Asleep at the Circus. (By J. W. Foley.) Wow the last roasted peinut is swal lowed, The last sugared pop-corn lowed By sips of the His eyes, once so brightly Through all of the glad afternoon, Are shut, and his fingers close tight ly And cling to his gaudy balloon. been fol lemonade, that shone last big The last acrobat's been applauded, And shuffled his way from the mat: The last bareback rider's been lauded; The clown, with his sugar-loaf hat, Has gone with his powder and spangles The diver has made his last leap; And here in my arms are brown tangles Of curls, and a boy fast asleep. One sticky hand rests on any shoulder, Une holds fast the gaudy balloon, That shrinks, and before it's older Wi'l fade like the glad afternoon. His dreams, it may be, of the mad- dest Of scenersaults, re The tiredest, <leepiest And stickiest lad ‘klessly hurled; , gladdest tn the world! And oh, but did! And oh, Tho the spangles were splen- was grand! laughter but the music sideeplitting clown ended With soulstirring airs by the band, Ti naught of the glad marvel lingers Save what in his dreams he may keep, As he clasps fingers, And rests in my arms, fast asleep. And so from these joys without num der, Ere aught of the glitter was gone, He went to his dream-laden slumber, Where on plays the music, and For him ali the revel is maddest, For him not a flag has The tiredest, sleeplest, gladdest And stickiest lad in the —-Youth's his balloon with close world! ipanion. MerTarTe s¥a ra 27a rare Te rT 0% Her One Essential DED OO EDIE DIED D ANE E,0 0500S RLEDIEDIONLD 0400050 STOTT Tata TesTertese de he Wheaton frowned tered the car. He 4 Hke Albright, per one subject, tested the bright i seat as though to leave passed into the forwar The car into more crowded left. But a occupied, and sat Bess Hartle the or before bh he turned his back to car and vacant seat. But subterfuge, with kindly intention and arm, prodded n in the the point of her umbrella attention to the lite smile npon hi black rage toward all heart, he made and sank beside M eould not, in con yresence, even th ed his proposal of before, and p gaged in a conve the baldest platitu Wheaton's dissitisf and the whole world teatized how mis rrrks must ecund The knowledge put and, poker delighte He saw pretended 1 he was not to pr I for an officious ancy. Wit meddlers his way iesy, ignore Ther ugh had marriaze the tiv, they we tion made up les, and wtion wit she refus resen re én ra nidgeley & 1 himself swahly Mm st fe nd not remained to listen to A'bright's fes of “the sum game” before, “The next is my station,” nounced, as he prepared to ear. He was still three miles from of the night a train. gression “Isn't that nice!” gha eooed. “1 am getting off here to see Nell Langley. You can go as far as the door if you wish” Wheaton groaned inwardly as he thought of the fresh trouble his du. plicity bad brought upon him. If he walked with Bess as far as the Lang | loys’ he would be late for dinner and | i i from his. “I will not further impose | upon your good nature,” she gaid pleasantly. ‘I can get along without escort from here” “But look he argued, a den flash of sandy clearing his ¢ 1 brain. “You told me last that the Langleys had all gone of town Yor a couple of weeks Mr. Langley is dying or somet lke that, wasn't it?” “Did 1?" asked Bess in sweet sur prise. “I'm afraiki that I sald many things last night that were not quite right. You see, | was excited and 1 got mixed up.” “It did have a rather unsettling fect upon us both,” he agreed dryly. “Are you going to the house or are you going home?” “1 suppose that | might as well go heme,” she said a little forlornly. “How did you come to make mistake? demanded Wheaton. “I suppose if I confessed was to enjoy the pleasure society a while longer you Mn," suggested n's hand closed over he that made her wince. much excited to notic intensity of his grasp. “Do think ft ment me like that?” he ately, “You told me did not want me.” “And 1 have told man minded. “Perhaps y you told me “Bess, is it do care, dear? Wheaton mission. “Ani with J ie load. night out Old hing neére,” ef. tha’ that it of your must feel caringly. rs with He the too v she Whent a grasp was too e you is fair to tor asked passion. last night that you made nistakes-—last night,” she *Perh ou made a mistake when ‘No,"” he cried Me that after au you vou that 1 hoarsely. possil caught the whispered ad. Aan engagement might pressed invented that 1 he you Nell so pave an- other chance.” chanoa,” wen did iid another after you perhaps -] willing to “You don't d she WWErve scolded, “but felt that than 1 was i more ag mit.” ‘And like the ine a darling that hint when [I w you ard, as 100 to see it for myself” that man into him y thr lec antly. Bless came your an apology the best man, | avoid h owe f » him with a sr nrotestid in New Haven SMALLEST PRISON Though Ancient, Cc Two Celis, the tains but ape On an h servant ther Oe who had sentenced The pros; author anl open, and was « Sark women, r COmDany. is told imprisonment her that the on her } ately left naid sat in the Kind -bearted who came to keep he A still more curious incident of a man who was convicted for neg: and children He himself to the for the arrival he d'd, sitiing outside until the door wes opened to New York Sun. consider. The little on pity neiiness sg 11 the cell doorway 80 led DY wife was ordered to betake prison and there wait WOMAN RANCH OWNER. in Making a Government Claim Profitable. Mrs, Agnes M. Hart of Denver has for her | in the Uintah reservation Mrs. Hart adMnost alone and aided has made the ranch what un- | it | i { that he could not get home and make a dinner in lonesome solitude at some restaurant, in the gesture sent a pang to his aldifully guiding her through too lane made by outstretched feet of the train hogs. Once on the street, she slipped ber arm through his and something fa the gesture sent a pang to his deart as he thought of the might be. The knowledge that she did not re “his love obsess his thoughts, it his conversation on the train been puerile, now it became posi fdiotie, and he was glad when turned the corner of the street Which the Albrights lived. mer of 1905, when the drawing for | was among the first to come out | the exact number was 128. In a few | weeks she went to Vernal, Utah to | file on her claim, She selected a quar | ter section about seven miles from | Fort DuChesne, a few miles from My. | ton. For a vear and a half Mrs. Hart | has resided on the property and ime proved it. 8he has built houses an} fences, has dug ditches, milked cows, and in fact she has performed all the | work on a ranch that a man usually does. For several weeks during the | first winter she was there Mrs. Hart | slept In a tent when the thermo | meter registered 18 dogress below | zero. The ranch is located 150 miles | from a railroad. and for a year and six months Mrs. Hart never saw a railroad train, Mrs. Hart, who Is now In Denver, expects to return to her ranch In a few days. There she will agin take | up her work of Planting and building. i 3% BLESSED LADY. A Tribute to the Distinguished ventor of Ice Cream. Dolly Madison was famous reauty, grace and social charm, but the has never been given due credit or her greatest achievement-—the in rention of ice cream. For the chron clers tell us that she was the first 0 serve this national delicacy. The ~vife of the President must have been t wonderful woman, gifted in every hing from diplomacy to cooking. Tne men have long suspected that some woman invented both lee cream ind matrimony, for men for genera fons have been inveigled into both, let a boy and a girl go out walking, mst anywhere, and suddenly the boy will find himself face to face with a jda fountain or an ice cream par or. It's just like a man who starts tlong courting aimlessly who sudden. y finds himself engaged. He doesn't mderstand just how it happened. But pe usually marches up bravely and inds that he both matrimony ind cream, It every ! ¢ njovs ice who a saucer of “sundae” would put a penny In the plate to erect a monu nent to the inventress of ice cream, they could build a tower so tall that # would make the Washington Monu ment look like a fencepost. While was Dolly Madison wh st made ‘ream, they tell us it was wife of A young naval Nancy Johnson who Invented freezer. She de as the President's ichievement: lame and Sun, girl eats Ce cream or a it o fir ice the officer, the lee cream much They they should LOT Ves credit ag wile. were ‘n one In — Baltimore one ha immortality. FALL OF FRANKFURTER. French Scientists Discover that Ger man Meat Is Tainted. Bel rejoicing over a neighbor's shortcomings, it is examine one's own skeleton ae holes. Snug reproba American meat and al intic prod ucts and metl attitude vany after Chicago evils, n¢ the Teutonic complacency lived. France has its and revanche” German planted the Am Parisian examined in Paris and, in potable vative XE well to closet for tion of other cis At the ods was the exposure +d. But was shori (tess Ler Tw corrects muck-rakers at the arrives canned goods an m But at ihe municep srt ari a ¥ AYO ever, ¢ proporuon of was found Germany must look ' gnng hog. furter stand | on scious diness is known of ie now 3 MADE DRUNK ON AIR. Alcoholic Atmosphere Has Disturb ing Effects on Strangers. Ther no doubt that levies, wine tain apm The the can be the air {iat must con alechol, visit to of grow the south first a decided sense with quickening of the puls narocot headn of Cog the is sickening, ected ths of of ed Fe langnor and an iy gloves alr natu iy © yp ano It mi ght be the wines aporate volatile vall. It hag of inhaling is oxne sre volatile nstituents of would be the fire into the ethers ‘and spirits and A +h alr, poszibly wou said that t of the to ev Dre effect the us heen he the air marked Hquids sherry than when are Kept ip vaults more other spiritous store. AS therefore the have hea'th, ation ma it would impregnated © with and wines, must the vapors of spirits a deteriorating effect on And according to an examin de of the of a dstillery appear that no jess than arp ounce of proof spirit, or hay ounce of absolute alechol be present in five cubic feet of alr. And gince this aloohol woi1'd gain access the eirculation through the lungs it follows that special arrangements of ventilation are an absolute necessity ~ Philadelphia Record. Funeral Street Cars. “In a good many towns out West" sald Harry J. Hill, of Omaha, at the Eutaw House, “the funeral erated by street raliways Is getting alr one may ana, tnat a number of funerals had There is no fear, however, livery stable people will suffer much Sanitary Poultry Nest, ‘I'he present day tendency to em- ploy sanitary measures in the dairy, stable, the doghouse, ete., industrious hen is to be provided with a sanitary nest, which can readily washed and scrubbed as occa. sion demands. ment is shown in the itlustration. The nest wire and is supported is made of in Easily Cleaned. can be house when : oth of which moved from the chicken cleaning is necessary. When thus removed they can be conveniently in a ruitable receptacle con- taining bolling water and thoroughly cleansed of all Impurities and unde- ble insects, rs —— Placed Care of Little Chicks, Quite an argument has been going the rounds as to the length of time that should elapse before giving food to ne some regard. ing twenty-four hours as time enough feeding, others that to feed two and a half days old was goon enough. No doubt but that more chicks are tilled, stunted fod too 1, than are hurt by a longer fast. the healthiness of chicks when a hen steals hq and is not dis. until several wily hatched chicks, before when or rom ling r nest covered the chicks are days ol Strong, pithy chicks, hatehed in yr, will require food ones hatched in a the first Make fee od after because faster @ Neve h O re uch 3 Jour d let the first teed by dry meal sprinkled jet the bulk of sharp sand chill taken hatching ibs or oat # the jittle chic of a morning, ks, at the month vepaols {ave water nged that the ltt] hicks can not filled a then ma a fine kept clean, flock of chicks as good. it run or er with water, sRUcCer, nes is easily almost fast nail und chicks in a weather with gh clean dry litter and a good mother. Do not put nore than two dozen chicks with coop, enon one dissolve off if bowel trouble appears, ime in water, pour the water sarefully, and stir corn meal in the watér until it crumbles. The ime water should be strong enough to make the mass to look as if liye had been poured on it. They will not relish this, but if given no other feed will eat it. Do not allow other food inti! they are recovered. Rice cooked ender and fed dry is good for bowel ¢ in fowls of any age. if chicks are not allowed to get shilied or wet from rain or dew, fed wholesome food, kept a little hungry all the time, never allowed to hava uny but wholesome water and milk to drink, have sizable grit, and are kept free from lice, there will be no bowel trouble, if they are healthy when hatched. —E. C., Vermiling Co. ime TN aud This and That. It Isn't at all necessary to have a fort is all a laying hen cares for, The best fowls are none too good. The medium fowls are only tolerable. delusion. Poultry should have access to green food if possible, and when they can. leaves or a vegetable of some kind. Keep the fowls away from the in nearly any other mundane affair.’ ~Baltimore American. In 1832 four Indians of the Flathead tribe. living on the Pacific Coast, crosaod the Rocky Mountains, and, traversing 2.000 miles of intervening wilderness, appeared at St. Louis They had been sent by their nation te inquire about the white man's God. Tie hopefulness to the hoe handle, urges the American Cultivator. . Besides, they are more comfortable in a place by themselves, Carelessness and laziness go hand source of fallure, Notes of the Poultry Yard. The older the egg the less is that sweet, rich flavor noticeable, Remove at once from flock any chick showing signs of slokness, A woman who makes a success of sultry raising has the laugh on the man, who makes a fatlure at farming. Hens that are expected to lay dor. ing the winter must be provided with a warm roosting place, warm enough to avold danger of frost to comb and wetites, but well ventilated, i F.Gray& Son Buecdssors y ssa Ine. 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George Schiel, greatly improved early season form, Pitcher Blaine Durbin has been loaned by Pittsburg to the Scranton (New York League) Club, The Cincinnati Club has purchased catcher Lafitte from the Macon Club, found second Joe Bean, late of the is scouting for is a his of the Giants, catcher over The Cardinals have shown more ginger since Bresnahan took hold of them than they ever displayed. The Pittsburg Club is believed to have secured an option on the sensa- tional Providence shortstop, Black- President Farrell, of the New York | The New York American dorest | 4 Club is not after catcher Currier, of | Harvard. He doesn’t look to be ol league timber. Jack Ryan, the veteran catcher of been purchased by Jersey City. He the Skeeters Hans Wagner ig said to have prom. fsed Dreyfuss long ago that he would not quit playing until his place had been filled. If that is so, the Dutch man will go on playing forever, A Valued Possession, My little sister, three fears old, had 2 peach given her, which was the first she had ever goen. When I saw it, I went up to her, and taking the peach rom her took a bite out of it. Immediately she began to ery, and { ssked what she wis crying for, “1 wanted to keep that little woolen pple,” was her reply.—Dellneator ATTORNEYS. | D, vomwuxy | ATTORNEY -AT-LAW BELLEFONTE, Pb Offices North of Court House. A ————— YW. HARRISON WALKER ATTORNEY -ATLAW BELLEFONTR D4 Fo. I W. High Street. All sh business promptly attended tp 8 D. Gerri Iwo. J. F—— i CET, BOWER & ZERBY ATTORNEYS AT LAW EaoLr Broom BELLEFONTE, PA, Successors to Onvie, Bowxe & Onvis Consultation in Bogliah and German. es CLEMENT DALE W. D. Zzasy I ATTORFEY-AT-LAW BELLEFONTE PA. Offices N. W. corner Diamond, two doors from First National Bank. hm W G. 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