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New Year's Day
In i'aroff China
Greatest of Fec'.ivals In the Celestial
Empire, a I iappy I ime I or
Figtailed Creditors.
01' all Chinese festivals that of
New Year's day is the greatest.
Being a peculiarly contradic
tory race, the Chinese do not
reckon time by the sun, as we do in
America, but by the moon, so that the
Chinese New Year's day may come at
any time between the middle of Jan
uary and the middle of February
Y.'hen the time approaches, creditors
are happy, for by tiie last day of the
old year all debts must be paid. The
Chinaman who cannot pay up must
hide his head until the festival is over.
Another preparation is a general wash
ing up. Household belongings and per
sonal attire are put through a severe
course of soap and water in order that
the new year may be begun with eleau
liuess.
When the night of New York's evo
approaches, the sound of the tiring of
crackers begins and is kept up with an
incessant din until dawn. The tirst
business in the new year is the sacrifice
to heaven and earth. A table is spread
with offerings of food and drink, can
dles and incense, and crackers are let
off again just outside the front door.
Then the father of the family comes
forward and kneels down in front of
the table, holding a stick of incense In
his hand and knocking his head three
times on the ground. Rising to his
feet, he places the incense in the censer
on the table. More crackers are let off,
and paper money is burned.
After this ceremony the household
gods are worshiped in the same way,
and then the ancestral tablets, after
which the "living idols" have their
turn. The father and mother sit down
side by side, and all their children and
grandchildren kneel before them and
do them reverence, but offerings are
not made to the living, as they are tc !
the dead. Then the servants come for- ;
ward, dres e 1 in their best, and kneel 1
down, bowing their heads to the
ground liefore their master and mis- i
tress, receiving presents when they j
rise.
Long before all these ceremonies are !
finished it i - quite light, but in the :
early hours of New Year's morning the
streets look as deserted as if no one
"KUNO snr, KI NO SHl!''
was living in the city. The shops are
all shut, and the busiest streets are as
quiet as if it was an ideal Sabbath of
rest.
But the quiet does not last long. Oc- j 1
casional era-kers are let off. and ■
string- of beggars soon appear on ev- j ;
cry baud. They are far more numerous
than usual and more importunate, j
They know they will reap :i rich bar- |
vest on this happy day, for it is lucky j
to begin the year with good deeds, and
it is not long before the streets are
filled with a well dressed multitude
startiug out ti pay New Year's calls.
Custom requires that all the men in >
China shall call on their relations. <
teachers and friends, and for three j
days the visiting goes on. Women art?
not expected to pay New Year's calls or
to see the visitors who come to their
houses. As these are men, of course
that would be highly improper.
When friends meet in the street for
the first time in the new year they
stand and bow very politely; they put
their hands together and shake them,
saying, "Kung shi, kung shi," which
means "Ire •qwet fully wish you joy,"
and they often add. "May you grow
rich," for that is the Chinese idea of |
happiness.
For ti roe days the New Year's re- j
jolciag g son. and then all the poorer j
classes begin to work again. Large j
shops and places of business are closed
for a month. Brooklyn Citizen.
D(Tny of Nrw Uxr'ii i IIIIM.
Not m:wiy years ago it was the cus
tom In all countries t> visit one's
friends on New Year's day.and in this
cou.itry open house was kept all day
until a matter of some ten or fifteen
years ago. It is questionable whether it
will ever become fashionable to set
New Year's day aside for calling again.
Tl»e ancient Romans made much of
the'r New Year's calls, and after the
empire of Lome had | issed away the
custom lived in England. France aud
Germany.
«_n'iO«u- :t lie l!t«* I I rut Paper.
Like .i tjol many other modern tn
i'.ust; ies, iliat of paper making had its
origin with the rhinese. The papyrus
of the Creek* and Romans was not pa
per if nil, bat simply the piths of the
stem ei a plant cut into strips, placed
side by s do and across each other and
pressed into a sheet, to which the nat
ural gum of the plant gave a homo
geneous character Rut the Chinese in
very early times made as g< inline pa
per, In its general characteristics, as
that produce' by the perfected meth
ods and machinery of today.—William
B. Stewart in Technical World Maga
zine.
Tlie Floirer Mnn In Jnpnn.
In Japan when you furnish your
house you r.end for the flower man.
who conies aud decorates your home
with plants. This is always done as a
matter of health. The flower man
brings his palms, his quince trees, his
flowering shrubs and his great spread
ing oriental flowers and liestows them
about the house, If any one is 111 he
selects the flowers carefully, taking
care to get a certain kind of scent, for
there are people to whom scents act an
it quieter.
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I Their Belated j
i Wedding j
I By RITA KELLEY •
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® Copyright, 1905, b K. Parcel Is J
Samantha Sanders had always want
ed a cuckoo clock.
The sandwich man half a block
ahead announced them for sale for
I 1.5(5--"fine cuckoo clocks, best made."
She was racing after him as fast as
her prim New England dignity would
allow. She upset a child with an ail
day sucker in its mouth and left it
screaming on the walk. It hurt her
conscience terribly, but if for one mo
ment she lost sight of the sign he
might turn into a side street, and she
wouldn't know where to get the clock.
Samantha Sanders was the thrifty,
unrouiantic janitress of a bachelor
apartment buiiuing. Her father and
mother had died when she was fifteen
and left her without a penny and with
an overweening desire to possess a
clock with a little bird that popped
out of a little door every hour, along
with nn .v domestic ambition.
Samantha Sanders never had cared
for any one person so much as she had
for making a home. Hiram Shell had
asked her t • marry him, but her thrifty
soul told her she would be happier
Kf 1
"HIRAM!" SHE CRIED, "HIRAM SHELL I"
leaking a comfortable living for her
self than eking cut a bare existence
with such a man. Hiram was all right,
only lie never stuck to any one thing
long enough and his inventions never
teemed to be the things people wanted.
Now she was almost up to the big
red and white sign. Never before had
she felt free to indulge her pet extrav
agance. but now with a steady, tidy in
come and good clothes in plenty it did
seem that l'rovideuce had put that
sandwich man right there ahead of her.
Breathless and excited, she rushed
past the man to get a front view of the
clock. Oh. joy! There was the long
hoped for little face and the cuckoo
half emerging from his arch as though
the clock had stopped Just as he start
ed to announce the hour.
Samantha clapped her hands In an
ecstasy of rapture.
"Oh!" she cried. "Can I get one
down on Thirteenth street now?"
For the tirst time she turned her eyes
from the sign to the man whose way
she had blocked. All the light of joy
faded from her face and left it ashen.
"Hiram!" she cried. "Iliram Shell!"
"Yes, Samanthy," he said, meek as
ever, looking at the trim little woin»u
before him an 1 pulling surreptitiously
at his worn and soiled vest.
The pallor of her face changed to a
flush of anger and resentment as she
loobb 1 at the disheveled old man.
"Iliram Shell." she said forcibly,
"what you doin' trampin' the streets
like this? Shiftless and good for not -
In', same as you always was!"
"I don't know, Samanthy. I never
did seem to 'mount to anything." The
< uckoo clock swayed perilously near a
barber pole, but Samantha did not no
tice. She was looking at the man's
lantern jawed haggard visage and
thinking hard.
"Hiram Shell." she accused, "you
haven't had enough to eat. You can't
keep your knees stiff."
He smiled weakly. "Well, it do be
hard off an' onto get a plenty, 'spe
cially when it takes quite a bit for
wire. My new patent clothes wringer,
Samanthy"—
"Iliram Shell, you go right straight
down to Thirteenth street and tell those
clock people you haven't got sense
enough to pound sand in a rat hole!"
Hut even a she spoke her eyes were
moist. "Aud, Iliram, you bring a clock
up to my le n e. I'm going home now
to get supper ready." She counted out
£2."n Co cents for oar fare), gave him
her address and told liini vigorously
to hurry up before he forgot what he
was to do. She left him standing stu
pefied in the middle of the walk gazing
after her with meek if hungry eyes.
"She be just the same as ever," he
whispered himself. "She'd 'a' made
ine a good ife, Samanthy would."
Samantha Sanders was bustling fe
verishly about her rooms at the New
Roohelle aprrtments. True to her prov
ident New .ingland Instincts, she had.
a plentiful upply of cake. pie. apple j
butler ai d 1 iked beam on hand. She
1: <1 ordered recklessly at the green- j
grocer's on her way home, and the ta
bic was bo...lining to look like a feast
of plenty.
I'o r old lliraiu! She could not get
the it "g" • I' his pitiable figure out of
her i;.'no livtn the prospect of the
new clocf could not dispel the feeling
of utter heartsicknoss. Hiram Shell,
whose father had been Justice of the
peace, tramping the streets as a sand
wich man!
There was a dull ncli'ng at her heart
that was incomprehensible to her until
just as she shoved the brown bread
into the oven to warm. She stiffened
up with something like a groan and
clapped her hands to her head.
"I'd ought to 'a' married Hiram
Shell." she cried, with the bitterness of
delayed realization. "I'd ought to 'a'
married liim! No one ever believed in
him. Just because he didn't get out
and work l'ke the others they said he 1
was crazy! Geniuses ain't like any
body else, and if anybody had ever en- ,
eouraged him a:*l helped him along he
might have struck sornethiu' that peo
ple wanted. And here I've been com
fortable and him trampin' the streets!"
Hiram was late in arriving. She j
woytlered indulgently whether h« had
1 gone off to buy wire with that money
instead of getting the clock. Strange
ly enough, she did not care much. The
thought was tormenting her that she
who always had put duty foremost had
after all failed in the greatest crisis of i
her life. Women were intended to
make iuea stronger, to bring out the
best in the men they loved, and she —
He came, more haggard and all but
tottering, with two packages under his
arm. She took th. in from him, turn
bled them belter skelter on the sofa
and drew up an armchair for him close
to the table laden with good things.
"Now, Hiram," she said, "oat!"
He looked at her wildly for a mo
ment. tr. in „ r to get his breath. "The
package." h • said. "Is it ail right?"
"The dork? Of course. Goon an'
eat now." She passed him the bowl
of savory pork and beans.
lie pushed back from tlie table, peer
ing about.
"Iliram Shell, if you don't stop act
in' the fool and sot to eat in' I'll throw
out the cuckoo ciock and be done with
it!"
"No. Samanthy. 'tain t the clock; It's
that new patent clothes wringer 1 been
making. Thought you might like it to
wash your t! 1 o
Samantha • :;a.i. E.i into a chair.
"Hiram Shell, 1 haven't done my
waslu for five years. It goes to the
laundry."
"Well, now, ain't that nice!" He
pushed back the apple butter she hand
ed him. He had not touched a bite,
though his plate was piled high with j
good things. Samantha saw his face
hail gone white.
"1 guess I'd better be moving on. !
The doctor at the dispensary he said
I'm ailin' some." He clutched at his
heart, "it's queer, right in here."
Samantha pushed him back into the
chair and ran for the brandy.
"Hid —you call the ambulance?" he
asked when he opened his eyes again.
"No, I didn't, Iliram Shell. You don't j
need no ambulance. All you need Is a j
good square meal and the parson. j
We're going to get married. Hiram."
lie looked at her, with tears stream
ing down his cheeks.
"Well, now." he said, "Samanthy, j
ain't that nice!"
Too Pointed.
When somebody asked Graham
Saunders why he did not goto visit I
the squire's family any more he hesi- i
tat»il for a moment before he ventured
to put his reason into words.
"I'm not one that's looking for !
slights," he drawled at last, "and I
never paid much attention when they j
spoke about folks that generally came
at mealtimes nor any of their remarks
about large appetites. Nor I never ap
plied any o' their statements in rega- I
to not waiting for invitations or out
staying your welcome to myself. I
considered such talk wasn't worth no
ticing.
"But whan squire come out to me a
about four thutty one afternoon when .
I could smell baked beans cooking as
easy as I'm sitting here and said he'd
count it a favor if I'd note down ;
where the glass stood on our north
porch at 0 o'clock that night and at
8 In the morning, twelve thutty at noon
and *'• p. in.for the next three days an.l
then let him know at the post office so's ;
he could compare it with theirs. I called
it pretty considerable like a hint for a
man that olaims to have good man
ners, given to one that's got a sensi- j
tlve streak, same as I have, though I
try to keep it out o' sight."—Youth's
< 'ompanion.
TrapiM'd I'lep lui ntw.
In "Jungle Trails and Jungle Peo
ple" Caspar Whitney tells of trapping
a herd of elephants and driving them |
into the graai. Curiously enough, the |
animals are quite docile until they once |
discover they are confined, whereupon 1
they throw off their good manners and
become rampant. Mr. Whitney contin
ues : .
Some fight the posts, some light one
another, in groups they surge against
the siout sides of the inclosure. grunt
ing prodigiously, and wherever a ven
turesome Si ectator shows a head be
tween the p ists he is charged. Not all
the herd are so violent. Some "how
their perturbation bv thrusting down
into their stomach reservoir and draw
ing forth water which they sijnir
over their backs; others express con
tempt for things generally by making
little dust pileg, which they blow over
everything in sight, including their own
legs. Some utier the mouthing low
n<*tc; s >me rap the ground with their
trunks, thus knocking out several pe
culiar rattl'ng. crackling high notes.
The calves squeak through theii little j
trunks shrilly und frequently.
MAKING CHRISTMAS TOYS. |
A 'liirivJiiK JiMluNtry In (icrnia ny,
France find Sui(/.erlnnd.
in parts of Germany, France ana
Switzerland every humble householder
takes more interest in Christinas than
the average American boy. This seems
like a strong statement, for Christmas
is pretty th >rougbly appreciated by the
young of America. But, great as the
festival is to them, it is not essential to
their existence. They could got along
without Christmas, but the toymakers
in Switzerland, the Tyrol and south
Germany wifuld starve without this
midwinter holiday which makes a mar
ket far their goods. There are wood
carvers, doll dressers and toymakers
in every hamlet and home of the Tyrol.
They depend up >n the small wages
they make from these toys to put bread i
and butter in their mouths.
All through the winter season every |
boy and man carves out wood animals !
and toys for the factories. Everything j
is handmade. A Noah's ark of twenty j
or thirty wooden animals that retails j
for a quarter in this country does not >
pay the carver m >re than a few pen- i
nies.
Tile boys are taught to handle the i
knife early, and they learn to cut out
woo len ducks, hens, horses. cows and
other toys before they have reached
their teens. Working all through the j
early winter days . :id nights in their
little hollies, they make the wooden j
toys that delight so many children 1
throughout the w >rld. New York Mail j
and Express
I'lirnotiN I'llv«lrlii«'» lll|i!oinn<*7.
Soaie l'hiladel; h a phy-> c. >n- re cut j
iy were playfully «. us>ing the diplo ;
mac, t » I o employed wth young j
mothers.
"When 1 a:u < alio 1 t > a ii >use \\ :n- t
is a baby whose -ex 1 d » n >t know,' ;
said one. ' I am 11 • • - embarrassed
as to how to speak of it A mother al
ways fools better if you ask her. 'II >w !
Is the little girl?' or 'How the little I
boy?' as the case may lit. a • she usu ii
ly takes pride in the se\ of the oh Id |
whlchcv er it is."
One of the most fa nous physicians
In the world rcmarke i
"I never have any troul le in that re
gard. I ■ he it a rule t > call all b.i e
whose FO\ is unknown to mo T'rau> -C
The mother doesn't know w < I i
spell it with "it 'i' or an 'e. "Ib !;ul» i '
phia Ledger.
THE "LOST ARTS."
Tiioy Are \ot So Mueli LON( • « Tliff
%re DiNcanled.
"Not so many years ago it was quite j
commonly a-sorted that modern work
im'ii could not quarry, or, having quar- |
tied, could not handle stones as large i
us the monoliths of Kgypt," says a sci- |
entist, "and ilie writer lias heard a pub
li.• speaker of note assert that it would
lie iinpo.->iMe to handle, with modern
Implements, such large stones as were
Used in the pyramids or to join them
lis perl etly as they are joined there.
Vet. when oeea>ioii arose, larger stones
112 -in any of these were quarried in
and Mime of the larger mono
l.ihs thems"lves were transported not
•:11\ to sea, but across it and erected in
1 ji'..!and, France and America.
" 1 iiere are individuals today who
might if they chosf cause the transpor
tation to and erection in this country
of the largest pyramids or build new
ones ten times larger and more dur
able I'yramids are not being general
ly built nowadays because they are not
in line with the trend of modern ambi
tion. that's all.
It is very doubtful if a 'Damascus
blade' would stand half as severe
usage as a modern band saw blade or
even as niueh as the spring of a forty
cent clock, while the ornamentation of
those wondrou. blades, so far its the
mechanical execution is concerned, can
be excelled by apprentices and ama
teurs of tod-ii,"
Tlif Pin In rngliinfl,
The date of the lirst manufacture of
pins in England Is shrouded in uncer
tainty, but it is authentically recorded
that as early as 1404, when money was
! "tight." extensive cloth workers com
pelled their laborers to accept in pay
' ment for their work "pins, gfrdles and
other unprofitable wares instead of
money." The march of improvement
had begun and kept on steadily until
toward the middle of the sixteenth
' century pins began to win appreciation
so high that statutes were enacted pro
tecting their manufacture, and rigid
laws were passed prohibiting the im
j portation of numerous minor articles,
I Including pins, gloves, knives, tailors'
shears, scis: >rs and irons. I'p to tills
period female dress was fastened with
ribbons, laces, clasps, hooks and eyes
and skewers of brass, silver and gold.
1 The latter were, in fact, pins without
! heads. —London Globe.
< "!i rim inxim In Home.
A elmracit "istic sight which precedes
a Ii .man i 'iiristmas is the so called
cottio. or sale of li-h by auction, which
Is held at Sa i Te xloro, near the forum,
in the small hours of the morning, and
every year attracts large crowds of
buyers anil sightseers. It is a sight
worth i-e i.g. the \ .ist circular market
literally packed with row upon row of
j baskets, in which the scaly fry are
] carefully arranged, the light glancing
1 oIT their many colored scales in a
thousand prismatic reflections, while
the owner of each stall shouts at the
! top of his voice and the merry crowd
g • - round la ' riling and bargaining
aud t g I i cheapen the lislt. for at
('hrisi;!de il o.'leii reaches fabulous
, li.'i ; ~ne is reminded of the ex
j trava;;an eof the ancient Romans, one |
< i' whom i- said to have paid 20,000 '•
sesle. c- I'-I • i --ingle gray mullet.—
j I.oini HI Mail.
WYT \ :r'.«• on llie Nile.
In ad ■ g> • SMIII nil lands much im
i portan !is attached to New Year's ,
day i Ii :>t the new year fell be-!
fw'"ii the l.th ard the 20th of June
:i: 1 was called the "night of the drop." ;
T. i I N le was thought to flow
down fro. , IIC.IM a, and at its lowest
eb!> abut t:.e middle of June—a tear ,
fro:n Isis i U Int ) the stream and caus
ed it ; i re. <' >ii equentlv at this sea
i: )!i t' e in-s an | people kept a sleep-
C - \ : i ,'e I .IT'S shore, watching
for 1 n i': >"s rise which should
bri lg src'i i dies t > the whole land.
Win• i t! n of the drop" came the
;>ri" • ■ :i' i the i.ltars of old ashes
and ligh •• j the sacred I ires for the new
year. I y one of the faithful car
ried a c , 1 112. mi the altar t i light tlie
ire at I.i . n hi ii.li, and from end
to i ml the land was ablaze with liglir.
The ] put o;f their old garments
and.l the: i elves in white,
anohi their be ds with sacred oil,
ero vt; iig • isc!\*c- with flowers and
be i - • i.i the'r hands, while
chaiii. d ml fe istlng and pro
cession I'd el ti -hi c
'I ':v I i ; i I l)e«ire.
She wa- ii°, •■. ■> \ dressed in the pin
nacle ■ 112 h ad ' YAIULD have been
III'.; I'll ;ir a c rfaill stern, busi
"'■-it rather marred
re -VI , |„ !• t t-e.
I.i lii > . - lip aud i.own. she dart
ed swiftly iiit i a narrow passageway
an 1 was so HI knocking at a door em
hi. oi ed \\ i h t..e i "Signor Oleo
Margerino. Clairvoyant. Future Fore
told."
The do ir opened.
"Win-re is the signer?" she nervously
demanded.
"In bod, inu::i."
"Horrors: What's the matter with
him?"
•'Nervous prostration, brought on by
overwork."
"Over vorkV
"V • i Since September he's
been bii p. ••in' i:11 > de future fer
people w n v. ited ter know de value
uv i liri in. Pr» -cuts dey wuz goln'
to get so's ,h • m know h iw much ter
•»pen ! on '' •
Si.. ek of despair, she sped
iway o the ' a! I •!* some other clair
■ll mi - AI • W fork 11 era Id
J J. BROWN
THE EYE A SPECIALTY
1 'yes tested, treated, titled with
» | iid a"t:11• • inl eyes supplied.
Market Si reel, Ulooinsburg, I'a.
Hours—lo a. in. t•sp. m.
.JMETHI NEW!
A. Reliable
TIN SHOP I
Tor atl kind of Tin Roofing j
Spoutlne and Cenoral
Job Work.
I
Stoves, Heaters, Ranges,
Furnaces, eto.
PRICES THE LOWEST!
QIiiLITY THE BEST!
JOHN IIIXSON
NO. 116 E. FRONT BT. I
I CHRISTMAS AT SANDRINGHAM
Hon I lie Itoynl Fiimll> of Cirenl UrlC- *
ni II ( elelirn le*.
The royal family of <Jreat Britain
j keeps up Christmas at Sandringham ill
' u right royal and old fashioned way.
Tasteful decorations with holly and
j aii.-tlctoe abound everywhere. Kvery
! one conies down to the dining room,
i where breakfa-t is taken en fam'lle.
j Kvery one has presents for some one
j else. All the servants and tenants are
] remembered, so that there are many
liappy hearts on Christmas morning.
! Substantial .joints, geese and turkeys,
: Willi other good tilings have a delight
i ful way of turning up at the very
I bouses where they are most wanted.
After breakfast the royal family and
■ guests and the ladies and gentlemen of
; the household goon a tour of inspec
tion to view the decorations, and then,
! provided the weather is fine, they
i walk to church, which, of course, has
i been tastefully adorned in appropriate
and approved Christmas fashion. On
| the entry of the king and queen the
congregation rises —that is the only
formality observed. The king's domes
tic chaplain takes the service—a bright
choral service, with Christmas hymns
I and an anthem.
' Then conies luncheon—which is the
children's dinner attended by the
king aud queen and other members of
the family. '1 he Christmas pudding is
j brought in, blazing up merrily, to the
intense delight of the little princes aud
princess) s.
The late afternoon is the most excit
ing time for the juniors. The doors of
a certain room have been kept rigor
ously fastened since the previous even
ing. her majesty and other members
of her family having.duly dressed a
large Christinas tree therein. The door
is opened, and the whole party troops
in, while the royal children evince tiie
greatest delight at the Christmas tree
ablaze with lights and weighed down
with presents. Afterward all sorts of
games are entered into with a hearti
ness and zest that must surely appeal
to every one.
Dinner comes along at 5,:15, to which
all guests staying in the house and
many of the household are invited by
the king. The king and queen and
guests assemble in the drawing room
first, and then a procession is formed,
led, of course, by their majesties, who
are followed in order of precedence by
the others. The tables are laid in the
grand salon. The guests are seated at
small oval tables, the king and queen
sitting opposite each other at one, and
are waited on by special footmen.
Boar's head, baron of beef anil plum
pudding are the staple dishes of the
royal Christinas dinner.
After dinner there may be a dance or
a command performance in the state
ballroom, the walls of which are deco
rated by g irgeoits Indian trophies pre
sented to his majesty when he visited
that country. Pictorial Magazine.
Mont Men Hare It.
"That man who turned the corner a
moment ago will probably go Into No.
149," said the lazy man on the front
6teps.
The woman stood up to look.
"It was 147," she said.
"That Is near enough," said the lazy
man."l knew he would stop some
place in this part of the block."
"But how could J on tell?" asked the
woman.
"I could tell by the door key grab,"
; was the reply. "Most men have It. Not
one man in a hundred waits till he gets
to his own door to take out his latch-
I key. The minute lie turns into his own
block he unconsciously digs Into his
pockets." New York Post.
Tlie Oravme Tree.
The orange tree flowers during near
ly the whole of the summer. The fruit
takes two years to arrive at maturity,
so that for several mouths in the year
! a healthy tree exhibits every stage,
from the flower bud to the ripe fruit
This gives the trees their rich appear
ance during the principal fruit mouths,
when the emerald tints of the unripe
and golden hues of the mature fruit
mingle with the dark foliage of tlie
leaves, while the bright blossoms pre
sent a charming contrast.
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TOMMY AND GRANDPA.
RAXIJi'A lay sleeping serenely
_ Wheio the shade of the rnaplM
was • ■»;!
The han aiock was swayed by th«
zi'phy rs
Th.-.t kls I his high blow as they
pass, d
Perhap !r .• is 'lr< nnng ol miO'ls
As Tommy played ncai him out
Chasing butterfly s out of the ilnwt -s
Aml e - in I: • i u rib in tilt ..! r
| The- hose was attached to the hydrant.
With . f'lil head <■' « ' r n:rnr«l on,
Ar.d t!.n nozz: lay • • in oticed,
Whero tie grass had grown browa
the lau II
Dear gn-ndpi with one leg hung over
The side of the hammock, still swayed,
An.J the leavn-s fluttered gayly above htn»
It wna fei|;lity or vu in the sha-ln.
A smllf was in grrirdpa s glad features
Wh< n 'tori.r • discovered the hose.
Peril i| hi is dreaming of cherubs
Or beautiful fairies who knows?
Hut th pmi disai peared when KWIH
Tommy,
Forgetting that grandpa was there.
Stood carelessly letting the water
Squirt forty feet up in the. air.
With a > ••!! □ grown up Comsncbs
D-ar graridpa attempted to rise;
T"he water stream.:! under liis collar
Anu into his earb and his eyes!
With a foot tangled up in the h uninooh
He leaped like a trnui on the book
Atid tair.ed ti-ree tliptlaps without Bto»
ping
To pick out the course that he took.
A olii I uho had s'ainn oi his feature*.
Who • eyes wen still tearful and red.
Lay sobbing with sad recollections.
And tnswing alone in bis bed.
Bis breast was o'erburdened with sorrow
In Ills heart and elsewhere he was sort
And b ? murmured, I don't want to neve*
Go visitin' grandpa no more!"
-■' li; ago R'cord-Herald
A J'rjietie il ll!flicnlt y.
He I'd goto the end of the world
nl'.h you, darling.
She Yes but have you got th* cat
'sre < idengo Amer.cau.
%II tlilhor'n Toast.
At nn •• ; >: il convention one of the
country .-.Hto •- offered the following
toast.
i . ■ . an editor from starvation
tak !. ii< ■ - a pel* and pay him for It
1 •i: ptl.i i'o si* ' him from bank
iii; Icy !\t i-e in his paper liberally.
To save li'r.i from despair send him
e.ery ,ti ,i .»i news of which you can
i i ! To a e him from profanity
wr your eorroopoudeuce plainly on
o:i • ■ "112 i!i ' -et and send it In as
j ear! To save him from
mi- I- 11.1. Head people are
th only <>• • that never make mis
la! ■ i " ;<er readers would do
we lto . < ;• ihat there arc no per
fect p.».j '.'it irs or readers."
itnu i«» H.ike Onion <hihl ulrlies.
Onion - it"i id • - are good for school
girls, and the continued use of them
does wonder- fer the complexion,
"l-'resh onion and leek, new skin in a
week." an ancient doggerel puts it.
Slice the onions as thin as possible, salt
and place between slices of bread anil
butt< A I t of parsley helps to take
nway the odor from the breath.
chr;'., , A .. .ES.
Pro 111 Tine litis:" *:.iuiinl I'arl of the 1
( «!<-!>r:il ion.
From ti .!'• icinorial a tree has
| liopii a part oi" the Christinas celebra
! tion. Ii n. ; he ci-ii outside the tradi
: tiniial in tin* lnis-als and earl.v
i | »ai sil ; the prertipliiielite Italian]
I I'cli > l. In tlic tree or near it are seen
air-r in ruins singing out of
a scroll of illuminated paper the
, ' I'c i'c on Kirtli an! <Jood Will To
<l Mrn" or ;lor.v, <Jlory, Halle
! lui.ili!"
i 'I I i-irn i (i-'/man t'liristnius tree I
! silv, .i\s !i .m angel or a Christkiud on !
t'«* 1 >; : > I l)ian h, \v ih a tinsel star
at ilie in! of stall", like a pantomime
' f..ian.i it i!i<* tree belongs to a very
ort'i■' l:ix i ini!\ there is usually at its
fo t a nii: 'it i group representing the liirth
liirth in the stable at Bethle
j lieni.
'lh illll ilif tree are said to be
j of Ji-wish i 'i: i i !n the ninth month
o: ih" .1 v.i !i year, corresponding near
' to Oiti Decern hei', and on the twen
i.i !il ill day. tin' .lews celebrated the
i of lieui- ation of their temple. It
hi iin <! -ci rated <>ll that day by
An !ni It was dedicated by Ju
». t I tl-cus. and then, according to
Jew • -ii legend, sulticient oil was
i I'utiiid in tlic temple to last for the
. i i-u branched candlestick for seven
, . ml it would have taken seven
; da; - t ' prepare ne-v oil. Accordingly
; ti.i .1 - were wont on the 2.~itli of Ivis
] leu in e.c-.x i. . - ■ t i a candle, 011
the next day two, and sn 011 till on the
seventh ami .si day of the feast seven
can.lies t\v : . cd in every house.
It is not ea-y to li\ the exact date of
the Nat \ in. but ii fell most probably
1 on the last day of Kisleu. when every
Jewish hull-, in Bethlehem and Jeru
salem was twinkling with lights. It is
; worthy of 11 it ice that the German name
for rhri'tn. is Weilinaeht (the night
of dedication*, a- though it were asso
ciated with t;lis feast. The <»reeks al
' so call C'hri m in.s - the feast of lights,
and, indeed, this w.as also the name
given to the dedication festival, Cha
nuka, by Uie Jews. -New York Mail
and Express.
Kindly FrnltM.
Tie expression in the prayer boofc,
"Kindly fruits of the earth." has for
most persons no definite meaning on
account of the difference In slgnili
cance now attached to the word kindly
from that used when the expression
was first written. The word kindly in
I that connection meant as nearly as
possible "of its kind," and the expres
sion "kiudl\ fruits of tii» earth" meant
"the fruits of the earth each after Its
Vind."
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PENNSUVANIA RAILROAD,
Philadelphia. & Erie Railroad Division.
Northern Central Railway Division.
Schedule in Effect Nov. _'ii, louY
Trains leave SOUTH DANVILLK ns follows:
EASTWARD.
7,11 a 111 (weekdays) for Wilkes IJarre. Haz
leton and Pottsville and Philadelphia,
i 10.17 a 111. (daily) for Wilkes Barre, Hazleton
Pottsville. Philadelphia, Mahanoy city
and Shenandoah.
2.21 p. 111. (weekdays) for Wilkes-Barre, liaz
leton and Pottsville.
I"i .jO p. 111. (weekdays) for Wilkes-Barre, and
Hazleton.
Making connection at Wilkes-Barre with
Valley for all points North and
South and I>. H. for Seranton.
westward.
I 9.n0 ii. 111. (weekdays) for Sunbury. Leave Sun
hur.v Sl.Jii a. in.daily for Lock Haven and
intermediate stations. On weekdays for
Bellefonte, Tyrone. Clearfield. Phillips
burs, Pittsburg and the West.
Leave Sun bury it. 60 a. in. (weekdays) for
llarrlshnrg and intermediate stations.
Philadelphia. New York, Baltimore and
Washington,
j 12.10 p. 111. weekdays for Sunbury.
Leave Sun bury 12.4S p. m.daily for Butt
alo via Emporium anil for Erie and in
termediate stations.
Leave Sun bury 1.13 p. 111. weekdays for
Km porium.Bellefonte. Tyrone,Clearfield,
Pliilipsburg,Pittsburg,!. anandaigua and
intermediate stations, Syracuse, Roches
ter. Buffalo and Niagara Falls.
Leave Sunbury 1 .">4 p. in. weekdays for
Harrisburg "and intermediate stations,
Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore,
Washington. Ballet Parlor Car to Phil
adelphia.
Leave Sunbury :s.is p. 111. daily for Har
risburg, Philadelphia. New York, Balti
-more and Washington
1 1 11 p. in.daily for Sunbury.
l.eaxe sunbury ">.1!0 i>. 111. weekdays tnr
Renovo, Wat kins and intermediate sta
tions.
Leave Funbury 5.10 p. 111. daily for liar
risburg and intermediate points, Phila
delphia, New York, Baltimore and
Washington.
7.M p. 111. weekdays for Sunbury.
I .tave Sunbury S.ftti p.m.daily for Har
risburg and all intermediate stations,
Philadelphia. New York, Baltimore.
Washington. Pullman Sleeping Car from
Harrisburg to New York.
Leave Sunbury 9.33 p. 111. Sundays only
for Harrisburg and intermediate sta
tions, arriving at Harrisburg, ll.:i0.
Leave Sunbury 5..>4 p. m. Sundays only
for Williamsport and intermediate sta
tions.
Leave Sunbury '*."i3 p. 111. weekdays for
Williamsport and intermediate stations.
Bullet Parlor Car.
8H AMOK IN DIVISION, N C. H. W.
WEEK DA VS.
Leave Sunbury tf.lo a. in , 10.10 a. in ,2.10 p. 111.
s.:t> p. m.for Shamokin and .Mt Carmel.
LKW'ISTOWN DIVISION.
WEI K l)A VS.
Leave Sunbury 10.00 a. in , 2.0.~> p 111 for Lew
is own and l.ewistown .lunetion 5 :t0
p. in.for Selinsgrovc.
| I-'or time tables and further information ap
ply in ticket agt up*.
| W. W. ATTERBURY. .1 R. WOOD,
Gen'l Manager. Pass. Traffic Mgr.
OEO. W. liOYl'.Oen I Passenger Agent.
' T A( KAWANNA KAILK< > J I)
j —BLOOMSBURG DIVISION
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
Railroad.
111 Effect ,Tau. 1. 19(15.
TRAINS LEAVE DANVILLE.
'EASTWARD.
7.07 a. 111. daily tor Bloomsburg, Kingston,
Wilkes-Barre a»d Scranton \rriving Scran
ton at it. 12 a. in., and connecting at Scranton
w lib trains arriving at Philadelphia at IS a.
in.and New York City at p. m.
10..11 a. 111. weekly for 8100 nshurg. Kingston,
Wilkes-Barre Scranton and intermediate sta
tions, arriving at Scranton at l'2.:t"> p. ni. and
connecting th re with trains for New York
City. I'lrfladelphia and Buttalo
2.11 weekly for Bloomsburg, Kingston, Wilkes
Barre. scranton and intermediate stations,
arriving at Scranton at 4.V1 p. tr.
"via p m daily for Bloomsburg, Espy, Ply- [
mouth. Kingston, Wilkes-Barre, Pittslon,
Scranton and intermediate stations, arriving I
al Scranton at v! 5 p 111. and connecting there
with t rains arriving at New York City at ii..'* l
a 111.. Pliilailelpeia 10 a 111. and Ifutlaio 7a. in. t
TRAINS ARRIVE AT DANVILLE.
fl.l.'i a. m. weekly from Scranton, Pittslon, ]
Kingston. Bloomsburg and intermediate eta- !
tions, leaving Scranton at US a. m., wbere it ;
connects with trains leaving New Yorn City l
at n.HO p. in , Philadelphia at 7.02 p. m.and j
Buli'alo at 10.HO a m.
12.44 p. 111. daily Irom Scranton, Pittston,
Kingston, Berwick. Bloomsburg and infertile- ,
dlate stations, leaving Scranton at 10.10 a. m.
and connecting there with train leaving Butt
alo at2.Ssa. m. 1 j
l .'K p. 111. weekly from Scranton, Kingston,
Berwick. Bloomsburg and Intermediate sta-1
tions, leaving Scranton at 1.55 p. m , where it ;
connects with train leaving New York City ,
at 10.00 a 111 . and Philadelphia at 9.00 a. ni
9.05 p. 111 daily from scranton. Kingston,
Pittston, Berwick, Bloomsburg and interme
diate stations, leaving Serai ton at p. m , ;
where it connects with trains leaving New 1
York City at 1.00 p. in.. Philadelphia ut 12.«)
p. 113. and Buttolo at 1*.30 a. m.
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