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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-25

they never got no patent on II. I-'s
free to everybody nowadays, Though
nv Uncle Bill saws it costs a good
round sum to git past IT,
A good many good things come wish
Christmas, namely. SANITY Claus. skac-..
Christmas trees, new boots punkiu prs
turkey. plun-Puddin's. wishbones. 4a'
no school | hope the teacher won
git so many presents as she got
wear. She brought en- TO school e-.-r
day for a week an had EN- all over I--
desk MY! But didn't she feel t,z?,
| hope she won't see this letter.
Christmas comes but once a year
we'll for everybody % remember
so as not to be disappointed '.a-s.
it don't come any oftcner. / a,..-s
feel sorry for city children. can L
must be such a hard Job for ~.-v
Claus to git down them little pok.t-e1
chimblys. We have got big frer
in our house. but we don't use r. ia
SAYS it's easier for ma 20 put coal on than
it is for him to chop wood That
amt a verv good excuse, cause ma cuts
all the kindlins when | amt 10 home
Pa makes some awful funny excuses
when he don't feel Ike dom auv-lt--
| don't believe in giviu much r--
ents to girls. Last Christmas my ur.-e
Bill sent the teacher present. an
the next night she went on q sleigh
ride with Bonnie Na5oas li- brother
The next day | heard Ir..e Bill --.-.
pa that "wimmcu Is au .r..-- -~
quantity" whatevcr thar means bet..-
teacher amt no uncertain quantity
weighs two hundred /. -a-r ei-.s D. .-I
They're a-goin' 20 have d lt-5.--
tree up TO the town hail. an Ir. --'
to take it in. l told ma To d. -.e
Mason trick this year, an Sire Is -o
to The Mason children git whole ..-
of presents in their -t9usl0s. chen -h.,-
mother takes the same presents -r
has EN- hung on the Chustuas-r-.-
in the town hall. then they have -eu
hung again on another tree 20 home.
No wonder some folks can have % la-
of Christmas present when they GIT
EN- three times over,
That's about all [ can thi1k of about
Christmas.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-25

marked the number which was on the
outside door of their little flat
Christmas was holiday, and the
family slept late, SO when Edna crePt
out of bed at six o'clock and dressed
as noiselessly as possible, no one stirred.
She put the friendly gray shawl about
her and opened the door cautiously,
almost falling into two huge baskets
that blocked it. On the top of each
lay one of the stockings marked: From
Santa Claus, with much love" The
stockings were packed tight and bulg-
ing with humps. Opening the door to
its widest extent, she tried to drag the
hampers in. but gave it up just as Earl
came out sleepily. saying in aston
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-25

| guess, IS Sanity
Claus. He al
ways seems to
have the big
gest load, an
has the most
ups an downs.
| like Christ
mas, an wiSht
it come oftener.
but it can t hold
a c an d lie to
Fourth of July
for fun. Christ
mas WaSinVent-
ed by the Pill
grinS, but it s
lucky for us
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-25
Tommy ON Christmas
By Joe Cone

DA says this Christmas business is
all stuff. | says to pa; That
suits me as long as there's plenty of
stuff. " Pa said he didn't blieve in
everybody strainin' themselves for the
sake of givin' presents. l think pa is
right | think everybody Oughter give
presents, an good ones too, but | don t
think they oughter strain themselves,
an | don't b'Heve they do either, as
l never heard anybody complainin'
that way when Christmas was over.
The only one who strains himself,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-25

- a 3 a - =
Well What
on earth does it
mean"
But E q n a
was considering
a hard problem.
They showed
him the way.
the AvOndale-
A We ne s did;
but what | want
to know is how
did he ever drag
s NC h heavy
baskets clear
up to the fit
floor.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-25
Under the MisG1eGOe
BY Cora LaPham Hazard

Said to the maid who holds sway DER my heart
"A hint | am wanting from you
AS what to be givin' a swate colleen.
It's puzzled | am. it is thrue.
a blarney-stone shure is her hard little heart
As tricky she IS as elf
What gem IS worth giving this gay Christmas-time
When she Is a Jewel hersef2"
Then roguishly. shyly spoke this little maid
Her lashes half-veiling dare
a" think she'd be liking a bit mistletOe.
If fastened by you IN her hair "
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-25
T. q N as StO Kim g
By Elizabeth Ferguson Seat

l pose l can take any OF EN-.
Mother said the family wouldn't need to
hang up any because Santa Claus could
never find his way up five flights
back "
The child held up sock belonging
to her brother Earl and inspected it
critically; then she searched with sus-
picious fingers one of her mothers
and two belonging to her sister Elvina,
only to lay them all aside with a sigh.
Then she took her own, new pair,
but so little and short! After a minutes
thought, she frightened. I'm take
'em both; one wouldn't be worth his
trouble >
1t was almost dark, but the different
members of the family had not yet
come in from their days work. Slipping
a gray shawl over her head, and tucking
the stockings in the pocket of her apron,
she went as quickly as possible down
the stairs and out to the street, upon
which the gray mistS of a wintry Christ
mas Eve were falling Taking a short
cut through an alley she soon came
out upon Avondale-ave. The imposing
structures of brick and stone, the large,
snow-covered grounds, the Clumps of
evergreens, were all splendid and made
her heart beat faster, for she had de
termined that in one of those palaces,
somewhere. her Christmas stocking
should be hung.
This ones sure to be on his route, "
she whispered, and with firm step walked
up to a front door through whose ground
glass surface the light filtered cheer
fully Standing on tiptoe, she placed
her finger upon the button and kept
it there until the door was jerked open
by a man who seemed frightened.
"Why do you ring like that?" he de
manded in establishment at the tiny
figure under the trailing shawl. What
do you want?'
ITO see the lady of the house,
she replied firmly.
A boy standing back in the hall
laughed. Here, mother" he called
misChievously. you're wanted. Be quick
about it,"
A sweet woman in a red gown came
forward Bring her in, Simmons"
Under the chandelier, surrounded by
a group consisting of servants, the
mother and two fine, manly boys, the
child drew out the two stockings
Please" she said bravely, "durst
l hang up my stockin's at your house:
We're awful high up, fit floor, and
mother said 'twould be no use-he
never climbs up to no such places,
Santa doesn't, so | thought that a
place like this, bein' in his regular route,
why he just couldn't miss it, and these
wouldn't take very much room.
The boys suddenly fled out of sight,
and the servants turned away their
heads, as the sweet woman took the
little stockings and said cordially:
Yes indeed, I'm SO glad you thought
about it; there's plenty of room, and
l won't forget to put them right in his
road Be sure to call and see what he
left for you.
Yes, ma am, " replied Edna. in great
relief. "I'll be sure to remember the
house, because it's got its name written
right out in the stone walk by the
gate, Ivy Lodge. My father used to
belong to a lodge before he died, and
when he was dead they made his funeral,
I'll ha 70 Iay
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-01-01
NO END TO RAILWAY FATALITIES.

Tie number Of railway fatalities grow apace in num-
Der and in horror Can they not be traced careless
growing of the independence and rresponsibty
of operatives? Crminality design is charged in but
isolated Formerly the operatives, from the
ductor and the engineer to the section hand,
directly responsible Immediately above them
dsobeyance orders neglect any character
resulted in loss Of place. Not Every grade Of
railway employees except presidents and
intendens members of protected by unions. In
being al afraid of losing their places because Of
the knowledge that they can't be discharged for
ordinary neglect without the threat of strike they in
being independent grow careless All of the
fghtfu Of the late accidents the result Of
nattenton careessness the part Of either tee
graph operators switchmen brakemen. In scanning
the long table of railway disasters for the year and the
unequalled fatality Globe
shocking details of weeks railroad accident
Pennsylvania there nothing do but class
1t among other sad as now unavoid
able. What is there to be said in such cases?
According figures Of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission total of 321 passengers on railroads in the
nited States killed during the ending June 80
1903. In all 711e179o passengers carried during
that period which gives fatality percentage OOo45
per 1000 of the carried In train accidents
164 passengers killed. making percentage Of 00023
While the list of passengers killed last decreased
the previous there increase in the
Der Of fatalities to railroad employees but this is account
by the railroads through the expansion
of freight traffic and the necessity of employing mex
perienced
Although there was a heavy increase over the pre-
ceding year in fatalities from coupling accidents is
well to remember that it has only been since 1900 that
the number of fatalities from this accidents fell
below 200.
And yet they say that in spite of all the startling
figures of railroad fatalities the chances of escape
trains thousand times better than electric
trains moving about in bustling city. That be
but it does make such accidents last weeks in
Pennsylvania any the less shocking
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-01-01
NEW YORK NOT THE GREATEST.

The bureau of statistics has lately furnished some
very interesting figures the tonnage in the
principal ports Of the world They refer only to
traffic trade between different countries for what is
known coastwse has no existence in some
parts of the world.
London still continues to be the greatest port in the
world There nine other leading ports Ham
burg Antwerp Rotterdam and Singapore that gradu
ally overhaulng it. but it still continues largest
receiving port in the world though New York is close
upon its heels and it would be surprising any day to
see it step in its place.
But New York is losing relatively in its trade
though include its coast trade it is the worlds great
est port today. Hong Kong and Liverpool come next
Liverpool steadily looking up already the sixth
port in the world.
Most freight is still carried by water to the different
countries of the world and all the while the population of
these great ports increasing Each the special outlet
or inlet of the particular country that supplies it.
The ports growing fastest those like Rotterdam
and Liverpool which have made the greatest improve
ments in navigation. Germany is getting ready to
large her whole by a system Of canals and
the tendency is apparent in many other countries
It is interesting problem how the Panama canal
will affect the distribution of in the world by
it's immense shortening of distances
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-01-01

found OF great value in its application to the insane who
are suffering from the double of insanity and
consumption about two per cent OF the insane
While rejoicing at the that has been reached in
dealing with the classes treated by the city of New York.
one may with DR.. Pryor that it is i'm
portan to have the best treatment for the young
and women with sound minds and honorable ambitions
who suffering from ncpient tuberculosis The hos
pital where this will be attempted small scale will
be ready to begin with hundred and fifty patients
in another perhaps. With $4,000 persons in the
terrible grip of tuberculosis in the Manhattan Borough
of New York alone and 10000 in the whole state this
seems ptaby small hospital at first sight But stress
is to be laid taking incipent cases. and the results
what anticipated the Ray Brook institu-
ton will be but the of similar places
perhaps look forward the good time prophesed
when tuberculosis will be known only in the medical
books Of a past century
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-01-01
KANSAS CURRENTS
All Kansas is wishing Roosevelt happy
New Year.

All Kansas is wishing Roosevelt a happy
New Year.
Gasoline has been "subbing' for kero-
sene at Newton. and the result isn't hard
TO guess. 1t is harder to remedy.
The quail season closed yesterday. And
| it is a question now If there are as many
birds in the field as there are In cold
storage.
One woman at Arkansas City received
ten tin cups for Christmas. And she
isn't the matron OF a "road-house,"
either.
Miss Fullinwider OF FL Dorado, will
some day be chosen as a mate by some
gallant knight. but the deal viii never
be made through correspondence bu-
reau.
The papers have commenced 70 pour
out sympathy for Ed Koch. And the
mans only real fault was hesitation.
An Ell Dorado wife. famous pie
maker. is said to scallop her pie edges
with her false teeth. Who SAYS that
isn't "besting' those that mother use
to make.
The Standard oil company's wagon had
a runaway at Stafford last week. about
fifty gallons of oil being spilled. The
Preston correspondent Of the Pratt Re
publican cites this as the cause for the
raise Of one cent a gallon in oil.
E-ery patriot IN Kansas should take :,
upon himself TO aid ia every way possible
Kansas hens to keep their resolutions 70
OUTLAY 1875 By the lay Of 1904
"A black Christmas and fun Gene
terry doesn't seem to be worrying Kansas
much
We see by the Pratt Republican that
Chris Turner took bath Monday after
noon. Prof. Roberts OF Chicago. has
poi3ted cut the dangers 81 such advent
ures. but Chris just simply amt afraid
OF nothing
Winfield IS = fooilng with crooked gas
hole Some one has suggested that thsy
pull it up and straighten II out.
Two Peck boys. not IN their teens. rar
away from home short tine ago. They
didn't get 50 fs-. however. bait that they
beat Santa Clans TO their fathers warn
fireplace
A Sumner county boy. q Austin caugh,
haif dorea pessuns n a few hours the
other day. He was Caucasus. too
All wi7 agree that 5; VIII Be ven
proper FOR Governor Railey e resolve
today On that supreme court Justice
New that Tlna.ld has provided ro-
steady Sa.sr supply. II L. hoped that ;ss
county attorney viii not have 20 max.
such frequent rzids On the rod
hoGs-S
Judge J. G Pollock Is hunting IN Ss-
Mexico. lie Is expected hone At Wfzaesd
today or to-1or-cE.
The Pratt Rspubisczn this week dsro;es
tvo-fhir1s 90 ifE editorial xp~cs 20
2s.ines canal Irs q mighty bsx thlnr
The Traveller declares hat re orlv
busy man IN Arkansas City ~. sces--t
advertise Is oa- with tt- strA- 4
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-01-01
A SONG FOR THE NEW YEAR.

A song for the New Year! Exutant its hours
The dust of defeat hath not sullied it's flowers,
But Fancy hath dipped them in roseal dew,
And brought them-all blooming in beauty-to you!
A song for the New Year. A clarion strong
Achievement-thro' northumberland thro' song,
No mountain too mighty for Faith to remove;
No labor too lowly, TRANSPORTED by Love!
A song for the New Year, A message of Joy,
May discord its music alloy.
But growing in sweetness and melody clear,
May it ever inspirit and strengthen and cheer! -
Ernest Neal Lyon in The Reader Magazine
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-01-01
AFTER THOSE PIGMY MEN.

Nothing is great small little or big, save by COM
parison. An ostrich egg is not big thing except
pared to humming birds egg egg. six foot six
is not big thing, but compared to the little chaps
discovered by Stanley in interior Africa veritable
giant Under the auspices of southern university
whole of Africa being ransacked for of pig
mics native to the upper Congo country These little
not feet high but large heads
strong nmbe bodies They will be the chief attraction
at the St Louis fair and known to the ancient
Greek and Roman writer's So long have they been hunt
dby their bigger neighbors that they take the
tops when arghted and it is almost impossible to com
municate with them
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-01-01
THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK FOR 1904.

In view of the reckless exploitation overcapitazed
trusts by financial that ought have known
better and of the advances in stocks of all sorts far
yond their intrinsic value the results arrived at during
the past year by who conditions American
financial centers quite extraordinary While the
business of the country highly prosperous
excellent and the prices commodities almost unprece
dentedy good there has been mercess scaling of c
titious values the stock exchanges. The banks.
throughout the summer reduced their persistenty
collected their discouraged undue speculation
and in prepared for the enormous demand for
money which always with the great business actv
y of the fall Meantime the treasury officials at Wash
ngton did all in their power encourage
circulation Early in September there the unprece
dented of in bank in the hands
of the people. Though this sum reduced consider
ably later in the fall the circulation increased in other
to such extent that December the capita
circulation 5000. Thus it about that the try
tng time of marketing the crops Of laying in winter stocks
goods and supplies of every kind passed with little dis
turbance in any of the money centers. The
ployed are now flowing back rapidly to the financial
storehouses Values of securities rising in healthy
and the countrys business forward peace
fully and prosperously The boom time is and hap
PLY Merchants and manufacturers have turned
safety from the feverish task of filing overwhelming
quantities orders any for labor
the less senSatonay prohtaoe work or conducting their
affairs basis of conservatism The transition has
come with Gripping of resources. Secretary Shaw
points in his annual report that while the market
value OF stocks and bonds has decreased in amount
greater than the of the civil war this
amazing shrinkage has affected in a noticeable
gree other classes of property The stocks themselves
have the same intrinsic value before Railway
ings still large. The corporations to which they go
have spent on roadbed equipment during
years and enjoy the benefit Of these improve
ments Business apparently is safe basis except
that the downward tendency in wages fore
shadow a period Of strikes and lockouts
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-01-01

Subject for a Literary:
Resolved, 1t is thousand times better
TO be a gloated fool than to be an idle
dreamer
CO. -"
Often the silliest expressions bring the
most tears.
(:J-(:)-(3
A Canadian follower Of Joseph Chamber
lain killed himself at London, Ontario
Wednesday. This should prove a warning
to all tariff tinkerers.
O..i-l..D
A mud-slinger-The bicycle.
O-O-O-O
What a magnificent smoker for so little
enjoyment there would have been at that
cigar store on East Douglas avenue. had
the proprietor been more lenicnt with the
flames.
Some of the papers still spell his name
Gillett. Now, didn't he fail for enough to
justify the spelling. ''Gillette?'
(..)o-o(..)
FOR ANALYSIS.
Head over heals in trouble
"As much cheek as a government mule"
sick as horse
-:-.-:-
That championship belt means as much
to Young Corbett as crown to king
or a title to a duchess.
i-I....I-i-
Considering the great vocabulary OF pu-
gilists, ii is remarkable now many REP
EDITIONS there are in description OF
twenty round bout
There SEEMS TO BE something quite
consistent in turning the state department
over to the war department for man
agement during John Hays illness.
(D-(D-(D
DIR. BURTON TELLS A STORY: "A
young man in Lucian was pitifully in
love: he came to the theater by chance
and by seeing other fair objects there
mentis sanitation receipt. was fully re-
covered and went merrily home as If
he had taken a dram of oblivion A
mouse (saith an ApologeD. was brought
up in a chest, there fed with fragments
of bread and cheese, though there could
he no better meat. til coming forth at
last, and feeding literally of other vari-
ETY. of viands, loathed his former life:
Moralize this fable by myself
PIKERS' MORAL: Having a girl you
love. don't go shopping around some other
fellows GIRL if you want ever to have a
happy home.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-01-01
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES

An Oklahoma City family have been
arrested for resisting a quarantine officer.
Unfortunately for the officer. only one
member of the family was sick.
The coroner's jury found that the child
of Bullfrog, who was killed Christmas
west of Shawnee, came to it's death by
two Indians falling on it ACCIDENTALLY.
B. II. Fox is beginning the new year In
Jail at Tecumseh. He is under bond Tor
forging checks.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Tombstone cele-
brated their thirty-fifth wedding anniver-
sary at their home in Kay county Tues
day.
John Palmer. OF the Usage nation. is
to speak at the Blackwell Jackson ban
quet on The Indian in Politics. 1t
would be advisable for him to omit the
color scheme Of his address
When a certain something doing on
the Santa Fe line at Shawnee Is ripe.
the Quill promises to pluck it.
The recent Jail delivery should be
good lesson" declares the Perry Repub-
lican. 1t undoubtedly will be to criminals
arrested in Noble county.
The Santa Fe has entitled pamphlet.
Truth About Oklahoma" II will have TO
be countersigned and then sworn to before
the easterneys will accept some Of them
as such.
More than fifty filings were made on
land in Beaver county in one day last
l. Il
I'll the crowdins and pushing begin
It seems that every report OF the school
teachers meeting az Oklahoma City was
incomplete Not one mentioned the i'm
portaat fact that Bill Cross made an
other mash there.
The Enid Wave declares that star
gazing is so popular at Ava that tele-
scopes are found on the sidewalks. The
Wave is mistaken. Ameat no longer re-
sides il that town
Perry is getting awfully proud The Re
publican announces that Robert Sticoiph.
OF Warwick. State CT Queens Land. Aus
tralia." has arrived in the e.ty-at present
throwing in type at the Republican
Office
Woods county has a "Beuizh land" Il
Is sfteea miles southwest of Alva-
The Chief declares that Hobart has
more brick buildings than any other town
IN the new country.
Hobart Nasons had Z public installation
ana banquet Christmas night
Chas F. Barrett IA. purchased ne
Shawnee Herald There IL talk Of the
consolidation % The H>rzlG-Denocrzt and
Tecuz1seh Standard
E--s-Son Brooks. TIRE humo-fst and poet
= making MS headquarters at okIahc-zz
City. covering the nearby surrounding
tozus from that point
The Guthrie correspondent % the Okla
honza Is in a very dangerous positioa
lust now u ne doesn't make she alleges
row OF territorial officials more interest
ing for them. they may rurz and thrash
him for his irnpu6ence-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-01-01

The Probusers their search for another stool pigeon
have hit by the of Stubbs living in Doug
lass county Stubs is reputed to be nice leveheaded
brght-eyed man, but unless he has head hard
rams he had better be particular butt
regular Republican organization.