— THE HILLS OF PEST. ————— By Albert Bigelow Paine Beyond the last horizon's rim, : Beyond adventure's farthest quest, Somewhere they rise, serene and dim, The happy, happy Hills of Rest. Opon their sunlit slopes uplift The castles we have built in Spain— While fair amid the Summer drift Our faded gardens flower again. Sweet hours we did not live go by To soothing note, on scented wing; golden-lettered volumes lie The songs we tried in vain to sing. in They all are there: the days of dream That build the inner lives of men; fhe silent, sacred years we deem The might be, and the might have deen. Some evening when the sky is gold I'll follow day into the west; Nor pause, nor heed, till 1 behold The happy, happy Hills of Rest. —From Harper's Magazine. slarYarYerTerYesTe rere Tar %er% Simpson’s Stand. BY JAMES WILLIAM JACKSON. PAIRS RLERLEDE DLE DEDEDE LE DLS “Stand right up to him, son! Don't let him scare you!” The mate of the tiver steamer Wave spoke with laugh- ing encouragement. A score of me- chanics repairing the river bulkhead kept him company in watching the noontime fun, One of the crew of the Wave, young, robust and full of mischief, stood with a grin on his face and a firm grip on a folded horse-blanket, Facing him, with an equally deter mined hold on the blanket, was an- other young fellow with fiery red hair. The red-haired Simpson had been engaged only two days before as teamster on Thorn's stone-wagon. He was mild-mannered, blue-eyed and in- offensive. As a stranger to the river front he had been quietiyy enjoving the noon hour while Peterson, the fun-loving young deck-hand, wander- ed restlessly about in search of an inspiration. Simpson's big horses, with bridles off and heads ber: were munching their oats. On the seat of the wagon behind lay the new blanket [It caught the boatman’s eye. “T'n that down and see if It will it my bunk, Reddy,” he nonchal- antly announced. As Peterson pulled down the blan- ket and started toward the Wave, Simpson interposed his tall figure. The “wrastling” match which sudden- ly developed was hailed with cheers. The young deck-hand was no match for the lithe Simpson, who for the sake of amusement allowed his an. tagonist some advantage, but turned the tide of battle as he pleased. The loud laughter and the prospect of defeat seemed to have a bad fect on Peterson. Simpson saw that he was growing angry, and quickly broke the boatman’'s hold Peterson advanced Delligerently, and Simpson retreated. The next mo- take a a a a a a [ he the Pursued by the sailor, sprinted away from the river, streaming out behind Dodging in and out of the plied freight, Simpson turned up the steep the Wave. he circled a huge boiler waiting to be installed In an adjacent factory, and came back on the run “The chase continued along the bulk- head, In view of the amused watch ers. Simpson heard the boatman, who grew more irritable every min. ute, muttering threats as he ran close behind. Simpson took his choles be- tween temporary defeat and making an enemy. Dropping the blanket suddenly, he sped on. Peterson tum- bled headlong over the unexpected obstacle: and as he picked himself up, a peremptory whistle blew for the resumption of work. “Yours not much of a fighter, boy, are you?” the mate teasingly quizzed, as Simpson passed on the way to his horses, “The fellow that runs away,” he added, sententiously and significantly, “lives to fight an- other day. You've got a dangerous gift in those long legs of yours; but one good, square, up-and-down stand will be necessary to give you a status along the front here.” {He spoke in a friendly tone. Bimp- gon looked at him without, however, venturing a defense. He was out of breath, anyway Tied up next to the Wave, which lay across the foot of the street, was a bargeload of cobblestones. Simp gon set to work loading as soon as he could back up his team. A cou ple of the crew of the Wave loitered at the stern of thb steamer, within speaking distonce, “He hasn't much spunk, Tom,” one of them audibly commented, with a jerk of his thumb toward Simpson. “1 guess all the fire escapes out of the top of his head.” “Don’t be hard on him, mate,” the other gently chided, with mock sym- pathy. “He's ashamed of running away. Don't you see he is blushing to the roots of his hair?” Simpeon smiled, and continued to toss in the cobblestones with an ease that Indicated ability to stand up for pimsel! when necessary, With a heaped load, Simpson mounted the wagon. When he was clear of the littering freight, he turn. ed up the street leading from the Wave. The weight of his load and the steepness taxed his splendid horses. Their flanks flattened out and thelr legs stiffened with the strain as the load inched its way upward, Some of the hillside streets were so sharply graded that lifelines were necessary in winter for the use of pedestrians. Simpson was obliged to rest his horses frequently in the climb. At such times, after block- ing the wheels, he stroked the soft noses of his helpers and encouraged them, The worst place in the short pull was at the factory gates, where the new holler eight feet high ars thirty in length, blocked half the street. In the narrow, furrowed lane, past that snd a pile of building materials, Simpson was obliged to haul his load straight. But he observed now, with much satisfaction, that a crew of laborers was getting ready to shift the boller through the mill yard into a new engine-house, The load of cobbles was delivered “Now, boys,” Simpson sald to the “we'll go back for another He always kept Prince and informed in regard movements, On the return journey he layed a few minutes, where the tering laborers were making with planks to turn the boiler wise through the gates. Simpson could straight down the few hundred intervening yard to the Wave nestling in the freight piles at the foot of the street. A clear passage showed between was de ready end- see the heaped boxes and bales to the gang plank of the little craft; and as Simp- a humorous into head. notion popped line,” the push while Peterson is in teamster mused. “He'd that his after him under ety thing came loping he'd run right hat.” The a way joyment the out from cleared had in laborers Chu g faney, Simpson his horses, tugging now. of his reins, spoke to big ‘he Passengers for the of the Wave were going aboard Simpson began throwing in load of cobblestones. The was due to leav in an hour, rattling trucks of freight of moving boiler afternoon trip steamer and up the plank, “Watch out Reddy!” a voice suddenly The warning that, somewhat turned quickly about. A la: preciation for the greeted him. One the crew passing by on an errand *Fraid of our man, the deckhand queried, with t« “To-morrow noon for Peterson shout sounded so startled, Simg laugh of suceeas of the of aren't ” ing ‘ve 311 ou or ir else blanket back, going to chip In and hire you to get a job somewhere else. We're tive about the kind of people we have wo are preity sensi A stentorian hall summoned the loquacious sailor to the Wave, Simp- to heave in cobble. stones thoughtfully. He fully intend. ed 20 get his hlanket back: but {if possible he wanted to do it without the redoubtable Peterson, wreatling Another load was on before start ingtime for the Wave In a gling line passerigers were still wend ing their way toward the steamer, and the freight trucks rattled more quick- ly and merrily on and off the plank aed the seat to thread his way diagon: ally across the river sireot corner where he mounted to the the grade between a line of cotton bales on one other, ber. “Wouldn't you like a blanket ait on?" the carpenter chuckled, as he squinied an eye to set his jack plane, “I understand Peterson is go shaping a new bulkhead tim: of his hand and a smile. He was more concerned just at present lest he ghould gulde Prince carelessly and scratch his sleek side on the metal straps of a cotton bale, “I'I have to convince Peterson somehow that I have a little sand.” he mused, smacking his lips to urge on the horses a bit A quick tug on the rein at that mo ment was all that saved Sager, the off horse, from being grazed by a giek of timber which some careless hand had left protruding from be tween two bales. Simpson's eyes had been turned momentarily from his duty toward a gay young party bound for the steamer. A charming couple of laughing girls were in the lead; and behind them, weighted down with baggage, a young man gallantly escorted a stout old lady. The party joined a waiting erowd at the gang: way, where the breaking of an over: loaded truck had caused a blockade. Simpson was just starting his horses off again when a booming clang! struck his ear. He heard it again, a flerce, exultant cling-clung! With a startled glance toward the hillside street he understood. in the had broken loose! Now it was hur ing the cobbles furiously, while volees of the workmen were raised in frantic warnings. Instinctively Simpson eyes toward the Wave, The tion of the with boxes and bales-—a sreet down which, in a moment more, would come bounding that terrible mass of charging steel, And the two hundred feet were thronged with and passengers. In imagination freight-lined alley of the boiler Simpson swept saw the clear, the Wave torn away, and the plunging overboard. He gasped as he pictured the trapped crushed rolling cylinder, or tossed against the side of the steamer. One panic people beneath the in wild to part ambled abandoned for the most paralyzed by the and the hemmed or two men over the truck deck; but seemed of the that they in directly In its course Springing erect on top of the cob blestone load, Simpson snatched up blacksnake whip. He had never throng danger were thing. But now, with the reins firm- ly grasped in one strong hand, he swung it savagely. It whistled through the hard on the flanks of There was a snort of astonished creatures once with and the pain The the alr the clanged from more Irses gave a mighty leap forward Instantly dropping the whip, Si: son caught the reins in With eyes through, he behind He wos headed diagonally } the Cross the boller must between the plies hundred hed past wat horses: aen 3 threw » tossing heads of Prince and Sager jerked up cruel Their wide, thelr NE back, showed white hoof-beats as fnws One jaws opened frantis fut franti . ie rom the the ly in ylinder le pavement Ww a { the wagon the path o crash of house plunging boller sti pson It iiverse were smashing beneath him. The ir ¢t hurled him the air, wagon th of side To if the Sin into j¢ bulk boiler sprung dealt heap of a final, twanging settled into stiliness. Simp into a pile of paving sand. While the trembling horses were tas COAL od, forward again, the cobbles pushed through the crowd to shake Peterson, following for the same purpose, found a chance ‘w the stable first chance 1 gel’ — panion Joys of Houseboat Life. Of all the ways to take in ozone of a is the houseboat is a means houseboat The camp on I know of one built to order could not be it was doom ed forever to float in the open water with a supplying auxiliary force of Some of the houseboats made foolish with screwed-down like those in the smoking room liner I know of another one h a plano takes up all of the another 1 visited had art squares, crossed fans, fret-work fur niture, and other offenses against taste. A Pittsburg fitted out his floating house as the Turkish room of the Waldorf is fitted out-—with heavy-piled rugs, draped upholstered walls of red, cozy-corners canopies, brass lamps, incense and with an ebony card table and carved teakwood furniture. And he exhibited this salon with great pride! The table that easiest water was 80 big that it by chairs in whi verware med; was heavy and monogram: linen embroidered with -=Delineator, —— a d————— Big Head. ures nine feet hat band. “Oh, weil.” replied the other, wean ing a crimson hat Hand, “that's not the only thing in Yale with a big head.” ’ The Avordupoly Complication. A Michigan judge has ruled that a man may spank bis wife when it Is necessary. Did his honor take into considerationd 115.pound men who have 216-pound wives —Los Angeles Times, COMMERCIAL Market Reports. of trade says: From every large business center throughout the country come reports of progressive Improvement in trade. In most instances the reports are more than satisfactory; they speak of a present and prospective increase in activity that is Indicative of a return to even more than normal conditions. In some cases the vol- ume of trade is described as equal to or in excess of previous records, he wholesale dry good markets have broadened, with some large op- erations in staples, ecspeciallly eot- tone, Several advances are announced many important lines are withdrawn or placed “at value,’ Bradstreet's says Favorable sharp and the nearly all and try, with conservatism, bred by prices raw and products, and full manufacturers the only bars to an even wider Jist most wholerale lines Wholesale trade in staple lines is good beyond question, even the South, which faces a short yield of showing a better tone he. cause offered for ita leading staple at a period of near- ly record crop movement On other hand, cotton manufacturers here, at the South and abroad are discussing curtailment output in an effort to readjust prices of goods which gitrong and tending ward of raw material, higher than a Wholesale Markets. New 118¢ reporis Hines rule in indus- high manufactured of apparent ribution in are of trade of order bnoks seylt cotion, and of the more cheerful Mie » v high price the of are to up- cost the whi 50 per cent year ago York. —Wheat asked, ae on ND, & red, No 2 red No. 1 North- ¢ hard win- evator, © Oo. b float 1 i $2.25@2.0 Philadciephia, — Wheat contra iand, rp A nie October, for io- Wes nearby prints, torn yivania and gm «iC CRANE receipts, rk 27 m free cases in re- Western ark do os £6 wu id eh Now 15% ¢.: York do., fair full {io 15@ spring 13@ re steady; 11% @ ducks, 149 15 pouitry firm; ice 17 %¢c . 17: old chickens, 15@19; fowls, 12; old, killed 1« 12 166 20; Jersey, fresh do fair roosters, nearby do., Baltimore ~=Wheat October, 1.093%; Demand was fes, but n hands ber, 10%5¢ Spot December, fair for nearby deliver much wheat changed 10,000 bush. Decem- Sales, Corn & 161%, Oats Western opened quiet; WL @62%c.; January, 61% and February, 61% @62% The quotations for spot were: White, No $44 44%¢c.; do, No. 3, 42 @ No. 4,400 40%; do., mix. 2@ 42%; do., No. 3, 40% y Creamery separator, ; imitation, per Ib, %-bh., 32@33; 326 33: blocks, 2-ib., 32; dairy prints, Mary- per 23 1-ib., 1 per ib... per ib, 31@ and ib. ginia, store-packed, per 1b, store-packed, per Ib, rolls, per 1b, 2; “4 BY de 6&5. “a; West Virginia, “5 “he Eggs Maryland, Pennsylvania and nearby firsts, per dozen, 1 venture to send you some particu- | The bird i ginia, per doz, 27; per dozen, 27; dozen, 27; en, 26 Cheese-—The market: 48 steady, We quote, jobbing lots, per 1b, 17% G17 %e. Live Poultry—We quote, per 1b.: Chickens--0ld hens, heavy, do., small to medium, 14%; do, young, 16; old roosters, 10. Ducks wedld, 12¢.: white Pekings, old, 13; do., spring, 3 1be. and over, 13@ 14; do., small, 12. Geese—Weatern and Southern, 11@12¢c.; Maryland and Pennevivania, 12@ 13; Kent Island, 136 14. Live Stock. Chicago.~-Cattle—~Market strong. Steers, 35.60@ 8.80; cows, $3.50 5.25: heifers, $3.60@6; bulls, $3@ 4.85; calves, $3@ 9; stockers and feeders, $3.75 @ 5.50, Hogs Market 10c, lower. Choice heavy, $7.90@ 8.05; butchers, $7.85 @8: light mixed, $7.40@ 7.60; choles light, $7.65@ 7.80; packl $7650 7.75; ples, $5@7; bulk o eales, $7 6070 7.85. Sheap--Market 10@ 16c. lower, Sheep, $4@ 5.50; lambs, $66 7.15; yearlings, $56.20@ 5.50, i i and gaze at his reflection in the pan- sngaged in self contemplation. in the hope that it may stop and al- low him to continue his favorite oo-~ cupation, but he seems to conclude at a certain place that the case is hope~ less, though, if the carriage halts fur- ther down the drive he will rejoin it and resume his observations. It occurred to ug to wonder what he would do if a looking glass were placed on the lawn. This was accord- ingly done, and he at once found it out. Nothing will induce him to quit it. He will stand by it for hours to- gether. At first, he occasionally looked inquisitively behind the glass at intervals to see if a bird was actu- ally present, but he has given this up now. He stands in front of it entire- ly absorbed, often motionless for a long time, occasionally moving his head gently up and down, and some- times softly touching the glass with his bill, appearing slightly bewildered by the contact. If food is thrown to him he takes no notice, unless it is close to the glass, when he will hur- riedly gobble it up and return to his more congenial employment in haste, as though vexed at being interrupted, If the glass is taken into the drawing room, which is on the ground ficor looking into the garden, he will en- ter the room by door or window, find the glass, and continue his favorite pursuit; and he spends the greater part of the day at the door that leads from the drawing room into the gar- in the hope that some one may bring out his glass for him, Meanwhile the peahen is sitting on a nest of eggs in a hedge close at hand. He never goes near her, his only idea being to find opportunities for contemplating hisown perfections, I suppose that the proverb, “As vain as a peacock,” to the bird's habit of spreading his tall and strut. ting about: but it is curious to find that this instinctive vanity lies deeper still, and is not confined to the desire to arouse the admiration of his mate, as is generally taken for granted, but is based upon & genuine complacency and an almost morbid consciousness bf his personal attractions. Arthur . Benson, in the Spectator, den, refers A Hair Famine Hair has considerably in price. In the city of the principal market for hair, a kilo of hair worth £2 a few ARO NOW Patzhes £4 108. This has been caused by the increased size of hats, which necessitates an extra supply of hair so as to offer a proper basis to the new structures. Moreover, the young French peasant girls are less anxious to part with their tresses; and the dealers in hair are unable to cope with the demand made upon them. The crisis is attaining huge proportions, and wearers of false hair would do well to lay in a stock or they will be compelled to pay famine prices. —Gentiewoman. Predicted. risen Limoges, Years rise PAT'S APPRECIATION. An artist had finished a landscape; on looking up, he beheld an Irish navvy gazing at his canvas. Well,” sald the artist familiarly, “do you suppose you could make a pleture like that?” The Irishman mopped his forehead a moment, Ruse, a man ¢'n do any- thing if he's druv to ut,” he replied. Philadelphia Inquirer, Jno. F. Gray & Son (SxRrmobves Largest Fire and Lite Ean in the World, . . .. THE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST . . . . No Mutusly No Assessment Before insuring r life see the contract of B HOME which in case of desth between the Jath Jn Swentie SE 24 turns ume dition to the face of the policy. 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Losstion 1 Ome mile South of Centre Hall, Acsommedetions first-class Good bar wishing to enjoy an evening given attention. Meals for such cOoMiond pared an short notice. Alwem for the transient trade. BATES: $1.00 PER DAY. [he Hational Hote! MILLERIM, PA. B A. BHAWVER, Frop. Piet clam secommodstions for the traveles ©00d table board and sleeping & partments The edoloest liquors at the bar. Sadie ate for horses is he best Be and from all trainee en and Tyrome Ralirosd, “oun LIVERY Special Effort made to Accommodate Com: mercial Travelersow. D. A. BOOZER Centre Hall, Pa. Penna Ry Penn's Valley Banking Company CENTRE HALL, PA W. B. MINGLE, Caahief Receives Deposits . . Discounts Notes . . . H. G. STROHIIEIER, CENTRE MALL, . . . . . PENN Manufacturer. of and Dealer In HIGH GRADE ... MONUMENTAL WORK in ail kinds of BV VV VV Ben LARGEST |NSURANCE L.gency CENTRE COUNTY H. E.FENLON Agent Bellefonte, Penn'a.
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