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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-23
''Daddy Is Back 70 Work.,

From tse Schenectady Gazette.
Christmas VIII soon be here. Jim. and things Is
With ne strike sun on and nothing ahead. WIN
Just as things was a-coming our way. pleasant ard
You had 70 throw down your tools and quilt; or
dered 10 go on strike.
! Amt conplaInIn' a bit, Jim. maybe you know
Maybe you sor, OF felt a call to stand right In with
But It, going to he mighty hard. Jin,. just at this
time OF year,
When coal +; high aud there's things to buy for the
little Kids over ttcre.
rye nearly worked Ty fingers raw and my back
And / know how true the saying is that striking
I can work all day and most Of the night, but II
makes my heart most bleed,
To see the children surfer. Jim, for food which the
little ones need.
l got some things from the grocer. but he smiled
When he saws. say; ne; How long do you think
49,. your husband viii be on stnke',
OF the children and you:
For I had to get you something to eat. for you and
the children, too.
There amt much coal to burn, Jlm, and when the
Do you think he strike ST. viii s'ill hold out. thai the
And Christmas a-comng very soon. and Mary she
-If daddy stays on strike, mother. won't we have
nv To- bANNH
And ! had promised little Joe 8 nice new pair Of
skates.
And Jennie q little dolls house. with bright red
painted gates:
There's poor little len. he feels the worst, for his
clothes are almost gone,
But yet how brave he tries to bel On, he IL the
bTavest one!
What's that you tell me- Called n OF, oh. Jim.
that's dandy newsl
Here, Benny, father Is back TO work, you can have
your clothes and shOesi
The strike Is OF, Here, Jennie, dear. yours for the
house with gates;
And Joe. when Christmas comes around yours are
the shining skatesl
And daddy viii buy a Christmas tree. ana trim It
with tinsel and gold.
For the strike Is OF. and We need not fear the blast
of the winters cold.
Thank God, thank God, that tho strike n OF, that
my Jim Is az work again,
Praise God from whom all blessings dow. Amen,
Amen Amen!
That night the little ones scampered 70 bed and
visions OF Christmas came
To Wess the slumbering childhood that trusts In
the Holy Name.
The father who loved his children his duty would no
more shlTk,
For he heard ben breathe IN his slumbsrs: Daddy
IL back to work.
q. W. r. TArLrn.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-23

He has forgotten the olden Joy
That made life sweet when he. a boy,
Rovcd in the fields OF the far away
Bygone hours OF yesterday.
The rhythmic swell OF the Christina as bell,
The carols sweet from the lower street.
They bring him no gladness nor aught OF hope.
As he weavcs the strands Of the golden rope.
The miser sits In his broken chair.
Like a spider spinning within his lair
The web OF fate for the victim ny
Chill is his heart and cold his eye.
The child OF woe that Turks below
In the dingy hall In vain may call
To the mlser with his single hope
More strands TO weave In his golden rope.
The wires droop meath the falling snow,
The street grows quiet far below:
The Christmas chimes. they die away
LIKE the bygone songs OF yesterday.
Far on high like an eerie eye
A light CLEANS out from the grim redoubI
Where the miser sits and feeds on hope
More strands " weave in the golden rope.
Chill is the air, the hre's dead.
Ashes lie like a pail that's spread
over the hearth where the fingers reach.
Cold as stone In a mute beseech.
The child of woe that turks below
In the chilly hall snugs 10 the wall
Out Of sight OF friend or hope
While the miser weayes at his golden rope.
"A merry Christmas one and ALI"
Bhthe Is The cheer OF the gladstone call
That swells the hearts OF the passing throng
Borne on winged feet along.
Far above In tlG grim alcove
Under the caves a canary Uievcs
For the miser dead In his sordid nest.
With his mothers picture on his breast.
HORACE SEYMOUR KHLLsa,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-23
SINKING INDIANA LAND.
railroads Have Hard work Preserving
Grade In Mysterious Region.
From the Chicago Daily Neus.

From the Chicago Daily NeTs.
report has been received In Chicago that
a constantly sinking depression 1000 feet
wide running north and south through lake
county. Ind, which already mas cost three
railway companies thousands of dollars, has
begun to droop worse than ever.
The latest downward movement of this
mysterious sinkhole was observed early In
the week by employees OF the Erie Railroad
at the point where that line crosses the strip.
Hundreds Of thousands OF tons of gravel and
earth have been dumped in the %crevice. which
continues for a distance OF twenty Feet on
each side of the track. but the depression Is
now lower than ever and the engineering
department Of the road Is ba HE'D.
The sinking OF the earth at this point is
an annual event and has occurred about
this time OF year since the first railroad line
pierced the region twenty-five years ago.
IL Ia believed that some subterranean cata-
olysm takes place in December. which weakens
the crust and causes 1t TO sink under the
weight OF the heavy steam traf1c. 80 serious
IA the condition that trains are compelled
20 slow down In passing over 1t.
The Panhandle and Indiana Harbor rail-
roads also have suffered from this bottom
less pit, " the influence OF which apparently
reaches about fifteen miles north and south.
It was stated by an Official Of the Indiana
Harbor line to-day that since they have
erected a fifteen 1ooC emDhnkHlenJ across Iho
"trip the tracks nave not sunk. although de-
pressIons are noticed in the low land surround
ing for a distance OF 1000 feet.
The strip begins about eight miles east OF
Lake Michigan at the termination OF the
water shed and the northern limits of a region
Of low swamp land. The first evidences OF
unstable soil are TO be seen at a spot twelve
miles east OF Hammond. Ind. and eight miles
west OF Crown Point.
IL apparently Is a product OF modern
civilization for prior TO the advent Of the
railroad in that region twenty-five years
ago trafio on the wagon roads was not heavy
enough to break through the crust.
1t e limited among old residents In the
neighborhoOd about Hammond that the
Pottawatomie Indians. who lived In that
region az late as the sos. circulated an ancient
legend tha somewhere In the swamplands
there was an entrance TO the centre Of the
earth. The old Indian trail. which ran from
the site Of Michigan City to Chicago. mar
rowly avoided-possibly by d~esign-the
northern limit OF the -shaky' strip which has
become 90 troublescms 70 fhe railroads.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-23
Why SAM JONES WAS A CLOWN.
It Was What the PeODie Wanted and Paid
$500 a Night For.

Apropos of the death of Sam Jones tho
evangelist a Boston minister tells the
following story of one of Jones' meetings
in the Peoples Temple.
Il sat on the platform next 10 a Metho-
dist Bishop" he says in the Boston Tran.
script. THAT night Jones wanted to preach
the Gospel.
-He tool a text. told the story OF the
context, called attention to a shade Of
meaning brought out in the Revised Ver-
sion and talked twenty minutes in a schol-
arly, digniaed way. Tn Bishop was
bored.
Then Jones stepped out beside the pulpit
and with his little, cackling laugh, saidl
Huh! Did Brother Goody- goodyl'
-The Bishop pricked up his ears, and 50
did the congregation.
Jones raised his voice two notes, and
said merrily, Old Sister Goody- goodyp
"The Bishop sat up and smiled. So
did the people.
-'AI the little goody- goodiesr
THE Bishop turned to me and grinned.
He had got what he had come for. So
had the rest of them. From then TO the
end it was Tagtime, nonsense and slang
for the syncopated notes. and here and
there a measure or two of Gospel.
AT the end I got out without meeting
Jones again, but | was not missed. Tbs
Bishop had him by the hand congratulating
him, and the audience was surging around
the platform as in the days when men dis
played with pride, the hand that shook
the hand of sullivan
Jones had elements pf genuine humor.
Personally he was a man of considerable
culture. He talked in a smooth, Southern
voice, and in conversation impressed you
as a gentleman.
"And he could preach o sermon as revere
ent and conventional and dull as any OF
us. There was method in his madness.
He believed that the people wanted slang
and nonsense, and he gave them what thew
wanted, ami some things between which
they did not want, or thought they did
not want.
He was an independent preacher; he
could afford to he so, for he got $500 for
an evening of slang and could afford to tell
the local clergy &ho had 10 get on with
cranky people all the year that they would
not be in hell ten minu ties till the devil
would have them saddled an bridled and
woul ride them over the place"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-23
SOCIAL
In Large Institutions They Look After th'
MeMbeInk Of Employees.

Social secretaries, says Mary r.. Cranston;
In the Craftsman, are employed in large es-
Establishments to look after the health n
general well being Of worker and plant,
to be the point OF contact between the
firm and It's force in all questions which
arise concerning life in the factory. work.
shop, or store.
The idea was conceived by an Industrial
LIST in Holland who. felt the meek OF such a
person in his factory, and who had suf-
fcient originality to make the experiment.
The American Institute of Social Service
Immediately saw the good which would
accompany the adoption of this profession in
he. United States and therefore spread
abroad the principle.
The American pioneer social secretary
was a woman, who filed this position in a
Rhode Island department store. Her four
years work greatly improved conditions
for the workers. Her employer consid-
cred her services worth every cent Of the
very good salary which he paid her.
There are to-day twenty-seven social
secretaries In the United States, about an
even number of men and women.
The social secretary usually begins on
a salary of S72O a year, which is increased
according TO capability for the work. Sal
aries range from this sum TO $500 a year.
The position is, however. no sinecure. 1t
means responsibility and many ~annoyances
and Is difficult to fill a~cceptably.
The cardinal principles OF the social sec
retary's gospel are sanitation, recreation
and equalization. The chief requisites for
the work are tact, common sense coupled
with a knowledge Of life gained through eN-
perience, a keen sense of Justice, fearless
ness Of adverse criticism and ability to steer
SO straight a course between sympathy and
fear as 70 win absolute confidence from
those in command as well as from the rank
and file the workers.
The secretary establishes luncheon rooms,
rest rooms, mutual aid associations, thrift
funds, and penny provldent banks; when
asked to do so, abe Gf a woman) Is ready to
give suggestions about the proper way to
dress, the most becoming color for a girl
to wear, whether or not to llsten 10 the wiles
of Dan Cupid, and all sorts of other personal
matters which perplex thee ordinary mortal
in short, the social secretary is to he the en-
ployees' guide, philosopher and friend.
Besides the usual betterment features The
secretary also range many forms of social
amusement, such as dances, lectures and
musicals.
The social secretaryof a Pittsburg factory
is a physician, ana MS cAleI concern Is tne
health Of the men and women who work
there.
The 5000 employees Of IN Ohio factory
keep the social secretary busy enough 10
need the help Of two assistants. The per-
sonnet Of this establishment is far above
the average; the employees have quite a
social position Of their own.
Their factory clubs have entertained dis
tinguished persons both Of this country and
from abroad; lectures have been given by
well known speakers, M the social work
has been done upon such a large scale that
the factory stands to-day as an object lesson
for the world.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-23
POEMS WORTH HEADING.
The Great Birthdax.

The day goesby with laughter. dance and song.
With Kilded baubles twinklIng In the light;
Wild sounds ring out upon tho trembling air,
bright smiles are glttering on the foam OF speech.
The world Is mad with gayety-not joy,
Pleased with It's pomp Of gaudy Circumstances.
But far above the gorgeous festival
And all the clamor OF Its painted show
We trace the outline of a shadowv form
Clasping the Christ Child in her tender arms;
What wondering pity In their steadfast eyes.
Whose gaze Is nNcd upon this fading show
And on the passing sorrows Of our world
High over all the eternal star shines down
Deepening tho shadow Of the mystic Cross.
ADA ToaTKR MURRA
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-23
King Edwards Anxious Moment.

King Edward once said that he spent the
most exciting and nervous moment OF his
life on a prairie in Canada when he visited
that country as a youth. He was in no dam
ger Of being scalped by Il red Indian, or eaten
by wolves. or gOred by a maddened bison.
His anxiety and nervousness were simplv
due TO his efforts to light a match.
h Prince and his party We're miles away
from human habitations: they wanted "a
smoke and had only one match between them
Lots were cast as To who should strike hi
The lot fell Oh the Prince, and with great
difficulty he m9nlged to get the light which
was to supply them with fire till their return
to civilization.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-23
A Cry From the Heart.

Oh, tell me how TO write the things
That editors will buy.
And ] will try aud try and try
And Try and try n try.
lido not yearn to have my mans
ON Fame's eternal scroll
BY writing things that move the heart
TIT. liver or the soul.
do not yearn 10 be among
The Shakespeares and the Los
Who wrote the things which always win
Keep permanently hot.
or course. II I should write such things
ia feel a proper pride.
But II | didn't strike their gait
ia be as satisfied.
I only yearn 10 write the things
That editors will buy.
And II you'n tell mo how I can,
IN love you till l die.
Fame doesn't cut much ice with me.
And I am not 90 sure
wish IL said that l produces
HomeTic literature.
But oh. ! yearn 70 have q wad
Liz some successful star,
And let the whole world know I own
A Big Red Touring Car.
h. Gee whis.
49, whss . dream that Id
F v. y fzAxH3Now.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-23

From ne Ncv orleans Times. Deuoe'

From ne Ncv orleans Times n %s,noerai.
L.
Others affect the rose, the poets friend:
And so did | until | found I'D run
The gamut OF It's praise long since begun.
Then OF the lily did make an end,
And after on the dairOdll depend
For floral touch. But these and every one
| used to heip me UP 10 Helicon
Atlast grew stale beyond my power to mend, I
Then did look about ms IN despair
For some new ornament unto my verse,
Some Hover or shrub on which | could rely
To Irvine IN a fictitious loved one 3 haiT,
Whercwlth ] might perfume my phrases terss.
When your name, nlugwoTt. somehow met mine eye
IL.
Then felt ] Ike some watcher Of the clock
When ak Is striking on q sultry eve.
Scarce could / all my happiness believe.
So suddenly arrived the Joyful shock.
said l.: Hence. lily pale and hollyhock.
Ne roses that are faded past repTieve.
All OF your Ike are slfted through a sieve,
And mugwort shall compose my only stOck:'
Twas IN a dictionary that I saw
The word. and even now ! do not know
How't looks OF smells or what Its bid TO fame.
But Ignorance of that I count no flaw:
II serves the purpose well, aye, even though
It's parents gave It such d funny namei
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-23
Wires Need n Rest.

From The Minneapolis Journal.
'Messa geo" said a telegraph operator~
always slide over the wires better on Mons
day than on any other day. The wires. you
see, have profted by their Sunday rest.
1T Is "a fact that inanimate as well az AMI.
mate things get tired and need a vacation
occasionally. You know how true this Is OF
raZors, OF automobiles, OF IOcomotivea-and
it Is Just a. true OF telegraph wires.
a wire after its Sunday rest gives a quicker.
u fuller and a more delicate transmissIon
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-23
States Senator Davis of Arkansas. He was
Jeffries and has shortened that to

The election OF the President and the
Vice-President Of Swit zerland. the oldest
existing Republic. Is through the Federal
Assembly in joint session OF the National
and State Council. The term OF each oflccr
IL for one year. For his services the Presi-
dent receives a salary OF 81. 700 a year.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-23

Did ne windsor Hotel Are and the Corbett -Fitz-
simnons light happen on the same dayH s. c.
Neither day nor year the same. The Carson City
light was on September Il. 1900; the Windsor was
burned on March IT, 1890.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-09
Sale of Notions.

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-09
Patrick Gamers Will Sustained.

BY direction of Justice Barnard late yes
terday the jury in the Probate Court was
instructed to find its verdict in favor Of the
will made by Patrick Garner. January "a,
1902. The csveatee was the widow, Louisa
A. Garner. represented by w. Mosby Will
liams and Irving Williamson. The cavea-
tors were brothers and sisters of the tes-
tator: Ignatius Garner, Alfred Garner,
Maria Smith, Eliza Garner and Sallie
Handy.
The testator owned premises. 1412, 1416
and 1920 10th street northwest and two lots
in Baltimore, estate valued at $4,000.
After 500 in charitable requests the widow
received everything except half-interest
in house 1916 which was directed to be
sold and the remainder in the two Balti-
more lots. which. after her death, were to
go to said Ignatius and George, another
brother of the testator.
The result of the instruction of the court
was a yindicaton of the widow who in
the caveat was charged with, by undue In
.f,uence, menaces. threats and duress on and
over her husband, coercing him into sign
ing the will. Testator died September 4,
1905. He was a colored man. and. 1t is
said, by his thrift and industry acquired all
of his property.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-09
FREE CONCERTS.

Mr.. Lee Lever. one OF New
York's foremost tenors. will ap-
pear in Concerts at 10 to II am.
and . to ( pm. tomorrow. and
every day this week.
Prof w. G. Brown, accompa-
mist
Mr.. Lever will sing the follow
ing songs:
Are You Coming Back to Your
Old New Hampshire Home"
Colleen Bawn," when the
Whippoorwill Sings, Marguerite"
Some One Thinks of Some One
and Il Said My Last Farewell.
You are cordially invited.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-09
RULE DISCHARGED.
Courts Action in Suit Against Joseph
R. Atkinson.

Chief Justice Clabaugh has discharged the
rule to show cause recently issued against
Joseph r. Atkinson. local real estate
agent. at the instance of Miss Jennie L.
Pitcher who claimed to have been mislead
In a real estate investment Attorney An
drew Wilson of counsel for the defendant
was made custodian of the real estate notes
in controversy until the final determination
of the cause.
Mr. Atkinson in his answer makes COM
plete denial of the charges of Miss Pitcher
and files as an exhibit a letter which he
claims to have received from Miss Pitcher,
in which she expressed her desire to pur-
chase the property in question and her
financial ability to take care of the incum-
brances upon ii.
Attorneys Wilson & Barksdale represent
Mr.. Atkinson.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-09

9Th street northwest last night to consider
plans for securing an adjustment of public
school affairs. Ferdinand D. Lee. chairman
of the committee, reported that a public
mass meeting to protest against the action
Of the board of education will be held at
date, to be fixed by the committee.
It was announced that the leading color
ed churches will open their doors for pub
lie meetings. under the auspices OF the or
ganization. The whole school question was
discussed at length by the members OF the
COMMITTEES.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-09
Sues for $4,000 Damages.

An alleged communication from Charies
A. Langley. local contractor, TO MAJOR
Sylvester. Superintendent of police, is made
the basis of a suit for $4,000 damages filed
Yesterday in the District Supreme Court by
Alexander Elliott, a crossing policeman
stationed at 9th street and Pennsylvania
avenue.
The declaration fled by Attorney Wilton
J. Lambert sets forth that on December
Chief OF Police Sylvester, In which 1t was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-09

Keel, jr., ct al. appellants,
vile; motion to dismiss sub
E. J. Bowers in support of
Mr.. E. NJ. Barber in opposi-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-09
FOR MuRDERous ASSAULT.
Giles Joel Gets Term Of Three Years
in Penitentiary,

Justice Stafford in Criminal Court No. 1
today sentenced Giles Joel, colored. to
serve three years in the penitentiary on
a charge of an assault with dangerous
weapon.
Joel when called for trial withdrew his
plea of not guilty entered several days ago
and acknowledged his guilt. In explaining
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-09

the circumstances at the request Of Justice
Stafford the prisoner made out a. case OF
self-defense, If the statements were true.
The court ordered the new plea stricken out
and directed the case to be tried.
After hearing the testimony the jury de-
clared Joel guilty as indicted and sentence
was imposed, as stated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-09

charged that while taking prisoner to the
station house the officer struck the man
three or four times across the head with a
club without his having given any cause
for being so treated.
Policeman Elliott was before the trial
board on the charges and, IL Is stated
was acquitted and exonerated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-09
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-09

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