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The daily sentinel., 1908-12-08

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Mckenzie, the plumber.
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See our goods and ge- our prices
and II both are right buy If YOU feei
like it. Fred Mantey
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Every Front hanE Or Boynton fur
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Mems sewed half soles, s5c La
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offioe.
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Special sale on Zap ropes every
Saturday. Fred Mantey.
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Holiday Goods

We are now showing elegant assortment of
Holiday goods suitable for Xmas Presents for both
young and DID, such Slippers, Chldren's Trink-
cts, Fancy Collars, kimonas, Gloves, Handkerchiefs,
Coats, Purses, Dolls, Toys and numerous other fancy
articles that will please all
Do your shopping early and avoid the rush and
select your gifts while the assortment is complete.
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-12-17

make us feel the innocence and lovely grace of
Marys life; IL he has shown us the quiet work
with which she is busy the sweet order of her
room which images the tranquility OF her soul !;
this also is well. But the great thing is that
he should perceive and show as simply as pos
sble, the charm of that perfect figure of maiden
hood. no rude peasant girl, but one with royal
blood in her veins and heavenly thoughts in
her heart.
The Nativity.
Q. The pictures OF the Nativity have a great
er variety Of incidents and of modes of presen-
tation. The simplest are those which show
Mary and Joseph In the stable with the child;
then come those in which the angels appear
or the shepherds came to pay their alteration;
another conception represents the mother
alone with her babe adoring him or nursing
him Pictures of the presentation In the tenn
pie, and perhaps some OF the Madonna and
Child belong to the general theme of the Ma
tiyity because their central idea is the advent
of Christ as a little babe.
Here the painters have found wide
field for imagination, and have used large
liberty in expressing the feelings with which
different persons drew near to the holy child.
Mary is almost always shown as wondrously
happy; sometimes, In Murillo's Alteration
of the Shepherds" lifting the cloth that Gov
the child and displaying him with gentle
pride.
3. With the Alteration Of the Magi new ele-
ment comes into the scene. These wise men
from the east. whether they were kings or
not, were the representatives of the outside
world.
There are pictures which show the Magi on
their journey led by a star, sometimes
shining in the form Of a babe In the sky; and
others which show them at the court of
Herod asking their way; and others which
show them being warned by an angel in a
dream not to go back to Jerusalem; and 9TH
ers which show them returning by sea to their
inf he roafr lori 49,,
ers have chosen the moment at which the
gifts Of gold and frankincense and myrrh were
presented to the child. Here there is room for
splendid color and dramatic contrast.
4. The Flight into Egypt is the contrasting
companionpiece to the Alteration OF the Magi.
The one brings the great world into the dwell
ing of the Child Jesus; the other carries the
Child Jesus out into the great world
Story Of the Flight.
The pictures of this subject fall into two
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-12-17
IzAD07YTAA WITH zhF C2ROT Child.
PARyzZ7yS BY DEIEREGGER

tne painters ana embodied in their pictures.
suppose you have picture of the Annuncia-
uon which represents Mary passing through
garden when the angel came to her: that is
In accordance with the Protevangelum which
says that Mary chosen by lot from among
the virgins of Nazareth to spin the royal
purple of the Temple veil; one day. as
she was returning from the fountain with her
pitcher of water, the angel met her and said:
Hall, thou who art full of gracel" and when
she went back to her spinning he came again
to her to complete his message II the picture
represents Mary in the house. working at the
veil, the artist has chosen to show us the sec
ond appearance of the angel. The emblems
which the artists put into their pictures are
significant. The pot of lilies at Mary's SIDE
the lily-branch in the angels hand symbolic
purity. The olive-bough borne by the dove
means peace.
Or here is picture of the nativity which
shows the Child and his mother and Joseph in
cave. This is according to the account OF
Justin Martyr (and quite In harmony with
the customs of Paestine) that the stable of
the inn where Christ was born was a grotto
in the rocks. Here perhaps you see the OK
and the bowling their heads before the
child This is told by the gospel of the pseudo
Matthew in fulfllment of the prophecy of
Isaiah "The OK knoweth his owner and the
ass his masters crib" Here, again, is a daz-
zling supernatural light radiating from the
child, so that shepherds who have Just entered
must shade their eyes. This detail is given
in many legends.
How the Story Develops.
The five chief points around which the paint
ings of the birth and childhood of Christ nat
urally group themselves ~ The Annun-
citation; (2) The Nativity; (3) The Alteration
of the Magi (4) The Flight Into Egypt: (5)
The Home at Nazareth.
1. The Annunciation comes from the first
chapter of st. Luke. and with it are associated
two minor incidents. the visit of Mary to her
cousin Elizabeth. and the birth OF John the
Baptist the forerunner Of Christ The painters
have delighted to show the virginia. beauty
and meekness of Mary; the Joy with which the
angel brought his message, and the awe and
wonder with which she received the new con-
ception of her son the Son OF the Highest
the Saviour OF his people. No picture Of the
Annunciation is good in which this wonder and
this joy are not expressed II in addition the
painter has chosen to put In many details to
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-12-17
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main divisions: those which represent its ac-
tual journey and those which show the Holy
Family resting, either by the way. In the
land of Egypt. The paintings which deal with
the latter theme-commonly known as the Re-
pose-include some of the most beautiful works
of art, especially during the last three centu-
ries. Many details have been introduced from
the legends of the flight in which the apocry-
phal History OF the Nativity of Mary" is par
ticularly rich. This is one of them: "The Holy
Family rested by the road beneath date palm
and Mary desired to eat OF the fruit: but It
hung high above her head. Joseph being
weary. was not able to climb the tree. But the
Child Jesus knew his mothers wish. and at his
command the tree bent down Its branches.
Then he thrust his fingers into the sand. and
a spring OF water gushed forth. The next morn
ing Jesus thanked the obedient tree, and prom
ised that one Of its branches should be carried
by the angels and planted In Paradise"
The Triumph Of the lnnocents.
The landscape is half shadowed by night,
but the moonbeams weave filmy radiance
over plain and the distant hills where the
watch fires are growing red. In front marches
Joseph. with his basket OF tools on his back.
sturdy son Of toll. The mother. a noble
woman OF Palestine, carries the child in her
arms. happy and fearless. But who are these
little children that run and float beside the
travellers? They are the spirits OF the muir
dered innocents of Bethlehem, set free to fol-
through him they have entered by the gate Of
death into eternal Joy. Three tiny ghosts in
the rear have not yet felt his presence nor
caught sight of him, and the pain and terror
of mortality are heavy upon them. But the
others are radiant and rejoicing as ransomed
souls; and at their feet rolls the river of life,
breaking into shimmering bubbles in which
the glories of heaven reflected. Joseph
does not see the spirits. doubt whether even
Mary sees them clearly. But Jesus recognizes
his former playmates with joy. He leans from
his mothers arms to greet them, holding out a
handful Of wheat, the symbol OF the bread OF
Heaven
1t is all mystical, visionary. unreal? Or is
1t true picture to the eye Of what faith be-
holds in the religion of Jesus? Surely II this
gospel has any meaning 1t is the bringing OF
light and blessing to the suffering little ones
of earth; deeper compassion and tenderer
care for them, and the promises Of heaven
full OF happy children
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-12-17
-ERCOV NyEH1yz cLEtSLeS IND c,T COW
R4ZNz2nC 81 R0ZZIGErLL

In the world has been illustrated by SO many
famous artists 1t is easy to see some of the
reasons which have made it favorite subject.
First. there is the religious interest which
centers in the entrance of the Divine Saviour
into the world. Such event, for all who be-
lieve in the Christian religion, must have a
profound significance. 1t is the sunrise of
faith, the beginning of new spiritual world
the laying of the cornerstone of the kingdom
OF heaven on earth Even If the artist himself
were not sure of this, did not altogether be-
lieve 1t, he would know that other people be-
leved it; and by the Imagination he could see
what supreme Importance was given by the
faith of Christendom to the brief and simple
story of the birth at Bethlehem.
Second, there is the human interest which
clings to the ever beautiful relation of mother
hood and childhood The tenderest and most
unsefsh love is that with which true moth
er looks upon her little child; the most perfect
innocence and trustful joy revealed in the
deep eyes OF the baby who smiles into the face
Of his mother bending over him. The paint
ings of the Child Jesus and the Virgin Mary
have drawn into themselves the best thoughts
of men concerning the gracious secret OF ma
ternity and the unstained bliss Of infancy.
Fantastic Legends.
Third, there is the poetic and pictorial inter
est which grows out of the Incidents of the
story, the strange contrast between the heaven
ly Significance of the birth of Christ and its
and shade, joy and sorrow, hope and fear, an
gelic songs and earthly prosecutions. All these
varied elements. centering about single figure
afford field of illumination and illustration
such as art loves.
My first advice, then, to those who wish
thoroughly to appreciate and enjoy these pic
lures would be to read and re-read the gospel
of ST. Matthew from the eighteenth verse of
the first chapter to the end of the second chap
ter, and the first two chapters of St. Lukes
gospel Then it would be wise to read some
of the later legends which were woven in the
apocryphal books, and in the medieval poems
and narratives about the birth and childhood
of Christ. Many of these legends are curious
and fantastic, evidently allegorical and symbol
cal. They have none of the simple directness
and quiet restraint of the Biblical history.
They are, in effect, clear illustrations of that
native trait of the human mind-familiar to
every one who has tried to tell true story
to a child-the craving for picturesque detail.
How did 1t happen? Where did 1t happen?
Who was there? How did they look? What
did they do afterwards? These are the ques-
tons that children ask when they hear a story:
and these are the questions to which men have
given fanciful answers in the apocryphal and
medieval legends such as the protevangelium
of St James, the gospel Of st. Thomas, the
gospel of the pseudo Matthew. The history of
the nativity of Mary. the golden legend Of Jaco-
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-12-17

bus de voragine. the poems
of Konrad of Fussesbrunn.
Walther af Rheinau. Abbess
Kroswitha. and the tradi-
tions given by Justin Mar
tyr. st. Jerome, st. Bernard
and many other writer's.
Much of this legendary
and symbolist material was
taken nm Ouite naiveIv hv
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-12-17
Result Of = LIckIno

Tommy" said the teacher to a
small pupil who had got the short end
OF a fistic encounter. don't you know
1t Is wrong to fight?"
Il didn't till got licked" was the
significant reply.-Chicago News.
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-12-17
AssumIna he surden.

Nov. don't want to talk insurance
Today" snapped the freight agent.
i don't blame you q bit." said the
insurance agent, suavely: III you11
simply stop. look and listen, I'll do
every bit Of the talking"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-26
"UNCIIE JOE" SPEAKS UP.

1.-THE Republican platform on which
the national contest has been won
says revise the revenue laws. That
revision should be with due regard
to protection and penalty against dis
criminatory nations. AS a member of
the next house, a coordinate branch
of the government equal to the execu-
| tive and the Judiciary I am, so far as
my vote is concerned, going to see to
| it that the policy of the Republican
party on this question is written in
the national laws as promptly as pos
sible."
In these words does "Uncle joe
Cannon answer his carping critics
who are insisting that he be de-
throned from the position of speaker
of the house of representatives on the
ground that he is a stand-patter and
reactionary and is opposed to a re-
vision of the tariff. A good many
folks seem to have a preconceived
prejudice against Mr.. Cannon and in
their criticism of him they are wont
to wander far away from the facts.
With this pronunciamento from
Uncle Joe" on a question so dear to
their hearts they will have to hunt up
some new line of attack Their
stories about Mr.. Taft taking a hand
in the election of a successor to Mr..
Cannon for the reason that he was
supposed to be against tariff revision
will have to be placed on the shelf
and some other ingenious and
equally improbable proposition will
have to be invented.
However, it is not to be expected
that Uncle Joe's" detractors will even
take him at his word. They will likely
be able to read between the lines
of his tariff remarks and find some
shadows which will nullify their in
tent. Or perhaps they will boldly an
nounce that Mr.. Cannon is not serious
on the subject and is indulging in one
of his jokes. They are quite capable
of saying anything as long as it will
hold the distinguished Illinois states
man in an unfavorable light.
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ers, rather than for the good they do
in Kidding the farmers fields of pesti-
ferrous insects. But even under these
laws there is all too great an oppor-
tunity for the slaughter of these
birds. What is more necessary,
though, are laws prohibiting the
slaughter of birds, other than those of
the game variety, at all times. These
birds are the victims. in the most part,
of the small boy, who hunts their eggs
in the spring and hunts the birds
themselves at every opportunity.
But while legislation to this end is
most desirable it can never be made
materially effective unless it is sup
plemented by an adequate education
on the subject. The fact that birds of
all sorts, with an exception or two of
course, are the best friends of the
farmers and their growing crops
should be impressed upon the minds
of the youths of the land through
the medium of the schools as we'll as
by the parents at home and their
slaughter for any purpose, whatsoever,
should be preached against.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-26
THANKSGIVI

No festival or holiday which is cele-
brated by the people of the United
States is more peculiarly appropriate
to them than today, which a happy
custom has set apart for general
thanksgiving. Indeed, it may well
be called national recognition of the
philosophy of optimism and with no
people on the face of the earth should
such a magnificent philosophy prevail
to such an extent as it should with
the men, women and children of
America.
Through troubles and tribulations,
which have been really few and far
between and whose devious ways have
been extremely short, the people of
this country have developed their pos
sessions until there is not greater
land on Gods footstooI. The achieve
ments of the people in all things, the
productiveness of the soil they Guilt
vate with the assistance of a deft and
generous nature, have given this ma
ton a prominence among the nations
of the earth that is most enviable. 1t is
safe to say that no people in the his
tory of the entire world have been so
blessed in all things as have the peo-
pie of this country, and the people of
Kansas in particular. Nor is there
another people on the globe whose
prospects for a prosperous future are
quite so bright and shining. Is it any
wonder then that they should indulge
in the philosophy of optimism? And
surely they would be lacking to a great
degree if they did not designate at
least one day in each year to a recog-
milton Of this philosophy, to a recogni-
ton of the fact that there are untold
things in the past for which they
should be thankful just as there are
countless things in the perspective for
which thanks should be given.
And while folks with their families
are gathering around festive boards
today and making merry in their full
some prosperity which permits of the
enjoyment of all of the good things
of life it may not be amiss for them
to remember that there are a few
others in the world who have not been
so bountifully favored. who through
grievous misfortunes and untoward
happenings are in need of help. Those
who have should share a bit with
those who have not and if they do SO
their measure of happiness on Thanks
giving day will be materially increased.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-26
QUAKER NIEDrTATIoNs.

CF'rom the Philadelphia Record.1
Any barber might advertise cut rates.
Even the pugilist sometimes makes
poor fist at it.
Rich things never agree with some
men; not even a rich wife.
Where one man wants to borrow
trouble a hundred want to get rid of 1t.
The fashionable figure for women is
now the hipless one. Hip Hipi Hurrahi
The political orator places more de-
pendence on the stump than on the
family tree.
Blobbs-"Kinnum says he always
does his best" Slobbs-"Yes; even his
best friends
Many a fellow proposes to an heires
on his knees, hoping that she will put
him on his feet.
Nell-"I don't believe in fishing for
a husband" Belle-''No; not when you
can buy one in the market"
When a man is welded to his art
it often proves that he has married In
haste and is repenting at leisure.
Really. the only time when ignor-
ance is bliss is when fellow has more
money than he knows what to do with.
wigg-"AIiss Antique says she has
always been considered the flower OF
her family" Wagg-"The wall flower.
suppose"
I'VE should all strive to forgive our
enemies" remarked the Wise Guy.
yes; then they won't be so apt to get
hack at u.s." added the Simple Mug.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-26
JAYRAWKER JOTS

Just at present. says the Pratt Re
publican, speaking of it's new Junior
linotype, I'VE are little awkward. but
II our patience holds out We will master
the blooming thing"
AS for the report that Governor Hoch
may establish new paper when his
tenn of office is ended, the Lawrence
Journal says: That settles it. He will
come to Lawrence. They all do
A Douglas township voter began at
the top of the Socialist ticket and then
went over to the Prohibitionist ticket
making alternate marks first upon one
and then on the other to the bottom.
Garden City boasts that it pays it's
preachers better salaries than any 9TH
er town in the west half of the state.
The Great Bend Register suggests that
Garden City ought to. They have
tougher material to work on than
any other town."
Clay Center man captured large
eagle last week which he exhibited in
front of his place of business. On the
front of the crate these questions and
answers were inscribed: This is an
eagle. His name is Taft. Where did
you get it? Captured it near Five
creeks. How did he capture it? Ask
Joe. Is the eagle native? Ask the
eagle"
Dave" Leahy relates that the boss
''entomologist" of the United States
wants to establish a bug farm in Wichi-
and encouraged to become strong
enough to wipe out their brothers and
sisters from the Missouri to the Rock
les. The insects raised on this farm
are to be "sicked" on every grass and
forage and grain-eating bug that
sneaks into Kansas wheat, hay and al
falfa fields when the farmers are not
looking. Leahy urges Wichita to go
after the farm. TT will not only be
attractive" he declares. "but it win
also be educational"
A number of Atchison women are
trying an experiment in thought waves,
says the Globe. All day the wife and
daughters send this thought wave to
the husband and father: BE generous
with spending money this Christmas"
So far it hasn't had the least result.
One woman asks her husband every
night if he hasn't had a strange, I'M
real sensation, and he feels of his
head and his stomach, and says moth
ing is the matter with him, so far
as he knows. After she asked this
question last night, he looked at him
self anxiously in the glass: Could it
be, he thought, that he was sick and
about to die, and that his wife knew
it?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-26
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.]

IFrom the Chicago News.]
The common way of speaking Is to
use slang.
The man who acts little makes big
mistake.
Many a vain woman has tried In vain
to get a husband.
Somehow modesty manages to parade
in public frequently
Only the successful author can anoro
tn turn out poor work.
The mfser is in a happy frame Oh
mind when surrounded by gold.
A man may select his wife. but ne
can't nick out his own relatives
Occasionally a thin girl worries DE-
cause she hasn't broader OUTLOOK
some candidates are so used to BENG
defeated that they don't seem 10
mind 1t.
I1o1v some women can even pretend
20 he nro1Id of their husbands is a mys-
terry to other women
E;verv doctor in a small town thinks
- rroT,ld have become world-Iamous
had he located in a city
what great and glorious thing 1t
,,,o,,id be if some enterprising man
,H,o,,id get busy and corner the trouble
market! - ..., -.
he doesn't get brain flag from thinking
of his wife when she is spending a few
weeks n the country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-26
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe. J


In talking of good luck, you often
hear men say: 81 never had any"
Before getting cross at friend. ask
him to let you see his tongue. If it
is coated, it is your turn to be patient
If a boy is healthy, he can make a
clean room look in ten minutes as
though cyclone had passed through
it,
HE is full of himself" is the way a
woman recently described a conceited
young man. And, by the way, isn't
it well put?
There may have been no company
all day. but the moment a woman gets
to that point in a story where the man
has begun to propose, the doorbell is
sure to ring.
A woman may be of the opinion
that her neighbor doesn't know
BEANS" but when her husband falls
SICK she insists that he try all the
neighbor recommends.
AS a man grows old, he often re-
content came to him through sensible
women, instead of pretty ones. But
there is no use telling it to his son.
There is a fairy tale told to the eff
feet that a business man has twice
been saved from the sheriff by his
wife going down into her sugar bowl
and bringing out money she had saved
by keeping COW.
There is some reason why men
should talk about the weather; they
have nothing else to talk about, but
not restricted to the weather. having
always for a subject of conversation
the scandalous manner in which their
hair is coming out.
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ing back to town to close up some deals,
and then I'm coming home to convince
you that I'll make a model husband.
Nan?"
Not as yet, sine conceded, and Chris
ty smiled radiantly.
I've three things to be thankful for"
ne SAID Jubilently- You. and my moth
Grand my own old self. Three thanks
for one Thanksgiving are a whole lot,
Nan. and the best of these is"
Your own old SELF" quoted Nancy,
coloring delightfully."-. and Christy read
in her eyes that his probation would not
be long.-(Copyrighted, 1908, by Associ-
ated Literary Press)