——————— Hn A So RO Moonrise. The fernbrake trembles in the lifting dark; Pale spangles glance along the mel: lowing gray. Above the ancient wood bark Drops lily petals down a dusky bay. And cornerwise, and all a-slip, be tween troas, silver a rounded The soft shocks of ravelled lean. The cornfield chiefs make bold essay to break The moon spears, with their tawny painted shields; From mullein tent and grassy camp awake The moonlight pipers of the autumn flelds; And molst, deliclous night fragrances of light. A still, black stream cameo, Asleep in dim retreat of sycamore, Awakes, with rills of laughter, just below A curve, and from the crescent of the shore An old mill rises in the yellow mist And grinds with silent wheel, a shadow grist. —Harriet Whitney Durbin, in Every: body's Magazine inlaid with : His Heart's Brother. Je5e5a52525; Sa525282525252525252525 By C. A. Stephens. On May 26th, a few hours before the battle of Nanshan, Capt. Oka of the Ninth Tokyo Regiment was sent forward with a flag of truce on a Was a young man, barely twenty, of the Samurai class, well Speaking both French and English. From the Russian redoubts there came down to meet the white flag a leutenant, Alexander Vanncilsky, of the Archangel Artillery. He, too, was & young man, and he spoke French, a8 do nearly all the Russian officers Vannoffsky saluted sty, and the object of the flag The question raised was one which the Russian lieutenant felt obliged to refer to his superior officer. The ser geant accompanying him was there fore sent back with a written note for Instructions, and a delay minutes ensued To pass the time there waiting, Capt began con versation his youthful! opponent, very formally at first, then more cor dially. They talked of London. Paris and New York, which places both had visited In the fifteen or twenty mi waiting each had the other. And saluted to separate and go hack. was a still further exchange of cour tesles, and the young Japanese officer Placed his hand on his breast and sald, “You are my heart's brother for the future” Twice afterward, as the great glege went on and opportunity offered. Capt. Oka sent his good wishes to Lieut Vannoffsky, with the axpressed hope that no harm had come to his “heart's brother.” And in August just after the great assault when twenty-five thousand Japanese fell. the Russian was able to transmit a penciled note of greeting to this young friend of an allen race, with warmest remem- brances, and signed. “Thy Alexandro- vitch.” Amid the fearful vicissitudes of those weary days there seemed little Hkelthood that they would meet Again. Yet meet they did six weeks later—but under what terrible elr- cumstances and after what horrors! It was at the “Wedge of Death” that blood-stalntd zigzag, which Gen Nogi finally drove through the earth up to the very parapet of the lofty Russian fort, known as the Dragon.” This was after “203 Meter HII" had asked while they stood Oka with taken a liking to they there when at last “Eternal huge mortars had destroyed, by plung. Ing fire, what was left of the Russian fleet In Port Arthur harbor It was found Impossible to take Port Arthur by assault. The line of lofty broad moats, often forty feet proved inaccessible, deep, could be turned from dynamos hiden in bomb proofs. of no avail, for searchlights played the forts and for miles around After their frigh'Tul losses during were forced to adopt the slower, safer with trenches, 2Igzags and tunnels carried up beneath the walis of the forts, which were then blown up with dynamite. In this Herculean effort they @xcavated nineteen miles ol! trenches in the hard earth and rock, always at least alx feet deep and eight feet wide, frequently deeper, and covered over with planks and earth. It was one of these zigzags, now ad. vanced up near the moat of the Eternal Dragon fort, which became known to the armies as the Wedge of Death, More soldiers lost their lives hare than would have filled the trench with their bodies and covered all the ground about it four desp. It was hers that, after a savage sortfe Wm the Russians, the Japanese used ther own dead and wounded to form a flual breastwork of defense, The point of the Wedge of Death was within forty yards of the Russian parapet, and here assailants and de fenders lay watching each other through chinks between sandbags, walting for a chance to shoot. A few inches at a time a low steel screen was pushed forward by the Japanese sappers, and while Russian bullets pattered furiously about it a little more earth was dug away, and thus the trench advanced The soldiers here were relieved avery thirty minutes, Human nerves could not endure the strain longer, The beslegers were more than fifty days pushing forward this trench, inch by Inch; day, did a minute and patter of balls. Yet up and down the shattered gray was never a living Both armies were there sight. invisible, ing with grim determination fell in the open space between these grim lines there was no Biscuits and water-bottles were the Red Cross men cease firing, one, as If silenced. Then as darkness drew structed the engineers in the five searchlights on the east side one by on he in- current suddenly from the first one, had Injured the dynamos, This ruse succeeded. Thinking the moment favorable, Gen. Oshimo sternal Dragon and Keekwan forts full regiments of infantry, one of them the from their darkness, began to climb the steep mouniain side When stratagem Japanese Ninth, is trenches In Three suing silently the up the Russian disclosed hall-way was tna searchlights played again, betray ing the Suddenly assailants as Then the guns, hed shel supposed to, 1 and shrapns erian shar; filed out silenced, tel of Sit soare anglements, one of th conflicts Arthur hand-to-hand he slege of Port Mit 8 parallel #4 Neither side gained a definite ad The refuge in trenches, IvOors at fort, the and in the slope, lay five thos fesperately unable to vantage Russian sury last took their Japanese in their the killed or so that crawl away close up to Dragon. broken by a fragment of shell At about 9% that morning Lieut, Vannoffaky was looking down through a loop-hole of the fort wall above, He saw Oka stir feebly: and after a second glance through a glass he dawn, down sand wounded men, they Among the moat Capt wore the wounded, of the Eternal both legs Was Ka, o'clock Twice the Russian spoke Oka's name down from the wall not make him hear During noffsky descended to a the moat and the wounded man It fed wide or passed unnoticed; and it was not tu nightfall that the Russian was really able to do anything Then after it had grown quite dark mand the searchlights playing elsewhere, the lieutenant climbed out of the moat and crawled cautiously to where Oka lay, partly sheltered In a hole made by an sxplodi-g sha" It had been a day of frightful suf fering for the young Japanese, but he was still alive, and hearing Van. noffaky creeping near, he drew a pistol, thinking him one of the enemy come to rob or murder him. Van- noffsky laid a gentle hand on his arm, however “Fear not It is thy viteh.,” he whispered: then he grasped his hand, held a flask to his lips, and Inouired as to his wounds. The searchlight now came dancing them, and not to draw bullets. either from the fort or tha trenches both lay still. When it had passed Vannoffaky continued his tions; and at last, finding Oka quire unable to move, he resolved on an act of herofsm-—one that mig? cost him but could the Van caponiere in a flask forenoon Lieut toaged over to were ing him down the slope to the Japanese trenches. And that was what he did, taking the little fellow on his back and crawling slowly on hands and knees down the slops, stop- ping always when the searchlight came that way. Thus it happened that at about 2 o'clock that night a Japanese soldier on duty in the Wedge of Death heard a slight noise at hand, and cocking his rifle, challenged sharply. “Hola!” “It is a friend,” was the Russian’s immediate reply. And then on the very brink of the trench appeared Vannoffaky with Capt, Oka on his back. The Japanese soldier pulled them both down into the zigzag, and Oka feebly explained the strange sltuation, time the officer in charge was in great doubt as to his ¢luty, whether or not to hold the young Russian as a prisoner of war since he had unavoldably seen their trench. But after a little conversation mer gallant sentiments prevailed Vannoffsky was bidden to and he reached the Dragon fort safety, At the surrender of Port Ideut. Vannoffsky became a of war in earnest, but he mitted to be the guest of his "heart's brother,” then convalescing at his Japanese home.—Youth's Companion, For a Japanese retur Arthur prisoner was per VANISHING GAME BIRDS, er Than the Reproduction, The general prospects this season for good prairie chicken shooting one of the keenly popular upland sports wth dog and gun-—seem in the main to be unfavorable Undoubtedly there are small acres here and there, mere nooks in comparison to the whole vast prairfe habitat of the pin- nated grouse, which contain birds a plenty and which sport for favored have the hundreds take investi the few who shooters, who their preliminary and disappoint. of chicken chances without gation, much fallure ment are in store The reports districts grouse in times ance, or at least plentiful afford good indicate an un usual scarcity. Undoubtedly the destruction eof tho pinnated production. The decrease in it bers seems to be steadily progres with the passing the habitat of species also ually diminishing, manifested by extermination of the certain from many of the the were in where pinnated past abund- sport, grouse is greater Years The thouzh this the entire section, nou abandonment of ft The change from dearth comes about gections in former forded afford abundance SDOT ( Dot i snare pot meager from pl recent conditions with thos Years years ent shooting fifteen or twenty into sicuous relief give the scarcity of the Twenty Ago prairie chicken, beginning in Wes Louisiana and Texas, through the prairie region of the Mid. die South and West, far up into Brit. and plentifully stocked chickens, was far in excess of chicken ihitat of leptiful as the birds coupled a leasened habitat in number a visit Ona CONS] decrease, which has present YOATS the habitat ¢ extending ish America, wit} prairie the were far less when Audubon, on wrote of them as being there and destruc they Httle pest and to Kentuel v, 80 over-plentiful that being a were Forest tive to crops short of Stream Matrimony and Tongues. A young woman who had graduated from and then taken a ter's degree roturned home, after two abroad, to find that during her a’sence her native viliage had fitted her out with an embarras sing reputation for learning To her mingled annoyance and amusement, she discovered that peo ple were surprised to see that much like other ordinary and agreeable persons, and that perhaps this educating process she was capable of sustain ng the rela tions of ordinary life Among those who called to see her soon after her return were two sac ond cousins, girls in thelr early tosna Their surprise at finding the much discuseed master of arts so “perfectly lovely” appeared during the Inter view ‘n their iorgenuous remarks As they were departing from the yard their words fo tel up through the open window to the smussd M. A “Just think,” said one girl, impres sively, “she speaks roven languages!” “And yet” ered the other, "she would made #stre man a real sweet wife!" "- Youth's Companion. « Thumping. Mr. Kipling is still alive and uses language vigorously, He says he goes down to the cape In Africa every year to see the first chapter of Gene sis alive, the world In creation, a civ. lization which is being made out of fragments. When tha operation Is further advanced Mr, Kipling will put it in a poem marked by his thumping power of expression.--8t Louls Globe-Demoerat. The bleycle industry ks still flourish. collegas mas years of travel she Conducted by J. W. DARROW, Chatham, N. Y., Press Correspondent New York State Grange JUVENILE GRANGES. THEIR ADVANTAGE TO THE 8SUB- ORDINATE GRANGE, tlon—lirange Speakers at Fairs and How Falrs and Granges May Co-operate. Juvenile granges are numbers slowly, but increasing In surely. When preparing for it an interested, intellf- gent and enthusiastic membership, is understood they will meet with greater approval and will increase more rapid- ly. The difficulty In organizing a ju venlle grange is not that there are too few children who would be interested fn it, but to secure for the organization & matron who will assiduously devote their efforts. The juvenile grange has its own ritual and staff of tron be chosen to superintend and di rect the young folks and assist wher- ever assistance may be needed. The gree work and in the transaction of all any one in the subordinate One of the most enthusiastic bellev- E. Harris of Greenville," O., who says full of good results that we feel that we would not keep our vow to work others to organize Juvenile The possibilities of useful more than we ever dreamed. Eranges ness are From the very In fact, “Well, 1 but the children were bound to It Is a drawing card for the grange But this is the plea 1 make, though It is a good one The great reason is that ages tired, come.” not between the preasionable years. During these years the plastic mind of the and retains bad which last throughout life impressions for Influences a great rit tunity | 44 opportunity is value Ti: after fourteen, you say? iben why is It skilled workmen ars that needed in the are There delicate brought arts and from the crafts they old country? and crafts, and vears perfect the never be attained in life by those who CO-OPERATION PROPOSED. A Grange Principle That Is Not Over. worked, Members of the grange may take a lesson from farmers on Long Islan attempting to cooper ate for thelr vicinity of the action of mutual welfare In tiverhead, N. Y., there are 10,000 acres devoted to po- tato culture, and the farmers there be that hase supplies in bulk and profit by the econ- omy as well as obtain cheaper freight rates hy shipping in earload lots eve they can pur considerable money to its members The cost of cauliflower seed has been $22 to $20 a pound In ne cases, Practically any intelligent farmer with a few acres In cauliffower Is now assured of a net profit of from £1,000 to $3,000 Not at all unusual Is the case of August Le inst year realized $300 an acre from twelve acres set out In cauliflower, This is in direct line with the prin ciples and purposes of the grange, and Yet co-operation as a practical is not known to many granges, it about time “to get together?” Grange Speeches Worth Money. Overseer George A county fairs with Press belleves he is right. censions and fast “hosses,” and if they grange orator a drawing People go to fairs to see the sights and the crowd and One county fair People came to see him and the $1,000 cow and the big pumpkins. What he sald no one remembers now, and little attention was given to it at the time. Unless he gave his speech to the papers balloon. —Utlea Press, A Profitable Grange Fale. The grange at Copake. Columbla county, N. Y., held a fair and sale a short time ago at which the receipts were $650, of which $500 was put into the treasury, Quite a neat sum that! Sparta grange, Crawford county, Pa., claims to be the largest grange in the state. It haz a membership of 407. The last class ij itiated numbered fifty. seven, Money in Growing Ginseng | Prof. W. L. Howard of the Missouri State Agricultural College says: “I advise American farmers to cultivate Gin. seng. Big profits may be realized. It is a hardy plant and is casily grown.” —A recent bulletin issued by the Pennsylvania State Agricultural College in part says: “ The supply of native Ginseng root is continually diminishing and the price per pound is correspondingly increasing, while the constant demand for the drug in China stands as a guarantee of a steady market for Gin. seng in the future. The market for our cultivated root will ex. ist as long as the Chinamen exist.” —Consul General W. A. Rublee of Hong Kong says in the U. 8. Consular reports: “ The sale ot Ginseng root grown in America is very large here and the demand is so great that much more could be disposed of ad- vautageously. The root is as indispensable to the 460,000,000 Chinese as is their rice.” Ginseng is a staple on the market the same as corn, wheat and cotton. The present market price varies from $5 to $8 per pound soning quality, while the cost of production does not exceed $1.50. here is room in an ordinary garden to grow several hundred dollars worth each year. The plant is hardy and thrives in all pana of the United States and Canada, exoept in arid regions. © are successful growers and can show you how to make money growliug Ginseng. You can get a good start in the business for a smal outlay, and soon have a comfortable in- come. We have several thousand ehoice roots for sale for fall delivery. The planting season begine in August and continues till the ground is frozen. Write us today for literature. Buckingham’s Cinseng Carden Zanesvllle, Ohio. AEA ER EC i CVD NN DYN NVR VYWR i i ATTORNEYS. | ARGEST [NSURANCE ¢ ©. == Agency IN CENTRE COUNTY ATTORNEY AT-LAW BELLEFONTE, PA ! Ww. BARRISON WALKER ATTORNEY -AT-LAW BELLEFONTE, PA » m - m z p- Oo z No. 18 W. 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