| » Bellefonte, Pa., July 1, 1910. A ——————————————————————————————- A WORD OF APPROVAL. Give me a word of approval, I've tried to be good and true. lam weary and sick of heart at the way my critics do. I've given my life for others, have always op- posed the wrong ; I've tried to lift up the fallen, I have cheered the jostling throng. Give me a word of approval, ere the setting of ge i i i | : ; : i liz 'y i: LE J : t5iagd lel] 8 F E i i ; 2 Es EF eh i g the sun, 1 have a sort of misgiving that my race is near- lyrun; Have felt the spirit of kindness and the thrill of It i 5 8 : g3E glowing truth And love the good old honest way as loved it in my youth. Give me a word of approval as my mother used to give ‘When I was a bit of a boy just learning the way to live. My soul responds as readily to sweet words in kindness said As in early childhood days, to the prayer beside my bed. Give me a word of approval, for my eyes are | On the judge’s—the dim, | : : i i : i 2 : f i iF i : i H g : git’ gig i : 35 5 : growing For the way is much rougher now and I'm not | 80 fleet of limb, i As in the hopeful boyhood days when I cleared | the vaulting pole, For 1 am in the final race with my eye upon the g 3 § 5 g g : gl . i i 8 : y spar’ be hyer befo’ noon on the third il to trust the gate and before 48 ge. ft 2% g i looked 7 iq : sure of some other things I am that you will come ur trial.” : i =k i gs 5 & iverance “Looks ed to sech a lady faitered inadequately. in’ out 0’ blessin,” I for lack of mere words to contain his meaning. Virginia said, “you have one thing for me in your hands. I'm going to sell the old Place. I need the money togo to China.” la a little at his bewildered if “ eral and to dress the part of court stenog- rapher—with the result that she appeared particularly elegant, even for her. Her | to git some money, an’ 1 hired to work clinging, trailing robes were an offense | a¢ the still.” to her chief, an irate-looking, red little! «First offense?” asked the judge. man from a distant State, who was sub-| Finding voice in his desperation, stituting in the place of the regular judge. | young man answered quickly. “Yes, suh He glanced sidewise at her slim, - | —yes, jedge. You see, I've jest been teristic, capable hands, as they hovered | wed; an'my wi mighty young | dancing eyes. She had not intended to about her notebook. She wore but one ' and chil that's what me say of this; yet the money from the ring, the conventional diamond, Niigh | that 1 pinted) can't go to jail. You see, | sale of her home was indeed to take her ips also offended the judge, for he | we'vedone built us a cabin seb'm mile i eyed it with distaste. { from ary neighbor Several were called in! “Is your wife ill?” bruskly, and dismissed with , The tall young hunter looked turn, } ng sentences. | then he replied gravely: “No, si She's "Fhe Judge knew neither the country nor ' never ill with me. She's a mighty sweet- many a time, when the fambly was up in the mountings for the summer. Lord— an’ you're goin’ clean to Chiny to—why, Virginia bit her lip and laughed with the disability of unconscious! y. hannon put down the from his much what she thought of his decisions, The judge felt that he was being laugh- Fed showed her the But a man—even though a widower—can ed at for not com idiom | he had made for his wife; white cotton never exactly to a young woman | of the country. His chagrin inclined him ! cloth and thread; some coarse ; a that she share his judical ermine. Judge unfavora toward the er. thimble, because hers had fallen down Quincy had off his | “Ig she I mean?” he amended | the shallow well. And he the one position in his gift suited to her | testily. remaining which was to them ge aid abiities wand declined it. | “No, suh, she ain't ailin’. No. she's safely through till he must return. had \ graciously; Virginia Cabell would | fa’rly peart; but we hain't got a bor never do anything in any other manner; | neatern seb’'m gen Eo being able to refuse | off and looked dumbly at the man in aman so that he felt it to be almost bet- | authority. ter than another woman's acceptance. ! She retained her lovers as friends. Judge Quincy was to be anew experience Her tired brown eyes rested the ha was onl 8 ER i i £ | i Bigs and wilful- t of this be- 0 —- - iy. You should have fore you went into illicit suh,” came the serious-voiced g g 8533 2 g 5 i : i . He g hl gg HE [ [ 8 i 53 5 g qt g 2&8 Be 2 27 g i Zo g { i : i pili : E i 8 1 ii £4 LH 8 i 2 £ 5 8 i ; 2 : ie in: i : g d if ii 7 =83 sof | 8 i al . 1 £3 #1 ; 5 gE Z : 4 22 i 5 £ i i ; 3 g E : : | | { ; : 3 | 8 i =] aE H i fy agg gE ag2 iy bl i of 2 2% Z § 5 & : : : > § F 2 i i : ; : | $ ; | i i 4 i i 3% | : g 3 i 3 § : i i g fi i : | i : i i | i 7 g : g & Rol £ | g £ F | E ; i f g i g 3% 4 § fi : i o i i fits i : f Es 2 : | : bk | E E § i f | 2 fi i gr 3 E : ol ER i : i i] E 3s RE iv w i 8 § i : ! i £3 £2 7 i # E | g E : g : 8 i g g X 2 : i 2 § : : her. “I only. He fell silent, | you an’ Emory Pate must be fixin’ to the You'd ruther call the baby fer her?” . head and contorting her features in what | i you,” and Vir-' i bodied source | July, an’ I have obleeged to be thar. pg of adore. GO't hin ” he went on hastily, as he li ort nothin’ ' saw a oe finally { “You mind"—his own eyes roved desper “Ef I had the giv. | ately in quest of | find smiled frankly: “Well,” she | he concluded trium | on the pillow. “A fine gai— an’ both on’ em feelin’ as peart as $ Jou need to ask,” Aunt Drusilla said as pushed him into the room. | He went and sat beside the bed, and a large family. Everybody was shown the ba and feet; his atten was called to the most affectionate manner. Vi fact that it had a “tol’able smart head of | bell's engagement to Emory aie sight tow Sad it favored him, be- | satisf; ing - fingers to trembling, and made swer at when com | ed that the two you “I'm proud hit's a gal,” he said serious- | made for each ly. “Hit'll be mo’ company for you, Lau- ness in ref relly. Yes, I'm plumb proud hit’s a gal." ' ney wanted to name the baby mother, with a note of disappointment in i her tone. “Mebbe I could anyway. Didn't | say his name was William? [I think | the Cabells; i t and illie’s a fine name for a gal.” inot in their ble comment—decided to 's wonderful hands body else's affairs, in the kindest him an- spoken to. { A Southern village is wonderfully like knows. every- and Ca- te was actory to a community which opin- on the touch-me- i 1 abroad, for the | that she might make it, was—after con- ' for, jedge down thar," whispered the little | siderable discussion and some unfavora- ' about him. He Poor " Now, old ladies : driven and dared not look at! who knew little about the conduct of the ' her. She saw that her suggestion had | not found favor. Quincy “Ef he had a wife, I'd love to name the ' feared that some of baby fer her,” she amended. was a mighty lady in the that if he cou’t room, doin’ some *,” Bohan- ' he would non observed finally. “I thought the Vi jolge seeied ihigiiy Petted unliof, When | i gi dowjian I've got to start to-night well, with whom Vi 1 find out what her name is. M . does that man know but tha “y down tonight?” i Jam well has So ? ou got to go t?” in star. & or something’ tled, almost terrified tones. “Yes, 1 was af hit would fret truth is—" There was an extraordinary AE nia’s home from her ye; but the trains coming in—and days late. 1 wanted sound near , Quincy, but land! lope in to in alarm to see Aunt Drusilla shaking hes | stand that the law was there man didn’ was meant to be a warning manner, while she cleared her throat again to attract | his attention. A second look at his wife's pale, anx- ious little face was enough. ister’s wife, to whom she was Wy they a—er—a matter o' busi- | and she said it unofficially, for ness, Laurelly,” he floundered helplessly; | in a most Scott had been, from his a Bate Ho. people in Garyville to my antage, an’ in 'rs, pk ly om third day o’ | him!" ou blue eyes swimming in tears. something to comfort her—“when you know hit's somethin’ that'll be best for the baby, too. An’ I'll out that young lady's given name,” tly. “Don’t you dast to name my baby gal tell her ts back.” And with a show of jollity, was got out of the room, to receive a lecture from Aunt Drusilla. But that woman's face | considera- aDulit you go back," she counseied. Neyer the bond—hit’ll nigh about urelly, ef yo're jailed.” po wan reed he man, sm. y, but resolutely. “She's past now; the hit's all laid by; an’ she can live tell I git back. Laurelly would want me to go an’ make 200d my word. 1 would tell the whole confusion, ef she wasn't down in the bed, an’ you sa hit would pester her. But her—you got to tell her, humiliati The time was short. Bohan- is to ay that non tied some food in a handkerchief, wi made his brief farewell, and set off down the mountain in haste. He traveled at added, : start Yankee—and indignantly asserted were any part of a gentleman find some way not to take Miss I wished I'd the foot of the bed; Bohannon looked up advice to f. He gave me to law; and if in t minute, Miss Virginia's Ay was Geisiiie old Cabell place, where her died, and where she was born!” “Well, there's one thing," said the min- unchristian frame of mi boyhood up, no | that man takes her house away i gE i an up- wful heart!” commented Mrs. Taze- ia boarded, “how t poor gone and fel ! not he'd lose count of the days—him not , I didn’t tell ye befo’, case | being whens shete's Moning Pajers she if from her and to living in it, he needn't expect the ‘best people. to notice laid hop her feeli ngs burst of tears. top in a long, lithe, swi gait; | She sat looking down at her for was an early moon w| ch aided keep from his face. Finally, in him at first; but it set about midnight, | wonder that he did not speak, - and as its crescent dipped below the hori- shuddering Su g { i i H hy tis i 2 ¥ Ld il E 5 3 i in 4 28% ile i 3 §F5a] Jom udiciary, expressed freely the belief that | this comes back to them in was an upstart—it is to be and | | i | i 3 7.5 Hi iis jit : | : L § ! : LH i that , sir?” The and shoulders. Where whole, creditable to her, and "just like all | was full of aversion and accusation. Of thote unfortusates a perverse angel to aggress, and to shrink sensitively when J misliking ; to estrangement, : love and sympathy. For at bottom of ex- irrita a, Sites Wl 5 aver wna of a warm | } i - 85:8 ; 5 i H t 8 i 35s f i : : fa Eh iE I i fis ii) ] 5 ks : i g ; ] i : ¥ : 8 +] § + g 8 dismissed."—By Grace Cook, in Collier's. His intelligent nostril will widen, quiver and q over the daintiest bit offered the fairest of hands, with Eoaxibgs that would make a mortal shut his and swallow a mouthful at a gulp. mare is never satisfied by either t whinny that her colt is really her g Bohan- | until she has a certified nasal proof of the fact. bananas to a p—equal portions Beat, 8 Du plentiful, and add a flavoring of sherry; freeze. : Sounded Best When Silent. In a railroad. office in West Philadel ' phin there ix an old and trusted clerk _ | of Celtic extraction who keeps his as- socintes in an constant state of good humor by an unending series of wit- . | ticisms, interspersed occasionally with “bulls” so glaring that even he him- self has to join in the lnugh that in- variably follows such a “break” on his part. There was some trouble on the telephone one day recently, and Mike, as he is called among his friends, lost much of his usual good nature in his to | efforts to get the gist of a message that was being sent from another of- fice. The man on the other end of the wire finally became exasperated and asked Mike if he was losing his hear- ing. “1 can hear you all right until you begin to talk,” said Mike, “and then 1 can't understand a word you say.”-— Philadelphia Times. The Psychological Moment. “Is Miss Wheaton at home?" asked ne of the neighbors of the spinster as he called at her door to get her signa- ture to a petition. “She is that,” responded Celia Leahy, three weeks over from Ireland and a most willing bandmaiden. “Will yez step in. sorr?” “1 should like to see her on a matter of business for a few moments if she is not engaged.” said the neighbor. Celia flung wide the door and waved him in. “If she has wan, he's neglectin’ her shameful” she said in a hoarse. confi- dential whisper, “for tis three weeks tomorrer since I come here, and he's not put his fut over the t'reshold in all that toime! Sure, ‘tis your chanst!”— Youth's Companion. An Obstructionist. “Speakin’ *bout large feet.” sald Mr. Erastus Pinkley. “1 don't know when I was mo’ insulted dan 1 was dis aft- ernoon. 1 was standin’ on de curb- stone facin’ de house, an’ de police- man, he come alone an’ says I's got to turn around jes' n ..:tle.” “What foh?" “He says pointin’ my shoes de same way de street runs ic de onlies’ way foh me to keep fum obstructin' de sidewalk.”- Washington Star. / She'd Remedy Tha Mrs. Hoyle—Your hus «has a mind of his own. my husband says. Mrs. Doyle--1'll speak to him a when he comes home.—~New Y Press. Jack Achore. Fond Mother—You are never satls- fied. Jack. When you go to sea you're homesick, and when you come home you're seasick.—London Punch. He that loves to be fattered I» worthy of the flatterer.—Shakespeare. 3h 7 »
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