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The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-12-21

twenty. For in her day, except for the
occasional rare treasure bestowed by some
especial kindness of fortune, there was
but one time Of gift-making and receiv-
ing, and that the wedding day, when the
friends and relatives brought their simple
presents of household goods and plenish-
ings and provisions to help furnish the
new home.
Now the bride that is to be does not
have to wait till her wedding day for Wis
ible assurance of the affection of her
friends. The announcement of her engage
ment brings her a multitude of dainty
gifts, and every anniversary repeats them.
Even before these, there lave been the
delightful tissue-papered mysteries of
birthdays and Christmas and New Years
and st. Valentines day and Easter, and
once or twice the excitement of commence
ment, with its flowers and boxes, and fire.
quent presents from visiting friends or
other friends returning from journeys.
We live truly in an era of gifts.
Is the child-or the grown-up child,
for that matter-greatly the happier 70
all these gifts? Probably not, and for
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bright day. The strange beauty of the
surroundings of Bethlehem, viewed from
the town itself, as well as from all the
n%eighboring heights. may have inspired in
the young shepherd King David some of
those inspiring psalms which have been
the comfort of he afflicted throughout all
ages.
In a beautiful valley near Bethlehem
are the Fields of the shepherds of sacred
memory. These fields are still used as
pasture lands, and many a young David
may be seen tending his flock with the
same care as the shepherds of yore. When
he rests in a shady place during the sui
try hours of the day the sheep gather
around him and chew the cud. If there
happens to be a wounded one or a little
weak one he carries it on his shoulder or
in the wide bosom of his long white shirt.
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HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS.
Glad Greeting nnd Happy Reunion
Tint These WORDS

Clad Greeting nnd Happy Reunion
thnt These Words Suggest.
No otls,r season of the year comes to us
so laden with glad associations as Christ
mastide. 'IIome for the holidays." What
music and charm there is in those words!
What wistful l~ongings they inspire! What
glad greetings and reunions they suggest
What visions of home life and love they
call up. 1t is a peculiarly home festival.
The midsummer holiday season takes us
to the mountains, to the seaside. to quiet
resting places in the country. The homo
circle is broken mp. We live ABROAD and
everywhere" finding a large part of our
delight amid the beauties of nature. Amid
the baroness and desolation of winter we
find our pleasures in the home. Heart
calls to heart and finds its satisfaction in
the interchange of social sympathies and
home affections. Survival of customs
from the past, when baronial halls and
castles in old England resounded with
mirth and song, and the Yule log cracked
on the hearth, and tables were laden with
bounteouS hospitality. and even lowly cot
tage homes were decorated with bay and
holly, still linger in holly wreaths and
mistetoe boughs, in CHEEKY greetings n
home reunions. The eyes OF the little
ones grow bright with expectancy as the
day draws near. Stockings are filled and
Christmas trees are gayly decorated. Gifts
are interchangcd. The old grow young
in heart again. Sympathies are quick
ened and enlarged. The grasping. self
| seeking spirit relaxes its hold for awhile.
and the spirit of general charity that finds
its JOY in making glad the hearts of others
bears sway. Welcome Christmastide, and
n merry Christmas to all !-Baptist
Union.
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hands. too, how thin. wish l might kiss
them"
She turned to go away but a pair of
slippers sitting side by side at the foot
of the bed arrested her. She stopped and
picked one up. stroking it softly. The
sole was pitifully thin, and there was a
little break in one side. Mothers wrapper
lay carefully folded over the back of a
chair. Joyce looked at it also. The sleeves
had been patched, the collar mended.
She swept the wrapper off the chair and
took w the little worn slippers, then she
went down into the sitting room. Mag
and Fan were still there.
Girls" cried Joyce dramatically. hold
ing up the old wrapper, do you think
we girls ought TO make Christmas presents
when our mother has to wear clothes like
these? See how she's patched these
sleeves, and the collar, too, and just look
at these slippers.'
The girls did look. and as Joyce held
them up, the poor. shabby little slippers,
a stiffness fell upon them. Each girl re-
membered the patient figure in the worn
slippers. that went about a ceaseless
round of duties day by day, with no
thought of relaxation or enjoyment.
Fan wiped a tear away; so did Mag.
Joyce's eyes We're already full.
eff we don't take better care Of mother,
perhaps we won't have her very long,"
said Joyce solemnly. Girls, let's do
something. Say we put five dollars out of
our ten, way for her, and fix UP her
things. I'm going to get her a handsome
pair of Juliets all trimmed in black fur,
orl c+Jff apn,Ivh fn r,ot-n Inv , -,ok%,
dressing sacque. Mag, will you make
it?"
YES, 1 will. Joyce. and I'll give five
dollars. too. l never realized thar mother
was wearing quite as poor clothes as
these"
"Ill give five," said Fan slowly.
When mother came downstairs that
Christmas morning. she gave a start of
surprise. \ gay little wreath of holly
hung by the window. Attached to it was
a large white card which bore these
words:
"MOTHER'S CHRISTMAS.
MAY SHE HAVE MANY OF THEM"
A pretty brown wrapper with velvet
collar and cuffs hung over the back of
her ~favorite chair. A dainty pair of house
SHOES lay DeSlde IL, TRIMMED III Dlack tur.
Near them was a dressing sacque, soft
and warm, of some gray material finished
off by a touch Of scarlet and a bow of
| ribbon. A shoulder shawl of white and
blue hung over one arm of the chair. Two
pairs of kid gloves lay across it. On the
sofa was a handsome comforter of pink
| ~silkaline artistically knotted with blue.
| This was Fans gift. and had been bought
with a portion of her money. There were
aprons. too, and handkerchiefs sheer and
fine. Father had given these.
Mother stood still. then seeing the new
expression in her children's faces, she took
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~ HERE were three girls of them,
all merry. light-hearted and
thouchtless. but this evening, a
new seriousness was upon them.
For one thing, mother had gone to bed
with a sharp neuralgia attack. Another
was that father had just given them their
Christmas allowance. for it was the 18th
Of November. and they had already begun
to plan for the great day.
Girls" he had said as he handed each
one a crisp ten-dollar bill, this year you
must really make this do. Don't spend 1t
and expect more, for it will not be forth
coming. Times are hard. Peace on earth,
good will to men, means more than a
mad rush at bargain counters. We all try
to do too much, and under the strain, the
sweet old merry Christmas of long ago
has lost its charm
"I've simply got to give Bess a more
expensive present than l did last year"
said Mag %gloomily. Just imagine my
humiliation Christmas day when she sent
me that beautiful watch fob, and all l
had given her was a little picture in a
plain oak frame"
Don't say a word" broke in Fan, ira
gically. Il suffer modification of the
spirit a hundred times when l think of
the little l can give. Ten dollars and
tw~enty-seven friends and relations to
make presents to-"
81 say" Joyce began quickly. that it's
time the Christmas reformation began in
this family. Three girls, Fan seventeen,
Mag sixteen and l fourteen and a half.
Not one of us able. to earn a penny, and
Ill straining every nerve to make it harder
for father and do something we can't af-
ford. I'm like Dad. Christmas doesn't
mean a mad rush at bargain counters to
buy things for people who half the time
don't care for 'em when they get 'em. The
facts in our case are these. fathers poor,
he works hard, and mother isn't we'll. l
say it's time to stop. l shall simply tell
Belle that all | can give her is a set OF
mats for her dressing table. III make
'em as pretty as | can, and thereH be lots
Of love to go with EN-. but there, III stop.
Last year we spent all we had and didn't
have one cent left to remember mother
with, and l went up to the attic Christ
mas afternoon and cried about it. I'm go
Ing ND to see how she is
Joyce crept softly into her mothers
room. The figure on the bed did not stir.
Joyce slipped over and looked down at the
pale sleeper. Darling mother" she whis-
pered. show white her cheeks are, and her
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Remember the sorrowful.

There are homes in which the approach
of the holidays is dreaded, because of
losses that have been sustained and sor-
row that havc come during the last year.
May we not enter more largely into the
true spirit of the occasion if we remember,
as tenderly as we may, those for whom the
day only emphasizes the grief!-united
Presbyterian.
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that the Christian year should be follow
ed. But in commencing the year the date
of the first day was set some time in Oc-
tober or November. Since the natives
nave been converted TO the Christian re-
ligion they observe Christmas on the 25th
of their own December, but also have
made a holiday out of the day in their
year which corresponds to our Christmas.
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II r OF eIE1s.

Increasing Luxury of American Life
Now Reveal Itself.
If the making and receiving Of gifts
contributes vitality TO the joy of exist
the children of the twentieth CEN
fury have reason to congratulate them
selves upo their good fortune. In no
way has the increasing luxury of Ameri-
can life revealed itself more widely than
in this.
Our grandmothers could often count
upon their ten fingers the gifts of their
childhood. The average American baby
of any except the poorest families proba-
bly, receives more gifts from admiring
relatives in the first year of his life than
his great-grandmother received in her first
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With red mouth like a bloom.
Fond memories surround us as
We pause beside the dead.
And bitter thoughts arise like ghosts
OF things that long have fed,
But now we turn to greet the year.,
Who comes with b%uoyant tread.
Farewell the old, all hail the new.
The past has turned to dust.
Safe locked, the dear dead yesterdays
That time will hold in trust;
Before our visions. like a dream.
New scenes of life are thrust.
Unfurl the flags and start a song
To greet what is to come.
And of the past and all it was
Let every lip be dumb,
The future beckons with a smile,
And. bark the forward drum.
Adown the pathway let US go
With hope to be our guide,
With roses strewn along the way
The ugly tllorns to hide,
The New Year comes with joyous tread
So greet him in his pride.
The lessons we have learned are safe,
We hold them in the breast.
The hateful things are all forgot;
Remembering the best.
Once more we fare along life's path
And leave to time the rest.
The year departs with all its signs,
With all its poignant pain,
With all the tears and mists of tears
That fell like sudden rain,
But high above the star of hope
Begins its bright new reign.
W. Il. Dunroy, in Chicago Chronicle.
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two reasons. One is the grave old law
of compensation, so often the leveler of
unequal fortunes. A gift canno mean so
much to one who receives a hundred as it
did to one who cherished his solitary
treasure.
The other reason is that the great gift
of all to any life, no matter how few or
how many the years it counts. is love.
The child who has that can easily spare
material wealth.
There is, nevertheless. one other side to
this matter of giving. If luxury in living
is increasing every day, as it seems to be,
it is surely a pleasant thing that one
phase of it is the devising of new and
graceful ways of showing our sympathy
with friends in everything, whether joy
or sorrow, that touches their lives.-
Youths Companion.
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Progressive Peace.

1--WE have good times at our house along
before Christmas"
You dog
Yes the children try to please their
mother and she tries to please me."-De.
troit Free Press.
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Christmas Twice a Year.

Madagascar is probably the only place
in the world where Christmas is celebrat-
ed twice a year and where there are also
two New Years days. Since the influx of
missionaries the queen issued an edict
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HERE'S a song in the air.
There's a star in the sky!
There's a mothers deep prayer,
And a baby's low cry!
AND the star rains its fire while the Beautiful sing.
For the manager of Bethlehem cradles a King!
There's a tunult of joy
Der the wonderful birth,
For the Virgins sweet boy
Is the Lord of the earth.
Ayl the star rains its fire while the Beautiful sing,
For the Manager of Bethlehem cradles a King!
In the light OF that star
Lie the ages inlpearled;
And that song from afar
Has swept over the world.
Every hearth is ahane, and the Beautiful sing
In the homes of the nations that Jesus is King!
We rejoice in the light,
And we echo the song
That comes down through the night
From the heavenly tllrong.
Az! we shout to the lovely evangel they bring.
And we greet in His cradle our Saviour and King!
J. G. Holland
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CHRISTMAS e YEAR

a step forward. praise the Lord" she
sang in her heart, but aloud she could
only say: My blessed, blessed girls" as
she gathered them each one into her ten
der and loving arms.-The Rams Horn.
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A LONG CHRISTMAS.

Porto Rico Celebrates from Decem-
Der inc 10 Easter Sunday.
The Porto Rican boys and girls would
be frightened out of their wits if Santa
Claus should come to them in a sleigh
drawn by reindeer and should try to enter
the houses and fill their stockings. Down
there Santa Claus does not need reindeer
or any other kind of steeds. for the chill
dren say that he just comes flying through
the air like a bird. Neither does he both
err himself looking for stockings. for such
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in Moder Bethlehem.
From the greatest height in Bethlehem
a distant glimpse of even the Mediter-
ranean sea may be perceived on a clear,
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-10-20
THE FORECAST or NEWS
FOR THE COMING WEEK
..oc,ated Pres. to The Evening Times.

Associated Press to The Evening Times.
Washington. ID. c., Oct. 20.-The sit
uation in Cuba probably will continue
to hold public attention for some time
to come, though the progress OF the
movement for the restoration of peace
and order in the island has been SO
satisfactory that no new developments
of a startling character are looked for.
With the general election but two
weeks off politics naturally will alb
sorb much interest during the coming
week. In New York the campaign
for governor and other state offices
will reach the whitehead" stage. Mr..
Hearst. the candidate of the demo-
cratic party and the independence
league. will continue his whirlwind
campaign. speaking one night in
Greater New York and the next day
jumping away up the state to fill
speaking engagement. Mr.. Hughes,
the candidate of the republican party
for governor, is scheduled to spend
the entire week up the state. Elmira
Owego. Corning, Binghamton and
numerous other cities and towns are
on his list.
The feature of the republican cam
paign in New York city during the
week will be the meeting in Carnegie
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-10-20
open LETTER. To THE
LOCAL LEADERS Of THE
LAWYERS MOVEMENT

Young and Engerud. Then it was that
Judge Engerud. the self appointed
boss identified himself as would be
political dictator, threatening to resign
his position as member of the supreme
court if he could not have his way,
ii he could not name the members of
that court. if he could not be it" Pos
sibly the promises and assurances
made by him in the st. Paul con-
ference and the possible inability to
suicidal step, "If John Knauf is NOM
mated shall resign" AS time went
On the old sore became less irritable
and after the nomination was made by
the convention over his protest he
found some consultation in the state
ment if John. Knauf was appointed
he would resign. Time passed on and
the day for appointment arrived and
the appointment was made and then
it was that Judge Engerud took sat
isfaction in modification of his form
er statement and substituted the fol-
lowing, IF Judge Knauf is elected l
shall resign. You say in your state
ment that The defeat OF Judge Fisk
means the defeat of Judge, Engerud."
Is this statement bourne out by the con-
duct of Judge. Engerud in the past?
Could not Judge Engerud. when the
votes are finally counted, should
Judge Fisk be defeated, again modify
his declaration to resign? And, would
he not do so? Would not his as
sociates, the railroad attorneys at Far
go, and the st. Paul contingency. re-
gard him as having been faithful to
the charge imposed upon him.
Now ! have known Judge knauf in.
timately for a period of years. have
known him in practice and l have
been associated with him and have
been against him in the trial of cases
and I know him to be qualified for the
position he now fills and to which he
has been placed in nomination by a
convention of citizens no less honor
able and worthy than the aggregation
In attendance at the st. Paul confer
ence. At any rate. I am satisfied
that the general practitioners of this
state are not anxious that Judge
Engerud, Watson and Young, or any
ether trio OF lawyers or judges, shall
name the supreme court.
Judge Knauf is man of great
worker. an inveterate student, man
of integrity and ability excelled by
few if any general practitioners.
note your statement that Judge
knauf cannot commend the support of
a single lawyer who is or ever has
been a member of the supreme court
to which he aspires." You mention
no names but if you had. your list
would probably have begun and ended
with Hon. Guy. G. H. Corliss as,
excepting Judge Young. l know of no
other lawyer in the state who has
ever served upon the supreme court
of this state. Probably such list
would make greater display of
egotism than you care to make.
That Nomination.
Judge Knauf's9 nomination was
brought about by the common men,
bers of the republican convention. He
did not attend the convention and took
no part in it. In this. his nomination
differs from that of Judge Engerud
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-10-20
A Church Fight H, Spaii,

chapels must be registered in the civil
registers to have any legal validity.
Consequently. the clergy are forced
either to do this or to have a civil
registrar present at the ceremony.
Births and deaths are also registered
by the civil authorities with wonder
fully improved results as far as the
preparation OF statistics and proper
maintenance of records are concerned.
The attitude OF the government to-
ward the religious orders is shown by
the new law of associations, which
will contain the following provisions:
No religious orders shall be estab-
lished without the authorization of
parliament. The state shall accord
support to any member OF a religious
order desiring to rcnounce the VOWS
taken. The minister OF justice is EN-
powered to withdraw the authoriza-
tiOn OF any religious order found to
be inimical to morality or public tran
guilty. The cabinet shall forthwith
examine the authorization previously
granted to religious orders and cam
eel those which are illegal. Religious
orders whose members are foreigners.
or whose directors reside abroad. shall
be dissolved. The authorities are enl-
powered to enter monasteries without
ecclesiastical sanction. Religious Or
ders shall not be allowed to hold prop
erty in excess of the objects for which
they were instituted. All legacies to
religious orders or donations to orders
by living persons or by testimonies or
through Intermediates are formally
prohibited. The law Of 1887 concern
ing the registering Of religious orders
remains in force.
A brief glance at the history of the
transactions between the Vatican and
the Spanish government is essential to
a clear understanding of the present
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also was suspected of the murders of
some OF her patients in Lowell, Chi
cago and other places. All OF the
crimes were said to have been COM
mitted by the use of poison. They
were evidently planned with fiendish
sublety and executed with sureness,
patience. and without the shadow of
remorse. Suspicion was finally awak-
ened and bits of evidence came cut Dy
degrees. 1t was shown that all of
the victims had passed away suddenly
and with the same symptoms of poi
soning. The remains of Mrs. Gibbs
were exhumed and traces of arsenic
found in the stomach. Suspicion fin
ally pointed so strongly to Miss Top
pan that she was arrested and held
for trial. At first she took the situa-
tion quietly. but soon after being con-
fined in Jail she broke down and be-
came mental and physical wreck. A
medical commission appointed TO ex-
anime the woman declared her insane
and consequently she escaped being
tried for any of the eleven deaths al
legged against her. During the four
years she has been confined in the
Taunton asylum her condition has
grown steadily worse, and for more
than year she has been unable to
leave her bed.