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Bellefonte, Pa., February 23, 1915.
His Lonely Client.
[By Ethel Wagner Moulton.]
(Copyright, 1914, by W. G. Chapman.)
At twenty-one Basil Worden half in:
vented a new suction cleaner, talked
too much about it, dallied in getting
it protected and claimed that a big cor-
poration stole the idea away from him.
This embittered Worden. He grum-
bled that the world was all against
him, and acted out the child of genius
rudely crushed down by an adverse
fate and the hard-hearted neglect of a
cold cruel world.
He was in love at the time, or
fancied he was, and truth is that had
he acted a little more manly and sen-
sible, Nella Brooks might have learned
to esteem him. After a while, how-
ever, she began to tire of his cowardly
complaints against destiny. She real-
ized the flaws in his weak character
and when he proposed to her gently
but firmly declined the honor.
“I'll get even!” hissed Worden, show-
ing his true malevolent spirit. “You'll
rue the day you cast away an honest
love.”
This made Nella more skeptical of
his manliness than ever. She shud-
dered at the evil glare in his eye, and
when he had departed was glad that
she was through with him.
“The world don’t want useful inven-
tions,” snarled the misanthropic
+ genius. “I'll give them a dose of some- |
thing else.” 3 :
And he did. Worden was gone from
the village for a year when an article
apprised his former friends that he
was a fugitive from justice. It ap-
peared that he had turned his inven-
tive genius to very bad account. He
had devised a clever apparatus for
boring holes in safes. It seemed that
this device was a gobletlike vessel
composed of a metal refractory to
heat. A hard wooden pincer was used
)id-time aforton. He asked me to
wed him. When I coldly turned from
him he threatened to be revenged. Five
days ago my dear little cousin, Otho,
disappeared mysteriously.”
“He was kidnaped?’ surmised
1 Bruce.
“Yes, and by this man Worden. He
wrote me a letter stating that Otho
was safe and sound in his charge. He
threatened if 1 made the facts public
to instantly kill Otho. He said I should
hear from him again in a month. If
then I would become his wife Otho
should be spared”—and here the poor
distressed girl ended her recital in a
storm of sobs and tears.
There could be but one response on
the part of the chivalrous Bruce to the
appeal of the anxious Nella. What:
ever was done must be accomplished
secretly, cautiously, for he too believed
that the desperate Worden would not
hesitate to sacrifice little Otho if he
found out that he was being hunted
down. For the time being Bruce
ceased to be a lawyer and became a
detective.
“I will find the child if diligence and
effort can bring it about,” he pledged
Nella, and the grateful look in her
eyes was sufficient reward for his un-
selfish determination,
Nella had a photograph of Worden
taken some years previous. Bruce was
also given one of little Otho by Nella.
The preliminary stages of his unusual
quest gave him a rugged, bafiling ex-
perience he had not apprehended. But
there came a final reward for his dili-
. gence and courage.
“At last!” he breathed with intense
satisfaction at the end of a gloomy
rainy day, as he penetrated the bleak
corridors of a still more gloomy tene-
ment building.
Thither he had traced his man and
a confederate, Through the transom
of an unoccupied apartment adjoining
Bruce viewed the pair in earnest con-
versation.
“Man, rich lets the dog run !oose
and all that?” Worden was asking.
“Yes,” assented his companion.
“All right, then you take the boy
past the place. Make a great outcry,
grab the boy up in your arms and
| claim that the dog has bit him in a
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“I'll Get Even!”
to handle it. Placed upon the safe, »
quantity of thermit, a substance ignit:
ing without explosion, produced a de
gree of heat capable of liquefying
fron. This was placed in the goblet
and ignited through a wire. One hole
after another was thus easily and si
lently made in the safe, until the
burglar could remove a piece large
enough to admit his arm.
This device Worden had sold to 2
gang of burglars, who were captured,
betrayed him and he became a hunted
criminal.
With Nella time had gone on bring:
ing to her a due share of care and
grief. Her father had died leaving
her a small fortune, but also the
charge of a nephew, a lad of seven
years. The poor child was dumb, but
this affliction tended to draw Nella the
closer to him,
One day Bruce Thomas, a lawyer
from the city, came down to Wadham
to close up some business of the es
tate. He was a manly, fine looking
young fellow just starting out in his
profession. When he called at the
Brooks home he found it the scene of
great commotion. The servant told
him that Miss Brooks was in a state of
great distress and could not see him
Bruce, however, dwelt upon the im-
portance of his business mission.
“Please tell Miss Brooks that all
there is to do is to acknowledge her |
signature,” he exclaimed. A minute
later. the object of his call came into
the room. Despite her tear-stained
face, its deathly pallor and her mani-
fest agitation, to Bruce Thomas she
appeared as the fairest creature he
had ever beheld.
In a sadly subdued way Nella went
through the formalities oi the busi:
ness on hand. Young Thomas lin
gered. Something he could not resist
in the forlorn appearance of his lonely
client appealed irresistibly to his in-
terest and sympathy,
“You will pardon me, Miss Brooks,”
he spoke, “but you seem in deep dis-
tress.”
“I am, indeed,” she answered brok-
enly. “Oh, sir! If I made a confidant
of you, would you try and help me?”
The prompt responsive glow in the
eyes of her visitor convinced Nella
that she could indeed trust in this
man. She told him of Basil Worden.
“About a month since,” she went
on, “to my amazement this man in-
truded upon me in the garden. I shud-
dered when | saw him. To think that
we had once been friends! He was
bold, defiant, vicious. He spoke of his
will settle for a small fortune
dozen places. Get the names of some
of the crowd around. Then I'l] fix the
kid up so that when we bring a snit
for damages the rich owner of the dog
This
i does it, see?” and the speaker fiend:
ishly brandished a metal inscruicent
in the air.
“What is it?” asked his confrere.
“I call it my cog bite machine,” wag
the chuckling reply, “and it is a true
curiosity. I give it a twist avd ii
makes a lot of holes, just like #7: bite
of a dog. Sort of tough ov the kid, but
we've got to make a MYving' gloated
the diabolical wretch, “and the kid
. can’t squeal.”
Bruce hastened for the police and
within an hour was at the den of the
two conspirators. Within another hour
Basil Worden knew that he was
doomed to a long imprisonment for
past and present deeds and Bruce was
on his way to Nella with little Otho.
She shuddered with horror as Bruce
detailed the cruel fate Otho had es-
caped. She drew closer to him as she
realized all he had done for her. Re-
flected in her eyes was the tender love
light that glowed within his own.
. Reasoning Bird.
There is something very remarkable
in the almost reasoning powers exhi-
bited by birds in eluding pursuit or in
turning attention from their nests and
young, and the duck tribe is notable
in this respect. Mr. King, an Arctic
explorer, shot a duck; fired again and,
as he thought, disabled its mate. Leav-
ing the dead bird, he waded into the
water after the drake, which, far from
being fluttered or alarmed, remained
motionless. Still, as he neared it, it
glided easily away through innumer-
able little nooks and windings. Sever
al times he reached out his hand, and
having at last managed to coop it up
in a corner, was bending down to take
it when to his utter astonishment, it
cried “quack,” and then flew away so
strongly that he was convinced he had
never hit it at all. The bird’s object
clearly was to draw the gunner away
from its companion.—Exchange.
Maps in Tapestry.
Two English-worked tapestry maps
which belonged to Horace Walpole
have just been put on exhibition at the
Victoria and Albert Museum. They
came from the Bodleian library, at Ox.
ford, and are of immense size, though
they only cover a few counties of Eng- |
land. One of them is fragmentary,
but the other is a good example of
English weaving. It was woven by
Richard Hyckes, on William Sheldon’s
looms, after he had ‘studied weaving
in Holland. Every place marked is
given a little vignette of towers and
turrets, and quaint inscriptions
abound. One of them runs: “This
southly part which hear belowe to
wards Glocester fall—of corne or
grasse greate plentie yelds, but fruit
exceedi the all.”
The Glorious Apple.
Without the apple there would be
no apple pie, and without its help
mince pie would pags away. Without
the apple there would be no cider, and
how could corn-husking bees. barn
raisings and other rural revelries sur
vive without the jug or jugs of cider?
Once the apple was depended on for
vinegar, but the world has grown in.
dependent of the apple in this re
spect, .not because of any wrong ot|,
shortcoming on the apple's part, bul
because vinegar can be made cheaper
without cglling in ‘the apple. How
ever, whenever the apple is called on
tn produce vinegar, that vinegar
"bopest..
JAGUAR OUT FOR REVENGE
Wounded Anima! Turned on Its Hunt-
ers and Made Things Exciting
for a While,
There is a story of a fierce charge
by an infuriated Mexican jaguar in
an article that Mr. Harry H. Dunn
writes in the Outing magazine. A
wooded hill, surrounded on two sides
by water, and on the other two by
grass cropped short by the village
goats, was set on fire to drive out the
beast, which had taken refuge there.
Animals began to come from the
tangle. Parrots, disturbed from their
midday rest, flew in green and red
and yellow clouds. Monkeys fled
through the tops of the trees. Rab-
bits, and rats, and mice, scurried un-
derfoot, and we saw one ocelot, a lit-
tie spotted jungle cat.
Then came the jaguar. Crossing
the sloping side of the hill, the tiger
appeared to Felipe; and the fellow,
proud of the .73 repeater I had brought
with me from Mexico City for him,
fired as the spotted apparition crossed
an open space in the tangle. Ordi-
narily, Felipe is a good shot; but the
rifle was new to him, and he managed
only to put the slug in the cat’s fore
shoulder. The tiger screamed, and
leaped straight up iato the air. When
he came down, all thought of flight
had left him, and he headed for Fel
4
pump bullets at the tiger, and I re-
member noticing that the cat was
aot leaping or running, but trotting
rapidly, as a house cat trots unfright-
ened about its own home.
We were confronting the most dan-
gerous and most powerful animal in
the new world, with the single excep-
tion of the Kadiak bear, and I doubt
very much if any bear in the world
could whip a maddened Mexican tiger.
The jaguar’s mouth was open, and
his tail streamed straight out behind;
he did not lash it from side to side, as
I should have expected him to do.
At ten yards, Felipe had emptied his
magazine, dropped his
whipped out his machete, when I
found the tiger's forehead over the
sights of the rifle. As the gun cracked,
the jaguar halted,*staggered forward a
short step or two, sank to his fore
shoulders, and turned over, dead.
KICKED STEEL JAIL OPEN
Palisades Park Prisoner Didn’t Stay
Asleep, Much to the Surprise
of the Warders.
When the warders of the steel cages
at Palisades Park, N. J., which are
the lockups for wrongdoers in that
section, went to open them the other
morning the door of one was found to
have been kicked open. The prisoner
it had contained had disappeared.
The missing man is John Rudolph,
who is regarded as a desperate char-
acter. During the last two weeks sev-
eral homes in the vicinity of Leonia
have been entered by a man supposed
to be Rudolph, who represented him-
self as an inspector for the public
.gervice corporation and called to look
over the bills of gas and electric light.
After being placed in the steel cage
Rudolph was visited by County De-
tective Blauvelt of Hackensack, rep-
resenting Sheriff Heath. When last
seen Rudolph was asleep in his cage.
Evidently he awakened—New York
World.
: Hunter Rescues Deer.
G. H. Yeatter, railroad fireman of
Lewiston, acted as a good samaritan
in rescuing a deer from a pack of
hounds, bathed its wounds and gave
It drink.
Hunting in Granville Gap, Yeatter
found a fine buck at bay against an
embankment, fighting a bloody battle
with a pack of hounds. After killing
three and wounding a fourth, the bal-
ance took their heels, leaving their
prey exhausted, blood streaming from
wounds in its flanks.
Yeatter led and dragged the deer to
the creek near by, washed its wounds
and induced it to drink. The buck
cast a look of gratitude upon its noble
rescuer and trotted into the forest.
Further: on Yeatter found it grazing
with a doe and two fawns, and it is
believed the little family were at-
tacked by dogs and the buck, as the
natural protector, gave battie with
near fatal results .~—Philadelphia Rec-
ord. .
Australian Sugar Production.
Sugar is grown quite extensively in
Australia, particularly in Queensland.
Queensland statistics of the production
of sugar cane are not available for
dates prior to the season 1897-8. In
that season the total for the common-
wealth was 1,073,883 tons, against
2,000,758 tons for the record season
1910-11. The average yield per acre of
productive cane is much higher in New
South Wales than in Queensland, the
average during the late decade being
'22.83 tons for the former and 15.60 for
the latter state. The sugar cane pro-
duction of the commonwealth during
‘the past five seasons has averaged
about seven cwts. per head of popula.
tion. In Queensland the production
of cane per head has ranged between
135 ton in 1912 to three tons in 1910-11.
Fait
Novel Heating System. oa
A new and economical way of heat-
ing houses is being tried out in Swed-
en. From one to three hundred gal-
lons of water in a tank in the top
story is heated by electricity at night,
when the cost of current is less than
at other times. An automatic device
switches off the heat in the morning
and throws on a motor pump which
forces the warm water through the,
gystem of radiators.
pe and myself. The Indian began to
rifle and
There are times in every life when the
vital forces seem to ebb. Energy gives
place to languor. Ambition dies. The
current of the. blood crawls sluggishly
through the veins. It is a condition
commonly described by saying, “I feel
played out.” For such a condition there
is no medicine which will work so speed-
ily as Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Dis-
covery. It contains no alcohol. It is not
a mere stimulating tonic. It contains no
opium, cocaine nor other narcotic. It
does not drug the nerves into insensi-
bility. What it does i is to supply Nature
with the materials out of which she
builds nerve and muscle, bone and flesh.
A gain in sound flesh is one of the first
results of the use of ‘‘Discovery.”
Politeness.
Real politeness is the kindly expres-
sion of a kindly intent. Ill-nature and
not dwell together for long in. the
same individual. Politeness in its
genuine essence contributes toward
the well-being of all, even to long life;
while impoliteness and irascible tem-
per may shorten life.
Greek Painters.
There were several great painters
in ancient Greece and it is rather dif-
ficult to say which was the “greatest.”
It is possible the honor might go to
| Apelles, 332 B. C.
Fountain Pens Long in Usa.
Fountain pens were invented short-
ly before the beginning of the nine-
teenth century
Medical.
The Best Proof
GIVEN BY A BELLEFONTE CITIZEN.
Doan’s Kidney Pills were used—
they brought benefit.
The story was told to Bellefonte
residents.
Time has strengthened the evi-
dence.
Has proven the result lasting.
The testimony is home testimony —
The proof convincing.
It can be investigated by Belle-
fonte residents.
Mrs. J. C. Johnson, 365 E. Bishop
St., Bellefonte, says: “I was a great
sufferer from backache and pains
across my loins and I could hardly
get about the house. Dizzy spells
came over me and I nearly fell. My
kidneys caused me a lot of annoy-
ance. I took two boxes of Doan’s
Kidney Pills, which I got at Green’s
Pharmacy Co., and they did me good.
The backache and pains disappeared
and my kidneysbecame normal. The
cure has been permanent.”
Price 50c, at all dealers., Don’t
simply ask for a kidney remelly—get
Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that
Mrs. Johnson had. Foster-Milburn
Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y. 60-9-1t
Coal and Wood.
A. G. Morris, Jr.
DEALER IN HIGH GRADE
ANTHRACITE, BITUMINOUS
AND CANNEL
COAL
Wood, Grain, Hay, Straw
and Sand.
ALSO
FEDERAL
STOCK AND POULTRY FOOD
BOTH ’PHONES.
Yard Opposite
P.R.R. Depot.
58-23-1v
Groceries.
politeness are antagonistic and can-
CASTORIA
Bears the signature of Chas. H.Fletcher.
in use for over thirty years, and
The Kind You Have Always Bought.
Attorneys-at-Law.
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KLINE WOODRING—Attorney-at-Law,Belle
fonte, Pa. Practicesin all courts -
Room 18Crider’s Exchange. 51-1-1y.
B. SPANGLER.-Attorney-at-Law.
in all al} the ¢ Cousts: Consultation in
Office in Crider’s Exchange.
Bellefonte, Gorm 40-
S. TAYLOR =Atlomey and Counsellor at
Lime and L.imestone for all purposes.
HO LIME
Put up in 40 Ib. paper bags.
_ For Use With Drill Spreader.
High Calcium Central Pennsylvania Lime
Write for Free Literature.
| American Lime & Stone Co.
60-8-6t General Office: TYRONE, PA.
Meat Market.
Get the Best Meats.
Yi poor, thin
or one 2
LARGEST AND FATTEST CATTLE
)} custo ith the fresh-
zd Ea ood ana muscle mak-
ing Steaks and Roasts. My prices are no
higher than poorer meats are elsewhere.
I alwavs have
— DRESSED POULTRY —
Game in season, and any kinds of good
meats you want.
TRY MY SHOP.
P. L. BEEZER,
High Street. 34-34-1y. Bellefonte, Pa.
Restaurant.
ESTAURANT.
Bellefonte now has a First-Class Res-
taurant where
Meals are Served at All Hours
in such as
POPS,
SODAS,
SARSAPARILLA,
: SELTZER SYPHONS, ETC.,
families and the public gener-
: or asi hich are ind oe out of
the purest syrups and properly ated.
C. MOERSCHBACHER, °
High St., Bellefonte, Pa
Flour and Feed.
‘CURTIS Y. WAGNER,
BROCKERHOFF MILLS,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Manufacturer, Wholesaler and Retailer of
Roller Flour
Feed
Corn Meal
and Grain
has on hand at all times the
grade flour:
Manufactures and
following brands ot high
WHITE STAR
OUR BEST
HIGH GRADE
VICTORY PATENT
FANCY PATENT
in the here that extraor-
The Ole Paes He A ies: Datos Bower
SPRAY
Also International Stock Food
Ca be ed feed of all kinds.
| All kinds of Grain bought at the office Flour
xchanged for wheat. :
OFFICE and STORE—BISHOP STREET,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
719 MILL AT ROOPBSURG.
Groceries.
FINE GR
Fruits, Confectionery and
OCERIES.
Oranges, Lemons and Bananas
are standard all season fruits. We
are now receiving new crop Florida
and California Valencia varieties of
sweet fruit at 30c, 40c, 50c and 60c
per dozen. Lemons 30c and 40c
per dozen. Bananas 15c¢, 20c and
25c per dozen. Nice Grape Fruit
at 5c each.
New crop California Prunes 12c,
15¢c and 18c per pound. New Evap-
orated Peaches 10c, 12c and 15c.
Apricots 18c, 20 and 25c per pound.
All fine fruit.
Creamery Butter from the Fox
River (Illinois) Creameries. Finest
Meadow Gold Brand 42c per pound.
New crop California Walnuts and
Almonds, Cocoanuts, Celery, Cran-
berries, Sweet Potatoes, Oysters
direct from the shell—We do not
handle any Baltimore tub Oysters
Bush House Block, wae
_—__
Evaporated and Dried Corn, very
fine, new goods, 15c and 25¢ Ib.
We are always ready to fill
orders for our own make of Mince
Meat. It is the only goods on the
market that has the full portion of
beef in it and in general merit far
above any other brand.
‘Cranberries, solid red fruit at 10
and 12c. per quart. We use the
“legal standard dry” quart meas-
ure—there is a difference.
Buy some of our fine cheese and
compare it with other goods.
Our Olives are large and of the
very finest flavor at 40c quart.
Burnett’s and Knight's Extracts,
Crosse & Blackwell's Table Vinegar
in bottles. Durkee’s Salad Dressing, ..
If you want a fine, sweet, juicy
: Hon let us supply you, ;
SECHLER & COMPANY,
57-1
Bellefonte, Pa.
A BRE TRI
on a. business
Lime and Limestone. tended to promotiv. 40-46
: : H. WETZEL—Attorney and Counsellor at Law
: y Office No. 11, riders Exchange, second
: floor. All kinds of legal business attended
. i M to promptly. Consultation English or Gerran
L @
KEICHLINE -Attomey at Jaw, Practices
ultation i
M.
J in. 2 the caw the courts
All All professional bu business will
KENNEDY L. SOHNSTON-Attomey
Prompt attention given oi
J fhe De entrusted to his care.
Na) 5 East High street. 57-44.
WwW G. RUNKLE.—Attorney-at-Law. Consul
tien Ea ed Belictonte. 568
Physicians.
s. GLENN, Physician and
State Colle Centre count,
a Bice
Dentists.
EVARD, D. D. S., office next door to
D*} %. M,C. A foom, Hig street, Bellefonte,
tooth Sa Ci and B
ing ug tosth, 3 TS oa TOWN ridge work. Priced
pu WI JATE, Sui Denti
D" se niente Fa, Aled
years of ext Sn appliances work of Superior quality
and prices reasonable.
Plumbing.
Good Health
and
Good Plumbing
GO TOGETHER.
When you have dripping steam pipes, leaky
water-fixtures, Sewerage, or escaping
gas. yo ey th. arn
reathe is poisonous; your system becomes
poisoned and invalidism is sure to come.
SANITARY PLUMBING
is the kind we do. It’sthe only kind you
ought to have. Wedon’t trust this work to
boys. Our wor are Skilled Mechanics,
no better anywhere. Our
Material and
Fixtures are the Best
Not a cheap or inferior article in our entire
establishment. And with good work and the
finest material, our
Prices are lower
than h T, unsanitary
wok and thelowelt grade 8nishings. For
Archibald Allison,
Opposite Bush House - Bellefonte, Pa
4-1v.
Insurance.
JOHN F. GRAY & SON,
(Successor to Grant Hoover)
Fire,
Life
Accident Insurance.
This resents the largest Fire
Insurance I= yout
: —— NO ASSESSMENTS —
‘Do not fail to give us a call before insuring your
Life or Property as we are in position to te
large lines at any time.
. Office in Crider’s Stone Building,
43-18-1y. BELLEFONTE. PA.
The Preferred
Accident
Insurance
THE $5,000 TRAVEL POLICY
per week, total dis disability,
10 partial ais
see 26 weeks)
PREMIUM $12 PER YEAR,
pavable quarterly if desired.
Alero ae or female, o roportion
4 EE al engaged in
prone desonatn. age
{ good moral AL Physi
under this pol
condition mas
Fire ares
alge ur att - attention to my Fire Insus
a the strongest yd
Most Ex
brs of Solid Companies represen!
ed eS agency in In Central Pennsylvan.
H. E. FENLON,
- 50-21. Agent, Bellefonte, Pa,
ava
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o0—A SPECIALTY—o0
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eri AB om the
BOOK WORK, :
" that we car. not do in the, most most_satis-
cory Prices consist-
ent with the class of work. - Call on or
communicate with this office”