SRE DEACON VIEW By nW.s Gs Martin, 3 Mitt Said Deacon [{idolr, #1 pity hase. Jess than halt ca scorqh WA Fora il ine fourteen, . and we wished for several fore. Lt hoonidail well cinny only ‘had ‘siX children “we “could call our very oMa, | But couldn't think of raising half-a- dozen "®ll' alone. 4; never / stole a child yet, and hope .I never may,” Said he, "but if 1 couldn't get them in an honest way, I kmow I would be tempted to resort to shady tricks: what ‘would home have been to us with only five or six? “I've For “We begged a few and borrowed some, and some just drifted in: A few of them, folks told us, were Just soaked and steeped in sin; (We never found them so) and some were orphans, just bereft Of parents, and we always took what other people left. “We never had the ‘ong-we, and we never got the blues; We never went around proclaiming pessimistic views. Our farmhouse rang with and throughout the day, was always something doing that would keep. the blues away. laughter, livelong { There { hearts are stil kept | said he, “with countless “And now our young" joys, letters For core by almost every | mail from those dear boys f And girls, who now have gone hustle for themselves and do A lot of good in this old wi rid, and raise big families, too. | to | back they come to visit us, like angeals from above: arms full babies and their hearts are full of love I want to go to heaven when I change m Shh a home makes ft “And Their are of y local gphere, But h + children pleasant here.” wit lots of awful -——Christian Herald. | WH wa eee were $9044 200900409900 000050 2 Some fellows have 10 idea of the value of 3 girl's e—that fs, a 8irl who is Somewhere between 25 and 30. They just fall into tne habdit of droppiag in to eat fudge or bits of cold chicken. It is nice to do so. They like the cold chicken, they like the fudge, even sometimes they like | the girl. Dropping in Bets to be sec oud nature, so they keep dropping in. Meanwhile, Maude wondering how much longer she 1 hair curled and pinch get the proper “If he doesn wonders, and let Joe Smit tir tir she | on En Bitaln * mean business, “why doesn't he move h have a chance? Joe isn't as 800d" a prospect George; still. he will do in George can’t be made to speak George to hold down claim, Maude tried many ways of ing the backward io toe mark. Simple as t¢ dear gir! ed in her pretty white frock, she was deep and knowing. You couldn't | blame her. It was necessary to do | a little pulling George really needed a derrick to hoist him. He had | been coming there off and on for | several vears. Maude was first In hot water, then cold. It seemed a century since the thought . had first come to her that she would marry him. Maude wags! perfectly willing to settle down ff | George would only speak. But he wouldn't speak, Several times she got matters where she thought the cards would be mailed to their friends the follow. Ing week. Then George would get off the troile be done al as case jut continueg the | indue- the | look- one he ¥. So everything had to | over again. Now George Was golng away. The evening he came to say good- by they strolled into Jackson Park Maude gently led him to just the right seat, in the shadows, with oth. | er people not too near. Maude had made a resolution, George was ignorant of his ger. The lake dan was glistening, moon was shining. The girl was nice. George told her so, but she knew it already. George grew effus. fve and a trifle foolish, Moonlight touchos some people that way. It did George. Maude was wise to thig “Oh, Maude, isn't it lovely here? | be murmured. He was happy to find her hand in his. “1 wish this even. ing could last” Maude meant {t to last—until she had accomplished her object, “I suppose fit can’t,” she sighed. Ths “No, I suppose not Shall you miss me when I am gone away? Maude knew he was going away, That was why she intended to bag the gamo on this night, The strain of cold cream and curling irons was wearing on her. It ft could not be settled tonight, Joe must bas pushed into service, “You are going away? Maude's voice trembled just enough. “1 supposed you won't miss questioned George, mao?" Just as if she rele: had doubted her. PreEhink ofr-ma't Evan | ddp—d#ee” The danger signal was flying, but George didn't Maude's eyes were hining, in tears? A man adores A" wotidn's eyes float ing in tears—Ifor him. , . y "Detiver- fs ‘#0 fir,” she sighed. Somehow the length of the seat had increaséd--at thé other end. Maude hadn't noticed it, “I don't suppose I'll ever see Den- ver,” she continued. “They say ft is a beautiful city. And you are going to live there!” “Oh, Denver's all be Chicago to me, though, for——— “Have you never dreamed of a place where you could be happy-—oh, 80 happy! Where there were views won't "” right. It you?" Maude was going some. “Gee, Maude, you don't mean to say—Would you like to live ¥h Den- ver?" “Oh, dropped LL George! to his shoulder And her head “Perhaps This will He tho ring surprise. get him so by George surprised, too. Not he was then had he realizod dear she was to him. As he brushed a !i“tle eleatrie curl from her brow and wh'spered in her ear, he vould only murmur. “How did I’ ever get up courage ask to be ~hlcago News, fo mane? I am unworthy!" COUNTIES IN Counties, The eounty is a territorial division that the United States derived from Britain, where the counties cor. inces or depart- countries, States respond to the prov European sense to the Union letter to of other Himited American addresses a Hants,” as we address a to Columbus, 0.” or Elmira. N. Y.” One State, which derives its usages French and from English originals, has no counties at all. In Louisiana these subdivisions of the State are parishes, both officially in ordinary speech, though are divided Into many real parishes of the church. Thére about 3.000 counties In the Union, with an average size of about 1.000 square miles; but this average is enormously exceeded in many instances, and is also frequents ly fallen Leaving out cer. tain great unsettled counties in the the average county would be about 500 miles square In extent In much of the western part of the man “Parkin- from not sit called and they now are below mathematically. It consists each composed y-six square miles, making 576 Square miles in all. In other words. is six square, twenty-four miles ulated of thirt miles and each square, In Iowa 111 4% county, there are thirty-nine cotin- ties that were formed In this way, each one of which has exactly 576 square miles Such divisions poss in the newer West. political divisions were in advance of settlement. In the o'der parts of the country the arrangements were largely were ible where accidental. The largest county States. ia Yavapa! which has an area square miles. Nine States of the Unlon are each smaller than this county. It fs larger than the whole of West Virginia, and almost as large as South Carolina. The sixteen counties of Montana in the United county, Arizona, of aimos: 30.000 of Massachusetts Among the other great counties of great productive territory: Humboldt Lincoln county, New Mexico, which are only sparsely populated: and Lincoln county, New Mexico, which bids fair in time to have a large population. Although the New England States are small the average size of the counties Is greater than in most of Middle Western and Southern States. Worcester county in Massa. chusetts, is an example of an Bast. €rn county that is at the same time large In area and very populous. [It Rhode Island. The smallest State inthe Union has the smallest county as* well Bristol county, R. I, has only twen- tyifive square miles. At one place it more than two miles fin breadth —Chicago Record-Herald, A SURPRISING WEDDING. It Quite Shocked the American Un. til She Saw the Camera. An elderly American authoress asked me a fow days ago to con- duct her to a place “where she could see a workman's wedding, as she re. quired it for her new novel, writes the Paris correspondent of the Cen. tlewoman. To oblige the lady 1 took her to the Lac Saint-Fargeau, an on tablishmen: at the top of the steep Rue de Belleville, It was still early when we ed the place, and no brides or bride. grooms wore vigible ag yet, At last twe chara-bincs drove up to Ed rn: iin a a Lp SE door, and a nolsy company alighted, bride, which shocked my friend ' ex cqpdfmEBATT 3.10 ‘Phe obthpuny | them sat down te luncheon gnd, we watched them from all disfifoldl while! dW | pHotographer took up his position. near us. The meal did not fast very long, and ended in the ‘bride performing a jig on the. table, while the guests danced around her. They then started games, hide and seek, ete., and while the bridegrooni had his back turned the bride threw her arms round the neck of a red haired youth, This led to a fight between the two: the melee became general, the bride pulling off her wreath. and throwing it at her father-in-law's head. My friend looked on in breath less excitement, while the guesty { jumped over the tables and chalrs { but when the bride turned a somer | sault, alighting on the bridegroom's | shoulders, the good lady's indignation | rose to a high pitch, and it was only |then that I, told her what I+and | he reader, no doubt, too—guessed | long before, that they were a party | of acrobats rehearsing a scene for a cinematograph company. LAW FOR AIRSHIPS, Florida Town Begins Early With Tax And Regulations. It was to b#® expected that some thing of the sort would happen, and that {t would happen in the Sunny South, that land of tmagination. and song, and ibition and moonshine, The Mayor of Kissim. Fla. that town with the most osculatory name in all the world, has {dratted an ordinance imposing a heavy fine for the overspeeding of di balloons, claiming jurisdic five miles in the dirigibles $100 each, purchase an tQmn mar all of should joke, and proh i Ion | mee, i rigible tion twenty taxing appropriating j aeroplane with { shal shall pursue and capture fenders The town marshal certainly have a high salary for this job Kissimmee has { the thrill of the vision of a balloon of any kind, but this measure is delight ful evidence of the new and wonder fully the far try, looked the money to which th © Revver . Southe which s upon when it is asleep no jonger find far as Kissimmee Kissimmee has balloon it will of the Ones coun mistaken have as being most active This slander will credence, least so n section at concerned. If had gight a is never of be fully preg balloons come. issimmee has never had the experience of an aut but the moment the auto ma Other towns and States exhibited native tendency to run away with mobile, be $ on i aine in prompt distinc Kissimmee has the world providing for oons It in ba vide and nations regulations of also the first to pro an aeroplane its town marshal The tion for twenty-five miles upward w undoubtedly -cover the limit of lev! tation. There Is actually nothing more to be desired in the Kissimmee ordinance. Kissimmee will no more be written down as one of the slow It is no long States speed for jurisdic 11 il est of Southern towns er Kissimmee slow. It quick. —Pittsburg Dispatch. Andover and Harvard. believed that by coming | It is nto world of theological instruction our part we are not convinced this Is to be the case. With its | large endowment, and prestige, And over had a peculiar opportunity, and for religious leadership. As it {it can offer no advantage that Har. vard divinity school does not offer and can at best do little more than dupil cate the work of that splendid in stitution. Some day we shall have in America a theological school in which a small group work together, not for the purpose of training men for the ordinary minis try, put for trafming men for leader. ship In’ the work adjusting (church to a changing order. of our schools are aiready facing this problem with success But the in. struction demanded for such leader ship is not that of general univeraity study t is rather that of a distinet profassional training. -——Worldq Today, Chicago. of the - a RA Auto Intoxication. # Presbyterian Hospital physicians had to deal with a rare disease re | contly—auto Intoxication. They say [It 1s Increasing with the increase of “fast running automobiles Morris Stern, twenty-five years old, of 937 Bpring Garden street, was reo cently a victim. He was speeding | down Preston street in his automo. | lle when he suddenly began to grow | dizzy and tremble as if afflicted with the palsy. He stopped hls machine j and alighted, staggered to the side | walk where he fell. | At the Presbyterian Hospital the i doctors sald that: the man's condition | wag brought on by a series of sho ks | to his nerves In driving his muchine | They termed the disease auto intoziea. | tion. —Philadelphia Ledger, | { : "We smoked 65,000,000,000 cigar. ‘ettes last year” remarks the New Well, confession is a ! i! j ~~ COMMERCIAL COLONY. wt epee {GE TR Weekly Review of Trade and Latest HN Market Reoorts. While events: generally tend to- ward steady, If slow, Improvement, conservatism still rules purchasing in wholdsale and Jobbing lines, and at several large centers fall trade, no tably in dry goods, has reached and passed its maximum. Taken as a whole, trade, though In a few in Blances equal to a year ago at this date, 1s still generally below the tion has a all but absolutely necessary pur- chases. Western trade advices are good as a whole, though house trade {8 on the wane, and traveling sales- men are relied upon to take care of reorder business. There is very general agreement that stocks are small in retailers’ hands, and color to this is given by the many orders given for immediate shipment, which throws unusual bur- dens in turn upon jobbers, whole- salers and manufacturers. tendency to i { ——————————. S— ———— larger Eastern markets in some kind of men’'s-wear fabrics and dress fabrics. Food products, such as groceries and meats, are also relatively more active. The trades are quiet, hides are dull, but firm, while shoe orders are not equal to expectations. Business failures States for the week against 266 last week the like week of 1807. Wheat, including flour exports and Canada week aggregates 6.439.526 against 3,491,911 bushels and 5,272,737 bushels this year Corn exports for hels, against els last week and 1.193.- in 1807, the United number 267, and 166 in in the last week week last Whnlesale Markets York. — Wheat exports, 10.500. sirong. No. 2 red. 2 @1.10 ele- vator; No. 2 red. 1,10% ff. o. b Northern Duluth, 1.13% No. 1 A hard winter, New 123.0060 Receipts, Spot, 1 0K 10 : afloat; No. 2 1.10% ¢t. ob afloat Corn firm; No aominal delive wit he Receipts, o RE 1 1,075. Spot, and $8 market nsactions, closing 14 higher. September closed May, 73% 54.000: exports, mixed, 264 32 white, : clipped wh ny % elevator 2 IY Option wounds, ounds, ‘ @ 40 pounds, Poultry-—Alive, *ns, 14: fowls, LQ Hi firm; spring ¢ 14; turkeys, 14: iressed, steady: Western spring shickens, 15@ 19: fow Is, 14@ 15% pring turkeys, 20622 Eggs—Irregular: receipts, tate, Pennsylvania, and ni arby fancy elected white, 324 34; do. 26@ 31; brown and c8@30: do., fair to hick- 8.978; fair to mixed fancy, choice, - @27. Philadelphia, — Wheat contract grade, 1103 @ 10315. Corn firm, %e focal trade, 87G 87 Oats firm, white natural 54% @ Butter firm. good Western creamery, prints, 28, Eggs firm, good demand: vania and other nearby 25¢. at mark: in returnable Western i do, | mark Cheese firm. good demand: New | York full creams. cholce, 12 @ | 13%e.; do. fair to good, 12% @ 13 Live poultry quiet but steady; fowls, 12@ 14c.: old roosters, 94 @ 10; spring chickens 14@ 15; spring ducks, 114 11%: old ducks. 10% @11 Baltimore.—Flour- Firm changed Receipts, 6,611: | 31,825. | Wheat—Firm: Spot contract, 1.04 | @1.04%: No. 2 red Western, 1.06 @ 1.06%; September, 1.046 1.04%; | October, 1.04@ 1.04 %: December, 1.06% @ 1.08: steamer No 2 red, 1.04% @ 1.04%; Southern by sample, [| 90@ 97: Southern on grade, 1.00% 1 @1.03%. Receipts, 59,667: exports, | 128,000. | Corn — Steady: Year, 68% G69; i January, 68 @os ay; Southern white corn, 80@ 84: Southern yellow corn, 86. Rédéoelipts, 2.177. Oats Easier: No. 2 white, 52@ 52%; No. 3 white, b1@51%; No. 2 | mixed, 51. Receipts, 4,537. Rye-—Firm: No. 2 Western export, S3@83*. Receipts, 1.073 Firm; No. 1 timothy, 14.00; No. 1 clover mixed, 11.50@ 12.00. Butter Steady: fancy imitation. 20@21; faney creamery, 25% @ 26: fancy ladle, 20: store packed, 186. Eggs-—Quiot, 23@ 24. 13%: firm, 1e September, higher We demand: She lemand: 26¢.: i No. 2 tor 2 fair No. extra nearby Pennsyl- firsts, f current receipts, cases, 2Z4c. at mark: firsts, f. c., 25¢. at mark; current receipts, f. ¢.. 24c¢ do. and un- exports, Chease-—Quiet: new large, new flats, 13%: new small, 13%. Live Stock, New York. — Beoves — 837. Feeling nominally Dressed beef slow at 7 to 10 pound for native sides. Calves—Receipts, 310; market steady. Calves, 5.00 to 8.50; West ern calves, 3.75; city dressed veals, 8 to 14; country dressed do., 7 to 12%; dressed grassers apd fed ralves, 5 to 7. Sheep and Lambs. 4, 100. Trade extremely slow. barely steady; lambs weak to 26¢ lower. Sheep, 2.50 to 3.50; lambs 4.96 to 5.75; culls, 3.50. 3,950, steady. % per Receipts, Hogs Receipts, weak, to Se. lower, Chicago.~-Cattle. ~Receipts, abou: 15,000; market steady. Steers, 4.40 @W7.20;, cows, 3.256 5.26; heifers, 3.0060 4.25; bulls, 2.5040 4.50: calves, 3.000 8. stockers and feeders, Feeling on; 12.606 4.50 Hogs —- Recelpta, market 100. lower, vivid 7.40; butchers, light 1aixed, 6.856 7.00; choice Hght T.00@ 7.25: packers, 6.806 7.15: Pigs, 3.956 @ 6.25; bulk of eales, 6.8¢ o about 18,000; Cholee heavy 7.304 7.40, » . & didi tian b fi $e WEES " 1 ‘cddbors to GRANT HOOVER | 5 Cloted ttt iof the 0 7 Largest Fire and Life Insurance pi sides In the World, , ... THE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST “iw No Mutuals No Assessments tSon £ £F Jha Ys § i? . 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MISTRESS, Once there was a lady who had two One was a fine black collie, tiful speak. dark eyes that could almost The other was a little black him. His name was Prince, They were great friends and played together by the hour, running races The big fellow was as kind and gentle in his play as if he were the same size But one sad day something hap- with the little dog, and he forgot the poor little fel- low so cruelly that he had to be put out of his misery, for he cduld never 30 ashamed and sorry that he would to the dear little pet the country. All this had happened in the early epring, and as the months went on a —————————— ——— ———— —— to call on his old friends, for he un- derstood and remembered what he ¥ himself. One afternoon in the autumn when the lady had been taking a drive she tame back to the house about sunset, When the wind was blowing eold, and the red leaves dropping over the grass. As she opened the gates she Was astonished to see Jack lying on the grass beside the walk. When he saw her he got up and came slowly toward her, limping badly, and sat down In front of her, holding up his forepaw and looking up in her face fs much as to say: “Will you take this sharp thing out of my paw and forgive me for killing Prince?” He didn’t really say all this, but he looked it. The lady stooped down and, taking the paw in her hand, she thorn sticking in it so deep that the She had to pull very hard, and it must have hurt a great deal, but he did not even whine. He sat quite still and watched her pull it out, and then he licked her hand, that being the only “thank you" he could say, and he went right home and was never seen there again, You see, the people he lived with would not take the trouble to help the poor lame dog, and he remem! bered how kind his mistress used to be to him in the happy old days, and he made up his mind he would go to her and see if she would still help him. But when he got what he want. FEIFTITI TI TTI ITI IO TT ey ed he was still too ashamed to linger and so he went back and the lady never saw him at ber house again. Washinzton Star, ®*And the streets are paved with real gold, and there will be music and flowers, and everything will be beau. tiful!” finished the Sunday-school teacher, who tolling her small tharges of Heaven. | ~ wo “And now tell me,” she continued, ! "what kind of little bors and girls are | oiling there?” ' Nobody knew. Then from one €or. | ter a small brown hand sho: up. ! “Yen, BamueM.” the teaches gmiled, | “Please, teacher, dead 0208! "we | Everybody's Magagine. : ————— HOYT k £2 fl ATTORNEYBL/ $1) 4 1 Office North of ATTORNEY. AT LAW / +4 PRLLERONTR, 24 Count House, # iii I — WALKER /3 7 i ATTORNEY ATLAW BELLEFONTE, P4 Ba r— - Xi. HaRkisoN Fo 10 WW. Bign Burest All professions) brant eam prompily attended tg Ivo. J. Bows C-BTTIG, BOWER & ZERBY ATTORNEYS AT LAW Esolx Booz BELLEFONTE, Pa. 4 Opve German, — ey CLEMENT DALE w — aonb — W. 0. Zensw Buccessory to Orvis, Bowen ATTORNEY AT LAW BELIEYONTR, Pa Office NW. eorper Diamond, two doors tras Firs Navous) Bank. ive 4 G RUNKLE ATTORNEY AT LAW BZLLEFONTE. Pa All Kinds of lege) busines alcnded to promptly “pecial atten lou given w collections Office, Goor Crider's Exchange he 8 B EPAFGLER ATTORNEY AT LAW BELLEFONTE FA ihe courts. 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