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Bellefonte, Pa., December 16, 1910.
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"Tis said when day is over,
And midnight shadows fall,
On Christmas Eve the cattle
Kneel humbly in the stall:
They bow in loving homage
Before the manger low,
Because the Blessed Christ-Child
Was laid there long ago.
And when the hour of midnight
Chimes forth from many a bell,
The glad notes ringing sweetly
O'er hill, and plain, and fell,
For one brief hour, "tis whispered,
The beasts like men can speak,
‘That they may join in praising
The Babe and Mother meek.
The donkey, scorned, ill-treated,
Though marked with Holy Sign.
Kneels down amid the darkness
To hail the Child Divine:
For he, like kine and horses,
Was in that cattle-stall,
The birthplace of the Savior—
The King and Lord of all!
‘The sheep upon the hillsides
Turn eastward, kneeling low,
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up nst the above you, a
of man and horse, the former hud-
over with folded arms and bent
If the horse Side | start and beteay
your presence to his rider,they two woul
off into the shadows, moving stead-
toward some distant , and you
would for the first time ve met Dr.
Harvey—and would later know that the
flame of his great spirit, exhausted, had
low through physical weakness
that, having b: t ease to others,
as tired soldiers sleep, in the
saddle. That the horse passed slowly
proof that the battle was over; for
t the cali to meet that uni-
versal enemy, Pain, you might have found
scant time to leave the road, else that
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charger with black-laid ears, lathering |:
flank, and steaming breath had run you
down
If he had been pointed out to you in
some wayside tavern of the wild,
man who did it would have whispered his
name reverentially, with some crude
apology for his deference, as befits free
men of the mountains when admitting
that before them stands a superior. It
might go something like this, in that free | 800€
speech of the forest:
“That's Doc Harvey, him as saved my
wife; who told the president of the -
der works to his teeth that he'd
careless of his men when the old Num-
ber Seven magazine went up; who cries
when he fights, but is unafraid; who cries
when somebody's baby dies; who lends
his money or his life to us who stand in
The man who was unafraid would take
a new semblance to your critical eyes,
and you would stare at him as he stood
there in the half-lighted taproom giving
ions to the stable boy and watch-
ing the landlord dip the hot poker into
the steaming ale. A tall man he was
and, at first, plain to look upon, thin,
angular, sm shaven, and not overly
strong of frame. If talking, his voice
came from the frail shell of his throat
of power. If
he turned toward you with that sharp,
look from blue-gray eyes, he was
You saw a soul, and it was brave. It
analyzed Jou Sy your To in one
ventory; not t
I which the tax collector regu-
his obeisance, but by that standard
if your conscience rings true
countryside w! use
of his own with hysterical wom-
instance, there was Bill Harms.
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He roundly and faithfully spanked Tom
Minions boy for tying a can to a stray
dog’s tail,and an hour afterward Siviedjnto
the lake and rescued the youngster from
drowning while his fellow urchins howled
Dp the %. el f
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inie, told him he was the scum of
the The
till at last Harvey mastered
chauffeur did was to sit there wi
arms folded. He was considerably
dignified than the doctor.
the doctor took, in
children, and some of the
had never before been in
ride as far as the Budds
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George Washington had
the miller’s pretty da
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d stone mill at the forks, where
to tradition, General
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man—Dr. Harvey! Think of that!
tioned by members of his profession
the world. For the first time
had known him he would be
a dayor so at a time. He had
ah the railway station with his
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our daughters.
You can imagine the shock of su
when we learned that
by
, Dr. Bull, that there was no
coming to New York to be
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man!” Moreover, this miilionaire
should have known that, being a doctor
himself. We used to wonder why he
take his own medicine, because he
made his money out of “Doctor Butch-
er's Perfect Panacea." retty
good stuff. We tried a bottle when Billy
had the cholera; but it didn't work so
well for cholera as it did for strains and
bruises. hg this man Butcher be-
gan to employ our
well that he became
Harvey an automobile, so he d come
It was
doctor, and got so
liberal. He gave Dr.
faster when he was called.
There are several men still living inthe
that is cast without flaw. And | trails
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I want to get
this con
That machine still stands in
house, and I rather think Gray Dick was
pleased; for he certainly had shown some
signs of
better wi
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when he declared it phenomenal we agreed
that it was so.
it; for at every
houses clus
isalousy. We liked our doctor
" thing seemed
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minute, migh , Old
Butcher has been ‘phonin’ down here
every fifteen minutes for a long time now.
want him up there pretty bad, 1
ifted his head
“Better wait, then. Maybe he'll be in
purty soon.”
That was as far as he was capable of
commiserating; but that wasn’t much so-
lace for the man with the lantern, who
moved restlessly round the room, and
stared out into the blackness of the night
as if trying to discover the doctor coming
out of it. He might have gone to look
for him if just then the door hadn't opened
admitting the one he sought.
money in our part of the world. Besides,
he knew that our doctor most always
The quiet man came forward
could say anything.
“Doctor,” he said, “I don't like to be
other folks sufferings;
That was
get. The lump that
lives in every tender man's throat jumped
up and choked him.
al doctor growled for a Moment but
eyes were reading through that other
man's distress. “Where do you live?” he
“Carters Corners.”
“Carters Corners!
miles from here!
“I walked."
The doctor stared at him more keenly!
“Walked! Walked! Why on earthdidn't
u go to that new doctor who is at
ing Hill? That can’t be more than a
of miles from where you live.”
man with the lantern stood look-
ing dumbly at the door and had to gulp
at the lamp three or four times before it
would let him speak. "It'sour only boy,”
he said softly, “and one doesn't want to
take a chance on strange doctors when it
seems like about everything in the world
is hangin’ on his little life. Everybody
says you know most everything, and
came down for you." The big hard fist
went up across the man’s face and shook
as if the strain of waiting for a decision
was nearly too much to bear.
The pulled up his coat collar,
grumbled because the tired Gray Dick
would have to carry two men eight miles,
and growled, "Come on!”
“But that man Butcher, he called first,”
the landlord said, thinking of the hun}
dred that one would pay compared
what the other could pay.
ll calls again, tell him I'm out for
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“But—"
“There's no ‘but’ about it! He'll have
to wait.” He slammed the door behind
him, and as he led the way muttered, “A
rich man can hire and fire a doctor,orget
a new one when he wants to; but a poor
‘man can't. The one he can get looks
nearly as big to him as God Almighty.”
They piled on the horse, the man pro-
a but Har.
show the way,
Why, that's eight
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mother him. “Doctor,”
implored, “save him! I've lost two!
can’t no more!”
cool professional way as if
ing the chances, and then turned with a
gruff, “Get out of here, all of you!"
He shoved even the ng mother
from the room, followed, and pulled the
Rost he admonishiod, “this
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ty , if we wan that
alive! Got any ice?" or
| Of course had not; for even the
winter was
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i “hen get Jas kettles, an
Harvey "Get thain
! you, and you, and you, all of you, keep
| going to that and back to this door
with cold water! d! Do you hear?
I want cold water at that very door every
mingte till I say stop! Hurry now! Go
on!”
He went back into the room and closed
the door behind him. He wasn't
now, and his eyes had in them the
comes when determination i
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ere | ed at him from across the high h
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t's got to come down! It’s got to!"
| The iration was pouring from him
with h
! ment. Another tap, and a kettle of fresh
water was at his hand
, Whoop! Got you going!
' he roared.
| did not+move at that strange shout; for
I've got you!”
in the tiny ears the blood was still drun:- |
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On it went, that splendid fight, minute '
by minute, and hour by hour. The four
water carriers were uncomplainingly
lowing their path in turn, oy
mother had wept at her work until the
tears wouid no longer come. The gray
swept across the high ridge of the solemn
old Schooleys, and the pine trees were
' silhouetted against the new day.
“No more water for awhile,” the doc-
tor whispered through the door to the
father. “No more water and—no noise!
Keep out!”
Again there was the barrier of the door,
blank, impenetrable, and unfeeling. The!
father and mother, dumb with misery,sat
on chairs close by each other as if prox-
imity might mitigate their suffering, and
his rough hand crept over and held hers
‘in the eloquence of a terrible silence. The
two girls sat side by side on the home-
made couch until fatigue over-came them,
took toll, and gave them the peace of
sleep. The lamp on the table sputtered
out, and the daylight, growing stronger,
paled its dying flickers. Time itself seem-
ed to have stopped to await the decision.
From that inner room the watchers could
hear nothing, no enlightening sound.
The door opened quietly at last, and the
doctor came out. He closed it very soft-
ly behind him, and when he turned they
were on their feet, still holding hands
and leaning forward,
attitude chilled them, some s!
defeat, some grave look in the tired eyes,
some helpless droop of the weary shoul- |
| could not interpret his meaning. All
! they knew was that he wanted silence,
! and whether it was the deferential mute-
| ness for the dead or the necessary still-
ness for the sleeping ill they dared not
| They met halfway in the room,
| and for the first time he appeared tocom-
prehend their dread. His shoulders wen
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and his eyes glowed with the light of a
great victory.
{ “Your boy will live. He is all right
| now. [I've got his temperature down to
i nearly normal, and the crisis has passed.”
i The mother's knees seemed suddenly
| to give way. She slid to the floor and her
| arms entwined themselves around his legs
while her shoulders twitched convulsive-
to | ly. The father appeared dumb, stupefied, |
| and v wondering. He stumbled
: to the ancient clock in the corner, tugged
' at the glass case, opened it, and took out
| a knotted handkerchief which he opened
and laid on the edge of a rickety table,
| feet with a gesture that was half annoy-
i ance, half sympathy.
led at it. “I work in the powder mills—
that was still stupefied by relief, “and
and eighty-four cents there.”
The
over, and with his forefinger prodded the
tiny heap of coin, which was made up of
pennies, nickels, and dimes.
man wa
his hesitancy for “It’s all I have,”
he reiterated. “Some day I'll have more
The doctor was not
How many months had been required to
garner eee paltry pennies from the dol-
a day that had to su ‘five human
uit Sau fins he fortune,
ir en
casting it thankfully at his feet and re-
no more to give! Not
emperature one hundred and four!
exertions and his eyes were half |
| dizzy with fatigue and reiterated move- |
“Temperature one hundred and three! |
And the tousled little head !
fol- |
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Something in his
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He put his finger to his lips. They
back to their habitual posture of strength |
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laborer. dollar a day,” he said in a voice utefulvess is by no I confined to the
that's all I've got. There's three dollars | Water. The brilliant colors of the gold- | Lebanon
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came to the table, leaned { to be scorned, to say nothing of
| of all sizes that may be scrubbed and rub- | Mercer
| bed just like their small owners, and then
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him misinterpreted | thrown violently to the floor without dis- | Montgomery
King of |
nking of :
"| sum, but of the effort for its accumula- | though always lovable, lack the charm of
All they had saved! |
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.
DAILY THOUGHT.
CHRISTMAS SPIRIT.
Christmas will bring to you many joy s-
Food and comforts, frolic and toys:
Christmas will bring to some nothing at all—
In place of laughter the tears will fall.
Poor little Tim to your door may come:
Your blessings are many, spare him some.
DECEMBER DAYS.
Merry little days are we,
Making music, making glee:
Ho! ho! the Christmas.
Little days to clear the way
For the mighty Christmas Day:
Ho! ho! the Christmas.
Children smile as we go by,
Wishing they would faster fiy:
Ho! ho! the Christmas.
Little days, we wing and sing,
In the Christmas Day we bring;
Ho! ho! the Christmas.
When helping Santa Claus to fill his
pack, it is far easier to begin than to stop,
especially if one has the privilege of mak-
ing her selections in one of the large city
| toy-shops. Not only the vision of the
real fascination in the things themselves.
We become children again ourselves and
long to buy them merely for the joy of
possessing them. She whose ardor is re-
strained by the limitations of the smaller
shops of town or village may be thankful
. for a force stronger than her own will to
keep her purchases within bounds and
save the kiddies from a disastrous spoil-
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nt us first consider the babies, and
see what may go into the pack for them.
That it must be both chewable and throw-
able, washable and unbreakable, goes
without saying; and if we can also add a
squeak, a whistle, a rattle, or a jingle to
its other charms, its success is assured.
As for the colors, the gaver the better,
if they are warranted not to come
off.
Rattles must perforce receive the first
consideration. Almost every baby's ham-
pereas in it one of the attractive ball
rattics in light blue or pink, some plain,
others daintily painted. These usually
: welcome the baby and are its first play-
things. Later it will enjoy some of the
| fascinating clowns and dolls’ heads at-
| tached to either ringsor handles. All of
| these are made of celleloid, fast colors |
jand unbreakable. There are teething- |
' sticks of this same material in blue and
{ pink as well as rings of our own baby
days. For real teething, however, there
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' is nothing more comforting than the tail
lof a red rubber dachshund or an ele-
| phant’s trunk in the same deliciously
i chewable material. There are num
| new animals in red rubber, boasting equal-
ly convenient appendages in the way of
tails, legs, ears,
to fit the sweetest of round, red mouths. | oF
There are dogs of many kinds, from the
| purest breed down to the commonest
| mongrel, cats, camels, birds, squirrels
i rabbits, horses, zebras, donkeys, bears, EB
| cows, and sheep. The attractive baskets
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while the doctor lifted the woman to her |
handles with blue ribbons will be appre-
ciated more by the older children than
by the little babies. ag
The water toys, a perfect delight in the
also peculiarly fitted for chew-
ing and CWE so that their field of
fish make them the favorites, but the
ducks, swans, frogs, and turtles are not
turbing the serenity of their smiles.
But to return to our babies who are
small animals made of white wool, al-
some of those followers of Teddy. Teddy
and his descendants have movable legs
and head, hence their superior attraction.
ng them now are lovely
poverty, but all
Harvey picked it up slowly, reverently.
It represented so much! The biggest fee
greiting they mind you, or their
I iving you your own baby! It's all 1
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i oar ed from Yn {te room as if he feared
some , some
feminine softness, in ed eyes.
He was gone. He crawled stiffly into the
was without its wintry coldness,
nein prog uduipit Sphinn min
his world, where he, the country physi- |
cian, had become in truth 3 pox man's
And who knows, could he have but
that the air above him was not
filled with a finer carol than any proud
cathedral might boast on that new broken
Christmas Day! —By Roy Norton, Sunday
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a little more elaborate; and the im-
perERon: clowns are banging her
cym! as gayly as ever. New year
are the small round boxes covered with
light blue and pink wool with faces on
top that burst forth into melody when
they are vigorously between small
palms. are hung on cords upon
which tiny bells are strung, sq that these
join y in the chorus, especially
when hung around baby's own neck.
When baby ns to creep and play on
the floor she wl enjoy the roly-polys.
Never were $0 gay and piouant as
now, with n eathers in their caps
and pompons behind their ears, heads
that turn, and a manner, when one tries
to tip them over, even saucier than in
days gone by. Some of the smallest of
them are now made of celluloid, so that
they are not quite so heavy for the baby
to
they are moved slowly up and down are
a constant delight, even after they lose
their ability to converse, as they frequent-
ly do. There are also some nating
peasant dolls made entirely of cloth,dress-
ed in interesting, al one would
hardly call them beautiful, costumes.
These are not the hand-painted peasant
made such a sensation last year.
These, although extremely intercsting,
are too expensive “for common.”
most attractive dolls for little girls, after
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Shey begin to demand some individuality
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There are
al faces made originally from hand-made
among these, both boys and girls; charm-
shining eyes at home leads one on, but a |
noses, all warranted | Clint
hovering around the first milestone. The | Perry
- | Harry A. Hutchison,
The cloth dolls that say "Ma-ma” when | the Wil
| ecration it seems! How could any mother
| love a child with several inte ble
heads? Little dolls only a few inches high,
dressed in crocheted and hats,are
| great favorites this year, principally, I am
| sure, because it is so easy to make clothes
| for them. Of course one need not con-
| fine oneself to crocheted garments. It is
| possible to make such a bewildering vari-
lety of costumes for a doll of that
size.
While on the subject of sewing we
must not forget the dressmaking outfits,
new this year, containing Dolly herself,
{ a few finished gowns and patterns and
{ materials for others. The little mother who
{ is ambitious may also make her children’s
| hats, for there are equally elaborate mil-
linery outfits, containing straw, velvet,
vibbon, flowers, feathers, etc. She can
! even make jewelry for them-—necklaces,
| pins, etc.—and lovely little bead bags for
! them to carry shopping.
Of course the clothes that one can buy
‘ready made are charming. There are
; beautiful dresses of all sizes and materi-
| als suitable for every occasion—hats, bon-
| nets, caps, shoes, slippers, sweaters, rain-
| coats, automobile coats, veils, and gog-
| gles, gloves, rubbers, etc.
i There is every piece of furniture for a
doll's house that one could bly ask
for, not even omitting a t and a
vacuum cleaner. Most attractive are the
dining-room tables, completely set with
| all sorts of food, meat, vegetables, game,
' salads, desserts, bottles wine, every-
i thing in miniature, looking very realistic
| and edible
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mechanical toys amuse the parents
as much as the children. are dogs
that walk and twist their heads, dolls that
| dance, geese that waddle and scold their
| goslings, birds that fly, turtles that crawl,
dolls that walk and talk.
The flying-machines and dirigibles are
increasing in number and variety, and
| there are numberiess flying tops that may
i be shot into space; butterflies and birds
that wind up, etc.
For the older boys there is even a wire-
! less apparatus.
Population by Counties.
The population of Pennsylvania by
i counties, contrasted with the last census,
is as follows:
County. 1910 1900
Ad easttassisessiserss 34 ¥
BC 1 016A F058
rmstrong . .. .... 67, ro
Heater ................... 78,353 56.432
Bedior®........... 38,879 39,468
Bradford . 54.526 50.008
Bucks ie 76,530 71,19
Cambria... Ea io
Carbon .. _ 52,846
Centre... 43,424 ae
Chester. a a
Clearfield 93,768 80,614
on ... 31,545 29,197
ROMIIDIR.....overenrsiness, 48,467 39,896
Crawiord.................. 61,565 63,643
Cum 54.479 50,344
Minin 136,152 114,443
Delaware 117,906 94,762
1k 5.87
Rie. 1o7 20 110412
orest . .. 9,135 11,039
Franklin L775 54,902
Fulton... 9,703 EL
: Gireen...............
| Huntingdon _. a 34,650
erson ... : 63,090 83 3
a 15,013 1
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57,042
eae 93,893
43,186 257,121
50,813 oe
47,868 51
Ld 57,387
21, Bi
22,941 21,
169,590 1
14,868 18%
ja 99,687
136 Eo
1.540.008 1.293.897
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members of the Methodist church of Al-
toona.
The estate of the Ie ime will
amount to approximately
the amount will not be known until
affairs are settled. The principal items
of the last will of Dr. Monroe follow: To
Rev. Elmer E. Williams, a young preacher
of Chi who was a protege of Dr.
Monroe his (Williams) youth, the
sum of $1,000 is willed.
To the sisters of the deceased minis-
ter’s wife he bequeathed $5,000, the in-
terest and of
death the remaining
to the residuary estate of Dr.
To his adopted daughter, Mrs. Yost, of
Ashville, $5,000.
To his niece, Mrs. Kate Martin, of Bal-
timore, the sum of $1,000.
The balance of the estate is bequeathed
to the annuity fund of the Central Penn-
lvania Methodist
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