wpe, Bertie Courtenay. “Charlie, let me tell you something. 1 think | know where you can get a first class twirler for the match game.” “Don't want apy twirler. Dan Simp- son is good enough.” “How about s bitter?” “Don’t want any bitter either.” This dialogue was spoken between Charles Wilkins, captain of the Roslyn Athletic club's baseball team, and his cousin, Kate Hathaway. Kute was an enthusiastic baseball giri—that is, she was infatuated with the game and a member of a girls’ team that occa- sionally played on the diamoud of the gymnasium club. There was more between Wilkins and Miss Hathaway than a common interest in baseball. A lawsuit of long standing between their respective fam. ilies over property acquired by a Wil kins three generuticns before was to be settled by their union—that is, it was hoped by their parenix that the interest might be united in them. The match referred to was to take place between (he Roslyn club and the Ringolds, a champion game. Both teams were training bard. and both managers were testing and picking up the best men they could find. Ned Paddock, manager of the Ringolds, would require an intielder and Wilkins an outfielder. This wax smooth sall- ing. But when both men wanted an outfielder and there was just one good man in that line to be secured the friction exaitted more sparks than a skyrocket. There had come to Roslyn that spring an invalid named Albert Courtenay. He was suffering from bronchitis and bad been recommended to come to Ros- lyn on account of its dry air. For a couple of months he went about cough- ing and hawking. looking as though, having one foot in the grave, be was struggling to keep out the other. Then he began to get better and the flesh to come back on his bones. One could tell of his improvement by bis clothes— the better his health the finer his gar- ments. At last when be was quite re- covered he bloomed iuto a first class dude. He manifested an interest in the soclety of Roslyn, joined the Ros- lyn Country club und showed a mild interest in the young ladies of the place. They were inclined to make fun of him, calling him “Bertie.” Bertie Courtenay seemed more in- clined to bestow his attentions on Kate Hathaway than any other girl. Charlie Wilkins didn’t object to his preference, for he considered him altogether too contemptible for a rival. Besides, Charlie was too much absorbed In preparations for the great game soon to come off to take any interest In anything else. But one day when Courtensy, who drawled his words, was sitting chatting with Kate and watching a game of tennis Wilkins came up. Courtenay drawled on. Wil- kins “butted in,’ mimicking Courte- nay's speech. Courtenay imperturb- ably changed from English to Latin. Neither Kate nor Wilkins understood a word he said until Kate caught the meaning of ‘“carissima Katherina™ (dear Katherine) and blushed. Wil yr a growl, turned on his heel and left them. This incident when repeated—that is, that Bertie Courtenay could speak Lat- in—occasioned a halt In the opinion the young people of Roslyn were forming of bim. Then one day. having ap- peared in a flanvel ennis suit, white as an angel's wing. to play a game with a member of the Country club, he soon collected a crowd by sending the balls from his racket as if they tad been fired from a roman candle. Here was a second gain. Bertie could net only talk Latin, but he was ‘a marvel at tennis. From this point Kate Hathaway be- gan to show an interest in him. As soon as Wilkins noticed that the “dude.” as be called Courtenay, had found any favor whatever in Kath- erine’s eyes he ceased his own atten- tions. indicating to her that a girl who could see anything iuteresting in a “chump lke that” was of no use to bim. As for Courtenay himself, Wil- kins treated him with supreme con- tempt. “He's one of these college men,” sald Wilkins, “they make professors of—a great capacity for taking in knowledge and never making any practical use of it.” “But he's remarkable at tennis,” sug- gested one who had seen Courtenay make fireworks of the balls over the net. “Oh, that’s a sort of slight of hand, like billiards. There's nothing manly in the game.” By this time nobody seemed to know what to make of Mr. Courtenay. He didn’t seem to be a fool, though he sometimes acted like one. He wasn't exactly effeminate, though he appear- ed so. What cough was left to him was certainly affected. Some said he kept it up to gain the sympathy due an invalid. Then his dress was too aslegant for anything, his neckwear now representing the blue field of heaven studded with bright stars, now a snow squall, now the green waves of the sea and finally the red flames of a guages. With a bit of chalk he made a caricature of Wilkins that set every the slightest hostility. Kate Hathaway was no less at sea her soclety, but never made love to her, nor did he tell her more about himself than he told them. There was certainly a fascination in the man she could not account for. When listening to what he said she felt lifted into a different atmosphere. At times be would chat with her about the poli- tics of their native land. but no sooner had be interested her in the subject than he would skim away like a bird to ancient Greece, Rome or Egypt. Meanwhile the competing clubs were making up and practicing. Paddock had selected the better team, and Wil- kins, who knew his eneray’'s strength and the weakness of several of his own men, was feeling very much dis- couraged. But during the term of practice the Ringold team had a streak of bad luck. First their best infielder was hit in the face by a ball and in- capacitated, then their vext stronges! man fell and broke his leg, and lastly their pitcher was taken down with ty- phoid fever. Thus in the space of a month the Ringolds were reduced from the better to a far inferior team. “Why don't you try Courtenay?” asked a man who was sympathizing with Captain Paddock. “What! That Miss Nancy? What could he do at baseball? He'd be all right for tiddledewinks, but baseball— never.” “You can at least try him in a prac- tice game.” “Yes; | can do that. But what's the use? It would be time lost.” Paddock’s friend insisted, and Cour tenay was invited to show what he could do. He accepted the invitation What be did on the diamond was kept a secret. But on the day of the game when the Ringold team was walking out on to the oval Bertie, conspicuous in a crimson silk handkerchief around his neck, was among them. Wilkins remarked him with unconcealed ax. tonishment. “Great Scott!" he exclaimed. “Is that all they could do In making up their deficiency? We've got them sure.” The game opened with inconspicuous play on the part of the Ringold team. which had the inning, till it came Courtenay’s turn at the bat. The first ball sent him he knocked straight up in the air, dropped the bat and walked leisurely around the bases. Every man of the opposing team stood looking up for the ball to come down, but either it did not come down or if it did it landed in some other place. Courtenay completed his walk, and every one looked mystified. Some maintained that the ball had gone far out of bounds, but the majority declared that it bad gone up in a straight line and should have fallen on the plate. After ten minutes spent in hunting all over the field for it the hit was declared foul. The next ball received by Courtenay he sent diagonally into the corner of the fence inclosing the field and again began his walk around the bases, completing it before the ball was found. During the game Captain Paddock put the substitute into various posi tions, and he did as well in one as in another. He would catch a ball wheth- er it came down in a curve or whether it was sent from the bat in a line par allel to the ground. When he pitched the batter never touched the ball When behind the batter no pitcher could give a ball that he could not catch. He declined to use a body protector; indeed, there seemed no need for one, since he could catch any ball. When the game was over the Rin- golds had scored largely, while the Roslyns had made but three or four runs. Courtenay had carried the game on his shoulders, and that without any apparent effort. He had made but few runs himself, and then it seemed that he had been shot out of a gun. The Ringolds wanted to take him up on their shoulders and carry him around the oval, but he protested so firmly that they desisted. Courtenay was last seen, with the others, walking toward the dressing rooms. No one could say that he had seen him there or seen him leave there. Some thought that he had tak- en a train that passed about the time the game was over and gone to his home, wherever that was. Neverthe. less the fact remains that without a word of farewell to any one he left the oval and the town. Months afterward Kate Hathaway met a student of —— university, to whom she told the story of Albert Courtenay “Oh, I know who that is! He's Ad Crichton.” “And who is Ad Crichton?” “So called from the Admirable Crich- ton who lived in the sixteenth cen- tury. He knew everything, beat every one at any sort of exercise and spoke ten different languages. Courtenay is his counterpart. He's a queer duck. He's the wonder of our college.” Kate married Charlie Wilkins. Lost Both Ways. “Did you get in without your wife hearing you last night?” “No, and I didn't get in without hearing her, either.” ~Houston Post. Between f° nds frequent reproof makes the friendship distant.--Confu- 2lus. Phlloxenes of Cytheria, on learning from his physician that be must die of indigestion from having Athens was a city of fish eaters, and its cooks were famous for their knowl- edge of cooking fish. The wise writ ers of the day spent much time in re cording recipes for preserving fish in salt, oll or herbs, There was a law the city that forbade a tishmouger 10 sit down until he had disposed of all his stock on the ground that a stand ing position made him more submissive and inclined to sell at a reasonable price. The Romans diers were fed ou fish, her generals ate fish, her senators were epicures in fish, and her emperors recognized uno dish more desirable than fish. Lucullus caused a canal to be emt through a mountain wear Naples to bring up the sea and its fishes to the center of the gardeus of his sumptuous villa. The love of fish in those days wus a mania. The red mullet was prized be yond all food. A sauce called garum, | made from the entrails and bloud of mackerel and other fisb®s, brought high prices, and great prizes were of- fered the man who could make a sim flar sauce out of the liver of the red mullet. In more modern times kings have been known for their liking of fish In the reign of Edward il. iv Kuglund sturgeon could be served only on the king's table. In France tishmongers were licensed by the king. Louis Nit, was so fond of fish he appointed six fishmongers to supply his table, Fran cis 1. bad twenty-two and Henry the Great twenty-four Under the reign of Louis XIV. fixh eating became as popular at the French court as it had ever been in Rome A story is told that when fish failed 10 arrive from the seacoast in time for a grand dinper being given by the Prince of Cound» to the king the prince's chef, au illustrious purveyor of fish, was so chagrined he rau to his chamber, took his sword and plerced his heart.—Boston Globe. Supplying a Want. Shabby Individual (to painter up lad- der)—HIi, you're dropping your paint all over me. Painter—Well, you're badly in need of a coat of some sort.— London Tit- Bits. i inherited from the Greeks their love for fish. Rome's xo | Clothing. The Old Fashioned Woman. “What caused your sudden blowing in?" asked a veteran in Shade Land of a woman who just arrived. The wom- Fae sEE t my daughter in a big found her cooking for her chafing dish. doing her washbow! and keeping stored In the lower part of the washstand. When 1 saw her get the bread out of a big bowl on the plano called a jardinlere and reach for the butter out of the window 1 felt n cold &it Ese : ' chill come over me, and when she made soup by opening a tin can and pouring out a mess to which she add- ed water from the wash pitcher | knew no more.” Then the old fash- jfoned woman gave such a =uiff of dis- gust it blew all the shades over inte the next county.— Atchison lobe. Trapped. The man was veither neatly nor well dressed. He was plainly a tramp, beg- ging. and had just turned away from , one passerby when he saw a young man walking briskly toward him “Please, mister.” sald the tramp, “can : you give me a dime to get something to eat?” The young man stopped. the matter?” he asked. “Can't get work,” said the other glibly. “I haven't had a bite to eat since yesterday morning. Pawned all my clothes ‘cepting these. Slept under a wharf for a week. and | don't know anybody in the whole city—honest. | don’t.” \ The young mii fooked at the tramp's smooth face, over which a razor had evidently passed very recently. “Who shaved you this morning?” he asked, and as the beggar faded away the young man grinned and walked ou down the street.— Youth's Companion. “What's A Master Tactician. “Why,” expostulated the lady in the brown dress when the artist who bad "Roots, of all SPRING AILMENTS are blood diseases—they arise from impure, impoverished, devitalized blood. That Hood's!Sarsaparilla cures all of them is proved by moreithan forty thousand testimonials Hood’s Sarsaparilla Is Peculiar to Itself JZIt makes people well and keeps them well. | painted a portrait of her little daugh- Ler Barks, Herbs That are Known to Possess Great Medicinal Value A combined in Hood’ the re so s Sarsaparilla as to be raised to their highest efficiencylifor the cure said the price of the picture was $100, “you charged Mrs. Crawford only (CEN RAL RAILROAD GF VERRENIVANIA. 58 foe the picture you painted of her | N/Congensed Time Table effeciive June 17, 1909. “] am aware of that fact, my denr | REAPDOWN pon | READ UP madam,” the suave and politic artist Hong. - | hastened to explain. “but you must cl [Nog] at eno do consider the great difference in the 3 np, . P.M. P.M. a. Mm. costs of the paints used for the hair [T7921 53 2 4 84H of the two children. The scant, dral,| 7 an 237. 5 a 4 ® colored hair of the Crawford child rei 755 18 283. 1 Si quired just a touch of the cheapest! 7 72251. B® 4 i] kind of pigment. but the wonderfully | 7 7% 2 foo 25 40s beautiful and luxuriant curls of your | 7 4217 33 301 18 32! 4 lovely danghter required a large quan- | 7 $8.7 30 3 08 BAR tity of the best paints on the market.” | 7 52| 7 44 3 12 Krider's Siding.., 8 22| 4 us Then the lady in the brown dres| § ne} dar 1818 4 Ra smiled, took out her purse and begged 38 78 3% cies Salon's” 8 16/4 01 84 the artist's pardon for ‘having spoken 2 3 MLL AL 163% rudely to him.—Chicago News. (N.Y. Central River R.R.) 1140) 8853........ Jersey Shore... 309 752 Birds and Lightning. 113 28 11 Bie | WMPORT | ve! 330 ES Birds are sometimes struck by light. ! | (Phila. & Reading Ry. | ning. Darwin records the case of a 73%; 65... om 18 36, 11 30 wild duck that he saw struck by =| 1010 900... NEW YORK | 900 bolt while fiying. It was killed In stantly and fell to the ground. Hu birds seem to know instinctively tha lightning is to be feared. That per haps is why they seek shelter in than derstorms. The sudden disappearance of the birds is, indeed. in the country ELLEFONTE CENTRAL RAILROAD. Schedule to take effect Monday, Jan. 6, 1910 WESTWARD 7 EASTWARD one of the surest signs of an approach | Sean, RoE ing tempest.— Philadelphia Bulletin. 1No2jt Nod|No Paid For Style. . m. “Room and a bath, sir.” said the ho tel clerk politely. “$2 a day.” “1 said room and bawth, young man.” interrupted the pompous man. “Un derstand—bawth!" “Oh, room and bawth? Beg pardon sir. Then the rates will be $56 a day” ~Pittsburg Press. A Gentle Hint. Young Man — Your twin daughters seen absolutely inseparable. Mother—Oh, 1 don't know. A youuy man with half a million, like yourself, ought to make good as a separator Chicago News. The | = She (10 Farmer clamor dance: | Hanae, on, tes rt DHE MY partner claiming first dances . —You are an early bird. Mr. Glossinest, | Sis taken through Munn & Co. receive Special He (gallantly)—Yes: and. by Jove, I've TAKEN EVERY] SPRING—""One [spring I was feeling bad, and could not do my housework for a family of t¥wee.’ 1 took Hood's Sarsapa- shell and jet combs and small rilla and it did me so much good, I have taken jevsiny, belt a De ae IR it every spring since.” Mrs. J. Johnson, Man- ticle. including creams powders, waters, chesteroN. H. extracts, of Hudnut’s preparations. 50-16. Children Cry for ference. You must surely be ready for that new Summer Suit See them all, then come to the Fauble Stores and you will realize the dif- We will show you more new,up-to-date Clothes for Men and Young Men than all of <= Bellefonte’s other stores combined. piest lot of Ready to put on Clothes you ever saw anywhere, makes the custom tailor green-eyed, and then, they are priced honestly. 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