TI IE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, P A., APRIL 99. Che Pope i Joan of Arc OAN OI greate Fran her as that of the exception of the * and his Mother. There the memory of the Maid of Orleans is invoked by all parties, the lover of liberty vying with the monarchist, the freethinker seek ing to outrun the churchman in doing fer honor. She has long been the patron saint of France in fact as the pope has now decided to make her in pame. Canonization in the Roman Catholic church is a long process There are three full stages passed, with numerous trials in which the “devil's plays his part, org. ing all objections to the can- didate irges are not deemed of sufficient weight and a favorable verdict is rendered, the first step is ARC ranks easily as the history In is venerated no other being, with Man of Sorrows" heroine in st © name advocate” possible If his Ee TTI ED MS I Wg vn PA » I RR Au JOAN OF ABO STATUR IN 87. DENIS is stage candidate This Years which the venerable” | ' OTe taken, after cal Was pass The led Ago after » In frie: correct | say io i i her to death r were res and officials only were involved In the con splracy In proof they point to the fact that the church fully rehabilitat ed her years later. That the canonization Is not a political move is sho by the fact they aver that the movement for it has beer going on more than a quarter of » entury, or long before tl pt it troubles started In France The world In genera | al view, reg tardy et of of itnhl such put English rea this ertain ck twenty live wn Th “w | favors ' ae nize, he Mle tion o fame of is too | niy of nll mankind for allenate the churel witl adherents enrolling of her name on the ndar of saints will brics to her memory added devotion The simple story of Joan of Are | one of the most spiritual, beautiful and pathetic in ail history, It Is the port of thing men take to their hearts and | cherish as long as the world stands Indeed, It 1s a question If there has] ever been an episode outside of sacred | history that bas so appealed to the | souls of men, Certainly there has been | none that has received more univer | eal treatment in painting, sculpture, drama and letters, Yet for nearly four | centuries after her death scant justice was done to the memory of the war vior maid. She war misrepresented by Ar i Sav ure hed In this y yet oppaOne iu hearts my lo of the Hiltons of Its the Coren oeYen while the 1 the cals Netw Patron Saint of France lh ath a a Cg Sn Se San She and last writers Voltaire hundred awnkened and the unselfishness of her life | lettered pe girl her voices, she was a prophecy of the spir ftual discoveries now made by science hundreds of after her death. TUnversed for a day in the arts of war, she yet displayed genius as a strategist and tactician that has been the marvel of military authorities from that till the present. Without re ligious knowledge other than that gained from her own soul and her sim- ple des gave answers that astounded the keenest ecclesiastics and questioners then living and have been the of students since age of univers kespeare in the world has the purity ns great It has years that to the as been onl the miracle, n sant hearing being years day she She was il debauch A time eral superstitl 3 supreme type of pat od when the patrioti 1ad sunk to its lowest eb mut to say, was brave cowards, That would to the fifteenth a certain kind of time, though fit b, and, in an not be century. courage was not of the sical rather It was this kind © to save, Never a n history needed saving n real name was Jeanr body af ¢, wanting itt to the urage, e Joan cam ore, ette terward wrote the 0 appear that pinch arist« t she wa Kk s of sn In Ya racles were one belr This have hel thet committed in g that she was a shep! 8 untrue, ex ped out od a few she wi heard to the nearly salvatl four v¢ me her native n and take up the work “for h she was born,” Her story from time world knows by She relieved Orleans her her king crowned ars before overco odesty and ti midi whi this heart on the won ot t ox and saw ATATURK OF THE MAID OF FPECHINE of some Afteenth tury and prints, of others theme ht be genuine and of whose origin Is not known 1 believe a line can be gained on her real appear ance. All these early portraits men tioned have a general similarity and agree with traditions, If they are cor | rect, she looked not unlike a fominine | edition of Oliver Cromwell, whom In| some ways she resembled In character Both “new modeled” thelr armies, im posing sobriety and filling them with a religious spirit. Both were Intensely devout and patriotic, both had visions, and both loved God and man, J. A. EDGERTON, ORLEANS BY study paintings careful con mn mOme been i Why the Menu Was Changed. The culinary department of an East Indian household, If the story of Amerie who has recently turned ‘nleutta is to be far differently tchen, “Here expert at the Philadelphia would disdain valuation on hls His conditions Involve a flat rate of many shillings weekly for the furni ing and preparation of provisions system of putting the culinary ment out Oust un an traveler from ( re ved, un belle from we employ much a Record to place servic Is man Americ un 1d in Ethiopian BO weel “There a weekly sity . ook fn « to contract part of the ot for the best the household Christmas the tourist had for served for of the head ook explained that chicken had taken sick and if it not been killed and served that day was afraid he would have lost it.* Chuses | 88 on the frequently is n and welfare of ly before Ia named Amer his cook to Brolled Pressed for ing the command household health in hay chicken e steak was his rea BONS the ¢ Conscientious Bill. go of the reus man, show, and pard gave f 1) "we of comparative hardnes formed represented by es, of which 4d 0 SCR ten sub a PRT stan done? we girl quietly “No.” answered know It Isn't. I'd rather be to have to ith New York } Woman dead th women Li associate ress A Light Burden. little slip of a with face tolled 1 ¢e bh welght of a robust welghed A fral sweet, under who much LA M Y pathet ls carry that fully hea: “Heavy? she smiled neator worn the must infant have nearly did child.” exeln passerby, “you baby as she med ought ne Isn't he dren dear : ) nig Indeed ma'an brother! nN Why, no, “He's my Realistic She (at the mu ereings » M th wonderful realism you thin! He Yeon moat see the crack In troft Saturday Night Rehreeed Don't can Li wn? vou n her volee Tw A Restless Breed. Mr Rickanm «No sirree maones wouldn't buy that dog He's a eros between a #*. Bernard and Mr. Pee vey (who Is not enthusiastic)-And » Bt. Vitus? Puck In ecaversation greater share sanid, confidence has » than wit. Rochefon | We Build the Ladder by Which We Rise Eure enous | Are Now 1909, Heaven is not But we rise From the skies, wa mol round reached bulld the at a ladder single bound, by which we lowly earth to the And int to its summit rou I count this thing to be grandly true That a noble deed is a step toward God Lifting the soul fro To a purer and broader view J. G. Holland m the common clod alr Archie “I know fided Mrs anything fa hot when he has mind to test Stood Her Test hie does not drink.” Pike to her sister—*that stronger than a glass of beer maybe a |} whisky cold, I made him I have ] I would live with a drank, so I prepared a test “I went down the street store and bought a box bottle of whisky. a bottle wine and of brandy in the prettiest little surprised him it day, and 1 tell you he when he saw and more 1d only con. in, on day or ot never mn to a liquor taining a of madeira , all for #1 Then 1 his birth CO n bottle hox th for wi confessed tha the bargain “Archie promised he would nes taste and, although I 1s study look. It fe turned very pal oN ine Pete gave was a bear and ne hy o ’ nnd 1 DOUNded “We Hay’ s Hair-Health » Xa tural and sulr re Gray Hair to it Stops its fall ng oi Dandruff, Refu [ 00 and Soc. Bottles, at Dreey sts. Is Not a Dye. tor free book “The Care of the Hair Newark, N. 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