PRR Ea A Sein EP "MAKE AS A FATHER.” #8y Nancy Byrd Turner.) Sent ap to bed in the dark, alone, Where all of the corners were weird and dim And the shapes waited him At every turning—my little son. Sent for some childish mischief done At the hour when childish hearts are high With joy of the evening's revelry— And his fault at worst was a tiny one! and the shadows | A wistful moment his feet delayed, Waiting to let my face relent, And then, a pitiful penitent, His faltering, (frightened made; up In shade I heard him pause where the shadows agrowd whisper, aloud, “Father, go with way he But the stairway's deepest And “Father,” and sob me. 1 am afraid!” Quick as his calling answer leapt, Strong as arms Polded him alarms, Sheltered wept; And up in the nursery's light I kept A tender watch till he smiled again, THI! the sobs of his half-remembered pain lmaseomed slept my bis terror my shielding close from the night's and comforted while he and hushed, and the i ina, And all of my trespasses written Not for a thoughtless or wilful sin Send me out in the dark alone: Come to the prayer of my pleading breath of death, Father of light, zone! when my light is —Youth’s Companion. + De B+ B+ @ +99 DOOR On iFriendship ’S + Altar. Be @oDeBDoB-G By Sadie Marie Stull. 0-000 Pe@-(0-9-0-0-B1t Twelve!” proclalmed toned Dresden clock. the game clock—but what marvel lous changes in five short years! The wounan's glance swept the rich ly appointed room-—the on whom Fortune hag brightest The sce the sily abode of one smiled which memory presented was not so attractive to the eye. A small room poorly and shed; yet in that room a girl scarce! she, the petted eretly envied, As in a she idol of the hour, tantalizing dream pretiy face as she read the message which accompanied her first floral of- fering. Only a few words of and emconragzement iy tribute of a fellow artist proved the beginning of which was the boast of one ging road company for many days. ~the earnest. kind- but it logs. When she flames disclosed a scene of ty. True, it was a the painted deur of Thesnis heart thrilleq as tall. Down eafe .a dazzling whiterobed came glowily with the reeal a queen. TI ae woman her jewellod hands tightly clasped Could this sunerh creature he shy girl of the poorly furnished room?” Yes, for as she paused at the foot of the stairs her glance rested full on the watcher hy the fire In their a mi Lev — romp » noted every des figure grace o same quenchless hanced three-fold achievement as Indder of Fame ambition, by the she pointed and now en- pride of triumphantly to which she had climbed. on the ftollsome journey, & man's tall tional evening dress: to those in front the typleal man of the world, who trampled ruthlessly on hearts of trusting maidens, whose persecution of the and the gallery gods. The woman by the fire smiled in unison with the “lovely heroine” as the recallnd the ineffable scorn with which she had listened to his ardent protestations of love, while all the time his flowers nestled against her throbbing heart and her flashing eyes saw only the true, kindly gentleman of real fe. Slowly the smile faded from the red lips as a dark shadow hovered over the shimmering flames. In and out it wound its unwelcome way un til the whole bright scene was tinged with the sinister gloom. The woman shivered slightly, for well she kvew with the brightness went hope and happiness: that even though the darkness might be sue 9+9+9-9-9-90-90-9+-9+0 ceeded by a more brilliant dawn it bitfon and unrest. A mist gathered before her eyes, but she resolutely at the next scene. Like the unfolding of an exquisite Watteau fan, the miniature pageant passed In roview-—treading the state- ly measures of the minuet. Uncon- sclously the woman found herself humming the quaint old fune, the while her glance followed the most graceful couple, The belle of the modern ballroom looked even more beautiful, if that were possible, in the powder and bro- cades of the 18th century, while her present partner was the ideal cour tier in his rich costume of cerise and black. A tender softened the sha- dows in the watcher's eyes as she heard again the herole sentiments which flowed so eloquently from the courtler's Then, with mingled pain and pleasure, she wondered what their public would say could they have witnessed another scene, almost magnificent compared with the splendid ones nightly enacted be- fore thelr critical gaze, yet one in which the man had acted a far no bler part than he ever did on the mimic stage, and the woman-—ah! Ske had acted nobly, too—only no one knew. light lips. John Esmond was smoking by the fire in his “den” when Richard mer entered unannounced the Iat- nonchal- £0 ch prompted buffet he “I know 1 come uninvited,” began with well “but I. think feigned before 1 you Striding over to the with the which every mi man by the Lang Syne, Jack-—will “No, Esmond retur: recall too many the past was present is drink to the popular toast “Stop, Jack! Such words are as une unworthy yw how it mversation bunch of something Ks and grace vement “For ou join me? canter, fire would memaries know for The BO present . § 0 most your noble self. Oh kn i8. 1 overheard a tle ¢ between old Masters and a 118 cronies today ran i ‘They tell me it was mond who gave this Lorimer chap his atart True, eh? Then indeed, a fickle jads Dick is now a star on | Esmond his crossed the own Jack and mer man ¥ Lorimer iald me hand gently on arm said find when did not bent on sh Jack's she ox- eagerly it gleamed in “You think queried, “The best that question Is to tell you why I never drank that toast 1 proposed four years ago. You remember that udden agonized ey pected them?” he Dick stifled a sigh eo to night at the | next time we new toast the how 1 should have a told you the . for ™E fol nid’? “The dearest gir! In world"? I see vou remember 1m also remember how at our nost er 1 parried the delicate in desperation, vour every allusion subject—and at last, 1 told should you to drink RB? Lori an instant When he continued his voice was a trifle husky: “The explanation is vi simple. ‘The dearest little girl in the world’ was Rose Vernon and--when 1 asked her to be my wife 1 dis. covered that she had already given her heart to the man | regarded as my best friend-—whom I loved as a brother——.’ “Dick!” Lorimer silenced him with a ges you | ask paused never mer “That Is why 1 smile pityingly comparing our They do not the relative positions today. know--never shall know--but highest endeavor. 1 put it up to yon, now, Jack. Take my name-fortune ~gvery bright favor from ambition's store that" you can pile into the scales. Then, on the other side, place simply her love and trust—with your name in glowing letters. Does it not easily outweigh all the others?’ Jack's hand closed tightly on the speaker's, but he dared not trust his volre “And now.” Lorimer concluded with his old winning smile, “I will drink that ‘ong-deferred toast: drink it with you, boy, as a final sacred pledee on the altar of our friendship: *T'o your little girl, Fack--the dearest little girl in the world't” Esmond squared his broad shoul ders and hig ayes flashed proudly as thelr glasses touched lghtly—almost reverently. Theatre celled that of the “star,” while Miss was handed over the footlights., As her radiant glance sped from Lorimer to Esmond the light in both men’s eyes was good to see.-—Boston Post. ELECTRIC FANS IN WINTER. They Can Be Made to Help to Heat a House as Well as to Cool It. Even though it's winter electric fans should not be relegated to the storeroom, the Edison Monthly, as nay serve many purposes during the winter months. They may be used to advantage for obtaining & forced draught in the furnace, which materially aids in the time re. quired to heat of a house, The breeze from an elec fan blowing through a radiator « irculates the heated air and give a more even Fans are also largely used in show windows to prevent the accumulation of frost. There are many other including ven. tilation, for which electric fans can be used in cold weather, and they should not be considered merely a hot weather necessity, When quick additional wanted in a room it can be obtained by means of electric radiators. They are clean, convenient and econom al in operation. They f ; irom ro Monte dictates BAYS they the rooms trie purposes, heat fis be carried conven necessary to may fence attach =a socket, in cold , ! ights an nearest lamp electric beating pad in the comfort known to plaster cast in the agony of Geronimo end into a a fort This was years later a Spanish ed the event and told that particular block vd writer 1 exactly how could be locat #4 f Hrewn stood for Then block nearly years 4 in 1563 orn down, the 1 was pen and dead an mild come out can ar Bea gloating France crack we west « Outing Old Wedgwood Cream Ware Josiah Wedgwood was eciins: his own greatness His nowned jasperware in bis and work basalt, renown for irid re greatest has overshadowed all His Beyptian black in itself would have any other English Wares are have the list of nis other ware or won rst am His marbled ive enough to placed ceramic ir come to pass that the very English en's Ware, ag he termed when Queen patronage and call himselr Majesty.” has suffered bv be as tho on her him to oot manded Potter to her ing r 9% his other work. It cannot too upon collectors to tention to three classes of ware First, the undecorated or plain, representing the moat perfect symmetry and rivalling the work of the siiveramith. There are delight ful teapots of bold design and ex quisite dishes of pierced work with equal in English earthenware Secondly, the transfer printed ware of the early days, when the cream ware was sent to Liverpool to Sad. ler and Green. Lastly, the painted or enamelled cieam ware of which the recently found Catherine il, ser vice stands as the greatest triumph. ~lady's Pletorial, Story of the Recovery of a Ring. A peculiar instance is reported by icon Chapin, a &earby farmer, who had the good luck to kill the fowl that had so long concealed his in serarded poorer relat strongly urged particular at. cream be pay out little article, a gift from the child's grandmother, disappeared two months ago, Although it had been much sought for no trace of It could be had until laet Sunday, when ft was brought to thelr family residence. It was dis at the bottom of the pan which held the chicken pie~~Perry correspon dence Rochester Post-Express. TO CLEAN BLACK CLOTH. tablespoonfuls of alcohol fully sponge the goods. and it will look like new. If there removed by sponging with slices of raw potato.~-Jeanette Jordon. TO WASH SILK STOCKINGS. In washing silk stockings they should be first soaked in borax wa ter, afterward washed quickly In soapsuds that are no more than blood warm. If the water is hot, the re sult is that the silk becomes harsh and crinkly. Instead of wringing the stockings out, therm well, afterward rinsing In two waters the same temperature, hanging out to dry without wringing. A little bluing should be added to the water it the silk stockings are white, but not if colored. -——Everyday Housekeep ing. simply squeeze SAVE THE ENGRAVED PLATE. Not every bride knows that the copper plate on which is inscribed the lettering for her engraved wed ding invitations of announcements may be preserved all through her married life in the shape of an at tractive card tray. The edges of the plate are skillfully shaped to form the edge of the tray, the Inseription remaining on the copper in the cen ter. A fair divorcee, who too truly has discovered that marriage is a failure in the first attempt has had her engraved plate turned into a re ceptacle cigar for the use of her matrimonial exper ment for ashes second Vashington Star TO CLBAN SHEEPSKIN RUGS. one har of soap in two Put MMssolve gallons of quarts of about two First rub out spots with strong Fuller's earth if necessary. put the rug or mat the weaker soap liquor, well washing and pun ing it. Next nto a tud of warm water into which has been dissolved a packet of powder, arain to take out all soap: and for white mats add a little blue to the Wring out, well, and hang to ars Don't fire a scorching sun, or hard and brittle balling water two this into a pan gallons of warm the and soap liquor, containing water ETeas using Then dirt into put rinse Inst water shake _ " 5 * p- ! near the on n the skin will he come Shake fre quenly while drying. Treated in this way skins become lke now Wom. an’s Life TO WASH GLOVES the mo 1 articles FiovYee # to the yy Fon ond on Bo Bo ADDOATrance, comiortad one does n nay to think al ha. thew notices that how There is a and like is easy when and wars ab cause, with can be washed at a minute's and look ir is, Hf ont ing Hem clean, effort, fust as good as new: one great art in washing gloves, everythin $ it one knowe all Put the gloves on, t thor- oughly with white as if the hands were being washed and the there, Rinse themn water in which there (a a little bluning; this prevents them from turning vellow When they are thoroughly c¢lean ed, rub soap into them before removing them from the hands. This 2 them from becoming fuzzy and ther made the gloves un in the shade, iscolors them and heat chamois the about it hen rub goap, just gloves were not out in cold ivory Yoo as though were looking of Manne! Hang dry in a cool the sun ens the When again and press wWaY ¢hamo last a i look well after a great many time and 1 washings Havers Register #1 7 y place ¥ are dry put them into sham in thi 3 gloves will Now RECIPER ne n Ginger Nuts, pound flour pound butter, quarter pound half ounce ginger. Me't the a pan, add the treacle, and when hot mix with a wooden spoon to the flour and ginger Roll between the hands into nuts, and bake on a greased tin for twenty mia. tutes, Scones Two pounds of flour, five ounces of butter, one ounce of cream of tartar, hall ounce of carbonate of soda, a little salt. Mix with milk, roll to sbout half an inch in thick ness, ard bake In a hot oven. Rich Plum Cake—Ha'f pound but ter, half pound sugar, half pound currants, quarter pound stoned and chopped raisins, half pound flovr, four eggs, three ounces mixed peel, half a grated nutmeg. When the In the tin push in a faw Bake two quarter treacle, butter in quite thick pieces of citron. hours, Chocolate (ake. Quarter butter, quarter pound sugar, pound halt pound flour, quarter pound chocolate, one tablespoonful ground rice, two egress, essence vanilla. Beat the but ter to a cream, mix in the sugar, add in three tablespoonfuls of water: mix then add the flour, baking powder in the vanilla, and lastly, The whites $4343 L003 333033 888382 413k SISAL IAAL A SAA A0ES Jno. F.Gray & Son | (Succtisors to.,, GRANT HOOVER Control Sixteen of the Largest Fire and Life Insurance Companies in the World. . . ,. THE BEST IS CHEAPEST . . No Mutuals No Assessment Before insuring r life see the contract of B HOMB which in esse of death between the tenth and twentieth years re. turne all premiums paid in ad. dition to the face of the policy. Momey TETTTEL TY THE to Loam on First Mortgage Office in Crider ’ Stone Building BELLEFONTE, PA. 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New Yory “TELLING Whittier's THE BEES.” 3 poem, “Telling the Sugene game subj have readers not customs of old still in in New England il existence not only Of thes tice of telling the bees is one a member of the family die, some must go and knock lightly upon each beehive and tell the little workers, according to uperstition, they will either fly away or In 1 to put each with a rural else, the 3 ae Gie, some loraliition is is the enuston some loecalitd it is th ' n iny plece of funeral biscuit in a tin hive, The hive strip of crepe of Br ited v the hives ar also draped of $3 » districts mally in onshire if it was t} In Engl: versal } aig ia turned arot » owner who died 1 there {3 av 2 ve no sense of hearing fact, yriginated in natter of in Virgil Vhen the nf ay hidden in the Cre- tan bees d bh ith honey, tans, to drown the infant's cries, which might have attracted his father's attention to the gpot, danced about and eclazhed gether brazen cymbals. Or, perhaps, the original intent of the racket was to notify the neighbors that your bees had swarmedand that you wonld im them if they settled on land New York Times. a ROPING A COUGAR. I went out recently for a beef steer and followed a course up Cougar Canon. What did I find but a lion track in the snow, the snow being six inches to two feet in the drifts, so 1 could easily track the lion. Then 1 began to wish for my gun, but I fol lowed along the track, and in about a mile I came to a calf he had killed about three days ago. He had just left this calf, I could see, on the run, so I went on after him at a gallop. It was a very rough country, but in a mile I got sight of Lion. He was leaping along, caves while the Cre 10 duly cle other's Jump. it, #0 he let loose of the lasso and I never let him get his feet again until where he grabbed it, Any one ean any one thinks I shot the animal 1 will hold this hide to let him examine is on, and the feet up to its knees. The lion was seven feet from the tip of the nose to the tip of the tall, and stood three feet high-M, Pulsipher, an the Salt Laje City Evening News. ¥ TITTFTITTY IIIT OTII YY rey ATTORNEYS, —— a —— ——————— D. FP. PORTURY ATTORNEY-AT-LAW BELLEFONTE. Pa Qflos North of Court Mouse Ww. HARRISON WALKER ATTORNEY-ATLAW BELLEFPONTR Pa Fe. 19 W. High Stren. All professional busines promptly attended te SR W. DD. Zansy i | — one | BD. Omens Iwo. J. Bows CFrTie, BOWER & ZERBY ATTORNEYS AT-LAW Faorn Broom BELLEFONTE, Pa, Buccessors to Onvia, Bowes & Onvis Consultation tn Englah and Germas. . ER CLEMENT DALE ATTORF EY AT-LAW BELLEFONTE FA Offios N. W. corner Diamond, two Gners from First Nationa) Bask, I= WwW G. RUNKLE ATTORNEY -AT- LAW BELLEFONTE. PA. All Kinds of legal busines sitended to prompuy Special attention given W wllsotions Oftoe, Soor Crider's Rxchasgs. re HR B. SPANGLER ATTORNEY AT LAW BRLLEFORTR PA Practices fn wll the courts Consuliation ia English and German. 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