DICKS PROPOSAL. Dik Nush paced slowly forward and buckwird on the river bank in fem of Loe nost-house, : What the dickens do I want to go abeoudt for, soliloquized he, unless on a wedding trip? I'd better marry ab ones; and ns the saying is, kill two one stone, But there is ouly une givi for me—2iillie Denton; sued I auigty just as well ask for the Bled wiih moon, Dick bad jost come to this conclu. sine when, vu looking up, he beheld the abj ot of bis thoughts coming to- ward hin, A good t'we 10 begin, thought he, Mie come Lippiog slong, her gold: ea hair 1omel about by the wind, her cheeks were rosy and her blue : v res spt Ring, IDi~k appeared not to recognize her at first ; then looking up and favor ing ber with a little stare, exclaimed ? Why, i's Millie! Nowe other, laughed she. What brought you here On, | saw looking for some one. Some 0xe who belongs to the elub, ? . *HDPO-E | N : exactly, though If® is here a great deal. Well, you won't find him, Why? Beesanze there has been no one here for the past hour but myself. Why dou’t you ask for whom I am looking ? Perhaps I don’t care, lazily. Oh, but he is just splendid ! Who is splendid ? Ha! Ha! laughed Millie. I thouht you wanted to know all the time; 80 But I don't! Do pot interrupt me ! If you insist upon knowing I don't— It is my black dog, Towser, The deuce! exclaimed Dick, Why Dick Nash! What is the matter Millie Denton ? Isn't deuce a swear word ? A mild one. Don’t you know that yon oughtn't tcfwear in the presence of a lady? Yes, I suppose I must beg your pardon ? embrace me in public. 8 they were out of sight of the others Dick said : 3 Well, I'm glad it’s all settled ! What is settled ? asked Millie, Why, our engagement. Ha, ba! : What are you laughing at ? You, of course, I don't see how you can keep your face so long when you joke. Then you think it is only a joke ? Why shouldn't I? Are you crazy? Not I; but I had made up my mind to marry you, and as we were engag- ed all fair and solid, in the presence of two witnesses, I don’t sec how you are going to get out of it. I de. Well how ? I shall have to put you in the asy- lum, Just because I want to marry you ? have many advantages When a girl is drowniog a girdle is a much surer thing to lift her out with than hair, Hair is liable to come ofl. New York Herald. PREPOSTEROUS TOILETS, In ordinary dress, as apart from the preposterous toilets known as court traios, our outlines are still egregious, the waist abides with us. It appears impossible to shake it off. If any woman ventures even reduce its dimensions to moderation, maids and dressmakers disapprove, and tell her to “style.” Who could have thought that style could be thas defined as a bump at the back of the waist? Tli: For is ignominy, indeed. the rest, You don’t want to marry me ! It is the dearest wish of my Millie, believe me. Then why didn’t you ack’ me de. cently, instead of joking about so ser- ious a matter ? life, in the matter of drapery, two men, Worth and Redfern, both English. When will their rule be Well, to tell the truth, Millie, I thought that I would essay something novel in the way of a proposal Then in a few earnest words he told her how dear she was to him, and begged her to be his companion én the voyage which he was soon to take as well as on the voyage through life | Why, Dick, you take my breath quite away. Well, hurry up and breathe again, Millie, for my heart has stopped beat- ing and it will not resume its proper action until you have giyen me the answer I crave. Oh, Dick, you are too funay; but 1 suppose if you insist I certainly do insist ! Well, 1 Goon! Well=your heart may beat My dearest Millie Oh, Dick! We are on the Well, what of it ? Nothing; only I would not like to have it said I allowed young men to ! : 3 again, street i Why; who was embracing you, I hould like to know. You were ! I didn’t teach you. Yes, I think you ought to, if only to teach you better manners. Well, do you insist upon it. Ob, no! But you expected me to But you were going to. No, I was not; but I suppose that Dick Nash ! Then You do insist ; so here goes, Takiog a large handkerchief from his pocket, he spread it carefully on! the grass at her feet, and assuming a most comical and express ion as he knelt upon it, he began : Oh fairest of thy sex! You silly godee ! laughed Millie | If you don’t keep still I won'tapol ogize at all! Once more—then fair est of thy sex, I have committed an unpardonable —— position : Hear—hear— hear ! The voice came from the direction of the boat-house. The speaker was Ned Morgan, and he and Fred Bailey were greatly evjoying the little scene. Well, old fellow, Ned, | © { b+ : i continued {rel over it, anyway. | sailed ¢ | | ship. : | young ladies cherish of having ¢ | waists squeezed | that weakuoess has ever been offered Never mind, Millie, we won't quar, A month later Dick and his bride | for England, the ouple that ever stepped on board a happiest S— A — THE SILVER GIRDLE Ever sence Eve first put on her cor | sets there have been flippant allusions | {made to a supposed fondoess : unt } weir No visible proof of 0 the public geze until recently. But t's here now, and the girls can't dodge t. The silver girdle business has be- ome fashionable, and young men this sort of thing usuaiiy takes place | Who are addicted to the arm act are in the conservatory, if ve are 0 bee Jieve the novelist, but [ see that you as blue as policemen, enough to make It's hard an impression are tryiog to improve on the old plan, | through corset armor, but when a With the blue dome of heaven over 8liver log chain is added mashitive head and the Mississippi throbbing at | humanity gives up apd takes to lamp- | your feet—with the birds hushing | Posts. The new girdle is just such an their songs and the trees whispering ® | used to wear (B. C.) to keep their lowly, you I way, now, I don't think this quite | the fair thing, ere was Mis Millie Just ready to bless me with a sweet yes, wheo——. Bat, interrupted Millie, enjoying the joke in spite of herself, you know I had not made ap my wind. You ron away, boys, while she makes up her mind, said Dick, You go right along and don't mind ws said Ned, for we mean 10 see it ] i through, Come Millie, said Dick, hurry up and say yes, But suppose [ say no? Then I will never rise again; and 1 wish you would hurry for my knees ~~ mehe awfully, Dear me! then I say yes, for ir I Aid not I should forever be haunted by a viflon of you in jour very up. wi) position. their heads and leaving them in the | bighly ridiculous and embarrassing i rrangement as the Grecian maidens | Mother Hubbards from sOaring over | i position of a reversed umbrella, It is | made of silver links or plates, and is worn outside of everything, for the simple reason that it would be a very Ricomfontable thing to wear inside, | i sod would seriously interfere with the i fit of n dress, Again, mors people se» it on the outside, and that's what it's worn for. As an article of clothing the girdle is not & practical sUCCess. It aflords very line protection in a min storm or & blizzard, and is cal. culated to breed corns on the hips. Naturally, it is worn around the waist, because it's 00 big for the neck, : i | American | charming face of a sucker lass, | young thing, who |& sweet sample are more active than they were twenty years ago, and the discomfort and in- cambrance of their clothes are acutely felt development of the ladylixe and at. The huge excrescence at the back of that she entirely deprives herself of our clothes are not irrational, if only | we refrain from piling up the agony | The autocrats of the toilet are stil | shared by woman! English women | more | Side by side with the | i SCHOOL oF BUSINESS Sn —————— HIS institut on is devored 10 apecinlty Oo imparting business koow. ledge, and 10 qualifying the YORNE and middle nged of both sexes by now and duties of business life, Rates moderate, Advantages super- ior. For partteulars nid ros, N.N. CITRIVPIE, Principal, Ian AVEN, Pa. QEALED Iti A. will be recelvs Bellafonte up to Janos Tel far huildin hill betwee aut tower tery § OPOUSA LS, Lie. Goneis imo E sles on n middle 1 np per Ler at Corniined right to reject any ven. Plans snd spat LT : ral i ~DRUNKENNI pe Coren ny A L pas {Gor peEN Seif art HVen In a Hee 0 ¢ knowl. t, eile ting wut cure, whether ris ussnds nf drunk, © i cup 0 ! wipe of the pers A speedy snd pera moderate "a ih BT i the patient is a r OF i | aleoholie wreck, {ards have been who have taken their coffve without es an made tamperite men the Linvilen Lhrit Specie in Know edge, bye fs : and today q of their own | fort | oe wil sis h Cares Nend and ful particu wis, Address in ox Specific 810 fy rosggitn am gunrantead, ior circus ed i. fidence Gulden t At. Cincinnati, 0 od tenuated heing dubbed “masher” has run the development in quite a con. | trary direction of the sisters and girl- cousins of these feeble-minded and feeble-bodied young men. swim, ride, drive, play lawn-tennis, g0 on walking tours and freely use the limbs that pature gives them. Girls row, The “ mass of dry goods,” as an writer quoted by Lady darberton calls our superfluous drap- the girl athlete, sod she will tually shake herself free from sever! even unnecessary pounds’ weight of gar! menture, including the odious cushion | that makes such an irrelevant mound at the back. The probabilities sre that she will plunge into the other extreme, just at first, like a ship among the breakers, but it may be hoped that she will, after the first in. evitable reaction, settle down to a | medium course of common sense in clothing. —{ onden Soeie ty. - - - {SHE WAS NOT 80 VERY GHEEN . The other day a merchant traveler operating for a Philadelphia shoe firm boarded a train on the Alton r Joliet, and was soon attracted b He sweet, got on at Pontiac. thought } saw that she was a inpocent had bet n around any, and he we never i ded his way {10 where she sat, and insinuated him self (0 Ler society, It is a very stormy day, Miss, said the merchaot traveler. Is that so ? she asked with a great show of interest. Here, indeed. was of rustic innncense, Storming like all the furies, and had been for nine consecutive hours and : M yeti & iL ¢ seemed to know nothing about Poor, credulous, simple thing, be thought, she'll be madly in love with | me in fifteen minutes, Going far? he inquired. Oh, an awful long way ? How sweet snd childish thought the gripsack man, How far are you going ? he asked. Oh, away ofl, To Bt. Louis ? My, yes, aud further than that. I am awful glad. I'll bave your company a good while, then, said be, and I know we shall be great friends. I hope so, she replied You have beaus, don’t you ! the drummer suddenly asked, No; I used to have, bute Ah! vever mind. I'll be your bean on this trip. Now will you tell me your name please ? Matilda—~Matilda Haw—we!l Jt used to be Hawkios, but it is Jordon now, What ! you are not married ? No? I poisoned my fifth husband the other day, and you, oh you look soswerd. You look as if strychnive would make such a beautiful corpse of you ! Come, mow, won't you marry we ! otherwise | . Ta any o 3 cash not Cexrey Bask popu subsoris ey ne, Lady's sone ol thammet IEMs for one YERry. i fished and vel Ar Maga “8 Lilie » tion pit (x Desocxar £2.75 ment in another s &? ’ Ld] iin tue vertise the umn of «teh, Mange Kind cured is NAD Lot i never RY f Drogeist. Be |ery, will soon become intolerable to | Is imparted to 1 ber by Host which m torpidity et ® ) ’ vity into them fusing more a wih them tue nd tear o { upon Aare of certain orllent one them ditions b better to undergo the the discharg ng | { them by nature the channel i impurities iy their nerf inses healthfuliy stimu tain morbid conditions ant © Yigor ge g . SM OEE 1 + B8 they i fos m 8+ 1004, IRCTEases bs rothenine and BN sting them in pov of these 1mport fail they int MH " re sluggish f Organs, shate, whirh is the divense, What the { mprvioe than thom lo greats tL ATO © i 1 A Med ty more ud * fu y I No mslsdies are Perio ¥ medicine which sveris w highly esteemed be peril should T The snceess of Bangh's $25 Phosphate as an excellent crop prodocer and per manent Improver of the soil, is vasily accounted for It Is made of the bones of animals, and with special regard to a general adapta bility as a plant foad.” Every particle of which bones are come posed, in un ditvet food of vegetables, Wo render thin food mmedintely availiable hh the $25 PHOSPHATE Wikich we claim te be a very special ade vantage, ne i gives the crop an early start and susinios i until fully watered. bee sides permanently Improving the soil, — dl Mosews Pa. Jen Tet Peg thovemahly tested BAL GH'S S23 de with st her ma ber cong sm sstaded that Reugh'y ae well an permanent ressite, I bond? Dotto wheat and cul ture grass for tes peng where | seed the S206 Phosphate, | will ses oa Sher kind and sdvime wl! farmers to buy Bangh'e 25 Phosphate aid soe results for (heomncives of fog nn JOUN PADDIS ©" Har PROSPHATE, nae} Ing #5 and $6 per on $8 the beat for feet ov > a BAGH & SONS, RAW BONE | aaxuraCTURERS SUPER PHOSPHATE, a Sa WE € Jrkred GL a Swpaeiy IMPORTERS, our Works, [50 s¢ PHILADELPRIA, PA, Bangh's $20 PHOSPHATE Increasing AUTIVE, PERMANENT, CHEAP Use ANIMAL BONE MANURE - YELLEFONTE & BI » BALLROAD Monday Junvy Wet ward ine effoct | yr. M 140 4 bo 4568 Ho 5 n 5 1a H RG ; 4 5 0 Balleforn, Hastings F........ Hunters... TT "Hors | Kajler Cans Waddin, ........... Thompsons F Krumeine ,... State College... Eastwnrd, m uo UR LY a0 6 30 LE 630 elt State Collage, Krumrite | Thompsons P ' Waddie Satlers Foorrsrniiiiniinss 1 PIONS ii niin rniane 1 EIR oss svsiinine oniiiniie se 4S Banting sis iinis, 6 So Ballafan to... o.com B00 T00 Trains will “opal stath pe marked npy only whan signals mes giemn or on Boles rorductor or . Train No, 4 will sinbect with train onstand wonton BLE V RR ~ Tenin No. 8 will sonnet with teaip waton BEV hun ¥ * CHRISTIE'S the 1 p } practical methods for the responsible | ! ! inthial T | than | a | those which aflect the kidneys, snd a a i ICO OR ASI op pps SEC Groceries, MEAT MARKF BU uw, ade Granulated! Bugar 8c a pound lowest prices All © ’ iS Good bargains in «1! grades. Mi COFVIL BLU wanind Fineet Xow Orlsans ag 500 por gation, Our romsted Coffess kre always fromh TOBACLOR All the nes 4 desirable brands ignr toads cigars iy CIGARS We try t lvwn, Eran ¥ wt fal nttention given to our Hithe bast Lior 4¢ snd Be ng Hyon, 9 wo, #1 pe Bie. $1 pe TEAR Yin green and Bia K, Hii, Mle loved Japun ton Hyoon at 40¢ § CHEERE. «Finest Tull cream chesse st 10¢ por pound made from whole worth m cider vinegar VINEGAR - for, On ni of this goods is vivegar se tha GE On B.&X Smsiminie | { } Spring Fes ARH ri fancy Imported Drew Goede & In, gous redeced from © ALL Win Greve and Peowgs CAMEL Mixtures in Ligh! i» £ Har ASR wool 8 IAOH Invisible of Pin Heed Chocks is Tie i ner ®lae 7 in for thee ¥ wee havin . NEW PRINTED Sh. _— ATE riment : five in widil vagy for Sse ser Fak 1 Jot w will wil how wen $0 inch ( AM al wodl Onpvnri Clots wt Cheapo thin g tn Drews Goods Dus eves A SSN ————— ! Tie . For Etreet omic f ne Be» { SLEY Baglin) . 34 JEN whe HLE Vine smsortment of Coffees. both green | Dress Goods The. 3 & cts, | R& CO. Provisions, FOREIGN FRUITS and CONFECTIONERY. In connection. STOREWARY 18 ail wines of all the ds | Gusiity of Akron ware. factory goods isn the market, | FOREIGN FRUITS i Ireshiost goods to i ; sirable shape Thils is the mont suiis wliratiges and lewmons of th be bad. We buy the bent Jurieat lemons we can Bind. They sre better wud i cHenper than the Yory low priced gosds, 4 | FRUIT JARS We buys the now Dightad ny fruft d Masun’s pores of in § and lume Loy jure. 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