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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Toms Best "
i Christmas
Observation-Disclosures
Copyright by the Author
By Arrbie P. McKishnie


Tom Lawrence shook his fist under
the grocery keepers nose.
you try and stop me and I'll fix
you," he threatened, "even if I have
to do time for it. You trying to hold
fellow away from his people this
way, and it Christmas Eve, too. Why.
the old man and the old woman will
be right glad to see their little boy
again"
He laughed wheezingly and leaned
weakly against the counter.
"You can't keep me from feeding on
the fatted calf, Josh. I'm going to
walk in on the old folks tonight, just
like the wild, hayward sons you read
about do. You never hear of them
getting the cold hand, do your 49,
A fit of coughing choked the laugh
ter from his voice, and when he lift
ed his face it was gray-white beneath
the lamplight.
The big grocer laid aside the pack.
age he was tying, and walked around
the counter.
Come here, Tommie," he said, op
ening the door of the inner room.
The young man slouched forward
obediently.
! "Say, JOSH he whined, "cut it out,
I'm tired of being preached to. Won't
ynu get me a little whisky, Just one
drink" he pleaded. See, Pm all
broke up. and I'm going home tonight.
Six years Of the life I've led wears
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one, Josh, wear one right down to the
heart and soul, and this cough"
He sank down on seat before the
IRE. his slim fingers gripping his
chest. .g.ss. alEs = sG4sStss ss4s =. +
"sit there and get good and warm.
I'll be back IN q minute" The gro
Ger slipped out, locked the door after
him, and went behind the counter.
Customers had come In and were
waiting to be attended to.
The grocer drew tall young man
% one side.
d Jim" he said.s II want you to help
mo out. DO behind and serve them
customers. I don't care If you haven't
never sold groceries; do your best.
Don't be particular about weights.
0iys everybody Christmas measure.
I've not q stay sway for sDsll.
He. whispered something IN the
young mans ear. His nearer started.
why, they think = he commenced;
but the grocer laid : big hand on his
arm. .ts.4, i. s+s.. Il 4 81
II know what they think; ana,
whatever you do. keep what I've told
you to yourself. I don't know what
"a do. but III find out way. When
they come, call me. m be q here :
Lawrence lifted his white face from
his hands GO tho grocer entered.
"IIave you got 1T" he questioned
eagerly. The big man sat down. e.
cling kim So s
4 want TO have : little chat With
You, Tommie." ne said. gently. Yoa
Vemanbar whom ron Ners youngstes
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Star Of the East
BY Mary q. Sleigh.

0ys wary q. SJSI9O. sHsNsaf
Beautiful Star, that dawned in the Orr
ent, &
Shedding thy light on the deserts lone
way.
Led by thy brightness. we, too. would
come bringing
Our gifts. magi-like. in the nnanEer to
lay. ri
Gladly we offer our choicest of trees
ures.
Seeking. with these, our allegiance to
prove: --+
But our gems and our myrrh, our gold
and frankincense, - Il
Are offered In vain II not offered in
love. --E.
Beautiful Star. that with mystical ar
Told where . King was enthroned in
STALL T.. a "
oh. fair are the orbs shining nightly
above US, ~
But Thou. in Thy splendor, excellest
them all.
Shine on in the darkness, bright herald
sl Of morning;
Shine on down the ages with luster up-
dimmed, 49, ss$1s&
sun leading the way to the sweet Son
Of Mary. H., 81
Till through the wide world hallelujahs
are hymned.
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NEWS FROM SCANDINAVIA.
Principal Events That Have Trans-
pired in the Old Countries
Within Week or So.
SWEDEN.

A valuable piece of work is being
done in Stockholm, in getting detailed
expense statements from 500 families,
which will be carried up to the end OF
the year and then tabulated. A pre-
liminary statement has already been
issued. 1t shows that in families with
incomes under 1000 kronor q year,
the expense for each person averages
~ kronor. For incomes from 1000
to 5000 kronor, it averages SOB kron-
or each, and for those over 5000
kronor, the average is S96 each. A
percentage table has been made up.
showing what proportion Of income Is
spent In different directions. It is
made up from seventy-five Stockholm
families for 1907 and 1908. 1t Is as
follows:
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Hanging the Stockings
~ auroes john.on.

-" ~ Burgess johnson.
Christmas eve! It's Christmas svol
Supperso cleared away .'
Seems ~ IL can't believe
That to-day's to-day!
don't sec . thing. do you,
We can hang stockin' tor - !
For q month or just about,
Days would hardly stir.
Though I crossed their places out
On tho calendar. fis rs.
Pins or nails III never stick
In this hard old chimney brick,
Praps a. soon as nights begun
He'll come stealing In!
Ny! It makes the shivers run
Up and down my skin.
Mayn't I@pound q nail up here Y
In the woodWork. Mother dear1
Daddy's sock II never do
& Not q toy would Mt
S'pose We let him stand his shes
JUST IN under TT - IS, I'LL 1.
There u They'rs dona I'm slssIp,1l
some. e 5=s i. {.
Bet tc-norrow'n never come, B
--Everybody.aL.
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Observation-Disclosures
I'm filth for
Santa
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Copyright. 1900. BY ". l. Patterson
By Olivia Barton Sfrokm

At q clearing of the forest stood
MacGregor's store. It was sometimes
called 1.-The Crossing" but az the
branch had long been impossible be.
cause of Quicksands. these literal
mountain folk had come to call It
only "The Store" Here the mail was
brought, from the railroad twice q
week by carrier. But it sometimes
CHANGED that somebody had an er-
rand in town, and would fetch" the
letters with him. @ M g
This was just what happened the
eve before Christmas. MacGregor him.
self, went for the mail q goodly
lot of it there was, too Several post
al cards, at least q dozen letters, and
az many other parcels.
He alighted from the wagon,
hitched the mules outside, and hur.
ried to the door which his daughter
held open for him.
my, Pappy, what Z lot of letters!
Any for me?"
Her father put them on the grocery
counter, and, going back to the wa.
gon, returned with package of pep
permint candy-sticks of red and white
like small barber poles. These he put
IN glass jar, then noticed the girl.
Hello, Mamie, what's in that there
writin?"
"Nothin'," was the terse response,
and Mamie slipped the letter in her
belt
The man crossed to her with the
swagger of conscious weakness.
Locke here, Name, if it's from that
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pie-faced teacher down thar at the
Gap, it'll be the worst fer you and him,
too. Thar's lots of us ready to take
Bud Johnson's part"
Her face flushed to the color of her
Turkey red calico. I'll never marry
Bud johnson so long as I'm alive!
Shame on you, Pappy! It's all on &C
count of that 20-acre lot. It's for sale;
you are crazy for it, and you want me
to marry Bud because he's promised
to buy the lot if you make me marry
him. Promise! he has promised every
thing-from that land to collar for
Peppers neck!"
The tiny black dog snoozing under
the counter heard his name and crept
to her feet; she stopped and patted
him.
Never mind, Pepper, you shall 60
without the collar, and Pappy without
the land forever, before I'll let him
swap me like a pair of two-year-olds!"
Her father paused in the act Of pill
ing the good apples on top Of the
barrel. II know; it's all on account
of that teacher man. And what's he
done? Tried to get the mountain folks
to send our youngsters to, him to be
larned how to work. Thunderation!
Can't we larn We that ourselves? If
he'd give ye book-larnin'. 1t wouldn't
be 90 bad, but .t,. .,s~.s5 - H., - =.
That's foolishness,, Pappy; there's
q lot If good In this new kind Of study
ing that they call manual training
It's just because you haven't =. been
hearing it all your born lives that you
object. Why, you won't hear to any
thing that isn't az old as the noun
tains themselves" 15a+
Pepper dropped from her arms as
she lowered over her father. How
can we grow? How can we amount
to row Of beans If you keep US in
the same old rut? Only to-day heard
you tell Bill Dawson that you were
sorry we were having such good
weather. IT don't seem natural for
Christmas you said, 1t don't seem
like old times Old f1ddlesticks! Just
because the nasty wet fog 10 what
we're used to this time OF year, you
don't want the sun TO shire. Looks like
you don't want the Lord 10, Improve
on his own weather.
a customer came In and got u nick
els worth Of candy for his baby'ss
Christmas stocking.
g II hear you all air goin' 10 hev .
celebration tonight: III be along and
fetch the young uns," he said. Who's
goin' TO play Santa Claus1''
MacGregor looked at his daughter.
Dunno; Names fxed up . rig and
says she'll And some un to wear IL;
some I'm to play Old Nick and give
the things of the tree"
All this while Mamie was slyly 10
reading the letter.
Your father will not permit me
to go to you. sweetheart: but will you
come to me? BY the pollard willow, q
twilight tonight
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NORWAY,


As far as known, Bjornson IN still
in Paris. He is improving. b 4as
The appraisal Of the estate Of the
late j. Lachmann, of Ystad, shows
property to the value c Of 6,124,747
crowns. OF this 100000 crowns are
for an estate he possessed in West
India. . a}H.,rH ,.J.t.A "l& #&-"'L II
The Socialists will occupy the same
number of seats in the. new storting
as In the last one, namely II. But
this does not correspond to their
strength at the polls. At the main
elections, which are q true index, the
Rightists and the Liberal Leftists
pulled 176,600 votes:s the CONSOLIDATE
cd Leftists and Castbergs Labor Party
145,200, and the Socialists, 81. 900. In
proportion to, the votes cast, these
first, mentioned were entitled TO- So
seats in the, storting; the Consolidat.
ed, to 431A; and the Socialists, to 265k.
But after all the supplementary cleo
tons had been held the three parties
obtained GO, ~. and II seats, respect
lively, and two Of those elected are in
dependent. This shows that the So
eialists obtained only II out sof the
261a seats, which their voting strength
at the main elections entitled them; to-,
The hotels OF sarpsborg have again
been deprived Of the privilege Of serv-
ing beer and wine to travelling and
regular customers. The chief Of po-
lice recommended that licences b
granted to them. The city council
voted for prohibition by q vote OF 19
to Is. The former consisted Of Il
Socialists. 5 Abstainers and 2 Leftists.
There was grand blowout in KRIS
tiania on the occasion Of the formal
opening Of the Bergen railway. The
king made fine little speech. refer
ring to Bjornson. the bed-sidden poet
In tender terms. a.
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FARMERs, TAKE NOTICE

am the authorizsd agsnt for IT,
Marshall County Farmers Mutual -.
suranee Co, for the towns Of NcCroA
comstock. Warrenton. Boxyille. No
solum and Viking. Anyone wishinQ
Insurance In this company 60
q. q OK ONovos
RadIum. Min.
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OF the leading trades and the prices
OF some of the staple food stuffs
makes it plain why the common Swed-
ish laborer should be inclined to emf
crate no matter how dearly he loves
his country. In reading the follow
ing statement the reader should bear
in mind that krone is 81 cents, and
Is divided into 100 ore. Day labor on
farms in southern Sweden is paid
about Is ore an hour. Flour mill en-
ployees in Stockholm get IS kroner a
month, minimum wage for skilled men
and in southern Sweden, 90 kronor.
Bakers in Stockholm, minimum wage
per week, $40. Sugar refineries,
Stockholm, 40 ore an hour; in the
country, IS ore. Brewery workers,
Stockholm, IS to 100 kroner a
month; outside, 80 kroner. Textile
workers, OF southern Sweden, 80 ore
an hour for men and up to 20 ore
for women. Tailors, Stockholm, %
to Is kronor a week; outside, 16 to IS
kronor. In nearly all trades fifty-6ve
hours makes a weeks work, with ten
hours a day and five on Saturday.
Shoemakers, hand work, receive 20
Machine workers in shoe factories
get 40 ore an hour in Stockholm, and
IS ore in the country. Carpenters
wages are about so ore an hour in
Stockholm, and IS to 40 ore in out
side places. Stonemasons and brick
layers make 60 to IS ore an hour in
Stockholm, but outside wages are
much lower, and vary greatly. Paint
ers get ga ore an hour in Stockholm,
and SIS ore in other places. Unskilled
labor on buildings will receive 50 to
IS ore an hour, and up to 40 ore else
where. Day labor in the woodwork
ing establishments of northern Swed-
en- is paid Is to 80 ore an hour. In
the wood-pulp mills the men average
3 kronor day for shift that is
eight hours in some plants, but 10 to
IL hours in most of them. Minimum
wages for skilled labor in the iron
rolling mills and in machine shops are
% to 80 ore an hour. Bookbinders'
pay runs about 20 kronor for a week
of IS hours. On the other hand, the
prices of many necessities are up to
the American scale. Milk costs about
4 cents quart, skinned milk little
less than 2 cents. Butter of first quail
ity costs &c cents a pound, and Sec
ond quality "a cents. Most working
men use margarin at 20 cents h.,
or Is cents for second quality. Eggs
are about "a cents dozen. Beef Of
the ordinary quality for roasting is
1871 cents a pound, and boiling beef
IL cents a pound. Fresh pork costs
15h cents pound. Fresh herring Is
to be had at 81 cents.
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-03-03
THEY ATE SNAKES AND
MONKEYS AT THIS DINNER

New York. March 3.-Broiled Pacific
whale, grilled blubbler from Nootka.
roast Amazon money, baked Winnipeg
poroupine and boa constructor outlets
are among the more imposing features
Of the dinner OF the Canadian club ar
this city last night The dellcacies
came at the end of the menu, the
diners appetitee being whetted earlier
In the feast by ordinary viands, such
as Martindale one-eyed trout noun
tain lamb with horns) New Found
land rabbit pie, spitted Vancouver
pigeons and African sorbet la white.
Colonel c. ] (Bu1fnlo) Jones was
was the guest Of honor and the princi-
pal speaker. His address. which the
toastmaster described in advance as a
challenge to nature fakirs and molly
coddlers," was illustrated by stereopti-
con pictures. Not the least interesting
part Of the discourse were the imi-
tauons by Buffalo" Jones of the
cries of the coyote. bear, mountain
lion, buffalo and other animals OF the
plains, enabling any of the liners. the
speaker said, ito recognize these speci-
mems easily by ear, whenever they
chanced TO get within speaking dis
tanCe"
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were unreliable as to accuracy OF fire
In the Civil war scene n battery
wheels into action and fires on infan-
try at a distance of only few hun
Jred feet. The modern Browning. OF
Colts. gun could have swept the field
OF men and horses and have routed
the entire attacking force. but in the
picture the artillery is captured by
the Confederates charging. as did the
600 mt Balaklava, into the mouths OF
cannon.
Gen. Sheridan had great influence
over his men and had the power to in
spire them even In defeat with renew
ed hope, but this personal equation is
almost entirely eliminated from mod
ern war The accuracy OF aim, the
heavier battalione. the strength OF
fortification, the mobility of the forces
and strategy are now the determining
factors Battles are fought with long
range guns, and foolhardy is the gem
eral who, making sortie or direct at
tack, attempts to hurrah his way TO
victory.
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-03-03
SUNDAY LEGISLATION.

Petaluma, California, has passed an
ordinance prohibition the playing OF a
monographs OF other "noise-making
machines" on Sunday. Edison might
not recognize his machine by the de-
scription of "noise-making," and he
may take exception to the libel. but
regardless OF whether q phonograph
is a noise maker or a producer OF
sweet melodies. the great Issue is,
how far Is this Sunday regulating 70
go, When the New Englanders made
the famous blue laws and became so
Jealous IN their religious duties that
they refrained from cooking on Sun
day, and even legislated against the
husband who would kiss his wife on
the Lords day, they did exactly what
the extremists In Petaluma are do
ing-making the observance OF Sun
day irksome and anything but free
expression OF Difference to holy GUS
tom.
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-03-03

to the Inauguration OF president this
year; the people have swarmed in to
Washington through Chicago for tho
week past, requiring extra coaches on
regular trains. extra trains and special
trains until passenger agents OF east
en lines passed the point OF distrac-
ton to stolid endurance a week ago.
kilograms from every state in the west.
asking for sleeping car reservations.
have been pouring in for a fortnight
Several special trains do luxe were
made up in Chicago and IL was mat
ter Of comment In railroad ofices that
never has a throng attended the in
auguration Of president OF the Unit
ed States In such pomp and circum-
stance, spending money so freely and
seemingly so we'll satisfied with pros
poets under the new president. The
contrast drawn by the inauguration
OF 1909 and that of Washington ia
1888 was In keeping with the salaries
OF the first and the twenty-seventh
president, Washington having declined
any salary and Taft being the first to
receive the advance of $4,000. 1t is
not generally remembered that in ad-
dition to his salary of $4,000. Presi-
dent Roosevelt has had $4,000 for
travelling expenses and. of course. the
White House. for the maintenance Of
which Uncle Sam spent $50, 900 in 1907
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triots that he has just discovered Miss
Mulebacks novels. and he adores
them. An equally learned pal In the
group corrccts the frst: Not Mule
hack. Batty; not Muleback, but Meel-
bew," And so 1t goes, says the Butte
Inter Mountain.
Tho only safe and sane way TO speak
any language is to turn into that Ian
guage all terms or proper names bor-
rowed from another. 1t Is. OF course.
within the power of the average man
to learn the correct pronunciation OF
such matter from contemporancous
European tongues. and even from the
classics; but after all, that is only a
beginning. He who turns that OF
which he is not sure Into the English
equivalent is sensible; II not elegant
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-03-03
Leaving to be account

Leaving to be account
ed Tor ............S 9sl, lS2, ,77S
First to be noted is the great addI-
ton which has been made to stocks
OF gold held by banks and govern
ment treasures since 1S93-they have
been doubled within that time.
Next IS the large amount OF new
metal whose disposition is unknown
which has disappeared as completely
as IL 1t had never been found. and has
not been without large effect upon
Industrial activity through regime
of high and rising commodity prices
that has been brought about. Whether
we are nearing an end to this great
expansion in gold output cannot be
said, There are no present indica-
tions of IT. and as long as this Is the
case wo may be sure that no very ex-
tended fall In the general prices OF
commodities can come to pass as a re-
suit of passing business depression.
And as long as that is true, business
depression Will be neither severe nor
greatly prolonged as It WAS after the
panic OF 1898.
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SECRET SERVICE
COMMIT 7 I EE
REPORTS
SAYS THE FORCE SHOULD HAVE
PERMANENT CHARACTER.
Advises That Legislation to This Ef-
feet Be Enacted-one Hundred
Moro Men Than In 1903.

Washington, March 3-Legislatlon
should be enas<ed by congress giving
@ permanent $1aracter to the secret
service force OF the government, &C
cording to the report OF the select oom-
mittee OF the house to investigate this
force submitted to the house today
The committee consisted Of Repre-
sentauves Olmstead of Pennsylvania,
CurT1er of New Hampshire, Young OF
Michigan, Brantley of Georgia and
Bowers Of Mississippi. 1t was appoint
ed to investigate the amount of ap-
preparations devoted to secret service
work and the number of employees en-
gagged therein. The report was unan-
imous.
We deem it proper" says the re-
port ito call attention TO the fact that
the secret service division OF the treas
ury department now exists without
permanent authority OF Law, dependent
entirely upon appropriations made from
year to year and that the like force
In the department of justice is simi-
larly without permanent authority of
law and Is paid out of lump sum ap
propriated for incidental expenses.
Whether the separate forces of sec
ret service men now existing In the
treasury department and in the de-
partment Of justice should be combn-
ed In one, under control of the attor-
ney general, we do not attempt to de
eide, but suggest that whether sep
arately maintained or under one con-
troll. they should be permanently pro-
vided for and their duties clearly de-
fined and limited by law"
The total number OF employees en-
gagged In the detection or prevention
of fraud, whether called secret SER
vice men, detectives. special agents,
special inspectors or by other names,
in all the departments combined. the
report says, Is found to have been just
one hundred moro than in 1898.
The committee found that 81, $3.50, ,7OS
had been appropriated In lump sums
which might have been, but was not.
used in detective work
In speaking of the secret service
division of the treasury department,
the supply OF men to meet the de-
mands of the department OF justice
In the past was touched upon
The committee finds. the report
says. on this loan of men. THAT while
not strictly within the authorization
of the statute, It has originated years
ago In the exigencies OF the case. Ex-
cept in the few INSTANCES indicated In
this report, we have found no branches
of the public service. or persons en-
ployed therein. engaged in any duty
not contemplated by the law. but
whether any such persons have been
OF are engaged in any duty not con-
templated by law the appropriation
establishing or providing for such ser
vice could be accurately asccrtained
only by an examination of each per
son so engaged in any such service.
which examination could not be made
within the life OF the present con-
gress,"