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Mrs. Thomas Marsland and Mrs. Geo.
Seybolt returned Saturday from Mom
phis. Canon City coal at the Wb!tobrast
Coal and Lime Co.
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Dorgan entertain
ed on Christmas day with an elaborate
dinner to near relatives. All sorts of
merry plans were arranged for the
etc, that Christmas day found the
guestF. Again the forest lured tho
revelars by its tempting!. The moon
waB still shining at the oil stand. One
could fairly hear the wind whistling or
cracking through the pine boughs. It
may not hare been the wind but only
tho unpretentious looking mistletoe get
ting in it3 deadly work. So charming
young people, and Master Wilson Mulr waH hiB Pary hat llk the!r Rrand
of Denver acted as Santa Claus to the parents , tho guest danced until tho low
delight of everyone. Those present
were Mr. and Mrs. J. D. MacFarland,
Mr. and Mrs. "Vm. Dorgan, Mrs. "Wil
son, Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Mulr and Wil
son Mulr of Denver and the Misses
Jane, Jessie, Ruth, Helen and Jack
MacFarland.
Mr. Elmer Merrill expects to leave
Lincoln soon to take a position In Chi
cago. Prof. DeAlton Saunders, last year
teacher In the High School, but now of
South Dakota Agricultural college, is
exepectcd here for a visit during the
holidays.
Miss Clara Conklin, assistant pro
fessor of romance languages at the
state university, left Wednesday for
Kansas City and St. Louis. She will
attend the meeting of the western mod
ern language association at St. Louis.
Mrs. Link's mother has returned to
her home.
Mrs. Miner of Winchester, III., who
has been visiting her daughter, Mrs.
Taylor, will return to her homo on Mon
day. Mrs. Chas. Robinson returned to
Chicago on Wednesday. Whenever she
cimes to Lincoln society is gay and in
dicates its predilection for her by din
ners, balls and receptions.
Miss Dora Harloy will spend Christ
mas day with her frionds in Beatrice.
By far the most unique and merry
entertainment given this winter was Ye
Olden Times party given by Mr. and
Mrs. Bigger in honor of Miss Minnie
Caylord of Buffalo on Christmas 'Eve.
The guests were received in the west
pirlor, where graudmama's 6torics of tho
parties given inolden time& when she
was a girl wero illustrated. The room
was filltd with a soft light from innum
erable wax candles prranged in
antique condlesticks tho candles wero
snuffed at proper intervals. The walls
were hung and the floors covered wiJh
fur skins and lugs of every desciiption.
A graceful spining wheel standing by a
largo wood grate fire. An abundance
of holly, mistletoe and-white hyacinths
completed tho affect.
After a brief time spent in social con
versation, the guests were invited across
the hall into an apparently dark room
but proved to be the dining room con
verted into a pine forest; through
whose branches shone tho silvery light
of a stationary moon. It was not long
before a keg of cider was discovered in
a bank of ferns, and it might be added
that it was not long full. A few couples
strolled into the forest to find the most
remots Beat, others were contented to
simply collect themselves after a trip
over the ever present tree etumps.
Here the '-fiddler'' was sawing out tho
stirring strains of the "Arkensaw Trav
eler," "The Irish Wash Woman" and
similar tunes which have seen better
days. In an instant the scene was
changed as if by a fairy wand some
body moved the trees, and in the clear
ing such dances as Old Dan Tucker and
the Virginia Reel ere performed such
grace and enthusiasm as gladdened the
heartB in the good old times. Whilo
resting all sorts of games wero tried
some are still wondering who was "it."
The kitchen then became the spot of in
terest. For there in true old homestead
style, the table and sideboard were fair
ly groaning from the abundance of
goodies that mother used to make. It
was at this fascinating occupation of
eating pumpkin pie, doughnuts, turkey,
burning candles warned them that the
morning was approaching.
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thirty-two volumes of onvenient size
neatly bound, four volumes of thean
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Itfpettlns Itlf!e.
The king of Denmark's "sort of new
invented guns, which being but once
charged will discharge many times, one
after another," in 1C57, would seem to
have had rivals about the same period.
Pepys twice refers to such. On July 3,
1662, when "at the Dolphin with the
officers of the ordnance, after dinne
was brought to Sir. W. Comptoa a gun
to discharge seven times, the best of
all devices that ever I Eaw and rery
serviceable, and not a bawble, for it la
much approved of, and many thereof
made." And on March 4, 1663-4, he
mentioned "a new fashion gun to shoot
often, one after another." Notes and
Queries.
Tlie Baseball I'ltchcr.
The famous base ball pitcher had
walked the floor with the youngest of
his family for an hour or so. "Mary,"
said he, "If the manager saw me now,
I bet I'd get soaked with a fine."
"Why?" asked the wife, sleepily.
"I don't seem to have any control ot
the bawl at all. I don't,"
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