Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 292, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1910 — Page 2

MARION KAY’S CHRISTMAS SIFT

a Present For Mother, i She Finds a Husband. ~ lusl * or a m oment thai Marion oondered. just for a brier pace that temptation warred with b i' a n *," 8, bu ’ ,n tha ‘ minute ilium h C^ e< t. Store de,ective bad pounced ed th ' ' \ rhe holiday shoppers throng Waste There was no tlme * the J™ °" ne a Bh °P ,lf »pr outside of most h# t 0 establlsb a c, ear case. Al hapnen^° r V he had rea,,zed what had over tMh M i arl °“ Waa belng hustled, over to- the elevators. a “ lnutea later R he stood before desk ?/T Urwl woman at a roll top dress had taken her name a,ld ad series WttS purtlng her through a qutsklon CrOSS q,,esflonß But the in anrieur Was broken suddenly by the fellow aD |? ° f a fall, clean cut young the h hO . walked up to the desk of questiXg ,eVt ‘ Ve aDd CheCked her r *„ saw M,SS Perklns make this ar a mistake^” 1 QU,etly “ She haa made ♦he«e ‘ th u P 811,1 admlts that she stole h i,u’ B harply retorted the woman, la've 80Dne dainty creations ol to.' ?“ nk 1 would admit murder,” ,au ßhed the man. “if I were ever lined n here. It's pure nervousness / re was a woman standing beside er who slipped the things in her pocket i suppose the rest of the plan was to follow her to the street and pick her , et after she had carried them safety out of the store.” “Of course if you say so”— began the offended Miss Perkins. Ido say so,”*he answered quiety as he tore from the book the page

“SHE HAS MADE A MISTAKE.”

others eyed her enviously as she passed Chatting pleasantly, the man led her to the elevator, and presently Mar ton found herself on the street again '1 hat night her fears were reawakened when a card engraved with the name of .lames Dalton was brought to her. It was In Boyce & Dalton's store that the Incident had occurred. Perhaps they had found out, after all. She gave a sigh of relief when the young man of the morning rose before her “You will pardon my intrusion," he began, "but since these unfortunate things were the cause of so much trouble I thought It only fair that you Should have them.”

He held toward her a parcel that Marion instinctively knew contained the coveted caps. She shook her head “I cannot take them,'" she wailed. “I don't deserve them. 1 did steal them.’’ f “Technically, yes,” said Dalton. ”1 ■aw you slip them In your pocket. But 1 knew that If Miss Perkins had not been so quick you would have replaced them. I saw the struggle In your face. Were they for your mother?" Marlon nodded. “You see.” she began, “it Is my first Christmas away from home. When father diet! and the money was all lost 1 bad to go to work fbr a living. "I’m addressing envelopes at Home to make some extra money Before 1 always made mother’s caps. But now ] have not the lime. 1 hud some money all saved up to buy two when at the office they took up contributions for presents for the timekeeper and anme of the others. It’s a big office, you know, and it took all my Christmas money." “And you came over in the noon hoar to see if there were any cheaper ones yon could still afford." he broke in. "Temptation was strong upon you, and just for one tiny moment you fell. 1 could see the whole process In your face.” "You knew pat 1 had taken them when you spoke thia noon?" she gasped. "Certainly." waa the smiling answer. “I knew that you bad stolen them, but that you were not a thief. 1 could not bear to see you posted as a ■hoplifter, and when Perkins took you up I followed." I “But 1 ought to be punished." she cried accusingly. 1 "You are punished.” he declared. *Tbe memory of those moments up St aI rs w 111 be pu ni s h men t enough." "1 can’t take them." sbe said wistfully. "1 couldn't send them to mother." "See here." be suggested. “Suppose you buy them from me. You send, them borne and pay me a little each week. I know just what a graft those presentation things are In a big office.

on which Marion’s answers had been entered “and if Miss glancing at the sheet, “will excuse us I will see that she is not subject to further annoyance. You see,” he added to Marion, “we have so much trouble around the holidays that mis takes are bound to occur.” He lightly touched her arm and led her from the room. Already ..notherwoman had taken her place, and

T?NICHOLAS the old saint comer again Do ten t/>e path We Knew of yore, sßll ' iy! A "la! facAo are Women and men, ’ Y - Y*( j -Q Let u,t be cw before.. boughs hanf at the door, Let lights of yule bum high, Let the wide World ring with our Welcoming ~a, lljnl Wben the food old saint comes by, / XlO WZ>en the old saint comes again ®l7 -mV/sl Dotcn holiday paths of old, Ajgp. ft who are Women and men, wff 1 |\\ Can We gii>e a greetinf cold? /il : . llfT\ May the child heart only hold I ’ lo'de that his grace sh.uld wins AoiF* him be sure our hearts endure Vi s -' Iff Tttfhen the food old saint comes in. When the old saint comes again lx;?, v 111 'Wlv HS' \y(i /j "Down the dear remembered Way, y%j pf c N-Y Who are Women and men, • .*>, I Let tis laugh as children may. Let our home and hearts be fay I t W»r/> re'Vel and mirth and cheer, O Let the old joy WaKe for the old Io tie's sal(e, ¥ \ When the food old saint is here. i Wfwhwtfr —ffeW york Evening Mail. L

I’Ve stopped them in my store, but 1 know what it is.” “But it would take so long to pay back.” she objected. “1 cannot pay np more than a quarter a week ” “I’ll let you have them at wholesale price,” he offered. “We shall have to

put them on the bargain counter after the rush anyway. Nice old ladles who wear lace caps are growing very few.’’ “You’re awfully good to me,” sobbed Marlon. “You can’t un der-stand how It hurts not to have anything to send mother. I would not have taken them for myself, but when I thought of poor mother wondering why 1 did not send a present after all the fairy tales I’ve

“IT IS BECAUSE I DO UNDERSTAND."

written her about how well I've, been doing—just for a moment it seemed that I had to have them." “But I. do understand," he insisted. “I can recall a Christmas when my dinner was dry bread because 1 was too faint from hunger to fight for a place In line where they were feeding the poor It is because Ido understand that I sought to bring a happy ending to a little tragedy of poverty.” The simple words seemed to establish a bond of sympathy between them. Impulsively she caught bls hand. “But I’m selfish." he persisted. “1 want to ask a favor of you in return ” “What Is it?" she cried eagerly. “I wqjit you to share my Christmas dinner,” he explained "My sister, who keeps house for me. is traveling in Europe. Won't you dine with me and go to the theater afterward?" Marlon nodded shyly, and with a cheerful "That’s an engagement, then,” he took his leave. Marion slept little that night. There was something about Dalton that won him regard from all. His quick ap preciation of her temptation and his ready sympathy for her troubles bad won her heart;. She knew that it was foolish to build castles in the air. but there was some comfort to her In the thought that she at last had,a friend in the great. Inhospitable city: that she would not. after all. eat her first Christmas dinner away from borne in the cheap boarding bouse The dinner ordered in advance was perfect, the visit to tbe theater was • genuine treat, and when Dalton suggested that they drop into a restaurant for an after theater bite she was glad to prolong her happiness. “1 am purely selfish." he answered when sbe sought to thank him for tbe treat he bad given her. "1 guess we are always selfish. I bad noticed you several times in tbe store making little purchases, and 1 wanted to know yon. I was hoping that 1 might get a chance to speak.” “But why should you want to?* sbe asked wonderingly. “Because I love you," he said simply. “1 mean to speak so soon, but 1 can’t help it. Ever since tbe first time 1 saw you 1 have wanted you for my wife. Is there any hope?” Her eyes made answer, and he drew a case from his pocket. "1 have carried It for weeks." he said, “for I knew that my chance would come. Will you wear it. little woman?" For answer sbe held out her left hand. “This is tbe best Christmas present a girl ever had." she wbis pered as be slipped tbe solitaire oa her finger.—C. H Sutcliffe.

Bells A-ringing.

Two sorry things there be— Aye. three— A nest from which the nestlings have been taken. A lamb forsaken, A red rose by the wild wind rudely shaken. Of glad things there be more— Aye, tour— A bird above the old nest blithely singing. A red rose clinging In safety to a rock. a. shepherd bringing A lamb found in his arms and Christmas bells a-rlnging! -Willis B. Allen.

A Christmas Fairy.

In the center of a room place a large round table covered with a green cloth scattered all over with small boughs of evergreen frosted with tinsel. Suspended from the chandelier and hanging just far enough apart to admit a little light from above have garlands sparkling with frost, with the ends fastened to the sides of the table, three-quarters of the way around it. The effect will be that of a tent The other quarter should be left open, so t bat one may look Inside and see an immense cornucopia covered with silver paper, with its open end toward the front. As though emerging from it the Christmas fairy (a wax dolb, sparkling In robes of white and silver, should be poised. A frosted wreath should crowu her golden curls, and in “or band she should hold a long f’ er wand. The Cornucopia should seem to be emptying itself into the glittering train of the good fairy.

Christmas Superstitions.

There are many Christmas superstitions. long held as articles of faith, that are to be recalled. Among these are the beliefs that oxen kneel in their stalls at midnight ou Christmas eve in adoration of the Nativity aud for one hour pave tbe power of speech. For that one hour, too, the lost spirits have rest. Judas sleeps, Herod ceases to clank his chains, tbe daughter of Herodias may pause In the dance, in which sb# is condemned to spin forever, and Pilate’s ghost ceases its wanderings on Mount Pilatus. it used to be believed, too, that the sound of church bells could be heard wherever ■ church had stood, though no trace remain, and that on that pregnant night one sleeping in a manger would see his future tn a vislo .

W Wry Wiflefoft i.krf Ase fee,* ft 'Ti» merry ’neaih ihc mistletoe, When holly berries glisten bright, Kjs fF ry jft When Christmas fires gleam and glow, Ws IK | JEa K '* ,hen wln,r y *inds so wildly blow, * * n< l *ll 'he meadows 'round are white, zvk F/wmq • ’T** merry 'neath the mistletoe. * privilege 'ria then, you know, ft To exerclte time-honored rite; # Vhen Christmas fires gleam and glow, When loving lipa may pout, although With other lipa they oh unite,— t_ ft Tie merry ’nearh the mistletoe. ft “/• AaWy-Jteny. g V \ Lail Read F. A. Nave’s advertisement in this paper of his big / Land”and Lave Stock Auction.

ETIQUETTE OF GIFT GIVING.

Suggestions on Bestowing and Receiving Christmas Presents. There is an etiquette governing the giving and receiving of presents, as there is about most things, because there is always a best way to do everything, says the Ladies’ Home Journal If we penetrate below the surface of the little courteous conveu tions we shall find that consideration for the feelings of others underlies all Do not try to make your gift look as though it cost more than you paid for it. Aside from the paltry spirit of such giving, it is a delusion and a snare, for next year your offering must seem to be as fine as the one of this season or you may appear to have beep less anxious to please your friend. Take the time to write a few words of loving or cordial greeting on the cards that accompany your gifts. Without that evidence of individual personal thought the offering of even the finest present appears somewhat graceless and perfunctory. A message on a card is better than a note because more informal, and one should not seem to make much of a gift Having your presents daintily wrapped is not less a matter of courtesy. Let their outward appearance commend them. Leave them or send them to their destination the day before Christmas unless you can insure their reception early in the day A tardy gift appears like an afterthought

A Christmas Game.

A Yuletide version of tbe donkey party is played thus: On a sheet sketch or paste a design of a Christmas tree. Have each branch of tbe tree terminate in a circle containing a number, using tbe numbers from one to ten or one to twenty-five, according to the size of the tree. Each person playing is blindfolded tn turn and is given a rosette with which he must “decorate the tree.” Each person aims to pin bls or her rosette on or near to the highest number of the tree. Each competitor has three trials, tbe three numbers to which be pins nearest being written down to his credit by the hostess, who keeps tally. The one whose three numbers added together give the largest sum total wins tbe first prize.

Christmas In Dixie.

Chrts’mas sho wui made fur darkles. An’ de law don’t cut no Ice. White mens wid delr clubs an blue coats Lays ez low an still ez mice. Black Mariah don’t ride nobody. Ev y darky das full sway. An’ dey sho do ac’ like white folks 'Way souf on Chris’mas day. To be sho. at night we en’s up Wid a gran’ Jim Dandy spree— One uv dese ole fashioned cakewalks Er a big co’n shuckin'. bee. An’, sah. es it’s one er t’othah It’ll las’ mos’ th'oo de night. Den we’ll go home wid de ladles At de break uv mawnln' light. Dat’s de way we spen’s ouah Chris’mas. You les shet yo’ tnouf up, man! D’ ain’t no Chris’mas in de worl’, sah. Dat kin beat ole Dixie Lan’ Ev’ybody’s free an' ekul. An’ each man jes’ has his way. White er black—it Aiakes no dif*ence—’Way down sous on Chrta'mas day. -Silas X. Floyd in Leslie’s Weekly.

A Merry Christmas Jest.

An old chronicle contains the follow Ing quaintly worded anecdote: "There was some time an old knight who, being disposed to make himself merry in a Christmas time, sent for many of bls tenants and poor neighbors with their wives to dinner, when having made meat to be set on the table would suffer no man to drinke ■till he that was master over bls wife should sing a caroil; great niceness there was who should be the musician Yet with much adoe. looking ope upon another, after a dry bemme or two, a dreaming companion drew out as much as be dare toward an old sash ioned dirty When having made an end. to the great comfort of the beholders. at iqst it came to the women’s table, when likewise commandment was given that there should no drinke be touched till she that was master over her husband bad sung a Christmas caroil: whereupon they fell all to such a singing that there was never heard such a catterwaling peece of muslcke. Whereat the knight laughed heartily, that it did him balfe as mucbe good as a corner of bls Christmas pie.”.

First Christmas Observance.

Christmas gets Its name from the mass celebrated in the early days of the Christian church in honor of the birth of Christ. Its first solemnization having been ordered by Popp Telesphorns. This was in or before the year 138, for in that year Pope Telesphorus died. At first Christmas was what is known as a movable feast, just as Easter is now. aud owing to mlsunder standings was celebrated as late as April or May In the fourth century an ecclesiastical investigation was ordered, and upon the authority of the tables of tbe censors in the Roman archives Dec. 25 was agreed upon as the date of the Saviour’s nativity. Tradition fixed the hour Of birth at about midnight, and this led to tbe celebra tion of a midnight mass tn all tbe churches, a second at dawn and a third in tbe later morning.

Christmas Candle and Tree.

The old custom of tbe lighting of tbe Christmas candle, which is still observed by tbe Irish peasantry, chiefly at Candlemas or Old Christmas day. has become quite obsolete In England. A relic of tbe observance In England is. however, preserved. An old stone socket carved with a lamb Is shown in the buttery of St John’s college. Oxford. which was used in former days for holding the Christmas candle. The Christmas tree was practically unknown In England a little more than half a century ago. It was Introduced into this country from Germany, where the Christmas tree has been a popular feature of Christmas eve festivities for centnsies.«by tbe prince consort shortly after his marriage.- Westminster Gaietto.

KANKAKEE LAND SHOWS BIG GAIN

Indiana Farm Exhibit Takes First Honors at Land Show. THAT it is not necessary to go to the wilds of Canada or the Texas plains to find land upon which a wideawake farmer can quickly double his money was demonstrated very.clear* . ly in the great land exposition in the Coliseum at Chicago last week, when the exhibit of the LaCrosse Land company, of Laporte county was awarded first honors in its class for its exhibit, ’ it being universally conceded that it had the finest general farm exhibit that was shown. , ' A few years ago the LaCrosse company bought up a few sections of muskrat swamps at from $5.00 to $20.00 per acre. They realized that the Kankakee valley had a future before it and they started in to develope their holdings In a modern Big open ditches and miles of tiling soon drained the marshes and banished the muskrats, and subsequent results have demonstrated that the land is as fertile as the garden of Eden. 1 The following figures will show what has been done with wheat. In 1908 the LaCrosse company put in 96 acres of wheat as an experiment and harvested 2,702 bushels, which at 80c yielded $2,178.32 or $22 6a per acre. The following year the wheat tract was increast to 425 acres and from it was harvested 10,736 bushels, which at $1.03 yielded $11,246.18 which is $26.46 per acre. This year when much of the wheat in Indiana was too poor to harvest they had in acres and reaped 14,584 bushels. This sold for 96J cents and yielded $14,083.08 which iu $22.36 per acre. And all this from land, some of which has been purchast for $5 per acre! The results with oats, corn and other grains were as satisfactory as the wheat and the showing of products from the LaCrosse lands attracted the attention of every one of the thousands who visited the land show. There is still thousands of acres of just as promising land as this yet undeveloped and other thousands on which the initial improvements have been made but which can still be purchased at a very reasonable price and which promise unusual returns as an investment. On Dec. 16 nearly 500 acres of splendid land, lying only a few miles from the LaCross company’s holdings, is to be sold at auction. This is the Nave ranch four miles southwest of Roselawn, owned by F.A. {lave, of Attica, who has won a reputation all over the country as a breeder of fine Hereford cattle and who is advertising the land and the entire equiptment, including farm implements, blooded live stock, cats, dogs, Angora goats, and cottontail rabbits. It is attracting much attention all over the northern part of Indiana and promises to bring together the largest crowd that has assembled in Newton county since George Ade held his Taft rally at his home near Brook twp years ago.

CHRISTMAS BERRIES.

Where the Holly Grows and How to Find the Best. The old fashioned Christmas green# were rosemary, ivy and bay. but In the 2,000 tdns of and decorating material which it is estimated that wo now use every year there is a much greater variety. Best loved of all is the glossy, r 1 berried holly. “Holm’* was the old English name for it, and it is thought to be identical with tbe “greenwood fee” of British ballads, and of Robin Hood fame. . On our side of the Atlantic the American holly (Ilex opaca) is found from Maine, where it grows as a shrub, to North and South Carolina, where it lifts a symmetrical cone of dark, shining leaves set with scarlet berry clusters along a beautiful trunk of gray and silver to the height of seventy or eighty feet. Delaware aud Maryland are usually credited with furnishing the best grades, of holly to Christ mas markets, but their "Three X” brand, as seen after shipment to northern cities, is not so finely berried as the Carolina holly, plentiful in the region around Asheville. In America there are three distinct grades of holly. Trees that stand <>n dry. barren billsides, as a, rule, are heavily laden with thick/ knoblike clusters of berries, but their leaves are likely to be small, yellowish and Imperfect. Follow some little stream to a sheltered, sunny glade where a holly trunk gleams white, awA there you will find leaves large, dark ■nd perfect, with a thick scarlet firsts age lighting the shadows evenly aft ever tbe tree.

Sets End to Public Service.

It was the example set by Nathaniel Macon, one of the old-time public men of the south, that has influenced Con* gressman Champ Clark tn setting a time for his own retirement Mr. Macon fixed upon his seventy-fifth birthday, and when It came he immedV ately resigned his seat In the United States senate, although his term was no more than half expired. Mr. Clark proposes to retire likewise at precise, ly seventy-five.