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“Bellefonte, Pa., December 11, 1925.
ARTABAN, FOURTH WISE MAN
OF THE EAST.
By John Dickson Sherman.
Balthazar, Melchoir, Kaspar, who followed
that bright Christmas star—
You know the tale of the Wise Men, who
came bearing gifts from afar.
Here is the tale of Artaban, the Fourth
Wise Man of the East,
Who saw not the Babe in the manger, but
not of the four was the least!
He stopped to succor one dying and lost
his companions and way,
But ever he pressed his quest onward in
hope, though alone and astray.
And ever he nursed the ailing and ever
the hungry he fed,
And ever he clothed the naked wherever
his wanderings led.
One after another vanished the gifts he
had brought for the King—
To save 'a slave girl from torment he cast
down his last precious ring.
At last a tile struck his temple, Artaban
then knew he must die.
Lying there, stricken and helpless, his ears
heard a Voice from on High
Commending his deeds and service.
so, Lord!” he cried in amaze,
“Long have I sought Thee to serve Thee,
but sought Thee in vain all my days.
‘When have I clothed Thee when naked?
And when wert Thou hungered and fed?
When gave I drink to Thee thirsty? Or
homeless, gave Thee a bed?”
“The Voice replied to his mourning: “As
thou hast done it unto one
Of the least of these, my brethren, so unto
me it has been done.”
This is the tale of Artaban, its lesson as
strong now as then:
“To God ve do only service as ye may do
service to men.”
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CHRISTMAS GIVING
AND ITS MEANING.
“Give me six,” the woman said as
she crowded her way rudely up to the
handkerchief counter. “One has to
buy something, I suppose, and I guess
handerchiefs take the least thought
and consideration.”
“Any particular pattern?” the clerk
inquired.
“No, just so they cost no more than
fifty cents each. What an awful bore
Christmas is, and what a burden it
throws on us. I wonder sometimes
what it’s all for.”
“It’s a very sweet, happy time to
me,” the girl answered.
There is too much that is conven-
tional and artificial, perhaps, in our
Christmas giving. We burden our-
selves with obligations which we
should never assume. We give too
often because we feel that we should
do so, because we wonder what people
will say if we do not, because we hope
to receive something in return. We
keep up the practice because we have
not the courage or the diplomacy to
break it, and we put little thought or
personality into it.
“Please do not send me anything at
Christmas time,” a friend wrote me,
“for by so doing you would embarrass
me and put me under obligations
which I can ill afford to meet.” Iti
was a sensible letter which few would
have had the courage to write.
It is not what we give that really
counts, but the spirit in which the
giving is done. The friendly, personal
letter, the trifle which we have our-
selves made, even the card which we
pick up at the book store, often brings
more joy than the costliest present
chosen without love or thought.
‘Christmas is a time of kindly thoughts,
of forgiveness, of charity, and of gocd |
will to all men. There is no other
«day on the calendar on which it would
be so dreary to be away from home
as Christmas day. The spirit of
Christmas is the spirit of self-sacrifice
and of love.
The Wise Men bringing gifts to the
Christ child came a long way over a
rough and weary road full of dangers
and full of discomforts; but the gifts
they brought were gifts of sacrifice
and unselfishness and of love, and the
impluse to bring them came from the
heart. They are the wise men today
who can give thankfully, gratefully,’
lovingly, with joy in their hearts and .
without thought of what they are to
receive.—Thomas A. Clark, Dean of
Men, University of Illinois.
Hero Strikes Electric Match for His
Cigarette in an Electric
Gloaming.
* Wita the lowly match, sunlight has
given way to electricity in the movies.
No longer does the camera have to
stop when a cloud passes over the sun
or when its light is completely obscur-
ed, comments the Pennsylvania Pub-
lic Service Information committee.
Time was when the cost of keeping
companies and temperamental stars
waiting for the sun to appear put a
considerable dent in the bank account.
Experiments with electric lights re-
vealed that daylight, moonlight, and
firelight or almost any other kind or
degree of light, can be duplicated by
electricity.
When a motion picture company
now goes on location it no longer cax-
ries along silver-papered reflectors.
Instead, a transmission line is built
back to the nearest central electrical
station. If that cannot be done a com-
plete lighting plant with generator
follows on a motor truck.
When the heroine droops before the
open fire, the exact degree of light
that best exhibits her charms is as-
sisted by electricity. When the hand-
some hero nonchalantly lights a ci- |
garette in the gloaming, it is not usu-
ally done with a match. He uses a
“baby are,” the wires of which are
concealed in his sleeves.
Nome Facing Famine.
Nome, Alaska, is facing a famine as
the result of being swept by fire re-
cently. The flames destroyed some of
the buildings made historic by the fa-
mous gold rush. The estimated dam-
age is $200,000. Starvation faces the
people on account of one of the larg-
est .grocery stores going up in the
flames.
THE “SANTA SACK” :
GAME FOR KIDDIES.
Santa Claus is a real problem to
some mothers. Shall their children
be told the truth about Santa Claus,
or shall they think of him as sliding
down the chimney with reindeer and
sleigh? This idea may help some
mother who is puzzled over this ques-
tion:
Before our little folks were old
enough to understand about the exist-
ence of Santa Claus, whenever we
saw a picture of the jolly old man, we
called him Sunny, or Smiling Santa,
because he looked happy. And he
looked happy because he was good and
kind to everyone. So when the child-
ren quarreled or pouted we would try
to have them smile and look jolly, iike
Santa, whose picture we had among
others we referred to, as moral or
myth pictures.
As the children grew to understand
more fully the meaning of the Christ-
mastide we played a game, “Santa
sack,” which meant that if they al-
lowed each other or their playmates
to play with their toys or gave them
of their apples or cookies, they were
playing Santa Claus, because Santa
Claus was unselfish and divided what-
ever he had from his sack.
Sometimes when their playmates
came, we would say, “You’ll want to
play ‘Santa Sack,’ and away they
would skip to distribute their toys
like Santa. They delighted to play
and be called Santa when they ran er-
rands, smiled or did something kind.
Santa was a make-believe creature,
as characters in poems which we read
to them, such as “The Raggedy Man,”
“Chidren’s Hour,” “Jack Sprat,”
“Hiawatha.” Anyone who gave a gift
at any time of the year was a Santa.
And whenever Santa Claus distributed
gifts at school or any public place,
they were delighted that someone was
playing Santa as they played “bear”
“doctor” or “teacher” in the home
with their little friends. For anyone
who is unselfish, kind and cheerful is
to them a Santa Claus to someone else.
As they grew older the Santa sack
was woven into a lesson story with
the thought that each of us has some-
thing in smiles, kind words and deeds
to give to another all the time. For
the real Santa gave much—all he had
—from his sack of treasures in Beth-
lehem long ago! So Santa Claus
means unselfishness, cheerfulness,
kindness—many things that are worth
while to our children.—Gertrude Wal-
ton.
England Plans Most Powerful Radio
Station in World.
The Goliath of all radio stations—
more than fourteen times as powerful
as any broadcasting station in the
United States—is being erected at
Rugby, England.
It will have an output of 8,000
watts, which assumes tremendous pro-
portions when compared with the
maximum amount of electric energy
{used by any broadcasting station in
| this country—>5,000 watts by WGY,
: of Schenectady, N. Y.
| This 8,000-kilowatt long-wave sta-
tion will probably begin testing early
next year. It will be used for commu-
‘nication with the British colonies and
for other long-distance work.
| Electron tubes—probably eighty
| ten-kilowatt units in parallell—will be
| employed, since both arc and spark
| transmitters are being discredited in
‘foreign countries as well asin the
| United States.
Historically it is interesting to noie
that not long ago the two most pow-
"erful radio stations in the world were
. those located at Bordeaux, in France,
;and Annapolis, Md., with 1,000 and
. 500 kilowatts, respectively.
i These, however, make use of arc
i transmitters and the output of power
! probably represents only from 100 to
1200 kilowatts. Now, with the advent
| of tube transmitters, the age of great
| power has arrived.
I" The United States Navy Depart-
ment is now installing an 80,000-watt
| tube transmitter at the San Diego na- |
i val radio station, the most powerful
' tube sending set in this country.
The equipment represents less than
ten times the amount of power em-
ployed at the Rugby, England, station
—the most powerful radio station in
the world.
i What a contrast between this huge
, amount of power and the five, ten and
leven fifty watts used by radio ama-
| teurs, and yet the latter have been
able to span great distances.
Next Eclipse.
The next total eclipse will be in
‘ Sumatra, in January and already as-
i tronomers from Swarthmore College,
the United States Naval observatory
‘and the Mount Wilson observatory
| have, sailed to observe it. Before
‘many years have elapsed people in the
| northeastern part of the United States
{ will again have an opportunity of wit-
| nessing this rare phenomenon.
On August 3, 1932, a total eclipse
i will occur and pass through parts of
| Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.
| This eclipse will start near the North
| Pole, and thé path of totality will en-
ter the country in Northern Vermont,
and will leave across the Atlantic
ocean between Portland, Me., and
Portsmouth, N. H. As this will occur
about 3:30 in the afternoon, the
chances for clear weather should be
fairly good.—N. Y. World.
Lightning’s Energy Exceeds Niag-
ara’s.
Scientists say that there is an av-
erage of 1800 thunderstorms in prog-
| ress in the world at any one time, with
300,000 lightning flashes in an hour,
says the Pennsylvania Public Service
Information committee.
The energy of a severe lightning
flash is about four kilowatt-hours.
The total of 800,000 flashes would,
therefore, be 1,200,000 kilowatt-hours,
or more than 1,500,000 horse-power
operating continuously to supply the
world with severe lightning.
The developed capacity of Niagara
Falls is about 1,000,000 horse-power,
or about two-thirds that of the world’s
lightning at one time.
~——Get the Watchman if you want
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15—Winged horse of classical myth
17—Golf clubs
18—Girl’s formal introduction to
soeiety 19—To aver
21—Man’s polite title
22—Inquires 24—Skyward
26—Rallroad warehouse
29—Every
31—Enclosed vehicle
33—Bedding for horses
34—To deface
35—First man, according to Bible
37—Ohio city
40—To exist 41—Minus
43—In between
45—Dish 46—Equals
48—Inclined
49—To hide 61—Source
52—In behalf of
53—OQverhanging part of a roof
54—To possess
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11—Ridges 13—Insect 6—Printing measures
7—Preposition
8—Bits of wreckage floating on
the ocean
9—Any of the letters of the alpha-
bet formerly used by the Teu-
tons 10—Land measures
12—Furious
14—Apparatus for stopping an au-
tomobile 16—Certain
17—Possessive impersonal pronoun
19—Sylvan deity, half man and half
goat
20—Ancient Italian coin
23—To tear in pieces 25—Pillow
27—Any of the different aspects of
anything 28—Kind of tree
30—Enclosed vehicle
32—Lighter-than-air vehicle
36—Intended 38—Evil sign
39—Female child of a brother or
sister 42—Sainte (abbr.)
44—Fear 46—Bow of a ship
46—Hole in the skin
47—To conserve
48—On behalf of
50—Boy’s name
49—Coquettish
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POSSIBLY A NEW TRUNK LINE.
A dispatch from Lock Haven, which
reports that the New York Central
Railroad is preparing to start in the
spring the construction of its long-
projected line between Keating and
McElhattan, along the south bank of
the west branch of the Susquehanna
river, is of much more than local in-
terest. Inevitably it. suggests the
thought that the Central, which has
long cherished the idea of establish-
ing a new trunk line between the east
: and the west, is getting ready to put
into execution the plan of the late
| president Smith, who proposed to
| make use of the tracks of the New
i Jersey Central from Jersey City to
| Tamanend, of the Reading company’s
{ Catawissa Division from Tamanend to
| Newberry Junction, and of the Beech
{ Creek and Lake Shore Divisions of
| the Central from that point to Ashta-
i bula, Ohio. There has always been a
| gap between McElhattan and XKeat-
| ing, in this chain of connected roads,
where the New York Central makes
| use of the tracks of the Pennsylvania
! Railroad under lease. This arrange-
| ment has never been satisfactory to
{ either company, and the Pennsy has
| lonz been anxious to get rid of the
jeniral trains, which interfered with
its own traffic.
| For many years the Central has
| owned practically all the necessary
i right of way, and if it really intends
i to begin the construction of a new
i line in the near future this may be
i the first step in putting president
i Smith’s plan in operation. There can,
of course, be no legitimate objection
to this. It was the Central’s sugges-
tion that, in order to establish the new
trunk line, the Reading and Jersey
Central systems should be torn to
pieces that aroused such bitter oppo-
sition two or three years ago. This
disruption is in no way essential to
the formation of a through line, which
would be of great advantage to Penn-
sylvania. Philadelphia would be a de-
cided gainer by it, as would many oth-
er communities. The plans of the
Central will be looked for with much
interest to see just how great is their
scope, and whether a new trunk line is
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Large Game Hunters are Required to
Keep Roster.
All parties of three or more hunt-
ing large game (deer or bear), wheth-
er in camp or otherwise, are required
to keep a roster, either in camp or in
possession of their leader, and must
show this roster to any game protector
on demand or to any other properly
authorized officer.
Violation of this law subjects every
member of the party liable to twenty-
five dollars fine. Hunters are asked
to follow the law on this matter, as it
is going to be rigidly enforced. Also
all large game is required by law to be
tagged within six hours after killing.
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Towel Sets—all colors. Gloves.
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Silk Hose. Nes is
Umbrellas—silk and cotton. Shirts.
* Boudoir Caps. Linen and Cotton
Handsome Leather Handkerchiefs.
and Bead Bags.
For Big Sister
Silk Scarfs, beautifully fringed—Silk Hose, Chiffon and Plain,
in all colors—Wool Scarfs, all colors and designs—Vanities—
Powder and Rouge Compacts—Handkies, any kind at any
price ; lovely Linen ones, too— Bedroom Slippers—Jazz Gar-
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For the Tiny Tot
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