Helene—A Mirage. Far out upon a desert vast, Sand-stained, wind-swept, Where hope had died and fear had passed And clouds had never wept, Athirst 1 stood and gasped breath, Heart-sore and weary unto death for Across the waste to eruel skies, Sun<dried and lean, I strained my hot and To the green, When clearly in light A glorious rose blushed on my sight, heavy eves Se some strange, Like Its water to the crackling fragrance fresh Came to the spirit Ard to the flesh, Ah, wonderful the Of in the tongue, overstrunsg, power to bless, rose-bloom wilderness! 1 stretched my hands to take ind bright, breath life upon the alr, he morning light. “Helone,” 1 cried; “Helene I laughed ran across the plain To fold it heart, and then— The desert was the same again Magazine good of and to my ~Lippincott's pleaser rere rTe rave Le pe Te : Wanted More vTelesYe Yer , oS overTenTer PAP ONEAN 00400040 0 Years SOD EDIEDED EDI 403400032 pe % oo %e Cm or = ts was sitting foned horse-block in with his hands full of 3 and blue cards which he into little Different farent colors owner the the card. It town where course, excited, less, for each lect more others past come anywhere near a without being surrounded to give up all the possession, and who could go town coil most Car small John by their mothers’ comms as by their own she ing far afield, came chiefly from with sometimes a some good-natured big a few cards John collect far ag cipal of the 1 stood very much was obliging enough biue count his canis disappoint not had them was according color. names were printed on dif and a picture of the name filled one end of was Election Day in John lived, everyone nileg ¢ Pies, 0 of was mor rather was ryt the boys one 3 +1 ejection For days past of cour farthest were 50 14 fath Tie to spare had made a cards. But vein moun 1 3 wr hones! they " ot neal sadly, feells into them such a very good 1 “Hello, John!” said a ing vote today?” captain the foothal sam. who was walking with Miss Alice, Sunday teacher. “No, sir; 1 not John, confused notice of mired very “No? How's tain, with a twin John hesitated; he had not th of voting before, and it had never occurred to him to wonder why couldn't. He shuffled the ecards much embarrassment “Why can't you vote, John?” Miss Alice, encouraginely John looked up “f said, slowly, “l guess Baven't enough election Miss Alice and the captain at each other and smiled. and the captain gid as they passed on, "It jen’'t more election cards that vou need. John, . it's more wears. You haven't quite encugh those, yet, to be able to vote” John thought sbout this for time. It was true that he had his time in collecting cards But if people were willing to give him cards, perhaps he could find someone who would Mm a year or two ie remembered that the policeman who sometimes walked around the neighborhood had once caught a man who was trying to steal their and that his father had said that the to of John's school guess somewhat two people whom much that?” asked le in his the zap eye yaght he in asked he because 1 carda” guess.” it's looked of a long wasted spar> b and six months, John know, half a year. 80 if the Judee gave part of a year to a man who tried to be bad, perhaps someone would give a whole year to a boy who us ually tried to be good. ask for what anyone wanted. But ghe was out, so he wandered into the Hbrary here his sister was busy jlooking up something in a big ency- olopedia. “Say, Helen, 1 need some more years so | can vote. Can't I have one of yours ” Helen glanced up, keeping her fin. ger in the middle of the page to mark her place, “You funny chiid! sibly give you a laughing. Then, as How can | pos year?’ she mid, her little brother looked very much disappointed, she continued, seriously. “You peo, Johnny-boy, if I should give you one of mine, I could’t graduate from the High School with my class, and that would put me a year behind them at college, too; 80 1 really don’t see how { can spare you one without upset ting all my plins. Now please run away, hecauss I am very busy. Go and ask Granmamma for a year. She has more than anvone in the house, and she might be willing to give you really name who only every-day corner Grandmamma, was the Hee, of the book long for in a sunny reading a very too Vir old of freckled. which “Could were quite you give me a John asked “Give ? What d&« mean, “l need more yout a year dearie?” vears, so 1 can 1¥8 vou have lots of go ] thought might me one.” “Bless maybe you have certainly an 1 1 think 1 c¢ child don't the but 1 of them would give I would give away." card LW Oe vou an election give You ds. a election car any of my vote, dearie., They ind of years 1 been abl with.” not har diss AnOLaer ais never 10 vote but It was ppointment; the young voter wis t discouraged would Bridge have ti of kind Years as the with a it to hm {if ed out his hands i “I"l give he'll said John, pinching at it squeaked at baby “And that are the boy, then,” sald Bridget, "to iway the only thing the dar¥in’ hasn't got It wouldn't be any little at all you'd be a year away from him. his dog. John, dear!” John sighed he dog a the “Nobody seems to have they need.” “There ©OOmMes a year,” so th the it's vou cruel havin' if you NOW er as laid the baby's ki feet LIDK ans CRS your father maybe he'll he bh suggested tingly, she wheeled lator the garden John's the gate to play with tather stopped a the baby, at ; om “ 4 by ” whors he then can t steps, Where son's rue and shoul ‘But asked J His judge. it is Sem who gives “is 1 fled Father hn father om fen’t Time, for he is years to give “Where iz his r fath er had an office, 80 John supposed that anyone else have one, 100 “Wall,” sald his father, ly. “1 don't know exactly office is i know thai in business, for he is years all the time: and, that 1 think of it, 1 sending gome years have six whole ones, and » over, haven't you? That a bad beginning for a collect years." “But it objected his office him for a “fi don't called father must thoughtful his stil yey where in sending John, he'leve he y too You davs such o' you Foor isnt on ty vot knew isn’t enough John was 1 lot more.” think he would have them. You will ge! in the end. but I'm nm have to take them as Father Tim gives them, a day at a t'me” “It's about as hard to Ret years it is to get election canls, "If you could go a Fail atraia as ages of colored pasteboards “Put you're sure of having eno gome day,” said his father encour So, although John did not ve at that election, he is going to voi! years, a day at Junice Wold, in The Churchman. INTENSE COLD IN THE TROPICS. Eleven and Thirteen Miles. The existence of a layer of air in which the temperature ceases to di minish with elevation has been ob served in various parts of the world It Is about ten miles up, though its altitude varies somewhat. The tem- peratures are ascertained with “sound. ing balloons,” which carry up self-rog. istering thermometers and baromet- ers. The latter give Indications of the height attained. The balloons are not accompanied hy human beings. but the instruments are so cushioned that they cannot suffer from and are labelled so that recovery is comparatively easy. An expedition dispatched by A. Lawrence Roteh, of the United ‘States and a French expert, Telsserenc Je Bort, last summer tried to make soundings of the atmosphere over the Atlantic near the equator at a con siderable height. Though some of the balloons sent up by this party nearly ten miles, they falled to reach “isothermal aver.” where the cold would not increase. Their theor mometers continued to register lower higher confident really exi was TORS they rose, that the iso d, but sus. greater eleva the instru that a Ger Afric: tae Mr. Roteh was laver that it than at a wis reached by now sedition sent out to East + tion appears Assmann found that at to wi Atlantic not gnprecedented cold fderably above tl 1 went over the as almost it above It th was a cong peratures at an elevation goa § balloons a Ong were sant to explore regular equatorial region made gome Egypt, by B. F The ascents were made from a launch, and would results had a faster able, It is stated that easterly have avail 4 YOu worl boat been with having a speed of some twelve miles this lake is world for sounding the Lest Dace in the balloon as cents, CAROLINA TARANTULA. Odd Trap Door Nest, Mr A Ww Pickens of Garvin town brought to this office Sat rmous spider which 1 rr ATAD tula looking Mr eadly as that of a rattiesnake Some boys on Mr. Pickens's plan ound a pec ground and After digging while hey came an odd looking nest they found the spider nest was provided with which the spider could as he went into and would be safe from in Mr Pickens broukht the to the city with him. It was a ingeni contrived affair and wicked hite hig spider, Pickens & uliar look hole * : £4 i ’ Lay oe fn the geCided to inves tigate for a upon { Wen The door, after himself, ' Close 4000 the nest, truders, ; usiy very ftae. —From the Anderson Remarkable Testimony to the Force of the Recent Georgia Tornado, Each day brings to light some new of the tornado which caused death and destruction in this part of the State a few days ago, says the Atlanta Georgian, As an evidence the freakish of a large plank on the property of the Hon. 8. M. Roberts, about twelve here, are now joined as Although the tree was 3 large one plank was picked and driven as if was the but it the from a gun. Not only shot through the tree, through without tearing plank went tree, The plank was yard of Mr. other planks molested by picked up in the Roberts's sawmill and the wind. So singular a notice telling how the plank ordering that it shall not be cut down, go is the only city that is proportion. ately ahead of it. In New York there are two persons divorced to ev ery 26 married. Even when a man stands on his dignity he sometimes puts his foot in it, muses the New York Times. The number of automobiles regis tered in London is nearly 35,500. I AB ti ew AMAA. NAN eee Household Notes ar pe DLAPLAV, VLAN SD ANANS ORANGE GLAOES, Peel 6 large oranges, removing sarefully all the white part. Divide Into sections and place in the oven until thoroughly dary. Put into an enamel pan 1 pound of sugar, julce of half a lemon and 2-4 cup water; boll brisk for § minutes. The syrup should light Re- move of of amber color dip and §j buttered ne the ire, gections from Orange in a marble slab or Boston Post separately ren on GINGERBREAD One cupfu {f mol 5 DELICIOUS Asses, one one apoonful tables] of boiling water, two cupfuls of Of ginger, and half the melts add molasse the soda ih roundes ang a tablesnoon hab ar ALLE sal ‘ Post i ham jelly. —~Boston ORANGE MARMALADE. oranges and three Remove the rind in thin pleces -as possible and cut into thin the white skin from the lemons, but do not oranges and lemons thin slices; we seeds and white centre; put and jar with 5 pints of cold water and allow it to stand 24 hours; then put into preserving kettle and boll gently th Add 10 cups of sugar and boil 45 minutes. Pour them, cover. This ozen glasses of marma Wash one dozen lemons, as strips: pare Oran and ft: now cut the use i 5 PY into rem skins rs into glasses makes 1 i lade — Boston Post MUTTON, OLIVES AND SPINACH. Take 4 ounces each of fat bacon } both and fry meat, pound then aside, done ind calf’s liver: pepper till it and press presg into a (When the Next ou gO jres mince the through a sieve; basin and stand this should fore the dish is req undone striy 3 inches with a cut with up, COOK 6G sossible, he day be aired.) from an orm into " place r, dip into fat If liked, OHNE shape a BMAall Ww Have ready a spinach, sot the olives in it and pour a good, thick gravy round —Boston Post in gROWer secured den mound of dressed SPANISH OMELETTE eggs, One tomato or tomatoes, one small tablespoonfuls milk, & mushrooms, 2 slices bacon, quarter teaspoonful salt, a dash of black pep- per: cut bacon into small pleces and fry until brown, then add tomatoes, onion and mushrooms chopped fine: Break eggs into a bowl and beat vigorously, adding a little salt and pepper. Put a teaspoonful of butter into a frying pan and Jet it melt, when the sides of the frying pan are well greased pour the eggs In apd shake over a quick fire until they set Now pour tomato mixture over omelette, fold over once, slide on hot platter and serve. Asparagus tips, green peas or string beans can be used Instead of mushrooms {f desired —Boston Post. Six canned onion. 4 some HOUSEHOLD HINTS. To cut warm bread or cake always heat the knife blade. in canning time remember to hold a jar under hot water before filling with the hot syrup. If the jar is sel on a folded wet cloth while being filled, it will be leas apt to break. A tablespoon of coal oil in a quart of warm water is excellent to remove fly specks from brass. If you want to keep coffee from boiling over add a lump of buttey about the size of a small marble. To prevent the contents of a juiey ple rumming over wet the edges of iced water. To mix corn bread more easily warm the bowl that it is mixed in. : Bolled potatoes should be served as soon as they are cooked. To! make them drier drain off the water | quickly, shake them in a strong draft } of alr and do not put back the lid of Io uti for soup are most easily made by cutting stale bread about halt an inch thick, buttering it thick. ly on both sides, cutting in half inch squares and baking in the oven un til brown. oii} Piles will be soggy If set on top of a hot stove after being baked. i _——— Jno. F. Gray 8 Son (Sec moby Control Sixteen of the Largest Fire and Life losurance Companies fo the World, . . . . THE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST . . . . No Mutuals No Assessments Before insuring r life see the contract of THE HOMB which in ease of death between the tenth and twentieth years re- turns all premiums paid in ed. dition to the face of the policy. ——— to Loen on First Mortgage Office in Crider's Stone BELLEFONTE, PA. Telephone Connection Tree YY Money 50 YEARS’ EXPERIENCE ng Manks Copvyni HTS &C # tak a £ tice, without charge, in 1} American, wo peg y ¥ Scientific J year: ! " 1 newsdeslors of promt, $L. Bold FAIL nes MUNN & Co,2crsresewsr. Rew York Branch Office u : THRILLS OF LION HUNTING t thr men last months two lost arms, and almost thelr lives, on In both cases the They pressed closely, No hors« I have seen riding—an anima faster than any lion in its very stride It though its claws were glued earth It did not seem pos- that such a sudden halt could be made by anything that ran. Nor can any other beast show the desper- same made, the beast too can turn or stop as can a cat heetah much actually a I was very Blop Was as to the sible ate speed of a cat for a few Mr. Percivale, the game warden of the Protectorate, who haz probably ridden more lions than any other man in the country, tells me that he, though well mounted, was once almost pulled down by a lion he had ridden into cover, He, too, on that occasion came too close, the lion for some reason or other dis- pensed with all the usual prelimin- aries and rushed at him. He turned his horse as quickly as he could and rode for his life. He had quite fifty and vet he believes that, fired his heavy revolver lion when it was carde’ Yarcs distance that $ i vards' start, had he not ‘nto the face wimost on both of the his horse's hind quarters, he and the would pulled down, There hunter Mr have been Percivale was no other to divide the perhape, may unusually rapi was alone horse or near This, very lion's attention aceon and deadly Hos ¥ esses, nt for its attack was attacked by three lion. the rock The nly he had given them was he had shot of the band He was riding his camp, unarmed, having ft his rifle with his gunbearer, who waz skinning the lion he had killed. The three saw him from a distance of quite two thousand yards, and pressed him hard for a quarter of a mile He was riding the same fast mule that I rode, and so outran them. There are one or two things that any near provocation that two hours before to remember. First, it is not well lion or lions into cover if you are on horseback, not even into thin cover. Once you have chased a lion, it Is very different from the beast that rapidly slinks away from you, when you are hunting on foot. In this last case it instinctively knows it can get away If it cares to. In the for- mer it finds you have its pace, and, resenting that, will attack with de- termination. The second lion Hoey and I rode had every chance to walk into the impenetrable stronghold of the river grass if it had wanted to. The grass grew thickly not twenty yards from where the lion was first hit. But it did not want to do any- thing of the sort, and, angered by the long, hard chase, cast all idea of further retreat behind and came boldly away from the covert it had siriven so strenuously to gain. Secondly, the man who does the shooting must dismount without de- lay or hesitation. He must quickly choose his place, fixing it in his mind as he gallops up-—if possible, a spot from which he ean command the lion for a few yards every way, and on which he can plump down. If there is no such place, of course, he must stand up and shoot. All delay is langeroue. Get the beast before it ushes in. Any cool hunter can inock a standing lion out with one hot at one hundred yards or less. No lving man can be sure of hitting + charging, snarling embodiment of feath.—Dr. W, 8. Rainsford, in The World's Work, SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Meteors prove that the air is still dense enough to make those little bodies incandescent through friction at a height of 100 miles; but up to the present man has succeeded in exploring the atmosphere to a height of only sixteen Ee pe) in ATTORNEYS, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW BELLEPONTE, #6 Office North of Court Rouse w. HARRISON WALKER ATTORNEY-AT-LAW BELLEFONTE PA No. 19 W. High Street All professional business promptly sttended 3 RR A Imo. 1. Bowen W.D Zenaw CS-ETHG, BOWER & ZERBY ATTORNEYS AT LAW Eso BrLoox EELLEFONTE, PA Successors to Orvis, Bowes & Oxvis Consultation in Boglab end German. 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