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THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 25, 1012.
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Omaha Bee. EdltoTlal Department
XOVEMDRR CHlCCLATtON
49,805
tMe of Nebraska. County of DoURias, as
Dwielii William, circulation manage!
of Tho Beo Publishing company, beinj
duly sworn, says that the averane dam
circulation for the month of November,
Htt, was..06. DW1QHT WI11I.1AM3.
Circulation Manaaer
Siufcrlbed In my presence ana wor.
to before mc this Eth dny of Decembe ,
j2 ROBERT 11UNTW!
(Seal NoUry Public.
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ttilbarrlltcra IrnTtni tlt cltr
(iiipornrllV ehnolit liavr Tin! Beo
mulled In thftw. Address trill hr
clinnr;ed n oftn n requested.
Merry Christmas.
Yes,
merry.
and lots ot them Just as
Pcaco on earth, good wIlL.toward
men, oven the Turks.
It Is not a real ChrlBtmas without
children In tho house.
fruit
Happy tho woman whoso
;ako escaped until today.
A guilty conscience needs no ac
cuser," rtnd n clean drio no salve.
The namo of tho now 11,000,000
hotol should bo a $1, 000,000 namo.
Sometimes It scorns that this wholo
storage e'gg murkot situation Is
rotten. ,
' While folks get their ChriBtmaH in
thoir stocking, tho turkoy gots his In
lliJ neck,
Horo Ib hoping Santa Claua may
llvo forever without suffering any of
tho Infirmities of ago
Tho maii wl'id "shopped early nud
used 'tho Itod Cross stamps freely
ipust bo reeling fluo today,
. . ,,t,
A man s worst enmu , ,nf Uo)l , Uq imblB,lcl, ln tll0
-those sordid passions thoi coHlocJ cliurch pa,)or,. Thus wo 'may
atantly seek to govern him. j ft Qf grmX powoj.. of
Nq Evening Hoc this" Christmas
dw. fiubscrlbo'rs are .being served
with tho Morning Boo Inotead.
Sir Thomas Llpton cautions boys
nenlnst whisky, probably too modest
to recommend ten for their drinking.
Charles 1j. MolICn used to bo with
tho Union Pacific In Omaha, but ho
i 1 . .1 n,l Inll D 1" n VU 1
learned such devious ways
never
hero.
Why should congress persist ln In
vestigating when Mr, Morgan has
said such a thing as a money trust
is impossible?
The public lias como to havo Biich
high regard, for' Miss Gould's Judg
ment (as to accept hot" latest decision
approvingly on faith. "
Omaha's postofflco hos been
breaking all ChrlBtmas records,
which Is another straw pointing tho
way tho wind blows.
Stlll. it ProBident-elect Wilson
must rldo'a blcyclo ho should .not
permit wheels to becomo too numer
ous in hla administration.
Tho aged Daniel E. Sickles prob
ably discounts General Sherman's
definition of war when ho
thinks
what peace has been to him,
If Omaha's ChrlBtmas stocking
""." "w,u V
tne oeiaiea pacKagen win uu nc
ceptablc aa Now Year's gifts.
A civic improvement club offers
$300 for tho best plan by which to
make Chicago an "ideal" city. That
job ought to be worth a million.
By Its recent apUrt tho Lincoln
Commercial club has topped Omaha's
Commercial club In membership
numbers. Here is a place for healthy
rivalry.
Omaha needs better railway facili
ties for railway wassengerPu. In fact,
we know nothing it needs more ex
cept a big modern hotel to caro for
iho passengers after they afe landed
hore. " '
tfoutu Omaha has a charter com
mission named by the mayor and
council. The charter commission wo
ought to have should bo oho to frame
a charter for Greater Omaha, and
jrado up of members named by vote
of a)l the people to bo Included
Y.IUiln its area.
The Gift of Service.
It lfi wrltton that whon itt length
tlio wise men reached the manger
crndlo In Bethlehem they poured out
their giftsgold, franklncenso and
myrrh. But tho scriptures do riot
tell who gave the gold or who tho
myrrh. They say'thnt nil Hie magi
came to worship the young child.
Not tho gift,., but tho spirit of tho
giving counted then and counts now.
Tho rich man's thousands are no
more than thV widow's mite' dt
Christmas. It is, forsooth, a tlnio of
giving, but not a tlmo for oslenta-
tlon, else tho lowly, of whom was
tlio Holy Hnlje, could uuvo no part
In It. ' "
To the ChrlHtlnn world this spirit
of giving should lu a peculiar sense
find Its loftiest expression In service.
Calling Himself "Iho gift of Clod,",
the Christ proclaimed: "I came not
to be inlnistorcd unto, but to minis
ter," Servlcel 1 It Is an inspiration
for all, rogardlefls of doctrines or
dogmas, creeds or confessions, faiths
or formula. Sorvlce to humanity Is
tho highest office earth has to fill
and rellglouB distinctions do not de
termine its Incumboncy. "it Is bet
tor to give than to receive" Is a
philosophy In life, pcaco on earth,
goodMvlll townrd men, an aspiration
of tho soul, not the postulate of a
sect, '
The Depot Question. .
Tho question of more adequate
depot facilities for Omaha, which is
again being agitated, is bigger than
tho matter of merely patching or en
larging ono or both of our, two pres
ent passongor stations.-- x.
Omaha will novcr bo fully ahrqiiBt
of nil (leinaudR for accommodating
passenger travel until ,lt possess a
grand union dopot equal to tho task
of taking enro of all tho lines center
ing hero.
Tlio Boo is not propured to say
that our city has- already reachod
tho point that requires tho discard
ing of tho two statloilB by which wo
nro now servod, but- Hint tlmo is faBt
approaching, and whatever may bo
dona now Bhould ho 'done with tho
ultlmato necessity pf n now, papa
cIoub, and conveniently located union
station kopt In mind.
Keeping Tab on the Faithful.
Tho Chicago clergy's protest to the
chlof -of poIIco'b order lengthening
tho hours for cnlobratlng tho advent
of tho how year Includes tho cogent
nrgumont that 'it tlio chief arbitrarily
suspends operation of it law on ono
occasion ho, may find It ombnrrnsslng
to InslBt on enforcement at another
tlmo.,
Uut a Denver priest proposes tho
most Interesting method ot .mbnjtor
Ingtftb; fTthful on Now Yoark ovot
Ho threatens to station u mnn at
ovory public Cestui .plnco- to tako
down tho namo and conduct of all
.. .1 1 ..... . .U..ndlntlnt. tlin
IlllllUt UIIIO Ul lilt) UUIIUllllli.HlUll, lliu
publlclty.aB.il remedy ior moral ro-
form. If publicity son'Oa tfo Wauy
good ends, why may It not servo tho,
phurch, or lis votaries?, , How ,wU it
'appear to read, for lustanco ln tho
sacred
organ, Hint "John Jones,
holder of pew 16, Intoxicated, did
tho bear-cat with a person unknown f
to U8 ,ioWn pt Mnko'sl PhW on Now1
year's ove?"
Tho holy man cortalnly has
ile-
cldod upon hqrolc measure's.
Prompt and Vigorous.
Almost within a month after tho
caso of tho alleged Now; England
rullroud comblno Is laid.bbfore. tho
prosldont und attorney general,
three oxocutlvo heads of this sys
tem aro Indicted by' u .federal 'grand
Jury on tho charge of. fllogully con
spiring to restrain Interstate trade.
Whatover may bo the outcome, tho
promptness and vigor with which
tho caso has thus far been handlud
Is an imprcsBlvo object lesson of this
administration's determination from
tho first to, uphold this law, regard
less of consequences.
It wan this policy that finally es
tablished the efficacy of the law and
mado ot no avail tho Insincere at
tacks of Its enemies on its sufflc-
,ency or validity.
Undor President
Taft tho Shermnn act's potency has
been clearly proved nud It will not
bo necessary to go over this ground
again. Thus one ot tho chief ob
''tacles to tho law's enforcement lias
been effectually removed.
Tho present case, ln which Presi
dent Mellcn ot tho New York, Now
Haven & Horjlford, Presldont. Cham
berlain of the Canadian Graud. Trunk
and Chairman Smlthors ot tho lat-
tor's directory, personally stand In
dicted, is ono ot the most remark-
ublo ever brought under this act.
One ot the defendants rosldes in
Canada, another in Loudon, both are
subjects ot tho British crown and
their railroad is an international
corporation. The power of our law
to reach beyond our own boundar
ies maybe challenged .as at Issue,
but such a technical evasion would
be equivalent to confession ot guilt.
"The country Is confronted by a
railroad crisis," exclaims James J.
Hill. But na ho has boeu exclaim
ing something like that for ten
years, it may not be necessary for
tho country to become unduly
alarmed, especially since Uncle Sara
Is getting so many good promises out., "T u XV"T ,r , Z
. . .. . ' M travirii-r. Ihmisands ot miles away, buck
ot uto railroads. j(u ,lU own urc,tUo and hu yuicl home'
sokhuf Backward
IKfeDay In Omaha
COMPJLH.O (ROM O&B FILB
DKC. 25."
Thirty Your
I iigo
It was nn Idei
eai Christmas day. lota ot
'good Holglilng and .nearly everybody took
advaiitHKu uf It. Most of the churches
JiuU special servjeerf or, Sunday chool
eelebratlnns.
"'At St. Phllomeria's a -beautiful painting
of tho Blessed Virgin was unveiled, and
nMgloll Uy ,.. iu,.,.,, and Mc.
Carthy.
Tho Lutheran churuh BaVa its Christ
inns entcrtnliitnorit In Boyd's opera house
on Christmas eve with about 1,000 per
sons present, llev. Or. htelllng drew a
M overcoat.
At the First Methodist KplsCbpul church
a proRrum of music, rending, etc., was
given by .Misses Carrlo and Llzzle Stev
ens, Iwton and Heed, 'artd-MeMrft. Ken
ney, Werene, Blcvcnii 4nd Ureckenrldge.
A little operetta, "Tlio False Hlr Santa
Claus," wos rendered by the children of
the Ulghtccnth street Hunday school j1tji
riirlstmns tree accompaniments. Tho
"False Plr Bantu Claus" was Dewttt C
Huntington, who was beratded by Harry
Scalo an "Jack 'O Ivantorn." Others par
tlclputlng were Wllilo Shank, Holcn Gib
son, Maude Stalcy, Charles Qratton and
Georgia Boulter.
At the Congregational church the will
ing workers held forth with these children
on tho hoards: Willie Hoserman, Belle
Doyle, Grace llltnebaugh, Bessie Howard,
Ornco Beard, Gundy Coburn, flello Hunt
ley, Mamie Bonner, Klla Bonner, Koto
Humphrey, Georgia Brunncr, Alva Mills
and Lllllo Tukcy.
At the Boyd Milton and Dolllo Nobles
put on that old standby- "Tho Phoenix."
Twenty Vrnrt ig ,
, Miss Klla Gllemoro of Manhattan; la.,
was tho Buest or Mrs. V. H. Fields, MM
Burt stroi't.
State Treasurer-elect Juttepti S. Bartley
of Atkinson arrived ln tho city and repls
tornd at the Millard.
II. C. Flejdman, 1121 North Twentieth
street, was caueht In a fast revolving
shaft at tho Carter Whlto I,ead works In
ICast Omaha atitf killed. His body was
literally t6rn limb ri-om limb and
mangled Into a horrible condition.
Itov. Frank Crano, pastor of the First
Methodist chUrch, preached an eloquent
Christmas sermon from the second chap
ter of UiKo, "And sho brought forth her
first bdni son ami wrapped Him In swadu
dllng clothes and laid Htm In tho manger,
because thero was no room for them In
tho Inn." The pastor drew tho lesson
ftom tho text that too often today the
world has no room for Him.
William Anderson, for twenty-four
years employed by tho Union Pacific
Hallway company, died of heart disease
at his homo. I01S Caldwell street. Ho was
born lit Flfcshlfc' Scotland, and was 7l
year old, having resided In thu United
States forty-seven of those years. Ho bo
lonKcd .to tho Second Presbyterian church
In Omaha. (
Ten Yearn Ako ,
On a cold. Weak night, 'the vast ulioep
bams In tho South Omaha stock yards
wpn,t. up In names, ejjtalUng a loss fcr
i54,C1td'ndcrlngJwmel,i58 20.(K Men
Ihff sheep; at-lcaet. that wa tho cupailti
of the barns.
Tho morcury found It way, down to the
torn" mark and never but 'four tlegTMs
aliovolt all day,
Big Dan Baldwin or tho police force
nade a lot of kids happy out ln Ms neigh
borhood by acting a Santa Claus, aijd
ho made a dandy act or It, too,
Christmas was a merry Cay In Omaha.
The air Ws crisp, but tho spirit crjspor.
Churches or all denominations held serv
ices, Catholics beginning- tho day with
their tWrly inomtng masses, and n. wide
spread effort was exerted to extend the
spirit of the dny to all
Mrs, l.eo Grler went to David City to
Mcnil tho holidays with relatives anl
friends.
The Beo treated Itself to a fine Christ-
IVUIH But. Ill iiiu uvuium vtmui n
patrons naturally shatol. In new steam
tables for Its stereotyping department.
Fiorodora was the Christmas bill at the
Boyd,
Christmas Boxes
Never look the price; tag In the face.
Enjoy the glfttoday; make the ex
changes tomorrow.
However, a green Christmas makes a
fairly fat coal bin.
The girl who spent as much for Christ
mas gifts for his people as sho did for
her own has tho courage that goes be
fore a chango or name and, address.
Boys, do your duty lfko men. Mlss'ltoe
tho' mark ir you're on the Job.'
The Ideal Kris Krlnglo of picture and
song and story, vhe whom the kiddle
know best, Is In rballty a Jolly specimen
or the Knickerbocker Dutch of New York
whom Clement C, Moore Knew ana nu
ln his mind's eye when he penned Ms
classic, "Twas the Night Before Christ
mas," Should tho ciders do as they usually
do with tho big dinner, make them walk
around the block and get some fresh air
Into their systems. Pedestrianlsm und
rresh air ore admirable specifics for a
load.
Perhaps you have noticed the shock of
Joy toys bring to the kids. A scream
and a grab, and happiness Is complete
As years pile up 4hc expression of
Christmas joy Is mellowed somewhat,
but at Its Inward roots It Is the same Jn
youngster with wagon or horn as with
dad In possession or Christmas slippers
or suspenders. These standbys are a
bubbling fount o( Joy without a meter,
Wonder what could an admiring Indi
vidual or corporation slip Into J. Pier
pont Morgan's Santa Claus socks that
would cause the financier a aha0f sur
prise. A million? That's a trifle. "Arn
you a large stockholder?" lie was atkud.
"Oh. no." hfc replied. "Only about a
mllljon dollars,' worth."
The supremd tourt pf Illinois stnt ti
the rich men of Chicago a Chrlstmos
card Inviting them to pay more taxea In
the future. However, such rud thing
are not hung on Chrtstrnsa tree.
It's odd of 10Q to 1 that the suffrate
army marching on Albany will haVe. a
flnn assortment ot sore reet In their
Chrlitmas Makings.
"Happy, happy Christmas." wri
I'htirlei Dickens, "that -can win us tos-k
to thu delusions of our childish da?x,
thdt Can reoalbto li;oM the pleasures
II
IJieBecS Letter Box
HT
The JSVtt Hotel.
OMAHA, Dee. 24.-To the Editor of The
Uc: 1 want to heartily thank Mr.
Train friend and my friend, Mrs. Samuel
Bees for Iffcr ktndly appreciation ot tho
great original Omaha booster, captain
of' Industry and genius of the nineteenth
century, George Francis Train, and 1
surely know him better ond of lila gtcat
world-wide achievements than any other
porton&ge after having been so closely
associated with him, In all Ot his groat
projects over the world for almost halt
n century slnco 1W1 and Mr. Train Is
tho man that Charles A. Dana, editor
and proprietor of tho New York Sun
always up to th.o time of his (Dana'si
death proclaimed 1ilml 300 years ahead of
the crowd. And what did our own Dr.
Georjro u Miller, of tho old Omaha Her
ald (or ''GjyarRo -Francis, jr." as the
Herald was "dubbed" by tho old" ftcpub
llran paper or Omaha years agoT) say
of George Francis Train In his letter to
The Omaha Bee ot October iS, 1906, a year
and nine months aftcr Mr -Train's- do
mlsc. Head It
There's a "Train" school named for
Mr. Train but what Is thator even a
New Million Dollar "Hotel Train," or
"Francis Train," or George Franols
Train compared to being, as ho should,
commemorated by statue In some promi
nent Intersection of the city c.s tho Great
Original Booster of Omaha,, the organ
her of the Union Pacific railroad com
pany, tho Credit Moblller and Credit Fon
der, nnd as tho great 'genius of tho nine
teenth century but who like riato, 'Aris
totle and other great philosophers before
Christ, may not be given credit or bo
known to posterity for a century or two
to ,'come, . but ii6 surely will be when the.
gn-at mass of those who only thlnlt they're 1
"It" today wljl never mor b known to
posterity. '
GBOrtGB P. UEM1S.
Tltnuka for SiiKKeslIonii.
COMJMBUBj Neb., Dec. 23.-To
the
Kdltor of The Bee: 1 have been a
reader of your paper and a personal ac
quaintance of your honored father, I
might say beforo you "camo on tho
scene," but am still a reader of The
Bee and get It at my hbmo ln Omaha,
ovcry day, and have not missed It a day
for twcnty-tlueo years, and bought It
anywhere It was sold beforo that time.
In reading tho paper today I see much
that recalls to mind youc honored father,
especially the editorial, "Tho Snail Goes
Like the Jlabblt." I heard your father
tell a good story along this same line
about fifteen years ago. ln the I.lndcll
hotel at Lincoln. However, what I want
to call your attention to Is that the old
Omaha Bee, years ago, used to have lots
of personals about locomotive cnglneern
and conductors on tho Union Pacific and
all the roads: In fact, I am an old stiff.
You might say, slightly a has-been, but
In my time was considered a fair loco
motive engineer. I llvo In Omaha and
get Tho Boa every day In tho year, but
never a word do I "see about locomotive
engineers or conductors on tho great
Overland or any qther road. 1 have been
a member of the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers forty years, and hope
you wfll once ln a while put liua word;'
eJxnttUhls orgaitlratlon. that lias; helped
to put Omaha on the map.
I suggest tho name fot tlie pew hotel,
"Gate City Hotel.'' Yptirt honored father,
Edward Roaewater, was tho first man to
give Omaha this name, and I say either
name the new hotel The Bosewater" or
tho "Gate City Hotel."
JOHN MINOR ROTTB.
Xmas Chronology
300-Dloclctlan slaughtered 20.000 Christ
ians. " '
&37 St. Aujmstlne baptized 10.000 Sax
ons In Kent.
"DO Offa, king of Mercla, In battle with
Welsh.
JWO Charlemagne crownod emperor by
Pope Leo HI lu Rome.
S7S Alfred the Great defeated by Gu-
thrun, the Dane, at Chippenham.
10C5 Westminster Abbey consecrated ln
prcsonce of Queen Edgltha.
10S6 William the Conqueror crowned at
Westminster.
HTl Henry II entertained Irish enter
tains at Dublin.
1190 Richard the Lion Heart feasted
Crusaders at 81clly.
H17 Sir John ' Oldcustle burned as
Lollard hemilc. 1
lt Truce at siege of Orleans to ob-
sorve Christmas.
HD2-Columbus' ship, Santa Maria,
wrecked at Haytl,
I 157S-Cardinal Wolrcy. Insulted by
Gary's Inn revels, throws two men into
prison.
lSJO-Pllgrimi building . first house at
Plymouth.
1642 Sir Isaac Newton born.
1CH Christmas kept as a fast day' by
English Puritans. ,
1617 Christmas celebration prohibited
by parliament. .
1C59 General court of Massachusetts
prohibits celebration on penalty ot fine.
17J0-Wllllam Collins, poet. born.
1775 Tea ship In New York sent back to
EnKland. "
1776 Arnold and Montsoinery'at siege of
Quebec. '
1776 Washington, crossed the Delaware
to attack Trenton. , , !(
1777 Washington's army starved! at.VaJ
Icy Forge.
1785 Shajs' reuelipn started ImMass-!
cnusetts. ,
1837 Zachary Taylor defeated rfejnlnoles
near, Hlg Water Lake In Florida.; ! ,'
IMS Colonel Doniphan and Araerlcau
volunteers defeated -Mexicans under Gen
oral Ponce de Leon, at Uruillo.
1B1 -Library of congress ln ruin from
fire.
lMO-Coldeat Christmas ln Kngland. '
1S64 Union tleet and army attacked Fort
Fisher, but withdrew. '
18fi& Yacht Henrietta ended ocean raoa
from New York "to Cowes.
IK President Johnson Issued proclama
tion or general and unconditional am
nesty. '
lS71-Parls In distress with Ocrman
urmy surrounding city.
Cheer U,
Cleveland Plnln Dealer.
The Pullman company earned 119,000,000
last year. A steady Increase for a few
mora years may make the concent pros-
porous enough to pay the salaries of Its
porters.
POEMS FOE
.lent 'Fore Chrlstmao.
Father calls me 'William. Wster calls me
Will,
Mother calls me Willie, but the fellers
ball pvs Bill.
Mighty glad I ain't a glrl-ruther bo a
bo' - . ...
Without them sashes, curls an' things
that's worn by Fauntleroyt
Love to chawnk KTeen apples an' go
awlininln' In the lake . -
Hate to take the castor-lle they give for
belly-ache!
'Most all the time tho whole year round,
there ain't no flies on mo.
But jest 'fore Christmas I'm as good as I
kin be!
Got a yeller kg named Sport, sick him
on tho cat; ,
First thing' she ktlows she doesn't know
where she Is atl
Got a clipper sled, an' when us kids goes
. out to slide,
'long cornea the grocery cart, an' we all
hook a' rldol
But sometimes when the grocery man Is
worried an' cross.
He reaches at us wltlt his whip, an' lar
rups up his boss, .4
An' then I laK an' holler: "O, y never
teched me!''
But Jest 'fore Christmas I'm as good as
I kin bet
Gran'ma says she hopes that when 1 sit
to be a man,
I'll b a mlmlonarer like her oldest
brother Dan,
As was et up by tho cannibals that Hva
In Ceylon's Isle
Where every prospeck pleases, an' only
man Is vile!
But Kran'md she Ivm never been to see a."
Wild West show,
Nor read the Life of Daniel Boone, or
elso I guess she'd know
That Bufflo Bill an' cowboys Is good
enough for me! . .
Except' Just 'foro Christmas, when X'm
good as I kin be!
And then old Sport he hangs around, so
solemn-like an' still,
His eyes they seem a-sayln': "What's the
mattor, little Bill?''
The old cat sneaks down off her perch
an' wonders what's become
Ot them two enemies pf hern that usail
to mako things hum!
But I am so perllte an' tend bo earnestly
to bl.
That mother says to father; "How Im
proved our Wllilo Is!"
But father, havln' been a boy hlsself,
suspicions me.
Wen, Jen" 'fore Christmas', I'm as good as
I kin be!
For Christmas., with Its lots an' lots of
candles, cakes an' toys. ,
Was made, they say, for proper kids, an
not for naughty boys;
ho wash yor faeo an' bresii yer hair, 'an
mind your p's and q's,
An' don't burst out yer pantaloons, and
don't Wear" nut vnur hmr
.Say "Yessum" to the ladles, and "Tcssur
to the m,n.
An when they'a company, don't jmws yer
plate for pie again:
Uut, thlnkln of the things yer'd like to
seo upon that tree.
Jest 'fore Christmas be as good as yer
Mn bel EUOKNE FIELD.
Our Finest Christina.
O. little town of Bethlehem!
How still wo seo thee llo:
Ahove thy deep and dreamless sleep
The silent stars go by;
let In thy dark streets sblneth
The everlasting Light:
Tho hopes and fears of all the years
Are met In then tonight.
For Christ Is born of Mary,
And cathnrod all hni i
While morula sleep, and angels keep I
iinr wuirii oi wonaering love.
O, morning -stars, together
Proclaim tho holy birth!
And praises sing to God the KlnK
Ana peace to men on earth.
How silently, how silently.
i ne wondrous gjrt is given:
So God .Imparts to human hearts .
Tho blessings, of his heaven.
No ear may hear his coming, v
Hut ln this world or 3ln.
Where meek xuuls w.ll receive Htm still,-
The dear Christ enters In. '
O, holy child of Bethlehem! .
r Descend' to ps,nftitrayt . 3
vi uunouf sin, ana cnier in, t. a;
Bd born.tm us-tbday.
We hear th' Christmas angels
The great, glad tidings tell: "
O. como to lis. abide with us, '
Our Lord Emmanuel!
-PHILLIPS BROOKS.
Christmas Morning.
Beforo the wintry sun Is up,
Oh, what a racket greets my ears,
Tho din Is surely loud enough
To wake the folks of other spheres.
Tho troumpeta toot, tho dollies squeak,
The woolly lambs In chorus bleat.
The baby locomotives chug.
And rat-tattoo tho drumsticks beat.
For this is Christmas morning.
A toy piano tinkles out
A tiny, teony-weeny tune,
So faint and sweet It might be played
Away up ln the silver moon.
The air with merry laughter rings.
And shrieks of glee, and whoops of Joy,
.Miu nappy nappy gurgics or ueiiKiu
From rosy, romping girt and boy,
For this Is Christmas morning.
Wee Jimmy sports u soldier suit,
And Johnny has a (wagon red,
And Susie got a camera,
And Bruce and Bobby each a sled,
And Tom In fringe and feather gay,
JUst like an Indian chief appears.
And mother hugs them every one.
And murmurs "Bless tho little dears!"
For this la Christmas morning.
MINNA HIVING.
Lnder the Holly Hough.
Yo who have scorned each other,
Or Injured friend or brother,
In this fast-fading year;
Ye who. by word or deed,
Havo made a kind heart'bleed
Come gather here.
Iet sinned against and sinning
Forget their strife's beginning
And Join In friendship now;
ne links no longer broken,
lie1 sweet forgiveness spoken,
Under the holly bough.
Ye who have loved each other.
Sister and friend and brother,
In this fast-fading year:
Mother and sire and child,
Young man and maiden mild.
Come gather here;
And let your hearts grow fonder.
As memory shall ponder
Kuch past unbroken vow;
Old loves and younser wooing
Are sweet In the renewing,
Under the holly bough.
Ye who have nourished sadness,
Estranged from hope and gladness,
in this fast-fading year;
v Ye wth o'er-burdened mind
Made aliens from your kind
Come gather here.
Let not the useless sorrow
Pursuo your night and morrow;
If e'er you hoped, hope now
Take heart, uncloud your faces.
And Join In our embraces.
Under tho holly bough.
CHARLES MACKAV.
God Bless L'a livery One.
Anonymous.
God bless us every one!" prayed Tiny
SM
11m.
Crippled and lwftrfed of body, yet so
tail
Of soul, we tiptoe earth to look on htm.
tiiEii towering over an.
He loved the loveless world, nor dreamed
indeed
Ti,.t t rnM 4i-.. , 1,1 .1
while. '
But pitying glances, when his only need
Was but a cheery smile.
. . j .
And thus he prayed, "God bes ua every
kXW all the creed, wlthlii the
or hii3!hiid.h..r! na ..,
w. neirer raint ihai.mkn: '
Was nearer taint than man.
I like to fancy Clod, ln Paradise,
IJftlns: a finger o'er the rhythmic
Ot chiming; 'harp and sonr, with eater
eyes
Turned earthward, listening
The Anthem stilled the angels leaning
there
Above the golden walls the morning
sun
Of Cliiistmas bursting flower-like with
Ood bless us every one!
CHRISTMAS
I TnlrtJrte Memories.
Tis- Just- a wh volume, aa quaint as
, can te.
All yellow and mildewed and old.
Whose brown leathern cover protectlngly
bsnd-
O'er dim little edgings of gold.
The wish writ therein. "Merry Christmas
to, Will.
From Mother," Is blurred with my
' tears;
But ah!, the bright vision It brings unto
fn
Adown the gray vista of years,
A kitchen o'ertlowlng with homeliest
'wealth,
A fireplace that laughed with a roar.
While bablos and doggies and pussy cats
romped
Or tumbled about on tho floor.
A fir from the woodland, In fullness of
. Jo
Its delicate Incense outflung;
The cone-laden brauches, 'mid popcorn
festoons.
With love-sweetened offerings hung.
My mother was there-, ln her beautiful
youth,
A glory of love on her face;
The smoke-embrowned rafters looked
soberly down,
While father led frollo and race.
Ah! many a spring, with its largess or
bloom,
Hath 'broldered their couches so green;
And years seem as sands on a storm
beaten shore,
Life's May and December between.
E'er' now, though I dream 'mid the treas
ures of Ini, , ,
Hare hangings and crystal and Jade
Tho rug 'neath my feet heard a Sultan s
last sigh"; . ,
A queen by this chlmneyplece prayed
Nor coveted missal, Illumined of eld,
Nor manuscript mellowed with age.
Hath worth ln mlno eyes like tills precious
old book.
With love-haunted, toar-bedlmmed page.
-MARY E. K1LLIL13E.
.Santa Claus.
If you don t li'lleVf ln "Sarita Claus, and
that your way he'll call. j..
Don't mind tho Christmas otocklng-don t
hang it up at all!
But when Christmas winds are whlstr.P ,
and the home-lights burnln' dim.
He rides away from little folks that don t
believe In him!
When you hear his sleigh bells on the
housetops snowy white.
Say: 'The Wind Is playln music for the
witches o' the night!"
When he's slldln' down the chimneys of
the still and dreamy town
" 'TIs the Wind that wants to warm him-
self tho Wind la comln' down!
If you don't b'llevo In Santa Claus, like
other folks b'lleve.
Just wait till Fourth o' July, and forget
It's Christmas evel
Say: "The chlidren-they Just dreamed of
him. and they think ho's true-and-
true!" , , .
And don't hang up ypur stocking for he
won't b'llevo In you!
When tho floor Is piled with playthings,
nnd the, Christmas trumpets blow,
Say no fr.lry-folk have been there, and
that Santa Claus ain't so!
When your stoclcin's lookln loncasme,
tften you'll know the reason why,
You'll wish you'd made-belleve In him
fore Santa Claus went by!
Your great and grand-people they knew
hltn far away.
(There's toys that he gave them In the
attlo there today!)
The chair grandfather dreams ln he gave
him that, you know.
For belii' once a llttlo boy and bellevln'
In him sol
But don't you hang your stocking up, If
you don't think that way.
And know lots more 'bout Santa Claus
than' folks that's' old and gray;
BUt when Christmas winds are whlstlln',
and thn mnmin' stars burn dim.
He rides away from little folks that don't
believe In him!
. FRANK .L. STANTON.
A Christmas Glee.
Come -where the lce-crytals crackle and
crinkle! - .
. (Over -the meadows, oho!)
Haste, wherd the flakes or the snow
Spangle and sprinkle the fair periwinkle,
Whirl where the piping winds blow!
(Merrily, love, let us go!)
Out iipqn fqlly; .be Jolly! be Jolly!
(Over the meadows, oho!)
See where they wave to and fro.
Bright boughs of holly to flout melan
choly Beckoning, "beckoning! O!
(Cheerily, love, let us go!)."
This spray (how green .It Is!) be for
sweet Charity!
(Over the meadows, oho,)
This for Faith's passionate glow)
This for Hope's charity, and (for hi
larity) Tendrils of blithe mistletoe!
(Heart of my heart. 1ft us go!)
CLINTON SCOLLARD.
SPICED PUDDING.
"Hera's a famous British doctor who
Is, coming acrosii the Atlantic Just to lec
ture on vertigo."
"What a dizzy notion." Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Minister Is your poor rather any. bet
ter, my dear.
Little Girl Oh. yes. He's so much bet
ter that muvver's stopped prayln' for him
and gone to Jawln' him again. Puck.
Cvnlcus It Is Impossible for a woman
to Keep a secret.
Uenpecke I don't know about that.
My wife and 1 were engaged several
weeks before he said anything to me
about It!
"VeU Harry," said the visitor, "did
you como out well at Christmas?"
"I don't know yet," said Harry. "I
bavfcn't had time to swap any of my
presents with the other fellers yet."
Judge, i
Mrs. Church Are your children being
brought up to help themselves?
.Mrs. Gotham Are they? Why. I
can't keep a particle or Jam In tho house
more than a day! Yonkers Statesman.
. Household Economy
How to HaTe the Beat Couch
Syrup and Bare 93, by
' , Making- It at Home.
Cough medicines, as a rule, contain a
large quantity of plain syrup. If you
tako ona pint of granulated sugar, add
Vj pint of warm water and stir about
2 minute, you havo as good syrup as
money could bur.
If tou will then nut 214 thinces of
i Pitex (80 cents worth) In a pint bottle,
UUJ X1 1 1 f i saItV 41.- OaAa Chhiik me
I nuu uu iwuu wiiu 1 110 uuuoi uiiuu, u
' will have as much cough syrup as you
couta tmy reauy maae ior .;xj.
It
t?en Turfortlr.
And you will find it the best cough
syrup you. ever used even In whooping
, oougn, tou can icei it ulkb noiu usu-
BllT sujpa mo oiosi, severe coturu in
hours. Jt Is jut laxative enough, Us &
' BP" ol0 effect, and taste is pleasant.
i Take a teaipoonhil every oae, two or
I three hours.
It is a aplendid remedy, too, for
SEft
: . ?laex Is the most Taluable conccntra-
ted compound of orway wh e pine ex
tract, rfeh in guaiacol and all the heal
ing pine elements. No other prepara
tion will work in this formula-
Thls recipe for making cough remedy
with Plnex and Sugar Syrup Is now
used and rrlzl In thousands of homes
I In the United States and Canada. Tho
plan has often been Imitated but never
successfully.
A guaranty of absolute satisfaction, or
money promptlv refunded, goes with thie
recipe. Your druggist has Pinex, or will
get it for tou. If not, scud to The
Piex Co., Ft. Wayne, Ind,
"I use
when I want to make a delicious
cranberry pie, pudding, sauce or
jelly they are far better than
ordinary cranberries sold in bulk
from barrels and I can get them
any day in the year."
You, too, will prefer
MAKEPEACE
Evaporated
Cranberries
They are the finest of Cape Cod
Berries, picked when ripest and best
and full of flavor. Soak them in
water and you have the most delicious
tart, juicy berries. Imaginable. Never
a poor one no waste, no washing
thoroughly sterilized beforo being
evaporated packed In a clean sealed
package and thty will keep indefi
nitely without losing flavor or goodness.
Aslc your grocer today for Make
pesce Evaporated Cranberries.
Cooking receipt lntld the paclcjge Jntt fol
low directions then U you don't ay they re
better thn any cranberries jrou ever bought
Imply take them back to the dealer and he
will cheerfully refund your money. Compari
son ! the real test. You be the judge. '
In the unlikely arent of your dealer
net hKTlns Makepeace Eraporated Cran
berries. tU hint to get them for you from
hla jobber. i
A. D. MAKEPEACE CO.
Wareham (on Capo Cod), Mas.
CAMPBELL & WEST
Distributors, - Omaha
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Wo clean and press Ladles' and
Men's Suits or Overcoats for $1.00.
Launder "Waists for 15c; Shirts
tor 5c and 10c; Collars 2'c; House
Linens 18d per dozen; Handker
chiefs 2c.
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