Rest. [Thera is a little grove beside the hill ere aspens shake and thrill, ith silver stems beneath shimmering green Against the pines’ dark screen. And all day long the leaves, Ripples of light among leaves, And all day long their feet Tufted, and starred, and sweet, Flashes in filckering splendor the crown Of diamond drops swept down. their their tremulous the moss aisles, Sacred untrodden miles, The voiceless throngs in temple dim Bow to the rain's sc Walls on whose pile no mer wrought The Master-builder’s Unchiseled font and stair Wait on the wordless prayer. And overhead against a brooding The priestly pine trees high With lifted hands invoke on vale crest Infinitudes of rest. -—Mabel Earle, ft hymn; axe nor thought, granite altar sky and in The Atlantic. 2 TY co A A SP OA Cota declared that up to this time nothing but Pinto's stock-driving in- stinct had rendered him controllable; that upon the moment he found him- self without an animal ahead to keep in place he became as crazy as a seems more reasonable to attrib- the mustang’'s panic to the wild of the mule and It view but at any rate, with the fall of { i £52525252525252S, $25252525252525253 When I in Lower Lallfornia, several years ago, I found employ- ment with an American who was erecting a stamp-mill at Agua Dulce, a small mining-camp forty miles east of Ensenada. Among the freighters engaged in hauling the machinery was a Mexican named Jose Cota, a noted horseman and hunter, One evening, when the wagons were :, I joined the team- was camped at the mins sters and swampers who sat round the fire telling stories. Cota told this one. An apology for not reproduc- ing him in his own quaint vernacular. Cota was on his way to visit a relative—quite a distant one, he na- tively explained, being the cousin of his motherdin-law—who lived at end of a trail across three hundred miles of mountain and Not wishing to leave all behind, he rode the Pinto, is animal being brother,” and besides, according to Cota, the best horse in all Mexico. For the fox-trot of Pinto excelled in soft of effort that of the lithe bushy-tail for whom the gait was named, Then, 100, and grow despite t past twe ed ine points i rder that better understan him ther the story. Traveling —and in addition had a mule th followed like a dinarily | insur a safe and Doubtless the relative reached without not for an Just over the Pichango Is due the desert his family calico-colored ‘just like a footed ease would 0 : Pinto fat like a bur that he r I The narrator elaborat- eat brush all this was in years we might down into pack- JOR ~= Or pleasant Jacal of the have been had fit meeting ellent ORL Journey distan would adventure been untow divide Cota was riding along a trai] that cut into the face of a bulging preet- pice of dizzying and driving his mule before him in order that he might pack, when both animals and stood snorting Looking ahead, the traveler big grizzly coming t round ard t keep an ey 1 the abrupt iy saw a him ds i bear yward of rock about 50 yar nar: i row trail simple th r amount distant. Even would have been a beast with and voiver tha iE it for on matter claws ight-about-face retreat in the bear to make off But it is hard + the moods and motives of a grizzl This one chose to or attacked, forward on a swi inging both of the raveiers anima ried to v a trai whirl, descent into a tonwoods dwindled to brash. It chanced that in hand, having used it to pack-animal across dangerous places, and no sooner did the mule's ears say “lI turn” than the bite the raw. hide rope struck him on cheek The blow turned him the cliff, and the mule, blinking, and desperate, began a treat. Cota gave way rapidly, holding Pin. to to the wall, and pulling him back, back, back on a trail where a false movement of his hind legs could mean nothing less than a mangled pile at the base of the precipice. avery step to the rear the mule at tbmpted to head about, but his vigilant master literally held him in placé by Consiae cornered shi hon Hel air: on where there was no room to i and on the brink of a sheer canon Cota urge the of the to acuttling re doubled riata, Fast and furiously he rawhide, with delicate reined and spurred Pinto, and trembi- ing and snorting and sweating from fright, the animals were kept in or derly retreat, Then a wheezy grunt from the ap proaching bear drove the mule entire. ly frantic, and squarely against the raining blows he turned Douling him. self, he whirled nimbly sidewise, draw- ing his forefeot far under him In an attempt pivot. But his rump bump. od the face of the cliff and toppled him forward. With muscles tense as cables, the scared brute struggled for | pletels Oblivious cruel perately him spur to the Spanish bit, to pivot back to the mark upon the little horse s second, then shook the violent, angry way backing or rearing. experience with all had taught his master the sig- that movement, and the and only way of offsetting the in destruction it threatened. Rals. and at the and reversing the mustang vulnerable ear, pressure of he essayed des- about. Cota sent cliff with a bloody his shoulder, where tood as if dazed his head in that pres- Long horses exact certa ups moment drawing revolver, he struck a quick, light blow t the protuberance On just back of the Pinto settled down the trail and the self from being leaping lightly wsition on the It was the same against a g thus friend loose heap saved him- crushed the to a standing into a rider against by saddle raf Cota hand lared, as sing his randfather dec down the venerable his with the tion of to strike who had nelped to raise narrator and shoulder contor the horror Mexlic yawn ing meted his and desperate ans, d he abyss below the ne- of fmme di ate, vividness that action required no am- ful not add- perils that Pinto imme- not quite cessit with a plificat to kill ed still on i Deen care the mustang, another him that and his care the For he was to upon showed and being leaped head, woolen P Yu diately barely GArely the his master pitched astride and with carf stunned, caped as he ef over ell the | two quick eyes animal's urns bound the Once blinded Pinto a quivering heap, and himself that further sub- the Mexican assured he would make the bear im During the traveler's his nimals the pig-brained shuffled off about half of fifty vards that had at first separated them, he now bearing down on the rider with f was horse and eager ferocity before Cota had and had Only a year lawed by a grizzly to attack brutes jut on vowed never again ifferent, far different the dangerous exican recapitulafed brush-eating excel worse in Mexico.” him; would no move, if should approach and vour h fracas with foe been one his Lalis ; | Po a3:0n i ¥ aere occ was d M and the fox-trotting, he rifle the from confound. ¥ to reach the saddle Was inding it rock wall. T 0 got ita, true to an unchangeable deter risked ] on mination, the nredci: over the belief that a Mexi mustang invariably les when blindfolded Jalanc ] epped up firm foot. and wrenched and he st on quivering mount, took the saddle, mad trie ating £11 » * untii he at last suc t1 glance to Assure in over Weapon was Working Pinto’'s rin st lambered back made a stand age i i him all k like the trem ttonwood he strain of that, could not have spatte mal, though I a shotgun: Several the Mexican had faced a moment's cessation of ing; but this last i him, and pointing gun in the direction he opened fire, To add to his confusion, the smoke lifted sluggishly. Out in the open ne would have leaped one side and steadied, perhaps, by the change of posture: but here, held to tracks by a sheer wall on one side and a sheer precipice on the other, is it any wonder that he became com- confused, and with wild aban- de i the was, in his withot clear think un his wabbling the grizzly, ude as Cota high altit he re steer-sized t times death complication nerve of to been of the ously. Ker-click, bang! Ker-click, bang! brute that now charged furi- } the lever and pull trigger, and the bullets scattered as if thrown by hand. Some strike the rock wall and go skid-skid- out across the chasm: one or two if for a low shot, he lined his sights; with a quick movement he jerked the weapon forward and pulled the trig ger as the bear crossed a point where a bullet would wound deeply. There was a soft, fleshy thud as the bullet struck into the vitals: the bear whirled as if to bite the wound, and bind quarters slipped from the edge the cliff, With Herculean the his of ling and struggled scramb great brute himself back to the trall; fired for the spinal whacked into bone, with a cry, draw Mexican the bullet and the grizzly, rolled backward into the had all his wits He examined Pinto that help must be alse him to his feet et off when the the the hoarse chasm about him carefully, obtained in safety, trail wound away seated hime under a pine In a peaceful, shad- suddenly found him- from foot and And many of Cota now decided i} +1 the ck path had precipice, he and fut aut on from self ed valley, and self tw head to comprehension, fox-trot had him tremors him. ears are itching are hevond afte; put the would o miles between and scene peril, overtake the casionally although not Even passed, on a trail of a now, he would that ¢ preci and floc ks ornla.— many 3 uts pice meet a the grizzly bulging all the herds of Lower g) Companion. face -00, not for and fields Youth's ino iif alll TO PROVE WHO YOu ARE HARD. John Smith May Not Testify in Court That He Is the Son of Robert testimony - - fy the wars 3 only he personal knowledge town or parish records are but by no means conclusive of Al- record you are Smith, son and Mary Smith, born at on Jug 1, 1865 The » Bureau of Vital Statis- will that a son was Rol and the regis. that Mary Smit bat John Suppose Robert Dany feces at 13 go named J Mary Sr ter fo h John son of Robe on ain prove born tO ert n the Prove date, PEW be was baptized do . of whom the prove are the ailve who ii. she has such tiffs, late Mrs. Stewart were their of the iaticnahis $ 10 prove resationsaip It $ +) necessary in one of these Cases 8h 3 id his i T. Stewart to have had personal matter; he a man prove » and A been r : he no had land refer to A sther, but the tify even ts denied to the Omes dead he were your par your grandparents records there in all Birth and marriage cer robora mass of least were W Vv ho +) ie ir % ig, but are not at i % conclusive t re accepted as « requires together tificates a but M mat willhiesson quite a with at can of own personal knowledge, before a court will accept such a fact as proved to its satisfaction All of this {llustrates the great val of keeping family records, for are strong os handwriting of the suc. cessive heads of the family, in which the entires are made, can be proved, which is generally fairly easy. Many a great estate hag been lost to its some who testify ue inability to prove who they were — the beast let out a grunt. and onward, There was nothing about the situa. Projectiles Now in the Lead. A new type of projectile, which will play an important part in future war the good Dios who strengthened his heart; chill wave of despair as the bear of the desert. were still trembling violently; but then feil headlong, i | l i i | | ! i will plerce any armor vet made, has been introduced by the Hadfield Steel Foundry, This an. nouncement was made by Mr. R.A. Hadfield at the annual meeting of the company recently at Sheffield. He mentioned also that the firm had in. troduced a new steel called “Era” an entirely British produet, for which the Admiralty had given them facili It had proved of ex. ceptional quality, and was rapidly coming Into use for ship constructipn, =fondon Standard, STATE OF PENNSYLVANIL Latest News Gleaned From Various Parts. Ethel Buck, aged struck by a passenger train on trestling west of Third Street, land, and instantly killed. Connel, a companion, who her at the time, narrowly the same fate Alfred A, Evor Alvarez Cigar 1 most extensive the State, years A A new 15 years, was the Ash- Eva Mec was with escaped + proprietor of the Factory, and one of tobacco dealers died in Allentown, aged tha in 45 town will Hertzler's Mill, nea: of Granthan, County, to sug be bullt nea: the Reading Cumberland for a large will be « Station ker; ich ply wor macaroni factory wi hed there New York & darence Tomb wa yy his own train at oming County, ittempted tab mmtral Brakeman crushed tun, La» home He nd Cedar near hi make between hurried Iam Lo coupling i bumper A the injured Hospi tance of forty are the rest port red in 2, Knight at Perkasie John Hoff- of Qua- One hun- mi embe § were received which was idricks artown ired and five lito the new ganized by F Commande commander Her the last killed by a rries of the Company, 7, 19086, It had hundred & Stone he ember from two her home At that Five Santa C YOArs ago, ans, sor wing made hick was On within was on The chastised Ind left the inight tim Saturday but returned about and hid in the WOMe SIraw ans wall where it nouse Tii¢ cellar. He procured acing it against tl fire the wood- The family had retired but was wakened by the smell gmoke The fire was put put, and when the father accused the ay with having started the blaze, ie is said to have acknowledged the act, Burned about the body and face by an explosion of powder at the Pancoast Mine in Troop, Walter Ve. ‘usky, aged 25 years, died at the itate Hospital. Vecusky was stand- ng close to a can of powder, the over of which had been left off by ome other employee. A spark from ils lamp dropped into the can and here was a terrific explosion, The james enveloped Vecusky and his sody and face were badly burned. je lived only a few hours, Patrick Markham, of Bloomsburg, t few days ago recovered a ten-dollar told plece that he had lost twelve years ago. Carpenters are remodel- ling his house, and found the coin etween two partitions. Markham ad nearly forgotten the incident. William B. Parry and A. T. Praul ym May 1, will inaugurate an auto- mobile service between Langhorne and Morrisville, Congressman M. Kline it at the head of a new trust company to he started In Allentown ghortly, the entire capital of which has been subscribed. Adams County is more peacefal than ever before in its history, not one eriminal case being up for trial when April Court convened. This is an absolutely unprecedented state of affairs. 0 could ¥ ¥ vork ¢ fire to it of LS oS a Th Ta a Sh a a Buecdisol ORANT “fa Control Sixteen of the Largest Fire and Life Insurance Companies in the World, . ... THE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST . . . . No Mutuals Before insuring your life see the contract of THE HOMB which in ease of death between the tenth and twentiefh years re- turns all premiums paid in ad. dition to the face of the policy. Money to Loan on First Mortgage Office In Crider’s Stone Building BELLEFONTE, PA. Telephone Connection Terr rrr rrr rrr eee | g | / od | ARGEST |NSURANC Lgency IN CENTRE COUNTY H. E. 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While were absent next day, Arkwright busied her- Meanwhile the early and hur- slopes of " rif tenant of forty YOArs fg des night ictters sel out snow Ke were towering “Lie the omin crac right amid the pinna« solid screamed the guid wind that goes avalanche caught them all. Couette, the porter, drove nstock into the hard snow, on hands and knees, and his bent head the hurri- After eight or ten minutes, the rope about his waist and began to descend At one hun- dred and fifty feet below .e came on Francois Tournier, the guide He was dead, his face frightfully muti- lated and his skull crushed by a mass of ice The after herculean efforts, got body down to the Ous ies of ice es, but before a turned cane ho i 10 untied porter, the Grands Mulets Thirty-one years passed away. One morning in 1887 Colonel Arkwright, a brother of this Alpine victim, was astounded to receive this telegram from the Mayor of Chamonix: “The remains of Henry Arkwright, who perished on Mont Blane in 1866, have just been found.’ The glacier had given up its dead at last, af‘sr having borne the body of its victim to a spot nine thousand feet below in the ice. Slowly, slowly, the grinding river of ice gave up other relics. First came a handker- chief, then a shirt front, nekt a gold pencil case, watch chain, and gloves, with other odds and ends -—Sunday Magazine. Bear Opens Lips of Silent Hermit, William Woodruff, a hermit who lives in a cabin near Winsted, Conn., where he has kept to himself for twenty years, was gazing at the stars through a telescope when hé heard a noise and saw a huge bear making toward him. The hermit went in the cabin and brain sat down by the door, All night the enemies waited for each other. Woodruff with his rifle inside, and the bear outside. 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