EVMPATHY. Friend, art thou drowning? foam ! v my hand ia help, than help tom yonder land, I Yenrer in 1 i Friend, art thou starving? Bo, too, L Therefore, 1 come not to thee overfed— To asic a crumb, To thee Friend. hast thou nothing? Yt, beggared ones Give more to (hose who beg than o'er Earty's richest sons, ~Qrace Denis Litchfield fn The Independent, END OF A JOURNEY. Loss have LL The Houghton landan drew up at the sta. tion and Louise alighted with her friend, Sybil Travers. The latter young lady, clad in a was the very pl ture of elegance, Louise was a little, ing’guificant thing, and she appeared less attractive than ever as she made her way to the wn alongside of her dis- tinguished | snd, “1% is too absurd, Bybil,” she said as they sat together ina remote corner, enjoying a last confidential chat before Miss Travers left for the west. “The idea of your posting off to Han Francisco all alone, simply n harmless youth pronises to come this way, and to act as your escort!” “It is only three weeks earlier than 1 meant to go, anyhow," said Sybil, “You know why 1 prefs You see Uncle Jerry has made up his mind that propinquity is the only thing necessary to make Mr. Valleau and myself fall madly in love with each other. He fancies that a trip across the continent is especially well calen- lated to bring about that much desired result, But 1 don't see it that way. I know very waiting because stoutly. to go alone, Louise, well that I should hate Mr. Valleau from the | I should feel bound to do it just for | outset. contrariety, Bo, you see, I prefer to go home a few weeks earlier, and to go alone; for if 1 do wait for Mr. Valleau, as Uncle Jerry wished me to, and if I failed to fall in love with him, you know very well that it would be fmipossible for me to explain the phenome- non satisfactorily. Ag it is I can smooth matters over easily.” “How far sighted you are, Sybil,” Louise said, laughing, “Mr. Valleau will be terribly disappointed though, I fear. your train, dear. Good-by. #00n 48 you arrive.” Then followed considerable girlish demon- stration, which provoked a smile on the lips Write to me as of a nonchalant young traveler who reclined | at his ease before one of the windows of a parlor car, and who had been watching Louise and Sybil with interest. “A very handsome girl, by Jove!” was his mental comment as Sybil took ber seat just behind him, and the mirror at the end of the car enabled him to command a full view of her face. “I wonder how far she is going.” There were no means of ascertaining just then, but when the conductor came through the car, and the young man presented his ticket, to which was attached a long string of coupons running all the way from New York to Ban Francisco, he noted with satisfaction that Sybil had one like it, “A through passenger,” he observed wonder i who she is! Traveling alone, too, but evidently a lady. She must be a Californian, but she looks like a New Yorker The yourg man's fancy ran ri while he kept Lis eyes fixed on the mirror in which was reflected Syhd lovely face, with its rich, warm end frame of rippling hair. Very often their eves met, as was only natural | had won- gderful composure for so young a girl, and the f ity she « the ham! "ete 3 coloring ts but Syl Se TY mtinued to wear rather had en Lali EDO nnocent enon in its nature, over he pialns iquant fli regretfully. lock © chagrined 1 me at ¥ wi 4.1 14 might be en 1 tation mn ore with § “ \t he said, “Beautiful, but susceptible of no passion that | is not animated by reason.” Such a conch Nn mig Bt hands ut tt ¥ iberately fixed om me juninted by but By OTe sO LL becoming ugh the protes ¢ instinct which prompted her to make fe ] cling alone, which soon ward bot baffled in sev quainian termina “W's something new in by Jove sh i" be remar) niray had not joined the little coterie establishes itself in every west. train. Her neighbor had been eral attempts to make her ac fMiculty only fired his de we, but Jif the feminine line of erthirown ol, when one his deepest laid schemes | been « by Bybil's courteous bat Cig: ne unapproachable hat this handsome stranger had man for many a day.” He ir temperament. When he ind to anything be usually ac and in was willing to relinquish all subordinate in He, too, held himself f passengers, ¥ ori ol tah frie fue mpisting tervaty fellow aloof from his and so it was that when Bluffs not a soul was on the traveled alone they reached Council uid have told wh re that board the train who o« lady a and were Any one who ha ie a trip wi be (los on terra firma that seized Myhil oy he reached C was a lithe, athletic fellow, and during the hour and a half that the train halted he made a pedestrian tour into the surrounding coun try. Unfortunat: be prolonged his walk beyond a desirabl rien be renched the ¢ bad already begun time hb reed much Ian wi elusive, transcontines | appre to take a tum = peculiar vis uncil Bluffs, He is when tation again Lue tral to move slowly had be the train when it wa go nore fdly, and, with a 10 . he for the rear platform of his ear, makin spring and eatching at thw iron railing As often happens, he had not caleulated on the full speed of the train. He mised the stop and fell backward, striking his head on the platform, and only escaping a terrible fracture hy tha presence of a pile of empty mail bags, which Lroke his fall The train stopped and the injured man was taken aboard. Ho was wholly Inteem-dble, and the blood gushed freely from the wound In his head. A skillful surgeon who happened to bo among the passengers was summoned at once, and, having seen the young man made comiortable in a sleeping car, be ox- amin d the contusion, “Will sore one please help me with these bandages?” the doctor asked. “No, thanks" le added n= a gentieman offered his services, “A lady, please.” He glanced around the car and his eyes fell on Bybil's calm face, on the slim white hands that looked so deft and agiiv, andl he poted the composure with which she bore hersoll, while the rest of the ladies wers wenrly ail fn a semi-hystorical state, NY 1 J ran Ka y howitation But there's | t, and all the | | you say” “Travers,” she repeated, looking at him | beautiful * ray Mother Hubbard, and wearing a pretty | poke bonnet piled high with ostrich feathers, | | Vincent was able to sit up. i ! some time for the wound to heal, but be had | | recovered pretty well from the shock. “Will yon hold these bandages, miss!” he asked, kindly. “Do you understand how to do itt" “Oh, ‘yes, sir,” said she, promptly. “My father was a doctor. I am used to such work.” The wound was shortly dressed, but it was a whole day before the young stranger awoke from the stupor occasioned by his fall, and thon it was only to pass into a state of de- lirfam, “Do you know who he is?” the doctor asked Sybil, who had been installed by common consent as the sick man's nurse, “This out of his pocket,” sho re plied banding him a business card, "1 think that is his name, as his baggage is marked with those initials. The doctor read: “Robert Vincent & Co, commission merchants, New York." “Ho had a narrow escape,” he observed, handing the card back to Sybil. “A little more foree would have erushed his skull like a nutshell.” A new interest suddenly awakened for Sybil. “1 wonder what Louise will say when she | hears that I have been playing numa” she pondered the day following the assumption of her new duties. “Poor fellow! [I'm sorry for him." At Cheyenne, happily for the sick man, the train was delayed two days by a landslide, During the interval of quiet and restithe doo- | tor succeeded in breaking his fe rer, and om the fourth day after the accident Mr. Vincent opened his eves in weak astonishment, as his returning consciousness discerned in his faithful attendant the handsome young lady with whom he bad tried so assiduously to flirt, Heo felt too weak from the shock and from the loss of blood to ask any questions, but Sybil divined his wonder and she explained to him the details of his accident, with a gentle grace as charming as ber former re- serve had been admirable, Nothing could have been prettier than SByb- i's devotion to the unfortunate stranger, and the other passengers seemed to appreciate it, for they held nloof and were content with being merely spectators, She waited on him with persevering devotion. It was Bybil's way to do that. She read to him, or, when he wished it, talked to him, the life aboard the train, and whan the week's journey was protracted by various obstacles to ten days ro one complained. Before they reached Ban Francisco Mr. It would take In the opinion of some of the passengers he was not altogether anxious for immediate ; convalesence, which was hardly to be won- dered at; and really I think Sybil felt a twinge of regret as she sat the last evening | beside Mr. Vincenty couch and listened to » on the front platform, lampa, “Don't you think, Miss Sybil." Mr. Vin. cent said in a low voice, “that some acquaint | ances ripen very much faster than others? | I feel as though I had known you for years, yet I cannot tell what your last name is. The doctor calls you just Miss Sybil" “1 thought you knew.” she maid, simply, ignoring bis first question, which had sent a | “My name is | | be bought for love nor money, let alone of up “What did | strange thrill to her heart Travers” “What!” he almost shouted. surprised. He sank back on the cushions helplessly, and turning his face toward ber, be mur mured: “Kismet!™ “Do you know.” he co which Sybil felt to be pregnant with mean ing—“do you know that we have been as badly mixed up as to our iC mities as the peo ple in a play. 1 had no idea you were Mim Travers. Your Uncle Jerry" —— “Do you know my Uncle Jerry? she cried, | in surpwise “I ought to." he replied, with an odd smile “1 am--Syt do I who practice little n yo The familiar manner of this addr offend ber, “That depe What would ¥ that mv name He bad | he felt it £1 il, you ever forgive people "nin uw H ves did not strange to say. 1a." she said softly a say if I were to tell you t Vincent at ali? ed to get hold of her hand, wasn ont i an stter slightly, but she wade no response. “I do not kn my name was Vincent wrect the impression I didn't care to, for that 1 might jar upon it, It is all the w now, for 1 fear this deceit diced you. Iam your uncle's friend, Sybil I am Royal Valleau!” It was her turn to start mt to believe that first I ox w what led ¥ At | was so pl wit} relation fear] to do any wee for me may have preju in sstonishment She snatched her hand away from him, bus he secured it again “Don’t!” he pleaded in 2 low tone giveme! Y you must not “Por wm and be wo cruel. You will at forget that | have deceived vou at afl Sybil gave no spoken reply, but her hand a have made me love was still clasped in his, and before the porter | lit the lsnps she suffered him to carry it to | hi lips This story was detailed in letter to Mim Louise Houghton the following week with the | appended comments And just think of it, Louise! ly engaged myself to him. [| meant to hate Uncle Jerry fs delighted, of him too! course. For myself, | can only say that | am perfectly hag leave the rest to your Wasn't it funny, though! He left New York three weeks before he had in tended to, because he didn’t want to be both ered with looking after me; and I ran away from him in the most unceremonious style Yor we both got on the same train after all It is quite like a romance, fen't it, dear! But I must close, as Roy is begging me to hurry and finish, 1 will write you more again Your loving friend, Symi Chicago Tribune 1 have actual 80, oy. and imagination General Lee's Hen, In Long's lite of Loe an interesting story of I | \ Is winl " ¢ chickens were once pre In the lot was a laying The hen accom panied the army to Gettysburg, riding in the baguage wagon, and aftey that battle was with the Confederates for nearly a year. At last the hen grew fat and lazy, and one day the steward, finding his supplies very low and knowing that the general expected a distin suished guest at dinner, killed the hen and she was served up on the altar of hospitality Gen. Loe was surprised to soe so flue a fowl wet before him, but he little dreamed that his pet hen had been slaughtered. When the hen was missed, however, the steward had th con. fess that he had been placed in a position like unto that of the boy who bad to capture the hen whom life ¥ wan spared ground hog, There was company for dinner | and no meat wUhbongo Herald, A Novel Testimonial, Abranamn Fulte, the discoverer of the Fultz | wheat, is living In the Juniata valloy; near Allensville, Pu. It] Is proposed that every { farmer who is now raising that wheat should i give him the value of one bushel, as he has never received a ont for his discoviry,- Chicago Times, The presence of | an invalid seemed wo Infuse a home feeling into | | on that, for" ——’ tinued, after a pause : uid not | , and, when I was able, | ur | least | HER HOSPITALITY. ——————— A BIT OF EXPERIENCE IN A ROCKY MOUNTAIN CABIN, How a Bellover In “Rade but Genulne Hospitality’ Met with a SBurprise=A Tall, Grim Faced Woman st the Buck Door, “These mountaineers are the most hospita- ble people on earth. It is a rude but genuine hospitality, They wouid share their last loaf with a stranger within their gates. The latch string hangs out for all” We were riding down a steep Rocky Moun. tain trail, my friend Clate and I, when Clate made the remarks quoted, He was an enthu- slast over the noble traits of the honest miner and mountaineer. Certain experiences of my own had made me skeptical on the subject, At the base of the mountain stood a little log cabin, “Now,” said Clate, “I'll prove my theory, It's past dinner time and we're both hungry as wolves, I'll wager anything you like that we'll got a good square meal at that cabin free of charge.” Five minutes later we stood before the closed door of the cabin, “Hello!” roared Clate, There was no reply, “Hello, I say!” This time Clate rapped loudly on the door, There being no response he lifted the latch, when the door swung open showing no one within, although the cabin was evidently be ing occupied. “All right!” cried Clate, cheerily. “Come what we can find in the commissary. The folks won't care. They've left the door open on purpose for wayfarers like us to «0, and help themsalves, It's just like Zoom. Its your westorner who knows what true hospi tality in" Clate “foraged around” for some time, but and a few potato A SUDDEN SURPRISE “We'll help ourselves to what there is," sald Clate, cheerily. “You bid a fire, Ned We're welcome to what we've found, I'll bet He stopped. A tall, lank, grim visaged woman, with a leathern looking face, sud denly appeared at a back door, Bhe saw “late, and yelled out “Drop them taters!” “Why, madam, JI" “You drop them taters!” “We are strangers, you see, madam, | and" “Drop sm.” A short gun bung on the wall, Rhe snatched | it down, brought 2 to her shoulder with a party of gentlemen warbling a Bwiss alr out | It was twilight, and | | the porter bad not yet come in to light the Jerk and maid: “Drop them taters too quick.” Clate dropped them, “Drop that pork.” Clate dropped it. “Now you fellers git.” I had already got, but Clate, alashed and rebuked though he was lingered until the | shotgun was again pointed toward him and | the woman said “Clear yourself! I'll learn you bow to walk into a body's house and help yourself to one's vittlen. That bacon and them taters ain't to by vou uns fer nothin’ We “lit out,” hungry and erestfallen, and Clate has been dumb ever since on the sub ject of western hospitality Zonas Dane In De trolt Free Pros Now you light out!” Civilization's Opposite Poles. Extremes meet While the tollers for a bam living, the are in Array Ww | lives an ng, and by the trade g the liv known in Amerien. All tions and sales thus far have do over before In the history f Collectors are 1 pure ol Aenean oY exhitd wo better that the a nxuries is enjovin or the picture w lomat B27 0X0 (0 arts Talk About a) Rowan, t} a club along Mad abotit soft snare first came to towy breaking the ice ar they were laving along Sixteenth sin west I suffered te of fer the river to the ues bitter cold w kent the when nter and main clear spring it fon around that old pipe charge overy day, but as it beg the fact that | was CRme nn to realise possession of the er ap Ver ttle het around the main du | ] ing the m y and August, and 1 had plenty of goto bh base ball games snap ran along October, and | missed a week's that ree races and until pay in Thors § all about soft enape ribbon tied around it Among Animals, va H » that have once Intoxication “The philosophers,” sort that monke oating lquors to excess will not tou thant 2 » - u I intaxd h them again are more desirous of gi in than The y of wine and &pirita the cnt They SOTHO © 1 Ie to rel punishment sem biles pre visely that of tadly controlled movements nes Mor r, ti toxicant kingrdon drunk. ores get eral thing are addicted to the use of aleoho! ; : when well sweetoned and sufliciently ily we enry Howerd in The Cosmopolitan ving us holding to th tame n Josarm morals exact truth monkeys are fond of They help therm 0 ma jor getting drmmk moe such in spite of the flan, th Cope rn Th into man i thelr tongue have bon sen drunk dogs refuse wine, sore o and if, su a gon Mis Fads Were Clocks and Shoes, Bpeaking of recentric characters, a rents. man the other day recasod the dioaypnerasion of the late Belveeter Donnaffon, who live! over what is now Madden's saloon ROI YOAIS Ap, very methodienl man, He was a lover of hormflah and always kept a fine ! Pike's { range of snowy mountains, which in the dis | of great height, stretching beyom he | gon; then an enormous fort with | would | might shelter the merchandise of a state {| one time we all exclaimed at the Hus] | to leave the train at some px {| most irresistible, | the wish | and stranger life within them was strong in {4 | all be could find was a plece of dry salt pork ‘ {It { nightmare | pleasant, indeed | neither read | Maney | Polot mine, like Tom Bowen's Golconda, was | just about paving expenses | fered to sell her for $40,000 i wi { to Chicago and interested Diamond Joe Rey | butiding show the same «ffects, though nd | remarkably as the library | elormant finkh, but it | need takes yonrs in the Hs diet | He was n moet cooentrie bat | devoted i team, in which he drove out every day for | pera twenty years, never varying as to Hie action in taking his daily was as ropular oe a special trols, ad route of time, driv thongh “on time" nooording to schedule, He {come of a war. and tl BCENERY IN COLORADO. Rocky Heights, Treeloss Mountains and Adobe SettlementsseA Zunl Village, There is no occasion to describe in detail the scenery niong a route which is traveled | by hundreds daily, and which has often been | portrayed by abler peng than mine, It wos all very new and strange to our eastern eyes, In Colorado we saw a rocky height sure mounted by a great castle, at least illusion seemed almost perfect, laton pass was like visiting another planet, all was so novel, Then followed in succession strange looking, treclew moun- tains, Mexican settlements with thelr adobe houses, as we descendad into wide grassy plains called “vegas.” At the point where the road passes near the Arkansas river the cattle seem Vist herds wero cropping the “bunch grass” on every side un til the animals became mere dots in the dis tance, The genuine cowboy was to bo seen at tho stations and his revolver was conspicn ous, Far to the right we caught glimpses Peak, and further on stil] wis a innumerable tance gave a vivid im of a marble city. Again, the marve anc fo tions of rock, red as blood, would approach near our lino of travel. In a sheer precipice HN ress lous vol rina. ra Hud ant ns that At nef a entrance isndes of tiv TE of vision, we saw the appear: next a brick warehouse grand cathedral, with its Gothl | and buttressed walls, My chief regret was that we had to pass in ’ | the night so much that was ax unfamiliar h . on in, Ned, and we'll forage ‘round and seo | if it belonged to another planet The desir nts al examine | at Jelsure various objects of Interest was al It was fairly exasperating to be whirled by a Zuni Indian village, for to ss one's self the strat pe homes feed. Canyon Diablo has been well termes that hideous erack in the face of the world to come back to one again in a Indeed for a Jong time the whole visage of nature had borne the imprint of is a thing | spent, yet flory, passion, the terrible traces of which kindly time can never remove. It was after leaving the infernal looking canyon far behind to enter the fine forests near Flagstaff, to see the 4 | creating the familiar lights and shadow the snow, and, above all, to eateh the hes | gleam from cottage windows, «E FP. Roe in Inter Ocean. He Struck Tt Rich. Leadville, Cola, ho can nor write, th t A miner in x Ww AY Joast $3.000.000, Four years ago he hadn't a penny, except what he earned from Hisname Is John L Ho Is about 22 years odd. The Cr dav t Mon wy day as a miner Her owners of Morri —- nt nolds In the matter, R olds knew Morrissey was an authority on mining if he couldn't write bis name. He finally pur chased the Point, agreeing Morrissey half {nterest after the was repald. Within thirty days a vein of first class ore that bas vi a monthly fn gin fs said to be £5 000 (50 wor Detroit Free Pres Crown they ot elded them me of LE piece T het Linesin and the Londoner. Aw well aa nn long this redort soanet ines anew ET race het ween +™ pd A pres bent Chinese In California " ¢ £4 Don't Try on Clothes, + trying ur tai word { Iphin Call The Alligator. The alligntor feeds on fis rt, and it not or rd part elar of be wil log chadns to fi the ach Be is ing hen n handy swallow | aching a sort of lu fiom « CINE 10 the number dav off to 3 for the bite of aver vet had a « He fe vy v 118 Oak Has Disadvantages, Sail the observant builder: “1 notice that the onken wood work in the Dufla sulfering from the heat to which The oak panels In the pe In in sub jected wtoflh LE] Onk makes an process Express Horses Wanted in England, Englishmen declare that their country fs absolutely unabde to supply the number of 1vbdidle clas horses that wosld be required in question as to tho | moans of supplying the possible demand fs | being agitated. The exportation of horses he arrived at particular points as punetus?® as | invariably drove out Walnut street to Ninth, | tp MWioth to Ridge avenus, along Fldge ave. | pie wp Broad, Yo carried a cloek to time himself and roturned to the stable atbp m After in death 125 pairs of shoos were four] ; in bis room and thirty nine clocks, «Philadel pliln Nows i Ba been forbidden from continental countries which have anything to spare, and it is de manded that immediate stops be taken to pro- eiare 200600 head. if necessary, to be procured from Asnerica Chicago Tribune, A tiny boat with two men in it, is making the voyage from the Capea Good Hope te Louden this | Climbing swift | : {| colonies, Th | the English | lished, about 1740, it was probably a great ary | it =n oe | is bart wood to seseon | Butinlo | : | of | tree Junior, two sophomores and oto {rod i nan | friendly conference with the faculty, who, it WEBSTER'S SPELLER. EVOLUTION OF LAR "“BPELLING BOOK.” Noah Webster's Great and of nu Cone Tencher's WorkeThe Famous “"Keloet Fables,” Enterprise=The Fortune's necticut Sehool the much in Dilworth's ¢ Tongue,” One of books in the New Guide to and when first pub vogue HIM improvement on its predecessors, for it had a great run in both « Today, in glancing through it, it seems nearly worth- less: and this opinion © in to take sitape towards the end of Revolution, when Joel Darl only expressed public sent “lads ones lugged futo it when all kinds of gra At this tin ™ 1 r, Iresh College, Ww Linen DUnLries, Ww m Olam y went in complaining that nunar all their days after.” from Yale of Con atl sum i speach Ly |} i yor, aed that @ must strike out for himself i witieut Jogo bred lad ool 1 vite i ving, ach n FT I's Hartford and th in and od of thy To a nat thing to Ix work sometl stor set Lime) “New Guide a work of 1 ‘ prog with the lack of pli this cou that tir years of hard study when be traveled thr deavoring ntry at to protect fies with § lisher, but « ai tind the aid of driven to the n risk upon his o Good win, Pp 1784 5.0XK) ¢ bond to might be, Wehut or } book “The One iru y ! i there all his ¥ the tof Yale A Gram Language,” and 1 { the work ves the real merit | so strongly as the fact that for twenty vears it bore that and ve the titie t lived, though at " riod the name became “The ished in thi It was the cus the ite ns off rections mn the language of the srwoent alters un oh VOY very and changed K The ng and suthor improvi upted in his dictionary 1 especial in 1 wall he might, tT was derived 1 his id rate youth «<u i oan still be amd there leery throug! Cooperation in a College. The faculty of Princeton agreed upon a pian to admit udents 0 a share In the control of the Under the plan, a committee twelve undergradastes—eix college have cullen coming no will be elected by the students for is believed, will thus be enabled to admin ter thie discipline of the college with greater case and Justice to all concerned, «Frank Leslie's The Cowgguily Walras Mr. Elliott denies the courage and ferocity | sommonly attributed to the huge, hideons monster known as the walrus It is, on the cotitrary, abjectly timid, and sn covered with a wrinkled, warty, plioply hide as to recall degraded human “bloata” Its enormous ivory tusks are used only in digging clams, and aro very loosely planted in their osseous ores Sncoessful | 1859-1887. THE ONCE POPU- | Great Reduction vw young are afraid of i PRICES!!! I am now Prepared to Give BIG BARGAINS. DRY GOODS, - Dress Goods from be per yard. NC7IONS, Hose from 3c to $1 per p wr GROCERIES Lower Tan the Low: est. Give us a Call Wo Guarantee Satig- faction. Countrv Prodvece On hand, and Wanted at all times. C. U. HOFFER Allegnen ¢ wu, Bellefonte, Pa
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