wn mba ee oT WeihlnE we WEE a SEAN dn So nn cn me sm ll ink wt le py na gen FRA AAAI AAA FARR ATA AT AA The Prize Egg z An Easter Story NANA NNO NINN NRX 300 NOR ANN HE shops all along the main street were full of Easter sug gestions. © One confectioners ‘window was entirely filled with chocolate covered eggs of al sizes, and a large placard announced: “Each egg in this window contains a valuable and unique prize. All eggs are the same price, 25 cents. Each egg will open on Easter pa Passersby paused to look and read the notice, and not a few entered the shop to purchase. Presently a winsome looking girl and a very tall young man paused in front of the window. He looked inquiringly at her, and she smiled; then they went ““8n, coming out again in a few minutes carrying a small box. That evening at the girl’s home they opened the package and examined the CER. “Shall we break it,” she questioned, “or wait until Easter and see what happens?” “Oh, .let's wait!” he answered. = “I don’t suppose it will have anything worth while inside, and it may not even open, though of course that could be chemically arranged.” The egg was again put in its box and laid away where the girl promised it would remain until the arrival of the man on Easter mormng. Raster dawned fair and beautiful, and while it was quite early the man arrived to find the girl anxiously await- ing him. They opened the box with care and gently laid the egg on the table. The surface of chocolate was as smooth as when purchased. For half an hour they watched it closely and were about to give up when the girl noticed a faint crack across the top. Very slowly it spread —in fact, almost imperceptibly—until, quite without realizingihow it happen- ed or when, the two halves of the egg lay on the table and between them #& small object wrapped in tissue paper. Very gingerly she tore off the paper and cried in disgust when she saw only a dirty old silver dollar. “Still,” he exclaimed practically, “a dollar is a dollar, no matter how old it 18.” He took it from her and looked at it closely, feeling it all over, when the eagle opened, and the face of a wo- man smiled up at him. “Oh!” Suddenly he raised it to his Hips, kissing it passionately. ; The girl's expression instantly chang- ed from sweet winsomenéss to a jeal- ous fury, and she snatched the dellar from him. “How dare you kiss that woman when you say you love me!” “She fair ty Missed the words, and her angry eyes devoured the lovely features of the almost faded picture.;:’ : He took it gently from her, holding 3t tenderly in his hand, while he put bis arm around her, and ‘there was ‘wonder in ‘his voice: when +he spoke. “Strange and improbable as it seems. that is my, mother’s ph “How carious!” she murmured from his shoulder. nes see how thin and worn the dol- he continued. ‘That is because od father carried it for ten years, and then one day absentmindedly he spent it. He never knew where or how, but it was gone. and he was never able to find a trace of it, though 1 don’t believe he has ever given up trying. * * * I think mother felt it until she saw how it worried father; then she made light of it by saying she wondered whose husband was carrying her pic- ture now. * * * How glad they will be!” He raised the eagle to look once more into the beautiful tender eyes that, so the girl thought at the mo- ment, were exactly like his. “I thought I would be afraid of her,” the girl said slowly, “but 1 won't be unless she has changed. Has she?” “Only to become more beautiful. This was taken before I was born. * * * You will change that way some day, dear, and 1 shall watch you as my father watched her. You do love me. I know it now,” he said with convic- tion, “for you were jealous when I kissed the picture, and you couldn't be unless you cared.” Once more she gazed upon the pile- ture; then, closing the dollar, she slip- ped it into his vest pocket. “Take it to her, dear,”’—she hesitat- ed—*“and tell her it came out of a prize egg, but that a girl who hopes some day to be loved as much as she is sends it, and”’— “Then,” he interrupted, ing to say yes today?” “I’m still in doubt about lots of things, but I do love you. and I want a beautiful mother to love me, and”— “You darling?’ He lifted her off her ‘‘you’re go- feet for a second and crushed her to him. As he put her down they both noticed the egg had closed, and only a faint erack showed where it had been split. “Yes, it's a strange egg.” he said in answer to her q tioning, “but what I said about the action of chemicals accounts for the closing as well as the opening. But whatever it is it has served its purpese here in giving me the prize.” In the Garden. *8he, supposing him to be the gardener” — Dead is our Christ and our hearts cry ‘Where? We would be true to ‘the loved and fair. WIN we peer in the tomb behind thee. AR! Not there! But as of old in the open air, Out in the garden, Lord, we find thee. =3ary Eleanor. Roberta in Lippipcott’s. BD pinion ovosston entities. iris .I'hadn’t noticed the resemblance.” | neighbor. “Is he talking about one of Song and Story ...... The Little Boy's Prayer Dear God, I need you awful bad; I don't know what to do; My papa’s cross, my mamma’s sick; I hain’t no fren’ but you. Them keerless angels went and brung, : ’ 'Stid of the boy, I ast, A weenchy, teenchy baby girl, I don’t see how they dast. Say, God, I wisht you'd take ‘her back, She’s just as good as new; Won't noone know she’s secon’ hand, 2s But ’ception me and you; An’ pick a boy, dear God, yourself, The nicest in your fold; But please don’t choose him quite S80 young, I'd like him five years old. 8S. M_ Talbot. 2 To My Mother Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds! Plen- ty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows; brothers and sisters, aunts and cous- ins; but only one mother in all the ‘wide world! ¥ Kate Douglas Wiggin. An Unnecessary Fuss A Scotch minister was walking through a street in the village one | misty evening when he fell into a deep hole. There was no ladder by which he could make his escape and he began to shout for help. A passing laborer heard his cries, and looking down, asked who he was. The minis- ter told him, whereupon the laborer remarked: “Weel, weel, ye needna kick up sic a noise. You'll no be needed afore Sawbeth an’ this is only "Wednesday nicht.” Not Just What She Meant The lady hadjust been /infroduced to her partner at a dance and was ‘talking to him vivaciously. “Tell me,” she said, “Who is that terribly home- ly man over there?” The gentleman looked. “That,” he said ponderously, “is my brother.” “Oh!” gasped the lady in horrified amazement. “Pardon me. Really, I A Desperate Charge. “They charged like demons,” said the retired colonel excitedly. “I never saw anything to touch it. The way they charged positively staggered. me.” “Whom does he mean?” whispered the man ‘who had just come in, ‘to his his old battles?” “No,” replied the other. “He's talk- ing about the holiday he spent at the Swiss hotel.” —Liverpool Mercury. Shortly after the war began a wom- an received a letter addressed to her by her husband. She opened the en- velope, which had already been op- ened once by the censor; and instead of the expected letter she found a slip of paper bearing these words: “Your husband is well but too com- municative.” A Devotee. She had a vast amount of money but it had come to her quite recently. One day an acquaintance asked her if she were fond of art, “Fond of art!” she exclaimed. “Well, I should say I was. If I am ever in a city where there’s an artery I never fail to visit it. —Lippincott’s His Experiment. The wife of the great botanist beamed at him across the supper ta- ble “But these,” she exclaimed, point- Big and soft and white, With little pink nose, so funny, And little stub tail upright. Ta is only the Easter bunny. He's out on his annual errand, Locating nests today, Soon to be filled with eggs, Bri:lrantly coicied and gay. Don't forget to have yours ready, CONDENSED REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE SECOND NATIONAL BANK OF MEYERSDALE, PENNA. AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS. MARCH 4,1915. RESQURCES. Loans and Investments Z._..__._- Real Estate; Furniture and Fixtures. Cash and, due from Bapks. oo: Total Resources. ..-...... . U. S. Bonds and Premiums foaled 5 LIABILITIES. $435,270.16 Capital stock paid ewe ooeoena- $ 65,000.00 72,231.87 Surplus Fund and Profits. .......- 51,932.25 - 62,499.50 Circalstion =... ia iiinsan 63,700.00 . _54.866.82 Deptalls .... neve eon mine 444,236.10 .$624,868.35 "Fotal Liabiliies. . . ~. --. . ---- $624,868.35 JUNE 23, 1909 ! APRIL 4, 191 ROCKWOOD Ephraim Farling left Saturday for the West, where he will visit relatives Mrs J. D. Snyder and Mrs. Harry | For on his uightly round He hip. ety hcps in a hurry, And late ones won't be found. ~Rosamond M. Pent. EASTER'S | MESSAGE. It Teaches Us to Rise Anew From Our Selfishness and Sin. This, to my mind, is the message of the Eastertide: We may interpret the resurrection in a dozen different ways; we ay be: lHeve or not believe that | e took place as repérted in fhe gospels. But that Jesus was never slain by the soldiers of Pontius. Pilate, but lived to rally his disciples after the agony and terror of Golgotha, to capture Paul and lead him over stormy seas and desert wastes for the preaching of kis word, to call “the glorious company of the apostles, the g the So his to us today as he has * time unto the fathers” ) lenge us to live and his great cause hi ‘this 1s as ce ates rs nailed to the cross of Calvary. After the; crucifixion .;as before, Jesus was alive. Mc Dy Ben 2tve in every nec evem the darkest, that has succeeded upon ‘the’ hour "of this mortal agony. and he is alive today truly and wonderfully than he ever been be- | fore in human history. Of this we can. be sure! ‘But ‘what about ourselves? Are we also alive—alive as the eleven were alive when they reassembled in Jeru salem and gave themselves anew to the kingdom of God on earth? Have we arisen from our selfishness, cow: ardice and sin to meet the risen Christ and pledge our hearts to his, or are we dead, &8 dead as Judas when the first Baster dawned upon the world? Thi-~ is the question which this latest Easter puts to us. It is not so much the res urrecticn of Jesus as of ourselves which need concern us.—Rev. Joh Haynes Holmes, New York City. p VICTOR HUGO'S EASTER HOPE. I feel in myself the future Mfe. I am like a forest once cut down —the new shoots are stronger and livelier than ever. I am rising, I know, toward the sky. The sun- shine is on my head. The earth gives me its generous Tia Re drach dre WH fos to the dish of mushrooms that had been set before her, “are not all for me, are they?” “Yes, Mabel,” he nodded. “I gath- ered them especially for you.” sa», but heaven lights me waar reflection of unknown worlds. ¥au say the soul is nothing but the resultant of the bodily $<==rs. Why, then, is my soul more luminous when my dr fn ERA RA She beamed upon him gratefully. What a dear old husband he was! | In five minutes she demolished the! lot, At breakfast next morning he: greeted her anxiously. | “Sleep all right?” he inquired. | “Splendidly,” she smiled. “Not sick at all—mo pains?” hel pressed. “Why, of course not Archie,” she Pesponded. J. O. Lambert, of Shanksville, ownei of a hairless calf, says the freakish critter is growing nicely. Horns have begun to appear on its bare head. Ar owner of freakish animals has beer making inquiries about the calf witl the expectation of purchasing it fo: exhibition purposes in connectior with the side show of a circus. Cu.dren Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTORIA SA SA eS 0 SA he a a a ea Sass ss Aedes SS k=2 in the Tyrol. In the Tyrol the Easter festival is one of great ceremony. During the Baster holidays bands of musicians visit every valley, singing beautiful hymns to the accompaniment of their instruments as they pass along, men, women and children joining in the chorus, bearing lighted torches of’ pine wood. in Miss ‘Critchfieid, who has been pro- .|moted to regular operator. ad | living with Dr. and Mrs. Geo. Speicher i on Main 4 Segoe ! Kellar, the latter of Harrisburg, have { been spending several days in Pitts- burg, with relatives. A son was born a few days ago to Dr. and Mrs. C. T. Saylor. ! Penrose Wolf, the well known lum- ‘ber dealer, has purchased the Mos- ! | holder farm, formerly owned by the ! Schaffs, near Rockwood. Miss Edna Wolfersberger spent sev- eral days in Harrisburg and Hagers- town on her return from college. Dr. Charles J. Hemminger recent- lly accompanied Roy Marlett, aged 16 years, a son of Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Marlett, of Markleton, to the Mercy Hospital at Pittsburg for an opera tion for appendicitis. His condition was critical for a time. Miss® Marion Pritts has aceepted a position with the Somerset | "| County ‘Telephone as. relief operator. The position was. formerly held by | JULY, 15, 1908 MARCH 7.1911 - Je MARCH 4,1914 - - MARCH 4, 1915 - ASSETS GEE Jee 3 . . : ask to be shown you should follow to arrive at the best clothes in town, Just walk right along until you come to this store, and HART, SCHAFFNER & MARX «new spring models in suits for men and young men. Growth as Shown in Following Statements Made to Comptroller of Currency. Boise . ALSO OUR BIG ADVANCE IN 1914 $262,014.92 $411,680.13 $512.574.48 $605.870.62 $610,212.34 $624.868.35 HARTLEY & BALDWIN It’s very easy to poin. out the direct line of march Effie Petenbrink, who has been t for the past year, ‘has. ] returned home to Hooversville. = Jas. Critchfield has moved his family : and household goods inte the R. ‘R.] Coleman house on Kast Broadway. ‘Mr. and ' Mrs. Critehfield. formerly | resided in Johnstown. “The general store of J. C. McSpad- den has been sold. .to.B. F. Phillippi and J. C. Enos, of Rockwood. The new purchasers will take charge April 1. The church council and members’ of St. Luke’s Evangelical Lutheran church tendered their pastor, Rev. John FErler, a reception in the High school auditorium on Wednesday night. The affair was strictly Luther- an and about 250 were present. The high school orchestra furnished the music for the evening. Miss Eliza- beth Walker, Philip Schaff and E. E. Dull rendered several solos, while J. R. Shanks gave a cornet solo. Mrs. N. F. Meyers recited. After a well ar- ranged program had been carried out Elder H. Snyder intoduced and wel- comed the pastor. Rev. Erler feelingly spoke on the subject “Co-operation of a pastor's success. The ladies ser- ved a bountiful repast and a social hour was enjoyed. RACE CULTIVATION To maintain the highest degree of physical health, it must be accompa- nied by a healthy brain. One that can work out its own problems in early ‘intercourse with the rest of mankind and co-operate for the preservation 5 its own species. This is a law of nature. ! The Teutonic writers would have us believe that war is necessary to keep up the prosperity of a healthy nation claiming that the whole scheme of nature is to live on itself. This, however, is a mistake. Canni- balism is rare and unnatural. The self preservation of species means the united effort of individuals to that end. When one begins to live on one’s self death follows. To modify a common but true say- ing dog cannot eat dog. War kills off the healthy and breeds death. In these days of advanced health meas- ures children should be taught to take plenty of out-door physical exer- cise but it should not be brutal in character. Their sport should tend to- cultivate control, temperate thoughts and kindness. As war brings. pestilence the high- er aducation should not . teach the | Teutonic interpretation of the laws of HARTLEY & BALDWIN, The Home of Hart, Schafiner ® Marx Clothes ‘MEYERSDALE, PA. YOU OAN TT ON THE HIGHEST “MARKET PRICES” 2002 Penn Ave., GREAT ORCHARD SERVICE, The orchard demonstration service is now in full swing in Pennsylvania. In some of the southern countesi the | demonstrations have been completed and the attendance shows an increas- | ing interest in ths subject by practi- cal fruit growers. The most remark- able feature of this work is that it | ‘has resulted in so much better fruits than were formerly produced in the same orchards, that all persons now recognize its real value in bringing nia as a state capable of producing the finest fruit in the world. In every county where demonstrations were given last year the fruits produced in the demonstration and supervision orchards were conspicuous among the prize winners at county fairs and lo- cal horticultural exhibitions. places at which they will be perform- ed in Somerset county, were given in last issue. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTORIA FOLEY, IUDNL( FILLS “OR BACKACH EYS AND BLADDEP x our ETAT nature out that it will lead to the self destruction of the species. Wars must cease as man overcomes the brute side of his nature although he may be trained in the science of war without becoming brutal. In this twentieth century all questions be- tween nations will have to be settled by international courts. The present war is counteracting the results of great health laws that have been en- forced by spreading communicable disease’ and killing off the able-bodi- ed ‘members of the belligerent nat- fons. To attain the highest degree of health, militarism ‘must be crushed. 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