MAJ, WATTS SAID SO. {Ben Wylde In Chicago News) One day a man with a white shirt and silk hat out of the stage and be- gan pacing off distances and making en- tries in a book. F.rst he went down the road, then out across the widow Eagan’s farm kitty-coruer, and back by the base-line road. The Tamarack folks had never seen a man act like that, and pretiy soon the whole village was in a subdued uproar of excitement, if you know what a subdued uproar is. The villagers stopped all work and mosied over to the store to see what it all meant. When school let out for recess all the boys and some of the girls came running over to see what the gathering of citirens was about. One villager— Dan Tobias—followed Maj. Watts, the stage driver, over to the stable and aske i him who the stranger was. The major never admits his ignorance on any question, so he merely shut one eye and drew one corner of his mouth down till he thought he looked about as wise as they make 'em, and replied: “Never you mind. He knows his biz, an’ he's goin’ to 'tend to it, don't you furgit it. He's a smart 'un, and’ you'd better jes' let him alone ef ye know what's good fur yeall.” The villager returned to the crowd and said he knew all about it; that the major had told him. “Who is het"’ asked many. ‘Never you mind," said the villager, shutting one eye and mmitating the ma- jor's wise look as nearly as possible, “he's the smartest man that ever struck these parts. If you knowed 'im you'd say so, too. He's goin’ to do wonders here ‘fore he gits through, you hear me!" “So the major knows ‘im, eh?” Deacon Bibbs, “Know ‘im? 1 Knows 'im like a book. tell who ‘e is, though." This was recommendation enough, for was not the major himself a officer, intrusted with t auty of carrying the mai fromm Aurora to Tamarack? he not often told thé that he wes familiarly acquainted hie president, whom he calle first government 1 t AsSkeq sb'd say he Rr he responsible 1 p 3 } And had mT wat 15 Tamarack e] and al that nol his name, aNclals wing The stranger m tLe greatest men In the try; 1 be even the president him seif, though this was doubtliul, Uncle Billy Wagner stood in front of the store when the stranger got out of the stage and called the major “driver,’ whereas the major had often assured everybody the the president alwavs ad dressed him as “maje.’”’ and usually ac companying it with a slap on the shoulder. No, the stremge geutleman in the silk hat probably wasn't the president. But that he was some hig man who had a great deal to say about the affairs of the govern. went became the settled belief of the Tamarack folks. **Mebby he's goin’ te build sad Josh Reynolds, “Mebby.” coun suthin’," “Or,” put in Zeke Berry, ‘‘p'raps he's | goin’ to dig fur sathin' ur ruther.” “P'raps.” "Bet that's it. gold.” “Gosh! what ef ‘e wuz! Them sci ence fellers is gittin' so's they knows right w'r to look fur them things, you know." “Mebby he's thinkin’ o' layin’ eut a place to keep Indians in." “No, I don't reckon that, ‘cause In dians, you know, has to to be kep' w'r they's plenty o' buffaloes an’ deers.” So the guessing and the reckoning and the cale’lating went on until the stranger came back and sat down on the steps in front of the store. “Nice day," said he as the knot of vil- lagers at a ful distance and looked at him from behind each other. Everybody was anxious to agree with him and a dozen of the villagers looked up in the air and allowed it was a good clean day. little town “You have a Jory pretty bere, but I should think you would have a railroad so that you could ship your grain to New York and get big prices or it, and have cars stop right at your doors and take you anywhere you want to go. Why, if you had a railroad here every foot of this land would be worth «lollars where acres of it aren't worth wents now," The villagers looked at each other with big, round eyes, and two or three of them nodded their heads at each other as much to say: “That's it; & railroad is just the fing we've been wanting all this time." “This town is located just right for a railsoad center,” continued the stranger. “It's a dead level, with plenty of reom to ; and when it became a big city wi fic long touts of brick and Sins buildings and a big exposition buildin over there to the west, and car-shops over here to the east, and all the nicest residences off to the south with the gasworks and water. works back here to the north out the way, don't you see how handy this A country would be for sireet-cars connecting all parts this level coun- to Tamarack, If you'll of jt you'll see that every Bet he's HE “4 E 1 3 did. | Toid me not to | government | with i since | lookin" fer | , £o land sold here since—lemme seo - Bill Simpson sold the last, but he took it out inno, hole on! Daddy Sims' darter—she thet's now Mra. Somebody over in lowa-—she sole her pa's ole farm to Ben Gordon three year ago come fall.” “What did she get for it?" “That's what I wus tryin’ to think; whether it wus—— Say, Dan, what'd Ben Gordon give Sally Sims fur the ole farm?’ “Give 'er $65 'n acre. Skun ‘er, too, like thunder, She might 'a gota hun- dred fur it jes' 's easy 's sixty-five. Ef she'd abeen smart, an’ put it right up to auction. Tom Judkins 'd 'a gin ‘er any amougt to keep Ben Gordon f'um git ni” “What's the trouble between Mr. Gor- don and Mr. Judkins?’ asked the stran- or. “Waal, ya sco, eight vears they was some talk o' having a noo church, an’ Tom an' Ben is both big men in the church, an’ Tom lives over ver 'bout a mile t' the west and Ben lives on t'other side over = east ‘bout three-quarters, and they th wanted the church on their sides o’ the town, so the church folks thought it 'd make bad blood if they bnilt it in either place, so they didn't build none at all, an’ Tom an’ Ben has fit it ever since.’ Alter dinner the etranger lighted a road. When he reached Mr. Gordon's farm he found back of the barn pig-yard fence, “1s this Mr. Gordon!” “That's my name." The stranger handed him a neat little card which told that he was Francis E. Huntley, general agent of the American Overland Hailroad company, “Probably you have heard of our com- pany, Mr. Gordon,” “Waal, no, can’t say 1 hev.” i “Why, we are the company { building that big consolidated system « { railway from New York to San Fran railing a board to the that is of i800, man wio IWICe a wWoek | folks | Mr *1 came to vou for dan.” : “I hain't m LsOr lon, sl ortly, from hi “It & I waut Ei 18 1 re like information I may business with a Mr Judkuis, who lives somewhere about here—"" Mr. Gordon stopped work “And as | never met the gentleman, | hats, Huntley observed this Mr. Gor advice, uch ou the ady have some | but had heard of you as an honorable man and one of my brother Methodists, I thought 1 would learn something of Mr. Judkins. Is he responsiblef” “Responsible for what!” asked Mr. Gordon, laying his hammer and a hand. ful of nails on a fence post. “Well, suppose he should agree to give our company a certain amount of land if we would locate our depot and would he fulfill his promise?” Mr. Gordon wiped his boots grass and said “Come into scat.” They went in and Mr. Gordon whis- pered something through the kitchen- door. Presently Mrs. Gordon brought in a pitcher of cider and some glasses and a pan of doughnuts, “Air you really goin’ to build a rail road through Tamarack?’ said Mr, Gor- don. “Well, we've got to go through some- where. Tamarsck is right on our line, but Plainfield, over here to the south, wotild probably give a good deal to have the house and take a property boom right up in price." out uv a straight line, though.” “So we don't, and that's why I came over to see what Mr. Judkins would do. Of course if he will make it an object for us te locate all our buildings and side-tracks, and all that on his farm we'd rather go through Tamarack. Certainly he can afford to do it, becanse it would make the rest of his land worth hundreds where it isn't worth dollars now, but..." shops over yere on this side?” odds? Judkins owns all the land. “All 0’ what land?” “Why all this land. Doesn't Mr. Jud kins own this farm you're working?” in red-faced rage. “Why, I thought he did. A man in Chicago told me be did, and 1 belisve he said Judkins himself told him so.” “Yea, sir; 1 thought so.” said Mr. Gordon, storming about the room and kicking the eat against the clothes bars, upsetting every thing. the ornery critter 0 go tellin’ them kind o' lies. 1 knowed he wus a schemin’ fur suthin' dishonest when I seed ‘im put a hull dollar in the plate las’ Sunday. "' “I'm sorry I dida't anderstand this matter, Mr. Gordon, before; but it's none too late yet. If he is a dishonor able man and has > Bn t I An' will yo! Say, you me a little, ani yoy get on the nicest kind to- get Add “Waal, sir, I'd give half my farm to beat Tow Judkins in this ‘ere ness,’ ethodis’ | cigar and started on up the base-line | that gentleman dows | vast car shops on a part of his farm, | on the | us come there. Of course it would make | “I sh'd think you wouldn't like to go | “Why don’t you put pour depots and “We would like to, but what's the | “Who said he did?’ asked Mr. Gordon “That's jes’ like | FR KE AN ot 8 eral offices and all that right there on Gordon's farm. Now, I'll und buy eighty acres ns if 1 were gettin it for the road, and I'll sell it to you cost if you'll help mo get the bonus from the town.” Mr. Judkins was pleased with the ar- rangement. To own half of Gordon's farm wus glory enough if he didn't make a dollar out of it. So the bargain was struck, and everybody was satisfied. Gordon gladly gave eighty acres of land to get the depot and shops away from Judkin; Judkin gladly ve $100 an {acre for half of Gordon's farm; both I gladly helped Huntley to get a bonus of $10.00 from the township, and Hunt. ley gladly went away with a small for- tune in his pocket, and has never been seen since. When it was pretty definitely settled | that Huntley was a bold, bad man, and that the American Overland Railroad { company existed only in his bold, bad mind, the Tamarack folks called on Maj. Watts to explain his acquaintance with the stranger in the white shirt and silk hat. I “Wy, confound it,"" said the major, | “didn’ I tell you I knowed ‘im. Didn’ | {tell ye he wus a smart ‘un, an’ you'd { better let im alone! An’ then you went {and didn’ let ‘im alone, an’ it sarves ve right fur not takin' my word. Hain't that what 1 tole you, Dan Tobias?" And Dan had to admit that those were exactly the major's words, Electrie'ty as a Brute«Tamer, (Pall Mall Gazette.) The latest application of electricity is an invention made in the interests of lion-tamers, which consists of an ap- paratus of great power, shaped like a stick, about three feet and a half in length. Mr. Rauspach, the inventor, is a lion-tamer himself, who has been “a good deal worried’ during su career. He already experimented with it ure denizens of the ¢ REE and relates the dierent « brutes Thre along and e8sIul professional remained motionless {i ward Ww hen he recovered he showed signs of numbness for three whole days Finally, the elephant ou being electrified by a touch of the stick upon the tip of { his trunk set up a series of wild cries | that the tamer | and became so strange feared the brute wonld break his heavy {iron chain. M. Rauspach is said to in tend addressing a paper upon the ex per | ment $0 the Academy of Sciences, The Extinction of Plants, [Setenon, ) | wirich threatens many of the rare plants {of the Swiss Alps has led to the { | tion of a society for their preservation | On reading the account of this society {the question arises. Are any of our | rarer species likewise in danger of ex- { termination? With the exception of { the extensive raids which are annually | made upon some of our native plants by | herb collectors (and it must be under | stood that this bas assumed very consid { erable proportions, especially at the | south,) there are no very large drafts | | made which imperil the existence of the | less common species. To be sure, in a few localities the may | flower and the climbing fern have been extirpated by the greed of collectors for {the market; but it can hardly be said {that these beautifnl species are yet in {peril. The same is true of the medici- Ju} paca, ginseng and mandrake. It {is fortunate that most species collected { for medicinal purposes are reasonably | prolific, and will doubtless hold out un- til those now in fashion have been dis. | earded hy other aspirants for popular i and professional favor. Tobacco Manufnctories, {Ch Horald Of the £00 000,000 pounds of tobacco grown in this country this season 300, | 000,000 will be manufactured into chew. | ing and smoking tobacco and snuff. The | fobacoo manufactories proper are abeut 080, but of cigar manufactories the number reaches more than 16,000. New York and Pennsylvania have each about 4,000, Ilivois and Ohio about 1.300 each, none of the other states reaching | in number as high as 1,000. These cigar manufactories made over 8, 000,000,000 {cigars in the fiscal year just ended, and about 750,000,000 cigarettes, From Men to Monkeys, (Dr. F. A. Hassler.) The Bedouins will not eat the flesh of the monkeys that are found upon Mount Kara, because of the supposed evil in. fluence such an act would have upon their lives. They believe that these monk were once men who went to me Mohammad Sad he put both water and milk before them, but they from Jervamtons washed in the milk and k the water, so they were turned into monkeys. Hard to Pull Up, [Boston Times.) It was in the country and little Nollie mendous shops and side-tracks and gen. THE DEAR PUBLIC. [Charles Mackay.) prefer « buffoon to a scholar A Soepatuln, ton touches, n ma flaring on horseback and WOLD Brute of a public! ou think that to sneer shows wisdom That a gibe outvalues a reason. That slang such ns thieves delight in, Is fit for th lips of the gentle, And rather & grace than a blemish, Thick-headed public! You think that if mggit's exalted “Tis excellent sport ti) decry it, And trail its name in the gutter; And that cynics, white-gloved or cravattod, Are the cream and quintessence of all things, Ass of a public! You think that success must be merit, That honor and virtue and courage Are all very well in their places, But that money's a thousand times better; Detestable, stupid, degraded » Pig of a public! Surgical Ald to Attain the Beautiful, (Philadelphia Press ) The competition between dudes in the matter of small feet has become 80 in- tense that they are visiting the consult- ing-rooms of prominent surgeons and asking to have their big toes amputated, so that they be able to get into boots of the smallest compass possible. Professor Willian H, Pancoast, of the Jefferson medical college, has, during the past month, been called upon by three men The imminent danger of extinction | { mainly for the and one wogan, all of them making the | singular request, In every instance he re- | fused to perform the operation, and the | would-be patients went away disgusted. | The idea of the surgeon's knife aiding {them in their efforts to attain the beau. | ful seems to bave occurred to hundreds of people stimultancously, like an epidemic “I can't account for this remarkable desire for being mutilated f appearance, i ! porter can say that It must 1} shoes. P 100s haa to 1 pmputated MN Gisen igh I have ha Nave ix seen to get along all right ots of pati moved, and they ha always been « oled when told of the dainty | they will be able to wear " * 3 2 5 - . Gon t think they miss the toes curious fact that are men. Popular prejudice would at once conclnde that but a woman ould be so vain. One of my visitants was a farmer, though what on earth he i wanted with small feet | can't imagine none have patients who [brows eradicated,” continued, ithe hair by the roots and j electricity, which gives the person a | sharp, stinging pain. After this treat. ment the undesirable eyebrows never re turn. Ladies who are so unfortunate as to have mustaches are treated in the want meeting eye Professor Pancoast can only have half a mustache removed in aday. They go away looking very i funny. It is getting quite common to | do away with defects in the ear or nose | All these items are part of a physician's { regular routine; that is, all excepting the | big-toe treatment, : i i perform for any one. [Globe Democrat. ) A drouth in | mometer often goes to 140 degrees in {the shade at this season of the year, A DProuth in India. i India, where the ther. means first, the entire failure of the year's crop and impending starvation for millions. It means also the drying ap of the water courses, the disappear. ance of the ponds and lakes, the empty- ing of the reservoirs all over the country, and the consequent temporary abandon ment of exesllent farming land, the former occupants being driven to the i neighborhood of the larger streams. It | means the expenditure of huge sums of | money by the Indian government in re- lieving the necessities of the starving people, and the resumption of vast sys tems of relief works comprising the grad- { ing of railroads, the digging of canals | the excavation of reservoirs, undertaken putpase of furnishing | work to the populations, and thus keep- | ing thém alive till the next crop A be grown. though a drouth to-day in India is no in- significant affair, it is by no means what it was before the days of the English oc cupation. Then, when one district suf fered from famine, another, only a few miles away, might be in plenty: but there were no roads, no means of trans portation, and, consequently, no relief, railroad and the telegraph have pre- vented the possibility of many deaths from starvation, save in the outlyi districts; but still, even now, a pen | drouth is an exceedingly serious matter for all concerned, and often taxes the sources of the Indian government to the dtmost to prevent m real suffering. Ozone Generated by Plants, 18 : i I i fl % is ITCH. SORES. PIMPLES. | AAPELAS WORM bw plonis are moleture, stinging, itohing, worse st CIEUL; sevine a If pin-worias were crawling about ti» rectum; the private parts sre often aflected. Ass pleasant, economical and positive cure, Swayss's Diurseny le ruperior to any article in the Seid by druggist, or send U0 oa, in Bot. Stamps 3 Boson $1 20. Address, Du. 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