I, Bellefonte, Pa., January 28, 1910. DOWN IN TEE DUST. Is it worth while that we jostle a brother Bearing his load on the rough road of life? Is it worth while that we jeer at each other In blackness of heart?—that we war to the knife? God pity us all in our pitiful strife. God pity us all as we jostle each other; God pardon us all for the triumphs we feel When a fellow goes down ‘neath his load on the heather, Pierced to the heart; words are keener than steel, And mightier far for woe or for weal. Were it not well, in this brief little journey, On o'er the isthmus, down into the tide, We give him a fish instead of a serpent, Ere folding the hands to be and abide Forever and aye in dust at his side? Look at the roses saluting each other; Look at the herds all at peace o'er the plain— Man, and man only, makes war on his broth" er, And laughs in his heart at his peril and pain. | § g 7 : : : tion. “Oh, come now," said Underdowne, “that’s a rather sweeping condemnation. Ninety-nine per cent. is altogether too It's gone up. It was seventy-three when last we talked about it.” “The nearer I approach a hundred, the nearer the truth I get.” Underdowne laughed -naturedly. “You must have been ing my latest,” he said. “But be more particular; quote an instance from the classics.” “Quote an instance from the classics! I could quote a dozen; but Poe's ‘Pur- loined Letter’ will suffice for the occasion. You recall it?" His companion nodded. “Then you'll remember that it concerns a love-note of compromising character, which is stolen from the Queen of Fi a Minister of State to whose ( is unfriendly. She knows that he has the letter, but dares not expose him; in so doing she would expose herself. Heis aware that she knows that he has it; it is this common knowledge that consti- tutes his threat. She is compelled to employ secret methods to recover it; and he is compelled to be Sepiatly stealthy in order to retain possession. How does he hide it? How does she regain it? There lies the plot. “She calls in the prefect of police to her rescue. He is an official of common- place mind, who takes it for granted that stolen property is always secreted. He recognizes that to the thief the instant i availability of the document is a point of | if nearly equal importance with its sion; therefore concludes that it must be hidden cither about the thief’s person or in his house. So far, fo good. “He has the house thoroughly search- ed, in all its nooks and crannies, when the minister is absent. He has the man him- seif waylaid, as if by robbers, and his pocke’s gone through. He finds nothing. ou see, he makes the error of the com- monplace mind, which thinks that every other mind is commonplace—that the only iA of disposing of stolen property is to ide it. “But the thief of Poe's story is an edu- cated man. He does not hide the letter; he leaves it lying in the most innocent conspicuous place—in a trumpery filigree card-rack that hangs from a httle brass knob just beneath the middle of the mantelpiece. In so doing the Minis- ter of State's cunning was in no way su- perior to thatof the police; he only work- ed upon a different theory, at which Au- Dupin, the Sherlock Hoimes of ths the story, made a lucky guess. Poe's | Sta true art would have been to make the Minister of State’s cunning transcend that | his of the police official, whereas he only makes him equal it, but in a different di- rection. Now I could have disposed of that letter so that it would never have been found.” Underdowne had grown tired of the critic's continual claims to omniscience. He could not afford to quarrel with the man, but he wasdetermined to teach him a lesson. Leasing across the table, he tapped him lightly on the arm. “If you reall believe that you could do it,” he said, * will put you to the test. Are you will- aor red, This 5° Sime w ’ ah—why, ves,” he said. “Will you bac} your assertion with a Undardoune's igtonce made Bim ; t AY he id up undred t up an amount.” Undone aca library desk a hundred Union Pacific shares, at present worth one hundred and ninety dollars a share. You will come to see me at that hour and will find me just ou vill eal those shares. Fur value you me security, coming here at three tomorrow and de. ia- | down calling on him, and he was out.” positing with fhe Club sucistary a sek or nineteen thousand dollars, to be de- livered to me in a fortnight's time. This will you from serious trouble should the shares be found in your posses- | sion and you be arrested for stealing | them. It will make it plain to the police that the whole affair was planned and is’ nothing more than a literary experiment. Well, as | said, you will take. them off my desk tomorrow at three-thirty. I have two witnesses to prove that they were lying there ten minutes before your i and shall have witnesses to prove that you entered my room at the hour stated and were there for not less than five mites. At a quarter to four I shall return, my property missing, make re ak | visitor, and shall put the police on your track. Iwill see to it that you are, not arrested unless the shares have been | found, and I will also see to it that you | are free to come here and dine with me, | whatever happens, in a fortnight's sme. | | + either retain my sharesor exchange them | for been | security, | four-hun- | § 2 ¥ : : swinging his baton. He - ienced for the first time a sensation h was to grow upon him in the next four- teen Says an overwhelming desire to escape the presence of the law. Soon, to his great relief, he saw Under- downe come out, pause on his doorstep, and glance up and down the length of : sight of him, he nodded friendly opposite direction. When he had disap- peared, Grandlund approached the apart- ment-house. In the lobby he found the elevator boy Srpuing with a woman who was washing stairs. “Ha! Here are his two witnesses,” he thought. Aloud he said: “Is Mr. Underdowne in?—He's just gone out?—Never mind; I'll goup to his rooms and wait.” Having been shown up, he into the library and over to the desk, where lay the hundred Union Pacific shares. He sat down, lit himself a cigar to steady his nerves, and counted them over leisurely. Then he put his hand in his breast pocket and grew forth ans ve which had previously stam ressed to him- self in a disguised hand. He thrust the shares into it, sealed up the letter, and, seeing that five minutes had elapsed, re- turning to the elevator, the bell. When the boy appeared he said, “I've just remembered that I have some pressing business to transact down-town; Iwill lon Mr. Underdowne later. Here is my éard; give it to him when he returns. Once in the street again, he walked swiftly to the nearest mail-box and despatched the stolen property in the envelope addressed to himself. For the present, at least, he had rid himself of every trace of the theft; the U. S. A. Postal ent areceiver of the results of burglary. He had im- proved on Poe's Minister of State in his first step. Hesmiled complacently and held up his head; with the resurrection of vanity con- seven minutes and hurrying away. that the sky RE . less and the sun shining, he determined to t he asked, “How long have they been here, Jonathan?” “About a quarter of an hour, sir.” “I'll see them at once, then.” On entering the library two strangers EA I kept waiting. “I'm sorry t you Won't you be seated?” he said. “You are Mr. Grandlund?" asked one of the Sjrangers. “ es.” ous! If it’s an affair of rates taxes 'd better with my man.” “But it isn't that, sir. You're of stealing something from Mr. Under- downe.” “Mr. Underdowne! I've justcome from “Now, ister: : tar you say as ih “I don’t mind that. I called on Under- you that any- against your- downe at three-thirty, stayed five minutes, and left my card. I'm willing, if it t to besearch- 1 | appear. { his demeanor a | compassionate. ‘ied by one's servants. He wondered he had made | tional Hil li el Eds ES 23885 aE BA g ifEet giiatl fy; a2edy SEs a SFC i} in EF 5g £2 zh BREE 2: § gh is 3 g shelves. He found the volume he was wanting and, in his e; to read its contents, forgot to sit . It was one of a set of Poc’s Complete Works; he was g rning a lesson in coglness from the do- i of that commonplace individual, the | Minister of State. end of half an hour he felt strengthened and competent to grapple i situation. He rang the pole When Jonathan appeaped he said, “if any Ja cones for me, bring it here a once; 'm ng several important letters, You can tell cook that 1 shall dine at home tonight. And—Oh, here, Jonathan! ! You might bring me a brandy-and-soda now.” He waited irritably for Jonathan to re- He thought he had detected in ook half startled, half It is insulting to be pit- whether Jonathan had had any speech with those men. Then he set to work calculating how long it would take for the shares to return. Supposing they lay an hour in the mail-box, and took two hours in the sorting-out, and an hour in the delivery, that would be four hours. He shoul him. Grandlund watched him narrowly; he had never been very charitable in his judgments, and at this moment there was no one whom he did not suspect. The butler's countenance was wooden and be- trayed nothing; but when he looked at his hands he saw them tremble. “What's the matter, Jonathan?” he | asked. “You're all of a shake; u can scarcely hold that glass steady. Has any- | thing happened?" “No, sir. Nothing in particular, sir. | But this dining at home is unexpected. It's put cook and me all in a flurry. Why, Jou haven't dined home, sir,once in these ast ten years; not since your poor moth- er died.” Startled at his own volubility, Jonathan waited for his master to say something; but he simply stared. Then he added, inauspiciously, by way of fur- ther excusing himself. “And this asking for a brandy-and-soda at this hour is rather out of the common, sir.” “The hypocrite!” growled Grandlund, when he was again left to himself. “He iiows more than he is willing to Bell! imagination began to conjure up the vulgar possibilities of his crisis. Un- derdowne had no cause to like him, and might not play fair. If the shares should be recovered, he might insist that they had actually been stolen, and not taken with his connivance merely as a literary experiment. His hair rose on end at the suggestion; he had visions of the patrol- wagon, the gaping crowd, and the sensa- i headlines in the morning papers. He ruefully acknowledged that his love of had overreached itself, so that for the next fortnight he must en- dure the terrors of the meanest pickpock- et, crouching with his back against the rt 3 revenge n 5 - lection that it was a fight brought his courage back; his courage took the form of Suning. Recalling what his butler had said, he thought he saw an underly- ing and well-intentioned warning in his words. Yes, if he would appear innocent he must behave normally and abandon none of his habitual smploymhis Sum- moning Jonathan, he said, shortly: “I have my mind. 1 shall dine at the club as Ny tonight.” The man seemed gratified. “Thank you, sir,” he replied, as though obtaining A What ; i “ t are you thanking me for, don- . | key? Can't a man take a meal in his own house once in a while?” “Oh yes, sir; but it isn’t that." “Then what is it?" “Well, you see, sir, it's rather awkward or cook and me, sir, at such short notice to lay our hands on things which ain't been used for a — ; £ i 5 i that ie might find his an! seated there; were, perhaps might ter- minate this foolishness come to a ble . But the table in sight. - thought, fellow foresaw away on purpose. He guessed the that fear would have on my high-strung tempera- ment.” EF | : { g : ii E-T284EREE 28 i ie jal: bask Lane hy dh plug i | I ist i i ly If i: - ter in hand, setting - He was pale and apologetic; the sight of k- him made his master angry. have them in his hands by eight. WL door vias ashe open and Jona- than re-entered, carrying a tray , before e against the! his The rack was empty; there would be no | an active trustee of the University of . en 10 Pennsylvania, and formerly secretary of Who made them In the iibrary he found Jonathan, dus- ights. "Jogathan, has t been any letter?” sir. “Then what the dickens are you doing here in my room at this hour of night?" himself felt—a thief discovered in the act. you please, sir, three gentlemen came here just after you'd gone out. They said their business was urgent and they'd await your return.” “But apparently they've left now, so what's that got to do with it?" “Well, sir, that’s what I'd like to know myself. After they'd vanished, which they did without my hearing them, I came in here and saw that they'd been ransack- ing everything, though I must say they left most of your things in their proper places.” “You're sure that they didn't take that letter?” “Quite sure, sir.” “Then it doesn’t matter. up and go to bed.” “They're not so clever at house-search- ing as they were in Poe's day,” he mur- mured; “they're so slovenly that your very servants can guess what they've been about.” All that night he lay awake, haunted by doubts concerning Jonathan and the whereabouts of that letter. Toward day- light he dozed, and was awakened by the butler standing at his bedside. ed himself up, rubbed his eyes, and re- mem A “What o'clock is it?” “Nine, sir?” “Any mail?" : “Yes, sir. That's why I presumed to - disturb you.” . Grandlund looked into the man’s face shrewdly, and saw that he was troubled with the desire to help. “Give me your hand, old chap,” he said: “I should have known that you, at least, were faithful." And that was all the explanation of the affair that Jonathan ever ; Glancing over his mail quickly, : that the shares were there. “Get me a pen and ink and a long en- velope,” he ted. | As he sat in bed he hurriedly address- You can lock he saw | ed the envelope to himself; after which road | he slipped into it the results of his theft, (and sealed down the flap with care. | Beckoning to Jonathan, he whispered, ! “Go out by the back way, taking your bi- ! cycle with you, and mail that letter from somewhere down-town. Let meknow di- i rectly you return.” ! For the next eight days his plan work- He rais- ! Scholarships Awarded. ! The committee to secure a Memorial to | the late John Clark Sims, for many years the Pennsylvania railroad company, has | | establishes two scholarships, in the said : 8ren, of the museum staff. . University, to be designated. “The John Clark Sims Memorial Scholarships.” The | purpose of the scholarships is to enable ‘worthy persons to obtain a more liberal education by courses of study in the Uni- | and c i i is ev ted | mechanical skill that produced the Wonderful as are the protozoans them- | selves as viewed under microscopes, one’s admiration detailed models. correctly versity, and thus prepare themselves to | @raphic illustrations, much reduced in { more intelligently choose and pursue their | Size, like those accompanying this ar- | avocations, which is in accord with the | zealous interest Mr. Sims displayed in | Beatty of the | the University,and thosebenevolent activ- protozoans ities to which he devoted his sympathies | Structure that they consist of onl , and labors. i | COHIanY iE Ba any are so simple in cell without any covering. They ob A These scholarships shall exempt the | legs, but extend any part of the jelly-like i holders thereof from the | University. One : to persons nominated by the trustees of the university, the other shall be open to! ! employes, and to the sons of living, or deceased, employes of the Pennsylvania i railroad lines east and west of Pittsburg; ' Erie & Western Transportation company; | Cumberland valley railroad; Long Island | rrilroad; New York, Philadelphia & Nor- folk railrcad; Grand Rapids & Indiana | railway; Vandalia railroad; Cincinnati & j Muskinguu valley railroad; Cleveland, ! Akron & Columbus railway; Cincinnati, | Lebanon & Northern railway; Wheeling Terminal railway; Waynesburg & Wash- 1 i railroad. "he committee has already nominated | to fill the railroad schol J | Patterson Sims, of Chestnut 1, Phila- | delphia, son of the late John Clark Sims, | formerly secretary of the Pennsylvania rail company, to be held by him until | the termination of his college course, so that i will be’ 1912 hefofe ny other | eligible person can secure vileges of this scholarship, unless, of course, a vacancy should occur before that time. Future candidates for the said railroad | scholarship shall, ing upon where ! the applicant is employed, or where the jorent 91 en iam 5 wa last employed, apply to general manager | of the Pennsylvania railroad lines east of | Pittsburg, or the general manager of the | lines west of Pittsburg, expressing their | desire to attend the examination in- | ater provided, and shall furnish full in- formation, in the case of an employe, as | to age, previous education, and the and capacity in which employed; in the | case of the son of an employe, informa- ‘ tion as to age, previous education and the and capacity in which the parent is or was last employed. By competitive examination, conducted pursuant to the rules and lations of the University of Pennsylvania, the per- son to receive the scholarship shall be se- lected, taking into consideration the re- sults of said examination, and also the physical and moral qualifications possess- candidates. | ed excellently; so much so that he could | ed by said | pass a police officer almost without quak- | ing. He even began to take a pride in 1 his strategy. Difectis the cause of his sorrow came back to him he mailed it off again. He knew that he was followed and that the house was searched in his absence; Jonathan kept him informed on such matters. But by these small incon- | veniences, when once his pride in the un- ‘ dertaking had revived, he ceased to be : perturbed. On the ninth day he despatch- | ed his letter as usual, going out especially to do it himself, and it failed to reappear. Hour by hour he waited, on the verge of hysteria, inventing all sorts of impossible excuses to account for its delay, that so he might pacify himself. The hours be- came a day, and the days two days; then he gave up of seeing it again, un- less it were in Underdowne’s or some po- lice official's hands. Momentarily he ex- pected arrest. He had the choice of two evilson which to fix his hopes and fears, to neither of which he could reconcile himself; either the letter had been intercepted or it had been lost in the mail. In the first case he would have to ride in. the patrol-wag- on and would lose his bet; in the second he would have to sacrifice his security of the Police and was now awaiting the a nted hour when he would prove to mortified critic that he was less wise than the literary man. On the evening of the fourteenth day Grandlund set out for the Playgoers. He arrived there a little late, having journey- ed by circuitous ways. Passing through to the courtyard, he gazed about him, and espied the enemy seated alone at fateful table, with his Back, Toward hin, smoking a cigarette. thought. “he's very self. possessed He may well He's got the shares in hls pock- et, and is chuckling over the memory the fool I've been making of m: » g 2 ; | Going hi tapped Ii. On She Shoulder, NAT: SOR his features to an expression of : : ] i F ABE% g 5 it 2 + ii sgass i il i 5 — —- ~ ~~ 2 The intentand purpose of the Memorial are that there shall always be two scholars upen this foundation at the University of Pennsylvania, and, therefore, if, for any reason, either scholarship shall not be filled, as hereinbefore provided, the same shall be open to any person whom the trustees of the University and the said railroad officers shall mutually nominate and appoint to fill the same. scholarships at all times shall be subject to the rules, administration and government of the University of Pennsyl- vania. A Sixth-Century Columbus. Sunday, the 16th of May, being the thir- teen hundred and thi anniver- sary of the Geath of Brendan, navigator, Canon McLarney, rector of St. Brendan's Cathedral, Clonfert, County Galway, preached on the subject of his life. text was: "This shall be my resf forever: here will I dwell, for I have a delight therein.” These were the words in the year 558. Canon McLarney dwelt at length upon the facts mentioned in the history of ancient Mexico, with re- to a man whom the Mexicans in named Quetzatcoatl, who the sixth century, and who evangelized a * | portion of that country at the time. From historical Jace, traditions, 24 numerous remarkable coincidences, - on McLarney showed that this Quetzat- coat! of the Mexicans was none other than St. Brendan, the navigator, the founder of Clonfert Cathedral. It was in the year 545 that St. Brendan undertook ; ul voyage across the Atlantic. This event, which was called “The Set- ting Sail of St. Brendan and his Crew” (Egressia familoe St. Brendani), was com- memorated in the calendars of the earl Christian Church on the 22d of M afterward. St. Bren- 7 3 i k i payment of | body in the form of | tuition fees in any Department of the said | Processes, with which they cling of t shall be open | i ! | | i uttered by St. Brendan when he went to | i Clonfert, where he founded the cathedral | i sailed across the Atlantic to Mexico in | themsel finger-like to the These processes are called "pseudo- podia” (false feet) and sometimes extend from the body so much like the roots of a tree that they have given the class name to the little creatures—Rhizopods, the ' “root-footed.” Wonderful as it may seem, these ani- mals have no ial mouth, but may develop a mou of the body, for When clef the ia comes in contact with anything eatable, such as tiny diatoms, infusoria, algae, etc., the part is withdrawn, bringing the particle ; of food with it into ringing In where it is digested. Huxley regarded these tiny creatures as the most wonderful examples of ani- mate existence, mainly on account of their extreme simplicity. Mere bits of i Se assimilate : ve, grow and maintain their existence in the ace of destructive forces constantly op- to them. They have the ability to ild a shell or external skeleton, which is always beautiful and often complex in character. Another group of these lowly animals are the salt-water forms cal radio- larians. These are found almost every- where, but most abundantly in cal seas, where they swarm in myriads. may be taken from the surface, but they have also been dredged from a depth of nearly three miles. You may get some notion of the count- road | less numbers of these radiolarians and the millions of years that they have ex- isted when learn that their skeletons have formed vast beds of stone, one known stratum of which, in the Nicobar Islands, is 2.000 feet in thickness. The Barbados island is largely formed of their fossilized skeletons, but the deposit there is not so thick as in the Nicobar Islands. Odd as these tiny creatured are in many ways, one would scarcely look for beauty in such mere specks of animated jelly. Here, however, lies their greatest charm. Few animals are more beautiful than these lowly radiolarians, their flinty skele- tons assuming an infinite variety of form. Heckel, alone, has described more than four thousand species, most of which are but specks invisible to the unaided eye. It is the microscope that reveals them to us, 20 shows ther $0,0e forms of beauty such as tiny openwork boxes, latticewo cones, concentric spheres of which the inner are held place by radiating spines, “helmets,” baskets,” “lanterns,” “bee hives"—all formed of glass-like silica.— St. Nicholas. The Size of Raindrops. do not always have the same t, and this is primarily the drops of water that fall from a wet Raind size or w the | clothor the spout of a pitcher, or the drops that rush out of the small holes in a garden sprinkler. In all these latter and grow bigger. sounds reason- able, but no one has really proven it.—St. Nicholas. her own h and once for the Belin od es ar te err he plicated and feminine disorders. “Favorite = pr Teguiites the DE and ad nerves entire body with and vitality. It contains neither nor Narc ‘The whole art of a and success. ful life lies in moving Nature in- tion means waste of energy and loss of power. Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medi- cal Adviser teaches the science of this Hee ne facts of h i. uman a a howian origin aw matters which touch every-day This book of 1008 pages sent free on receipt of stamps to pay expense of for op 1.0 opin covers, or bi to Dr. R.V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. A ——— Summer boarder—It is so ue eget 15.20 pietureny There’s more in it when they stay on the railroad track. Sis
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