SRT IRA Pe ——————— | PRE E i S—— EE | Belletome, Pay December 2, 1908. The | Christ.mas Anthem By ARTHUR J. BURDICK ECOpyHght, “106, by Arthur J. Burdick.] hoarse and THE TENOR. It would fairly knock the slivers, So to speak, right off of song! "Cloossye, glovwye, in the Jghet T" We could hear the tenor say. Then the basso joined the effort. “Pay-son airth, goo-dwill toe man; Gloo-rye, pay-son, gloo-rye, pay-son”— That's the way the anthem ran. “AWNGILS SANG THE GLAWD REEF-RAIN.” Then the women gathered courage : | “Awngils sang the glawd reef.rain;" And the basso followed after: “Awngils, raff-rain,” o'er again. “Reef-rain,” “raff-rain,” “ruff-rain,” “rook.rain,” | Shouted each; then all went back 1 may live to be a hundred, But | never will forget Christmas in the old home village And that good old time quartet. —Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. ON GEORGIE'S SLATE Young Hopeful's Message For Dear Old Santa Claus. | Spelling Partially and lmparually cen Roosevelt Beddstedd U A pare of Sox 2 bigg for Me— Thur Papa's, for mi oan was wett, 80 1 yuzed his—now, don't forgett! 1 don’t want verry menny Things— 2 Injun boze R 3 with Strings And narrers and 1 of themm There Pop gunns that Shoots itsself with Alr, And 2 Revolvurz, 1 with Kapps 2 Skair themm little Jonsun chapps And 1 that Shoots a recul Bawl 2 play with Katts and Pupps; that's awl. Oh, yes—I nercly plumm forgott— I want a Kannun saim as whott U brung 2 Jimmy smith last yere, R maybe Bigger—I don't kere. 1 of themm Kannuns with a Rore That's loud enuff 2 shaik the dore And maik the nayburz shatt thur yeres And say, “Don’t play with him, mi deres."” Yes, and sum Powder and a soard And skabburd, iff U kan afford 2 leev Me themm. U C I'm go'n’ 2 B a soljer wenn 1'm groan And go and Fite the nashun's Kaws, Upholding Fredum’s wholly laws; Tho Papa sez I want an Orgy Of Noys around the howse. yores, GEORGIE. TAWNEY’S TORTURED FEET. The Minnesota Representative’s Early Recollections of Christmas, . “Early Christmas recollections are associated in my mind always,” says Representative James A. Tawney of Minnesota, “with the picture of a great and beautiful church lighted in every part with wax candles—thousands of wax tapers—a surpliced choir and the strains of a wonderful organ; this picture against the background of a cold, black morning before sunup, of frozen rutty roads, of a bleak north wind, a breakfast of ginger cookies and a pair of stiff crumpled boots, which made every step of a three mile trudge through the darkness a twinge of exquisite pain. “I was nine years old. My brother was twelve, and with superior strength and determination he overruled my de- sire, due to the boots, to turn back for home. The trouble arose from the fact that we had tallowed the boots the night before, and the tallow had hard- ened. It was necessary to suffer until the warmth of the foot melted the tal- low and made the boots less torture- some. So we plodded on. “It was our first Christmas festivity. We lived on a farm two miles from Bonneouville, in Adams county, Pa., and brother had conceived the idea of going to mass at the Catholic church three miles distant. For this purpose we had risen before 3 o'clock in the morning, had quietly abstracted some i cakes from the jar in the cellar, and, as I have described, painfully I trudged to the town and the big church. “It seemed big to the nine-year-old boy, and it seemed gorgeous In its il- ' lumination. Wax candles I never had heard of, and so many I never dream- | ed existed. We edged in with the . erowd and stood at the rear of the | church, and my boy eyes drank in a scene which never has been nor prob- ably will be forgotten. It was won- derful, spectacular, dramatic to me, and that picture punctuates the vista of past Christnras days like a striking work of art ina gallery of vaguely re- membered pictures.” —Pittsburg Press. Holly Superstition. There are many traditions connected | with holly—one, that it is unlucky to bring it into the house before Christ- mas eve. There are two kinds of holly, the prickly and nonprickly, and accord- ing as the holly which is brought in for the Christmas decoration is smooth or rough the wife or the husband will be master. A bunch of holly with ber- ries must be broken from holly which has been used in church decoration and kept until the next Christmas to pro- tect from lightning and insure a lucky year. CASTORIA For Infants and Children, The Kind Yon Have Always Bonght Bears the Signature of CHAS. H. FLETCHER. Colleges & Schools. IF YOU WISH TO BECOME. 4 4 Teacher, An Engineer, 4 Lawyer, An Electrician, A Physician A Scientic Farmer, A Journalist, short, if you wish to secure a training that will fit you well for any honorable pursun tn life, THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE OFFERS EXCEPTIONAL ADVANTAGES. TUITION IS FREE IN ALL COURSES. PAKING rep EpECT IN SN SEP 1900, the General Courses have been oul Sx tunsively Modited av 4 %0 as to fur. oe ing iio : the the English, ar Spanish. Lavin’ Latin and 16 the Wa hi in Cpest in in the United Ade: those wl (he courses Ee Stank ran hero heretofore, includ. Titieal Science, These Languages the most thorough training for the Profession vil, Electrical, Mechanical and Mi Engi neering pre Graduates have no difficulty aig raul aud RIOR he Very YOUNG WOMEN are admitted (o all courses on the same terms as Young Men, THER FALL S2SCION ovens September 15th, 1908. 18086. imen Fi examin y*pors ualogue information repsecting courses ady rs ete., ipujon ng re Se Sing full store : ”" THE REGISTRAR, State College, Centre County, Pa ssid Only a mangers, J shadow thronged, Y That to some public 0 inn belonged, Where sweet breathed cattle quietly For midnight slum- ber bent the “Wr knee. Only the light of tapers small, That on two tender faces fall, Two tender faces—one divine— That still through all the centuries shine TWO TENDER FACES—ONE DIVINE. From palace walls, from thrones of gold, From churches, shrines, cathedrals old, Where the grand masters of their art Wrought faithfully with hand and heart. Only a Babe, in whose small hand Is seen no scepter of command, But at whose name, with freedoms sword, Move the great armies of the Load. \ Sep Onlyacross! But, oh, what light Shines from God's throne on Calvary's 1 His birth, his life, the angels see Written on every Christmas tree. THE ART OF GIVING. Christmas Presents a Subject De- manding Serious Study. Giving Christmas gifts is almost a science, It is certainly a study for one who really wishes to give and not dis- tress and embarrass. No one is more helpless than the woman who receives an utterly useless and undesirable gift. She is fairly forced into falsehood and is obliged to express gratitude which she does not feel. The woman who has a green parlor and receives a blue rug, or the woman who has a blue dining room and re- ceives a set of doilies embroidered with purple violets, or the woman with a sallow complexion who is given a’ deli- cate pink shawl, is actually made to sin against truth. She feels, if she is of a naturally grateful and tender dis- position, that she must express thanks which she does not feel. Then, ten chances to one, if it is not a struggle for her not to pass along those useless gifts next Christmas and fairly in- volve herself in a mesh of deceit, she goes about terrified lest by any un- foreseen chance the first giver should discover the gift in the hands of the second recipient. Often people are so deluged by use- less gifts that memory fails them con- cerning the givers. Such mistakes are likely to occur, and petty and absurd, but no less lesting, feuds are the con- sequence.—Philadelphia Press. The Romance of Mistletoe. By the Teutons mistletoe was held sacred to Baldur, the sun god, the son of Freya, the Scandinavian Venus. In Baldur all that was beautiful, elo- quent, wise and good was honored, and he was the spirit of activity, of joy and of light. Predicting his own approaching death, his mother, Freya, exacted an oath from animals, planets and minerals not to injure him. The mistletoe among the plants had been forgotten. When this was discovered by the treacherous Hoeder, the blind god of brute strength, he took a wand of it, and, being directed how to aim it, the mistletoe pierced Baidur through the heart, and he fell dead to the ground.—Boston Traveler. TAUGHT CHILDREN TO STEAL Two Little Girls Say Their Mother Made Shoplifters of Them. Pittsburg, Pa., Dec. 17. — Claiming that their mother had taught them to be shoplifters, Mary Katchur, aged 13, and his sister Annie, aged 11, tear fully confessed to the police author: ties to stealing goods valued at $1000 from various department stores in this TO PROBE £OAL FAMINE President Orders Commerce Commis. sion to Find a Remedy. Washington, Dec. 17—So alarming has become the situation in the north and middle west as a result of the coal famine, due, the railroads claim, to car shortage, that the president has Instructed the interstate commerce rommission to bend every effort to find means of velief before the worst of the winter weather sets in. Unless specdy relief is provided there will be untold misery and suffering among hundreds of thousands of persons. An investigation of the conditions causing the alleged car shortage and ronsequent coal famine will be begun this week by the commission in Min- neapolis, St. Louis and Kansas City, Its prime object will be to ascertain the cause of the car shortage, recom- mend some remedy to relieve the dis- tress and guard against its repetition in the future. Senator Hansbrough, of North Da- kota, had a consultation with the members of the commission and de- clared that the situation regarding a shortage of coal in his state was most deplorable, and that the public schools in some localities were closing on ac- count of a lack of fuel to keep the children warm. SUNDAY MASS IN FRANCE Day Was Quiet in Paris, But Great Excitement at Other Places. Paris, Dec. 17.—The serious disturb- ances that it was believed would ensue on the first Cunday under the law sepa- rating church and state were not real- ized. The services in this city in par- ticular passed off quietly. There was a noticeable increase in the size of the congregations, and in them were large bodies of men who were determined to forcibly prevent the interruption of masses by rowdies. There were only a few cases wheer rowdies entered the churches wearing their hats, and they were promptly ejected and arrested. Reports from the provinces show that there was great excitement at many places. Large processions, chanting psalms, accompanied the clergy to and from the churches. Counter demonstrations took place in several cities, notably Perpignan and Amiens, where the Catholics and Free Thinkers came into collision, necessi- tating interference by the police, who quickly dispersed the crowds. HELD up STAGE iN JERSEY | Highwaymen Rob Passengers and Are Captured By Posse. | Trenton, N. J., Dec. 17.—The Tren- ton and Allantown stage was held up just outside the city by three men, who secured only a small sum of money and later were captured. The highwaymen were passengers in the wellfilled coach, and when one of the men jumped down from his seat and seized the horses by the head, the other two, who were armed, robbed the other passengers. The three then took to the woods. Scon afterward a posse was formed and run down the robbers who, after an exchange of shots, sur rendered. They gave the names of Edward Bannon, Edward Mulush and Peter Klaski. Bannon is known here, but the others are not. BLAMED FOR LAWYERS WRECK Operator G. D. Maddox Repsponible For Fatal Crash on Southern R. R. Washington, Dec. 18.—The official investigation of the Southern railwey into the rear end collision which oc- curred at Lawyers, Va, on Thanks- giving day and in which President Spencer, of the Southern, and six oth- ers, including a number of prominent people, lost their lives, has been con- cluded and the responsibility for the wreck placed on G. D. Maddox, block operator at Rangoon, Va. General Counsel A. P. Thom, of the railroad, issued a statement announcing the of- ficial conclusions. BISHOP McCABE DYING Methodist Clergyman Is Unconscious . and the End Is Near. New York, Dec. 18.—Bishop Charles C. McCabe, of the Methodist Episcopal church, is dying at the New York hos- pital. He is unconscious and the end ‘is said to be a matter of only a few hours. Last Tuesday the bishop was strick. en with apoplexy while passing through this city on the way to his home in Philadelphia and was removed to the hospital. He is 70 years of age. Bryce to Be British Ambassador. London, Dec. 18.—~In spite of the fact that no official announcement has vet been made, it was declared in the lobby of the house of commons that James Bryce, chief secretary for Ire- land, had accepted the post of British ambassador to Washington in succes- sion to Sir Henry Mortimer Durand. No formal announcement is likely pending a rearrangement of the cabi- net, but Mr. Bryce is now universally regarded as the next ambassador to the United States. Robbed of $10,000 In Jewels. Boston. Dec. 17.—Declaring that he had been robbed of a chamois bag con- taining $10,000 worth of jewels, among which is an 11% carat sapphire ring, besides three diamond studs and 20 unset pearls, William Wallace, a prom- fnent autoist, called upon the police and the detective bureau to institute ! a search for a pickpocket. The robbery sccurred in the shopping district. Aged Woman Killed 3y Train. Reading railway tracks near her home Mrs. John Harvey, a well-known aged Ssigelt of Locust Gap, Was Ina down a freight train and killed. Best Ronte to ul the Northwest, In going to St. Paul, , Minneapolis or the Northwest see that your ticket wes: of Cintcago reads via The Pioneer Limited on the Chicago, Milwankee & St. Pac! Rail. | way —the 1oute over which your letters go | Standard and compartment sleepers with | longer, higher and wider berths. Leave Union Station, Chicazo, 6.30 p. m. daily: | arrives Se. Paul vext morning at 7.25 aud | Minuezpolis at 8.00 v'clock. JOHN R. 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