[FAMED IN LEGEND AND STORY
[Rhine Has for Generations Inspired
i Patriotism Among the Sons
of the Fatherland.
For generations past the Rhine has
served to inspire the spirit of patri
‘otism among his German children,
‘who love to call him “Father Rhire.”
“Wacht am Rhein” was the great na
{tional song which was sung with an
‘extraordinary fervor by the German
soldiers alike in the hour of defeat |
@and victory in the Franco-German
‘war, being sung before the walls of
Paris in that great campaign which
ended in victory for the Prussian
forces. And now that their country
2 faesd with a greater peril than any
ihe has hitherto experienced, the
‘Words of that great war song, bring-
ing back memories of 1870, will be
sung by millions of the kaiser's forces
on land and sea. Truly the Rhine is
Bg fit subject for a national song. Its
‘banks were the scene of many of the
flerce battles for supremacy which
‘took place between the Teutonic hosts
and the Romans, whose strongest bul-
wark it was; it was there that Gaul
and Teuton struggled for supremacy
In the generations that followed.
Flowing through a land clothed with
vineyards, that yield a wine which is
famed the world over for its exquisite
bouquet and dry, piquant flavor,
“Father Rhine” breathes a spirit of
song and legend and romance. Ruined
castles crown the rugged and fantas-
tic crags th@t hem in its channel; its
waters, of a deep green hue, flow over
the treasure of the Nibelungs, surge
round the rock of the siren Lorelei,
and are overlooked by the command-
ing statue of Germania—the trophy
of German victory in 1870.
Except during the 18th and the
greater part of the 19th centuries,
it has always been a purely German
river. It became part of the dividing
line between France and Germany in
1697, when Alsace-Lorraine was ap-
propriated by France; in 1870 it was
won back by its children at the point
of the sword. It is to the German
race what the Thames is to the Eng-
lish people. It is a means of liveli-
hood, too, for it carries more than
two million tons of freightage each
year, and is a symbol of national pros-
perity.
HE PANHANDLED THE COPS
Pennsylvania Man Found Brooklyn Po-
licemen Easy to Work, and
Worked Them.
Grant Flemming, who says he’s
thirty-five years old and hails from
Harrisburg, Pa. of good appearance
and with an ingratiating manner, hit
on a new way of making a living with-
out work, and introduced it to Brook-
Iyn. Most of his tribe shun police-
men, but Grant Flemming took the
police force into his confidence. At
night, when policemen are lonely and
willing to talk to anyone for com-
pany’s sake, the Pennsylvanian poured
his tale of woe into the ear of some
sympathetic “cop.” He told how he
was a member of a prominent family,
and was stranded in a strange city. He
wanted just a couple of dollars, or
maybe three dollars, to take him home.
He would return it with interest just
as soon as he reached Harrisburg.
Could the policeman let him-have it?
And it is said Flemming was success-
ful; just how successful the records
don’t show.
Occasionally the stranger dropped in
at a police station and told the desk
leutenant his “hard luck” story. Usual-
ly he asked for a “fiver,” and it is
said that he always got something.
But when Flemming tackled Patrol-
man Macdonald of the Bedford avenue
precinct he made a mistake, and the
nice, pleasant-looking person was ar-
rested on the charge of vagrancy. In
the Manhattan avenue court he was
sent to the workhouse for three
months.—Brooklyn Eagle.
From Pure Joy of Living.
Miss Maria Thompson Daviess, the
author, having lived all her life in the
South, has a fund of humorous stories
about the negroes. The New York
Sun says that the following one is
her favorite:
One day she walked down a street
in Nashville with a guest from the
Nerth. The street was crowded with
negroes, who were forming in Ine for
a perade. Miss Daviess’ guest was
curicus to know what it was about;
a1. seeing a boy whom she knew,
Mi=s Daviess called him to her.
“What's the occasion for the parade,
Tcni ?” she asked.
The boy looked at her with a grin.
“La, 17iss *Daviess,” he replied, “don’
veu-2'l know colored folks well 'nough
to kro dat dey don’ need no ’casion
fchia 1'rade?”
Minera! Products of Texas.
Texas does not hold first place as
the producer of any mineral substance,
but ranks second in the production of
asphalt and third in the production of
quicksilver. Since the sensational
strike at Beaumont in 1901 petroleum
has bad first placo in ths mineral
products of the si2ie, and Texas now
ranks fourth amcgng all the states in
the quantity of petroleum produced.
and seventh with rcspect to the value
of the product. :
Spain's Quicksilver Output.
During 1904 1905 the United
States led the
and
ana
the 1
licksilver, but from 1906 to date |
i
ading producer has been Spain, |
whose great cinnabar deposits of Al- |
output of which has been
y the Rothschilds and
chiefly in London, have
ery rich.
maden, the
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Pilgrims Entering Bethlehem on Christmas Da
Oh, Tender Tale
Of Old!
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Oh, tender tale of old,
Live wp thy dear renown!
God's smile was in the dark-~behold
That way his host came down.
Light up, great God, thy word,
Make the blest meaning strong,
As if our ears, indeed, had heard
The glory of their song.
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VIVIVOOIVIVOOOOY
It was so far away,
But thou couldst make it near,
And all its living might display
And cry to it, “Be here!”
Here, in the unresting town,
As once remote to them
Who heard it when the heavens
came down
On pastoral Bethlehem.
It was so long ago,
But God can make it now
And, as with that sweet overthrow
Our empty hearts endow.
Take, Lord, those words outworn;
Oh, make them new for aye;
Speak---“Unto you a child is born,”
Today, today, today.
—Jean Ingelow
Christmas, Christmas Everywhere.
“We have received our first Christ
mas gift,” said a city man the other
day, “in the shape of two little square,
cube shaped paper packages of tea
with Chinese characters painted ali
over them. They came from our Chi
nese laundryman.
“When we go for the washing and
produce the ticket the Chinaman
reaches for the bundle.
“ ‘Ninety cent, he says, and as we
are reaching for the coin he reaches
under the counter and produces from
there those two little square packages,
which he lays down beside our bun
dle. We don’t know what's in them or
why he put them there, and as we put
down the coin we take up one of the
packets and say:
“ ‘What's this? And then says the
laundryman, smiling:
* ‘Kismus.’
“And as we smile in return and pick
up the odd little packets we think the
Chinaman is really more or less adapt
able to the customs of the country.”
The Cradle and the Cross.
Calvary’s cross out of mind, the
tull significance of Bethlehem’s cradle
is missed. The great lesson of Christ-
mas is not half learned except our
thoughts project themselves beyond
the scenes of the Redeemer’s birth to
the scenes of his death and the rela
tion of his hnmiliation and suffering
to our redemption be borne in mind
world in the production | —Christian Intelligencer.
When Hope Was Born.
Rise, happy morn; rise. holy morn.
Draw forth the cheerful dav from night
touch the east and hi
hat shone when hope was born
Tennyson ‘ln Memoriam
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Christmas Seal
Of 1914
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hath dh od
i the design for the 1914 Red
Cross Christmas seal, to he
sold throughvuut the United States dur
ing this yeur's boliday season to hein
in the war on tuberculosis.
A different design for this stamp is
adopted every vear The 1914 stamp
is brightly colored, with red and green
predominating. It is taken up almost
entirely by the ruddy face of Sants
Claus. Tbe background, in vivid
green, represents part of a Christmas
tree. At the upper corners are req
crosses. At the bottom op ap unrolled:
scroll are the greetings “Merry (‘hrist
mas” and “Happy New Year.” The
legends “American Red Cross” sand
*“1914" appear.
Instead of an oblong design, as nsec
during the 1913 Christmas season. the
1914 stamp is square.
The Red Cross anti-tubercniosis
Christmas seal first was used by the
American Red Cross as a national body
in 1908. Since then over $1.800.000 has
been raised through the sale of these
stamps at Christmas time In the cro
sade against tubercnlosis. Last Christ.
mas over 40,000,000 of the stamps were
sold in the Umited States. The Red
Cross Christmas seal was first used hy
the Delaware chapter of the Red Cross
in 1807 at the instance of the secretary
of that chapter. Miss Emily P. Bissell,
and ti2 matiemal organization took it
up the following year.
The Star of Bethlehem.
This old sobbing world of ours is one
year older than it was when the last
Christmas carol was chanted. It has
had another twelvemonth of experi
ments and of experience, of advance
ment on many lines of human research
and acquisition. But it has not out
grown Jesus Christ. For him it has
discovered no substitute. The star of
Bethlehem is the only star that never
Sets. Jesus Christ alone can satisfy
all human necessities and the loftiest
of human inspirations. Christianity is
the only universal religion, the only
one adapted to all ages of life, to a)
human conditions, to all races and a
nationalities. Other lights have arisen,
waned and vanished forever. The
Greek mythology is as utterly shaken
to ruin as its own splendid Parthenon.
The chief religions of Asia—Brahman
ical, Buddhist and Mosiem—all are lim
ited and local; they are all moribund
While they make no inroads on Chris.
tianity, the religion of Bethlehem sand
Calvary makes constant inroads upon
them. The systems of error which
Paul and Peter fought have vanished
out of sight, and the whole east 1s
catching gl'mpses of the star that tirst
Aawned over Judea’s gky. In spiritual
dynamics blood tells, and God has
trusted bis gospel of salvation to the
most. powerful races on the globe.—
Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler, D. D.
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HE executive committee of the
American Red Cross approved
The Message of the Bells.
The Christmas bells are ringing. In
every nealing note they say to the
Door: “Jesus was one with you. He
chose to shire your lot because It was
that of the majority. In all that yon
have to bear yon are a brother to Jesns
Christ.” Christ never tnok on his
blessed lips the philosopher's cant. He
| of a disine law
| natural as
never said that misery. poverty, dis
ease and death were natural results
Thev were as un
hatefnl. But for them all
remedy, “That re lave one
have lgved you.”--Rishop
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Wonderful Sewers. i
The sewers of Paris are the most
wonderful in the world and constitute
one of the sights of the city. Visitors
are allowed to inspect them on certain
days each week, and I# is certainly an
experience to make a “personally con-
ducted” tour of the two main sewers.
| The journey is made on electric cars
| and launches, which draw up occasion-
ly at brightly illuminated stations.
“Telegraph Wires.
A telegraph wire in the open country
lasts four times as long as one in a
city.
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A lazy liver leads to chronic” dys"
pepsis and constipation—weakens
the whole system. Doan’s Regulets |
(25¢ per box) acts mildly on the liver
and bowels. At all drug stores zd.
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This—And Five Cents!
Don’t Miss This! Cut{out{this slip,
enclose five cents to Foley Co.,
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address clearly. You will receive in
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Foley Kidney Pills andj: Foley Ca-
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Long Street Names.
A French contemporary has bee)
amusing itself by making a list of lon.
street names. The Parisian record
the Rue de Pretres-Saint-Germain
PAuxerrois. which is something of
mouthful, but is equaled by a thor
oughfare in Brussels rejoicing in th.
name of the Rue de la Montagne au:
Herbes-Potageres. In the environs o:
the Belgian capital there is even mor
of a tongue twister, the Ongeschilde
zilverenockermootjestraat, which min
be rendered as the street of the littl.
unpicked silver nut.
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Black Headed Grosbeak.
The black headed grosbeak of the
west takes the place of the rosebreast
in the east and, like it, is a fine song-
ster. It feeds on cherries, apricots and
other fruits and does some damage to
green peas and beans, but it is so ac-
tive a foe of certain horticultural pests
that we can afford to overlook its
faults. For each quart of fruit con
sumed, it destroys in actual bulk more
than one and a half quarts of black
olive scales and one quart of flower
beetles, besides a generous quantity of
codling moth pupae and cankerworms.
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Pains in Back and Hips.,
Are an indication of Kidney trouble
—a warning to. build up the weaken-
ed kidneys, make them vigorous,
rid your blood of acids and poisons.
Go to your druggist for Foley Kid-
ney Pills. In 50c and $1.00 sizes.
Sold by all Dealers Everywhere.
Wm. C, Price
Successor to W. A. Clarke
Funeral Director
Business conducted at the same place
Prompt attention given to all .calls
at all times. Both Phones.
Dromm’s Handmade Pretzel’s
“Made in Johnstown’’, on sale at
McKenzie & Smith’s and at F. A.
Bittner’s Meyersdale’s progressive
grocers. Better than the rest, kind.
Gore, Ga., P. A. Morgan had oc-
casion recently to use a liver medi-
cine and says of Foley Oathartic
Tablets: ‘‘They thoroughly cleansed
my system and I felt like a new man
—light and free. They are the best
medicine I have ever taken for con-
stipation. They keep the stomach
sweet, liver active, bowels regular.
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Red Cedar Shingles, which we ex-|
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the car aud for cash will be $4.25 per
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