Bellefonte, Pa., January, 6, 1911.
A NEW YEARS WISH.
A little tenderer each day
To all who hold me dear;
A little sweeter in my home,
May I become this year.
Oh, may my eyes, that plainly see
My neighbor's faults, grow clear
Tosins and errors in myself,
As fades the passing year.
As the chill winter frosts give way
‘To sunshine’s sweet appeal,
May to the winter of my heart
Love's gentle radiance steal.
And thus upon life’s barrenness
Shall flowers and fruit appear,
Each season bringing heaven's giits
To bless my happy year.
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coarse but white linen sheet
gapty hollow,
urie’s brows drew together ina
frown; he sat down on the lowest rung
of the ladder and began to put on his
shoes with sudden alacrity.
“Little Master Max has done it!” he
muttered to himself. “I wish I'd taken
the gun with me upstilis last night,”
a glance toward an empty space
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being fastened with tongs of
deerskin, Aurie slipped his arm into his
heavy woolen jacket, donned his coonskin
cap and then hurried from the house, first
awakening sl Sukey and telling her
to bolt bar Phe door behind him. For
those were days when every precaution
was necessary.
Nevertheless, the scene that met the | fort.
Dutch youth's eyes that morning seemed
itself. Smiling in the soft, early
fight, the valley lay steeped in silvery
mist, and with purple haze of Indian
winding river, and it was thither that
Aurie wended his way. Now and then
et a uti, Baws,
the
mink or muskrat; a pile of nibbled chi
showed where beavers had been at
and now and then a flutter of wi
marked a wild fowl’s hasty hiding.
Aurie's face grew ve.
“Master Max Ea not to be so rash
as to go this distance from the house!”
he murmured over and over in.
y a few rods away, was a
puff of smoke—a loud report—and then
a great bundle of bronze feathers fell
fluttering near the edge of the stream,
EE mos orp oi 13), boachey
grasses near by, a curly, yel-
low pate and a boyish face with
health aad triumph. oy
“Hurrah! I got a big wild turkey that
time!"’ cried little Max Fonda, as he
scrambled out to seize it.
a the Sider) lad’s Jace ang voice were
of grave pproval as he said, “Fie,
Master Mas! Doss this poo feathered
crea pay you for not keepi r
word of honor? Did you not pis i I
parents before they went away that you
would not go beyond the orchard fence?”
Max gave a rueful grin.
“But Fritz Devendorf told me that
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So no sign of help seemed forthcomi
and meanwhile winter was drawing nigh,
food and ammunition were lack to,
withstand a long siege, and the face of |
the French commandant, Lieutenant Le-
Fevre was very grave.
Then, for several mornings, early, a
muffled hammering was heard in one of
the upper rooms of the fort, and Max, |
who, after the manner of small boys gen-
erally, had been prowling around, seeing
what he could i soe. came rig pe
who sat uge ace, ring
hot lead into bullet molds, and imed:
other men are building two large flat-
bottomed boats, and they told me to keep
my mouth shut about it and not to let
even any of the Huron Indians know. It
seems the fort is to be abandoned. Every-
body is to slip away some dark night—
that is, if the boats are finished before the
river freezes up!”
still veiled hill and hollow, lake and land,
and though there were nights when the
und gave forth the , iron ring of
noonday warmth mel it.
Meanwhile, work went on with the boats;
soon they were in readiness, and now
Lieutenant LeFevre only waited for the
waning of the moon so that darkness
might lend its aid to the flitting from the
At last there came the night of the
hazardous undertaking: Sentry and scout
whispered that oe were feasting glut-
tonously in the forest, and some of ,
filled to on, were “already slesplg
trough sidewise,
and then the little company in silent sus-
the boats were launched as noiselessly as
ble and the work of embarkation
nd now it was that Aurie Van Wie
plucked at the French lieutenants sleeve.
“If you please, Monsieur,” he whisper-
to our home.
1” exclaimed the officer. “You
do not wish togo with us to Montrea?”
“Twill be strange for us—we want our
own home,” persisted the Dutch youth.
Lieutenant LeFevre looked
“Mon ami, we're running a f risk
even now! But we are all together; we
have weapons; we would do our best to
to
. But you two lads—what would
you making your way alone through
the forest?'’
“Monsieur, I am used to the
step would
Ah, the little lad, Max, is sick with long-
ing for his home and his mother!”
Frenchman's eyes grew moist; he,
too, had a home—a home and a mother,
far away in sunny France!
But was no time to waste.
“My lads,” Lieutenant LeFevre said,
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never proceeded very
woodland trail, for dusky watch- | and
Fortunate it was that the autumnal | Boys’ World.
t for the weak and feeble ones in our | by
sudden hope that seemed to have leaped
r true that |
something familiar |
in which they now found
Thinning tree '
trunks, great open stretches beyond—a |
the gleaming home candles! i
hold of him in sudden ecstacy. :
“Let us kneel down here and thank |
God! he said, solemnly. “For listen, |
Max dear, we're right here on the ‘Cl
above our own valley? A half
our more and we'll be home!"
It was not only the cheerful gleam of |
lights that brightened the valley when |
the lads reached it, there was also the |
sound of music and mirth, and then they :
suddenly remembered that this was the |
glad New Year's Eve—the time for fes-'
tivity and rejoicing in every Dutch house. |
hold. |
Only in that of the Fondas were gloom |
silence—a mourning prolonged for
weeks—ever since the day the two lads |
had disappeared. Can you imagine the |
joy awakened by their return?
Then a couple of hours later, after the
excitement was over, and the neighbors
who had hurried in with their gifts and’
their congratulations had gone, after the |
New Year's cakes had been eaten, and!
many other things, too—for the greater |
2 Dutchman's emotion is, the more hun-
gry He beco Frau Fonda came |
softly into the room where Aurie and |
Max were snuggled down—oh, so com-
fortably!-—in the big feather bed, and,
after a caressing touch on each boyish |
forehead, she said tenderly to Aurie; :
“Dear lad, my husband and 1 have
been talking it over—your faithfulness to
our little Max, your bravery, your pa-
tience, your courage! They must have |
their reward. So you are no longer to
be our bond-servant! Henceforth you
are to be as our own son!”
And this was the gitt of the New Year |
to brave, plucky Aurie Van Wie!"—The
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Four-tooted Criminals. {
Authorities seem to be agreed that
crime is to be found among the lower
animals as among human beings,
there are evidently, in the lower orders |
of creation, individuals which, like men,
seem incapable of living and satisfying |
their wants without doing harm to their |
fellows. Lombroso and his disciples have |
even gone so far as to assert that almost |
every variety of human wrongdoing finds |
its counterpart in the crimes committed |
by animals. !
We constantly find among bees cases |
of theft. These thieves of the hive, in |
order to save themselves the trouble of |
working, attack the workers in masses,
kill them, rob the hives, and carry off the
booty. Then, having scquired a taste Jor
robbery ce, they form regular!
colonies of bandit bees.
Curiously enough, it has been ascer-
tained that these little enemies to law
and order may be artificially produced by |
the simple process of giving working bees |
a mixture of honey and brandy to drink. |
and irritable and, |
after a short course of the mixture,
become hungry, they attack and plunder |
the well supplied hives.
,| Owners of doves assert thatin almost
every dove-cote there are birds that try |
to obtain material for their nests ab-
stracting straws that have been collected
others. These amiable thieves are
not only lazy, but untrustworthy as well.
Murder is not uncommon among ani- |
mals, murder in this case hi the term |
surgeon tha
ment of cavalry one may find horses
which rebel against discipline, and let no
escape them of doing harm
to man or to their fellows. In
dealing with these horses, it is always
necessary to be on one’s guard, and it is
often imperative to separate them from
the others in the stable, as they try to
steal their companions’ food. What is
still more curious is that their skulls have
an abnormal formation, the foreheads
being narrow and retreating.
WHEN TO MARRY.
Marry when the year is new.
Always loving, kind and true.
When February birds do mate,
You may wed, nor dread your fate.
If you wed when March winds blow,
Joy and sorrow both you'll know.
Marry in April when you can,
Joy for maiden and for man.
Marry inthe month of May,
You will surely rue the day.
Marry when June roses blow,
Over land and sea you'll go,
Those who in July do wed
Must labor always for their bread.
Whoever wed in August be,
Many a changé are sure to see,
Marry in September's shine,
Your living will be rich and fine.
If in October you do marry,
Love will come, but riches tarry.
If you wed in bleak November,
Only joy will come, remember,
‘When December snows fall fast,
Marry, and true love will last,
Home Notes.
Your Opportunity.
Persons suffering from chronic forms
poy Hwited © consult Dr
Pierce has for more than pany years
been chief consulting the In.
valids’ Hotel and Institute, Buf-
fa Nt bY néatly a score
of wi, Shida & thousands of
jeises Of diseuse with a record of
ninety-eight per cent. cures. Almost
dil ihe Sats trated by Di. Maleate ox
Hume eases. Many Rs Wilke
have been up several .
a gawd incurable.
These people are almost always cured
Dr. Pierce's treatment and advice. %
ED ald
and Surgical Institute, N.
Y. All correspondence is absol pri-
vale and confidential. Write without
fear and without fee.§
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The Curious Mistletoe.
The story of how the mistletoe gets
on the trees is a most interesting one.
Covering the mistletoe twigs are peas-
winter season, when food Is compare-
tively scarce, and hence some birds eat
them freely. Now. when a robin eats a
cherry he swallows =imply the meat
and flips the stone away. The seed
of the mistletoe the bird cannot flip.
passed by, | valley far down—the indistinct outline of | It Is sticky and holds to his bill. His
with long- | buildings—and those dear earth stars— | only resource ix to wipe it off. and he
does so, leaving it sticking to the
were other things, | He ran back to little Max and caught | branches of the tree on which he Is
sitting at the time. This seed sprouts
after a time, and vor finding earth—
which, indeed. its ancestral babit has
made it cease wanting—it sinks its roots
into the bark of the tree and hunts
there for the pipex that carry the sap.
Now, the sap in the bark Is the very
richest in the tree. far richer than
that in the wood. and the mistletoe
gets from its host the choicest of food.
With a strange forexight it does not |
throw fits leaves away. asx do most
parasites, but keeps them to use in
winter, wken the tree is leafless,
Already Planned.
There were few persons who knew
the Locke family even in a casual way
who had not discovered that Mrs.
Locke was in the habit of nagging het
husband and children. She loved them
dearly. but at times nobody would have
surmised it.
“What did Mr. Locke say when he
found himself safe after those hours
of danger?" some one asked a friend
; who had been in company with Mr.
Locke on an ocean steaemr which met
with an accident in mid-Atlantic. “lle
never says the ordinary thing.”
“No.” sald the friend, with a dry
smile, “He didn't that time. I said tc
him. ‘James, we ought to make some
thing more of our lives from having
them spared to us in this way.’ for 1
had felt pretty solemn, I can tell you.
| I've no doubt James did. too. but what
he said was, ‘Willlam; a good share ot
the rest of my life will be spent in ex.
plaining to Theodora how 1 happened
to choose that steamer when there
were dozens of others that reached
home withont any accident.’ "—Youth's
Companion.
The Long Spoon.
“Tomkyns™ recently heard the ex-
pression “If you sup with the devil
you will need a long spoon.” “Though
I never heard it before,” he says, “it
is evidently fairly well known. and
what I shouid like to know is, What
does it mean, und where does it come
from ?"*
It means that if you are going to sit
down to a meal with his Satanic
majesty you will need a long spoor
to avoid the necessity of getting too
near the old gentleman and, in its
general sense, of course, it implies
that if you have dealings with a dau-
lose + erous or notorious person it behooves
all desire to work, and, finally, when they | you to use great caution.
It comes
from one of the “Ingoldsby Legends."
and the quotation reads:
Who suppes with the Deville sholde have
a long spoone.
—London Answers.
A Queer Diagnosis.
A celebrated Dublin physician was
Sir Dominic Corrigan, who was as
| much famed for his brusqueness to-
ward patients as for his skill. In the
course of some reminiscences William
Charles Scully told a story of the doc-
tor which is quite well worth quoting.
“lI was taken to see him,” says the
writer, “several times, but he always
treated me with the utmost kindness.
However, a highly respectable maiden
aunt of mine had a different experi-
ence. She went to consult him. After
sounding her—none too gently—and
asking a few questions he gave a
grunt and relapsed into silence. Then
after a short pause of meditation he
sald, ‘Well, ma'am, it's one of two
things—either you drink or else you
sit with your back to the fire.”
Fining English Servants In 1680,
Nan Newton, for breaking a teapot
in Phil's chamber, 2s. 6d.
Richard Knight, for pride and
slighting, 2s. 6d.
William Hetherington, for not being
ready to go to church three Sundays,
10 shillings.
Thomas Birdall, for being at Nunea-
ton from morning to night, § shillings.
Cook, dead drunk, 10 shillings.
Anne Adams to be washmaid at
Lady day. She went away the 29th
of June for being wanton and careless.
She lost five pairs of sheets and five
pillowbeers, for which my wife made
her pay £1.—Diary of Sir Richard
Newdigate.
Retribution.
Young Father (in the future)—Great
snakes! Can't you do something to
quiet that baby? Its eternal squalling
drives me frantic. Young Mother
{calmly to servant)—Marie, bring in
my husband's mother’s phonograph
and put in the cylinder “At Ten
Months.” I want him to hear how his
voice sounded when he was young.
Squaring Himself.
Mrs. Henpecke—What do you mean.
sir, by telling Mrs. Torker's husband
you never ask my advice about any-
thing? Henpecke—Well, Maria, 1
don’t. You don't wait to be asked.
Showing the Way.
Friend (to guider— Why does your
wife always go round with the parties
that you take over the custle? Guide—
She always gives me a tip at the end
s0 as to induce the others to follow
suit.—London Answers.
There never was a bad man that had
ability for guvod service.—Burke.
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.
DAILY THOUGHT.
Give thou thy jewels, O Life, to those
Who have not lilies and the rose;
Give thou thy wealth to those whose sweet
Is town and trade and tumbling street;
1 have share when I have love,
And the biue skies that bend above,
And Little Child's hand in mine own
When the dusk comes and day hath flown.
Baltimore Sun.
With the season that children must be
shut indoors, mothers are beginning to
{ worry over amusing them. This is quite
| needless, as the happiest child is she who
' is taught to amuse herself.
, This does not mean putting the young-
| ster on a chair with the command, “Be
i good.” The mother shouid be sort of
| amusement
{ chief.
Up to her are suggestions, advice and
| adiuiration. Except on rare occasions
land as a treat the child shculd co the
| rest herse:f.
A rainy day need not be a terrorina
i household so run. Mother's suggestions
| should include variety. There may be
| active sports, such as Puss in the Corner,
| if there are several children, or dumb-
| bell drills and wand exercises for mother |
to admire while she darns the weekly
stockings, will keep one nursery member
happy for an hour. :
There should be pleasures specially re- |
served for rainy days. Among these could
be the makingiof scrap books. This should
be along the lines of a child's own tastes. |
Thus the boy who is interested in rail- |
roading and machinery may early begin |
a collection from railway and technical |
i magazines that will be invaluable later, |
if properly directed.
A little girl can be both amused and |
her taste cultivated by a paper-doll scrap- |
book, made from house furnishing cata- |
logues. Lots of children delight to save
| their favorite comics from Sunday maga-
; zines; others who are fond of animals or
flowers can make most interesting scrap-
books along those lines.
A game which has found much favor
promoter, not amuser-in-
| and makes an evening's entertainment
| very amusing is the travel e.
Invite your young friends to make a
trip around the world in an hour, and
state on the invitations that the party
will leave from your house on such an
evening at such atime. When the guests
arrive, tell them that you have provided
diaries for such intelligent travelers, and
hand each one a note-book to which a
pencil is tied. Tell them that they are to
write down in the note-book the name of
each place they come to, and that the
es are indicated all through the house
y objects that are tied with a red rib-
bon. At a given signal start them off
and allow them the hour in which to
travel. The one who at the end of that
time has guessed correctly the largest
number of places receives the prize, which
should be a toy steamboat, automobile, or
train of cars.
The places may be represented in this
way: A string of corals for Napiet; a
bunch of cigars, Havana; a pan of drip-
pings, Greece; a bit of rope, Manila; an
orange, Florida; tulips or wooden shoes,
Holland; a copy of the book The Eternal
City, Rodns; ol own i Columbis,
represent a copy of the song Hail,
Columbia; a package of macaroni, Italy;
a bottle of cologne, the city of that name;
a cup and saucer, China; a toy mule,
Missouri; and so on with as many as
you please.
The refreshments should be served
from a long table to resemble a lunch-
counter, and sandwiches, coffee, fruit,
pie, and cakes of one kind and another
should make up the menu.
The young people will have a Selig.
ful time, I am sure, and will appreciate
all you wfll do for them.
Apple parties, in ive and good
fun, are Sy known and ap-
precia but fewer entertainers appre-
idle the possibilitles of an Orange So-
In winter season, choosing a time when
the fruit is at its best an t, a
very i ad little entertainment may be
The suggestions
Youngsters ranging
too, for a hirthday party
“if yelow Tao und envelopes
ts en
can be obtained at the time, so much the
Most large stores can furnish
these from stock.
As the children enter the room on the
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FARM NOTES.
—Sheep are timid, nervous creatures,
and all excitement and roughness should
be avoided in handling them.
—Charles W. Flickenger, a farmer near
Sabetha, Kan., has a cow 6 years old, and
she dropped 11 calves in four years—
triplets three times and twins once.
—To kill wild mustard in grain crops
use 75 to 100 pounds of sulphate of iron
to 52 gallons of water. e spraying
should be done thoroughly with a fine
mist.
—Pennsylvania annually grows $16,
000.000 worth of vegetables. The K
stone State ranks second to New York in
commercial importance of garden pro-
duce in the United States.
—Luther Burbank has brought out a
new Newton Pippin apple. Its color is
reddish instead of the rich yellow, the
color of the cld-time Pippin, and its fruit-
ing season is much earlier.
—A well-bred dairy cow will give about
8000 pounds of milk in a year. Some ex-
ceptional cows are known to have given
about 16,000 pounds. The proof of the
amount of butterfat in such milk is in
the testing.
—Edward Drake, of Wichita, Kan.,
sowed some wheat last spring, which he
had kept in his house for 28 years. It
was from a crop raised by him, and he
testifies that the crop this year is excel-
lent. Nearly every grain sowed germi-
nated promptly.
—Some dairymen believe that if the
food of their cows is changed it will have
a bad effect upon the milk flow, but re-
peated scientific experiments show that
changing from one feed to another, with
uent additions to the regular food,
helps the milk flow.
—Sows which are to farrow this fall
should be amply provided with fresh, dry,
clean, dustless bedding. Fine cut straw or
shredded corn fodder is recommended
by the University of Wisconsin Experi-
ment Station. rley, straw or wood
shavings should be avoided. .
—Sheep are nervous animals and of
| rather delicate constitutions, and suffer
more from bad ventilation and over-
crowding than any other animal on the
farm. It is a mistake, therefore, to con-
fine sheep during the winter in close
quarters. If kept dry their fleeces will
keep them warm.
—Mutton sheep should never be of
mixed breeds on one farm. Getone good
mutton breed, stick to it, and develop it
to the highest notch possible. A lot of
mixed lambs never bring the highest
ice on the market. It is those of one
reed, uniform in size, shape and condi-
tion, that get the big money.
—Professor H. W. Howard, of the
Washington State Experiment Station,
has discovered that the common house
fly multiplies and thrives in the alfalfa
fields. is discovery has caused a great
deal of interest in the west and investiga-
tions by scientists are now being made to
ascertain just how the fly breeds in alfalfa
and how the pest may be overcome.
—The Union Italian Colony of Fruit
Growers, a Hammonton, N. J., society
Shipped to commission men this year
$86,000 worth of fruit. Of this 3 per cent.,
$2580, was returned to the colony and
divided according to each man’s ship-
ments after deducting $1.60 from each
for running expenses. Besides, $50,000
were received for cash sales right at the
Hammonton station.
—Peaches need a reasonably loose soil,
and will not thrive if grown in soil for
any considerable length of time. The
soil should be prepared in good tilth by
plowing and harrowing. Peaches are so
often injured by severe cold that in a
majority of cases spring planting is pref-
erable to fall, but it is an item to make
all the preparation possible in advance,
so that at the first favorable rtunity
in the spring the planting can done.
—Contrary to a widespread belief that
hard woods give more heat in burning
than soft Yariatios, the Scientists at Wash-
ington are contending that the greatest
heating power is possessed by the wood
of the linden tree, which is very soft.
Fir stands next to linden, and almost
equal to it. Then comes pine, hardly in-
ferior to Be and inde, Re hare —
possesses 8 per cent. less capaci-
4 than linden, and red beech 10 per cent.
ess.
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Michigan pean and had had it
for years, and that he cut up and burn-
at du BL owe
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ed io remone the di as tar as root
ted, e hole
earth, and a tree would be plant-
ed there the following year. In this way
he kept his orchard intact and in a flour-
ishing condition.
~The New York Cornell Experiment
Station, actual tests, has estimated
the cost of one house for try, with
continuous
cents per fowl, or $1.03 per fowl, includ.
ing the cost of the feed room. In all cases
four square feet is allowed per fowl.
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