Belle onte, Pa., February 5. 1909. By BARRY PRESTON. Copyrighted, 199, by Associated Literary Press. “You are very much in love with him, dear, aren't you?’ Mrs. Brevort inquired. not without a certain doubt- ful note in her tone, which seemed to hint that such possibly might not be the case. The girl who stood by the window, looking out at the uneven pavements of the Roman street, turned slowly and smiled. In that smile were weari- ness and subtle understanding and pa- tient resignation. . “Yes, 1 am very much in love with him, Aunt Elinor.” she said in a col- orless voice, as if she were saying the words more because they were expect- ed of her than for any other reason. Mrs. PBrevort smiled her open ap- proval. ‘The little frown of doubt which for the past few moments had wrinkled her brow suddenly disap- peared. She crossed the room to the girl's side and threw an arm about her. “Of course, dearie,” she coved, “your happiness is my first, I might almost say my otly, concern. No one realizes better than I the portent of this step— that all your future, all your lifelong happiness depends upon it. No one, I think you'll admit, teo, Is more averse to the majority of these marriages than I am, but the duke is so utterly different from all the other eligible men we have met. He is not seeking your money, dear, for he is immensely wealthy in his own right. He is an upright, honest, splendid type of an— more like our own men in America, 1 think. than any one we have seen, Isn't that your impression of him?" “Yes,” sald the girl in the same col- orless volce. Mrs. Brevort's pale face grew rather enger. “Somehow I have felt from the first that your destinies were linked, yours and his,” =aid she, “but when he talked with me this afternoon I gave him no definite answer. I let him understand that the matter rested pri- marily with you: that it was your hap- piness that was at stake. “He didn’t seem quite to understand my attitude at first, but he was per- feetly charming about it, as he is in everything. Ile said I was to speak to you and that he would call for me this afternoon at 4 in the road car, and while we went out to the aqueduct 1 could give him my final decision, or, rather, yours.” The girl had turned again to the window. She was looking abstracted- ly at the passing crowd in the street below. Her brow was furrowed by a little disfiguring frown. Her lips were set tightly together. Her eyes were troubled, “So 1 suppose 1 am to give him a fa- vorable answer, am I not?" Mrs. Bre- vort suggested tentatively, The girl was silent. The troubled Took in her eyes grew more pronounc- «ed. Her aunt watched her narrowly and with growing impatience. “Peggy, dear, 1 asked you a ques- tion,” she reminded her niece. “Is ita favorable answer [ am to give?” The girl shrugged her dainty shoul- ders. “Yes, yes; oh, yes!" she said hurriedly. “It doesn’t matter.” Her voice suddenly choked. “Nothing mat- ters!” Mrs. Brevort elevated her brows. “Really, Peggy"— she began chidingly. But the girl turned swiftly and left the room, waving back the older womn- an, who started to follow her. Some- thing like a smothered sob sounded as the door closed behind her. Mrs. Brevort looked rather angry for a moment. Then she recovered her usual composure and smiled. But there was something distinctly unpleasant in that smile, She glanced at the bronze clock tick- Ing unobtrusively on the mantel. It pointed to half after 3. She went to a desk near the front window and from a drawer drew out a bundle of letters. They were all directed in the same band Peggy's hand. And they were all addressed to Mr. William Hale, at some outlandish Spanish sounding town in Ecuador, South America. Mrs. Brevort smiled again. It bad cost her a pretty penny to circumvent the mailing of those letters, but there are many itching palms in Rome, and what good money will not accomplish, if it is judiciously placed, is not worth accomplishing. An open fire burned dully in the grate beneath the mantel. Mrs. Bre- vort stepped briskly over to it and fed the bundle of letters to the flames. She watched grimiy until there was nothing left of them save a few gray white ashes. Then from another drawer she took out another bundle of letters. They were thick letters, all of them. The sprawling superscriptions were all for Peggy, and they were postmarked with the name of the Spanish town in Ecua- dor. Other itching Roman palms had been soothed in the conventional way to bring those epistles into Mrs. Brevort's n. These, too, she consigned to the grate, watched them burn and then arrayed herself for her appointment with the duke. At precisely 4 he came in the road car. She descended the stairs, greeted him effusively, and together they whirl- . od off toward the aqueduct. Scarcely hand Mrs. Brevort taken her depagture when there came to the ho- tel a brisk, broad shouldered young man. Unmistakably he was American, and unmistakably he had been endur- ing recently all the discomforts cof continental travel when such travel necessitates haste. He glanced at the register, saw thereon a certain name and heaved a mizity sigh of relief, but even as he searched his pockets for his cardcase +he owner of the name that had caus od his recent sigh came tripping down tie stairs arrayed for a walk through the autumn streets, and, turning aivund, the young man stood staring open mouthed at Peggy in all her glory. The girl's eyes, 100, lighted suddenly. She gave a little gasp of surprise. In an instant the young man wag beside her. and both her hands were in his own, “Peggy, Peggy!” breathlessly. he was saying “Billy,” she was saying in a low, | shaken voice, “where on earth did you come from?” In an masterful manner be led Ler to | the street. Once outside they both be- | zan talking as fast as they could. “Not 1 word from you all this time,” | he declared, “not one single, solitary | word. I couldn't stand it any longer. 1 left the bridge building down there and my chances for eternal fame and fortune with it, all in the hands of | Johnson, and came over here to learn | I even had to eable north | the worst. to Daniels to find out where you were.” “Billy, what do you mean?" she asked in unbelief. “I have written and written and never had one single answer from you." “Eh? What's this?’ said he. “I've written every day of my life. You haven't got them?’ [is eyes grew suddenly dark. “Where's that precious aunt of yours?’ So a a A ——— Building Lots For Sale. 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Russell Sage said, CALL OR WRITE 116 College Ave. FAT AVAVAEN AVAVAVYVAYAVA VATA T A LEATHERS BROTHERS, Commercial "phone. State College, Pa FAV AVAVAVAVATVAVAVAVAYAYAVVAVAYAT STEN a blaze face winveth, tle marrioth » | red headed heiress with a wart on her | nose, and the noxt day the parent an. | eestor goeth urder with o crash and | great Nabilities and cometh home to | live with his beloved son-in-law HE STARVED TO DEATH And suddenly Peggy remembered in | the midst of her new found happiness | just where her aunt was. “Oh, heavens, Billy!” she said. “Why owe didn’t you come before? “Why? “Why?” she repeated. “Why, indeed! Aunt Elinor is out motoring this after- noon with thé Duke of Selena, She has gone with him to tell him I'l mar- | ry him. 1 thought--I thought--when vou were silent—when I didn’t hear from you" — His teeth came together with a click. He faced her there in the Roman street, with the Roman sunshine flood- ing it with mellow warmth, “To tell him you'll marry him!" he repeated. “Peggy, you're not going to, are you?" She looked at him archly. in mocking happiness. “You'll have another right away,” sald he, with determination, “one that 1 dare you to turn down,” he added, with a boyish laugh. “But the duke,” she said breathless- ly. “I'm probably engaged to him by | Aunt Elinor wastes no ' this time. time." “I'll attend to the duke and your aunt, too,” said he grimly. “What thae will they return?” “Almost any minute now,” said she. “Come, let's go back. We mustn't miss them, must we, Billy?” A Grateful Boy. A gift always opens the door of an Eskimo heart, declares Knud Rasmus- sen in itttle orphan boy whom he ran across in his travels. 1 had a little pocketknife in my pocket, and I presented it to him in order to establish our acquaintance. It was assuredly the first time in his life that the boy had ever had such an experience as to receive n present. I assured him that I really meant it. Then, without a change of expression, he snatched the knife out of my hand and tan off. I did not think that I should see any more of him and was just going into our tent when he came running up with a piece of walrus meat, which he pressed into my hand. “Thou gavest, see: 1 give, too,” said he, and his face shone with grease and pride. But from that day forth we were friends. Kajoranguaq had no relatives at all to look after him. He was everybody's drudze and slept in an old ruined building. where he said he was very comfortable. He could not have been more than ten years old at the outside, although there was little of the child about him, but after he came to live in our tent we noticed that he began to sing when alone, and after awhile he would beat time to his singing on a little tin box, so in spite of a life of neglect he got a little joy now and then. An Essay on Man. Man that is born of woman is small potatoes and few in a hill. He rises up today and flourishes like a rag- weed, and tomorrow or next day the undertaker hath him. He goeth forth in the morning warbling like a lark and is knocked out in one round and two seconds. In the midst of life he is in debt. and the tax collector pursues him wherever he goeth. The banister of life is full of splinters, and he slid- eth down with considerable rapidity. He cometh home at eventide and meet- eth the wheelbarrow in his path. It riseth up and smiteth him to the earth and falleth upon him and runneth one of its legs into his ear. In the gentle springtime he putteth on his summer clothes, and a blizzard striketh him far from home and filleth him with russ words and rheumatism. He buy- eth a watchdog, and when he cometh home from the club the watchdog treeth him and sitteth near him until rosy morn. He goeth to the race course and betteth his money on the brown mare, and the bay gelding with | house. “It's the | Though there was no fire in his only offer I've had recently,” she said : | closet, together with two suits of even | and clubman, had been a recluse for “The People of the Polar North.” and then tells the story of a One-Time Tammany Leader Had No | Food, But Kept the Suit He Wore When Presented at Court of King’ Edward—Friends Were Summoned Too Late. New York, Feb. 2.—Smith Edward Lane, who was once one of the wits ol the Century and Union clubs, an after. | dinner speaker at the banquets of the Sons of the American Revolution and the St. Nicholas societies and in the administration of Mayor Smith Ely. a | park commissioner of the city, died | alone in his room in a tememen: room and the shelves of his cupboard held nothing but empty boxes and jars that had once contained food, the court suit of silk and silk stockings that Mr. Lane had worn at a levee of Kicg Edward in 1903 were hanging in his ing clothes and the state sword that he had carried at his side when pre- sented to royalty. One of the two friends that Mr. Lance had left in the world said that Lane's pride had been with him to the el and that few persons knew that the one-time leader in Tammany, lawyer ten years where none could see his shame in poverty. Mrs. Arnold, caretaker for the house where Mr. Lane had lived for seven years, knew that her solitary tenant had been ill for four weeks. He was in his eighty-first year, and though he | tried bravely to conceal his infirmity. | he had been forced to admit that dur- | ing recent weeks he had been to see | a doctor. But four days ago he had | been unable to leave his bed, and Mrs. Arnold sent word to former Mayor Ely, one of the two friends that Mr. Lane had. Monday Mrs. Arnold knocked at Mr. Lane's door. He answered. A half hour later Charles D. Bergen, secre- tary for Mr. Ely, knocked at the door. | He had come to remove the sick man | to a hospital. There was no response. was dead. “Don’t say that Mr. Lane died of starvation,” said Mr. Ely's secretary. later. “That wouldn't be right. I think he died of pride; that was all.” Mr. Lane Has Majority of About 16,000 Over John Walker, of Illinois. | Indianapolis, Feb. 2—For president | of the United Mine Workers of Amer- fea it is conceded that President Lewis | has been re-elected by a majority of | about 16,000. John Walker, of Illinois, ! announced that he would not contest | the election if he is defeated. : Believes Husband Was Murdered. | Newark, N. J., Feb. 2.—Lying in his home, with a bullet wound in the head. the dead body of Frank Wilhelm, a real estate dealer and justice of the peace, was found by his wife. It is be. | lieved by Mrs, Wilhelm that her hus- | band was murdered, and the iol are searching for an Italian who is | said to have threatened him with death. President Declines $10,000 Legacy. | Boston, Feb, 2—President Roosevelt | in a letter to the attoroneys for the administrator, declares that under no condition will he accept a legacy of | $10,000 left him by the last will of | Benjamin Hadley, an East Somerville | recluse, who ditd Dec. 16, 1907. The will disposed of property valued at] $150,000 and provided for a legacy of | “$10,000 to the president of the United States.” Old Pair Die In Street. St. Louis, Feb. 2.—While summon: ing aid for his wife, who had droppad dead in the street from heart feliure, Sebastian Stoll, sixty-seven years old, died beside the body of his heinmate of nearly fifty years. CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS. Wednesday, January 27. Short in his accounts $600, Post master J. W. Kennedy, of Searchlight, Nev., blew out his brains. The annual reunion of the United | Confederate Veterans will be held in Memphis, Tenn., on June 8, 9 and 10. Henry Miller, yardmigter at thy Reading railway wards City, Pa., das run down and killed by a train. An explosion of natural gas at Brad. ford, Pa., wrecked the plant of the Tuna Valley Pressasd Brick company and seriously injured R. C. Gordon and Philip Derry. Thursday, January 28. The scnate ratified an arbitration treaty with Brazil. Wilson Heckdom, a miner, was | struck and killed by a train at a cross. ing fifteen miles north of Lebanon, Pa Wiiliam Spooner, a farmer, and bis ten-year-old son, Wilirid. were killed instantly at the Montro%l street grade crossing, Kingston, On€. Curtis N. Buzbey is under arrest in Philadelphia, charged with embezzling $4000 from his employers, Vance & Peters, a hardware firm. Frank Clarke, a chemist, was shot and mortally wounded in a quarrel with Clyde Butterfield, a mail carrier. in a hotel at Fort Henry, N. Y. Friday, January 29. William Robinson, of Philadelphia, wae struck and killed by a train at Elkton, Md. Melancholy over domestic troubles, william Gaffney, an iron ore miner at Belvidere, N. J., shot and killed him- self, Lumber prices in ancouver, B. C., have advanced $2 per 1000 feet on common grades, and within a short time there will be an advance affecting all outside roints. Since the “devil tracks” were first reported in South Jersey it has been noticed that not a chicken roost rob- bery has been reported, although pre: vious to that time hardly a night pass- ed but that a number of chicken rob- beries were not reported. Saturday, January 30. The treasury has purchased 100,000 ounces of silver for delivery at New York, at 51.920 per fine ounce. One man was killed and four others seriously injured in a collision betwee: a freight and construction train on the Pittsburg & Lake Erie railroad at ' Beaver Falls, Pa., near Pittsburg. Theodore Adams, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., was arrested and charged with the murder of his brother-in-law, John Kliff, of that place, after Mrs. Kliff had accused Adams of robbing her. Monday, February 1. The Kansas house passed a bill pro- hibiting the making or selling of cig- arette papers. Caesar Mattucci, of Slateford, Pa. has started suit for $2000 against the Lackawanna railroad for the loss of an eye. Fire starting in the White Front dry goods store at Freeport, Ill, de- stroyed three business houses. Loss. $100,000. A fire which destroyed their home, | near London, Ont., cost the lives of Philip Vansickle, his son, daughter and son-in-law. Charged with embezzling $4000 re- ceived as license money, former Coun- ty Clerk William W. Wallace, of Mec- Minnville, Tenn., was arrested in Cali- fornia. Tuesday, February 2. Two children of Nathaniel Work: man were burned to death in a fire that destroyed their home in Bath ' county, Ky. Charles H. Brent, Protestant Epis copal bishop of the Philippines, was elected chairman of the international opium commission at Shanghai, China. President Roosevelt has accepted an invitation to attend a farewell meet: ing of the congregation of Grace Re- formed church in Washington on the evening of Feb. 15. Panic stricken because of the pre: ence of scariet fever in the institution. | thirty students of the Mercersburg (Pa.) academy broke the quarantine and fled iz a body. With the gas radiator turned on full, Frederick Vahey, forty years old and his wife, Marie, were found derd from asphyxiation in their apartment in Jersey City, N. J. t Mahanoy | Lyon & co. Lyon & Co. Lyon &. Company. WHITE :-: SALE Our White Sale is stronger than ever Every day there are New Goods added to keep up the large assortment. We are working to make this the largest and the best values at the lowest prices, ’ Tailored Suits and Coats. 13 Handsome Tailored Suits—all of this season's style, elegantly lined and well finished. New Style Coats and Skirts, colors Blue, Black, Green and Brown—ail sizes in the assort- ment. Must be sold regardless of cost. 30 Coats in Misses and Childrens—All col- ors and sizes. Must be sold now. needed for Spring Stuff. Qur space is We are taking inventory and are having a general house cleaning in all departments. Everything in small lots and short ends go on the Remaant Counter at less than cost. Spring Dress Goods. Weare having the newest styles in Spring dress goods in silk, wool, and washable fabrics. If you want to buy the best + the least money come in and see our stock and get our prices. LYON & COMPANY, 7-12 Allegheny St., Bellefonte, Pa. Bellefonte Shoe Emporium. WHEN WILL THE CLOCK STOP ASK YEAGER YEAGER’'S SHOE STORE, successor to Yeager & Davis. 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