THE
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CENTRE DEMOCRAT,
BELLEFONT
PA. FFBRUARY
1900),
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OTHE TILLER OF THE SOIL
Ry dint of craft he « coaxes from the fleld,
Stubborn ofttimes, a rich, luxuriant yleld
Wherewith to feed the nations of the earth,
Yet they be few who ken his honest worth,
And some do deem him but of
siream,
Forest and fie
For Nature tea
Throughout
ing days
Narrow
1d ore they little dream;
im her myst ways
ineing se ‘Nn puss-
ca
son
Far from glide aunts that tempt men’s
souls,
His burnished s} all
Along the fertile field; and
The merry harvest sor
arethef
inter,
g llits on
Content to labor In
Lontent to fill h
He quaffs the glo
wine,
dwells
vine
~Ingar In
keeper,
wing sui
And beneath his own
gram, In Minne
Sih statebiofutadiaot back
3A Mystery of the Desert :
By Neville Cain
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them sel Ww
few, and digs tern. which was
from the spr ga amid the groves
heat diminis | not, but rather inten
d from day to day. so 1}
ad we had to force
rithe on "w
wih) to ob
sills it the outer
springs became dry, a1
our way inward (f wide
and of densest gre
pRes of water,
LR Lg
Here and there we encountered
beaten paths, which struck us as being
ns we had seen
Possibly
the
rather singuiar, no Uv
ing thing save birds . We Ar
they
which howled
went
fe by
grued, were mas jnckala,
about In the daytime and
there for water after dark, al
though on I could have
sworn that a vague imprint in the sandy
pathway was that of a beast of prey,
“7 kept a sharp lookout and
Sentinels ever on watch about the
horses, camels and goats tethered
n short distance from the eamp beneath
lenfy sheds, Nothing of note trans
pired for some days, except slight ad
ditional proofs from time to time that
some living ereature Inhabited the
place. The heat seemed to Increnst
one occasion
Baily, and the skies assumed the rede
dish tinge which bodes no good to the
dweller in the desert. At rare intervals
across the yellow hillocks would éowe
pirouetting dinbolical little spirals of
sand, moved by puffs of wind, like
breaths from a furnace,
“On the morning of the fift
Hamed, my Circassian slave, ¢
rare courage
h day
an of
omal
s of
that
Isls
and Bil guli
appeared into tl
f fresh
beauty, [88]
the on
in the «
s In quest o
tern being used f
only,and, from the lex
ing, must have
usual ha.
lapse
* than
m at
ticus~
penetrated
perceived hb
Wil ily ‘4a.
uadenty Wit
f the jungle
Arabs’ 1
tant,
seream and
the edge ©
lating I'he
sl in an i
ifles were
but
Jar, a
at thelr
there wus
fia
down
1
arest
araly zed
i1ld not
oulder
& mingled
tawny fl | Hamed, dragge
from behind, disappe the
“*The riflemen who had been ne
to him fell upon their faces, |
with some awful fe
» re h of
ani 8,
ared in WOOK
ar, and
be indu u to ! What they had seen
I knew not. wit ar and
I bade a huge black,
ith Ww
co
£ my gcimit
a
h, foll
d Ir
t where 1:
dn't be
is now ?™
ramoment. Then
on dawned on his
beam ntey
“I guess P
now,"
thee
+ & bird of paradise
yiully ~N. XY.
he ant
Herald
Wanted Something Netter,
“1s in this town
where they
{ of t} '
there ia ANDY place
telegraph with
he asl ceman on the core
ner,
“That
haver
“What's the n
“No good,
too new and we
replied the officer,
ery in
‘ got It vet"
I've kept five or six wires
red hot for half a day trying to get my |
brother-in-law to send me money to pet |
home on, but | can’t even raise him.“
Philadelphia Press,
Comfort snd Appearances,
We wonder why it Is that nice-look-
Ing clothes are rarely ever comfortable.
«Washington Democrat,
iowirea?™ |
tier with the old way ?™ |
eh ¢ 0
0
SAMY
waa
0A
They Wear Kilt Skirts and Neckinees
of Sharks Teeth and Are
Born Cogquettes,
To Preserve Od Letters
Here n aue method
old let
been
6Of
hurry
kad ne
of her eo
tent
nent tH »
i
I | burn thew
tow Tnstend
painstakingly,
that ta save
out of the question, at
wana ont of the question,
has inte
small bits and ehanged them into an
embroidered covered pillow, It's »
suggestive dea, and might be util
fzed In preserving all sorts of old let
fers and manuseripts,
the torn them,
Ln ?
OULDERS.
hounld Be Level, Large,
wibly Descending ond Del
ientely Polsed
PITAI
INCIDENT.
Which
y In
mn Wor
an Ignorant
nn Interpreted a»
mple Preseription
The Ripple a In Made
: hot inch of
the
an erinoline
skirts: there Is not
an ounce of starch put ie the petti
cont, but everything around the foot
new
must ripple and billow and eurl and |
'awirl
until one feels an If one were
following In the wake of a steamship
when going behind the fashionably
dressed woman!
Ereet,
RUNNING SORE
N HIS ANKLE.
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After Six Years of Intense
Suffering, Promptly Cured
irculation
+ 18 No une
made f ir it 18 bac)
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