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Belletonte, Pa., November 12, 1915.
A DAILY CREED.
. Let me be a little kinder,
Let me be a little blinder,
To the faults of those about me;
Let me praise a little more;
Let me be whem I am weary,
Just a little bit more cheery
Let me serve a little better
Those that I am striving for.
Let me be a little braver
When temptation bids me waver;
Let me strive a little harder
To be all that I should be.
Let me be a little meeker
With the brother that is weaker;
Let me think more of my neighbor
And a little less of me.
‘Let me be a little sweeter,
Make my life a bit completer,
By doing what I should do
Every minute of the day;
Let me toil without complaining,
Not a humble task disdaining;
Let me face the summons calmly
When death beckons me away.
A LECTURE ON CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.
Member of the Board of Lectureship of the Mother
Church, the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in
Boston, Mass.
Clarence C. Eaton, of Tacoma, Wash-
ington, a member of the board of lec-
tureship of the Mother church, the First
church of Christ, Scientist,” in Boston,
Mass., delivered a lecture on Christian
Science in the court house Thursday
evening, November 11th. Mr. William
H. Locke, a student of Pennsylvania
State College, introduced the speaker as
follows:
We are gathered this evening to listen
to a lecture on Christian Science. Now
Christian Science does not claim to be a
new religion, but to be the religion of
the first centuries of the Christian era,
based upon the principles of Jesus’ teach-
ing. It shows how and why Christ and
his followers healed the sick as well as
the sinner. Healing of the sick, how.
ever, is only one of the fundimentals of
Christian Science. Through it we have
the proof that Christian Science is a
practical, demonstrable truth.
Many erroneous ideas in regard to its
doctrines have arisen and the purpose of
these lectures is to correct these mis-
taken opinions, not to win adherents
from other denominations. It is the
policy of Christian Scientists not to urge
anyone to become a member of their
church. They believe that works should
testify rather than words. These lec-
tures are given under the auspices of the
board of lectureship of the First church,
Christ, Scientist, of Boston, and the gen-
tleman who will address you is a mem-
ber of that board. Mr. Eaton spoke as
follows: .
Inasmuch as the successful demon-
stration of Christian Science involves the
rejection of the material or false stand-
ard of man, and the acceptance of the
spiritual and true standard, the import-
ance of becoming more familiar with this
question must be apparent at a glance.
Indeed, Mrs. Eddy has well said that it
was the correct view of man which re-
sulted in healing the sick in Jesus’ day.
The contention of Christian Science as
to the verity, perfection, and spiritual
nature of the universe, including the real
and only man there is, is based wholly
upon the Scriptures, and its claims in
this respect are readily conceded when
rightly comprehended.
Two separate and widely differing ac-
counts of creation are found in the Bible,
the contradictory and conflicting texts of
which appear to have escaped the atten-
tion of many students. Moreover, the
true nature and character of Deity is
erroneously involved in this history, be-
cause of a change by. the historian of the
name of the Supreme Being from God to
that of Lord God. Were it_not for the
original meaning of these terms, this
change might appear of trivial moment
to the student of Scripture. However, it
was of sufficient importance to attract
the attention of Josephus, the celebrated
Jewish historian, who refers to it in his
history of the Hebrew nation. Moreover,
it is of special significance to us, since
the change seems to call into question
the integrity of God, the creator of man,
by confusing Him with the Lord God,
who, one of these records states, is the
supposed creator of Adam.
SPIRITUAL VERSUS MATERIAL MAN.
It should be thoroughly understood '
that the Scriptures plainly indicate that
a distinction exists and is to be made be-
tween man as the offspring of God, and
Adam, who has long been referred to as
our first parent. That man and Adam
bear no relation to each other, and
should not be confused, is very apparent.
Inasmuch as the Bible history does not
confuse them, we certainly are without
authority for so doing. In this connec-
tion the honest investigator will find that
Christian Science sustains and proves
true. to the text the purest teaching of
the Scriptures relative to God and the
significance of His being and creation.
It points out the error of the practice of
confounding the term God (Elohim),
or Spirit, with that of Lord God (Jehovah-
Elohim), or even Lord. It holds with
the very best authority that these terms,
with their varying shades of meaning,
are not synonymous.
The practice of Christian Science has
demonstrated that the false material
laws which by common belief and con-
sent operate through fear, ignorance,
and superstition to incapacitate mortals
and cause invalidism, are rendered null
and void by the higher law of Mind. The
individual knowledge of this, and its ap-
plication, naturally effects the eradication
of the discordant conditions which may
be held in thought or externalized on the
y.
There is nothing mysterious or mi-
raculous about the modus operandi of
Christian Science healing, since an in-
finite and irrevocable law provides for
reconstruction, readjustment, restora-
tion, recovery, or redemption, in accord-
ance with the supreme wisdom and
Dower of the Principle which established
the law.
CO
ness, and which result in the healing of
the sick according to the practice of
Christian Science, are in no sense due to
the use of hypnotism or suggestive ther-
apeutics. The domination of a submissive
mentality or consciousness by an impera-
tive one, is recognized as a dangerous
practice, the bulk of the results there-
from being evil rather than good. More-
over the practice is unchristian, because
contrary to the teaching of Jesus, who
denounced and repudiated such methods.
The exercise of the human will as evi-
denced in one human or mortal mind
dominating another, was characterized
by the Master as the equivalent of cast-
ing out devils by the prince of devils.
IMPORTANCE OF RIGHT THINKING.
The simplicity of the mode of healing
wrought through spiritual means, is fully
appreciated when one realizes that wrong
thought is responsible for the appearance
of disease. Jesus regarded evil thinking
as the source of all disorders. He indi-
cates in words which appear in two of
the gospels—Matthew and Mark—that
the defilement or contamination of the
body was due to “evil thoughts,” or the
habit of wrong thinking. He thus taught
that an exceedingly close intimacy exists
between consciousness and its lower sub-
stratum,—the body or embodiment. We
might designate their relationship under
normal conditions as that of master and
servant. Following the teaching of
Christian Science, and by educating con-
sciousness in the way of righteousness
and peace, many thousands have found,
to their great astonishment and joy, that
it is possible to obtain an improved men-
tality or consciousness, and this in turn
exerts a corrective influence over the
body. This experience has repeatedly
operated advantageously to one’s 1e-
covery from discords, which seemed to
appear wherever and whenever the nor-
mal relationship of consciousness and
body—that of servant and master—was
not well defined or understood.
The varied experiences of humanity
abundantly prove that turbulent or ex-
treme mental conditions have caused
pain and disease in accordance with ex-
isting mortal laws. The so-called mortal
or material man seems to be the one
who is especially subject to these exper-
iences. To rescue all who believe in this
standard of man, and who suffer the bit-
ter consequences of such belief, was the
chief mission of Christ Jesus 1900 years
ago, and this is the exact mission of
Christian Science today. :
MRS. EDDY’S DISCOVERY.
That there is a divine law operating in
the affairs of men to accomplish healing
and salvation through spiritual under-
standing today, is the revelation of
Christian Science to the world. If, as
the Master and his disciples proved, a
law existed and operated to effect heal-
ing and redemption in their time, it
surely exists and is operative now. Mrs.
Eddy has again and again in her writ-
ings illustrated the simple manner of ac-
complishing the healing of the body
through mental processes. An instance
in point is found on page 428 of Science
and Health, which reads as follows: “We
must realize the ability of mental might
to offset human misconceptions and to
replace them with the life which is spiri-
tual, not material.” And again on page
393 we have the emphatic declarations:
“Take possession of your body, and
govern its feeling and action. Rise in
the strength of Spirit to resist all that is
unlike good. God has made man capable
of this, and nothing. can vitiate the abili-
ty and power divinely bestowed on man.
Be firm in your understanding that the
divine Mind governs, and that in Science
man reflects God’s government.”
Here Mrs. Eddy gives emphasis to the
teaching and practice of Christ Jesus,and
urges us to extend the range of the in-
fluence of thought or consciousness be-
yond the mere point of directing the
movement of the body, even to the
bounds of governing its sensations and
casting out its infirmities and protecting
it against their recurrence. We are also
urged to cultivate the habit of contra-
dicting the errors of sense, and to oppose
their suggestions with much firmness
and constancy of thought. We are as-
sured that habitually to maintain the
attitude of denying the presence and
power of evil and all that seems to
threaten our peace, harmony, and pros-
perity, is our divine right.
In pursuing a right course in our work
of overcoming the errors and discordant
experiences which beset us, we find that
prayer is a most effectual aid. True
prayer is the inseparable companion of
every effort which culminates in the
healing of mortals. To pray aright means
to pray intelligently and conscientiously.
Prayer must be based upon spiritual un-
derstanding. We may with reason and
in all righteousness assume that God has
anticipated all of man’s needs. Jesus
gave this assurance in his teaching, for
he said, “Your Father knoweth that ye
have need of these things.” Then to ask
God for what He has already provided,
or to expect favors the granting of which
would require a change in the infinite
plans, would be indicative of doubt and
distrust. This would be asking amiss,
and would preclude an answer. Readers
and students of the text-book of Christian
Science have found that the chapter on
Prayer therein contains some of the most
helpful and inspiring throughts and in-
structions it has ever been their privilege
to consider.
When founding this great movement,
Mrs. Eddy made known the teaching and
practice of Christian Science by publish-
ing the text-book, “Science and Health
with Key to the Scriptures.” The relig-
ious and metaphysical teaching therein
embodied is founded upon the Scriptures,
: and particularly the words and doctrines
uttered and promulgated by Jesus of
Nazareth. In this book, and in her other
writings, Mrs. Eddy has given special
emphasis to the fact of the reality of
| spiritual life and being. She has quick-
| ened the interest of mankind in Scriptural
| history and teaching, and has given a
| new significance to the so-called healing
| miracles of Jesus’ time. She characterizes
them as divinely natural manifestations,
produced by the operation of the Prin-
ciple of the Science of being, according
to well-defined law. In proving her con-
tentions, Mrs. Eddy has restored to the
service of mankind the practice of heal-
ing bodily infirmities entirely through
spiritual means.
The text-book referred to was first
published in 1875. Successively, and as
the needs have since required, there have
appeared, under Mrs. Eddy’s direction,
periodicals which are now being publish-
ed monthly, weekly, and even daily.
These publications contain instructive
writings in amplification of the teaching
and practice of this Science, and except
the daily newspaper give authentic in-
stances of healing which have occurred
and are occurring from day to day as a
The changes wrought in conscious- |
result of the observance and application
of the doctrines of Christian Science.
They are also providing information rela-
tive to the growth and progress of the
cause, as well as legitimate news and
world events of moment and interest,
and valuable comments thereon.
The Boyhood of Andrew Jackson.
Andrew Jackson was the first of our
Presidents of the United States of hum-
! ble origin and the first who knew the
limitations of small means in his home.
His parents were Irish with something
of the Scotch in their ancestry. They
came to our country from the North of
Ireland in the year 1765 and located in
South Carolina. They were very poor.
The only capital of the Irish emigrant
was his hands and a willingness to work.
He finally located with his little family,
in the wilderness on a little stream of
water called the Waxhaw Creek. Here
they lived in a little log cabin on the
boundary line between South and North
Carolina. They had few neighbors and
those they had were as poor as them-
selves. Life was primitive in the rural
Coroelinas in those days. When the Jack-
sons had finally succeeded in clearing
the land and raising one crop there
came to the young wife and mother the
searching sorrow of the death of her hus-
band in their wilderness’ home. The
body of Mr. Jackson was buried in a
field, no one knows just where. His wid-
ow was left penniless. Soon after the
death of her husband, on the fifteenth of
March, in the year 1767, her boy An-
drew was born in the home of a sister of
his mother to which Mrs. Jackson had
gone after the death of her husband.
Fortunately for Mrs. Jackson her rela-
tives were willing to share with her such
homes as they had. One of her broth-
ers-in-law offered to provide for her eld-
est child and another brother-in-law took
Mrs. Jackson and her two younger chil-
dren into his home, his wife being an in-
valid and there being the opportunity for
Mrs. Jackson to take her place in the
home. Mrs. Jackson and her two chil-
dren remained in this home until the boy
Andrew was ten years of age.
The boy Andrew does not appear to
have been a model boy. No doubt he
had a much better time being a boy of
some other kind, for the standard set for
the model boy of those days was one
that had something of the element of
priggishness in it. One historian gives
us this somewhat unflattering account of
Andrew:
“Andrew, or Andy as he was univer-
sally called, grew up to be a very rough,
rude, turbulent boy. His features were
coarse, his form ungainly; and there was
very little in his character, made visible,
which was attractive. A companion said
of him, ‘Andy is the only bully I ever
knew who was not a coward.’ ”
His widowed mother must have cher-
ished some illusions in regard to her son,
for she, being a strong Presbyterian her-
self, was eager to have young Andrew
educated for the ministry, a calling for
which he seems to have been poorly fit-
ted by nature. The educational oppor-
tunities were exceedingly limited. What
passed for a school near the unpromis-
ing young Andrew’s home was buta rude
log cabin to which came some ot the
boys and girls to receive the rudiments
of an education from teachers who, in
some instances, had not themselves got-
ten beyond the rudimentary stage in
their own education. So it was that An-
drew Jackson came up to the years of
his manhood with but a meager educa-
tion. The same historian who has told
us what he was as a young lad gives us
this account of him at a little later per-
iod:
“He grew up to be a tall, lank boy,
with coarse hair and freckled cheeks,
with bare feet dangling from trousers
too short for him, very tond of athletic
sports, running, wrestling and boxing.
He was generous to the younger and
weaker boys,but very irrascible and over-
bearing with his equals and superiors.”
When we read that this young limb
was shockingly profane we may remem-
ber that profanity was perhaps more
common then than now, although we
could well spare a lot of it which afflicts
the present age. In many respects young
Andy Jackson appears to have been what
the Irishman called a “real bye.”
This hustling boy was nine years old
when the stirring times following the
Declaration of Independence gave zest
to his life. His Irish blood was up and
when desolation came to the cabins of
the Waxhaw because of the War of the
Revolution young Andy Jackson regret-
ted that he was toc young to shoulder a
flintlock and join the troops fighting for
independence. When the old log meet-
ing house to which the settlers had gone
was used as a hospital for the sick and
wounded soldiers the Widow Jackson
nursed them as best she could and her
two boys made themselves useful in
many ways. In August of the year 1780,
Mrs. Jackson and her boys were - obliged
to join the other settlers who fled before
the invading army of Cornwallis. An-
drew began to work for his board in
Charlotte, North Carolina. At the end
of six months he returned to his old
home with his mother. He was now
fourteen years old and full of fight. The
warfare between the Whigs and Tories
waged sharply and in one encounter the
boy of fourteen was taken prisoner by
Cornwallis.
Something of his spirit may be known
from the fact that when a British officer
ordered young Andy to polish his boots
the undaunted youngster drew himself
up and said boldly:
“I am a prisoner of war, and not your
servant.”
To his dying day Andrew Jackson car-
ried the scars the brutal officer inflicted
with his sword because the boy would
not obey his command.— American Boy.
A Knitting School in Sicily.
“All the children here can knit,” says
a letter from Sicily. “They learn at
from four to six years old, and at six
every child can and does knit her own
stockings. The poor children are taught
by their mothers, but those who have a
few pence a week to spare send their
children to a knitting school. There is
one herg in Taormina. We visited it the
other day and found fourteen little girls
sitting in a stone room, the light coming
only from the arched entrance. There
was a charcoal fire on the flagged floor
and two or three old women were look-
ing after the children.
“We took some chocolate for the chil-
dren and each child clutched readily at
the offering and smiled her thanks, but
the chocolate was put on the lap, to be
eaten by and by, for the knitting must
not be interrupted for a second.” —Chris-
tian Intelli;
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List of Jurors Drawn for December Term
of Court.
GRAND JURORS.
Simon Harpster, 1aborer......ccccoccosnnseassnsonnes
Calvin Corl, farmer..........
Hamer Sankey, clerk...
W, W. Bramen, chemist..
M. G. Walker, farmer....
J.C. Harris, farmer..........
W. B. Henderson, laborer...
Geo. B. Winters, farmer.....
E. H. Leathers, mechanic...
Henry Wingard, laborer...
Orvis Lee, laborer.........
Wilbur Miles, clerk......
John Q: Miles, retired...
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William Slee, insurance agent
A. B. Tanyer, carpenter..........
John McDonald, laborer.....
Paul A. Brown, operator....
P. E. Grenoble, plumber .....
J. L. Mattern, farmer ......
Clarence Lucas, laborer..
Edgar Gentzell, laborer...
John A. Kelley, barber............... Snow Shoe Boro
TRAVERSE JURORS—DEC. 6th.
Geo. Fravel, collector............ .....Snow Shoe Boro
Chas. Kuhn, cigar maker......c............. Philipsburg
W.V, Schenck, clerk.................... Howard Boro
0. C. Harvey, baker...
Samuel E. Troy, clerk...
L. R. Smith, farmer.....
W. E. Boob, farmer ........
J. W. Hartsock, farmer...
L. R. Lingle, farmer.........
William Conser, agent...........ceu....
S. T. Miller, farmer.. ...
Sol. Poorman, laborer.....
W. P. Hosterman, laborer...
J. Orvis Peters, farmer
Philip Freeze, miner...... ....Snow Shoe Twp
Clifton Meek, clerk.......... ....Snow Shoe Twp
James W, Swabb, farmer........
J. C. Crow, farmer....
M. S. Vonada, laborer......
George Gentzell, gentleman.
..... Philipsburg
State College
seeseseeenee. PALEON
.Snow Shoe Twp
W. P. Lingle, laborer............ ......Gregg
John Beals, merchant........ Philipsburg
Howard Wells, carpenter .................ccoeeuned Spring
Wilbur Burkholder, agent.................... Bellefonte
Claude Gette, clerk... .....Philipsburg
John Mellen, butcher.... .....Philipsburg
George Ishler, butcher. ...een. Potter
Frank Fields, laborer... . Patton
Samuel Wayne, miner......
Albert Stover, carpenter..
Harry Bower, farmer........
Lawrence Williams, engineer.
Chas, Pifer, laborer.......cc.cevee.
Z.W. Hoy, farmer...
John Hoy, laborer.........
Jerome Confer, laborer.
N. E. Robb, clerk..........
J. B. Ralsto, laborer......
Abednego Laird, farmer......
John W. Reifsnyder, miller.
David Rimmey, laborer.......cccecuersurmne ....... Spring
«..Rush
Liberty
....State College
..State College
Geo. Harrish, miner.....
J. B. Rockey, farmer.....
Johnson Warner, farmer......
Jas. L. Kerstetter, gentleman.
J. W. Silvas, farmer................
Doyle H. Foy, laborer..
W. R. Schenck, farmer.................... ettaeses Liberty
TRAVERSE JURORS—DEC. 13th.
Jesse Shaffer, laborer.... .
Elwood Steele, farmer..
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E. W. Motz, 1aborer................ciciiiinis Haines :
W. C. From, clerk...... State College |
1. A. Way, 1armer......oonieiin ss iii Union '
J.'W. Stine, burgess...... ....Philipsburg
Ghas. C. Daley, farmer. iaceeranes. Union
S.H. Lohr, farmer........ ...Snow Shoe Twp
CW. Swartz, merchant................i0iin main. Potter
John Kimport, farmer........ oa
James M. Moyer, inn keeper..
Wm. Kehoe, carpenter..................cccecvveeemnen. Rush
L. D. Orndorf, merchant.........cou.............. Haines
And. Tobias, butcher..... Snow Shoe Twp
Joseph Bitner, farmer....... .une...Gregg
Michael Hefferon, miner.
Chas. Zindel, shoemaker...
D. 8, Wert, farmer......................nr.eenc i Haines
Michael Spicher, gentleman... ....Spring |
Joseph Brugger, farmer......... ..Unionville |
W. J. Carlin, merchant............. ...Miles
Lawrence Nugent, merchant...
Mark Williams, clerk ......
M. C. Walk, farmer .... .....
Wm. McGowan, moulder.
D. F. Houser, farmer........
D. W. Musser, farmer............ .es
H. E. Truckenmiller, farmer........cen......... Spring
Harry Sayers, miner......
John C. Martin, clerk........
H.]. Tibbens, gentleman.
C. W. Hartman, moulder...
Clyde Jodon, merchant....
Levi Simmons, laborer.
D. L. Pearce, clerk.........
Chas. Miller, farmer.....
Chas. Wetzel, carpenter ..
Joseph Rachau, laborer...
Augustus Armor, farmer..
Joseph Kirk, carpenter......
Bellefonte
State College
adevss Philipsburg
Feeding the Hen for Eggs.
In choosing a ration for the laying hen
sider. Such a ration should be econom-
ical, appetizing and nutritious and it
should contain a variety of feeds.
The ration used in feeding laying hens
at The Pennsylvania State College School
of Agriculiure and Experiment Station is
as follows:
Grain Feed
Cracked corn 60 pounds
Wheat 60 pounds
Oats 30 pounds
Dry mash
Corn-meal 200 pounds
Bran 100 pounds
Wheat middlings 100 pounds
Beef scrap 10C pounds
The grain feed is fed night and morn-
ing, a lighter allowance being fed in the
morning than in the evening. The plan
followed at the Pennsylvania Station is
to feed approximately twice as much
whole grain as mash grain. The mash
is fed in hoppers, which for light breeds
may be left open all day but for heavier
breeds should be accessible only part of
the day. Some grit in the form of oyster
shell or ground limestone and some green
food such as cabbage, mangel-wurzels,
sprouted oats, potato parings or ground
green bone should be provided, in addi-
tion to the ration given above.
Incomes of Over One Million Dollars.
Forty-four Americans have incomes of
over one million dollars. This interesting
fact is learned from the official income
tax statements of the Treasury Depart:
ment of the United States. There are
ninety-one of our fellow citizens with in-
comes of more than $500,000 but less
than a million, and there are nearly one
thousand whose incomes are between
$75,000 and $100,000. It is learned from
authentic sources that many persons
popularly supposed to have very large in-
comes are in fact very small tax payers;
while many others not suspected of be-
ing millionaires return incomes which
show that they are much wealthier than
the public supposes.
The Central Pennsylania Debating
League.
Object: To encourage public speaking
in city and county schools by competi-
tive debating contests.
Plan: To hold informal preliminary
debates on any question in every high,
grammar and rural school in every coun-
ty before a given date; the teams thus
selected to meet in each county and
debate with each other on a common
question; the winning county teams thus
selected to debate at the district city;
and the winning teams in the four dis-
tricts to meet in final debate at The
Pennsylvania State College to select the
champion of the league. :
Cooperating Agencies: Chambers of
Commerce of Altoona, Harrisburg, Hunt-
ingdon, Lock Haven, Lancaster, and
Williamsport; the city and county super-
intendents of eighteen counties; the
State Department of Public Instruction;
and The Pennsylvania State College.
Districts: Altoona to be the district
city for the following counties: Blair,
Bedford, Clearfield, and Center; Wil-
liamsport—Cameron, Clinton, Lycoming,
Tioga, and Union; Huntingdon—Hunt-
ingdon, Juniata, and Mifflin; Harrisburg
—Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancas-
ter, Northumberland, and York.
Times of Debates: All contests in units
less than a county (preliminary) to be
held before the last Friday in February.
All county contests to be held prior to
the last Friday in March; the district
contests to be held before the last Friday
in April; and the final contest at State
College before the last Friday in May.
Questions for Debate: The debates in
units less than a county (preliminary)
may be on a topic selected by the city
and county superintendents of the re-
spective counties. The question for the
county, district and final debate, shall be
uniform and shall be selected annually
by the officers in the league.
Arrangements: Selection of Judges,
offering of prizes, and other arrange-
ments for the preliminary and county
debates are to be in the hands the city
and county superintendents; for the dis-
trict debate under control of the several
boards of trade; and for the final debate
under care of The Pennsylvania State
College. No prize shall be offered repre-
senting a value of over Five Dollars.
Expenses: Expense of holding the dis-
trict debates, including transportation
and entertainment of teams, shall be ar-
ranged by Chambers of Commerce of the
four district cities; of the final debate by
The Pennsylvania State College.
Question for the county, district and
final debates will be announced by the
officers of the league early in November.
Questions for the preliminary debates
should be set at once by county and
city superintendents for their schools.
: The debate to determine the county
: team must be held on or before Friday,
{ March 31, 1915.
Books and pamphlets on the questions
i to be debated will be loaned free of cost
| by the State Library Commission, Har-
risburg, Pa. Inquiries concerning the
league or any details of the debates will
be cheerfully answered by the Secretary.
President: F. W. Robbins, Supt. Public
Schools, Williamsport, Pa. Secretary: J.
T. Marshman, Prof. Public Speaking,
State College, Pa. Member of Ex. Com.,
T. S. Davis, Supt. County Schools, Al-
toona, Pa.
Wilson Sets Day for Peace Thanks.
“It has long been the honored custom
of our people to turn in the fruitful Au-
tumn of the year in praise and thanks-
giving to Almighty God for his many
blessings and mercies to us as a nation.
The year that is now drawing to a close
since we last observed our day of nation-
al Thanksgiving has been, while a year
. of discipline because of the mighty forces
of war and of charges which have dis-
| turbed the world, also a year of special
. blessing for us.
“Another year of peace has been vouch-
' safed us; another year in which not only
to take thought of our duty to ourselves
and to mankind, but also to adjust our-
selves and to many responsibilities thrust
upon us by a war which has involved
almost the whole of Europe. We have
been able to assert our rights and the
rights of mankind without breach of
friendship with the great nations with
whom we have had to deal, and while we
have asserted rights, we have been able
also to perform duties and exercise privi-
leges of succor and helpfulness which
should serve to demonstrate our desire
to make the offices of friendship the
means of truly disinterested and unselfish
service. :
“Our ability to serve all who could
avail themselves of our services in the
midst of crisis has been increased by a
gracious Providence by more and more
abundant crops; our ample financial re-
sources have enabled us to steady the
markets of the world and facilitate nec-
essary movement of commerce which the
war might otherwise have rendered im-
possible, and our people have come more
and more to a sober realization of the
part they have been called upon to play
in a time when all the world is shaken
by unparalleled distresses and disasters.
“The extraordinary circumstances of
such a time have done much to quicken
our national consciousness and deepen
and confirm our confidences in the prin-
ciples of peace and freedom by which we
have always sought to be guided. Out of
darkness and perplexities have come
firmer counsels of policy and clearer per-
ceptions of the essential welfare of the
nation. We have prospered while other
peoples were at war, but our prosperity
has been vouchsafed us, we believe only
that we might the better perform the
functions which war rendered it impossi-
ble for them to perforni.
“Now, therefor, I, Woodrow Wilson,
President of the United States of Amer-
ica, do hereby ' designate Thursday, the
twenty-fifth of November next, as a day
of Thanksgiving and prayer, and invite
the people throughout the land to cease
from their wonted occupations and in
their several homes and places of wor-
ship render thanks to Almighty God.
“In witness whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and caused the Seal of the
United States to be affixed.
“Done at the City of Washington this
twentieth day of October, in the year of
Our Lord, one thousand nine hundred
and fifteen, and of the Independence of
the United States of America the one
hundred and fortieth. -
“By the President,
“Robert Lansing.
“Secretary of State.
(Signed) “WoobprRow WILSON.
——Be the master of your habits, or
your habits will surely master you.
—
SCORED HEAVILY ON PRINCE
Beau Brummell’'s Remark Left Him
Master of Situation, but Victory
Was a Costly One,
The greatest dandy and fop of mod-
ern times was George Brummell,
known as Beau Brummell. He lived
a life delicate and leisured, and sinee
he was poor his living depended upon
the favor of the court. The court
at that time was represented in the
set where the beau’s influence was
felt by the prince of Wales, who was,
if truth must be told, not a slender
man. It happened that the prince
and the beau quarreled.
To be a dandy is not generally con-
sidered the first mark of being a
brave man, but Beau Brummell gave
instant proof that he was not only a
great dandy but a great man as well.
The details of the story are somewhat
vague, but the main facts are certain.
Brummell knew that his quarrel with
the prince would mean an end of his
prestige, but he refused to yield, and
on the day following the quarrel went
walking with a friend, said to hava
been Sheridan. °
The news of the rupture between,
the prince and the dictator of fashions
had spread, and there were not a
few who gathered in the hopes of a
passage at arms between them.
It happened that Sheridan and
Brummell met the prince and his
party. With princely ostentation the
royal personage called Sheridan aside
and spoke to him, pointedly ignoring,
Brummell, who stood by. Brummell
did not flinch in the crisis, he was
the only person who seemed to be in-
different. Then Sheridan returned.
With a gesture of indifference Brum-!
mell lifted his glasses to his eyes
and, indicating with a slight wave of;
his hand the person to whom he re-
ferred, he asked in a clear but lan-'
guid voice the famous question:
“Sherry, who’s your fat friend?”
Brummell spent the greater part,
of the remainder of his life in Calais,!
an outcast, a broken man. But with
the memory of his great rebuke, it
can hardly be said that in the crisis
he was found wanting.
Came Handy in His Line.
“There is nothing like sleep,” re-
marked a chance ‘acquaintance to the
newspaper man as he sized up the
belated sleepers in a New York sub-
way car in the wee hours of the morn-
ing. “All my life I have done what-
ever has been in my power to help the
cause of sleep in the human race.
Whenever I have heard that a doctor
is counseling his patients to sleep
longer, I have made a point of writing
him a letter of congratulation. And I
do not mind saying that I myself have
done a bit to persuade people that
sleep is the greatest blessing to man-
kind.” “The perfect sleeper,” ob-
served the newspaper man, “is he who
by rigid and constant practice has
brought his power of sleep to such a
stage that he does not awake even
when a dynamite bomb is set off in his
room.” The chance acquaintance
leaned back in in his seat with rapt
expression, as if contemplating a beau-
tiful vision. “And what makes you
take such an interest in the slumbers
of the human race?” was asked. “I
am a burglar,” he replied. “But just
because one of my fellow men did not
reach the stage of somnolent perfec-
tion I had to abandon my trade for
some years.”
Important Russian Industry.
The production of wood pitch and
tar is a highly important industry of
the timber districts of Russia. A
large quantity of such substances is
not only used for home consumption
in Russia, but is also exported to for«
eign markets. England alone takes
over 100,000 barrels yearly of Russian
pitch and tar. In normal times pitch
is exported chiefly to England from
Archangel, where it is one of the prin.
cipal articles of trade, while turpen-
tine has been shipped to Germany
from the BaMic ports and overland.
In recent years in western Russia, es-
pecially near the Vistula river, large
quantities of pitch and turpentine have
been distilled from the stumps left
after the clearance of woods, this hav-
ing been in great demand in Germany
on account of its good quality and low
price. Up to the present time the op-
erating methods employed in this in-
dustry have been, for the most part,
of -a primitive character, and carried
on in small establishments, where the
owner is at the same time workman
and salesman.
Girls Will Marry Crippled Soldiers.
A letter in the London Daily Mail
conveys the information that hun-
dreds of English girls have expressed
their willingness to marry crippled
British soldiers and to care for them
as their contribution to their country’s
cause. The offers came as the result
of a published suggestion that plucky
girls might be of service so, and all
that stands in the way of the success
of this wholesale matchmaking is that
no degree of pluck and patriotism
seems sufficient to overcome maidenly
shyness. The girls have agreed to
marry, but they cannot walk up to the
first one-legged soldier they see and
tell him so. Meetings are to be ar-
ranged by certain women of the Lon:
don West end, where these self-sacri-
ficing girls will be introduced to the
lifelong burdens they have agreed to
take as husbands.
Of Course Not.
“That doctor claims to have discov-
ered an entirely new disease.”
“I hope he won’t publish the symp-
toms of it.”
“Why not?”
“People cannot have it if they do
not know the symptoms, can they?”