Pad - rho Bellefonte, Pa., December 20, | 907. An Xmas Mistake By FRANK H. SWEET. {Copyright, 197, by Frank H. Sweet.) T. NICHOLAS was resting Ffom his Christmas work at last, Thé gifts had all been given, The holidays were past, And, dozing in his armchair, With his cat upon his knees, The good saint smoked his honest pipe And took his honest ease. But something roused him quickly. He started from his seat. A soldier bold, a maiden fair, Were kneeling at his feet. “gt. Nicholas,” the maiden cried, “Behold my fearful plight! These wounds have been inflicted Since that dreadful, dreadful night When yau left me in the stocking Of a being | dare not name.” She paused. The soldier raised his voice And said: “1 blush with shame To stand before your saintship in the dress you now behold, But the way | have been treated Makes my very blood run cold. f've been nursed and kissed and cod. | died: Pve heen rocked and sung to sleep. FROM COPVRIGHT STERLOGAAPH BY AMERICAN STEAEDSCOPRIC.CQ | peak at the place where the hook has The Mistletoe! By ROBERTVS LOVE. [Copyright, 197, IHEN you step under the sprig of mistletoe hanging from the chandelier to get your Christmas Kiss you may not be particularly interested in the gen. esis of the peculiar litile vegetable by Robertus Love.) { | growth which Cupid seems to have ap- A BOLDER KNEELING AT HIS FEET. BOLD, A MAIDEN PAIR, WERK Oh, w:=2.1 not a soldier still I'd a most like to weep.” “AL” mused the good St. Nicholas, 4] think | understand,” And he siniled a merry little smile And coughed behind his hand. “Twas on that busy Christmas ve, When all was in a whirl, This doil was given to a boy, This soldier to a girl” And then aloud he gravely said: “} grieve to see your pain, But if you'll stay with me a year All shail be well again. Next Christmas eve, my children, When you are well and strong, 1 will aut you in the stockings Where you really do belong” “} wonder where my soldier is!” Criad gentiz littie Moll, And Bahy, "‘gazivig round him, sobbed, “Whare vy baby doll?” sn But, though they hunted high and low And searched both far and near, The maiden and the soldier Sold Weras seen no more that year. Saved Family From Asphyxiation. i England. i of the tree. Chesser. Pa, Dec, 17.~—The timely arrival of Killa Weight, daughter of Williaa: Wright, at her home prevent. ed tl» entire family’s death from as phxiation hy escaping gas fumes. When ‘he woman arrived she found | her wother iying unconscious in the kitchen, while near her was a young- er broiber also unable to move. Sev. eral other members of the family were found the parlor. A doctor was sununoued and succeeded in resus citating them. An investigation show- in ed that 200t eaused the gas to escape | from. the ¢dd} stove, Tl bn cm <—————— Woman Killed In Runaway. Stroudsburg, Pa. Dec. 14—Mrs. Lewis DeHaven, of Aunalcomink, was killed and her son, Arthur, seriously hurt in a runaway near their home. The horses which they were driving be- came frightened and plunged, overturn- ing the buggy. Mrs. DeHaven was tossed in a ditch and received inju- ries which caused her death in a short while and the son received internal in- juries. Creditors Get a Matchbox. Wilmington, Del, Dec. 16.--Credi- tors of Harry L. and Jchn H. Evans, of the bankrupt brokerage firm of H. LL. Bvans & Company, will get John H. Bvans' silver matchbox for divi gion among themselves. The Evans prothers will be allowed to retain their jewelry, which the creditors tried to get, put which Judge Bradford has ruled is wearing apparal and cannot be taken from the bankrupts. Mother's Fatal Mistake. Bethlehem, Pa.. Dec. 17.—Miss Jeu- ale Boidelman, aged 25 years, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Beidelman, of this place, died in terrible agony as a result of taking a dose of oxalic acid instead of epsom salts given her by mistake by her mother. | propriated for hiz own. reproduction I Nevertheless the process of mistletoe production and highly interesting. { In some parts of England, where | most of the mistletoe of Christmas weg BELRIES CRUSHED ON A BRANCH. tletoe takes Thi. tin gets green and shiny, bud pashos up, and in a few weeks an unmistakable twig of mistletoe is vigibhie, with a stem and a loug leaf or two. After this the mistletoe comes rapid- been. Iv into its kingdom and takes posses- sion, The close observer will see other littie swellings and peaks along the braneh, the thin roots of the mistle- toe having traveled under the bark to spront up in fresh places. Thus it travels along unii! sometimes the whole tree i Iu ite possession, fine bunches of the Christmas hanger growing abun- dantly When ounce the mistletoe takes pos- sesiion of a fruit tree the effect upon the fruit i= quite noticeable. The mis- its nourishment from the tree to which it clings. That is the «nil in which its roots live and thrive. Naturally this reduces the amount of substance which formerly went into the fruit. If the eaptive be an apple tree, the apples become small and seragely. The mistletoe has stolen away their sweetness and plumpness, Man grows by what he feeds on. So does mistletoe. And as the pork eating man visits the peaalty of death upon the pig so does the penalty of wither- ing and souring fall upon the apple THE THREE WISE MEN. | Who Wore They?—An Unsolved | Christmas Mystery. i One Christmas mystery remains un- | solved. Who were the wise men of the | | east-the magi who followed the star | 1 ! detail. i | wise of Bethlehem from afar to do homage | to the newborn Saviour? | The simple story as told in the Bible | is one of the most familiar in Christ mas lore. Any child could recite it in Painters and sculptors have | wade it the theme of the most inspired | proddaets of their brushes and chisels, | but to this day the identity of these men remains a mystery. A | search of the great paintings in which the subject is treated produces a be wilderment. There are half a hun- dred different ideas presented. The ! varying versions of the books of the ted wide eredence, ! from the north whose progenitor feeds the spreading | parasite. Nature fs full of wonders, and the growth of mistletoe is one of | the most wonderful when adequately | studied. Mistletoe grows naturally ia of Enzland and Seotland, being propa- gated by birds, | stantinople. ages are as many. It is fair to assume from the fact that the visitors were received at court by King Ilerod and that they carried gifts of value that they were in their own country men of royalty or close to it. Herod evidently deemed it well to treat them with deference, for dis- quieted though he was by their news of the comet that was to lend them to the birthplace of the Redeemer he dis- sembled and told them that when they had found the newborn he would re- turn to worship with them. Much of our information about the early days of the Christian era comes from the monks of the fourteenth cen- tury, who delved deeply into historieal urees since lost to the world, Their story of the three wise men has receiv- According to these monks, the wise men were three great kings ealled Caspar, Melchoir and Bal- thasar, Caspar was the oldest and At the time of the birth of Christ he was sixty years old, and for more than two-thirds of that time he had ruled in Arabia. Baltha- sar was black, a native of Saba, from ' the east, and forty years old. twenty years old. Impelled by some mysterious power, they dropped all the cares of state and | followed a single star thirteen days and nights without eating or sleeping till it led them to Jerusalem. Then the story follows that of the | Bible until they returned to their own | countries. The story does not stop here. It tells cireumstantially the after life of the three wise men. The good Apostle 8t. Themas journeyed to their country and | baptized thew, aud all three went ont to preach the doctrine of the Christ. They were slain by barbarous gen- | tiles, and later the Empress Helena, mother of Constantine, recovered thelr sacred bones and took them to Con- Thence they were carried | to Milan and finally found an ultimate resting place In Cologue, where they now are.—New York Post. WHEN SANTA WENT ASTRAY. | Miracle of the Loaves Repeated For | Washington's Poor. | The day of miracles has not passed. according to the firm belief of a hun- | dred or more poor people in Washing ton. Last Christmas day Almas tem- | ple of the Shriners gave its annual din- | ner to the poor. It was a well planned | | amair, generously contributed to, and | i parts In some of the northe | ern counties of Scotland no wmristletoe | is found. This is believed to be due ' to the shszence of the mistle thrush time comes from, the gardeners prop- agote the parasite artificially. Mistle- toe, ax is well known, is of the para- sitle kind, taking its sustennnee not | from the ground, but from a tree. The apple tree seems to be its favorite, though the hawthorn, the lime and the poplar frequently carry the parasite. The scientific inoculation of trees with the mistletoe growth is practiced with excellent results in the north of The gardener takes between his thumb and foretinger one of the little berries of the mistletoe, crushes it so that ite sticky juice oozes out and sticks it upon the surface of a branch Usnally he selects a young branch, on which the bark is soft and easily penetrable. If an older branch Be chosen, the bark is slighily scraped | on the surface. The berry is mashed | flat against the bark. The seed which it contains is thus held in place by its ow gnm. i Late April or May is the proper sea- | son for inoculating. The seed soon! sends through the bark a littie “feeler” | or root, and a small twig, bending In! toward the branch of the tree. appears, | SWELLED BRANCH AND TWIG. After a considerable period this twig which looks like a small fishhook sticking in the tree from the top of the hook, falls off. The uninitiated thinks it is all over, but the experi- enced gardener knows better. He knows that after a time the branch will begin to swell at the point of In- oculation, gradually rising to a little TWIG AND FIRST BUD BURSTING. from those counties. The thrush of this name is exceedingly fond of the mistletoe berry. After eating fits fill the bird flies to another tree. Being cleanly, it nzes the branch of the tree upon which it alights for a napkin, wiping Its sticky bill thereon. Fre: quently a mistletoe seed is thus de- posited and gived to the bark. Then the reproductive process follows nat urally. . An official Inguirg as to whether mistletoe Is still to be found on oak trees, as in Druidical days, resulted in the discovery of several oaks in one county of England bearing the para- site. But modern mistletoe has come to be Cupidical rather than Draldical. When the mistletoe and the miss, plus the mister, get in the proper positions the result rhymes with kiss. Newspaper Man Killed By Train. Trenton, N. J., Dec. 16.—George F. Fiske, a New York newspaper man, formerly of Philadelphia and Pitts. burg, and recently press agent for the Jamestown Exposition, was struck by a Pennsylvania railroad train and killed here. $2100 For Small China Tea Pot. London, Dec. 14—A small Bristol china tea pot, presented to Edmund Burke by the founder of the Bristol factory, was auctioned here and brought the remarkable price of $2100. | press. | turned out a big success. But the most noiuble thing about it was not on the programme and made the hit of the occasion, While the Shriners their guests there came to their hall 150 loaves of bread. The huge six | foot Santa Claus was busy cracking | ries there entered another big, fat San- ta Claus, carrying a colossal! basket | three or four negroes, also carrying | committeemen at once inferred that | some one had sent a gift of bread to jokes as he waddled about and took | down the gifts from the Christmas | tree In the middle of one of his sto- full of bread. and behind him were baskets of bread. One of the Shriner be distributed and signed a receipt for the 150 loaves. In a few minutes they { were handed around to the heads of | | families, | i | ed: and an additional smile of | Christmas joy went around with them. When the festivities were nearly over and the crowd had begun to dis- perse a man came running in and ask- “Did you get 150 loaves of bread? “We did.” was the reply. “What did you do with it? “Gave it away.” “Well. that was an order from the Carroll institute. It came here by mistake. But It is all right. We are glad you gave it away, and if you need more let us know,” and the man went away, evidently fully satisfied with the incident.-New York Times. Christmas Tree For Cat. Christmas is the great religious festi- val when the kind heart finds many ways of ministering to the joy and pleasure of others. The good women of Boston who originated and sustain the Animal Rescue league have hit up- on the unique idea of a Christmas tree for the cats that are waiting for homes at that institution. A bush is provided and trimmed with meat and other suit- able eatables for such animals, and just before they are turned into the room the members of the Kindness club are admitted to enjoy the antics of the cats. This club is composed of boys whose ages range from eight to thirteen years and is the outcome of the league's work in a poor section of Bos- ton. They are pledged to do some kind act each day and to protect animals from cruelty. After the cats have de- molished the tree and gone to sleep the boys are given refreshments and sent home truly filled with the spirit of Christmas.—New York®*Mail and Ex- The | youngest was Melchoir, from the south, whose country was Tarshish. He was i { | were feeding i Bellefonte Shoe Emporium. Warm Shoes for cold feet. We have them in all kinds. A full and complete line of Good Warm Slippers. Felt Sole Slippers make a present that will be appreciated. We have anything in the Shoe line that you may need. PRICES RIGHT. Come and see. Yeager & Davis BELLEFONTE, PA. Lyon & Co. Lvon & Co. Lyon &. Company. We have been busy with Christmas buyers. The early buyers get the choice of all the full stock. The late shoppers must take what is left. full and every department complete. Our store is Make Out Your Christmas List and we will help you make good selections. Everything useful for Men, Women and Children. For Men. Suit Cases. Pocket Books. Fine Overcoats. For Women. Sweaters, Silk Scarfs. Hand Bags. Fine Dress Suits, Gloves, Mufflers. Fine Dress Pants, Anthony Bags. Pocke: Books. Kimona Crepes. Slippers, Sweaters. Silk Handkerchiefs. Neckties, Fine Caps. Linen Handkerchiefs. Hose, Fine Suspenders. Lace and Fancy Hose. Kid and Wool Gloves, Lisle and Silk Long Gloves. Lace and Embroidery Collars. For Children. Kid and Wool Gloves. Handkerchiefs. Linen Collars. Sweaters. Windsor Ties. Russet and Black Shoes and Oxford Ties. SPECIALS FOR CHRISTMAS. A handsome line of fine Dress Goods in Checks, Plaids and Stripes. A large line of Black and Colored Taffeta Silks. Reduced prices on Fur Neck Pieces. Reduced prices on all Coats for Ladies, Misses and Children which means a big saving for this winter's wear. The finest line of Satin Damask Table Linens and Napkins to match. A fine Satin Damask Towel with fringe drawn work or hem stitch. Sat- teen Comfortables in handsome plain centres with floral borders. The largest assortment of fancy Cushion Tops. Handkerchiefs. Handkerchiefs in Plain and Hem Stitch. Stitch. Silk and Linen Initial Handkerchiefs. Come early and buy your Christmas goods. We can suit everybody. Embroidered Hem LYON & COMPANY, {7-12 Allegheny St., Bellefonte, Pa.
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