Nebraska Newspapers

    THE O'NEILL FRONTIER
a H. CRONIN. Publisher.
O'NEILL, NEBRA8KA
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If provision Is not made for developing
the railroads continuously the cost of liv
ing. instead of being reduced, will go
higher, declares President Howard Elliott
of the Northern Pacific Hallroad Com
pany “Figures furnished show that in
1918 there were 63,923,734 life insurance
policies in force with the legal reserve
companies. Among the assets securing
these policies are marly $2,000,000,000 of
... railway securities, and a failure to protect
these securities affects directly the hold
ers of these policies and the beneficiaries
thereof. In addition, these policy holders,
Ir. common with the balance of the 106,000,
•00 people In the country, need continuous
development of the transportation ma
chine for the purpose of increasing the
food and fuel supply.” Mr. Elliott stated
that the country's railroads will face a
deficit for the present year that may
reach $350,000,000.
Frank L. Polk, head of the United States
delegation to the peace conference sum
moned Kurt ven Leasner, head of the Ger
man representatives at Versailles on Mon
day and told him that Germany should
m»t interpret as being in her favor any
delay that might be encountered in ratify
ing the Versailles treaty at Washington,
according to Paris newspapers. “Jf there
can be in the United States several ways
of understanding the treaty,” Mr. Polk is
quoted as saying, “there are not two ways
of understanding the obligations encum
bent upon Germany nor the affection bind
ing the United States and her allies.”
The different nations of the world are
trying different expedients to meet the
high cost of living. In Portugal, a part
of the nation's gold reserve has been
placed in the banks. In Sweden the in
crease has reached a figure estimated at
136 per cent, which Is higher In the cities
than in the country. The Argentine Is
considering doing away with Import duties
cm unmanufactured food products, while
Hrar.il is revising her tariff with the
same end in view.
A. L. De Ueouw', of New York a consult
ing engineer, says: “Collective bargaining
is a misleading term. Under the present
conditions there can be no bargaining for
the issue is brought to a conclusion by
strikes or threats of strikers. This Is no
more a method of bargaining than when
a man points a gun at his to collect
a bill.” Mr. De Leeuw says “we must
drop to a large extent the Idea that wage
Is the compensation for time, it should be
made a compensation for product de
livered.”
Premier Lloyd George, addressing tha
house of commons this afternoon said
he hoped it would not be necessary to
suspend trial by Jury In Ireland. A re
port had circulated tiiat the cabinet, hail
decided to suspend constitutional guar
antee because of the impossibility of ob
taining convictions of persons in Ireland
tried for acts of terrorism.
Two Americans, members of an explor
ing expedition launched jointly by tha
Smithsonian institution and the Universal
Film Company, have been killed in a rail
road wreck in the Engo forest, Belgian
Congo, South Africa, and several others
seriously injured. Native wood cutters
extricated the injured and carried them to
their huts where they remained for 16
bouit without medical aid.
The Kills Island inquiry reveals the fact
that, although there were 1.509 aliens de
ported during the year ending July 1,
1918, only two of them were anarchists,
despite the fact that the law requires tha
deportation of alien anarchists no matter
how long they have been In this country.
November 26 was old maid’s day in Paris.
On that day—St. Catherine’s day—every
unmarried woman who has reached the
age of 26 are decorated by their younger
sisters with orange blossoms. Many of
those decorate! In Paris this year wore
half mourning for fiances killed in the
war.
Prof. William H. Pickering, of Harvard
university, who recently made a study of
the moon from an observatory In Kings
ton, Jamaica, says there are evidenced
of the existence of a race of superior be
ings on the moon and that a careful study
reveals vegetation in spots on the moon's
surface.
Of the 2,511,04* men called in the draft
In New York state. 1,907,200 or 78 per cent,
ware found physically fit for military ser
vice. New Jersey’s average was 79.2 per
cent and Connecticut 77.3 per cent. Wyom
ing heads the llts of states In the highest
per centage of physically fit men, boasting
of 87.2. Rhode Island Is at the bottom
with only 57.6 per cent fit.
Myron T. Herrick, former ambassador
to France, In an address at the 34th annual
dinner of the Ohio Society of New York,
declared the real test of patriotism was
still to come and that It would mean the
dedication of the lives of real Americans
to the maintenance of the country In at
tacks from foes within. “Our people do
not understand that many leaders of union
labor do not seek benefits for labor but
seek to destroy the government," he said,
acknowledged.
Girl Scouts of New York city have, by a
“gentleman's agreement,” banned paint
and face powder, and the whole makeup
box as well. No scout Is permitted to dye
her hair or use peroxides. Short skirts and
hivh heels must go tooi
Warning against ''entangling alliances"
with the American federation of tabor, Dr.
George D. Strayer, of Columbia university,
today told 500 teachers attending the
teachers institute that affiliation with
labor unions would “Invite suspicion and
* Representatlvs Sims, Tennessee, ranking
democrat has reintroduced his bill pro
viding for extension of federal control of
railroads until December SI, 19SL With a
provision that no Increases In rates can
be put Into effect without authority of
congress.
A co-operative society for the rich only
Is being formed in Paris. "We have had
enough," says M. Charles Namur, the pro
motor of the schema "of throwing money
away. We do not wish to be accused any
more of forcing up piloes," according to a
Reuter dispatch.
The National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People have pro
tested to President Wilson against tho
fact that colored people have been ex
cluded from the public restaurant In the
library of congress, and colored employers
segregated in the lunch room.
"The women of New York adopted .styles
which come from the most Immoral
women of Paris," declared Lieut. B. W.
Maynard, the flying parson.
The British ministry of munitions ts re
leasing for sale more than 5,506,000 yards
of cloth suitable for dresses, over coats,
raincoats, suits and uniforms.
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The youngest son of Lieut. Col. Theodore
Roosevelt was christened "'Quentin'' last
week He wtus named for his aviator uncle
who died in France. Copies of "The Star
of Gold" were distributed at the cere
mony.
There were 7,700 Swiss killed during the
war. In the service of France Bight thous
and Swiss were loaned the French army,
and all but 300 of them were killed In
action.
The Christiania department of Justice
has forbidden the police to join trades
anions or any national organisation which
> inc v order them to be gu.'lty of disloyal
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Builders of New Constitution
For Nebraska Have Many
Freak Proposals Sub
mitted to Them.
Lincoln. Neb., Dec. 13.—The state
constitutional convention is of a mind
to keep on working and not take a lay
off until after the holidays. Wednes
day it staged a warm debate over
whether »o adjourn this week until
January 5, or until next Monday. The
Monday advocates won. it was ar
gued that until the proposals or
amendments are printed and the com
mittees have turned out some work,
there will be nothing for the conven
tion to do, but it was finally decided
to wait until a better idea of the task
ahead can be secured.
Another batch of new proposals
have been dropped into the hopper by
members. Among the number were
two by Kpperson, one of which pro
poses to abolish the state railway
commission. The other would put an
end to the practice of getting around
the old constitutional provisions pro
hibiting the creation of new executive
officers by the device of naming some
state officer as commissioner of
something or another, and making the
real head his deputy.
Oleson of Cuming had two that
were evidently aimed at prohibitory
enforcement. One would prevent the
issuance of searcii warrants except
where felony is charged, and the other
that all punishments must be com
mensurate with the crime. Keeping
litiuor for sale on one’s premises is a
misdemeanor and does not become a
felony, under the present law, until
after two convictions.
Mr. ICvans would make void any su
preme court decision declaring a law
enacted by the legislature or by the
referendum unconstitutional unless all
judges agree. Other proposals are to
elect supreme judges by districts, uni
versity regents by districts, that the
legislature shall meet in December in
stead of January following election o<
members, and that the state bar asso
ciation shall nominate all supreme
judges.
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INSURANCE AMOUNTING TO
TWO BILLION IS CARRIED
Lincoln. Neb., Dec. 13—"Over $2,000
000,000 of insurance was carried in Ne
braska last January,” says Harvey
Mllliken, chairman of the publicity
bureau. This includes $039,233,516 of
life insurance consisted of:
Stock legal reserve.$178,315,855
Mutual legal reserve. 188.575,295
Assessment life associations. . 17,886,506
I'Yaternal beneficiary associa
tions . 254,455,86!
Total life insurance.$639,232,51k
Property insurance comprised:
Stock fire Insurance.$ 856.022,876
Mutual fire, tornado and hall 24,247,936
Assessment hall and plate
glass . 309,783
Kurm and village mutual as
sessment fire and tornado. 449,259,121
Total fire, tornado, hail
and glass .$1,329,819,715
COMPENSATION FOR BEING
KILLED IN OWN CONCERN
Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 13.—The state
labor department has allowed com
pensation of $12 per week for 200
weeks to the heirs of Ira Lee. of Kim
ball, Neb., who was killed while in
the employ of his own establishment.
Lee, with a partner, owned a garage
at Kimball. He was killed by a gaso
line explosion. The insurance com
pany opposed the payment of compen
sation on the grounds that Lee was
in his own employ, but the commission
allowed the claim on the clause pro
viding that ‘‘executives and officers of
a company come under the compensa
tion act.”
Fl/EL ADMINISTRATOR HAS
PLENTY OF AUTHORITY
Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 13.—H. C. Tay
lor, newly appointed state fuel ad
ministrator, Is back from Chicago,
where he was Informed that he Is an
lncegral part of the railroad adminis
tration, which has been given the job
of distributing the coal and enforcing
conservation rules. The prescribed
form Is for local agents to order cars
and local committees are to distribute
the contents equitably, under Mr. Tay
lor's supervision.
MILK PRICES BOOSTED
BY DEALERS AT FREMONT
Fremont, Neb., Dec. 13.—The price of
milk In Fremont has been lifted again
—this time to 17 cents a quart. The
price'of bottles, whTcTTKas been 5 cent!,
has been jloublejL It will cost, there
fore, 27 cents, to tote home a single
quart of milk, but the bottle, If re
turned, will be redeemed for 10 cents."
TECUMSEH—In order to help meet the
advances In price* of all necessities, the
Tecumseh board of educations has decided
to give each teacher who remains at work
t« the close of the year a bonus of $100
The act was volunteered by the board,
and not asked for by the teachers. If a
teacher ts compelled to quit for perfectly
satisfactory reasons at any time, the
amount is prorated to the time taught.
LINCOLN—The stock judging team won
second place at the international stock
show at Chicago, the team consisting of
W. E. Wledeburg, of Lincoln; DeLoss P.
Moulton, of Wymore; M. V. Kappius, of
West Point; Ira Hepperly, Norfolk; It. E.
Fortna. Octavia, Earl Yates, Geneva, al
ternate.
FOREIGN EXCHANGE IS
AGAINJ.0WER TODAY
New York. Dec. 12.—Sterling demand
and lire checks made new low records
on the foreign exchange here today,
sterling opening at $3.7125 and lires at
13.52. Francs were strong, checks be
ing quoted at 11.82.
Shortly after the opening sterling
reacted to $3.7026. Marks were quoted
at $ .098.
Friends and Former Neighbors
of General In Nebraska Plan
Campaign to Elect
Him President.
Lincoln, Neb,, Dec. 12.—A state or
ganization intended to bring forward
General Pershing as a candidate for
the republican nomination for president
was created here last night at a meet
ing of 200 admirers and former neigh
bors of the general. Resolutions were
adopted declaring the nation needs a
man of his type of mind and training as
president of the United States in the
reconstruction work ahead. The meet
ing pledged its efforts to secure Ne
braska’s 16 votes for him at the repub
lican national convention. General
Pershing is expected to arrive in Lin
coln the 23d of this month to remain
several days with his son and sisters.
FAILED IN SUICIDE ATTEMPT,
BUT STILL WOULD DIE
Fremont, Neb., Dec. 12.—After writ
ing a note to his wife, who went to
Denver three weeks ago to visit rel
atives, informing her that when she
received it he would, be dead, Bari
Cunningham, truck driver in the em
ploy of the Rogers Tent & Awning Co.,
drank two ounces of chloroform.
He was found about an hour later by
Harry Rogers, president of the com
pany. He was rushed to the Fremont
hospital, where he is resting easy.,
Cunningham after regaining con
sciousness expressed a desire to die.
He told the police he had had trouble
with his wife. Cunningham served on
the Mexican border with the old Fre
mont signal corps until discharged for
physical disability.
CHURCH DEBT WIPED
OUT BY PAR1SHONERS
Ponca, Neb., Dec. 12.—Fifty men en
joyed an elegant dinner in the parlors
of Salem English Lutheran church.
The pastor, the Rev. Alfonse A. Ma
rohn, acted as toastmaster, delivering a
stirring address. Response was the
subscribing of $2,000 in cash subscrip
tions, the money to be applied on the
church debt, which was incurred
through the building of a new and up
todute parsonage. Preparations are
under way to raise another $2,000 dur
ing this month.
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UPDIKE GIVES HUGE
SUM TO OMAHA CHURCH
Omaha, Neb., Dec. 12.—Nels B. Up
dike will contribute $86,000 to the
fund for the completion of the new
First Congregational church, accord
ing to an offer which he made.
Mr. Updike volunteered to subscribe
$1 for every dollar subscribed by the
members at the meeting. Within a
short time $86,000 had been pledged
and amounts ranging from small con
tributions up to $10,000.
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COLDEST DECEMBER DAY
SINCE BACK IN 1901
Norfolk. Neb., Dec. 12.—The coldest
temperatures for December since 1901
were recorded in Norfolk and vicinity
Tuesday night and Wednesday morn
ing. The official thermometer in Nor
folk registered 26 degrees below zero.
Similar temperatures were reported by
the Northwestern railroad headquar
ters from Winner and other Rosebud
country points.
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CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS
Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 12.—Not having
very much to do the convention to
amend the constitution is spending
most of its time in debating proposi
tions having to do with procedure and
similar vastly important matters.
Meanwhile the members are unloading
their pockets, and dropping in a num
ber of proposals.
NORFOLK—Herman Hoffman was fined
$11.26 in Judge Norvell’s court because he
refused to allow his 15-year-old son to at
tend school. The complaint charging Hoff
man with assisting in the delinquency of
liis son was signed by J. M. Showalter, su
perintendent of schools, and Is the result
of the truant officer’s investigations. Hoff
man told the court that he needed his
boy to help with work at home, but the
court advised him that the boy needed an
education.
HART1NGTON—Even Dan Cupid is not
immune from criticism in connection with
the use of foreign languages in the United
States. Following the marriage here re
cently of a couple in which the German
language was used, the Hartington post of
the American Legion has adopted resolu
tions condemning the use of any other
than the English language for business,
social and ceremonial affairs^
INMAN—bavid Douglas, old time trap
ptr^of^ffs district, 'wis'^fei’d dead six
miles south of Inman. Douglas was found
lying in a medow north o fthe Klondyke
ranch, a short distance from his traps.
His death was due to heart trouble. When
found his trapper's sack contained a few
furs of skunk, mink and muskrat. Doug
las and his brother, Albert, were batche
lors and lived by themselves in their cabin
on the old Geary place, five miles north of
town.
PUTS BAN ON I. W. W.
Spokane, Wash.. Dec. 11.—A tem
porary injunction forbidding 60 alleged
members of the I. W. W. held in Jail
here pending appeal of their convic
tions on chaages of criminal syndical
ism, as well as other unnamed mem
bers of the organization in this coun
try, from continuing with the organiza
tion, was issued by Superior Judge
Webster here today.
CATCH JEWELRY ROBBER.
Los Angeles, Cal., Dec. 11.—A man
identified by the police as Leland W.
Zieriok, of Seattle, Wash., escaped
from a jewelry store last night with
diamonds valued at more than $15,000
after he had held up the manager and
a clerk with a revolver. The man
was caught later.
The speaker of the British house of com
mnns Is obliged by custom to give seven
official dinners each season to the mem
bers of pm -.'Lament.
MAKING POLITICS
0F|i’S CASE
Omaha Bar Association Asks
For Investigation—Repub
lican Leaders Are Be
ing Grilled.
Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 11.—Judge Det.n,
vice president of the state bar associa
tion. has been asked by Omaha parties
to order an investigation of the con
duct of the attorneys who represented
Byrl C. Kirk in the negotiations which
secured for him a furlough from the
penitentiary, where he had spent two
years of a 20-yea* conviction for mur
der. Judge Dean has declined to act
in the matter, however, because as a
member of the supreme court, he would
later have to sit in disbarment pro
ceedings if these were the outcome of
the investigation. The president of the
association is out of the state. C.
Petrus Peterson, of Lincoln, one of
Kirk’s attorneys, Is head of the stand
ing investigating committee of the state
association.
The Kirk matter is now getting into
politics. The democrats see in it a
chance to hit at Peterson, who is one
of the party leaders and in line for
the governorship, while his partner, R.'
W. Devoe, is chairman of the republi
can state committee.
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NEBRASKA COLLEGE SELLS
ITS KANSAS PROPERTY
Fremont, Neb., Dec. 11.—The Mid
land college property at Atchison.
Kan., consisting of 26 acres and five
buildings, including a new gymnasium
erected two years ago at a cost of
$40,000, was sold to Eugene Howe, of
the Atchison Globe for $41,000. Dr.
E. E. Stauffer, president of the Mid
land college, announced. It is under
stood Mr. Howe acted for the Dunk
ards, a religious sect which has a col
lege at McPherson. Kan. The Dunk
ards plan to remove their college to
Atchison, it is said.
REFUSE TO ACCEPT
RESIGNATION OF RECTOR
Omaha, Neb., Dec. 11.—Word is giv
en out that at a meeting of the bishop
and vestry of All Saints the resigna
tion of Rev. T. J. Mackay. the rector
was not accepted, the resignation hav
ing been proffered on account of fail
ing health.
The day before Thanksgiving Dr.
Mackay was made a present of a purse
of $8,500, contributed by friends and
church members, later contributions
having been expected to raise the
amount to $10,000.
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BEGIN CUTTING ICE
EARLY THIS SEASON
Fremont, Neb., Dec. 11.—With ice
eight inches thick, a local company has
commenced cutting. It is said that this
is the first time in the history of Fre
mont that ice has been cut before De
cember 15. Last year only a scanty
crop was gathered, due to the brevity
of the cold season.
SHOT MAN IN DREAM;
MUST STAND TRIAL
Fremont, Neb., Dec. 11.—Tony Dnn
za, the Italian who shot Elwin Mar
quis, Omaha real estate dealer, on a
Union Pacific train as it pulled into
Fremont Thanksgiving evening, was
bound over to trial in district court.
At his preliminary hearing Danza
pleaded not guilty of shooting with in
tent to do great bodily harm, but made
no defense. He claims to have done
the shooting while dreaming he was
about to be robbed.
TO CUT WOOD ALONG
THE MISSOURI RIVER
Bloomfield, Neb., Dec. 11.—At a meet
ing of the commercial club J. W. Dart,
B. Y. High and Fred Heavrin were
named as a fuel committee. Former
Mayor Harm was appointed chairman
of a committee to arrange for cutting
wood along the Missouri river. These
committees are busy. No suffering has
been reported from the coal shortage
here, but the shortage is extremely
acute.
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CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
COMPLETES ORGANIZATION
Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 11.—The state
constitutional convention is now ready
for business. It has adopted the re
port of the committee on committees,
which finishes the f rmal organiza
tion. The next in order will be the In
troduction of proposals or amendments,
which will be referred after being
printed to the committees to which
each belongs. ^
booTlegger convict is
GIVEN TEMPORARY PAROLE
Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 11—Howard Lee,
convicted of bootlegging in Hitchcock
county and serving an Indeterminate
sentence, has been released from the
penitentiary temporarily on an order
by Lieutenant Governor Barrows, now
acting governor. Lee has a wife and
five small children. Mrs. Lee is very
ill, and friends of the family have rep
resented to the authorities that her
husband is sadly needed at home for
a time. He has been paroled to the
county attorney, who has agreed to
watch after him and see that he is
returned after the Lee family crisis has
passed. Lee has served more than the
six months' minimum sentence, and is
eligible to a parole.
A kind hearted Kentucky burglar last
week sent the pawn tickets he received for
the jewels he stole to his victim.
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDAS?
IS NOT A DEMOCRAT
Pierre, S. D.. Dec. 10—The democrats
find themselves in the difficult posi
tion of having one of their proposed
candidates fail to consent to run on the
state ticket. The man says he isn't a
democrat, and so refuses to be on their
state ticket. Ho is Claude E. Harris,
of Sioux Falls, whom they proposed
for lieutenant governor.
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THE EVENING STORY.
Ye Merry Gift Time.
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Copyright, 1917, by W. Werner.
Mrs. Bagby leaned her elbows on the
table and stared down with a satisfied
air, while on either side of her loomed
a mountain of Christmas gifts, gay
boxes and fancy ribbons and tissue
paper. She sighed gently and looked
about approvingly. "Now comes the
work,” she thought.
She moved things about for a mom
ent and then drawing a silk bag to
ward her announced to the assembled
presents: “This bag is for Sister Ella's
daughter. She has everything she
needs, anyway, but a silk bag or two
will never come amiss. Girls can never
have too many of such things.” And
she slipped in the little Christmas
greeting she had written and folded
and wrapped it daintily in tissue paper,
tied it with the girl’s favorite color of
ribbon and poked a bit of holly under
the bow, saying as she held it up to
view, "That makes it look more festive.
How a little thing like that helps.”
“I do wish I could send something to
poor Mrs. Jones, but there are so many
people ont has to send presents to be
cause they will send to you. How I wish
that 1 might send to every one. Some
little remembrance, no matter how
small. This little kimono cost a great
deal more than I thought It would,”
she thought as she laid a fluff of soft
daintiness on a square of pink paper.
"To begin with, the silk was more ex
pensive than I supposed it would be,
and it took more lace that I had count
ed on, and then I had to buy a better
quality of ribbon to go with the silk,
so altogether it counted up; I don't
dare let myself know how much." She
smoothed and patted and straightened
and smothed. “But Inez has every
thing so lovely I couldn't give her any
thing inexpensive, and then, too, we
havo exchanged presents ever since we
were in school together. To be sure,
the little motto she sent me last year
did seem very shabby by the side of
the beautiful hand painted dish I sent
her, but it would never do this year of
all times to send her anything small,
ofr fear she might thing I had thought
her last year's present mean—though
I never have been able to understand
it, when I’ve always given her such
beautiful things—but then one couldn't
give Inez anything cheap, for every
thing she has is the very best.” And
by way of emphasizing the fact even
to herself, Mrs. Bagby hunted out care
fully the largest and prettiest piece of
holly to tuck under the ribbon “for
Inez.”
one wiuie ti uuccij nine wui i.-uina.-'
note and inclosed it with a motto on
“The Joy of Work”, done in the latest
fashion by hand, to a poor cousin whose
only means of livelihood was sewing
from early morning until late at night
for $1.50 a day, and remarked as she
tied the ribbon in a double bow, “Poor
Emma has so little bright and cheery,
this red ribon and the holly will help
to brighten her Christmas,” and she
laid the flat package by the smart one,
sighing gently at the thought of Cousin
Emma.
“I do hope the twins will like these
books,” she mused as she laboriously
tied up a set of three bulkly volumes,
smiling as she did so. “I’ll not waste
any holly on this, the dears; they will
never notice how it is wrapped, they
will be so anxious to see what is inside,”
and she smiled lovingly as she laid the
bundle to one side.
“I can't decide about those hand
kerchiefs,” said she to herself in leis
urely enjoyment. “I guess I will send
one to each of the girls. I do wish I
had time to embroider their initials,
but I haven't.
"Now, this doll for Lou’s baby.” She
peeped into a box lovingly. “It is so
sweet, but I suppose the child will get
so many, like she did last year, that
she will scarcely notice it. I would have
liked to send one to Helen's little girl,
but they cost so much, and then she
needed the dress, and I couldn't send
both. Oh, well, I hope some one else
will send her a doll." She smoothed out
a red and black plaid she had bought
on sale and laid a Christmas card be
CHRISTMAS MORNING.
It is Christmas morning, the bright
est and most joyous day of all the year,
the one day that differs from all
others. There was a legend of a time
far distant that is told in these
words:
"Some say that ever 'gainst that sea
son comes
Wherein our Savior's birth is cele
brated,
The bird of dawning singeth all night
long;
And then, they say, no spirit can walk
abroad;
The nights are wholesome; then no
planets strike,
No fairy takes, no witch hath power
to charm,
So hallowed and so gracious is the
time."
The bird of dawning still comes to
sing to the hearts of men who will
take the means to listen. And still evil
spirits at this season are held In
chains; still ghosts that haunt men's
minds are driven off and powers of
evil are dissipated.
The greatest gift of the season of
gifts Is the gift of happiness; the
greatest lesson this which the Savior
taugfyt: That service and sacrifice are
the road to happiness; that Goodwill
Towrad Men is the wonder working
spirit which destroys all demons that
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The blble is now printed in 3G more dia
lects than It was five years ago. On the
latest list appear Nsenga, Donga. Adam
awa, Dehwali and Wukingfu. The first
five are tongues of African tribes while
Wukingfu is spoken by the Hakka, a
people numbering 15,000,000 In southern
China. _ _
Garfield’s Figures.
Dr. Garfield has been careful to state
that his 14 per cent formula is not an
award, but the finding of an expert ac
countant. It is in essence a simple calcu
lation carried out to three decimal places.
If prices in 1913 were 1. than they are now
In the mining region 1.798. If wages in
1919 were 1, they are now 1,574. To bring
the 1.574 of wages up to 1,798 of prices, the
former sum must be multiplied roughl}
by 1.14. Since the miners’ demands have
been primarily based on the increased cost
or living, the Garfield procedure was ob
viously the correct one for an ascertain
ment of facts.
tween the folds.
“I simply could not find anything nice
enough for Louise, though I looked un
til I was almost cray,” Mrs. Bagby so
liloquized. “There is not a thing that I
possibly think of that she might need,
and this handkerchief is a beauty,
though it cost—I burned up the bill as
soon as I got home from downtown, it
seemed so dreadful.” She looked at
the weblike lace over her hand admir
ingly.
A few moments later Mrs. Bagby *
came from another room with a dollar
bill in her hand, and, putting it in an
envelope with a little note, remarked,,
as she wrote the address, “I once heard
of a poor woman who said that at
Christmas time everyone gave her
money, and she did wish they wouldn't,
for if they hadn’t she would have got
along some way without it, and, as it
was, she never never had anything out
of it, for it always went for food or
fuel, and a handfieschief would have
made it seem more like Christmas. I
expect that is a good deal the way
Cousin Ida feels, but what could I have
bought for a dollar that would do her
anny good? And this way she can get
what she needs.”
"I certainly have spent a fortune for
ribbon and paper this year,” she mur
mured as she tied up a very small pres
ent in a quantity of white paper and
almost hid it under a large bow of
green and red ribbon.
A dyspeptic looking pair of varie
gated golf gloves went to a cousin in
the country, who would have counted
a pair of kid gloves a luxury, while the
kid gloves went to a city relative, who
would sigh mournfully because they
were not the make she usually wore
and lay them away to pass on to some
one else the next Christmas.
Mrs. Bagby hummed and wrapped i*
full enjoyment of her occupation.
“Footpaths to Peace” with "Joys of
j Living” and "Symphonies of Life” wero
addressed indiscriminately and laid
aside, each with a sprig of holly tucked
| under the ribbon. A Nile green stock
! holder went to a short fat lady who
I never wore stocks and who possessed a
sallow complexion and pimples, and a
theater record to a girl in the country
who only went to the theater once on
each of the two yearly shopping visits
she made to the city; but Mrs. Bagby’s
I Christmas spirit was in full posses
I sion of her and never a shadow crossed
her mind.
At the end of an hour the mountain
on her left hand absorbed the moun
tain on her right and it only needed a
little evergreen sticking out here and
there, with a few candles, to look like
a real Christmas tree. Mrs. Bagby
leaned back in her chair and gazed
with satisfaction at the result of her
labors. “Now I believe I have every
thing done and not a soul forgotten—
not a soul forgotten," she repeated
| slowly, and then she stopped abruptly
and sat up quickly. “Why, I have for
gotten Mrs. Leander, the president of
the reading club. What shall I do? I
can’t make another trip downtown and
I must send her something.” And she
looked at the packages as if for in
spiration. "q'he women always give the
president something. How did I hap
pen to forget her?”
Suddenly her face brightened and
she began to turn packages over reck
lessly until she found a flat one near
the bottom of the pile. “The very
thing! I’ll just send her this motto,
for it really is a beautiful piece of
handwork and I can get Cousin Emma
a handkerchief or something and send
it right after Christmas. She won't
mind if it is a little late, she will be
so glad to receive something." Mrs.
Bagby untied the package and changed
the cards and retied it, smiling joy
fully. “Oh, 1 am so glad I remembered
Mrs. Leander, and Cousin Emma won’t
care."
The simple “Merry Christmas” to
Cousin Emma was laid aside until later
while in its place was a dainty formal
greeting to the stately Mrs. Leander.
Verily, “He that hath, to him shall be
given, and he that hath not, from him
sail be taken even tat whhich he hath.”
possess the soul.
Happiest are they who have given
most freely and have received most
thankfully. Every Christmas season
proves it. Ine needs to visit but a
few homes to know it.
Peace and goodwill! Strange words
to speak in a world torn by hate and
destruction! Yet not so strange. There
can be peace of the soul amid the
storm. The soul can have peace if the
fight is for the right and to defend the
weak. And what can equal the good
will of him who gives his life that the
oppressed may be free and the suffer
ing defended. “erGtaer love hath no
man that this.”
Let there be a deep and abiding joy
in those homes whence have gone
strong young men to suffer and to
sacrifice for a brighter day. The „
night may be long and black, but no
evil spirit need be feared. "The bird
of dawning singest all night long.” He
foretells the glorious day by whose
broad light the love and sympathy of
men and nations shall be seen estab
lished on a sure foundation.
Envy those whose happiness la
mingled with pain; those who have
given most; mothers and fathers who
have given most; mothers and fathers
who have seen the star in the east and
have brought precious gifts.—H. E. G.
On petition of Martens, “soviet ambassa
dor,” an injunction has been issued to the
members of the Lusk committee Investi
gating bolshevism, to show cause why
they should not be restrained from issuing
subpoenas against Russians, and why
they should continue to demand the docu
ments of the Russian soviets.
Phonetic Reading.
From the American Legion Weekly.
“Where are you going,' 'the teacher
wrote on the board.
“Johnny, read that,” she said. Johnny
did so. Then the teacher added the quee
tion mark at the end of the sentence.
“Now read it, Johnny."
"Where are you going,” little button
hook," said Johnny.
One hundred representatives of the
American Federation of labor of Kansas,
Missouri, Oklahoma and Arkansas are in
session to promote co-operative mercan
tiiing, manufacturing and banking.