eR —
I.
with the childish
voices.
angels si-
ing—"
high. Walt a min-
ute!”
ald—"
Now, Thad!"
“Hark, the herald
angels si-ing
Glory to the new-
born King—
“Seraphina, can't you take that
piece of candy out of Thad's mouth?
He nearly yked himself just then
You can have it back, Thad, when
you've sung two verses. Don't be
such a baby! Now, good and loud
“Hark, the herald angels siing—"
Schuyler bellowed lustily and beat
time with a drumstick.
sang with much fervor and m:
notes; while little Thad
tune manfully, an i
1a” when the words I
his four-year-old meme
The second l
cessful issue 3 sn
chorus and turned to the door
“You see 'f you can't teach Thad
the words of that second verse while
boys at St. Jude's. He fished beneath
“Come on!” he whispered, and led
With a caution worthy of better
things; he shot the bolts and opened
The three grotesque
lgures stole silently out and stood on
the stoop in the cold Christmas dawn
lence of the streets appalling. Sera-
phina's mind reverted to the luxury of
the bed she had just quitted.
“O-0-0h!"” she chattered
—aw-awful c-cold to be out
htie!"
Schuyler snorted scornfully
“Haven't you got enough on
neath it?” he demanded angrily
Seraphina was silenced.”
“C-o00ld!” echoed little i
then, evidently thinking the sooner he
sooner he would
in the house, he began
vic e.
“Hark, er he
Schuyler ti :
mouth.
' he sald disgust
Elsa to come
into the hou
sticks for the censer,” he told Sera
phina.
der «¢
him o
ing carols
mas morn
hold on
80 str
to smu
the hous
to sir Ing
some v
tor and
ret no lon I
on the third fing
and Doctor Post
score
Did tl
surplices,
Christmas fon § J
Did they stand still or march )
while they sang? "hese and other
points sadly taxed is eight-year-old
intellect. But his determination to
sing that carol in the street never
faltered Hence the secret rehear
gals in the nursery
After much deliberation, he decid
ed that surplices would le nd
to the occasion, and this decision w
furthered by the thought that ni
gowns would make very passable
possibilities, he added a censer to the
properties,
of holes, swung on the gilt cord that
comes about candy boxes, and filled
with burning joss-sticks, would make
a beautiful censer.
It was Christmas Eve,
ler's plans were complete. Ie felt
sure they would put
and Schuy
up a very credit
able carol in the morning, even if Doc-
tor Post's advice had not been obtain
Agnes, the second girl, he felt that
the last obstacle had been surmount.
ed,
“Come on now, once more,” he sald
as he entered the nursery door. "Elsa
will be up with supper in a minute.
We've just time before she
Stand up, Thad.
a plece of the josa-stick if you'll sing
good and loud. Now!”
II.
Very early in the gray of the Christ.
mas dawn Schuyler awoke, bounced
out of bed, and began to rouse big co
horts. He tiptoed to Seraphina's lit-
tle white cot and indulged in a series
of vigorous shakes and punches.
“Get up! Get up, Seraphina! It's
time to go out and carol,” he whis-
pered hoarsely.
Seraphina arose, and, sitting on the
side of her bed, blinked at him re
proachfully.
awake and ready for anything which
savored of exciting novelty. The two
comes,
on little Thad’s clothes.
ler crept nolselessly to the hall below |
and returned with cots and hats and |
mittens. When they had bundled |
themselves into these outer garments,
wach donned a “surplice.” At the last
the brilliant cord on his father's bath.
robe, and at the imminent peril of dis
dressing-room and returned with the
coveted cord encircling his small
walst. This finishing touch, he felt
piped little
Thad
“We're Christ: carolers,”
ed Schuyler wit ich dignity
“I'm frozen,” chirped Seraphina
The doctor made a heroic effort to
maintain his gravity.
“Come in, come in and get warm,”
he said. “Merry Christmas to you!’
They filed up the steps into the
warm, wide hall, the tomato can send
ing out its reek of burning joss-stick
“I would like to ask If carolers gen
erally wear surplices and carry cen
The doctor's eyes twinkled.
“The best 1 ever heard did,”
gravely.
At that moment the telephone bell
what they
he said
heard the doctor say:
“Hello! Yes, this is Doctor Post
talking. Who? Oh, it's you, Marga
ret!”"—he lingered affectionately on
the word-— “Y-e8. Now don't be
alarmed. They're not lost In fact,
they're here with me this minute
No, don’t trouble
them. Thanks. Good by!”
Brunt and Aunt Margaret met the cav-
aleade at the door.
“Oh! Oh!” sald Mrs. Van Brunt,
gathering the three strange little fig.
ures in her arms, while tears of mer
Doctor Post had turned vo Margaret
“1 thought I'd come with the herald
| angels,” he sald laughingly, “and let
| them plead ‘peace on earth and mercy
Her eyes softened A hesitating
smile trembled on her lips a moment
uncertainty whatever. And then he
knew that the herald angels had ac
complished an unwitting mission.
(Copyright, Frank A. Munsey Co.)
SNAPSHOTS AT
Items of Interest.
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Farmers Busy in Every Locality—
Churches Rairing Funds for Many
Worthy Objects—Items of Busi-
ness “nd Picasure that Interest.
Discouraged by protracted illness,
Miss Mary Klingensmith, of Vander-
grift, committed suicide in a hospital.
For running an automobile while
intoxicated john Davis, of Emilie, was
fined $100 by the Bucks County Court.
WilBam Lunn and Charles Costello,
glass-workers, were asphyxiated in
thelr Uniontown boarding house by
fumes from a gas stove
Poltstow arpenters ill demand
an crease from 30 to 35 cents per
hour aft i
While William Schaeffer, of Read-
ing, wa hoveling coal into a heater,
he was struck by a bullet in his arm,
apparently from
Qual
n her baby
. John C reed, of
near
her
rned on,
As a step Ir
cost of living
Jury recommen
ralsed by the thous
aimshnouse
Christ ‘olor, harge with the
murder John Gallagher, at Cler-
mont, was adjudged insane by a
special jury at riminal court at
Smithport He as taken
ren Asylum
to War.
Dedication of the new $15,600
science hall building of Albright Col-
lege occurred with services, partici
pated in by the faculty and student
body. The dedicatory address was
delivered by tne Rev. J. P. Stober, of
the Department of Biology and
Geology.
Following a quarrel at a boarding
house at Shamokin between James
Coruch and Dominie Goretti, cousins,
the latter is alleged to have shot the
former twice in the chest and once
in the back, after which Gorettd es-
caped to the mountains. Corucly
almost bled to death.
The “low”
the report of Warden Walton, of
Schuylkill county, for the month of
Thanksgiving day.
During November, 1012, when
for drunkenness, while last month,
only 13 "drunks" were arrested.
a
mended an investigation of the Darby
Creek and Essington boathouse dis
trict, which has been the scene of
murders. The report characterizes
‘he places as a source of crime amd
iisorder, and says the boathouses are
sept for immoral purposes
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