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The Christmas Tree.

1t is said that Christmas trees were
used to place gifts upon as early as
1852, says Self Culture. France adopted
the Christmas tree about 1910, and
Prince Albert introduced it into Eng
land the first Christmas after his mar
riage. The queen still keeps up this
custom, having a tree for her own gifts,
one for her children and grandchildren.
and one for the household. Since then
the custom has become world wide.
The tree of candles is Of more an
Gent date. There is an old French
romance of the thirteenth century in
which the hero sees a tree whose
branches from top to bottom are COW
cred with burning candles, while on the
top is the figure of a child shining with
a still greater radiance. This tree
sylnbolized humanity-the upper lights
being the souls of the good, those be-
low of the wicked, while the child rep
resented Christ.
The poetic idea of the Christmas tree
as symbol of the renewed life of ma
ture, which begins with the lengthen-
ing of the days, comes from Germany.
From the Morse mythology comes the
suggestion of the Christmas tree as
typical of the newborn sun in that it
was bedecked with lights, and was an
emblem of spring on account of its rich
green. Probably the Morse mythology
was the origin of the tree of candles"
more than of the present Christmas
tree. On the introduction of Christian
ity the Christmas tree, although not
known then by that name, became the
type of Christ.
The following quotation from l.. +.
Lewis gives these emblems of the
Christmas tree:
THE tree itself, stately and tall, was
symbolic of his majesty and grandeur;
the green of his godliness and immor,
tally; the lights, of his glory, and OF
the star in the East; and the angel on
top (Which was then never omltted),
of the angel who gave to the shepherds
the words still spoken each Christmas
day. Peace on earth, good will to
mem I"
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-17

OR more than two weeks past
the money order departments of
the Montana postoffices, particu
larry those of Butte and Anaconda,
have been busy with the dispatch of
orders to foreign countries. Why?
The fathers and mothers and brothers
and sisters and wives and sweethearts
that our foreign-b born residents have
left behind them must have loving gifts
when Christmas comes. A New York
paper says that the Lucania. sailing
last week, carried the heaviest list of
money orders payable in foreign coun-
tries ever sent out of the United
States. They aggregated about 81 $780,
900. representing one weeks orders, but
that week the heaviest of the year.
The money is practically all from the
working people of foreign birth, who
are remembering their relatives far
away. At Christmas time love rules the
world
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Fit for the Gods.

~ T this season Of the year, let it
not be forgotten that man can
not live by Christmas egg-nog
alone. Marion Harland declares that
there is something in the masculine
gastronomic apparatus that inclines the
owner thereof to keen appreciation of
the merits of good chowder; and when
Marion says that, the contents Of her
head are holding no six-day bicycle
race. The normal man loves good chow
der as he loves good horses and good
company. Mrs Cor is it Miss?) Har-
land affirms that on washing and IRON
ing occasions and on the other busy
days of the mistress of the house, the
father and sons of the family will be
ner if it is preceded by a good and
filling" chowder. Then she goes on
to give a recipe for clam chowder
which must be up to the mark. Your
mouth will water as you read:
Chop two quarts of long clans; open
and empty a can of tomatoes; peel and
slice eight potatoes: peel and slice two
onions: chop fine half-pound of salt
pork; spit half-pound or Boston crack
ers; tie up in a small cheese-cloth spice
bag a dozen whole cloves and dozen
whole allspice. Put the chopped pork in
the bottom of an iron pot and fry it
crisp; then take the Drowned bits out
with a perforated spoon, and fry the
slices of onion in the fat until they are
brown. Turn in upon the fat and onions
the tomatoes, potatoes. the bag of spices,
two quarts of cold water and dash of
cayenne pepper. Cook slowly for three
hours and a half put in the clans and
split crackers and simmer steadily for
half an hour. Turn into a tureen and
serve.
After such a Chowder as that, it
wouldn't make much difference what
the rest of the dinner might be. But
won't it take all the forenoon to make
so
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where, but one will find thousand
times more vanity to the square foot
in the theatrical profession than in
any other.
What a black eye the divorce courts
give Cupid! How they punch him and
black and blue. green and yellow a
mass of wounds and discolorations
from head to foot. But they can't kill
him. He comes out of it all as lively
and clipper as ever. He just bobs up
serenely and sallies forth with renewed
zeal and intensified ardor to work unon
new couple.
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Preacher and Pugilist.

~ HE COMPLIMENTS of the sea-
son to the Rev. J. j. AXtell,
Congregational minister of Roy
al Oaks, Mich. Mr.. Axtell is of the
stuff of which heroes are made, at least
clerical heroes. When necessary he
can fight the devil in concrete form.
He can use his fists for other purposes
than those of pounding the pulpit. Mr..
Axtell has been after the law-breaking
saloonists of his town. and things came
to a pass one day where he either had
to accept a challenge to fight or be
ridden out of the corporations limits on
rail
That was the ultimatum Of the
enemy. Mr.. Axtell said he would fight.
His antagonist was a hotel keeper
weighing 1865 pounds, while Mr.. Axtell
barely tipped the scales at 1876. But Mr..
Axtell prayed for divine strength and
guidance, and he seems to have been
plentifully blessed with both, for he
landed terrific hook on the enemys
jaw that laid him low in the first
round. True, the enemy was not count
ed out He recovered sufficiently to
fight four more rounds, at the end of
which the referee pronounced the fight
a draw and Mr.. Axtell a good fellow
Had he been permitted to make it a
finish fight Mr.. Axtell thinks he coul1
have put the big fellow to sleep, but as
it is, everything considered, he is proud
of his achievement, and praises the
Lord accordingly. There was no purse,
and no gate receipts to divide, no side
bets to draw down, but Mr.. Axtell won
the respect and admiration of the spec
tators, if nothing else.
The incident may shock some rastcis
and flocks: the wicked and ungodly at
a distance may revle Mr.. Axtell as a
fighting parson, and cynical editorial
writer's may scott and josh. But to Mt.
Axtell, as an exemplar of muscular
Christianity, every man who isa't an
incurable milksop ought to take off his
hat. AXtell is just hot enough stuff
to warm the cookies of ones heart.
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christmas Once Forbidden

AS everybody knows. or should know,
Christ was not born on December 70,
and Christmas. though celebrating His
birth. is really a survival of the heath
en- festival-among the Celts called
Yule and by the Romans Saturnalia-
celebrating the turning point of the
year and the henceforth increasing
power of the sun.
On this account the Puritans de-
nounCed Christmas as heather ana
popish feast and did not observe it:
During the commonwealth they carried
their objections into force and forbade
the celebration of Christmas. In l644
parliament ordered December % to be
strictly kept as a solemn fast, ana that
all people should pass the day IN NUMB
ly bemoaning the great national SIN
which they and their ancestors had
hitherto committed on that day by eat
ing boar's head, drinking ale favored
with roasted apples, devouring plum
pudding and romping under the mis-
tletoe For Il years this order remain
ed in force.
Municipal authorities also sought to
reduce Christmas day to the level of
other days. We are told that. upon
Wednesday, December %. 1647, the cry
yer of Canterbury, by the appointment
of Mastor Major, openly proclalmed
that Christmas day and all. other super?
stitious festivals SHOULD be put dowk-
and tn1t a market SnOulu De kept. uppi
a Christmas day."
For attending service in the cathedral
on that day many people were mobbed.
The inhabitants divided themselves in
to two partias-the Christmasites and
the anti Christina sites-and came to
blows.
On December "a, 1852 an order in
council was issued. proclaiming that
no observation shall be had of the five
and-twentieth day of December, COM
monty called Christmas day, nor any
solemnity used or exercised in churches
upon that day in respect thereof.
This was simply a reproclamation OF
an edict of 1647, abolishing Christmas,
Easter. Whitsuntide and all the other
holy days. Soldiers were sent to the
houses of all suspected persons to search
the ovens and larders and carry away
for their own consumption all season.
able dainties found therein. People
who ate mince pies and decorated their
houses with eVergreens We're declared
unworthy of sitting in parliament.
But the restoration of King Charles
was also the restoration of King Christ
mas, who has ever since reigned undis-
turhed. But the Puritan's hatred of
Christmas fingered long among noncon-
eOrm.sts.
1t has now disappeared ana services
are held in all places of worship on
Christmas day. while the rest is cele-
brated equally by all sects.
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Electric Lights for the Tree.

An electric light outfit for Christ
mas tree has a suitable battery which
is inclosed in a box placed at the foot
of IT, tree, from which two main wires
run up the tree trunk. The bulbs OF
the little incandescent lamps, which are
made in the shape of q candle flame,
and in white glass and glass of various
other colors, screw each into a little
socket that is like little cup, with
tiny spike projecting from its under
side BY means of this spike the lamp
can be placed anywhere in the tree:
on any branch with body enough to
permit of thrusting the point of the
spike into it. From the cup at the base
of the bulb there are two wires of suf-
ficient length to reach the main wires
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When Love Burns Out.

q PEAKING Of 1ove-it's a subject
~ to speak about at Christmas
time, although nothing new ON
the subject can possibly be said But
is there anything more amusing in one
way, and more pitiful in another, than
a burnt-out volcano of love? Take the
case of Henry Guy Carleton, journalist
and playwright, and a pretty good
journalist and playwright at that.
Carleton is about eighty per cent.
genius and twenty per cent. rot--a
higher percentage of genius and lower
one of rot than the average. In his
younger days Carleton, being a man,
loved girl. He loved her, of course, to
distraction, etc. He had a severe at
tack of 1.-THE thought he had the Sc
verest case on record; but everybody
who is in love thinks that Carleton's
girl was rafting pretty girl, the boys
used to call her sumner. Carleton
thought she was the sweetest thing
that ever happened. One day he fin
ished play and presented it to her,
accompanying it with a letter in which
he said:
You are the one thing holy in life, the
first to teach me the unutterabe sweet
ness of love, the first to whom my soul
gave its absolute self, the first who drew
from my nature its entire strength, its
perfect alteration. 1 love you, l love
sou.
Carleton married the girl and loves
young dream lasted a few weeks or
so, perhaps few months, perhaps a
year or two-there is nothing to show
how long it did last-that does not ap-
pear on the court records. But it came
to an end at some time: for Carleton
and his wife quarreled and parted: and
now the question as to who owns the
play is in the New York courts for de-
cision. Carleton wants it back, and the
Thing-Holy-in-Life is trying to
hold onto it and the royalties thereof
the One-Thing- Holy -in-Life will win
the suit. Carleton is a dog for endeav-
oring TO recover it. and if a marked
copy Of these remarks fails under his
eye he will know what some of his old
friends think of him.
Then there is Julia Marlowe, the act
ress, who wants a divorce from her
husband, Robert Tabor. Julia was the
especial pet and protege of Colonel In
gersol The colonel thought Julia
made the finest Juliet that ever
spooned. In his own eloquent way,
Ingersoll used to rave over Julia's Ju-
liet quite as vivaeiously as Juliet ever
rava1 over Romeo Mice Nforl,.ro and
Mr.. Tabor were married with eciat,
old shoes, rice and the best wishes of
innumerable friends. In due season
their fires of love burnt out. too, and
now they are exhibiting the ashes to
the public. Among other allegations,
Mrs. Tabor charges that Mr.. Tabor
choked her when she received longer
and better press notices than his
Vanity of vanities, all is vanity every
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Christmas Scenes
From Dickens.

From the center of the ceiling of this
kitchen old Wardle had just suspended
with his own hands a huge branch of
mistletoe, and this same branch of mis-
tletoe instantaneously gave rise to a
scene of most general and delightful
struggling and confusion; in the midst
of which, Mr.. Pickwick, with a gallant
ry that would have done honor to a de-
scendant of Lady Tollmglower herself,
took the old lady by the hand, led her
beneath the mystic branch and saluted
her in all courtesy and decorum. The
old lady submitted to this piece of prac-
teal politeness with all the dignity
which befitted so important and serious
solemnity, but the younger ladies not
being so thoroughly imbued with the
superstitious generation for the custom;
or imagining that the value of salute
is very much enhanced if it cost a little
trouble to obtain it, screamed and
struggled and ran into corners, and
threatened and demonstrated and did
everything but leave the room, until
some of the less adventurous gentlemen
We're on the point Of desisting, when
they all at once found 1t useless to re-
sist any longer, and submitted to be
kissed with good grace. Mr.. Wrinkle
kissed the young lady with the black
eyes, and Mr.. Snodgrass kissed Emily,
and Mr.. Weller not being particular
about the form of being under the mis-
tletoe kissed Emma and the other fe
male servants just as he caught them.
AS to the poor relations, they kissed
everybody, not even excepting the
palmer portions of the young lady WISH
tors, who in their excessive confusion
ran right under the mistletoe, as soon
as it was hung up, without knowing it!
Wardle stood with his back to the fire,
surveying the whole scene with the ut
ticfD ntfH ~, f,t ~
the opportunity of appropriating to his
own use, and summarily devouring,
particularly fine mince pie that had
been carefully put by for somebody else.
Now, the screaming had subsidized, anu
faces were in glow and curls in a
tangle, and Mr.. Pickwick after kissing
the old lady as before mentioned, was
standing under the mistletoe, looking
with very pleased countenance on all
that was passing around him, when the
young lady with the black eyes, after
a little whispering to the other young
ladies. made a sudden dart forward and
putting her arm around MI Pickwck's
neck saluted him affectionately on inc
left cheek; and before Mr. Pickwick dis
tinctly knew what was the matter he
was surrounded by the whole body, and
kissed by every one of them.-Pickw1ck
Papers.
Now the music struck up and the
dance commenced. The bright fire
cracked and sparkled, rose and fell, as
though it Joined the dance itself, in
right good fellowship. Sometimes it
roared as if it would make music too.
Sometimes it flashed and beamed as II It
were the eye of the old room; it Winked,
too, sometimes, like a knowing pa
triarch, upon the youthful whisperers
in corners. Sometimes it sported with
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along the tree trunk with which they
are connected.
The lights of this equipment would
keep going for 20 hours, but it is not
of course, intended to run them con-
tinuously for that time; they can be
turned on and off at will, and it is sup
posed that they will be turned on and
the tree lighted UP on occasion, as when
the gifts are distributed from it, or
when it is desired to show it. and so
on, and that then the lights will be
turned off again. Thus used, the lights
will last through the holiday week,
Christmas to New Years inclusive. The
cost of such an outfit is about $40.
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Christ-child means anything to US ex-
cept a season for commercial profit aud
material traf1icking in gifts it should
quicken us with care .or all the little
ones and give us that tender anxiety
for the happiness of childhood that will
enable US to do what we can toward
preventing the seasons becoming one
of unthinking cruelty to the very chill
dren who should enlist our sympathy
and care"
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Colonel Baden-Powell it seems, has
sent the Beers notice, advising them to
lay down their arms and return to their
homes, promising them protection as
soon as Great Britain has taken over
the Transvaal" Colonel Baden-Powell
is evidently making the effort of his life
to eclipse Mark Twain.
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General Butler, 1t will be remember
ed, announced his determination some
time ago to invade the Transvaal with
an army, but he seems to be taking it
all hack
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he is charged with paying sums so
large for votes. Putting prices so high
encourages corrupt legislators to bleed
candidates beyond all reason. The
senatorial purchaser must be protected
against a bull movement in legislative
votes"
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The Catholic and Methodist churches
have decided to make the Goth century
begin one week from tomorrow, while
the astronomers still insist it doesn't
begin until Jan. l. 1901. Altogether
science and religion are having quite
a time of it.
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1t is the irony of fate that England
with the most powerful navy in the
world finds it utterly useless in the
first serious war she has run into in
more than a generation.
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AS if the Beers weren't doing slaugh-
tering enough. the Chicago Record in
sists that President Mckinley in his
message to congress- murdered the
Queens English most
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The Lord loveth cheerful giver but
He hateth the cheerful idiot of wife
who giveth her husband a box of g.
cent cigars.
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AT any rate England has the conso-
lation of finding that Austin, Kipling
and Swinburne are keeping still about
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Among other mistakes made by w.
A Clark at Helena last winter was
that of bulIing the vote market. THE
senate" says the st. Louis Post-Dis-
patch, may so against Clark because
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The Standard has branch offices at
Butte, Missoula and Great Falls. where
advertising rates will be furnished on ap-
plication.
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The beginning of-the goth = century
controversy shows signs of lasting I'M
til the beginning of the 21st.
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A few members of the house of repre-
sentatives manifest disposition to get
in ahead of Christmas with a gift of
CAB
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Christmas should arouse the most
generous impulse but there are some
people SO mean that they don't give
a damn.
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For a Christmas present to the
United States, Aguinaldo's army is
hardly in presentable condition.
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TO ADVERTISERS:


The Anaconda Standard guarantees its
advertisers a bona fide paid circulation
Daily and Sunday, three times greater
than that OF any otter newspaper puo-
lished in the state of Montana. Advertis-
ing contracts will be made subject to this
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Hosiery will will pursue a wide-open
policy this Christmas and many a
stocking will make violent effort to
get fuller than a goat.
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There are many people in London
who would like to take advantage of
the Christmas season to give General
Butler swift kick
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Among others, there were few rip
Piles of excitement on the Tugela last
Friday.
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You will observe that this mornings
edition of the Standard comes out as
a pronounced expansionist.
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Whatever else England may bestOw
at Christmas, she has no intention of
giving her transports a rest.
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Generals Butler, Methuen and Gatacre
have no occasion to complain Of long
time between reverses.
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1t looks as if England had nothing
coming this Christmas but a kick.
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Christmas has shown it's colors and
there is nothing in them upon which to
predicate corpulent churchyard.
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The Tugela river cordially agrees
with it's esteemed contemporary, the
Modder
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The government at Pretoria still lives,
If anybody should ask you.
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Mr.. Roberts chances of being seated
have an unmistakable 30-cent look.
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There is every indication that Santa
Claus is about to sock it to the people
of Montana.
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~ this season Of the year, let it
I not be forgotten that man can
! not live by Christmas egg-nog
alone Marion Har1apd declares that