THE SUNBEAM. A ladder from the land of light I rest upon the sod, Whence dewy angels of the night Climb back again to God. —John B. Tabb. fA Game of Chess BY ANNIE ASHMORE. “Your move, Mr. Stanley; and, if] you observe, your queen is in dan-| ger. “If 1 lose her I may yet win an-| other.” “Not at your You would pawn——" “Pardon, Miss Cheswick, but do I} play the game so badly? The loss is| mine. I would play better if I could. Teach me how, Miss Cheswick.” “lI will take you through this one move, but I fear you do not attend to my instructions. My bishop may be removed by your knight, which, how- ever, is at once sacrificed to my rook, which commands that square if I choose to take him.” : “Thank you. [I take your bishop, then, and offer you this knight, em- blem of myself.” “I am not obliged to take him.” “No; but I hope you will not reject him.” A short pause, while the dark, rich face of the young lady bends studious. ly over the glittering board of mother: of-pear and pink cornelian, while the pallid, russet-bearded face of the gen- tleman quivers and waxes paler yet. “Not obliged to take him,” murmurs the lady again, her white hand hover. ing over the mimic field of war. “In fact, if I do, you will win the game, in spite of all your bad play, so r “Take him-—pray, pray do!” almost whispers her adversary. Miss Cheswick’s hand descends on her rook, and twirling undecidedly | she lifts her eyes with a look of sur- prise and questioning to Mr. Stanley's “Are you so very anxious to win a game of chess?” He looks at »"” sir. a rate of playing, have to advance it it asks she, her silently That “white flush,” as the poet has aptly <alled it, is drifting over her counte- nance. In his eyes there is a look of which no woman can misunderstand “This is but the emblem of an- other,” he says, at last, in a low, but intensely passionate tone. The lady drops her eyes and pond- ors. Her gay smile has faded; there is a troubled frown faintly carved upon her smooth brow. “We will consider this a drawn game,” she says, quietly; “and, in- stead of playing another, I will, if you choose, tell you a story. It will amuse and—and instruct you.” Pale and hopeless, Mr. Stanley leans upon the shining chess-table, with his eyes half-shaded by his hand. With a quick Blance at his dejected attitude, and a deepening of troubled frown, the lady speaks. “Have you ever been Baden? But of course you have: has not? Do you remember Hohe Felsen’ Alta on the side and voad winds down into the va through the Black lovely village lving “Some years ago | ling a few months at Baden with my moth er,” she glances at her black garments with a heavy sigh, “who was ordered there to drink the waters. One aft ernoon we had driven up to the “Alte Schloss,” and while my mother rested there I climbed up above to view the ‘Hohe Felsen.’ You know they within ten minutes’ walk of the and I never dreamed of danger. How- ever, | was mistaken. It was so early in the season that the forest was not swarming with tourists and pleasure parties—in fact, it de- serted, “I sat down at the foot of one of the rocks and was soon tion of the sublime was not long bef and, before I could rise from the sort of niche which I had chosen, two | rough-looking Frenchmen flung them. selves upon the moss within six feet of me, apd, all unaware of my pres ence, began to discuss a plot which caused me to tremble with horror. “It appeared from thoir conversa. | tion that a certain baron was becom- | ing celebrated in the Kursaal for his | unprecedented run of luck at the gam- | ing tables—that, in fact, the bankers | had that Jay entreated him to seek some other field wherein to! pursue his successes, as they were | well-night ruined; that he was. no consequence, going to leave Baden. Baden, and should drive through the Black Forest on his way to Freiburg, starting at midnight. “The plan of the two robbers (for, to my terror, I discovered them to be nothing else) was to waylay the bar- | on's carriage near the ‘Alte Schloss,’ demand his money, and, if he resist. ed, to back the horses over the preci- pice, and descending after the wreck help themselves to the plunder, It was not withoui much wrangling, however, that they finally agreed upon this flendish course of action, and meantime I crouched in my nook, quaking least they ahould discover me, while the sun sank low, and the music from the ‘Conversationhaus Gardens’ stole up on the breeze, warn. ing me that it was time for mother to be at the ‘Tringhalle’ for her draught of wa.=r, and that she must even now be in a state of great dis. quietude concerning my long absence. “I think I Pave told you that my mother died of heart disease, and that for years befdre her. death our great alm was to preserve Ler from every § the at rho ‘Die and ‘Das of Schloss,’ the hill, how ti Forest, with the beneath?” was spen are castle, seemed quite lost in contemnpla view below. It ore I heard voices. mental shock. treme anxiety to return to return safely. “So urgent did this necessity be- come, that at length 1 arose, deter. mined to slip away so softly that they should not perceive me. [ had not gone many paces, however, until angry exclamation from one of them warned me that | was rushed down the path at the top of my speed, without looking behind; but my and I knew but lay a finger on me my to her, and heels, life last thought mind, when my stumbled to my moment { was in had this in my and 1 1eXt “Scarcely itself foot slipped, knees. The their hands. * ‘Spy!’ hissed sent you here? “If I had any presence of mind, I would have feigned ignorance of but I began to implore their and to explarn how I happen- the ‘Hohe Felsen’ the mut retches, ‘or she'll hy before morn- one, furiously; ‘who mercy, ed to be alone on “Throw her over tered of the alarm whole ing.’ “One of them my head and began to the ‘High Rocks,’ despite my fren All at once there was a crashing among the fallen branches, and while a soft, strong hand hand caught mine, a threatening cried out in English, my own tongue: “‘Unhand her, shoot through rocks,’ w du one the threw his cloak over to drag me back voice blessed you villains! or I'll you the heads!’ “lI was whirled in the grasp of the stranger to a position in his rear, and before [ could tear the cloak from my lead, the report of pistol told me that as as word found them all en while my de English sharp was mld see 1 in a fierce melee, a fair-haired man, cried frantically: ‘Fly, madam, to the fly!’ “You may be sure I obeyed him. In reached id telling a Frend who had just arr of the combat going “My alarm. She had heard the report of the pistol, and my pale face and disordered appearance. [ calmed her as as | saying I had lost the path, and then into the to Baden-Baden in hot haste, lest news of my peril should reach her ears “That night I told the councilor, and care a letter, expr to my brave deliverer, he good young Alte Schloss five mintues [ had the o and was h tourists, castle party of ived, on wild with mother was marked with terror ‘1 could, well my adventure committed sing my »n he should should make himself known “We left Baden-Baden morning, a telegram fro quiring our immediate pr and so I never agal haired Englishman But i : mare thing—did he could wh the home sence there; n the ¢ did a he- next m re met fair praise Zrowa “That she says tern man with her large eve is the one hero whom man w Jom “Would you! ley, and he laughs his lips quiver “At least,” says the lady, goaded in to hostility by his scant, “while that man’s noble I will never a shall remain faithful to forever.” “Perhaps if not love him.” “Ah! that one i irs Mr. Stan edulously, and y 9 scorn ourage lesser oye Mia Gad memory remarks Mr should Stanley and humb man on would still be hero.” “But, if you did not our he wart hs ¢ Carin, oe he i ou madly knowing you had met each other before ” “Oh, 1ighs Cheswick. hands, a rich yearning face. “I mistake him.” “Then your heart have pleaded for companion, eyes, “For you? Oh, air, why are you so mad? Have I not told you this story because 1 esteem you too much to al low you" Know loved ¥ neither he would Miss while 1 Ve clasping flush bathes h could never, only must me." a strange sometimes murmurs her light in his “Miss Cheswick, your hero got the letter, but after weeks of {liness. The pistol-shot which you heard was not fired by him, but by one of the rob it plerced through the neck, placing his life in danger for ten weeks. When he shouted to fly it was because he felt himself fall ing. He was found alone and insens ible by the tourists whom you sent to help him. He has never been strong or like a hero since, though I think his heart is the same; and I fear he will never Inspire love In anyone's soul again--indeed, you yourself have said 80." Miss Cheswick Is eying him speech. lessly, Her dark face is as white as his own, but she takes hia trembling hands, and presses them in hers, while her pale lips smile. “Your letter—you will know it again,” breathes Mr, Stanley, and gently withdrawing his hand he takes from his pocket a memorandum book and from its leaves selects a sheet of dainty writing, which he places before her. “You see,” he says, wistfully, “that you did not meat your imaginary | i | | he loves you madly.” And he tries te smile cheerfully, though there is al spasm of pain on his too delicate face, | “Nay,” cries Miss Cheswick, a hot | flame shooting over her velvet cheeks | “If you are my hero 1 love you, and| would have loved you long ago but for my constancy to yourself.” “Oh, my dear one, is this true?” “Ah, yes, Mr. Stanley. But where | our game of chess? I take your | knight, lo, and there! you have won| the game!"-—-New York Weekly. { | is HOLDS RECORD AS EATER. Four-Pound Steak and Side Dishes, Storie feats H. lL. 0., as cater strongly concerning the of of Marion, savored jonner have Munchausen, 850 the classic has care that the 1 Parkersburg Sentinel bean loath to believe them, but ful inquiry into the by aper has convinced it beyon a doubt that the most amazing are literally true, and these report : Bonner Ohio can that Di Ww h y Can boast o y n man Low away more interior department ngl at a si other living man foll than any writes as correspondent concerning thi eater: It is ly say painfully, great can hard Bonne: though we true that Dr has been kno: to twenty five pounds of an af vn eat between thinks no to a whole meas gra 3 afternoon, and more of treating himself bananas that way, o1 incidenta A qu “Two to nine chinks “Often when the of a winter after drive he w= shments’ home late hard fro shape of a four-pound night long take a fev light ry before ret in the steak fifty-six hard boll thres and pumpkin pie and save | of a personal Bonner never had ¥ 1 1s lifa of milk, we as Dr in the This same friend tell acquaintance of happened to one day about noon and invit a chance the do who meet him on Birept nto sglaurant CEE n passing to the : just for a joke, cleared that when his host for hiz meal there was n to 1 mal ata ave endowed him food craves capacity for and and wha } He iz a wel man, his wei and a Baltimore Sun what he needs, as other men do sixty-throe proportioned 220 pounds, YOars.- rey his z Sending for the Doctor. When a child is sent to summon 1 physician, the experienced persor gives him a written message to de liver at the door. It requires but few seconds to write the note, and {' is safer and better to Jdo so. Childrer have been known to summon a phy siclan, who, upon arriving at the house, found that it was a childis! joke. Then again, a timid child fir apt to stand around the door, no daring to go Inside, if he is obliged to speak his message, while merely presenting a note requires no specia’ effort in the way of courage. If the physician is not at home, the note can be left on the table, or tucked underneath the door, when a child might not be able to reach the slate that is usually hung outside for calls In the note It is possible to tell in » few words, which of the family is ill, and what the symptoms may be which it is desirable for a country doctor to know, so that he may not find at the end of a long trip that he lacks some special malleine or in strument that Is necessary, and be obliged either to go for it himself or to send someone to bring it.-—Mary Taylor Ross, in Good Housekeeping. New York City.~Cecats made Prince Albert style are among the lat- est shown and are exceedingly smart. This May Manton one is made of plum PRINCE ALBERT COAT. with makes zibeline stitched i silk In tailor style and mrt of a costume, but the sppropriate for the separate wrap The coat 18 made with fronts, and side backs that are below the i 1 and skirt fitted by n josed simply 1 coat is also under cut aff fq 4 Meeks ire and « willst iine, end portions, fronts cans of it 3 Mires buttons button portions v seamed are laid in pleats at INN The sleeves can cont style with roll- full as preferred +1 y bios sity + Lie Ones SHOWIH ia back view The quantity of material required for two and ‘he medium size Is RUSSIAN COAT AND wnels——————— ——“—" —— —— sighth yards forty-four inches wide, wo and one-half yards fifty-two inches wide. A Seasonable Costume, [ong coats are much in vogue and cain favor with each succeeding week The May Manton shown in the arge drawing is in Russian stvle and is well adapted both to the the general wrap. The ta stitched and one made | ntire suit and model 18 made of black ts with ii silk, but suit materials, both silk and wool corti all cont equally appropriate, that is made with applied box pleats at front and back and fitted by means of shoulder and underarm seams, and the skirt which is attached thereto beneath the belt. The skirt in. cludes applied pleats that form contin. gous lines with the boluse and is laid in inverted pleats at the centre back, which provide graceful fullness. The right front laps over the left to close in double-breasted style beneath the edge of the pleat. The sleeves are box pleated from the elbows to the shoulders, so providing the snug ft required by fashion, but form full puffs at the wrists, where they are finished by flare cuffs, The quantity of material required for the medium size ir six and one half yards twenty-seven inches wide, four yards fifty-two inches wide. four yards forty-four inches wide or Skirts that just clear the ground are among the latest decreed by fashion and ean be relied upon as correct both for the present and the season to come, The very excellent one in the large pleture provides a graceful flare about the feet and is available for the entire range of skirt and suit materials, but, as shown, Is made of Sicilian wolair stitched with corticelll silk, The skirt is cut in five gore:, which are so shaped as to fit with perfect snugness about the hips, while they flare freely and gracefully below the knees, The fullness at the back is laid In inverted pleats and ean be stitched as Illustrated or simply pressed flat as preferred. The upper edge can be finished with a belt or is i | i bound. The quantity of material required for the medium size Is six and one-fourth yard and inches three-fourth yards wide or three and yards fifty-two inches wide when ma terial figure or nap; three forty-four two and yards fifty-two inches wide when ma terial has neither figure nor nap. forty-four has or Popular Color For Hats. A very striking hat, an importation, made of that vivid dark blue color ich is so popular this season, rolled brim of the blue, and the of the crown repeats the color. The sides of the crown and the edge of the brim consist of rows of bright red, white, and flax-blue braids. The hat tilts well over the face of the wearer, and lifted behind with a bunch of cherries and leaves, 1 trimming. is wh is | is no other Pleturesque Soarfs. breadth as well as thickness with the of cold weather, and tue latest 2{ls’’ are really pletur scarfs, passing completely around the head and tied in an artis tically careless knot on the left shoul der t ng ng esque can be accomplished only by ¢ of the model t ] voiline eR He veiling counters ol New upon leading department st York Mail and Express. the ies A Handsomely Trimmed Walst, cafe av wit! brown velvet, ending in gold It has a vest of sr ivory silk. The bolerc bows of brown velvet round buckles of The collar and cuffs A dinner waist of tucked t chine is trimmed amber buttons fastened by through small iI and amber. FIVE-GORED SKIRT. i sian colors Rain Coat, that afford perfect rain health adapted rotection {0 every woman's as comfort This covert cloth and all the materials used for coats of but in Oxford gray craveneite cloth stitched with black corticell The co Coats Pp the are essential against as well one is to is shown and i silk. 1t consists of thie fronts, backs The fronts are with the back is drawn ix the sort, backs belt. Over the shoulders is #8 circular cape and the neck is finished The sieeves are the ample ones of the sea hsm————— RAIN COAT. won and are finished with etraight culls pointed at their ends. The quantity of material required for the medium size is five and three. fourth yards forty-four inches wide or five yards fifty-two inches wide, dre Hall Hotel CENTRE HALL, PA. JAMES W. RUNKLE, Prop. Yow'~ equipped. Bar and table supplied with the best. Bummer boarders given special attention. Healthy locality. Beautiful scesery. 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