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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.
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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
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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<dily powers be:in to fail?
Winter is on my head, but
eternal spring is in my heart.
Toeve 1 breathe at this hour
$3e fragrance of the lilacs, the
violets and the roses as at
twenty years.
When Igo down to the grave
1 &=: say, like so many others,
27 have finished my day's
work.” But I cannot say, ¢I
have finished my life.” My
* day's work will begin the next
. morning. The tomb is not a
blind alley; it is a thorough-
, fare. It closes on the twilight;
, it opens with the dawn.
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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
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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
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The orchard demonstration service
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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
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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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