cake and pntin pudding. She planned for ttirkex aud for chicken pie. and her husband eyed her in loumy retro spect iou "I the glad old times, growl- j iug out to hi'r that sin seemed to lie ' preparing ft»r an armv, and she Hash- i ed out that this wasn't the time to be j stingy and perhaps there would be ' some poor to feed there always had ; l»een so far. Then came the lifctli. day off lecem* ber, a heavy snowstorm and much embarrassment for the old couple. L!ach had secretly sent alii the children) presents aud a letter, neither mention ing the other, and the lawyer had call ! .-m1 ou them and t• >ld them that it was j time to drop the divorce business and | make up or push it and have It over | with They almost drove him from the | house, and he laughed as he went down I street. Ab-'nt noon John came in. gruff and ! shy, *«1141 j nit a great armful of holly oil the white kitchen table She looked j nt him till he explained. "May Carr give it to me. They had too much at the -htirch, and she give me no chance to say I didn't want it— you know May's way. She said the Christmas tree was.thr biggest the j church ever had and there wore more child:-.-ii -.re ...g thing S: ■■ !;•• lif yoa bail aa,. :ai;ig pivtt.v or us- :ul you didn't want, and I x.a'. would ask roll." They i.. i missed ill eiiiir.-a woclul »*rythiii}_. y ii al a) s lu-ou cheer j I'll! aiid , ibl • appeal touch • "tit !lom li »;h. Af.trj tu:::a. igcd ton aad sent an ; '■it '-.u,-. that re.j i.ee | the heart- of those wl:o wer.' : 'inn n_ the tree, .lohn toak i: t i Hie church. and eery body sh '-.1; hands with him aud in the • general gladness ee . ii t > ii. ve for gotten that anything was \\r mg. About 4. v. aile Mar> was :il me rest ing after putting up all the holly, a | telegram came :>r John She did not know where he was.and Mie suffered the usual ;t_on of i/le people un Accustomed to receiving telegrains, Siie , «lared not opea it and imagined the death and burial of all her children and grandchildren, one after the other. . While she was in tliis frame of mind another message came, and the boy < had scarcely gone when a third ar I rived. Then she sent a neighbor's boy j for her husband and received him al i most fainting. Me was as frightened as she, but the tlrst read: "Meet •'• i o'clock train tonight. Mary." The sec | "lid said: "Meet t> o'clock train tonight. I Paul." The third bade him meet the ii '•'clock train and was signed "Kliza I both." While they stood staring at each •Iher a hoy brought another. This was ! Jifforent. ' Meet S o'clock train from west for little Christine. Alice died suddenly I yesterday. Mother. «glve her a home till I can get to you. Letter later." It was ."• then. They stood staring a mo- | -incut, and then Mary fell to piling 1 wood on the tire and spoke briefly to John. "Father, you'll have to hurry to get •to that train." He went out to the barn aud hitched the team to the double cut ter When hr came hack he lifted j down to their grandmother's arms her daughter Mary's three children, three of I'nul's and one of Elizabeth's. They were all laughing and shouting and i -■•• eh was ticket ed "Merry Christmas. I Mil a gift to grandpa and grandma." ! They were barely fed and warmed ' when John went to the later train and returned with the motherless three .year-old Christine in his arms. She | had been putin the' conductor's care •nd was sound asleep, with tears on | h -r cheeks and her yell >\v curls tousled, i •ii her grandfather's shoulder. Her i gi-iudmother reached up for her. I dm." she said, "she is ours. We ; iiii! and ■ .ii 'ighten things at church and if you'll 'hav • me for a Christmas present all right!" And she smiled happily up at '■ 111111. Trle«l I » llrlti*- Simla. Ine appearance of the Salvation Army Santa Clauses-on the streets of j \'ew York are the occasions of many a | • urious little scene \theu the childre i ' •spy them. In Twenty-third street a ! Idt!e girl suddenly tfushed up to the : :(K»kfou saint of toys and children and. 'thrusting into his hanld a quarter, cried j ••it. "Here, Sania <'lnus. take this, ! <1 dou't want you toi forget me," and j wis back to the side of her mother ' ..gain in an instant. The little lass had I •tried to bribe the saint! > j Somrlhlnii In I,«uk Hlij. , • dr. Blgheart Wiggins, old hoy, we have raised SSO to get the boss a ''hri-jttuas present, and we want some- i thing that will make a show for the I money--something thpt will look big. ! j oil know. Can't you suggest soine. I ffuutf? 1 . iggins—Sure. Buy SSO worth of 1 ii»e and boil it and Women. nalvation Army an Snnln I lau». The thousands of cents or nickels or j dimes dropped intd the Salvation ' Army's Iron keUles under the red tri (kmU at the street corners in New York i fly last December provided Christmas dinners for fully H.jXHi poor people. •nd 450 were suppled with clothing with the money contributed bv th» :»id»(»o. file l.naiienl. T.lttl' Sis t- • Mermaid In tin- ih-.'p w;ii Wduplll?; I -Ittjo Joloiiii'- Mnrboy Compan. w.-i:s kouplng. ' 'nuse if th lr bo wall Ins? Wo ndmlt It shocking Thoy . un never, novor Hav* i Christmas stocking- New York II«raUl Reccocifiation How Santa Glaus Brought Peace to Two Troubled Old Hearts. Bi] JOANNA SINGLE. [Copyright, 1905, l>y I* Eastment-I THEY were-both sixty, and they both had gray hair, and their six children were all happily married and prosperous, but I living at long distances from their par -1 ents. There was money enough for both, ami both were in good health. l!ut tfiey were both wretched, l-'orthis state ui affairs John ISowen blamed his ' wife and Mary II >wen blamed her litis ! laud. It had all Collie about since they sold the fan a. three years ago\ when their youngest son. had married and moved to Colorado wi'b his pret ty wit", Alice I lie;: tile old people : had i iv - l to to . a and had In-uim to quarrel. \i>i..>ily, i.m the.\ themselves. | knew ju ; h \ it had begun, and only | Mary, t • . datigh. r, had suspect- , l ed that a ything «as wrur She had j | said nothiag. cotisideriug silence Ihe j better part, until somet! ing realty had | to be done At last tnd saddtmh tilings had I come to a head. The past ir of the lit ' tie church t-» which tli.y belonged had noticed that there was au tin-Christian - coolness between husband and wife. They no longer sai side by side, some "JOHN," SIIR ' SHE IS OCRS." i times one went home without the otli er. their offerings wen- no longer one. but separate ifts, and tliey disagreed j in class ting up in matters of doc | trine. The pastor "labored" with them i because of their example to younger j married couples. This enraged Jolm, who told him that neither of them would come to church j again and asked for their letters. : When, however, the pastor was gone | jhe tun nil fiercely on his wife. lie } said it was her behavior that had j brought notice upon them, and she said ; that if he was ugly at home she. for ! ! her part was not a hypocrite and j | would not pretend abroad that all was ! j right between tliein. Then each threatened to leave the | I other, and finally they talked of divid j big the property. At this they quar ! reled more llereely than ever, not from selfishness, for each wanted the other to have the larger share. On this John ; Bowen insisted until some devil 1 prompted Mary to say his generosity was only for the purpose of putting I her In the wrong by making her seem i mercenary. Then they saw a lawyer, a kindly man. who failed to i\M*oncile i their differences, and from trying to ; divide the property each got more and more angry until finally >[ary had the ' papers drawn up for a divorce, and i John tiled a cross Neither would have the pap.-'i> served just then. There wore things to lx? attended to. j i and then the, ,-foifdren must be told. Somehow otic of theifl eo'.llJ ' j bear to u-.li the children, find move i j than oo.v they wci-e on the verge of I i ..lUlilag up, ho it bapponeij that it ! i"Was almost Christmas time, and still | nothing was done about It. However, j the pastor finally wrote to their ilaugh | ter Mary, asking her if she could not I reconcib her parents to each other, ' and she wrote to her brothers aud sls j ters. The three of thoiu who could met j and talked it over and concluded to | adopt a plan evolved by Mary, who I probably understood the root of the I trouble better that) the pfjej'*. This daughter, her mother's name j ! sake, had three line children. Paul had j four, anil Kllzaheth had two. one too I j small to leave its mother. At the little home of the old people all was gloom. The old.man was sort . ing and destroying old papers, aud his wife was mending and arranging and cleaning her already clean house. She was bound >o leave her husband com- | fortable and was convinced that no i one would properly look after his flan i nels and his rheumatism when she had J gone to her daughter's. This she had tii 11 y purposed to do, for she would not j put him out of his own house. He was equally obstinate about leaving It to her. 'I wo days before Christmas Mary began to cook, with all her experienced skill, pumpkin and appic and mineo and squash pies fruit cake and layer CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY,DECEMBER 20. 1906. Christmas With I The Sky Dwellers The First Stop on Santa Claims' Reindeer Kouie. TO hmf what is. going oil so far below them. I 1 beU' fathers are the superintendents. , engineers and janitors of those lofty ! liliildiiiirs, I'pon the very roofs of these grc-it pil'litrs of steel eo/.y, home breath j tnii cottages have been erected. Here, ri«ht up against the sky. the j i.'hildreu live and play from moriiing until night. 'i'liey never miss tile green j fields and the tall trees, for they have j never liiiown tiiein. Their playgrounds are the e\pai: -ive roofs of the big buildings, and they aiv a- free as the i | air. While the smaller children pass their | early year at home with their moth 1 ers twenty stories above everybody, their older brothers and sisters attend L-ehi«il with the little ones living far down 011 the streets. In the evenings | l < - ;M L , j- j llfisM I i Hj^jl 1 1 RWO I.ITTI.I: SKY DWEiiLEiss. they ull a gaping crowd of sky dwell ers the sights they have seen while go>ing to and from school. The "sky scraper twins." who were horn on top of one of New York's highest build ings and who so far have gone through life together as they started upon the journey, often think of the great day to come when they will go down the elevator and be among the toy people they have SO far below them crawling aloiijj the sidewalks. Theso twins, who are the pride, of course, of their father and mother, have never been away from the roof on which they were born. Life has \ been one short and happy dream to j them. They do not know what a street | I ear really looks like, for they have i merely soon the shap'dess, dingy roofs I of the"L" tru i'l'j as they squirm Ulyiiy | 'heir crooked cay.* like sdfiie *»!« rfc t | thick snake with sqti irr> head and tail. ! They are full of health and have rosy i cheeks and bitr. dancing, bright eyes. 1 This means that they cut well, sleep ® well and enjoy life. There are seesaws and swings high up among the clouds on sjine of the skyscrapers and the over present little red express wagon so dear to the small boy's heart. Races are run 011 the Iron roofs, and top spln j ning and marble playing are favorite I sports. .. . 'II.-re arc deaths on tin* tops of Hie I skyscrapers as well as births. One 0/ the saddest 112 these was that of a little boy who had gonu'down to the street for the 11 r^t time to play and was crushed to death by a heavy truck. A family of nine children born to one couple who have lived 011 the same ro'jf for nearly forty years shows that race suicide has its enemies there. Five of these children have grown toman I hood arid are in the public service as I policeman, tireniau or mail carrier. Dog ' and cats are numerous on the | skyscrapers. The children there are as i j well DI/ for four footed playmates a j those 011 the earth. Some have never ! known anything else but the roof, where they play 1,.\ day and bowl all I night long to their hearts' content,— ' New Y<»"t. Times Bank of Banks^ FIRST NATIONAL BANK, 1 EMPORIUM, PA., For the People of Cameron County FOUNDATION. Capital - SIOO,OOO Surplus - - - 81.116 $lB/.l 16 ! Strength MEIBMIIIIII 1111111111 DIRECTORS. J- P. Felt. T. B. Lloyd. Hon. B. W. Green, L. Sykes. Hon. Josiah Howard. N. Seger. Joseph Kaye. J. E. Smith. W. S. Walker. There ar 42 shareholders and no one of them owns 10 per cen*: of the capital stock, and they are doubly liable 011 their stock 112 Durability. , $ 22 years of successful banking is the record of this ins&tauie* during which time its doors has been opened every business day. sssss $ £ S $ Piling Up Dollars I Stacking up dollars is a facinating game. Once you get interested in it you will wonder why you never engaged in it before. If every person knew what a satisfaction there was in having a growing bank ac count, this would be a happier world. Why not star*, a bank account with the new year? We receive de- jl posit SI.OO and upwards. 9 ! I * $ $ $ $ s—i—— s « NEW CUR We keep on hand at all times an ample supply of bright new currency, fresh from U. S. Treasury. Christmas week we pay over the counter nothing but new money from 1 cent to S2O bills. $ MERRY CHRISTHA I I HAPPY NE {