ir destiny t
Tittle white fiat
seeds were
~ dropped into a
market bask
ae] a, have your lost pu
you want to know where it
WILLIE'S DREAM AFTER THE THANKSGIVING DINNER.
poor. hie could ran aver so fast
heard the
hat a Church Mouse Did
onOneT hanksgiving Day
HE Church Monae
was very much
surprised one |
Tharsday morning |
to hear the chareh
bell ring, and to |
kes the people |
;
:
|
{
:
i
:
}
i
i
eome waking into |
chinrch as though |
it was
morning,
Sunday |
Howaver, he had i
fivead in the chiareh |
an long that he bad grown
Yio made np his mind therefore to keep
very quiet and find out if be could
what it sil meant,
He fait especially thankial to see
the man who puniped the organ Nun.
days take his place, as this man always
carried someting fo eat in his pocket,
The Mouse had often heard the man
who pumped the argan called “Foul.
very wise; | .
¢ pr
jish.” but, as he wwayx (eft #0 many |
crumbs about, the Mouse was Srmly |
of the opinion that the joan was as wise
as Solomon.
Tha Ch areh Monsa bad
#0 many seranons that he was wall
formed as w Solomon,
Every one looked very happy on this
particular morning, as indeed they
Listened to
in.
¥
shonid have done, for, ax the Mouse !
soon learned, it was Thanksgiving Day.
Jnst before the sermon hegan, tha
Chureh Mouse, who was so thin and
with-
ont getting out of breath,
man who pamped the organ talking
with the minister,
| migister,
Good morning, Noab,” said the
‘I wee you Lave a new hyma
Bue ¥ r
;
have at Thanksgiving time when we
| were little."
“Make out a list of 2ames.™ said
| Uncle Joe, “of all your relations, sad
then send them notes of invitation to
come and spent Thank
| with us; those who come from a great
distance must stay over night, and
they must all stay in the evening, to
; that we may have games, music and
contra dances siter our feasting.” So
the invitations were written and sent
to all the relations, both old and young.
The next day Uncle Jos called
Harry to go with him to bring in the
two big pumpkins. But what a dis-
appointment it was to find only one
pumpkin; - Shunt lurked all over the
on, in the fleld adjoining, in the
and in the carriage house and
cellar, but the lost pumpkin could |
fo} be found.
"Well, Harry,” said Uncle Joe," ‘we
| must make the best of it. We can
| have plenty of squash, apple and
mince pies, not omitting the Thanks-
rrr plam padding.”
eh looked as though he waated
his uncle took him by the
, saying:
plasty of corn before they are killed
or onr dinuer, poe things!”
So they
went to the barnyard asd
{ fed all the turkeys and chickens, and
then Harry went with his uncle to the
village store to buy outs, rsisius,
ices, lemons and many other good
ngs for Annt Martha.
night, when Harry went to
was very tired and bis brain
ghts about Thanks.
especially about the lost
Just before midnight be
a. little noise beside his bed, and
sice said: “Little boy, little
kin. Do
gre
“Oh, yes, yes!” said Harry, sitting
upin bed.
“Very well,” said the charming lit-
tle creature jabs
x Yoru pumpkin into he
i her fairy god-mother (our
pu} bas turned it into s beautiful
| for Cinderells to ride in to the
This is the first night of the |
but, after to-morrow night, if
look carefully under the green
i Jone Sarien you il
pampkin ® again
te sud sound, We did not mean to
you by taking your pumpkin;
wanted to help
€ for you kuow what a hard
y has always had, hut she will
py at last, and aren't youu glad
You bave helped to make hor
y by lending her your pumpkin?
h yeu, I ami* said Harry, 0
little
ving Day |
clapped her hands,
Ve “Let us take a look at
i the three big turkeys, aud give thew
i Je happened to have such a dreaw.
| tart that she had made for you, so
that you might know just how the
| not find it because it was so hidden by
n | into many little pies and tarts,
{were enjoyed very much by all the
| uncles, sunts and cousins when they |
| heard
The next day he did not tell any
{ one about the fairy or the pumpkin, 6 ..
but after another night he went out.
and looked very carefully among the
green leaves, and there, sure enough,
he found the pumpkin, hidden com:
pletely in a nest of leaves and vines
He gave a shout of joy, and ran into
the house, exclaiming: “The pump-
kin's found, the pumpkins found’
Cinderells didn't keep it. Wasn't she |
a good girl to send it back again?” |
“Why, what are yon talking about?"
said Aunt Martha, and Susie said:
“Why, Harry, are you crazy? We!
don't know snything abont Cinderella:
we only know that yon have lost your
paapkin.
“Oh, no, I haven't, Susie, said
Harry, “it's right there now, ail cov
ered over with vines and leaves" |
"
{ Aunt Martha and Susie went to the |
garden, aud there they found the
pumpkin, looking so handsome and |
golden in the sunlight. “Well, well,
I never,” said Anant Martha, and Susie |
“Why didn't you |
sad your Uncle Joe use your eyes? O00
conrse it has been hers all the ime”
“Oh, no, it hasn't,” replied Harre,
“for Cinderella borrowed it to go to
the ball in.” |
“What? said Aan! Martha, “Why,
Harry,” exclaimed Susie, ‘you me
i
nx fi
oe oN NRT
FOUND AT Last.
growing crazy: do. come into the house |
and tell us what you are talking
about.” :
So they weat back, and there sat
Uncle Jos reading his newspaper.
Harry climbed up on his nucle’s lap :
and told hin sil about the pumpkis,
and ended by saying that Anat Martha |
anid Susie would not believe him whan |
he said that the fairy god-mother had |
borrowed his paumpkis.
“Don't they believe that?” seid’
Unele Joe, i
*No,” sald Harry; “do you?" :
**Yeas,” said his unele, “i beliave it
just ax touch as I believe any dreams:
that little boys have.” i
“Why, what do yon mean?’ sail
« UDid I dream it?"
“Certainly; and I can tell you how |
tad
n't you remember that your Aunt
let yon eat a little pumpkin |
Thanksgiving pies were going to taste,
and, as you were nol in the habit
of eating tarts or pies, it made you
feel rather uneasy, snd you slept in
dreamland, isstead of the quiet,
peaceful land of nod. You see, Harry,
the pumpkic was out there in the
garden all the time, but you and I did
the large leaves,”
Harry understood then that it was
all & dream about the fairy and Cine!
derella, but he did feel rather disap
pointed to know that it was not true!
and real, for he had always wanted to |
see a fairy. i
The nex: day the big panmpkin was
brought into the house and was made
whieh
came to dinner, Every little cousin
the story of Harry's dream, and |
gave them all a tiny
pie to carry home, and the
called is Me “Cinderella
was ealled “Foolish,
| grand oid byma, ‘My Country,
: bin
Mogae!
| Charch Mouse nibbled away,
| the last verse was finished and the bit
{of cookie almost gous, the minister
"it again to be sare it was safe.
in thesa days,
“Yer, wir,” answered Noah, “of
,oonrse I can pump any hymn in the
{ book withont the notes and always
: could, and so they never thought [
A THANKSGIVING RECIPE.
DORIA
A jittis toark,
A titties slerk,
A diets fork,
A rtie dirs,
will maka, “ Bitte dinner.
Aopmany SR SAR
saaded a bosk, T gaess, antil the Yoys
thought of me and gare me this one;
i PH pump the orifan mors confident
like, now.*
Then the Mouse knew why Noah
Whila the people ware singing our
"tis of
{ ‘Thee,’ the CUhuarelh Mouse was eating
breskfast. Poor hittls starved
Ha had foand a bit of cookie
a chubby baby dropped.
“long may our land be bright,”
sang the people. and the hungry
When
| rose and said that he wished to make
i a few remarks before tha coutribution
| was taken.
When the talk was ended and the
minister had urged the people to give
had prospered them, that the hungry
‘might be fed, the little Caareh Mouse, |
with his stomach fall of cookie, made
up his mind te use his fufluence; ac-
cordingly he moved over to the pew of
the Stingy Man and watched,
The ushers moved slowly ap the
| ally shrewd e
Poop rating
THE PAROT IN TR
SAR PAR bl
es by & Collveior to Baw Pertinent 3
Things About Debi
“No use ro dun ‘ent!
‘om! Theve're dendbegts’”
wards, uttered in shrill
serrated a cyowd
finecaln park. A well
man emerged from the
residincs where hn had
ing with a woman ani
the stern {6 a coverad bueey |
of the woe. No
Nt use 1 dun ‘em! | They
pegts!™ Quiet Pally! Sha
month” eriod (he younz Way
There
piercing fees.
vie brit y ¥ 1 |
drogead youn
veutibiils of a
een JORYRHE
4 dada
n feast
ER
dey tb
Fon
in tue
Fimh
we to gun
RE PAYG.
repeating He ancomplizhentary
the bird finuily sided and
{tg master veguecended The stent to
from which he
HEFT ou
bets wits
wand bola
%
hin haunt
awn.”
Basx noted
ity an argloatl we
ax gigined the young m
apd 11 explain the
keep omuam, Samaiime
nected with an seeury
uniformed coll 1
ots object Hels
or. Who would ;
than be jlsgradsd
vartiieineg bad dele
upon Bim every day
aging were taken
dalitor
sored
i
ems of my
ifttle
with
Aaa
sede
tia
Hw Wag
3810 | ile the pal
Fag
fast tre
Altar
Drie
ware promptly sappressed,
deadbents 10 secape paving
Atos on that account? I Cough not,
and 1
faryying
nanes Se on
nis execution. Peopie whos
sitgation and & sel!
made or arranged ov i have
far 3 month. and
astanve has Pally
har
ver
vu one |
RATE
iam
fade
hay whiis
sae Barra
tor drove
to repeat
tald thar compliant
the golive and |
the sun shines
bird,
s Bate
ie mun
fam aay
briskly away
Aa Ns RY 3 SRST, A
THE ONCE FAMOUS SINGER.
: ¥
frata
+
in now heard of
inger Uhristine Nil
Comparative!
Phe onee-famons
gon, bat it oo
of Ber old adotirers 16 know that ale
t oassed hey BTy-8th hirth-
to gay. in the vear 1843
famad stoger was bora
has us
day. Nirange
saother warid.
Madame Patti
went to the local fairs to perform.
of their abundance, or ss ths Lord
Gr aunties
¥ By
Madame Niluson,
frags, as she pow fe was
ter of a Bwedish farmer,
eo dangly
and she lear
CHRISTINE NILSSON.
ned
Natore, With her fiddivr brother she
it was on ene of these occasions,
1857 that the incident of her ile bay.
pened,
Her extraordinary powers attracted |
of a magletrate named
he
| was, rescued her from this vagront lite
Cand placed her at a Joeal school, and |
then sent her to Biockbolm and Parle
the attention
Tornerhjeim, who, good man that
tor the perfecting of her singing.
aisle aa the solemn masic of the ove |
‘ gan filled the chareh.
Down into his pocket went the hand
of the Stingy Man;
zold piece: -it was money he had col-
lect that very morning by grinding
a poor man, and he wanted to look nt
The
' Church Monss moved a trifle nearer,
ha drew oot a8
Down into his poekét again wens
the hand of the Stingvy Man, and this
time acopper lay in his palm beside |
the shining eon.
Thonzht the mouse,
means to be cold und hungry,”
moved yet nearer,
At last the basket was passed to the
Stingy Man. He intended to put in |
the copper. Tho Church Mouse knew
the time for action had come, and, ot
“old is soarce
and I know what it |
and he |
Ramey.
$
the risk of his own life, he sprang up |
the coat sleeve of the Stiagy
went the shining coin withthe copper, |
The Missionary Society gave a
Thanksgiving supper in the charch
pariors that night, and the Church
Mouse, who safely escaped from the
Stingy Man's coat sleeve, had all he
could eat—for once. —Frances Mar- | ¢
garet Fox,
Thanksgiving Danger-Signa®l,
as
Taam
Turkey "in hidiag, to friend) "Lie
low, Friend Gobbler, lie low; there's
’ blood in his ere apd he's got an axel”
2 40 |
suddenly that down into the basket
i
|
Geneve and Lyons; © Terr
Pure Curwensviila, DaBols, ahafiug and ;
A pron renee
“Tin yout think that women are much
Infilaenced hy a man’s persanal appoan-
ance? asked ofie youLg man,’
guy #0." replied the youth with a
peachy “omplexion and curly hale
“Apciio was all right In his day
football mask to make an,
TX,
ard weal a
impression pow.’
Altoona & Phill lrg Comet BE
“om DENSED TIME TABLE,
fa otic December 1, 1897.
Fasrwarn Week Daya
AM AM. NOON
. % 8 2% 1235
T37T 3 WW
78 951 1156
L410 1066 LID
AM, AM TM
Westwann-- Week Days.
AM, AM PM. PR
Philipsburg. ... 820 11.13 143 ADO
Oseeoia Mills, . 5.33 11.31 201 518
Houtzdale. ... 850 11.50 233 338
138 Le
Suxpay Tasivs.
6 Read Down. PM
RAMEY... ..conovncvesss BOO
ERE
ee
Yu
00
a2
381
348
Rw
Houtzdale ie
| Ducecis Mills...
Poiiipsburg.
io
at
Sexpar Taarvs,
| 6 Read Up A
»y.. wnsnaras exnaness 1038
outmdale... coer JA LE
Osceola Mills, .......... 834
Vhillpsburg ...covviaien B86)
AN,
Conxperions—At Philipsburg (Union Stas
tion; with ail Beech Creek Raliroad traing
fur and from Beiletonts, Lock Haven, Wiis
fsmsport, Heading Polindeiphin ad New
York Lawrenvesil », Cursing nator and
rN
6.48
6.33
Bradford, Buffaie anil
ay with
Ridgway,
Ar QO cools for
P.B. RB
No ust to diy
Reg Shapes
we eo
removed {fom the seat of the vehicle
After several | :
fhe :
gem merged | oah
A
[ater |
if yom
ago |oavas cone |
Esplopil !
: Cutnphall at ial
rather |
fat ; fa! tens $minbetts
casing i
rine iegel | Bt Ew pm.
ww a disgusted |
who had been persistently an |
and the wagons: and unifordis |
But aes |
their just |
coedtly devised the plan | am now
{ those gow style canipalgn hats
the Biacklist are gemer- | OVENS 10 be a popular theater hat
ough to nnderstund the | They Ar ihe kind that ean be take
Levens 1s at amee | Of Without mussing the hair Rah
boun |
mn
been pallid :
woll-rehearsnd at, |
eg
make
Gost day.”
the enternrising colle. |
gir. Germans.”
intersting to many
I
hor notes from that gresl master.
and
fi
‘1 should
but
‘d have to put on guilisd rons |
E aniy betw: ibd
a
6.00
2
Houtszdale and Ram
a lent YO, RN
May i, 19.
Main Line
Toads Crin~ Elistward,
Express, week dogs
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Main line FX press, daddy %
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Joss HEL evden, Welek days.
Paciths Papi anily, A leash
Was Passenger, daily
Pirrahiarg Espen
Madi
Fastin, dinty.
: Fotasto arr Acoon. weal nye.
Morning train foe Par
fade 4 mpnpbedt BEE
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np $5
slings Sr ler Lerrw ay
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of the girls look very nest on
Most
won't spoil them and later the fe
it washed, will become nsefui a Sitep:
water through.
Not (Quite.
“Wikit do they call the microbay that
breed discases, Jolin? inane Ar,
germs.” “Correct--and what do they
P45 Hn ;
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rail the people who know how tn hag 3
die germs in a stlentifie way
- Ap Sloper,
Beech Creek Railroad.
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"Buffalo, Rochester and Pilsburg Ky.
Fares Lait ping
fay.
On oad aller July 3 ER trains will
Bewelx Oreck Depot, Clearfield, as fuiiowg
eave
$2 a mu
irwensviiie, Pulob, Falls eel and
elem idie, Connecting at Pre bderis for
way, Jolmsoniurg, Himdiord and Booster,
tia, om. Duiske Express, Ba Care “verte
oBois asd Pails © yk, Conese we
Sutin, fiir Ridwway, Jobmsonbaor mg
turd and Buffalo.
$i2wn mn DuBos and Penssitasrer EF
press, For Dabiois, Valls Creek ated Pun
stata ay,
Tries arrive, 70 a. wm. and 39 and be
Pom
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