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'Santa's Wonderful
Gift at First M. E,
CANTATA WITH sNAPPY MUSIC
AND INTERESTING PLOT
SOMEHOW RIGHT a

sSanta's Wonderful Gift is the
title OF a beautiful Christmas Cantata
which will sbe presented by the First
Episcopal Sabbath School on Thurs.
day evening of this week, beginning
at 1880 o'clock. !,
The pulpit of the auditorium, has
been enlarged for the production,
which will be perhaps, the most pre-
tentious Christmas cantata present
ed IN this city for several years. The
cantataE lis nicely got up. The plot Is
exciting and interesting and the mu-
sic. accompanying the scenes Is snappy
and pretty. The plot centers about
d family which has grown tired Of the
usual stilted Christmas customs and
desires something new and the plots
works out the something new" want
ed
Thelcommittee in charge Of the can,
tata lie composed Of Thevey Nutter
chairman; Misses Edna Jacobs and
Ruby Hall, Mrs. J. D. Hecker, Prof.
w. b. Buckley and ]. W. Hight. Miss
Edna Jacobs, however, Is In direct
charge! OF the music and practice, who
fsSablyI assisted by Prof. Buckley, Miss
HallIand Mr.. Right. 51l
The cast Of characters Is as follows:
Santa Claus. J. W. Right; father, w.
d. Buckley; mother, Ethel Toothman;
children, Charles Hennen, Louise
Hite, Maratha Right, Edith Hite, Earl
knight and Clifton Hall: nurse, Faan.
cesI Helmick; Cousins, Mary Catherine
Howard Eloise Shain. Linn Hall,
George Cole, Edmund Troxell. Clyde
Leonard, James Allard and William
Bickerstaff; ragged child, Doris
Hall; angel OF peace, Doris Hall;
Chief Of Atlantic, Fay Smith; Queen
otEAtlantis, Catherine Troxell.
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U MOVIE Queens L.
'T0LDaRE:AL. TRUTH
What a ReyelrlseIin Interview
With a Screen Heroine
Would Contain.
lam a very plain sort Of person.
] wasn't born ina small town.
Ny father wasn't poor and I didn',

lam avery plain sort Of person.
wasn't born In a small town.
NY father wasn't poor and / didn't
have to earn my own living.
Ididn't 60 on the stage! when i was
three years old and never spoke a
piece as a kid y.
Ididn,t work TO support my mother
and brothers and there was not the
slightest early indication that had
any talent. FI'
Once David Balasco came to our
town. He didn't take any notice OF
me and didn't pat me on the head
and ask me ~ I didn't want to come
TO New = ork and Join his company.
Ny mother wasn't shocked when I
went on the stage. Ny father didn't
rage and storm. didn't have any
little sister to console and envy me
my chance.
never thought anything about
whether i had any talent or not. I
never read Shakespeare and never,
locked myself up alone and rehearsed
Juliet before q mirror.
Haven't got fifty gowns and a $780,.
900 wardrobe. You could buy all my
personal Junk for twenty.eight fifty.
Itdoesn't take any nerve to act the
melodrama stuff in the movies.
! don't know what to do for the
complexion. use just plain cold
cream.
! have no advice to give to other
girls with movie ambitions because
! have never thought anything about
1t. IScan't ride horse and never do
except when my part calls for It.
Idonit own "a car but am saving up
TO buy a secondhand Ford. hate
chickens and country life and am
deathly afraid Of snakes. / don't
dance. never saw rich mans
son close enough to recognize and
when the film is developed I'm
Through with It. Get that?
MySeats? like steaks and pota-
toes and bread.
And listen, DO. I amt seen the
hick yet that I'd marry. Get that?
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! Dressed Turkeys at Robb's.-Adv.
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Canlped on a Riuer Bank and
Yet They Were All Thirsty

SGatlettsbufg. The train was late, so
late In fact that the suit cases brigade
reached Front street, the center Of
fi.wetdom, Just as the saloons were
closing at eleven O'clock, Central
time. 3 3;
Saloon men sought permission from
the city authorities to postpone the
closing hour beyond that fixed by the
law, but without success. Three or,
four remained open, for business de.
spite warnings. but arrests were
promptly made before more than a
small percentage OF the pilgrims had
been supplied with their needs.
Hotels we're already oyercrowded
and the hundreds OF late arrivals were
unable to find places to sleep. Big
bonflres were lighted on the river,
bank, and throughout the night hun.
dreds OF men-ands women too-con.
gregated about these fires. awaiting
the opening OF the saloons on satur.
day morning. q y 81 4
Throughout Saturday the rush con.
tinued. and until late Saturday night.
Every train into Catlettsburg was
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Booze Seekers at Kentucky
Town Near State LineIin
Great Rush.

4 Gold stampedes. land rushes. bar:
gain crushes, bread liyes, traffic jams,
are all familiar In this great and rest:
less nation. The recent restraining
orders served upon West Virginia
railroads running into wet states have
furnished o new, variety Of mob .ac-
ttyity as the following graphic story
from the Hunting ton Advertiser OF
Monday shows: Il < Is IS z z
Such o rush for wet goods" as Cat
lettsburg, Ky. saloon men declare they
have never witnessed before, came to
"a close Saturday night at eleven
O'clock when the saloons closed for
Sunday. Estimates of the amount of
booze that went out of G atlettsburg
Friday and Saturday ontradict pretty
strongly any idea that prohibition
West Virginia Is going to have o dry.
Christmas. & 2
There was a reason for the rush. It
was generally understood that the In.
junction against the C.l a. o. railroad,
prohibiting itf from carrying booze
as baggage for passengers, or permit.
ting passengers Ito take packages 10.
beled as containing .wetl good s',5would
be effective today, and those who
were determined that their eel.
ebration of the holiday! season should
be In part at least. liquid, evidently
decided to take no chances.
Friday and Saturday Of last week
Huntington witnessed a part Of the
pilgrimage. hundreds of suit case la
den men from the Guyan valley trains
marching down Ninth street, en- route
to the oasis, and returning from Ken
lucky heavily laden.
But from main line points, Charles.
ton. Hinton. MONTGOMERY, and he
many small stations between the Wiz.
ginia line and Huntington, Fan even
greater stream poured Kentucky.
ward. For single train in Hinton
210 tickets to Catlettsburg were sold.
Special accommodations had to be
provided for the pilgrims both com.
ing and going, either in the form Of
extra coaches or extra sections. And,
at that, every train was crowded.
On Friday night, the Virginiani train,
bringing between four and Eve hun.
dred men and women, black and
white, American and foreign, from
points beyond Charleston, arrived in
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HIGH BR0VSV|I[
labor B !N|..QUARRY||
But the Quarry. Has Not
Been a Commercial Sue
cess for Ages. /. &

4 WASHINGTON Dec. 22.-Among
the, IL learned societies which are ito
hold Joint sessions with the Second
Pan.American Scientific Congress,
opening here on MondayiisS one com.
posed lof noted savants Of nearly sey.
cry civilized country OF the world,
who are all devoting their lives TO
the study of America with a view OF
obtaining new evidence that the west.
ern hemisphere ) Is really older an.
thropologic than the so-called Old
World. These men, forming the In.
tenational Congress of sAmercanists,
after having met every two
years since 1867 in nearly all Of the
great capitals OF the world, are this
year. foregathering In Washing ton sim.
ply in order to carry on their discus
sions with. the 'anthropological section
of the Pan.American Congress-. All
Within three miles of the White
House, in the. neighborhood of (which
the sessions Of the congress will be
held, are the remains Of a great quarry
which 1t is said was worked by the
prehistoric stone masons OF Amer
lea long time before the pyramids OF
Egypt were built Here beside a
branch Of Rock Creek Is an extensive
area filled with the refuse OF the abb
original workshops, fragments, chips
of quartzite and quartz, broken and
partially shaped implements, hammer;
stones and anvils, in places to a depth
of 10 feet. The ancient excavations
are covered with debris from the low
bluffs above, but trenches have been
dug and the visiting Americanistsi will
be able to make satisfactory studies.
under the direction off Prof. William
H. Holmes, head curator of the Smith.
sonian Institution, who has thoroughly
explored the quarries. DR.. Holmes,
beside being one Of the leading Am.
ericanists himself, Is a member OF the
executive committee Of the Pan-Am-
erican congress and chairman Of the
section of anthopology.
In connection with the deliberations
Of the anthopological section, the Am.
ericanistsY will consider racial prob:
lens, which are said to be among the
iimost important with which science
has to deal at the present time, and
which are most acute In this half OF
the world on account Of immigration
and numerous different races living
together in the same section.
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DIANA i. N. osTE.
Parkers Run

Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Arnett and
son James, were calling on Mrs. EN-
ma Page on Sunday.
Thelma Smith was visiting her aunt
Mrs. Hattie Hayhurst one day last
week
Miss Lorena Berry was shopping in
Fairmont on Saturday.
The Parkers Run school will give
a Christmas entertainment on Thurs
day night, December 70.
Mrs. P. J. Christy was shopping in
Fairmont on Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Harris were call.
ing on Mr.. and Mrs. James Powell on
Sunday evening. %
Mrs. Blanche Merrifeld, OF Fair.
mont was visiting her sister, Mrs.
Will Smith, on Sunday.
Those calling on Mr.. and Mrs. P. J.
Christy on Sunday were: MRS: Will
Smith. Mrs. Blanche Merrifeld an
Mrs. Lee Smith. ~, Z, 7,
Claude Wilson is working for the
Leigh Coal Company. a VI.
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Live; and dressed Turkeys ut the
Jefferson Meat Markst--Ady. I
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HouH Paragraphs

Mrs. Myrtle Huffman. wife Of John
Huffman. "a 3. & o. car srepairman,
who died at Cooks hospital last Tues:
day night soon after giving birth to
"a boy baby, her death being the re.
suit Of fall on the icy ground. was
buried at Meadowdale cemetery FRI
day, services being held at the home
at Il o'clock by Rev. F. g. Meredith.
Deceased was the daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs; Joseph West, of 5Beechwood, and
was born November II, 1892, and was
therefore 90 years OF age. She was.
married to John Huffman May 18th,
1910. She leaves besides the. husband
three children, a boy s years old, q
girl 2 years old besides the infant still
at the hospital. She also leaves a
father and mother, five brothers and
four sisters. The husband and moth
erless children merit and we are sure
receive the heartfelt sympathy of the
entire community. "
Fred Grim was visiting at Manning.
ton Saturday and Sunday.
Mrs. Helen Hall who was very sick
is, we are glad to say, improving
rapidly. 4 II
{ Miss Mary Pyle who was sick last
week is getting better.
The Hoult M. E. Sunday school has
elected the following officers for; the
coming year: superintendent, w. F.
Hoult; assistant superintendent, Jas.
D. Bowman; secretary, Miss Bertha
Bowman; assistant secretary, Miss
Alma Johnson; treasurer, Miss Gladys
Watkins; chorister, F. +. Wiles: or
ganist, Olin Watkins; assistant, Mrs.
Edna Huffman; missionary president,
Mrs. Nellie Harr; secretary, Miss
Gladys Watkins; treasurer, DIN Wat.
;kins. Preparations are under way
to adopt the graded lessons for the
coming year in all the classes except
adult. +. gSis
f The Literary Society which meets
here at the school house Friday night
Is causing considerable interest
among the young people. They have
decided not to enfranchise the women,
nor annul the compulsory school law
among other important services rem.
dered to the community lately. What
will enact remains for the future to
disclose. M
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Georgetown

Bent Robey spent Sunday with Mrs.
Karl Arnett.
The infant Of Mr.. and Mrs. ii. s.
Chapman was buried last Thursday
at the Arnettsyille cemetery at q p.
m.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dorsey are spending
a few weeks with Rev. H. S. Chapman
and wife Of Morgantown.
N. e. Fisher attended the Social
Center at Georgetown last Saturday
night and said that it was as goou
as any meeting he ever was in.
The protracted meeting closed at
Laurel Flat with IS converts.
Russell Michael refused to take the
L. T. money last Sunday at the meet.
ing. g.ai
Mr.. and Mrs. John Fisher spent
Tuesday with Mr.. and Mrs. N. E.
Fisher. {;
+ Nathan Fisher attended, the funeral
!, Of his aunt, Mrs Anna Walls, at Mt.
Harmony one day last week. Mrs.
Walls was an aged lady "a years, and
was before her marriage a Miss
Henry. She was loved and respected
by all who knew her. She leaves one
daughter, Miss Laura, at, home.
The old fashioned Cuban itch is
very contagious in Arnettsville and
Hagans. Tho family of j. II. Michael
all have It and Mr.. and Mrs. John
Fisher and Miss Jenkins the school
teacher think that they ought to try
and stop the disease before it spreads.
Mrs. Anna Chapman still continues
better.
Mrs. Emma Arnett gave her hus.
band birth day surprise last Thurs.
day night. Mr.. and Mrs. James Ar.
nett, Miss Nell Arnett, Mrs. Della
Fisher, Dwight Fisher, Mrs. Bianch
Mindle, Frank Robey, William Ralph
Snyder, Howard Mundell, Mi. and
Mrs. James Trickett. Miss Mary Trick.
EFT, Charles Hess, Abner letters. All
Of them departed wishing Mr.. and
Mrs. Arnett many more happy birth
day days. Candy was served by Mrs.
Emma Arnett.
Mrs. Belle Snider and Mrs. Ora
Snider are sick; also Clarence Snider
is no better.
Mrs. Ltbbie Arnett is on the sick
Hist. i5a55
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live Turkeys at Robb's. Adv.
Dressed Turkeys at Ross's.-Adv.
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Live and dressed Turkeys at the
Jefferson Meat Market.--Adv.
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Live Turkeys at Robb's.Adv. &
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Stone and the Legislature

Somebody remarked that President
Wilson will now have an easy time of
it with no Congress ON his hands,
which reminded bystander of this
story: 1t was after the Pennsylvania
legislative session of 1901. most tur-
hulent one, in which Governor Stone
was continually harassed and perplexed
by very skillful fighting minority in
the House. In fact, the Governor was
kept on edge almost all of the time
wondering what that House was going
to do next. On the day the Legisla-
ture adjourned visitor to the Govern
or remarked:
"Well, Governor, now You can take
a good long rest. There will be moth
ing to look forward TO, and there is
no Legislature ahead of YOU.
Governor Stone looked up at his Wis
itor with quizzieal smile on his face,
and said
THAT may all be true. There may
be no Legislature ahead OF me, but,
man, look at the one behind me-
That was enough.
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Tenaue-End Topics
Wise Cat and Foolish Dog

The large grey cat came out of the
alley, walked across the sidewalk,
paused irresolutely and then sat down
on the curb, She had caught sight of
a unfriendly bulldog on the other side
of the street. This was on Harris
street. The cat had had a close ac-
quaintance with the bulldog few days
previously, when the dog had chased
her up tree, barely nipping her tail
as she scurried out of his sanguinary
reach. The bulldog saw the eat sitting
on the curb. They exchanged glances.
Like fash the bulldog dashed for the
cat, which seemed bewildered and pow.
erless to run. An automobile was pass
ing at law.breaking speed. 1t shot
by just as the dog reached the center
of the street. The auto struck the dog,
spun him around like q top and ran
over him, the dog emerging from the
rear dased and bruised, all the gimp out
of him and one leg broken. He limped
away whining and bewailing his fate.
The cat continued its journey across
the street
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MORAL TEACHING IN SCHOOLS

4 A man who is much interested in Harrisburg edu-
cational matters well as IN educational affairs
in general, believes there should be more systematic
efforts made in directing the minds of pupils toward
cleaner thinking and cleaner living. He thinks
more should be done TO improve the moral tone of
pupils in our schools and that there should be
regularly prescribed course, with text books, to
teach good morals to school children.
The military system in schools is objected to by
this man. who, by the way, spent much of his youth
in Germany. He says that while the German mill
taxy Nraning in the schools teaches loyalty to
nation it overdoes the thing III that 1t tends to
create in the pupils minds more regard for fighting
efficiency than for the higher ideals of human hfe
Yet he recognizes the merit the German system
has in that it sets up ideal and Systematically
directs the minds of the children toward it.
In other words he believes the system is all right
but the ideal and this suggests to his mind that
if similar system employed in this country,
but directed toward different ideal that is to-
ward better morals rather than toward military
eficiency,-the school children of America would
make far better men and women
In our opinion the public school teachers of this
city and this country, as class are persons who
individually have very good influence which they
freely exert over their pupils In many instances
they do more to shape the morals of the children
than do the parents. Yet it seems to be true that
there is not any very systematic method in force
here of teaching the ethics of right living TO school
children. Systematic training along these lines
must. of course. be based general principles of
morality rather than on the tenets of any particular
creed or religious denomination, but nevertheless
the suggestion ought to prove practical.
Perhaps combination of the German system of
training, with the military ideal left out directed
toward the ideals that individual American teach
ers endeavor in unorganized sort of way to set
up for their pupils. might fill the need which the
gentleman referred to believes to exist
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SELECT 60 JURORS TODAY
Talesmen Picked to Serve at the Next
Term of Common Pleas Court
Beginning April IL

Sixty jurors who will serve at the
next term of Common Pleas Court be-
ginning on April II, were picked by
Commissioners Dapp and Taylor with
Sheriff Wells, this morning. The list
follows:
Eli ID. Ruth, Highspire; James c..
Sweitzer, Fourth ward, Steelton; Oliver
Attick, Twelfth ward, city; Charles
Beaver, Fourth ward, city; David F.
Kinsey, Williamstown; John +. Wolley,
Second ward, city; Milton Il. Beamer,
Second ward, city; Howard J. Peitfer,
South Hanover; George A. Hicks, Hum
melstown; John Auker, First ward
Steelton; Joseph G. McCord, South
Hanover; Daniel Artz, Lykens; John
7. Morgan, Sixth ward, city; John G..
Brown, Susquehanna; William Z. Mess
ner, Seventh ward, city; Walter Trout
Lykens; William J. Jury, Halifax; Wal
ter Houser, Second ward, Middletown; ;
William u. Becker, Second ward, city;
Josiah f. Brinser, Londonderry; James
Bond, Seventh ward, city; Thomas
Bowerman, Williamstown; Harry Eich-
Ter, Third ward, Steelton; Ferdinand
Engle, Fifth ward, city; Otto Long,
Lykens; Harry F. Hartzell, Tenth ward,
city; Samuel A. Watts, Third ward
city; Charles Hartman, Lykens; Charles
DreibeFbis, Wiconisco; Daniel C. Hoke,
Wiconisco.
William E. Skeen, Tenth ward, city;
William Woodside, Lykens; Amos Mat
ter, Lykens; Harry Ulrich, Halifax;
Joseph L. Trego, Eighth ward, city;
Lueien C. Schotfstall, Lykens; John W..
Adams, Hummelstown; J. l.. McCalley,
Fifth ward, city; John H. Schaner,
Lower Paxton; Walter E. Dietrich,
Thirteenth ward, city; John Wolf, Sec
ond ward, Middletown; Sol Kuhn,
Eighth ward, city; Eugene j. Fogarty,
Fifth ward, city; Edward II. Strohm,
West Hanover; Harry L. Derr, Ninth
ward, city; j. Frank Rohrer, First
ward, city; Alfred c. Minnich, Lower
Paxton; William f. Wright, Twelfth
ward, city; William Church, Eleventh
ward, city; Oscar Wentzel, Lykens
township; Thomas j. Zeil, Fourth ward
city; Joseph G. Early, Hummelstown;
Charles Smith, Penbrook; David Hoov-
er, East Hanover; Amos F, Henry, Sus-
quehanna; Harvey Crater, Halifax;
Joseph l.. Leonard, Fifth ward, city;
John H. Freeland, Middle Paxton;
John C. Kinley, Wiconisco township;
Henry II. Lehr, Susquehanna.
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NOT ALL spARRows ARE HARMFUL,

Although Sparrows are not always well thought
of among persons who are accustomed to peace
and quiet, the information comes in Farmers
Bulletin issued by the Department of Agriculture
that there are forty species of North Amer
Jean sparrows which are helpful, not harmful and
should be protected, not outlawed
Burroughs has said that the English sparrows
street gamins while ours are timid rustics The
definite difference is that the English birds are
noisy and quarrelsome. while members of the Amer
iran species unObtrusve. Another example of
superiority of native products over foreign varie-
ties, it seems.
The impudent sparrows which make their living
in Capitol Park by darting in front of deserving
pigeons and snatehing peanuts and other delica-
cies which do not by right belong TO them. are
enough to prejudice almost anyone against the
English species Donations of carefully shelled
peanuts meant for the handsome pigeons which
always repay their benefactors by exhibitions of
strutting, delightful because of awkwardness.-
and flying.-attractive because of gracefuness The
contemplate little sparrows can do nothing them
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selves to earn peanuts and their intrusions ON the
rights of the pigeons cannot but re the dispensers
of the morses
The American birds. ON the other hand, have
retiring dispositions and are not ON especially ia
mliar terms with the general public; but although
they are seldom noticed they may be found in prac-
ticay every part of the country, we are told, and
there may be as many as half dozen varieties in
one locality.
1t will be well for the farmers, in particular,
to get acquainted with these native creatures who
beneficial to the crops according to the govern
ment investigators, because they feed on insects,
including many injurious beetles, as well as on
grass and weed seeds.
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Tho Crimean War.

The Crimean war was in 1886 be-
tween Russia on one side and Turkey,
France, Great Britain and Sardinia, as
allies, on the other side. 1t was called
the Crimean war because 1t was main
ly fought in the Crimean peninsula. 1t
arose through the demand of Russia
for protectorate over the Greek sub
jects of the sultan and was closed and
its issues decided by the treaty of
Paris March 80, 1856 BY this treaty
Sebastopol. which had been captured,
was restored to Russia. Russia aban-
doned her claim as to Christians in
Turkey and the Black sea was neu-
tralized.