Gentleness the Quality | of Qualities in Woman. By H R. R, Hertz HEN, a few dl womaa's most *Tis scandal time! salf. Then a sudden fear struck him a3 he noted the the day has grayed | It had already progress of the tide. dock. Then on its capsill appeared crept up several | the head and shoulders of a hound inchoas! | outlined agaimst the clear sky. Dun was near the lower end of the | can recognized him as a dog belong Discuss their world, and sip their | slab. The bottom of the dock sloped ing to a neighbor, and the wild tea sharply downward, and he saw that | flashed into his head that here From curious cups of priceless jade. before the tide could rise high enough | messenger that might summon assist to float the entire mass and remove | ance. Oh, If he could only be muds the pressure from his body, his face | be made to understand! | by would be covered and he would as-| With voice and gesture he tried te thing guredly be drowned, coax the hound down into the dock i would desc The young navigator had a strong, | The arimal evidently appreciated ti 1 At the same ti active body and a clear brain, He | fact that something was wanted { woman's best quality, fully appreciated his peril, but saw | him, for he ran whinning back and Now, Mr. Casson is justified in calling down the editor, be Whatever made her choose brocade?” | that it was idle to waste his energies | forth on the edge of the wharf, as 2 Laaracier, as he tates truly, is ‘aot More {emin'pe J aah muselive, And “Gwen's flirting just outrageously— | in frantic and unavailing efforts. He if seeking a place fo descend. Final ’ ame Btly Justieq in or Bow nu by AB apn] is not a She'll soon win Jack from poor | looked about for his ax, hoping to cut | 1, however, 0 Duncan's bitter dis | quality It is a condition, a ity peli hs : | ful Marie! "- himself free. A few fest to his =ight | appointment he turned and bound :d Toke oh Mont 198, a Rosy in the rough Its quality of brilliancy is | Well lotatad for hunting sod fsbing Alas! I'm very much afraid the handle protruded from beneath off. Polish is ded to bring it out. all right enough, but it has nothing Heated throughout. Free carriage to all tralas "Tisg scandal time! ice-cake. A single trial showed | I'wo 10 with that diamond's ability to shine. Tha quality of brilliancy is inberent — Carolina Mischka Roberts. in The | him that it was out of his reach, and | to his qualities are in But polish is comes from the ot, Old Fart Hotel Smart Set. he at once dismissed it from but the The jeweler it. Refinement baing iy the equivalen - ISAAC SHAWYVER, Proprietor, thoughts. across his polish in a stone touched. Honestly, | had But Casson’s censuras has oh. Location : One mile South of Centrs Hall pocket of his coat Accommodations firstclasm. Good bar, Partie | him, was a small wishing 0 enjoy an evening given special | ing his arms backward at full Glendon. Meals for such socasions pre pared on short notice, Alwsys prepared { he touched a sleeve and very carefu for the transient trade, he mustered all his powers for the - m oh gotlewol en i; he hin} i a 15 W all ti ir De ibilitles for true i "With ie Saipmuters a tii e unobservant e Penn's Valley Banking Company would have 101 be ot Fhe unrefine gant'ewoman 1s é uncul gem r id (E — : i time W. B. MINGLE, Cashief six to ten thick. TY fourth side rr i d 0 a th Jf the oA haw ever hi the miafortund f 1 ag | oe “Ts candle time; “To dusk; the low tea table's laid, And Flo and Phyllis cosily He BPRING MILLA, PA. PHILIP DRUMM, Prop. First clam sccommodations at all times for both men sid beast, Free bus Wo and from all fisine. Excellent Livery stisched., Table board first-class. The best liquors snd wices at the Dar ing of claws om the wharf across the hope was a “berg. wrote a physi thing about a the little harmless extravaganza, with al trait for a theme, and ended it woman ia every that Mr. Casson | [ontra Hall Hotel little boy who whitties a shingle editor, who sald that character Was received a share of Mr. Casson's philosophic days ago, 1 beautiful ro —————————————— A ——— “Tis now each calls a spade a spade, saying that “the best beautiful For, if there is one hour made For gossip most especially, Tis candle time! about her,” 1 hadn't remotest idea rile me as “a me the CENTRE HALL, PA JAMES W. RUNKLE, Prop, Newly equipped. Bar and table supplied with the best. Summer bosrders given special | stiention. Healthy iocality. Beautiful aoenary | Within three miles of Penns Cave, & most besath sublerranean cavers; entrsacs by s host condemnation CAURE ( “Mabella’s gown’s a horrid shade; as woman's Dest there sides of the ice-cake paralle! | to body were now cut through All hardest of the three. that side thighs, had hardly been | of And the water had already intended to break | a few feet behind clutch on his hair How : bul me on my Malle ¢ aw [eat yoo lb { 5 . 1 editor ha' & 1 y i“ 8 wWomaa's . . . reszing sold it was! It had crept : i i now deiigna 4s womaa jack-knife. BStratch- \ tania ka . cake, and was chilli ni Eh ' 4 ) length 10 f ‘Ness mus e atirsoulen Lae It was flowing nee the not inherent It in a human erent his produces ot —————_—— Under a Cake of lee. into this controversy. However, Mr aving disposed of him and of aving i best quality a real, unmistakable not i one resource remained. In the with which Mr woman iacks Aad, mind sllences that various ex 4 ighti sed she's gentle and necl 16 thou { an + blemishes man hrutal selfishness reveals pars. The bac) his head toward moment seemed be turning clear ten It was three o'clock on a March afternoon when Henry Duncan, ax on shoulder, walked whistling out of the village of Winterport on the : ; , Penobscot River. He followed the Huan 0 mse : "| had i V ., arias 2 4 a —: Journal's main road for about a hundred rods, | the tide shou d reach him. “iY 1 rising water eddied and gurgled. His ‘ sitiminga ls watt : at Bo en : orial on "Woman's and then took a by-path through must tell whole dot : - mils : A Ls fields that Jed him down to the ter, nearly a half-mile north town. His goal was a dock between two old wharves, where lay his coasting schooner, the Elsie, tied up pre : : vious December, when Penobscot MY La slal : *1 y x { # fae i si Bakara a Si wh 13a 2 wore=™ tu froze and now, although ing tide i i ely : Know 100 : 4 2 or river had been open a fortnight, still easily pull his legs thickly ice-clad from lapping of Yith anie to aut readers the | Stroke wa- To gain his libert of the three f sides of drew it him. In y RATES: $1.90 PER DAY. jlesperate effort The coming struggle With anse of ¢ \ : i } } wom i a Receives Deposits . sixteer the open knife was in his Then Came minute Are Many -l ; ody was almost des . instument he # waat CENTRE HALL, PA. Discounts Notes . thiol sf 1meeet es long rs —————— woud allow him his head above th firectly before 1 face. Thi } A : : ee es . med tnd spr! ind hoe draws sincere and a pathetic pictur of igno Rotel Haag 1e edge BELLEFONTE, PA. F. A. NEWCOMER, Prop 1iiy Vi ar aful mo'h nit learning Such , the meaniag of the aditor Hantng tuvighont. - 5 fae Bunbling freedom of ion ar a sui natie tha " ’ 2 i ¢ obit : a . soy to eR e best the most desirable A , 81. PER DA ir riithant | Yin! his ’ _ a e : : . I 4 Ay ‘ Anas an 3 Special prepasaiions arors, Witnesses, + Fd a b " sides t Wi insrumen Nuwer > ne 3 the water against Ber side . It 3 A). Walrment poe tor Jaron - iis mission that afternoon to ) bod 1 a sssions. Regular bosrdesm well cared for. this winter coat, and begin to get ped asthe was by vessel ready for the season's business, | 8 cramped Duncan sprang lightly down the ' 8 short, slippery bank, and stood on the wharf, with its sodden log-ends brown, rotting cobwork covered masses of clinging rockweed tide has just begun to still some distance er's rudder; the of the dock was stranded ice-cakes, It bad been a c¢ coating on places more than a foot in The melting warmth of the sun had set the water flowing the outside planks and their ¢ 80 that the ice had start od AWAY tle from the side. If it were creased into sections with an ax and then ¢ more deeply, it would fall off in great slabs. For an Descending a ladder at the COMINE 30 une head of the ff his coat, | DO laid it upon an behind him, the tool and began chopping away at Mass that concealed the outlines of his ves sel ‘gear the stern. Af first he with considerable caution: but as the He! { again ice was unexpected.y hard and came [DE forward with all his mig off in very small pieces he grew a 2gain failed little impatient and struck vig Sick orously head « There was a sharp crackling, and a | for a section more than ten feet long and 'turnad nearly as high as the se side of the split off bodily. more Duncan saw it coming, but 30 quick” | come ly did it drop that he had no ready it get out of the way. It fell across his | Across the body, bearing him backward and pin- ming him down upon the mud The plight in which the young own" | er for er 80 unexpectedly found himself was | situation both painful and dangerous There A rushing far up he lay, flat on his back, covered from | the stillness of the tips of his almost to his | Boston boat! shoulders by a slab of weighing | board might soveral hundred pounds. But he doomed to disappoint The under side was rough with ir- | ment. Just as the steamer came op regular bosses, and these pressing posite the dock she whistled for the down upon the mud, held up the cake | Winterport landing, and hoarwas from his body; otherwise his lire | ballow of escaping steam drowned would surely have been crushed out in | the shouts he raised And 80 swiftly a short time. did she speed by the narrow opening 850 far as he could tell, no bones the wharves that not one had been broken, but his body and | Among her scores of passengers per { fully as a veteran of a might lower limbs were fastened into abso- | ceived the frantic waving of his arms, | [Te8sure some object tha! had stop late immobility. His arms, however, | The beating of the paddie wheels died ped the bullet aimed at his heart.— were free, and he could breathe with | away and he was again left to himself Youth's Companion no great difficulty Pressing his It was not far from four o'clock hands strongly against the edge of the | The sun was declining toward slab, he attempted to drag himself | West, and the banks were beginning from under it. But struggle as hard | to cast their shadows toward as he might, he found to his great | river and it was growing colder alarm that he could not work him- | can’s body was stiff and numb sell backward the fraction of an inch. | the fearful weight that was He began to shout for aid: ing him down into the mud “Hi! Hi! Hi! Help!” sharp edge of the ice seemasd to The narrow dock resounded with his flesh | Bis cries. From the opposite shore All the while his brain was busy | of the river a faint echo rolled back. | with schemes to get the knife that he the the Lhe THA ) he a Jorma +} the ri over, he 5 the ¢ he perfume of &F Korea’s Dark Future. At be Worse the ay whl cut his position ATTORNEYS. Steal] slender old | able t head J. BH ORVIS C. M. BOWER 1 BOWER & ORVIS ATTORNEYS AT-LAW Oles tn G BELLEFONTE, Pa. ia Criders B ; xchange bullding en mond DAVID F FORTNEY W. HARRISON WALKES FORTNEY 4 WALKER ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW BELLEFONTE PA Offios North of Court Bou. A E L oavy he must 5 oul te + hy h i od : i » firat 1): see the sur underrate achievement and not T with | BUI v Nation Can Hardly han Present Conditions. Arthur Judson irniinian of The rise Sut was Brown. onfll Koreans it vy Rev NHAPPY tae s¢ hard mud bottom for halssar $ " below hoor i elo mn hard t'me between the Ang am iz » » or the bare, except A few ? weak to be indepea inevitable, the and was in thickness March He fown a id winter, the Elsie : ! ! id - hs many minutes Fon » fre held hit YW ? " ve future under oft Japan » Of igslan dooming - CLEMENT DALE het aoe ATTORNEY AT-LAW BELLEFONTE, PA. Office ¥. W. corner Diamond, two doors from First National Bask. ro wering, a it upon the lerer himself 8 grasp aside, and puttin ; rms behind Sorc : " enttan iz the eal ystem that one marvels that 4G RUNELR id apathy of the Ww. together at al ATTORNEY-AT-LAW BELLEFONTE, BA. All kinds of legal busines attended to promptly Bpecial attention given 0 eoliections. Ofoe, 38 Boor Crider's Exchange ree from h instant his catastrophs fted his sti short xpectedly, paralyze position yression and robbery motive to incan. Then he remembere had another blade fingers over the ice in the hog riugele he dock, he took : had almos has ao 0 ter house would So he raises only The Century & mar and was weak as man had nutes more t 5 1CHCAKS s+ It a result : ice hi probably the ii won a little of grasping the ho and the horror he could ‘ S. D. GETTIG now her siab sufficiently ¢ 3 sho worked of ATTORNEY AT LAW BELLEFONTE, PA. Collections and ai! legal business sitended Ww promptly. Consultations German sod English, Office in Exchange Building. res straining an i fas r 0 dr his legs from under with disappointment, he le it was hard work rop back upon the mud, and lay | der at the moment with cl his face to tide It terrifying to with a » ® . Ae ® a ‘1CT101 “0 1 A . By Alice Meyaell. HERE is Age an of bygone fancy In our daly speech wharf 4 14 “ Att poeLry pp nd some most there among the once cersmo manaer of We-that is, our thousand such incumbrances But 4 ; - ’ to make y : whore 80 many have been thrown away, why have some remaloed was of the “ Perhaps because of their Very graceiessness They are not su4 Duncan breathed a short pray- | greatest benefit to for it gradu ment. #0 that an Anglo-Saxon ia able to speak them whom 2 £ £4 3 Ost persistent « strengih, and again faced the | ally set alating oa he yusness of paying his court And the a a a A p $e gl ed sgh 6% | $ more through his benumbed body them all is the pretty fiction whereby he repre sents ma, Las | g ft § 4 $ ag . at frail Lat De runpin 2 broke | the time he had gone noon party at a run [ am afraid I m rot IE “ rm of words-—happily not genera: bul The | Yards he was able to The I . h I : most % x t stalicitos snough OF most one on | And begin a slow, hobbling walk wish—is lafelicitous englgs ¢ the aimpie arts of self-depreciation that reaching home he said none of . by the candor is ali adventure, although he folt mind on the other side. It confesse: ROIDE tor weeks afterwnsd Centre Hall, Pa. Penna R.R, hostess will be sorry at his It avows that she would stay him Duncan is captain of a r—————— makes no secret of the need of an apology, aad the apology ir lizhtly inverted danger of a convent ional misund erstanding 3 masted schooner, well-known in There shall be no risk of any oae s supposing Joal. a he runs, the guest would 50 YEARS coasting trade. In the that fate had suffered him 10 Walk | am afraid I must be running EXPERIENCE of the desk in his cabin is a horn i handled jack-knife with both blades that rejects the ways of tradition. Harper's Bazar broken. This he more head of the doc i nquerad sant mn mod eyes, then | and resolution « and Dun R B. PANGLER ATTORNEY-AT-LAW BELLEFONTE PA, Practioss in all the courts Consultation is Eoglish and German. Offics, Orider's Rzcbange Buliding ed LIVERY Special Effort made to Saad oftener than one could Accommodate Com- refined state of social life. | rl Dale or Sol MY mercial Travelers... D. A. BOOZER note the progress found himself at wre was rising quistly ing timbers of him than if it had not do io and tummnit Al { the foot of hooner's the ANRURLS, is foasll h foriorn { 4 here and Ro a { iry and painfully he remain slowly and there sound speech washed dock Resignation dice nlous forms of our drag himself homeward The effort he now would be cowar hard $ i + wil : time to he splies race—have cléared aside a was obliged med aim poxid ire though it see Mn pil disabling tae Hb as the river two hundre the afternoon rae to hia fast Perhaps some hear him even Lae On has nothing of his t of ut © its effects h : that tae if she could. I toes ica sea Or ations, Its was now three 80 as to save all the the one of iraw rallher Away ers is— SHOT A SHAD ON THE WING. between preserves as care When Children Won a Victory. A curious and pretty custom is ob- served every year in the city of Ham- burg to celebrate a famour victory which was won by little children more | Anyone sending a skatch and description | @uickly ascertain our opinion free w cher ah than four hundred years ago. In one invention is probably patentable. Communion of the numerous sieges Hamburg was tions strictly Sonsdantial. of some paienia sont frees. Chilast or for reduced to the last extremity, when it ts tas taken a Shout Mam was suggested that all the children should be sent out unprotected into "Scientific Fimerican, the camp of the besiegers as the mute A handsomely Mumhraiod 2 aa culation of any sclientd appeal for mercy of the helpless and To monte eds the innocent. This was done. The MUNN § te = New Toi rough soldiery of the investing army Oona, ¥ 8. Washington, D. saw with amazement, and then with pity, a long procession of little ones, war Hawk Got the Fish, Gun Got the Bird, and Brink Got His Dinner. When Henry Brink of ast Belvi- dere. N. l., arose on a rec ent day it was suggested to him that as it was the open Season for trout and he might do well to spend the morning fn replenishing the larder Su Brink, | who was suffering from a severe at- the | tack of spring fever. U sok up his rod and fly book and hied him to the woods. For four miles he followed the wind. ings of the Minnisink in vain. In A Tame Butterfly. A Chicago woman had all winter 2 tame butterfly that has just died It did not cost much to keep this butter fly. for all it ate me drop of | honey three The butterfly woman's hot day last fall It was numb ith cold For a little while it futtered feebly. Then it sank to the carpet and lay as though the the Dun- from grind The cut was days blundered 190 one every ino the village, half a mile below? became silent and waited. rescue would soon come. But at the end of ten minutes no approaching footstep had gladdened his ears, Again he sent forth shout after shout; but still there was no response dock was in an He that hemmed it in prevented his voice from being heard. Evidently it useless to count on assistasee from others, Duncan turned his head and looked out across the level river. It was a beautiful afternoon. The Penobscot seemed rejoicing in its freedom from the chains of winter. No breeze rip pled the surface visible between the wharfends. An occasional ice-cake, drifting slowly by, was the only thing that Wbroke the monotony of the smooth, blue current. The pressure upon the prisoner's body was becoming heavier and more painful, chilling it and checking the eirculation. He could just breathe, and that was all. Pull and strain as he might, be could not oxtricate him- knew must lie not far away on the ice above his head. If he short stick, it might be pull the tool within his nothing of the sort was at it came to him that reach: but hand. Then handkerch perhaps fling it over the knife A few minutes’ careful angling on the unseen surface, to his great joy instrument, Duncan now addressed himself to his task with renewed ‘nergy, temp ared with caution. Never in his life haa he done any harder work than with that little penknife. Now he would strike a shelly place, and his progress would be rapid. Then the ice wold grow hard and blue again, rendering his advance slower, All the time there grew upon him an increasing terror of the tide. He had’'never known that it could rise #0 fast. Often in summer, when he tad been waiting for it to float his vemsel, it had barslv crept up the breach. steady pain, Thers was a patter of fool, a scrap dead. The woman took it in her hands and warmed it, whereupon it Lecame ac tive and gay. But once released from again--it fell into a stupor. There upon she gave it another warming Thus, before many days had gone by, learned the restorative value of a woman's hands, and it would fly to them and nestle in them as a little child nestles on the breast of its mother, It learned to feed from her hand, too; but all it desired was a drop of honey every three or four days. She would place the honey on her finger and the butterfly, uncurling its deli cate sucker, would sip it slowly sad dainiily. ag a young lady sips soda water through a straw. Chicago In- ter Ocean. The tea branch offices of the Russo Chinese Bank located in China have since their astablishment no record of a single pPotested note, Ee a The proportion of divorces to mar vain he tried the blue dragon and the scarlet teeter, replacing the purple whirly-gig with the green gadfly —all to no purpose, 80, when Brink heard the old farm- house fishhorn tooting out the dinner call he made tracks for home, dis gusted with the finny tribe. When pearing the house he saw a monster hawk flying close to the ground and coming in his direction. Having lust geveral fine pullets through the depre- @ations of the “pirates of the air,” he concluded to get even and rushed for the house, Emerging a moment later with his domhle barrel hammeriess, he lot fly with both barrels with such excellent aim that the bird landed in the door yard, its neck and head filled with buckshot. Rushing over to the prostrate hawk, what was Brink's surprise to see something flopping about the ground. Kicking the hawk to one side, he dis- covered a five pound roe shad, which had evidently just been hauled from the Delaware River, four miles away. it being Friday. the Brinks dined roy. ally Now York Times. clad in white, come out of the city and march boldly jato their camp The sight melted their hearts. They threw down their arms and, plucking branches of fruit from the neighbor ing orchards, they gave them to the children to take back to the city as a token of peace. This was a great victory, which has ever since been commemorated at Hamburg hy a pro- cession of boys and girls dressed in white and carrying branches of the cherry tree in their hands.—Detroit News-Tribune, She mineral products of the United States, which reached the billion dol lar mark In 1901, wére last year $1. 260,639,000, The difference betwesn torpedo boats and torpedo boat destroyers js one of size only. If over 350 tons a vessel is voted a destroyer. Torpedo boats are usually Jess than 200 tons, In Milan there are restaurants run by the Union Co-Operative ia which a pate of soup costs one cent, a portiom of beef six and ven! seven cents. a BARGAINS! a; 0p The readers of this pa per are tonstantly apos the alert to ascertain where goods can be pun chased at the lowest prices, and if a merchant does not advertise and keep the buyer conven sant with his line of goods, how can he expec to sell them? EA a THINK OVER THIS!
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