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' • Miss Eleanor Wade rain IS 825 N.eth Street, _ St. Joseph, Missouri Gone ( AND THE PAINS OF RHEUMATISM and SCIATICA v« j 25 Doses 25 Cents Your Druggist sells Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain, Pills and he is authorized 10 return the price of the first package (only) If it fails to benefit you. Pure Water! DRINK SIZERVILLE MIFRAL WATER Clean, Pure and Healthy. We are prepared to furnish the citizen** of Emporium this popular Water, either PLAIN OR CARBONATED, in bottles. Drop a postal card—we will do the rest The analysis of the celebrated Bizerville Water has made it famous all over the country. Orders may be left at Geo. F. Balcom' store, or water may be purchased by th ■ case at the same place. Address, Magnetic Mineral Water Co., SIZERVILLE, PA. / \\.. promptly I.MHUI I'. aii'J J-'or.-ipii J Send a. K'.t,-!, biotch or j.; oto of invor.tioc for 112 i free i«vt ..n pn'. ntubilitv. F> i fr«e book, r BgagrTMDE-MimS *sr pBEifEl * A v*r«, CnTAir* Rkuitr f..r MimnoiiM. » NIVCR KNOW'-i TO FAtt. J- SaM- A fwiou <.u»r«i.«•«■»i4 ff . :/" • t >fi 1- .< .r&X ' Vi ' '-■"■h % ' % 5| m ML n | I •• j;,\ ?"' 1 ' ■ / SJlz W ' H * m mm ■£,' z*-., - rM \ 4X •< . K 112 ' ' v ' ; v . '•'"l l' (; >-V' i >V \ ** , " x, 4 ■ ' \ 'V'*"*■ • !{ \ LOOKING FOE SANTA CLATJS. The Gift | 1- l By FR.A N K H. SWEET. [Copyright, 190-S, by American Pr< >:s Asso ciation.) THE Christmas chimes are sounding on the air, And, as I sit and listen to their sweet, Unearthly music, gone is care, Forgot i 3 all the turmoil of the street. The that Jhe path of m%fi be set, The va3t anxiotics of human life, All fade away, and every fond regret Is lost in all their glad and joyous strife. WHAT though I seem alone on this fair day, From happy comradeship stand isolate, With none to greet me as I walk my way. To merely live I count a happy fate — To merely listen to those joyous sounds That through the crisp of winter call so free, Although the merrymakers on their rounds Pause not to think of or remember me. IS'T not enough that on this Christ mas morn, | This glad birth morn of him whose day it is, My heart, but yesterday so sad, forlorn,; Doth open to the message that was His? Is't not enough to know that from above The tidings of a sacrifice divine Com* at a gift of an eternal love That I have but to take to make it mine? ' ,si IRISH POINT OF VIEW. It is a merry Chri-,tma* When there is lots of snow, For then through my good shovel Some golden coin I know. And 'tis a ucrry Christmas When net a flake is seen, For Christmas to the Irish Is merry when it's green. E. K. KUNKITTEICK. i <; \ MERON' COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER i 6, 1909. Why baiwt Nicholas? By ROBERT DONNELI.. Copyright, 1' •>, by -\n:.-rican I'r.s Asso ciation^ Wf IIY is. Saiua Clans sometimes called St. Nicholas".' For tli(» most excellent reason that Nicholas is the real aame o£ the saint. Until comparative ly recent years there was 110 Sunta L'laus at Christmas time. When tl)e ski saint comes down the chimney Dec. 24, Christmas eve, and deposits ?ifts for tlie children in the suspended stockings lie. is just nineteen days be aitul time, for his true and proper lime is Dec. 5, that being the eve of St. Nicholas day. Just how Nicholas got to be the Christmas e.ve saint is aot altogether clear, but those icon oclasts who dig into ancient matters ire probing this secret. They have discovered, or claim to have discov ered, that the Christmas eve Santa Claus really originated in America, be ing transported to England from New York. In the saints' calendar Dec. 0 is St. Nicholas day. Nicholas was bishop of Myra, in Lycia. Ho Is believed to have lived under the Emperors Dio cletian and Constantino and is the pa tron saint of poor maidens, sailors, travelers, merchants and children. Rich maidens, of course, are also quite willing to acknowledge him when be comes along with diamond dog col lars, necklaces and tiaras. Before the great religious reformation the custom of giving presents on St. Nicholas eve was general throughout Christian Europe. When the worship >f the saints was abolished the prac tice died out in England, where for ibout three centuries St. Nicholas fall fd to visit households on the evening af Dec. 5 to leave presents for good jhildren. By the way, it should be pointed out that Nicholas was noted iven in infancy as a particularly good ind pious child. Therefore his visits ire not made to bad children—only to those whose parents can vouch for their good behavior during the previous rear. In Austria, Holland and Poland St. Nicholas eve is still observed. Good rhildren get presents, secretly left in their shoes placed upon the hearth stone for the purpose or in their stock ings hung from the mantel. When New York was settled by Hollanders the devout Dutchmen brought over to America their religious customs, not Ibrgettiug that of St. Nicholas eve. In Did New Amsterdam the saint made bis visits the night of Dec. 5, St. Nich olas day being celebrated by the set tlers as n holiday. In time the Dutch were supplanted by the English, New Amsterdam became New York, and th<» >ld St. Nicholas eve gift giving custom was reintroduced into England from Vow York. But In England the cus :om of giitmaklng on Christmas ere Dad grown up. Th nade outright ai d wl'ho'ut secrecy. When St. Nlehclns sailed back to England there was «onsternatlon imong fond papas and mammas in , the tight little !?.!'•. •'What! Shall we have twe days of ?lft giving and less than three weeks jpart?" they cried. Thrifty En el Is It parents, It is sup posed, determined that one day of ?lvlng was enough, and so they slm oly transferred St. Nicholas to Christ- Das eve. Uncle Ezra Says: "Rig thoughts may come to you I while you are lyin' abed in the morn- j ■ in', but big results won't fnrae onless j ; you jump out an' hustle for 'em."— ' ; Boston Herald. * tLffVPV 4JU.I HUJ I #i?c •OfpOQ[ pue jJiODi-i "i Aq unuodujy hi p/oc I I I iUUlibObdUil s.AOfitl S,i gin e\ I r wnnol Ui» :.juw«i»«usv UIJ XiU W 'zmmnseaumisszEEMmuamM I «MESTEB SPILLS /*sS^ry DIAMOND £ACS BRAND 0° Ife $ '"tea. LADIES ! —— r Ank yj-uitcl»t for CHI-CHESTER'S A ; DIAMOND BRAND rILUS in KJ:D AUD/OOIL I GOI.D metallic boxes, scaled with Blue(w> | Ribbon. TAKE NO OTHER, liuy oF your \/ I und a«U fur CIH-CUEB.TEK 8 V | DIAMOND IJKANI) 1'11.1.N, for twentv-fivQ years regarded as Best, Safest, Always Reliable. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS SSL EVERYWHEREJK I • Y r i n , „ « py ?«j Tfc I W j •; &goi Uut i d Jr oimds i . . xrxoonEa MRVUSXZM* T ! \v i v** y\ jet° mr !•' -.SIIf •''*/ rf ' J ? V -6z*2EA%v.. RZJFZIZZTTS sk ocntsatf - J WBZ nan .NSSSA. M -XK t-awjzwJKjra I Each mammoth gun, at each (lis- Crsp and nut-like four times as charge, shoots out 75 pounds of porous z-i bread. Grains that melt in PufTed \Yheat or Puiied Rice, the mouth. And a gun, to meet the present There is nothing else to compare demand, must be shot about every with them. No cereal food half so minute. good. For, last month, seventeen million When you try them> youMl be glad meals were served oi these new, en- that we told you about them. And ticing foods. your folks will be glad. If your folks like what most folks ' Don't wait longer. Order one ; like, they'll enjoy these gigantic package. Submit it to a vote of your grains. table. Puffed Wheat —10c Puffed. Rice —15c These are the foods invented by Prof. An- Then the guns are unsealed, and the steam derson, and this is his curious process: explodes. Instantly every starch granule is blasted into a myriad particles. The whole wheat or rice kernels are put into , . ' . , , . , . , , . , . , Ihc kernels of grain are expanded eight sealed guns. Then the guns are revolved for ° 11.11 . , , , times. Yet the coats are unbroken, the shapes sixty minutes in a heat of 550 degrees. , , ' . J 0 are unaltered, we have simply the magnified That fierce heat turns the moisture in the grain, grain to steam, and the pressure becomes tre- One package will tell you why people de mendous. light in them. Order it now. (7) , Made only by The Quaker Oats Company ADAM. MELDRUM & ANDERSON CO. "Buffalo's Leading Store" Buffalo, N. Y. Established 1867 A Christmas Announcement To Out~of~Town Customers To bring the vast resources of Buffalo's Greatest Christmas Store before you in an unusual way and as an inducement for you to come and make this Merry, Merry Christmas Store your Holiday Shopping Head- oxlk ML \ quarters, we offer the following liberal proposition which \ must be considered by all who read as being worthy of ||(SgSflfap coming many miles to share. V Y From Wednesday, Dec. 15th, To Saturday, Dec. 18th, Inc. Til We will give every out-of-town customer who comes If I to our store and makes a total cash purchase of fifteen r-l^J dollars ($15.00) a free choice of four $1.50. articles: The list of articles will be changed each day. Wednesday's list follows: Any 51.50 Doll. Any $1.50 Waist. Any $1.50 Book. Any $1.50 Vace. i To every out-of-town customer who comes to our store and makes a total '•ash purchase of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) we will give a free choice of four $2.50 articles. Wednesday's list follows: 4 Any $2.50 Book. Any $2.50 Handkerchief. Any $2.50 Toy. Any $2.50 Vase. Selection must be made from the above articles. Railroad Fares Refunded and Free Delivery within 100 miles of Buffalo as ! usual. ' Before buying ask for an Out-of-Town Shopping Card at the Public Service Bureau and for list of free articles. i' Force of Win-; Moverrsnt. Tests Show tln j -T t!:a wind movement ! of 15 miles an hour against the side of ! a building will force 185 cubic feet of air through n cr.n. s'xteenlh-inch crev ! ice in an hour - art UNBH 112 mJP i ■•. Ili 0 3 Qakkly Cared. , Cham herlain 's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy Can always be depended upon. During the Rummer months children are subject to bowel disorders and should | receive the most careful attention. Ak | soon as any unnatural looseness of the bowels is noticed Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy should be given. Costs but 25 cents a bottle, and it is economy to always keep a bottle handy. * You do not know when it may be needed, but when you do want it you V/anfc it badly. Get a bottle today. A Pride and the Love of Praise. 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