THE FAITHFUL ONE. By Frank L. Stanton. fn the storm and the strife, when lightnings of life Had blasted my deepest endeavor, Bhe crept to my side when the last hope had died, whispered: “1 love ever!” And you for- the bitter unrest of a grief- stricken breast Saw a star through the black shad- ows living, a joy from above strength of that love That is wounded, and yet is for- giving! And Knew in the now seems but a phan- dreams, shall depart And Sorrow tom of Peace never: Q'er Life's Valley of Sighs, light in the skies!-— For she whispers: “I love you for ever!” —From Uncle And from me gee! Remus’'s Magazine. Hee NARS XBMORONSRSHDRGND] fA Load On The§ Safety valve. : PEPE PIPL DW DUI PIED ONIN From his dinner-pall gide the fire-door., Ziba gineer of the t-mill, of Rio, black and steaming. He sip- ped it reflectively, rubbing his bald forehead with a smutty forefinger, as he gazed into the shimmer coals. “Not one he, “knows bottled up one way powder: for ‘that set it off, while ready take neas “In the early gineer central Joe Soccabasin, had come the pls local n there Joe was and quick: a coal shovel baseball bat “The fire-roor the factory, out behind stairs the side reach the had “"y bubbling Weston, en- poured a cup fe hundred,” sald tremendous power ordinary boiler. In dangerous is man in a the in it's m an Ore ing . hing to ilways weak need somet tands of any steam s to advantage I was en- small was fall of 1882 at a corn-cannery in a Maine town w ho to had heer when {#am went were the to cond To pass story on p workers to over fire i can rusty two twenty-foot locomotive ‘nineteen hundred valves topping the steam-domes teen years on the railroad a the factory had left them shape “The most lar man about shop was a red-faced sealer weighing over two hundred pounds Hrs was Duchesney, but svervhiudy cal him ‘Uncle Duke.’ smarter man with and all time tongue was a d raise room see those bollers now, old shells, old 8,’ with safety- Elgh five ip in nad n.d Mg popu the pame lod I've never seen a a soldering-iron; was working, his as f as his hands. It ull ten minutes that he didn't laugh at somebody else's ex- pense. Uncle Duke soon di that Joe knew more about than he did about bollers: he had a great Here cal joke an empty the he went ast a also dread One tin, morning he sealed up and threw ft Ing. Soon the hot out ome end ed. He out, shouting: “The boller's burst!” “It near the not air in the can blew was badly frighten- dropped his shovel! and ran 18 Joe burst! The boiler's to time get him Uncle Duke did Now and then he'd stick his took me some fire again. him forget it a8 he passed the head in and chuckle: “‘Boiler hasn't bust this hag it? “Joe's black eyes would he'd keep on shoveling “The second Monday I sprained my ankle, the plant over to my or three days. 1 worried some lay in my boarding-house, but ters seemed to go on all right. “Thursday morning my ankle was better, so I hobbled down to the shop to see how Joe was getting Under the huskingsheds a crowd, men, women and children. were tripping the big plles of ears stacked up by the farmers’ wagons. In- side the building both floors were running at full blast. It was the busi. est day of the season: there were more than a hundred people about the plant. let door, morning, snap, put coal in September and had fireman for two mat between the boilers and the engine, as if he was running bases. 1 peep- ed at the gages; the needles were teetering between ninety and ninety- five. The old boilers were pretty near their limit, for 1 had the safety-valves set to blow off at a hundred. We had to run well up to that to get power enough for the factory. “l stepped into the engineroom. In the bend of the pipe from the boiler was a ‘bleeder’ to carry off the condensation. Out of this wavered the blue, dry steam, hissing shriily. “On I passed into the factory, where six big square steam ‘cookers’ were sizzling. Every minute I expected to hear the boller blow off with a roar: for with that fire the pressure must soon reach a hundred. But I listened R— At last I went up to the second story, where fifteen or twenty men and boys were soldering cans | Uncle Duke's bench was near a win- | dow at the farther end. | “The room was full of fun. Uncle ! Duke had appeared that morning in a new pair of trousers striped black and white. Everybody was him, and he was giving back a little better than he got. in vain. {on the flat gravel roof of the boller- {shed. In the middle was a sag more | than a foot deep. A rafter had evi | dently given way. Suddenly 1 felt | weak and shaky: that hollow must | be pretty nearly over the safety- { valves! What if the roof was holding them down so that the boilers could now blow off! “It wouldn't do to start a panic among the workers. My first duty | was to see that the steam didn't get | above a hundred. “No man with so bad a sprain ever | made quicker time down a flight of stairs. I danced into the boiler-room; | the gage-need stood at one hun- jdred and five! | “Leaning a | one botler, 1 cl til 1 lay they thousand ta es short ladder against imbed the rounds, un- its top. A rafter the safety-valves; blown off at could see over directly ac in't TOSS have pounds! “Perhaps my knees {as I backed down that i for Joe! In he ran | room. ‘Haul ¥ pointing look, and copper face mottled gray He jumped which the gr it would wabble yelling didn't ladder, shouted, gave one turned a for the over and two-foot into the | quick!’ 1 He our fires, gages ate him The clattered lever turns pulled | bed of ash-pan “I hurried out through the engine- room Everybody must get from the fact at once. 1 at the t lungs: “The burst ute! Out of t¢ oy aC pede The th and scuttled toward hot coals ory shouted my any your lives! nay for an believe there was a stam- workers d from re ypped shop ened and that 5 hing Lhe sheds some fright they camed, others so i tl int boller-room. Cou Second skelter Bn As : story for the board. whole a floor wought the through on them shuffling our hen 1 heard teps outside 1" ail were out running above. Un- first thought of jump- but had the way He racked The armpits sonnrht that I thought tha to stairs ame on fumop faride ¢ ha jump, land i and igh floor caught there } and and yelling: ‘O boys, get me out! Take me iown busts!’ "if Joe I would held the boiler and for we ut we it hadn't been for him, that minute, in our hands him hanging there began to rake out the icks I had forgotten sprained ankle ng was ten feet high, and langled right the heels on a level with our like beavers, dodg- legs, and paying no is yells for help. It veral minutes to and by that tine prob would have would be over one hundred they chain, gpot, rusted plate this time Uncle bluest kind of striped legs a Ave rua our ves tant leave ldn't helpless, fires on all about “The ¢ i Uncle Duke hearth, heads ing his attenti id {extris over his We worked kicking n to h | wou have taken se him, her ate ably eit the boilers burst “The needles land six—seven never stop! A is than and ond might All Duke ng the murder, and kicking his back and forth “We hoed out the ash-pans until the hearth was piled with glowing coals. The heat and gas came up round Un. Duke, frightening him half out of hig wits. He began to kick and yell worse than ever: ‘'Help! Murder! to death!’ ‘Keep quiet, U'nale Duke, quiet!” 1 shouted. ‘We'll get down in a little while’ “But that didn't comfort him. The | embers too hot ‘No, no!" he screamed. ‘Don’t wait! I'm afire al ready. I'll be burned to a crisp In i five minutes!’ or the danger climbed eight boiler, would like a its weakest some no stronger any give way at dae was yelil cle Help! I'm roast : ing keep you were “It was no use trying to onnsole {him; so I gave it up. By this time we had the ash-pans clear. We gro. i bed shovels, and began to carry the coals out into the yard. 1 looked at {one of the gages; it had droppei ‘o a {hundred and seven! The bollers | were beginning to cool off. Bat the | danger was by no means over, “As Joe backed away from tho | hearth with a heaping shovel, one of Uncle Duke's shoes caught him un- der the ear just hard enough to stir his temper and spill the coals over the wood floor. We had a Hvely Jdme gytting them off the dry boaris. “Joe's head was twinging from the | kick, and the Indian in hig flared up. He slapped Uncle Duke two or three times with the flat of his shovel. “'P'raps you like to put ‘nother tin in the fire box now,’ sald he, Then he dropped his shovel and started for the door. “Joe! Joe!’ I cried; but he would not stop. “1 began to work harder than ever. Ondy a small heap of embers was left, when suddenly the flames burst out through a crack in the floor. One | “The old shop was dry as tinder. I fire out alone Duke would surely be burned for he was wedged so tight. ly that the factory would be blazing before I could cut him clear with my What should I do? 1 Joe for felt angry and bitter against “A figure darkened the door. Joe had come back. In his hand was a chisel. He had not intended to aban- don Uncle Duke, but had simply gone after something to cut away the floor to get him down. “He was a ‘white’ Indian. “Together we fought out the fire. Soon the coals were all in the yard, and the gages began to drop rapidly. We went up-stalrs, cut through the boards, and freed Uncle Duke. Then the three of us made tracks for the road. “It was half an hour before I came By that the gages stood below fifty, and all danger was over.” —From Youth's Companion time | i 3 old post oaks University of down. It is post oaks the kind of the stately the campus of Georgia has been commented on that are probably the large the State Chancellor Barrow of the di university, One the cut these sat of and Prof. Ak- tment of forestry nted the rings the to the centre of the in order find the of the Two hundred and years counted, 1 a par the con avi bark from tree to ge ih and 10 ounted. was a still cen- It Is least rings were tain distance remained that could that years old Wn the in cer the not be the tree sorrespond- ing to a little more than 104) years ago it was found that a betwoon rings existed that fully threes as ie hers. The reason for th was at once apparent It corresponded to the time when the of gia was ostablish- and the forest cleared out in the neighbo ( { ti old tree This owth that year, ring on the tree At space the was wi as the ot araity LO) an i onseque ing was much Be The could nd # ings year ethorpe ia be ™ on the the old oak was a large more than correspond time At that yagh 170 years ago ence Atlanta Co Putting Men to Death, ent desirous Hh sri he mos to on form is A yw which ig COrTeano the car the sentence at t wie mos pee, say being favorite Once from The the guillotine, whic licly in France, Be and two cant in two can Eh ue . he employed pub ginm, Ons of Bava: Is Of appears 0 Denmark y 3 fp Hanover and ony and also in erland. The raliows the running, and in Austria, Portugal and privately In t Britain United States of America, Death sword obtains in fif- teen cantons in Switzerland, in China and Russia publicly, and in Prussia privately. Ecuador, Oldenburg and in have adopled the musket, all in China they have cord, and in Spain lie: and in ax and by New York no <apital punish land ; privately next in publicly Ruseia, and and the choary come is favored . gta 21 TO8 by the while ation by garrote, both pub Brunswick death by the the electric chair in In Italy there is mont London Chronicle Bank of “Eng! and Jockey, Hardly living dead enjoved go many nicknames till hale and rectitude during a forty«4fix career on the race track won him one name-—"The Bank of England Jocke: Although getting on he continues to ride inds and to take an active in trials on Middleham Moor, while never a north. ern passes thout somal attention. Jo Osborne's minutives also include "The Pushe and “Mr. John” He got his “Pugh. er” name for his curious manner of race riding--the posh and screw vie. Fred Archer, who was always “The Tinman"-—-the reason is obvicus, for he won 20 much money for his retainers and followears—onca called Osborne “The Oid Push and Screw Merchant.” Even “The Demon” another of Ar cher's pet names, once paid the pen. ality to Osborne in a race of this sort, for the Yorkshireman mashed him right on the post.-—DBaily's Maga: zine, an or jockey as hearty, has John Osbome, 8 whose gtanch Year for ward eighty, meeting Ww his per di- hn qt called Taking Things Easy, The stranger paused as he came upon two tramps of the weary order basking in the sunshine and waiting patiently for something to turn up. “We are hungry, mister,” yawned Tired Tim, “Then why don’t you go and beg a! the nearest farmbouse?’ asked the stranger, “We're so very tired, mist er, that neither of us will volunteer, so we are goin’ to shake dies to see who must perform the painfid duty” “Well, what's in the delay?” “Well, boss, we are waiting for an earthquake to come along and shake the dice dice box."Tit-Bits. A Paris insurance company refuses risks on men who dye their hair, compensations Puck, is that not written by One erature, “best best of the admits sellers’ are writers, the success -just 0 punish a if she has any-— and Voltaire Russia ought t ful general- a change, ers,” as did. sald the English Inquir water of dob the country Observes er: Tris ways that lars But Isn't this *‘hiladelphia wang great will cost a billion why balk at the a billion-dollar country? Explanations of the fon aments wWarsiips a § ' ition simple fleet Dropes . ’ ss 4+) and any! won forfn geese on aid Ang call to the foars pass a law phonographs doubted if Congress will in the Pl not de the edu It may be take kindly ny pr the Infantry contends carune, but that pr $ Oo a posit boron gy oh prance \ the New yy of Orleans OD crease army mpee! does etract from the merits of the rn for hould 1} if the Army ing machine have enough infantry n the Army menis of in and for greater The people y understand an «ffective Aght should ognits infantry cated ¢ ig to be at all §# to do the ia intended. Thirty regi faniry, ven if recruited gtrength, are not safficient. pleted as the ran¥ke of all the regi ments now are. the insufficiency of the force ia still more apparent. © work ta and de Florida Phosphate Mines. New phodgphate mines have beon es tablished by local companies in Flos! da during the past year, and but for the difficulties of the labor situation the outrun would have been consider ably larger. As it was, a slight in. crease was made for the year from these mines, On account of the shortage of phos. phate rock on the part of manufactur ers on this side of the water and in Europe, the increase from Florida mines has been readily taken at pre valling prices, the demand being of such proportions as to warrant the bellef in a slight increase in values during the coming year. are sold for a year ahead and the manufacturers who have not thus pro- vided for their needs will be some. what handleapped.—American Fertil fzer, The Turks are manifesting great fonds make 3 to use them, Sd dlndl din Jodie dp Mode Di dip od dp Bde di i Jno. F. Gray & Son Burcdasors ly uw GRANT HOOVER Control Sixteen of the Largest Fire and Life Insurance Companies io the World, . . , . THE BEST IS TE CHEAPEST .. ... No Mutuals No Assessments Before insuring r life ses the contact of THE HOMB which in case of death between the tenth and twentieth years re- turns all premiums paid in ad- dition to the face of the policy. to Loan on First Mortgage Office In Crider's Stone Building BELLEFONTE, PA. Telephone Conoection Tr rrr rrr IY rrerreerdiddd Money 850 YEARS’ EXPERIENCE Traot Marks Desicns CopvyriGuTs &cC. AB Tons sen nin 4 A sketeh and deseription m mir opinion free whethe bably atentable, Communios nfidential, Handbook on Patents iL fres, Oldest agency for seonring patents, Patents taken through Munn & Co. receive spcrial not ice, without it charge, in Lh . A h VAT y Hustrated weekly, larzest y r mont his, $1. Bold byall n Kboky srt obey Win & ; C0; 3616rnme Ni York Bowed €vfa wT Washir"wan, 1). sd Reyer ny scientific journal. Terme $i a FU N FOR WINTER EVENINGS. When the snow blows and the eles ments are such as to make it most unpleasant for one to wander far from his own hearth-stone, the open fireplace, with its crackling ing logs, seems to hold a distinctive charm. It is then that the family gathers around and each one relates the pleasant and interesting things that have happe while some one and another pops cf ing On such are many ake even ings pass pleasantly ling is one of the and will prove equally entertaining to both old and young. Some the game by thinking which, of cours to the others, first letter of has to think letter for the word, with tirely differ player had ¥ the second players add a tter some one ends a word a out of the game For pose the first player word charming. He letter ¢. Then the ud 1, thinking of The next player, adds the letter a, ing of clamor, adds is dropped out of has ended the word clam. word is now started and th progresses, the players dropping one by one, or the fashion spelling match, until the has succeeded in staying in is pronounced the winner. A musical contest will also an attractive way of toasts marshmallows rn over the bilaz- fire, occasions there a great long winter Word bull ways to m the one a? crn of some word, gives aloud he turn, until nd is dropped instance, thinks of the gives next the 1IAVin in word g clap in mind, the next, think m, when lo! he the game, as he and 1 i i pencil, and then have some one play snatches of old familiar and up-to date airs on the piano. The players write the names of the selections on the slips of paper, as they are played. who can name rectly. At another time familiar quota. A are written so as to give the correct meaning, but not as they are quoted. Then the players put their thinking caps on and write them out correctly. The following are given for examples, but ans others might be used equally as well “Beauty is a thing of joy at al times.” “The pulling has to be eaten be how good it 1s." “Two birds in the bush are of less the most number cor number of them “Many stitches are saved by taking one promptiy.” “Stones should not be thrown by those who live in the houses of Key to Above, “A thing of beauty is a joy for “ rey The proof of the pudding is in the "A bird in the hand is worth twe “A stitch in time saves nine.” “People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.” -—Kather ine D. Salisbury. Photographic Telegraphy. It is reported that the method, ine vented by Herr Korn, of Munich. of transmitting photographs by tele: graph, has been perfected to such a degree that transmission is now pos. carried out recently between Berlin and Paris were, it is said, completely successful. 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