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The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-03-09
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the committee on rules this morning,
strikes out the word consecutive" where
II occurs and cures that objection.
Then. Mr.. Speaker, as the bill was pre-
sented 10 the house the other day and
as ~ would have become law IL two
thirds had voted for It. leaving no power
of amendment IN the house. no prosecu-
tions could have been entered except
under Correction % the attorney gen.
eral," thereby initiating prosecutions ut
Washington. with results which all may
well understand: first, OF delay. and. sec
ondly, that for the most part the central
office CT the department of Justice M
Washington would net know what waa
going on and therefore would not initiate
or direct"
Not the Scst Bill.
The bin as now modified strikes out
the words on lines 13 and II of page 5.
under direction of the attorney gen.
eral." and leaves the district attorneys OF
the United States to proceed to prosecute
without waiting for orders from Wash
ington. Then. Mr.. Speaker the word
duly" has been stricken out and sat
isfactory" put In It's place in line IA ON
page 3. because the latter word was
thought to be more liberal In tho direc-
tlon of the remedy desired
Now. MIR. Speaker. this ig not the bes;
bill that the Democratic party could pre-
sent to the country upon this subject
II is not as good bin as the minority
members Of the committee on Interstate
and foreign commerce, who the other
day slgnalized their devotion to the best
interests of the country by leading this
side of the house 10 the course that II
took. could prepare. but IL is the best
bill we can get now and 1t has been so
nearly pcrfo cted in every respect that we
do not feel that we can stand In tho
pathway of the proposed legislation so
important In every way.
Mr.. Speaker. the Democracy never per-
formed more signal service to the coun-
try; the Democratic members of the in
terstate and foreign commerce committee
never performed a more signal service To
the country than they did the other day
when they refused to be stampcdcd by
the cry that they were opposing Il six
teen hour law" and defeated the suspcn-
sion of the rules. so that the house might
get what IL now hasa better bill.
And, I repeat, ! am glad to hear the
gentleman from Pennsylvania lMr Dali
zelll justify our conduct by telling the
house how mtch better this bill is than
the one which tho other side of this
chamber, guided by their leaders, tried
on Monday last to cram down our
throats without any power of amendment
or of betterment
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-03-09
Abundantly Occupied.

''Do you think the Inhabitants o,
Mars are trying to converse with ua?'
Perhaps they are answered The
professor, but with the trust question
and so many other problems OF It's
own to settle, do rot 500 why Iris
earth should devote its time to gos
siping about the universe"
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-03-09

"The way to get thing done prop.
.rly,' remarked the home grown phi
losopher. lis to do 1t yourself"
That's where YOU go lame" reioin.
ed the man with the absent hair ''rhe
proper way Is TO let your wife do IT,
Then she can't say, \ told you so' -
Chicago News.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-03-09
A Stupendous Farce.

The senate of the United States Is
the self styled "most august legislative
body on earth" That 1t Is only part
OF any legislative body is the truth.
but let that so. When the senate sets
rs head, It can pull of bigger farce
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-03-09
Cause Of His cead iisalth.

Mrs. Wilcox says vile should rut
love into every kiss she gives her hus.
pand Quito SO. quite SO. And also
into the bread. the rteaks. the soups
and the apple saucc.-The Coumoner.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-03-09
A Good Example,

Ex-Governor w. J. Northen Of Geor-
gia deserves well mt the hands Of his
countrymen for his efforts in favor of
law and order. Every good man and
woman everywhere will wish him
well, not that there is more violation
of law and infraction of order in Geor.
gia than elsewhere, because there Is
too much of both in every state and
country under the sun. Governor
Northen sets a fine example to other
eminent nen, which, let us hope, will
be followed by many.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-03-09
St. Charles Banner. News Philosophy

st. Charles Banner News Philosophy.
When ] was a boy back in the hill
country of Kentucky one of the ia.
vorite copies" set for us by the Old
field schoolmaster was. MANY men
of many minds"--which Is true. 1t Is
also true that there are many ways
OF expressing an idea beneficial to
mankind. The st. Charles Banner
News IL one of the sprightlest papers
In my district. Recently it contained
This suggestive editorial paragraphs:
The man who has placed fine walks
around his House on the inside OF the
fence, but who has neglected to place
any walks on the outside where the gen
erai public might have n share OF his
convenience viii never be guilty Of
planting apple trees along the public
highway SO that after his death the
weary traveller may partake OF the fruit
and shade. Upon his gravestone nobody
VIII have the nerve to carve, "lIe loved
his fellow men"
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-03-09

with more eclat than any other body
on earth, legislative or otherwise. bar
none. When II comes TO farces. it not
only takes the cake. but the entire bak
cry. Its latest achievement in this
line Is the Reed Smoot case. For three
or four years several grave and rcver-
end seigniors have kept themselves in
the limelight by spasmodically and
frequently informing an expectant
world precisely what they were about
% do to Smoot. The shouting Of the
captains. the sounding of the tofntoms,
The rubadub of the drums. were some
thing awful. The result will recall to
classical scholars the lines, 'l'artuii-
unit montes: ridiculus mus est (rhc
mountains are in labor: Il ridiculous
mouse Is horn. True. Horace puts the
verb in the future tcrse. and change
it to the present tense 40 3s to make
" III the case. for the ridiculous mouse
IN born, the Smoot mouse. Senator
Julius Caesar Burrows thundered at
Smoot. Willie Smoot smiled. 1slie Mich
igan j. G. cannot repeat the proud
boast of the mighty J. c. and say.
'Ncni. yidl. vicf'-not by n jugful. He
should make his saying thus: IL came,
saw, | was wallopcd." And where
fore? Why will Smoot serve out his
term? Because Senator Marcus A.
Hanna entered into an alliance. often
sivc and defensive, with the Mormon
apostles, which alliance subsists to this
day and which has all along been
Smoots shield and buckler. There
never was any more chance TO fire him
from the senate than there is to raise
cotton profitably on Greenland's ley
mountains
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-03-09

Miss Phoebe 'Couzins, ey-Unlted
States marshal for the eastern district
of Missouri, dissents toto caelo from
G. C.s structures on old bachelors and
thinks that they are the proper thing
Miss Phoebe Is Il fine, intelligent WON.
an and uses our vernacular with force
and precision. A debate betwixt her
and the sage OF Princeton would add
very much to the gayety of nations.
with the chances of victory favoiing
Miss Phoebe. BY all means let us
have the debate.
The prolonged battle of the Rhode
Island money bags for n seat In the
senate of the United States makes a
patriots gorge rise and is dsgrnce
10 the republic. Nobody claims that
the candidates have any particular
qualification for hte place, and IT
Messrs. Wetmore and Colt were poor
men they never would have been
thought Of In that connection, and yer
this is the land of equal opportunities,
so called,
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-12-13

A pine tree stands in Maine or Yer
mont today-stands proudly, as though
defying time. Tomorrow it falls and goes
to the capital of Toyland. The next day
it comes out as lot of little horses.
Winchendon is the medium OF trans
formation. 1t is the magic land to Juve-
nile minds. 1t is the single stopping
place between the forest, the mines and
the cattle which roam the fields, and the
shops which supply many OF the children
Of America with their playthings. -,
Hundreds of men and boys and girls
work six days a week to keep the chill
dren of the United States in a good hui
NOR with toys At Winchendon there
are 43O employed, and from October up
to the middle of December they are
working at top speed to supply the
Christmas trade.
Perhaps, in a child's dreams, there
comes a picture of some such realm OF
happiness as the place of manufacture at
Winchendon. For think of four acres OF
floor space given over entirely to the
making of every sort of toy! That Is
the extent of the big toy factory there.
Dolls trunks, bureaus, rocking horses.
picture and alphabetical blocks. dolls
houses. wagons, arks, washboards and
blackboards eat up a small forest every
YEAR The Winchendon factory uses IN
fhe making of toys 100000 feet Of pine,
GOO, 900 feet of chestnut and about l,50O,-
600 feet of casing boards every u months:
If all the drums made at the capital OF
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-12-13

young rocking horse look like charger
seeming the battle and waiting eagerly
for the trumpets. But, alas for the
source of many of our proudest posses
sions. They were once the tails of cows;
but they've been cleaned thoroughly,
made entirely sanitary and touched up.
If a horse is to be painted, he gets his
coat from a sort of spray. This gives
him the jaunty, spotted appearance so
popular with the chargers for children.
Some people have called it "dapple
gray"
If the horse doesn't fit tightly into his
rockers he is given shoes. These, too, are
made in the factory, right from the rough
metal to the last polishing. A great
many of the modern rocking horses are
mounted on swinging rockers with their
feet free as though in flight.
It is something of trick to make the
rockers. Only the finest of wood would
stand the strain, and each piece has to
be put in sort of mold to be shaped
in the steaming chamber. This operation
takes about five hours. When the rock
ers are dried they retain the shape given
them by the heavy molds.
As many as 500 horses will be drawn
up in lines at one time in the Winchen-
don factory. They look impatient to be
off, for they are all designed to give the
of action.
They have to go to far Australia for
parts of the drums. These are the sheep
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-12-13

time, it gave the icicles a very glitterlng
appearance. and the wind, commencing to
blow. shook them gently, making. the
illusion more perfect. Then long, bright
ribbons of many colors were suspended
from the topmost limbs and fruit and
candies tied on with ribbons of the same
color-oranges with orange ribbon, ap-
pies with red ribbon, lines with green
ribbon, etc. Small toys were suspended
from the tree; large ones were at the
base. 1t presented very gorgeous spec
tacle, and the sight of the happy chii-
dren that surrounded it made one wish
to be a child again to enjoy 1t to the
uttermost But the best was yet to come.
an the front yard were the presents
intended for the grown people, and each
man received one. One was fine surrey.
Five were each given fifty and sevent-hve
dollar saddles. Several married men got
handsome metal bedsteads, with springs
and mattresses. Twenty or thirty, fine
hats, costing 81 apiece, were distributed
and many other articles, all the best OF
their kind. / saw young man who re-
ceiyed an all leather suit case. ms last
item NAV seem strange on ranch but
there are many polished gentlemen
among the employees who would consider
sniff eases very necessary should they
have occasion to visit the city.
"AIl this while music was to be heard
from n band stationed on the front
porch. where many of the visitors were
seated. After the Santa Claus OF the
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-12-13

nswly-born horses until their surfaces are
smooth ~ velvet, by means OF sand belts,
10 prevent the pitch in the wood from
ever coming out and spelling the horse
as a toy, the bodies are vanished with
what is practically liquid glass. All the
knots and uneven places in the body are
filled with putty before this Is done, so
that the horse Is ready for its skin or It's
paint.
There is an aristoeracy in the rocking
horse world. These have skins. They
are the nobility Of their species. Ihe
skins are usually fawn or a dark brown
or a red that is something like the color
of Durham cow. Such rocking horses
can't he had for s. or $40 note. They
cost from sl7 TO $50.
Their skin is grated on. That Is 10
say, il once belonged 10 the young OF the
COW species-it is Skunk calf" as the
trade calls il. And this sort OF skin Is
necessarily scarce. The Winehendon fac
tory takes the entire output of the larg'
est cattle dealer in New Hampshire, and
then can't get enough.
The skin is stretched tightly over the
wooden body Of the horse and tackled on.
The eyes are put in; the elaborately
wedged saddle cloth goes on; the saddle
and bride, with the curb bit and jaunty
decorations follow. Then come the name
and the tail,
Now these are Of real hair. Usually,
they are gray in color, dashed with brown
and black, as becomes a spirited thor
1ughbred. Sometimes they are black.
Wavy and flowing they make fine
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-12-13

Toyland each year were placed one on top
OF the other, they would reach into the
air 81 IL miles. II they were placed side
by side on the ground they would
stretch for "a miles,
Think, too, OF shaft made OF toy
trunks reaching "a miles into the clouds.
Or line OF them stretching ~ miles
across country Yet these would only
represent one years output of trunks at
the Winchendon factory. They make
more than mile of tiny metal drums
every day, too.
Ii all the casing boards used in one
years shipping of toys from Winchendon
were made into single ease, whole
mile of Washington street stores and
buildings could be placed in that case
and there would still be room to shake
them around For the case would be $3.50
feet long, 100 feet wide and 20 feet high.
There isn't part OF any of the toys
that come from the capital OF Toylpd
which is not made there. From the raw
material TO the alluring finished product,
every portion OF the work of manufac.
ture is done in the Winchendon factory
by clever hands and machinery designed
cunningly and specially for one particular
function. Painting, cutting, printing
lithogaphing polishing, pasting-every'
thing is done in the Winchendon fac
tories.
This is the way horse is made. First
II is tree. The capital of Toyland is
supplied by its own mills from its own
forests, with pine and chestnut and
maple. The tree is sawed into planks Of
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-12-13

considerable thickness; these are cut up
into blocks of about a couple of feet IN
length.
Those blocks that are absolutely clear
of knots go into one pile to be cut up
for the toys which require perfect wood.
The rougher blocks make the bodies OF
the rocking horses. These glued together
form the first rough foundation, and from
this shapeless bulk grows the nicely
rounded body of the horse.
There is machine that is almost hui
man for this sharpening The body of a
wooden horse revolves at one end OF 1t
and each revolution so regulates the
knives at the other end of the machine
that they cut out of the block of wood
the exact counterpart of the perfect
original. No man need watch it except
in placing the block in position and TAX
ing it off when finished. The machine
does the work as though possessed of
human intelligence.
A similar machine turns out the legs
of the animals. A perfectly cut model
guides the knives to cut from the rough
wood a counterpart.
Machines also make the heads-with
the single exception of one feature. That
is the lines about the nostrils. No ma
chine can do this work, and an expert
with a file finishes the nostrils of each
head. Then the body, head and legs
are put together.
After that couple of men polish the
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-12-13

sistant had placed on the stape in front
oil the sleeping girl nice green Christ.
mas tree, purchased without much ado
IRON the vender on the corner o,hars
liad hurriedly, brought little red, white
o aIu que candles, strings of popcorn, tin.
a,, anu candy hearts, which We're quickly
amI 1, to the boughs of the cedar.
WINE TINS was going on Tony was giving
oiuels IN rapid succession, as follows:
. quick, there, Jennie; bring that BIG
Oossack coat with the fur all around the
edges, Bill, run for those boots, Hurry
now Somebody get me AN old mans wig.
long white hair, mind you, and a beard,
There. that's just the thing. Here, Won
all stand back in the shadow. Now, girls,
sing softly the music that goes with the
entrance OF the queens barge in the star.
lght. That's it-just little softerl"
The sound of celestial music filled the
place. II was dark save where the
twnkling lights of the Christmas tree
Illuminated the figure of the merry Santa
Claus standing alongside, with his kindly
face turned toward the slowly awakening
child. She opened her eyes, blinked them
again from the light sat straight, rubbed
her eyes with her tiny fists, stirred her
self and then, settling back in the big
chair. sobbed aloud. Jumping down from
the stage, the Santa Claus took her on
his lap and tightly held her in his arms.
What's the matter, little oney Don't
you see that Santa Claus has come to
take care of you?
yes, | know, dear Santa. but | am
crying because l am afraid III wake up
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-12-13
CHRISTMAS ON TAFT's RANCH.
a Growing Tree Decorated With the
Usual Holiday Adornments.

Secretary OF War Taft is part owner
OF one of the largest ranches in Texas,
the Colcman.futon ranch, so.called, d
lao'0oO acre farm" II miles from Corpus
christi on the San Antonio and Arkansas
Pass railroad. One hundred men are al.
ways. and 25O men sometimes employed
on it,
Il was SO fortunate as TO have the
pleasure OF seeing unique Christmas
tree ON this ranch" writes Mary Elise
Muncey in the st, Louis Globe. Democrat.
Christmas morning, though warm, was
ioggy, and slow rain fell, but by Y
o'clock the sun came out, and the PEG.
pie ut the ranch house began TO make
their preparations, Ever since early
morning the employees from the different
farms had been coming in. All kinds of
vehicles were pressed into service. Some
came on horseback and some on foot.
There were many children.
Il saw what | had never seen before,
a growing Christmas tree. just in front
OF the house was large mulberry tree.
The ladies of the house came out about
2 O'Clock and decorated the tree, with the
assistance of some of the men. Even the
men required stepladders to reach the
top-most boughs. First the ladies gave
them some artificial icicles, which they
hung on the branches in great profusion.
As the sun was shining brightly by this
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-12-13
is THERE A SANTA CLAUS?
An Answer to the Little Virginias Of
Yesterday and Today.

We take pleasure in answering at once
and thus prominently the communication
below, expressing at the same time our
great qualification that its faithful author
is numbered among the friends of The
Sun:
Dear Editor: l am s years old.
Some of my little friends say there is
no Santa Claus.
Papa says IF you see it in The Sun
it's So"
Please tell me the truth; is there a
Santa Claus? Virginia O'Hanlon.
lis West Ninety-Fifth street.
Virginia, your little friends are wrong.
They have been affected by the scepti-
cism of a sceptical age. They do not be-
lieve except they see. They think that
| sible by their little minds. All minds,
Virginia, whether they be mems or chill
dren's, are little. In this great universe
| of ours man is mere insect, an ant, in
his intellect, as compared with the bound
less world about him, as measured by
the intelligence capable of grasping the
whole of truth and knowledge.
Yes, Virginia, there is Santa Claus.
He exists as certainly as love and gen.
crosby and devotion exist, and you know
that they abound and give to your life
its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how
dreary would be the world if there were
no Santa Claus! 1t would be as dreary
as if there were no Virginias. There
would be no childlike faith then, no
poetry, no romance to make tolerable this
except in sense and sight. The eternal
light with which childhood fills the
world would be extinguished.
Not believe in Santa Claus! You might
as well not believe in fairies You might
get your papa to hire men to watch in all
the chimneys on Christmas eve to catch
Santa Claus, but even if they did not see
Santa Claus coming down, what would
that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus,
but that is no sign that there is no Santa
Claus. The most real things in the world
are those that neither children nor men
can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing
on the lawn? Of course not, but that's
no proof that they are not there. No
body can conceive or imagine all the
wonders there are unseen and unseeable
in the world.
You mayo tear apart the baby's rattle
and see what makes the noise inside,
but there is a veil covering the unseen
world which not the strongest man, nor
even the united strength of all the
strongest men that ever lived, could tear
apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love,
can push aside that curtain and
view and picture the supernal beauty and
glory beyond. Is it all real? All, Vir-
yinia, in all this world there is nothing
Else real and abiding.
No Santa Claus Thank God! he lives,
md he lives forever. A thousand years
rom now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten
thousand years from now, he will con-
inue to make glad the heart of child
lood.-New York Sun.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-12-13
THE CAPITAL OF TOYLAND.
Where Santa Claus Gets His Gifts for
Little Folks.

Capital of the kingdom of Toyland is
Winchendon, Mass. From this capital
come millions and millions of toys every
year to delight the hearts of children
place in the world.
Every year an army of 10000 gaily be.
decked chargers prance from the gates of
the capital of Toyand. Look TO the
capital of Toyland, again, for drum
rackets. Look to Winchendon. There
are from 100000 to 100000 drums sent
out for the joy of the youth OF America
every year. More than 100000 of them
come from Winchendon-big drums with
sheepskin heads, little drums with metal
heads, drums of all colors, designs and
noise capacity.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-12-13
Strange Christmas Superstition.

In north Germany person must ho'
spin during the II nights of Christmas
lest he or she should walk after death,
nor after sunset on Saturday, for then
mice will eat the work. If it is desired
70 have money and luck all the year
round. one must not fail to eat herrlngs
on New Years day, nor if you wish to De
lucky must you rock an empty crad ne
or spill salt wantonly or cross KNIVES OF
point at the stars. Ii a dirty ciotH y
left on the table over Christmas hisn,
it will make the angels weep y viii vii
make make the angels feet bleed, and if you
taIlr of cabbages while looking at the
moon moo YOU will hurt the feelings OF the
man in it.-Tit-Bits.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-12-13
Vacations as Christmas Presents.

In a letter to the employees of the
Bourne mills of Fall River, Mass, an
nouncing the regular profit sharing divi-
dend on Dec. "a last, Treasurer George. A.
Chase said: "The board of directors has
unanimously authorized me to announce
to you the experiment of vacation week
in August, 1907. The mills will close
Aug. "a and reopen Sept. 8, thus allowing
you 10 days OF rest and recreation. In
lieu of regular pay you will get an ex-
ira dividend on your wages, payable Just
before the vacation, to the amount OF %
per cent. of the average weekly wages
This promise was faithfully kept.