ar FRIENDSHIP, pass the ardent hours of day With boon companions blithe and Bay-— But ah! the twilight time I spend Before the hearthstone of a friend. =Bthel] M. Kelley, in Lippincott's. RPNIRGHOROROMPASNINDRPN THE ROGUES’ GALLERY Sanguinary Bank Clerk and His Obliging White Rose. BY GEORGE 8. DOUGHERTY. PEPPY PUPP PEPPY Pinkerton National Detective Agency. It all happened; it happened won- derfully: but it did not happen to me —1 mean I had no personal connec- tion with the case, particularly with the highly intelligent doings of that white rose. All I know is that if there is any rose growing ine New York today of like {lk, may it happen my way when so sorely needed as by the sleuth who tells the following story. But I don’t know that I am particularly anxious (0 land up ggaingt so strenuous and blood thirsty a gentleman as the exemplar of the genus, Defaulting Bank Clerk, figur- ing here. He just a trifle too strenucus and dramatic in the meth- pds he adopts to protect his own prec lous skin. My friend the old-time detective is talking: ‘I received an imperative message fo attend at the New York Bank of — early one morning. On arriving there I found the president and the other officials hopping round the premises as though treading on needles. The safe had been forced by burglars, and all the specie ex- tracted My professional pride was flattered by the almost pathetic confl- dence manifested by the officials in my ability first to explain how the trick was done, and next to lay by the heels those who had done it, “1 was conducted to the burgled gafe. It did not take me long to rea- out that whoever the burglar hé had worked on the lock when already open this conviction to mysell time being, and put my working full pressure on other ¢ nd! tions in the immediate vicinity of the safe. keeping up a desultory conver sation with the distraught president all the while. After a seconds my petal of elegant “Show gay the the pre a window is Oi safe was r f - ior lapse of been an rose had (Pr the dently ovence) w hat ov white me burg wident in of place where lars entered,’ 1 He conducted the basement. Here 1 found two th heavy protecting bars had been filed through to effect the en But it was clear to me that they had been filed from the inside The inference was “Ip answer to my inquiry president whether he of the bank staff, he was almost, in- deed, quite indignant, and took some time to phrase hls resentment of the suggestion The staff was a small one and 1 thought it would be strange if the president was not sufficiently acquainted with his employees’ hab ft to answer my next question ‘Do you happen to have noticed,” 1 said, ‘whether any one of your young men §s given to wearing flowers?” Mr. President donned his considering cap with the result that, with a snort and a gulp, and a tribute to hig probity and piety, he named a Mr. Charles Me “'Point him out you sald me to iry obvious of ed the suspect tn me as | pass through the bank now,’ I replied The president did this, but with marked impatience While not appearing to do so | gave my man a thorough scrutiny, and despite his neat, clean eut appearance 1 did not like him It may have been fancy but I put him down for a smug hypocrite “yy next move was to hurry to his residence and, as 1 anticipated, the sumptuousness of the place did not fit in with the salary he re. ceiving. Though truth to tell, 1 was not afforded more than a cursory glance at such rooms as I could see from the hallway, for the shrewd old hag who attended to the door put a gharp brake on my movements She did not prevent me, however, from noticing a rose (ree on a nearby table containing one solitary, gorge ous bloom. I had forged another link fn the chain “The rest of the day 1 spent han! ing up Mr. M-'s antecedents and habits of life, and all went to con firm: my suspicions. He was a pockotl edition of the Grand Mogul Next morning 1 appeared at the bank ready to recommend the arrest of Mr, Me, when 1 had my breath taken away by the following speech of the pres) dent: “sYou were right about M-— After you left yesterday we went over his books and found a deficit of $30,000, and | understand he left the city last night. You must get him at any eost, the infamous scoundrel!’ “It was my turn to be nettied, bu! 1 contented myself with asking if he had any notion as to the direction in which the bird had flown-=if he knew of any relatives. Yes, there was onc, an uncle, who lived some fifteen miles outside Augusta, Georgia. It wag July, and the very mention of that region and a railway journey thither at such a time filled the cup of my dissatisfaction, “Two days later I was registering at the best hotel of the place, my frame of mind being. if anything less was } i : ai ———— rs sol. Hoo ge A AM NY wl | S- gight of a white rose lying on a chalr. 1 do not remember whether 1 com. pleted my signature, but 1 know i made an expansive blot—to the great disgust of the hotel clerk. But at that particular moment that was a small matter. I almost fell on the rose. Yes: it was my friendly New York rose—somewhat faded, true, but the same. And my good luck did not end here, for on the back of the chair was the most recent copy of the New York Herald to reach Au. gusta, opened at a place where stood out flaring headlines describing the great bank robbery. 1 started to read this, but found the sheet so mutilate} and crumpled, especially where the same of the suspected culprit appear ed, that I had no doubt whatever that 1 was hot. very hot, on that worthy's trail “it wag supper time, and needless to say digestion walted on appetite As the saying is, everything in the garden looked lovely, I was not | through with my worries, but I had | brushed a bunch of them aside In the last hour. The meal over I light ed my best cigar and sauntered ujp | to that clearing house of gossip, the hotel bar. When finally alone with the barman, 1 remarked, casually, | that young M— had been there that | day, though it was the most nat ural thing in the world that such an | event must be known to him. And 1] was right in my guess ‘Sure,’ said | the Hquor mixing artist, ‘but he | didn't stop long—he drove over lo his | uncle's outside Parkville—say, he fine, and must be handling the dough” all right up in old New York’ ‘Bull's-eye, first shot,” was my un- | expressed comment, then out loud, ‘So you know his uncle, the n?” The | as place looks like? has free uo, | own | mur- ‘A tough the devil's out of two he he scot What was b'heck, but inck—got der charges.’ i “My cigar began to draw a littie | bard at this titbit of information, but} 1 did not leave for my room until I] kad laid all incipient suspicion on the barman's When 1 awoke, next morning too, 1 was con that 1 had had a peaceful and sleep. 1 drove over to Park- | owing to the lameness of | 1 did not reach the little’ after dday. Determ- the mal here 1 or and meanwhile informed | exact wherexbouts of | M-—'s domicile, 1 was | he lived in a clump ot | five of the | walking was good. Al jenfe with a lame horse | of a fivemile jaunt In | summer's day looked | tnvitimg. and a half hour | found well on my way “The unexpected, however, showed | on this occasion its usual proneness | to happen, and as darkness sef in I began to suspect that I was either | walking five Irish instead of five American miles, or, in my devolion to nat attractions by the way, 1} had from raight road. | Cert I had found the woods, or | fight. for high trees stalk- | ed off into the gloom all around me, | but all did not seem right with the road, or rather the gradually narrow | ing path under my feet. 1 hesitated | -] was lost “My tically aimless, the next not part early gclous restful but horse ville, my town till ining to well mi leave ani myself of Mr informed woods 8 town, my the Theodore that me miles west but the ter exper : tively posi later me ure's strayed the st forest all wanderings then became prac and bewildered. For couple of hours whether or I was describing circles 1 don't} know. but the little of Hght remain | ing discovered me at the end, as the | lawyers say, in statu quo ante—ftrees, | trees on every side, with not a habi tation in sight, and me utterly fag- ged There was nothing for it but to grope around for some friendly (ree gtump and there while away the hours ; (ill davlight—perchatce to dream, but | scarce to sleep. There are no m banks innocent of reptiles and other | creeping things provided by nature | for the traveler lost in Georgia for ests “The stump found, I put my head | in my hands, and proceeded to draw | on my philcsophy. And a sorry bus. : ness it was. The conjurations of tha | lighted canons of New York almos: | me frantic, but 1 won't dilate | further in this strain. 1 had enjoyed i these agonizing transports fer per | haps a half hour or so when, happen ing to raise my aching head, Ithought 1 | saw a light deep down among tho trees. 1 submitted my optics to the usual tests of Doubling Thomases, | and found to my intense delight that this was no willo’the-wisp. 1 forced my creaking limbs through the brush and undergrowth in its direction and in a few minutes drew up before a low, long all-wood building. In re sponse to my knocking a stout, for bidding looking man of perhaps fifty years of age threw open the door and bade me enter. He was not alone, for zeated at the table in the center of the room was no other than the dapper young man 1 had come so far to seek. 1 was subjected to close gerutiny and discreet cross-examina. tion, but thinking that young M-—— dki pot suspect my identity, my answers were frank, and it was finally agreed that 1 sleep in the room above, having for my bedfellow a grownup son of the older man. 1 was warned not to wake this gon as he had to rise early in the morning, but as he was a sound sleoper and lay by the wall, 1 prob. ably would be able to manage that all right. “I retired to the upstairs room, took a glance at my bedfellow, and in a few minutes would, in my tired state, have been by his side and drove wow * ouniside my window. The iight bob bed here and there, and I made out the form of the elder M—. Without delay, with pick and spade he com- menced to make a hole some six feet in length, I watched the grim figure fascinated, and goon the horrible sus picion crossed my mind that he was digging a grave! But for whom? “1 was not long left in doubt. His task completed the old ghoul return ed to his companion in the room be low, whom I saw, thanks to a friend ly crack in the floor, was still seated at the table, but now with a business like revolver before him. The hoarse whispers floating up through that crack informed me, that my identity was no secret to the defaulting bank clerk, that I must be knifed at once (it mattered not by which of the con ferees), and that the newly dug grave was no other than my own, “Phew! [I rose from that a chastened state of mind. to think and act seemed paralyzed. Here was [| without a weapon with which to defend myself—in a trap, at the mercy of a cou of reckless villains. In despera to the floor again and ap- crack. What 1 my 1¥e, though at The younger dently about to creep up the stairs, knife in hand wished to do the job himself), when | heard the whispered Injunction ‘Remem- r, Jack has his nightcap on, and is against the wall’ “Suffice it to say murderer felt for the head of the recumbent wall, it was there indeed, poor Jack's head. “Had Jack been a er he would be alive ly his body was floor in My power ple plied my to the heard then the cost of ear gaved another (he be that when the nightcap on the fizure next but not the on less sound sleep Hurrled wrapped in a sheet and committed to the grave Intend ed for me During interment 1 good my reached rousing anhabitan!s, daylight had the satisfac this twain of cold: ns handcuffed by the Lad not then discovered laid pian had misca™ ried. When | AP] peared in the door way, ‘0 their was as thougl The gri a bh yroe today the escape, safely the and before tion of seeing blooded asanssh They "wea 3 4 in hig son who buried, was of the old man when on him that it was been murder eally and their trial this “Al precious uncle and nephew get uj and three months later their place was known no 100 MILLION HORSES more That is the World's “Supply—Most of Them in the Temperate Zone. Of the in the world, af the entire number are found in the temperate zone and nearly all tal people According to the Natl graphic Magazine, the re maining gscatie i largely employed temperate zone and are but presenta that animal as he is known people of Europe or America. the United States and Canada have 1 horse for every 372 per sons: in South America 1 for every 7 in Japan for 40 in Turkey, ippines, about 200 in India 1080 000 G00 horses known to 80.000 000 or four nal Cran oi. 000 000 are of dents tives to the In red the tropics yrouh in the vis service itors Or resi feeble re of 30; 1 for 50 in the Phil 150 in Africa and for for The carry from 50 to man from 75 to 150 ths donkey 100 to 200 an ox 150 200 pounds: a from 200 to pounds: the camel from 350 to 500 pounds: the elephant from 1,800 to 2,500 pounds. Hama will to 250 Postwoman's 100,000 Miles on Foot, An extraordinary instance of the arduous work done at the ramote branches of office gor is reported from Newnham, near Herts, where Mrs, Clark, age of 686, fulfils the du and “post-wom- some of the post vice at the giill ties of posimistiress an.” did most of office, while stress, and dur years she has delivering lat- thirty-five years 100.600 miles With a large posibag strap- For twenty years she ithe outside work of the hor sister was postmi ing the last fifteen walked 52.000 miles in ters. In the whole on foot a little cloth cap and heavy boots she trndges regularly on her rounds in spite of rain or siorm Or snow, “Mrs, Clark began her association with the post office at the age of 14 and has thus been in the service for fifty-two vears., Her ordinary dally round is eleven miles, and her work particularly at Christmas time, often makes It necessary for her to plod along the lomely country roads by night. She knows every inch of the district. and she even despises the use of the lanterns which many of her neighbors carry when abroad in the darkness.—-london Tribune Air-Derived Nitrogen. The industry of manufacturing fer tilizers by taking nitrogen direct from the air by electrical process is expanding in Norway. A project is on foot to utilize the great Rjukan- fos Fall to supply eleciric power for this purpose. The Rjukanfos Fall is one of the most beautiful in the world, und of extraordinary height, more than 1,550 feet. It is calculated that when fully utilized it will furnish 220,000 effective horsepower. But at the beginning only half the height of the fall will be utilized, the wpper part ang lan undisturbed. It is ad. vy oie) ATTRIBUTES. Ob, de 'possum’s tai] is lengthy, An’ de rabbit's tail is small, $ome critters hab big wavin’ An’ some hab none at all Some birds dey keeps a singin’ An’ some merely loud; De hen is meek modes’ An’ de peacock’s mighty De locus’ tree loft v, An’ de cabbage done Dar am no explanati De good Lard An’ as 1 jsn't Of anothe: Some folks is ‘Cause dey NATURAL ears, hollers an’ proud is foo’ low man s belongs 80 STYLISH Mrs. Nuriteh” WOInaAD at the reception “There's first derstand door 58 “Eh 17 “1 bel ‘portecochere’ "—Phil husband cautioned lieve she dog AS A CHA Perhaps you are ont son NGE Algy—" Tartun, thinking’ Miss Tartt Mr. Slimpayt you good he Timid happen iid th The Cheerful should suffo not be unplea lled with Life AN AMBIGUITY Clergym You car fort vour you made he lived Widow was in b & GOOD MAN “Your dead husband wor mon.” d¢ red £1 pd Casey to {1 widow “He exclaimed Mrs Murpl dashing the tears from her eyes two polacemin cud handle him Judge wor’ A SYNONYM "Ye 8.” boasted i an I've places » ¥ COEMH polit mans tight “Tight ance. “That's "A new “Publi niaces.™ $a name for what? bouses "-Til EX oT ED “1'11 never forget 1 ever won,” said the game Wi ual a. the frst veleran youngster “My remember Press breath, for what else. *hiladelphia THE had his steed SPIRIT Young Lodi ed the fair Ellen on “This will army test” he « Herewitl ful combination marriage lo commend ness ~ New York Sun OF WEST vat just shably Iw ¥nlained y he waited for the beaut semanship and itself 10 great ist Of HOT PROGRESS AND RETROGRESSION “America is the land of opportun {ty said the patriotic citizen “Think of the men who have attained great ness from humble beginnings” “Yes European, who had investigation ports; think also of the who attained humility innings. "Washing INEXPRESSIDLE IN GAELIC The policy of the Irish members urging that Gaelic should beithe recognized langnage of thelr country is a remarkably ghort sighted one In T. P's Weekly we road “Lord K's inventions, notably 1hat of his invaluable mariners COmMpass were almost innumerable” You could never have put like that in Gaelic —Punch HOPEFUL, demanded the stern.vigaged thie back door, “what do ‘answored the ing been road re men from on Star “but have bee it just “Well,” woman at you want “Why,” replied the tramp, yougg advertised ‘table board’ mornin’s papers." “Well?” “Well, I tough mebbe yer wuz giv in' out some samples ”--Catholic Standard and Times THEY WERE BOILED. An old admiral, well known for his powers of exaggeration. was at sup per one night describing a voyage “While cruising in the Pacific,” he “1 seen in dis positively red with lobsters.” “But” sald one of the guests, smil ing incredulously, “lobsters are not red until boiled.” "Ot course not,’ replied the un Ad Jno. F. Gray & Son Surcdssors to... GRANT HOOVER Control Sixteen of the Largest Fire and Lite Insurance Companies io the World, . . . . THE BEST IS THE | CHEAPEST . . . . No Mutuals No o Assessments Before insuring your life see the contract HOME which in case of death between the tenth and twentieth years re. turns all premiums paid in ed dition to the face of the policy. to Loan on First Mortgage Office in Crider’s Stone Building BELLEFONTE, PA. Telephone Connection TTT Tr rr rrr YY rrr rerrdddd Money «i283 2aat2asrzatissiliilldd IVP POOP ODNE NT) 60 YEARS’ EXPERIENCE Traoe RIARKS Desicns COPYRIGHT s Gc. He 2 a *het « W atid desert ¢ { * ident Agency for sad Tit ia take fn throu tice, without ¢ harge, on “Scieniifc American. tr i inatintad we vkiy. fy scien : Jornal, nibs, $i WW pmients, tus on. rou ORT POO Peanch (MMos OF A FAVOR DEATH FOR THE OLD IN CRIME. Chicago fF hyticians Discuss t adical Social Pa ates. Treatment A symposium on the the criminal the Physicians’ the Law Club were advanced! Elimination sterilization. Treatment of criminals years old as habitual, gending them penal These two of criminal by over and to instit other manner, possibly by the tery route Dr. Wiliam vocale of th took up the eriminal and ceme T Bel i » ster Biological fter tracing the tion iden agnoeet devel. catica danger to society icide 3 made ‘ of the he said. he has a te endencies chance @ outgrow he thirty old Before should be given all the care possible jut when a man commits after the age of thirty he down as a rule with no hope of improvement. the mature criminal YOars that Them TTTTTTT ITTY i shtml spin aot sibs conan soo” ATTORNEYS, D. P. FORTUEY ATTORNEY -AT-LAW BELLEFONTE, PA Offices North of Court House. i m——— vw. HARRISON WALKER ATTORNEY -AT-LAW BELLEFONTE Pa Fo. 19 WW, High Street. All professional business promptly sttended nt— R— 8D Gerrio Iwo. J. Bowes W.D Zexsy CFI, BOWER & ZERBY ATTORNEYS AT-LAW Essie Brook BELLEFONTE, PA Buccessors to Orvis, Bowes 4 Orvis Consultation in English and German. Pom — mm sr Foun ERT DALR ATTORREY-AT- LAW BELLEFONTE PA. Office N. W. corner Diamend, two door from First Natioua! Bank. ire WW G. RUNKLE ATTORNEY-AT LAW BELLEFOKRTE Pa. All xinds of legal business sitend«a wo promptly #oecial atten lou given to collections Office, Boor Crider's Exchiacgs ris R* EFARGLER ATTORNEY AT LAW BELLEFONTR.FA Practices In wil ibe courts. Cousnlfaiion is Huxlish snd German. OSce, Crider's Exchaugs Busiing fr Old Fort Hote EDWARD BOYER, Proprietor. Loostion : One mile South of Centre Hall. Assowmmodstions fret-cless. Good bar. Parties wishing to enjoy an evening given special attention. Meals for such oocasions pre pared on short notice. Always prepared for the transient trade. RATES : $1.00 PER DAY. (be Mallonal _Fotel MILLUEIM, PA. I A. BHAWYER, Prop. Fist clam sooosmmmolstions for the travele @ood table board and siseping apartments The cholosst liquors at the bar, Blable ad sommodations for horses is the best 0 be Bus tosnd from sli trains on the Lewisburg and Tyrone Ralirosd, at Oobure Sr —— LIVERY Special Effort made tu Accommodate mercial Travelers. . A. BOOZER Centre Hall, Pa. Penna RR Penn's Valley Banking Company CENTRE HALL, Pa W. B. MINGLE, Receives Deposits . . Discounts Notes . . . Cashie indeterminate with sentence over thirty vearsz oid duction of the prevention nals from breeding i great bulk of eri { od development. them breed and to take care of their children.” Dr. J. N. Hurty, Infliana State Board of Health, of the “Indiana movement,” social parasite criminals. “Indiana reformatory” to themseives to be sterilized. than three hundred of them submitted to this operation so far. i SOMETHING ABOUT STAMPS. { We take so many things for grant- ed that at times, when we learn of the amountof trouble a simpleappear- ! ing thing has cost, we are amazed. For instance, how many, when they i glibly stick a postage stamp on a let- i tor, think of the trouble that has { been taken to put just the right | amount of mucilage on the stamp? | And yet the labor and care expended on the backs of stamps is consider. able. It is a most delicate oparation. After the printing, great sheets of stamps are passed under a roller from which they receive a thin coat. ing of gum; then they are gradually dried over steam pipes. Of course care is taken to make ‘the coating even. Tests are hourly made to see that the Heat gad humidity are ex- i actly right. Then for each season of the year allowance must be made. A harder gum for summer, a thinner one for winter. In winter the gum is apt to crack and care must be taken to prevent that. A third grade for spring, and fall gum is known as in termediate. So you see even so small a matter as a postage stamp is an {tem of interest in the country’s work Kop. Washington Star, a he SORRY HE SPOKE. Wite—"Our daughter is twenty, and she ought to be married.” Hubby-<*0Oh, she has pleaty of time. Let her wait till the right sort of man comes along.” » Ni at all. 1 didn walt at for the Manufacturer of and Dealer In HIGH GRADE ... MONUMENTAL WORK in ail Kinds of Marble am (ranite. Dont ffl 0 get my price NNN VNB NP LARGEST |hsuRance - JAagency IN CENTRE TE COUNTY H, E. FEI ENL ON | Agent Bellefonte, lFern'a
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