THE MAN AT THE DESK. The Man at the Desk has a patient look writ sg book, And he bends before Like a galley-slave oar. Columns of figures he marshals Piled up decimals mountains high Which seem to wellruled brain His long As he and writes {n his open his back ww the task to his hand-rubbed by, sing to his life-refrain ; — monotonous voucher, day by “Debit, credit, Discount, balance, Carried forward, So the monotonous river pay,— day; interest, duns, -— runs. The Man at the Desk look followed book; o——— “Early to bed Yet h with the patient the of the wr) uie Has copy- rise, and early to v's nelther wealthy, nor wise industrious, sober, Hone he has long mit, amount, wecount | duns — 108e arried forward, c¢ Daybeooks, st, drafthooks, inter : 1s river rums. So the moneotonot Man at the Desk wit] look Has written his Has charged amount, crossed off The And [Love count hrioht orign Yet are eye As the col Black of in [dke a last i Wallace zine, e5ese Ed Cd with that Years of a ment, of is depl COmEs fatal Wilsor to go It will financia from might story of t He day night the chief mean closed tude He came er earlier dinner wit high wife erroneous cond which he had the attention he left the was rejoiced be did not realize the perfidy” of which Shortly after dinner young couple were sitt brary, there came a 1 phone, Mrs. Wilson answered It and waa a bit disturbed when a pleasant, feminine voice asked for her husband, | She listened more closely than she might under other circumstances | when Wilson answered and she was | puzzled extremely when she heard him say: “At the Esplanade, you say? right, I'll be there in half an hour. There was a note of jubilation in his voice, and that looked suspicious, in- deed, when Wilson hurried Into hia topooat and kissed his wife good-bye, adding by way of explanation only a statement that he bad an engagement that might keep him out until later than usual, Of course, the pleasant, feminine voice belonged to an ox hou man capable happy the Hi tele. while the in ng the ing of All gagement that that know and the en regard to the could not {ell his wife but Mrs. Wilson did business of at not was with he time, this, The self to of mind follow d over that for acting time she woman allowed her an unfortunate the long hours that told herself over and had had some reason way he did, but every told herself so the memory of her husband's unexplained depar ture was recalled. In spite of her could not dissociate the two, and though they did have a vital relation it was mot of the kind at all that she imagined It was nearly 3 o'clceck the next morning when Wilson slipped quietly into the house. He felt like singing, he tiptoed upstairs- and into hig room like a thief, he should awake his wife. She, with straining this and charged it up Wilson prepared yd and to sleep like a school For the wife, there no such thing as sleep, and the fact that her did not to her seemed the final proof of suspected, It did that she had lain still must have soundly. poor little get into during She Harry the state self she but lest ears, noted all him, while went however, Vas very band weal all cur to her that she slumbering At the showed vigil. Her husband in maniike, he did ng peculiarly out of the way that she not oc and appeare table of was his usual Mrs her breakfast the effects i not notice in bear the + the Finally, when she could : silence by asking: “Where were Wilson looked INSWeTrey good-humoredly “Didn't 1 t=il You you i an engage ment! aeard phone call [ got, ‘Yes, YOu with A Bride in & Hurry. exclaimed Jane?" last man on Moggart?” rofally ver the cook marched { her by Sue, spying the room, seize Come along, her, and so too they none bishop, The Worm Turned. A village doctor whose most trouble patient was an elderly woman ically on the free list, received a rating from her one day for when summoned the night some pract sound not coming “You can go to see your other pa tients at night.” sald she you come when I send for you? Ain't my money as good as other people's.” “I do not know, madam,’ reply, “1 never saw any of It. pincott's, Cingalese medical books of the sixth century are stated by Sir Henry A. Blake, Governor of Ceylon, to have described 67 varieties of mos quitos and 424 kinds of maluria fever caused by mosquitos The pay of the Russiar private soldier has been increased more than 100 per cent, that is to say, from POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS. GREAT BRITAIN'S ADMIRABLE AND EXTENSIVE SYSTEM. Develops Nation's Thrift—Money De- posited at One Office May Be With. drawn at Any Other in the Kingdom With But Little Formality, Great Britain's Post Office Banks, which rose in 1855, thelr purpose the foster and en couragment of thrift among the er classes by furnishing a government. al depository that would be within reach of and that would offer per- fect security for the largest as well as the smallest sum Two hundred million pounds sterling or $1,000,000, 000, today represent the amount in- vested in these public institutions of Great Britaln and Ireland. The disastrous failure banks in the middle of the nine century stirred up public te dignath and the Post Office Savings Banke was the sol of a persistent prob lem that These hun start, and 1 of working class deposite all one thot Savings had for ing ] poor all, of ution worried rich alike +3 red ices represented the on pe op! @ the sand pound From the 1! the Institut} Was ured the 1 saw the importance extending the system villages sparsely istricts. Pr the advant whole lay In Office Savings Banks son the power of maki: taking money in any part of the country 'n which he be at the time without the pl where his aecount iginally opened The venture courage provision the pinning the SUCCess “Abs govern of gottled Jd to the mas that gave age as a t} S08 fact ie 1 the any per out reference Ace was ntal on- success of the induced the auth the asses 10 their old and Sir QiG governme orities to working « for for far age port of families, ups thelr as 1564 an act back ford small assuring governmens a Brit now have these A NEW ISTHMIAN "RAILROAD. Mexico to Shorten the Route Miles. about Many 10 take a iweive of Mexico is hundred-mile “Kink” of international commerce which has been using the Panama route, At the same time it will give the American transcontinental rallroads a tremen- dous shock by opening a new route from the Atlantic the Pacific which they cannot control. By end of the year the new rallroad across the Isthmus of Tehuantepee is to be opened to interoceanic traffic on a large scale. The raliroad has been completed for some time and is in op- eration for local traffic. It is only awaiting the completion of its termin. al ports to begin handling ocean freight. These ports though they will not be fully completed In less than two or three years, will soon be suf. ficiently advanced to be used by ves sels of any size, The railroad, being six hundred miles north of the Panama Rallroad, is that distance nearer the natural line of the world's east and west com- merce. It will bring New York and North Atlantic ports twelve hundred #dles, and New Orleans and Gulf out the line to nearer China York to terminal seven days, two the Atlantic raflroad Cargo at Coulzacoal- tons, can be aboard another vessel in the harbor of Salina Cruz, in four or five days. In an emer rency the trans-shipment could be ac complished in thirty-six hours The same freight could not be transferred across the Isthmus of Panama in less than three weeks, longer. At Balina Cruz, the the ves sel Is two days nearer San Francisco than it would at Panama. This serves to illustrate what the new route means in saving id's Work. hundred miles, to San Wu Japan and The from New Coatzacoalecos, the Atlantic will six or Iayve Jess to Colon, Port of the Panama from a vessel landing cos, say of 10,000 ports. fourteen ‘ancisco, sailing time port, be than possibly *acific port, ber time Nor OUT IN OKLAHOMA, Wide Land Under Vast Skies Where Flowers Tempt and Tornadoes Threaten. sutiful, bean. Here and in fis the swells, brooks run, red like wounds, or clear and gyppy Above them « But, * the Har per's Bazaar, the land curves, tremb- ling, to a The plains are as c©on- stantly as In mingled and rustles with a there, Oklahoma is be: own etwean # y all Its \ b treel never move rippling water oak, shakes hand- oaks as your by the fires, and thus attain growth Their dance all $he time, playing with the adows a restless sky, nEe masses; thundering in the ¢ in the west: shot with lightning; hazed by dust lfevably sall broken shin buffalo the wind. Shin high year the country un with EYass, under thousand of the are baby oak shin, prairie ing full full glossily ed urgence trees, off e i ty as burned very never leaves hine or the sh i » TET ing #XYy. in harry pling its clouds spitting out 81a VAS and the TAKING OXYGEN FROM AIR. Interesting Experiments Witnessed by French Savants. re at the factory witness industrial purposes of and state Con- enormous quantities of oxygen extracted in a liquid the atmospheric air. The trogen, SAYS: Claude, the the interesting process, explanations As the liquid oxygen from the generator it was bluish hue, while the nitrogen colorless Several experiments were made for the visitors to prove the Importance of having an abundant inventor of furnished the “Georges flowed out was forge set up in the grounds showed the wonderful effects of the gas. The fire which had almost. died out, was mmediately rendered incandescent by a current of hydroxide from the blowpipe. A bar of iron was brought 0 a red heat and then melted like lead. Two pleces of iron were welded in a few minutes by the ald of a pow. costly and tedious riveting will be no longer necessary; iron will be welded against Iron, copper against copper, | oto. The doctors already foresee the possible treatment with lguid alr of | certain affections of microblan origin, | such as osteomyelitis, anthrax and the malignant dieonse of the akin | termed lupus.”-—Washington Post. 290 N00 DYDD DDD NV Jno. F. Gray & Son + (Sue cdssors y . ) { GRANT HOOVER 3 Control Sixteen of the 1 Largest Fire and Life Insurance Companies in the World. . . .. THE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST . . . . No Mutuals No Ameuments Before insuring ur life see the contract of HE HOME which in ease of death between the tenth and twentieth years re- turns all premiums paid in ed. dition to the face of the policy. to Loan on First Mortgage Office in Crider's Stone Building BELLEFONTE, PA. Telephone Connection Tr rrr re rrr rrerereeeidiid Money La eency Agent Bellefonte, “The Largest and Best Bonds of Every Descrip- tion. Plate Glass In- surance at low rates. 50 YEARS’ EXPERIENCE C PYRIGHT 8 &c. 7 oy Fok { sf oA op demir way New York SOUTHERN MEXI( ys WOMEN. nd The bench ire decorated calicoes, the a brightest costumes and { golden coins and dance upon the stone floor leather sandals. -iWa IE O od wear shington Star. bars tool The men Senator Wolcott's Wit, late Senator Wolcott, who was an ardent Republican wag delivering a stump red-hot Democratic South, He had a the white people o and the negroes the ¢ The of Col in a CO large cuping galier 3. ardent to suit his Democratic hearers and after making an nnusually telling point for the Renublican side, one Southern listener gave out an im. pulsive “Rate!” Wolcott stopped short faces In the gallery ns though look. ug 1 tor aid. Finally he singled out one, and beckoning with his finger he said: “Will the waiter please come down and take the Chinaman's order” ATTORNEYS. D. F. 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P wishing to enjoy an ‘evening given attention, Meals for such ooossiond pared oan short notice. Always for the transient trade BATES : $1.00 PER DAY heel tote! MIL TEESE LHEIM, PA. I A. BHAWYER, Prop. First ola socommodstions for the traveler @ood table board and sleeping & partments The cholpest liquors at the bar. Stable age oommodations for horses is the best 10 Bg bad. Bas toand from all trains on the ey and Tyrone Railroad, at Ooburs RE, LIV] ERY. 2 Special Accor mercial 1ravelers..... D. A. BOOZER Centre Hall, Pa. Penn'a RL R Peon's Yolley Banking Company CENTRE HALL, PA W. B. MINGLE, Cashi¢f Receives Deposits . . Discounts Notes . .. ~™ alii MARBLE ao GRANITE VIONUMENTS. <e%> H. G. STRCHIIEIER, CENTRE MALL, . . PENN. Manufacturer of and Dealer In HIGH GRADE MONUMENTAL WORK In ail Kinds of Marble ano Don't fall to get my priom 4 at 3 Es Toluimoniiis Trin, Pa. — Philadelphia, Pa. LEE’ S... fists or by mail CONSTIPATION, INDIGESTION, SICK HEADACHE, John D. Langham, Holley,
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