool’s and began the study of Latin, his expen- ses being but a dollar a week. * In November, 1802, Daniel was at home in Salisbury, while Ezekiel was struggling with poverty at Hanover. Funds were getting low in the Webster homestead. Daniel writes under date of November fourth : “Now, Zeke, you will not read half a sentence, no, not one sylable, before you have thoroughly searched this sheet for scrip ; but my word for it, you’ll find no scrip here. We held a sanhedrim this morning on the subject of cash. Could not hit upon any way to get you any. Just before we went away to hang ourselves through disappointment it came into our heads that next week might do. “The truth is, father had an execu- tion against Hubbard of North Chester for about one hundred dollars. The money was collecting and, just ready to drop into the hands of the creditors, when Hubbard suddenly died. This, you see, stays the execution till the long processes of administering is completed. “I have now by me two cents in law- ful federal currency. Next week I shall send them, if they be all. “We are all here just in the old way, always behind and lacking. Boys dig- ging potatoes with frozen fingers, and girls washing without wood.” Ezekiel writes to Daniel about the same time, the two letters probably crossing each other. “These cold frosty mornings very sen- sibly imform me that I want a warm great-coat. I wish, Daniel, it might be convenient to send me cloth'tor one, otherwise 1 shall be necessitated to pur- chase one here. I do not care what col- or it is--anything that will keep the frost out. Some kind of shaggy cloth, I think, would be the cheapest. Dea- con Pettingill has written offering me $14 a month, to keep school. I believe I shall take it. “Money, Dan, money! As I was walking down to the office after a letter, I happened to have one cent, which is the only money I have had since the second day after I came on. Itis a fact Dan, that I was called on for a dollar where I owed it, and borrowed it, and have borrowed it four times since to pay those I borrowed of.” Too Clever. Once there was a lawyer who closed up an estate case, but hedied many years ago. He was a young man. He had studied law in his father’s office, and his father finally retired and gave the busi- ness to him. One day, less than a week after the old gentleman had retired, the Jone man came home and proudly said : ‘Father, you know that old Gilpin es- tate case that you have been trying for years and years to settle ?” “Yes,” answered the father with a sug- gestion of a smile. “Well, it didn’t take me two days to settle it after I got at it’ “What ?” shouted the old lawyer. “You have settled the Gilpin estate ?”’ “Yes ; and it was as easy as relling off a log.” 2 “Well, you infernal idiot, you | Why that estate has paid the living expenses of our family for four generations, and’ might have paid them for four more if I hadn't left the business to a ninny.”’— Detroit Free Press. A Tale of Retribution. “If I was gs Lean and Serawy as you are,” said the Reporter they called Fatty, “I would Hire Myself Out as a Living Skeleton.” The Lean and Scrawy Reporter made no Reply, but the City Edivor came iz Presently and said : “Fatty, there is a man at the Hospital who has Lost Nine Square Inches of Skin fron his Back, and the Doctors want Nine Square Inches of Skin from a Healthy Man to Replace it With, I want you to go and Furnish it.” So the Fat Reporter, with asigh, went to the Hospital and Contributed of his Abundant Supply of Integument to save the Life of a Fellow Being, while the Lean Reporter went along and Wrote the Thing Up. Moral—It is possible to have Too Much of a Good Thing.—Chicago Tri- bune. WoMAN’S INHUMANITY T0 WOMAN. —Clara—1I shouldn't think you’d hang that ball dress of yours against the wall. Maude-—Why not ? Clara—Because its there enough when you have it on. 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There are nearly fifty more that are shortly to come, and sent by our most honorable Lord and Treasurer, the Earl of South- ampton, and certain worthy gentlemen, who, taking into consideration that the plantation can never flourish till fami- lies be planted, and the respect of wives and children for their people on the soil, therefore have given this fair beginning, for the reimbursement of whose charges it is ordered that every man that marries them gives one hun- dred and twenty pounds of best leaf tobacco for each of them. Though we are desirous that the marriage be free according to the law of nature, yet we would not have these maids deceived and married to servants, but only to such freemen or tenants as haye means to maintain them. We pray you, therefore, to be fathers to them in this business, not enforcing them to marry against their wills, A boy stood on the burning deck, Unwisely, too, tis said, For, with the fast approaching flame, His elders quickly fled. 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AL NEW HARNESS HOUSE. We extend a most cordial invitation tc our patrons and the public, in general, to witness one of the GRANDEST DISPLAYS OF Light and Heavy Harness ever put on the Bellefonte market, which will be made in the large room, formerly occupied by Harper Bros., on Spring street. It has been added to my factory and will be used exclu- sively for the sale of harness, being the first exclusive salesroom ever used in this town, as heretofore the custom has heen to sell goods in the room in which they were made. This elegant room has been refitted and furnished with glass cases in which the harness can be nicely displayed and still kept away from heat and dust, the enemies of long wear in leather. Our factory now occupies a room 16x74 feet and the store 20x60 added makes it the largest establishment of its kind outside of Philadelphia and Pitt