Yoies ALPINE BOLTON'S. 3 T NATIONAL NOTICE Rent, Sell, Insure, Ex- p Your Property. E. B. REYNOLDS, SAYRE, PA. 30x, D. STEVENS, - INSURANCE AND ~ REAL ESTATE. ns Negotiated, Insurance , Houses Rented, Rents , Taxes Paid. ELMER BLOCK ty Prone COMFORT All who have worn a Truss realize the necessity of a PERFECT FIT Let us show you the ITHSONIAN” on and fit guaranteed. L. GILLESPIE ON DRUGGIST. 3 i } language that “I saw them first.” and he | stood off like a lot of hack drivers that | The Bad Boy Oces to Belgium—Dad Buys Fake Souvenirs at Waterloo —He Goes Swimming with King Leopold and the Bad Boy Ties Up: Their Clothes. BY HON. GEORGE W_ PECK {Ex-Governor of Wisconsin, Former Edi. tor of "Peck's Bur.” Author of "Pecks Bad Hoy, ' Etc) (Copyright, 198 by Joseph BH. Dowles) Brussels Belgium —Dear Old Skate: “What is the malter with our goleg to Belgium?” sald dad to me, as we were escaping from Germany “Well, what In thunder do we want to go to Belgium for?’ =aid | to dad “I do not want to go to a country that Bas no visible means of support, except raising Belgian hares, to sell 10 cranks in America. | couldn't eat rabbits with- out thinking | was chewing a plece of house cat and rabbits is the chie’ food of the people. | have eaten horse and mule in Paris, and wormy figs in Turkey, and embalmed beef fried In candle grease. in Russia and sausage in Ger- many, imported from the Leutgard sausage factory in Chicago, and stuff © Egypt with ground mummy for curry powder, but | draw the line on Belgian hares, and | strike right here, and shall have the Interuational Unlon of Amal-| gamated Tourists declare a boycott on Belgium sald | just like that, bristling up to dad real spunky “You are going to Belgium _ all right” sald dad, as he took hold of my thumb! in a jiu jitsu fashion and twisted it backward until I fairly penuked. and’ held it, while he sald he should never dare go home without visiting King Leopold's kingdom, and having a talk with an 50-year-old male flirt. who had a thousand chorus girls on his staff and us, and called the [armer who had | They said i we would be skinned to a finish by the | fake: who got us and they were right. He showed us from a high hill where the different portions of the battle were fought, and where they caught Napoleon Bonaparte, asd where Bluchier came up and made things hum in the German language, and then he took us off to his farm where the most of the relics were found, and began to sell things to dad, until he had filled the hind end of thet bullets and grape shot, sabers and bayonets, old rusty rifles, and everything dad wanted, and we had enough to fill & museum. and when the farmer had got dad's money we went Say, when we came to look it over we found two rusty Colts revolvers, and guns of modern construc tion. which have been bought on the; battlefields in all countries and prop- erly rusted to sell to tourists, [showed dad that the revolver was unknown at the time of the battle of Waterico, and that every article he had bought was a fraud, the sabers havicg been made in America, before the war of the rebellion, | and dad was mad, and gave the stuff to the porter of the hotel, who charged dad seven dollars for taking it away : Dad Kept one three cornered hat that the farmer told him Bonaparte lost when his horse stampeded with him and it had drifted under a barbed wire fence, where it had lain until the day Uefore we visited the battiefield Say, that hat is as good as new, and dad says! it Is worth all the stuff cost, but [ would not be found dead wearing it, cause it is all out of style i We bave seen the king of Belgium, and actually got the worth of our money He Is an old dandy, and looks like a Philadelphia quaker, only he is not as | pious as a quaker. Dad wrote to the king and sald he was a distinguished American traveling for his health, anc wanted to talk over matters that might interest both to Belgium and Well. the messenger came back and said dad couldn't get to the went over, and as we were golng he saw us he sald, "Come here, Uncle Dad thought it must be some lunatic, | and was going to make a sneak and get and we went up to him | dad If he had come as a relative of the AND BEGAN TOSELL THINGSETO DAD could give the sultan of Turkey cards| and spades and little casino io the harem game “You will go along. won't you, bub?’ and he gave my thumb another twist, and | said: “You bet your life but | won't do a thing to you and Leopold before we get out of the Belgian hare belt,” and so here we are. looking for trouble, It is strange we never hear more about Belgium In America, but actually, | never heard of a Belgian settling in the United States. There are Irish. and! Germans, and Norwegians, and Italians, and men of all other couutries, but 1] aever saw a Belgian until to-day, and it | does you good to see a people who don't do anything but work. There is not a loafer in Belgium, and every man has | smut on his nose, and bis hands are black with handling iron, or something. | There Is no law against people going | away from Belgium, but they all like! it here, and seem to think there is no other country, and they are happy and | work from cholce. I always knew the Belgian gune that sell In America for 12 shillings and kill | at both ends, but | never knew they made things here that were worth any- | thing, but dad says they are better fixed here for making everything used by civilized people than apy country on earth, and | am glad to be here, cause you get notice when you are goluog to be | be robbed. They ring a bell here. every | minute to give you notice that some | one is after the coin, so when you hear | a bell ring, If you bang on to your pocketbook, you don't lose This is the place where “There was | a sound of revelry at night, and Bel. gium’'s capital had gathered there” You remember the night before the bat. | tie of Waterloo, when Napoleon Hona- | parte got his. You must remember about it, old man, just when they were | right In the midst of the dance, and! “soft eyes Jooked love to eyes which | spake again” and they were taking a champagne bath, fnside and out, when | suddenly the opening guns of Waterloo, | twelve miles away, began to boom, and | the poet, who was present, sald, ‘But | bush, hark ~—a deep sound like a rising | kuell” and everybody turned pale and | i began to stampede, when the floor man- ager said, ‘Tis but the wind, or the | car on the stony street, on with the | dance; let joy be unconfined; no sleep | till morn, when youth and pleasure | meet, to chase the glowing hours with | fying feet.” Well, sir, this is the place where that | ball took place, which Is described in | the peace | used to speak in school, but | I never thought | would be here, right | whers the dancers got it In the neck. When aaa, found that the battlefield of few miles away the king for breach of promise or to re- marking that he had always rather pay cash than to have any fuss made about Dad told him he | bad no claim against him for alienating | anybody's affections, or for breach of | promise, and that all he wanted was to] have a little talk with the king and | find out how a king lived, and how be | had any fun in running the king busi- | ness, at his age, and they sat down and | began to talk as friendly as two old | chums, while the dog played tag with me. We found the king was a regular boy, and that instead of his mind being occupied by aftairs of state, or his | African concessions with Congo coun- other tribes, he was enjoying life just } a8 he did when he was a barefooted boy, fishing for perch at the old mill pond and when he mentioned his career as a boy, and his enjoyweunts, dad told about his youth, aud how he never got sO much pleasure In after life as he did when he had a stone brulse on his heel and went off into the woods and cut a | tamarack pole and caught sunfish t'l) the cows came home The king brightened up and told dad { | { | THE KING BEGAN TO CLOTHES OFF be bad a pond in the palace grounds, stocked with old fashioned fish. and | every day he took off his shoes and | rolled up his pants and with nothlog on but a shirt, and pants held up by | one suspender of striped bed ticking, he | went out io a boat and fished as he did | when a boy, with a bent pin for a hook, PEEL HIS engaged, and they could all have thelr | grand functions and balls and dinners | jand Turkish baths, If they wanted | them, but give him the old swimming | | hole, i “Me, 100." said dad, and as dad looked down Into the park he saw a little lake, | i dad held BPLWO Agen, pst as boys they to say, Jama. at, Well, sir. you'd a dide to see dad and | ming place. The king put kis hand in the water, and sald it was fine and be- his clothes off. and dad took off his clothes, and the king made a jump apd went io all over. and came i up with his eyes full of water, strang- | ing because he did pot hold his nose and then dad made a leap aud splashed the water like an elephant had fallen two oid men were “T'll swim you a match to the other said the king “It's a go." sald dad, and they started porpoising across the jittle lake and then I thought it was time there was something doing. so 1 got busy and tied their clothes in knots $0 tight you couldn't get them untied without an act of parliam They went ashore on the opposite side of the lake, cause some women Iriving through the grounds and then | found a flock of goats grazing on the lawn, and the dog and | drove them to where the clothes were tied in knots, and Were THE KING GAVE THE GRAND HAIL. ING BIGN when the goats began to chew the clothes | took the dog and went back to the entrance of the park. aud dad swam back to where the clothes and the goats were. and when they drove the goats away and couldn't untie the knots, the king gave the grand hatling sign of distress, or some- thing. and the guards of the palace and some cavalry came on the run, and the park seemed filled with an army, and | bid the dog good-by.and went back to the hotel alone, and waited for dad Dad didn't get back till after and when he came the king's clothes stomach and too dad is pussy, geared “Did you have a good time, dad?" says “Haven't you got any respect for age condemn you The king has ordered that you be fed to the animals in the 200.” I told him that | didn’t care what they did with me, I had been brought up to tie knots in clothes when | saw people in swimming, and | didn’t care whether they were crowned heads or just plain dubs, and | asked dad how they got along when thelr clothes were chewed up. He sald the soldiers covered them with ponchos and got dark he had on a sult o1 too tight around the long in the legs, cause aud the kipg Is long king, and the servants brought out a could mad, and he said no, enjoyed such things and | to come the next day and go fish- Ing with him, barefooted Say, dad can go, but | wouldn't be caught by that king. on a bet that he always and wanted dad have In a #anitarium business for your little Not any king HE NNERY RUSSIANS LIVING HIGH. Aristocrats of St. Petersburg Spend Much Time Over Pleasures of the Table, War or no war. the ariatocratic Rus slan pursues his pleasures with an resources or unlimited recklessness The pleas ures of the table are proiractad to inordinate degree. A lunch In which are plentifully watered champagne, will spread [tselt through the afternoon. You may Lare- ly escape at five o'clock, though you be gin to eat at one. The host never sits plying his guests with a succes- slon of good things liquid and Even the afternoon tea in middle-class circles is a very formidable undertak- ing. It includes dishes of various in which meat will certainly and Russian tea, served in a glas is but the pale comparison to sparkling champagne. The appearance of the streets tells of wealth, too. No finer equipages exist anywhere than those which horsed with coal black steeds, dash at full speed. in lofty dis- regard for the mere fool passenger, down the central strip of wood pave- ment in the principal "prospec 8," as the wider streets are denominated, Holding the reins in his two hands, with armas outstretched, the driver, mediacval in dress. has the summary methods of a Roman charloteer. In- | deed, there is something of Imperial Rome in this second capital of an solid ris figure, with He Got It Bosh—1 knew a man once who had | pever met with a disappointment in his | Ife. Josh—How was that? “He was never looking for anything | but trouble '~~Detroit Frei Press Of Bome Use. Kiia~That fellows head n't of much BOXING IS PRETTY WOMAN'S PASTIME MISS HAYS IS NOT AFRAID OF A BRAWNY FIST. DONS THE GLOVES DAILY Physically She Is a Match for Jeffries and Puts Her Talents to Use—An Indiana Product, In a New York woman's club at No. 137 West Forty third street Miss Catherine Hayes and a sparring mas- ter box at least six rounds every day When he is absent Miss Sabel John son, a 150-pound athlete, Is the only pugiiist In the club who cas last for even three rounds agalust the club champion Miss Hayes has proven herself more than a match for the average male athiete In a fivercund She welghs 264 pounds, not one pound of which is superfluous flesh, stands five feet 11 inches in stockings and has pever met any two women who were able to last in a fiveround bout. Ag a girl she attended the Convent of St. Johu's, at Indianapolis, Ind. There she began to play basket ball and before left the Institution she was captain for two years. Cae day at an athletic carnival which the boys of a nearby school were having, the remping “tom boy” saw the Loys run, jump. box and wrestle. The girls had no sooner regched thelr own grounds than Catherine suggested that they have a similar performance, She excelled the others and soon her records were considered extra- ordinary. The sisters still marvel at her performances, the results of which are tables on the old walls Within a year she covered the 100 vards in 13 seconds, could jump five feet high and outbox any girl In the institution She and her sister exercise every day with the boxing gloves and they attribute their health to this fact. Miss Hayes has put her knowledge of the art of boxing to good account. She was returning from Brighton Beach two years ago with her sister. They were the only passengers In the car, and as the conductor entered to bout her she good | HORSE CLIMBS STAIRS, LANDS IN BEDROOM. | Wholly Uneducated Equine Seeks Refuge in Second-Story Room After Startling Stunts. New York—Two large black horses belonging to a Zondensed milk com pany, while being led through York street, Brooklyn, became frightened and ran away. One of them dashed into an open doorway of 218 York street, and, terrified by the clamor behind him, knocked over several children, then dashed up a flight of Af teen stairs leading to the second story annihilating the banisters as he went, and terrorizing the inhabitants of the house The street is narrow, and many chil dren were playing In It at the time both horses took fright. A number of DASHED UP A FLIGHT OF FIFTEEN STAIRS LEADING TO THE SEC OND STORY men tried to stop the runaways by stringing across the street and waving their bands. This effort merely turn ed the horses at right angles oppo site the entrance of 218, which Is flush with the sidewalk After knocking over several chil dren both horses reached the en- trance. Here was a baby carriage with 8 two-yearold boy In it and with an eight-year old girl at its side. One of the animals turned and sprang across a low fence into the back yard. but the other and the larger of the two dashed straight for the doorway and bowled both children over, smashing the baby carriage into splinters. He then pounded ahead through the dark hallway to a flight of fifteen narrow steps leading to the second story. He up the stairs, carrying the banisters away Reaching the top the horse hoofed cracking ficor into ths bedroom, where he seemed preparicg The bed cracked and gave way, while the animal rolled over on the floor. A policeman finally, after many ef- The children who had been knocked over by the animal In his rush were only slightly injured SHE BOXES NESS OF WITH THE A TRAINED CLEVER. PUGILIST collect their fare he stepped on her Instead of apologizing he made an Ipsulting remark. Quick as a flash her fist shot After that he re- on the platform, sullen and but looking for no more such punishment. The club's instructor, who weighs 160 pounds, looks like a stripling when sparring with her. Even his clever footwork does not save him at times from the rushes of this woman. She lacks only one inch of James J. Jeffries’ six feet of helght., His neck measures 17% Inches; hers 15. Her cBest, contracted, measures 15 inch more than Jeffries, 42%; when nor mal an inch and a half more his 43% foches and when expanded {9 inches, an inch more than the cham- plon’s. Her walst measures 33 Inches, his 35. She weighs 42 pounds more than he does. Her biceps measures 15 inches, one inch less than the Cali: fornlan's, and her arm 28% as com- | pared with Jeffries’ 30% Taking Into consideration the fact that she is exceptional active, quick on her feet, strong and a clever boxer, it would probably be Impossible to find a woman who is her match. When asked how she came to take | up such strenuous exercise as a) pastime Miss Haves replied ‘In school | was always active and | my health was good. As | became older [ felt the need of exercise. | had liked boxing so I took it up. It has benefited we greatly and this was so apparent that { have induced various of my women friends to learn how to use the gloves.” On all sides are signs that point to the fact that New York women are beginning to realize the benefits of | taking part in sports that were for merly considered as being distinctly within the province of men. Nelther mained Just athletic woman. Lyisg-Down Dance. REPLEVINS A BEAR. Thought It Rather an Unusual Plece of Professional Work to Be Asked of Him. Bangor, Me —Deputy Sheriff Mark Huson of Presque Isle had an unusual plece of professional work the other day. A man coming in from Portage lake early last spring caught a palr of young bear cubs, which he sold to Wil- llam lL. Flelds, who lives on the north miles above Washburn village. They soon became strougly attached to Mr Flelds One afternoon In June Mr. Fields left home, shutting the cubs in the house, They became restless, and the female succeeded in climbing through an open window. She saw a man at work on the opposite side of the river and swam across. The man saw the cub coming and caught her as she came from the water. The little aulmal appeared 80 friendly that the man started tw his home in Mapleton, bearing the cub in his arms. A week later he came to Presque Isle looking for Judge George H. Smith, whose reputation as a lover of pets ls widely known Unfortunately the and the man then gett; as an all around useful animal to protect his lawn from young baseball players and dogs. Mr. Daggett, how- In the meantime Mr. Flelds had learned of the whereabouts of his little As life had been made miserable for him because of the cries of the other cub, Mr. Fields sought out his pet, but the new owner would not con- sent even to show the animal. Then Mr. Fields hurried over to Caribou and got a writ of replevin. Coming back to Washburn, he telegraphed to Huson to come to bis assistance, telling him of his writ of replevin. Huson was on hand at the appointed time, and together they went to the ered his missing pet without a struggle. The sheriff thinks it is the only case on record of replevying a bear. The Modern Novel. 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