PRAYING FOR A WIFE. “Saints, sinners and the Beecher family,” has been printed as the remark of the late venerabls Dr. Todd, of Piusfield, Mass. Possibly the following anecdote of the father, which had from his eldest son, Rev. Wm. HB. Beecher, may illustrate the peculiarities of his family. The old gentleman bad lost his second or third wife, saye the Cleveland Plaindealer, and was resolved to marry again, Hence, at a family gathering in Cincinnati he said “My children, heretofore I have married altogether to suit myself, but now I am willing to marry to suit youif you can think of any suitable and proper peason who will have me.” The children put their heads together and concluded that a certaio Mrs. Jackson, who kept a large boarding house in Boston and was ajmember of Edward's church, would make him a capital wife, and it was arranged for Rev. Edward to negotiate with Mrs, Jackson After waiting a week or so the old gentle man became impatient and started to Boston, driving to Mrs. Jackson's house, calling for her and unfolding at once the object of his mission. The good lady was thunderstrack, protest- ed that she had no idea of marrying and couldn't think of such a thing ; it was ‘mpossible. To all of which the ‘old doctor replied that he was equal- ly surprised. The arrangement had heen made in Cincinati, Edward was to prepare the way, and he had made his arrangements to preach in Andover sod Amberst and to attend the May soniversaries, an. expected, of course, to tae her with him as his wife. Ar this point the good lady expressed herfelf as shocked that Edward had never spoked to her on the sobject; nor would it have made any difference if he had, for, as to marrying egain she could not and would not—not even the venerable and celebrated Dr. Lyman Reecher! After a moment's pause the doctor said : “My dear Mrs. Jackson, I am sorry you have so much feeling absut it, bat I will stay with you a day or two and we will talx the matter up,” to which the lady responded that her bouse was full, she had no suitable room for him, and could not entertain him. “Oh, never wind, then,” said the doctor, “I will go round to Edward's and come and take tea with you.” Apd sure enoogh at tea time he was there and set vext to Mrs, Jackson at the table. It was one of those large boarding houses on Beacon street at which the lady of the house presided as a sort of matron, and to the teatable of which the boarders Kept coming and going for twu or three hours. Of course the old doctor became impatient, and kept whisper ing to Mrs. Jackson, “I want to see you alone !” “I must see you alone!” “Can't you see me alone? At length Mrs. Jackson left the table with him and they went to a room by them- selves. What then occurred God only Knows, but the story is that the good lady protested, expressed her amaze: ment, and even said, “You musi be crazy ; the subject is too serious and solemn to be thought of without prayer to God.” “Have you not prayed about it?” said the doctor “Praped about it? No.” said Mrs. Jackson ; I have not thought of such a thing. “Let us pray,” =as the solemn response of Beecher, and they koelc down and prayed. Of course, the Almight was argued with ; what a goou wife Mrs. Jackson would maxe him ; what a blessing it would be to her how much good she could do in the holy cause; what a disappoint’ ment if she did not marry him. Then observing her to be in a melting mouvd, he reached out his hand, took hold of hers, ard said “Amn.” Yeu and amen iuwas. The Grand board” ing house was broken up, to the sur. prise of all Boston, and Mes © Sign & oF : ’ ors BL following avs mor Kspttion- ig, fur bonaghold purpose, in the ab “minim of scales and measures, will no doubt prove use ful : Ove quart of flour weighs sue pond, A tablesgron 3 ~ JOB MOSES MILLIONS. STORY OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE BRADFORD OIL FIELDS, A ———— How a Rochester Pill Man Found Financial SuccessePushing the Drill in the ValloysGolng 200 Feet Deeper, The Flood. Job Moses was a country boy, born some- where up about Leroy, N, Y., who drifted into Rochester, whilp still in his teens, to make his fortune. In 1862 he had m ade it, ad a big one, out of a patent pill that he or some one else had invented, About that time Oil Creek was in its glory, and the news. papers teemed with accounts of the fortunes to be made out of oil, The stories fired the imagination of the Rochester pill mun, and be determined to try his hand at the new source of wealth. Up in the northern part of Melean county, thi state, and the southern part of Cattaran. pus county, N, X., lies a valley which was then and is yet one of the wildest and most forsaken sections of cguntry to be found east of the Mississippd. Turough this valley, then given ap to Jumbering, C Minot, who used to coniluct the Erie romd sometimes for profit, but mostly for plensare and glory, had for some reason built a branch road which ran throush Bradford—which then boastad three houses, a blacksmith shop, a school house and a tavern—and terminated at the ttle lnmber camp of Gilesville, Job Moses looked over the fleld, studied the maps and finally made up his mind that the valley throngh which Minot's little railroad ran was underiaid with®one vast sea of oil As time passed on be became as certain as fate that his conclusions were right. One day he showed. up in Bradford, leased some thousands of acres, snd soqp bad a well under way. The simplq minded natives, who had thought him eccentric from he first, set him down as a lunatic when be told then that the earnings of the milroad which ran pas their door would soon be increased twenty fold, and to this opinion they clung for many a long year, PUSHING THE DRILL. When Moses began pushing the drill in the valley many of the oil kings of to-day were unknown and unheard of. John ID Rocka feller, Oliver H. Payne and Bill Thompson had not I matured their plats. Dan O'Day and H. L. Taylor would have looked upon $1,000 as a fortune, Peter Graco and Capt J. J. Vandergrift bad not yet returned from the war, Col. Dyer was ona farm down in Maine. The Nobles, now the Standard Oi company of Russia, werd making barrels in Pittsburg. Lem and Ike Wiilets were utting logs up in Allegany county, and Charley Young was working for them at £40 a month, The Fishers and Phillips bad their fortunes to make, while Joo Craig was not yet out of the primer, and Jobn McKeown was still dress ing tools along the creek. For twelve years Job Moses, with dogged resolution, sunk hole after hole in his leases, but with no show of ofl. Then be woke up one morning to Gnd that the thousands he had made out of pills in Rochester hud van ished into the holes be bad been punching in the woods and fields about Bradford, and that he was a poor man. Disppolsted, but not discquraged, he went to New York, and with an eloquence born of earnestness sue ceeded in obtaining from the capitalists who gave him a hearing money with which to continue bis search. This was in 185. Once back on his field of operations a new idea struck Bim. Up to that time be had drilled all of his wells only #0 feet dewp, the hor zon at which oll was found along the creck, Perhaps there might be a producing sand still farther down. He sunk one of bis wells HN feet deeper, and was rewarded with » fifty Darvel producer. Another and another told the same or a better story. Moses bad found the oil fleld for which be had #0 Jong been searching. Every well be sunk gave him rich returns. The news of bis succes spread abroad nnd the tide of olldom turned slowly toward Broadford, A vear later it had mies increased to a flood, and the fact was freely | admitted that no such field bad ever been struck before. Lands which two years before bad been almost worthless sold for more than a princes ransom. But Moses had it all un der lease and was able to make his own terms. His thirteen years of waiting netted him millions. He lives in New York now, enjoys life, and always has a spare £50 to loan to any of the boys who happen to get broke in the metropolis, — Philadelphia Times, Getting Ria of a Bedfellow. There will be an immense croevd assembled in this city on the occasion of the national encampment next September, and there will unguestionably be a large number of people erowded into a single room. For the benefit of such as may find themselves in unpleasant company, | will relate the measures 1 took to protect myself on the occasion of the Cali fornia encampment. The notel was crowded, and I was obliged to share my bed with an unknown gentlemen from Petaluma. The clerk introduced us, and [ soon perceived that the gentleman had not only looked upon the wine when it was red, but also drank it. Idetermined to have my full share of the bed, and in order to obtain this end, upon retiring I strapped a sharp spur to my heel, When my convivial bedfellow rolled between the sheets | began to kick about as if sleeping restiessly. The spur was brought into fre quent contact with the cuticle of my friend, and must have produced severe laceration. He stood it nobly for some time, but finally arose, got into his clothes as well as be could, and made for the door. At the threshold he turned back and shook me by the shoulder to awaken me. “Sir,” he said, “before I go away I want to tell you that it yOu were a gentleman you would cut your toe nails” riElobe-Demnasras. Selene and Sewer Gas. While sewor gas is not said to have caused the diphtheria which carried off Gov, Beaver's little #on, the examination of the executive mansion recently showed that the gas could reach the sloping apaitmerts, Fssenco of peperming plooed in one of the soil plus wi readily detectod by the osor in the rooms, When the Princess Alico Ist one of Tier chil deen and then died of dipthoria herself there were loud complaints in England that the deaths wore dus to the lack of drainage of the is Sus oon wo 1s perons who profes it Is only a of leading into houses the Jondih whe it ought to load out. Pittsburg FL i AA AAR EAR 3S | small entrance, § the YOUTH AND oo AGE. he tong ago, long ago, in this valley of wos, The white wists were silver, the sunsbine was gold: Loug ago, long ago, every dow drop aglow Was the purest of dismonds of value untold. Long ago, long ago, every floweret low Looked out from the grass like o star from the sky; Long ago, long ago, every streamlst aflow In a volume of perfeotest crystal went by, Now the silvery mist fs water, I win, To which the grand power to climb upward is given; The sunshine of gold ls a wave of light rolled On the earth through the open portal of beaven, The dew in the grass now shineth, alas! In my altered eyes Like an angel's tear; And the deep waters roll, the type of a soul, Right on to the sea of eternity near. The flowers in the grass, they die asd they pass From life unto fe, ae to us it (0 givent Li ARS The mist and the dew, streem, flower. and light too, Like souls are sent down but to climb back to heaven, . «Harper's Weekly, THE TOWERS OF BILENCE. A Visit to the Barisal Places of the Pare sees==The Valtures. Railroads, Brie EAGLE VALLEY R pd mo Table in effect Nov, 16, "84, WESTWARD. Mall, P.M. Leave Lock Haven......... cues 8 20 Flominglon. i. cusses su BIH Blin cine 3 31 Besch Creek .....oivveni0. 8 88 Englovillo.........ssssessen 42 Howard...........csseressens 8 B2 Mount Eugle....... 8 Curtin cones ine 08 Milosburg.......errner: inane 4 10 Bellefontei......cccusivsoo.. 492 Milesburg......... 82 Snow Shoo 1nt...ceseees 4 86 Unionville....coconrvns aeons 4 48 JURE asesiianii vapensaise 4 58 Martha..... FILO vires BN Port Mutilds..... 08 Hannsh..... 16 Fowler 19 Bald Engle....... ants sadans bh 28 Vill snsncaisenscciisviviciins iB Shans nen BE i Bob ah oh 50 00 00 D0 02 4 |] Arrive at Tyrone, EASTWARD. | Leave Tyrona....... crisrane siensss A hundred yards distant through the trees interven Nilenos, nae, ing Is one of the gloomy fully in keeping with its gloomy As visitors are not permitted to ap- Towers of proach nearer than 100 feet, wo are direc ted ! to a small working model under line just i off the gmden, Here, with the sid of n ref erence card, we examine the inter nalarrnge- : ments of the tower, It is a roofless, circular building of stone | 300 feet in circumference thirty feet from the garden is a and painted white, and about sixty in height: the base on the side facing just large doors, These doors open on the enough to admit | bearers and beady, closed by double fron | main plate | form, which is paved with large sials of stone | and divided into three rows of shallow open receptacles, into which are placed the naked corpses to await the coming of the vultures The first, or outer row, is for males (adult), the second for females and the third, or inner, row for children. These three rows corres pond with the three moral precepts of the Zoroastrian religion-—good deeds, good words, good thoughts. Between the rows are foot paths for the bearers to move about. In the center of the tower is a great well 150 feet in circumlerence and forty to fifty feet in depth, into which the dry bones are thrown after being denuded of flesh. From this great well toward the cardinal points of the com- pass diverge four underground drains, each of which bas at its terminus, about thirty feet away, a small well The bottom of each of thew layer of sand. Pleoes of charcoal and sand stone are also placed at the end of each drain Thus the rain water coming from the great well and bringing with it the decomposed osseous matter passes through two sets of filters for purification before entering the ground, thereby observing a tenet of the Zo roastrian religion—that “mother earth shall not be defiled.” A corpse is carvied into the tower by two bemrers, called Nasaslars, who alone are privileged to enter; the clothes are then re moved, the body pieced in one of the recep tacles and the bearers withdraw, Now is the opportunity for the vultures to fulfill the duties of their office. Upon the approach “of the procession hundreds of them arise from the tops of the palms, which have become withered and dead from contact with their carniverous bodies, and hover in a circle above until the bearers have gone. Then Hie darts they desrend-—a boiling, wething mass of carrion, each particle of which, intent only upon precedence, is quarreling aml fighi ing with the other in its horrible work. In an hour or two the vorpes is entirely stripped of its Mesh; the bones sre then left until per- fectly dried by the teat of the tropical sun, then thrown into the well, where, in course of time, they crumble to dust. According to the teachings of Zoroaster, earth, fire and water are sacred, and in order to avoid their poliution it is strictly enjoined that the dead bodies shall not be buried in the ground or thrown into the wen ~Buffalo News. One Scientific Man Not Infallible, I was born in Philadelphia, and when five yours okl received an accidental cut in the loft eye, from a sharp missile in the hand of & playmate of my own age. The injury was not a fatal one, and if the doctors had let me alone it is probable that 1 should have had the use of two good eyes for the rest of my life. After the wound healed it was covered by a slight scab, which the physician said must be removed by the ves of nitrate of «il war." This he applied in #0 largea quantity that the eye was seared 8s with a bot iron, and the sight went out forever, A florce inflammation was set up, passed to the other eye, and with two blazing fur nanos under my foreboad I spent two years in a room dark as night, on a diet of gruel, mush and molasses and rice, with almost daily doses of medicine, cupping, leeching and bleeding sdminitered after the heroic method of that time, tie eyo kept constantly wet with a solution of sagar of lead. When I caro out of the prison it was with a small fraction of the right eye, for the solution bad left a deposit, which, uniting with the lymph from the inflammation, bad formed opacities in the corner, which in time blotted the sun from my sky and shut out from me the beauty of the world. Rev. W, H. Milburn in Lippincott's. A Counterfeit Ball Ticket, The Arion society has added a curiosity to ite collections. It is a counterfeit ball ticket, The imitation is of the coupon, which was de tached from the big ticket for presentation at the door, and was the work of a well known designer of this city, whose facility with the pen is great. He made it on a wager that he would get into the ball without paying, and success crowned his ingenuity, The imitation Is pute close enough to deceive any one in the rush of a crowd at the entrance to a putdic ball room, and tS society values it mach more than it would the £10 whose loss it rege ts Tom or twelve years ago thers was quite an epidemic of counterfeit tickets roceived nt the Academy of Music during an Italian opera sonson. For weeks they were received unde- tected. When the forger was spottod bo wae found to be a lithographic engraver with mote love for music than money to gratify it with. 1 think it was Maretask who was nisi- small wells is covered with a thick | Fast ‘Tyrone..... SStaanas ann VARI. ca israsrnicnssiinsssesinn Bald Eagle : FOWL escassicisivisinriins Hunnuh dulif ni. Unionville........... SNE Snow Shoe Int.....ooe Milesburg PPI Bellefonte Milesburg........c.cvsrensn. Curtin Mount Easy Howard........corccineeasns ‘ Eagleville Beach Creek......coonnieee 4 Mill Hall Flemiagton Arrive at Lock Haven.......... I = i 16 86 1G HM 4 45 R 15 DELLEFONTE & SNOW SHOE R.~Time Table in offect Nov 8 | i wif | for, ae CENTRE DEMOCRAT 2 10 80 | 10 560 | GREAT 1 11 00 | Leaves Snow Shoe 6.46 ». m., arrivesia | an Bellefonte 8:25 a. m. {| LAW BOOK» Leaves Bellofdhte 5.00 a. m., arrives at Snow Shoe at 11:00 8. m. Leaves Snow Shoe 2:50 p. m., arrives st | Bellefonte 4:56 p. m Loaves Bellefonte 7:66 p. m,, arrives at Snow Shoe 9:56 p. m. 8. 8. BLAIR, Gen. Supt EWISBURG & TYRONE R. 4 Time Table in effect Nov 15 ¢ WESTWARD. Mixed. | Leave Scotia, Fairbrook Penn's Furnsee.......ocun BOBRABE cunicsnssess sinsrrsas - Marengo...... sonsssons Loveviile f.. Warriors Mark... ...... - Pennington Waston Mill £.......conus L. & T. danetion...... Tyrone... EAST W ARD. Leave Tyrone. cu iianses L & T. Junction Weston Mill Pennington Warriors Mark......... - Furnace Boad....o.coonee. B 4 Loveville....c.oocvinivnnes - Marengo... habaniitane Hustler. ....... REO Re Penn's Parnace.. Fairbrook BOOB. c.oviioisrssisssssnuin | CIRC ULARS, JEN NSYLVANIA RAILROAD. — | (Phils. & Erie ster Nov 15, 1884: WESTWARD. ERIE MAIL Leaves Philadelphia. ..... Harrisburg Williamsport... Jersey Shore Lock Haven Renovo.cuees Arrives at Erie........cocovivms NIAGARA EXPRESS Loaves Philadelphia Harrisburg....... 11 Arr. st Williamsport... 2 Lock Haven 30 710 3b HR 55 00 pm am Amn 40 am | 25 am | 656 pm Passengers by this train arrive in Bellefonne ste... FAST LINE Leaves Philadelphia... Harrisburg . Williamsport... Arr at Lock Haven.... EASTWARD. LOCK HAVEN EXPRESS Leaves Lock Haven....., Willismsport......, arr at Harrisburg... Philsdelphia....... DAY EXPRESS Leaves Kane .o.ooovennnne "ROP Lock Haven...... Williamsport... are at Barviabiing uses —or Philadelph MAIL Loaves Brie ..ociein OVO covacvnnevsns Lock Haven...... Willis SI arr at Harvisburgec..... 4 Philadelphis...... Erie Mail East and West conneet at Erie with trains on L. 8. & M. 8. RR; at Corry with B. PP. & W.RR,; at Emporium with B.,. N. Y.& P, BR, and st Drift. wood with A.V, RR, KR. NEILRON, Gon’t Eup'y, ERIE TH am Division. On snd | 1120 pm | am’ am am CHRISTIE'S | SCHOOL OF BUSINESS LOCK HAYEN, PA. rn ——— HIS institution is devoted to the specialty ol imypmre ng busicese know- ledge, and 10 qualifying the young and middle aged of both sexes by new and practical methods for the responsible duties of business life, Rates moderate, Advantages super For parties re addy ee, 8. N. CU'RISTLE, Principal, | PP AVN, Pa. 0 © Des fw Pp HASTINGS | BOOK and JOB OFFICE HIGH STREET, BELLEFONTE, PA ih NOW OFFERING INDUCEMEN TO THOME WISHING FIRST-CLAM Plain or Fauney innung| We have unusual facilities for printing PAMPHLET CATALOGUES PROGEAMM ES, STATEMENTS BILL HEADS NOTE HEADS, BUSINESS CARDS INVITATIO N CARDS, Janes L. { — Ino, " OES, ()RVIS, BOWER & ORVIS, Woodring (] J. i. BrARoLn. | SPANGLER & HEWES, i Bpecinl attention Conrts. Consultation in German or Ke wiih, I). ¥. FOR 41) business attended to promptly J ; G, LOVE, | Bow oer JAMES A. WEAVE” CARTES DE VISITE CARDS ON ENVELOPES AND ALL KINDS OF BLANKS | PE Orders by mail will red sive prompt atiention Bay Printing done in the beststyle, or | short LOLice and st the lowest rate ¢ A. BEEZER & SON Will furnish you with Meats of all Kinds At Their eh MARKET 62 IN THE OLD : | Con rad House, Revel ve Teporits Allegheny Street. Corned Beef a specialty. : Prices IN {AccoRDANCE with the times, OUR MEAT IS ALWAYS ‘FRESH, TENDER AND AND WILL GIVE { i BEN PERLEY POORE JUICY, SATISFACTION. | TELEPHONE CONNECTION, ot & 1X1 ed AGENTS WANTED to sell * of 00 YEARS In the NATIONAL Tasteating the W , and eonniricities of ented oelebeition " babs astrated yralett inner Society ilintory, from ye olen time” 10 the wedding ul Sealand. ondeier Asin x4 term, HOD. pL ROS, A Pabliehers ARE, oll ho Saa® ho 4 - 'F. P. BLAIR, ander Brockerhofl House (CENTRE COUN PACTURED Of Fh HA MILL, . ATIORNSL ALLAN, x, ih ret, North Office in Furn's Blew pr MEYE R. ATTORKEY AT-LAW Bellefonte, Ps. id. CALVIN Office with Judge Hoy. O.M. Bow. EE cates un ru ou Baas L. Ove ATTORBREYBAT LAW, Belietonte, Pe. Often hportia the Cours House, on first Boor hock son C. PF. Hew ATTORNEYR-AT. AW BELLEFONTE "is / CENTERCOUNTY, PA. to Collections; practice ba "sii th 68 TNEY, ATTORNEY AT-LAW, BELLEFORTE, PA Offer in Conrad House Allegheny street, Special atlention giver to the coll tou of cislass iy ATTORNEY -AT AW, Bellefonte, Pa. Ofos tn the rooms forme, iy occupied Ly the jate Wilson vol b Lb P. HB. HASTINGS WF. REErRE. & REEDER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW BELLEFONTE, PA. fics on Allegheny street, two doors ssst of the of upied by iste firm of Yocum « Hastings. tel J, WESLEY GRPRARY, JJEAVER & GEPHART, ATTORNEYS AT LAW Office on Allegheny stroet, north of High, Bolte onte, Va i-iy Ww. C. HEINLE, ATTOERREY AT LAW, PELLEVONTE, Pa. Last door te the Isftin the Court Hones, (CLEMENT DALE, ATIORNRY-AT-LAW Eel) sfonte, Pa. corner Dlamond, two doors from Sref 1745. Ofce KX. W salivnni bank T, C HIPPLE, i . ATTORNEY-AT-LAW LOUK HAVEN Pa, AH bustnysprs miptly attended to, iy Wa P MITCHELL, PEACTICAL sURVEYOR, LOCK HAVEN, PA , Will attend to sll work fn Clearfield, Contre snd Oiiuton opuntios Office opposite Loc | A. W, HAFER, DENTIET, HIGH STREET, BEL LEYONTE, PA, Boe in Harri Block. H.X . HOY, M. D., Oe cs next door to First Nationa! Bask High street 1b-1y BELLEFONTE, PA. D: J. W. RHON E, Dentist, can be rund ol Lis offen in 00d McAllister buliding Bellotonte, Pa, isiy Lock Haven Nations! Bund 20-1y JEWELER, WATCHES CLOCKS JEWELRY, 80, All work neatly executed. On Allegheny strong af Business Cards. RBER SHOP, Under Firm National Bank, BELLEFONTE, PA. may 3 83) Prop'r (TY BANKING R. A. Beck, COMPANY. And Allow Int Discount pr Bs and Sel) Gov Securithey | Janne A Braves, Presicent 1.0. Enver, Osshier, Fw 7. rv. manne, Osby IRST NATIONAL BANK oF BELLEFONTE, Allegheny Street, Bellefonte Pa, Eo moMes, Press's, tr PASSMORE HOUSE, Fromt and Spruce Stress, PHILIPSBTRG, PA Good Meals and Lodging st molderst les, nating attached To JAMES PASSMORE Prog JARMAN'S HOTEL, Oppoite Court House, BELLEFONTE Pa TERMESL.25 ER DAY * pond very attached Bust HOUSE, BELLEFONTE, PA. Families and single gentlemen, as well n“ "the eral traveling public and commercial men sre rod 2 to this Fire Hotel, where they will fod hom oomiortaat rates, ronscnabie Liberal reduction ptr, and others atten Court. . R TELLER, Pro's r New Brockerhoff House. J3ROCKERHOFF HOUSE, ALLEGHENY ST. BELLEFONTE, | 4 C. G. McMILLEN, Prop! ln Good Sample Room on Fret Fe. 5m cer pape al Tata Fa 1 (CENTRAL ( the RaGrond Station, ILESBURG, OXNTRE TRE COUNTY, ra A. A. KOHLBECKER, Propristr. THROUGH TRAVELERS In tha tullroad will ind this Hote! an swovllent to Touch, or procure aboot 8 suinctes, 4 meal a4 ALL TRAINS 8 |e NATIONAL HOTEL. MILLHELM, CENTRE COUNTY, PA. T.G. Rook, RATES—$1 00 PER DAY. "BUS RUNS TO DEPOT WAT. N0 ALL TRAIN A GOOD LIVERY ATTACHED Se ——————— HOTEL, Ld oe ENCES, OTE
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