TT =T Schroyer, THE BACHELOR'S SOLILOQUY. effort * overcame my feelings of horror and stepped forward to examine the bod- jes. There was noe blood upon them, and hhiws jog at first I could find no trace of any kind of | Iysician ! violence. At last my oyes fell upon what say no | leounties of Centre, Clearfield. Mifflin sent un cold shudder through my veins, 1 R : plaster has { Saw Mill, and Huntingdon, This On, is strictly for had often seen fellow-creatures, aye, hun. | / éver he wn {Odd Fellows and their wives dreds of them, sinin in fair fight on the | i : fo AA en J 18 A B A BEER i dn . battle-field, und had myself knocked over | made whieR nn Yr -ddp many & man as coolly as 1 would a part. for medicinal Las just opened a few and complets e among the stubble; but to see those : fidge sinong the sutdblel yur k alue begins mean, each with a vivid swollen circle round BY 10 equal the. his neck, with staring eyes, blackened lips and protruding tongue, telling that he had J aroers lor J And yet I would not wed a fool; unt foully and trescherously strangled ATHLOPHOROS ’ . A flirting gir! I would not take, that was a widely different thing.” } LIRCTED 05% o - seem [) QO RE, For she my heart would surely break; in ns 8 Wes yor ba g re bodun Bi y FLA STERS; A girl that talks from morn W night . Sure, the Major must have begun his fo eae Lo” I always look on with affright; 4 examination at their boots, since he ror “iran 8s an in back, side orChes forweakress, colds & they are worth their weis a ; | JAS. H. LOHR. J | Cl - po Ae STHRE HALILL PA., AGEKT FOR I do not like the girl that's tall, Chemis d A girl that's short is worse than all; A girl that's sul 1 would not wee, A girl that's pert is odious, too; I sigh not for the girl that's fat, And one that's lean Is worse than thas 1 wottld not court the one that's old, Unless, indeed, she's got the gold; And one that's young 1 would not wed, For youth is tiekle, so "tis snid ; I would not wed a girl that's fatr, And one that’s dark I can not bear; A girl of sense I could not rule, i i {Covenant Mutual Benefit Association, of At Locust Grove, near Grove and Wolf's | Galesburg, 111, gpecial agent for the RICHER o YODER ON 6 BISHOP ST,, BELLEFONTE, Also agent fo 10 Union Centra ‘ { inatl, for vario . ance companies, Rates same as uny platning i Has got in his fall stock of is prepared of all YLEMANT DALE ATTORREY-AT-LAW mn 101) § ee —OIL CLOTHS, — all widths, styles and prices. Bellefonte, Pa. corner Diamond, two - floors from first national bank, ank J ‘ colared picture, fhe Moorish Girl”? ATHLOPAORGS ry Office N. Ww. SIDING. MOULDING I find it very hard to suit, couldn't at first——." began the Irishman, Because of having so much fruity sotlo voce, but was checked by a sudden No pick had Adam, I believe, glance shot at him from the keen eyes of BRACKETS, |QENTRE COUNTY B { Receive Depost IeABCnaAlIe | ramenas } semen or anyihing PR HR ER '¢, veatibules, halls, kitchens, &e msm. {) epmaen Ie would be glad to have all drop in to take a look at his goods, provided the weather is fair. If, howeyer, it should happen to be raining he will leave on his front step one of the best DOOR MATS, to wipe the mud off your shoe, and his nice and novel umbrelia stands in which to place that ever-losable umbrella. COMMON SENSE Is anyone that it is an ut- impossibility for a mer- 1 chant to sell goods continually A-T C-O-S-T. \ legitimate business can er be conducted on such a asis. as taxes, rent, insurance, st be paid and a living We do not conduct usiness upon such a prin- and we only ask a rea advance on all our We believe in FAIR AND SQUARE and know that our d prices prove what Give us a call and be PER & KREAMER, Centre Hall, Pa. Y GIVEN THAT AFTER wl will be sold one Positively no cred- E.BARTHOLOMEW DR. H. S. CLEMENS, ‘ fice is in Allentown, Pa will th and Centre Hall ev we of examioing and Will visit Bellefonte 5 p. m. Tuesday 107 p. ir. Clem ens iz a graduate of the usylvania, of years experi es largely by inhalations. Please ntown, Pa.) for testimonials ' SETTLEMENT. ALL FPER- ing mselves indebted to the lec’d,, are requested to 1 persons having claims please present the duly authentic EO. A. RUNK, EILMEYER, 2 Mills, Pa. TE) § /mdae easy Manufacturing ! 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CURES Fevers, Cqpasstion, Infiasmmations. “ : Worms, Worm Fever, Worm 0... {Yin Colle, or Teolhi ot In B arr ; “, of Uhildren ov dults enter sripi illous Colie.... ‘hotera j bus. §omiting. sanesnis ‘oughs, Cold, Bronchitis. ¥ i ralgia, Toothaoh soeaahe pees fon A. Hick Headache, Dyspepsia, Biligus § 31 Croup, Oough, Di it malt Hheam, prise y heumat EE ti. ftom tn 1 Ey OF sent F The only woman then was Eve; But be no doubt deemed her a prize Ho took her and lost Paradise! ~F. L. Squires, in Norristown Herold, THE MAJOR'S STORY. The Mirnculous Shot by Which a British Officer Saved His Colonel's Life. “Hy the living jingo,” cried the Major, stretching out his legs a little farther un- der the mess table, and bringing down his hand upon it with such force that the glasses rang again—*“ by the living jingo! I don’t believe there's a man in the regi- ment, or in the whole British army ember, that's had as many, aye, or half as many, parrow squeaks for his life as I have” General attention was immediately oon. centrated on the Major, for the above speech was familiar to all present. When it burst frem the Major's lips we all knew that his wonderful memory had recalled to him some hairbreadth escape, some daring exploit of which he wus the hero; or, which was just as good, that his equally wonderful imagination had conjured up some such picture, still having himself for the center figure And when the Major's memory or imag- ination supplied him with an anecdote, he was always generously eager to impart it to his friends and brother officers. Indeed, we had heard most of his stories three times at the very lowest rate of computa- tion, but then they were retold with such humorous variations and additions that they never fell flat on our ears. It was just like listening to some well. known tune played * with variations," where you are hardly able to pick out the original air from the multitude of trills and turns and quavers in which it is shrouded. Bo with the Major's stories. Bometimes, hearing one for the second time, we hardly recognized it as an old friend until the grand denouement was reached, all the details having altered so marvelously since the first time of re cital But let the Major tell the story that is evidently trembling on the tip of his tongue, in his own way and without fur. ther interruption dr explanation. ‘“*And what's more, besides having got safely out of some very pretty scrapes my. self, as you all know'' here there was a loud chorus of assenting voices, and a fer. vently uttered "True for you, Major, and the saints be praised for that same?” from a young Irish sabaltern, lately joined, to whom the Major's stories still wore the gloss of novelty, though his irreverent and meagerly-valled skepticism caused thmt eloquent ruconteur 0 view him with some suspicion —"'] dare say you also know." he continged, “that I've helped to get other meu out of them, wo. But l don't know that I ever suw any man-except myself, of course-—-nearer being swallowed by the jaws of death than our Colonel was one day out in India. For some time past we had had no regular fighting, and were in hopes that we might be able to negotiate a pesce without further bloodshed. But meanwhile there was a kind of petly guer- rilla warfare going on. The cowardly curs of natives never showed themselves open- ly, but would hide in the woods by which our camp was pretiy well surrounded.” “A right spot for a picnic party, but a quare situation for a camp?’ murmured the subsitern, who was promptly adjured to “Dry up, and let the Major speak I" “Concealed in this covert, they would pick off one man here and another there, from immense distances; for, you know, they had got possession of a lot of old rifies, and when once they found out how $0 use them, they wore beggars to shoot, And the most aggravating rt of it was, that though they ran fast cuough when discovered, yet if you did get bold of them, and it came to the point, they didn’t seem to mind being killed in the least. As sure as I'm a living man, they seemed, like the eels, rather to enjoy it. 1 suppose they knew there were plenty more to follow; but, ‘pon my honor, it's astonishing how cheap those fellows seemed to hold for life. “Well, as I was going to say, our Colonel Was as brave a mas as ever breathed the breath of life, but he was rash, terribly rash; and one day he was strolling about between the camp and the wood when I happened to catch sight of him. ‘The very place where poor Willis was bowled ever last week,’ said 1 to myself. “I'll just keep an eye on the Colonel, and soe that he comes to no harm “So Istrolled out after him, and them 1 remembered thas after Willis was shot by some scamp lurking among the trees, we had posted sentries at short distances along the cuter edge of the wood. We called it a wood, but it was really only a long, narrow belt of trees skirting the eamp. However, I thought might as well walk round to where the sentries were on dugy, and make sure that all was right But when I got to the place where I could have sworn the first of them ought 0 have been standing, there was no sentry there, Bo 1 went on to the second post, but it was deserted, too, and so was the third and the fourth! In fact, there was not & man out of the half dozen to be found. “Of course, 1 knew al once that there was some treachery on foot, and resolved to hurry back to the camp to give the alarm, Bo off | started in hot haste, 1took a short cut through the wood in the direction of the camp, but I hadn't got more than half way across when a thick clump of brushwood aroused my suspicions as a very likely place for an enemy to be skulking in. Be, keeping my revolver in readiness, [ went up to it, resolved to unearth any of the tricky scoundrels who might have chosen it as a snug little spot in which 10 lie perde, I plunged in boldly, but keeping a sharp lookout. “When 1 got into the middle, thers was a small open space, and in it lay-—you may judge of my horror whan 1 came suddenly upon them--the bodies of six murdered men, huddled one upon the top of the other, Boldier though I was, and I don"t think an overcowardly one, 1 felt inclined totum and fly from the horrible sight. You may hardly credit it, but the bare recollection of it makes my tongue feel as if it were glued to the roof of my mouth." A remedy for this uuplossant sensation was instantly provided by a sympnathetis audience, and a short pause ensued in the narralive, “When you're ready, Major, nistly re marked the subaltern, ° put down his glass with a sigh, and continued) “Well, us I was saying before, it was too horrible and ghastly to feel myself alone, shut in by the dense underwood--alome the Major, who repeated slowly and with a there could surely be no question: “Ab! that was a very, very different thing, and an icy sweat broke out on my forehead, as, hastily retracing my steps, I hurried to ward the camp. When I got within about twenty yards of the edge of the wood I standing by a tree, with his back toward me, He was in full view from whero 1 in the open space between the camp and the wood, somebody. The thought flashed like light the Colonel he's aiming at. My resolution was taken instantaneously. If he heard me cock my revolver, then, before I could mark. “My hand instinctively tightenad { of my revolver as | leaped noiselessly with a few cat-like bounds across the interven. ing space, and before the fellow had time to look round I had felled him to the earth His skull wa without uttering » “The next mom forward 3 been hidden tween us ) into the wood to ly heard the sound of was, but was not sure « which it had proce turned almost shaded his eyes “As he gazed heard, faint, yet my right. tur tion and there quick and keen rusty, discolored muzzle ing from the far s f pointing in the direction of the “The man that held hidden from me by the tree. Ido! Was I to stand there, baby to avert the danger, Colonel shot down like a dog! “A shout of warning would hav worse than useless: it would simy hastencd the [fatal catastrophe not fire at the Indian, for he w ly out of sight-—-thére was no to be seen. Even had there © have availed me nothing have killed him instantaneously in the leg would not proba him wince or alter his breadth, for the fellows w= lar stoics or utterly inse } One casual glance had sufficed ~did I mention that my « extaordinarily good? : scope combined." they that alm was directed fu tionless Colonel's left temple “A moment's reflection there was but one chanos one, but still it was a chance “I grasped my revolver firmly hand, bespattered as it was and brains; then, without cock knew that the faintest at this juncture woul TAY n Colonel's death signal, I took steady & paint about a yard from } line that | knew the © the rifle of the might have ane } had I not known that the m of my revolver was hoare ing bullet would be on think of that moment of ponse my words séém Ww throat.” Again the hint was taken, and the erent young Irishman winked as he thought to himself: “Crams d in one's throat sometimes, and it lot of washing Ww swallow them 4 ‘Those things take time in th but, by jingo! they took literally in the doing. "Pon my hardly expect you to belie story, but that vou know, | truth is stronger than fiction “Well, I took steady aim at the spot I knew the bullet must pass, and fixed as immovably as if the muscles of my arm had been a blacksmith's vise, so that, when the moment came, | might fro with out looking at it again. Then, with my eyes fixed on the muzzle of the rifle, I watchod it--not a second had elapsed since I heard it coekad then raised the hammer of my revolver, hardly daring to breaths lest I should alter the aim by the breadth of 8 gossamer thread “As I had anticipated, the moment the click reached the cars of the would boas sassin, and before the report of his shot reached my ears, Isaw the bullet leave the barrel of his rifle. That instant I pressed the trigger. It was a desperate attemph, as I said before, but it was successfal. The Colonel did not fall! He was saved! “My first thought, or instinct, wis to fire at the dark form flying away among the trees. 1 brought him down, and the Colonel rushed toward me with his own re volver ready for use. He recognized ma on the instant, and demanded an explans tion of the three shots that he had heard, Itold him, and he paled under his sun- burn. “Dare,” ho said, with an almost impor ceptible tremer in his voice, ‘Dare, you have saved life twice over, As stood there listening I heard a strange, sharp sound close to my ear, and picked up this,’ showing me in the palm of his hand a large, shapeless lump of lead, which proved on examination to be the two bullets (nsep- sHbly welded together, “ He grasped my hand, covered with the gore of his late weuld-be murderer, “ ¢Thaaks, my brave fellow; your cour age and presence of mind shall not go un- rewarded.’ And I may mention, in pass. ing, the gallant Colonel kept his word, “We surm afterward that ‘he two natives had orept up like snakes through the long grass, unperceived dy our poor fellows, who were probably rendered drowsy by the intense heat, had coms up to each man from behind and strangled him before he could utter o ery or give the slarm to his comrades. “And now I am sure you will all ao knowledge that the Colonel's was one of the narrowest shaves a man might wish te havo--almost equal to one of my own ad ventures among the Zolus, which 1 hope to tell you on some future evening.” This was the Major's story. 1 am bound to believe that every word uttered by my r offiger ig true; you, of course, are superio free to do as you please, ~ London Society, ngold. fof youl 5k ye UNDERTAKING, and an elegant hearse for nerals. 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