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
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hk 3.50
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WESTWARD
5333 A. M —~Tmin3d Daily) For Erie, Cane
sndaig a, Rochester, Buffeio, Niagara Falls and
termediate stations, with passenger coaches 10
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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-
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through pamenger os hes to Kane and Roch-
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PM -~Tmin 1. Week days for
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port and intermediate stations. Through Psrior
Onur end Passenger Oosch for Philadelphia.
PHP M -Tmin 221. Sunday only, for Wii
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Renovo,
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STATIONS,
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heh
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MifSinburg
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7 | Zerby
b | Rising Springs
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Gre
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| Oak Hall
i Lemont
{ Dale Summit
| Pleasant Gap
| Axemann
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Lewisburg at 7.40, Fgh wm. J0.08 a. m., 4.50, 5
pm and Sl p m
On Sundays trains leave Montandon and
00a mand 46 pm. returning leave wis
burg $.25 a. m., 10.08 a m. and ¢.48 p.m.
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