Bellefonte, Pa., April 24, 1908. A LOST LOVE. Did you ever get a letter in an old, familiar kand, Opened it and found a message you could hardly under<iand; For it said that she'd been married tos chap you didn't know— i She was a girl you wouldn't marry, but you | hate to see her go. She was the best that ever happened—a thor oughbred by birth, Worth a billion dollars, and salt of ali the earth, Still I never thought she'd do it, for she seemed Lo love me so, She was a girl you woulda't marry, but you'd hate to see her go. Now maybe you have met it in the regulation WAY, You feel so worn, and heartsick, and your hair is turning gray. For the world is just so lonesome, as the shadows deeper grow, When the girls you wouldn't marry make up their minds to go. GABRIELLE'S EASTER. By Olive Hill. HERE could have been nothing fresher and more springlike than Mme. Louise's imported bonnets and hats, which had Just arrived from Paris and were being unpacked amid the admiring exclama- tions of the employees of her establish- ment. Mme. Louise was a fashionable milli- ner. Her models came direct from Paris, and her loyai patrons believed that the skillful fingers of her work- women often improved upon the origi- nals, but if you wanted bargains or If your purse was a limited one Mme. Louise's establishment was the last place to visit. “You say I ask too moche,” madame sald one day to a customer, “but made- moiselle should remember it Is not ze velvet nor ze ribbons nor ze plumes what make ze cost. It is ze cachet, ze | style, you can find nowhere else in ze city. If mademoiselle can get dat cheap, eh bien, so much ze bettaire for her.” Among the importations which were not to be made visible to the public eye until the week before Easter was one | superiatively charming hat. It was of cream point lace, with a kind of veiled suggestion of the tender green of | spring verdure, and was trimmed with | a drooplug spray of exquisite lilacs. It was a hat for a beautiful young blond. “Ah, but la petite Rose Lambert ' must buy dat bat!” madame exclaim ed, elasping her hands and gazing with adoring eyes at the hat. “Vid her skin 80 white and rose, her eyes like ze blue sky and her smiling mouth she vill be sharming!” “Ah, yes, and her father Is rich, rich,” said Miss Stoll, the forewoman, “and he denies her nothing! You will not ask less than thirty for this hat. | madame?” “Forty dollars!” madame said deci- sively. “It cost me ten in Paris, and it was a bargain. Look! Real laceand ze flowers! If we make not a leetle profit on our confections, how vill ze business keep up? La petite Lambert vill give ze price, and she vill be ze grand advertisement for ze style. Or- ders vill come in from ze light and ze dark, from ze ugly and ze pretty. She vill look so lovely dat dey vill all tink it is ze hat dat makes beautiful.” Among the workwomen who were admiring the new hat was one to whom it would have been quite as becoming as to the young lady for whom it was intended. Gabrille de Kernion had the same rose leaf skin and wavy golden hair, though her eves were dark gray instead of blue, and her eyebrows and laslhies were nearly black. She was a beautiful girl and a De Kernion with all the stately grace of her decayed aristocratic line. But what use had a poor working girl for aristocratic ancestry? Such questions as that many of the creoles of Louisiana have put aside in their praiseworthy efforts to make a bare living. The affairs of the De Kernlons had gone from bad to worse until the last descendant of the line had gone to work for meager wages to keep herself and her widowed mother from starv- Certainly they were quite near star- vation for a long time before Mme, de Kernion could make up her mind to consent to Gabrielle seeking outside employment. The work at home would be well enough, for the girl would not be exposed to the contamination of eoarse associates, but such work could not be found, and poverty is a peremp- tory master who does not always leave it to one to decide where he shall make his bread, but pushes him Into strange byways to seek It. The girl herself, knowing nothing of the loss of wealth and grandeur that her mother lamented, was fairly con- tent with her humble lot. Her ances- tore had transmitted to her a certain stateliness of figure and manner, but she was at heart a simple minded girl, doing her work conscientiously and with no higher ambition than to excel in it. ‘'here were changes even in her mo- notonous life. From Monday morning until Saturday evening she was QGa- brielle, a hard worked girl, whom ma- dame scolded and Miss Stoll worried and the customers ordered to do and that, to pull to pieces and to struct, with a complete disregard of the greetings with the ereole aristocracy a! the “old quarier.” Most of her {rici’ls were as poor as she, but no povert © or humble toll could impair the of sement of manner and courtly ad- ( hih ther had inherited, with their nape, from their French ances- trina Gatelelle eared nothing for past grandeurs and aristocratic ancestry, but she would have liked money enongh to dress prettily. She had ex- cellent taste, and that taste was af- “HOW DARE YOU ACCUSE MY DAUGHTER OF THEFT?” fronted by her threadbare dresses and well worn gloves and shoes, “Ah!” she said to herself as she gazed at the famous spring hat. “This lace is just like mamma's old point lace scarf which she gave me. No old lace is handsomer than that. Mine Is finer and some ragged, but it looks the same. Then my friend Christine Beaupre makes lilac sprays like these. How funny! And Mme. Louise believes the hat strictly Parisian.” She smiled at herself in the mirror opposite. Gabrielle was pretty and was fully aware of the fact. And the hat was such a beauty. Several times she caught herself looking at it, and when Miss Lambert, summoned by madame, arrived, Gabrielle, to her delight, was selected to try it on and make altera- tions If any were needed. Of course Miss Lambert bought the hat. When did the astute Mme, Louise fail in dis- posing of her “confections” according | to her plans? There was a slight alter- | ation to be made in some of the loop- ings. which was intrusted to Gabri- elles deft finzers, “Be sure, madame, to send it to me Saturday,” Miss Lambert said as she was leaving. “Don’t allow your press of work to crowd my hat out of your mind.” “Rut certainly not!” madame scream- ed, gesticulating a vehement denial. “Te forget! Ah, dat would be impos- sible! Mees Rose, you vill sharm all eves on Easter day, and if ze young demoiselles vould give one t'ousand dollar dey could not get a hat like yours in ze city. It is unique, sharm- ing, as it is ze most sharming young lady in ze city who vill lend grace to it Miss Lambert smiled and bowed at the compliment, It was really pleas- ant to know that she was the owner of something not attainable by her thousand and one dear friends. On Sautrday there was such a rush of custom at Mme. Louise's that Ga- brielle did not have time even to get ber dinner. About noon Miss Stoll had | been taken ill and was obliged to go | home. It was very unfortunate, for it threw a heavier burden of duty upon the rest, who were already greatly overworked. During the rest of the day the shop was in great confusion. “Tiens!” cried madame in good French. just as the shop was about to be closed, and she clapped her hands to her forehead as If to restrain from wandering the few ideas her head still contained. “I believe I have lost my mind in all this uproar. Here is Mme. Ernest Lauve's bonnet, and she lives in the French quarter, miles from here! Gabrielle, it is near the Rue D., where you live. Take the bonnet to her, and then you can go home, since by that time it will be dark, and you have had no dinner.” Poor Gabrielle, exhausted and hun- gry, was only too glad of an errand that would release her from the shop even a few minutes earlier than the others. When she reached home after dark she was too tired even to think cf Easter. Mme. Louise bustled hither and thither, for there were many hats and bonnets to be delivered to her cus- tomers that evening. “And Mlle. Lambert's hat!” she cried. “You must take it to her, Vie- toire, and tell her we were too busy to send it before.” Victoire went to get the hat. She returned after several minutes’ ab- sence with a troubled face. “Madame, the hat is not there. Ga- brielle made the alterations this after- noon. Did you not send it by her?” “No!” madame cried angrily. “She took Mme. Lauve's hat. You are all crazy. You can find nothing unless it is under your nose. Get that hat im- Do you hear? Immedi- The frightened workwoman ran here and there, pulling down boxes and fer Bunt she awakened on Easter morning with her senses restored and with a well formed resolution In her mind. Since Gabrielle was the last person seen with the hat, no doubt the care- less girl had stowed it away some- where and forgotten to mention it. She world go to the French quarter and find out from Gabrielle where the hat was. There would still be time to get it and send it to Miss Lambert before she was ready for church, Little did Gabrielle, who was making her simple toilet and adjusting her beautiful hat on her sunny hair, dream of the fate which was descending upon her. She paused a minute when she heard a well known voice in the front room addressing her mother impera- tively in French. “1 am Mme. Louise. I wish to see vour daughter Gabrielle immediately.” Gabrielle hastened to the room. Ma- dame sprang from her seat as she en- tered with a loud cry. “She has the hat! Ah, you wretched thief, how did you dare do this? Did vou expect to wear it and get off and not be detected? Give me my hat!” She snatched the hat from the head of the astounded girl. “I have a great mind to call the po- lice and send you to jail. If it were not for the disgrace to my establish- ment I would do it this minute. Oh, what a bold and impudent thief!” “She calls me a thief!” eried Gabri- elle, pale, trembling and throwing her arms around ber mother as if for pro- tection. “She says I stole this hat. Mamma, you know I made it of your old lace scarf.” “Are you mad, madame?’ Mme. de Kernion said indignantly. “How dare you accuse my daughter of theft? I gave her the lace, and she made the hat.” Madame uttered a scornful laugh and cast a contemptuous glance around the poorly furnished room. “Ah, then, yor are the princess in disguise! You are lodged thus,” with a sweep of the hand, “and you own cost- ly point lace, and your daughter does me the honor to work for me and to appropriate my property. Bah! No more of this! My handsomest hat, which the girl altered, is missing. 1 come here. I find it on her head. 1 can swear to my property. If you both had your deserts you would be lodged in jail. Thank me that you are not. And, Gabrielle, never show your face in my establishment again!” She swept away, leaving mother and daughter as much astonished as en- raged. When madame reached home she dis- patched a special messenger with the hat to Miss Lambert and heard noth- ing more of it that day. But early next morning she was surprised by the en- trance of the young lady. “What did you mean, madame, by sending me two hats?’ Miss Lambert asked. “And you deceived me by say- ing that mine was the only one in the “GET THAT HAT IMMEDIATELY! DO YOU HEAR?" city. They are as much alike as two peas. Miss Stoll brought me one on Saturday noon. She said she was {ll and was going home, and, as she lives only a short distance from us, she was kind enough to leave my hat on her way. But, madame, it was a shame in you to deceive me!” Mme. Louise gasped for breath, Her explanation was not clear, but it satis- fled Miss Lambert that a cruel injus- tice had been (lone to an innocent girl. “So you were the actual thief, ma- dame!” she laughed. “Why, they could arrest you for robbing them. Better send the girl's hat back to her and eat a little humble pie.” The humble pie was a bitter morsel to Mme. Louise, but as Gabrielle posi- tively refused to return to her estab- lishment they never met again. Cir- cumstances since then have changed for the better with Gabrielle, but to this day she remembers the humilia- tion of that Easter morning. “Raster hats!” I heard her say the other day. “Ah, I hate the very name of them!” Solicitous. Host—Have you seen the wedding gifts, old man? Guest—No, not yet. “Well, wait a moment. I'll get one of the detectives to escort you through.”— New York Life. Peculiar to Itself. “J suppose there is a certain fascina- struck another line where ply struggle to hand you their coin.”— Kansas City Journal, His Good Eye. It 18 a curious fact that the loss of toy one of the five senses is atoned for to a considerable extent by a pro- pounced increxse in the efficiency oi the other senses. The result is some- times astonishing. A man who had lost the sight of both eyes trained his hearing until he could tell by the scund of his footsteps on the sidewalks as he made his way about town whether he was in the middle of the walk or at one side, whether he was walking past a brick or a frame house or a fence or open ground. ile knew in what part of the town he was not only by his memory or sense of general direction, bunt by the diference in the “tones” of his foot- steps, and he walked about freely, sel- dom running into anything or any- body. Some ore in his presence once called in question his total blindness, “Which eye do you think I can see with?" he asked the skeptie, “The left one, of course,” was the reply. *1 can see that the right one is blind.” In reply the blind man merely opened his penknife and tapped the left eye with the little blade. It was a giass eye. How His Place Was Filled. A well known divine whose theolog- feal discourses draw crowded houses in all the principal cities accepted an invitation to lecture in a small provin- cial town, but discovered afterward that he had a prior engagement on the same date. [le accordingly apologized and offered to make good any loss the society might incur through his delin- quency, A few days later he received a letter from the secretary assuring him that no harm was done and inclosing a handbill which the divine is never tired of reading to his amused friends. “As the Rev. Mr. — is unable to give his advertised lecture on ‘Con- science.” announced the bill, “four members of the B—— minstrel troupe have kindly volunteered to perform in- stead a screamingly laughable farce entitled —. Any person who has bought a ticket for the other enter- taininent may have it transferred to this on payment of sixpence extra.”— London Tatler. When Explosives Explode. A popular notion that explosives will “go off” by any simple method is wrong, Many of the most powerful explosives imaginable may be kicked about, may be set on fire or may be shot out of a gun, and unless the prop- er agency for exploding them is em- ployed they will not “go off” and will do no damage. The reason for this may be explained by an illustration. Consider a grateful of coal. There is there enough of what we may call ex- plosive energy to throw a 1,000 pound weight through a foot of solid steel— if only it could be liberated. But there can be no explosion without oxygen, and the coal in the grate will not burn faster than the supply of oxygen in the air which reaches it will permit. If the coal could be furnished all at once with enough air to cause its complete burning, it would explode with as great violence as if it were so much dyna- mite.—St. Nicholas. The Sun of the Blind. 1 have not touched the outline of a star nor the glory of the moon, but I believe that God has set two lights in my mind, the greater to rule by day and the lesser by night, and by them I know that I am able to navigate my life bark, as certain of reaching the haven as he who steers by the North star. Perhaps my sun shines not as yours. The colors that glorify my world, the blue of the sky, the green of the fields, may not correspond exact- ly with those you delight in, but they are none the less color to me. The sun does not shine for my physical eyes, nor does the lightning flash, nor do the trees turn green in the spring. But they have not therefore ceased to exist any more than the landscape Is annihilated when you turn your back on it.—Helen Keller in Century. Harmless Joke. Place a spool of cotton in the in- side pocket of your coat and, having threaded a needle with the beginning of the cotton, pass the needle through the front of the coat, unthread the needle and leave about two inches of the cotton hanging as if it were only a stray piece. The first person you meet will be sure to pick it off you, and his astonishment when he finds there is no end to it will give plenty of innocent fun. His Hint. “Don't you want some needles, dear?’ queried Brown as he picked up his shirt and glanced at the places where the buttons should have been. “Why, no,” replied Mrs. Brown. “Why do you ask?” “Oh, 1 thought,” said Brown a trifle nervously, “that probably your old ones had become worn by much use.” : His Charm Gone. Phoebe—You would hardly know Freddy since he got back from Monte Carlo. He lost all his money there, and— Evelyn—Hardly know him! Why, I shan’t know him at all!—Illus- trated Bits, His Night Work. Wifey—What makes you stay at the office so late at nights? Do you gain anything by it? Hubby—No, but I have several times come—er—within an ace of gaining something. — Philadelphia One Sided. “Does he enjoy funny stories?’ “Yes; when he tells them.”—Hous- ton Post. FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN. DAILY THOUGHT. “Oh, the heart that has traly loved never for- gets, But as truly loves on to its close, — As the Sunflower turns to her God when he sets | The same look that she turned when he rove” Thomas Moore, The most frivolous waistcoat that it has ever been the lot of the ready-to-wear de- partments toexploit are the most striking features of such places now. Separate waisteoats ahoand —waisteoats made of bright flowered cretonnes, of quaintly pat terned chintz,of shepherd’s plaid fine wool, or of linens and piques in no end of jaunty models. As it looks mow, 18 will be a sedate suit indeed shat will not have this accessory us part of it and many an other. wise plain costume will have wore than one | to give it variety. White and colored linen and pique waistcoats are ahout cqually iu evidence just now. March with its open. ings had many captivating sarprises await- ing the shopping multitude and in maay of them the “‘weskit,”” as the youngest salesgir! has learned to call it, were con- spicnons factors. Only sommer weather, which ostracizes all nonecessary garments annoally, will put it out of the field, Silk woven or printed in ornamental stripe< of various widths may he ent up into separate stripes for border trimmings. It will be possible in many cases to matoh | lest vear’s frock and bring it up-to-date with such trimmings, which are hy no means expensive when compared with the garnishments at the trimming counter. Border trimmings are very conspicuons among the newest materials. Braids, too, promise another season of strenuosity. While the most exclusive costumes, per- haps, are girdleless, the girdle is not by any means set aside. There are girdles of soft silk lingerie, preferably of the waist fabrio, which are seven or mine inches high and which, in their turn, give the high- waisted effeot, It is said that the stiff linen collar is waning inv popularity abroad, and that in its place is coming the soft stock with a ruche finish, A great deal of colored embroidery on white ground and of colored hems on white are striking features of new pattern robes. Of all the collars offered at the neckwear counter just now no other is so generally popular as the striped one embroidered with colored dots or colored patterns. Some of the most effective little blouses are wade of striped cotton voile and have accompanying them blond lace jabots edged narrowly wish batiste in the color of the stripe. Pretty spotted nets of fine gnality prom- ine to supercede the over-nsed laces so long and strenuously employed. Filet con- tinces to come in fascinating meshes and patterns, but it has become the choice of the mulititade, and there is sure to bea change. Ventilating the hair is a cure for cases of weakness of growth which is often recom- mended. To carry it out, an attendant should lift up one tiess after she other with one band, while with the other a fan is nsed to induce a current of air round the roots. This should be persisted in for five minotes night and moruing, and after a few weeks a considerable difference should be notice- able in the condition of the bair, both as regards its growth as well as the texture and color. In most cases of hair weakness an ab- normally “‘tight’”’ scalp is the first symp- tom. it the sensation is experienced of the skin being stretched over the skull, it is a sure sign thas massage should be begun without delay. When applying a tonic to the bair it should first be divided down the centre and the flaid worked along the parting, this being repeated over the whole of the head. The woman with a very thin chest should get into the babit of chewing each mouthful thirty-two times. Deep breathing in front of an open win- dow is also good. Stand in front of the window, throw both arms out at the sides, throw back your head, take a gulp of fresh air, right your head, drop your arms and breathe naturally. Repeat this once a minute for five minutes. Throw your arms over your head, toss your head back, lean backward, breathe long and deeply three times. Stand patur- ally a minute, then repeat. Deep breath- ing if taken too suddenly or practiced too ardently will bring on palpitation. Better to breathe deeply gently and with moder- ation. It makes a great deal of difference in your appearance, this babit of breathing deeply. Your face looks more tranquil and your nerves are steadier. The thin-chested woman mast get out of the habit of fidgeting. She must learn to stand right. The full-busted woman al- ways stands with her chin up and her shoulders thrown well back. your chest is very flat and your heart weak, your lungs tired and your heaith poor, try the habit of eating oftener, says the New York Sun. In a certain beauty sanitarium they give the patients six meals a day. They are all beauty meals, too—pienty of good fish, lots of chicken and game, all the green food they can eat, plenty of maple syrup and good sweets and drinks of cocoa and chocolate. The diet agrees with the complexion and is easy to digest. Queen Amelia bas the most wonderful taste in dress, and Paris costumers are never tired of sounding her praises. At the same time her majesty believes it quite an easy natter for a woman to have a per- feot fisting gown without the aid of ocor- sets, women. herself is out Portugal as a nurse, and is well known in the hospitals of Lisbon. Ain't the little loose sleeveless coats stylish aud preity 3 I mean So fining the and olosing with one bus- ton at the wide aries or Jap sleeves being according to fanoy or the amount of material at disposal. FARM NOTES, —Acoording to the United States census the average expense for each farm in the | United States for commercial fertilizers is | $10 per tacm, | —Tue cutworm is the larvae of a moth ; the worm 1s of a hrown color, fat and siag- | gish, wbout an inch loug, aud feeds only | daring the night. —A recommended remedy for mange on calves and cows is to apply a part flour sulphur aud four parts vaseline to bald | patches once a day. | —For humble foot in poultry paint the | corn literally with tincture of dine daily |foru week. If this is dove in the early | stages tbe corn can be spread. -If given before the hogs get past the | eating and drinking stage, the following is | claimed to be an infallible oure for hog j oholera : To a barrel of good slop add one pine of Venetia red and oue pint of kero- sene oil. Mix weil. —Spraying while in bloom works bard- ship on the beekeepers by destroying thousand« of bees in spring, when the loss means most Bees are great pollenizers and many kinds of apples are greatly im- proved by cross fertilizing. ~The hools of sheep should be pared at least twice a year. Nature provided this animal with a rapid-growing hoof to stand | the wear and tear of stony ground, but “oft pastures will not wear down the hoofs fast enough and sie broken horn often re- sults in disense, —A horse will never run into any other burning bailding besides his own, or even pass a boufire if he can help it, but when onee he scents danger he tries to get to his atall—his home--and when onoe he reaches there can only he driven away by fright or shook =aperior to his dread of fire. — When the cow is suffering from con- gested udder, it is a good idea to dry her off at once and feed ove-ball ounce of nitrate of potash night and morning in the suft feed. Give plenty of clean water, feed pare and wholesome food, and massage the udder once a day with a little iodine oint- ment. —Grape rows should generally run north and sonth, High, stony, we!l drained land is particularly desirable. The vineyard should have clean cultivation each year. While grape vines are being set out the holes should be dug deep enough and arg e enough to permit of the root- heing placed and covered without bending. —A strong odor will sometimes prevent attacks from insects. A gill of torpentine intimately mixed with a bushel of dry plaster dusted over vines and hushes will cost but little and keep for months, Ifa tablespoonfol of kerosene, and the same of carbolic acid is added it will be all the better, as the odor is only needed. —If the cow gives bloody milk, as a re- sult of an injury to the udder, the best treatment is to let nature effect a cure. Dry the cow off, and let the udder rest until the cow is fresh again It is useless to try to treat serions injury of the interior of the udder when the organ has to be manipulated twice each day in milking. ~—~Dry bydrate of lime formed by slaking fresh lime with just water enongh to eram- ble it into a fine powder is used as anv in- secticide. It is still very canctic and fatal to the larvae of asparagus beetles, slugs of currant, pear, plum, eto, avd other larvae having a moist surface. Applications are best made in the morning, while the plants ! and insects are vet a little damp. ~ Lime is considered the best corrector of sour soils. The presence of sorrel is an indication of sournes= in the soil, and until corrected no orops will have a profitable growth. Iv average cases from one to three tons of lime per acre will he sufficient. Be- sides correcting acidity, the lime will liberate much of the nnsoluble plant food, thie increasing the productiveness of the soil. — Ashes made from hard wood are more valuable than those fiom soft wood. Itis claimed tbat some ashes from soft wood have not enough value to make it worth while to bother with them. Is has also heen discovered that the value is largel governed by the part of the tree from whie the ashes are made. It is declared by chemists that the ashes of young twigs are of more value than the ash of the trunk of the tree, while the ash of the leaves is still more valuable. —It is the belief of many authorities that shade increases the fertility of soil. One theory is that the beneficial effect of clover on land is due to the shade it affords. No crop grown shades soil more perfectly than clover under proper management. Clover not only shades, but its roots have a good effect on the mechanical condition of the soil. Their decay also adds plans food. Clover often has roots which are heavier and weigh more than the tops, as can be ascertained by mashing them and weighing them. —Manure spread on top of the iand, rots without doing 1ts full service. The only good that really comes from such applica- tions is the amount that is washed into the soil. Manure on top of the ground does uot add vegetable matter to the soil, nor does it give the soil the benefit of the acid created in the process decay, which acts on the soil particles. Again, manure on top of the soil does not supply to the soil the same amount of nitrogen that manure un- der the soil does, for the reason that some of is goes off into the air in the form of gas. —In discussing the value of manure the comparative value of the solids and liquids are to he noted. The nitrogen value of the manure is largely in she liguid portion which must be saved to secure a thas in the foods is returned in the liquid manure. Now if the liquids are lost, there isa loss of half of the nitrogen to begin portion ith, together with loss of Wh, wie ry Torah A
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