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The Jasper news., 1908-01-14
loo Much for Mamma.

Whats the matter with your eye,
Tommie?"
"The boy next door struck me,
mamma.
What for, pray?"
"He said l struck him first"
And did you?"
NO; honest, | didn't, mammal"
well, why didn't you?"
The Jasper news., 1908-01-14
Opinion of an Expert.

II hear you are going to marry
Charley?"
"Yes; he asked me last evening"
LET me congratulate you, Charley
is all right He is one of the incest
fellows was ever engaged to-
Stray Stories.
The Jasper news., 1908-01-14
Important to Mothers.
marriage Service" Defined.

A Boston cynic of the female per-
suasion defines the marriage service"
as waiting on ones lord and master
in the capacity of cook, laundresA
Seamstress and maid of-all.work-"
The San Francisco call., 1908-08-30
County Pennant Race
Becomes Keen

OAKLAND. Aug 2s.-The race for
the bunting in the Alameda county
baseball league grpws keener every
week. and at present the contest is as
open as il could be- The Fruityales
and Don Morris lead the table, with
three games won TO one lost. and right
behind them come the Yosemites. Hay
wards and kreig & Haltons. with per-
centages Of SOC The Tribunes, who
are al present al the bottom OF the
list. have as good a chance as any OF
the others TO cop" the honors. and
Il viii be no surprise If there is q gem
eral shaking up after today's games
That there are classic players IN this
league is demonstrated each week.
when some OF the tossers get away
with remarkable stunts Last week II
was the turn for Thompson. pitcher of
the Golden Sheafs. 10 break into the
lfmeIight- This box artist. in the game
against the Trfbunes. struck out 20
batters and let the hard hitting aggre-
cation down with only i've hits A
man who can fan 20 batters in one
game IS going some. and II Thompson
keeps I'D this gait he viii be heard OF
IN better company soon At that IL
took the Sheafs IL innings 10 win the
game. so the opposing. pitcher was
doing something himself
An attractive list of games has been
sEranged for to-day the principal event
tons and the Golden Sheafs at Free
mans park The phenomenal Thomp-
son viii tE-tri the elusive sphere for
the Berkeley team and Shepard will DO
box duty for the other side Hopkins
has been engaged 70 do the receiving
for the Alameda aggregation. so the
bunch from the island city must have
a real desire 10 win. A special tram
will leave Berkeley for the scene OF
hostklfttes at o'clock
The schedule for tomorrow is as fol-
lows Kreig & Hait0ns VS. Golden
SheafS at Freeu1an's park. D. IN
ETruitvales ~ Don Morris at Fruitvalc.
ward 1896 TrfbUnes VS. Yoser1ites at
Fsruifvale. 1880 a. m Standing or the
The San Francisco call., 1908-08-30
indians" Plan a Party
for Gym Benefit

The Siaplanst Indians VIII hold a
confetti party AZ their elubrooms. s77s
Poison street next Tuesday even
Ing. September J. for the benefit OF their
gymnasium fund The members are
working hard Tor the success OF the
event aad 2 good time Is promised All
who attend Some Of the most rrrruf-
nert amateur entertainers IN the city
VIII arrear
TIE Indians rive organized a fast
baseball nine and viii play q game with
the crack Company 4 team OF the
League Of the Cross cadets al me s.
1EratluS stadium on Septem bs- %.
WlE1 their nine has been fully organ
fEei the indians VIII accept challenges
from al amateur teams throughout The
state.
Great preparations are being made
tcr the annual Dipsea race 70 BE held
under the auspices CT the club next
mor-h- As q special lD6Eceme1t the
Directors have offered g gold medal 10
The first and silver medal 10 The sec
e16 indian wEo crosses the line
The San Francisco call., 1908-08-30
GRAND PREsTDENT 10 VISIT

Anna L Monroe. grand president OF
the Native Daughters Of the Golden
west win pay o1ciai visits 10 sabor-
1Inzre pariorS during September as FOL
loWs- September >. joaquin parIOr.
Stockton q oakdzle p4-lor. OakdaIe-
fc Golden Era parlor. Columbia: II
DzrdauelIe parICr. sonora Il. Osa par
to- TuoluUue- H. Ruby parlor Lur-
ohvs camp 1s- Princess parlor. Angels
camp Il san AudreaS pzrlor. san An
S-ess- Is ChiSra parlor. lone. Is. Ge-
nevz parIor. Ccmzuc1e- II. Sequoia par
lor. Auador. p Ursula rarlor. Jack
sor- 20 Conrad parlor. Volcano "A
Forrest raricr. PiEmou-hs g. Arnzp0lz
parI0r Srrter creek IS. Angelfta par
- z-zEs<z-l-e-
The San Francisco call., 1908-08-30
BATTING AVERAGES
BOWLING ANALYSIS

= not out-
The San Francisco call., 1908-08-30
CLOUD STATISTICS

The cloud formation known as
mares tails and .nackere1 sky are
invariably three miles high The high
est clouds are 10 miles high. and these
are composed OF minute PARTICLES Of
The San Francisco call., 1908-08-30

At the Cage Bird associations re-
cent show. IN the ROYAL Horticultural
nall London. was exhibited 4 king bird
OF paradise valued BY its owner at
The San Francisco call., 1908-08-30
A Statement of Facts About the Ocean Shore
Railway, by Its President

il the enandddR tn by
fact @hndsuh ike the Twin
o fn lcompleio
stock ddn the Oceans
Aogon aock asau the following
lyouhmo rgpaE ahnheO OuanSho Is
tfcpfm study ~
Ocean Shores
rmoDyn nnorpne The aref mo
and know viii Be
ion to our ckab
The fertility and pDduhyae@ country the
Shore noenmg Heno o the worlds IN
aboth
timber tn COaaR
ea lmoonBa ndS To- a so
hauled dbmake
The Ocean about nnaAhn aan thousands carloads
ehaued San Francisco nd n this
% he o
nrukd dypndut. vegetables nd daua Heavy rainfall and
crops hl hn mare unknown
Theprdrh ho aH uhcr fhrr1ud
which
freight
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-12-17
Huntina christmas Ghosts.

Ghost hunting bids fair to become
the ruling passion of Washington So
ciety. The fortunate owners Of a
peaked house, roped with ivy and
densely surrounded by trees, are issu-
ing cards for Christmas specter hunt.
The Christmas ghost hunt is imported
from England, where the houses are
ancient enough to harbor specters who
were there before William the Con-
queror. The comparative newness of
this country leads some to predict that
the fad over here will fail. There are
exceptions, however, for even in Wash
ington there is one of the treasure
guarding ghosts-an out and out bucca-
neer of the Spanish main variety, with
cooked hat, gold lace, ruffies, high vel
low boots, red jacket and an odor OF
antiquity Those acquainted with him
say that he clinks his chains of stolen
loubloons. Washington Star,
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-12-17
MR.. PICKwICK WENT SLOWLY AND GRAvELY DOWN THE
SLIDE WITH HIS FEET ABOUT A YARD APART.

keeper and gather another supply Of
presents so that the childrens faith in
Santa Claus might not be lost.
The children were asleep when Mr..
and Mrs. Hammermeister completed
decorating the tree. The father de-
clded to light the candles as a test.
They burned; so did the cotton snow
balls The blaze awakened the chill
dren SANITY here" they piped. SIS
it morning." The parents gathered
them in their arms and rushed to the
street Firemen brought out a lot OF
fire ruined presents from the house.
"Santy been and gone and our things
is burned upw the children cried.
Hammermeister began his weary
search for an open store He en-
ployed the infrequent street cars for
long stretches, but trudged mile after
mile in fruitless search. Finally he
routed a storekeeper from his bed and,
burdening himself with new supply
trudged home to turn sorrow into joy
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-12-17

the airs of a man who could "skait'
and having shown his ignorance there
of. was smaHly reproved by Mr. Pick
wick. Meanwhile. Mr. Weller and the
fat boy having by their joint efforts
cut out a side' all hands participated
Says the chronicler Of the days SPORT:
1t was the most intensely interesting
thing 70 observe the manner NJ which
Mr.. Pickwick performed his share IN the
ceremony-to watch the torture Of anx-
iety with which he viewed the person be-
hind gaining upon him at the imminent
hazard Of tripping him M to see him
gradually expend the painful force which
he had put on at first and turn slowly
around on the slide, with his face toward
the point from which he had started. to
CONTEMPLATE the playful smile which man
tied on his face when he had accomplish
ed the distance and the eagerness, with
which he turned around when he had
done so and ran after his predecessor, his
black CATERS tripping pleasantly through
the snow and his eyes beaming cheerful
ness and gladness through his spectacles
and when he was Knocked down, which
happened upon the average every third
round II was the most invigorating sight
that car possibly be imagined to behold
him gather up his hat gloves and hand
lSerchief with glowing cohutenance and
resume his station in the rank with an
ardor and enthusiasm which nothing
could abate
Mr.. Pickwick unfortunately breaks
through the ice and gets good wet
ting, but, being taken on a smart run
to the house, put to bed and given I'M
limited quantities Of hot punch, finds
himself none the worse next morning,
when the party departs from Dingley
Dell.
Thus does Dickens tell us of one of
the merriest Christmases that a reader
could desire. There is no touch Of sad
ness in the chronicle, and all that one
could wish for is that the story were
longer. Long live the tale, and long
may we enjoy Christmas with the
Pickwickans!
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-12-17

began to stow the things rapidly away
in the cart, while the fat boy stood quiet
ly by and seemed to think it a very in
teresting sort of thing to see Mr.. Weller
working by himself.
The conversation of these two char
acters is too long to reprint here, but
not too much so to peruse with the
greatest interest. We must pass over
the story of the wedding, which was
the day before Christmas event at
Dingley Dell, at which Mr.. Pickwick
distinguished himself by a felicitous
speech, and get to the story of the
dance. Dickens description of the old
sitting room is a GEM
The best sitting room at Manor Farm
was a good long. dark paneled room,
with high chimney piece and capacious
chimney, up which you could have driven
one of the new patent cabs, wheels and
all. At the upper end of the room, seated
In a shady bower of holly and ever
greens, were the two best fiddlers and the
only harp in Muggleton In all sorts OF
recesses and on all kinds of brackets
stood massive old silver candlesticks with
four branches each. The carpet was up.
the candles burned bright, the fire blazed
and cracked on the hearth. and merry
voices and light hearted laughter rang
through the room. If any of the old
English yeomen had turned into fairies
when they died, 1t was just the place In
which they would have held their revels.
After the dance was over, Mr.. Pick
wick having acquitted himself with
great credit, the reader is told about
the doings in the famous old kitchen.
Here hung the mlstletoe and did its
mission we'll in adding to the jollity
of the occasion The artist whose pic
lures appear on his pages has done ex'
cellent justice to Dickens text;
From the center of the ceiling of this
kitchen old Wardle had just suspended
with his own hands a huge branch Of
nistletoe, and this same branch of mis-
tletoe instantaneously gave rise to a
scene of general and most delightful
struggling and confusion, in the midst OF
which Mr.. Pickwick. with gallantry
which would have done honor TO de-
scendant Of Lady Tollinglower herself
took the old lady by the hand, led her be-
meath the mystic branch and saluted her
in all courtesy and decorum. Wardle
stood with his back TO the fire, surveying
the whole scene with the utmost satisfac-
ton, and the fat boy took the opportuni-
~ OF approprtating 10 his own use anu
Fummarlly devouring particularly me
mince pie that had been carefully put by
for somebody else. -
1t was a pleasant thing to see Mr. Pick
wick in the center of the group, now pull
ed this way and then that and first kiss
ed on the chin and then on the nose and
then on the spectaces, and to hear the
peals OF laughter which were raised on
every side.
Finally we come 10 Christmas day
which was cold and cheerful and good
skating weather The party all
went to pretty large sheet Of ice"
where Mr. Wipkle, having assumed
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-12-17
Christmas With
The PiCkWickianS


n 70 chronicler Of Christmas do
mi ings has done it so inimitabIy
as Dickens, and nowhere has
Dickens described them bet
ter than IN the "Pickwick Papers"
One might read the paragraph relating
to the observance Of the holiday half
a hundred times and not become weary.
The Christmas spirit is everywhere
evident in the chapters devoted to the
holiday making. From the beginning,
when the hero. his three friends and
his faithful servant start for Dingley
Dell. to the hour of their return there
is Christmas in every sentence:
AS brisk as bees, if not altogether as
light as fairies, did the four PickwiclSians
assemble on the morning of the 22d day
of December IN the year of grace in
which these their faithfully recorded adj
ventures We're undertaken and accom-
plished. Christmas was close at hand In
all his bluff and hearty honesty It was
the season of hospitality, merriment and
open heartedness. The old year was pre-
pairing, like an ancient philosopher to
call his friends around him and amid the
sound of feasting and revelry to pass
gently and calmly away. Gay and merry
was the time, and right gay and merry
were at least four of the numerous hearts
that were gladdened by it's coming.
After travelling through a wide and
open country where 1.-THE wheels skim
over the hard and frosty ground, slow
ing up as they draw near a country
town, where the horses are changed,
then again "dashing along the open
road, with the fresh air blowing in
their faces and gladdening their very
hearts within Them" they arrive at
Dingley Dell, where we are introduced
to that famous parsonage, the fat boy.
He is an old acquaintance of Mr.. Pick
wick, but to Sam Weller his face is
strange. To follow this first meeting:
Having given this direction and settled
with the coachman, Mr.. Pickwick and
his three friends struck into the footpath
across the fields and walked brislSly away,
leaving Mr.. Weller and the fat boy con-
fronted together for the first time = Sam
booked at the fat boy with great aston
ishment but without saying word. and
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-12-17
The Gift.
BY FRANK II. SWEET.

Copyright. 1908, by American Press Assoc
ciation.l
THE Christmas chimes are sounding
on the air, I
a And, as sit and listen to their
sweet,
UnearthIy music, gone is every care,
Forget is all the turmoil Of the street.
The troubles that the path of man be-
set,
The vast anxieties Of human life,
All fade away, and every fond regret
Is lost in all their glad and joyous
strife.
.NATHAT1, IT,, th :s,3 49, ! seem alone o"
~ From happy eomradeship
stand isolate,
With none to greet me as I walk my
way.
To merely live count happy fate
To merely listen to those joyous sounds
That through the crisp of winter call
SO free,
Although the merrymakers on their
Pause ' not to think of or remember
me.
EST not enough that on this Christ
mas morn,
This glad birth morn Of him whose
day il is,
My heart but yesterday so sac, forlorn,
Doth open TO the message that was
his2
ls't not enough to know that from
above
The tidings of a sacrifice divine
Come as Gift of an eternal love
That { have but TO take to make it
mine?
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-12-17
A christmaa sentlment

However sincere we may be in our
efforts to spread Christmas cheer. our
charity is none the less a testimony
to our sense Of the fact that peace and
good win have not come upon the
earth. Poverty and Indebtedness are
not to be offset by yearly gifts OF bas-
kets of food and outgrown clothes.
We ought to make the spasmodic
kindness of Christmas one of the
constant forces Of our industrial world.
Equality and fraternity are born not
OF charity. but Of justice
Instead OF commerciallzlng Christ
mas we ought 10 Christmaslze com
mercialism. New York Mail.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-12-17

these are among the mechanical toys
of Sonneberg.
In short. Santa Claus In these times
can lind the means Of gratifying the
wishes OF his most fastidious petit
tioher. HENRY SNYDER.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-12-17

GERMAN CHRISTMAS CAKE A SOLDIER
~. sALUrING.
proc&ts one would expect under the
circumstances. The Bavarian peasant
for example, is n fair type of the liv-
ing original as he is pictured in the
German comic weeklies. A Munich
waitress carrying well grouped
bunch of foam capped stems OF the
beverage for which Munich is cele-
brated at home and abroad, even If
she does suggest Salome trifle, is de-
cidedly lifelike, while the saluting sol
dier by his very attitude suggests that
foam capped stems and sentry duty do
not assimilate very well.
The German authorities have done
much to encourage the toymaking In
dustry, particularly by collecting toys
from all the world that the toymakers
pisht acquaint themselves with the
Wits and pecularities OF fereign
mhrkets. The wooden animals Of the
past have been eclipsed by the me-
chanical toys. A submarine boat
which sinks into the water and rises
again, az with one charge OF soda
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-12-17

copyright, 1903, by American Press Asso-
ciationl
VA FHY is Santa Claus sometimes
u n called st. Nicholas? Fer
wv the most excellent reason
that Nicholas is the real
name of the saint. Until comparative
ly recent years there was no Santa
Claus at Christmas time. When the
old saint comes down the chimney
Dec "A, Christmas eve, and deposits
gifts for the children in the suspended
stockings he is just nineteen days be-
hind time, for his true and proper
time is Dec. 3, that being the eve Of
st. Nicholas day. Just how Nicholas
got to be the Christmas eve saint Is
not altogether clear, but those icon
oclasts who dig into ancient matters
are probing this secret. They have
discovered, or claim to have discoy-
cred, that the Christmas eve Santa
Claus really originated in America, be-
ing transported to England from New
York.
In the saints calendar Dec. is st.
Nicholas day. Nicholas was bishop Of
MYTH. Ill l4NNAds LIZ - DNAANN "a ~
have lived under the Emperors Do
cletian and Constantine and Is the pa
iron saint Of poor maidens, sailors.
travellers. merchants and children.
Rich maidens, of course, are also quite
willing to acknowledge him when be
comes along with diamond dog coll
| lars, necklaces and tiaras.
Before the great religious reformation
the custom Of giving presents ON st.
Nicholas eve was general throughout
Christian Europe When the worship
of the saints was abolished the Prac-
tice died out in England, where FOR
about three centuries st. Nicholas fail
ed to visit households on the evening
of Dec. to leave presents for good
children. BY the way, it should be
pointed out that Nicholas was noted
even in infancy as a particularly good
and pious child. Therefore his visits
are not made to bad children-only to
those whose parents can vouch for
their good behavior during the previous
year.
In Austria, Holland and Poland st
Nicholas eve is still observed. Good
children get presents, secretly left in
their shoes placed upon the hearth
stone for the purpose or in their stock
ings hung from the mantel. When
New York was settled by Hollanders
the devout Dutchmen brought ever to
America their religious customs, not
forgetting that of st, Nicholas eve. In
| old New Amsterdam the saint made
his visits the night of Dec. 5, st. Mich
olas day being celebrated by the set
! tiers rs a holiday. In time the Dutch
were supplanted by the English, New
! Amsterdam became New York, and the
old st. Nitholas eve gift giving custom
was reintroduced into England from
New York. But in England the GUS
tom of giftmaking on Christmas eve
had grown up. There was, however,
no Santa Claus ceremony. Gifts were
made outright aud without secrecy.
When st. Nicholas sailed back TO.
] England there was CONSERVATION
among fond papas and mammals In
the tight little isle.
"What! Shall we have two days Of
gift giving and less than three weeks
apartT they cried.
Thrifty English parents, ii is sup
posed, determined that one day of
giving was enough, and so they sim.
ply transferred st. Nicholas to Christ
mas eve. ~.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-12-17
Odd Christmas Cakes
A GERMAN NOVELTY.

~ ERMANY for many years has
A been the land of Christmas nov
elites. and each year the kali
ser's ingenious toy, candy and
cake makers devise some oddly which
proves Irresistible In Turing small or
great sums from the pockets of Yule-
tide shoppers One Of the latest ma
Mas is for quaint and humorous Christ
mas cakes. which are literally cartoons
in sugar and dough. The cakes are
decorated with all sorts of funny fig
ures made of colored sugar and in
many instances are not the crude art
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-12-17
LONG WALK FOR SANTA.

Tree Burned Father Goes Eight Miles
For New Toys.
Gifts intended for his eight children
being destroyed when his lighting of
the Christmas tree, just before mid
night, caused a fire which damaged
his home in Cleveland, Alfred Ham,
mermeister trudged eight miles through
snow before he could rouse a store
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-12-17
Why Saint Nicholas?
By ROBERT DONNELL.

[copyrght, 1903, by American Press Asso-
ciation.l
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-12-17
IRISH POINT OF VIEW

1t is a merry Christmas
When there is lots Of snow,
For then through my good shovel
Some golden coin I know.
And It's a merry Christmas
When not fake is seen,
For Christmas to the Irish
Is merry when it's green.
R. X. MUNKITTRIcK.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-09-04
PROOF OF RESIDENCE or
THE MISS. CROCTAWS

Muskogee, Okla, Sept. 4.-Commis-
sioner J. George Wright has ordered
field party Of government clerks out
for the purpose of taking proof of the
three years bona fide residence Of the
Mississippi Choctaw allotted in the
Choctaw and Chickasaw nations,
which is required before the patents
to their land can be issued to them.
The Mississippi Choctaws, near O.
600 Of them. were brought from AIissis-
sippi by the government and fed for
a year while their allotments we're be.
ing made To insure their occupancy
Of the land after it was given them,
and to prevent their return to their
native haunts in Mississippi, the gov
ernment required them to live on their
atlotments three years before they
could get a title. The field party will
be at stigler, Sept IA; Wilburton, Is;
Kiowa, 1e; Atoka, n; Durant, Is;
Hugo, 21 Idabel. %; Ardmore. "a and
%. Ravia, 2ei Ada, %; PauIs Valley,
30, and Tuttle, Oct 2
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-09-04
cHIRos IN SESSION.

Oklahoma City, Okla, Sept 4-The
sacond annual convention of the Ok
lahoma Chiropraetic association began
here today with over a hundred dele
gates present The principal address
will be delivered during the afternoon
by DR.. Willard Carver, the founder
of the organization. Another address
will be given by Prof Edward b. War
man, for many years editor of the
health department Of the Ladies'
Home Journal. The convention will
close Monday.