Dewan Belletonte, Pa., November 21, 1913. EE ————————————— THAT LITTLE GIRL IN CHINA. 0, 1 read the saddest story— But it's true! There's a little girl in China, Bright and pretty, I am sure, And she might be very happy, Though her parents are so poor— But—her mother does not love her! That is true! Does not love her own, own baby! Would you b'lieve That such things could ever happen? Well, that mother sold her child! Sold her to some dreadful beggars. And the wicked mother smiled When they took away her baby, Did not grieve. 0, I cried hard when I read it, Wouldn't you? How would you feel if your mother Never held you warm and tight? Never kissed you, never helped you Say your little prayer at night? 0, I think I'd die of heartache, Wouldn't you? O, I'm gird my mother loves me, Aren't you? And I'm glad that God sends women Just to find such babies there, And to love them, "stead of mothers, And to give them kindest care. 0, I'd like to help these women, Wouldn't you? ~Children's Missionary Friend, EE — THE SAD SHEPHERD. BY HENRY VAN DYKE. [Concluded from last week.] “My money and youth made me wel- come to his followers, and I spent them both freely as if they could never come to an end. I clothed myself in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day. The wine of Cyprus and the dishes of Egypt and Syria were on m table. My dwelling was crowded wi merry guests. They came for what I gave them. Their faces were hungry and their soft touch was like the cling- ing of leeches To Shem 2 was nothing but money and youth; no longer a beast b! beast of pleasure. There was nothing in it. “From the richest fare my heart went away empty, and after the wildest ban. que’ my soul fell drunk and solitary into . Then I thought power is better than pleasure. If a man will feast and revel let him do it with the great. They will favor him, and rise him up for the service that he renders them. He will obtain a place and authority in the world and gain many friends. So I joined my- self to Herod.” When the sad shepherd spoke this name his listeners drew back from him as if it were a defilement to hear it. They spat upon the ground and cursed the Idumean who called himself their king. “A slave!” Jotham cried, “a bl y tyrant and a slave from Edom! A fox, a vile beast who devours his own children! God burn him in Gehenna.” The old Zadok up a stone and threw it into the darkness, saying slowly, “I cast this stone on the grave of the Idu. mean, the blasphemer, the defiler of the Temple! God send us soon the Deliverer, the Promised One, the true King of Israel.” Ammiel made no sign, but went on with his story. “Herod used me well," he continued, “for his own purpose. He welcomed me to his palace and his table, and gave me a place among his favorites. He was so much my friend that he borrowed my money. There were many of the nobles of Jerusalem with him, ucees, and proselytes from Rome and Asia, and women from everywhere. The law of Israel was observed in the open court, when the people were watching. But in the secret feasts there was no law but the will of Herod, and many deities were served but no was worshipped. There the captains and the princes of consorted with the high priest and his song by night; and there was much coming and going by hidden ways. Every- body was a borrower or a lender, a buy- er or a seller of favors. It was a house of Sifigent There was nothing n it. “In the midst of this whirling life a great need of love came upon me and I wished to hold some one in my inmost “At a certain place in the city, within d” doors, | saw a young slave-girl dancing. She was about fifteen years old, thin and supple; she danced like a reed in the wind; but her eyes were weary as death, and her white body was marked with bruises. She stumbled, and the men la at her. She fell, and her mistress beat her. crying out that she would fain be rid of such a heavy-footed slave. | paid the price and took her to my dwelling. ds ter ol and ! | g : g 5 k g a. 3s g g § : i sf i i: 3% ; sk et gE : 3 i 2 2 £ ; 35 | ; I i : § § E : g ¢ 5 i fie ‘ | 28 g H fi i: 1] d ; i if ? | | 8g 3 i ! ; 3 Fis g ; ! Hep 5 i 3 § Fé ! : hl F FeiEe fe i ; | = Bit : : & oF & g 3 8 : i £3 gE 5 8 £ | th id if; 5® tH i Ii 3 { 5 : RF o£ ; : : g g 5 : §F 5 g E a 3 Q <Q g —- if H cd iE ! gE 7 | g 9 g iE § i ; : I F 4 gs i granate, and her dancing was like the coiling of white serpents. When the dance was ended her attendants threw a veil of gauze over her and she lay among her half covered with flowers, at the feet of the king. "Th the sound of clapping hands and shouting, two slaves led me behind the couch of Herod. Hi as they fell upon me. message of Caesar, maki it were a word that suffe his prey. He stroked his beard softly and his look fell on Tamar. ‘I Save caught it’ he murmured; ‘by all the gods, I have always caught it. And my dear son, Antipater, is coming home of his own will. I have lured him, he is mine.’ ‘ They 2 look of adnase croset Wii ace and he sprang up, with frothing lips, and struck at me. ‘What is this,’ he cried, ‘a spy, a servant of my false son, a traitor in my banquet-hall! you?’ I knelt before him, protesting that he must know me; that I was his friends, his messenger; that I had left all my goods in his hands; that the girl who had danced for him was mine. At this his face changed again and he fell back on his couch, shaken with horrible laughter, ‘Yours!’ he cried, ‘when was she yours? What is yours? I know you now, Soo madman. You are Ammiel, a crazy p- herd from Galilee, who troubled us some time since. Take him away, slaves. He has twenty sheep and twenty Jos among my flocks at the foot of the mountain. See to it that he gets them, and drive him away.’ “I fought against the slaves with my bare hands, but they held me. I called to Tamar, begged her to have pity on me, to speak for me, to come with me. She looked up with her eyes like doves be- hind her veil, but there was no knowl- edge of me in them. She smiled into the eyes of Herod, and threw a broeen rose in my face. Then the silver cord was loosened within me, and my heart went out, and I struggled no more. There was nothing in it. “Afterward I found myself on the road with this flock. I led them past Hebron into the south country, and so by the it soft, as if him to catch Vale of Eshcol, and over many hills be- yond the of n, until my feet t me to your fire. Here | rest on my way to nowhere.” He sat silent, and the four shepherds looked at him in amazement. “It is a bitter alo, said Shama, “and you are a t sinner.” A nn, not to know that.” answered the sad knowledge does me no “You must repent,” said Nathan, the youngest shepherd, in a friendly voice. “How can a man repent,” answered the sad shepherd, “unless he has hope? But I am sorry for everything, and most of AS for living.” “You must have faith in God,” said Zadok earnestly and gravely. “He is too far away.” - you must have love to your is too near. M man was like a ee rt et ee Who are | wa 8 § arms, and | slowly or swiftly he did | e slept. Nathan came rag among the sca “We have seen a vision,” he cried. “A wonderful vision of angels. Did you not hear them? They loudly of the Hope of Israel. We are going to Bethlehem to see this thing which is come to pass. you and keep watch over our we are gone.” I have seen and heard noth- Ammiel, “but I will guard your since I am in debt to So he fread oud Bn in his and tt id in arms, the weary flock straggling after him, to the south wall of the great fold again, | and sat there by the embers at the foot ' of the tower, while the others were away. The moon rested like a ball on the edge of the western hills and rolled behind them. The stars faded in the east and the fires went out on the Mountain of the Little Paradise. Over the hills of Moab a gray flood of dawn rose slowly, and arrows of red shot far up before the sunrise, The shepherds returned full of joy and told what they had seen. “It was even as the angels said unto | us.” said Shama, “and it must be true. | The King of Israel has come. The faith- ful shall be blessed.” i “Herod shall fall,” cried Jotham, lift- | ing his clenched fists toward the dark | peaked mountain. “Burn, black Idument, in the bottomless pit, where the fire is not quenched.” | Zadok spoke more quietly. “We found the new-born child of whom the angels | swaddling clothes i | 2 a i iz = Bz2¥ 3 2 g i told us wrapped in and lying in a manger. The ways of God are wonderful. His salvation comes | out of darkness, and we trust in the | promised deliverance. But you, Ammiel- | ben-Jochanan, except you believe, shall not see it. Yet since you have | kept our flocks faithfully, and because of | the joy that has come to us, I give you | this piece of silver to help you on your | . | ut Nathan came close to the sad shep- | herd and touched him on the shoulder with a friendly hand. “Go you also to | Bethlehem,” he said in a low voice, “tor it is good to see what we have seen, and we will keep your flock until you return.” “I will go,”” said Ammiel, looking into | his face, “for I think you wish me well. | But whether I shall see what you have | seen, or whether I shall return, I know | not. Farewell.” 0 shepherd, “but the | shepherds. The narrow streets of Bethlehem were | waking to the first stir of life as the sad shepherd came into the town with the Soping, and passed through them like one walking in his sleep. The court-yard of the great khan and the open rooms around it were crowded with travellers, rousing from their U's | rest and making ready for the Jays Jour. ney. In front of the stables half hollow- ed in the rock beside the inn, men were saddling their horses and their beasts of burden, and there was much noise and confusion. But beyond these, at the end of the line, there was a rock, which was of this an ass was tethered, and a man of middle stood in the doorway. The sad saluted him and his name. “Iam J ter of Naza- the carpen reth,” replied the man. “Have you also miel, nor have I any rs But I would fain ve seen.” among see what ha “ t is i 3 ; : § : { : g 3 5 . : il hi i gE : § ; : g g i Et ; : : 5 5 : g § 3 : g 1] } i g i ; iF §F sy 2F 3 8 i! gf i g i : 2 b 5 g Beg i & i k . | So the mother Mary leaned over her! little son in as if she were alone with him; and miel went out very Soratly Joseph was waiting outside the " “How was it that you did not see the angels?” he asked. re you not with come from?” “From very far away,” replied Ammiel; aa a country’ that you have never vis- ti " “Where are you going?” asked J “I am going home,” answered Amm “to my mother’s and my father's house | in Gallilee. Itis a long journey. Will you not wish me a safe home-coming?” “Go in peace, friend,” said Joseph. And the sad shepherd took up his bat- tered staff, and went on his way rejoic- ing.—In Scribner's Magazine. FROM INDIA. By One on Medical Duty in that Far Eastern Country. Beautiful Mornings Here. Why Mis- sionaries Come and Leave in the Fall. Primi- tive Hay Making. Water Buffaloes Extraordi- nary Milkers. JHANSI, OCTOBER ./th. Dear Home Folk: I got up just before the sun this morning for it was making the entire world look like a great ball of flame and the trees and grass took on such a curi- ous red gleam that happening to catch a glimpse between my half open eyeiids, I opened them wide to see the beauty of it | all. Remembrance came; it was Sunday, and I wanted to go to eight o'clock ser- vice. The church is a good half hour's walk away from the house and as I like to walk must stir around rather early in order that I may see my patients and do what is to be done at the hospital and still have plenty of time to take that walk without too much hurrying. Can you imagine me walking along the broad highway, a large broad-brimmed white “topae” on my head and carrying a small yellow sunshade lined with green. I strolled along, watching the natives and enjoying the refreshing morning air and the scenery; I find that for true country scenery effects the only really beantiful time in this land of glare, is in the early morning, very little this beautiful, pitiless sun- shine. The services were short and by ten | o'clock I was on my way home. I took | you the native path across the jungle for the ! dew had all dried up and there was noth- ing to disturb my thoughts except the cows and from the look of these Indian- bred cows, I think they must be the first cousin of the ones down in Texas, and as they do not hesitate to use their self- same horns, I gave them a wide berth and the consequence was I got my stock- ings and skin full of “spear grass"—It is well named. When I got onto the road I stopped to pick out spears, and with much pleasure and a little discomfort I got home, and enjoyed my breakfast. One of the women here, Miss Morri- son, from up in Canada, will leave the first of November for home. Her time is over and although not expecting to go until next March, she has had word that her sister is quite ill and she is hurrying to get home early. She has been here | for six years and goodness, how she will mind this cold winter in Canada. I am told that is the reason the missionary rarely leaves here before spring and vice versa, never comes out in the spring if either can be avoided; the climatic changes are too great. I am so sorry you did not get the sixth doily as I wanted you to have the half dozen, but as they are rather scarce in this section I will have to wait until later when I want to go out on a wee jaunt and then hope to pick up others that will be pretty and that will show you the va. rious work of different peoples here, for I am told one who knows the country can readily tell where each bit of work, whether brass, silver or thread work is . | made, by the kind of design or the fine- ness of the pattern. For the past few weeks Miss McCuen, the teacher here, has been deeply inter- ested in selling the grass that grew on these rocks and sands, (and let me whis- per, you wouldn't give a hurrah for the whole lot.) Finally she was able to get twelve rupees, which means four dollars, that is as it stands, they to do the cut- ting, etc. The harvesters arrived—all women and girls. I walked up one morn- ing through the garden to see them and such a laughing, chatte ing crowd, all with short scythes and squatting on the ground they were catching the grass by the handfull and cutting it off with these absurd instruments. There was no or- der or judgment in their mode of work- ing, they were simply cutting in patches. They would then take some of the long- er grass and rolling it between their palms make a sort of cord, and with this they tied the grass into bundles. Later I saw the ox-cart (two-wheeled) with the oxen, taken out (since they have only a yoke across the neck and ropes through the nose this is no trouble) and being loaded. It was like a hay-field at home, but on a very limited scale; one man was carrying these bundles in his two hands and he never tock more than one to each hand, anda three-year-old child could easily have carried both; but this man is paid by the day. Another man was on the cart building the load, just as I have seen them build a load of grain, but in this case only a toy load, as com- pared with those at home. I was glad to see them at near range; their methods are exactly the same as ours at home, only on such a small scale. I am glad | while the trees can soften a| the grass is cut for now I can see wheth- er a big snake is coming my way; there don’t seem to be many of them, true, but yet scarcely a day goes by without one being killed about here. I was down at the hospital the other night and came up without a lantern and was told that I had scarcely gone past a place when two na- tives came along and killed a big black- snake. Although the girls told me I had almost stepped on it, I decided that where ignorance was bliss it was folly to be wise. ” Today the nurses are very much ex- cited over a thief having gotten into their “compound” and stolen all their ed- ibles and this morning they went on du. ty without food; a procedure which I think foolish, but they don't seem to know any better, Just how such a thing brick wall with glass set into the ce- ment, and the gates are large iron affairs, locked by the matron after the last nurse comes into the “compound.” And I tell you itis a nuisance for she is hard to waken, and when one is in a hurry for a nurse during the night it is trying to have to wait until that gate is unlocked. I just happened to look up, as I am sit- ting on the porch and it is evening, and the sight that greeted my eyes was a dozen or more of those water-buffalos; ugly, curious looking creatures with their back-growing horns, traveling slowly but patiently homeward. I thought of the last time I had seen some at home; it and here I am learning that they will give not only as much milk as two cows, but it will be almost twice as rich as any cow's milk can be, and then they are ab- solutely harmles and that isa blessing in this land where there are no sticks or men to drive them away when impudent beasts become too familiar. You see I put men and sticks in the same class and although this is by no means an Adam- less Eden, I cannot change the remark for all here, so far, are in the same dry, uninteresting class. (Continued next week.) The Expositisn Will be Ready on Time. SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, Nov. 20th.—A vember by the officials of the San Diego progress of work on the Exposition grounds that the Exposition was more { than one-half completed, and that the | Division of Works was six weeks in ad- vance of its schedule. The promise had { been made by these officials, more than | one year ago, that the Exposition build- | | ings and grounds would be entirely com- | plete by the first day of August, 1914, five months in advance of the opening day. January 1, 1915. time, officials of the San Diego Exposi- | tion are confident that this promise will not only be kept, but that six months, instead of five, as originally intended, will be afforded for additional adornment of grounds and avenues, and the cleaning up process necessary after the comple- tion of the huge Exposition structures. They feel safe in asserting, also, that no | other Exposition was so far advanced a year and two months ahead of its open- ly eighty per cent. of the contemplated work on the grounds of the Exposition was done. Eight of the twelve main ex- hibit buildings were nearing completion, and foundations for all of the others were laid. Work on the buildings and spectacular features along the Isthmus, the amusement concession street of the Exposition, was well under way, some of States of the United States were begun. Indications now are that nothing can prevent the San Diego Exposition from being ready on time. Panama Waterway. According to advices from Washing- ton, James C. Courts. clerk of the house appropriations committee. after consultation with Colonel George W. Goethals, has reached the conclusion that the completion of the Panama ca- nal will require an additional appro- priation of $30,394.000. This amount will be expended largely on the canal terminals, Concreted coal pockets for storing bituminous coal, machine shops and a drydock are to be constructed on the Pacific end of the canal, While the committee is In Panama it will hold hearings on the estimates submitted for completion—the odds and ends of a project which has cost approximately £339.000.000 to date. EE ————— Flying motorcycle will be the next development in aviation, says Glenr Curtiss. Wild man captured in the Missouri woods wore a hollow wooden leg ir which he carried bees. Baby which fell forty feet from a hotel window in Middletown, N. Y. was saved by a lager beer sign. Owners of live stock are prohibited from running-at large in a Tennessee county because of an error in engross- ing a bill, Mortagage 2,348 years old given or an orchard in Babylon is being used as a model for an Illinois Central $120, 000,000 mortgage. could happen is beyond me since the ; nurses’ home is surrounded by a high | was in Barnum & Bailey's circus and | they were parading down Bedford street. | I scarcely knew what they were good for | statement issued on the first day of No- them Exposition informs those interested in the ; With six weeks leeway at the present | the largest industrial and commercial ex- has hibits are being installed, and the build- | ings of foreign countries and the various This Sum Is Needed to Complete the | and FOR AND UT WoO i s— DAILY THOUGHT, | But hushed be every thought that springs i The Chicago 7ribune prints a series of letters from readers on. “How to Earn ; Money During Spare Time.” Some of appended. the letters are aunt who earns money at ‘ I have an home by and ng dresses for schoolgirls. This is quite a : saving to parentsywho may have two or ; more daughters of different ages, as the ‘ younger sisters may use the dresses of | the sister by a little altering. She will shorten or lengthen dresses by narrowing the hem or facing. She sometimes has to make other alterations al She charges from 15 to 50 cents for each dress, according to the amount of work it requires. It takes only about two hours’ there oe —— I have a friend who makes a surpris- ing amount of “pin money” making pen- nants. She not only keeps in stock t bearing the names of her city and nea suburbs, high schools makes to order all sorts of society, fra. | ternity : nd club pennants. This is plezs- ant work and not at all difficuit. ! A girl who is handy with the needle is making a tidy sum by taking orders for doily holders for holiday gifts. The set consists of three holders easily made b cutting the foundations from cardboar using a dinner plate, a salad plate, and a size, The inner sideof the card- board is lined with plain pink sateen, + while dainty pink cretonne is used for the : top, the two being neatly joined around Pink ribbons are then stitched to the lower circle, the upper circle laid on, and the ribbons tied, making a useful and attractive gift, I think one could earn a neat little sum by Y purchasing a fluting iron, which costs little, and charging a small amount for fluting the ruchings that just now. They are not have been laundered, and discarded. If one could have they would be like new, thus being a saving to the wearer and an income to the one who does the work. Soon the merchants will be decorating their display windows for the holidays, and for this purpose paper chrysan mums will be in demand. This is how to make them: Fold a piece of tissue paper into a square sevenand one-half inches in diam- eter, fold on the diagonal, then fold again, edge to edge, and cut off the triangle resulting, which makes the square a round to shape the chrysan- um Now cut in small strips, from edge to about one-half inch from center, and when ed up it should have 24 petals. Each one of these must be curled by placing on a cushion, a hat pin; roll from end to center. Six leaves must be prepared in this way, and then mmed around a val place of $tinged tissue, wired and joined to a long e of copper wire, Which is to be the stem. ut a square from green tissue a little smaller than flower Pope t on last as a finish. Green leaf should curled and cut like flower petals, Cover wire stem with green tissue paper. A friend of mine av $6 a week making hats for friends. She is essen- ' tially tasty, has a family of four men, but finds leisure to “shop” with her friends. They select or rather decide on a model at a milliner's. Then they buy the nec- essary material for duplicating it. After all material is secured this woman makes ‘ the hat for $3, which is, of course, all profit. As she is artistic, her duplicates are always satisfactory, and the cost to Ror usiumers Bot halt of the model uplica ng season she has made six hats in one week. Nearly al the States allow women to w. ing time as is the San Diego Exposition. ' practi At the time of this announcement ful- | ce Germany has nearly a million more women than men. | A women’s law college will soon be opened in St. Louis. i Ei has more than 5,000,000 wom- en : Industiilly employed. u widows are exposed to contem | and ill-treatment. # + The popular belief that the field of in- dustrial activities in Mexico is closed to her sex is disa by Miss Eleana Davalos, who, in spite of the turbulent condition that Is all over Mexico, promoti i Knives are placed at the right with the , cutting edges turned towar the plate, forks at the left with the tines of forks bowls turned up. etc., th : i of £ o 25 8 £8 g 8 8 5E ; L | : 5 : 338% g% § g i | i 3 g 3 22 : i 08 E 3 $ TE sd i Ir g : : # aa
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