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The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-12-22

"After dinner we adjourned to the
royal library, where we found card
tables duly equipped. We generally
wind up an evening Of this kind with
q game OF poker said KaIakaua. Are
you all contentr Every one was con-
tent. and 1t was my luck to be seated
at the kings table.
Next morning when at breakfast at
the hotel one Of the kings equerries
came to my table and placed a chamois
bag containing forty ten-dollar pieces
in front of me, saying the king had
sent them with his compliments. One
Of the ladies of our party who had
witnessed this somewhat unusual pro-
ceeding asked me why the king should
send me such a present
Madam l replied, the shillings
and sixpences which in the days Of
my youth l cast upon missionary wa
tiers to buy popguns and blankets for
the Sandwich Islanders have this
morning been returned to me a hun
dred fold"
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-12-22
At THE FOREIGN WINDOW

How Uncle SANS Stepchildren Re-
nenber ss0ld Country" Friends.
aHome and motherr'
These magic words are responsible
for the sending out Of Cleveland daily
az this season of the year of thousands
of dollars. At the window over which
is the word Foreign" in the money
order Office at the postofice, contin-
nous string of people patiently await
their turn to send sums varying from
So to $25 to loved ones living in what
they lovingly call the "old country"
Out Of their bounty Cleveland's adopt
ed children are sending something to
cheer up those who are living in less
favored climes. From week to week
they lay small sums aside as the end
of the year approaches. When they
have accumulated the necessary
amount they troop down to the post
office. the one bank in which foreign
ers have absolute confidence. and send
to mother, father, brother or sister the
tokens of their regard. Distances are
so great that the actual money is much
more appropriate than any of the gaudy
articles WHICH WOufU udluTdliy De LOT
warded.
Me getta twenta dolls WORTH ex-
planned one woman as she elbowed her
way gradually to the window.
WHAT" demanded the clerk. He is
required to understand everything.
Me wanta twenta doFs," repeated
the woman.
'Oh, you want to send $50 home"
explained the clerk.
The woman signified with her head
that she certainly did want to send
some money home. Tightly clutching
Der check, she made a break to mail the
order. Her face was lighted up with a
glad look.
WHO are you sending it to-" asked
the clerk of the next in the line.
.'Mu ider.' says the woman. 1t is the
only word she utters as she lays down
two ten-dollar bills. Enough said. She.
too, clutched her order as il it was a
pardon from death and hurried away
to mail it.
Russians in large numbers, Italians,
Germans and Irish are among the daily
throng that seeks to make the loved
ones at home happy.-Cleveland Plain
Dealer
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-12-22
Briggie, Reed. Lucille. Clorinda. Arethusa. John,

Briggie, Reed. Lucille. Clorinda. Arethusa. John.
Estelle,
Matte. Lucifer. Elfrida-from his lips their titles
fell.
But about the shelf there dangled other hose
whose owners names
He could not recall to save him as he watched
the dying flames
Seven pairs. all baby sizes. each in age not quite
year.
''Geel cried Nick Been something doing since
the last time | was hereI
Glad | brought a stock Of rattles and lot of
teethng rings
Utah always gives market for such kindergarten
things.
From race suicide she ever has discreetly held
aloof,
And there's not a home In Zion free from stork
tracks on the roof
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-12-22
SANTA CLAUS WORKSHOP.
Curious Corner of TOyland Is the
Austrian Village St. Ulrich.

Curious Corner of Toyland Is the
Austrian Village ST. Ulrich.
Tourists wandering out of the beaten
tracks Of their kind occasionally come
10 little village in Austria which pre-
Oents the aspect of a corner Of toyland
The name of the village is st. Ulrich,
and nearly all Of it's inhabitants are
toymakers. Each household, too, has
its speciality. One old woman has done
nothing but carve wooden cats, dogs,
wolves, sheep, goats and elephants.
She has made those six animals her
whole life long, and she has no idea
how to cut anything else. She makes
them in two sizes and turns out as
I.early as possible a thousand of them
a year.
She has no model or drawing of any
kind to work by, but goes on steadily,
unerringly, using gauges of different
sizes and shaping out her cats, dogs,
wolves, sheep. goats and elephants
with an ease and an amount of truth
to nature that would be clever if they
were not utterly mechanical.
This woman learned from her moth
er how to carve those six animals. and
her mother had learned, in like man.
ner. from her grandmother. She has
taught the art to her own granddaugh
ter, and SO it may go on being trans
mitted for generations.
In another house one will find the
whole family carving skulls and cross
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-12-22

Don't you wish you were an Italian
on New Years? Promptly at the
stroke of IL on New Years eve there
are rustling and busting and merry
laughter as each maiden kisses all the
young men she can catch. 1t is the
only moment in the year when custom
permits her such liberty, and she is
not slow to take advantage Of it. Then,
the new year having made its bow, the
party breaks up. the young folk take
a walk, and the first person of the op-
posite sex which each roisterer meets
is considered destined to be that mer-
rymaker's future partner in life.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-12-22
The Modern MistIetoe.

Prominent in the Christmas revels
and, with the holly, most essentially
"Christmasy' of all the plants used
was the mistletoe. With us the old
significance and sacredness have gone,
leaving but charm enough to give the
well known privilege to the man who
meets a girl beneath it. There exists
also in some places the tradition that
the girl who is not kissed under the
mistletoe will not be married for a
year. CThe present writer once knew
thoughtful and provident damsel who
wore a hat trimmed with the sacred
plant) But the kiss permitted In old
en- time was originally of the religious
variety, our mistletoe celebration be-
ing borrowed from Scandinavian lore.
Critic
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-12-22
Edible chri.tmas Novelties.

A housewife whose purse is light. but
who makes delicious things to eat,
planned this original Christmas for her
young friends: a box Of animal cookies
to the family with three small boys,
homemade candy and stuffed dates to
college youths and maidens, two indi-
vidual plum buildings to the dear old
lady who keeps house by herself, a :;af
of salt rising bread and one Of nat
bread to the bride serving her first
Christmas dinner and a basket Of
doughnuts to the eastern chap spend
ing his first holiday season away from
home. Mince pies and pound cEtr
were among her gifts. All ne went
done up in the most attrGctj"e m1rua"
Chicago Record Herald
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-12-22
TWO LITTLE SKY JEWELLERS.


they tell a gaping crowd of sky dwell
ers the sights they have seen while
going to and from school. The ''sky-
scraper twins who were born on top
of one of New York's highest build
ings and who so far have gone through
life together as they started upon the
journey. often think of the great day
to come when they will go down the
elevator and be among the toy people
they have seen so far below them
crawling along the sidewalks
These twins, who are the pride. of
course, of their father and mother,
have never been away from the roof
on which they were born. Life has
been one short and happy dream to
them. They do not know what street
car really looks like, for they have
merely seen the shapeless, dingy roofs
of the 81" trains as they squirm along
their crooked ways like some short,
thick snake with square heau and tail.
They are full of health and have rosy
cheeks and big. dancing, bright eyes.
This means that they eat well. sleep
we'll and enjoy life. There are seesaws
and swings high up among the clouds
on some of the skyscrapers and the
ever present little red express wagon
so dear to the small boys heart. Races
are run on the iron roofs and top spin
ming and marble playing are favorite
sports.
There are deaths on the tops Of the
skyscrapers as we'll as births. One Of
the saddest of these was that of little
boy who had gone down to the street
for the first time to play and was
crushed to death by a heavy truck.
A family Of nine children born to one
couple who have lived on the same roof
for nearly forty years shows that race
suicide has its enemies there. Five OF
these children have grown to man.
hood and are in the public service as
policeman, fireman or mail carrier.
Dogs and cats are numerous on the
skyscrapers. The children there are as
well of for four footed playmates as
those on the earth. Some have never
known anything else but the roof,
where they play by day and howl all
night long to their hearts content
New York Times
Christmas In Guam.
Christmas was celebrated in Guam
last year in as true American style as
the possibilities of the situation would
permit. Great interest was taken by
the Americans in celebrations for the
native children A number of enter
tainments were provided. feature
was q floating Christmas tree. mag
niflcentiy decorated, which was parad-
ed through the streets of Agana drawn
by six pIumed mules with costumed
outriders and preceded by native
band and from which Santa Claus dis
tributed abundance OF good cheer.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-12-22
Santa Claus
In Salt Lake
Where the Good Saint Got
the Surprise Of
His Life.

ITO thrifty Norman household came the
patron saint of Yule;
he was putting like an engine, he was
Il laden like mule
For he knew a row of stockings such as nowhere
else Is seen
Would be yawning there before him in the home
of Elder Green.
So he showed his pack ahead Of him and started
down the hue
While he muttered, This is something that |
hate like smoke to do.
Then he followed with reluctance through the
Smoo,y. smudy air.
Quickly landing where the hosiery was hung IN
many a pair.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-12-22

The First Stop on Santa
Claus Reindeer
Route.

TITO land snorting reindeer skin
hand on the roof of a New York
skyscraper requires pretty skill
full handling of the lines, but
Santa Claus is the man who can do it
without Earring a brick off the Chin
neys. Why should he want to stop at
such queer depot? you ask. Because
there are hundreds of little children
living right in the very center of New
York who have never pressed their ten
der feet upon the brown earth. climbed
trees, played in the grass or expert
enced the thousand and one pleasures
SO common to everyday life. They live
above the clouds, twenty stories or more
above the real things of the world, but
nearer by those twenty stories to the
stars. the angels-and Santa Claus.
Their aerial dwellings are his first
stopping places on his annual Christ
mas journey through the atmosphere.
Born hundreds of feet above the
haunts of ordinary mortals, these little
ones often pass years of their lives in
their dizzy homes without a thought
of what is going on SO far below them.
Their fathers are the superintendent,
engineers and janitors of these lofty
buildings. Upon the very roofs of these
great pillars of steel coy, home breath
ing cottages have been erected.
Here. right up against the sky, the
children live and play from morning
until night They never miss the green
fields and the tall trees, for they have
never known them. Their Fairgrounds
are the expansive roofs of the big
buildings. and they are as free as the
air.
While the smaller children pass their
early years at home with their moth
ers twenty stories above everybody.
their older brothers and sisters attend
school with the little ones living far
down on the streets. In the evenings
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-12-22
Fortune Telling ON New Year. Eve.

Fortune Telling on New Years Eve.
Fortune telling obtains in rural Ger
many ON New Years eve. The young
people who gather to peer together in
to the future. melt a little lead in d
Io;.- handled ladle. The person who
grasps the handle then pourS the mol-
ten metal into pail OF water. stand
ing well back 50 as not 10 be scalded
by the splashing water and steam. for
the striking of the lead upon the wa
ter produces almost the effect Of an
explosion. If the lead congeals into
amy shape that can be construed as
like star it is n good augury. II a
film gathers on the surface it means
money. Any old woman who is an ex-
pert seer can see in the metal and
water sure signs of coming marriage.
long journeys. sickness or death. The
ability to read these riddles is supposed
to descend by inheritance from mother
to daughter.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-12-22
CHRISTMAS EVE IN PARIS.
Picturesque scenes at the Madeleine
Historic French Church.


They drove to the Madeleine through
streets already full of life and move
ment of hurrying crowds, darling fig
ureS now plunged in the black Shad-
ows and now slipping out into the full
glare of the clustered lights. The big
perspective of the Place de la Con-
corde, thickly sown with lamps, was
shot through with glistening reflections
from the tops of carriages, the arcade
of the Rue de Rivoli was brilliant as
a stage setting, the hotels in the broad
Rue Royale were ablaZe with light, and
far at the end of the street. where the
lofty portico of the Madeleine showed
clear against the starry sky. a hundred
sparks twinkled from the cabs fitting
along the boulevard.
The steady roll of wheels merged
with the varying notes of horns in
motors and the sound of talk and
laughter from the sidewalks, and all
blended in a great humming symphony,
struck through with the rafting, syn
eopated clack- clack of hoofs upon the
asphalt, like the staccati of sharp
drums.
The crowd at the Madeleine was al
most impossible, but somehow they
gained the steps, the vestibule, and
We're swept in the solid pack of men
and women through the door at the
II ght. The great floor was filled with
q throng as varied as Paris itself.
Plety and the idlest curiosity. youth
and age, came together. AS the pro-
cession came in sight its song was
Joined by the organ in the sanctuary
and the music rose louder and fuller
in a single godlike voice ranging down
from the dazzling altar.
Suddenly. like artillery, the great or
gan overhead crashed out in volume
of sound that flooded the whole vast
interior like a wave. sweeping over
the heads of the kneeling crowd and
mounting to the shadowy arches of
the roof. The very concussion took
the listeners breath away, and in the
recoil men and women burst into
fears. and billows,of emotional excite
ment rolled back aud forth through the
church. - WINFIELD Scott Moody in
Scribners.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-12-22
said Little Socrates.

Some generous person." said little
Socrates Bulginbrow of Boston, has
been kind enough to send me a copy
Of Mother Goose's lyrics for Christ
mas. Do you know, the theory that a
representative of the bovine genus at
one time leaped over the chief lumi-
nary of the night leads to some inter
esting calculations as to the muscular
development of tie cows OF that time.
have ascertained that they must have
been endowed with strength proper
tomato to that of the flea of the pres
ent day."-Baltimore American
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-12-22
A New NIaIndy.

It was Christmas day, and the candy
lion had been waiting-oh, so patiently
for Mary TO finish her dinner Much
against her baby wishes had she been
obliged to swallow the last Of her
bread. When her mother insisted on
her finishing her milk the small face
looked up ip desperation as she usped,
"Mozzer If l eat any more food will
be humpback in my stomach, Ike
grandpa r'-LippincOtts.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-12-22
Little Johnnu'S
Resolutions
. 6

n TEXT Tuesday ill be New Years
day."
/ Said little Johnny Lake.
"Some restrictions, NOM de-
clares,
really ought to make.
Mons promised to stop gossipin'.
An so has Sister Sue.
| guess I'll resolute bit.
Les see-what shall | dot
"I'll resolute. | guess. to quit
A>splittin' kindlin' woods
Then pop ill have to do that work.
Like fathers always should.
An then, while I'm a>doin' it.
I'll resolute to quit
The Sunday school. fer goin' there
= With me don't make no hit.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-12-22
Only Two Realities.

Billy-So yer didn't get nuthin' but a
jackknife and Il sled fer Christmas?
Tommy-Yes. OATS all | got worth
speakin' of. Deere wuz "a suit of clothes.
and overcoat. and hat or two, and
some underc!othes, and book of
poems. and some stockin's and gloves,
and some collars and CUTS. and a few
other things like dat, not worth speakin'
of.-Nen and Women
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-12-22
A Hard Headed BOY.

Oars jes' dis about it, said Mann
my Minerva. us gotter ham dat Pick
aninny Jim over to de Society Fob de
Prevention o. Cruelty to Animals
whats he been doin'?"
I'VE give him goat fob Christ
mas present, an Jim an de goat got
to playin' rough. an de fus' thing 1
knowed Jim he done los his temper
an butted dat goat almos' to defr'
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-12-22

likes. for the woo6carving industry
has Its religious as well as It's amusing
side. In other houses are families that
carve rocking horses or dolls or other
toys and In still other houses whole
families OF painters.-London Tit-Bits.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-12-22
A ROYAL POKER GAME.

How King Kalakaua Wound Up His
New Years Festivities.
G.. r. Mackenzie, describing in the
ST. Louis Republic New Years day
in old Hawaii, says:
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-12-22

DONE Let tAs Mistietoe Drop.
It Is very ualucky II the mistletoe
should fan frsu the place where it has
been hung up.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-12-22

l. GUESS hEsooLO T. "A Dill
nd like to resoiute Some way
To git myself goat;
| want a buttin' billy ram
With whiskers on his threat.
An then I'll resolute. ecess.
To beat up Tommy HINT;
He's took an stole my girl i-ura me,
The doggone little runtl
II reckon that's enough fer me
To resolute jist now;
AT any rate, I'll make that do
It's plenty. anyhow.
Les see-l start on New Years day.
Well. that amt very fur.
Won't NOM be tickled when she finds
How we'll I've minded her !"
Denver Post.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-12-22
CHRISTMAS PRESENTS

Don't forget time is growing short and Christmas will be
here before you know it. We have the largest and most
complete assortment Of all kind suitable for Christmas gifts
for sister, cousin aunt mother and father also for your
best girl We Rave got to move prices will do it. Look
to us for bargains Of any thing you want
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-15
R|0T|NG ON
STREET CARS
Attempt to Eject Brooklyn
Passengers The Cause
ONE MAN KILLED, many HURT
Superintendent of System Is At
d-Passengers Gleefully
Destroy Sidetracked Cars

NEW YORK, Aug. ia riot on the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit this morning
was caused by assaults on passengers
refusing to pay the second fare to
Coney Island.
Seigfried Guggenheim refused to
pay and Inspector Lewis started to
throw him off, Guggenheim threatened
to "blow his head Off"
Captain Evans ordered the passen-
ger arrested when others took a hand
and before the riot was quelled one
man was dangerously wounded and
several arrested.
The car was sidetracked because a
number of passengers refused to pay.
General Superintendent Smith,
learning three women were aboard
who had paid the second fare, went to
the car in an automobile and took
them off and headed off a train for
New York to put them aboard.
The crowd learned of Smiths idenity
and nearly killed him before the po-
lice could rescue him.
Nineteen cars sidetracked were load
ed with passengers who wrecked them
gleefully.
The streetcar company and city off,
cials agreed upon a 10-cent fare but
the company will issue rebate checks
which will be good if the courts finally
decide against the company. The COM
pany promised to bring suit to test the
case indefinitely.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-15
OWNERS TAKE VESSELS away
San Francisco Strike Of Sailors Ap-
preaching Crisis and General
Lockout is Expected.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 15.-The
steam schooner owners involved in the
shipping strike today ordered their
vessels bearing lumber for San Fran
cisco to proceed to San Pedro where
more favorable labor conditions exist.
This afternoon the ship owners as
sociation met in conference with the
steam schooner owners for the al
legged purpose of tying up all coast
wise lumber vessels.
prominent vessel owner said: "Ihe
nlan of taking the vessels away from
this city is only a temporary one. Our
organization will never submit to the
demands of the sailors union
Both sides admit the crisis is ap-
proaching and may result in a general
lockout or strike of all shipping en-
ployes.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-15
BR|TTAN SEARCH CONTINUES
Father Of Missing Boy is at The Toll
Gate.
LEFT CAMP THIS MORNING FOR HILLS
PARTY is GOING THROUGH THE
SHEEP CAMPS FOLLOWING
THE NEW cLEWs.
LEFT CAMP THIS MORNING FOR HILLS

TOLL GATE, Ore, Aug. 15.-lnter-
est in the Cecil Britain case mas oeeii
aroused among the campers mere ps
the arrival of Mr.. Britain, Deputy
Sheriff Allen Byrnes and Constaole
Dykes of Milton.
Mr. Britain arrived yesterday ano
the two officers late yesterday aIter
noon Constable Dykes joining Ol1lcer
Byrnes at Milton.
The two officers and Mr.. Britain iei'
camp this morning with the object II
is said. Of visiting several sheep
camps On the headwaters OF the una
tilla to trace down rumors that lhe
little Britain boy is being helo III
captivity at some of the camps. lhe
officers are noncommittal on the OBJ
iect of their trip here and many WIG
rumors are af1oat again.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-15
CASE IS A HARD ONE TO DECIDE
G. Miller and Minnie Fewster
Under Amusement.

Judge Brents yesterday decided he
wanted further time to render a de-
cisiOn in the j. G. Miller-Minnie
FeWster case.
A motion for a verdict according tC
the jury's findings was made by the
defendants but was denied. Likewise a
motion made by the plaintiffs to have
the verdict of the jury set aside was
denied. Judge Brents will probably
render a decision on the law in a few
days. The suit involves title to a IA
acre tract claimed by Mr.. Miller but
disputed by Mrs. Fewster who alleges
fraud on the part of her husband in
deciding the property to Mr.. Miller.