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Received
Highest Award
Worlds Pure Food Exposition
Chicago November 1907
What does tills mean
It means that Calumet has set a new Standard in
Baking Powder the standard of the World
Became this award was given to Calumet after
thorough testa and experiments overall other baking
powders
It means that Calumet is the best baking powder
in every particular in the world
And this means that Calumet produces the
uestj most delicious lightest and purest
WKing ot all baking powders
ing and how the office boys mother
takes more pride in him than ever that
noon as she notes a new air of confi
dence and ambition in the lad Scrooges
ghost knows too why the janitor holds
up his not too manly head with a little
more dignity than usual and why the
street car conductor helps off the fidgety
spinster with real gallantry after the
courtly gentleman who always does
such things in a natural way has bidden
him Good morning with a true ring
of comradeship in his voice and why
the maiden cousin realizing suddenly
that she is a gracious lady and not a
disappointed cross grained old woman
blooms with something of the radiance
of unquenchable youth in her face
Who but Scrooges ghost indeed
can tell how far all of these influences
reach and how many hearts are quick
ened by the impulse going out from one
of these readers sitting so cozily in his
quiet etudy reading the old story with
its ever living gospel
And how many old fogies like my-
Doesnt that mean
PUBLIC LIBRARY NOTES
Tho December Atlantic which
crime in Mondny contains an article on
Dickens Christmas Carol so in line
with tho notes of Inst week we request
its reprint entire
Lihrauian
scrooges ghost
No I dont mean Marleya ghost I
know what Im talking about Its
Scrooges ghost I moan And of all the
spirits that go wandering up and down
this earth on the nights approaching
Christmas I dont believe there is ono
that will feel more genuine and well
earned pleasure in tho place where ho
used to keep his heart than tho ghost
of old Scroogo of the firm of Scrooge
Marloy
For what does ho see every year as
tho holiday season comes round but
hundreds of people who for tho eleven
months previous have been harrowing
their souls with desperate struggles after
righteousness in company with the mar
ried heroes and heroines of modern fic
tion now taking down from their shelves
their well worn copies of Dickenss
Christmas Stories and settling
themselves for a solid evenings enjoy
ment before a wood fire we will hope
re reading for the fourth or fifth or
twentieth time the inimitable Christ
mas Carol
And what happens to every blessed
one of them
They go through the same tension of
feeling as Scrooge with the Ghost of
Christmas Yet to Come sees the terrible
results that must follow from his narrow
selfish sordid life as they did at the
first reading before they knew it would
turn out all right and they experience
the same relief and joy that ho did to
realize that it isnt too late that there
is still a chance a glorious chance to
add to the happiness of every person
with whom they come in contact
And what happens next
Maybe they were good fellows to start
with They undoubtedly werebut there
is a possibility that down in the bottom
of their hearts they know that they
might still be improved a trifle perhaps
they are a little more self centred a little
less open and frank not so thoroughly
mellow and gracious as in youth they
had thought to find themselves in
middle life
But bless Scrooges ghost who stands
smiling and rubbing his bands at their
well tailored elbows Doesnt he see
what his own vicarious sufferings have
done for them and doesnt he glow with
pleasure or whatever answers for a glow
to a ghost when he notices that they
are every man of them a little more
genial the next day with the office boy
and the janitor and the street car con
ductor and most notable of all with
the uninteresting elderly maiden cousin
who has come on the annual visit that
tries the patience and hospitality of
every member of the household
And the good work doesnt stop there
Scrooges ghost can see it all how the
ripples of kindly feeling keep on widen
ing and how hS own influence is at the
centre of tho circle
He knows what makes the office boy
turn a somersault after the boss has
gone into his sanctum the next morn
everything to you
every December And how many new
readers does it have
Scrooges ghost alone can answer that
question also but I am at least certain
of this that not one of the readers
puts down the book without a little ad
ditional sense of warmth about his heart
and without consciously or unconscious
ly meeting all his neighbors the next
day with a little more geniality in his
voice and smile thnn if ho had nt
read it
And so I aver and I defy any one to
prove to the coutrary that there wont
bo a happier ghost wandering up and
down this old earth this good old
Christmas time than tho ghost of
Scrooge Scrooge I say of tho firm of
Scrooge Marley
Real Estate Filings
The following real estate filings have
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Grain Dealers Will Attend the National
Corn Exposition
As showing the importance attached
to the National Corn Exposition which
opens in Omaha December 9 two of
the largest grain commercial organiza
tions in the United States have jointly
arranged to charter a special train and
come to the city on Grain Dealers Day
December 15 These organizations are
the famous Chicago Board of Trade and
the Illinois Grain Dealers Association
President E W Wayne of Delavan
and Secretary E W Strong of Pontiac
of the Illinois Grain Dealers Associa
tion have written to Manager J Wilkes
Jones of the Corn Exposition advising
him of the plans of these two bodies
to bring a trainload of men from the
Chicago metropolis and all over the
great Prairie State to Omaha This
will be one of the largest special trains
that will come to the exposition
George A Wells secretary of the
Western Grain Dealers Association call
ed at the Corn Exposition headquarters
within the week to make further plans
for the co operation of that concern
self for instance do you suppose there f He also placed an order for a 81000
are who re read The Christmas Carol m trophy
WKnecwaK a 2aaSKKSSl9SSSSSaiSX
BATTLE n KILE
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Where the Boy Stood on the
Burning Deck
CASABIANCA AND HIS FATE
The Facts About the Little Hero of
Mrs Hemans Famous Poem Hi3
Father and the Tragedy of tho
Doomed French Flagship the Orient
That was a lucky child who in the
latter part of the last century escaped
the ordeal of standing up before a cir
cle of relatives and friends outwardly
enthusiastic and admiring inwardly
often greatly bored to repeat those
well known If somewhat Inaccurate
lines that tell us how the boy stood
on the burning deck Whether nine
times out of ten the infant reciter or
for that matter any of the members
of the applauding family circle couhl
have given the date and place of the
occurrence may be doubtful The forty
lines of Mrs Ilemans gave them all
the history that they craved and when
the parrot like performance closed with
faithful heart a sentimental maiden
aunt would sigh a liberal uncle be
stow largesse to the extent of half a
crown and that was all
It was in 179S that young Casabl
anca the son of the com
modore of the French llagship Orient
stood amid the awful devastation of
the battle of the Nile Bonaparte had
himself sailed In the ill fated Orient
from Toulon in the previous May tak
ing with him a good stock of bur
gundy and also that famous camp li
brary of cabinet editions including
forty volumes of English novels in
which the Bible and the Koran were
classed under the head of politics
More important still for those who love
the picturesque details of history and
great men he was accompanied by his
then private secretary Louis Autoiue
Fauvelet de Bourrieune from whose
always entertaining if not invariably
accurate pen we have a capital ac-
count of the voyage to Egypt
Much of the time was passed by Na
poleon lying in his berth while Bour
rienno read to him and in promoting
discussions on arious questions among
the scientific uid other distinguished
men who accompanied the expedition
The flagship carried a population of
more than 2000 souls and the cry of
Man overboard was not infrequent
On these occasions Bonaparte display
ed a side of hiM character to which full
justice is not always done Bour
rienne describes his agitation till a res
cue was effected as extreme On one
occasion a false alarm was raised dur
ing the darkness of night and the sup
posed man proved to be the quarter
of a bullock which had dropped from
the rigging but Napoleon rewarded
the rescuers even more liberally than
usual pointing ont that their exertion
had been for what they believed a hu
man life
The fleet arrived off the coast of Af
rica on July 1 and here Bourrienno
and his Memoirs leave the squadron
to accompany the army and his chief
on land Brueys the French admiral
had during the voyage expressed fore
bodings as to the result of an encoun
ter with the British fleet Nelson
who sailed from Syracuse on July 23
was confident but well knew the price
he might be called upon to pay When
Captain Berry said If we succeed
what will the world say Nelson re
plied There Is no if in the case That
we shall succeed is certain Who may
live to tell the story is a very differ
ent question For himself he made
that famous anticipation A peerage
or Westminster abbey
The battle began at G30 oclock half
an hour before nightfall Nelson on
board the Vanguard flew his colors
In six places lost they should be shot
away In a few minutes after the
ship had gone into action the crews
of the first six guns were swept away
by the terrible tire of the French fleet
and twice again during the lht were
fresh crews called for The shot
which struck Nelson on the 1 tore
from his forehead a piece of skin
which falling over his one us ful eye
rendered him for the time being to
tally blind Carried to the cockpit he
insisted on taking his proper turn
among the wounded for tho surgeons
attention Soon after 9 oclock at
night while he was still below a cry
arose that the Orient was on fire
Unaided and unnoticed in the confu
sion Nelson made his way up and
presently from the quarterdeck his
voice was heard shouting orders that
the boats should be lowered to go to
the assistance of the Orients crew
The doomed French flagship had but
just been painted and quantities of
oil and inflammable material littered
her deck Brueys the admiral was
dead but Louis Casabianca and lite
little son were still on deck At 10
oclock the ship blew up There came
a burst of thunder sound and al
though the commodore was not at the
time lying unconscious of his son
ns tho poetess lias it for both were
seen cllngimr to a floating mast after
the explosion neither father nor son
was among the seventy members of
the crew who were saved by the Eng
lish boats
From the mainmast and ironwork
of the Orient Captain Hallowell of the
Swiftsure had a coffin made which
memento mori he presented to the
admiral that he might at the close of
his career of glory be buried in one of
his own trophies Nelson received
this offering In the spirit of ttie giver
and even kept It set up on end in his
cabin till the remonstrance of his fa
vorite servant brought about Its ban- it
isnment Lonaon uiooe Ktm
BEETHOVEN
Tho Composers Own Story of How He
Became Deaf
Charles Neate on a visit to Vicuna
was either commissioned by certain
Englsb authorities to induce Beethoven
to visit England or was persuading
hhn to do so on Ills own account and
as an allurement he spoke of the su
periorlty of the English aurists in their
treatment of ear disease and hed out
hopes that were Heethoven to consult
them he might at least find some sort
of relief Heethoven s book hi- head
No tie said l have consulted aii
kinds of doctors and followed their
prescriptions I shall never be cured
1 will tell ou how ilia thing happened
I was writing an opera I had to
deal with a very tiresome and capri
cious tenor I had already written two
grqat arias to the same words neither
of which pleased him and also a third
which lie did not care for the first time
he tried it although he took It away
with Iiim I was thanking heaven I
had done with him and had begun to
settle myself to something else which
I had laid aside I had hardly worked
at it half an hour before I heard a
knock at the door which I recognized
as that of my tenor
I sprang up from my table In such
a rage that as the man came into the
room I flung myself upon the floor as
they do on the stage here he threw
up his arms and gesticulated in illus
tration but I fell upon my hands
When 1 got up I found I was deaf
and from that moment I have remain
ed so
nerve
Sufficiently Occupied
A story i told of a colonel in Gen
era Lee division in the late civil war
who sometimes indulged in more apple
jack than was good for him Passim
Dim one evening leaning against a tre
the renerai said
Good evening colonel Come over
tc my tent for a moment please
me cus
me replied the colonel Its bout aii
I can do to stay where 1 am Phila
delphia Ledger
The Right Foot Foremost
Putting the right foot foremost was
an old Roman ordination originally
regulating the entry of persons into s
house or other building and based upon
the supposition that the left was un
lucKy A boy was kept at the door to
see that no one entered the bouse left
foot first The phrase quoted Is thus
eeen to be very antique
The doctor said I Injured the
Life of Beethoven
GRAFT IN RUSSIA
Removing the Difficulties In an Army
Officers Transfer
A young Russian officer wished to be
transferred to another regiment and
took his request in person to one of
the lights of the Russian general staff
That powerful officer shook his head
and declared the matter very difficult
to arrange almost impossible Then
his glance fell suddenly upon the shoes
of the lieutenant To the amazement
of his visitor the senior officer said
that the lieutenants shoes were not
nearly good enough for an officer and
that he would strongly advise him to
buy new shoes of a shoemaker whose
address he gave Then telling his vis
itor to return in eight days he dis
missed him The latter was clever
enough to realize that he could not re
turn without the new shoes so he hur
ried to the shoemaker On hearing
who had sent him the shoemaker said
that the lieutenant could have the
shoes in five days for the sum of 230
Much astonished the ollicer went to a
comrade for advice He was told to
pay half of this sum at once and the
rest when his shoes were finished
This the ofDcer did and wearing his
new boots he duly kept his appoint
ment with the general staff officer and
learned to his joy that all the grave
difficulties in the way of his transfer
had been successfully removed
His Hobby
One man with an odd hobby isnt a
person who gets much mail and what
he has or expects to have he can keep
in mind very easily Probably he
never had a letter which went astray
Yet every time he sees in the news
papers the list of advertised mail sent
out from time to time by the general
postoffice in New York he turns at
once to the initial letter under which
his name comes and runs carefully
through the list He never yet has
found any letter that might be sup
posed to be for him and furthermore
hasnt found any that might be for any
of his relatives
He takes an odd pleasure in doing it
however something with that eager
ness which impels a man to grub
through a packet of old letters in
hopes that he may come upon some
rare variety of stamp Really if ever
he found his name in the list it proba
bly would kill his enjoyment of the
hunt forever thereafter New York
Sun
Anticipated Cause For Sorrow
Ina came in from the country on her
fifth birthday to visit her cousin Slay
At night they were put to bed early
An hour passed when heartbreaking
sobs were heard from the childrens
bedroom
What is the matter children ask
ed Mays mother entering the dark
room
From under the bedclothes Ina sob
bed out May wont give me any of
her peanuts
But May has no peanuts replied
her aunt
I know that sobbed Ina but sb
said if she did have peanut she
wouldnt cive me any Delineator
Is the wise head that makes
tomrue Lucas
the
THE PIGEONS WON
In Spite of Clipped Wings They Get
Back on Time
The colonel was something of a
pigeon faucler and had so much con
fidence iu a certain strain of homers
he was making a hobby of that when
his friend the major proposed a wager
the colonel removed the ilmlt
Well make it a huppuh said the
major Yo black boy will tote a pit la h
ovah to the cyans an ship them to jt
Louay whaah Uiey ah to be libahrateu
ou ahrival 1 wagati they ah not bavl
In two days sail
The colonel accepted crated bis fin
est pair and included a note to the ex
press agent witb the charges Mean
while the major communed with Joe
the colored boy and after the tender
lug of a certain balf dollar and prom
ises of immunity from the conse
quences of the colonels wrath later
Joe agreed to clip the pigeons wings
sub rosa
Two days passed and the major pre
sented himself duly at the colonels
The colonel eyed him with suspicious
narrowness
Have they ahrived asked the ma
jor gayly
They hev sah said the colonel
with dignity they hev but those two
pidgins sah hev the soest feet I evah
saw on a bird sah Brownings Mag
azine
BE SURE YOURE RIGHT
The
Take a Long Think and Mind
Your Own Business
The other day a man traveling on a
shore line train noticed protruding
from an overhead rack a dress suit
case which he recognized as belonging
to a friend He knew that his friend
always got off at the station which
they had just passed and as he was
not in the seat the conclusion was In
evitable that he had jumped off the
train and forgotten It
The mail called the conductor and
explained the case to him After some
discussion and a mild protest on the
part of the conductor that it wasnt a
part of his duty the suit case was put
off at the next station with instruc
tions to send it back on the first train
the other way
The man feeling that he had done
an able and friendly act settled down
for the rest of his journey
But not for long The face of his
friend who had been iu the smoker
and who happened on that particular
afternoon to be going on to New Lon
don to attend a dinner party loomed
before him
The moral of this is of course quite
evident
Be sure youre right and then mind
your own business Life
Overboard
Overboard is engraved on a metal
label fastened to many articles of para
phernalia seen about the decks of a
modern war vessel It means that the
article so marked should be thrown
overboard whenever action with an
enemys ship becomes imminent Al
cohol chests turpentine tanks paints
spare spars unnecessary hatches and
other articles easily destroyed or splin
tered by shell fire are thus labeled
The president of Occident college Cal
ifornia is said to have given the word
a new meaning in civil life when he
used it to indicate those who are unfit
useless or inapt in the struggle of life
It is a strong word and as such can be
appropriately applied to men aud
things which when a ship must go to
battle are not necessary or material to
the end desired Ariny and Navy Life
Her Own Doctor
A Washington woman recently hired
a negresi Going to the kitchen one
day she was amazed to find the ne
gress sitting on the floor with her
hair standing out from her head like
a black nimbus The girl was pull
ing one curly lock and then another in
such a way as to suggest that she had
suddenly lost her reason
What on earth are you doing
Mary gasped the lady of the house
Nawthiu maam only I has got a
sore throat an was jest tryin to find
de lock dat would pull man palate up
an relieve de tickle New YorL Her
ald
The Fickle Shopper
That woman always keeps me
guessing said the grocery clerk as
she went out I never can tell till
the last minute what she is going to
buy Just now she priced the coffee
I gave her the prices 25 cents 2S 30
35 40
Is your tweuty Gve ceut coffee any
good she asked me
Yes said bang up
Then said she -give me a pound
of your forty cent ground fine
New York Press
Probably Not
I hate to be poor Now a million
aire can walk right in and order what
be wants without bothering about the
price
fie can stated the weary sales
man but be seldom does Kansas
City Journal
Every Morning
Paul at the age of four was asked
one morning by his papa What is the
name of the first meal of the day
Oatmeal responded Mils Paul
promptly Excbange
Ar Enigma
Tommy Say papa I v isb you would
tell me something Papa Well what
is it Tommy When vou were a little
boy who was my papa Chicago
News
Some men are rich enough to afford
every luxury except a clear conscience
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