Pock'R Bad Boy nod His Fa rut-: nox M SICK, BUT HIS KI.AU IS BTII.I. TIIKItE. "Well, Hennery, I am sorry to find vou in this fix," said the grocery man as he tiptoed into the darkened room at the house of the bad boy, where he found hint in bed, propped up with pillow's, a pallor ou his lace that was ' frightful, and a general look of gone ness. "Your pa tells ine you have been sick nearly a week. 1 thought things at the grocery were g-'ing along iu a solemn sort of a manner. Don't hurt you to talk to you, does it ?" and the grocery man looked tor a chair to sit down in. "Naw, it don't hurt," said the bad boy, as he motioned to a chair, and the grocery man sat down. "It talk ing w mid kill me I would have been dead long ago. Hy the way, I wish vou would hand un that 'mustuid plaster You will find it in the ehnii vou are setting on," and the hov smiled a sickly smile, while the groeeryman got up "as though lie was in a hurry, and apologised for sitting on tin- pi i ter. "No apology tiecesary,'' said the had hoy. "When lUIJIHI.IV come to see me they are welcome to the best we have got. A soft answer turtieth awav wrath, aiul a mustard plaster covereth a multitude id pneumonia," and Hennery applied the plaster to his cheat, aud u-ked the groeeryman to hand him a box ot pills on the table. The groeeryman handed the boy a box of pills ai d a gla-- ot water, and he took a small handful ot pill aud a swallow of water, smacked tu lips aud said. "Ah I A nectar lit for the gods Do you know ttu-re is something a Ivan being sick that takes the cuke? 't on can lay and sleep, or raise up and cough. And then, the beautiful niedi cine the doctor leaves! I take it he cause it pleases the doctor. He i- a nice man. but I don't think a man can feel of your pulse and litet to the mocking bird in your heart by holding his ear on your shirt, and tell what is the matter with you. Gimme u drink? Now I want you to do some things for me, as I may not pull through, aud pa is so busy in politics that he can t attend to anything. Are you there, Moriarity ?"' "Yes, yes," said the groeeryman, as he saw the boy had something he wanted to say, "out with it uow, and I will do anything you ask me to." "Well, you know that man without any leg, that plays the hand organ down on the corner. I wHtit you to take my skates to him and tell him —" "Great heavens," said the grocery man, "what do you want to send a pair of skates to a man that hasn't gat any legs for?" "Don't interrupt the sjK-ak'-r," said the bail bov, as he took a pill tor a change. "Take the skates to him, and tell him I lend them to him till [ get well. He has got three boys, and they are too poor to buy skates, and they can take turns using mine, and I shall not miss them, for if I live the skating will he all gone before I get out doors, and if I die, there will be no skating where I am going." "O, say, hush up now," said the groeeryman. "You are not half as sick as you think you are, and there is no hurry about you dividing up your worldly goods. In a day or two you will lie out as good as uew, mak ing it interesting for all of us. What was the hired girl laughing at when she let me in ? She said something about your scaring the folks out of seven year's growth, just tafore you were taken sick," and the gtoceryman thought if he could get the sick boy talkingaboutsomething funny it would cure him. "Well," said the boy, a he laughed so the'skin was drawn across his pinched face. "It was awful mean, but ma wanted to know what time pa got home night*, since he has g"t (<■ working the ward for alderman. You see he comes in all times of the night, and tries to keep still so as not to wake ma up. He comes in and un- { dresses in the dark, and retires nnd 1 ma don't wake up. I have got a friend working in a jewelry store, and I got \ him to lend me six of these little alarm clocks, and I wound them all up, and placed them around the house where I could touch them off when pa came in. I put one on the hat rack, and whea pa came in just after mid I night I touched it off just as he put his hat on the hat rack and I crept half way up stairs in the dim light. I'a wa* trying to lie rpiiet, and when that alarm went off he looked sick He didn't know what it wa, hut he just stood still, with his overcoat half off, and waited for the thing to rttn down, and be was listening all the time to sec it ma woke up. I had told ma to pretend to be asleep until the last one went off, which I had placed on the foot of the lied, and then for her to get up and begin to throw chairs. I'a started up stairs as s<on as the clock stnpjied, in his stocking feet, ami just a he got half way up stairs, I touched oft" the second alarm, and pa stopped and I went up to the head of the stairs to got another one ready. I'a got hold of the clock ami tried to stop its noise hy holding it under his coat, and he listened for ma some more, but ma didn't show up. When the clock got through sputter ing pa came on up stairs, and at the top the third one went off, and then he WM mad. He thought that would wake ma for sure, hut she anored right •long through it all, and pa breathed hard urn! said some political word*. When that clock slopped I slipped into the lcl room and whi<pmd to ma that I wita going to let nil three of the others go oil' til once, and she said nil right, tm I waited till pa got part of his clothes < fl'; win n I turned on all three of them, and I hlipped out iu the hull, and then I begun to hear chairs tumble around, ami pa [ heg.sii to beg, I guess lie thought there vw* a caucus. When the chairs had all been lhrowed I turned up the ga in the hall and came in just as though I had been Irightctied out of bed, ami (here stood ma laughing ju-t as loud as she could, and pa had crawled under the bed with only his I'eet stick ing out., aiiil I think he was saying his 'now I lay tne down to sleep.' Ma coaxed him out, ami maybe she did not read the riot act to him. She made him promise to keep away li'om politics .HI I try to he a man, and I gin .-s he will. Hut I had to pay for one of the clocks, Ynu-e pa fell on it ami busted the works (latter than u (in plate. Hut we had fun, and I gin ss my staving up n the hall waiting lor pa gave me the cold that made nic sick, but i feci t><-tier ll. iw, and I will lie out to-morrow. Don't you know, that when a sick per- n lays ami thinks of dying it makes them worse, when if they get to talking about sum tiling inter.-ling ii brac.s them up? (' one in again, hiss, ami when I get well I Mil come over to the gro cery and talk to you ;i:l you are si. k.' ami the bad hoy rolled ov. i to go to sleep, while the grocer,) man went out believing that nothing h than a cannon hall would kill the bad boy. DfittNii the high-wat. r, a tnun wa sceu going dovvu the Arkae-aw on a log. As he was passing little Kock. several men sprang into a skill, rowed out to the lone navigator and said : "Climb in.** '•Climb in wby r? ' "In the skill', ntirrv up." "Wall, strangers, I'm pretty well fixed. I) m l take no work t move along." "Where are you going?" "Down the river." "We know thßt. Where are you from ?" "From up the river." "Of course you are, hut—" "What made you ax. then?" "What are you doing on thai log ? "Traveliu'.' "What do you want to fool with us for 1 Don't you know you'll drown it you keep on this way ?" "Won't drown 11 I keep on this r way. Kf I winter git otf in the water I inout drown.'' "How tar have you come this way?" j "I've conie this way all cr long." "Hut where were you when you got i n 'he log?" "(>ll the log." "Of Course, but where wa- the log'" "In the river." "Certainly,but how far from here' "Ain't made no cah-'lation." "Where do you live when you are at home ?'' "At home." "Of course, but where is your home?" "Whar I live," "Where is your family ?" ".Scattered erlong." "Did your house wash away?" ' Sorter, Mtr wife's hack yauder on a cotlonwood log, an' my *>n Hill's cumin' along some'ers on a poplar. "Why don't you come to the shore?" " 'Cause it don't cost nuthiu' to ride." "You'd tatter come out anil get a drink of whiakv." "Dinged if I don't do it. Feller hack here wanted me to come out an' hear him preach, hut he didn't have the right kin' o' gnsjel. Now, f Her-, pull fur the shore a* las' as ver k' n. —Ark. Truveltr. FHE came up from the .!• ("it on car, in company with a young man who had been waiting heranival from Cincinnati, ami they had scarcely taken seats when he enid : "Susie,you must have had an awful time there ?" "Why?" "On account of the high wa'cr. How near the river were you ?'' "Ob, not far." "Did the water come up around your house ?" "I believe so. At lent I heard the hoys saying something about the base ment being oven full," "It must have been a grand but ter rible sight." "I ptcsume so," she answered with a yawn. "Did the boats have to bring you provisions ?" he t>er*i*ted. "Did they ? Well, now, I forgot to ask papa, but I presume they did." • "And wasn't there danger of the foundationsof the house giving away?" ' I expect there was, but we keep four servants, and, of course, we let them worry ataut that." "You could see the ahole iuunda- i lion from your window, I suppose?" "I presume I could have, had I looked out." "Whv, Susie, you don't seem to have taken the slightest interest in the affair." "And how could you expect me to when I had three new novels sent me that week, ami had to decide between two offers of marriage? There was a flood of water or something, and tbec had to move laek from the levee or somewhere, and lots of people lost all they had, or some such thing, but please don't talk about it. Hucb things make me tired." Told ITim The hotel* of interior Arkausaw tiro not, what advanced ei lightenmciit <lo , 1 iiinnilit, in lhut several guest* have to •loop in the sumo room. The other i ilnv Mr. John Stovi all, H well known Ij g. nth'iuiin. stopped at the Bunb-ll lioii.iu, When informed that ho mut I occupy a room with a rod whiskered (••I! ov with whi-ky-ftri aki d eye*, he i demitrreil, but seting no elntneo id i hollering hm condition, lie finally con tented. Mr. Ktcvoall ha* the annoy it g iniidortnne ol enuring. Other : lIHII have been known to snore pretty well, hut no pen-oil who ha* over heard Mr. Stevi nil, will ntleinpt to turn over i his memory in search ol any one who I score a higher or deeper triumph. Mr. ! Sievoull and tlio red-whiskered man I with whisky-streaked eyes wont to lu-d 1 ah nit the suite time, Ibrtnnatoly or : uiitortunntolv, a- tlie ( cn*c may la*, oe | Clipvilig dill-lent i -oUche*. Wo no ; ( oil- Inn in in tekory. Mr. S- v all *o n droppol ill' to ' steep itiul at uuce h .'.it! to saw hickory i titnbi r. ".*■ IV," called tin* red wll'ker- I mail. i ••wi-ur* ' You an* snoring." " I'll at so?' replied Mr. Stcvcnll, - ucn-tioaliy. "I HHI forty live years iil-l. anil you Hie the first until that Iris ever accused m< of snoring." 11 e soon dripped to Sl<*l p again, for it si cum that sti .ring men never lie awake. -av." "Well." "1 oil are snoring again." ' You must excuse me, sir. I am for \ live years oul, and I don't think thai any one i ir accuse t tuc hci-iie of snoring." ' "Again he slept, and again he put on a largo hickory h>g. 11-- hud slah to- t olf oiio side and h -I just struck a Knot, when tin* rod-whiskered man called : "Bnv, over there!" ••Will." "Snoring again." , "This is itidcd singular, I am lortv-five rears old, and you are tin lir-t |a'ron to discover that 1 snore." lie dozed again, an I found a black jack jog that needed -awing, so he rolled it up on the truck* uud began 1 work. He ripped oir one slab HIM) j started to split the middle, w hen the saw struck a shattered place. | "Say ?" "Well." "Y->u are snoring again." "Well, 1 declare, this is singular. I am forty five years old, and you are the fir-t person to make such an uccu- I nation." "I/x>k here, my friend, that i get ting to IM- a trifle too attenuated. ' "What's that ?" "Why that forty fiveyearold -l(-rv." I "Then you don't believe 1 have told j you the truth." "I know you have not. Bet any thing that you have been a snoryr all . your life. Bet you kept your mother awake when you were a boy. Will you do me a favor?" "Ye." "Well, if I drop off to sloop and y MI -top snoring, will you wake me - op and tell rnt- " ' "Yen" "All right. I will rernrmlwr it as die erowumg favor of a lifetime." Alter awhile the red whiskered man .ink to sleep. Mr. S.oviall arose, ■< k a -lat Irotn his bed, approached he sleeping man, gently turned down die (-•!( i-, ' hanicD (.11 " with the slat , (id ■ k him a blow that he will never forget. "'iioa- H-rd' What are you doing?" "I am not snoring," replied Mr. •bewail, striking hi- victim again. Yon wanted me to inform you when I -topp !.' and "whack" lie t'ok htm ii tiii. ' I am not snoring now, yon annoying rascal. I-ay down there. Hid n I bear another word out ol you to night I'll wear you out," and Mr. 1 ■stevcall ny down an-l soon began to aw an elm log.— Ark. Traveler. "Jrtxsf, ('AhAVKB will please step dis way," nnl Brother (iardner, as he motioned to Samuel Shin to raise the alley window and let out the odor of burning boo lleg. The Judge came forward with a pressure of 250 pounds to the square | inch, ami the president continued: ".Judge Cadaver, a society at Defi ance.Oliio, known as 'De Aggregation l of Philosophy an' Science,' has ro ! quested me to send 'ent down to ne member ob bis cJuh who kin deliber a ' lector' full of interest an' instruct shun. I has selected you. Heab am eight dollars in cah an' a railroad pass, an' you will leave hrah to mor row afternoon." The judge looked so meltingly sweet that everybody began to grin. "I now desiah to spoke a few re i marks to you," said .he president, as I he laid aside his spectacles. "You are gwine among strangers. You will meet wid black-legs and hondholdcrs an' all odder classes of men. "I)(>an' talk too much wid your mo i f. "Ban try to make anybody believe dat you am a millyunaire. "Doan stop to betou dc string game or three-card tonnle. "Doan portend vou know what you V n ow an' nehher heard of. "Doan' stop to argy religun wid in fidels nor pollyticks wid a young man who can't wotc. "If anybody calls you 'Kcrnul' you needn't stop to explain his mistake, but at do snine line doan'hire any 0 ie to call you 'Perfesssor.' "If you 10-e ymir money by playio' policy while vou am gone, come li'iine by do highway i ii* say iiulliu to no body. It vol sot knocked down an' robbed y< II k in telegraph op aii'c-iunt on receivin' 'hunt Co' dollar* in ea-b. 1 Dut's afl, judge, an' you kio no v n ; siiuic ycr ioust.''- Detroit FOI /VIM. TIIKY Were talking Ifbmit tin- I) I Smith it IM i Kosciusko Murphy in the Pi/./.lctnp family. <' >l. l-'-zzb-top sai t that he considered them two of the brightest young iin-n in Au-lin. Little .lohony spok up nod said : "Why. pa. Mr. Do •buhli hasn't got any sense. The otlo r dav lie thought 1 was a ehi|<{ and Mr. Murphy can't COUOt t It'll," "What do you mean, Johnny ?" "Well pa. I was riding out on my little donkey the Other (lav, and I met • ins D-- Smith ami Mr Murphv. Mr. D-- Smith look t at im* ami -ai-l I wa il chip of the ol I block "And what did M . Murj hy "HV !" ' He put his hand on the doiikcv, iltnl -aid there were t t i chips of toe old block —' ow did I c }<•• in- to say ■there ton- two chip-, fne donkey isn't a chip of the old hlo -k, to >. i- hi ? The 'did block, ' or rather !'//'<■ I ■ j hn- not qnio a- go-.,| no opinion ot tlio*" vt.iing men u- he funnily had. T< xi* S'J 'ioi/t. I'K< II'J.I in tin north who judge the negro ir m th>--c p-trtrayed by I'mde Tour's cabin troupes, are somewhat -nrpri-'d when brought in contact with the no'iial hnua fule negro A lady from New York who imagined t c ta gro- w n* v-rt moral, '-hang d low view> nln r hiring and 11-• iiarg.i g •evi-ral. The interview with the In-t applicant for the vie ant position ol cook WH- all-mi a* fnlhiws: "i want it distinctly timh rto xl that you are not to have u frttud cuutt g , to the lioii-e after dark." "A friend n miin' (< r see me ' Dat m an- one, don't it ' Yes." 'One gentnan eomin'tcr sc<- me 1 Why. Ito her ha- Ii den four cumin* or see no- at cbery place in Austin 1 se bill at yet." "It I hire you not a single roan nrt-t come to *• <* you." "Single man' Ib-v's all married. Dc las' one ob ilern IIH 'sja-'-tahle 'amilit-s."— Ter u Sifting*. I >o*'T get discourage() f Adolphus I here i- l->t of time yet for some fair dam-el to get in her leap year work ou you. Rernemlrer that one of the most suggestive times for snob hui news is nt a picnic, and the picnic s<a mn j six month" off. Keep right on primping up nnd practicing your art less ways. There is time enough vet for v-a to bo| some poor and un-us fiecting female. 8A vs an English journal "Iro quois is not to be con-idered a first class horse even if he did win the Derhv." People over on this side of the globe don't exactly know what the English consider a "first-class horse," but they are patiently waiting for England to produce a horse that can Ireal him. Not until then will it le fully understood why Iroquois "is not a first class horse." PATKRPAMM.IAT —"What is includ ed in your curriculum ?" Young HofK'fui —"Our what, pa?" Paterfamilias—"The curriculum of your college.'' Young Hopeful—"Well, to tell the truth I don't know. You see being the stroke oar and the picked nine capta'n. I have not much time for botany."— Phi la. (all. "I yvys'T you to make mv pants to set as neat a- those, "said a bowlegged customer to a Wincnntin street tail- r, at the same time pointiiat to a late fashion pla'c "("< rtainly," replied the tailor, "But I'll have to curve them considerably as you seem to have le-en born especially for horseback riding." And the customer is won dering what the tailor wa driving at. "I KF.OARII the use of beer as the true temperance principle. When I work all day ami am exhausted noth ing helps me like a glass of beer. It assi-ts nature, you understand." "It makes a regular fool of me." the friend replied. "That's what I say. It assists na ture." IT isn't safe to sit on the grand jury in Dakota. A member of one of the grand juries out there has been indicted for stealing kindling wood. When a man's wife refuses to get the kindling and compels her husband logo prowl ing around the neighborhood after it, she and not be should be indicted. "J)< vou keep Lent?"said John, as James hurried past him in a down (xiiir of rain, last Sunday morning on his way to church. "No, hut my um brella does," was Jim's reply as he saw it in John's uplifted hand. "A most excel lent joke," was John's parting salute. ■" " ■ - - • ■ " ■ THIS is leap year. Now if you want to gat the heller of the best girl in the circle of your acquaintance go right off and pop the question to her before she has a chance to propose lo you. IT has been said that "money makes the mare go," but it is the money that her owner hasn't got that makes ht>r go to the creditors. i DOYOJSUFFER! V N* \ Willi VO n S V Tl.- y' in rn'i-4 I| |*fi of j ? . ' !L - <l*ll *.tfi of 15 Fifteen Cents 15 t in t>ivs TIIK # EUREKA Corn CURE ~ i nit.li aM.i a i ; GREEN'S PHARMACY, Hiixli House Hloek, r ? I'KIJ.r.I <NTK, J \ Liberal Di-tuii f ' Mcr lianls. Hat-man .>//'* ,ie *torc. , r-fh': 1 I i , Garman & S ; i. \ 11; s do not think, because the cute repre sent <n 1 v gentlenu-ii's wear, that wt have not H*cn particularly careful to l select an elegant line of g(Mxi* c|>cci ally suited to you. H'U will find it • | u > far advantage to call and if we n 1 * re n °t aide to supply you from our choice and varied stock, it will l w - „ a small matter for u to order what yi,u may need. \\ c think we are lietter able to meet jour wants than any store in | Bellefonte. SKCI/LKR CO., (i rirr*, Hu*h Uour Work, DeUefinite, I'a. NEW GOODS —FOB THE— SPRING and SLIMMER TRADE!! I We have endeavored to get the very best of every thing in our line, and now j have some really CHOICE GOODS. EIXE CUE AM CHEESE, Extra Large FRENCH I'll I NFS, SE LETT O YS TEES. S WEET P0 TA TOES, LARGE RIPE CRA MtERRIES. PRI WELLES, IMPERIAL FIGS, •j BRIGHT NEW LEMOWS, FLORIDA ORAXGES, I'rlnrcHN I'apcr-Shell Almonds Evaporated DRIED TEACHES A FULL LINE OF CHOICE CANNED FRUITS. PRESERVED PEARS, PEACHES, PL VMS and PRC WELLES. PLAIN CANDIES, FINE CONFECTIONERY, —AND— GOODIES of all Sorts and Kinds MTWe invite the people of Centre county to call and inspect our NICE , - GOODS, which cannot fail to please. j • BECHLER & CO. I No pirtj- ia polities, aor lay ttctia relies T!iß<ißr.*rr.,'T ast>thk rkat. TIIK LAltflß tH'RL* wrFRI.T HKMtiIOCH (ND MX ( I. AII NEW YORKOBSEHVER (EtblUli*d 1823 *o I"pr In ih roniiuy liwi m .< nran. an *n /mil mm or Imwm lr lrrmrtt* I'itmr tan<i* at lb* hM<l o( lII# nlii/iHd ft-mll J *r>4 I/I" l#it#i* an 4 lltntt*lt (4111 onM-h Urn Omctwu lithrr tnni/t 111 '•lil r* |,ar# I,ml lb# training of a jtiw!< r of* rrnttity fit |h#ll nl Tni Oo**nmwn*t of Hi# Ounnimlra all and* , **4 lII' nova. rarrfollj (oo|*ro4 from 1 #ll. rt and nlufnnn* fnrnlahlng a r ■ -mpl*t* rl* of tb* oon- Attn n of Uw work wb aratok. Yb lt*paM?n*ot of (rtimn ii, ltr*r*. Arn.t arm on ni'mnwul Rttnitoi"* " at* itmdrt*4t.j otprrt*. who orlt* rlaatlt and to thr point Tb* da nun* <toMnof (111 It* minimi with lon( *ar* and old arno, I n I alia* to !• A LIVE NEWSPAPER. Airing >|| **h • Rn toiol I Sutra full of iMira tion*. mtirag*ol an 4 trnlb; an 4 • Arret*a Karat mntainlat all tb* •*•■ ttfomo* common t* npm mo ran la *r*nt*, and a groat tan.lj of rbotra trading Tb* prfo* ta >'• a tat. For boat rtM oarr *m •raratna or 1* on* dollar cmrntaaton ot• mfj lb* "laMarra Lrrraaa." an l*ganlly bound tolommf 4t*' pago., inn tat ring a portrait of <ba an I hoi Aatnpl* nwlaa of Ut* (IraMltm aril! ha*nt to any addron* frao. AMraaa, Naw York OHaarvop, :t I .r .VJ Park Ron, A'. I*. o4MI —lrowpat pric#. Evcrrlliing new arid fresh, at German*. FORKSHOUSE 1 Coburn, Centre Co., Pa. GOOD MEALS. • CLE AX BEDS. PRICKS MODERATE. , tor HOTEL WITHIN TWO MlN || UTES' WALK TO STATION. ■ Oiori Sir} r A■ • ■•t'noda:.. i< E*oy|l<"nt Hunting and Fishing grounds |tiit• this HntrJ, ' .IOS. KI.IXKNKI! - Proo'r. MRS. A. E. SEIBERT ! Would nt to lh+ I* iim ai Ro))rftwit* aft d Hclfttta tUt alw It do DKESS MAKING ♦ i lit tho very Lateal City Sljloa, and with A'wlwti and IhtpaUh. SXALES is HUNAN uAIU 308D2. > Combing* made to ordrr. Finking don* on short notice Stamping in Franch Oil a Specialty, t am Also Agont for tba Calibrated S 11 I>ra* Maker*' MAGIC SCALE. Mr*. A. K SEIBERT. , No. II Alleghany sc. Vl 1 -ftOa Rcunfonto, Pa. I
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