THE TURN OF THE ROAD. (By Alice Rollitt Coe.) Boft, gray buds on the willow Warm, moist winds from the bay, Seagulls out on the sandy beach, And a road my eager feet would re That loads to the Faraway, ach, Dust on the y flower The meadow Is silent now, With dew at have slipped— Far have 1 fared a 3 luring from the the grass the dawn, th lone, icket you?' And then, by the alder ti The turn of the road- Though the earth lie white in noonday heat, Or the storm rying feet What and swift follow our two! Magazine. do we care—we From Scribner's wbough disconcerted, Grardma Abbott goad by ber guns. “He has great gifts,” she repeated. She sald that frequently: indeed, 80 frequently that half in earnest, the « guests took it up, applying it to wl to i other ne amit wat gifts althoazh following her ld assert that head, too,” she al- was true that when, brother's lead, she wo 1 on my ollapsed in “1 can stan ways tears. Mr. Tenney, and confusion coming up for Sunday, } admission took it as a “Well, said. » general 1 : Knew what we it long ago,” he “But makes ’ The Gifts of the ¢ Twins. By Walter Leon Eavwryer | TATATATAT 252SRSEe GREAT sa SESE seaeS mates for sald Mr. “Plenty of play here at Toe Oui ney, cheerfully. running is there, Cd Mrs. Tenney smiled She did ke to ds band’s hopes, but experience of the twins. “Perh to run away Mean the big bes iy glance about ney had already for amuse: clamber down lawn. “1 fink tle boy ove descends WOOK,” “No fear of from a crowded ara?” away hotel, and ash Qer had sighed. she hi more aps they the form they had i a handkerchief Thereupon ghort her preparations, has the resort v h she had to spend a part of the Probably, she thought would do no parm to get zhwead of time, for tad a slight cough and the sald it would improve in n She told herself, too, family hotel where there children, omaving for sociely such risks as they when made surreptitious visits to Swamp and other city jungles. And in the first few days the mother realized her hopes and saw her bus band’s prophecy confirmed. Phil's cough scemed easier, He and his sis ter made {friends with evenybody. Bverybody hel take care of them, too, and even contested for the priv. flege. When the young people promoted a picnic, “borrowing the twins” was the first thing to be arranged, and the twins were liberally rewarded for learding the charm of their presence. toned to HI ITO summer in a many that were without they the ran pod od symptoms of a cold, and her sneezes and snuffies and watery eyes lessened, somewhat, her attractive- ness as a plaything. But Phil flour {shed and grow in favor, and mothers him as were the children and unmar ried youth, “The lad bas great gifts, great gifts,” declared Grandma Abbott, who fn spite of a ponderous manner, was a sincere and warm-bearted old lady. “If he were mine, 1 would dedicate film to the Church and expect him to become a bishop. “Would vou not like to be a bishop, Philip?” she added. Phil Jooked at her welghed the question, “1 fink, M you please, I'd ravver be & cozl-man and drive a cart,” he re plied, at length, “hh? Oh, ves, 1 understand.” Al and gravely ii was awake, old man!" nakes you cough “Va how Johnny Ward cous il eS al not without satisfac tion. Apparently Johony Ward samnething of a le > and hero. had ve pigeon, you vow.” Phil added. "One those horrid <hildren met when they ran away 0 Tenney whispered. the the that wi they the had who is one of “catch way to 1 the family ¢ on the morning mrture “And energy, like running away-—just Cora do—and 1 never ing ue yet,” addeg with sudden as Phil want to “What's the idea of that?” inquired Mr. Tenney, with the proverbial den- sity of a mere man. a om “Why, people will never forget,” his explained. “I I should come back here years from now, there'd be somebody to say, ‘That's the wo man who brought the sick children and the house.’ I know I'd re it if anybody else had done Mr. Tennay, perceiving the useless- ness of consolation, attempted none. had just appeared at window, and he lifted his Then suddenly, as Phil and Com and chnckled. “Grandma sald that these were child- ren of great gifts” he muttered. "She was right. So they were. When one other measles.” But althongh the mother—awhc had borne most of the burden, as mothers stood ready to give she could not smile at it quite so whole-heartedly as Mr. Tenney thought, the merit of the joke desnand- od ~-From Youth's Companion. THE COST OF BILTMORE. Mr. Vanderbilt Has Spent More Than $2,000,000. At Blitmore, in North Carolina, George W. Vanderbilt has spent over $2,000,000 in creating the greatest os tate in America. He has torn down a mountain, bullt a great castle, and owns seventeen square miles of moun tain country. These miles, however, are all under the most careful oulti- vation, either as farming, grazing or timber lands. The ovuer ( } Biltmore has the fac- ulty of ploking the right men for the right work. He induced a "book far mer” from Louisiana to come into the Carolina mountains and tak of the fields, amd h 14 eleven years azo, charge flocks That S. Wheeler began riding up and down the hills and through the bHottoms ho had never k from the printed the soll of the plantations on hillsides » brought In knowledge nown Gi ast few little worn-out the amined the fertilizing of the fod. here, wihich Ho cattle to play his the earth, of crop rotation, grow lally of the might thrive and yield a decided that high gr would pay in milk an and poultry, and th: ‘ F hould be live sto k profit. ade Jersey and espe butter, also it the product their hogs firat for benefit, the ts for the bare hills became pastures swine t ample quantity would make. {od dey aga other debits 3 i the x a prisoner 1 ber on the leather band takes the agg, and 1 her. Each hen according to her number, and the rd page, mam also has a rex ber of eggs she lays month or year of her Hfe is noted on the books office > vgs ws $ ur Me arrive Seventy-five farmh ” bY £ oy wory at he farm ir all purposes, in is done has such a mech WATER WORKS. - City Supplied From shed 140 Miles Protected Water Square. ‘Mar Yield concrete 1: and Ons +4 hal loa In £ nal? mies In . “Hh amon eg Lae and near the was congiractod is in a tunnel, $ surface of tha ground At frequent intervals along the con- duit are inclined shafts with steps for entering the tunnel to Inspect, clean or rapair., At one point the con duit sloks under the bed of the Dulin tan River and at another it is car ried poross a stream by a 60 foot con- crete arch bridge. The water is carried from the head- means of a riveted stool pipe Mine 42 inches in di ameter and ten and onedbalf miles below the Mariguina River, but this section in place of steel, Is of cast iron. Most f the other streams are crossed by means of concrete bridges: but at two points the pipe is carried across bY steal truss bridges whare the width of the stream is too great for concrete. The dam fg 400 feet long on the crest and about R85 feet In extreme helght., It is built of cyclopean ma. sonry, or concrete in which Jlarge stones are embedded. Behind the dam will be a storage basin which will ply. The cost of the completed work Is about $1,500000 as far as the Deposi- to, and the distribution system to be $600,000 more. hours-enough to give every man, wom- and ohild in the city 100 gallons a day. for a sh port, but that is the record of a Bedford in 1884 for a voyage around | Cape Horn, and since has been en- gaged most of the time in whaling in nothern latitades. * COMMERCIAL COLUM Weekly Review of Trade and Latest Market Reports. kly review effect of fine hown in the re- arly all the principal Progress making to- things in iron and steel, fitlons as a whole ree unsettled. The continued as to prices in some fin- lines is the chlef drawback, circulated reports of further cutting a depressing effect, best feature is in the structural the low pricts pamed re- heavy movement, whils pending aggregate a substane volume, stimulating ward bet or main very ished widely nave Bradstr : : Trade and crop reports are and business the country over till quiet as a whole, There are, growth in due, no weather oel's irreg- er, evider aracter ined stribution is yrders, but al markets more free- Wholesale Markets New York. oS nd 10%3 2 red, 12734 2 red, 128% 1. yrthern Duluth “ NO, 2 wr ad yy DOA bh. afloat te we oS ma corn NO, 2, 10% white, nominal, ant f. 0. b. afloat. teceipts, 41,175 bush.; ts, 1,000 bush, Spot steady; mix- 32 1bs.. § 8 57% ; natural 264 32 ibs ., 578@ 59: clipped ex Poultry Western hickens, fowls, i Baltimore $15; do 2. 8&3 to loca- o. $11@12. $12.50@13; ¢ $10.50@ . 312@ 12.5 No, No grade hay, and condition, $6 Choice, ) 50 ; No $100 11.50 as to kind, quality £3 ff do0.. Butter—The market unchanged, with better grades. Creamery fanc choice, 28@ 29; fe 95 EE is steady and fair demand for the We quote, per 1ib.: , 30@ 31; creamery Y amery good, 23 ive Stock Chicago, ~=(attle— Market Steers, $5@ 7.15; cows, heifers, 3.26@6; bulls, 5.25; calves, $3.500 8; feeders, $3.30@ 5.50 Hogs — Market 05@ 10c. higher Choice heavy shipping, $7.05@ 7.15; butchers, $70 7.12%; light mixed, $6.80@ 6.85; choice light, $6.85 @ 6.95; packing, $6.90@ 7; pigs, $5.30 © 6.40; bulk of sales, $6.85 @ 7.05, Sheep-——Market strong to 10¢ high- er. Sheep, $3@G 6.75; lambs, $70 8.35; yearlings, $6 @ 7.25. New York, — Beeves — Receipts, 960 head; no sales reported; feeling weak, Dressed beef steady at 8% © 10¢. Calves—Recelpts, 35 head; feel. ing steady. Veals, $6.50838.75; a few at $10; dressed calves steady; city dressed veals, SW @14%e.; country dressed, do., at 8@ 13. Sheep and Lambs —— Receipts, 5, 040 head; sheep strong: lambs gteady. Unshorn ewes sold at $4.50 G6; olipped, do., at $405.40; un gtiorn lambs, $8.25@ 8.60; ordinary clipped, $6.75. Hogs——Recelpts, 2,332 head; ing steady; lig $7.20. steady. $4@5.75,; $3.75@ stockers and feel. 8.90; fair to good, $4.85@6; steers, $4.76@6.50; feeders, $3.95@5.50; native heifers, $3.60 6; ana, $3.40 @5.25; calves, $3. i" Hogs we Market x. higher, Top, $6.97%; bulk Wy sales, $6.50 @ 6.95; heavy, $6.90@ 6.97%; pack, ers and butchers, $6.75 @ &.05; light, $6.56@6.82%: Lad Gray & Son | Sucedaauts y ‘sa GRANT HOOVER Control Sixteen of the Largest Fire and Life Insurance Companies io the World, . . . . THE BEST 1S THE CHEAPEST . . .. No Mutuals No Assessments Jno. F Before insuring ur life see the contract of iB HOME 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 Loen on First Mortgage Money Office in Crider’s Stone Bullding BELLEFONTE, PA. Telephone Consection TTY rT rrr YT YT IrIrediidd EYPCUUSUUVIOUDEVOOUSEEITITSTTTRNIRERT B50 YEARS’ EXPERIENCE Traoe Manns Desions CoryRiGHTS &c ha 1 denser rea wi iy WE § Co, t 5c. Ne Yori Branch Office 35 A § Tree TTT AUISKED LIFE Struggling in the waters bay, lashed by a gale, to lv of his horses, which drowning, Jack r Frye & Co., dor m TO SAVE HORSE. gave danger of iriver { a Gi pesately re than HArne Patters i. je drive er worked like a madman to save luck was the pet of the stable, and Patterson could not see ere like a rat in a trap. Patterson called for a revolver, and one was lowered to him His idea was to shoot Buck if he saw he could not extricate him from a lingering death in the water. However, Buck was cut losse and made his way to safety. The ment in the wagon was badly damaged and the horses thal were saved considerably injured. Patterson was not seriously hurt. —Seattlie Post-luigiligencer, ONLY A CENT. Uncle Harris was a carpenter, and had a shop in the country. One day ‘he went into the barn, where Dick a be hy Buck, the ‘pigeons, “Boys,” he sald, "my workshop ought to be swept up every evening, Which of you will undertake to do it? I am willing to pay a cent for each sweeping.” “Only a cent?” said Dick. would work for a cent?” “1 will,” said Joos. 80 every day, was done working in the shop, Joe would take an old broom and Sweep it. One day Uncle Harris took Dick and Joe to town. While he went to buy some lumber, they went to a toy shop. “What fine kites!" wisl; that I could buy one. “Only ten cents,” said the man, “{ haven't a cent,” sald Dick. “1 have fifty cents,” said Joe. “Who said Dick. "1 “ asked Dick. Joe.~-Sunday Afternoon. sisi Distance of n Knot. In considering the speed of al A mile Is 6280 feet, 6080 foot and a fraction. when a vessel makes 23.05 knots ar | hour. she pasges over nearly nearly twenty-soven land miles, @ ce eT AVE RSTTT. aN D ¥. 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Meals for such ooossiond por pared on short notice. Always for the transient trade. RATES : $1.0 FER DAY. ed A Ar iin [he Hallonal Hotel MILLEEIM, PA. i A. BHAWYER, Prop. First clam scoommodstions for the travels Good table bosrd and sleeping apartments The eholoest Liquors at the bar. Biadle as sommodstions for horses is (he best 10 be bad Bus and from sll trains on the Lewisburg and Tyrone Raliroad, st Ocbusg se ee —— LIVE RY 22 “ffort made to Accommodate Com mercial Travelers. D. A. BOOZER Centre Hall, Pa. Penna RR SF ccial Pean’s Valley Banking Company CENTRE HALL, PA W. B. MINGLE, Cashi¢/ Receives Deposits . , Discounts Notes . H. G. STRCHIEIER, PEN. Manufacturer of and Dealer In in ail kinds of Agency ' IR CERTRE COUNTY + E. FENLON Agent Bellefonte, Penn’a. os SARL A SOS The Largest and Best Accident Ins. Companies Bonds of Every Descrip- tion. Pilate Glass in- surance at low rates. ON BBN Sw 'T
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