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TIIK IJKK: OMAHA. MONDAY. MXUMBKll 23. 1911. CHRISTMAS CHEER AT SEA - Troriiion Hade by Ship Owner for Pattengeri and Crew. ALL GIYEX Irrhat lis A KERRY TIME ppeaeal Pari 1'ilrlKr ta Ferlarw Traveler Rflwrra Two rre -aata Claae tha Jtraaaer. ! Nobody who coiild help it would think f spending Christmas at Ma. away from homa and friend. Hut every year there ara certain unfortunates who cannot hrip themselves, and when Deren-.her ii, with all Its a;rod cheer and fe;i Ity, drar. to ft twilight on om treat ship, between port to port, these expatriate think for lornly of all the t.arp!ns from which they arc separated -tl. at la. If they had no previous-experience of Christmas at ea. The experienced votager is not for lorn, because, for one thing;, he-knoir that even thouph the Ytiletlde Joys of a great eteamrhlp may not be ao fasci nating as thofe of home, they have still a rood cheer all their own. On all steamships carrying pen(rrs, and particularly those cn the transatlan tic runs, the celebration of Christmas W scrupulously observfd. ' This Is partly be cause the keynote ot the policy of the big steamship lines la to make their pas fencers as comfortable as la possible, and partly because, among; seamen the cele bration of Christmas In always popular. rXerv steamship that sails from Ameri can or Kuropean ports late In December, with the certain knowledge that Its ached ,'tile will keep It at sea over the 2Tth, car-'j-1s among the other tons of good thlnca in Its hold a f JI1 complement of Christ imaji trees for the passengers of every '-laes, and for the different mesies Of the 'crew, rienty of Vermont and Rhode Island turkey, mince pie, goose, plum pud ding and the "fixings" that go 1o nuke a Chrbftmae dinner what it ought to be, are atored In fhe larder. The most lavish of all hlgh-ea Christ- 'mas celebrations are those on the Ger man ships, for, although the ' Kngllsh make a great deal of the feast, after all tt la tha German who celebrate It most. On the English ships Christmas Is more or leaa of the staid function that It is In all respectable British homes. On the jOerman ships everybody aboard, from captain down Jo the poorest steerage pas- Monger, Including the wealthy occupant of tha "royal suite," Joint heart and soul In the festivities. There Is a spontaneous exuberance about ths day's events, Teu tonic and Inimitable. For (fcfl-fclldrea on the fthlp. Children are always at a premium on 'the snips of both nations. In fact, the taldest, most dignified "ocean gray hound" skipper, with his gold-laced uni form and ' "Commander, n. N. R." after hi name, will get down on hi knee In the middle of the saloon floor on a stormy Christina morning, up where the "roar ing forties dip to the north," and explain the intricacies, of the electrical apparatus .which lights tha Christmas tree to some tiny youngster, whose unaffected Joy In the unique entertainment ha gripped the entire company. This Is a fact. Any one ran witness such a sight, unnatural" it may seem to those who have only seen the skipper on the bridge of hi ship. There was once a man who had cele brated Christmas in many strange places, but never' at sea. lie was' in London, living all alone at a club, with only men like himself for company, and a cable message came, bidding hltn start at once for the states. He wandered through the club all that day, remarking that It "was a beastly bore having tojravel at Christ mas time." Why he said this It would be difficult to explain, for it had been years since he had really known what Christmas meant at home. It was Just that he disliked the idea of being away from fixed customs on the day of days In the year. The man went on board bis ship at Uverpool, along with a meager compsny of unfortunates, who, like himself, were condemned to travel in the holiday' sea Bon. Ilefore the ship had passed' Holy head, the man had found another man In the smoking room with whom he' could bemoan misfortunes. And other, people 'in the dining saloon that night said the am thing. What should they do, they asked each otherT Certainly, they ought to get together and arrange some sort of si celebration, If Just to break "up the routine of the voyage. 80 on of them went to the purser, and told him their sad tale, 'and tha purser lamlled. A good purser will always smile IsU any hard luck story. "My dear sir," he swIil, "don't you .worry about Christmas.-We'll give you a fitting a celebration as any you 'ever had lo your life." ' Tldlaas ef Peace. - - During the next two day the prepara tion be iran to 'take shape. Btcward broke out of the cargo hold sturdy fir trees, one for the cabin, one for second (hue and one for. the steerage. Other atewards unearthed quantities pf greens, hotly and mistletoe, which were draped about the rablna. In smoking rooms, card rnwmw, me women a rooms and all over the ship. A huge piece of mlotletoe was pewtsnt over the stairway, and the cap tain laughingly warned women pasen- gers titat they must expect to take tha consequences If they failed to keep to the aitles of the stairs. Presently, a notice appesred on the bulletin boards saving that If any pas sengers Intended to exchange presents with eh other the Christmas tree tewaria would see to the hanging of the parrels; and another notice followed, asking for volunteer for a concert Sun day night. A comic opera prima donna, on her-way, to fill an engagement at abnormal rate In a Ilroadway produc tion. Immediately offered to take charge of the arrangement as first assistant to the ubiquitous purser. By this time, the atmosphere of this particular vessel. o.c,,,,,,, aiuim inrougn neaa sea at' a 'peed of twenty knots, had become verv !m!lsr to that one might expect to find n some Kngllsh country house or In auv wsu-io-ao American family. Everybody was cheery, everybody was smiling. everybody was looking forward to Christ mas. i en nrimmas eve was ot hsnd. the nmoKtng room Imblttits decided that they must do something on their own account ior iiie cause ir Tuletida cheer. They be ran by organising a chorue of waits r.l .1 . ..... 1 ,..-.,B,rU m Kamer ungnt and early the next morning and wake the ship accord ing to the good uld English custom. Then the man who had thought himself ao im. lucky to have to travel across the ocean at Christina time proposed a little extra cheer for those of the ship' company who perhaps needed It most. He sug gested a collection to purchase a supply of dainties to be added to the Christmas . nirrina. JUS prOPOSO! WS camea eniniisinstleaHy, and a substan tial1 sum filled the hat after It had gone the round. The pursuer was appealed to, and that ever-smlling person took up the proposi tion with enthusiasm. "Of course, we give the steerage a regu lar Chrlatma dinner, you know," he said. "Hut this money will buy come extra fruit and candy and thing to make Christmas a great deal more unusual for them." Celebratl.e; wrist ma nay. Long before the breakfast bugle blew, the volunteer waits were assembled on the premenade deck, and they took up ,ur,r marou irom deck to deck, singing i.irx weni. wun special pauses before the state rooms of the prettiest girl on the ship and the most popular little boy. It was a dull gray Christmas' morning, rather mora than l.SOO mile out, amoky above and somewhat choppy below, so that the course of the wait was not a very even one; but they mad up for the Suspicion taggr of their progress by the lustlnea of their combined voices chanting: ' Come, sll you merry gentlemen. Let nothing you dismay. Remember, Christ our Saviour Was born on Christmas day. Later, when passengers had dressed and braved the rolling in the saloon, they found a full-slsed Chriatmas tree, twlnk ling with electric lights. Scattered through the branches were parcel, present ex changed by various passengers who knew each other and by tha officer of the hlp.i Later still, they sat down to a din ner that could only be described as" bang-up." , followed by toast and peaches, with the captain as toastmaeter, and a "bully" concert. In which the nrim. dona: took a leading role. And .r,. ward when soma passengers went nm n ths wet decks for a good-night stroll and a ia cigar, they heard the aounds of singing and laughter coming from th other part of the great ship. The sec ond cabin, , the steerage, the stewards, the engine room force, the fo'c'sle, and all aboard.-were celebrating ths Christ niaa tide. "It was the experience my life," said the man who had bemoaned tha hard luck of a.Chrl.tm. cros.lng. "ln all my ure I have not had an exnenene. tit. Jt made me realise, sa I never had be' "re. me real meaning of Chriatmas uy mat i aon't mean th tha 'aky pilot' The BEES Junior-'Birthday Book His is (he Day We Celebrate - December 25, 1911. Y MaawasaataaiaBBl MILbREt BEIRDORFF, W7 South Twenty-ninth St. Xamw and Adilrens. School. Eva Augimton, 2434 South Twentieth Ave Caatellar . Mildred Belndorff, 507 South Twenty-ninth 8t. . .'.Farnam .. Himan Derlint, 1409 South Fourteenth St Coraenina Mary Dloom, 918 South Thirty-third St Columbian o-.au uemBtem, iz5 South Sixteenth 8t Comenlus 1899 Mary Brunner, 1418 Weaterfleld Ave St Joseph 1899 Helen L. Cattln, 1010 South Twenty-eighth St Park 1901 OIHe CarlGon, 4004 Fort St.... Central Park 1857 nrr.cn -uoper. -jozo UJotxlo St Walnut Hill 18S MUCH OF STATE IS UNTILLED Labor Commissioner' Gives Figures on Vacant Land. Ont TAKES THE STATE BY COUTfTIES i Year, 1902 . .1904 . .1902 ;.1897 "l" uewar, ioi6 North Forty-flm St. Saunderg John Dougherty. 2766 Cuming St ., Webster Charles. David, 1806 Ohio 8t Kellom Karl Dohrae, 213 North Twenty-fifth St Central ' James Doyle. 1407 Ohio St Lake iwoiny w. Dale. 1334 South Thlrty-flrat St. .. Edward S. Dowllng, 828 South Ninth 8t Wilbur M. Fullanay, 1015 Park Ave. Bessie Creenberg, 1529 North Nineteenth St.!! Cora Grass, 618 Pierce St Clara Goldner. 607 North Sixteenth St ! Eddie Gaauon. 1920 8outh Thirteenth St Minnie Hersheorn. 1457 South Fourteenth St. Annie Havltk, 1715 South First St. . . .'. Tarsi 11. a w i. . - vsuunm a. nan, size Corby 8t Howard Kennedy. . 1901 Jamea Ingwersen. 1122 South Thirty-fourth St. ... Park 1903 MIro.lav Koxeny. 1719 Ontario St Edw. Rosewater. ..1902 Tony Kubat. 405 Pierce St j,. Paclnc m7 rfa T as J. A a a w Minuoo, cut ivortn Twenty-fourth St Lake Webster C. Langdon, 1604 Madison Ave Lake Tony Lota, 2009 Pierce St..,..,. ...! Mason George Makara, 1206 South Fourth St !!!paclflc Antonio Montalbano, 623 Pacific St.- !. Pacific sur, ozi iortn Fifteenth Ave Lake . .1904 ..1905 1904 1902 1900 ....1892 1897 18971 .1904 1903 1895 1895 Comenlus 1902 Train .....1900 .High . .Park . . Park . . Kellom. Pacific .Cass .. .Lincoln .1902 .1904 ,.1901 ,.1902 ,.1900 .1904 .Kellom 1895 .Train 1899 .High 1892 .Castellar ' ..1899 .High ...1894 High ....1890 '.Train .1894 . r&rriam , ; . laoi . .'. .1902 ' one Etta Pinnow, 3462 South Fifteenth St vinton ' 'leoo Carl M. Proplesch, Second St. and Boulevard German Lutheran. 1896 Anna Rosenblatt, 1821 Chicago St... Cass ..." 1905 John W. Riley, 1737 South Eleventh St .....Lincoln !.!!r'!'l904 Matilda Rledmann. 1623 South Third St .St.' Joseph" 1888 Rebecca Sldraan. 1415 Cass St..: .....Cass !i902 K.unaiu ouug, iou tiarK hi Cass Olive M. Scott. 1546 South Tweni-lirhh r p.,i. s . . " -o- a-' v e i. Annur snrum. 2622 Charles St Robert VIaIa in? n . .vv, , v , w WW ...- t - TfB h s A a a RoTla Whlto. 185 North Twenty-fifth St!.! .'. !! ! Amy Zechmclster, 979 North Twenty-fifth Ave. Number of acres in , . ... ' county. Adams Marie E. McGIII, 1609 North Twenty-second St. Annie Melcher, 1904 8outh Fourth St ! Helen Y. McCoy, 174 2 South Twenty-ninth St. . William McDanlel, 2508 South Twenty-third St. Belle Newman, 2811 Davenport-8t ! Mabel Ellxabeth Nelson. 1018 North Fortieth St Carl O. Olscn, 429 Center St... .'. Gertrude Passovoy. 3005 Jackson St !!!! nuii. rsueuino, hm t ierce Bt .... .Mason Joseph Prenosll, 1243 South Twelfth St. Pacific .........1901 .1895 .1896 A boat Twe.Tklri ml All Lead Vaeaat -Flaaree Sketr Faraas Arc Xet Caltlvateel ta Advaatage. Iputy State Labor Commissioner Ouy has Issued some statistics concerning the amount of vacant land In the state and calling attention to the great waste not only from this vacant land, but also to ths fact that much which Is cultivated is not utilised to it beat advantage. Streams, lakes and other things which render land unavailable for cultivation account for the discrepancy' between the total acreage and the sum of the culti vates, ana uncultivated land and the total area. The following table shows the acreage or the various counties: Number of acre unculll- rated in county, i,o;t MM15 41S.01 Stat 679 9H J).JM HI?I 10S.67S 47 907 a,iM.7n 6S2.7SS 17$. 1 1,MT,27 XK.WI m.iu 161, 4! vr;.m 1IS.0SO .t7,f5 3'K.373 418.W6 231,fli'S 1U.M 1.051.4S7 8J7.70.1 457.821 3B4.UI 175.900 99,lJ H1.B20 337.896 1,$T,1(H 443, U 311,224 153. m 101,097 14.446 sw.m fi0,177 47S,fH W.4M 1.483,240 Antelope Manner Hlame Boone ,. Ho Butte.... Boyd Brown Buffalo Burt a 'edar Butler 'ii.oe Clay , Cnerry t'heventie , Colfax Cuming Custer , Dakota , PaWee Dawson Deuel Dlson Iidge rundy Douglss ....... Fillmore Franklin Frontier Furnas Oage Garden Garfield Gosper Grant Greeley nan Hamilton Harlan Hayes Hitchcock Holt Hooker Howard Jefferson ...... Johnson Kearney Keith Keya Paha.... Kimball Knox .......... L-Ancaster Lincoln 43.I40 4WD 442. MU 6l.!i0 1.4W 679.040 ra.iwo 4H 41 4f,:t) y,4 i.8 3.740.7HO Z'12.4(lO 3W,640 i; nwi W7.f) 614.400 ' fM.4"0 M.64-) .V 640 632.0) 4W,I0 l,(Ha. t4.64i 4fl0.sno 3,40 3M.2KO M4.t) .-W3.640 490.iO 4,0il lMi.m . 4"W,(W0 tJ.40 m.4o 4ijn 333.440 738,700 40.0O 614.400 717.440 fc.frflO txsan I-nup Mull. on MrPheraon ...... Merrick Morrill Nnc Nemaha Nin Kolls CMoe I'awnee I'erklns Phelps Pierre Platte Polk Bed Willow Richardson Rntk Saline Parpy Paunders 8tts Bluff,.... Reward Sheridan Sherman Ploux Stanton Thayer Thomas Thurston Valley Washington .... Wayne Webster Wheeler York Total IWS.R40 1.01 3. 7 i- ?t.In Kl V7.44K. T6.4 M4.4" JC.t 4) (HI 3H.7JO ' i7S,Ml M.6) 14X.4t 4ri.( M.pio 4J l.&K9.7tl l..i9.440 7.4' S'at.w . 4,n iH.m 1.(40 r4h.lJi IM.lfii iWR 640 S(iS,0 49.14S.1 175 7 l'.,21i JSii.271 lki.y'j 147..'7 H.3s3 1-7. !"5 17S.HVS ?.372 I77.S1 143.2.2 M3.Kl n.r4 C3.!'4 4.,3.'.'78 14f. l.tW,,'!', 1.W6..W 137,W 15l. 16J 44S.71 13i,lS 117,444 l't.n.U lio.s: 142.M4 33i,0!J( 119.726 . 269,002 Gas Company Has - Christmas Party The Omaha Oas company was host at a CThrlstmaa tree party held In the How ard street offices yesterday afternoon, the guest being the employes of the company and their children. Each per aon present was given a gift of a useful nature and the children were each given a doll or a watch. The following pro gram was given: Vlctrola I lyove a Lassie.. Harry Lauder Papa's Boy Miss Hlldur Anderson The Little Man David Morris nen me merry tiena jingle ',- Mathia viciroia via jveniucxy nofflt (trom bone solo) Old Santa Claus Lucene Baldwin Xmas Day..... Louise Goodman Christmas Gifts Marcia Perry 110 jnuiur jnsren rcosey The Christmaa Tree Vivian Baldwin The Eavesdropper Roy Johnson Presentation of medal to Kd Kwannon ..............j.. O. W. Ciabaugh .iner rxiiKii. iiaus, ana aisiriDUtlon of presents at Santa's postoffice. Judge Paroles Boy as Christmas Gift Clay Vallandingham. the former Loyal notei DeiiDoy who stole a suit case con tainlng more than $100 worth of merchan dise and fled to New York city, was paroled to his father by Judge Lee S. HiStene m the criminal division of "he district court late yesterday afternoon Judge Estelle said it had been shown that the boy had not been in trouble be fore, and he believed by paroling him he would give him a valuable Christmas present In ths shape of an opportunity to redeem hiicaalf and also bestow Christ .....High . .....Train,. .Edw Roue water. .;1905. central 1899 Kellom .....4... . 1896 and cant talk of persona vou know 1 .... r.i.uon or i-hr,lstma In Its broad- w sense, xea, i think the did me good." experience Preparla ,.r ,., H.lld.r On a German ship the celebration would iave been even mere elaborate. ' All German ship carry crate of Christmas tree trimmings, of the Innumerable kinds that come from the toymakers of Nurem-borg-tlnsel. gilt an! all color, known and a. a general thing they also have toy villages which are sot up about the tree, so that it ha a typical Oerman ssttlng. The bigger German ships, which have separate playrooms for ths children, klso have special trees ' and ti-ini ceieorations for the little Dn. h . . . - wrui u aresBMi n Santa Clau and dlstrtbutss a few ...ort ! to make , Uie youngster know that It I truly Christmas. At dinner the different courses are brought In by iltvudi gotten up In Santa Clau coatume. At each plate re little favor, together with snap, per, containing gaudy. paper ca.p and uch frivolities. Th atmosphere of oar, free hilarity and enjoyment is like that at horn. The dignified officers cast one. a "k Wi ' WILLIAM U'UANIKU ' 2MK tJouth Twenty-third bt. MARY BRUNNEB, 14U) Westerfletd Av. their dignity to the wind. In all prob ability the captain goe from th ,quar ter of on class to th other, to extend the greeting of th day to the passen gers. Then there is dancing and singing, spe cial muslo by the ship's orchestra, and, of course, a service, conducted by the captain or purser, unlets there haPDens to be a divine among the passengers who is willing to volunteer. In the ships on the south Atlantic runs, as ln those on the Mediterranean voyage and the P. , O. boats, there Is sometimes a ' gym khana In ths afternoon If the weather is propitious. In one way or another th day is passed .n .a constant round of Jollities and good times, so, that ths lonely passenger never , has a chance to glvs rein to 1H home hunger or helmweh. . A Life Seaiewee) of suffering with throat and lung trouble la quicly commuted by Dr. King's New Discovery. 60c and $1.00. For sale by Beaton Drug Co. What Our School Children Are Doing-X- : to . a wa d m ksw A Also to All Other Winter Tourist Points in-the South and Southwest. VIA SHORTEST LINE TO ST. 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