"Bellefonte e, Pa., Decem n ver 8, 191 5 i MY PICTURE BOOK. The sky is the finest picture book. Its pictures are all for me. Whenever I look into the blue Most wonderful things I “ee. On days when it is sunny But the time that I like best of al! Is just before the night. When the gates of heaven open And | see the angels bright. —Selected, THE VIRGIN OF OKIAK. High on the lava cliffs that guard the bay stands Okiak’s Virgin, chiselled with t care out of the face of the stone. statue, looks 3 seaward; it jo Juut ted i t - Sigh To it, When Father Flynn put out from the ip's side for Okiak in the frail coracle padaied his two converts from Little ia, his books in the bow, in the stern a year's quantity of tobacco, ched on a case of good the Yankee ski him—then raised cap. : “Good-bye and God spare you, Father, he said. ou know what risks you're running. I won't look to see you again, but we shall make the same voyage next year, and—if you should be here you shall eat the best Christmas pudding that ever went into a can.” i “When a man's reconciled with God and out of debt his Jrading lies lightly,” the priest He shook Rs. beaming the skipper out of his blue eyes; then Stepped into ‘The ski the coracle fixed them shore line of his future home. per led an oath—under his brea for Father Flynn's ears were as sharp as his tongue. “That comes of women, Payson,” he said to his first mate. "Crossed in love, poor devil, he was, before he turned He had the makings of a man in m.” “He has them ye be,” said Pyson, watching the oh iy re as he sat erect in the diminishing boat. That had been thirty years ago, and Bishop Flynn still moved among the Jleot Okiak. De pe ore passed out of mortal but, lined fi sis hale, was wats a) Bier spirit’s ngs, ishop the Word become flesh up and down Okiak and Tamgol. Though Bishop Flynn had preached for thirty years, consecrating a heathen race to prayer and labor; though of the old worship remained but a few mutilated rites Sporetly and shamefully preserva among the older tion; although the archi Teli seven hundred giving collection in celebraton of the tricentennial of the establishment of Oriental missions, one soul had escaped the Bishop's care, and women still lower- ed their voices when they spoke of Hanga- | man t “I'd like him, Lord,” the Bishop mused, “*Fwould be the crown of my work. But there's scant chance he'll ever see Okiak again.” “Will he never come back?” the chil- heen wife to Hangaman in Okiak. “No, he will never come back,” : swered her son, the lay brother Barnabas. “My father was a bad, black-hearted pirate. Now the devil roasts his soul for | j eternity, praise God.” The crone looked up and her bleared eyes brightened. “He was a finer man than thou, Barnabas,” she muttered. “He could have snapped thee in his hands.” Barnabas shuddered at the i if : £ 5 i g is name had heen of from the Fijis to and. He had whole th brand and sword, driving tub from isle to isle, in some Australian creek, to-morrow leaping over three hun- dred sea leagues to Papua, his rickety boat half settled among the plunging waves. For half a score of years he harried the South Pacific lands. But the priest van- quished him, for the captain's prophecy was not fulfilled. When the islanders had ceased to spare his life through curiosi ty Okiak '§ z : ifs iz fear. Traders Ha to ail but these had made for themselves es with the hula women, and had been crowned with leaves five hours be- fore the sacrifice. Father Flynn put the hula dancers outside his quarters. Re planted a thorn fence just where his chicken run adjoined “Stay there in your ," he said $ihis wa be term for sin), “until the Spirit strives in you. ve may come in to receive the Gospels. But till that time ye cannot pass that line, poor heath- on women, Sxoept 0 » on Sunday ANTI, is Cu IE a | of copra to the thanks® - | flocking spear. spared | lence, jungle. fat king answer- | the pirate’s side, ay Meanwhile, let | stupefied by the 's victory. Into his people see | hands Marya pressed the locket with the | oF Rive tre, Hangaman,” | “It was i through Father Flynn's manacled, i i Hangaman burst his bonds in t required five men to subdue At dawn they carried him to the he | ship in triple chains. i t all that thirty years be- | and Bishop now walked, white- | a Hanguna | was soon 1's capture he to carve Virgin upon | s cliffs. The concept was | : even more so the execution of ! lit. Year after year he toiled patiently | Hangaman comes | upon the lava slopes of the aviescent home from slave-trading,” the fat king | mountain, until at last the statue took A Sop ie ET Snes Nis the yearly oot | “Tama, the groans for his | steer passage t y ight | sacrifice,” answered priests | into harbor. Traffic increased; the old | inately. , vessel returned no more, and in her place | eT ee | Er te ci the. Shon e will wait till son an igh on ifis, t home from |e le. high on white and ey reluctantly. | breasting the gales, triumphant upon the | t their heads to-! 9s though she kept subdued the a plot, whose up-,f of the 's heart. i was that became a convert. Years rolled by, and at last she looked | On the third Sunday, slipping out of the forth, a benign presence, over the new, church, she stole into the priest's cabin splendid church which had been built | and fearfully removed the talisman from near the summit of the mountain. She | its hiding place. She brought it to the stood behind and above, with hands out- | priests. | stretched, as though to bless the passing | When Tama rumbled again and - ships and so in all the uncon- man had not returned they sent for him. | verted islands eastward. With her com- | Hangaman was among the | pletion the burden of guilt, borne many | carousing when the word reached him. | fell from the carver's mind. Per- “Come hack,” the messenger said. Te saw in her the fulfilment of a king. ie sick, and you penance for that last token of his love | in not he who has I that he had not found courage to cast. Now he makes laws, | away when he assumed the priesthood. ' i “If he came back!” he muttered, pac- enemies. and half the people sing to his | ing his thorn fence, longsince become an Nevertheless, we have his demon.” | avenue of flowering trees. Outside, | In proof, the messenger handed Hanga- Barnabas was whining the confirmatory man the locket. ! exercises with the native pupils. “'Twould | be the crown of my life to save his soul. ! | There was strong virtue in the man; he came whole from his Maker's die.” in acreek and had en | He sighed, almost ully, thinking | live with him. On his return he of those days of strife, when he first! fi her old and fat, with a black, wad- | taught in heathen Okiak. Presently, as dling child (afterward Barnabas). The he paced there in reminiscence, he heard | sight of his black aroused in him | a crackling in the thorn-trees: a shadow | a dull ferocity of A The Photograph | fell athwart his path and, looking up, the this white woman at first terrified him. of | priest saw Hangaman. i Uncertain whether or not might knew the other instantly, but exist somewhere the original of thing, | each looked with amazement into his | he felt that the of her gave | enemy's face, for neither had been en- him a power to that of the priest | tirely conscious of the mortal changes | who had lost her. In her might he felt | that the years had brought. Yet though himself invincible, and resolute to stamp | they had whitened the hair and stamped out utterly the new worship, now . | the countenance with the sign-marks of ing everywhere among the Indies. their dominion, they had but strength- hat year he had unconsciously set the | ened either in the stubbornness of his seal upon his piracies, for New Caledonia | faith. was now French, and he had harried it. | A huge and naked bulk, burned black As chance willed, the Yankee skipper had | by suns, seamed with old battle-scars, his touched at that island, and, learning that | back criss-crossed with whitened wales he was bound for Okiak, the Governor | from the jailers’ lashes in the convict set- mounted a cannon on his f and | tlement, Hangaman towered over his asked him to pick up Hangaman en route | ancient enemy. He wore his shark-skin should he encounter him. The captain | girdle and a little canvas over his put into Okiak, and he was holding coun- ' breast. In it he carried the photograph sel with Father Flynn even while Hanga- ' which, in some incredible way, he had man was Speeding with a hold during those thirty years of his | full of chains and the Papuan woman and imprisonment; confident in its power, | "Barnabas. | one thought had buoved him up and held | Hangaman's wrath grew slowly, but him back from death—that he should } before he reached Okiak it had become kill enemy and, doing so, restore the days | hotter than Tama’s heart. He plundered | of plunder and war. He had not chang- | Tamgol, massacreing all converts there, and drove for his home island. | ed, though everywhere change ruled in i the islands. When he was freed he found | He arrived at night and an armed mul- an ancient boat: he ad its tattered | titude gathered to welcome him. Tama | sails to the winds, beating into the gales, | was belching lava. Kava was brewed, drawing in new strength again in his con- | and afterward, when al! were drunk, there flict with the clemental forces of the | was haranguing on Tama's slopes, beside | seas. He knew his body, wasted and | the river of molten rock now raking | weak,was but the cloak of a more furious | Tama’s flanks. Father Flynn learned what was afoot spies; and over his breast he felt the fied converts who came Slowly, without a word, Hangaman ph in the amulet. for refuge to the mud church at | undid his shark-skin girdle and cast it foot. The captain wanted upon the ground. It was the old sign, cannon and rake the | the challenge for a fight unto death, and . . into the Bi 's the old love for the Word I'd | battle leaped, and it blazed there, and there would | three decades forgotten. He howed i | the volcano’s to disembark his 2) = if i £ f g 7 5 : af i i ! i sg 1 i ; | thy §EE : ; g : ! i gd 5 3 i {! { Tama’s side the bush ! their fish-god’s initiates secret lodge in the recesses | the jungle. When fire meets water thus, | things are astir in Okiak. | Hangaman arose, a huge, nude, menac- ! ing figure, and faced the t on othec wide. of the stream. rom his waist ! ke took off his shark-skin girdle and flung no og stoop- to com a ynn | ed and raised it. Hangaman poised his } F358 accompamed g 8 : F : i i : I 7 EE = : ; : 1 Bor et g § : § 2 i 23 joe! 5 #2 il F i F : 8 i g g i { ing his ‘head. “Thou Lin Bus dave. | ago, w our ! this dark real tHe leaped across wing 8 | Spear, . of his shark- : ed at his feet out of the ground the i b ir : | gE it § | = I 5 [ f i sf 85s Is ted range from fifty cents to two! { at twenty-four ships a Preparing to Use the Canal. ; Science Notes. Probably the construction of the Pan- t 1 ama Canal would never have een andes: and gives » quart of milk a day. by the United tes, certainly it! There are reckoned to be 169,000,000 flok have been $0 soon, | head of cattle in the world. its possi use to commerce been’ The Brazilian India rubber gathere TPE considered. The UpOTE: | avetwqes 10 Foands of sap 2 Gay. 1 ance of a canal to the navy—made evi- : dent in the war with what | Only one out of every fifteen persons determined the government to act. Yes bots eves in good cost. But now that Colonel Goethals has | Our principal rans. ific customers promised at the canal shall be a ; are Australin and Tasmania. or tral in July, 1913, its commercial The guinea possibilities are being widely studied. The | weeks old. question of tolls, the probable effect of | (Our farms, exclusive of buildings, are ie. Competition on the trans-continental | yulyed at $23,770,000. a, 3 levity e Chia hn fore Si | The shoes worn by Alpine mountain can shipping these are among the mat. | gers uve steel soles with eight project- ters into w t t tion | interests of the a are now making The water mains of London aggregate careful examination. ' 6000 miles— twice rhe width of the Atlan. Probably the effect upon American , lic ocean. shipping and ship-building will be large. According to the calculation of a French In one instance already the canal has statistician, the number of books publish- peguh » provide work for the sip. od throughout the world is 128,530 each . Last month the Atlantic year. Pacific Transport Company was organized, | .' A goat lives on an average ten years -pig is fully grown when six It will build Hien lage Seamsiine, for horses in Paris. » pe i. > wi a * - . Be bw. way of the. canal, | CHICAO is now the largest piano-pro- Since all domestic commerce must by | ducing centre in the world. About 100, law be carried in American vessels, the | 000 instruments are made there annually. formation of this company means in itself | An electric sign in Baltimore consists much work for our ship-builders. Shal! American vessels engaged sively in domestic commerce pay tolls at the canal? In the Hay-Pauncefote treaty . t we agreed to make no discriminating feet high und five broad. charges against the traffic of any nation: | Auts will carry loads 40 or 50 times as but some, arguing that this agreement heavy as themselves. The beeile can exclu- 18 so delicately balanced that it is revolv- ed by a three-horscpower motor. The inscription on the bottle is in letters ten applies only to international commerce, move a weight 112 times his own weight. . believe that we may, if we choose, per-' In order to see the recenteclipse of the mit American coastwise ships (0 pass sun. which was visible at Vavua, in the without charge. Many bills are now be- Friendly Islands, a party of British scien fore Congress concerning this important | tists traveled 25,000 miles, point, on which action is promised early From 5.737.372 in 1900 the number of in the next session. ‘farms in this country grew to 6,340,357, or ed, | IN icresse of 12685, or 105 per cent. the lowest rate of increase noted. ed, —together with interest on the cost of 4 ) Aun : Et will be from thirteen to' Kubelik, the famous violinist gave 220 tourteen million dollars a vear—a fact concerts last year, at an average fee of that will have an important infiuence in $1200, making his year's income nearly establishing the rates of toll. The rates - The average value of farm land per lars a cargo ton. Colonel Goethals acre i puts the maximum capacity of the canal ' $32.49 in 1910, gain of 816.92 per acre, or day. . 108.7 per cent. What effect the canal will have on the | Britain's latest business of the gr railway lines is causing concern to some | over $10,000,000 by the time she is fully investors. Five of those railways each | completed. cost more than the canal, and one of . i uh them cost twice as much. The railway | One hundred square yards of leaf-sur. companies, of course, are making plans | na to meet the competition. One raihvay i Lh size Bt the eaves ot, Ape president declares that the roads will 1, oa square vards. , vide a service so superior to that of | pro I that the i, will o There will be three cement shows dur- “filled with lilypads.” Other officials fear serious damage to the business of the | railways, and a possible panic in railway | securities. Ten leading foreign steamship lines are planning to use the canal—a fact that means the complete transformation of the maps that show the regular lines of ocean super-Dreadnought ruary 21 to 28, and Kansas City, March 14 to 21. The Kansas City show is an innovation and was demanded by the exhibitors at previous exhibitors. Cultivating the Sparrow's Voice. k > oy French army authorities are disturbed | with a capital of fifteen million dollars. | yer the grept decrease in the number of ' of a huge bottle weighing 15 tons, but it * from $15.57 in 1900 to. great transcontinental | cruiser, the Princess Royal, will have cost | face would suffice to keep the air pure ing next year, the first at New York on January 29 to February 3; Chicago, Feb- | travel. Apropos of this, the announce- ment of the Grand Trunk Railway that the wheat of western Canada, —a hundred million bushels every year,—in- stead of being brought across the conti- nent by train and shipped from Atlantic norts, will be taken to Prince Rupert, the Pacific terminus of the road, and thence ! shipped to Liverpool by way of the canal, is particularly interesting. uoats in a New Role. Three thousand Angora goats herded | out on the brush-covered foot-hills of California are going to do some hard | work for Uncle during the coming! two years, beginning this spring. The | experiment will be unique as aj stock-raising proposition and as an engi- | neering and tree-culture problem. The little white animals, whose long wool is of such great value, are to be put to no less a task than constructing mile after mile of fire line through the bushy cha growth in the National forests, sa much labor by the United States Not the least important feature of the which for the first two years 5 E as ideal fire fines in forest-covered lands lying around areas. of the Angora goats | i fd | i i i ge FE fl | i 1 : : § ! Z z i i i E i i 5 : i : 3 8 : E £ 2% £ jes : : : J i ! : g g J i i iE i g Fa ; | | h i i z @ i 2 1 : i i "Well Dobby, these: seem to be busy days,” said “Yes,” said Harkaway. Dobby; “Mrs. De where to spend the m re EY & ‘stamped on the grinning splintered RE { ung m Vv trembled, i i foif ] Father by the hair and him down to the church, while i to night Dophy to “And Jour” said Harkaway. “Oh, busy from night morning to to gather together to en- Ver to spend ee spend while spending it,” said Dobby. Horses 4 a 2 3 * 3 >) to cold on the Seedling Se. oftentimes pneumonia Experiments have been made in Eng: land with a view to determine what are the conditions under which birds learn and cling to their traditional notes. For | this purpose one experimenter employed very young birds of non-musical species, keeping them entirely with songsters in | order to ascertain whether they would thus acquire the power of song. In the month of july, several years ago, he placed four fledgling English sparrows in the nest of a pair of singing canaries. Three of them died, but the fourth sur- vived. This one had already acquired a sparrow chirp, and hearing henceforth only the notes of the canary, he went on farther with the chirp that was his birth right. Instead, he came gradually. when among the canaries, to give notes differ- ent from those of the sparrow. Even when he was silent, if the canaries were singing, he could be seen to move his throat just as if he were trying to form the sounds, much in the manner that a person often inaudibly follows asong that f - =» | : Hi SpaFae iad 27 4 i : regan in less than a month. -— _s8E¥ to my rug? Housemaid—I t do it. It was Johnny. He's been running ihe lawn mower all over it. —For high class Job Work come to the Waterman Office. ! Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are the best medicine for delicate persons. Thei effectual. FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN DAILY THOUGHT. But the mine never unbends itself so agreeably ! as in the conversation of a well chosen friend. ! — Addison. Why not give him something in leather and make it with your own hands—some- thing that he could use and enjoy —a _ bill-fold, for instance, or a watch fob, a Rt or, perhaps, a mat for his read- ing table? i ee are many ways of decorating leather. The process of embossing is one of the most attractive, and is very inter- ‘ esting to do. The work is really simple, and outfit consists of an embossing tool, fifty cents; a pound brick of com- posite clay, thirty cents; a of car- bon paper. two cents; : leather at seventy-five cents or one dollar the square foot, cut to fit your pattern. All of these things may be bought at art-supply stores. Make yous gattera in paper and draw vour design upon it. Dampen your leath- _ er with soft sponge and water. Place the pattern on your leather, and uoderneath your leather place a sheet of carbon paper right side up. Trace your ign, ; with a small blunt point or hard pencil, {while the leather is damp. The carbon will transfer your design to the back of vour leather at the same time you are placing the design on the front of it, and thas vou wiil know where to put your clay. If your new clay 1s very oily, break ofi small pieces and wrap them in news- paper. In a few hours this superfluous oil will be absorbed, so that it will not seep through the leather and stain it. Now place your leather face downward upon a smooth, clean surface. _ Mold the clay, with your fingers, to the size and shape of a small section of your design. Place it between the carbon lines of the part to be raised, but do not letthe clay touch these lines. If the space to be raised is entirely filled with clay, the pressure of tooling around it forces the clay out and spoils your outline. Gently slope or round the clay down to the leather. By all means do not use too much clay. Now. place a piece of paper over the clay and fasten to the leather about the edge with library paste or gummed paper. Turn the whole over by placing one hand fiat on top, and slipping the other hand under the face of the leather and turning it. Use care in taking the hand away from what is now the under: side, so that you will not disturb the clay. Your leather is now smooth side up. Dam it as at first and keep damp dur- ing the process of tooling. You are now ready to 100l. Have the part to be raised in front of i your hand, not under it, changing the position of your hand as you work on one or the other side of the part to be em A Hold the tool almost vertically in your hand, just toucing the leather with the extreme point, so that you get a clear line. If you do not hold the tool correct- ly, you will get a shadow line from the hase of the tool all about your design. _ Press downward and toward your de- sign, while holding the left hand on the other side of the part to be raised. This position of the left hand tends 10 keep the clay in place, and aids in the emboss- ing by virtually stretching the leather over the clay, Repeat this operation on the other side of the embossing. It may be necessary to return to the first side even more than ionce, as naturally working on one side ha: a tendency to draw the i leather up fram the other side, until . it is siretched enough, When it stays in | place, the embossing is done. When you have completed the embossing of your | design, section. move the flat foot to the i tool lightly over the lines to - | them. {To press a picce of embossed leather, ‘dampen it thorough!y, and then lay it ‘down on a flat surface, protecied with | two or three thicknesses of soft cloth. { Place a flat surface and weight over it, (and leave until thoroughly dry. This will not take out the embossing. If you ig . If this a long way. is Dainly Dyes, A half ounce goes not convenient, which can be had a rn 2 : fi il 88 Fiat sg it 5 § | eZ 758 g i it k ! i : f 8B } 2.588 g 8 i : | E i : | t + Eid jie g
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