Why is it 80 ? Some find work where soma find rest, And so the weary world goes on ; 1 sometimes wonder which is best; The answer comes when life is gone Some eyes sleep when some eyes wake And so the dreary night hours go ; Rome hearts beat where some hearts broak ; 1 often wonder why "tis so, Some hands fold where other hands Are lifted bravely in the strife And so thro’ ages and thro’ lands Move on the two extremes of life, Some feet halt where some feet tread In tiresome march, a thorny way Some st e on where some have cop on while The vigils « They Around t r nau aboy thers keep I the true will not rest till r and bray THE TRUE FRIEND LOST. I had been foolish and weak, but no wicked, in my inncent coquetry with Leigh Lake. I say innocent because |} bad imagined it sport to him as well to myself. He had the reputation not only the handsomest 1 regiment, but the an test finn bee gred od Ty se if, laughed when to me, 1e hb n nd said to in this case be diamond cut Somehow my eyes had fall his first admiring glance, bat myself with the thought: “So he always look move in his attack.” I y t ol 1 met gi wee with glance, smile, and petty speech with = tort, or sentimental repartee, uld be ling effect as one or the other ¢ with more t Are one even you sincere’ ing. Answer 16 rds,’ down my weapon, acknowle vou are not, tell me so now.” “In other we [ answered, * armed condition, and smiling you to advance to victory.” “No,” he said. defeat. You that you hold weapons that you wear a mask. “No,” I replied, “I we Be acknowledge, however yi -in other word ¥e \' no CArry no weapon. Lake.” He grew pale and opened his mer if to speak then hastily asising, making a brief adieux, he For the first time | wa ened, a little in doubt as wholly a matter of amu a little dubious as to h regard my conduet Roger playe in l a very even then, s he had on his return | my life, miles away my that would become his promi wile, and I determined on the Colonel's next | visit I would turn the convention into! other channels, But | my good intentions had no opportunity to carry The | first act when he entered the room nexi | into effect evening, where I sat alone, was to cross | directly in front of me, then stoop and | take both my hands in his, gl You asked me last night to be merci ful,” he began. God help you if you do | not mean those words. They have been ringing in my ears ever since. Child do you know—do you dream—how [ love you? You have raised in me the first passion of my life, though I am to-day What a little frail thing you are, and yet you hold in thirty-three years of age. these little hands a strong man’s desti ny. Speak to me, love? Tell me that my wife is before me?” In that moment my coquetry wings and fled away and in its came a dull realization of what | done, took | stend had [ strove to draw my hands from his. As well might I have tried to dislodge | stone imbedded for centuries in the! mountain side. My self-posession for. sook me. In my fright I blundered out the worst possible thing I could have maid. I eannot do that, I wife of two men | I was engaged.” A look of steely icy contempt lashed into his eyes, He wrung my fingers un- til | eried vut with ‘pain, then threw the from me and folded his arms across his breast, You dare tell me this,” he said in a low coucentrated tones. An. gwer me one question. What mean, pitiful metive has made yon do this thiog? I did not know you were in carnest,’ I replied, remembering as | spoke how hard I had tried io faske him think so ~though never in my inermost thought to this extent-—ns the great father is my judge, to blast his future, or to bring about his mouth the white line of agony drawn there, “I thought a moment ago,” he an- swered then, very slowly, “that in my Jife I had no other prayer to make to heaven. I make it now, and that is that I may live to see you suffer through your love as you have deslt suffering to me through life,” His words seemed like a curse. —They filled the room, and oppressed my very soul with a nameless dread and haunt. ing prescience of the future. eannot be tho I thought you knew { each other, At your hand I prefer | remembered he said | Colonel He it | had ordered my husband | to tell ron it prise Shivering, | buried my face in my hands. When Roger comes home 1 will [ tell him all I whispered to myeelf. jut somehow, when three months | later Rog [ to think of in the busy preparations for | blue it a ers came home I had so much my marriage and my sky was so | that I eould not bear to risk upon [ single cloud, idle | As though any misery could grow out of Roger and I felt for small, how unworthy idle Naver mind, | The Colonel's words were now, the deep heart-love How of him and of my 1 had been my coquetries of the past. had all my future to atone, Then the outer world came my wedding day, when gave me its smiling benison, in bright sunshine and balmy and could have my exquisite | SIX mon ‘) Our bearing with an | knew 1 sh But | pleaded 50 § he reluctantly yet gladly promised we should start on the evening of the next | day. | When I bad time to think it over | wi was under the pe Lake's command, | shuddered was, doubtless, whose fluence from my side since he had not dreamed of my ace in paying him. Or what further evil might Was it not my di he nol work hm it warn him ? My Roger ail, ADU me I Wi anda | he courage failed h. At least bim through me, ule (ar iourae ira ’ I Was worn ana exhnausied at iis ciose, I'he Colonel himself wet our ambulance s arrival, Y 1 ve 1g d 3 our w for heard him say in amated tone remark of wel Omi Roger's, first greeting. “We will do all we tomake her « l Pesides He added something it | that I failed to cateh it, $ ight down ir A moment later | caught face, ns Roger lifted me I almost cried out in my sur- | black short year ago, His hair which had been as & ravan's wing one was almost white, He looked fully fifty | years of age. The sight caught my fear and resentment to vanish, and I held out my hand. “Won't you welcome me Colonel ?” | asked. He bowed, without seeming to notice stretched hand, murmured some courteous words of greeting, and | my out then turned away to give a commard to an orderly standing near. very little of him in the weeks that followed. citement, for the Indians were constant. | ly molesting us,and fears were enter | tained that they meditated an attack, | Indeed, they expected on the night of our arrival, and this is what the Colonel | had confided to my husband, Still in spite of all, I was glad to be here. Awey from Roger I should have I saw They were weeks of ex. sickened of suspense, Now I was by his | heart's self-reproach, and the wonder if, side to meet and know the worst, “Why are not you and Lake better | brand will be upon my brow, friends 1" he said to me one day, “I | can't understand it" Nor could I explain, now that I kept silence so long ; besides, the distrust was wearing away. Although distant and reserved quietly repulsing all my advances 1 felt that Colonel Lake would do Roger no wrong. Until one morning my sophistries fled, The Indians had made a sortie. No one knew their numbers or their strength. [tL was necessary to rend out an advance guard from our little garrison, though each man who went well knew that he might never retarn, At 11 o'clock my husband, to my amazement entered my room in full un. iform, “Good-bye, little Be!” he said. — “Pray for my safe return, dear, 1 am ordered to command the advance,’ “You shall not go!" I cried wildly. “It is his revenge ! Fool that | have been to have trusted him." “My darling, calm yourself, What do you mean ?" ed. Leaving him transfixed with astonish ment, | flew across to the Colonel's room. He was buckling on his sord as I en tered, “You have done this thing, I began ; you have seen how happy I am, and it vour orders—leave must convert into agony. Rescind me to my husband [ throw myself at your feet, at your some ' one stolen had the “articles, “I'm devilish sorry,” said he, “for I've been er savin’ them things for yer ben- efit for a long time, knowin’ how aig nog would strike yer Christmas day.” “That is bad,” said the General, “and if 1 could discover the thief be should be punished, Stay here and let me go out and skirmish." The General after much difficulty sue ceeded in secur ng the Ingre dients, and mercy, “1 would have Ha is the pared him if I could | officer at the post capable of | { Lee. The danger is divided, und equal | | | | treat to our | 1 ose lat ser) sm} n wily savages launched his tomahawk | my breast. The Cblonel { fore me enught and now | the suffering I once wished her | those rash words | atonement,’ | | PY Years now, | though my happiness mingles ever my | just this attack, I accompany him, Mrs | 1 for both." ro, il | it must be, to your death !'’ | | “wy answered cruelly, “You have no right to | He shall drag my | and with ye vd in him fr ble torture and su pret I'he day wore slowly or when my bra n statue | I'he Yy came sow ly ing wit some shrouded Among the latter | knew that he find my husband even as finding him | 1 wuld EO ma il. But no ! horse, smiled leading the van | his though in his eyes 10 welcome, and on his was a ghastly palor but I was nota | widowed wife, I threw myself on the neckjof the his [ clung to Roger in my wild horse ; I kissed al see ing him again. yu are alive over and over, 1 es he for me, He sprang from his | lad ma t ha little ied me (0 the Ltlier white, de up At Us “We hs wan ti then he He had ridden on a litt ' bu vance of the mand, when suddenly surrounded by the foe de per steely as ari ' en ov ywered, 1 § he had lown in wan to the very Arrows, “Itt 4 ed worthy 4 ) husband ‘ “Though we were both unhurt, miraculously so. We were beat command, when one « saw it glitter {ing in the air, and throwing himself be. | the in blow. The next | it he said, press I did it for her Roger I ared much for living since ; | minute we were safely gain late, ‘Don’t regret it, ing my hand. “Tell her sake, I love have have not « her boy now that I have spared her I am hey * never meant them | glad to die, Ask to forgive me | and let her future happiness buy my | I have been Roger's wife many hap | He proach me, though I told him al! was too noble to re but at the judgment bar of God, Cain's| —— A Confederate Egg Nog One cold, cloudy Christmas day, when | the prospects of the Confederacy wero | as gloomy as the weather, an Arkansaw | soldier, whose clothes looked as though they bad been run through a threshing | machine, approached Gen. Hindman, | who sat on a stump near a fire, and said “Oineral, wouldn't a little aig-nog go | purty well this mornin’? You know in Arkansaw we allus cilibrate Christmas | with a little o' the stuff” “Yes,” the General replied, “and | should like to have a quart of it right now." “Well, let's go to your tent, whar no- body keen see us, an’ we'll make some ‘rangements,’’ When they entered the tent, the sol. dier said : “You git the whiskey and I'll git the igs an’ sugar.” “All right,” The soldier went away; and after a while, with dejected countenance, he “Wait here a moment,” [ exclaim. mane, his forehead: |’ A | Rail | even visit dry | ing the other end around, making the | sircle with a knife or a chip. Then place ere long a bowl of the frothing drink | | Wis prepared, ‘Ah,” said the roldier, refilling hi tinccup for the third time like “this taste be Put old times, when | uster ofl get up . ¥ aay an’ fire the old fuzee, two men’s heads together, an’ sunthin’ goin’ ter happen,” Do you remember old | who used to run a flat moment : And Have Your Job Woke here is Fagan nen, said Ger have been with me this re ng At Id fellow, a former flatboat man, came to me and talked about « He f 0 outh Je 1 i been he ma ha nog till 1 that he waler, ving up a int enefit, and tha! ~Om n ished the this morain “Hold on. ve know ines orderly. ar Gen. Hindman giving him the LI y . ge man, n the Confederac { not go unrewarded ne Chicago 3 way line has become | that ' Irunk, “AY most recent or. Al rs0as who king j employed and no man once discharged known to 0 pe 3 noes shall not be for this cause will be employed again [his is stringent, but neeessary. Science that y foe to that certainly and security which the demonstrates alcohol is railways promise their passengers, and ire only applying the con to the officials lusions of sciene the beneiitto travelers Measuring the Height of a Tree There is a very simple way of measur ing the height of a tree which can be practiced by any one on a sunny day or n bright moonlight. All the apparatus that i* necessary is a straight stick, of any length, Draw a circle with aradios (half the diameter) of a little less than the length of the stick. This will be done by holding one end of the stick, say two inches from its end, and mov the stick in the ground exactly in the centre of the circle, perfectly upright, and press down until the height of the stick in exactly the same as the radius of the circle, When the end of the shadow of the stick exactly touches the circle, then also the shadow of the tree will be ex. | actly in the length the same measur | ment as its height. Of cource, in such n oase, the sun will be at an angle of 45°, | Mensurment of this character can be | best effected in the summer, when the sun is powerful, and has reached to a | good height in the heavens, and when the trees are clothed with living green | 80 a4 to cast a dense shadow. To many to whomjthis idea may not have oo cured, it might be made annually a matter of interest thus on warm sum. mer days to take the height of promi. nent trees, and so to compare growth returned with the information that from year to year, ~—AT THE— ORNERE AVIDERAT Job Office Now is the Time to Subscribe FOR THE “CENTRE DEMOCRAT,” ‘The LARGEST and CHEAPEST Paper in Bellefonte. ONLY $1.50 PER YEAR, IN ADVANCE. OFFICE: COR. ALLEGHANY & BISHOP STS) BELLEFONTE, PA}
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