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GERMANS CHALLENGE
They Are Invading South American
Countries In Large Numbers.
Emperor william Approves of Theix
Going, and May In Time Dispute
the Monroe Doctrine with
Us-IntcrestingF Figures.

The tide of German emigration to
South America flows steadily, increas-
ingly, and the kaiser warmly encour-
ages his people in this movement. Apro-
pos of which, careful student of inter-
national politics declaures that the Ger
man emperor is building up his navy
for the very purpose of some day trying
ISSUE with the United States as to that
T well-known Monroe doctrine of ours.
The same writer says it is common
talk in official circles that the emperor
fully realizes the richest and most easily
accessible field for German energy and
emigration lies in this vast and little
exploited region. Germany needs mar
kets and she proceeds to make them
where she can; and South America is
one of the richest countries in the world;
country not already preempted by
some enterprising one Of the great ma
tions, and its wonderful waterways make
the interior accessible. The Amazon for
5000 miles is traversible, the La Platte
for 1000 miles, the Orinoco for 1000
miles, and lesser streams are navigable
for considerable distances. That this
great, marvellously rich land has lain
SO long undeveloped is attributable to
two causes; the unstable nature of South
American governments; and that
Ehadowy but persistent Monroe doctrine
which warns hands Off" But the bold
kaiser says: who's afraid?" and en-
ters in.
1t would look as though the United
States were thoroughly alive to the fact
that the Germans are invading this long
jealousy guarded tropical America, for
some time ago all the American consuls
were requested TO furnish fullest in
formation in regard to German colonial
ton in South America. And when one
glances at map of the different dis
tricts where the German has obtained
strong foothol1, one does not wonder our
government is somewhat concerned with
this feature of German expansion.
In Brazil alone there are said to be
more than 100000 German aesidents.
In the province of Rio Grande there are
over quarter of a n pilli0n Germans
almost 80 per cent. of the population; in
Santa Catherine over &C, 0,OO0-practically
Il per cent; in two towns Germans form
80 per cent. of the population; then there
are six German settlements where the
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to vote on the Cuban reciprocity bIIi on
the 10th of December.
In fact, he was the only man on the
republican side who understood eX-
actly what the terms of the arrange
ment were, a circumstance which led
to a somewhat embarrassing incident
one afternoon in executive session.
Senator Lodge tried to bring up mat.
ter which was of no particular conse-
quence, but which as 1t happened did
not relate to the Cuban situation. Sen
ator German promptly objected. He
said it was contrary to the agreement
between the two sides of the chamber.
The republicans who were present pro-
tested. They had never heard of any
such agreement which would put 1t out
OF their power to do business of any
kind. But German was insistent. And
when they pressed him for an explana-
tion, he gave one. He said Senator AL
drich had promised him that if the DEM
ocrats would consent to the vote on the
10th of December, nothing whatever
would be done in the meantime during
the extraordinary session except to dis
cuss Cuban reciprocity. Aldrich had
left the city without telling anybody on
his own side of the chamber about what
he had done, but they accepted Cor
mans statement, and that was the end
of it.
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A FLICKER.

was reached, and on a dead chestnu!
tree work was commenced. Fer eigk;
days they labored hard; then, because
no more chips were thrown out, pre-
sumed that the home was finished.
Some ten days later, l enlarged the
entrance a little, that | could put my
hand into the nest Inside the nest-hole
was much wider than one might have
supposed from glancing at the door way,
and opened out into a roomy cavity
which extended doWnwards perhaps 18
inches, affording ample room for the
mother as she sat upon her eggs. or
the latter there were seven, transparent
white, with pink veinings showing
through the shell. The yolks, as in all
fresh woodpeckers' eggs which | have
seen, were plainly visible, and tioated
lightly to the top, no matter which way
up the eggs were held
Next time | visited the nest, the
young birds were hatched, for as |
tapped on the tree-trunk there came
from the hole sound like that made by
escaping steam or a singing kettle; the
sound of very young flickers crying in
chorus. | did not see the parent birds
feed the young, but we know from the
observations of Mr.. William Brewster
that young tickers are fed by regurgita-
tion in much the same manner as young
pigeons are given their nourishment
The parent flicker thrusts his bill down
the throat of little flicker, and with his
wings and tail, and in fact his whole
body, quivering with the effort, he liter
ally pumps the half-digested food from
his own stomach into that of his Off
spring.
Some time before they were ready to
leave the nest, the fiedglings would
scramble up to the mouth of the nest
hole, and sometimes four or five inquisi-
tive little heads might be seen peering
out at once.
On leaving the nest, they could fly we'll
at once, making more than a hundred
yards at the first attempt. Their plum
age at this age was almost identical with
that of the parents.
ERNEST HAROLD BAYNEs.
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liked on the republican side of the
house as he is among his own party
followers
Williams and Speaker Cannon have
become decidedly chummy. Williams
appreciates the courtesy shown him
when Cannon permitted him to pick
out the democratic members of the
committees and he doesn't hesitate to
show his gratitude on all occasions
when a matter of party adyan-
tage is not at stake-and there are
plenty of opportunities during a session
when the legitimate business of the
house can be impeded or expedited ac-
cording as the rival leaders are in a
mood of mutual good fellowship or not.
Both Williams and Cannon have an
abounding sense of humor. When they
are together they call each other
John" and Joe and they crack jokes
and tell stories with as much gusto as
if they had never had political diff
ference in their lives. The democratic
leader likes nothing better than to
stroll into the SPEAKERS room and so
over the points. But when he gets on
the floor in debate he is as spunky as
a game cock and nobody would ever
imagine that he had a republican
friend in the world There is nobody
in the house who can tear passion to
tatters more effectively.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-12-24
A PAIR OF FL|CKERS
The Naturalist Watches Them Build
a Home and Set Up Housekeeping.
How the Male Called His Lady Love
and Began His Courtship-Inter-
ruDtiOn by Jealous Rival
The Nest and Little Ones,

The flicker Is known throughout al
most the whole of North America, and
wherever he is known he Is loved by all
right-minded members of the commu-
nifty. He is of good appearance, indus
trious in his habits, and minds his own
business. He is a good citizen, and an
example to the rest of us; many of us
are proud OF him and the others ought
to be.
Last spring saw male flicker alight
on the slanting trunk of a dead tree, and,
after hitching sidewise two or three
times, he stopped near a spot where the
bark was loose, and began prying off
bits of it with his strong curved bill,
pausing now and then to devour the in
sects which he brought to light. Then,
flying to higher branch, he sent forth
long call, "Wicka-wicka-w wicka-wicka,"
which penetrated to the very heart of the
woods. Presently he few to another
tree, alighting close to a hard, dead
branch. Then he threw his head back,
and, after momentary pause, brought
the tip Of his bill to bear upon the dead
branch, with marvellous force and repid-
! AIJ' LS CheCI was lOuuy NlDIdlOIy
sound not unlike the rapid rolling of a
small drum, and after a moments sill
ence, during which the woodpecker
turned his head on one side as though
listening, it was repeated, seemingly
louder than before.
Again and again the sound rolled forth
from the resonant branch, and then,
with a little pat" a second flicker
alighted upon the tree Then the drum
mer ceased his drumming. for he had
something better to do. The lady love
he had been calling for had arrived, and
the delightful task of winning her affec-
tions was before him. He drew near and
bowed to her, uttering notes which
sounded like as though they might be
pretty speeches; then pranced in front
of her, spreading his tail and his wings,
| displaying the golden feather shafts and
the white patch on his rump. How much
further he would have gone with his
courtship will never be known, for at
this interesting point another male
flicker arrived from somewhere, and
the two rivals, uttering harsh notes,
dashed off together, and were followed
soon after by the cause of their jealousy.
Which, if either, of the two males was
eventually successful don't know.
but, at all events, saw pair of mated
fiickers in that corner of the woods q
very few days later. At last a decision
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MEN OF MEANS.

John d. Rockefeller proposes to plant
three carloads of young maple trees on
his estate at Tarrytown, n. Y.
1sadore Newman, of New Orleans, re-
Gently gave $4,000 to charity to mark
the tiftieth anniversary of his arrival
in the United States.
Adrian Iselin, member of one of New
1ork's wealthy families, is building a
church for poor Italian Catholics at New
Rochelle
]. Pierpont Morgan's latest gift is a
ouse to his daughter. 1t is said to be
one of the finest residences in New York,
and is located at Park avenue and Thir-
ty-seventh street.
Moses G. Cobb, wealthy attorney of
San Francisco, died recently, leaving his
entire estate to Mrs. Rose Barry, widow
who during the last three years of his life
looked after him. Cobbs' widow, son
and five grandchildren are cut off with
out a cent. A legal contest is in progress.
The executor is asked to see that Cobb's
body is cremated and "the ashes scat
tered to the waters of the Pacific ocean"
John ID. Spreckles, Jr., son of the Cali
fornia millionaire, is selling tickets in
the office of the Oceanic Steamship COM
pany offices, San Francisco. His father
is president of the company and the
young man has determined to master the
business. He is on duty every morning
at nine o'clock and works until five in
the afternoon. His salary, which he has
TO earn, being shown no favors, is about
Shopper month. Later he means to check
freight on the dock in order to familiar
ize himself with that department.
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tory. Of late years he has been law
than q memory of the robust congress-
man who contested the nomination for
the speakership with Crisp and Mills, and
who afterwards stirred the economies
with his famous series of pop-gun tariff
bills carrying out the democratic scheme
to revise the tariff one item at time.
Personally, Springer was a loVabie
man, without even remote sense Of
humor. Probably ii was the latter fail
ing that made him one of Tom Reeds
pet ayersions when the great speak
was the leader OF the republicans in the
house.
Two of Reeds most famous shafts
were thrown at Springer. One was in
a debate while Reed was still holding
a secondary rank in the house. Spring
er, who was rather pOnderous speak
er, had made the remark that he would
rather be right than be president. Reed
standing in the middle aisle, drawled
back: The gentleman need not be
alarmed. He will never be either"
The other was q conversational quip:
Springer never opens his mouth that
he doesn't subtract from the sum OF
human knowledge"
1t is not to be wondered at that there
should not have been any great sym
pathy between two men of such widely
opposed temperaments. 1t was large
ly a matter of taste with each of them,
and concerning taste there is no use in
arguing.
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Two little curly heads, yellow and brown.
over their work bending busily down.
Twenty wee fingers all stitching away,
Nlmbly and deftly as ever they may.
-Four little lips whispering softly and low
Sweet little secrets that no one must know
These are the signs by which it IS clear
mat Huletide is coming and Christmas is
near!
Oh, for the mysteries no one can guess!
Something for baby, and something fer
Bess,
Presents for Jacky, and gifts for papa,
Such delightful surprise for mamma,
All slowed away in the little work box
or wee Rosy Posy and sweet Goldiocks;
No one shall open it. no one shall peer
Into It's treasures till Christmas is here.
Work away. dear little hands, work away,
swift and nimby as ever you may.
Only little longer, you know,
You will have leisure to stitch and to sew.
Every new morning and every new night
Brings the day nearer the day of delight.
Brightest and merrest Gay of the year;
YuIetide is coming and Christmas isnear.
-Persis Gardiner. in Youths Companion.
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Safe.

For those who keep this Christmastide
Beyond all pain and sin,
Beyond the reach of i'll or hurt
Thy Heavenly courts within,
We thank Thee, Lord, though still our eyes
Are dim with longing tears,
And yearning arms can scarcely wait
The slow march of the years
For those who still with us abide
Are anxious fears and cares,
So many pitfalls lurk unseen,
So many hidden snares.
To those who in the Homeland dwell,
No harm can e'er betide;
We thank Thee, Lord, for all our own
Safe on the other side.
--Gussie Packard Dubois, in Chicago In.
terror.
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number of Germans range from 80 to 50
per cent. of the whole number of in
habitants. In the Argentine Republic
many Germans have found homes to
their liking, and quite number in Chill.
1t is estimated that more than $3.50 ,O0O,-
900 OF German capital is already in
vested in Brazil. In Central as we'll as
South America Germany has large com
mercial interests, and as some OF the
Central American states are now offer
ing special inducements to desirable
immigrants, probably the Germans ere
long will endeayor to make for them
selves homes there. But it will take Lat
in-America some time to rival our coun-
try in the number of its German-Amer-
leans, recent statistics showing that
nearly 80 per cent. of the German emf
grants still go to the United States, and
less TINA five per cent. to Brazil, Argen-
tine and the other American countries.
Germany needs new fields not only be-
cause of her demand for markets, but
because she has a population that is in
cr5asing beyond all capacity of the home
land to maintain it. AT present she is
sending out more colOnists than any
other country in the world save Great
Britain. According to Mr. Poultney
Bigelow, thenotable feature of this move
ment is that the German as colonist
prefers almost any flag to his own. If
this be true, then the Germans may be
willing to abide by the governments that
obtain in the various South American
districts in which they have settled, and
our old friend, the Monroe doctrine, may
consider itself unassailed.
But noted English weekly, the Satur-
day Review, asserts that England need
feel no anxiety whatever over the navy
building going on over in Germany, de-
clares that the readiest cause for naval
conflicts will be found in the struggle be-
tween Germany and the United States
for the partition or exploitation of the
great South American continent. And
doubtless battle-worn John Bull
breathes a little easier at the though
that the energetic William is looking our
way instead of his.
KATHERINE POPE
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ton that Aldrich
occupies on the re-
publican side of the
chamber. 1t may
be that he hasn't
quite the same de-
gree of control of
the machinery; but
whatever he says
goes, despite ru-
mors to the con-
trary. He is the
man to do business
with, and when he
makes a promise
as to what the dem
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Japanese SmuggIcrs.

japanese smugglers are driving the
Russian officials frantic by their per-
sistent running of contraband goods
into Siberia The other day a Jap
tailor was caught at Port Arthur with
a large quantity of silk 1t is likely to
go hard with him, as the Russian law
Is stringent oA this point
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81 e m o II s trate d
more than once in
recent years, but
never more thor
oughly than dur
ing the eXtraorGi-
nary session just
closed. The repub-
] / C a n majority
were altogether in
Aldrich's h an d S
What he suggested
they did, and some
times they did it
without putin g
him even to the
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from the capitol will be built of white
granite-a peculiarly white and daz-
zling stone, quarried at Bethel, Vt,
which will surpass marble in architec-
tural effect.
The station will face directly toward
the dome of the capitol, and the entire
facade will be clearly visible from the
capitol steps at the end OF the broad
avenue. The architectural effects have
been drawn from the triumphal arches
of Rome. Sloping gently away from
the building will be plaza 500 feet wide
and 1000 feet long, adorned with balus-
trades and fountains, while there will
be a terrace 100 feet wide surrounding
the structure.
The station itself will be $40 feet long
and from 65 to 12O feet in height. The
three entrance arches, each so feet in
height. will be on a scale far surpass-
ing anything in Roman architecture.
The waiting-rooms will be dreams of
luxury compared with anything that has
ever before been suggested for a rail-
wav station, and the dining-room will
be equal TO aHythlHS IHdt Gail pe louhu
in a first-class hotel. There will be
all sorts of unusual conveniences. One
of these is an invalid's room, easily ac-
cessible from the street.
Another is a special entrance for the
president of the United States. Besides
there will se dressing rooms with baths
and a Turkish bath and swimming pool.
The entire cost of the station with ap-
proachss will be $14,OOoO00 of which
the government pays s., 900 900
LOUIS A. COOLIDGE.
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What makes his wife so awfully nice,
She gives her kisses in trice,
She's like horse without vice
Ha, Christmas coming!
Her dinners. too, are simply splendid,
With all the things he likes attended,
wonder why her ways she's mended?
Ha, Christmas coming!
She sees in visions bright, alack,
A sealskin muf or eke a sack,
To shine resplendent on her back
Iia, Christmas coming!
She sees, maybe, diamond ring,
A pin or some such gaudy thing.
No wonder she grows kind, by jng.
Christmas coming!
Louisville Post. 80 2,
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pleted for the 4th
of March, 1905, and
which will be when
completed d t h @
finest thing of it's
kind in the world.
By contrast with
the present wretch
ed avenues of ap-
prOach to Wash
ington it will be al
most inconceiv-
ably splendid.
The new station,
which will be only
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ocrats will do, they feel morally bound
to do it.
That is what Uncle Joe Cannon calls
legislation by unanimous consent, and,
of course, it is a very reprehensible way
of doing business. But it is likely to
continue just as long as the present
senate rules live, which, according TO
present appearances, will be to the end
of time.
German and Aldrich are very much
the same type of men. They are first
of all business men. They understand
the currents of trade and appreciate the
effect of legislation on commercial in
terests. They are organizers aGi dett
handlers Of WOW they can read char
acter and they can keep their own coun-
sci. They understand weaknesses in
others to which they can appeal. They
are always in the game.
German is more of public speaker
than Aldrich. He is not an orator in any
way but he has faculty of aggressive
ness in debate which Aldrich has never
shown. Aldrich when he talks uses
conversational tone, ana goes about
it as if he were explaining something
before the board of directors of a rail-
road German is never exactly conver-
sational. There is always some little
touch of mystery in everything he says,
and his face is jesuitical in its inscruta-
bility. Aldrich, on the other hand. is
seemingly the most frank and confding
of men. One wonders how it can be
that this smiling, easygoing, compan-
ionable fellow can have so many tricks
up his sleeve.
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tne HlOSI eIllCleut
leader the demo-
Gratis in the house
have had since the
days of Crisp. III
some respects he is
better than Crisp,
for he can keep his
temper underprov-
ocation and that Is
what Crisp could
never do. Besides.
Williams has the
faculty of getting
a | o n G personally
with the leaders OF
the opposition. He
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An Animal Sorrow.

That good old fellow, Santa Claus.
Once more is under way.
The snow his eager reindeer paws.
Well laden Is his sleigh.
And yet the family man will sing
A song devoid of glee,
For Santa Claus in sooth will bring
His gifts all G. o. D.
--WGShington Star.
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n ileH w lllldlllS w dS
q boy, died only
the other day. VIII
liam M. Springer
during the past ten
years had not fig
urad in politics;
hut prior to that
time he was re-
garGed as one of
the democratic re-
liabilities in the
house for almost a
generation.
After he left con-
gress Springer was
for a time a judge
in tho Indian terri
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trouble of suggesting it.
He was one who made the arrange
ment with the democratic minority by
which the business Of the extraordinary
session was brought to close and an
agreement made by unanimous consent
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you
don't
watch
out.

Oh. it's good to hear the shouting of the
happy girls and boys
AS you reach up in the branches and unite
the swaying toys;
He Is hardly half Christian who would
stop such joy as this
And without the tree our Christmas would
be robbed of half it's bliss,
But, Santa Claus, be careful, as you frolic
and they shout
You'll be turned to pyrotechnics
If
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Thoroughly Incompetent

Hewitt-Gruet has no business abil-
ity.
Jewett-No; he couldn't make money
If he ran a drug store in a no-license
TOWN.. Y. Times.
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CHRISTMAS CHIMES.


Warming 10 Santa Claus.
When the tree Is in the parlor and the lights
are on the tree
And the strings of colored popcorn are a.
dangling merrily.
When the dripping of the tallow makes the
dropping branches white
And the children raise chorus of unani-
nous delight.
Oh. Santa Claus. be careful as you gayly
skip about,
For your whiskersll catch fire
II ~ ,l..,.
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German, on the democratic side, occu-
pies just about the same kind of posi-
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An Old-TiIpe leader.

OAe of Willi&rns' predecessors, a dem
ocratic leader who was a national figure
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Now RaiIroad stntIon.

The ways are cleared already for the
great Union station, which is to be com