Site (Centre jDrmmii.
BELL K FONT E, PA.
Tho Minchcvoua Offspring.
WHAT lII'. THINKS AIIOUT OLD HOL
DIBRS.
"Hay, come in here while I givoyou
u piece of advice," said tho grocery
man to the had boy, ns tho youth on*
tered the grocery ono cold morning,
svith an old veteran from the Soldiers'
Home, who went u|> to tho coal stove
nnd rubbed his hand?, and turning to
to the old veteran tho groceryman nil
<led, "No, sir, you can't have any plug
tobacco, unless you have tho money to
plunk right down ou tho counter, and
.1 had rather you wouldn't come here
1o trade anyway, because you look
hard, and smell frowy, and my cus
tomers don't like to mix with you."
The old veteran warmed his hands and
vent out, with a tear in his eye, and
tbe grocery man took the bail boy in
to the back end of the store, and said,
""You want to let those old soldiers
aloue. Your pa was in here last night
and lie said be was ashamed of you.
lie said he and your ma were out
t iding, nnd be saw you walking up to
ward the Home with soldiers on each
•side of you, holding on your arms, and
your pa thinks they were drunk. Now
you ought to be ashamed. 1. ! those
old soldiers aloue. They are a had :
lot," and the groccryninn acted as
though he had been the means of sav
ing the boy from a terrible fate. The
ijoy was so mad he c .uldn't s|>cak, for
■a minute, and then he .-aid :
"You and pa are a pretty crowd to
co hack on the soldiers, ain't you ?
How long is it since you were hump
ing yourselves around this town trying
to hire a substitute to go to war for
you ? Then u soldier who volunteer
ed was the noblest work f God, and
you helped pa-s resolutions to the ef- 1
feet that the country owed a debt of j
gratitude to them that never could he j
paid. Every dollar that pa has got
sucept what he wou playing poker he
fore he reformed, he got out of sol
<diera, w hen he was sutler of a regiment.
3".verv mouthful I cat now is at the
price of a soldier's wages, who spent
iiis money with pa for brandy peaches
and sardines, i'a wasn't ashamed of
soldiers then, when they got drunk on
brandy peaches he .-old ihein, and at
that time a soldier would have hi en
welcome to u plug of tobacco out of
your store, and now you turn an old
wounded veteran out door- Ik cause be
hasn't got five cents to huv u plug of
} ohacco."
"There, there," said the groceryman. i
lieeoniing n*ham<d of himself. "You 1
don't understand your pa's situation
or mine, you see —"
"Yw*. 1 .•we,"' said the bad bov, "1
see it all just as plain as can lw, and it
is ray turn to talk, and f am going to
talk. The time is passed wh< n vou
need the.soldier. \Y hen you wanted him I
to stand between you amiihe i.nV'uet■
of the enemies, he was a thoroughbred,
an I you smiled when he came in (he i
store, and asked him to have a cigar.
When he was wounded you hustled I
around and got together sanitary
stores, such as sauerkrout and playing
cards, and sent them to him by the
fastest express, and you prayed for '
it m, and when he had whipped th> i
entity you welcomes) him home with
open arms, and said there was nothing
too good for him ever after. !tc*h<>uid
always be remembered, his child run
should be cared for and educated, and
all that. Now he is old. and hischil-1
dren havs died or grown up and gone
West, and you do not welcome him j
Any more. He cornes in here on his '
wooden log, ami all you think of is
whether he ha* got any of his pension
money left. His old eyes are -o weak
be cannot sec the sneer with which |
your drafted patriot, who sent a sub
> itute to war, looks at him as he asks
vou for a plug of tobacco anil agree*
to pay for it when ho draws his next j
pension, nnd lie goes out with a pain ,
in his great big heart, such a you will 1
never feel unless you have some cml
lish spoil on your hands. Bah ! You
patriots make me tired.''
"You are pretty hard on us," and
the groceryman acted hurt. "The
government paid the soldiers, and gives
tkcrti pensions, and nil that, and they
eight to know belter than to go ami i
drunk."
"Pail them." said the had boy in- 1
digimntly, "What i* four dollars a '
month pension to a man who has lost
iai* arm, or who has Imllet holes nil
sjverbim ? If a train runs over a man's
leg, the railroad is in luck if it does
not have to pay ten thousand dollars.
What does the soldier get? He geU
left half the time. I nm opposed to
people getting drunk, but as long as pa
' *ad some of the best people in town
w get drunk when they feel like it, why
is it worse for tin old soldier, who ho*
no other way to have fori and feel rich,:
mi get drunk. If you had to live at '
the f'oldiers' Home, and work on the
road or do farm work, for your lionrd,
y/m would get ns full n- n goose every
lime you came to town. Outside of
(he Home grounds tho old soldier
feels free. He looks at the bright
sunshine, inhales Ood'a free air, walks
tipright towards town, and just as his
old wound begins to ache, he cc a
'. tttr sign, and instead of the words,
'awn that is born of woman is of few
days and full of misery,' coming to his
mind, be thinks of tho word* of the
constitution, 'all men are bom five and
equal, euduwe 1 with certain inaliena
ble rights, among which are life, liber
ty ami tho pursuit of happiness,' ami
lie goes in ami orders a schooner of
, beer, liko n white man. The saloon is
tho only place on (lod's green earth
where the old wounded veteran is free
and equal, and lie mike- tho most of
it. \\ hen he gets full, he is tho prey
of foolish boys, who have fun jeering
him, und they snowball him, ami HUV,
'look at the old drunkard.' It he lays
down on the railroad track ami is kill
ed by the cars, you read in the paper
of'another veteran killed.' Yourouly
anxiety is as to whether he is the same
cuss you trusted for the tobacco last
summer, and the soldier is buried
without a tear. Now, i have had it
drove into me by tho conversation of
people older than me, by newspapers,
nnd by resolutions that have been
passed beforo I was born, that a sol
dier is one of the salt of the earth.
You may gay (he idea is outlawed,aud
that when yon have got through hav
ing use for a soldier thai he becomes a
thing unworthy to lie recognized, hut
as long as I live a man who fought to
save his country can have a share of
what I have got, nyd I will help bim
i home when lie is full id' benzine, and
! whip any h .y that throws snowballs
, at him, or calls him mimes, if you ami
: pa and the whole gang g- - had; on
j me, and don't you forget it. The laded
i blue overcoat of the veteran, lo >k- b< t
ter to me, if I ant had, than the swal
low-tail coat of the dude, the diamonds
j of the millionaire, or the sneers of the
dni md fools who have no souls. You
lean all cln-s me with barn burners,
and cruel sons of rich people who have
| no hearts, hut the -mile of pleasure on
! the face of an old veteran when I
-p ak kindly it bim, ami the tear ol
joy that comes from the broken heart
ami plows it- way down the furmw*
of hi* cheek, a- he searcln* to hi
! pocket for a rrd baminoa band!, r
chief, makes no- feel as th ugh I own
'■ ed a brewery."
"Hay, hold on, Hennery," -aid the
groceryman, a i his ey. - became dim.
j "You gi out ami call that old voter
i an back and tell him he i a fiend of
! mine. By gum, I never bit so much
| like a private in my life. Y.u are
tight. The old soldier- are not to
j blame fur taking a little to . much
benzine, utt.l if we had no h ,u- ot
our own and were looked ujt-.ii by i
lot of people hs though they thought
it wit- time we died and were got out
of the way, we would get Idling drunk,
and paint the town red. Way, when
tlic-o same soldiers enliste-', ami wi re
quartered in town, or were passing
through on th< ir way to the front, w
I u-eil to think .t was darned smart
when they got on u tear and made i
| thing howl, and would have lynched
a policeman that tried to arrest the
hoys. I had forgot that these wire
j the • irne boys, these old fellows that
go limping around. Hcunery, you
have learned me a lesoi, and I -hall
he proud hereafter to see you kind t>. an
old soldier, two it he is drunk, and if
' your |mi says any more about your
: bringing disgrace on your I'.trnilv 1 v
being *t < n with old -oldier*, i will hit
bim iti the iar aud twit him of Inting a
-nth r in the army. '
"\Vell. that's all right." -aid the had
, b .y, as he started logo. "Uut doti'i
you evi r act -u—v again whin an old
soldier comes in here to get w arm, ami
if he want- a plug of i iliac . ami ha.-n't
'got the money to par for it. let him
■ have it just it- (hough be owned a
j block of buildings, mill if ho forgets
to pay h-r it, [ will bring in eml or
■aw wood for you to pay for if,'' and
Hennery went out whistling, "We'll
all get blind drttnk when Johnny
come* marching home, 1 ' and then he
explained Umt the song was very |s.p
' ular a few y nrs ago, when people
were so glad to have the soldiers come J
that ome of tho best citizen* got
drunk. —/VrttV .Sun.
The Aftor Midnight Elbow Dig.
It was after miduight, write* Bill
Arp in the Atlanta Gnutffution.
About tho time a deep sltep fallcth I
upon a man, hut not upon a womrn,
for Mrs. Arp's ear- are always awake
it em* to me. I felt a gentle dig in my
-ide from an elliow, nnd a whispered
voice said: "William, William, don't
you hear that?" "What ia it V said i
I. "Somebody is in the front piazza," >.
•aid she. "Don't you hear him rock
ing in the. rocking chair ?" And sure j
enough I did. The chair would rock
awhile, nnd then stop, and then rock
again. "I* lite gun loaded ?" she said.
"They are robbers, but don't *hoo,
don't make a noise, can't you peep out
of the window ? Mercy on us, what
do, they want to rob us for. Maybe
they come to steal one of the children.
Slip in the little room and see if C'ail
lis in iiis bed. Dnii't stumble over a
chair ; maybe somebody is under the
bed." Tho rocker took a new start,
and I had another dig in my side. 'lt
is tho wind," said I. "No, it is not,"
aid she. "There is no wind ; the win
dow in up and the curtain don't move.
They are rohlicni, I tell you. Hadn't
you better give them some mouey and
tell them to go ?" "I havn't any mon
ey," said I. "It is all gone." "Jxzrd
have mercy on us," she said. "Will-
iam, get your gun and be ready."
I giutly slipped out of bed and tip
toed to the window and enutiotmly
r peeped out, and there was the pointer
' puppy sitting straight up in my wife's
rocking chair, and ever and anon he
'. would lean forward and hackwaril.nud
put it in motion. I whispered to Mrs.
Arp to come and see the fore-legged
rubber, which she did, and in due lime
nil was calm and serene.
Lust night there was another sensa
tion in the back piazza, and it was
sure enough feet this time, for they
1 mailo a racket on the floor aud moved
around lively and the elbow digs in
;my side came thick aud fast. It took
: iiic a minute to get fairly nwnke, and
after listening awhile, I exclaimed in
| audible language. "Goats, Curl's
goats," and I gathered a broom and
mauled 'em down the hack stairs. "I
I told you, my dear," said 1, "that these
! goats would give ih trouble ; but I can
stand it if you can.
f'.irl aud .Ji-s-i'- had been begging
for goats a good while, and I Was hos
tile, very hostile to goals, for I knew
how much devilment they would <1 > ;
hut the little ft I low slippi I up on the
weak side oft heir mother, and --he final
ly hinted that children w> re children,
that oi l people hud-thcir dotage and
children had tin i r goat age and that
her little brother had goats nn-1 so tl.i
goals wi re bought ami Ralph worked
two day* making a wagon an ! con
trived game harm--* out of bridle-rein*
and plow lines and it took all hands to
gtar them up aud at the hist crack of
the whip they bounced three feet in
the air and kept on bouncing and
jerked * "sirl a rod and got lo<>-<- and
run away and turned the wagon up
side down and they kept on leaping
ami jumpimg until they got all the
haruess broken tip and got awmv. li
a
.
cd until we cried, but the little chaje
have reorganized on a more substantial
b.ii*, an I there i< another exhibition
to coroo off rooil.
Wit and Humor.
Whet in a iromei i cf!*d 'Yufioaity''
toam.n .• grandiloquently tnigniued
into the "spirit of inquiry."
'Hear Susie," wrote > Newport inur-r
tunn to hi* f il, "the n>-w stove jut up
in nor office i* nam-- I 'Hone.' 11.,w I
will hog it on re*l cold d*y. '
Piper napkin* are rid ten for a rent
'in Berlin. Kvidentiy the fsiirhinet.
Act II t"y ne |)ie tiling* to w | r I heir
m > ith* on. and not to |ool< i with tea
der, solicitou* adioir.ition. a* it the bat'
il in thii country.
••Won't von try thi* gla*a ?" a.ked hrr
escort, banding her in* lorgnette, iia*
tify covering the suspicion* looking <i.
jeel with her bandkereheif. he placed
't to bet lip*. t">k a 1 --ig pull and then
handed it back in great disgust, "tying:
'Why there am I a drop in il '
A scientific journal explain-, "why *
rnan can't fly. ' In a er. at n.iny r o.es
il l* hecue he is fial.' rd by the min
ion* of the aw I. fore tie c.iri escape
with lbs fun I- of lha hank lot there
j aro time*' bom ver, when lie •ucareda
t in fly log.
When Hermann no lot in Texv* he J
; .lid hi* card trick*, and then tried
in vain to Hod .me one (■> j lay j okrr
with. I'-ie man *ai I to htm, "If I knew
much about evrds a* you do, 1 1
wouldn't wat time in the show bni
ne**: I would obtain a residence in the
State and run for the Trxz* Legula
ture."
The language of flowers offers a *weet |
and plea*ant rjcthod of letting a fellow I
down easy. A yrung l'liiladelphian
had a bouqUrt made for hi* charmer
which conveyed th-> sentiment, "1 love
1 you—be niv bride!" It is believed
j that the nosegay rcache.l it* addreM,
i dre, and it w„a accurately inteprated
by the ln<ly, as thi* msrning she called
at the same store and asked the tluriats
to rnrke her a bouquet meaning, "No.
you mutton head idiot.
The youth ot to day whoda thinking
about entering upon some profession
that will moat rapidly led lo fame and
fortune must be greatly perplexed
whether to decide in favor of becoming
a prize (lighter, a bv-e I.ail pitcher or n
champion rower. And there is danger
that wh:l thus hesitating ha may be
persuaded to throw hi* talents away on
tho law, mml seine or literature, aud he*
come a mere nobody
A certain country clergyman used to
tell a good story of bis going to a new
parish and asking a psmboner what
his occupation wa "I am a village
rat catcher," tho man replied "aud
what are you ?" Tho clergyman an
vwcred that he was the village parsoo,
whereupon the rat catcher was good
enough to oh err* thai ha supposed
"we mud all got a llvlhg somehow.
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H> WE
! Iollj.Hi lo . 'mi anil sm> UI *plco4M llnv of
! -TOOTH HIttSIIES !-
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We have just received I
Direct From tho Importer/ j
And which we arc offering VilliV LOW. Our aim is to kwjt the BEST j
GOODS aud sell them at CLOSE I'MOES FOR CAIIJ,
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GREEN'S PHARMACY/
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Bush House Block,
Wc have Telephone Connection.
/'. Harmon .1- mm*. .Ww sttirr.
\ cfli) ip^jj
&D. Gnrmnn *
i* a i> i i: *,
do not think, because the cut* rc-j.rc*
K-iit only gentlemen'* tu.tr, tlmt *rr
have not been particularly careful t
select an elegant line of goods especi*
ally suited to you. You will find il
to your advantage ! > call and if w.<
are not aide to *upp!y you from our
choice and varied stock, it will he tt
a rr.a!l matter for u to order what v <u
may need. M c think wc are better able
to m< t your want* than any store in
Bellcfuule.
I. !/ot i d Co., .lfrrrfnud*. .iHcyhctitf-St., Ttrtlrfonte, /'tt-
I S3i A VS FOR YOU !
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Ol'R IV\Y of Selling off A LARGE WINTER STOCK;
AT 3ECP.T NOTICE.
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$40,000 "Worth, of Dry Goods
Clothing, Boots and Shoes, Hats and Caps.
,Vr. at alm*>t half jiiee Kead this through in the -n ! there i .omelh.ng
that will strike you.
Then oome wkh your shfrkel*. Coiwe soon because we will . I!.m something
at h * than we esn replace ihero for after they nrt all sol L W cia t pick up
such hnrgs*.®*every day. -lust some chances.
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SEND FOR SAMP LE S.
0a:1 OS ua 4 tara U >(*•* ft' ofd U ponliaa* not mi<tk< tar,
L YON A CO.
Uvllcfvitto* Ptt*
Furniture.
Till: f
Bull Dog Wins,
BECAUSE
HE HANGS ON!
ot- j<> •
Nobody but A Fool Be
lieves Advertisements.
o: -jo
; It i-'nt tru<- that It. B. SiWNfJI.ER
! V Co., mII Ki j:\iTfßi: How cut,
although th'-y have -hid o more
than one. But I. 11. SpaDgler
t ( o. lAi >..11 hi] and
Mr]".* ofth' l.c-nt Furniture 9
at an TDVAX B '■( a I
(
ju-t give* the iirtu
aaufSc i en t
amount ofmon
t-v to pay
w:i-h bill*
and
bo anl
ami clolh
ing, not ooc
cent beyond tbw.
Now ante fool w ill
kiv that's a lie. Hut
w refer to our l>oarding
hou- ami vta!i woman.
W' have no family and could
not keep any'if we bad. We
nil k> ciiK.tr and <xosi:
that wo never expect to make
any ni<>rc than what we have at present
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■ W" Sell a Walnut Suit for
S3B and up to Sl5O. jH
;
We sell an all ASH Suit
lor 529 50.
Wo cell solid Walnut
Book Case with plate
glass for $32. j
We sell LOUNGES frem
Sj to $2O.
j * * t
: I We sell Side Ecards I
• from $9 to 40.
ft •
• We sell Chairs from S4 per
half dozen to $lO
i
We sell Cain Chain
from SS to $2l.
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We sell Parlor Suits fromj
S4O up lo $l5O.
(all lo mc ui at our Furniture
Ware Room opposite the Buth Home.
lUdlefonto, and if you ain't pleated ha
will pratert you with a Paulo*
Slit. lira. Svasullb, of
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I R. B. SPAHGLER A CO.
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