The Dark House, Midnight, and down the silent street Only the faithful watchman’s feet Shuffling along his lonely beat, House after house he passes, all Allke-~black window and black wall— Wrast in the shadow woven pall, At last—one window and a light, And persons moving left and right The weary watchman sees tonight. But of the many houses none Is dark as this wherein les one For whom the Day of Life is done Frank Dempster Sherman, in the New York Sun 2525ps25e5e5ese5esesesesaseseseses: MY DEAR OLD FRIEND, & 2525252525252525, S2525252525525252 I had just come out of the postoffice when [ caught sight a face that seemed familiar to me, It was that of a man of about my own age, with bronzed features and a somewhat attenuated figure. As | was trying to recall when and where [ had seen him before our eyes met, | immediately perceived that our recognition had mutual, for he came toward me frank expres- of been with saying: “Halloa, thought of know why this, and I don't attempt to defend it; but is a style of address affected by some men who are indly aston- ished if meet you in a restau- rant as if they had in the mines of Siberia bit ity, sakd, fell who'd | old Ow, seeing vou here he sal as proto they run across a littl original I felt annoyed at his want of smiled ha pleasantly, nds however, | as I shook i old fel low, seeing you he We few emptily ing, anc and he side, r for a somewhat stood opposi setonds, simpe at nature strug galing to recall i 3, with his head slight and an suppressed amusement on his as if my the postoffice was plicable freaks of chance f is hope! sonable expression Yer iy presence on the ste one of those (nex 1 which e8s8 to seek to a law. tle embrassi Well, hat have this Lillis you moment hesi withi ir you went as though the exact cal myself day depar I ure ree Vears quite ago," in sho ong he put enough an over inn of recall no my + to gather mind my ances three trace com panion fresh information, ‘And what sort of a tis had dab Oh fore” the sar with much al answered, air. had a8 we yout he slightly puzzied He mine, easy sald: ml dine with this evening. Now don't engaged.” het added as an instant between my more of my inlination to fences: his up slipped arm town with lowship, th walked of sense good and “Of course yi say I hesitated for and under companion dine know ly disappointed if met you and let long talk, and I row.” my falas awful nre pr “you they'll be hear off them they you alk join tomor- I felt constrained to consent against my better judgment, and added, in a playfully solicitious manner: “And how are they all?” “Oh, they are all tiptop—all except the Colonel;” & a slightly subdued air--"1 don’t he has ever quite got over that af- fair.” “Ah,” 1 rejoined, shaking my sympathetically, “one doesn't over that sort of thing in a day, know, but the others? “What others,” he bluntly I hesitated and rejoined vaguely, “Were not some others?” He pondered heavily onds before replying: there were some others, made no difference.” I was just murmuring, not,” when he turned to me abruptly and said: “I hope doh’t he came badly oat of that business?” His hand seemed to relax its pres get you said, there for a few Yes, 1 but they “Very likely you ing himself for some censure or act of coldness on my part I felt touched by this little proof of his sensitiveness to my good opinion, and preased his fingers as I rejoined, warmly: “lI never, never heard any one speak otherwise than highly of his conduct In the matter.” He stopped and said, shortly: “Why, who knows anything about it? 1 thought you and I had it all to ourselves.” “Yes, yea,” 1 faltered, and addod, you know you have been away for sane time, old fellow.” It did not seem to fit in very well; but he accepted it as an argument, and said: “There is something in that; don’t let people talk about it. he relies upon you and me.” There was something go touching in the reliance of this unknown, that a glow of sympathetic affection “oe but I know warmed my heart, and ¥ resolved on the spot that his confidence should not be misplaced. Come what might, the secret of that old man's life should never be betrayed by me. Oth- s might make it a subject of club gossip tea-table tittle-tattle, but no word of mine should add one drop to the cup of bitterness that had been placed at his lips. There are pas sages in the lives of all of us which we would wish to have buried in ob- livion—the thoughtless follies of youth the unworthy ambitions of manhood, and the selfish jealousies of old age; who 1s there that can stand up and say, therk is no episode in his life he would not have expunged, forgot ten or condoned? We had turned into a restaurant for a bit of dinner, and those thoughts passed through my mind as we ate our fish. My companion pondered sad- ly for a few seconds, and then, ahak- ing himself together as though to throw off an unpleasant train of thought, said: “Now, tell me about yourself, wife, and family.” Before | had time to what might the result closure, 1 ted out the truth: “1 have He he said: er or your reflect upon of my dis simple be blur wife” intensely no surprised, as ‘My dear fellow, I am very never heard”"—He paused, and again I blurted out: “l never had one.” A look of extreme palin spread over He leaned hand sym- looked SOITY his face as he heard this. the table, and laying his with infinite ACTroOss mine, sald, ought to have Forgive that | not old fellow, sald asked vou me, and forget have those clammy hand and gshould detect the guiltiness of my face. I had onfirmed in a suspicion that gradually dawning upon my , that I had never upon host bef that and that I arried away by some (n- resemblance to by lest he gel eyes ore day, h i wd aa been «¢ rable chance some remote tance, and his acquain cordial was no blinking the Everybody that he own apparent recognition re total stranger to incident that [| men. to drawing h ¥ iim ind a blank have and Mach would da” 10 news, of my in emed to him mat- onishment, and often he lon’t tell me as [ con some specially startling piece sonal However, ner news pe news, for and my mind ing desireg to escape his identity us,” he said hands pre the time ileparture torn 1 ae was to ascertain and shook leaving 3, certainly,” I come wee replied: putting up now I quarters™ where “Oh. turned “What is asked, desperate can’t do than take and we parted never Jt. James Gazette ire you same ok way t« last and the best a8 a hope, better gether “Yom again. Albert Sidney Johnston. Of all truly great Americans, least fs personally known of the chieftain who fell at Shiloh, and whose fall be gan the gerieg of fatalities which at tended the Confederacy to the end, seeming to show that Providence was on the side the Union Though Kentucky born, ney of Albert Sid Johnston came of the oldest and New England stock. Not less than Robert E. Lee he was the ideal Christian soldier, not than Lee a mast of the art of war. Had lived his fame would not have been by that of Lee; even of Lee, it belongs as a her to the North and to the best lesa er eclipsed than that itage both South Johnston was the rose and ex ancy of the young Confederacy, as he had been of young Republic of whose army be commanded, Cavalier. He seemed born to the purple of the patrician. But his forebears were Yatkee to their bootheels, mariners, scholars and fizhters the old Connecticut line. Intellectually he was the South's first man when the trial came, and, had he been spared, this would have re vealed itself conclusively, and equal ly in the council and in the field. Hie untimely faking off seemed then and it seems now a destiny -lLoulsville Courier-Journal, more pec t the of An Exchange of Relics. Much excitement has been caused in Anjou by the report that France intends to hand over to Great Britain the tombstones and monuments of the Plantagenet kings who were buried in Fontevrault Abbey. It is to be hop ed that the Government will seize the opportunity of claiming from Eng land some of the relics of French glory which she still holds unduly. fiche de Paris. LIFE'S LITTLE PLEASANTRIES REVISED VwRSION, There was a man in our town And was wondrous wise, He ran into a bram! le bush And put out both his eyes. Then, when he found what done, With all his might and main He ran to a bank and got a job director.—New York Tribune. he he NECESSARY LIMITATIONS a diet to cook Physlclan—I would Patient—Well, [t something that agrees suggest will have with the HIS IDEA OF TRAINING Tom-—Well, well; ia hat? His Sister med, you Tom-—Too Press, that your new has to be trim Oh, it ROUSE Philadel large, eh? )D EXCU do A GOI Why from | Lawyer excused Talesman Lawyer evowhlla $154 (ING DOINC fF th 0 ie was the stin SHAKES HIS FA TH » + in signs How" “A certain man has owed me 1 fon im Vhenever | rr thant RUBBING He—~Why did you through the play that woman who drumming the same tune over and in your apartment Why didn't you forget it and the performance? ; She] didn’t want to. The woman I was talking about sat right in front and heard everything I said. —Detroit Press IT IN keep harping all on Keeps ¥ over house 7 enjoy Froe A BARGAIN ‘Yes, when she turned I told her I felt like thirty "If had said twenty-nine she would probably have taken Houston Post me down cents.” you you.” ENJOYMENT “What do you most enjoy tomobiling 7” “The sense of about aw relief” answered M1 Cumrox, “when I get to the end of a trip and find that nobody has beeu hurt." Washington Star. EXPLAINED. you mean by scene “What a great ma?" “Why, we have one. Didn't you see the villain get tanked in the barroom scene? Cleveland Plain Dealer. HARD 10 ou: NDERSTAND. Bibbs-—Bome people get everything they go after, Gibbs—Yes, and others don't seem to get what's coming to them.—No vember Smart Sot do tank advertising in your melodra AFTER THE ICE MAN The great astrologer pointed to an ominous group of stars, “They tell me that you will be rob bed by a dark man before another moon” whispered the prophet, “Have you any idea who this dark man yan be?" The domestic man smiled sadly. “The coal man, of course,” he sigh ed. Chicago News, —— OAS = | STATE oF PENNSYLVANIA Latest News Gleaned From Various Parts. C. A. Stewart, of Wellsboro, whe { hunting near Antrim, killed the big gest fox seen in that vicinity in many vears. It measured six feet from tip | to tip. Foxes are nearly extermin- ated in the locality, The members of Bradbury Post, No, 149, G. A. R., of Media, celebra- ted the fortieth anniversary of the formation of the Grand Army of the Republle. A delegation of Pennsylvania phar macists called upon Governor Penny- packer in behalf of the candidacy of L. O. Milton, of Condersport, for the vacancy on the State Pharmaceutical Board, ereated by the removal of Paul W. Houck, of Bhenandoah, re- The rectorship of St. James' Epis- copal Church, Evansburg., which has been vacant for ral m nonths, has been accepted by Rev. F. 8. Ballen- tine, of Chester Clinton Gates peeve County , & public-spirited cit- has agreed to macadamize four quares streets of West Conshohocken it his own expense, fully $4000 Miss Ella Kriebel, of Centre Point, Montgomery uty, was fatally in- jured runaway, and her mother, Mrs. Hiram Kriebel, was badly hurt. An alarm clock frustrated a burg- t the home of John Woodward, ly the other morning. bed Harry Wood- Pl elphia & Iron Company office the alarm for 5 » must have fixed it for ang at that hot it Three who were ransacking the scurried helter skelter down Young Woodward i got his re- and fired three times at the Zen, Cou i 7 i in a ugatives The poli ordere to ri of Conhohocken have heen gorously enfores the borouj strieting the run- geven miles an will 1d general 1 railroad men LBC at the Helse's Charles trinne ripi at {ine and Moses both after staked iphia expert was sent for is credited and having mined » Of the presence quantities It ind in abundance while the the meet, arrived In It consists his «rife, their was seated in a ance, modeled, reg ion baby dog. Hanlian and rom Vienna, Austria, king around the world to comp the out on their stance r on also been for Schaeffer estate, hidden under the two properties outfit surface where A Reading of ( queer looking the other fay Jat wal leto journey They set %1y ber 12. 15600, 974 ob- K¢ ered 27 their sail for to Australia they complete the journey in the urse of $10,000 niles fective th in Son 1 if anna Gettyshure the running decided and on¢ each direction the Square gether with one other principal lock, paved with vitrified brick, the Sack be done at the rate of one square per All the other streets and squares in the town are to be constructed In a manner similar have block from Centre HAre oft fo Year, { tlefield Peter 8. i Kunkletown, | dent while Metzgar, a farmer of met with a fatal accel out gunning for rabbits with his nephew, aged 123 years Metzgar started out and while climb ing a fence rested his weapon against a rail Tho gun fell, exploding as it did and the charge lodged In Metigar's neck, killing him almost natantly. Hunting has become a fal with the | women in Hazleton and almost daily the woods are invaded by a number | of them, some of whom are excellent | markemen. Miss Cora Faust, a sales i woman, returned from a day's hunt | having succeeded in bagging a halt dozen quail, two pheasants and halt a dozen rabbits, i While hunting near Willow Grove, 1 Columbia County, William Hartman, | of that place, shot a catamount which i i 80, had been chased up a tree by his dog. The eat {8s a large one, and is the firat killed section several years. Bleeding from the nostrils and oars, John Ryan, for forty years an Inmate of the Lehigh County Poor house, was picked up wneconscious at the East Allentown end of the bridge across the Lehigh River. It ie thought he was held up and robbed. Alex Stabinski and Joseph Kulba- toski, aged 18 and 20 years, are dy- ing from burns received at the Alas ka Colliery, near Mt. Carmel. they were eating their dinner a spark fell from one of the lamps, landing in a powder keg, setting off the ox- plogive and burning the clothing from thelr bodies. in that in collided near Locust SBummit. W. others of the crew of sach locomo- tive escaped by jumping, A We 3 PPP oe . . Jno. F.Gray & Son Lota ly sds GRANT HOOVER Control Sixteen of the Largest Fire aod Life Insurance Companies ic the World, , . . . THE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST . . . . No Mutuals No Assessments Before insuring r life see the contract of THE HOME which in ease of death between the tenth and twentieth years re- turns all premiums in ad. dition to the face of the policy. ——————— to Loam on First Mortgage Office in Crider’s Stone Building BELLEFONTE, PA. Telephone Connection TTY IIIT IYI YIYY SS Le te CE Lgency IN CENTRE COUNTY Money an ¢ + m | m > | ad ® a Penn’a. The raat and Best Accident Ins. Companies Bonds of Every Descrip- tion. Plate Glass In- surance at low rates. Bellefonte, yi ¢ ‘ : ¢ ¢ 50 YEARS’ EXPERIENCE od Hmerica a. Tertus, $5 a yeny h Boid by all new sdon ers, MUNA 2 Co. 3 t6rondun, ~ New York Branch Oca G35 er v {linet ms PIONEER DANGERS The first settlements in what is the town of Salem, Maine, were begun in 1815. The dangers were many, says a son of one of the first ettlers, in “Salem's Old Home Day,” and owing to the Dumber of wolves, it 1tels safe for children, r even grown i to go far from their homes Ww hen now ne, was absolt Blake wds a small escape from a and his brother for the cows oue told to bring home dried branches had row death He were ss fit night, and were some “brown stull’ with them Elbridge while his home It from their Kingfield road, all woods, except small clearings where the cows pas- tured Elbridge, thicket with his “brown stuff,” himseit confroated by a pack wolves. He was near a small, slen- boy he tragic Daniel looked after the brush, brother drove the cows perhaps half a mile down was home, found he climbed it, bending. He knew that wolves can- WWW BW BBWS «ae wd | was grasping with both hands should bend low or break, he would be at their mercy. His screams and shouts were final- ily heard by Mr. Briggs, who lived about a quarter of a mile distant. Mr. Briggs, recognizing it as the voice of a child, and suspecting the cause, ran speedily up to Mr. Blake's, and breathlessly inquired if all their children, nine in number, were at home The answer was that they were all there but Elbridge. Faith, then,” said Mr. “the wolves have got him.” The older members of the family and a number of workmen who were « employed on the brick walls of a new house rushed to the rescue. Elbridge heard the noise in the dis- tance of the rescuing party, and took courage. ‘The wolves,” he says, "ap- peared to look at each other, and td wonder what turn they had better take.” The yells of the rescuers had the desired effect, and at first sight of the men, the wolves scattered and fled in all directions toward the woods. Youth's Companion, Briggs, Exchange of Trade. One of Brookline's smart Young matrons, the wile of a prominent surgeon, was giving a bridge party, and consulting her husband, was ad vised by Alm to apply to one of the local undertakers for chairs. She telephoued, and was horrified at the ro yes, Mrs. F , let you have all you want at hall price, betause the Doctor gives us 80 much busi * ness!” | ATTORNEYS. D. FP, VORTNEY ATTORNEY-AT-LAW BELLEFONTE, PA Offices North of Court House, fm— vw. HARRISON WALKER ATTORNEY -ATALAW BELLEFONTE, PA —— Ko. 19 W. High Btreet. All pralomianal business promptly attended to amacar TE B.D. p— Iwo. J. Bowen W. DD. 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