Beaver County News | 1919-12-17 | Page 7 | Where Santa was Born

WHERE SANTA WAS BORN Russian Legend of Saint Klaus and How He Came to Be Known as the Children's Friend. Very many years ago there lived la Russia a nobleman and his wife, who had a little son named Klaus. He was : such a good boy that everyone used to call him Saint Klaus. In course of time his parents died and left him a large fortune, not the least part of which was three large bars of gold, j Saint Klaus one day happened to be ! passing a house, and overheard a father telling his daughters that he had lost al his money, and that he didn't even know how he was going j to buy food for them. This worried Snint Klaus very much, and he won dered how he could help them. So that night he took one of the bars of gold and threw It through the window. ' The next night he threw the second bar, and crept quietly away, but on the third night when he was about to throw the third bar, the man who had lost all his money came out and caught him. He tried to thank Saint Klaus for his goodness to him and bis daughters, but Saint Klaus told hliu to pay his thanks to God, whose servant serv-ant he was. And there, boys and girls, you have the story of Saint Klaus (or Santa Claus as we call him).