JUST A BOY'S DOG.
No, siree, that dog won't bite;
Not a bit o' danger!
What's his breed? Shore I don’t know;
Jest a “boy's dog,” stranger.
No St. Bernard-——yet last year,
Time the snow was deepest
Dragged a little shaver home
Where the hill was steepest.
Ain't a bulldog, but you bet
“T'wouldn’'t do to scoff him.
Fastened on a tramp ope ume
Couldn't pry him off him.
Not a pointer-—jest the same,
When it is all over,
Ain't a better critter round
Startin' up the plover
Sell him? Say, there ain't his price,
Not in all the Nation!
Jest a “boy dog," that's his breed—
Finest in creation.
—MecLandburgh Wilson,
in.N. Y. Sun, |
ARR RRS RS SR RSA rd
An Unexpec ed Host.
BY FISHITR AMES, JR.
Pesesesesesesasesesesesesesase wane
For six lonely weeks Ned Talbi
had been trapping along the upper
St. Lucie. There had been no partic
ular reason for his paying a it to
the settlement except to break the
monotony of camp life, and Talbot |
found himself able to endure that.
But what he would not himself
he was willing to or his
When the little red jiggers g
Jessie's ears, he started imme
down the river trail for a of
Uncle George's ntment ' the
desulfory manufacture form-
ed
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via
do for
do f dogs
it into
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supp: §
“insect «
the old negro’s
He atarted late,
noon befors he reach
shack. The two old
itting down to
8
and the
and
ed Unc
possum and
table
Talbot.
vas
the
plate or
The
Through
crisped
unctuously,
sponge as
about in
“I haven't
as this for a
said Talat, p ying Knit
sidnoualy
“No, sah i
beamed the ol
mighty
yo'self. You
time sah.”
Any news In
asked Talbot, taking
yam
“Yas,
news
remmeber exac
“De 18'8
Aunt Lily, some
“Oh, it has, has
‘ircuses don’t often favo:
Ard 1
hospi
possum
the
skin the
and he
Uncle
platter.
had anything
long time, U
cracks
white
drippe
(36x ree
the
reckon
i negr Mus
in i
ime, 100, feed
+Oen gone a rigat
lone:
town sincs
sah. Devs
SaZaznity
what
No, sah.
igh favo
cert'nly
“Who bus
“Nate Reyn
It was de corn
on. Dey
obstrapolus
Dere was de
right den. De
ain't cotched some
Doan’
‘cause de
That was
Reynolds,” said
eyes, just then
than elephants .
if you'll get the stuff re
Il start Looks
fore I get back.”
With a sardine can fu
ment in his pocket, Talbot star on
his return to camp afternoon
sky was rapidly growls kK with
low, greasy rainclouds. The dust
aroused by Talbol's sieps Je the
road again close behind his
a breath of air stirred the long needles
of the pines. The mocking birds that
had cheered his coming had fled 0
the hammocks.
He had been walking the better part
of two hours when the first low grow!
of thunder broke the oppressive quiet,
He was near the end of the road,
where it dwindled away among the
trees to the little trodden foot-path
Six miles up the path lay the camp
The journey through the semitropi-
cal storm did not appeal Talbot,
and he resolved to spend the night
at the abandoned Walton plantation
In the dim light he saw its broken
fences just ahead. i
The place had been a pretentious
ona in its day, but the great freeze
of 1889.90 had ruined its master and
driven him to humbler quarters. The
blackened skeletons of the orange
trees across the way were all that re. |
mained of the ninety-thousand-dollar |
grove. Some scattering wild trees had |
sprung up, and their boughs, now
swhite with bloom, gleamed among!
their dead kindred like votive gar
lands
On the front walk weeds and shrubs
elbowed one another for existence. The
dilapidated veranda was full of pit
falls for the unwary foot. Talbot step.
ped across it, and passing through the
short hall, entered wha had once
been the drawing room.
The house had a warm, stagnant at
mosphere, and a strange, arresting
sme!l quite distinct from the heavy
mingled oders of orange flowers and
rolling vegetation oat was blown in
through the broken windows,
Talbot struck a match and in the
lights of the cheery flame looked abaut
bi
thr
done
look like
circus is done gone.”
ensible of
1 his
larger
Orge,
reckon
iike I
ng blac
to
place, with the remains of charred
wood lying in the ashes. Fragments
of laths and plaster and dead leaves
littered the floor. The ceiling bellied
like a wind-filled sail. Ona corner of
it had given away entirely, and a
wide aperture showed the blackness
of the regions above.
As the match flame dwindled, Tal-
bot's hound, young Beppo, pressed
against his master’s .eg, the muscles
across his peaked head wrinkling sus
piciously.
Talbot gathered several handfuls of
leaves and laths and heaped them in
the fire place. When these were burn-
ing brightly, he d about for
larger pl« of wood to nourish
blaze. Below the wide break in (ne
corner a portion of the celling
down like a platform. He
this with his clasp knife, fecding the
with a at a time, while the
gradually brought out
detail of the de
look some
008 the
attacked
bit
every unwholesome
room
It was still sullenly dark above,
and Beppo, who had regained
his usual animation with the
blaze, seemed to resent
He stepped gingerly ben
ind raising an
inheled dubiously
along
the
inquisitive
Then
his spine
in a ridg
In spite of himself T
ed a fealing irri
the dog away witl
ed up. but
nose,
itself
Isttle
pushed
and look
the atch f shadow
His gaze shifted toward
he wall, and suddenly remain
held by a mark so suggestiy
a moment his
beating.
A patch of some velvety
gpread its fine nap
In the center of this
to be the impreasi
hand. Ther
» thumb
th
heart
Was
and the
fingers
albot 3
Then he
he fire plac >
vanighed
jath he
* A algh
wind Ow A
tside drow
C/AVEeS
truck
measured
onant
and
as a
movement
them quickened
Kens
thao
thi
ne
ling volume «
It mada t
rast
cons
heard him g
There was
the four wall
As
upon him in a
quickly and
dried leaves
matiress
caught fairly
illumined the
himself.
rush, Tall
SWE a handtal
tind gat
ipon the embi
and a small
ronm
he here
was
With an odd, premon
ance, ha raise»
ared direc
eluct
until they =
ing hole in
of his
caped
little gasp.
A face, with human
made more terrifying by the
wild-beast body farther in the
looked down at him with crafty, deep
sot eyes, above which the Paded. brows
get in speculative furrows. [It
was a huge, circular face, with great,
flat, leathery A broken ring of
coarse red hair encircied it. Hair of
the same rusty hue covered the thick
arms down to the hands, which, black
and powerful, ched tae edge of
the gap.
The mutual serutiny
Then Tablot jerked his gun
shoulder; but as his finger
on the trigger the little fire
went out.
Although conacious that
the ceiling
body moved;
between his sharp
likeness
vague,
shadow,
its
were
cheeks
lasted but a
his
to
the ivory
he
nerves.
restrain his twitching
off with a re-
could not
The gnn went
There was a ratt'e of plaster, followed
by a heavy thud. But Taibot had no
desire to investigate the result of his
shot.
He sprang forward in the darkness,
and brought up violently against a
solid shape, apparently trying, like
himself, to gain the doorway. The
shock threw them both to the floor,
the Least on top of the man,
He felt for a moment the pressure
of a broad chest and two tremendously
long arms. Then the creature drew ft.
self slow away. Talbot had almost
got upon his feet when a handlike
paw shot out and caught his left wrist
in a grip that numbed the whole arm.
Talbot felt his hand drawn ulekly
and irresistibly forward, The next
moment he utinred a ery of pain and
horror, for thes sharp teeth of the
beast met on the bones of his fingers
with a savage crunch,
He dashed his free hand into
half-seen face of his opponent. His
knuckles slipped from the tough,
greasy skin, He struck again as fruit
lessly. The third blow caught the
on his sunken
released Talbot's
nos-
and he hand
with a grunt,
As the man sprang back on the de.
the beast turned and
using his long arms like crutches,
shuffled rapidly toward the door.
Uncertain whether the affair had
ended or not, Talbot groped hastily
until his 4 came In contact
the gun,
the empty
the
and rain-swi
aside,
hand
Slipping a
chamber
cartridge
he walked
The veranda
pt. Both Beppo
with
into
cautiously to door
bare
the crea
was
ture had disappeared
he
grass and
house, As
the
ain a
esitation
.
moment wl 0
odden
After a
on the
the corner of the
weird, bluish
falfway
of him
the light he saw
up 4 magnolia wit
fow
As darks
the
and scramble
grove
paces
heard
round
desolate
great
form
sounds,
Certain
school g¢
crealure was
orang-outan
sive
bined strength
wondered,
look about
had
Presently
y aut
Veasis
him from
The
face was
fear and
“Yep. he's
‘But just
fone
or no wet
Know there's
Youth's Co
ILLINOIS PLOUGHING MATCHES,
Unique Institutions That Have Made
Good Farmers and Mousekeepers.
Hundreds
just held
match, and
the forms
has just
twenty-geventh annual
offspring of
ars old, and
meeting.
the Wheatland ple
in Wheatland
ty, and the othe
Ploughing Match
in Big Rock to
Both of
staried by
other, the
ten ¥¢
successful
od
spaClive
wraging
furrow wit!
and
cash prizes
ing
¥ wh
piough
EAGE POuUgns
young women
em-
eh
Lae
accumulated cooking and
baking
the groun ver
gerved on
has been
organiza
the
be
$5,000
the older
proportion by
for
paid
tion, and In like
younger match.
high standard
ploughmen it is
state that the land is marked off with
the precision that a tailor uses in cut
ting a gar The ploughman, in
order to be must turn the land
in a given time, ast furrow
must exactly compiete land with
out a break To use the expression
of one of the old-time Big Rock plough.
furrow must be so #iraight
prizezs
to show the
get
in order
that waa
only n
for the
£0
ment
per fect,
and the
the
ers, “the
a mo use jump across it at the other
end.” "ie work is judged and scored
known. ploughman, with.
With the same degree of proficiency
have continued their ef
a small army of drilled
been produced in
counties. In a pericd of time,
now over a quarter of a century, pace
has been kept, étep by step, with mod
ern creations of both the neesdle and
the kitchen,
In &ll the time during which these
unique institutions have survived
without jangle of any kind the
young men and the young women have
gone to other homes. Both sexes
have found the training that the
ploughing match stirred up to be the
t valuable asset carried away fo
istant lands. The gradustes of these
near Chicago tilling and housekeeping
schools have not only taught many,
but they have raised families of their
own, who have gone forth and taught
others. The great Middie West has
had the advantage of their skill.—Chl
cago Tribune.
until
Ban Francisce has adopted the plan
of taxing each theatre pass 1v cents
for the benefit of the Actors Home,
HIS HARVEST,
“Hurrah!” cried a jubilant plumber,
We've bidden farewell to the sumber
A pipe I shall mend,
And then [| shall send
A bill that is truly a number.”
~~ Puck.
'NOUG 3H 8
Now, what
7 1 _wan
SAID,
McFlub-
is thi ie
about him.
Spinies-
collar and
McFlub~
Houston
OW Know a
Well,
hige-
Hold
Chronicle
'
on
AT THE HOOL
What do understar
he fortunes of
That's
NIGH
Teacher
by the
Fou
phrase, "1 war?
yoy
Shaggy
Haired
graft what the orfi«
Bg hen they cape
Ol
HOWI, FROM
basebail
Oh,
have a
Backlots
in some way and
POST
Manager
What alarms me
Assistant Mo
it's next to
Manager
More than
come through the
heads. —Chicago Tri
one
TOO GENE -R Al.
“But why did you let your sienog
rapher go’
“She was (00 al
“But that's a creditable
1t?
-
to husiness,
isn't
tantive
trait,
She was at-
buginess ex
veland Plain
r CARE.
body's
wasn't in
tentive to ever;
cept ther own”
Dealer
—
QUITE A SCHEME
Mrs. Subbubs—1 do wish we could
got rid of that cat
Mr. Subbubs--{real
aid if i can't get our
keep it in his office for
Mrs, Subbubs—What
do?
M~ Subbubs-~Why, robbers are
about due at the postoffice again, and
when they blow open the safe maybe
the explosion will kill the cat.—Phila-
delphia Presa.
scheme!
postmaster to
a few days.
good will that
NAME THE TOWN.
Stranger—You seem to have a good
deal of crime in your city. Have rou
no police force at all?
Native-—Yes: we have a good one,
wrestling matches and boxing oon
tests and the like, you know, and see.
ing that the law governing such
things is not evaded in any way.
Pittsburg Post.
WOULD NEVER DO,
Stranger—I want to buy a good
watchdog.
Dog Fancier--Here's the one you
want, sir. Trained by an expert. He
can tell an insurance agent a mile off.
“And what will he do then?"
“Dot He'll chew him into soup
»ones."”
“Well, he won't suit me.”
“Why? Most people want a dog
like that"
agent, you see."—Chicago Journal
PENNSYLVANIA R. R.
and Northern Central Ry.
Time Table in Eftect
TAINS LEAVE MONTANDON,
TA M.- Train 64. Week days lor Bunbury
Harrisburg, arriving at Phileds phia, 11.4% 8. m
New York 208 p.m. Baltimore 12.15 p. m., Wash
Parlor car and passenger coach
May 79, 1904
EASTWARD
ington 1.20 p m
to Phlladelphis,
9.22 A. M.~Train 30
Wilkesburre, Boranton
medinte stations, Week
reiton, snd Pottsville
saithuors, Washington
coaches to Philadelphia
120 P.M. ~Train 12
Vildesbarre, Scranton,
Dally for Bunbury
Harrisburg and lotr
days for Scranton, Ha
Philadelphia, New York
Through passenger
Week days for Bunbury
Hazelton, Pottavilie, Har
sirg and intermediate stations, srriving =
wdelphia at 6.22 p,m, New York, 6.20 p. m
wtimore, 6.00 p. m., Washington st 7.15 p. m
wr car through to Philsdelphis, and passen
couches Ww Philadelphia, Baltimore
Wat lLington,
$45 F M.~Train 832. Week days for Wilkes
barre, Foeranton, Hazelton, Pottsvilie, and dally
Lor Harrisburg sand interme diate points, arriving
it Philadelphia 10.47 p.m. New York 2.58 a. m
timore 9.48 p.m. Passenger conches to Phila
8 sud Baltimore,
M.~Train 6. Dally for Bt Hare
ud all inter: "ed inte station %, arriving «4
, New York at 7 ia m
m., Washington, 5.80 a. m=
iat sleeping gars from Harri sburg to Phils
sand New York. Philadelphia passengers
remain in sleepers undisturbed untll 7.50 &.
WESTWARD,
M.~Train8, (Dally) For Erie, Ca
Rochester, Buffalo, Nisgara Falls and
ale stations, with passenger coaches |
4 Rochester, Week days for DuBois
elonte and Pitsbur Ou Sundays onl)
Iman siesper to Philadelphia
10.00 A. M. ~Trein 81. (Daily) For Lock Haven
1d intermediate stations, and week days for
¢ riled, Philipeburg, Pitsburg and the
{, with through ears to Tyrone
LLP. M.~Tmin 61. Week days for Kane, Ty
ne, Clenrfisid, Philipsburg, Pittsburg, Canan
and utermediste stations, Syracuse
ester, Buffalo snd Nisgara Palls, with
th pa sanger cosches to Kane and Roch
er, and Parlor oar to Philadelphia
~Traln 1, Week days
ud intermediate stations
M. Train 67. Week dn¥s for Williams
t nlermediste stations rough Pario
r aud Passenger Coach for Philadelphia
M.-Train 921. Sunday only, for Wi
nd intermediate stations.
|
“iu
snbar
for Renovo,
LROAD OF
Time Table
EERE er
- oo
i rodng eave 1.
am and 448 pm
W. ATTERBURY LR
General Nansger Pass, Trafic Jigr
GEO. W. BOYD, General Pose'ger Agt
WOHOn
Thought Him Another Man,
on 0 idea how a little
per
neglect
a man’s
you've tried it
amp remark
Kio yh
"hs t to the
fever first
stayed there for
time 1
3
for a time,’
siker the
a a8 rel
other day
Klondike
gir the
Huck countr
LWOo years
no attention
beyond enough on t
warm beard were
cent of a trimmi in all that
When [| reached Skagway on my
home | was a sight
“1 registered at the principal hotel,
a little place in ‘Fifth avenue,” and
then went out to see if | could improve
my personal appearance before dinner
I got a shave, haircut and a
bath to begin with. Then I bought a
svit of clothes and complete civilized
outfit
“When 1 went in to dinner the land
Mrs. Burke, looked at me with
suspicion and asked me if 1 had regis
I was surprised.
‘Certainly,’ 1 said
together about
some time You
that, have you?
“It was not till 1 had reproduced our
conversation, shown the key w my
room and identified my baggage that
inno
time
way
time,
izoy,
‘We were talk
the Klondike for
haven't forgotten
ire
‘Well! Are you that old Banta
‘You'd better register over
5 a
hl AAAS
tne wLittie Green Man.
A pretty trick may be shows by
fashioning a little man or a pillar out
of clayey mud mixed with sand.
While the figure is still soft press
into it seed of watercress which has
been soaked for some hours in soft
lukewarm water,
When the figure is well covered
with seed set it into a plate which is
filled with soft lukewarm water
mixed with a bit of unslaked lime.
Before long the figure will be covered
with a beautiful. velvety groan sloak,
ping Mil tel
EPRING MILLS, PA.
PHILIP DRUMN, Prop.
First -cless accommodations at all tines for both
men acd beast. Free bus to and from off
trains. Excellent Livery stiached. Table
bosrd first-class, The best liquors sef
wiues at the bar,
CENTRE HALL, PA
JAMES W. RUNKLE, Prop,
Newly equipped. Bar and isble supplied
with the best. Bummer bosrders given special
Healihy wealily. Beautiful scenery |
Within three miles of Penas Cave, & most beaut
ful sublerranesn cavera ; eulrance by & boss
Well located for hunting snd fishing
Heated throughout. Free carriage to all trains
00d Fort Hote 5
IBAAC BHAWYER, Proprietor,
si. location : One mile South of Centre Hall
Acsoommodations Smtciass. Good bar,
wishing Ww enjoy an evening given
sllention. Meals for such cocasions
pared on short notice, Always
for the transient trade,
RATES: 30.80 PER DAY.
—d
Penn's Valley Banking Company
CENTRE HALL, PA,
W. B. MINGLE, Cashied
Recelves Deposits . .
Discounts Notes . ..
flotel Haag
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7. A. XEWOOMER, Prop, =
Heated throughout. Fine Stabling’
RATES, $1.00 PER DAY,
Bpecial prepasstions for Jurors, Wi
and any persous coming to Sown on special
cedtons. REegulsr boardems well cared for,
.
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