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ley's god. He had begun life . Door how

ley's god. He had begun life a Door bov
and had worked his way upward, un-
aided. His life had been too busy for
sentiment. To be sure he had msrr;ed
his wire lived only few years. There
was child. Harold had grown up, high
spirited and proud. In early manhood
he married against his fathers wishes.
Estrangement had followed Harold and
his wife died within a few months of
each other. leaving little daughter.
Pride prompted Mr.. Bentley to paw the
girls bills at a good school, but he never
saw her.
The door bell rang and there was the
sound of footsteps and voices in the hall.
The door of the study was thrown open,
and sweet voice cried:
Grandpa, are you hereg"
Before Mr.. Bentley could speak, Simp-
son, his old English housekeeper, enter
ed. In one hand she held aloft a lighted
lamp, thus showing Gilbert Bentley his
unexpected visitor She was slender
girl of sixteen, a dimpled, blonde face
lighted by sunny blue eyes.
why, don't you know me? am
Florence, and l am glad-so glad-to see
you"
She was at his side, both arms round
his neck. and her lips uplifted for his
kiss. AS in a dream he listened as she
told how she had grown tired Of spend
ing her vacations at the school,
you know, grandpa, that it is dread
full to have no one of your very own to
be glad with, and I've come to spend
Christmas with you"
The girl was so sure that her grand.
father was glad to see her that he could
not tell her she was unwelcome. An hour
later they sat at dinner. The old man
looked across to where the girls golden
head cleaned in the lamp.
She chntted gayly. When they rose
from the table she went with him to the
study. Sitting on stool, she told him OF
her school life.
81 am happy there, grandpa, but will
be glad when school is finished. Then
can keep house for you. 1t has been sc
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She wenv with him to the mill and
through the village. There her mistaken
Idea OF his character showed In a strong
iight. Many of his workmen were living
IN poverty. She knew he was doing oil
he could for them, but was there not
some way she could help? What was he
going tc do for the men and for the
churcnes of the town for Christmas 7
Then they must remember the little chill.
dren.
Christmas Eve came. Mr.. Bentley
mad shamefacedly ordered Simpson to
provide regular Christmas dinner"
de had never made a Christmas gift in
his life, but now-wcll, Florence would
persist in talking as if Christmas meant
as much to him as it did to her.
lie was thinking of this as he walked
nome that evening. 1t was showing, and
the wind buffeted him as he mounted the
slope. The next day the mill must stand
Idle, but on the following morning the
men should lie notified of the reduction
IN their wages How angry they would
he! Gilbert Bentley's lips closed in a
firm, cruel line. He had looked out for
himself; others must do the same.
He reached the house. As he passed
through the hall the dining room door
stood open. He noted the vase of scar
let carnations, ordered from the city, In
the center of the table. Upon quaint
old sideboard was basket of oranges
and pale green grapes and plate of the
nuts over which Florence loved to linger
while he drank his coffee.
The old mans face softened. He sa,
down before the fire. He was so en-.
crossed in thought that he did not hear
Florence enter.
"You precious grandpa" Again heI
arms were round his neck. II found
your gift, and thank you thousand
times But grandpa, ! want to ask yor
for something more. 1t is part In youl
work want you to give me. And
want to give you my help-myself. Il
is wonderful position you holds,
much wealth and so many people whom
you can help. On this best Of all night
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-12-25
ROYAL ATHLETES.


Queen Alexandra Encouraging Eng.
1ish Princesses In Sport.
Queen Alexandra has always been
an advocate of games and athletics
for girls, if kept within reason. She
herself was very fond of all outdoor
games as child. In running she was
swift of foot as ATLANTA, and skating
came as naturally to her as walking.
Never" wrote an enthusiastic ad-
mirer Of her, the mother of the then
rector of Sandringham. did our dear
princess look more graceful and fairy
like than when skimming over the ice
OH her skates. She seemed to express
the poetry of notion" Although fond
of riding. the queen, owing to the me-
cessity of sitting on the wrong side
of the saddle, has not been great
horsewonlan. Driving was Mt one time
a favorite amusement of hers, and peo-
pie living round Sandringham used to
watch for the pretty pair Of grays she
fooled along SO deity. On one of her
birthdays little carriage, with four
ponies, was given her by the Emperor
Of Russia, and she drove these either
four abreast or In the usual four-in-
hand style.
Her majesty encouraged her daugh-
tiers to try every form of outdoor and
indoor exercise, and arranged that
they should receive lessons in boating,
riding, swimming and billiards. They
are all fond Of cycling, especially the
Princess Victoria, who has made sew
eral bicycle excursions with her init
mate friends. The Duchess of Fyfe's
favorite sport is salmon fishing. and
few women can throw fly as skill
fully as she can. Princess Charles of
Denmark Is good tennis player, and
has lately taken up the fancy for GRO
quet, game In which the queen ex-
cels.-London Modern Society.
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sent on all wages. One week-that will
o. the twenty-ffth. Why, that will be
christmas, and the men must have a
holiday, Christmasl As II that old super
sutton made any difference with the
world to-dayr'
Inc frown on his brow deepened. He
leaned back, staring from a window. He
could see the long, low buildings of the
Bentley Lumber Company. In the back
GROUND was the leaf1ess forest. The sun
was setting and the sky, above the tree
"ps. was tinged with rosy glow.
hilbert Bentley had spent ten years
IN that numbering village. In that time
ae mad doubled his capital. Now, owing
general depression, his profits were
Email. To continue his business through
s sae winter would mean very little profit,
ou' doubtless the spring would bring
snange. Well, he would not wait for
SPRING.
Money had always bean Gilbert Bent
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fostcred other great works of proml-
nence and magnitude, including Cen
trail Park, the great museums and the
public library, now in course of con-
struction, and which is a consolidation
of the Astor, Lenox and Tilden H.
braries.
Mr.. Green, whose whole life was one
continued act of friendship for others,
was the personitication of every civic
virtue, and the close of such useful
life In such a horrible manner has
spread sorrow and horror throughout
the city.
Mr.. Green was born at Worcester,
Mass, October 6, 1920, and came to
the metropolis in 1885, where he be-
came a clerk, later studied law, and
was admitted to the bar. In 1856 he
was president of the Board of Edu.
cation. From 1857 to 1870 he was
president of the Park Board, and from
1871 to 1876 was Comptroller, and
Strengthened out the city finances after
the Tweed reign. He had served as
executor and trustee for the estates OF
Samuel ]. Tilden and other prominen
men In State affairs, had been presi
dent and commissioner of the New
York State reservation at Niagar.
Falls since 1888, and was delegat,
to the constitutional convention Ii
1894.
In 1865 he originated the idea of tn
consolidation Of the boroughs whicl
constitute Greater New York and KEEP
the agitation alive until the accom-
plishment of the project. In 1896 h
was a member of the commission
which drafted the new charter, and Ii
1897 he saw his ideal realized.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-12-25

What difference and yet what SIM
Ilarity between the balmy days Of
spring and the Indian summer Of DC.
tober and November! The first, a
changing Of cold to heat, Burroughs
calls inspiration; and the second, heat
to cold, expiration. He also calls at.
tention to the fact that ''the delicious
Indian summer Is sometimes the most
marked in November. A truce is de.
clared, and both forces, heat and cold,
meet and mingle in friendly converse
on the field."-St. Nicholas.
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the birth night of our dear Savior, let
us give ourselves anew to the work you
have been doing alone"
Little girl, you don't understand.
have not been what you think l have,
and"
Her dimped hand closed hh lips. "You
are not to malign my dear grandfather.
We will work together, will w notT"
Eyes, dear"
In those two words the old man ~
uounced his greed and selfsAness. On
the morrow his workmen should receive,
not a reduction of their wages, but an
assurance of his good viii and interest
in them. For this child's sake he would
learn to know and do his daty.
cit will be our first Christmas ~
gether," Florence said arsamily, her
cheek pressed against his,
ayes, little girl. 1t viii really be my
first, my very first ChEstmas."-Homs
Monthly.
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EAGFgEtr5DS<s
6 AN OLD MANS FIRST CHRISTMAS =
BY HOPE DARING.
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" ES, 1 will do it. It's the only way 1
can be sure Of making a fair profit
next year. My workmen must under
stand that run the mill to put money in
my own pocket"
There was an ugly frown on Gilbert
Bentley's brow as he sat in his shabby
little study, communing with himself. He
was a small, stopping man of 65, with
searching blue eyes, and cold, forbid
ding expression.
an do 1t at once. One week from
tomorrow I'll announce a cut of ten per
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-12-25

For rice griddle cakes and honey boil
cupful Of rice. When 1t Is cold. mix
thoroughly with one pint of sweet
milk, the yolks Of four eggs and
enough flour to make stir batter.
Add one tablespoonful Of melted but
ter, one teaspoonful of soda, two Of
cream of tartar and little salt. Fold
in the beaten whites of the eggs and
bake on a hot griddle. AS fast an
baked, butter, spread with honey, roll
up and serve hot.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-12-25
Pumpkin Pie.

Into two cupfuls Of stewed pumpkin
that has been rubbed through the col
ander beat the whipped yolks of four
eggs, a cupful Of graduated sugar,
quart Of milk, teaspoonful of cin-
namon, nutmeg and mace mixed, and,
lastly, fold In the whites Of the eggs
beaten to stiff froth. Line deep
pie-plate with n good paste, cut several
gashes In 1t, beat the pumpkin well,
and pour into the open crust. Bake
Immediately in a steady oven.
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Boil hard for five minutes four cup
fuls of white sugar, one cupful Of hot
water, twelve drops OF oil Of pepper
mint, fifteen drops of wintergreen.
Pour into bowl and stir briskly until
the mixture begins to thicken. Then
drop on cold tin dish as fast as Tossi-
BILE. A small teaspoonful of the candy
dropped on the dish will make loz-
enge as large as half dollar. Do not
place the lozenges SO close together
that they will run into each other, OF
they will not be good shape.
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A Cooking Time Table,
~NNNNNNNN~

NooRih& time lable.
Many housekeepers, young and old,
are in doubt as to the right time to
cook vegetables and meats, so that the
Following table is given, with the hope
that it may prove of value:
Baking meats: Beef, sirloin. rare
Eight minutes for each pound. Well
done-Ten to fifteen minutes for each
pound.
Beef, rib or rump-Ten to fifteen
minutes for each pound.
Beef iillet-Twenty-fve minutes,
Lamb. well done-Fifteen minutes
for each pound
Mutton, rare-Ten to twelve min.
utes for each poun.
Mutton, well done-Fifteen to eight.
teen minutes for each pound.
Pork, well done-Twenty-five to
thirty minutes for each pound.
Veal, well done-Eighteen to twenty
minutes for each pound.
Chickens weighing from three to
five pounds-One to one and a half
hours.
turkeys weighing from nine to
twelve pounds-Three to three and a
half hours.
Fish Of average thickness, weighing
from six to eight pounds-One hour.
Vegetables: String beans-One and
a half to two hours.
Caulifower-Thlrty to forty minutes.
Corn, young-Five to ten minutes.
Cabbage, new--Thirty to forty-ave
minutes.
Carrots-Fifty to sixty minutes.
Onions-Thirty-f five to forty-fiv min
utes.
Peas-Fifteen to twenty minutes.
Potatoes, bolled-Twenty to thirty
minutes.
Potatoes, steamed-Thirty to forty
minutes. .l
Turnips-Thirty-five to fifty minutes.
Parsnips- Thlrty-6ve to forty-fve
minuteR
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"Do you think the north pole will
ever be disc0vered!"
Sure. It's as good as discovered al.
ready"
"How SOP"
"Why, they know right where 1t Is.
Nothing to do now but go there and
run I'D f1ag."-kansas City Journal.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-12-25

Half cupful of the best butter. ono
cupful of New Orleans molasses, ona
cupful Of cream, three cupfuls of tie
best flour, three teaspoonfuls each OF
finely ground ginger, cloves and CHINA
mon.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-12-25

One-half Of a cupful of milk, tea
spoonful Of butter, salt and pepper to
taste, the well beaten whites of four
eggs added to six mashed potatoes.
Stir all together lightly with a fork.
Pile In mound and brown.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-12-25
FATHER OF GREATER NEW YORK.
Andrew H. Green, Who Was Shot to
Death by an Insane Negro.

Andrew II. Green, who was shot to
death In New York by Cornelius NJ.
Williams, a negro, who charged Mr..
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-12-25

Five hundred and sixty thousand
persons In the United States are de.
pendent upon the street cars for sup
port
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SINCE, draw and wash turkey
weighing about nine or ten pounds,
and stuff with dressing made by
chopping quart Of small oysters,
rather coarse, and adding to them
quart Of grated breadcrumhs, two lev
ell tablespoonfuls of salt. half tea
spoonful of pepper, grain Of cay
enne, quarter of cupful Of butter
and two eggs beaten slightly. Fill the
breast of the bird with some Of this
dressing, and put tire remainder Into
the body. Sew up and truss. Dip
large piece Of cotton cloth into cold
water, and after wringlng 1t well
dredge it thickly with -four. Pin the
turkey In this cloth and plunge 1t into
boiling water. Boil rapidly for fifteen
minutes, and then Get back where 1t
will just simmer for three hours. Serve
with oyster sauce
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-27

public attention the men conspicuous in
athletics. 1t has made II easy for the
idler in dissipation or the idler in athletics
to get his college degree with a minimum
OF intellectual effort and then, having
done this, the colleges are surprised to find
that they are being pushed aside by the
high school, which encroaches on them
With hard work in one direction and the
professional school which encroaches on
them with hard work in another.
If our college faculties and university
presidents would assert the intellectual side
of college life; would render 1t impossible
by severe examinations I'm all studies for
the idler to remain, and would restore Gull
ture studies, which require hard work, 10
their appropriate place, there would cease
to be a necessity for lamenting over the
light work and loose lie which is over
spreading some colleges like a pestilence.
The great mass of students remain sound.
They do hard, steady, useful work. The
evils which exist and which catch pubic
attention are confined to the few: but they
would not exist even there If colleges and
universities were TO require more work and
have more rigid requirements. not merely
at entrance, but through the course.
Why should not a man have to work
as hard at college as In a medical or law
school?
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THE COLLEGE IDLER.
PHILADELPHIA Press.


The New York Evening Post is moved
to regret over the growing luxury of coll
lege life and the increasing number of rich
young meu who waste both their time and
their money. 1t sees no remedy. 1t pro-
poses none and only urges general plati-
tudes as TO the necessity of keeping the
college atmosphere higher and simpler
plan. ''the noble tradition Of plain living
Yet the remedy is a simple one. The
colleges have brought this on themselves.
They have made their work easy. The
last two years of every college. and all
four years OF many colleges like Har-
ward are full of snaps Work to the
amount of ten or twelve hours a week.
with just enough attendance at recita-
tiops and lectures to keep one from being
dropped. will carry any man OF average
ability with money to spend on tutors,
through any one Of our colleges or uni
to drop higher mathematics on the one
side and Greek on the other, and the
course was filled with all sorts of sub
tional law, whose general principles can
be easily mastered with cursory cources
on bits of literature whose general out
lines any man able TO read and remem-
Der can cover in a few easy hours under
a tutor, the possibility of getting through
college without effort was open to any
rich young man with time to burn and
money to waste.
This is the foundation reason why the
college is being squeezed out in one de
rectlOn ana announcer. f1dIU NOTh Is sui
required in the high schools because
there are the definite qualifications OF
college examination to face, though by
the time President Eliot has succeeded in
letting anything be offered for the college
examination, 1t will be easy for anybody
to take up desultory sort OF mt and get
into college somehow. The professional
schools are braced by State examinations
and the test of active life.
The college has neither of these things.
Hard work is still done there. But the
all ant hsax-
arranged college affairs so that it's in
tellectual success is invisible, unknown
to the public and unrecognized by the col
lege There is much made of athletic tri-
umphs in college unions and clubs"
but the names of men who have honored
the university by intellectual prowess
through their course are conveniently
absent No effort is made to make them
conspicuous in a place where young men
come together; and while membership on
n team gives a man cherished insignia,
there are none attached TO the mental tri-
umphs of the university or college world.
The faculty itself treats with tenfold the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-27
Israel.

To-day there Is no Israel
No place they may call home.
But up and down through all the world
The patien mt people roam.
For them there is no Canaan land
Where milk and honey flow:
But still the promises they hold
And wait the call to go.
They watch for the pillar OF cloud by day and
pillar of fire by night
To lead their feet in the promised way to the
country OF delight.
To-day there is no Israel
No tempted hills hers,
But yet the songs that David sang
Thrill ail the worshipers:
But yet the golden prophecies,
AS in the days Of old
Are cherished for the tenderness
And truth OF what they hold.
And still they turn to the barring sea with hone
fully trusting gaze
they walked in the other days.
To-day there is Israel
No land OF corn and wine
Long, long the desert sand has hid
The dg tree and the vine:
But still the chart Is echoing
And still its cadence keeps;
''Lo, He that keepeth Israel.
He SAUNDERS not nor sleeps"
They watch for the pillar of fire by night and
the pillar of cloud by day
To mark the road that will lead Alright to the
end of the weary way.
w. B. Nesbit, in Chicago Tribune.
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SPORTING CRIMINALS.

Washington Star.

Stdi
81 can easily spot pickpocket in a
known detectives, who has been attached
TO the detective bureau of police headquar-
tiers for the last fifteen years, in converse
lion with reporter the other day. 1T is
not necessary that know my man by sight
first before / can spot him. a thief as
rule. you know, has a habit of giancing
manner to see that he Is not being watched,
and it is by that habit that thief has
often betrayed his occupation to me.
Frequently 1 have had to track and
identify men whom have never seen, my
only means OF Identification being photo
graph taken years ago. This is usually
very difficult TO accomplish, however, as it
is easy for the criminal radically to change
his appearance. 1t is possible for a man to
pose as sailor, a farmer, tough or a
pastor within. say. twenty-four hours.
Many criminals make "a speciality of dis
guises, and | assure you they can alter
their appearance to a remarkable degree.
"Disguises, however, no matter how ciev-
erly got up, do not always conceal man
identity There are. for instance, the color
and expression of the eyes. These cannot
possibly be altered, and they have been one
of my most frequent aids in identifying
fugitiyeS Another identification mark, al
though not all infallible one, but one never
theless by which L have on several &C.
casions detected criminal when other
means failed me-, are the cheekbones. Like
the color of the eyes, they cannot be
changed.
DESCRIPTIONS as to the weight and cir
conference OF a wanted man frequently
prove faulty. and therefore unreliable as
aids to detection. This is especially so
where the man has evaded the detectives
for any great length of time. for ii is pos
sibie the criminal may have lost great
deal of his weight and corpulency, while
on the other hand the spare man may have
gained in avordupois and bulk. In such
cases, however. ] have in one or two in
stances established the identity of the man
| was after by his ears. AS a rule the
worst criminals have oddly shaped ears,
and no matter how cleverly they may dis
guise themselves they can seldom succeed
in concealing their tel-tale earmarks from
the detective who has already made their
acquaintance.
1.-The eyebrows also afford another means
of personal identity because they are in
variably distinctive and characteristic 10
the trained detective. About three years
ago j captured one of our cleverest crooks,
a man who has served many terms in
prison, by the peculiar slant of his eye
brows. At the time / arrested him he was
wearing a wig and a flowing black beard.
The disguise might easily have deceived the
casual observer. but to me there was one
thing lacking To make il compete. He had
forgotten to alter his eyebrows, and they
alone gave me the cue TO his identity"
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whisky and Tobacco.
Philadelphia Record.

Philadelphia Record.
1.-THE prevalent idea that drinking and
smoking are companion vices is altogether
wrong" said physician, who has made
the contrary. that the habitual drunkard
is not abnormally addicted TO the use of
tobacco. He may use the weed as lesser
stimulant when not strongly under the in
fiuence OF alcohol but when the drink gets
firmly intrenched In his system he cares
nothing for tobacco. for then il has lost its
course | mean in extreme cases On the
other hand. it is n rather curious fact
that in the case of the moderate drinker
who also smokes the cutting off of his
supply of tobacco will increase his appetite
for alcoholic beverages, and while at first
the liquor will not affect him nearly so
will do him UP. Consequently IL is safe to
assume that the man who always used
liquor and tobacco In moderation will. Ii
Ire gives UP tobacco. take more strongly