PHANTOMS, Oh, Joy is but a gay deceiver, And will not long beside you stay; She lightly smooths your brow's hot fever, She gives one kiss—and trips away, But old Dame Sorrow pours her bless ing With pious fervor on your head; She says her business is not pressing, Sits down and knits beside your bed. —Transatlantic Tales. SRS ESeSesesesesesasasasasdsesds PAULINE'S PENDANT in ISSR SeseSesesesesasesasaseseses ; “Father, it has “disappeared!” Sir Nevil Masterton and [I were sit ting in his study at Masterton Priory after breakfast when his only daught- er, Pauline, rushed In with a white face. “My dear little girl, what peared?” inquired her father soothing tone, “My pearl and diamond The you gave me wedding! Oh, father, taken it?” Sir Nevil laid it, that's thing so exciting “But, father, here is the which I found in the drawer locked it up yesterday the pendant safe inside.” Sir Nevil looked grave. sounds odd,” he rly all about it, The “little girl” was a young woman of two and twenty, mother had died when she was d and Sir Nevil's eldest si Miss Pris. cilla Masterton, had hostess the while Pauline was grov up adored could as Aunt A few had ment of marriage, has disap- in a pendant} just before the who can have one smiled. “You have mis- We as buglaries here.” empty case, where 1 with tE ail. morning sald sl “Tell us little girl fine, her a chi piay ed priory ving She t ud Pauline far her niece, a her own erned the } always get way so Pris mot received was cond ago 1ousehold the ani Masterton’'s se 3 sArm oir one j00k upor bro t some salary; wip monsense and excell looking after herself mirers at a respect Nevil Masterton places and his rent roll at her feet Pauline tearfully explained father the exact umustances loss. She was in the her jewelry in a certain dr then hiding the keys the corner of another drawer. The fact the keys and the case of the pendant were both in their proper places seemed evidence that the pendant had been removed by some One quainted with its owner's habits, Her father tried to comfort he added: “Leave ent capad ty had kej ] fo ner cire of her habit of locking awer, and in that me to talk it over with Mr. Carter, If your pendant has really been he get it back for you than any one else I realized possess a reputa- tion as a amateur Sherlock Holmes involves one occasionally in awkward responsibilities; but I tened to reassure her far as sible, “You are in aid Sir Nevlil, “That's all tell me a little the pendant before ther.” “Well, you see,” he began, a ol many family jewels, Pauline had come to look upon as her own particular property. I brought my wife here, two ago, Pauline did not like parting with what she considered her treasures. “It was to make np for this, tinued Sir Nevil, “that a pendant, a diamond crown with two fine pear shaped pearls hanging down on little platinum chains. And it is this pendant that has peared.” “1 see,” 1 said, thoughtfully. about your servants, Masterton?” “They have all been with me years,” he said warmly. “I should never suspect any of them!” “What about Lady Masterton's maid?” “Oh. ves—Rayner! 1 forgot ahout her, She is a girl whom my wife has known for a long time and in whom she has every confidence.” I began to perceive that [ was gos ing to have a rather unpleasant time, At lunch every one was talking about the pendant, and Lady Masterton in particular seemed much concerned at her stepdaughter’s loss. I was difficult to see what possi. ble motive Lady Masterton could have had for being concerned in the mys terious disappearance of ner step daughter's ornaments. I found myself wondering whether this brilliant beauty might not have some poor relation in desperate need of money, for whom she might have committed the theft, not daring to part with any of her own jewelry for fear of being discovered, Person. ally, however, | was much preposses sed In Lady Masterton’s favor, Then another wild conjecture came into my mind. Had Pauline herself simply hidden the jewel to bring dis. credit upon her newly acquired step mother? I was sitting alone in Sid Nevis study after lunch, when the door was ftly opened. 1 was a good deal sur rised to see Miss Priscilla, or "Aunt here. stoler is more likel that to of fort as for it Carter!” grimly right,” 1 said bout the hi go now, of fur- story we any a month " con- Prissy,” as she was always called. “Mr. Carter,” she began, In a mys terious whisper, “1 want to speak to you about the loss of Pauline's pens dant!’ Miss Masterton sighed. “I am afraid, Mr. Carter, that the in. formation 1 have to give you is of a distressing character!” “Nothing can more distressing than the present uncertainty,” 1 de clared. “I=-1 felt it was my duty to tell you,” she said, awkwardly. “Pauline’s room is in the left wing of the priory, next door to my own room, Yesterday afternoon [ was sur. prised to see Lady Masterton coming out of Pauline's room when Pauline herself was out riding with her father, An hour later my sister-in-law went out into the shrubbery with a little packet in her hand, which she hand- ed to a rough looking man waiting there, after which she returned quick. ly to the house.” “Did any these Incidents?” 1 inquired. “No,” she said, quickly. “1 evident that lady Masterton chosen her time carefully.” “But what possible motive IL.ady Masterton have for taking stepdaughter's pendant?” 1 asked. “You must be aware, Mr. Carter,” said, “that my sister-in-law obscure origin that she may have difficulties relieve be one else witness either of was had her she is likely than chosen to fashion?” she has this dishonest correct- already Mean evidence of the theory that I had and then dismissed answered “1 should be very sorry to think that lady Masterton was capable of stoop- to a crime of this kind; but case certainly looks st pie fous, howe ye of a frig th ing he I ask you, a word of this to any Aunt Prissy 80 extremely « RO 10 Bay are e else’ “The on subject 1s Mr. Carter, that gure I shall not a word to a soul. Meanwhile, you will Te rose, painful, voll mav } nite you may be quite reathe able went, af erely hope that Lady Masterton inn« i 1 ia + i marrying es n- old-fash views of i stage Were and out of date dinner that know Pauline evening was whether discoveries, Scotland “1 have { i.dKe until culprit and pro to pres I put my hand on duce the pendant!” And when will Pau ine, eagerly “Probably tomorrow morning, swered. “Possibly tonight ’ “Then you know who took the dia monds?” exclaimed Pauline, excitedly Yes,” I said. “I know who took the diamonds.” k at Miss I did fail t her eye ing Carter gald Sir Nevil, if you really pendant, tell +h ne ” 1 an- not lox Priscilla, | be triumph In ‘There ystery,"” Carter, the ike sarcastical- know who and bave js notl loves am ly took xi us » do that,” I said. “But drawing room evening, 1 shall the mystery. dinner | returned at ten o'cl the draw Masterton, i daughter be in the yelock this idate Immediaiely after my lock ring with room: but y 1 entered where [1 found wife, sister an bridge ‘Do come jn, Mr. Carter “We all simply Lo room, '* said Lady are dying know.” “Very well, Lady Masterton. But I want an absolute promise that I shall not be Interrupted until I have to outrageous my statements may seem. Do you all give me that prom- isa?” They all affirmative, answered lightly in the Whereupon 1 added: “I warn you, Masterton, that you find it very hard to keep your as soon as | have begun” ahead, Carter! If I want to head, 1 promise you I'll “Go break your yarn!" “All right,” I said. “The day be fore yesterday, in the middle of the afternoon, some one was seen com- ing out of Miss Pauline's bedroom; and the same person was afterward seen to hand a small packet to a mys- terious looking man in the shrubbery. The person in question was Lady Mas. terton!” Sir Nevil started from his chair. But I reminded him of his promise, and he sat down again, glaring flerce ly. “The mysterious looking man in the shrubbery was a ne'er-do-well brother of Lady Masterton’'s who is leaving for Australia in a few days to make a fresh start in life.” Here Lady Masterton was on the point of interrupting. “Appearances all pointed to the fact thet the packet handed by Lady Mas. terton to her brother contained the missing diamonds.” Miss Priscilla looked discreetly tri amphant, “But,” 1 added, "appearances were entirely misleading. The purpose that took Lady Masterton to Miss Pauline's bedroom was to get a book she had lent her the day before, and the packet she banded to her brother was a sum of money she had arranged to give him, with ber husband's knowl edge and consent.” Sir Nevill sprang from his chair once more. “Look here, Carter,” he sald. “Fortunately, you have removed my desire to punch your head! But what the deuce has all this got to do with Pauline's diamonds?” “Ask Miss Priscilla” “What on earth do inquired, blankly. “The pendant i8 lo eked top left-hand drawer of her I answered, “And, if you she will go and fetch it.” “Is this true?” demanded Sir Nevil, flercely. “Yes. I sald quietly, you mean?” he up in the wardrobe,” ask her, she answered meekly, as she went to the door. And im a few min- utes she came back carrying the dla- mond ornament wrapped up in a plece of tissue paper Aunt Prissy’'s tearful] explana- tion of how she took the pendant, in sudden jealously, to bring disgrace upon her new sister-in-law, who, considered, was her of proper 1 tremely but thought 'illy “Can you ever forgive asked, tenderly, his. And Sir ) affection Poor she robbing ights, Was ex- s chief wife, £1? her pathetic niece Nevil his » her, deares taking her hand Sir was nat for he in declares that exists dates Paul Nevill always that now be- and his wife and re of Mode from Over ine's m Society, PEARY'S VOYAGE. And What In article it Has Accomplished. in Harper's Com- an interesting (ition hee his ry mim su ary has acocomplis that the now comparativel 10 note it expedition man and the two mect modified of sled the Pol 20n “The ges @ even in spite main resulis : ieaving nautical miles ye this side of the unknown and Cagni's ical miles, jor remainis into the re Bering Stral “Second-—The determination f the st hwy wing the Arctic the Pole aud HnEDOwWn naut es H0n between of the new land north. ern part of Grant in the west North American existence of a distant west of the northwest Land, erly island an of tt probably extension archipelago "Third-—-The our horizon as conditions in ie jatinet widening of regards ice and other the western half of the polar sea “Fourth—The traversing mmknown gap in Aldrich’s fur Sver p's furthest and deline- the coast west in north In between thest 1876 and 1902. “Fifth—The det glacial fringe of the Grant "Another expedition ination of the and floeberg Land coast, fo erm lowing my my experience not only can attain the Pole, but can secure the other remaining principal desiderata in the central Arctic Sea, namely, a line of deepsea soundings from the north shore of Grant Land to the Pole and the delineation of the unknown gap In the northeast coast line of Greenland from Cape Morris Jesup soutbwart to Cape Bismarck This can be accomplished by an ex- pedition absent for the same length of time as the last one, and without a greater ezpendivure,” Thinking One's Seif tc Death, Thousands of persons actually think themselves to death every year by al lowing their minds to dwell on morbid subjects, The idea that one has some inci plent disease In one's system, the thought of financial ruin, that one is prospects—any of these or a thousand similar thoughts may carry a healthy man to a premature grave. A melan- choly thought that fixes itself upon one's mind needs as much doctoring as physical disease. It needs to be eradicated from the mind or it will have just the same result as a ne glected disease would have Every melancholy thought, every morbid action and everv nagging worry should be resisted to the ut most, and the patient should be pro tected by cheerful thoughts, of which there is a bountiful store in every one’s possession. Bright companions are cheaper than drugs and plasters, The morbid condition of mind pro duces a morbid condition of body, and if the disease does happen tu be In the system (t receives every encour agement to develop. We need more mental therapy Suggestions, The rate of speed across the Bi. berian Rallway rarely sxoeeds twenty: &we miles an hour. STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA. Latest News Gleaned From Various | Parts. The schools teachers of the Chester public have framed a resolution asking that the Board of Educatin give them more salary, Less than one-half of the municipal candidates in Schuylkill County com- plied with the law requiring the fil- Ing of thelr expense account, and the time for filing has now expired. A trial of 883 candidates obeyed the law, The home Lewistown, thieves, of worth of The thieves ing a of Joseph Stevenson, of was robbed by sneak seveal hundred dollars’ diamonds and jewelry. gained entrance by plac- ladder to a window in the second story at the rear of the house, while the fami were entertaining company on the first floor. Frank Leffler wa hooting rats on a farm at Irish Valley, near Shamo- kin, when his gun accidently explod- ed, forty grains of entering his hand, almost tearing It off. The employees the Re shop have been notified hirteen hous a day They h hours ay )f the 8 shot ading’s work been at to ave working ten Eight miles « ortion leadi artle roa , the to tate Hamb x this sea~ bill It is $60,000 to ng fro be new ro: ville, will under the timated t } O00 0 cost about vy #xplosion kplosion Prof Wis exper welling occupled Ames ind started a fire which ed a large barn and 3H COY Da ipound with g, of Yard- wrecked the Husted completely farm im- a loss of Members 1 and Prof. ow escapes from be- the de brs. Hun est abla whe land has biel Dun- The tract upled will an as Lhe +3: § Xr i118. which Willian ey, ime 1 narr beneath prominent in the for ed just Seranton are of alans hment ny oct town idents. Charles resident home two with 1 BR ; . and two ! irvives Tioga Co invited the of the issioners road meet orm have seven supervisors Wells April arm anent organization urther- ng g oods roads, Dr Hunter, tat Commisa loner of Highways, he roTaised to deliver a practical talk John Taylor blood po his county atl boro on 13 f Joseph Schafer Hosp Misoning kle, on was at died Moses ital, Be from following an injury which a prop fell Belle to An while he Mine Allowing dynamite to ome in naked jamp Mahanoy City mine, caused an xplosion whi tered George Miller's right jestroyed the one work in the vue oon: ina of has given Tylersport, forge exactly ent forty-seven n the same shop at Tyleraport, Charles Donnelly, aged Years ind mentally unsound, committed suicide by hanging in the attic of his home at Mt. Holly Springs He had been Ill for some months. While playing on the street, the of Mr. and Mrs. James Austin, of Oll City, was run over and instantly killed by a street Car At Sampel up after fifty years biacksmithing working at the yoars He 81 : 0 Shermansville, near Conneaut during an electric storm, lightning struck a party of four on the front porch of the house of Joseph Chosis, instantly killing his stunning his daughter and the others In the same Charles Sherman's Terribly crushed by a fall of 100 believed to be dead, John Brady was carried to an undertaking establishment at Monessen, to be pre- pared for burial On the cooling had been placed, life returned to him and his next ride was in the ambulance, not He was taken to the hospital and will recover. Samuel Manin, of Shamokin, had Mrs, Mary Aleska arrested, charging her with stealing a chicken. The litigants were neighbors. The wom- an said the fowl belonged to her. Justice J. P. McCormick decided that the chicken be placed between the two houses and If it flew to the wom. an's home KH would prove she was the owner of the fowl, It went to Manin's ard, and the woman was placed under bail for court. While walking toward his country home In the suburbs of Greenwood, George Given, manager of the Al toona Manufacturing Company, was assaulted by two thugs in the dark- ness a few minutes after stepping from the gtreet car, knocked down and robbed of about $1.500 which he was carrying from the office to his home. Given was beater. into Insensaibility and fs under a physi clan's care. The thugs made good their escape and are thought to be located in the mountaing near Al- toona. — ———— CH 9% 9% 9% 9090 D DNDN Jno. F. Gray & Son Surcdssors YY cas GRANT HOOVER Control Sixteen of the Largest Fire and Life losurance Companies in IN orxnpan a THE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST '. . . . 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L838 Bid ry all Dewedealory HUN &Co Co,2618rente, = New York Triumph of Heredity. The other college boys were hazing the freshman, who was the son f a clergyman “You will be required as they stood him on a preach a sermon “I'l do swered, “on Lew * they 1 table, sald, “to he an- you do have lemen, ition that me until I it, gent cond not interrupt finished “We “Will text? “You will preach sald, after consulting ment, ‘on Cerber “On Cerberus, promi you kindly furnish me a a sermon,” they together a mo- us.” gentlemen? Great Sc enough, sir. wasting time.” Cerberus it is “That's text ahead. You are “All right hearers, the naturally divides heads. As you have enough to promise not me 1 shall occupy your attention only half an hour on each. 1 remark, firstly,” ete. My itself into three been { minutes. Then they sneaked out, one, and the hazing came to an end. w-Chicago Tribune. Trees a Buried Treasure. Piratic hoards of Spanish dou- bloons are not the only buried wealth one may seek with spade and pick. A wonderful relic of the past has just been brought to light in Peterbor- ough, England, in the discovery of a buried forest At a depth of seven feet have been found a number of oak trees which have been covered for some 2000 years perfect in condition, and are gold to furniture manufacturers and others Altogether about eighty trees have been raised, and hundreds more are jeft in the ground untouched at a depth of five or six feet. In nearly all the trees the roots are found at- tach.d. The wood is extremely hard, and can be worked only by machin ery, as it turns the edge of an axe. — London Chronicle. Birds All Valuable But Sparrow. Professor Forbes, the State Ento- mologist of Illinois, has estimated that the meadow lark as an insect de- stroyer is worth ninety cents a year to the farmor, and that of all birds common to that State the only one which has nothing to be said in its favor is the English sparrow. This is pretty hard on the sparrow; he is the only bird we have that has no re- deeming trait. Recently we read a statement to the effect that the poor Italians, that are now coming to be 80 numerous in all our large cities, are glad to get these birds to eat, In ples, soups, ete. Let them have all) they want, and we'll help them catch the pests, \ WW WWW WWW WWW BVDV { ATTORNEY -AT-LAW BELLEFONTE, PA. Office N. W, corner Diamond, two doors from First Nationa! Bank. rm G. RUNKLE ATTORNEY-AT-LAW BELLEFONTE, PA All kinds of legal business attended to promptly Bpecial attention given to collections. Office, floor Crider's Kxchazge. Ire N B. SFANGLER ATTORNEY -AT-LAW BELLEFORTR.P A Practices in «ll the courts. 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