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Belletonte, Pa., April 4, 1913.
LITTLE GIRL, DON'T CRY.
There! little girl; don't cry!
‘They have broken your doll, I know;
And your tea set blue,
There! little girl; don't cry!
There! little girl; don't cry!
They have broken your slate, I know;
And the glad, wild, wild ways
Of your schoolgirl days
Are things of the long ago;
But life and love will soon come by—
There! little girl; don't cry.
There! little girl; don't cry!
Are things of long ago;
But heaven holds all for which you sigh.
There! little girl; don't cry!
THE DESERTER.
On five days a week Mortimer Leggett
decorousl
went y to school, in a trim blue
serge suit and a blue sailor but on
Saturdays he shook the soil civiliza-
tion from him and went beck to the
him, so that it was nearly
nine o'clock when he circled the
back piazza and made trackless
wilderness composed of three small tim-
ber lots.
He was still
little.
“How!” he ied, correctly.
“I had a toothache this morning,” Mor-
timer breathlessly. “I'm
his muscles showed his rag-
His vig scien Sirough bis ree
“You are awful strong,” orti-
more Leggett. “I had last year. I
1 ain’t so strong as you.
“By and by when you get rested up a
bit, we'll you are a big chief and I'm
a settler, you can see if you can get
me.”
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growled.
“That's just like God and fathers, ain't
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ing me rest that's just like God—and :
fathers.
“I don't know. Is it?”
“Of course.
Tews thatz: curiously,
man brought out a stubby old
pipe and was puffing on it. How the two
at home would enjoy these
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was to tell about the puppies—
and fathers.”
“Go ahead, then.”
“One is brown and he's a black
Rie, Julie voice
remember till it was and I was
Nauk Feber bend
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“Shucks, what was for?”
«Cause Tknew the’ puppies wes un.
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The other night we were invited to a
| Tomasha party(Hindustani) by the nurs-
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ed a dressing made of highly seasoned
| chopped meats, etc. This had to be
“Rested now, sonny?” he said, after a | rolled into a ball and eaten quickly else
i more ran down one’s arms than any oth-
|er place. This, with two kinds of hot
and come on skulking after me. I'll ive | cakes, similar to our flannel cakes, one
you a fair chace. If you catch me ‘you | crispy, hot, the other somewhat sad,
can tomahawk me.” | made up the refreshments.
Mortimer Leggett laughed out shrilly. We entertained ourselves as best we
could, trying to keep spotless and yet
Methods of the Prosecution In a Great |
Criminal Case.
In bis book "Courts, Criminals and
the Camorra” Arthur Train, once an
assistant district attorney in New
York, tells how juries are drawn for a
great criminal trial.
member of the jury panel has been
subjected to an unseen inquisitorial
process. The district attorney knows
. | show full appreciation of the food. We |a good deal about every prospective
For a month be- |
fore a trial, says Mr. Train, every |
last he
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The white settler shut his eyes, and
Big Chief Rain-in-the-Face took the slyly
profiersd pocket-knife and boldly scalped
m.
After that they both sat down and
“Wasn't that fun?’’ the boy sighed,
quit and go on home and get your din-
" i ner. It’s clear noon.”
“Yes, sir. You'll come too?"
“Me? Shucks, no. I got something to
eat.
“Oh, please,” Mortimer
“1 want you to see my pu
duck, too. It's lame.
The man went, at last, half because he
was curious, half because the boy was
such a coaxer.
begged.
I got a
had his |
-| And noise! the most horrible, deafen-
were handed beautiful bunches of roses | juror and perchance bas difficulty in
grown by the Messman, and sent spead- restraining a smile when he meets
ing on our home way in the early, warm | with deliberate equivocation in answer
| thi : . ! sonal history:
Sh Rig hee fs ny | “Are you acquainted with the accus-
s | ed or his family?" mildly inquires the
Today I made my first professional call | assistant prosecutor.
on a Mohammedan woman; we—a nurse | “No. not at all,” the talesman may
and myself—were kept waiting a full half | blandiy reply.
hour before being received. We were| The answer perhaps is literally true,
then ushered through place after place, pnd yet the prosecutor may be pardon-
and across court yards and alleys until | #d for murmuring “Liar!” to himself
we approached the sick woman's room. 28 he sees that his memorandum con-
She never sees outside the place, which | cerning the juror's qualifications states
is a little, low, box-like affair, probably
i six feet high, no windows, mud walls and
floors, with solid wooden doors; no chairs | hooks with the defendant's father.
and stools to indicate occupancy, but “I think we will excuse Mr. Ana-
with three native beds, one of which had | nias,” politely remarks the prosecutor.
a solid wooden top, and it was on this | Then in an undertone he turns to his
that my patient squatted, for none of ' chief and mutters: “The old rascal!
these women sit as we do hence no He would have knifed us into a thou-
| with the prisoner's uncle by marriage
and carries an open account on his
is hard to grow accustomed to the habits, | C2*2e""
but I am told, like everything else in In-
dia, that too comes in time. or his family,” he was not accepted as
On my way over here I noticed a flock | a juror.
of great, black, hungry looking birds, and |
was told they were crows. They were
almost three feet long with beaks twice
as long and thick as my first finger. |
Dropping a Pheasant With a Twenty-
four Pound Gun.
observe with curious interest the ma-
neuvers of native hunters,
An English sportsman tells of an
incident he witnessed at the well
known Shaba, or lower barrier, of
ing, rasping kind, for they seem to be
constantly in a wrangle of some sort.
Beside them the poor little robin red-
breast is a make believe—a wee black
| evening. It is strange to think of you as |t0 an Important question as to per- |
| that he belongs to the same “lodge” ,
| sand pieces if we'd given him the
chairs are ever seen in native homes. It And all this time the dis-|
gruntled Mr. Ananias is wondering
why, if he didn't “know the defendant |
Foreign sportsmen in China always
Have the Nerve to Interfere— |
He Guiped, So Did Every.
body Else,
If the railway guard who held his by
| train half a minute beyond schedule
i time should be reprimanded at head- |
a hundred passengers who
know why he did it will sign a peti-
tion for his pardon. Sentiment was
back of it. Somebody wanted to kiss.
i A lot of people want to do that.
Women kiss each other, men kiss
their wives, The guards have no
: patience with sentiment of that kind.
They flaunt their contempt by bawl- |
ing, “Break away there; no time for
that!” and refuse to hold the train
. half a second for the tenderest salute,
But this case was different. It was |
easy to see how it was. A mother was
giving her child away. The little fel- i
low was in good hands. The couple |
who had adopted him were whole- |
some, kindly pecple; the mother was |
wretchedly poor. No doubt it was
best all around to give him away. |
She and the boy stood the parting
like majors up to the last minute,
then the baby broke down. i
“Mom—mom-—mom,” he blubbered
from the car platform. i
Before the guard could close the |
door or give the signal she had |
reached through the crowd and had
snatched him from the man's arms. |!
“I can't, I can't,” she said. |
And then the kissing began. !
guard didn't even try to say “Break '
away!” He gulped; so did everybody |
else, Presently the woman handed |
the boy back, and the train started
on amid the deepest silence that had
ever hung over that subway station.
First “Lightning Catcher.”
Nearly everybody believes that
Benjamin Franklin was the inventor
and constructor of the first lightning-
rod. In this particular they are mis-
taken, as the first lightning catcher
was invented by a poor monk of Bo-
hemia, who put the first lightning-rod
on the palace of the curator of Pre-
ditz, Moravia, June 15, 1754. The
apparatus was composed of a pole
surmounted by an iron rod, support:
| ing twelve curved branches and ter
minating in as many metallic boxes
filled with iron ore. The entire sys
| tem of wires was united to the earth
by a large chain. The enemies of the
! inventor, jealous of his success, ex:
. cited the peasants of the locality
'WHY THE TRAIN WAS LATE
Didn't e Nerve |
Jayit ows
sit still and rest first,” the man AK MY bh
bird with the red on his tail and none on
"| his breast at all.
Then comes what they call here the
“Seven Sisters,” gray in color and beau-
tifully built, somewhat like our cat birds,
but larger and noisy in the extreme as
they always travel in flocks of seven,
never seen singly. The vultures, both
black and white abound in great num-
bers, but their call is peculiarly weak in
“My oldest boy’s only six, but he'd | comparison to their size, as they are
about half again as large as our good
sized chickens.
There are no sweet song birds here at
all. They tell me the climate is too se-
vere. Cranes, large, white and black,
long-legged things. Flamingos and pea-
in , and had dinner with Mortimer | €°cks, which, by the way, are wild birds
here, are in great numbers all about us.
They say the brilliancy of the plumage
“| and the number of birds quite make up
for the lack of grass, which is so scarce
collapse until he came that one journeys miles without seeing
Mortimer Leggett Je Sal. hon he one blade.
FEBRUARY 29th.
) Although the hot days are coming on
lo dap CDG Kiiglhen, Ju twa’ h apace and bringing sand storms with them,
hi He'll
oH. IRE a lone © Dice tme we are kept so busy at the hospital that,
Shank Fight have known that you until the intense heat arrives in its real
a your own, even you | force, we are quite content. The plague
Rad Dot od he Mrs Leggett sad, and a ae Le Sse consequence
The man took it carefully. His face of Which the villagers are ordered back
flushed. to their homes.
Our dispensary has more patients than
is convenient but being mostly babes, left
orphans by the plague, we are glad to
tuck them away, for later they are sent
to good schools to become christianized,
It is a curious fact here that, although
the natives are so antagonistic to any
medical aid, yet they will desert children
of the nearest kin and leave them to die
along the road, if the parents have “gone
| with your wife—you fond ‘of the | °% before.
| Cm i IT Jo Te ro, We go tomorrow to the “30th Punjabs”
| this way—" (the native regiment under English com-
“Thank you, man's mand) to vaccinate sixty-four women, all
, his throat. ,“I—I think Kitty would like | of whom are in “Perda,” on whom no
{ it fine. We're both man may look, so you see a woman phy-
pretty
city. I'll talk it over with her.” sician is needed regim
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his in answer; then,
Sy Ud his arm, he | Barleycorn” seems to be high king at all
toward city from which | feasts here and between the Mohammed
and Hindu there feast
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Nadoo creek. in north China. A native | against him, and under the pretext
shooter had his gingal with him—a | that his lightning-rod was the cause
most uncanny looking weapon. That | of the excessive dry weather, had the
there might be no question as to its | rod taken down and the inventor im-
length, it was placed upright alongside
the Briton. It exceeded his height by
two feet two inches, making the plece
of ordnance over eight feet in length.
Englishmen sometimes complain of the
weight of their own guns—six and a
baif to seven and a half pounds. So
it is astonishing to behold a Chinese
banter carrying a twenty-four pound
gun all day long.
| This particular native was accom. |
panied by a small, odd looking animal,
which the foreigner was assured was
a dog, Observation of the hunter and
dog at work made a deep impression
upon the stranger.
A hen pheasant happened to drop
into a furrowed fleld at feeding time.
The native took her bearings, crept up
as closely as he safely could, put down
his gun on a bit of higher ground, and
kept it trained on the bird. Meantime
the dog lay down across the barrel of
the gun, thus serving as a screen for
his master. When the proper moment
had arrived, the man fired, the bird
was killed upon the ground, and the
dog remained .on the barrel'until his
master took up the gun to reload.—
Youth's Companion.
When Join Rimed With Vine,
Some mispronounciations of today
once enjoyed the highest standing. We
must not think that Shakespeare was
sinning when he rimed groin, swine.
Indeed, ol, like long | (as in ice), sur-
vived regularly through the eighteenth
century. When a countrywoman of
our time watches the kettle bile or
jines the church she has behind her
Cowley's join, vine; Gray's shine, join;
Pope's join, divine: Dryden's join, de-
sign: Addison's find, joined: Coleridge's |
joined, mind; Wordsworth's joined,
kind, and Byron's aisles, toils. Indeed,
so late a writer as Bulwer gives us
mind. enjoined, which sounds as dia-
lectical as Gray's toil, smile. It is no
wonder that Joel Barlow, the author
of our own great typographical epic,
“The Columbiad,” jined join and di-
vine.— Yale Review.
Absentminded La Fontaine.
La Fontaine, whose fables are the
Monday and the drums were going all | delight of adult Frenchmen and their
children’s earliest task, was very ab-
sentminded. He went to the court of
Louis XVI. to present a copy of his
fables to the king. And he forgot the
book. Fortunately, the king knew La
Fontaine, his fables and his foibles and
gave him a thousand pistoles (about
$250). Unfortunately, though, La Fon.
taine left the money in his hired
carriage on his way back to Paris,
The Dear Friends,
“You should not talk about that girl
in that fashion.”
“Why not?
“The Bible says we should love our
“She ain't no enemy; she’s a friend
#f mine.”—~Houston Post.
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Shakespeare on the Road.
Hamlet bad just been hit by a cold
whereupon be turned
prisoned.
Serbs Are a Peasant People.
| “The inhabitants of the Balkan prov-
| inces are not the warlike, ferocious
people that popular imagination in
this country is apt to picture them.
| The Servians, for example, ae a
| genuine simple peasant folk, whose
| home life might be copied with ad-
vantage by the populations living un-
. der the rule of the great powers of
| Europe. The Servian practices the art
| of co-operation, while civilized people
| are learning its elements. Every lit
i tle homestead in Servia is a family
| commune, while in some of the moun-
| tain districts exists the zadriga, or
| communal village, where everything
is held in common, and where the old:
est man is the guide and commander
{ and final authority as to the mating of
| the people in his district.
! Founded Sect in Japan.
| A forerunner of Mrs. Mary Baker
| Eddy has been discovered. She was
a Japanese woman who, long before
Christian Science was heard of,
founded in the Island Empire a very
similar cult. According to a writer
in the London Chronicle, about 4,000,
000 inhabitants of Japan are believ-
ers in this system, which they call
“Tenriqyo” and the “medical re
ligion.” Few in England or America
had heard of this religion until, not
long ago, four missionaries from
Japan settled for a time in London,
talked of their faith to some whom
they met and, departing, left behind
them a little book written in English
but printed in Osaka.
Starting a Missouri Train,
A drummer and a friend climbed
aboard a ramshackle train in an iso-
lated Missouri town. The train was a
feeble, asthmatic piece of mechanism
and the humane society should have
prosecuted its owners for allowing it
to run at all,
It finally came to a dead stop just
on the edge of the town and after a
long interval of trying to make it go
the engineer stuck his head in the
door and bawled:
“Say, you two gents'll have to git
out till I git it started!”—Kansas City
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Working for the Boss Easy.
A man complains of being worked
to death since he went into business
for himself. Now all he can think
about is getting down early and keep-
ing on the job until everybody else
goes, not even taking time out for
luncheon. He had it easy when work-
ing for the boss, because he had
regular hours for starting in and
leaving off, and at luncheon took an
hour and a half or two hours out
in the fresh air looking around, shop-
ping or calling on friends.
Don't Sleep In Cutaways.
A fat man got aboard the cars and
squeezed into an empty seat next to a
sleepy man wearing a long-tailed cut-
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puzzle an expert to classi
them if he did not know that they =
on Baldwin trees. The latter part of the
season was highly favorable to the devel-
opment of late winter fruit.
—F experiments recently report-
ed to the rtment of Agricul op
that with the grape root-worm the use of
a molasses-arsenate of lead mixture—six
Jit the sweet, and also the insects are
lead
with Bordeaux mixture, is similar to
of the root-worm. The use of
with arsenate of lead in Bordeaux mi
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