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A Christmas Favor By Charles M. Harycr. WHEN Um i-aptain broogkt to the fort a vicluua luokiug red automobile, there as much lauus' MMMaj ihe miiubers of bis COIBMftOd. "V( uiier If hi expects to use It In &t.. . tl d Acijt. QnlluBg. "W u.i:r Bitca a gas on behind ami MTI ( lie team," addeii the quar- ' H; can sure make time o'T ÜM prairie rcada." Tha ( i. lata if ii make time. During the long autumn, when the plain waa dry ami tha roatfi smooth, be aped on

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TWO KICt'Hliij ('N H IISK1!ACK. ai.-. ma lnn. .cr miles a a oUy lhat would have IatiU-vi him in jail in any tity In the land. The eaptaia liked swiftness. That wa why he bought the automobile. ti ran it to the limit of Its ped wfii!!tvrr he rod. So ia love with It was he that bajoad the dreary monotonous daily routine, he gave little attention to the doings of the fort. He had forgotten the annual club dance ir.d was for tajri unaware of the coming Christmas Kve celeirat ion. He l uratafl Hp toward Wild Horse niyon when the arrangements were made. On that very aftefBOOfl M he rounded the foot of the can: n he came rlutnp toward a lady riding almost as swifily as lie. but mounted on a handsome brown Kentucky saddler. Her horse veered far to the right, but she sat him like ,i prii.ce.ss and showed no sign of fiar " J tec jroai pardon," exilnimed the rajKaia, halting his machine and lift ing his fatigue cap Slie came nearer ind then he knew her Lieut. Burton had brought her to the dance she was a daurhter of a wealthy rancher Mi N lenders smiled and, came as near as her restless horse would consent to approach "Hero never saw in auto before," she explained; then rode on with another Irradiating smile. TLa following week the red automohtle was at Miss Landers' door and fhe went riding over the level plains with the eaptain. He was radiant In his happiness and was certain that he had, with his advantage of equipment and rank, outwitted his rival. Hut the happiness was short lived; for, Tiding up by the haunted house on the 'rest of the dl. !:le a few .lays later. hr saw two figures on horseback, one of wht m was plainly Htirton ami the other ellently Miss lAnd'Ts After that the contest became unfriendly, nd It was war to the knife between Rm rivals. Bo went 'he varylnc favors until the approach of the holidays The fort, as break In the dullness of wln'er. uro-

posed to have a grand Christmas celebration In the great mess hall, to which would be invited all the memI rf of the troops at the station. The captain and the lieutenan" were, of course, foremost in the arrangements, and to them was lift the duty of issuing invitations for those outside the post. Its 111 h man and their families. Bit rchants from the neighboring town, well-to do farmers and indeed every available resident who might contribute to the pleasure of the occasion a re blddaa. To Miss lenders came two Invitations, one addressed in the crabhed back-hand chirograph)- of the captain and the other in the flowing, artistic style Of the lieutenant Which nhould she accept? she determined to wait on events and see where fate led. Fate (k: i very undecided at that point of the affair. No word passed between the captain and the ileu'enant regarding the invitation to Miss I.an: rs. nor was there any discussion regarding the manner

by which she was to get to the celebration However, It was the Intention of each to be her personal escort. Btlt the lieutenant reckoned without a knowledge of the intensity of the captain's nature; for when he asked for leave to go outside the post, the request came back with the curt indorsement. "Refused." That meant that he must stay at the fort or be subject to a period in the guard house The captain chuckled and patiently rubbed the brass fittings of his big red automobile. He looked forward with much pleasure to the coming ten-mile trip across the smooth prairie ro.ids In the crisp winter evening, and he smiled as he thought of the discomfited lieu tenant, compelled to remain at the fort. At dusk the "devil wagon" careened out of the high-walled parade ground ami swept down the elope to the bottom lands that led away up the Smoky Hill to the Circle Dar ranch, where Miss Landers was waiting for her escortwondering all the time which of the twain would first appear. The laptain w- '1 bundled against the piercing colli, did not look to the south or he would hue sein a ruh r on horseback making almost as Rood time as

hlfla bot enlverta Then, Just as the Clrcis Bar was to sight, Kb twinkling ltgb's telling of the presence of a wait itvg passenger, there came a sudden "hlsu!" and t he captain was awakened from his dream by a quick turn into the grabs alongside the highway and a short, uncompromising stop Nothing for it but the unbundling of tools tho careful Inspection of piston and igniter, the rattling of chains and the hammering of bolts The solitary horseman off In the dis UUaes Kept on his way and cared cot, if be I. new. that tfcl d'.ptaiu was swsaring at fate and his machine out tie r on the wind swept hills. But even hreaks may M repaired and finally, with a grim sentiment of revenge, the captain pulled the lever out to the limit and rat ed on hl6 way toward the Circle liar. It was darlv now and the lights In the front of the automobile were dimmed by the dust of tho road, hence the captain did not gee until he was at the very gate that a lady on horseback was approaching him. When he did see, It was too late. Her horse gave a great swerve and, though avoiding the fright8ome machine, struck its side against the barbed wire fence. She was assisted to the (.round by her cowboy companion- presumably a groom ami the captain led her tc the auto mobile. "So sorry, Miss Landers didn't see you yes, Hero fchall be cared for here, sir, take the horse to the barn and order him looked after." "I think he had better come with us." suL'gesKd Ml - Land' rs. "1 promlaed aUft, you know." "Well." Then to tha cowboy: "Come bat k bare and get in 1 11 lake you to the fort." Tho man bowed silently and went to the stables. A few minutes later the automobile was on its return journey, skimming the froen c,riitirnl and carrying its trio of passengers toward the scene of the evening's gayety. Before it came into the circle of light that marked the driveway the cowboy accompanying the captain and his fair passenger slipr-ed from his seat beside the latter and hurried away in the darkness but what did the captain care? He handed Miss Landers Into the hali j yfuliy and forgot that the other had ever lived. But he did not forget the lieutenant Inquiry soon told him that the younger officer had left the fort soon after dinner and had not yet returned. Then in a moment came an Orderly to say that Mr Burton was in his room. "He may go under guard until tomorrow," ordered the fwpttfa aarase ly. "Then I will take up his case. Let us start the cotillon." with a low bow to Miss Landers. She had heard his orders and turned a very white fate to her partner as she took his arm She

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eler on the main mad. This rider was j dressed in cowboy garments, his wide- ' brimmed hat was flapping In the wind , und his fringed GOBI caught the steam af his horse'a breath, which congealed 1 into snow-like foam. He took the short cut up Wild Horse canyor. ,i round the head of Oak ranch and saved a mile where a timber elaJru caused a wide turn In the roadway. But the sturdy automobile fairly ate up the rOBd, IWtngtBf down the sVpes like mad and haltiaa ncltha for the

TOOK THE SHORT CUT led the cotillon and received with grace the favors heaped upon her but all the time ike was thinking of the lieutenant Bpeadtal his Christmas eve uml r guard. Then came the supper and after that the Christmus tree. The officers were made happy with remembrances from the men; the men smiled at (he little tokens from the officers for out on this frontier post had grown up a HBI1PI sflOllO between those stationed them that knew no rank or station. When the tree was emptied there ensued a hush a Mi-4 Landers came down the center of the mess ball, her stately form Bald proudly erect and her eyes shining with a new IL'ht Before the captain she curtsied with old fashioned ceremony. The whole company waited to hear her worth. 'it used to be the custom," she be gan, "for the king to srant on Christmas eve a favor to bis subjects I have one to ask." Your pleasure. Miss Landers." laughed the captain. He was feeling rerj inodnntBrfd just now. The release of Lieut. Burton and his presence here," came the tjulck reply. There waa nothing for It but obedience, and the captain gave the signal. In a moment there came an orderly with a young man in cowboy suitLieut. Burton and the crowd cheered as he bowed low to them all. "But but " began the captain, wonderlngly. "are you are you" "Yes." Interrupted Miss Landers, "you brought him here yourself, and we thank you so much. It w as very kind." Lieut. Burton bowed low again ami then took Miss lenders' hand. "I, too. thank you.-' he added; then In a low tone, the words being audible only to the captain; "Hon t fuss long on tne way with your fiufo next time a horse Is swifter And. say." In almost I whisper, "come to our wedding, will yon it "a the In -t of January." The- orchestra began a waltz; the I leu tenant Went whirling' away on the Door amid the mare of white dieses nnd uniforms; the hnite dock in the fort tower sMuck 12 - It w as f'hr! mas iBorvtnfl

By William Koer Coboe. IT iS not so easy to iletermlne whr Christmas BOOM be the greatest festival day of the church and of : the people. At first thought one might j say that, logically. Kanter or An n- : sion day should have priority Mau's 1 whole being crave. s Immortality, at.d ! the only satisfactory auswer to Job's ; earnest query: "If a man die, shall he live again?" is found in the words of the angel at the tomb of Jcbuh at the ' early uawn of that first BaStar morn: I "He is not here! He is risen'." Confirmatory of this was His visible aa:en1 sion into heaven, as wltn si-ed by I'eier 1 and others of the apostles and by a

number of Iiis disciples. Christmas, of Itaelf BBB to do with the birth of a BBB-ckild. only. Yet

the herald song of the angels at that ; birth has come down through the ru:cs, ( repeated by tho glad roicea of cbildr n and of age. It was the beginning of a Ufa which during its short course ex , emplified the Bloat virtuous living and that gave forth the most sublim-j tea.-h-ing ever seen or Beard of by mortal. Perhaps the romance of His birth has 'something to do with the Interest which attaches to the da. The youthi ful VlrgtB'Wlfa journeying with her , carpenter husband through the hill country from the village of Nazareth ! to the proud and gn-a city of Jerusa- ' lem: the crowded inns, which forced ! them to drag their weary feet four miles away to the little village of Beth lehem, where they could find shelter I in th" stable of an inn. among surly camels and lowing cattle; the Birth of the child Jesus Wi a BBBger; the I announcement to thp shepherds; the i song of the heavenly choir; the won- ! derful star in the east and the visit j of the magi bearing gifts for the young child, and the efforts of King ! Herod to find and kill the child h is i all these strange incidents appeal i strongly to the young, who hear the story told over and over again, until it Is engrafted into their very Being and never loses its freshness and brlghtr OSI throughout life. Then, too, with the lapse of time there came to be engrafted In th oh , arraaea of the day the bestowing Of : gifts upon the children of the houei hold. In imitation of the gifts brought by the magi to the child Jesus. Subsequently the giving of gifts was extended to the adults of the household, and Christmas grew Into a day of home-brfneir.g and horn" f.srl vi-les aa c; as of devotional church service. There is tbat peculiarly attractive to I motherhood in the child Jesus Ka h mother as she thinks of the Christ child grows more tender in her sympathjr for Mary and her lore for the

Child. The mother of the middle aces, as well as the mother of this gent ration, never wearies of telling her offspring the pathetic fory of the bir h

In the manger at Bethlehem, and the bearing of that story upon human life and human character. That story naver has lost its charm ami never i ! lose it. so long as there are mothers in the world. It would seem to be the prvMre of nations to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of a hero rather than that of some great load or deeds of his. Thus it Is in this country, as In the t ae of Washington, Lincoln and Crant. So it Is with the advent of Christ Into the world. This event is given preeminence as being the beginning ef a career which abounded in incident, in miracles. In sublime teaching and which closed in a tragedy so terrible that it caused the sun to darken and the earth to quake and restore its dead to life The natal day com-prehe-nds the entire life of benevolence, of mercy, kinuliness ami intense suffering. It is given place above and before any Fingle event, in that the birth suggests an that He did. all that He endured The manp-er at Bethlehem points unerringly to Calvary, to the tomb of Joseph Of Arimathea nnd to the ascension. One meditates on the Christmas dav and . .? lessor s, and thought follows the habe to youth and manhood. It sees Him on the Mount of Beatitudes, as He utters the grandest sermon ever preached. It follows Him in His journeyings, in which the dead are mad alive ami the blind are made (0 MB, It sees Him before Pilate, and the scourging, the crown of thorns, the driven nails and the thrust BBBBf follow. Vet Christmas is a glad day and should be a joyous one. The inffef inps of the Christ nre ended. He brought glad tidings of great Joy to all the peopie. He introduced a new religion and a new ai d a higher civilization. He confirmed hope of immortality into sublime faith and made the

world brighter and better and glad der.

MIGHT HAVE KNOWN DETTER.

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Vot Much likelihood of Reform Under Rule of the Republican Party. Evidently the stsndpa' ters are begiuJing to make I Damsel m fait For it -snow Mild that the pttsiueiit ha decide.; .hat Uitre ahall be no extra geaaiwi, oeat spring, while the question of su intoning congr. -3 in the fall prior totbe meeting of the regular tetuion is to beheld lu abeyance. We should say that, if the matter is poatBOBBd till the ret; ular session next December, the outlook for tariff reform, or revision, or adjustment, is not encouraging, says the Indianapolis News Und . for a AW enacted tt.tn would go into effect n the miCbt of a congressional cam paign. and that is a contingency BfaicB Hiemben ajlU be moat desirous to avou.. xptriment was tried with the Mc

Kinley and Wilson bills, and it did not

work weil The agitatiun in behaif of the Mil. g Lill, which was being conquered by the house at the time when tl. national democratic 00a emotion cf nki was in session, caused a good deal of trouble. 80 it seems to us that the campaign of the fctandpatiers has for its first object the prevtnt,ng of an extra session of congress immediately on the

j adjournment of the present BBBBfOB, That object has apparently been ac1 complished. The present tariff is safe for almost a year, at any rate. Of ; course, the tariff cannot thus Le taken ut of poiitics rather it will gain t. w 1 prominence. But those who feel that Inaction is saf r than any action that has been proposed, will no doubt congratulate themselves at the turn which affairs hae taken. While those who are fattening off the present exorbitant duties will rejoice with exceeding great i toy. We are not at all surprised that 't .he republicans should be somewhat embarrassed in dealing with this question. Few of them are deceived by the owlish talk about amending ipec.al B ':. dules or changing particular rates. They know that tne whole thing hangs together, that everything depends on everything else, and that when the ! question is opened up it will be opened i up wide. Free hides, for instance, would, unless the boot and shoe dune.-, , were correspondingly lowered, mean lust 60 much protection to the manutac1 turers of boots and shoes. There is

many a manufacturer who will subscribe enthusiastically to the doetrine of free raw materials, who would fight : bitterly any attempt to lowtr the duty . on his finished product. This is not true ; of all of tlu m, but it If true of many. So the problem Is not so simple. Our 1 republican friends have be n taught to l.eliee that the Dir.aley tariff is the perfection of legislation; they point to , the prosperity that wv l.ae hao with it in force, and the men w ho oppose any revision ar.- ins. stent in their argument of which we have heard so much at we shoald let well enough alone. Ail the same the question is one which tBB republican party will sooner or later ;,ae to face. If it runs away from it some other party aril! Lave to do the work. There are powerful influences I among the re publicans favorable to reform, but the question is whether they are as powerfB as the financial -political comb. nation opposed to change. At HfBBBMI the latter appears to be the stronger. But its history n.iy be shortlived. For after all the power is with ihe people, and the question la whether that power can make list if felt. It is not very important what this or that member of eon res ruav think about

this or anothtr matter. For our congressmen have many times shown that they can turn Hunersafiits with remarkable neatn s and dLspatch. Even those of them supposed to be subject to trust and corporation influence want to knowfirst of all what their constituents think, and it is by the opinions of these latter that they govern then civts. Therefore, we would suggest that those repub

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formed shali inform their senators and repreamtatives of their wishes. LATE POLITICAL COMMENT. The new eoncress is the IJX..snd it will put in its beat lia," or be damned by the deficit. Albany Argus. Republican economy calls for five additional millions for next year's administration. Sjiendthrift extravagance might cost leas. St. Louis Re public. Tire frust'B advances in the prices of sugar are made probably tocoer the losses in campaign contributions. One result will be rhc souring of public opinion. It Luls Republic. Perhaps President Roosevelt fears that the tariff would need r .islon more than ever after the elements now on top in the party got through rat Iftag. Chicago Daily News (I mi ) It is too early for profitable discussion of democracy's future, and the wise democrats are doing more thinking than talking. But no sane man imagines that the party is dead or has any notion of going out of business. It has imver been disheartened by defeat. If its discretion had been equal to its courage, H would have escaped many afflictlon-i, and would have ben far more useful to the country. Yet it possesses one of the qualities that are attributed to truth When crushed to earth It rises again. Washington Post. Robert P. Porter, the stepfather if tho Dir.Rley bill, on his return from ibroad declares for tariff revision. Again the awful influence of the CobJen club and British go-o-o-ld! Albany Arktis. Bacretary Shaw Is also in favor of :anff revision in spots, but he declines to spt 1 Ify the spots. This t" as much jf a concession to tariff rtvl-lon sentiment as he is disposed to make. There s an apparent eflort on his part, howrvcr. to create a diversion by directing attention to the drawback provlis of the existing tarlC. --tipring Held Hepubücsa (Imi.).

SOME HIGH TARIFF FACTS.

Republicans Waking Up to the Justice of Democratic Arguments. Even some of the r publican papers of Pennsylvania are waking up to the fact that the high tariff duties ought to be changed by the incoming congress. When the republican press of a state like Pennsylvania joins the ranks of tariff reformers, surely there must be good reason to complain, says the Indianapolis Sentinel. During the campaign the republican papers and many of the campaign spellbinders said there was nothing in the Itsmocratle argument for tariff reform. Now home of these newspapers are using the very name arguments democratic I n akers used on the subject. Kvery one in s to recognize that there is no Justification for the high duty on steel rails. The duty on the rails !s Just leraa dollars per ton of 2.000 pounds. It is notorious that the pries e,f steel rails in the I'nlted States is arbitrarily 4 by combination It w as pegged at f:'8 per ton in the spring of 1901, and if we are not mistakt n that is the price f o. b. at the mills that has been charged rar since that time. It is possible that when site rails were delivered in the summer of ivjxar $HM per ton at New York city there was not a wide margin Of profit to the manufacturer, for this

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mills about 1CM per ton. But it seems to us clear that if no duty were imposed upon Imported steel rails with the protection which costs of transportation both by water and land would give, the manufacturers of steel rails in the Cnited States would be In a rcsition to secure a full, round, legitimate profit. What they are now charging behind the tariff barrier A seven dollars a ton is simply a monopoly price, furnishing an entirely unjustifiable profit This is in some degree shown by the willingness of these manufacturers to take orders for steel rails In foreign countries im free competition with the manufacturers of the world. When, as happened not a great while aco. a s teel rail mill ia Ohio can send rails by land and water transportation to Australia and sell them there at a pries which defies English. Belgian. Herman and French competition, it is pretty clear that no domestic protection is required to enable this mill profitably to sell iu output ia the state of Ohio.

FRIENDS OF THE TARIFF. The Republican Party Must Soon Make Some Move for Reasonable Reduction.

Prior to the opening of congres tha flueatfoa of tariff revision was foremost

among the topics of discussion at Washington. There waa a general impression that President Roosevelt, in accordance with intimations given out immediately after election, would arrange to call anhext ra session next spring for the express purpose of dealing with the tariff. Meantime, the initial measures neee ,-sary to prepare for such action were to be taken, 3ays the Chicago Daily News (Ind ). All speculation of this character ias been silenced with the definite announcement that the plan to qfll an extrn session a few months hence haa been abandoned. There will be no extra session and no revision of tariff sc bed ulea until next fall, at the earlieat, while action may be postponed until the regular session of next winter. It Is evident that the president's attitude in this matter w as fixed after consultation with the party leaders and with the congressmen as they arrived fresh from their constituencies. Some of these are of the opinion that there Is no general demand for tariff revision. Others affirm that while the tariff should be revised it iss physical impossib.lity for the members of the ways and means committee to prepare themselves for intelligent action until

after several months of hard work. Admitting the force of this last contention, it is manifest that tho republican party must soon make some move in the direction of more reasonable tariff schedules if it is not to be convicted of self-stultiflt ation. It could do much to promote popular confident e Jut now by establishing a nonpolitical tariff commission with instructions to go into the tariff question as a problem in pure economics and to deal with it practically and scientifically. This the party seems unlikely to do. Many of its leaders are . ' ''! to 1' t ni.itt rs drift as it.cy are. If they are to contluue in this attlwith what grace do they expect to be able to repeat t heir shibboleth about letting the tariff be revised "by lis friends" whe 1 again they seek the favor of the voters? The president does not expect that this session will devote any of its time to the tariff, although he indicates that "our long-continued governmental policies." while being kept "substantially unchanged," should be "applied in a progressive spirit to meet changing conditions." Undoubtedly he has left It for a special message to Inform congress whether In his opinion conditions have changed, and. if so. to urge the application of this progressive spirit to a consideration of existing tariff rates. Chicago Evening Post. Tnele Joe" Cannon finds two circumstances In which It is unwise to rei he tariff when crops are good and when they are not. N. Y. World (Ind.). A Just and adequate overhauling of the Dincley tariff would very largely Incresse our income at the custom h BBBBi WJ hae no idea that the republican party will accomplish anything like an adequate re islon of the present BH but no revision, however moderate. ,f undertaken In good faith, would lessen inr re-er ue from dutle A more

shut riant revenue would be the fmme-

iinte and natural rUtett of luwer cue tum taxes. N. Y. Time.