Her Faces, I stood in sombre dreaming Before her image dear, And saw, in secret wonder, Living my darling appear. About her mouth a smile came, 80 wonderful and wise, And tears of some still sorrow Seemed shining in her eyes, My tears, they too were flowing, Her face 1 could not see, And oh! I can not belleve it, That my love is lost to me. By Edward Rowland AISeSRSRsesesES RS es asses 2sesesaest THE CHANCE THAT CAME SRS Paes ese esesPs2s2sesesesa The man collapsed into a chalr be- fore his desk. In a corner of the room the ticker was clicking out its message, but he pald no heed to it. From the streets outside came men's fvolves uplifted in mingled despair and rage, Throgmorton street was like pande- monium. Men seemed to have lost their reason. Manv were shouting in- vectives against this man who sat alone in his empty offices. People did not know that was here. Some declared he had bolted from the coun- try; others were equally positive he vould stay and face the music, These last had judged his character accur ately. The schemes which that wonderful financial genius had built up, and in which the public had placed confi- dence and their money, had falien to the ground in one fatal hour. haps there was hardly a soul in Lon- don who would have believed it. yat the fact remained that Reuben Stern was himself beggared. He left his office, place which had Sill, he seen his to Mayfair, 19ed Then, setting his mouth a grimly, he walked up ringing the bell, asked Gertrude Kingsley. She detected at once the his eyes, and came hur ward. “Reuben!” wrong?” “What is it? “Tell me at on ce, “I am ruined!” He spoke the words in a dull, less tone, and watched her face. color died away from it mouth suddenly hardened lost their Every stiffened. glanced at amazement “Ruined!” she murmured do you mean?” “My plans have all miscarried he pa before a house the steps, and, to see in oT anxiety rledly f ghe exclaimed she questioned again please!" softness, She him except the most precious thing of all, and that is your She laughed ha “Did you schoolgirl? Was it likely Ove a man who sprang from obscur- ity, from nothing? Let me with you in this hour. My have, most of them. meant to marry have preferred but when good a love!" ardly, think me a sentiment a rich man a man of good family; you proposed you match for me to As for love; am 1 the woman do you sup pose, who would influence her? 1 would you an ex- cellent wife, 1 doubt I should have liked of a great London house I to entertain, to be a woman importance world And led me igine that every bitious social dream of mine be realized ment, and then chocking voice the auda poverty!’ Her gaze was pitiless in its cold- ness, A quiver of rage shook her. Her restless hands were the flowers in her bosom. suffering an agony of disappointment She had felt so secure: had gloried in the anticipated social triumph which this man's mouey was to pur chase for her: had even boasted t=e future among her own set, of the rich gifts it would hold for her. And now to see every promise it had contained melted away, “Will you please go now?" sald. The Atlantic liner was plowing its swift passage through the sea on its homeward way to England. The day was brililantly fine, and the smoke that rose in a floating column from the steamer’s funnels was the only dark patch against the cloudless sum- mer sky. Two people were slowly pacing the upper deck—a man and a woman. The former was Reuben Stern. He had altered a great deal since that time, four years ago, when his failure had caused a sensation in the financial world. During the official investigation of his bankruptcy he had remained in England; but this concluded, he sall- ed at once for the United States. And in these four years, commencing at the bottom again, he had regained a cortain standing among the minor fi- nanciers of that country, But the longing to return to Eng. land bad come over him, and, badly in need of a rest, he had decided to go there on a brief holiday. His com. panion was a woman whose acquaint ance he had formed some weeks back at a mutual friend's house. It was with a certain degree of pleasure that he had learned she was also going ,to England by the same Boat. : “Tomorrow, I suppose, we shall say refuse let love have made have no to of in my to im am- should She paused went on in a "And now you ty to ask me to share your low, she her now. “I trust, if you are staying in London, jou will let me call on you, or do you any service that is possible?” “You can do me a service” responded, quietly, “if you will, And that is, help me find some one—some one who | am convinced is hidden In that great wilderness of a city, and whom I have come here to seek!” “It it is possible,” he sald, “you may rely upon my doing my best But you had better give me your con- fidence.” “There is little to tell,” she answer. ed. “l am that despised thing--a de- serted wife! My husband left me. We had shared three bitter vears togeth- er, and then, without a word, he went away!" “And you she want to find him; you care for him still?” “Oh, no—but, ves, I do want to find him. He treated me as badly as | a man can treat a woman, And yet I must find him!” “And what Is your idea as to the | cause of hig disappearance?” 8he paused some moments, “It seems a strange fancy,” she | sald at last. jut what I believe is this: He left England under a cloud. In America he continued the same life of reckless folly. He married | me for love, as I thought: but it was merely that I might act as decoy to | a gambling den which he secretly ran. Our final quarrel arose from my | objections to this infamy.” “But what shall you do, even though ! you find him? You would surely nev- | live with him again, if he treated | you so shamefully?" “Not for the world!” she sald, with a faint shudder. “And yet | must find him. It has become the fixed pur of my life. Some money was a few months ago, and this | er Dose left me than I was poor. | a scanty liv- Until to work hard for had ing.” He looked at her keenly, “I believe,” he sald, “that care him still’ ‘It would cost me to hear that he was dead.’ you must for hardly a pang | "she replied find him. Perhaps had galled my pride, and determine that my husband acknowledge me as his wife | right name, although we | never be more to each other * vet, | must made me il i should “You a woman whom most men proud call thelr wife” he answered, seriously. are De to * * 3 % » * * * » od * * When they reached london Mrs. Poole gave him all the knowledge she | possessed of her missing husband. The details were meager enough, and she Stern found that he possessed apti- but profitless weeks passed by One afternoon, receiv. “My | at | however, he an end.” He went her rooms ‘We met face to yesterday!” she said to deny me: he hurriedly giving him my address, to hear from him today' He | not me detain him, but | away from me in a few mo | I was helpless” shall is at to face in London “For a moment | but seeing it | was promised, upon my let me would useless, jot ments, “What write?” But eyes you do if he does not him. Her | at an in his she did not answer were staring strangely held hands Some words at the had caught gaze the paper from his hands with a ery, | «nd read the few lines beneath the! | | top of a page | her She snatched | is that his answer?” she ask in a trembling volce Stern read where she+ indicated announce that Sir Stephen Jesson met with a fatal ac- cident in the hunting field this morn: ing. It will be remembered that the unfortunate baronet came into the title, quite unexpectedly, a couple of three strong lives having Every one will sympa. Gertrude Jesson, the loveliest debutante of her year.” “He was a villain all through, you sald Edith Poole. “He married this woman while I still lived. He has ruined her life as well as mine What shall I do? Shall I put forth my right to this man's name, and take it away from her? Or shall | keep back the truth that would strip her of—everything?” He did not answer. His features were fixed. He saw clearly, like a picture before him, a certaln scene in a Mayfair drawing-room-—he heard a woman's hard merciless volce, her insulting words. He remembered the utter desolation which this woman had created in his darkest hour, Time's whirligig had turned indeed, and brought with it this miraculous chance of crying quite with the one whose cruelty it had taken him four years to forget. The temptation grip. ped him. Why should she not be dragged down into the dust—her pride humbled, ag nothing ¢lse except this one unlooked for ng could have power to humble it? The he crushed down the ignoble desire, As suddenly as it.had come up be fore him the black past vanished In & cloud of sunshine, out from which Bdith’s pale, serious face, with that strange, altered look that he had not od In it af late shana forth “What shall I do?” she asked again. “Guide me.” He took her hand in a gentle grasp. “Let this woman keep her empty honors. And for yourself-—forget that you are this man's widow. Become my wife.” His tone was unmistakable, She looked at him with glowing, wonder. ing eyes. He was struck by her sudden bewildering beauty, “Do you mean it?” she whispered. There was no need for any spoken answer, and she crept into the shel ter of a strong man’s arms held out to receive her.—Modern Society, PENALTIES OF GENIUS. Sometimes the World Loses More by Them Than the Genius Does. No greater genius, certainly great inventor, ever lived who not supposed to be a little queer some Of his fellow men, Three hundred years phension perfected his says the Rosary Magazine, a Saloman de Caus, was immured in the living tomb of the Bicetre for allowed his mind to outstrip which he lived. Marion de in a letter dated Paris, 1041, of a visit this institution, “We were crossing the court,” she writes, “and I, more dead than alive fright, kept close to my com: when a frightful face behind some immense bars, a hoarse volce exclaimed: ‘I am not mad! I not mad! [| have made a discovery that would enrich that adopted it.’ “ ‘What has he discovered? no was by before Ste locomotive, French. Lorme, to appeared am asked answered the keeper, shrug ‘something trifling would never guess fit; of the steam of boiling ‘Oh!’ you the use “l began to laugh ‘This man, continued the keeper, ‘came from Normandy four years ago to present to king a statement of effects to be pro duced invention. To listen him would Imagine that with Id navigate ghips, move carriages: in there is no end to the miracles which, he insists upon performed The king man away without lis. tening to him. Finally, finding the poor wretch forever in his path, and annoyed his folly, the Cardinal had his shut up in the Bicetre' ” the the wonderful from his you fact, he sent the mad by THE RED MAN'S COMMENT. Impressed Him as He Viewed Pictures in the Capitol, “A good many years ago when | was here in Washington [| heard a story about the visit of some In diana at the Capitol building.” sald Marsh, of St. louis, Mo, was in the days when fighting Indians was still a pastime of our soldiers in the A number of them were brought the ‘Great through by one or wg They were taken tO the east door, where Is to seen the picture representing the landing Pilgrim Fathers at Plymouth one of the Indians giving Miles Standish an ear of corn, ‘Huh, sald one of the red men, gives the white man con.’ “Then they were taken to the north leading the Senate, where H and were escorted be door, to Penn with the Indians in 1647, where by he received large grants of what ‘Huh,’ sald the Indian, with a grunt, ‘the In gives the white man land’ Af that the band were taken the shown the repre of Pocahontas pleading for Smith ‘Huh, again Indian, ‘the Indian saves man's life.” Finally they same to Capt John the the white saw depicted the early struggles of the white men with the Indians where in one of them-—probably thrusting his knife one the savages ‘Huh, ejaculated the red brother, ‘and then they kill the poor Indian.’ "—Wash ington Post Some People. The favorite musical instrument graft is the lute Some people settle their bills like clock-work-—that is, on tick. The man who keeps his own coun sel doesn’t have to hire a lawyer. The sins that worry us the most are those most likely to be found out Some people's idea of charity is fo give a starving man a pepsin tab let, Some people are so emotional ns to almost solve the problem of perpet ual motion, Some men apparently have so much to do that they never have time to do any of !t Philadelphia Record. sn— through of Good Cheer at the Table. There is sound philosophy in the custom of civilization to make a meal of ceremony. For if the ceremonial aspect be observed properly-if it be forbidden to make the home meal the occasion for the home-grumbling-—- then amid talk and laughter will eat ing be slow, as it should be, and mastication thorough. So when at the family dinner table appear only pleasant faces; when conversation is merry, and when from one to the other of the diners ia a bearing as courtly as if each were “company,” then does Indeed “good digestion walt on appetite, and health on both.-- Dr. Bdward Curtis, in Health” More than one-third of the inhab itants of Zurich are resident foreign ers, who enjoy no political rights there. RAE: AAS STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA Latest News Gleaned From Various Parts. indignation runs high at Hills Grove, where Ellis Snell was mur- dered, because the authorities of Sul- lHivan County were go lax as to allow the assallant {to escape when it was known that his vietim could not live Vigorous search for the fugitive has been instituted, For six days after the affair John Van Buskirk, who charged with the crime, was at his home In Tivoli, and he remained there until news reached him of the leath of the man he had attacked since that time no trace can be found of the glayer, but evidence seems to point to the fact that he is lurking in the forests surrounding the town District Attorney Hill, of Dushore taken up the matter and sent nen out on a hunt for the murderer Other detectly have heen placed on the case and every effort will now made capture Van Burkirk the residents are wrought up be- ause only two years ago one of the most brutal murder mysteries in the criminal history of this part of the State went unsolved, and they now that another criminal will punishment, 1§. has of to fear Cape Coroner County, Frank D lied from Ringing rrOVe ere ier, who the King of Montgomery investiga! ed the death of Shaner, of Pottstown, who Injuries received at the Hill Hotel in Upper Potts. Township, on Christmas was doubt as to whether Sha- was the heaviest man In end, dled by accident or The verdict of the jury was that Shaner came to his death from a fractured skull by cldentally falling down the steps sading to the porch of the Ringling ill Hotel An oxi Yanna okel Several upper was slain. Thursday losion set fire to the lLacka Company's mine at The oss is $20,000 narrowly escaped death erk Whitworth the State Department to ectors to the of the Juni- ita Valley Street Rallway to run be Huntingdon and Lewistown objectors were the H et Rallway Company the b Steel burg man Corporation Cl t hearing at n Harrisburg iroposed incor POT ob} ation tween ihe Conflic t asis of oblections routes was Svdnes McPherson, id son of Mr. aad Mrs. reson, of Mudlds t 3 , » +s i : £ has been missing for several irk Count: $s home » fact ile has thelr efforts days an that almost every to find ¥ ’ proven fuatije n done liave bere Dressler paved Stephen om ing run down by a Rallroad passenger train at hamokin, shoving him away fro the track a8 the train passed Wright was so excited that he r at his and ing him Dreasler blows and badly whereupon, Wright sense, thanked Dressler his life Irvin Wright fi: Heading bed mel- the him his began retur rescuer pum ned punished recovering for Kennedy, proprietor of inn, a well the southern was held Justice 8. M of ling Thomas P the West hotel keeper in Chester County ball for court by gon, on the without a brought bys Tefferis Mind Inspectors Pottsville, of the Eighteenth District and M. J. Brennan, of Pottsville, of the Nineteenth District over fifty finished thelr re ports for They show accidents eighteenth and in the Of these wore fatal accid Grove Pax- liquor was R. O charge license County John Curran, of collieries, last year in the nineteenth twenty-six ents nineteenth The when the colliery will show an sands of tons in these spector Benjamin Evans, Fourteenth District, made port for the Year fatal and twenty Charles R. Spangler, lad 14 years old, was badly by a ferocious dog, which upon him while going home from school, The annual report of Hospital and Dispensary shows that for the maintenance of the institu tion $18,171.12 was received. Nine thonsand dollars of this was appro priated by the city of York; $11,794.33. of which the city contributed $606.77. wag used for building purposes. The Teachers’ coal production reporig are all in of many districts of his increase In- the re non-fatal accidents education in 1907 Like ordinary valuable dogs, roaming around Darby, have been committed to the lockup, in an iron-barred cell, awaiting own ership. George W. Wildin, of Meadville has tendered ais resignation as assis tant mechanical superintendent of the Erie Rallway, taking effect im- mediately, A letter sent over his head to a subordinate is sald to be the cause of the resignation. Upper Darby Castle, Knights of Golden Eagles, has elected the fol lowing officers; Past chief, John Fielding; noble chief, William Mon- roe; vice chief, Rehard Reed; sir herald, Frank Neimeyer; high priest, Joel Bn. Jone. Herbert Steward, Shamokin, has been appointed mercantile appraiser of Northumberland County by the commissioners, There were ten ap- plicants. Edward Nicely Dewart was sworn In as register and recorder and appointed all the clerks who served his predecessor, Frank Thompson, of Morton, a well-known baseball pitcher, and Mrs. Clara Snyder were married Wednesday night, at the home of the groom's parents, The ceremony was performed by Rev, W. P. Ell- ingsworth, pastor of Kedron Metho- dist Episcopal Church prisoners, twe MN V VV VD we yo — SAIL ASIB E00 0000000000040 Jno. F. Gray & Son | (Gace OVER Control Sixteen of the Largest Fire and Life rance Companies io the World, . ,.. THE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST . . . . No Mutuals No Assessments Before insuring r life see the contract of 7H HB 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. 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Almost Burned Up. of something writer in A peculiar case spontaneous ’ ’ like it, is Cassler’s | or described Magazine On February two large | refrigerator cars young rose- | bushes received at Hannibal, Mo, from a California. They were shipped in wooden cases containing numerous auger holes for | ventilation and were carefully packed with wet sphagnum, California | swamp moss, to prevent chafing and | to support their vitality | No ice was put in the cooling tanks, and the covers these, as well as | all other ope nings in the cars, were | closed as tightly as possible The | Cars were ten dava transit. The | outeide temperature was sixty de- grees Fahrenheit at the start and if. teen degrees at the Bnd of the trip. Upon arrival steam was issuing from every crevice of the cars. Upon removing the tank covers it rushed out in large voiume. The doors were opened and foe was put in the tanks; the free circulation of cold air soon cooled the contents of the cars. In unloading it was discovered that some of the upper layers of boxes were badly damaged by heat, which naturally was most intense near the top of the cars. No signs of actual combustion were found, but this would probably have occurred in a short time had not the cars been quickly cooled The temperature must have been nearly up to the burning point, as many of the green stems of these plants were black and brittle Wet sawdust in large quantities frequently becomes very warm in the interior even when exposed to winter weather, in fact the lower the tem- perature of the atmosphere the hot. ter usually the sawdust. by a 17, 1908, of were nursery in aor of in First Electric Dredge, The hull of what is declared to be the first electric dredge ever con structed in the world was launched by the International Contract Com- pany, at the Sloan shipyards, near the Hammond mill, yesterday. The drodge is to be fitted with its ma- chinery as soon as possible and will be placed in operation on some big contracts which the company has se cured. It is to be operated by elec tricity and will be what is termed a 20-inch suction dredge. "It will be capable of pumping material to the extont of several thousands of yards daily to a distance of one mile. The new hull is to be equipped with an auxiliary revolving dipper and an orange poel bucket so as to be ca pable of doing various kinds of dredging work.~-Seattle Post-Intellis gencer. WWD DV WV VD VV W I ——— A ————— —— ATTORNEYS, P. PORTNEY ATTORNEY-AT-LAW BELLEFONTE, Pa Offios North of Court House ee Ww. HARRISON WALKER ATTORNEY-AT LAW BELLEPONTR, PA Ko. 19 W, High Street. All protuions) business promptly attended to mm ———— Sa B.D. Garria Iwo. J. Bowsa W.D. Zensy C-ETTIG, BOWER & ZERBY ATTORNEYS AT LAW EsoLz Broox BELLEFONTE, PA. Buccessors to Orvis, Bower & Ozvis Consultation in Bogliah and German, CLrumsT DALE ATTORNEY AT-LAW Offices N. W. corner Diamond, two doors trom First National Bank. m= WwW G.RUNKLE ATTORNEY-AT LAW All kinds of legal business attended wo promptly Bpeciai attention given to colisetions Office, Boor Crider's Rxchangs. re HN. B. SPANGLER ATTORNEY-AT-LAW BELLEFONTRP Prastioss (3 all the courts. Consultation n English and German. Office, Orider's Exchange Dullding. trol 0id Fort Hotel : EDWARD ROYER, Propristor. Location : One mile South of Centre Hall. wishing te enjoy an evening given attention. Meals for such pared an short notice. Alwaps for the transient trade. RATES : $1.90 FER DAY. fhe Mai He! MILLHRIM, PA L A. SHAWVER, Prop. Fust slam sccommodstions for the teaveles 004 table board and sleeping apartments The cholosst liquors at the bar. Stable as for horses is the best woe Bu wand from all trains es We Lowisbarg aod Tyrone Railroad, at Cobar A Penn's Valley Banking Company CENTRE MALL, PA W. B. MINGLE, Ceshief Receives Deposits . . Discounts Notes . H. GQ. STRCHIIEIER, CENTRE MALL, . . . . . Manufacturer. of and Dealer In HIGH GRADE... MONUMENTAL WORK in ail kinds of Marble aw Granite, =" %0 tm uy prion LADIES PE™N. Safe, Quick, Reliable Raotor REET Wemen, drug. gists or hy mad. Test is et free, Pr. La¥ranco, Putinaeipniny Pa. LEE’ S... NEW LIFE TEA ALWAYS cunts CONSTIPATION, INDIGESTION, SICK HEADACHE, EAR Yeh 2. Langham, Holley oN Y. .
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