A Quaint Fellow. O' Uncle Nad, he's a crank, it 1s rald; He never takes notice, but jes’ goes ahead. “he boys they throw jeer at his clothes, ol' Uncle Ned EOOS, Singin’ An’ jogging snowballs, an’ But unconcernedly a song along. He says a harsh word never lessens his joys, It doesn’t hurt boys. Besides, never that they say, busily pled, day Singin’ a song An’ joggin' along. him and amuses the he hears anything He's ifter day, occu He says that he's sorry fur folks that must gain Their fun by an effort to pain, It's so easy to heal reckon y A deal rains a good By jes’ singin’ a song An' jogging along. —Washington Star. JOHN MARSTON’ HOUSEKEEPER. BY C. V. MAITLAND. ‘Dare 1 take this place?” garet Lester up and down to herself, her small top in her hands. She glanced, ing brown eyes with care in the lov- upon the little seven years, since theirs had died, garet went over in her mind all long seven years, in which she worked for them with willing hax vet had omly been able, just keep the gaunt wolf from door. And now how even that? The fine which could needlework and embroid had barred him out seven years, she could 40 2 no more for her sight was falling- said of overwork. She had advertised in situtation as governess; she vertised and for all And never an answer the one io ery y of, the vain had ad- places. come io her morning's newspaper. She smoothed for the time ‘If A. who has been advertising in this has not found a tion ekeeper, she may by calling bet and o'clock at 7 Washington place.” She dropped caning on ths ing into the searchingly, she the her half it back “No, no! done their aloud to the mirror. Madge gold and hair, laughter from the What twenty-six Besides, I've and I last met tle Madge Lester and in her stead, see—Anne Brown; it out again third paper, situa- as hous do so ween five the paper, and looking and drew ou soft bre cheek ROTTY again. long the nine work she pale, worn There Lester he the 2's nothing Knes frou careless once curl are gone merriment and the eyes, the roundness from the t to have feared id be the nonsense like #0 much nine has gone tall A. B. that cou grown since ago. Lit forever, let will Years yes, do.” hey busy hands smoothing down hair about her face, close bonds to the temples tin git away behind her ears ty, classic style enough, upon which only an would venture. It makes the face look and less like, garet knows, the young Madge ter in the floating cloud of sunny hair, But when she takes she is dissatisfied. thoughtful for a moment, then aside to a chest, from which draws a close crape bonnet and veil, and puts them on, with tender, lin- gering touch, for they were once her mother's. She has dragged something else out in the folds of the crape veil Only a pair of spectacles—some relic which her mother kept. Margaret is abuot to put them back when a sud- den thought strikes her. She goes to the mirror, and puts them on instead. And Bessy looks up from her doll upon the hearthrug, and claps ‘her small hands. “Look, Lulu-— grown so old!” Margaret stoops down to the two {ittle ones and kisses them. Yes, sis ter Margie has grown old, has put away all her sweet youth for them. Then she hurries down, and out of doors. She has slipped her spectacles into her pocket, on leaving her room, and she walks on without them in the gathering dusk. She has no need pf them, but she puts them on again, al “hough they blind her a little as to helght and pumber of steps, when she goes, looking up in the dim light, that thie, Is 7 Washington place, and she must mount to the front door. “What name?’ she is asked, when anc but one elder older, Les- down her hat She turns she look! Sister Margie's she tells the old servant that would sec her master, “Annie Brown,” she she hesitates a little, the widow's cap in her “Mrs. Annie Brown” the servant leads her into the library. Left Margaret draws a breath glances around her. It i is nine vears since she was n. this last--since the ball when | 1 | i she says, and then | remembering crape bonnet. | adds, and | the hall she ACOH alone heavy as she long library Mars had his mother's to be his wife; and angry and she lwmd and the next Then upon John ton asked her here under in this same library, and she been piqued with him some trifle, scorned flonted him day he abroad, her father had come him with crash, and In a little while were lost to all thel roof, had for | and had BOLE ure den esters acquaint first old fi: ances porirait Lire Older lon yea John Marston! knew him, nine vet, she says to herself, have dealt with him far more gently than with her, if this is like him now: and i he thinks this, there muffled in | and with faces those comes a her, the heavy hurried him. Has he in the and i for ful ; doorway stood minutes watching '? Has he med to well? read his face, as round to him. handing him his hich clipped ou for le bow open before he approached the clear<ut profile tu which he If he of all turns slowly She is ment, newspaper. It after she adds once knew so has, she does not this in advertise | t of hor Her she has CAND speak her Hitt the as well as and then “I have I may answer sore need of it are initials, Mrs servant told me. What stand for?” words, once, sir, the hoping I have come at for place, ‘These Brown, the does the A ‘Anne.” He your looked at her quickly. But she is not looking at him; and presently he asks her ly to take “You the once?” pause “Sore A sSoat place at the Nee littl iris that d bel here,” dependent on Not wanting bring hem me, to added. ‘Two litt] iris!” he hard How old ar and and harsh ¢ they repeals, his voice Two littl “The; They i front of somewhat | eht i thon | lelicate a yeh laugh Anne place, | then, Brown, that if my place then you y hi in the first place you fed offer pro wages.’ Not—pa y me First ing about ept pose tO pay you any-—wages!' the must advertisement my want clearly. I want a true; but I want to wife, not second this get fo “In piain does no gether | keeper, it is her as my place, 1 that » here rth alto as a vant.” It is much advertised vers and coolly have | same | said quietly he might, if he for a wife In chose, that as newspaper. But Mrs she is not Anne Brown is not cool; quiet. She has her face in one bright started to , ANKry glow, “You and thi Mar life, again, | time for a wife For me, I will hire my strength, to the last drop of blood that not my not even children’s bread!” Her volce breaks there, eeps back the sobs He catches her hands in one of his while with the other he deftly draws | away the spectacles. And when she looks up, in a tremble of indignation, | she meets his earnest, honest with something in them that she derstands as well as his words. “Madge, Madge! you thought you could deceive me with a pair of spec tacles and a pair of twins! As if I did not hear of the twins when 1] ame back from the Continent after Mr. Lester's failure, and tried to find | you out. But when I came back to look for you, no one could tell me anything about you.” Margaret force herself to at him ateadily. “We left london for some time after the failure,” she explains. “Papa tried hard to get something to do, but he could not, and his health broke, then mamma's’ — Tears fill the soft hrown eyes, “And you would have really come here as my housekeeper? You would have been a menial here, under my roof, Madge?" “Why not?” she asks. "I wanted bread for the children. Won't you really listen to my application for the place?” had better advertise ston. my but love the but she eyes, un- look up “I've made my offer,” he replies in tone, as he up te her think that doubt they meant for and have than my He has drawn her closer to him now, the brown head, with the rusty black bonnet falling from it, lving on his shoulder. He knows that he keeper engaged-—New GRAND DUCHESS SERGIUS. the same “Why, Madge, the hot brow agaln those words wore meant for you because | always loved life?" my blood “you Boe flame can't can't and you you, love vou, bet. his hous News, has York Noted for Her Beauty and Talents Strongly Resembles the Czarina. Feodorovna, the rand Russia, was bomb of an assassin Elizabeth Duchess Sergl of who widowed maost ald to be om [ the beaut women In Europe. Czarina and the daughter of the gifted Prin. Allee of Hess i who dered the Host rilliant of late Queen Victoria's She is ther the of the Queen, duchess is de high bred fea sique and a re Her resemblance to ful and she is the the elder aister of con daughter late grand Fr delicate, cribed as autiful phy gence, her sister, The grand Darmstadt therefore the Czarina, Is marked horn 1564, Years when duchess wa i and old. was on November 1, about forty She was only twent she married Although NCOHERH the little German made such grand mar neither ha had what the American woman would re py, ¢ westic life. The was the both t riage average i as a hap Duke Sergius, It is said wife to the Grand not above treating with greatest harshness, even of beating hes ndeed, the strong ‘fctoria to the the Czar on the uncle, point opposition marriage of sald to ina to based which the Czar's treated rutality with the Grand Duke Bergius his wife As the uncle of General of had grand dd the Governor of the the of a zar and the ike, wife the C the Moscow, salon has been one of iished in Europe ¥ and lways grand duchess most disting of come generally for have beed formed a Moscow singers wel iricals some harits + object given frequently leading son The complishment hav © a “frees amateur fled LY maid instead won fame she two of HO Was wEanat DEADHEAD TIMBER. from Bottoms. River River give up een con “Dead muck dis river that ha walters representing a Norway (Mich) en from Tews men ice dams since SOREON { piling them up have {feot before bank to dry ae men covered 3,000,000 and break-up In spring amount will be heavily added to How many feet of logs on the janner the th million lie of the stream it is eatimate; yet for the timber has been float- and always has become here is amount now bottom imposaible to past fifty years down the Menominee sunk, unt s to the no limit steadily from that will be raised on The and than the well more beneath nher price YOArs ago as a driv: 100,000,000 “deadheads” are are really worth when they disappeared a poor quality of lu today commanding a betler than did the best product At the height stream, presery ed now waters, of its record more than nominee in a single season, and the eatimated can be mill in years » it is roughly sunken timber to keep a saw continually for that enough recovered operation come, An Automatic Calculator, To the housewife with a poor head for figures and the jaded business man who has much adding up to do, a new invention from Germany, soon to be placed on the British market should prove a great boon, says the London Express, The invention is an adding machine made of steel and aluminum. It is aboat six Inches long, and can be carried in ita neat leather case in the breast pocket. There {8 a keyboard of nine figures, and an extra spring to register the tens and hundreds. Long columns can be added up merely by pressing the keys, and the result {s shown on a small dial. The machine wil add up w an unlimited amount, NOTES AND COMMENTS. men In would, if The time wasted by pemoaning thelr poverty properly utilized, enable ving, wisely News Ome them a good H remarks the Chi CARO That almost sible mortality list disease hardest lical scientists of clviliza Louis Democrat from is the the Japanese ever by med tion, the St Glohe ingham has had This near) Birm I Cari dollar fire. ham into the timaore ¥ fram itd HOCIPDALILIE nglon row! great only here, | of the to the not United State ever i, Post dive us the prac great evil ready p CARO gent this ticable the Make the carrying concealed that als will hes regard this law for pe nal Weapons sO Be — ardened crimin dis even the most he itate when tempted to jaw. ~~ hic 4 ‘ago Pos jage whicl A carr Sherman, and greater Wan! portion Numerou template viref aren oe prefered Newark (N fama, now formerly go Tashiumi half a mile finer $ giretchion SOT, Wie astery of than f a betans have wel Mission most the jially, with Cor members vided Trees ed safe fidential omm able secrets ever began, until now, have they been in cious The communi Paducah which chal tention by an explosion an and articulate that there iz buried worth tree It recipients of and the unications gince discreotly tres at loqua tive audible laims then in guage prox at its roots treasure ia perhaps not a normal behaving as and if it Is been killed by the tramp- multitudes which it prociaim its will be it right That it keepx on though dead is disquieting. its reputation for veracity No one appears lo gays, and if the treasure really at its roots, it is probably in the safest place which found for iL cers a well-con- ducted tree should true that a has ling of the secret, the general verdict served talking Obviously i is not good lieve what it be could be The London Spectator judges lack the standing the English judges have, that rich men dare not openly the law in England aa they do In America. There is some truth in admits Harper's Weekly. Sue cogs in money making has overshad- says our and prestige and the last forty years, and besides that, there is not the game reverence for official power and place in this country that there is in England. England is still an aristoo- racy, where inferors instinctively look up to their superiors. Part of the to the habits of mind of the popula- tion they help to rule. Our demo cratic communities will hardly be in. duced to regard with like awe the judged who serve them, however wor: thy they may be of the highest re- spect. Our judges, as it is, ungises- tionably make themselves respected, but we think it ia true that an Amer fean judge is not, relatively, as big a man as he was forty years Ago. TOOK LUNG JOURNEY ALONE, Child of 8 Travels From Hungary te : Pittsbura Wearing Tag. After heing «&f miles from Marie Majun first time In tion ye Pitt tots n of her her only identifi ney by sea gEeparated vy thousands her family, 8.yearold Zz met her moth for four year sterday, says a sburg, Pa. A tag ame Pitt 02 Bhel cation and the family and lan to the in Pitt Pa foot burg Bears Invade a City into wing her Sloper be found-—Sacra us” Parrots. i ClO8e obs Taste and Smell in Sexes. MM. Vaschide and Toulou by perimen that se have women » a finer } than men s tr not only for the sensatio of odors wn ly ox Society "of chide has to the smmuni Biolog exte sense of taste the M. Vas researches n and women. The defined, a drop of placed on the tongue in each case against the palate. The general was that a man has a finer taste for salt than a woman. Sk has he for bitter. For and acid men and women have an almost equal sensibility, both in sensation and per ception. na now tests were strictly liquid be hen pressed result sweet Half-Pound Baby Doing Well. Little Bridget Maud, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Michael Clinch of Nor walk, Conn., who when born weighed just half a pound, has lived now for something over a month, weighs five pounds and is healthy. ATTORNEYS. C? LEMENT DALE ATTORNEY AT-LAW BELLEFONTE, FA Office NW, corper Diamond, two dooms from First National Bank. he Ww. Ga RU NKLE ATTORNEY-AT-LAW BELLEFONTE, PA All ¥inds of legs! Rusines attended to prose ply fpecial atteniton given to coliections. Ofoe, MW Goor Crider's Exchange. rw N B. EPANGLER ATTORNEY-AT-LAW BELLEFONTR.PA Practioes in all the courts. Consultation ir Roglish and German. Ofoe, Orider’s Exchange Buikiing. ro BP 60 YEARS" EXPERIENCE _— A handsomely Mlustrated week A of any rot Co. Yo. on lew § Y Spring Mills Hotel SPRING MILLA, PA, PHILIP PRUNN, Prop, First clam scoommodations at all times foy men and beast, Free bus to snd tisins. Excellent Livery attached. board firslclass. The best liguoms wices st the bar, Cele Hal Hotel CENTRE HALL, PA JAMES W. RUNKLE, Prop, Newly equipped. Ber and table with the best. Bummer bosrders given attention, Healthy locality. Besutiful scenery Within three miles of Penns Cave, & most ful sublerranesn cavern; entrance by a Well located fo ting and fishing Heated Free carriage to Rips Old Fort Hotel — ISAAC SHAWVER, Proprietor. #8. location : One mile South of Centre Hell Ascommodstions Sretcless, Good bar, wishing Ww enjoy an evening given sttention. Meals for such cocasions pared on short notice. Always for the transient trade, RATES: $1.90 PER DAY. r hun throughout wid Penn's Valley Banking Company CENTRE HALL, PA. W. B. MINGLE, Cashie] Receives Deposits . . Dlectiats Nous <> LIVERY .« Special Effort made to Accommodate Com- mercial Travelersoee D. A. BOOZER Centre Hall, Pa. Para RB PENNSYLVANIA R. R. Philad. & Erie R. R. Division and Northern Central Ry. TRAINS LEAVE MONTAXDON, EASTWARD. TEA M.-Train 84 Week day for Bun Hurrbburg, arriving et Fhilsdel hia, 11.488 New York 208 p. m., Baitiore 12.15 p. mm. W 20pm Parior car sod passenger isdeiphia, $20 A. M~Train % Wilkemsbarre, Scranton moedianle stations. Week seiton, and Pottsville. Phi Baltimore, Washington coaches tv Philadel phila Week days for Bunbury, HazeMon, Pottsville, Har termediate stations, arriving «fF in sé po ia m,, New York, 2.30 p. m. Pp =m, Wash Raton st 7156p mm in a 4 a " Baltimore snd Daily for Sunbury Harrisburg and izntes days for Scranton He isdelphia, Kew York, hiro Ugh a Sars for Wilkes ottaville, and dally aiints, arriving hk 3.50 1 Bee] and Re in in sleepers undisturbed untii 7 WESTWARD 5333 A. M —~Tmin3d Daily) For Erie, Cane sndaig a, Rochester, Buffeio, Niagara Falls and termediate stations, with passenger coaches 10 rie and Rochester Week dare for DuBois and Pittsburg Ou Bundays only al sieeper Lo Philadelphia BAM. Train 81 1 intermediate # wd week Says for Tyrone, Clearfield lipsburg, Pittsburg snd the West with through oars to Tyrone IBF. M~Train 61. Week days for Kane Ty rope Clearfield, Ph I paburg Fitsbu Canun- fAaigua and intermediste sisal “3 Rochester, Buffalo and Nisgars Falls, with through pamenger os hes to Kane and Roch- ester, and Parlor oar to Philadelphia PM -~Tmin 1. Week days for Emir and intermediate stations 1007 P. M.~Train 67. Week days for Williams port and intermediate stations. Through Psrior Onur end Passenger Oosch for Philadelphia. PHP M -Tmin 221. Sunday only, for Wii famsport and Intermediate stations. For Lock Haven Renovo, AND TYRONE Week Days EAILROAD. 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