Pack 4 THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT. BELLEFONTE, PA., DECEMBER 14, 1905, Ag SDRDVOL HEN GOOD OOD a, Peter the Fiddler on Ly wr or SO —— ed dae otal ohh NCE upon a time there was a fiddler named Peter Mat thews, Now, there may have been other fiddlers of that name before and since, but 1 tell you of this particular one because he came to grief from the very common fault of not being able to hold his tongue, If Peter had known when to speak and when to Keep silent or when to let his fiddle talk for him-Dbut then if Peter had known I should have had no story to tell, The night when Peter ng of his courage to the around the fire. place and fell to taunting old Quaker Quidd because he was afrald to sleep at his old ruined house called Printz Hall because of the were supposed to walk in 5 and deserted rooms after nightfall, Now, Quaker Quidd was a modest man withal, and he bore Peter's taunts for i then when the laughter grew at his expense he said: “1 will Matthews Hall. Th well th Printz pany.” Peter hemmed and hawed, but eyes were turned upon him, so he not refuse. He accepted the offer a great air of bravado, then plas few spiritless tunes on his fiddle went home The truth trouble hegan boast loungers one Wis tavern ghosts wh its corridor awhile in ence; give thee 85 a week, Peter of I'rintz u art a brave man and likest | wilt sleep at | and keep the ghosts com- to be caretaker 1.11 aol i o r, 80 thon H all dare with ed a and Matthews was Peter was ¥ A corner and a great company of people walked and courtesied and talked to- gether, All eyes turned on the fiddler when he entered. He sank into a chair which had been placed for him, and, lifting fiddle to his chin, drew the bow softly across the strings, then broke in wild tune as he never At the first the Joined hands and whirled in- to the dance, up and down, hither and wild and swift, as if wind had come in at the windows and doors and was whirling and toss Ing the strange company wherever it willed his to such an played had before note company yon, he without At last the dance was ended, Peter Printz In his steeple crowned hat ap- proached the fiddler and said: “Thou vell, tiddler, and earned thy vou shalt have the best fee ler before.” , who came filled with e bag,” he hast done © “Hold thy fidd 1 1nel« d agerly e What would his ting companions say now, when he came back a rich What would Quaker Quidd say when he saw the tre Peter's eyes gliste iful after handful of the yellow gold pleces trans ferred from the box to his fiddle bag At last he could contain himself no longer, and, forgetting the Injunction to silence, he shouted: “Helgh ho! Here's luck for the brave fiddler!” But A shriek of wild mp lied 8 man? ol? had mi ned as he s » he aw han las for Peter! not nearly so brave it appear, and he did Quaker Quidd the idea of sleeping in the old ruined hall, h stood In the midst of a lonely weed grown gar. den. But the next evening at twilight he took comforts and blankets to make hinr a bed and his fiddle to bear him I and hied him away to Printz 2% he tried] to make than HHRked no better wih con Hall Ne ti \y g the room which seemed the least dreary and d he stuffed rags in the brok ate the food he had br rh ' iis supper and, t } the bag. be gan to music echoed drearily through the empty house, and It mingled with the scratching of twigs agn and the ore g shutters as they swung the gale. It dreary ent at 80 Peter poked the fire until It blazed up and lighted the farthest corners of the empty room, then he bolted the door, pulled off his coat rolling himself up in the blankets, lay down to sleep. He never knew how long he slept or what awoke him, but suddenly he found himself sitting up In bed staring into the smoldering fire, wide awake. What could it have been-—the sound which startled him? There It was again-n step on the stalr, a clank and sliding of a bolt; then the door came open, aud before him stood the queer est figure Peter had ever seen In jack boots nud a steeple crowned hat. “I'm Peter Prints” the apparition sald ln reply to the fiddier's stare of as- tonishment. “I'm the man who bullt this house, and this is the night of the autumnal equinox, when all my friends assemble for a great revel. Take thy fiddle and come. Play thy bravest and best, but hold thy tongue. Remember | to speak no word and thou shalt have thy reward” Peter followed the queer figure down the rickety stairs into the great recep tion room which he had peeped Into on his arrival early in the evening Now a fire snapped and erackled In the great fireplace and shone on the floor, | which was waxed until it was smooth | as glass, Candles winked In every | Pressing vindows, nst the of window panes loosely was amuse best wd shoes and, “I AM PETER PRINTZ,” THE APPARITION SAID, laughter sounded through the room, the lights went out and he fell to the floor sense le Lo] Here he was found by his friends next morning, and when they awoke him he sprang up and seized his fiddle bag, only to find It empty and his fiddle lying beside him broken into many pleces From WAS A ARAN taunt every o he knew his head fiddler Never or te that day forward the sadder and a wiser man was he heard to boast another with cowardice, and sald of Peter Matthews that how to keep a still tongue in Chicago Record Herald er Cat In the Hole, The game called “eat the hole’ old as it is, is capable of affording some god sport yet In playing the game six shallow holes are dug rather nearer together than the bases in baseball and arrapged so a to form a diamond In the cents stands a boy with a ball in his hand At each hole is a boy with a stick, ons end of which he rests in the hole he I guarding. When the boy with the bal sings out, “Cat In the hole!” all ths ether boys change holes. As they de 80 the boy with the ball tries to throw it into one of the holes before any boy gets his stick into It. If he succends the boy who Is slow In changing and finds the ball in the hole before hls stick Is out. He then has to take the ball himself, in Tongue Twisters, Villy Vite and vife vent ou a voyage to Vest Vindsor and Vest Visdbham vos Vitsun Vednesday, Bandy legged Boarachlo Mustachlo | ws ! Judgment and yet assures them of | His unchanging love (iii, 6) and sets Whiskerifuscius, the bald but brave bombardine of Bagdad, helped Abor milique Biuebeard, bashaw of Babel He solls seashells, sholle? Shall she sell seashells because he sells seashells? Of all the saws I ever saw saw 1 nev. ar paw a saw saw lke this saw saws, When Washington went west, Wash | ington’s wife was washing Washing ton's white wash, { { | i | | mandeb, to beat down an abominable | | bumble of bashaw, Bhall she sell pon. | | (Deut, xvii, 18; Ps. Ixxil, 11; Isa. Ix, | * Bm ———— MUSICAL GLASS, A Couple of Experiments That Be Easily Tried, This pretty experiment should be made with a thin cut glass goblet, and | It would be all the better if the glass! should have a high note when yon tap | it with your finger nail, i Cut out of stiff writing paper a cross with arms of equal length, and, laying it on the top of the glass, turn down each end of the four arms #o that the cross will not slip off Having thus fitted the cross, take it off the glass and pour water into the Many THE MUSICAL GLA latter until it is nearly full, Noy the rim cle of moisture place the 1 You can make the glass vibrate and give forth bbiug your dampened finger over some nart of the exterior. That is it the “musical more wonderful made with it Suppose, for instance, you rub your dampened fingers on the glass just un- der one of the arms of the cross; the cross will not move ut rub it tween two of the arms and the cross will begin to turn slowly, as if by magic, and will not turning 1 unt OL point v wipe not a parti and re carefully, so that remains on It, OSH a sound by why we have called glass,” but even experiment may be an be any #10] reaches a lance immediately ve we are ug you rubb Yon around move as you we pis Une, The thanks of ml to await the wizard Luther Burbank If he will “evolute” ons vet he fn crowloss rooster | crab was servant, and An Animal Story Por Little Folks | «« REVENGE - - Once upon a time there was a crab | and a turtle who took to living togeth- | er. The turtle was master and the when Crabble | didn't do things exactly to suit Mr. Turtle he got a good beating. One morning the turtle came to his breakfast in a bad humor, “Are these worms,” he shouted, “or are they rub- ber bands such as the men people put around packages?’ And he bie with some of the tough breakfast which had been provided. The little crab his meekly that the turtie might well have been but he He went grumbling off to sit with some other old fat turtles on the log they had their about the mn Crabble wa bled cota which ! “What was that I heard the 1 red to h f. “That Aha, my 1 beat Crab took beating so frightened, wasn't, where and grumbled of everybody. He scram ip to a little stood on thie club 1sdoing ted no time out of the water and ank bank he mutts turth EEE KOUuD “ i down to the bank WHERE THEY HAD THEIR CLUB man following rich soup,” the little « “I've kept him { all summer.” man eked un old gt tr Then he 3g 3 & Fou th Quar for 1 | 0-0-0000 OOOO 0-00-00 — 1-13, Text Text of the Lesson, Mal, Hi, Memory Verses, Scl0Galden Mal hii, Rew, led ommentiary Prepared by BD. MM, Stearns, ’ ing (11 Pet The aiest of ture Jehovah, AND tines 80 HILO g all names in Scrip i= which is used about and reveals to us God, the Creator, In relation to right fous td Christ, Jehovah and is to come. The name may be re ognized the LORD GOD whenever so printed—1, e, capitais is only man redemption Jesu ia in who was and is Het Goud ., and all In authorized version it JEHOVAH in four Ixxxiil, 18; Ilsa the Ver but hol in words In our transiated places—Ex. vi, 3; I's xii, 2; xxvii, 4-and sion does not Revised un the American Revised, which all s« ars the meaning of original than any trans lation Holy Scriptures, has given Jehovah « In the Be 1 uh questionable claim forty eight times In this one prophecy. When we remember that | how, even in this name, love overtops all other topless In the Bible, and see in chapter |, 1 that the burden of the word of the LORD to Israel Is, “1 have loved you" Compare Deut, vil, 68, and see In John 14, 16; I John lv, 8, 16, and similar sayings a new light constraining you to praise God for such amazing love, Israel neither knew nor believed the love which Gud had to them, and so they turned away from Him to wor ship ois, the works of their own hands, yet He sent them messenger after messenger to convince them of improve admit gives tin better of the the name riptures to which it has other its pia Hee it used “tol Is love ™ o . - | His love and, If possible, win them back to Him, that He might bless them In the eyes of all nations and bless all nations through them. In this last prophecy He tells them of thelr sin, warns them of coming before them a glorious future If they will repent. The prophets all pointed | to a greater prophet who should come, | who would be also a priest and a king | 0, 7; xxxil, 1, 17; Jer, xxiii, §, 6; Zech. | vl, 13; Ps ex, 4), but he was to have . herald to prepare the way before him. | Bee Isa. xl, 30, ns well as our lesson. We know from Matt. {li and Luke 11 that John the Baptist was this herald, Internationa o~-0--0~0~-0-0~-0~-0~0~-0~0~0~0~0~0~0~ 000-000-000 SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON XII. Series. Dec. 1) : “OOOO 00-00-00 THT WNerYILI BR _ fe oe SL ving H VOTEON ii shail have XV, ¥ prophets pe of judg and of blessing upon Israel and upon all na it ixi, 6, it will be a th Israel's a literal 8: xxxv, | fultilhe Compare Isa 0 0 tl and every where ment upon Nees tions, but just before the great deliv. of trouble for never erance it will be a time Israel such as through before (verses 2, 3; Jer, xxx. 7; Dan. x : Matt ; n Then shail Mal. ii and it thes privnsexd xXiv, 21, ==, «edl) iS be un t : orstood recy fest in our Lord ig His retw Him to! His use, ready ee, that made kno His return we are in the furnace of tr remem iv He is the refiner ar is dealing us that H Himsel may be more fully revealed In us, U the workl through us may know (Rom, oN, 20: John xvii, We are apt to wander from Him into our ways, forsaking Him, tw fountain, and seeking cisterns of our own: then He is grieved and patiently and lovingly to win us back to Himself (Jer. I, 13; HL 12-14) He gives us the privilege of return. fing to Him somewhat of that which He so freely gives to us, asking us to yield to Him cheerfully a seventh of our time and a tenth of all our In crease, that thus He may bless us still more and show Himself to others through us as the one whose blessing maketh rich without sorrow or toll (Prov. x, 22, and Rev, Ver). Rot we, | like Israel, selfishly rob Him and hold | fast for ourselves only all He gra clously gives us and thus prevent Him | from showing Himself strong on our | bebalf (II Cleon. xvi, . Blessing | more than we can find room for would | be ours If we were only grateful to our God with common gratitude, and in this matter iie challenges us to prove Him (10), for any un | ia hroug then His body complet When for a i we mn hastened that with viii «1, &l) own seeks | fully, | warm home, | crab.” tle crib, “WHat do you get out of | this 7” he asked, “Me? sald the crab, “Oh, 1 get nothing except my revenge-—unless you want to give me something for it,” and he looked hopeful, “I will,” returned the man thought. “I want to give you a nlce I'm very fond of deviled And that heartless man walked off chuckling. 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