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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-12-25
MISS DUPREE'S HOLIDAY JOY
She Recalls One Memorable Christ.
mas Performance in the City
of New Orleans.

y%X1yA HENEVER possible, pre-
40 &Ay@ fer spending Christmas
MNySH with my family out on
SSSSM$SEA Long Island, and unless my
engagements take me too
far away | always make it a point to
he with them on that day.
There are times. however, in this
profession when the wish must take
second place to necessity, and from
the viewpoint of actual novelty | sup
pose my most interesting Christmas
was the one | spent in the southland.
Our routing took us into New Orleans
at Christmas, and to me, who had al
ways up to that time spent the day in
the colder north, the novelty of seeing
trees in leaf and flowers blooming was
as pleasing as it was unusual.
On Christmas afternoon, when 9th
.ers were home enjoying the big dinner
with the family, | was getting ready
for a special holiday matinee. | was
not pleased with myself or with a pro-
fession that demanded of its members
that they labor on Christmas day
above all others-and it was not with
a particularly light heart that l
dressed for my part.
But when the curtain went up on
the first act and l made my entrance
the welcome l received compensated
for the disappointment l felt.
1t was a special matinee arranged
for the poor children of the poorest
quarter of New Orleans, and the en-
joyment of those childish auditors
soon melted the disappointment out of
my heart,
After the matinee had arranged
with my manager that l would receive
the little folks on the stage, and the
wise man in his knowledge of childish
hearts sent out hurry order for
candy and other things that make
Christmas day of cheer to kiddies.
At the conclusion of the last act the
stage was cleared and held the most
unusual reception that l ever expert.
-enced.
Clean as pins, but with their little
bodies clothed in many cases In gar
ments ragged and frayed. they came
up ON the stage, were introduced and
sent away after handshake. each
with box of candy.
have spent many other delightful
and out-of-the-ordinary Christmases on
the road, but none that Afforded me
more real satisfaction than the one
An New Orleans.
MINNIE DUPREE
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-12-25

The soft reproof, more suggestive Of
tears than anger, brought the story
to his very lips. He wondered how
he should tell it. Then an old schoolboy
trick came back to him. He brought out
his penknife. Beside them was little
spruce and in the soft, flaky bark he
carved a heart. Within its lines he
dug deeply the initials of two people.
The girl caught her breath and blushed
a little, which are the proper and Gus
tomary things for girl to do at such
time.
Then he told her what was in his
mind. 1t left her little panic-stricken
and she took the refuge her sisters al
ways have taken-she asked him to
wait for his answer.
In such a case there is but one thing
until tomorrow. But when a man
is terribly in earnest he takes people
seriously.
when I see this carving of yours
again then we will talk about this,
Jack-if you still think this way"
She thought she was putting him
on a most proper probation. 1t was
only woman's reluctance to give up
her freedom.
But he took her at her word. Next
day he went away.
Back In town again, at first he saw
her often. His restraint she imagined
was resentment. In November, a
month of storms and dreary skies,
they quarreled. That was six weeks
ago.
All that six weeks he pondered the
matter by lonely fires and over break
fasts late and bad. Then he resolved
to end the suspense and still keep his
word.
One day young man, whom the ma
tives were satisfied was most GER
tainly insane, stepped off the train
into a snowdrift. He wanted a team,
a guide, a shovel and an AK. AS he
had money and determination he got
them.
This crazy young man drove four
miles and waded through two more.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-12-25
MISS GEORGES CHRISTMAS
Happy Memory of Season When She
Did Not Write One Glad
Holiday Story.

ESHSssN Fl. my happiest Christmas!
REASS | did not then realize it, but
Pa SS IG / recall it now with ra-
kSSsSEgsSs4 diant glow of delight. 1t
was my first season upon
the stage. l was only a novice. one
day soaring upon the buoyant wings
of boundless ambition; the next
plunged in an abysmal depth of doubt,
despair and self-depreciation. 1t was
a very tiny part that had fallen to me.
The compensation was but sufficient
for the barest necessities. The route
bristled with all the horrors of the
one-night stands.
AT midnight, huddled, miserably
worn, detected, and wretched, in the
waiting room of a country station.
listening in vain for the whistle of a
belated train, confess to a sudden
flood of tears. What a mockery this
Christmas day had been. Even the
chimes had sounded like the tolling
of funeral knell. The cheerless dis
comforts of a cheap hotel, the unsa-
worry, slatternly served travesty upon
a Christmas dinner, the cold chill of
a shabby, musty dressing room. the
added toll of an extra matinee for a
mere handful of people, and now the
hungry wait for an accommodation
train of dingy day coaches.
That was all Christmas had meant
to me. Iowa was blizzard swept.
Mails were delayed and tangled wires
hung useless in gathering snowdrifts.
No message of cheer, no souvenir of
remembrance, had come to any of us.
Our hollow, halfhearted exchange of
Christmas greeting had carried no
conviction. We were only strolling
vagabonds, outside the pale of sym
pathy, debarred from the domestic
joys of living, mere dispirited rain
bow chasers, with success ever mock
ingly elusive.
But as recall it all now, | am sub.
merged by great wave of passion
ate, longing regret, for l know that
such a Yuletide will never come to
me again while / am upon the stage.
1t was my happiest Christmas, be-
cause the first and only one, since
began to tread the thorny and tor
tuous path of my profession. that
have not been called upon to write q
Christmas story.
GRACE GEORGE.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-12-25

On the Point, now bleak with winter,
he stopped by tiny spruce protruding
from the snow and began digging as
furiously as if he were hunting for
buried treasure.
A half dozen little trees he uncov-
cred. At last. with >boyish laugh, he
laid the AK at the foot of one until
the chips flew.
That night the crazy man who had
come 300 miles for a Christmas tree
started homeward again. Christmas
eve the man and the Christmas tree
mounted the steps of the Wilson resi-
dence and rang the door bell violently.
Well, what else could she do? That
night they went out into the Christmas
crowds together and bought the tin
sci for the first Christmas tree Kate
had had in years-and the very best.
Copyright. 1908. by Wright A. Patterson.)
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-12-25

NSX9@ @OHAMMEDISM o is the pre-
N.Y. @ vailing religion in Turkey
NMN kW and for that reason only
ENSfd5@ the few scattered Christian
tribes observe the birthday
of Christ in any manner The Mo-
hammedan Turks have but two holi-
days in the entire year, those being
Car Bon Biram," the day of forgive
ness, which is the Mohammedan New
Year, and "Bairam," the anniversary
of the date when Mohammed gave
to his people his scripture. The Fri
day of the Christian is the Sabbath
of the Mohammedan and is observed
by him in the same manner as Sunday
with the Christians.
The Christian Turks, who include
the Bulgarians, Servians, Monte
negrins and other smaller tribes, OBJ
serve Christmas with impressive re-
ligious ceremonies.
Three days before Christmas the
"Bladego" appoints a delegation of 100
men form each congregation, who go
to the river and hew out immense
cakes of ice, after which they con-
struct a huge pyramid near by. A
great cross measuring about 40 by 60
feet and cut from the bed of Ice is
set up against the pyramid, and the
place of worship for Christmas day
is completed. EARLY on Christmas
morning all the people march to the
pyramid where the initial exercises
are conducted by the "Bladego" A
small crucifix used by him in the exer-
cises is the prize of the younger men
of the tribe, who dive into the ice'cold
water after it as the "Bladego" throws
it In. Many are drowned annually in
this practice, but they all consider
themselves fortunate to die while on
such a mission.
From the pyramid the procession
marches to the home of the priest,
where bread is blessed and broken by
The "Bladego" and all present pnrtake
OF the food.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-12-25

Su0 WAS dlOAC'
Mother was off on an eleventh-hour
and unsatisfactory wrestle with the
Christmas shopping problem. Sis had
chosen this gray afternoon to call on
chum home from college. So Kate
had opportunity to make herself as
miserable as she desired.
1t was now six weeks since Jack
had called-and six weeks is long
time when man is 25 and a girl is 20,
aAd each is very much interested in
the other. Just how much Kate was
interested was something unsus-
pected. Once Jack thought he knew,
but now all he knew was that he did
not know. When Jack suddenly disap-
peared from Kate's perspective no one
noticed his absence from the picture.
To most people Jack had seemed a
part of Kate's social background.
Some who had seen them together at
Grand Traverse had advanced him to
the middle distance. But of the fore
ground no one thought.
What happened in July was this:
The Wilson's were no more than
firmly established in their cottage,
which looks over Grand Traverse bay,
than Jack appeared at the hotel,
which looks over them both. That
was not remarkable, for all had been
members of that particular summer
colony for years. Then, the day of
the picnic on the Point, Jack and
Kate found themselves sitting at the
green fringe of the forest looking out
over the blue expanse of the bay. A
hundred yards in front of them Mrs
Wilson was gathering up the table
cloth and things.
There was a little sense of chill in
the air-a harbinger Of autumn. And
there was change in the atmosphere
between the two. The girls lips were
tremulous. The man was agitated.
and strangely tender and brutal in his
speech.
"It will not interest you," he said,
"but | am going down tomorrow
But why so tragic? We will be
back in town in a week ourselves
and yet l do not feel so horribly blue
about it,"
well, things down there are diff.
ferent."
"Yes, they are different, but not un-
pleasant when you first get back to
them. | shall miss the Gamma in front
of your hotel; but have no doubt the
fall millinery on State street will be
quite as gorgeous"
"You are clever and, like most
clever people. a little heartless. You
know how things are different down
there. The people are different--why
we are different ourselves. And it is
just the difference of which you
speak-the difference between these
flowers and flowers of silk and satin.
between those lilies out there and lily
stems of wire and paper"
"You are a little unkind. Jack" she
| said, gently.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-12-25
In THE REALM OF THE CAR
Russians Look Upon Christmas az
the Most Sacred and Most
Celebrated Holiday.

EaSz8S@ HRISTMAS is the most sa-
~ 6MkM cred and most celebrated
A M1bH holiday in Russia. Contrary
&sSN%geM to the custom in nearly all
other countries, Christmas
there always comes on Sunday. and a
continuous celebration is held until
midnight on January 9.
The Russian believes in devout re-
ligious services in honor of the birth
of Christ, and each day during the
season each family. including all its
members, attends church at least
once On Christmas morning the most
important services take place. Each
congregation marches solemnly to the
nearest river, which is always frozen
over, the ice being sometimes as much
as three feet thick.
After large hole has been chopped
in the ice the priest dips his cross in
the water and prayers are pronounced,
after which the priest holds baptismal
exercises. Having been blessed by the
priest the water is considered to be
holy and as fast as the people can
file by the hole in the ice bottles of all
sizes and descriptions are filled with
the water.
This water is priced the most high
ly of anything in the home, and bottles
of it are sometimes found a century
or more old. Some fanatics secure
large quantities of it and bathe in it
at regular intervals during the year.
There is one custom which many
Americans would cherish in their own
Christmas celebration, and especially
the young people. 1t is that of kissing,
for on Christmas day every one steals
a kiss from whomsoever he meets. In
some cases, and among the older peo-
pie, the hearty handshake Is much
used. but the younger element clings
closely to the old style.
Santa Claus Is unknown to Russian
children, but the "Bapushka." an old
woman witch. carrying long stick
and attired in the usual witch cos
tune, visits the homes in every viii
lage and city and distributes greetings
and then comes at night and leayea
the gifts for both old and young.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-12-25
.TXSfYN HAT a lot of things

Hat a lot of things
can happen be-
tween July and
Christmas!" Kate
said it to herself
and said it aloud,
so loudly that it
startled her. For
she WAS alone.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-12-25

Keep ever in the pa-h of duty, but
fail not to climb the sseep OF knowl-
dge.-Newton.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-12-25

Speak as you think; be what you
are; pay your debts of all kinds
Montfort.
The Rich Hill tribune., 1908-12-10

A few broken lots OF Queen
Quality make, former price was
$9.c0 and $3.50 now 81 80. AN
cur Boston favorite, former
price $3.50 now $500. All our
shoes ane custom made and
every pair guaranteed 20 give
satisfaction. We are exclusive
sellers Of Florsheim and Sell
shoes, the best on the market
The Rich Hill tribune., 1908-12-10
Mems, Ladies and Chill
dren's Hose.

Misses Ribbed hose all sizes &c
Ladies hose &C
Extra fine quality lOc
Mems black and colored sox S l'3
Special during this sale we offer
the genuine Holeproof mems sox
at six pairs for Sl5O, former
price was $500. Every pair
warrented to wear six months
without darning
The Rich Hill tribune., 1908-12-10
Dress Goods

30 in, wool dress goods
former price soc now 25c
50 in. wool dress goods
former price 65e now acc
81 in. wool dress goods
former price 1.25 9se
81 in. wool broadcloth
former price l.55 CSC
Special lot of white wasting
formerly 25e1and 35o new l9c
The Rich Hill tribune., 1908-12-10
Handkerchief

An endless variety RAJ
price from &c 70 81.
seen 10 be appreciated
Wonderful low prices
going at. Ladies ane
muniers at special d
price.
The Rich Hill tribune., 1908-12-10

Dry Goods
Good choice print &c
Good Outing &C
Best Outing 8 i5c
Good l. L. Muslin &c
Good bleached muslin sc
Good staple check gingham &C
Red Seal dress gingham l0c
Hope "A bleached muslin S 1-3c
9 spools Coats threads 25c
The Rich Hill tribune., 1908-12-10
Embroidery andL

A new lot OF embroid !
laces At specal reduotio|
per cent
Evening star., 1908-01-10
TAFT ON INJUNCI'I0NS
ANSWERS QUESTIONS OF OHIO
FEDERATION OF LABOR.

MARTINS FERRY. Ohio. January 10
The views of William III. Taft, Secretary
of War. in regard to the use and abuse
of iniunctions are stated in a letter in re-
n,y to questions propounded by Llewellyn
Lewis. secretary of the Ohio Federation
of Labor. given out here yesterday Secre-
tary Taft prefaces his statement with a
declaration that he bslieves 1T TO be high
ily beneficial and entirely lawful for labor
ers TO unite nj their common interests.
Proceeding directly to the answer of the
questions propounded. he says:
..First-You ask me what ! would think
of an enactment of law defining the
cases in which a temporary restraining
order may issue and defining In specific
terms the Language in which such order
may be framed. / see no objection to the
enactment of a statute which shall define
tho rights of laborers in their controver-
statute would fix the full limits of their
action, it would necessarily furnish a def
mite rule for determining the cases in
which injunctions might issue. as well as
their character and scope. II should be
said that this statute. however. il enacted
by Congress. could relate only TO the Dis
frict of Columbia or some place within
the exclusive jurisdiction of the federal
government or to those employers and
grcssional definition and control General
| ~. the law governing the relations be-
tween employer and employe is a state
law and is only enforced in the federal
courts when the Jurisdiction arises by rea-
son Of the diverse citizenship of the par
Evening star., 1908-01-10
PADEREwSKI GETS A SHOCK.
His Racing Train Kills Girl and
Man Entering Chicago.

CHICAGO. January 1O-Death In it's
most violent form was dealt yesterday
by a train in which Ignaz Paderewski.
the pianist. was hurryipg into Chicago.
The Chicago and Alton midnight ex-
press from st. Louis to which was at
rached Paderewski's special car. Magnet.
carrying the pianist. mis- wife and a party
OF eight. ran down a man and girl as it
sped past the kedzie avenue crossing of
the tracks near 39th street.
Miss Julia Earley, nineteen years old,
was hurled high in the air. and fell dying
upon the track. seventy-five feet from
where she was struck. and almost oppo-
site the windows OF the private car at
which Paderewski and his wife were at
breakfast Miss Varley died while she
was being taken to the PEOPLES Hospital
The other victim of the train. Frederick
c. Behan. died later.
The horrors OF the accident completely
,inneryed Paderewski. who was racing TO
Chicago to be in time for a recital in the
afternoon at the residence OF Mrs. Harold
Mccormick. the daughter of John D..
Rockefeller.
Evening star., 1908-01-10
Held for Action of Grand Jury.

Charles Matthews. colored. was ar-:
raigned before Judge Kimball of the,
Police Court upon the charge of assault
with a dangerous weapon upon Police.'
man T. o. b. Gray New Year night. The
accused man entered plea of not guilty;
waived a preliminary examination and
was held in $500 bond for the action of
the grand jury.
The arraignment of Matthews today Isl
the aftermath of a regent difficulty bei
tween the two.
II is alleged that Matthews and a num-;
be" of companions were firing revolvers
In the street, and Gray attempted to place.
them under arrest. A fight followed an.
account of which was given at the time
in The Star. and a number of shots were
fired at Gray before he pulled his own
revolver. in self-defense, and shot Mat4'
thews in the side. !.
Matthews received a slight flesh wounH
and was taken to the Emergency Hos,
pital. where he remained for a. little oref
a week under treatment A number II,
other colored men are in custody in can.
nection with the assault upon Gray.
Evening star., 1908-01-10
PLEA OF NOT GUILTY.
Mrs. McCracken and Three Children
Arraigned in Criminal Court.

Mrs Ruth McCracken. her two daugh-
ters and son. whose financial transactions
with local merchants resulted in four in
dictments by the grand jury on charges
of conspiracy to defraud and larceny,
were arraigned yesterday afternoon in
Criminal Court No. 1 before Justice Staf-
ford. They entered pleas of not guilty.
Attorney H. F. Woodard. for the de-
PENDANTS. secured leave of the court to
withdraw the pleas and demur to the in
dictments within one week. if SO advised.
w. J. McCracken. the son. was much
displeased at the treatment received in
the jail. and also took exception to the
action of Deputy Marshal Stutler in
Handwriting him during the trip from the
Jail to the City Hall.
He said to a Star reporter:
II want to make special appeal
through the columns of The Star to the
public authorities of Washington against
that awful public correctional institution
the District JAIL which I consider a dis
grace to any modern civilization. During
the eight weeks that we have been con-
fined there for safe custody / nave been
trated identically as a convicted prisoner
of the lowest possible type. The place is
most insanitary and although there are
over 800 prisoners confined in the institu-
tion there are no toilet accommodations
for their use. l have been confined In a
cell with forty square feet OF space. with
another prisoner In the cell with me. The
cell Is alive with vermin. fact reported
again and again and always ignored. I'm
confined in that cell for twenty-four hours
at time without exercise. except an oc-
ca siOnal half hour. We have been almost
starved to death. There are two meals
day. at 8 a. m. and p, m. The food
is rotten and tainted. The place appears
Evening star., 1908-01-10
FAREWELL TO BRIDGE JAM
TUBE TO BROOKLYN RELIEVES
THE PRESSURE.
Tunnel Carries 10000 People an
Hour During the Rush Time.
New Transit Era.

NEW YORK, January 10.-The poor old
Brooklyn bridge. which has groaned for
years under its weight of human beings,
got relief last night. There was no doubt
about II. The Brooklyn tunnel trains,
running to capacity under three-min-
ute headway, came to its rescue, and the
result was patent to those Brooklynites
who used the bridge, to the police who
have had to fight the crowds nightly and
to the transportation men who have
wrestled for years with the nightly prob
lem Of getting the homeward-bound thou
sands across it in safety.
1t will be a few days before actual fig-
lures can be produced showing exactly
how much the bridge was relieved by
the tunnel. But figures were not neces-
sary last night to indicate that the long
ed-for relief had come and with 1t re-
the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
tackled in pretty. good shape The cels-
bration which the citizens of Brooklyn
held at noon apparently was justified by
the results last night.
Three-Minute Trains.
While the proportion of the traffic di-
verted by the tubes Is hard to determine
precisely. some idea OF it may be gained
! from what the Brooklyn subway was do
+; ing in the rush hour and a half that be-
gan at 5 o'clock. Its real test came
then. In the eighty-one minutes between
500 and $50 twenty-seven trains of eight
cars each left the Bowling Green station
bound for Brooklyn. Supt. Hedley of the
Interborough. who was watching the flow
. at that station. estimated that there was
! then being carried on an average of 10
persons to a car. so that in those eighty
one minutes approximately 27.O0O persons
had been carried through. which meant
that the under river tube had taken about
10000 persons an hour. Nobody has ex-
pected it to do much more than that.
1t was apparent from the crowds in the
trains that the commuters from the
neighboring borough were using 1t almost
up to the limit OF its capacity.
Crowds for Brooklyn.
The subway stairs at the bridge en-
trance were at no time choked, because
so many Brooklynites had taken the sub
way trains. The 14th street station of the
subway on the downtown side was
packed with people waiting for Brook
iyn expresses. Some of the Broadway
express trains. which do not go to Brook
lyn. pulled out of that station with some
cars almost empty. The crowd from up
town bound for Brooklyn had distributed
itself at the different express stations.
Evening star., 1908-01-10

to be run by convict prisoners of the low
est type ;
Mr.. McCracken threatened to addres 3
the court. but was dissuaded from that:
course by his attorney.