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Baliefonte. Pa., August 24, 1906.
GERMAN GLEE CLUBS.
Surly Days of the Saengerfests In
This Country.
In the early days of saengerfests In
dis country they were held annually.
The third saengerfest was held in New
York in 1852, and many Newark Ger-
mans attended. Below are given ex-
#ructs from the Newark Dally Adver-
giser, printed at the time:
June 10, 1832. — The German glee
elubs of New York will celebrate the
fhird annual festival in New York
this year on the 19th to 22d of June.
fhe New York Journal of Commerce
states that the glee clubs from abroad
will be received by the New York
elubs and honored with a torchlight
procession. The principal performance
will take place at the Academy of
Music, Fourteenth street, when the
choruses will be sung by over 1,200
male voices, accompanied by an or-
ehestra of 100 pieces. On the 22d will
Be held a picnic on the Bloomingdale
road, opposite Striker's bay.
June 22.—-Third musical jubilee of
@erman singers, Saturday to Tuesday,
0th to 22d. The execution of the
“Magic Flute" overture by 1,200 voices
was very uncommon and surprising by
fhe New York clubs and was received
with great applause. The Eintrachts
of Newark sang “Wallisischer Schif-
fergesang” in a distinguished manner.
But the most marked performance was
Martin Luther's “Ein Feste Burg Ist
Wneer Gott,” arranged by Finke. We
felt immediately what religious music
really is—how grand, solemn and sub-
¥me such a hymn is when performed
By a large orchestra and hundreds of
voices. It was something to be re-
membered long. Kossuth was present
@uzing an intermission and was cheer-
ed.-—-Newark News.
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THE SERPENT’'S VENOM.
Mohammedan Legend of the Origin
of the Tobacco Plant,
The prophet was taking a stroll in
the country when he saw a serpent,
stiff with cold, lying on the ground.
He compassionately took it up and
warmed it in his bosom. When the
serpent had recovered it said:
“Divine prophet, listen. I am now
going to bite thee.”
“Why, pray?” inquired Mohammed.
“Because thy race persecutes mine
and tries to stamp It out.”
“Bot does not thy race, too, make
perpetual war against mine?’ was the
prophet's rejoinder. “How canst thou,
Besides, be so ungratefu! and so soon
forget that I saved thy life?”
“There is no such thing as gratitude
upon this earth,” replied the serpent,
“and if 1 were now to spare thee
either thou or another of thy race
would kill me. By Allah, I shall bite
hee.”
If thou hast sworn by Allah, I will
mot cause thee to break thy vow,” said
fie prophet, holding his hand to the
serpent’s mouth. The serpent bit him,
But he sucked the wound with his lips
and spat the venom on the ground.
And on that very spot there sprang
ap a plant which combines within it-
self the venom of the serpent and the
eompassion of the prophet. Men call
this plant by the name of tobacco.—
@onte Arabe.
No Wool Over His Eyes.
Tucle Abe, a grizzled old negro, vis-
fed a zoological garden, He stood fas-
winated before a cage containing a
ahimpanzee and could not be induced
fo move. After awhile the animal
eame to the front of the cage and Un-
ale Abe spoke to him.
“Howdy? he said. “Howdy?
The chimpanzee not making any re-
sponse, Uncle Abe chuckled and
winked at Lim knowingly.
“Dat's right; dat's de way ter do!
Boan’ you nebber 'gin ter talk. Ef you
does white man put er hoe in yer han’
en meck yer wuk!” he said.—Harper's
Weekly.
Stephen Girard, Hero.
A tablet “in commemoration of the
eourage and humanity displayed by
Stephen Girard during the epidemic of
Fellow fever in the year 1793" in
@irard college in Philadelphia discloses
& phase of character in the philan-
fhiropist not generally understood. Dur-
ing the fever epidemic he gave up his
business and his luxurious home and
assumed the superintendency of a yel-
Sow fever hospital. He took up the
work others recoiled from and did the
werk because it was his duty.
On Himself.
They had quarreled again.
“Perhaps you are not aware,” she
said, “that I bad over a dozen pro-
posals of marriage before I accepted
yours.”
He flushed.
“And perhaps, madam,” he retorted
Baughtily, “you are not aware that I
proposed to nearly twenty women be-
flare 1 became acquainted with your-
self”
Temper.
If a man has a quarrelsome tem-
ger, let him alone. The world will
soon find him employment. He will
soon meet with some one stronger than
Bimself who will repay him better than
can. A man may fight duels all
life if he is disposed to quarrel.—
Posted.
3 obo on mit to be--thut is the ues.
ou repeat the Declaration of
Serenading
Felicia
By OTHO B.
SENGA
Copyright, 1905, by Ruby Douglas
“Run out, children; run out and
play,” coaxed Felicia, “shooing” them
along with the skirt of her pretty
gown.
“You come, too, Aunt Fillie,” begged
Jimmie. “You said you'd play ‘tim-
buktu' today.”
“I'm going to be very busy this
morning, Jimmie,” evaded Felicia.
“Going to try on?” cried Gladys
ecstatically. “Ob, do let me stay!"
“I'm not going to ‘try on,’ Gladys; it
isn't the dressmaker who is coming.”
Felicia smiled happily.
The brown eyes of Bobby the adora-
ble opened wider and then narrowed
knowingly. “You goin’ to have p'tic’lar
comp'ny?’ he demanded.
Felicia’s joyous laugh rang out
sweetly. “Yes, Bobby, very particu-
lar company.”
“I'll bet anything it's Mr. Parker,” {
grumbled Jimmie. “I don't want to go
away if it is.”
“Oh, let us stay!" cried Gladys, jump-
ing up and down. “Mr. Parker'll want
to see us—he always does. You know,
Aunt Fillie,” argumentatively, “he
sald the other day he was very fond
of children.”
“Yes, 1 know,” hurriedly, “he is
fond of children—good children, obe-
dient children" —
“Then we'll thtay,” agreed Donald
placidly.
“Of course,” assented Gladys and
Jimmie, with one accord, seating them-
selves on the steps with cheerful alac-
rity.
“Come on, Bob,” Jimmie added pat-
ronizingly.
But the adorable one stood aloof,
regarding Felicla with gravely re-
proachful eyes. “Has he got somepin’
p'tic'lar to say to you?" frigidly.
Felicia laughed and blushed rosily.
“I think so, Bobby," gently. “Now,
Jimmie,” coaxingly, “you are the oldest
—you ought to set the others a good
example. Take them away and have
them play something. I want to talk
with Mr. Parker a little while, and
then perhaps we'll play.”
Jimmie rose grandly. “I'm most
nine,” importantly. “I'll boss the oih-
ers. Come on, kids.”
He stopped and turned to his pretty
aunt with masculine superiority. “But
if you're smart you won't keep Mr.
Parker shut up in that dark parlor
very long. 1 bet he druther play ‘tim-
buktu.' Come on, Bob. What you
standin’ there for?"
Felicia paused on the steps and looked
back apprehensively. The adorable
one stood in the path, his feet planted
wide apart, his hands thrust into the
pockets of the recently acquired
trousers and a faraway look upon his
beautiful face that somehow filled
Felicia’s heart with foreboding. Had
she known Bobby better she might
have feared less—or more! She ran
down the steps and laid a detaining
hand on Jimmie's arm,
“Jimmie, dear,” she whispered im-
pressively, “remember that Bobby is
your guest, and you must do every-
thing you can to make him happy.”
“All right,” grufily, still with a sense
of being defrauded. “Come, Bobby.”
“Go with the others, Bobby,” coaxed
Felicia alluringly; “they will show you
thelr pets.”
He brought his heaven turned eyes
down to her face.
“Some day.” he breathed sweetly, “I
shall give you a Sarah Nade.”
“So you shall, Bobby,” gratefully,
“whenever you wish.”
Bobby skipped away, and Felicia ran
singing up the steps.
“Isn't it sweet of him?" she thought.
“1 never heard him sing except that
once at All Saints’. I don't wonder they
call him the adorable one! Such a
lively thought, to give me a serenade!”
“This is my dorg,” introduced Jim-
mie proudly. “His name is Bunch o'
Brightness, but we call him Banch for
every day. Get your cat, Gad. Glad's
cat is a blue ribboner!”
The big, fluffy Persian was brought
out for the admiration of the guest,
who regarded it with coldly critical
eyes.
“Where's Don's pet?”
“It's a parrot,” explained Gladys.
“He's In the house—in a cage. When
we got Fluff we had to shut the parrot
up, 'cause he wanted to pick Fluff’s
eyes out.”
“You orter hear the parrot talk!”
cried Jimmie. “He can say ‘Now's the
time,’ ‘Go it, old boy,’ and ‘I'll bet on
you,’ plain as I can.”
“Let's bring him out,” tempted the
adorable one, “and look at all three
“Naw! in concert from the three
mnasculines.
“Oh, I mean play dress up,” pleaded
Gladys. “I'll put on one of mamma's
dress skirts, and Jimmie can put on
papa’s coat.”
“Has it got tails?’ The possibilities
of the proposal appeal to the adorable
one,
“I can find one with tails,” eagerly—
“two tails.”
“All right. Can't you put a skirt on,
Don? Then there'll be two ladies and
two gentlemens in the Sarah Nade.”
Don objected, but his minority vote
was not recorded, and twenty minutes
later the procession stole noiselessly
up the steps and opened the door into
the cool, dark hall.
Don, bearing the bellicose parrot,
staggered patiently up the front of his
mother's new tailored skirt; Gladys,
with Flufl's claws digging wildly into
her bare arms, switched the train of a
pale blue foulard; Jimmie held his
hand over the quivering jaws of the
anxious Bunch and divided his atten-
tion between the trailing silk draper-
ies in front of him and the two tails
that dragged the ground at his rear.
The adorable one, walking somewhat
remotely, bore no indication of any
participation in the proceedings.
Don pushed aside the portiere at the
parlor door.
“In a Sarah Nade,” the manager had
explained before starting, “every one
sings the things he likes best. Just as
quick as we reach the curtains all be-
gin!"
Don was like the heroes at Balaklava
—not his to question why. He poked
himself into the dim, sweet smelling
room and opened his mouth in a dole-
ful howl. Gladys pushed in close be-
hind him, shrilly yelling; Jimmie plant-
ed both feet firmly on the blue foulard
and grufily vociferated in an imitation
bass.
Their entrance was evidently not
happily timed. An athletic young man
sprang to his feet with a smothered
exclamation, and Felicla was silent
from sheer consternation.
Don’s next step, gasping “Where the
love in your eyes I could see,” was
inimical to renewals of any sort. Be-
ing born under Cancer, his movements
were usually sidewise and crablike,
and the clinging broadcloth skirt add-
ed to his uncertainty of balance. He
fell heavily, and his chubby foot and
legs upset the shrieking Gladys and
bowled the valiant rag and bone
vender on top of his suffering sister.
Gladys in falling grasped despairingly
at the legs of the astounded Parker
and brought him to his knees on the
howling heap.
Poll escaped from Don's clutches
and instituted a severe investigation
of every ieg, arm or body within reach
of her vicious beak, clamoring inces-
santly. “Go it, old boy! Now's the
time! I'll bet on you!” Bunch o
Brightness showed his fighting blood
in violent attacks on Poll and the
yowling Persian.
The man disentangled himself an-
grily and turned to the now hysterical
girl. “I suppose you call this funny,
Miss Austin, but I must confess my
idea of a joke falls to coincide with
yours.”
He stepped grimly over the strug-
gling mass, kicked Bunch—not gently
—and with apparent relish cuffed the
squeaking parrot.
“Glad tidings of great joy 1 bring,”
sang a seraphic voice as Parker strode
into the hall. The adorable one was
standing in his most admired Sunday
pose, his hands loosely clasped before
him and his beautiful face turned up-
ward. He smiled beatifically into Par-
ker's face and completed his carol.
“Did she like t?" with sweet sollel-
tude. “Did she like the Sarah Nade?'
“Bobby,” sternly, “who put up this
job and what is it for?”
“Ae,” proudly. “We wanted to Sa-
rah Nade her.” :
From the parlor came a pitiful sob
and then a shrill, insistent, childish
voice, “Did he say, Aunt Fillie-dld he
say that p'tic'lar thing he came to
say?"
Parker went back.
“I didn’t, Gladys, but I'm going to
now. I won't be driven off so easily.”
And, to the astonishment of the sere-
naders, he took Aunt Fillie in his arms,
whispering swift, passionate words
that brought back the sweet flush to
her cheeks and a tremulous, happy
smile to her lips.
Onions.
Onions are an excellent cure for
sleeplessness. They act as a kind of
soporific if taken in small quantities
before retiring. They will be found to
be more appetizing if finely chopped
up and laid between two thin wafers
or biscuits. Eaten in this way, they
are also easily digested. The reason
£0 many people complain of onions
disagreeing with them is that they eat
too much of the homely vegetable.
Onions are not intended to be eaten
en masse. When they are taken raw
they should be thoroughly masticated,
or, better still, the juice of the onlon
should be pressed out and taken on
bread or as a sauce. In this form the
onion is splendid for liver complaints
and acts in consequence as a purifier
for a dark and muddy complexion.
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her coloring and complexion, he tried
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—Youth's Companion.
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Duty called.
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