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Rcana rnd seeds

No new features are visible in the Bean mar
ket and quotations remain unchanged.
BFANS-Per ctl: Rayos. s2@2.40; Pea. S36
S.25: small White. s.. T5G12 90; large White 81
q250i Pink. 81 .S5M2.15: Rec. s2.5062. 50 =;
Lirnas. $4.25G435: Red Kidneys. S3.5003. so:
Buckeyes. 81 .4o@4.60; Butter, nominal at So so
"a.
SEEDS-B-own Mustard 81 25a4 so: Yellow
Mustard. nominal: Flaxseed. So: Canary. 41SM
sc: Alfalfa. 13c; Rape. 1m315c: Timothy. 5M
SIC; Hemp. sc per III: Millet, SIC: Broom
Corn Seed. s1S620 per ton.
DRIED PEAS-Niles, nominal; Green Peas
$2-50Q2.75 per ctl.
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Meat Market


The past week has been very firm. with
stocks light and the wet weather and niry
roads retarding the interior movement of stock.
DRESSED MEATS
BEEF-61s G71ac per lb for Steers and 69615c
for Cows
vEAL-s@ohc for large and sA @sAc for
small
MUTToN-1o@11c for wethers and s1s a
1013c for Ewes.
LAsfB-1l912c per ID for yearlings and 15c
for Spring.
DRESSED HOGS-102111kc per 1b.
LIVESTOCK MARKET
The following quotations are for good. sound
livestock. delivered in San Francisco. less so
per cent shrnkage for Cattle:
CATTLE-Steers. III 6Sc per lb for No and
7@71Sc for No. q Cows and Heifers, &c; No.
Cows. 5@5Hc: thin Cows. 415@5c-
CALVES-5c per lb for light 4I5c for me-
dium and SIC for heavy (gross weightl.
SHFEP-Wethers, 5ia acc per ID; Ewes, 59
SIC (gross weight).
LAMBS-6@61Sc per lb.
HoGS-100 to $50 lbs. 71Sc per ID; over 1s0
lbs. 6% @TAc; Boars 30 per cent, Stays 3o940
per cent and Sows 10@2o per cent OF from
above quotations.
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Send for My
Market Letter

have spent the past week In Gold
field and feel very confident Of the sit
uation there. Goldfield has been max
ing history and will have something
to say about it in my market letter
next week. Every one who has been
getting my market letters knows that
have been right in all my predictions
of the market from the time when Sill
yer Pick was selling at % cents and
Mohawk at $3.50. | now am lust as
sure that I can pick out the stocks
that will have the advance during the
next few months as was six months
ago, when / named the winners then.
n sending my private market letter
free, but to get it you will have TO
have your name on my mailing list.
Send your name and address.
A. j. MOORE
Rooms 20 and 80. Bacon Block
Oakland. Cal
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The market continues steady, with supplies
not excessive and all quotations unchanged.
CURED MEATS-Bacon. 14hc per ID for
heavy, i415c for light medium. Ice for light
cured; Dry Salt sides 1s%e: Bellies isc: East
ern sugar-cured Hams. i6h@16%c; California
Hams. lee: Mess Beef. 80 per bbl: extra Mess.
extra clear, s23: Mess s1e; Pig Pork. $26:
Pigs Feet. IS: Smoked Beef, lac per h.
IARD-Tferces quoted at &c for California
compound, 9%c for Eastern compound and 11Ac
for pure; half-barrels. pure. 12c; 12-lb tins.
121c: 5-lb tins, 12xc: BIB tins. 12%c.
COTTOLENE-One haif-barrel. 1014c: three
half-barrels. 1o&c: one tierce, 10Hc; two
tierces, 10hc; five tierces. 10c
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WOULD PREVENT MARRIAGE
OF THE MENTALLY DEFICIENT

SALT LAKE, Utah. Jan 12.-Dr. T.
B. Beatty. secretary Of the State Board
of Health, in his annual report on
health conditions in this State. recon-
mends that state legislation be enacted
to prevent the marriages of persons
mentally deficient and incapable of the
burdens of the marriage state bill
embodying the doctors views will be
introduced in the Legislature
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LOCAL MARKETS
Exchange and Bullion
Silver was &c lower.
INTERNATIONAL
Wheat and Other Crain.

WHEAT-Freights continue to weaken and
yesterday It was reported on Change that ships
could be secured at 16d17s. This is a severe
drop from the recent rate Of 22s Cd 1t is
thinning out the available tonnage. as ships are
already leaving port In ballast to load coal at
Australian ports. The decline enables shippers
20 export al $1-221a for Wheat. but they cannot
get the grain at this figure, the shipping trade
continues at standstill. There is very fair
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Financial summary

NEW YORK. Jan. l2.-Logan a Bryan s sun
mfrv saTs.
NO confirmation Of rumors Of new financing
d. Canadian Pacihc. Considerable transfer OF
nited Steel from London market 10 New YORK
Obstacles 70 6 Der cent basis 10 Atchison be
ieTed be- removed aud increase In April eN-
pected Return Of n. :. Treasury deposits may
he further post poned. Banks gained on week 8
currency movement S11.171 300 Decision In
case of Great Northern stock issue not expected
fOT Two weeks -
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Eastern livestock Market
CHICAGO

CHICAGO Jan. I2-CATTLE-R Receipts. 400:
market steady. Beeves, S4.20@7.15; cows and
heifers. sl-eo@5.25; stockers and feeders, s2.eo@
4s5: calves. S6dS.25.
HoGS-Receipts, le, 900: market steady Mixed
ds.55: rough heavy. Sc e2og6 30; Hight, $4,000
s.4TlS pigs. $5.7o@6-25; bulk Of sales, $500
$50
SHEEP P-Receipts. 1000: market steady. Sheep,
S3.60@5.75; lambs 81 30 G7.55.
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CASH Grain and Provisions

CHICAGO. Jan. Cash quotations were as
follows: Flour. steady: winter patents S3.204
$50: strsights S3dS 40; spring patents. s.. 70G
$50; straights S3.loG 40: bakers. s. 2o@2. go
No spring wheat 16d 79c: No. ?. Goa Use;
No. red. II 5s q aT2asc; No. ? corn; 4o5ze: 10
5sit Eo v-bfte S5SSaec No . re s.se
fair TO choice mailing barley. 49d5Jc; No /
haKsced. $ll3l5; No. Northwestern, sl.2ol9
prime timothy seed. 81 clover. contract
grades S14: short ribs. sides floosel. IS. 50d
s.sTl1: pork. per bbl. $3.50: lard. per 100
lbs. 50 DO short clear sides (boxed). S9.12H a
937k; whisky basis Of high wines 81 %
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New York COTTON Market

NEW YORK. Jan. 12.-The market was 10
to p points lower. The enormous spinners' tax =
ines justify the belief In a fun absorption
Of all the spinnable cotton that viii come on
the market before any supply from the next
crop is available. The course Of the market
viii depend on the ability and intention Of the
Southern farmer 10 sell at current prices. Al
most every evidence points 10 continuation Of
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Cnndifion of fhe Trennnrr

WASHINGTON. Jan. 12.-Todays statement
OF the Treasury balances in the general fund
shows: Available cash balance. S242. I50. .204:
gold coin and bullion s1O4 .2SI. .557; gold certih
Gates S54. .463 30.
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nuffer. Cheese and E-rr

CHICAGO. Jan f2.-On the Produce Exchange
today the butter market weak; ereame-ies.
p q 29c: dairies. 20G27c. Eggs. steady; at
marx cases included y Csc; frsts. DC: prime
nrsts. 2zc. extras, 2sc. Cheese. steady. 13114c.
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Now York Metal Market

NEW YORK, jan 1.-THE metal markets
were quiet as usual In the absence Of London
cables Tin was more or less nominal at Sal q
41.25. The situation in copper continues very
firm and lake is quoted at s242 425d25; electro
lytic, S24d24.50; casting. $24G24.25. Lead Is
firm at S666.30, and spelter at SS45@S.75.
Iron barely steady az recent prices.
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Northern Mheat Market

PORTLAND. Jan. l2-WHEAT-Club. 666 |
&c; bluesfem. 6sG6ec: red. 64165c; valley, 6Gc /
WASHINGTON
TACOMA. Jan. 12.-WHEAT-Unchanged 1
bluestem. Csc: club e6c; red. &c.
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ueel.Ir Rnnk CIcarInEs
EAsTERN MARkETs

Local hank clearings last week were S4o.svI,
Io9 against Sal 76S. .634 for the same Weeh i"s'
wear gain OF s.. l32. $50. or 81 per cent
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MISCELLANEOUS MARKETS
Foreign Futures
st. Louis Wool Marked

ST LOUIS. Jan. 12.-wOOL-Steady: medium
grades. combing and clothing. 24d2S1ac; light
fine 20M23c; heavy fine, 16@1Sc; tub washed,
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London Closing stocks

Bar silver-Quiet; $3.50 per ounce
Money-35k asa per cent
The rate Of discount in the open market for
short bills is 5d5h per cent and for three
months bills 5@51k per cent.
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THE COPPER STOCKS
BOSTON. Jan. 12.-Copper Range the
whole thing in the market today. the buying
coming from all over the country. Public In
terest In coppers is tremendous People have
made tremendous profits in all the coppers, such
as Iamarack and Quincy. and Range is about
the only Of the good dividend payers which
has Jagged behind the market. Traders are pre-
dieting higher prices FOR Copper Range, Tam
arack. Osceola and Centennial
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N~.- y.-rh Money Market

Nes- York Money Market
NEW YORK. Jan. I2.-Prime mereanthe Ps
per. 6G6la per cent. ,
sterling exchange. steady with sexual business
IN bankers bills at Ss.S475@s. .e5o5 Tor demand
and al s. s04O04 $3.50 for sixty day bllls-
Posted rates. SAL and Ss.e514.
Commercial bills. S4.SOL-
Bar silver. 6Sasc.
Mexican dollars. .
Bonds- -Gorernmenfs. easier; railroad bonds
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Proyfsfous

13Q15c for amber: do. extracted. 61S@75c for
water white and 51z acc for amber.
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Nnu Nork stock LIsr

r p Hutton & Co. 49O California street.
members of the New York STOCK Exchange,
Furnish the following list Of bond and stock
sales yesterday:
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Mining Stocks
OK EXCHANGE
COAfSTOCKS

SAN FRANCISCO STOCK EXCHANGE
Following were the sales on the San francisco
Stock and Exchange Board yesterday:
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Unlisted Securities
zrvcf~rTT MEATS DnGnl
MISCELLANEOUS STOCKS
SALES
Morning Session
California etock anc OH Exchange

80 y Cal Power ................. IS 90
IS. 600 Pacific Gas & Electric 5s.....- 81 80
$3, 900 Pacific Gas & Electric 5s...... 81 %
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NEVADA
ronopah District

Fmu crk Co. -s.5ol S Eureka n %
Furn Crk Ex. 7ol
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New YORK Stock List. Continued
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-26
Awaiting a Decision

The North Carolina and the Mime sota rate cases were argued together before the United States supreme court, and it is more. than probable that the forthcoming decision in the two cases will clear up the muddle in Alabama. In Minnesota the war between the state and the railroads became so hot and bitter that the at torney general was thrust into prison for contempt of court, and the most that Alabama has done in that direc- tion was to start Solicitor Steagall in that direction.
 A short waiting spell will give us law enough, no doubt, fresh from the court of last resort to let us all see which way the cat is going to jump.
 Let us not, however, anticipate, for any Monday may see a decision handed down that will profoundly af. feet every state, and, therefore, every citizen, in the. country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-26
TRUE RANGE OF READING
From the Kansas City Star.

From the Kansas City Star
 Mir H. G. Wells the English sociologist finds fault with Boston's culture as being builded too much on the past. The Eng llshman makes the sapient observation that no man or community can know all of literature and absorb all of culture With this premise he concludes that Boston filled up about the year 1873" It has had no capacity for the advance made since, no interests in the later as- pirations and achievements of science sociology or literature.
 This witty protest is not i'll timed "Cul- ture" in these days falls pretty general ly into two divisions Either it is ex- cessively jejune and modern, yaluing nothing in learning, philosophy. poetry, etc., if 1t has been "superseded" by some- thing newer, or else it is classical plum ing itself on having no sympathy with the thought and feeling of its own time. It is illuminative that Mr. Wells, who sees the antique mote in the Boston eye, misses the beam of modernity in his own. For this writer. with much the same spirit denoted by George Bernard Shaw, 0Ouil IOlStOl anu OlueTS IS SD 11lenC on the present and future that models of the past in literature. in government and in social forms would be treated by him ss negligible quantities, even if they should not be regarded as examples of what to avoid.
 Yet for culture such as may be assirn- Hated by reading, the fortunate man is he whose capacities and inclination lead him into the fields both of settled achievement and of the aspiring strug- gle that denotes current feeling. Neither old nor new literature should be neglect ed The immense domain of books should daunt no one For no man ever yet-unless it was MT. Wells fanciful Boston litterateur-could compass the whole range of writing of any period. A reader would have to pick and cull in any event. and he should so arrange his reading, should so expand his sympa- thies, that no period of thought and ex- pression was closed to him. Because MT. Bernard Shaw, of this epoch, has drawn a clever picture of Cleopatra as a young girl of Is, one should not close one's eyes to the beauties of the matured Cleopatra of Shakespeares drama. Nor because much of our literature Is social istic-or dldactically sociologic-sh we assume with MT. Ernest Crosby of London that Shakespeare was unfair to the laboring man, or with the Rev. MT. Charles Ferguson of Kansas City that Shakespeare has no lesson for us today. Of the making of books there was no end even in Solomon's day-it is cheer ing to note-and million or two volumes more counts for little. The reader, to get the most out of life--as life Is inter- preted to him in books-must be catholic in taste and research. He must furnish from his own consciousness the tie that binds past and present and future and that runs through all their tollsome yet beautiful gradations
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-26

each man within a radius of two miles could walk to his place of business, and he should do it. There are no exceptions in the cases of men equipped with two sound legs.
 Now, what is good in Chicago is good in Birmingham and in every other town in the land. Dr. Evans declares well-maintained pedestrianism almost a specific" against the two dread dis eases of this country. These diseases prevail among the sedentary, and he is endeavoring to induce all men who work in stores and offices to be good to themselves by walking to and from their homes. All engaged in an indoor occupation should walk. and walking in good, fresh air would not harm even those who work out of doors.
 Dr. Evans does not stand alope in his profession in this matter. All physicians will uphold him in his ad- vice-walk more and ride less. A walk of two miles in the morning and an other at night will enable one to es- cape pneumonia and consumption un- less indeed he is predisposed to them in a peculiar degree.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-26
A SCHOOL PLEA FOR SALOONS

From the NeW 1Olh W oiid.
 Save the saloon to save our schools!' might be the slogan in Alabama of the most remarkable anti-prohibition cam paign on record Five hundred women from Mobile lead at Montgomery the fight for the maintenance of the licensed bar. They represent society, literature and the church, and ask the state senate to Kill the general prohibition measure which has passed the house.
 Mobile has a fine school system. To its support goes $S0000 year derived from liquor licenses. If the law destroys the rum traffic" this income will be wiped out and, as the women say, 4SoO school children will feel the ill-effects.
 From the total abstinence point of view a wide field opens here for discussion of the use of tainted money. The argu- ment is obvious that 1t were better to educate children modssty on state pit tance than pretentiousay on the price of the fathers temptation. Moreover, the temperance statisticians will be prepared to show that under prohibition the say ings on criminal procedures will at least offset the loss in license fees.
 As they are represented, the women of Mobile are out not for ethics, but for in come. If they plead the failure of pro- hibition in Kansas and Maine, along with the wretched results of abolishing the army canteens. 1t will be but incidentally. In New York, where we merely use the Raines-law license fees to keep Grand Old Party In good moral standing "up the state," we are amply prepared to sit in judgment over this Alabama episode.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-26
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Lluuor In Ireland.

''I visited the Emerald Isle recently and was greatly interested in the tenn perance movement in progress there. said man of Irish ancestry. T saw very little drunkenness in Ireland, but one cannot question the accuracy of gov ernment reports. It seems that the amount of money paid for liquor In the last fiscal year was considerably in ex- cess of the total of G3,000 600 paid for farm rents. While, as I say. drunkenness is not in evidence in Ireland, on the contrary one seldom sees a man under the influence of whisky, the fact remains that the quanty of liquor imbibed is too large from our economic point of view to say the least. One of the bishops has taken up the matter and is pushing total abstenence crusade. It Is so suc- cessful that conservative estimates place the decrease in the liquor traffic in Ire land at 50 per cent within the next 12 months. The prohibition idea does not seem to have struck Great Britain. And after all the best way to stop the whisky evil is to get at the individual and use moral suasion on him. Total abstinence is a practical thing. Prohibition may be practical in small towns, but it Is diff ties. I have been total abstainer for many years, and do all can to persuade my friends to adopt my plan-cut out whisky where it proves an individual in- jury"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-26
Christmas at Trinidad

Trinidad may be said to be the southern end of the West Indian isl ands. Across the Serpent's mouth lies the continent of South America at point about the delta of the ormlco. The distance to the mainland may be 20 miles, and the island lies on the 10th parallel. Tobago, small island, Is near at hand. Both Tobago and Trinidad belong to Great Britain, and the two islands contain 1868 square miles and 215, ,000 people. The Port Of Spain is the capital of Trinidad, and it is a town and port of about 40,O00 people and in it is centered much Of the English trade to and from the up- per portion of South America. This is it's chief distinction, and Trinidad's chief feature is it's supply of asphalt. From it's lakes is drawn the material used in all parts of the world for paving and roofing purposes.
 Here at the Port of Spain, cele- brated for its extensive gardens, the 15,0O0 men of the white fleet spent Christmas, and they will lie in the harbor three or four days longer. The climate is delightful at this season of the year; the little city Is clean and comfortable, and all speak the tongue including the numerous ne- groes. No doubt the stay in the an- cient harbor will be greatly enjoyed by the men and officers of of the fleet, and British hospitality will be freely extended to them.
 When the fleet steams out Of the Port of Spain it will not see land again until it reaches Rio, where it is due January II. It will drop anchors there in one of the four most beautiful harbors in the world, the other three being Naples, Sydney and New York.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-26
DISCOVERY OF COFFEE.
'om the Dundee Advertiser.

+4 IoDl tIe )uDuct <AuNtTt1S6T.
 Near the middle of the fifteenth century a poor Arab was travelling through Abyssinia, and. finding himself weary and weak from fatigue, he stopped near a grove then, being in want of fuel to cook his rice, he cut down a tree, which happened to be covered with dead berries. His meal being cooked and eaten, the traveller discovered that the half burned ber- ries were very fragrant. He collected number of them, and, on crushing them with a stone, he found that their aroma increased to a great extent. While wondering at this he accidentally let fall the substance into the can which contained his scanty supply of waterloo! what a miracle. The nearly putrid water was almost instantly purified. He raised it to his lips it was fresh, agreeable, and in a moment the traveller had so far recovered his strength and energy as to be able to resume his journey. The lucky Arab gathered as many of the berries as he could and having arrived at Alden, in Arabia. he informed the multi of his discovery That worthy divine was an inveterate opium smoker, and had suf- fered for years from the influence of that poisonous drug. He tried an in- fusion of the roasted berries and was so delighted at the recovery of his own vigor tbAt in gratitude to the tree he called 1t cahuah, which In Arabia sig nifies force"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-26
Dinqleyism AssaIled

If the republican party were sin report and pass Senator Johnston's 8 bill, which provides that whenever 1t is shown to the President that the market price of any article manufac- tured in the United States Is 25 per cent higher than the market price of a like article in foreign country and that the wages paid to labog for manufacturing the article in question in the United States are not 25 per cent greater than are wages paid in a foreign country in the man. ufacture of the article then the Pres ident shall be authorized to put the article on the free list.
 The bill should serve to uncover the claim of the republicans that higher wages justify higher prices for prod ucts, when the truth is many articles protected by the Dingley tariff are sold at exhorbitant, rates while in many cases the increase in wages does not exceed per cent. The Dingley beneficiaries do not hesitate to double prices in many instances although they are squeezing down the price of labor to the limit.
 Senator Johnston's bill will not be passed, but it should be pressed un til the hypocrisy of the standpatters is fully exposed. It will, at any rate afford an opportunity to hold up be fore the people some of the -robberies of the many that are daily practiced by the few under the schedules of the Dingley tariff.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-26
CHRISTMAS IN INDIA.

By Rudyard Kipling. Dim dawn behind the tamarisks-the sky
 is saffron yellow As the women in the village grind the
 corn, And the parrots seek the river side, each
 calling to his fellow That the day, the staring eastern day, is
 born.
 o, the white dust on the highway! o,
 the stenches in the byway
 O, the clammy fog that hoyers over
 earth!
 And at home they're making merry,
 meath white and scarlet berry
 What part have India's exiles in
 their mirth? Full day behind the tamarisks-the sky
 is blue and staring As the cattle crawl afield beneath the
 yoke, And they bear One OCT the field path,
 who is past all hope of caring. To the ghat below the curling wreaths
 of smoke.
 Call on Rama. going slowly, as ye
 bear brother lowly-
 Call on Rama-he may hear, per-
 haps, your voice!
 With our hymnbooks and our psalters,
 we appeal to other altars,
 And today we bid "good Christian
 men rejoice!' r High noon behind the tamarisks-the sun
 is not above us As at home the Christmas day is break
 ing wan. They will drink our healths at dinner
 those who tell us how they love us, And forget us till another year be gone! O. the toll that knows no breaking!
 O, the Heimweh, ceaseless aching! O.~the black dividing sea and alien
 plain!
 Youth was cneap-wherefore we sold
 1t,
 Gold was good-we hoped to hold 1t, And today we know the fullness of
 our gain. Gray dusk behind the tamarisks-the par
 rots. fly together As the sun is sinking slowly over home; And his last ray seems to mock us shack led in lifelong tether That drags us back howeer so far we roam. Hard her service, poor her payment she in ancient. tattered raiment- India, she the grim stepmother of our kind. If year of life be lent her. if her temples shrine we enter, The door is shut-we may not look behind. Black night behind the tamarisks-the owls begin their chorus As the conches from the temple scream and bray. With the fruitless years behind us and the hopeless years before us Let us honor. O my brothers, Christi mas Day! Call truce then, to our labors; let us feast with friends and neighbors, And be merry as the custom of our | caste: For if faint and forced the laugh ter" and If sadness follow after We are richer by one mockina x Christmas past