[E'S XMAS STORY.
her and [ wore sitting by the fire on
Christioas night. Twenty happy years wo
had spent together, almost alone, for father
dial before I knew him; and we had never
been rich, and were perhaps a little selfish,
for go heartily thet wo
coulil scarcely spare time from each other
for the few of our own class whom we came
across, who being better off than ourselves,
and holding themselves rather higher, seldom
«1 to need our help or sympathy. We
had plenty of poorer neighbors whom we
loved and who loved us, but they in no way
wa loved each other
KEEN
It
was in the last year that a new strong
y into our lives, and this
Harry brouzht: and on New Year's day he
v married. From the first
moment when he brought mo hom to mother,
bavine picked me up from the muddy pave
we felt in being together less complete.
interest had cor
and I w
ment, where
in the midst
him into
did she let on
her aud me,
us;
for me
ever did
hard, was when, a
and never from that day
» come between
Of con ras to live with
ot have made a homes
r. and the only thing she
he moment we thought
before, she had in-
even Harry could
without h
give us
you all
£ me to
she hop
old folk
yar
Fr
{ Mother and I
on something in
ich 1 could not
wrnexl to have some
ir and ten-
Bat 1 td ht that no
nd yt
ke to her she somrcely
siet, happy day-—
ber—and late in
her chair by
% WAS vil
er like mine, n
iaq
: your little
I have
] be said, pat
ds on my head, and then she be
“When I was young, younger than you
are: | was engaced to be marrinl. My home
was very anhanpy, and when Andrew West.
ara Co i asked nie to marry bim [ was
read re the groutsi be trad upon, He
} ' backward forward to
¥ on In &% with my
the very first
+ were--and to
poor, but
tier would have
I never wondered
: dher mourned
wing till night; they had
to feck guilty of a crime, and
inmost heart. It was no
Aadrow él mie to marry
iim as an angel of deliv.
ved him with an intensity which
toned Bim. It was in vain
{4
be told me that such worship was
r aril foolish, that ft gave him no happi-
finde to we it must bring disappoint
ment. I could not listen, and at last 1 wear.
fod Bim. He said ttle about it after awhile,
hit he went awas, and once more my lifo was
desolate. He said he would come back, but
he pover did. lls wrota to me often, kind,
tender letters, but they chilled my heart; and
then ono day be wrote fo tell me that it most
be all over between us. Ho told me how he
Tose striven to hold fast by his old love for me,
but ho could not; the mere effort pained him,
tho t) t of my passionats devotion filled
him with dread. to could never return such
Jove, he could never endure 1o have it lav-
jah] upon him; once for all he would give it
a death blow; when Lis letter reached me he
should be married.
“I had another lover then, Janet, and I al-
micat hated kim, but before many weeks were
over § became Lis Wife, Tle Toved me always,
but we quarveled. 1 could not pretend to
love him, and he grew reckless; our home
was todserable, and within a year he died. 1
was too iil to know what happened for a long
time after that. Btrange faces passed before
ae, strange voles spoke kindly words of
pity, and once every day it seemed to mie that
Andrew came and stood by my bed. When
ab last § woke to reason again, you were be
glide me. Oh, how [ loved you! How pas
sicnately I loved youl You seemed t6 te to
be all the world, and you saved my life!
“My husbend hind not lefs me in poverty, 1
tad no need to work, and I spent my whole
life in watching over you. I made no friends,
for I eared for nome. I forgot the miseries of
any father's house, I forgot my quarrels with
wy husband; I forgot even my love for An-
dreve, and was seareely moved when I beard
that death had visited his home as well as
eine, und that he was indeed desolate, for Ins
wife had died and loft him childless. Three
hapy
cloud, ¢
eoeoned 10 my delighted eyes to give a new
charm, a now beauty fo my treasure;
then In the mild of we Jo you fell fll.
v, I watched by your
* romd wiehe, night and
wiley, Jomo, give mo no thanks; it was
Is love! It was all in vain that doctor
nd mares srgued with me. 1 would sot
eave You y ;
£0 reve
YOU. Then some one CAMS TOrwakd ana sav
down beside me and took my hand, and I saw
that it was Andrew. It gave me no surprise
to see him there, I dimly romembered that | §
had seemad to see Lim before when I was ill,
and for the moment his presence calmed
me,
“ ‘Mary, bo said, in his old, quiet tone, “5
you do not do as 1 tell you you will die; and,
what is more, the child will die too.’
“I sprang up with a scream and struggled
togo to you. ‘My child, my child? 1 eried.
Sbe is not your child--she is mine,’ he
sald, in that calm tone of truth which had
never falled to convince me, and which now
plerced like a sword of ice into my heart,
‘Wes, she is nine! Listen. Is quiet eyes
controlled me, his quiet words subdued me,
‘When vou were very ill, dy ing, they
thought, ny name was often on your lips,
and they discovered and sent for me, On the
game day a child was born to each of us, and
my wife and your child died. “We might
have hoped for her if her baby had lived,”
said the doctor; and I gave my child to you.
Can you not bear what I have borne?
“Oh. Janet, my child, his words were heal-
ing, and the sorrow that from that hour 1
tried to bear was taken from me!”
At first when mother ceased speaking, the
world, and love, and life seemed to me to be
blank and hollow, but in a few moments 1
rose from my seat and kneeled at her knees.
“Oh. mother, dear—my father”
“He died long ago. Janet, do you love
a kissd each other I knew that
in all our lives of happy love dear mot her
and I had never been so near together
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THE COMPLAINT OF SANTA CLAUS.
Tha snow p on the frosen ground,
And t ght is cold,
And 1 shh rime so hoar--
Can it be 1 am growing old?
MEH
’
we before the
» years ago when the Christmas chimes
os merry the midnight sky,
wen the carolers’ call filled houses and ball
sd wakdail and mirth ren high
When the harlequin mummers reeled and danced,
And the vest yuls log biased bright;
in were groan wilh a suminer een,
ew bedight;
na faces of all, the young, the old,
Were brimming with sparkliag cheer
Loa, thaws wers tos tinees whan Christmas chimes
Were the mercest sounds of the year
ypped my fingers In Jack Frost's teeth,
fie 1 sow was wavering down,
my beard 1 flung ~
i that was then 30 brown!
ped myself In my grizly coat,
my pipe with a coal
rest, where | stopped to rest,
Northern Pole.
From Hecla's «
On my way from toe N
My reindeers—-O, they were bris
My sledpe, it could stand a
y pack, tho great, seemed & feather's weight,
y watter hoy
k and gay—
mimed and full
odd old days,
thousas
i hearts,
i my sweets from
d my cungingesi Loy
t for the innocent girls,
Licking, rogulsh boys
But the times have sobered and changed
then,
My merriment flags forlorn
My beard is as white as on Christiaas night
Of old was the Glastor thorn,
ance
The' my wrinkled up lips still hold the pipe,
No lobger the smoke wreath curls;
But saddest to see, of sights for me
My frolicsome boys and girls
Have grown 80 knowing, they dare to say
Those protesters wise and small
That all saints deceive, aud they don't believe
Io a Santa Claus af all
Ab, me! ‘tls a fateful sound to bear;
*Tis gall ia my wassall cup,
The darlings 1've spoiled, so wronght for and
toiled,
The children have given me up!
My heart Is broken. I'l break my pipe,
And my tinkling team may go,
And bury my sladge on the trackiens edge
Of the wastes of the Lapland snow
My useless pack 1 will fling away,
And in Germany's forests hoar,
From an ley steep | will plunge leagues dead,
And pever bv beard of more
Manganzr J. Paxerox.
About this time the newspapers teem with
advice to husbands—how to treat wives, what
to buy for thom, and to be sure to buy some-
thing. Immediately following mandatory
articles of this kind come suggestions to
wives to make home pleasant for husbands
during the days of good cheer. Ho much is
done for infants that a little gentle reminder
to the big married children may pot come
amiss: but is the editorial mind a safe one to
go to for hints on how to maintain con-
nubial felicity! Marry! I know not, for
sooth! ax Shakespeare's people say when they
dre nonwlusssd, Every ore wvet work oud
the problem for himself,
Morey Clitistmns J¢ hore, with a sulle and 8
chee
Cheer, ;
Tt all your old froubles and quarrels be ended!
For op friend that is near have a greeting most
ear,
hy breathe a good wish for the foe whio's of
@ ¥ :
A prince of good fellows, sad welsome fs be.
The Hest Insest Destroyer Known.
“feeping things are -
out danger to human life or injury to prop
RULED BY PREJUDICE.
Few persons realize how thoroughly
they are controlled by prejudice even to
their own difadvantage. For many years
the treatment of rheumatism, neuralgia,
scinties and headache has been by some
outward application, and, therefore, with-
out stopping to think that the origin of
these troubles must, from necessity, be in-
ternal, the weary sufferer continues to rubs,
rub and find no relief. Athlophorosis taken
internally, and as a proof that this is the
correct principle, it cures sure ly and quick-
ly. The statement of those who have been
cured ought to convinee the incredulous.
C. F. Bruce, Metuchen, N. J, says: “My
mosher had the rheumatism in her heart,
and was cured by Athlophoros. She says
there is no medicine like it.”
James VW. Eeed, 4638 Penn Ave, Pitts.
burgh, Pa., says: * My mother, although 77
years of age, was entirely cured by the use
of Athlophoroes.”
Miss Carrie Patten, Eagle Village, N. XY,
says: “My mother was nearly a ¢ ripple in
her arms, not having been able to dress nos
scarcely to feed herself for thre
months. being in severe pain most of ths
time. The acute pain ceased after taking
three bottles of Athlophoros, but she
tinued to take it until all sagas of rheuma-
tism were gone ; having taken 27 bottles in
all. She has not taken any since Inst May,
and ean use her arms as w
number of friends have ta :
every case it has given satisfaction,
able
con-
i
ken
of sick headache, it gives almost immediate
relief.”
John M. Wolcott, Piffard, N. X., says:
“1 got a bottle of Athlophoros for a friend.
Khe at once gained rapidly, and has not
been troubled with the rheumatism since.”
§
it
44%
Every druggistshould keep Athlop
and Athlophor w Pills, but where they cane
not be bought of the druggist the Athlo-
phoros Co., 112 Wall 8t., New York, will
send either (carriage paid) on receipt oi
regular price, which is $1.00 per bottle
for Athlophoros and 50c. for Pills.
For liver and kidney diseases, dyspepsia, io-
digestion, weakness, nervous debility, diseases
of women, constipation, headache, ur
blood, &o., A thiophoros Pills are unequaled
16
wee A good fit is the principal part of
a suit of viothes and isa whar a young
man is anxions to have. Don't sindy
long about where you are going to gel
your sait made, bat let Mr, Jackson, the
fashionable cutter in the tailoring estab-
lishment of W, I. Fleming & Co, Belle.
fonte, take your meascre aud you «an be
sure of geting one of the best
suits you ever had. They deal in
ing but first class goods, and their prices
are the most reasonable.
you will not regret it,
but offer everything in the line folly
offord it,
per yard, nor Canton flannels at 4 cenls,
as our regular trade have no use for
jonds, bot we have a full line of
GOODS comprising everyihiog Domes.
tie, Dry Goods and 1
Goods, incloding carpets, at the
offered in Bellefonte. 8B. & A. Loza,
ZELLER & SON,
» DRUGGISTS. Ballafonte, Pa.
Desler In
DRUGS,
CHEMICALS
PERFUMERY,
FANCY GOODS. &
Pure Wines and Liquors for medic
furposes si ways kept
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BREWING MACHINES,
We have the Agency for and
keep in stock the DAVIS, NEW
HOME, and others, with
the mondern improvements and
attachments adapted
makers or the
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for dress
N sthing
please your wile better
home,
than an easy runniog machine.
somnisimone £3 a
LAMPE, LAMPS,
We carry a complete line of
Hapgiog Lamps. We have (he
Agency for the Incandescent
Lamp, which we claim gives a
stronger apd better light than
any Lamp ia the market, New
iovention,
Come and see our Holiday
Goods, All goods warranted,
Next door to Hotel
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