EXCELSIOP. M'F'G CO.
Great Closing Out Sale
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AT AND BELOW COST. THE ENTIRE STOCK MUST BE SOLD RE- ,
OARDLESS OF COST TO QUIT BUS/HESS.
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Big Bargains is Suits I;
FOR MEN FROM $3.60 UPWARDS. HOTS AND YOUTH S SUITS ALMOST '
GIYEN AWAY. CHILDREN'S CLOTHING WAY DOWN.
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FRoMli.ro UPWARDS, ALL WOOL MEN'S PANTS FROM $2 60 UP- '
WARDS. THIS STOCK OF CLOTH INO MUST POSITIVELY BE
SOLD REGARDLESS OF COST. I
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Every $l,OO invested in purchases at our Store will bo entitled to a
4 CHANCE TICKET to win either of the two handsome GIFTS to be 1
f drawn by the lucky numbers which ONE AND ALE have the name 1
chance to possess. <
Ist Prize.
One Handsome Iledstead, poplar wood, beautifully finished ; Double
Enclosed Wash Stand; Teapoy Table; one beautiful French Dresser
German Plate Glass 17x30; three Cane Beat Chairs ; one Cane Heal
Hocking Chair; one Towel Rack. (Top of Dresser, Wash Stand, Tea
poy Stand, imitation Tennessee Marble.)
2d Prize. .
One beautiful BruueU covered Wo/nut Frame. IxmnfC.
KEY3TO NE CLOTHING HOUSE,
Sign Red Flag. Beliefonte, Pa
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0 BMCHLBB <f CO., Grocer*, Bu*h Uou*e Block, Bellefonte. Fa.
NEW GOODS <
s PRINfi and SUMMER TRADE!!
We have endeavored to get the very best of every thing in our line, and now
hare some really CHOICE QOODB.
FINE CREAM CHEESE, Extra Large FRENCH PRCNEN,
BELECT 0 YSTERS, S WEET PO TA TOES,
| LARGE RIPE CRANBERRIES, PRUNELLES, IMPERIAL FIGS,
BRIGHT NEW LEMONS, FLORIDA ORANGES,
4 Prince Paper-Shell Almonds, Evaporated DRIED PEACH Eft
A FULL LINE OF CHOICE CANNED FRUITS.
PRESERVED PEARS, PEACHES, PLUMS and PRUNELLES.
PLAIN CANDIES, FINE CONFECTIONERY,
—AND—
GOODIES of all Sorts and Kinds
wWe invite the people of Centre county to call and inspect our NICE
GOODS, which cannot fail to please.
ltf BECHLER & CO.
1 Roll Mingle—Boot* t t I hoe*.
t Boot or Shoe
W TRY
—] iiuk A Bllill® LB | —
FOR .
Style, Quality and Cheapness,.
W$ defy all competition. We have the largest stock—and bought for cash 1
and sell 10 per cent, cheaper than any store in the county. 1
mm OUR BPEC IA L TIEB.-m
REYNOLDS BROS., Utica and D. ARMSTRONG'S Rochester shoes for
ladies. Misers and Children. I
* Hathaway Soulo and Harrington n Fine Shoe* for Men. 1
LIEISITIEIRI IBIOIOITIS, !
THE KING OK THE MARKET,
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We have a Shoe Polish which will not crack the Leather v
4 as good a? the best and only 15c. !
DOLL A MINGLE. ,
gj Bellefonte, Fa. r
a •* ' . • •
A YOUNG HERO.
In June, IWiO the brig, Tolly Dean, <
Captain John Payson, sailed from Bos
ton for n port of Turkey, laden wilh
cotton good*. ,Sbc was ft new, taut lit' '
tie vowel, with |>lenty of storage room, i
and hml accommodations for two pss- ]
sengers.
Tho crew consisied of the captain, <
mnte, four *nilor, a black nook and ft <
cabin boy, 1
Captain Payson wn* a conscientious, I
jitat man who treated hi* crew neither
to jokes nor grog, but who lodged and
fed them l>etter thnn would nine out of
ten of the master* Nailing from New I
England port*.
H)ld Job," the who wa* from
the Went, u*ed to say, "he waa a hard
man, but one could tie to in fair weath
er or foul,"
Hi* crew were picked men, and, with
the exception of Dan. the cabin bov,
had been with him for year*. This wa*
Dan'* first voyaae, and he felt that not
a grain of favor would be allowed him.
Dan wa a farm hoy who knew noth
ing of the world beyond the village in
which wa* hi* mother'* church. Ship
board. the aea, Europe, Turkev, all
were bewildering idea* to bur*t at once
on hi* narrow experience, scarcely wid j
er than that of the hou*e dog sleeping
at the barn floor.
"Keep your eye* open and your
hand* ready to ee the work of the mo
ment anil to do it before the moment is
over." wa* hi* mother'* la*t advice
"Fot th* ret, Dan'el, a*k the lord'
help. You'll find him ju*t a* near to
you in Turkey aa in your own home
here."
Dan, in tho hurry and excitement of
getting under way, and of hi* n*w du j
tie*, repeated thi* advice over ami over
to him* If. It *eerned Vo keep hi* moth
er n-*ar him. Several day* after, whit
tle wa* carrying the dinner di*he* into
thecahin, he overheard th mate *ay :
"That boy i* chipper enough for a raw
hand, captain !"
"Ay,"gruntd Captain Taynon, "turn*
out better than I expected. I took him
for hi* mother'* rake, Widow. Old
friend of mine."
"Rather gentlemanly fellow, thi* pa '
•enger?" ventured the mate, finding j
the captain in an unusually talkative j
moo-1.
"He i* a gentleman, fir, one of the
Fa>nair of Springfield. 11l health.
Doctor prescribed a long *ea voyage. A
gentleman and a acholar. Mr. Briggs."
Dan while wait ng on the tabic at din
ner coul i not help noticing the paa*en
ger. "Some o these day*," thought the
true-b r* Yankee lad. "I too shall lie a
gent'eman and • scholar."
Doctor Farnal waa a tall, lean man.
carefully dreased, with sandy hair and
moustache, bu' eyebrow* and la*he* *1 ■
mo*t white. Hi* eye*, too. were large
and pale. They never met the eye* of
any other man faiily. ftnee when Din
happened to look at him he turned
quickly away, and be glanced furtively
and suspiciously at the l>oy at time*
during the rest of the meal.
"Don't like him," thought Don."l>nok*
•neaking and tricky, and not like a
gentleman."
But Dan, of course, kept hi* opinion*
to himself. Even Boh, the cook, snub
bed the "raw hand." and tolerated no
remark* from him.
Fortunately the lad wa* not ana-sick.
He learned hi* new dutie* quickly;
wa* alert, neat, and alway* good natur
ed. In the course of one week Captain
Payson had twice grumbled Approval.
Dan worked harder than ever, and
between time* for recreation, when the
passenger wa* on deck, he watched him.
Doctor Famtll talked fluently and
brilliantly, a* even Dan'* uncultured
view could perceive. But hi* talk wa*
levelled far above the head* of either
the captain or Mr. Brigg*. who listened
with half comprehending admiration.
But there were day* when the doctor
was absolutely silent, ate nothing and
paced the deck wrapped in profound
glooin, bU light eye* darting suspicious
glances from side to side.
On *on# of theae day* Dan going
down just at twilight to find something
he had left in hi* bunk, saw a tali fig
are which be oould not recognise, with
a candle groping about among the chret*
of the sailors.
"Who's there?" he shouted.
The man came quickly toward him.
The candle threw e yellow glare over
hi* set fare and glaring eyes. It wa* the
peasenger. Ho caught Dan by the
sleeve.
"Here, I >o7 —what do they call you?"
"D-n."
"You're surprised Jo see me here,
Dan?" with a guilty laugh. "Took mo
for a ghost, eh ?"
"I beg your pardon j I oughtn't, to I
have called to you. But it took me <
aback, sir." <
"Naturally, but you need viot be *ur I
prised at seeing me in any part of the <
vessel. lam studying its construction I
as a scientific man. Captain fttyson ha 1
been good enough to give ma admit
taic> to all parts of the vessel. You 1
needn't shout in that diagraa*ye way 1
%> * * j
agiin. It startles a nervous man." And
with a vague sinile he blew out the can
die and went upon the deck, leaving 1
Dan staring after him.
"It's not all right; or why should he,
h ing a gentleman, make such a long I
explanation to me, a cabin boy," said
Din at last, shaking bis bead. <
That night Captain Pa>son was alone 1
on thequsrlei deck when Dsn present
ed himself before him and saluted. Hi* I
voice trembled a little, for he wa* terri - i
bly scared.
"Old Job" wa* a bigger man in hi*
■•yes than any kind or |>otentsie.
"Well, what'* the matter with you ?"
growled the captain.
"The—the passenger, sir."
"What have you to do with the passen
gcr ?"
' I beg your pardon, sir, bul are you
sure he isn't a thief or worse," gssperf
Din. forgetting in his terror the respect
ful *|eech he had planned in which be
meant to *tate the fact of Dr. Famuli's
visit below deck.
The captain aeiced a rope'* end. "T*ke
1 list for your impudence," be shouted
aiming a blow at Dan, who dodged it.
and then blurted nut the whole atory
".Searching among the hunks —Dr
Farnall?" muttered the captain in as
tonishment, dropping hi* weapon ; and
then ho walked thoughtfully up and
down. Suddenly he stopped before
l>n.
'lt is well you came to me nd no
body else with the story," lie *aid. "It
i* of no account. Dr. Farnall is an ec
centric man. If he wi-he* to examine
the ship in any part he i* not lo he
watched and spied upon. So keep your
eye* open to yourself, and your tongue
too. If you go blabbing ihu>a'orv about
' I'l fb g you."
Dan crept off to hi* work, feeling a.
if he had a sound drubbing. Tar* o
rsg * and raortificatioo stood in bis eyes
•'Mother'* rule* do very well on land,
but they won't do on hipt>ard," he
muttered ; "but there'* something that
need* watching in that 111*0, and I*i>
watch him."
Nothing of moment happened, how
ever, foe a week. Then Dan observed
thai tke passenger * day* of fasting nd
depression grew more frequent. There
were whole nights when he paced the
deck until morning.
The rrew joked together about him
Or.e declared thai be wa* a murderer i
another that he eo*jed from a lunatic
aylum, but the common opinion *<-
that he bad run away from a termagant
wife.
"D'ye mind," said Irish Jem. "how
he eyr* every ship we hail a* though *be
might be aboard ?"
Dsn alone never joined in their gossip
below deck about the mtstery.
<>ne d*y a Utile incident nccutred
wh-ch strengthened his uspirion.
Jut before nightfall, when pasting
Do after hatchway, In the covering o(
which wa* a slide thst could be opened
and closed at will, I>*n met !>r. Farnall
coming up covered wi-b dust. Tber
w an unsteady glare in hi* eyea. H
e>*ed Dn by the shoulder*.
"TV> you know where 1 have been T'
he aaid hoarsely,
"In the lower bole, sir, among the
bo x e*."
"What d'ye think i* down there ley,
for you and all of us? Death ! deth!
But tell nobody—nobody—" He drop
ped hi* hold and staggered on. -
"Mad a* a March bare!" muttered
Dan.
But half as hour afterward Dr. Far
nail ws* seated at the supper tsh'e, gar,
self pot-*sod, keeping the cap'ain ia a
roar with hia good 'o-i r.
About the middle of the second wteh
that night Dan turned out of hi* bunk.
Tbe boy wat really 100 anxious to sleep,
"Death in the bole, eh ? Death in
the bole!" he repealed to himself.
He did not dare go to the captain or
orew wilh bis ttory. Yet he wa* #ure
some peril wa* at hand. He aal shiver
ing for a while then pulled on hi*
clothe*.
"If death's In tbe hole I'll find him/'
be aaid.
He groped hi* way to the after batch*
way uoquealioned; for the mate who
had charge of the deck wat reclining
li*tle*aly against the railing further aft,
where tbe hatchway waa bid from view
by tbe cabin.
The slide was open.
Hia heart beat quick with axcitement.
but noiseless aa a oat Dan crept down
to the lower deck and groped for tbe
hatchway that opened into tbe lower
hole.
He waa so certain danger waa afoot
that he waa not startled when be saw a
faint, reddiab light, and found tbe lower
hatchway open.
The hold waa not co closely stowed
but that one oould move about in it
quite freely, and on lowering him** f
carefully, Dan taw that the light came
from a lantern, and that it cast a glare
directly upon the paoaenger, who wa*
kneeling and working at something
upon the floor.
"So that ia the way death looks, hey?"
thought Dan. "He couldn't well look |
went." "And he eyed the baggatd, <
y
a j&i m ; J|
ghs-tlv face. *•
' What grafing sound i* that?" be y
asked hirn<lf and in the * <rne Instant
h<> sprang forward wilh a cry of horn r. f
The paeng-r had an auger in hia t
hand*, and saw lay beside biro. l
ll■* bud bored a bole through Hie side U
of lite vessel, below the water line and
the water wa* already coming thr ugh t
The boy clutched Farnatl and *h-o <
him like a wild beast. "You are sink *
'trig the ship. Help! help!' I
The madman turned upon him quist- '
ly *nd nodded. t
"Ye* we'll all go down lope'hrr. '
Don't m*ke thi* outcry. Nobody can I
bear you." 1
He bad caught tbe boy'* wrist and
held bun with the unnatural strength |
of the insane. 1
Nntmdy could hear him. Dan reroem- 1
bered that arid became suddenly silrnt. I
Horror and bar only made th< ught
more vivid.
D-ath wa* just at b-nd. Tb-rewas
nob ljr to drive it back but himself,
and he was iu this madman's hole
He stared into the fierce, glassy eye*
with an agony of hesitation.
Email laughed hick at him
"1 thought ot burning, but thi* is the
quietest. I want to go quietly into the
great hereafter. We shall *ll go to
g-ther in a fear minutes," glancing at
the stream of water gushiog out of the
opening.
"t >, mother, mother," ctied the shiver
ing l>ny.
"We'll all go together. Kings among
the ancients went across the Ktyx at
tended by tbe slain of their burial. I
■sill t<e followed by tbe Yankee captain
nd hi* crew."
A sudden flash lighted Dan's eyee.
"Not by the captain,'' lie said,
lira own voice startled him, it was so
• aim and in atone so different from
uy be bad ever *|>oken be|.re.
"Tbe cap lain and Mr. Bngg* will
j ?sc#|e,' be aaid.
"Wny, what do you mean?" cried
Fsrnall. "Escape! How can tbey ea
i-ajie?''
"B c-u" tbey are not in tbe bold.
I'brt will take lo the boats "
"I never thought of the l<oata ."
"I will go and bring tbe captain and
Mr. Briggs down if you like. Then
j ttiey can't gel away."
"Ha! ha! pretty good j< ke. Well, go
ftring thrm . and be qu<ck," lo seeing
h i hold and pushing D n aw.y.
Dn walked slowly to the ladder,
then be made one wild ap. ng up.
"To tbe bold I to the bol I I A le.k !'
he abrtskrd, and tell to toe cock.
Within another hour the m<man
a in iron*, tbe leak had l ee 11 ato, ped
and tbe water pumped out of t lor.
Tbe danger wa* passed and ail mug and
tsut.
Tbe errw made a bro of Dan. Even
Captain Payeon *|>oke out hit heavy
praise.
Tbe lad saw what was to t d ne and '
did it. He had courage and what i* 1
better, good tense. "Who taught you
10 use your w its. my boy ?"
"My mother, air,'' aaid Dsn.
Mr. Talmago on Heredity.
HE Ttl.l.R * STOXV AROCT THE 10l XMiK or
A WMttllT CITT r A HILT.
Mr. Talmgae on Sunday, in hi* morn
ing sermon, told the rtory of Goliahand
David, taking for his text I Samuel
xvij, "Wfeo-e son art thou, young
man?" being the woids of King "-aulto
young David aft-r he had slain the
mighty warr.or.
"Sanl des red to know David'* | arcnt
age. Tbia question of here 11/ a a
great one. Trie longer 1 live, the more
I believe in blood, good blood, bad
blood, honest blood and thieving blood
'Well, if thi* is true,' I hear you say
'then I am discharged from all responsi
hility. If I came of a pious parentage,
1 am hound to be pious; if 1 came of
an unreligiou* parentage, I am bound to
be unreligotia.* All erroneous. If you
have the heritage of piety, it ia your
duly to preserve that heritage. If you
came of vicious parentage, it i# your
duly to u*e every endeavor lo attain
piety.
"The power of heredity i very groat,
and i* hard to overcome. There ta a
family in New York which has been
rolling up wealth for a century which
waa founder! by a man who, after achiev
ing groat riches, sent back to the store
a package of lacka because it oot two
cenla more than he expected. Gripping,
grinding and gouging in the fourth
generation, and I suppose gripping'
grinding and gouging in the twentieth
generation. If the family trait be lcm
per, teach yourself to count a hundred
both ways before making an imperii
nent answer, and when you write an
angry letter, keep it for a week before
you send it, and then burn it up.
"A good many think religion i* a nod
wa must give to Christ aa we pan*
through the celestial gates, a* though it
were a ticket we must not uas at all ex
cept at the door* of heaven.
"A* far AS I can lam going to inlro
puce a new element .nto business/ *
continued. "You bare wealth, prudence,
•-an.twnv. indu-try and pr****renoe;
y'j must have something mightier than
all —ifcxl im-*s. You sy OndlitM l *! ii
profitable in it# eternal relation#. Ye* ;
there is a good deal of the religion of
tlm coffin, of the hoarse, arid of the
graveyard. That amount# to very little.
Wliat we waul is a religion of ihehou e,
the bank, the warehouse and the atom }
a religion for everything we have to do
with—the brain, the hand and the foot,
I ton'l want to cant a slur on post-mor
t-rn religion, but I do want to utilize
ante-mortem religion; a religion for
every month in the year; if it vrill not
lat through the year it is no religion at
all.
"In the first place, religion is good
for the phyiacal health. I don't mean
to say it will reatorea broken down con
stitution, or drive rheumatism fioin the
limbs, or neuralgia from the temples ;
but I do say the whole tendency of the
Christian religion is to make a man
healthy. Religion is good for the Intel"
led. Many think a man becorn ng a
Oliri tian enters into adwarfing process.
Christianity is the central figure on the
promontory where Philosophy has
lighted her torch. Religion has helped
|sK-try. I ,ook at Young'# 'Night
Thoughts' and Milton's 'l'arsdise bust.'
The religion ot Jesus Christ has done
more for the intellect than anything
else. If yon don't use your religion
very day you are lik one having 5,000
cre* "f vuluabie wheat land who only
cultivates a quarter <>f an acre. A man
who gets religion at fifty gets it fifty
years 100 late."
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Miscellaneous
The business faiure. for the lat seven
days number for the I'nited States .'J*2,
and for Canada 42. an increase of 92 over
the previous week. This is the greatest
number of failures reported in any week
it is believed, since I*7*.
Fredrick rejmrts an *KX-|utid Ches
ter hog 2 years and 7 months old.
Ag*<l Mr. l lrich has wo far found
a'o t | Is.ft Si that his dee'd witc hid in
the farmhouse lielnw Highspire.
The |>oach buds in Missouri, have
tiecii rained by tlie cold weather.
There are OO.fMt "drummer-" in the
f'tiited Htates. at salaries from #•'<*• to
#lO,OOO a year and cx|erises.
Sunset Cos, it is said, will write a po
litical history of the country from the
time of Buchanan'# administration, for
which he is to be paid about #75,000.
The Reading Railroad Co. is experi
menting with steel ties. They are the
atne sixe of the wooden tie. but are hol
low.
Every Itemoerat should make an ef
fort to increase the circulation of fw-mo
cratic journals.
The Philadelphia KtJxrd advocates
the whipping-post punishment for th<>*c
who commit highway robbery with vio
lence.
Bertha Clear, of Philadelphia. Pa.,
who marri-d "the exhibiting skeleton,''
recently, has become insane and return-
I ed home.
A 75-pound seal was caught in a fish
seine at New fxuidon, Conn., recently.
Th ■ py, "Bella Boyd," who at the
outbreak of the rebellion, 15 years of
are, is the matronl* wife of Col. .John
Hammond, of Texas, who dwells on a
ranch near S.ut Antonio, lie was one of
Stonewall Jackson's scouts in Virginia,
•nd was, as may lie remembered, tarn
ished to Eurofw. She has four children.
The lid of the coffin of Mrs. I.ticinda
Newly, of Jeffersonville, Indiana, wax
about being sorewtd down for burial
when the woman came to life again.
Shad fishing, in the Savannah River,
has la-gun. and lieo gctowti. S.C., is get
ting ready for it.
The house of E. N. Miller, near Nor
wood, Oa., was bunnd on Wednesday.
Miller's wife fainted from fright and
died.
A child was Isirn in Bolton, Tolland
rounty, Conn., on Jan. 3, having twoex
tra toes. The mother, Mrs. Pho-bo
Lewi*, has hail five children. The sec
ern! < in Id Had two extra fingers and ono
extra toe; the fourth, two extra fingers |
the fifth, two extra fingers, and two ex
tra toe*. The mother has two extra
fingers and the usual number of toe*.
The w inter girl is only the summer
girl with thicker clothe# on. She has tho
same frolicsome disposition. She is just
as pretty, just as piquant and jut m
pleasing.
The salaries of employes in the New
York po#t offioe, exclusive of letter car
riers. arc shown by the pay mil to b<j
>.*00,000 per annum, a sum grewter by
#lOO,OOO than the aggregate annual sala
ries of the employes in the fleneral
Post Office iH-psrtment and in th*
Washington post office,
A waiter In one of the hotels on Uiq
Rhine at tempted, some time ago, to
hang himself, but a guest of the hotel
cut him down in time to save his life.
The ingrnto brings suit for undue inter
ference and for damage* sustained by
the unauthorized cutting of the rope,
which Uiti to be a new otto.