SYNOPSIS. ———— laid in the library of an old worn-out southern plantation, known as the Bar- Quintards, is the subject of discussion by stranger known as Bladen, and Bob Yancy, a farmer. when Hannibal Wayne Hazard, a mysterious child of the old southern family, makes his appearance Yancy telis now he adopted the boy. Na- boy. Yancy to keep Hannibal, Captain Murrell, a friend of the Quintards, ap- tain Murrell's agent. Yancy overtakes the boy Yancy appears before Squire Balaam, and is discharged with costs for the plaintiff jetty Malroy, a friend of the f tain Murrell, who forces his attentions on her, and is rescued by Bruce Carrington. Betty sets out for her Tennessee home Carrington takes the same stage, Yancy and Hannibal! disappear, with Murrell on their trail Hannibal arrives at the home of Judge Slocum Price. The Judge recog- time friend. Murrell arrives at Judge's Yancy, who is apparently dead. Price at Bella Plain, Hannibal's rifle discloses some startling things to the judge. Han- nibal and Betty meet again. Murrell ar- planter, who assists the judge Is mys rington that Batty | hi as pr omised to marr 2 rton is mysterio 1sly shot More t He p 8 upri with Hann keeps the Ix Betty takes Hess lHieks who war came to west Tennessee,’ | reckon was a damned scoun-| are two colonel! winced--""thig man | swered had a friend who threw | became door stood Mahaffy with apacious chest} is (jatewood: what I'l smash you'” ur name you've stolen “1 tell you f had no hand in carry- ing off the boy,” sald Fentress with a sardonic smile “I look to you to return him. Sur yourself, Gatewood, or by God, I'l hold #0 flerce a reckoning with you—" The sentence remained unfinished, for Fentress felt his overwrought nerves snap, and, giving way to a sudden blind fury, struck at the judge. “We are too old for rough and tums. ble,” sald the judge, who had dis played astonishing agility in avolding the blow. "Furthermore we were once gentlemen. At present [ am what | am, while you are a hound and a blackguard! We'll settle this as be- comes our breeding He poured him. self a second glass of liquor from Fentress’ decanter “1 wonder if It is possible to insult you,” and he tossed glass and contents in Fentress’ face. The colonel’s thin features were convulsed. The judge watched Lim with a scornful curling of the lips. “1 am treating you better than vou de serve,” he taunted ‘Tomorrow morning at sun-up at Boges' racetrack'” cried Fentress. The judge bowed with splendid cour ony Nothing could leise me hall so his is a private matter. When | have met Colonel Fentress 1 shall make a public an nouncement of why this appeared SNAPSHOTS A STATE NEWS ——————————— Items of Interest. REPORTS ABOUT CROPS GOOD Farmers Busy in Every Locality— Churches Raising Funds for Many Worthy Objects—Items of Busi ness and Pleasure that Interest Chamber department George Molter been elects Bani to resigned Luther Sit ledo, Ohio ’ charge o bersburg On the eve ¢ non-support Creek A broken gasol » nnection caused the destruction « i $5.000 automo bile of Dav H norignt of Baagor, while pas Het fe nes old V was effort ME —————— AT TONNEY®, P. rORYWEY ” SITORNRY -ATLAW BELL IOETR By Bes Berth of Ovum Rouse. - TE YW. Bannon WALF XR ATTORNEY -AT4AW BELLEFONTE Be 1 W. Kigh Swen. AS profemdonal busines promptiy stremded AD Omme fee 1 bows W.D Es {=} ¥ITI0, BOWER 4 SERBY ATTORNEYS ATLAW Baers Blom BRELLEFONTR ba #Moocsseors to Oxvis, Bowes 4 Onvis Oonsuitation in Boglah end German i a ——, BH B. SFANGLER ATTORNEY -AT LAW BELLEFOFTAY 5 Practioss ta all the courts. Consultation 4 English sad German. Ofos, Ovider's Rashasy Building i CLEMENT DALE ATTORNEY -AT-LAW BRELLEFONTA Pa Ofos XN. W, corner Diamond, two Soom Ban Piest ational Bank. oe cons Pens Vly Bing Compa CENTRE HALL, PA W. B. MINGLE, Cash» Kecoives Deposits , , Discounts Netss . wo — ——y ‘80 YEARS’ EXPERIENCE Trang Manxs Desions CorvyriGMTS Anyone sending a sketch snd Seseription ok iy asoerisin our opinion frees whether a probably pater tad ia Communion tiy confidential. Handbook on P dest agency for securing patent 18 taken through Munn & Co. fice, without charge, ia Lhe Scientific American, A handsomely 1 lustrate wi work yr. Larcest abv 1 4 v : ' ‘ : { llofty. May | ask your silence?” He alle 2 front of a 2 tan k > ones jetty ] » " ea sR -¥ his ‘ f any 5 Tadd, SIDA, . advices, and | BOWSG 8sgain, ar ROTUpPUY ssed ' Boa Ee bg Tt Sua a tha $L "BAe Uy all pewsdnasien in ¥ f a pas g : : y v a wif "arte Bs £5 4 on $e h hbo ov What's | HOR i 3 Haan no Tieq Chul » it stopped by Slos _{ was a wile, Fentre he fi oll Fer AVS stole Gather hings What's | sroam the room ual es . MUNN § &C : al. Y nm and a confederate id | tress with his blazing eyes A wife | come of Turberville’'s money? Damn : pn A : : 0: 36 18rone Bs Ew 9 ¢ heel and faced Fentress aga | the name of Fentress, just as you y Fg hon 258 fri be A #§ ] are made pris thi friends owed In his to Hicks’ cabin, in and chil Well, one da Gatawood | your yal! I want my grandson! i m——— ———————————— oy hi : 1¥y §randso , leaving Fentress standing by {1 . . \ Bite the ghost « a smile on his Jno. F. Gray & Son Swocdssors to . . GRANT HOOVE! Control Sixteen of the Largest Fire and Libs lignity that lasurance Companies question. He In the World, . . .. ty “g : 174 ars hot i lar em . i Yancy #revin nd hom 2a rd ot . A § day 1 met this man who! déred ile shag brows bent s . a TY : a s THE BEST IS THRE CHAPTER XXIV. (C d i could command ving hap we - (Continued). { had been betraye yy his wife and | menacing frown : a : ae flroyin 1i8 Cabbage crop CHEAPEST When they entered the library Fen-| 0.4 by his frie He had fallen know nothing abo ay + | He Les of the Indies, it Would tax . 4 @ = tress turned and took stock of his |... h . 5 : i the fractional No Mutush | h Ne Amemmesh i out of the race irink had done for ild Fentress slowly “ 130% - gd hafor - ‘ : 3 Ati0N t you ws 15 10% guests. Mabaffy he had seen before; | nym there was just one thing he By God you le!” torn he | mm 8 to you his em Fo ran ‘eve wera of cou ! . i . : “Thin 5 hat!” alc Cy y vat a. Yancy and Cavendish were of course | smed to care about and that was idge 1 Yancy, a8 piygte Pefore !neuring He sen trange i but ir appear- h | much srwhelme by the Judge yy i n y strangers to him, but their appear-| i, fate of his child. but maybe he bn yothiinz about the boy.” ] Judge's ¢,y z y 11 a the costect of THE HOME i . ¢ f 1" TE ' . i “9 iN ey ws 4 y fy By y ance explained them; last of all i831 was only curious there. He wondered | an ‘entress ok step toward the 3, nienced to A t which in case of death betwee glance shifted to the judge. He bad | i +ho had lived hall keep his place i the tenth end twentieth Mint beard something of those activities bY | misre the judge paused i vy where ¥ are!” commanded | grandson's iife! We'll watch turns all preminme pe means of which Slocum Price had | ‘hat's all this ¢ tad Fan-1 tha 4 you att . . ¥ bim grow into manhood together.” dition to the face of the policy. 1 % i 5 ail ais 3 11 5 : ae ae it » : yOu attempt to leave ve S—————————— $iatt nae an a . . J ’ * | The ijudepe was fected striven to distinguish himself, and he | tresn this room to catl your niggers I'll kill ine ; " ; . A Momeyr to Loam em Ties “ . $ 5 vy a wr Ty % * ’ i smi { en oonten DAT had a certain curiosity respecting the | Are yo re § nothing to you?” | you on its threshold'’ mile of « outen parted Mr. Mortgage man It was immediately satisfied. | j.manded th “Ana hansen it Tr . ancy's lips as his muscular fingers : iemandes } idge hoarsel . i Yancy and Cavendish had : " hand with The judge had reached a degree of | $13 ‘entress, Gatewood's that was evident, and Fentress’ thin ses An wi shabbiness seldom equaled, and but ‘ hers for his mellow, effulgent personality i and the wife were missing. Under the | pull 3 down and leave you I's friend was nd bare! [I'll tell the world the false | ,, well rid of the ; been grateful but he ircumistances Gatewoo pal he should have] friend you've beet : fef you are’ | the toward ised and but his f wife took his you en Gatewood a trifle of thirty thousand | tere he world? The ju eamed | i ibove Fentress: the of up out of his deep dbase Choose! Choose’ he thun and marrie Once | d xillary was at least two | face cast itself in haggard J {ily it woman's father! was feelin he judge's ; A might well bave passed for a common : hide his ce from the world it: pacity, his unexpected ability to de | © t this recognition of Yancy's love pehruary, 1868, and people there are vagabond; and If his dress advertised | wasn't enough for him that his : i and he gleefully smote | (aiking of colebrating o semi.centen the state of his finances, his face ex-| frignds believed his daughter dead: he | haf Mahaffy on the shoulder. ,ia1 . von Ohad Was Se plained his habits. No misconception | knew differently, y was imb in the pres j..i1ed i {4% as the site for the Penn wag possible about either | that knowledge ate into hie soi iti on flea, with no further object than sce Of sy decencie he quite lacked sylvanis railroad tow? In 1852 the ‘May I offer you a glass of liquor?” | coat the husband his place in the | stepped to the door with an intention Pel ar Hi judge looked | fq asked Fentress, breaking the silence. | world, too-—in the end He stepped to the walnut centertable | a vagabond and a where there was a decenter and! derer glasses. Dy a gesture the judge de- | This is nothing to me,” said -| tongue and deed, a noisy tavern hero, clined the invitation Whereat the | tres | but now he saw that he was filling place was chartered as a borough and colonel looked curprised, but not so | Valt!™ cried the judge. “About six | what must have been the measure of CHAPTER XXV. 0G. W. Patton surprised as MabLaffy. There was an ARO the woimnan was seen at her his manhood ! first Burgess other silence. : : The Bubble Bursts I don’t think we ever met before?” | At about the same hour that the DW observed Fentress: There was some | H/ | Judge was hurling threats and insuits thing in the fixed stare his visitor was er - ! at Colonel Fentress, three men were bending upon him that he found dis | : ~~ 1 : ~ bt walting ten miles away at the head of quieting. just why, he could not have | f m= i i I : — / ! the barvou which served to isolate product of eight trees These eight told i - ee = i i Hicks’ cabin Now no one of thepe trees would not occupy over a quarter But that fixed stare of the judge's fy , / three had ever heard of Judge Slocum | . _. _... Mr. Wyant has a new or H. Q. STROHNEI continued No, the man had not i 4 '/ fo 7 77 /4 ; Price; the breath of his fame had chard of 800 trees coming on, and in a changed—he had grown older certain. | LR / 4 Be never blown, however gently, in thelr Il produce an income CENTRE MALL, . . . . . iy. but age had not come ungraceful- | \ % 4 direction, yet they were preparing to y / - i "e that will make him independent. He : ly. he became the glossy broadcloth i] i. \ : > thrust opportunity upon him. To this savs that he paid little attention to his Manufacturer.ef and spotless linen he wore. Here was | Hig): ? v end they were lounging about the | ° apple trees this vear and that the is Dealer a man who could command the goog | opening in the woods where the wi and In . bor bestowed on an acre of apple ni fe ’ horses belonging to Ware and Murrel . things of life, using them with a ra- r ging 1 ell trees is less than would be given to HIGH GRADE tional temperance. The room itself were tled was in harmony with his character: At length the dip of cars became MONUMENTAL wow ’ the cultivation of an acre of any oth it was plain but rich in its appoint. audible in the silence and one of the in all kinds of ar Crop ments at once his library and his of- trio stole down tho path, a matter of | + : . y fifty vards. to a point that overlooked = . fice, wiiile the well-fled cases ranged y 1 a Bola al YO 0 aad | ory at East Columbia. is the ownet of Marbl : | a cocker spaniel that he prized very role am about thy walls showed his tastes to the bayou highly until the dog got had and made be in the main scholarly and intel | 4 NJ : : ment tg ] “It's Murrell all right!” he said In | lectual, . {| short work of some of Mr. Earl's cash. dranite, The pay envelopes had been filled, and Cavendish, delight and the shame of He had only seen him spend himself ' John » a . Ay » hia ; the house AR? mit : Tha made of im | the next meal or the next drink he West] : oy ago The | \ : +3 i he mu i ihe cloth | $ t vy penniiess wan had believed that as he knew him so nies settieoinen WAR nameg om the Chero- | 3 eats~ | yee word “Allatoon neaning high lands of great wealt in 1864 the he had always been, lax and loose of Wyant, a farmer living near Covode, five miles south of Punxsutaw ney, has sold $2256 worth of Northern Spy apples this fall that were the few vears they w P. N. Earl, propristor of a manufac Dent fer 9 90 wy pov “How long have you lived here?’ an eager whisper. “Him and another asked the judge abruptly. Fentress! fellow-—the Hicks girl is rowing tn si tnt ——————— ———" » y : 5 i . 3 seemed tO hesitate; but the judge's them, He glanced from one to the | while the clerk was absent from the ROMLSBURG TAY TAYERE | 3 | Office the dog chewed open and scat. ance, ¢u 0 siat > § other of his companions, who seemed | : gine compelling and insistent, de- | { tered the contents of several envelopes to take firmer hold of themselves un | “Ten years.” “You have known many men of all classes as a lawyer and a planter? sald the judge. Fentress Inclined his head. The judge took a step nearer him. “People have a great trick of coming and going in these western states—all sorts of damned riffrafy words above mere rudeness, Fen- tress, cold and distant, made no reply. “For the past twenty years | have been looking for a man by the name of Gatewood—David Gatewood” Dis eciplined as he was, the colonel start ed violently. “Ever heard of him, Fentress?” demanded the judge with a savage scowl, "What's all this to me?’ The words came with a gasp from Fentress’ twitching lips. The judge looked at Wm moodr and frowning. ) der his eye, protested lightly. thicket. path, the outlaw a step or two la ad- | vance of his friend. They reached the horses and were untying them when the thicket suddenly disgorged the three men; each held a cocked pistol; two of these pistols covered Murrell and the third was leveled at Ware. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Heavy. “Speaking of the holy bonds of mat rimony.” “Speak on. | am prepared to hear the worst.” “Our friend Muffkins says there are times when they seem to him like log chains” § i 3 i i i paper money was chewed into bits. monts of the envelope were found, but presumed the dog ate them John Shissier, a Lancaster painter, when associates reached him. — Having dislocated his shoulder. Ja: baby daughter, at Monessen, and died For pointing a gun at his wife and threatening to choot her, Otto Schrank was sontenced to a vear in jail at AL lentown, but by direction of the court a petition was drawn to put him on probation, so he could work and sup port hie family. g URG, PA. AMOS OR Fu ditran Whoo} ulhot howishry Ww ali imvglon ho ey - from all aondated at very it oo 10 ssommodate he OS to OLD PORT HOTEL EDWARD ROYER RATES ( Proprietor Dag $1.00 Por Looation : Ove mile South of Oentre Hall Accommodations Sretolam. Parties wishing sa an evening given special attention. Mong #och onoas ous on DR. SOL. M. NISSLEY, VETERINARY SUROBON. A graduate of the University of Fran's Office at Palace Livery Stable, Helis. donate, Pa. Both ‘phones, soll Wim.
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