| smi “NOBODY ASKED ME.” “I hate a coqueite!” gald Miss Dilly Rockingham. “sa do 1," said Alice Ames. « ghaw!"” said Miss Lilly, r “Dear me, Lilly, what ean you possibly mean?” said the city vision, sue looked provokingly pretty as sho gat on the duord p, throwing bread crumbs to a flock of brighteyel young turkeys toat were on their way to roost. Above, th) dropping apple -bDoaghs ais most touched her sun hat; beiow, the daisies glimmered in the grass like silver dots, The sun was just down; but there re- mained a yollow glow in ths sky, and the birds chirped sleepily in the hedges, while a swallow or two yet circled round the eaves of the barn. Alice was very pretty a fair-haired, brighit-complexioned girl, with brown eyes, and lips redder and riper than any strawberry. And perhaps that was the reason that she produced such an i which, to speak the truth, was beauty-producing neighuorhood. The girls of Milton were lank and tall, with no particular figures, {reckiod com. plexions, and heavy features, They were, however, as Kobert hockingluun observed, “regular spiders to work, ' and turned out first ie butters nakers, factory hands, and pouitry breeders ; bint as for the poetic side of life, knew pothing of it, and cared less They raised vegetables of all sorts in their gar lens; but roses an | pinks they ignored as simply a waste of tune, not a ney They read the weekly paper and the Bible, and occasionally cousuited their almanacs ; but they never had heard of “she,” and did not know Thackeray Dickens. Work was their idol—a treat their ideal of gay dissipation. Into this atmosphere of thrift Alice Ames had come, as a golden pheasant might have made its way into a barn yard full of respectable hens and geese She was a distant cousin of the Rock inghams, whose mother was dead, and whose father had gone on 8 business trip. tie had not known quite what to do with Alive during his avsence, untii he had suddenly remembered his cousins at Milton. “fnat will be a nice place for the child,” he thought. “It wil be a stu). refuge, but it will be a sale one. Iaey'll like Alice—every one Alice!" It was true, The pretty, dewy-eyed girl brought her own welcome with wherever she went. The Rockinghams were despairing when they beard that she was coming they were delighted when she had come. Bob, the eldest son, lost his heart to her at once. It was a clear case ol iove at tirst sight. “My son,” said the rugged old mother, “she is not suited to a place like this.” “Hut she is so lovely, mother,” said honest Bob. “| don't think she has any idea of being a farmer's wife.” “aly chance is as good as any one else's” pleaded poor Bob, And bis mother wise.y said no more upon the subject. Alice went strawberrving with Bob: she learned t0 ride horseback om old Dobbin. after the day's work was over, with _ ob for a teacher. She gathered ferns in the wools, and skutched Granton Mountain from different points of view, with Lob to carry her color-boxes and set up her 1m- brella. In fact, she seemed hited with her country abiding-pla-e, and Bo) was in the seventh heaven of hapine when, like a thunderbolt out of a clear sky, Mr. Manfred Harper made his ap- arance on the scene, “Did you know he was cominz sharply questioned Rhodilla, commonly Raow n as “Dilly,” the grim, eldest anchter of the Rockinghams “No,” Alice carelessly answernd. Khe was accustomed to the homage of ber admirers, and it dil not at all sur rise her that Mr. Harper should have ollowed her from the city. And it was her innocent en oyment of Mr. Harper's society that drew from Dilly the sharp comment of “I hate a coquette !” Thers was no hotel at Milton, so Mr, Harper hal to stay at a farmhouse where they occasionally let rooms in the shoot- ing and fishing seasons. Alice went riding with him, took him to all the delicious, lealy glens which Robert Rockingham had shown her, in- troduced him to the best pools of the trout streaw, and, as Dilly declared, “flirted” openly with bint “I don't know what you mean,” said Alice, with provoking equanim ty. “io treat a gentieman civilly —~is that what you call dirting, Dilly ¥' “Anybody would think there was no- body in the world but him, when youn are talking with him under the pear- trees.” said Dilly. “Ona must be polite.” observed Alice, captur ng one of the speckled turkey pullets and holding its downy little body against her peach-soft face, “I don't care for him,” said Dilly, fairly driven to bay, “nor for myself All I say is, that you've no business to break Bob's heart!” “But,” cried Alice, with limpid, hazel eyea wide open, “what is it to Bob?" Miss Dilly flounced away to bring in kitchen towels, which were bleaching on the grass down by the brook. “I've no patience with the girl!” said she. Boh, quirtly, “ivt her alone” said he; “we have no right to dictate to her.” But Dilly knew him too well to be de. ceived. She knew that the envenomed arrow was rankling in his Licart. On that Thursday even ng, bhowaver, when Manfred Harper had come home from fern-hunting with Alice, and had stayed to tea and spent the evening, it came on to rain, with a roll of thander and occasional flashes of lightning, Robert went out into the kitchen, where Dilly was busy at work, “I suppose we might ask him to stay all night?" said he. “Itumph!” said Dilly. “And where won'd he sleep?” “He could have my room: 1 conld lie down on the kitchen set'ee. with a blanket and a pillow,” said Robert, “Indeed, you'll do no such thing!” declared tho elder sister. with a sort of loving deapotisin. “All to oblige this city fop, who loses no opportunity of sacering at us country folks.” “But it's three miles to the Wild Farmhouse—and {ust listen how the in patters on the rool.” “A little wetting will do him good!” said the iron-hearted Rhodilla. “Nonsenss!” said her brother "we iS sof barbarians, I'll teil him he'd Pelle went back to tho parlor; bat thers school IKes her ner — — de ig i ar however, took things more large, | pression in the village of Milton, | was no one there except Alice, who was gnu'ting the candle and yawing. “Where is he?" said Robert, “lio you mean Mr, Harper?" “Yes," “He has gone,” “In all this rain?" “Why, certainly!” sald indifferent Alice. “He's neither sugar nor salt. Why shouldn't he ?" “Alice, have you no pity for the man?” “Oth, pient* of it! But of course he couldn't stay all night. And it's past ten' win another yawn as she glanced op at the clock, all embowere | in a mist of redberried asparagus—“and he told me La knew of 8 short cut across the fierla=~that cloomy road, you know, un ‘er the elms.” “He's not going home that way, Alice 2” “Of esnrse he is!" she replied. “It yi ghorten the walk half a wile at least, 10 save.” “Hut that road is not used now.” “He is going to use it, at all eveuts, to- | night.” Hob caught up his hat, “How iong has he been gone?” he asked breath.essly, “About filteen minutes," sald Alico. EW VY ’ Boh paused to make no answer, but rushed out of the door, neglecting, in his it betand him, that a gust of rain and wind blew in, fluttering newly lanmdried curtains and Alice's forehead like a chill haste, to clos? HO 18] 's ton hing band. <h ran ont into the kitchen v,”” she cried, “has all world y’' Why did Bob ran out into without ever stopping to answer 14%. the dropped her half-finished work, vague idea that some remark of vad driven her brother to the last mity of desperation. e!"” cried she, “what did you say T just told him that Mr going to take the cut the telds." short gre is no short cut’ declared + ¥ that dark , you know, just b where the no Yes. there is road yond the dghtoing stru +} N Lhe e.0ns pr He has gone that way ?”’ cried Dilly, ing dead Didn't you teil Don't he snow 7’ ly, liquid eyes opened to ful, extent ‘l a. wavs thought that place looked ¥V phe, "8 OVE as { al " if it were haunted, said she, "bul “Haunted 7 Nonsense sharply in- terrupte “But it's ashaking bog A regular Morass. NO One passes over { now, no one has used it since Lhe night, five years ago, when a wagon and two horses were inguifed in it, Don’t you understand ? It's a sort ol a quicksand wale gwamp—and Bob-iear generous Bob l—hag gone to try and save that man's life if he can. Gracious me! What's the matter with the gir. 7 1 do believe she has fainted! Weil, if she thinks as much of that city lellow as that —" : And poor Dilly"s aeart turned to. lead in Ber LOtolh Le inight Vv PATRLY, i. jt was m Ro ) gham came back with Mr, Manir I both of then very pie vl tained bit 1 7 is A iv yO when rt | 4 3 ana narrow squeeze for it” wo bad on look in his eyes hat treacherous hola, with the ing in my eyes, agd an nz like a doomed sph it ovéry med exactly ss if there ands pulling me down ints wrriam, | can’t tell what a n it was when | heard Hocking hallovoing 0 me, How lus out dont know, J think have the courage of a strength of a Hercules” then the parior door opened pel out, with bright hair hang r her eves, she said shyly. Lo ert pushed Harper forward. “Here he is,” said he. lif= ‘or you, Alice.” “I am very glad, I'm sure,” said Alice, burriedly, “bBut—Bob!” “Yes, I'm going upstairs at once, to get dry things for him,” said Rocking ham. “Oh, yes, I know! but—but can't you speak 10 me one woment, Bob?” plead. ed the solt voice. Mr. Harper and the inflexible Dilly wore left standing rather awkwardly out side, while Kobert obeyed Alice's sum- mons. She shut the door, and then threw herself sobbing on his breast. “Uh, Bob! oh, Bob! 1am so thank- ful I” she sobbed. “J don't know what to say, but" “Juke care,” he said gently. "You'll get your pink frock all muddy. . “f don't care for frocks. Uh, Bob" “I understand it all, Alice. You love him ;: and you are grateful to me because I have been lucky enough to save his fe.” “I don’t love him!" cried Alice. “His life, indeed! What is his life to me? But if anything had happened to you, Lob 4 A sudden light broke in on Robert ckingham's troubed heart. “Alice I” he cried. “Alice, for Heav- en's sake, don’t raise my hopes only to wreck them again, Is it possible that you care forme 7?" She raised the marvelous eyes again, fringed with silk-soft lashes to his face. “ls it possible,” she prettily mimicked hit, “that you have not discovered be fore this that | love you? Where have your cyes been, you blind Bob 7" Mr. Harper returned to the city next day with a very strong impression of the snares and pitialls of country life. Alice Ames remained, the affilanced bride of Robert Rockingham. “But why didn’t you tell him before hat you loved him ?” said plain-spoken lly. “How could 1.” said Alice,” when no- body asked me 7” ” = sia I Man, w “ i &, IW i: 1] Cre "” © fe Died Like a Gentleman. One of the most interesting incidents of the late war is told of Gen, Lytle, just before he received his Beat we, Lika OGRE HSN Eves un a anrronnded and hope ar ut two alternatiy «1. Biappa nbek Fog) » 4 i ™ PY f A aby ou ai EL I've saved his | enrsory g | Mr. fin his cabin, allowing Lhe cur enid j out ol ahich THE PRESIDENT'S MASCOT, wp mn —- . The Good Lueck Brought Him by His Beautiful Wife. | (Savannah News.) The correspondents are never weary of writing about Mrs. Cleveland, Every day brins fresh gossip concerning her, and invariably it is i complimentary character, There is only one editor in the country who has been ungracious enough to speak disrespe tiully of her, and hit was speedily lifted down from his editorial chair by the gentle yet firm hand of his father, The entire press, withont regard to politics, gave him a raking over that he will not speedily for- get, Not since the days of Martha Wash. ington has the wile of a President been sieht a universal favorite, and her popul arity is not confined to the men. She is a favorite with women, Her beauty, grace and charming manner captivate all come in contact with her. A nee over tne papers of any wil reveal some pleasant allusion r. Hera i8 a Washington lady a New York [ric her in social etreles, and Lean ves Jit as his opt nithat she i a pot Orin it 4 Her influence, wormed ti "n bept | OArses. Who r 0 "oo ent coun it Bee real estate and 1M, tag town of Marion, ass, pent a few week " SReTELS her visu exactly HOTe P nt ol fo not The Golden Gowns and Hats of France, From the London Telegraph ) gold in Par of 0 + 10 a atl t t LOL re rat for INE Seems r aa iit beads and spangie which suit heavier Ussues, such as and veivel, Parisian milliners, having used gold trinin ngs in great prof wion for dressy winter ready 10 resort to at again for early spring, having dis veered some new and exquisitely harmonious combinations of gol H fligraln with colors re wrought zarlanis ol imaves in high relief, and fine lace like tracery lo be mounted on bonnets made of quilted tulle, the tinted meshes of which are slightly burnished with gold Osmoer refuses wa ode for hus strange find, and keeps it closely guar a8 visitor aiie % so OODLES, AIC rs eg { to see his old cliddweller iriend at ali | and examined, and perhaps ti “aAmson i i times, - it should be seen by scientific men, e¢ Darwin jan theory will be forever established be vond even the shadow of a doula And | it would, in all probability, be time w | spent for men of sence 0 visit Larnzo | and further explore the prehistoric cas | | erus of the Diaboios. ~ * The Cleopatra Bath Robe, r 2 . The woman who has the money and time to be intensely and altogether fash | ionable usually racks her brain and i i | use of it, draws hea: ily upon ber purse in a strug. | gle for novelty. The newest develop went in this line is called the Cleopatra bath robe, Even in the houses of the rich the bathroom is nothing like the gorgeous bathing apartments of the ancient Romans and Egyptians, but in some cases it is something like a small section of the ancient splendors. Whether the mistress of a fine house has a gorge- ously tiled bathroom or only the ordi. nary thing, she can be luxurious in her To that end she may now en- velop hersell, after her lavatory induaig ence, in a garment made of a thick but soit and fleecy blanket, such as are often brought to the East from the Pacitic coast, and which cost at retail from $10 to £20. The garment isloosely fashioned out of this material, and it has a toga like appearance, with its clasic drapery Hut its white woollen surface is not leit as clear and primitive as were those gar- ments, There are two met of lecoration in vogue for these bath re ue is to embroider them, and the other is to paint them. In either case con- ods bes, | sideravle of really skiliful art may be wed in decorating the robe with Ribbons and fringes may also swohed. and altogether the wearer, ouch only atiired for seclusion, ano all the laws of propriety bound to am and ran if disco 1 by mas caline eves, is really arrayed in about as much splendor, of its kind, as though 4oing Wo a ball, HON be all » Wearing Apparel Slsos. The Et Lonla (lobe Demy of mave: Tt is mtonishing to olwerve how few people un derstand he cominon rales of meadsnres ment in purchasing wesring apparel ¢ or instance, a man will buy a eoat that & ase” too sunllor too Lage, A “sie amaller or & “size” larger 1&8 what he probably needs, but he does not know what a “gize’ 18 Well, & “size” in a coat ja an inch, a ‘size’ in underwear is two inchies, # “size’’ in a sock 18 one inch, in a coliar one half an inch, in a shirt one nail an inch, in shoes one sixth of an neh, pants one inch, gloves one fourth oon anch, sn | in hats one-eighth of an neh, Very fow plrcoasers ever under swetid the scuedule numed. The Potash Kettle, - There is a meeting house in Andros rognn county, Me, that is called th “, ptash Kettle” When it was boii meeting-house stoves were unknown, bul the congregation were Temi Ve, 0 wecided that they would like 1h ir hing wll the better il they could ih it hot. *o they built a brick arly, procured an old potash kettle, and set ii. cottom np, over the arch. To thos way they a very suceesslnl heating ap paratus, which five tie house a name which it has retained jor ball & century. HER HAIR TURNED WHITE, A Lady Who Bears toe Marks of a Night of Terrible suspense, A party of doctors and ladies were dis nssing lately a question wh ch in terests everybody on this terrestial splicre—muely, the snows of time which sooner or later must wi iten th fhiead of the i resident and peasant. ind a layman who was also pros nt sid “1 know of a man who, but a ew } ago, hid a mustache as brown and ly brown as the fur ol a seal # almost white in places and ro! ol it but is gray, The change t : n the space of one night, that <u ne the death of a daughter w n the pr triest little maid or Kisses, Intense gric this sudden transo 1 this one of the ladies ¢ | 10 be in New Ur fu r the war, and at a roe t | met a young lady » bien more than 2 year hair was of a pure he was & beautiing g crown of silver nat ery ones attention. | came to have white hair rhe was the daugiit grocer in New Ug t carly part of the war mis in that city ust ii Ned Calls Wik er futher, who w iy out wenn ¥ { 8 then a oa he owned near sane 3 ie . n un : 3 i peare and ‘ at Bat nx i any IT They relu and proceed «f 10 14 Linase fiad ir ath rs Lit by th the tude Hom, L$] 184 # ¥ ren sicep nose, Ar wig OF tao al them once in to eratand t e. Ey good lon atte to fet out of the and rench a o®ghbanng where ther lind, Means Wiki re valerate hours ister, the hair of the younger girl, then at-out 15 years old, pad turned ss white almost lier cheeks, b oodles with fright. Her har had been black as night before. Lie 2s : Popgzuns Wouldn't de, Judge John B. Rice was a prominent lawyer of Monigomery, Ala. When se- session was being whooped up in the Sate the Judge made a speech in one of the small towns up in the pine] woods country, and inthe course of his heated and &anguine remarks exclaimed: “Why, eliow citizen's! we can whip thew Yankees with popguns.” After the war ciouds had cleared away and the Juwlge had settied down to the practice of his profession, professional duties took him tack to this same town. He was defending acriminal in his usual way. He assured the jury earnestly that every word that fell from his lips was tre, At this point a ‘one-armed, long-haired juror arose in his seat with doubt writ ten all over his countenance and said “ eden: ain't you the man what said in very Courl House in "0 that we whip them Yankees with pop then with great veheunence exclaimed “You | said it; but, d——na their dirty souls, they wouldn't fight us with pop ain | Blsmarck SUL a Hard Worker, “Though well over seventy, Irince Piemarck still works a8 hard as he did when he war twenty years younger,’ save the SL J “Heo uover goes to bed unt two in the morning, and eatz a hearty supper shortly belore midnight, He rarely rises mach Lelore on, a8 he has atways been a heavy seeper and is oiten dim urbed daring the night by the arrival of despatches which require instant attention. The Chancel or is becoming a rich man, The salaries trom his ollices are Ly no means extra. vagant, but added to the revenues of his putates and the prouts of bis saw-mills and distilicries they Lring Lis income to peiween L000 and £30,000 a year And, as the Prince is notoriously e 0 pomical, a very large proportion of this comiortable income is annually saved.” pee (stale, he Southern Tarpon. The tarpon is pronounced the best of All the southern game Ashes, It appears i the coass of Florida in the spring Ihe sport requires the finest of tackle, and for the run of & tarpon the best reels made in the world usd. The tish | OFT EE aa — Groceries, FOREIGN "SECHLER & CO. Provisions, FRUITS and CONFECTIONERY. MEAT MARKET 15 BU was Aranulsted Bugar So 8 pound adder 1 lowest piioes Good bargains in all grades. Abo. Finest New Orleans sg B0c per gallon Fine sesortment of Coffees, both snd ousted, Our rossted Coffess are wiways fresh resn TOBACOOS. ~All the new and doeirable brands OIG ARS Special attention given to our cigar trates We try 10 sell the beet Zier Go snd be cigars in town, TRAR Young Myson, 60, $0c, $1 por pound Tmper- fd, B00, BOc, $1 per pound, Gunpowder We, Wc, $i per pound, Oolong, 0c, #0, $1 por p Mined green and black, G0c, Bie $1 per pound Hise uncolored Japan tes. Also, sn good Lar Hywon at 40c por pound, A very grinin Young CHEESE Finest Tall cream choose at 100) | VINEGAR. Pure oid cider vinegar made ro cider this goods is w two gallons { oommon veeger One gaiieg 1 All cher | connection. STUN EW ARE ~An ail sles of al] the dexirable shape ue: wumiity of Akron ware. This is the most sath factory goods ln the marist YOREIGR FRUITS Oranges sud lemons of the freshest goods to be had, We buy the best and ju femons we cap find They sre better snd cheaper than the very low priv od goods. Cioel FRUIT JAK atid Mason's § lightning 18 is » Jittle higher in peice it be worth more than the 4 the Heghtuing jar aud you will pot have them in plats, quarts snd Forges Ve have the hie gin roniain pr i fur ahead of ng Trait is p jure, The yoi Knows ou the Mason jar, be repos fu price. Boy regres it. We ‘ a tw ined and Kise L anything MEATE Vine sugir-cured Hume Fhouldem fuel Banco! We guaranties avery phece ¢ UR MEAT MARKEY ross Tor ket me and dried Berd, Neked umd o fest weaeil, We have now on exnibition and sae I's Laat complete assoriment of 2O A RP RIS < everghown io Bellefonte, at the very lowest prices, which x: any aod all times can be relied on. variety with all the fixtures belo Lace Cortains in great oging thereto, Wigdow Blinds and fixtures, in fact everything in the House [Keeping live, including Sheeting, Pillow, Cesings, Tickings, &¢., &e, &e We handle the +>ROCHESTER CLOTHING. And are the only Clothing deslers in town who do, and will sell you a well made good fitting suit at the’ samel prices S. & asked you for slop shop trash. Try it once. A. 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