(sht (SentM §rwoflt. ■ —♦ ... BELLEFONTE, PA. Tk*LrgMt,Cheapeit ud BotPpr PUBLISHKII IN CKNTHB COUNTY. A FOOT-RACE FOR MONET. We milk" tho following xtnwt (lm t'l- MfrU In •twllnivul of K'lwar'l Kfhflcttoti'a wr 'l "Tho llouoior Bchool-lmy," now appmrliitr In HT NICHOLA* Jock, tho "lluooiof 8r 8001-toy," li dlocoTon <1 nnoncutnlierod properly In Konlucky tolongtng In MI, k'mnria Oioy. THLO ho Inland* In olUrh Tor * dob! OOMJ HI folhot. HI. mollior hating ilocllnod on offer of ruinpruinloo from Tlnkhom. Ofay'* lawvar, than* Utter ore dieruMlnK the rnaaon of her refuanl They've got wind of something," said Mr. Tinkhain to Mr. (dray, "or else they are waiting for you to resume payment, —or else the widow's got money from somewhere for tier present necessities." "I don't know what hope they can have of getting money out of me," said Gray, with a laugh. "I've tangled everything up, so that Heal cnn't liud a thing to levy on. I have but one piece of property exposed, und that's not in this State." "Where is it?" asked Tinkham. "It's in Kentucky, live miles back of Port William. I took it last week in a trade, and I haven't yet made up my mind what to do with it." "That's the very thing," suid Tink ham, with his little face drawn to a poiut, —"the very thing. Mrs. Dud ley's son came home from Port Wil liam yesterday, where he has been at school. They've heard of that lund, I'm afraid; for Mrs. Dudley is very positive that she will not sell the claim at any price." "I'll make a mortgage to my brother on that land, and send it otf from the mail-boat as I go down to-ruorrow," said Gray. "That'll be too late," said Tinkham. "Beal will have his judgment recorded as soon as the packet gets there. You'd better go by the packet, get off, and see the mortgage recorded yourself, and then take the mail-boat." To this, Ciray agreed, and the next day, when Jack went on board the Jiacket "Swiftsure," he found Mr. Francis Gray going aboard also. Mr. Heal had warned Jack that he must not let anybody from the packet get to the clerk's office ahead of him, — that the first paper deposited for re cord would take the laud. Jack won dered why Mr, Francis Gray was aboard the packet, which went no far ther than Madison, while Mr. Gray's home was in Louisville. He soon guessed, however, that Gray meant to land at Port William, and so to head him off. Jack looked at Mr. Gray's form, made plump by good feeding, aud felt safe. Ite couldn't be very dangerous in a foot race. Jack re flected with much hopefulness that no boy in school could catch hi in in a straight away run when he was fox. He would certainly leave the some what puffy Mr. Francis Gray behind. Hut in the hour's run down the river, including two landings at Mia uit's and Crag's, Jack had time to re member that Francis Gray was a cun ning man, and might bead him off by some trick or other. A vague fear took possession of him, and he resolved to be first off the boat liefore any pre text could be invented to stop him. Meantime, Francis Gray had looked at .Jack's lithe legs with apprehension. "I can never Ileal that boy," he hud reflected. "My running days are over." Fiuding among the deck passengers a young fellow who looked as though he needed money, Gray approached him with this question: "Do you belong in Port William, young man?" "I don't belong nowhere else, I reckon," answered the seedy fellow, witb shuffling impudence. "Do you know where the county clerk's office is?" asked Mr. Gray. "Yes, and the market-house. I can show you the way to the jail, too, if you want to know, hut I s'posc you've been there mauy a time," laughed the "wharf-rat." Gray was irritated at this rudeness, but he swallowed his anger. "Would you like to make five dollar* ?" "Nowyou'retalkin'interest in'. Why didn't you begin at that eend of the subjick? I'd like to make five dol lars as well as the next feller, provided it isn't to be made by too milch awful hard work." "Can you run well ?" "If they's money at t'other eend of the race I can run like sixty feranpell. 'Taint my common gait, howsumever." "If you'll take this paper," said Gray, "and get it to the county clerk's office before anybody else gets there from this boat, I'll give you five dol lars." "Honor bright?" asked the chap, taking the paper, drawing a long breath, and locking as though he had discoverer! a gold mine. "Honor bright," answered Gray. "You must jump off first of all, for there's a boy aboard that will lieat you if he can. No pay if you don't win." "Which is the one that'll run ag'in' me?" asked the long-legged fellow. Gray descrilied Jack, and told the young man to go out forward and he would see bim. Gray was not willing to be seen with the "wharf-rat," lest suspicions should lie awnkcued in Jack Hudley's mind. Hut after the shabby VMpng man had gone forward and looked at Jack, he came back with a doubtful air. "That's Hoosier Jack, as we used to call him," said the shabby young man. "He atf* two more used to row a boat acrost the river every day to go to ole Niles's school. He's a hnrd one to heat, —they sny he used to lay tho wholo school out on prisoners' base, and that he could leave'em all behind ou fox." "You think you can't do it, then?" asked Gray. "Gimme a little start and I reckon I'll fetch it. It's up-hill part of tho wuy am! he may lose his wind, tor it's a good half-mile. You must make a row with him at the gang plank, cr do soincthin' to kinder hold him hack. Tho wind's down stream to-day, and the boat's shore to swing in a little alt. I'll jump for it und you keep hint back." To this, Gray assented. As the shabby young fellow bad predicted, the boat did swing around in the wind, ami have some trouble in bringing her bow to the wharf-boat. The captain stood on the hurricane deck calling tu the pilot to "back her," "go ahead on her," "go ahead on yer labberd," und "back on yer stabberd." Now, just as the captain was backing the starboard wheel und going ahead on bis larboard, so as to bring the boat around right, Mr. Gray turned on Jack. "What ore you treading on my toes for, you impudent young rascal ?" be broke out. Jack colored and was about to reply sharply, when be caught sight of the shabby young fellow, who ju-t then leaped from the gunwale of the boat amidships and barely reached the wharf. Jack guessed why Gray bad tried to irritate him, —be saw that the well-known "wharf-rat" was to be bis competitor. Hut what could be do? The wind held the how of the boat out, the gang-plank which had been pushed out ready to reach the wharf boat was still firmly grasped by the deck-luinds, and the farther end of it was six feet from the wharf, and much above it. It would be ten miuutea before any otic could leave tho boat in the regular way. There was only one chance to defeat the rascally Gray. Jack con cluded to take it. He ran out upon the plank amidst the harsh crio* of the deck-hands, who tried to stop bim, and the oaths of the mate, who thundered nt him, with the stern order of the captain from the upper deck, who called out to bim to go back. Hut, luckily, the steady pulling ahead of the larboard engine, and the backing of the starboard, began jut then to bring the boat around, the plank sank down a little uuder Jack's weight, and Jack made the hap to the wharf, hearing the confused cries, ! orders, oaths, and shouts from behind I him, as he pushed through the crowd. "Stop that thief!" cried Francis Gray to the people on the wharf boat, but in vain. Jack glided swiftly through the people, and got on shore liefore anybody could check him. He charged up the bill after the shabby ; young fellow, who had a decided lead, while some of the men on the wharf boat pursued them both, uncertain which was the thief. Such another pell-mell race Fort William bad never seen. Windows flew up and heads went out. Small boys joined the pur suing crowd, mid dog* barked indis criminately nud uncertainly at the heels of everybody. There were cries of "Hurrah for I-smg Hen!" and "Hurrah tor Hoosier Jack!" Some of Jack's old school-mate* essayed to stop liirn to find out what it was all about, but he would not relax a muscle, and be hail no time to answer any ques tion*. He saw the faces of the p*>plo dimly; be heard the crowd crying after bim, "Slop, thiefhe caught a glimpse of his old teacher Mr. Niles, regarding him with curiosity as he darted by ; be saw nn anxious look in Judge Kane's face as lie passed bim on a street corner. Hut Jack held his eyes on lying Hen, whom ho pursued us a dog does a fox. He bad steadily gained 011 the fellow, but Hen bad too much the start, ami, unless he should give out, there would lie little chance tor Jack to overtake him. (>e think* quickly in such moments. Jack re membered that there wore two ways of reaching the county clerk's office. To , keep tho street around the block was the natural way, —to lake un alley through the square was neither longer 1 nor shorter. Hut by running down the alley be would deprive lying Hen I of the spur of seeing bis pursuer, and I lie might even make bim think that Jack bad given out. Jack bad played this trick when playing bound and fox, and at any rate tie would by this turn shake off the crowd, 80 into the | alley lie darted, ami the liewildered pursuers kept on crying "stop thiel" utter lying lien, whose reputation was none of the beat. Somebody abend tried to catch the shabby young fellow, and this forced Hen to make a slight ! curve, which gave Jack the advantage, so that ju*l a* Hen neared the office, Jack rounded a corner out of nn alley, and entered ahead of him, dashed up to the clerk's desk and deposited the judgment. j "For record," he gasped. 'I he next instant the shabby young fellow pushed forward the mortgage. "Mine first !"cried Long Hen. "I'll take yours when I gel this en tered," said the clerk, quietly, as be came a public officer. "I got here first," said lying Hen. Hut the clerk looked at the clock | mid entered the date on the back of ; Jack's paper, putting "one o'clock and eighteen minutes" after the dale. Then be wrote "oue o'clock and nineteen minutes'' on the paper which Long Hen handed him. The office was soon crowded with people discussing the re sult of tbo race, uud a part of them were even now in favor of seizing one or the other of the runners for a theft, which some said bad been committed on the packet, and others declared was committed on the wharf-boat. Fran cis (tray came in, and could not con ceal his chagrin. "I meant to do the fair tiling by you," ho said to .lack, severely, "but now you'll never get a cent out of me." "I'd rather have the law on men like you, than have a thousand of your sort of fair promises," said .lack. "I've a mind to strike, you," said Gray. "The Kentucky law is hard on a man who strikes a minor," said Judge Kane, who had entered at that mo ment. Mr. Niles came in to learn what was the matter, and Judge Kane, alter listening quietly to the talk of the p< >• pie, until the excitement subsided, took Jack over to his house, whence the hoy walked home that evening, full of hope fulness. Gray's land realized M much as Mr. Real expected, and Jack studied I.utin hard, all summer, so as to get as tar ahead as possible by the time school should begin in the autumn. Murrain of The Humun Hotly. 1-oj.nl.r M -ntlily. While the gastric juice has a mild, blaml, sweetish taste it possesses tin power of di-solving the hardest food that cau he swallowed. It has no in tlucnee whatever on the soft ami deli cate lilires of the living stomueh, nor upou the living hand, hut at the mo ment of death it begins to eat them away with the power of the strongest acids. There is dust <>n the sen, on land, in the valley, aiul on the mountain top; there is dust always and every where ; the atmosphere is full of it ; it penetrates the noisome dungeon, ami visits the dce|>est, darkest caves of the mrth ; bo palace doors can shut it out, no drawers so secret as to escape its presence : every breath of wind dashes it upon the open eye, yet the eye is not blinded, because under the eye lid there is incessantly emptying itself a fountain of the blandest tluid in na ture, which spreads itself over the sur face of the eye at every winking and washes every atom awav. Rut this liquid, so mild and so well adup ted to the eye, itself has some acridity, which under circumstances, becomes so decided as to Ire scalding to the skin, and would rot away the eye-lids, were it not that along the edge of them are little oil manufactories, which spread I over their surface a coating as imjs-r -vious to the liquids necessary for keep ing the eye lids clean as the In-st var nish is impervious to water. The breath which leaves the lungs lias been so perfectly divested of us life-giving properties, that torehreathe it unmixed with other air the moment it escape* from the mouth, would cause immediate death by suffocation, and while it it hovered above us more or less destructive influence over health and life would Ire occasioned. Rut it is made of a nature so much lighter than the common air that the instant it escape* the lip* and nostrils it ascends to the higher regions above the breathing jniint, there to lie recti fied, renovated, and sent hack again, replete with purity and life. How rapidly it ascends is fully exhibited every I'rosty morning. Rut foul and deadly as the expired air is, Nature, wisely economical in all her work* and way*, turn* it to good account it* outward passage through the organs of the voice mak ing of it the whisper* of love, the soft est words of affection, the tender tones of human sympathy, the sweetest strains of ravishing music, the js rsua sive eloquence of the finished orator. If a well made man be extended on the ground, his arm* at right angles with the body, a circle making the navel the centre will just take in the head, the finger ends and the feet. The distance from ton to toe, is pre cisely the same as that between the tips of the fingers when the arms are extended. The length of the hotly is just six times the length of the font, while the distance from the edge of the | hair on the forehead to the edge of the 1 chin is one-tenth the length of the whole structure. Of the sixty-two primary element* in nature, only eighteen are known in the human body, and of these seven are inetalic. Iron is found in the Idood phosphorus in the brain, limestone in the bile, lime in the hones and dust and ashes in all. Not only these eighteen human element*, hut the whole sixfy-two of which the universe is made, have their essential basis in the four substances of oxygen hydro gen, nitrogen and carbon, represent- I ing the more familiar names of fire, water saltpetre and charcoal And such is inan.the lord of earth ! —a spark of fire, a drop of water, a grain of pow ( der, an atom of charcoal. A LITTLE girl read a composition before the minister. The subject was n "cow." Bhe wove in this compli mentary sentence: "A cow is the most useful animal in the world ex cept religion." A SYRACUSE man made a bet of |5O that he could find six women in that city who would marry him, and he won it. Now he's ready to give the Bi>o to anybody who will show him a way to get out of six engagements. — I JJotion rout. "HOI.II THK PORT." TIIK STORV or Til AT r A Hill'* MESSAGE AS Till.ll lIV TIIK HERO lIIHSEI.r. C >rr,-*|MlUD*ne Dn MUIIIM (Iowa) SUA, Btfiitrr. I notice n number of newspapers giving, or attempting to give,a correct statement of the circumstance* under which our lamented friend nod broth er, Judge J. W. MeKetizie performed the signal act of heroism at Alntoonn, none of which exactly coincide with ! a detailed statement of the cose, u* j given to me by the "hero" himself. I | had been cspeciallv intimate with him | lor many vein*. Not one word ever | fallen from his lip* relative to this matter to my knowledge. One day, learning incidentally from another of his connection with "Hold the Fort, lor I am Coining," I took occasion ,-oon to lick 11iin about it. lie seemed at first reluctant to tell me, hut I pressed him, and this is substantially his own account of it. Alter describ ing the situation of the armies at Ala toona and K'-nesuw lie said : "General Sherman's signul corjm had been trying to send dispatches from Ketiesaw to General Corse, We could read the dispatches with our tclecopen, hut could not receive or answer them buck, because the rebel shot* were so thick. The rebels had also a lot of sharp-hooter* posted watching our squad, and every time a man would show himself they would pick him otf. At this time General Corse came up and said, addressing the signal corps : 'Who i* in command here?' Our cap lain was absent, and I was in charge of the squad, and '1 replied, 'I am sir.' The general then asked it a message could la-sent to General Sherman in answer to his 'To hold the fort tor lo was coming,' just read. I replied 'that it could he if it wa absolutely necessary.' General Corse then • wrote out the message and ban ' ded it to toe. It read as follow*: "'To GENERAL SHERMAN: lam 1 short a check-bone and one car, hut cau whip hell out of tln-rn yet. GEN. Colts E.' "I took it and the signal flag and called for a volunteer from my little squad. No man resjionded. I then ! offered the flagstaff to each man and a-ked him if lie would Volunteer and each declined. I then thought I would detail one, hut my brother Tom was in tin- squad, and the thought struck me if I detailed another than him they would say at oure 'partiality.' If I | detailed him and he was shot I could never forgive royseif, and it *eck of oyatera. Order a dozen each." "Never mind," hlamlly rcpled the genial doorkeeper, "I'm doing thia;" and indue time the |>cck waa acrrcd and promptly dispatched, A few daya alterward they happen ed to he in the nine ncightxirhood and the doorkeejwr'a frieiid suggested oya tera, and the suggestion Waa forthwith acted upon. Brownlow heing hungry, intimated that he would try hia ate wed. The mountaineer had not forgotten hia leaaoti of a few day* before, and called out, "Waiter! one peck of atew ed." The waiter looked at the man with amazement, and turned to the Door kee|>er inquiringly. Brownlow made no sign. Not a muacle of hi* face be trayed the laughter that wa almoat choking him within, lie aimply aaid, "YQU heard the gentleman'* order, 1 believe—a peek slewed. Be quick about it; I'm hungry." The waiter anw the point and went of grinning from ear to ear. The firat thing he brought was a pound of but ter and a tin box containing ten pounda of crackera. "Whal'a thia for?" gasped the coun tryman. ' That'a to go with the atew," said Brownlow; "the ruatom ia to furnish ten crackera with each oyster," and with this he chipped off a hlock of but ter, poised it dexternualy on a crack er, and proceeded leisurely to munch it. The countryman, not to be out done, followed hia example. Then the stew came uj>. It took two largo soup tureens to hold it. Hrnwnlow passed one to hit* friend, filled Ida ladle full of oysters, und car ril it to hi* ruoutli an though eating out of ooup tureens with ladles for spoons had been his daily habit for year*. IIi friend of course did like* wise. In the meantirun the waiters had (fathered in a knot and were heartily enjoying the spectacle. Hut not a ! quiver was to he seen on the impertur i able countenance of the Doorkeeper. I When they had eaten enough the ! bill was culled for. It was 82.H0. The j countryman paid it without a murmur. When they got outside he said : "Iok i here, Brown Tow, how do they serve roast he with the thief. He then reached under the bed and inking hold of the object concealed there un ceremoniously sneaked out —not a man -—but a well-dressed woman. Find ing a woman uuder hi# bed wa# a find wholly unexpected, and Mr. Bradley was thunderstruck. Here wan a pre dicament! Mr. U., still retaining hi# hold ujM.n hia captive, marched her aero## the room to the bell-pull, and sounded an alarm. The womau, seeing that she had been thwarted in her lit tle game, coolly said to hi in : "When they come, tell them you want a gln-s ol water." Mr. Bradley replied: "I ain going to tell them to baud you over to the police." lu response to the call the proprie tor of the hotel and one of the clerks came up, and found the thief still in the clutches of Mr. Bradley, who was clear-beaded enough not to let go of her and thus give her any chance, by whatever unexja-cted device on her part to compromise him in the a*pect of the situation. As soon as they came into the room, the quick-witted woman undertook to turn the taldes against her captor"by saying : "We had a lit tle flirtation at the table, and this gen tleman gave me a note, asking me to come to hi# room." Mr. Bradley answered "I"11 give you 8100 if you can show the note," "Ob, I've lost it," she cooly answer ed. "Hand her over to the police," said Mr. Bradley, ami this ended the matter so far as the hotel was concerned. It ap|war# that the woman register ed at the Park Central day before yesterday, under the name of "Mary Palmer," but at the court thi# morn ing she gave the name of "Mary Allen" She is represented a# being about twenty-five year# of age, with an unat tractive face, and is quite small, not weighing but about ninety pounds. She refused to say where she came from or to give any clue to her past history. It WM found that the key of the room she occupied unlocked both, of the doors of the two room# she had entered. A number of skeleton and false key# were found in her possession, showing that she is evidently a hotel thief. The police also have informa tion of the fact that she was formerly the mistress of a well-known thief. Judging by the coolness with which she acted it is evident that she is an old hand at the business. TOPNOODY made up hi* mind that 1 he was not going to be boused any longer ly hi* wife, *o when he went home at noon be called out, imperious ly, "Mr*. Topnoody! Mr*. Topnoody I" Sir*. T. came out of the kitchen with a drop of sweat on the end of her noae, a dish-rag tied round her head a roll ing-pin iu her hand. "Well, *ir" the *aid, "whal'll you hare?" Topnoody daggered, but braced up. "Mm, Top noody, I want you to understand, madam," and he tapped hit breast dramatically, "I am the engineer of tbia establishment." "Ob, you are, I are you ? Well, Topnoody, I want you to understand that i, and she looked dangerous, "I aoi the boiler that will blow up and sling the engi neer over into the next county. Do you hear the Meant neaping, Topnoo dy ?" Toopnoody heard it and be meekly inquired if there waa any a si)*tfmce lie ctuld render in the houso work. the Black l!r;ir' ( unuiiig. In The Century for March, ('liarliw (). Ward baa an entertaining illu-ira ted article on "The Bia-*.es-<-,, the retire of bnnior ; sit ail event* bin action* point that way, and there is no doubt that he i extremely cunning and observing. I once had an Kng lisb friend visiting tne, who played the flute, lie vvsi- in the habit of march ing up and down, while playing, ne.ir a tame bear I bad at the time. The | bear boil a piece of stick about two feet long, which he tossed about for amusenn :st. After it time, lie came to handle the stick vcrv much a> inv friend did hi-flute. Ibis annoyed inv MDsilivc friend, aiol in revenge be teased the bear with uncouth uois<--. Bruin snilh-d ami whined, and wailed his opportunity for delivering a tre mendous blow with his paw at bis enemy, whose tall bat was knocked completely over bis eye., jj.. c-oarwd Ixing scalped bv dropping Hat and rolling out of the reach of the la-ar. This la-ar sp--nt much of his time in the tree to which In- wa- chained, arid when climbing usually got bis chain twisted ovi r and under the bruuehes in a most intricate manner, but never failed to take out every turn a- be de scended. A friend who owned a tame la-ar told me thai, fur a long time, b • could not account fur the mysterious way in which the poultry disappeared. Disserving, at different times, a good many feathers around Bruin's pole, he began to suspect that the bear was the culprit. < lose watching confirmed his suspicion*. When Bruin tic tight he wa unobserved, he would seize any unfortunate ben or chicken within his reach and devour it : but if any one approached before he could complete the local, he would sit ujsm his prev until the danger of discovery had passed. He was iM-trawsi, at last, bv the cackling of an oid lu-n, that he hail failed to silence. Singular !,<>%* of foice. U" 1 C hmltt tVh !'•< r>s. William ii. l-'iu-itnrnons, of Wot Chewier, who met with such a singular accident lo his voice lust week by striking his thumb against the larnvx while in the act of rubbing his neck with his hand just alter singing a K>lO at the West Chester Slate Normal School, i slowly recovering, hut is still unable to use his voice in conver sation, and communicatee altogether by signs and writing, lie slates that Ins thumb only struck the larnyx in a slight manner, hut as it did so it sent a sting through his throat like that ot a tree, and lroin lhat instant he lost liia voice and has been unable jet to recover it. His physician ha strictly warned him against making any attempt to sj* ak lor several weeks yet to come, when he exjK-cts that the organs that arc now inflamed and swollen will again return to their natural condition, and he will thoroughly recover. The danger roost feared from an effort to speak is that it will cause au uneven growth of the glands of the throat and thereby produce a screechy voice that would forever cling to him. Mr. Fiti simmon's friends are very anxious to see him perfectly recover, as he has heretofore possessed one of the finest baritone voices to be found ill this sec tion, and had cultivated it to a high degree. The Secret of t.rniu*. "They talk," said Tom Mart-liall to an intimate friend, "of mv astonishing I urn la of eloquence, and, doubtless imagine it ia my genius bubbling over. It ia nothing of the sort. I'll tell you how I do it: "I select a aubject, and aludy it from the ground up. When I have mas tered it fully, I write a speech 011 it. ; Then I take a walk, and come back I ami revise and correct. In a few daya | I aubject it to another pruning, and ; then recopv it. Next I add the finish ; iug touchee, round it off with graceful > tierioda, and commit it to memory. Then I apeak it in the fielda, in ray father'# lawu and before my mirror, until gesture and delivery arc perfect. It aometimea take* me aix weeka or two month* to get up a apeocb. When I have one prepared, I eotne to town. I generally aelect a court day, when there ia aure to be a crowd. 1 ain called on for a apeerh and am per mitted to aelect my own aubject. I apeak my piece. It astonishes the peo ple, as I intended it ahould, and they go away marvelling at my power of oratory. They call it genius, but it ia the hardest kind of work." A BOY who had been watching through a keyhole the antics of a couple of lovers, ran down into the kitchen to announce his discovery to his mother. "Oh, it's such fun !" be exclaimed. "What's auch fun f asked the old lady. "Why to see sister Mollie and Mr. Fippe play lunatiq I asylum."