Belletonte, Pa., December 13, 1918.
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THE SUBTLE MINISTRIES.
The murmur of a waterfall
A mile away,
The rustle when a robin lights
Upon a spray,
The lapping of a lowland stream
On dipping boughs,
The sound ef grazing from a herd
Of gentle cows,
The echo from a wooded hill
Of cuckoo’s call,
The quiver through the meadow grass
At evening fall—
Too subtle are these harmonies
For pen and rule,
Such music is not understood
By any school;
But when the brain is overwrought
It hath a spell
Beyond all human skill and power
To make it well.
The memory of a kindly word
For long gone by,
The fragrance of a fading flower
Sent lovingly,
The gleaning of a sudden smile
Or sudden tear,
The warm pressure of the hand,
The tone of cheer,
The hush that means “I cannot speak,
But I have heard!”
The note that only bears a verse
From God’s own Word—
Such tiny things we hardly count
As ministry,
The givers deeming they have shown
"Scant sympathy;
But when the heart is overwrought,
Oh, who can tell
The power of such tiny things
To make it well!
—Frances Ridley Havergal.
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DO YOU KNOW?
Red Cross Christmas Roll Call
| December 16th to 23rd
Do you know the Red Cross
Christmas Roll Call? Do you know
when it's going to be? Do you
know it’s the call of our brothers,
who are far away, over the sea?
Do you know that if you answer
“present” you'll be helping some
boy over there, and youll show
that you're backing our soldiers and
willing to do your full share? Do
you know that to millions of chil-
dren this sign of a haven, indeed,
for they know it means food, cloth-
ing, shelter and love to supply every
need? Do you know what the mil-
lions of members all over our well-
beloved land have been able to do
through the Red Cross in offering
a kind, helping hand? Will you an-
swer “I'm here” to the roll call?
Will you be a member this year?
If you will you'll receive the “love
button’—a token of Christmas good
j epee
PE——
MAKE ROLL CALL UNANIMOUS.
The official designation, and the only
proper characterization of the demon-
stration that will occupy the attention
of the American people, under the
auspices of the American Red Cross,
immediately preceding the coming holi-
day season, is “The Red Cross Christ-
mas Roll Call.”
The object of the Christmas Roil
Call is to register in terms of active
participation the spirit of a nation.
The spirit in question is personified in
Red Cross membership. It is not to be
a “campaign” to raise a war fund nor
a “drive” to strengthen the material
resources of the Red Cross organiza-
tion. Its main objective is the ex-
tension of Red Cross membership to
the uttermost limit. a
See to it that no false conception of
the purpose of the Roll Call finds lodg-
ment anywhere, and, while emphasiz-
ing the grandeur of the movement un-
der its only logical name, keep ever-
lastingly in mind the idea to—*Make
it unanimous.”
NEW FACES FOR OLD.
The American Red Cross has under-
taken varied tasks. These range from
darning the socks of the soldiers to
making new faces for those disfigured
by war. Mrs. Ladd, the wife of Dr.
Ladd, now doing service in Red Cross
hospitals abroad, is working in her
Paris studio making masks to cover
disfigured faces. A photograph of the
soldier showing how he looked before
being wounded is obtained and then a
mask of copper or silver is made to re-
semble it and replace the part that is
gone. This is made as lifelike as pos-
sible and held on, as a rule, with bows
behind the ears like spectacles. The
soldier cannot eat or sleep in these
masks, but he can’ see and breathe
through them. Sometimes a nose is
put on so lifelike that it cannot be de-
tected, and sometimes it is a chin or in
rare instances almost the entire face.
This great humanitarian work enables
the victim to mingle with people with-
out being made conspicuous or con-
scious that he is being avoided.
in the Cradle of the Deep.
A few men were put into the bar-
racks of an older company at Great |
Lakes. One of these boys snored So
loudly that the next day the boys |
planned to get even. That night when |
his snoring commenced one hoy got
at each end of the hammock and be- |
The boy, |
gan to raise and lower it.
waking up much dazed, screamed ©
“Oh, ma, I wish I'd taken your adviee
and gone into the army. I didn’t kn”
I'd get so seasick!”
HORSES FOR FRANCE.
(Continued from page 2, Col. 6.)
| able sense of fairness, apd later on,
| during my service on the western
| front, I found out that the French-
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| just.
| Pretty soon the prisoners faded out
| of sight and we came alongside the
| dock at Bordeaux. I was all eagerness
| and strained my eyes so as not to miss
| the least thing. The dock was full of
{| Freneh cavalrymen, hurrying to and
| fro. Huge Turcos, black as the ace
| of spades, with white turbans on
| their heads, were majestically strid-
ing about.
| After we warped into the dock and
| made fast, our work was over. We had
| nothing to do with the unloading of
| the horses. The French cavalrymen
came aboard with a bunch of cavalry
| halters hanging over their arms. It
| was a marvel to see with what ease
| and efficiency that ship was unload-
| ed. The condition of the horses was
| pitiful. They could hardly bend their
legs from stiffness. They would hob-
ble down the gangplank and stand
trembling on the dock. In about a
minute or so they would stretch their
necks way up into the air and seem
to be taking long breaths of the pure
air. Then they started to whinny.
They were calling’ backward and for-
ward to each other. Even though I
did not understand horse language, I
knew exactly what they were saying.
' They were thanking the good Lord
. for their deliverance from that hell
' ship, and were looking forward to
: green pastures and a good roll in the
| dirt. Pretty soon you could see them
bend their forelegs and lie down on
the dock: then try to roll over. It
was pitiful; some of them did not
have the strength to turn over and
they feebly kicked. Pretty soon the
whole dock was a mass of rolling
| horses, the Frenchmen
. around, gesticulating and jabbering.
their height and weight.
horse was led into a ring chalked out
on the dock and the army inspectors
examined it. Very few were reject-
ed. From this ring of chalk they
were led into a portable stall and
branded. You could hear the sing-
| song voice of the prander shouting out
| what sounded like “Battry Loo.” As
come over, get the horse which had
got in conversation with an inter-
preter and he informed me that the
average life of these horses in the
French army was three days, so these
ship to go into a worse hell of bursting
shells and cracking bullets.
I, after passing a rigid examination
as to my nationality, and being issued
a cattleman’s passport, inquired my
way to the prefecture of police. I
deliverd to him a sealed envelope
which I had received in New York.
Upon opening it, he was very gracious
to me and T went into a rear room,
where the interpreter put me through
a grilling examination. From there
morning in the company of a sergeant
box compartment on the funniest look-
ing train I ever saw. The track seem-
ed to be about three feet wide; the
wheels of the cars looked like huge
cogwheels on an engine minus the
cogs. After bumping, stopping, and
sometimes sliding backwards, in 26
hours we reached a little town. Sup-
always moving in the same direction.
1 was ushered into the presence of
1 could hear a dis-
and upon inquiring
termaster corps.
tant booming,
France, striving to hold back the Ger-
man invaders. I trembled all over
on the we. ern front.
Two (ays afterward I again reached
Bordeaus, and shipped to New York
on the French liner RochambeauX.
to the Frenchman who had sent me
over. He was very courteous, and as
1 reached out to shake hands with him,
he placed both hands on my shoulders
and kissed me on the right and left
cheek. I was dumfounded, blushed all
over, and after receiving the pay that
was due me, I left.
1 think I could have borne another
trip across with horses, but that being
kissed upon my return completely got
my goat.
I went back to the routine of my
office, but everything had lost color and
appeared monotonous. I believe I had
left my heart in France, and I felt
mean and small, eating three square
meals a day and sleeping on a soft
bed, when the armies on the other side
were making the world’s history.
Sometimes when sleeping I would
have a horrible nightmare; I could see
those horses being boiled alive in
steam.
Several times later I passed that
sign on Greenwich street, “Horses for
France, Men Wanted,” and the picture
of the second foreman dropping the
pasty-faced doctor would loom before
my eyes. I do not know to this day
| what became of that nervy wreck of
aumanity, who had the temerity to tell
our foreman where he got off at. 'I
| know he did not make the passage
with us.
| For high class job work come
| to the “Watchman” office.
wm Srtbseribe for the “Watchman.”
been branded, and lead it away. I]
and a private, got into a little match- |
a French officer, who, I later found out, |
was a brigadier general of the quar- !
Upon arriving in New York I reported |
HIS ONLY BOY.
H. S. Cooper, Dallas, Texas.
I have a boy over there—my only
son. He is right now in the front of
the Front, for he is an engineer. You
ask me if I am not worried about him,
if I am not afraid that he will be kill-
ed, wounded, made a prisoner?
Before he enlisted I did worry
As a baby I was afraid
that he might not live; as a youth
that he ight not grow up and marry
carry on my name; as a
he might not be all that I
Now, I have no
reason to worry, no cause to be afraid,
for I know that he will do his duty to
the extent of his life—and that which
comes in the line of duty is neither to
be feared nor worried over, it is sim-
If he comes back to
me safe and sound he will be
pride. If he comes back wounded and
helpless he will be my here. If he
comes not back at all he will be my
patriot. And, even if I should never
know the manner or place of his death}
or where his body lies, I will know
that he died as should a soldier—
that a grateful people, a host of lov- i
ing friends and his whole kith and kin |
will mourn his fate sincerely and will |
hold him in sacred remembrance as
one of those who willingly and cheer- |
fully gave all that they had for their :
country and their loved ones!
What have I to 1.
What is there to fear?
Death? It can come to all oi us but 2. All the remaining weekly
once—had he stayed at home it might
have been his fate to meet it in less 3.
Wounds ?
Without the risk of
these where would have been his sac-
rifice and my pride in him!
great—the supreme—sacrifice always
impending, what are these
ones to fear or worry over?
there should come the supreme sacri-
fice of death in defense of right and
liberty there will come to me and all
who love him the supreme consola-
tion that he did his duty to the ut-
most as a man and a patriot—and
could anyone who loved him ask for
about him.
rightly an
man that
wanted him to be.
ply to be done!
Worry? Fear?
woory about ?
glorious form!
Imprisonment ?
! more?
jumping |
After getting the horses up, they
were divided into classes according to :
Then each
' low, east or west.
i And some
| the grown people
| standing and friendship;
I was taken to a hotel, and the next
plies were piled up as high as houses. |
Officers and enlisted men were hurrying
to and fro, and I could see long trains
of supply wagons and artillery limbers |
found out that it was the guns of |
with excitement, and a feeling that 1!
cannot describe rushed over me. I was
listenir; *o my first sound of the guns |
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Worried about him?
Afraid for him?
Not for a minute!
The Meaning of Our Red Cross.
The red in our cross stands for sac-
rifice, for giving life, as the warm,
| crimson blood gives life to the body.
The cross has the same length on all
four sides of its arms, to signify that
it gives life equally to all, high or
It stands alone al-
no words or markings on it, to
g that hie fod Cross workers have
: only one ought—to serve.
he yelled this, a French private would ' ask no questions, they care not wheth-
! er the wounded be ours or of another
people—their duty is to give, and to
ways,
show
give quickly.
The Red Cross stands on a white | -
i ground, because real sacrifice can
| come ony from pura: hearse if
| jee must come, not from hate, ut |
poor horses had only left that Bey | from love; from the noblest thoughts |
and wishes of the heart, or it will fail. |
‘That is why children love this flag. i
It is drawing them by millions in the
schools of our land, in a wonderful
army of rescue under the President,
to give for others.
day the children of all
| lands, under the Red Cross, will teach
the ways of under-
the beauti-
Cross which
is echoed in their lives.—H. N.
to make, to save,
ful meaning of the Red
Cracken.
Bell to Sound for Prayer.
George Wharton Pepper, chairman
' of the Pennsylvania Council of
| tional Defense, has presented a bell
| to the American Red Cross at Wash-
| ington and for a unique purpose. At
| the stroke of noon, every day, a per-
iod of three minutes is set apart at
' the national headquarters of the Red
tion.
some way to call everybody’s
sented to the Red Cross.
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German troops captured only
against 682 German officers and
252 privates
according to figures
American headquarters.
The chief surgeon of
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months.
Mac low.
hospital trains.
ty-nine have been held up.
Na-
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poor.
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No matter how much care and thought
I give to the purchase of my Shoes, I
make mistakes. For example, in order
to get good quality in Boys’ extra
heavy High Top Shoes I purchased them
in the black leather, because it is very
much better than in the tan, but the
average boy or parent does not look to
"the wear and service of Shoes; they
want what they think is style. In this
case boys want Tan Shoes and this
black one is not selling. My motto
is to have nothing on my shelves that
does not sell and I will sell them to
you at a loss. These Shoes are made
of leather, not shoddy, but absolutely
solid. They are the old- fashioned
peggy kind, bought to sell at $5.00 I will
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I have many other such bargains to offer
from now until Christmas, this space is
too small to tell you of all the bargains
that I have. Inever advertise anything
that I do not fully carry out, all I can say
is to come and see for yourself.
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