oe m———
WIND'S MESSAGE,
In summer the wind comes whispering
So quiet and soft and low:
*T'll shake the trees with
breeze,
And cool the warm day so."
THE
a little
In winter the wind comes howling,
And hurrying on he goes:
“A coverlet white 1 will spread
night,
Made out of the drifting snows.”
to-
In autuinn the wind comes moaning
And erving about the eaves:
“Old Earth, you'll be gray
strip away
Your red and yellow leaves."
when I
In springtime the wind comes laugh-
ing
When the days are long and bright:
"Oh, the earth is new and the sky is
biue,
Ang iv
iw »
ing
is pure delight!”
And I love the four winds blowing,
As over the world they roam.
¥or, noisy or mild, they sing to the
child
Who listens and dreams at home
—Annie W. McCullough.
00-000 D P9090
The True
Story of
Trapsy, a
Massachusetts Fox
oe
@
+
8
*
RY MRS, ANNIE A. PRESTON
00-090 00-00 9-Boiy
(By Mrs.
‘Well
he came in
Preston. j
Uncle Zeke
breakfast, “that
don’t fancy marketing chickens
to Mother Fox up at Foxboro
on the side hill I never shall
rich raising poultry at this rate, some-
thirz will have to ie™
“Set a trap,” suggested Aunt Sarah
as she poured the coffee
“And catch a cat? If [ was a boy
wotilld dig the varmint out.”
“S'pose you'd find the hole first,”
grinned John Henry with his mouth
full of griddle cake. “Dick and 1
haven't been smart enough, but if you
say so we'll spend two or three more
days up in the wood lot”
“1 don’t say so, young feller”
grinned Uncle Zeke in turn. “You may
g0 trap borrowing instead. And
sure to tell all the neighbors to shut
in all their cats and dogs until after
sunrise to-morrow morning.”
The neighborhood lads were all in-
terested sufficiently to accept the in-
vitation to bring their tra ps “about
sundown,” and in the baiting
and setting and they were still chat
ting in the wellhouse as to whose
trap was most likely to catch and
hold the thief when a succession of
eharp barks over behing the poultry
Annie A
» 1 must say,” said
to
“as
my
set
be done about
I
be
an +
assist
marauder was already caught
“Xow, what shall be done? cried
Uncle Zeke. “Leave him and let him
bark all night as a melancholy ex-
ample to his neighbors, or shall ws
made an end of him with a gun? It
always did seem blamed mean to me
to catch a critter in a trip an then
kill it”
It's that little light trap of Eu
gene's,” shouted John Henry, who had
darted away at the first yelp of the
prisoner and was now returning with
the information. “He's caught by one
foot and he's running away with the
trap. Come on, boys!”
What a race that was by the bright.
white light of the full June moc n. The
fleet, cunning wild creature had the
start but her infrequent barks of pain
gave her pursuers the clue, and, impe-
ded by the painful burden of the trap
clinging |! angry thing to her
poor maimed foot, she was soon over
taken.
“let her go home,” sald John
Henry. “Give her time enough, we're
in no hurry”
Ike an
“There, the trap is caught in the
brush!” some one shouted, and the pa-
thetic whining cry that rang out
through the woodland made Unele
Zeke who, very much out of breadth,
had come up, declare that he wished
he had never complained but had let
the poor mother go into the chicken
yard and help herself, unmolested
“I'm sorry for her, blamed if | ain't,
What can we do to end this racket,
kill her, set her free, or what?”
“Please be quiet a minute,” whis
" pered Dick. “There comes her young
ones through the shadows. Can't you
wee them?”
“To be sure,” cried John Henry,
making a sudden dive, "and [I've got
wane of them.”
Boy-like they all rmsheq to see the
bright eyes and pointed nose protrud-
ing from the breast of John Henry's
thin jacket.
“He's a lively one to hold, and don’t
you forget it,” cried the lad. “1 don’t
want to lose him and I'm going
home.”
“We might all as well go,” said
Uncle Zeke. “Here's the trap and
here's that blamed thief's foot, poor
‘thing. Guess she must think she's
paying a pretty high price for chicken
meat.”
“She will whem she counts her ba
bles,” chuckled John Henry. “We'll
tether this fellow with a tracechain
under the old butternut tree back of
+
i
for nelllher a fox nor a hawk will come
near’
The baby fox, named by the boys
Trapsy, soon became a neighborhood
attraction, and helped to keep things
lively, He get the example, keeping
continually busy and seeming hardly
to realize that he was a prisoner at
the end of a long, light-weight chain,
With John Henry's fox terrior pup-
py Junket he would frolic for hours
until the puppy, growing the faster
and being the heavier, would tire his
playfellow out,
At such times Trapsy would retire
into the hole he had dug for himself
near the trunk of the big butternut
more poultry was missed and the quiet
of the country-side was never again
or barking on the hillside.
In the next town, a
later, a hunter out with dogs and gun
Zeke sald:
Gritty little varmint. Too bad!”
“1 wish it had been Trapsy,” said
John Henry, “but probably the mark
he is caught.
me alone I will let them alone, 1
tree, but if John Henry strolled along
and whistled to Junket he would peer
out with a peculiar expression in his
shrewd little eves that the observant
lad attributed to envy for the dog that
had his liberty.
“Trapsy must be prettr nearly full
grown now,” sald John Henry one
would not shoot one nor trap one nor
advocate a bounty but if I could out
wit one | should think it worth my
while. It scems like murder to me to
kill any of God's little wild creatures
that know so much."—Hartford Cour
ant.
day along toward autumn. “He knows
me just as well as Junket does.
appreciates that I have brought him
up. He knows this his home and
if let loose would stay about with the
dogs and kittens [ have no doubt.”
“Stay around? Not much he would:
n't,” sald Uncle Zeke emphatically.
“Should he slip that chain you'd find
he'd make pretty shost business of
A fox
If
is
No, not much he ain't
he was free he would show you |
quick what a fox would do.”
“He's showing us now, right along
what can laughed Aunt
Sarah, “Hiding everything he can get
hold of in that hole he has dug.
He has
a fox do,
car-
Io
ie
is always doing some-
in a at
no idea. 1}
thing, barking, running
the end his chain until it fairly
me dizzy to watch him
until he has worn a path in that thick
turf like a circus ring. down
in the sun and pretends to go
he listening with both cocked up
ears ready {o spring upon any unsus-
pecting cat or fow! that comes near,
and he is doing his best to make us
belleve that he is fond of us and that
would stay with us if he was
from that clinking chain. If I belleved
that he would go away and stay away
I would give him his liberty for I am
tired of his noise. 1 would be glad to
give myself a rest and him a run.”
A few days later as the family were
at dinner what was their astonish-
ment to have Junket and Trapsy come
trotting in to the room together
through the open outside door
“Collar's broke,” said Uncle Zeke.
“1 thought about putting on a larger
and stronger one yesterday. Who
can catch him?”
“Any of us,” replied John Henry.
“Give him something that Ke likes t
eat and then grab him,” but that was
a mistake. He didn't run away,
he kept just out of reach.
That night there were fowls miss
ing from the neighbors’ roosts, as well
as from their own and every night for
some time the same thing happened
circle
of
maxes
If he lies
is
he
but
o end to his
un
deed, and there seemed n
mischievous pranks Burrowing
the chicken house doors, climbing over
enclosures, frightening the pigs nearly
out of their few wits,
he do next? was the
question,
The traps were set repeatedly, but
the active little creature was not to be
caught that way, nor was there any
artifice successful in beguiling him
Day after day he came to the farm
yard for his with
having regained the use of his legs
now, and being free, the dog could
not weary him out,
For hours the two would race about
the pasture side and orch
oft
frolic
dared not for fear of wounding Junket
Every day he would seem to enties
Junket away to the woodlang
but
trotting back home.
him Junket™
shout
but it was of no use, they had
been playfellows too long.
“Rite
would
ote
John Henry
over a plece of liver that had been
thrown to Junket and then it was dog
and fox; the playmate business was
ended. Junket's blood waa up and
away he ran after the delectable mor.
sel that Trapsy carried in his mouth
The volce of his master was unhesden
as he followed the wily fox around the
broad meadow and through the or
chard, the fox keeping easily well in
advance,
From his position on a high ston:
fence John Henry could watch them
and every time they came near--for
Trapsy never got over his early habit
of running in a circle—the boy would
shout the dog's name, but without
avail.
At length as the express passenger
train hove In sight, the fox took to
the railroad track that dividegq the
meadow from the pastureland, run.
ning directly to meet the train thoy
excited dog following.
There was no use in calling now,
and John Henry held his breath.
Down the straight track they raced
the fox only a little in advance of the
doz as if to encourage him to follow,
until within a rod of the train he
bounded to one side and escaped while
the huge locomotive hit poor Junket,
knocked him down and ground him to
powder,
‘Cunning as a fox!” choked John
Henry. “Doubtless he thinks he has
gotten the better of us all for keeping
him wo long a prisoner.”
CUSTOM HOUSE DOPED.
Smuggled Opium,
clerks and fanitors em.
Brownsville hou
few days been suffer
ing
and the
accen
Officers,
ploy € d
have for the last
custom ge
ay
ing from a strange attack resembl
the dreaded sleeping sickness,
83 were becoming so
tuated that the matter wag getting to
serious, until this morninz a eack
of cocoanuts addressed toa Chinaman
at San Antonlo, Tex was hauled out
into the corral of the custom ho for
more convenient keeping
The { cocoanuts arrived
\
sack of
express from Tampico
mptosns
18¢
Hy
by way of Mon
iys8 ago and had not
tereye several
been ealled
The expre
master and pos
a
i:
for.
het RRTINE wore fast asleen
occupy Lhe same car, were {ast asleep
{ when the train pulled into the station
ssenger was lying with
the
| The express me
hiz head
mid
upon the sack and
ieult of the three to
it was found that they were
not drunk ex yn of the contents
of the sack Was
that
merely the shell,
WUas
vat awaken
When
wa and
o
found one of the coconanuts was
the gpace within con
was seized
Texas side
The sack
on the
er and was thro
{ taining opium
by the authorities
| of the ri
into a i
will from now on, however, be stored
in yard until
through the usual
Herald
areleasly
wn «
* 1 : * ve 1s
corner of the office OO
disposed of
Mexican
the it is
methods. -
DIDN'T HAVE TO SEE HER.
When Peary Waved His Hat He Knew
Mrs. Peary Was Watching for Him.
Mrs. Peary has occupied the same
rooms on each occasion that she has
been in Sydney to await her hushand’s
return. They command a fine view of
the bay and from them she is able to
veasels entering the harbor long
before she will get the news in any
other way. When she was there await
ing his arrival from the last trip she
awoke early in the morning and saw
| the Roosevelt poking her nose around
| the head of the harbor entrance. She
{ was so fascinated by the sight that
{| she did not dress but sat at the win-
| dow watching the steamer’'s progress
About fifteen minutes later a heavy
| rap came at the door and she was in
formed that the was in
sight. She replied: "1 know iL” From
that time on people continued to send
words of information concerning
TOR ress
Hoe
Roosevelt
her
the vessel's |
Some time later Mr
| ashore. There was no one on the
| dock when he landed but he looked to
{ ward the hotel and waved his hat
three times around his, head and then
hurried to the hotel as rapidly as pos
«ible and up to his wife's room. Mrs
| Peary asked him who he waveg at
‘Why, at you”
Peary was astonished that he
see her, as the lace curtains
drawn. “I could not see you,
Mrs
sid
©
watch my landing
LUXURIOUS SLEEPING CARS.
in India to Mave Bathrooms
and Other Conveniences.
The latest sleeping cars in India are
Like most foreign
cara they are divided into compart
ments,
to end of the car. Each compartment
containg two berths
is of peculiarly Ingenious design, so
compactly constructed that a casual
observer would fail to see how it can
The compartments are large enough
tn accommodate the luggage that any
two persons can require, and are fitted
up with all kinds of conveniences,
Every compartment has an electric
fan under the control of the passen
gers, and of the three electric lampn
one is a small night lamp that ean be
kept burning all night without incon.
venience,
If a party is too large for a single
compartment, says the Railroad Man's
Magazine, a sliding door connecting
with the adjoining compartment can
be thrown open. On the other hand,
hit the passenger desires he can lock
his door, pull down his Venetian
bligds and be secure from intrusion.
At each end of the codch 1s a roomy
bathrbom, with a large bath half sank
in the floor, the walls lined with mir
rors, and equipped with every imagin.
able sanitary device, There ix also a
servant's compartment. It is sald
this coach has been approved by the
rallway board as the standard type
for Indian rolling stock.
Has the French birth rates
a turn DVN Jost! For the Sim
for very many years th
in
Trapey was never captured
ave removed his quarters as
os
|
da
PENNSYLVANIA
Teach, Not Boss, Pupils,
Norristown. — Prof. George P.
Twitmyer, superintendent of schools
at Wilmington, Del., addressed the
teachers at the fifty-fifth annual ia-
“Do not punish your pupils by
keeping them in after school for un-
prepared lessons,” he said, “Lot
it be a part of their education to be
prepared. Let it be understood that
the child has an
the teacher at a certain hour,
ence they become accustomed to
it will become a habit
of inestimable benefit
life.”
all
and Prof. C. A. Kirkpatrick,
Fitchburg State Normal School,
spoke.
By a vote of 300 to 130 the te
ers decided to discontinue the pi
cation of institute proceedings,
which they were taxed 25 cents e
ack.
for
ach.
Drill Sergeants,
Adjutant General Thomas J
art announced the musignment
nine sergeants detailed
regular army to assist in instruction
of the non-commissioned officers and
private aoldiers of the National
Guard of Pennsylvania under War
Department orders
The men will be assigned
lows: One each to Fi
Third and Sixth Regimen
adelphia; one each to
and Eighteenth, Pittsburg:
Twelfth, one
teenth, Scranton,
Wilkes-Barre
The Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, Tenth
and Sixteenth Regiments, which
have companies scattered over large
territory, will have any the
sergeants assigned to them Should
detailed they will be
Stow.
of the
from the
as fol-
Second,
3, at Phil.
Fourteenth
to
Thir-
one
to
to
and one
not of
any more be
cared for
Forgives All Officials,
New Castle Without
expressing his forgiveness
the officials, Rocco Raceo, a
known Italian, all leader
Black Hand organization, and
victed of the mu
a State
was hanged
here. On the gallows
‘Gentlemen, |
Honk kills I did:
kill him I have
any person 1 pardon everybody and
expect £0 to Jesus right now,
Good-by.’
fear and
for all
wells
of a
CON~
Houk,
Ar ARO,
jail yard
A
egod
rder of Selee
game warden, a ve
in the county
see Selea
one
of
any
and no suspicion
to
Engaifed In Mine,
Wilkes-Barre
subsidences
old
ing
doing
Ore
the
ne workings
much damage at
near here, engulfed 10-
Hugh Hughes, while several
children had a narrow escape. While
playing on Center Street the young-
sters felt the ground giving away be.
neath their feet and ran Young
Hughes was swalloped up, however,
only the heel of his shoe being seen.
Some miners risked their lives hy
Jumping the hole ard effected
a remarkable rescue, getting the boy
out alive, but 18 Az he
was injured internally by the
of the earth which covered him, he
is In a eritical condition The sub-
sidences at Courtdale and
of the
over
many
surface the
which have been
Edwardsville,
vear-old
other
of
mi
into
unconscio
weight
Edwards.
ville extended still further ard much
damage is expected,
Walks From Window.
Shamokin A daughter of
Shaffer, the latter being 82 rears
siding at Manadata, went out into
yard early in the morning and foun
his body lying on the boardwalk di-
rectly under his bedroom window.
He had frequently walked in his
Josiah
re.
8&1
| ddI 3333003000030 82202
to get out of a window,
C. E. Blocher Ends Life.
Gettysburg. Clarence E. Blocher,
one of the best krown residents of
Adams County, committed g:icide in
Littlestown by hanging His wife
found his body before life was ex-
tinet, but efforts at reviving him
fruitless
Attacks Blind Wife,
York.—Lewis Swemly is in jal]
kill his blind wife, children and his
The prosecution is
brought by the Humane Society
Swoemly, It is alleged, had trouble
with his sister-in-law, when his wife
interfered. He is said to have struck
ocarthen cuspidor.
Williamsport. —George Kohn, a
‘was nearly killed by a
John Yarri-
out, found Kohn unconscious, his
head in a pool of blood. The blow
had nearly sealped him.
Yoses Life Ta Save Cap,
Pottsville.—When Harry Shadle,
aged 18 years, stooped to pick up
his falling cap, while riding on some
cars at Lincoln colliery, his leg wes
caught between the bumpers. The
member was pinched off. He died
shortly after the aceident,
Reading Veteran Dies,
Reading.—John A. Grenier, a well
known Civil War veteran, who par-
ticipated in the battles of Winches.
ter, both battles of Bull Run and
Gettysburg, besides many skirmishes,
died of a complication of diseases,
aged 70 years.
Berks County Man Dies,
Reading.—-Willlam Schaeffer, the
oldest resident of Jefferson. died of
apoplexy, aged 82 years. He was a
veterinary surgeon and was the own.
er of several of the finest farms in
Berks County.
sn
Altoona. Dancing classes, carry.
ing the rame of the Altoona High
Hchool, have been tabocad by Prof.
G. D. Robb, 4
informed the
3
Jno. F.Gray& Son
(Cuccissors f0,.,
COURANT HOOVER
Control Sixteen of the
Largest Fire and Life
Insurance Companies
ia the World, . ...
THE BEST IS
CHEAPEST .
No Mutuah
No Amcumests
Before {pewring r life see
the contract of E HOMB
wi in case of death between
the tenth and twentieth years re.
tarne all premrdums paid {on ed.
dition to the face of the policy.
to Loan on Fires
Mortgage
Office tn Crider’s Stove
BELLEFONTE. PA 8
Telephone Connection
did diilrr21222
THE
Momey
|
|
B80 YEARS’
EXPERIENCE
SIVAIE
Trace Marrs
Desions
CorymicHTs &c.
Anyone sending as sketeh and description may
guickly ascertain our opinion free whether an
Invention is probably patentable, Commnur otis
Lions strictly contdential, Handbook on Patents
pont free. Oldest agency for seoring palents,
Patents taken through Munn & Co, receive
fold matics, without charges, in the
Scientific American,
A handsomely fllustrated weokly, Jarpest cis.
oniation of any sclentitic ¥ Terme $5 a
oar; four months, $1. "Bold by ail newsdoslers,
MUNN & Co, 2¢ ores. New York
Branch Or Lh 3
Mews Washiirosun, 1
Bonds For National
_ Improvements.
80000000 0OCP0CO0O00C0C00RES
Richard
Bartholdt,
in the North Americar Review, econ-
tributes an Important upon
"Bond Issues For Permanent Nation.
al Improvements.”
Bartholdt
Congressman
article
Congressman
matter of water-
WAYS much at heart, and he
shows in his article how feasible it
would be for the United States Gov-
ernment to a wonderful sys-
tem, He remarks
“Is the cause of a system of water.
ways worthy? Outside of those in-
terested may not be thoroughly
comprehended; but it is a fact that
the great rivers the West are
doomed to complete abandonment,
and that fn the near future as means
of commercial unless a
national their improvement
makes it
the ual were generally
nothing short of a bond
satisfy the
The
has the
very
ner fect
veri
it
of
intercourse,
loan fo
their redemj
pion possible,
act siluation
Ernoawn Fa
Anown, isso
na-
great
would the
tion chances for all the
projects of permanent betterment of
the ¢« now so alive in the
hearts of the people, are hopeless and
will BO as long as we must
content ourselves with the crumbs
which fall from the Government
In fact, it becomes better and
better apparent that there will be no
crumbg at all. Our expeditures are
exceeding our revenues by
ny millions of dollars, and the pub-
economy which is promised by
Congress for the future simply means
the cutting off of what little has been
received heretofore for the perma-
nent Lenefit and progress sought
along these lines.”
Pe ople of
untry,
remain
tui le
ianle
+ »
already
Fy
THROUGH HEART AND BRAIN.
A woman's first experience of kill-
3
ening thing of which to read. Yet it
is somewhat consolatory to know that
Let us
moved to engage in similar “sport.”
This is how Mrs. Grace Seton-Thomp-
son shot her first elk:
He was drinking from the lake.
Now was the time. 1 crawled a few
feet nearer, and raised the gun. The
air,
The elk raised his antlered head
and gazed In my direction, Another
shot, and the animal dropped where
he stood.
beside him. I sat on the ground, and
One instant, a magnificent breathing
thing; the next, nothing,
1 had no regret, no triumph, only
a sort of wonder at what I had done.
I felt surprise that the breath of life
could be taken away so easily,
Meanwhile, Nimrod had become
alarmed at the long silence, and fole
lowed me down the mountain,
He had nearly reached me, when
he heard the two shots and came
rushing up.
“I have done it,” I said, In a dull
tone, pointing to the dark, still thing
on the bank,
“You surely have.”
As we went up to the elk, Nimrod
paced the distance, a hundred and
thirty-five yards. How beautiful the
ireature’s coat was, glossy and shaded
in browns! And those great horns,
with eleven ints! They did not
look so big now. Nimrod examined
the carcass, :
“You are an apt pupil,” he said.
“Yon put a bullet through his heart
and another through his brain.”
{
i
i
{
:
ATTORNEYS,
/ D. F. PORTUERY
ATTORNEY -AT-LAW
BELLEFONTR, PA
ATTORNEYBAT-LAW
EsoLz Broom
BELLEFONTE, P.
Buccessors 10 Orvis, Bowes 4 Opviy hy
Consultation in Englah and German
a
CEI
CLEMENT DALR
ATTORY EY AT-LAW
BELLEVORTR, PA.
Office N. W. corner Dismond, two doors from
iret Nations] Bank. ree
a—————
TT
LE
ATTORNEY AT LAW
BELLZFORTE, Pa.
All kinds of legal busines attended to prompely
Epecinl attention given to collections. Ofice, Bf
Boor Crider's Exchangs. Irs
H B. SPANGLER
ATTORNEY AT LAW
BELLEFOFTR.PA
Practioss in wil the courts. Consultation 13
Eoglish and German. Ofos, Crider's Exch aug
Buuding trod
Od Fort Hotei
EDWARD ROYER, Propristor,
Loostion 1: Ome mile South of Oentrs Mall
Assommedstions fretclem Good ber. hie
wishing to enjoy an evening given
attention. Meals for such SOOM OnE
pared on short notice. Alwaps aan
for the transient trade,
BATES : $1.00 PER DAY.
A —— i —
Tbe Hetional Hote
MILLERIM, PA
B A. BHAWVER, Prop.
@ood table board and tieeplng a partments
The sbotoast Liquors at the bar. Babies as
for horses is the best 80 Bg
Bw to and from all trains on the
and Tyrone Raliroad, st Oobusg
RY
Special Effort made to
Accommodate Com
mercial Travelers...
D. A. BOOZER
Centre Hall, Pa. Penna R, A
Pea's Valley Banking Company
CENTRE HALL, PA
W. B. MINGLE, Ceshig
Receives Deposits . .
Discounts Notes . , .
H. 0. STROHTIEIER,
CENTRE MALL, . .
Manufacturer of
and Dealer In
HIGH GRADE ...
MONUMENTAL WORK
in ail kinds of
Marble am
Granite, Donut fail to got my prion
LARGEST INSURANCE
JL.eency
{IN CENTRE COUNTY
H, E..FENLON
Agent
Bellefonte, Penn'a.
The Largest and Best