The Centre reporter. (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, March 04, 1885, Image 2

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    Byrne
When we are dead, when and 1 are
dead;
Fave rent
fetter,
wiped 1
dering eyes,
And stand together,
I think that wie
bettar
you
and tossed aside ench earthly
And graveqlust from our won
ie
frouting the
shall know
sunrise,
enoch othe
*uzzie and pain will lie behind us then;
All will be own and all will be forgiven;
s» shall of every hardness past;
iy she adow shall be cast
new
ni
ad
arth
brightness of the bright
as well as |,
ung our whole
i know, and you
NV hat was thie hin wlering thi
1 Xi,
WANs SLY
ty
COLRLY
ained,
iy wera th
ver be my be
as dearl)
ug you al
i and dall
in my Spee
La ET
t you with the }
» perfec
out
Or take, «
But longed t
whole,
blit long to seo, the deaf to hear.
As
My dear Love, when | forward look, and
think
Of al hese
Agaix which i
DALIAN DAITIers sw
have beat
ept away,
long and
Lies
«hh that
THE VY AN ER S HAY
AK ERR,
Lettie!
White paused in the
brown farm-house and looks
the %
Spr ing Wi
dow
d
outer gale stood
wailing to ©
Derby
business whic
postp M10,
the family;
maidens
i
» the
farmers
the house sino
and had been
aughter, lay quite
must be procured.
of sickness or
Farmer White 3
h a busy time, and
wreshold and i
alled agal
Don't ;
a second
il, ana medi
} » i i
Ors 5 gest
taken
hie hay flel uf 8
®
iC
ae h
y
t
#
ud
hie o
1 slender
ar, dark complexion
on the cheeks and
aud
pe, re
brown Lair,
and
r, and
displaying
-fithin
Tew bid
ihow, white
s it, father?’ she a
3 1 know I've got
unt Becky's medicine,
orry to bave to |
my busy time; but the Lord's |
I be done. Becky can't help being |
k, and so, if I find a chance to hire |
another ‘hand’ out in Derby, I’ll send
him righton here, II a strange man
comes, daughter, you'll know right oft |
that it’s she new haymaker, and you'll |
give lim somethang to eat, and show |
hima way to the field. Can you |
attend to everything while I'm
Lettie? It's hard on you, little one,”
3 father,’ cried the girl,
re got Martha to h ip me,
oky foes'nt require con
Ow, {
to go |
and I'm i
the fieid |
or |
CRYE
SiC
thie OH
yes,
iv 5
I
&
i
Promise y
tooped and kissed his |
the old man's
ri, his only child, was the
r of sunshine,
s went down the long walk,
dered with purple lilacs, to the gate,
The wagon rattled away, ana Lettie
returned to the kitchen,
The was a vast amount of work to be
done indoors as well as outside. The
dinner wae "‘on™ the pies were made,
and” Letle waa just taking the last
batch of pastry from the oven, when a
voioe fell on her ears from outside the
the Kitchen, framed in by clustering
morning-glories.™
“ia this Mr. White's place?” it sad,
Springing 10 her fept Lettie deposited
the pies on the table to cool, and push,
mg beck Ler moist hair from her white
brow hastened to the door,
un stood ou the kitchen deor-
all, well formed and muscular, |
pleasant face, dark syes and |
hair, snd s dark, heavy mustache,
whic dud not eoncesl Jus white teeth,
Ho had evidently walked far, for his
plain gray suit was powdered with dust,
and ix ome haud he csiried a small
valise,
“Fea,” replind
White's farm.”
“Mr. White directed me here,”
gan the stranger, ‘and he said
“Oh, ves,” ocired Lettie, buatiiy, 1
know, He told me te sxpect you
Come wm, ¥ you plowse, and 1 will give
you some lunch, and shen I will direct
vor {uv the fala’
““The-—whai? queried the young
moan, as he followed ber to the chiwar
fui xitcherg
“Tne hay-feld, of couime,” returned
Lettie, and L am grind indest that papa
iound « hane so guickly, for he needs a
great deal of help wid it 18 hard to find
t in haying time,”
Thers was & gleam of mirth in the
dark eyes of tise young man as he bit
his lip aan to repress a smile,
“AD, indeed?” he responded; ‘yes, 1
supvoss if iv herd to procure kelp in
pairtisginely Cusy sessons, Bat what
ax 7 expected to do?”
Leto gisnoed at the susnger in
blank surprise froan over the sppetizing
janocl ale war pr i
Spowy bread aad butier, thin slices
hard
oue
all
bog-
os
A mas
step,
with
Lottie, “this is Mr,
Vito
{
pitcher of rich, sweet milk,
‘Why, you ought to know,”
ejrcnlated, slowly; ‘‘you will
hay with the hay makers, of course,’
Hor eyes fell on the young man's len.
per bands,
scoustomed to hard work,
ve
she added.
directed him into a side porch,
were fresh water and clean towels;
having bathed his face and hauds,
returved to the kitchen and
lune h.
‘**No,”
WOSS
he of
his merviment. “I have
I shall get broken into it, and shall like
it immensoly.
you know, Miss"
“I am Mr. White's danghter,” vol-
He bowed eourteonsly in
he self-introduction; and
wd Innob,
“Thanks,
Tea ponse
, having fin.
arose,
very much, Miss
“and now, if
the fleld 1
White,
you will
show tae will get
idly
2
|
1
|
|
i
{
|
He glanesd into Lettie's face
a perfectly re spect: able glance, yet there
was something quizzieal in it,
Lettie blushed furiously,
She
led the way to the field in
| silence,
hand”
sccustomed
nd she
the house with a puzzled feeling.
The first thing that caught her eye
n the kitchen was a handkerchief which
evidently iroppe
CAI orice, and
She at once saw that the new **
a gentleman, and
went to
Name
shadows were
Jame tl
iusty road,
»
to meel
accompanied by a
awkward, sun-barned you g
“Yon see, I did gev a new
said her father; ‘‘this
Mulville,
» the sovthe,
mn B.
‘hand,
IB Dam
a
om a famon
HALO
been workiog
a
farmer,
dawned
to his «
ried,
upo
laughter,
his gentl
whawe; 1'vekbown him
18 a civil engioeer,
ine here to survey the river.
me to board wit!
are I've been so busy that
yon, He CRD, J
tarned Bim into the fisld, it
Lett 10 had disappeared;
time before would
» of the stranger again,
: F
e it was al! for the
eman
Louis Hu
has of
Asking
bat i deel
forgot to tell
“OT
and 1%
aie
be
not made tha
thinki: 8
: ie
£ Te
ati
iv
B01 2
the new
ried
Davmager.
Ar
‘or ia
i A ion
ins Flessian Hayfield,
The scene in a Hessian haytield
The women gather
throw it up to the men
in
iA
hay and
One |
Yet happier workers |
sun pever shone There is a |
group of women, some in scariet |
who toss the hay |
oh,
There are some Little girls |
1'be stil lingering costnmes
story of distinctions among the
Teutons sod the still strong
the Hessian to the life of |
Off in that beantiful hayfisld, on this
September morning, the womes
bright colors 2s when |
of tie barbarous iribe who |
The dresses of the
The outer garment is
There ls no country in all Ger
The women sre Ama
WA HI 58 1
“Presse, mom, doos Mrs, MoGinty
“Fait, an’ that's me,”
“Wol, tain, do yer know a lady ba thie
aney's wite!"
“Hor as coo from Dooblin?”
“Tras for you.'’
“Bogaera! an’ 1 piver heard of her
Sah! an’ that ame is mesilf. But
Muss fenslon's Neigh vor,
“An old bachelor! It's just too bad,”
cried Miss Jane Poasloe, excitedly, *
ever could abide old bachelors, and
here one of
ight next door!
rid dog, too, I'll warrant
plague of our lives.”
““Mebbe not, Jane,” mildly expostu.
lated her sister, Mra. Webb,
bachelors ain't apt to be meddlesome,
gener'ly.”
“Him! 1 meant the dog,
Miss Jane, “Oi
ning over here,
digging holes in the flower beds next
sammer fur a cool place to lie in; or a
chasing the hens, an’ stealing the egus,
when they've made nests in the weads,
jut I won't put up with it, an’ I shill
tell him so pinmp, the very first chance
I git.”
“The Jane?”
“The dog! Of course not!
crusty, erabbed old bach
gr»
‘a
he'll
3
ry
dog,
I meant
hime
the ior
) June! You don’t think he w
the eggs and make holes
flower beds, do yon?”
“Fiddl sticks! Ain’t yon got no
at all, Mel A
well talk to a close prop
the dog would steal
shouldn't put
the old bachelor
you nnders
the
inut
atng
1
hi
ancey? body Ii
as you, 4 id
the eggs, an’ 1
up with it, an’ 1 should
80, 100.
tand? An so l willl I'll tak:
broomstick hiw, too, Bee if ]
,.’ she concluded emphatically.
Miss Jane and her sister owned the
little cottage mn which they lived, which
was about alli they did own, and man-
aged to eke out a living by doing plain
sewing, dressmakin of the
kind th ny Ot
“There' 4
Pickles’ i
tell
to
Dy
ad
5 5 g or auytin
i get to do,
the gate open and
bell amapin’
the ruck mteh, of ©
i
in Irse
t sie
snatch ap i
out
nu allus
hat did I ev
six months’
man ain't safe
days, LIE cours
; their caps 10 ke
ba caught, I'l
both be a-
~btt I won't
of
as much as pos-ible, and even if I meet
"er fase 1'l1 look another
see they keep a parcel of o
bing
their way
face t
one of
Way.
3, if any of ‘em
about here I'll set the «
rolng : a
come
tg
or thel
HYALL
i aide
} : ot a
Aired & Ioan we
out of thei
a
SOIORTN« d
and sn
worryin’
Mian
atching nu
riedly gave chase
§ himself pu Puppy
» released the leghorn rooster’s
fail, which he had been pl ayfully slink.
greal disgust of
RIK of gut,
edge of Miss Jane's homespun peti
whieh veath the rim
dress, and shook it energetically,
Miss Poasl
right al aed
; the ou
again,
3
ing to the
and with al de neiz
showed be
at
Fhe
wantime
Dre
outraged 00
heat
Ml, a
howoeve ¥,
she aroppx
whereupon
whirled,
y
: inst Le espied
©, 1 big gray oat, leis
nis morning Where.
upon once dropped the broom and
gave chase 10 the cat,
Bonaparte fled up a tree
terror, and Miss Peasloe
demoralized broom, made a sudden
sortie on the dog. Carly, however,
discovered this rear attack in the nick
of time, scuttled swiftly across the yard
and through the fence to his master’s
domain, where he immedistelyunearthed
a half-gnawed bone from ita hiding
place and proceeded to solace hims if
therewith,
“You had a real nice play with him,
didn't you?" said Melaney complacently,
looking up as her sister made her ap.
CAranoa,
“Pav! The vicious Least ehawed the
to pisces, an’ tore my skirts half
, if you call that play,” sniffed
Miss Jame w rathfually,
* * $
RVaLLIng al
Bonaparte
urely
taking walk
ie at
in great
seizing the
* rd *
“Jane! Jans! What on airth is this
that dog's been a shakin’ and wallopin’
roond in the dust?” cried Melancey a |
fow days later,
The dog was growling and shaking |
some dark object fearfully,
After a desparate struggle the sisters
succeeded in resening all that remained
of--a cont, A man’scost, of fine, heavy |
dark cloth, hopelessly mutilated by the
tooth and olnws of the frotiesome puppy.
“Deer me, it's plum rained,” oried
Melavoey, “4 must belong to the old
ing it up by she tails,
“Bui what's that?”
“That” was something thal
dropped ont of oue of the pockets,
r,i4 s seized it quickly, It was a let.
ter.
“Why. Melanocey,”
lossly, ““it—it's directed to me!”
And June opened it snd read;
“My Duan Miss Prasuss, 1 never
popped the question before in my life,
#0 ng don’t kviow the proper way, Bat |
Jilin’ to be my wile, jest
say so, an’ I'll be the happiest mau in |
Honey Holler.
had
Oar OusneRLRion.
“Janel Jane, don’t faint!” cried Me.
pale and then read,
“I ain't agoin’
Jane, stontly, “Bat look, Melaucey,
this latter i: dated five ye rs back, when
we lived ov ir to the Hollow, W hat on
irth does .{ mean?”
“(iive to me,” said
{ promptly. “I'll soon find «
| means, 1 take the coat
seein’ the
| In less than fifteen minu 4 there
| after the old bachelor, hatless nd eoat-
less, ran {runtically through ihe gate,
| never stopping
to faint!”
Molancey,
it what 1t
home, too,
{ the presence of M ss Peaslee,
“Janel Jane!” he cried, with breash-
| less eagerness, *‘I've come ior my an-
| swer, “‘It's five yoars since | writ that
letter, an’ thought 1'd
there it was hid in the lining of that
coat all the time, Bat you haven't said
| yet whether you'd have we or not,”
| Bomehow or other Miss Jane
| her dislike of men-folks in general,
old particular, and
she would,
“We cught to be than)
"said Melanpey, with tears in her
when she heard how it wa
sd, and indeed, Master Curly bad
0 reason to complain of
thereafter,
forgot
and
Bache
lors in
1
§
Lig
20 that
dog,
eves,
his treatment
-
Calling for His Lost ride.
Squirrel Island is a , popular res:
Boothbay harbor, at the, mouth of the
Kennebee, In summer there
colony on the sland,
times 600 or 700 per
New Eaglauders have
But it is a dismal plac
there 1s nobody on the is and
nen who is left in charge of th
'yY collage
rt in
if BR uay
numbering at
Promineut
ottages there,
s tn winter, and
the
property
Has a
ERVE
i
ME
owners, and
Wh
ood gezing
1 attention to
fisherman’
tenn
anguish,
call to the
old
Was or
0
# boal, and
ud ery that sounded
This was the you:
“Josie,
fisherman thought the
zy, and, after liste
ade for the
B lo
OCeAL
equest,
the weddl
nd intwo
was | widower,
aller
fnyerer
anger. s
{ %
0
$i
Ine
srt
Foy
ALOT
was mad t
born
with
Ihis new flex deed HOLIns
Irak Ar Berical
Yankee ingenuily, has Just | been grated
letlers patent for a device that will
prove a comfort to solitary old maids,
fill a desolate void in the widows’
household, and prove a savior to hen-
pocked husbande, This great boon for
mankind might be taken, at first sight,
for an infernal machine, bus it isn't,
has clock work that reminds one of a
dynamite fiend, but it's not dangerous,
thing goes off it startles the
A LAalive
citiz
tizen, imbued
It
but it will
It will have a depressing
effect on the matrimonial market,
women of single blessedness will be
more thab thrice blessed by it, They
need pine po longer for a handy, good-
natured husband te light fires for them.
Toe machine will do the work, All yon
have to do is to wind it up and make
suggestive of instant death:
not explode,
ihe
set the clock on the hearth, At the de-
| sired time a sulphur mateh is ignited
the end of a hollow brass tube,
| charged with chlorate of potassinm
and sugar, that flashes into a burning
flame, setting fire to a ball of asbestos
saturated with turpentine at the further
end, readily lightiog a coal fire.
The inventor explained the mechan
of ite working, For nearly two years
fast because he could not get up in
time to make a fire for his wife to do
“Bat,” said be, “I've got her now, |
am a
A 555-554
Hx- “It's a polka; but we oan waltz
to it”
Bhe-*'Oh, not for worlds! I hate
to & polka: besides I adore the
polka i
He* 1 Jepnevah danoe the
polka, but we van sit out this dance, if
you like—and I will talk to you!"
She—"*Oh, gracions, po!
Let us dance it any way vou like!”
a he Event nt Midgeville, :
——————————————
It was the latter part of November
Just before Ti hanks ziving, when an
event occurred in Midgeville that
Midgey ville 8OCielY
| circumference,
It was no new thi for Midgevil
ited, Indeed it
{ have been a much better thing for it t
{ have remained for
{ length of time
Mrz, Prieilla Downs
“Midgeville w the
she ever resided |
{ had been spent
at Bald Hill C
her married |
Was Baying a
nevertheless;
citla affirmed
pening at
&¥
Agis
from centre to
ng
£)
unagitated any
often
excit
aid tl
ingest
Jit
town
As her youth
ri gayety
of
*, this
i Irie,
iy
w
love, and |
in Pov
¢
f
ie
great d sal
there
HiIWavs
Was,
projonge d
y uke Ul
widow was
dren it
y mother
ration.
“He oF does ’
said the Widow
Miss Piper with an
“There's ne
hh
it
i
4
HT Ped
Sharpe,
exasperal
like an
fool
“Did you ever?” asked the President,
a8 the carriage rolled past, and she
turned from the window and gazed upen
the members,
And the members admitted that they
“never did, really
ong.’
Sms AAI IOS
A prageet nas deen brought before
3 he Wrong Tis,
scientist declares thal
a thing—though thing
as transmigratios
Yeople, he thinks
transmit to their cloth
with which they are
ted, certain conditions
crament, He gives
example: A
iberg was suddenly
a severe attack of gout,
seompanied by a strong that
had been a sufferer for many years,
thought that he was losing
mind, for every one kuew that he
had been sufferer. Une day, throw.
mg off an old robe, which he had
for some time, he dxpenenced
immediate reli This startled him,
He put o 0} and the
gout returhed, took if and again
Was This caused an
to the discov
: the property
Here 1s an-
I think will
: A young lady
tion of relies
nd with a
I
A German
impression,
ing,
1ntimat ly RERGOIR
their own
following
iy
at
Or auyiuing
the
an
Hei
belief
Lis
8
again
b
off
MH, B
ahot
ad been
ur be
Bligil
Work
i0Te 4
1 ait
these facts inspire public
ch 1 shall
Thut part
i am ao.
ied that
il a slateme
make w
reat Lesila
of }
veral times
truths was in my
Ole can
WRikt
phere,
iL BlOpH
wi
than the great, 1 spot. We shail
bably be convinced at the same
that the regal planet is far more in the
condition of the sun than bis less mas
Pro.
{Lime
|
|
How many ages must roll on before the
dawn of the day of certainty succeeds
the long night of theory,
IIIs ANSI
Hy a method of ie obser.
artloy has reached
the ses, pumping stations being estab.
lished at two
“Biers in Sarge:
bine color
that it is present
absorbed by
reaching the soa af ail,
or condensed Into a
sppoars of a deep blue.