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Belletome, Pay December 2, 1908.
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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.
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THE REGISTRAR,
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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.
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