ARR Sea a RRR i ~ os Sk Coby His Pldventure. GuB0TICOEDOSIOLTICCOREEND “Buckie, sir—Rev, Dr. Buckle,” said, leaning over the back of the seat before me and grasping my hand heartily. “Glad to replied. know you,” 1 one to talk te, for it seems to me that this journzy is interminable.” “Slow train—bad road,” said my new-made friend, throwing his high hat on the back of his head and bit- ing the end off of a cigar. “Oh, 1 see you smoke. Don't fill your pipe. Take one of these—excellent—made by one of my congregation.” “1 only smoke a pipe, stretching the truth a little that might not feel offended. Then 1 ” I said, and peered out into the dismal coun- Now we were plunging through lone- ly stretches of dark woods; now run- ning across wide cleared fields, with here and a log house rising above the waste of above the mountains a few miles away. Following us was a smooth road that glistened moonlight close to the track. a while we lost it in the darkness of the woods, but as quickly as emerged into the more open country we could see it at our side was but natural in such a dreary land. “Fine land, eh?” said Dr. “1 don't think, as my third son, a clever lad, if there ever was says. It just happens that I this region pretty well. There! you that place where the crossed a creek on a wooden bri That was where they drop: “Dropped you?” 1 ventured, quiringly. - “Pardon me, I thought I ha telling you about it.” returned the minister, tilting his tile further back on his head. “What memories the gight of that place engenders You see, ten ago 1 had charge in this very locality-—at Pole. ville, five miles down the There were two churches, one ag the village and the other back in the country some six miles, and I alter- nated between them The was indeed a poor bat 1 a struggling young divine then, 2 wife and four little ones to sup- port, and 1 was glad enough to have & snug parsonage, a salary of five hundred dollars per year and an av- erage of three donation parties per annum. It was the salary that eventually drove me away from know Did goo yl me 1 been Sir, some years charge one, was to be sure, as I have now a splendid church in Punkington. By the by, 1 wish if you ever stop there you would » furniture.” “But your story,” 1 interrupted, for 1 saw that he was prone to wan- der from the subject of his course, “Ah! there I was forgetting tale to speak of pulpit Your pardon. The trouble was fully four-fifths of my salary my that was houses. Unfortunately for me, these families had been at odds for years over a matter of a line fence. In the west there would have been lead exchanged, but this is a peace- able country, and so they contented themselves by quarreling in court and never passing a word elsewhere, To the rule, however, there was one ex- ception—Henry Bunder Springhouse. The doctor wws evinelng such gar- rulity that I felt a little uneasy and broke again the thread of his story. “See here, I think I know the rest. They sang in the same choir: they loved; you married them clandestine. ly; salary cut off: left you a par- sonage, five hundred dollars per vear and three donation parties.” “True, true,” said the divine, strok- ing his long beard, “but that was not what I was going to tell you about, I proposed to relate the events as they affected me and not the young couple; to tell you how the wedding ended where the road erossed the bridge. May I go on*®” “By all means. Your pardon; 1 be. lieved that I had divined your tale.” “In general, yes; in detail, no. But to continue. I was not aware of this exception until one October night Just about tem years ago, when a loud banging at the parsonage door awakened my wife and me from our sleep. At my request Mrs, Buckle went down stairs to see what it was. “'Who Is there? she through the keyhole, “ ‘John Bunder,’ came the answer, ‘and he wants Preacler Buckle pret. ty quick, too.’ “Believing it a matter of import ance, my wife rashly called me down stairs to attend to the matter in hand, while she retired. And still more rashly I opened the door a crack and demanded to know what was wanted at such an hour, * ‘It's John Bunder and Kate Springhouse wants you to marry ‘em, preacher,’ sald the big follow whom I saw stamping to and fro on the porch. ‘And you'll have to do it quick.’ ’ * ‘Indeed,’ says I, ‘and this is a nice hour to wake an honest preacher for such a purpose.’ “And then my curiosity getting the better of my discretion I unchained the door and opened wider the erack that | might obtain a good view of the party at the gate. There were three of them sitting in a light spring wagon, to which were attached two Hvely mnles. In the moonlight 1 could discern the small form of Kate Springhouse, clad in white, and seated in front beside her burly lover, young Bunder. [I realized at once that this wedding was fraught with not a little danger to me, and | hence decided to act cautiously. | * ‘I would prefer that you and vour { friends would go elsewhere,’ 1 sald ito the man outside, ‘For instance, | over the mountains to Brother ee! | + “Before 1 had finished my objec- tion the girl screamed: “* "They're coming!’ | “The big fellow on the porch threw his weight against the door with such violence that I, small man as I am, flew backward to the floor with such force as to partially stun me. When I recovered my senses I found my- g2lf ‘on the hind seat of the wagon, with a man at either side, and Henry Bunder, his sweetheart clinging to { him, before me, madly lashing the | mules, * ‘He has come to,’ one of the men whispered. “Kate Springhouse gave a little scream of joy, which was followed by another of fear, and an involuntary ; seizure of her lover's arm. “ ‘I hear them,” he said, ‘but we will Be married before they catch us.’ “As 1 sat there in that rough, rush- ing, bounding wago., hatless, with { no protection from the autumn winds other than a light horse blanket my kidnapers had thrown about me, the words of an old sermon of mine jcame back to me, bringing endless comfort, It was from the first clause of Proverbs 1:17 — ‘Better is a dry morsel.’ In that discourse I made a point of the fact that anything is bet. nothing; that as we are is than not being; a dry morsel than no morsel. Now if you refer to First Kings 2" “Excuse me for interrupting, doe- tor,” exclaimed. “But tainly, attend | ter than i better back church in Punkington but for the present this elopement.” ! “Pardon, pardon,” said the minis- ter, relighting his cigar “1 was wangle; ¢, 10 he sure. neonles Ie : ~ poss COUrse, about people lost no time la explaining what was wanted, and I. that the wny closer quicker {it to home they would leave me, i was not unwilling to begin EB by i YZia +4 Seu this ti £ Into me stiri that we are following, and a steady run light gon swayed to that I had difficulty feet When I stood up ¢ and the were swinging i ceremony. The bri mained busy the first w we heard stop, and drawn by i appearing into of the hill a quarter of a mile hind. I saw the moonlight gleam on something that savored of guns, and r my frame. exclaimed the bride Mr. Buckle It gented, for latter with #3 1 o a the driving rds left my mouth when behind us a faint eall to two dashin iorges, just view over the a cold chill erept ove mits pal ‘But go ah :ad, “My teeih did canes, for besida the i my garb, the fire@ a gun. 1 ducked, and | am pos bullet whistled a fow my head, with that peculiar sound we read so wueh of in war history. The ceremony is really scantiness of following us persons ’ itive inches above marriage § BE it sser d to me 1gth it was doae ditions endless. But at leng **1 supposa you now?’ 1 said, for 1 than ever ths « behind us, and knew that our pur- svers I did ing, Just ye, dactor,” said one of i the fellows at my side “The marriags cortificats next: and | heaviesi signs { “And with that he drew i pocket the necdsd paper. | Springhe 5¢ put her name In { proper place and then i signed. The rattle of wheels ¢ louder, but we were in the and could not see the pursuers. i ©" ‘My turn next,” sald 1, seizing | the pencil from the groom. “ *Not on your life!’ yells the big ; fellow who held me, ‘Heaviest first’ “And with that he seized the tificate and pencil and witneseed the paper. Then he leaped off behind and disappeared In the woods. We will" lot me off could hear clearer r of horses’ feet were closing i 10 witness the me “ ‘Not big from his Young Bunder woods i you saw the bridge when a call to | stop eame to us again. 1 lared not look back, but 1 saw the whip fall on the mules, and they plunged for- ward with a lighted load, for the sec. ond witness had signed and left ‘there was a report, seemed to hear the whistling bullet intended for the groom, a faet that caused me to involuniarily start to | jump, to find my escapes balked, for the bride clung fast to my blanket. “'SBign the certificate!” ghe screfimoed. “1 signed-—a very peculiar signa ture, to be sure, but it satified her and she expressed her satidfaction by 18. from the vehicle into the road by the bridge. “When 1 regained my senses 1 was lying in the ditch at the roadside, my feet partially immersed in the waters of the creek, My position was guch that my postrate body could not have been meen from the road, and the pursuers must have driven by the spot, little suspecting that one of the chief and most urwilling actors of the drama lay bleelling within a fow feet of them. For bleeding 1 was; my head wri badly cul; my back and sides Nruised so that every stop eaused milery, I lstened atten- tively, but heard no sound of hoofs or - wheels. aud pursuit was now far away, Weary, cold and wounded, I set out for home, five miles back along the dreary road and through these lonely woods, The sun was just rising when 1 dragged myself up the steps of the parsonage and fell exhausted into the arms of the agon‘zed Mrs, juckle, ” “Did Henry safely, doctor?” I asked. “Yes, they did,” was the “That was why I got away, too. The little affair created such enmity be- tween the two families and myself that they refused to contribute longer to the church, in Proverbs 5 and" and Kate get away reply. man, banging the door open. companion, for it was lost in clanging of bells, and the scuffle of passengers’ feet. “I've enjoyed meeting you ime mensely, sir,” sald the divine, seizing my hand, our church Good-by." And he was gone. relighted my pipe. The Irish in Panama. By HERBERT DUNLAP. if you ever stop there. --the blessed, devoted, Irigsh, whose bleached hones whiten Britain's battleficids. I found Irishman on the La one of the monster dams is slowly tearfully and eloquently three tached looking Jamaicans who, across a bit of creek, were theoretically engaged in affixing a pile line to a i monster pile half buried in the dreadful stuff. It was a loathly hole, and hardly inspiring to any man, | much less these slothful and easily | discouraged negroes. Far above them was the plle driver, reaching out over end of long, slender trestle which is the framework of the retain. i ing wall of the structure, according to the plans. The task of raising a { great heavy, waler-soaked lox, sixty feet long, to its proper position in the lofty “lead” was no easy one, and the blacks were handling the hardest end of it, working, as they were, walst deep In water, and worse. But their irate boss was suffering from the insidious strain of the weaks of wet season, abounding in a most | fiendish assortment of weather, from the easily | white heat to chilling rain, and when to that was added the manifest help- lessness of the human material with which he had to work, his patience {and forbearance could properly be denoted by a minus sign. “An' {it's twinty-foive, gold. to i ghirike the most worthless of thim.” | he ended with a righ, exhausted in vitality and power of expression. He i was a pathetic figure, weak though { he proyed, when the fire was hottest fighting his lonely fight there in the | mud, striving to force into a sem- blance of effectiveness beings whose barefooted forefathers before them | had trod the path of least resistance for so long that It must have been { beaten hard as a native trocha. But that scene explained in part the six weeks’ leave, the ample, fur nished quarters and the host of petty privileges atl whose seeming of waste. | fulness some thoughtless critics have | been so quick to strike. They earn it all, and more, these thin faced, sun tanned men doggedly driving on the mighty work in the face of almost every conceivable obstacle jealous { nature can throw before their de- | voted, unconquerable hands ' braing. — Lippincott’s, co. A Running Broad Jump. “*Oue day,” related Denny to his friend Jorry, "when Ol had wandered too far inland on me shore leave Of | suddenly found thot there was a greet big haythen, tin feet tall, chas- in’ me wid a knife as long as yer ar-rm. Of took to me heels an’ for nip an' tuck. Thin Of turned into the woods an’ edge of the counthry. Finally, just ag Ol could feel his hot breath burn- in’ on the back of me neck, we came to a big lake. Innded safe on the opposite shore, leavin® me pursuer confounded and impotent wid rage.” “Faith an’ thot jump.” “in' the runnin’ Everybody's Magazine. Was no — A Domestic Dilemma, A Philadelphia woman, whose barrassment, she fliscovered that the {servant's name, too, was Mary, Whereupon there ensued a struggle to induce the applicant to relinquish her idea that she must be addressed by her Christian name. For some time she was rigidly uncompromising. ‘Under the eircumstances,” sald the lady of the house, “there is noth. | ‘eastom and call you by your last { name. By the way, what is it?" “Well, mum,” answered the girl, dublously, “it's ‘Daring.’ "Harper's Weekly, A Vapor Blanket, A vapor blanket thirty eet thick Is found by Prof, Frank H. Bige- low to cover the reservoir at Reno, Nev, Assuming that a like invisible shield protects the Halton Sea, it is concluded that this body mpy lose by evaporation not more than four ‘or five feet yearly, instead of the | Sues r¥as?s ses eri se Bes | fan EEA san % Household Notes i J i aie vive ¥, RICE COFFEE, Brown rice in a spider as you would Grind and add two tablespoon: Put in a hot place ten min. point, then serve with sugar and SPONGE CAKE. A good sponge cake served with ereqin or a glass of "milk is teaspoonful cream of tartar and a CRBs cup cold powdered until light, add one-half water, a cup and a half sugar, two Jgablespoonfuls very moderate York Telegram. TO BAKE FISH. All housekeepers know how diffi. cult it is to wash a pan in which fish has been baked, the glutinous skin of the fish adhering to the pan until vigorous scouring is necessary to remove ({t Butter the pan well, and then spread in it a plece of thick waxed paper, preferably the kind useq to line cracker boxes. When the fish is baked It can be easily lift ed frem the paper, which in turn slips easily out of the pan.-—New York World PINEAPPLE SPONGE Put a pound can of grated pine- apple and a cup of boiling water over the fire, and when boiling stir In half a cup of a quick cooking variety of tapioca; continue stirring until the mixture then cover and jet cock over bolling water until the adding a second if need. ed. Add three-fourths a cup of sugar, half a teaspoonful of salt, the juice of a lemon, and when well mixed fold in the of from two to four eges beaten dry: cover and let cook over the hot water a few minutes 10 “set” the egg. Berve with whip ped cream or a cold, boiled custard American Cultivator. SEA-FOAM FUDGE (NUT). Sea. Foam Fudge (Nut)-—Put into a saucepan three cuplfuls of jight brown sugar, a cupful of cold water and a tablespoonful of vinegar. Bring this to the boll gradually and do not stir after It is once heated. Boll steadily, and when a little of it dropped into cold water forms a hard ball take it from the fire. Beat stiff the whites of two eggs and when the syrup has stopped bubbling pour in on those and beat well When it begins to stiffen, flavor with one teaspoonful of vanilla and add a cupful of chopped nut kernels—bickory, pecan or Eng lish walnuts. Drop on paper or turn into a greased pan and mark off in squares or triangles — The Delineator WEDDING FRUIT CAKE Ten eggs, 1 heaping tableaspoonful ground cinnamon, § level cups brown sugar, 1 heaping tablespoonful ground cloves, 1-2 pint molasses, 3 teacuos soft butter, 1 lemon, 1 heaping table spoonful mace, 1 nutmeg grated, 1 pound figs, 1.2 teaspoontid soda, 1 pound oitron, 2 pounds currants, ° guart flour, 3 1-2 pounds raisins. Stir butter and sugar to a cream, add beaten eggs and cinnamon, clove, mace and nutmeg. Mix lemon, soda bolls vigorously, tapioca is transparent, cup of bolling water, whites tered moulds and steam 3 hours; brown 20 minidtes in a hot oven, This is a large recipe and makes 2 large cakes. Use white or golden {frost ing. Boston Post LAMB CHOPS A LA CREOLE. Fry six medium sized lamb chops in butter until nicely browned, re part of range to keep hot. Saunce—Leave gravy in the pan from onions, chopped fine; cook about five burn, then add three stalks of cel ery, chopped fine and three medium sizeg green peppers, chopped fine, and ripe tomatoes of medium size, chop ped fine; then let them cook all to gether for 10 minutes, and serve very hot with creamed potato arranged In a mound in center of platter, with chops leaning against it, and a dor der of sauce. A very pretty and tasty dish. * Pickled peppers can be. used in stead of fresh green ones, and can ned tomatoes may be ygsed in place of fresh ones, so it oan be served at any aseason—New Haven Regis ter. HOUSHHOLD HINTS. To freshen and brighten old carpets brush them to remove dip broom in a pall of hot which has been added a tine. Brush vigorously, ogee, particularly In doughnuts I : i is 2 | R : Aanal fn an pew, j i 3 : i I — i a a Jno. F. Gray 8 Son Surcesnns to, . GRANT HOOVER) 3 Control Sixteen of the t Largest Fire and Lile “ly I OHNE Ys D. PF. 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Always prepared for the transient trade BATES : $1.00 PER DAY Heaook VARh ire CHEESE NOW MADE IN 200 VARIETIES. Experts in Department of Agri. culture Make List of Kinds and How They Are Obtained. [he National Patel ——— Experis at the Department of Agri. culture have been at work again and ihe result is an interesting, if some- what technical, dissertation on cheeses, how they are made, what they are made of, and all the details ronnected with the business, says the Omaha Be The experts announce, in an Introductory that there are 229% known ties of cheese, f.d that no two of these are at all alike except that they have milk in some form as the basis. Milk is the foundation of all cheese but the su- perstiructure may be made of any. thing from sage to soapstone, de. pending upon the whim of the cheese builder and the taste of the con. sumer, Cheese making is one of the oldest arts, or trades, or habits, ander whichever classification. It was an article of diet back in the hazy times of history, and has never lost out with changing fashions. It is found in the plaing of South America, on the shores of the Mediterranean, in the passes of the Alps, on the banks of the Rhine and the Rhone, on the steppes of Siberia, in the cottages of peasants, in the palaces of princes, and on lunch counters of the vilized and semi-civilized world. Age does not wither nor custom stale the infinite variety of cheese. There | are cheeses in existence and growing MILLHEIM, Fa. L A BHAWVER Prop Piet slam sooommotstions for whe revels Sood able bosrd and tierping a parumecs The eholomst liquors at the bas Babies so fommodations fur borees Ia the best we be bad Bas Wand from sll trains en Ge Lewisbars and Tyrone Rafirosd, at Osbess Rs BL — rina Liv RY SE Special Effort made to Accommodate Com mercial | ravelers.oe. D. A. BOOZER Centre Hall, Pa. Penn’a R. R note, varie Penn's Valley Banking Company CENTRE HALL, Pa WB MINGLE, Cashig Receives Deposits Discounts Notes the MARBLE as GRANITE ;~ MONUMENTS. 2, © One par- it. Over in Switzerland they eral of his son or grandson -——New York Telegram, BUNNIES. Of all the pets I bad when on the farm the bunnies were the best. I bought four palr. In a year's time they had increased so fast I did not know how many I had. On account of other work, we could not keep CENTRE MALL, out. Finally we let them have the Manufacturer of run of the farm. They burrowed | and some took i» the woods. They HIGH GRADE .. were 80 tame that we did not like to | MENT would pick out the “woods bunnies” MONUM AL WOR or the bad tempered bunnies. We had until some bright moonlight Marble aw night, when they would all collect Grani te. Dont hill te get my pron lawn in front of the house. It wae . the window. A number would s!t up WWW VB WC wy on their haunches and sniff the air, f ¢ they would go. Then one by one NSURAKCE back they would come and ; Sd / sbout. One old doe seemed to be LHeency whisked out of sight at a danger sig nal, but stood her ground, and woe H. E. FENLON! Agent H.Q. STROH them housed, as they would burrow under the house, hen house and barn, and Dealer In kill them. When it was necessary we | never fully realized how many we in ail kinds of {from woods, house and barn) on the very interesting to watch them trom | = and at the least scent of danger away guardian of the bunnies. Bhe never te the dog that happened to IN CENTRE COLNTY : Bellefonte, Pern'a |,
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