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"DICKIE"
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him. Now, Charles Barclay was hard
ly the man to let the grass grow under
his feet; and though this marriage was
much against DR.. Hastings grain, by
the beginning of April the date had
been fixed and the 8th decided upon as
the day for the signing of the marriage
papers.
But April proved a terrible day for
the vicarage, for in the afternoon who
should rush into the house but Lady
Bowden, a stoutish dowager, fresh
from London, with the news that Dick
was-dead, run over, stolen, drowned,
had vanished two days before, was no
where to be found.
All that afternoon the family sat in
a group as at a wake-glum, dumb,
dropping only vague guesses, groans.
"I always thought" Charles Barclay
said, "that that was a child who should
be ruled with a rod of iron."
"But she may be alive-may only
have run away!" said Dr. Hastings
several times; and at last Lady Bow
den admitted that this might be so,
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TRUE MoDESTY

Gus de Smith - Do you know my
father Miss Birdie?
Birdie-I have never met him, but l
believe he is a modest, unassuming
sort of man.
Gus de Smith-Right you are. You
can get some kind of an idea how un-
ostentatious he is when | tell you he
does not brag about having me for a
Son.-Life.
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TEMPERANCE NOTE

Mrs. Carrie Nation, the celebrated
temperance advocate, recently entered
a temperance restaurant in Dundee.
Addressing the proprietor, she asked:
Young man, do you sell drink?'
NO" was the reply; but you can
get what you want next door."-An-
swers.
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Light Reading for Leisure Moments
PRECAUTIONARY

Dear" whispered the eloping lover
what shall we do with the rope lad
der? We shouldn't leave it hanging
there?"
"Oh, that's all right" replied the
coy damsel. Papa said he'd pull it up
again, so we couldn't get back. -
Pick-Me-Up.
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TAKING THE OATH

Excited Individual - Is this where
they swear people?
Commissioner for Oaths-Yes, sir;
what can l do for you?
Excited Individual want to take
an oath never to put down another car
pet-Sketch.
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THE REST WAS SILENCE

Miss Ingenue-Aunty, what is that
blue ribbon the tall gentleman on the
platform is wearing across his breast?
Aunty-That? Oh, that's his Garter
Miss Ingenue - Carter Oh, dear!
what a funny place to wear it. Why,
l wear mine
Aunty-Hush, darling.-Judge.
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THE EASIEST WAY

II was very angry just now when
Blocker asked me for five dollars that
l owed him" But why did you get
angry?" 81 found it much easier to
get angry than to pay."-Jugend.
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BOOK LEARNING

Where are you off to in such
hurry?'
ITO the doctor for my husband"
Whats up with him?'
He tells me he has got hepatitis,
dyspepsia. rheumatism, enteritis, gas
tritis, appendicitis, nephritis, and cere-
bro spinal meningitis
Holy terrors Where did he get all
that?"
why a man induced him to buy a
medical dictionary and he's just begun
reading it."-Judy.
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NOT FRIGHTENED

81 suppose you have read of the
danger in kissing?" he remarked ten
tatively
Il have" she replied; but I come of
a family noted for courage. Tit
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OF course, madam. 1 would not be
expected to light the fire."
Certainly not"
Nor TO sweep the floors?"
Certainly not"
Nor to attend the door?"
"Of course not"
Nor to wait at tablet"
NO; I want none of these things"
said the lady with her sweetest smile.
The only thing l require a servant
for is to look at her. and for this .
you are too plain. Royal Magazine.
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COULDN'T PREVENT HIM

Miss Gushington (entering tramcar)
oh, don't get up. Please keep your
eat-please do!
Mr. Man-Really, I'd like to oblige
YOU. madam; but 1 want to get out
here.-Life.
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NO ARGUMENT

The Playwright - Honestly, now
what do you think of my new play?
The Critic-Don't ask me- You're so
much bigger and stronger than l am
Answers.
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TOO OFTEN

Husband-You never kiss me except
when you want some money.
Wife-Well, isn't that often enough?
Punch.
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"I want some cigars for my hus-
band. please"
Eyes, madam: what kind?"
II don't quite know; but he's small
man and always dresses in black!-
London Opinion.
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uay ume ne spent in the fields armed only with opera
gas with which he studied the winter BIRDS always
with sharpened to the possibility of finding some
species that rare
President Taft loves nature too in way but he is
not much of tramper excepting where the walk leads
over the golf links which he spends his holiday after
moons, Christmas included in Washington because OF
the comparative mildness of the climate the game Of
golt IS possible nearly every day in the year
There are several hundred officers of the and ma
Wy stationed in Washington most of them being detailed
for office work in the departments for term of four
years The naval officers perhaps enjoy their holiday
making in the capital than do their brothers of
the for the sailors have been compelled to spend
many Chrstmases at away from their wives and
families, while here they may gather their families about
them and not break any regulations in doing The
army officer, whether he goes to the Philippines or to
distant frontier post ordinarily takes his family
with him and Christmas day does not to him neces
sary bring with it the loneliness homesick
ness that it brings to the at
In the biological survey which is bureau the de-
partment of agriculture there many scientists at
work. Most of these have spent large part OF
their lives in the wds studying birds mammals and
shells. plants and fishes to nothing of reptiles The
Office life is rksome these scientists They belong to
the free air. the barren plains and the pine forests So
it is that every holidy brings with it release
cares they take the open fields. About the
hills in many places about Washington Christmas day
there the little camp fires of the scientists
who cooking their midday Christmas dinners under
the open sky.
Some time ago all the bird students in the United
States were asked they could to make trip aeld
Christmas day and to make list of the birds that they
Thousands of bird lovers followed the suggestion
still following it. Each of the students turns
in report central headquarters giving the of
the Christmas day fell under his observa
ton. AS result of this practice the Washington sci
entiss many valuable notes concerning out of
son" birds For instance, the report to Washington
on a Christmas two ago, that the holiday four
mocking birds were seen positively identified in
fields near Boston, Mass. Other birds reported
northern localities birds that in the ordinary
OF things ought to have been far south of the Ma
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hanging up their stockings pierre anu np 49, ~ 40
are very small indeed believe tnao 10 pe Cbia"
reti+ Noel"-"the little Jesus" or the NIUE CilStiA"S
bo hrouoht the gifts But the average french cnllu
is as SOPHISTICATED young America anu rieI ! los
no very little boy indeed, to believe IN re pelle
- 49, ~ italian child ever hears of Santa Claus I'LL
he comes 10 America by which it may be gatnereu O
+hat good saint was strictly German, ana Wheh ne oi
oratod came to America like all the rest OF the Ger
..oou rr,rie+rooc with its
universal Christmas greens and present 10 cur
ous nbenomenon 1t has roots in American history
The ORIGINAL settlers of England never observed IT,
The Dutch of New Amsterdam scarcely nouced IT, puI
made New Years the great, joyous popular lesuVai
within the memory old people still living christmas
naeead nnohserved in New York. while all holiday mer
rvmaking centered in New Years day Modern America
has buit ND a Christmas festival Of it's own and has
raiected definitely religious feast in favor OIL the So
ca1 and domestic In way however, the Amerl
can Christmas religious than any and all the Lat
feasts put together one VINO mas yea tn1us
wears changing round of saints days IN italy IN al OF
which no work is and the people take holiday WIZ
observe that thought Of the people never goes out 10
those IN need The Astounding giving Of an American
Christmas the uneasy uncomfortable feeling that every
child at least must have, possible, good dinner and
present Christmas day, is quite unknown IN the Lat
in countries.
Tho feeling that poor old and hoboes, even the
criminals in their prisons, the in their aims
houses the beggars, the unWorthy-al ought 10 nave
something good eat that day. ana little christ
mas cheer in some FORMS part of the American Christ
~
keep their home Christmas for only few years after
thew arrive Then they drift off into more or less
Americanized Christmas
For few years after they come, also, they try to
eat their traditional dishes at Christmas time The Hun
garan householder makes the Christmas cakes which
long line of ancestral cooks made before her
They are round balls of dough- covered with honey and
nonny seed and then baked The Bohemians and Poles
also make poppy seed cakes, each in different style
The Scilan housewife, too has traditional Christmas
cake 1t a ring of dough with hole in the middle
the doughnut in facwhich is fried. sprinkled
with sugar and eaten hot
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study of them order that their merits and dement's
NAV be determined In some this means long and
continued study is at all unusual thing TO
find a committee chairman giving over the joys OF the
Christmas day consult precedents and to
arguments be used for against some pro
posed legislation find him doing this in the Sc
clusion of a stuffy office Christmas day.
good many Washington people, especially those who
the south into Virginia to hunt
Christmas day. In parts of the Old Dominion fox
hunting still of the winter day and II the
evidence there always rabbits and quail
while on the Potomac and in the marshes along
Chesapeake bay in winters the ducks and the geese
are fairly abundant outdoor life appeals strongly
the southerner, and in the northerners
to the Potomac country have formed the
hunting habit and join the Christmas day outing partes
of their southern cousins.
Christmas is the great holiday of Washington, From
high low the people make the most of it. There is good
cheer everywhere evident and charity is not forgotten
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AMERICAS CHRISTMAS
THE BEST OF ALL

An occasional Jersey commuter familiar with the re-
gious section of Barclay street. is commonly the ony
of American in New York who knows presep1o Dy
sight the presepo is the sign of the Latin Christ
the fir is of the northern The manger or
windows shows only the inside OF the
stable with the figures cattle done in Italian ter
Gotta the real presepio in its native land may
the whole countryside WELL and If the pilgrims
vending their way to manger good Siciian peas
ants bearing good Siciian wine and cheese their
donkeys they only the more interesting.
ST. Francis born in the quaint little town OIL ASSIST
among brown Umbrian hills in 1882, invented the
presepo the Christmas story plain to the simple
terate people During the 800 years since 1t
has remained favorite devotion in Latin Europe The
Italian and Spanish call it the presepio the the
French creche the CRADLE and the Hungar1ans and
Belgians, Betleim, Bethlehem.
Only years since not carpenter could De nlre0
in Rome Naples for weeks before Christmas Ihey
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utilization is the agency made use of
by living growth. A glass of jelly, or
any other noncrystalline substance,
doesn't grow. On cooling it passes
gradually from the melted to the solid
condition, and forms about a large
number of nudei, just as happens in
the condensation of vapor.
Capitalization is quite different.
The growth is rapid, and the nudei are
comparatively few. Prof Lehman
noticed that liquid crystals, when un-
der the influence of magnetic fluid.
coalesce and range themselves with
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ship was closed and their head cab
ing the would-be neophyte before the
assembled audience, showed him with
out a word an urn so filled with water
that not a single drop could be added.
The neophyte, reading the message.
bowed silently, started to withdraw.
but hesitated and returned. Picking a
petal from flower, he dropped it on
the trimming bowl so dexterously
that it floated without dislodging the
slightest particle of the liquid The
membership of the academy of silea se
became 101.
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all busy erecting presepios in the homes of the
quality while the poorer folk constructing their
own AS the mainland grows sophisticated the
quaint old devotion is fading but in conservative
Sicily people still make the presepo every year as they
Christmas in New York. All over the island
families busy from December to Is putting their
old presepios in order making and there Is
much calling and fro to results and admire
and elaborate specimens of the art The presepio
may little thing stand in corner or 1t may
occupy the whole side Of a room.
1t may represent a whole mountain side, made of the
rough flexible bark the cork tree. Peaks and
nrecipces abound with winding trails houses and castles
of coored cardboard forests of twigs and sometimes tiny
mines to furnish brooks and lakes In the center is the
grotto with holy family within. sky of blue pa
ner is stretched above with the Star of Bethlehem con-
sncuous and the hills the shepherds bearing
the gifts to the babe.
Snain like Sicily, has lost the presepio and in
both Spanish and Scan cities there booths for the
sale of miniature Shepherds mag and all the accessories
of the art In France the creche is not made at home
in the southern countries but used to be part of the
decorations of French church. and is still
go in the rural districts. Many polished cosmopote OF
paris can remember working busily for days before
christmas in his childhood to help freshen and reu
venate the creche of his parish church in some little vii
ee o France In the villages close by Paris to-day chill
dren who go about the streets singing Christmas carols
carry little creche a upon their shoulders.
The Manager typies the difference between the Latin
and the Teuton Christmas The Latin Christmas is
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their axes in the direction of the lines
of force; in other words, the growth
of an individual takes place. In fact,
the similarity IN aspect and behavior
between certain liquid crystals and
bacteria is remarkable, and scarcely
can be accidental.
Prof. Lehman suggests that in
life the directional force is that mys-
terious essence so much discussed,
and so little understood, the soul" In
support of this bold hypothesis" he
puts forward many arguments and
marshals an array of facts. It is de-
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The Academy of Silence.

1t is written that among the vari-
Gus schools of Grecian philosophy ex-
listed one known as "The Academy of
Silence, composed of 100 men. each
member pledged to the purpose of
the school, writes Hollis Godfrey in
the Atlantic. To them came one seek
ing admission. Their list of member
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HELP SOLVE LIFE PROBLEMS

that of the surrounding air, and thus
obtained access to an almost virgin
field.
That crystals, when placed in the
saturated mother liquor, grow and
have the power of healing fractures
have suggested to many that crystal
lized matter is form of life. Prof
Lehman ventures with some conf
dence to assert, not that crystals
themselves are living, but that crys-
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German Scientist Has Made Important
Contribution to Solution of
Great Question.

Crystal wisdom comes from Prof.
Otto Lehman of Stuttgart, student
OF lowing crystals for SO years, ever
since he discovered a novel form of
n;icr oscope which permitted the OPP
tical examination of substances at tenn
ueratures differing considerably from
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Safe Place for the Author.

I'm small town where the audi
ence calls for the author of the piece
to come before the curtain, he always
feels better if the curtain has a lot
OF local advertisements on it." said
the manager.
why SOP" asked his friend.
"Why, the people in the audience
are not going to throw eggs and take
a chance on spelling their cwn adver-
tisements, are they?"-Yonkers States
man.
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II son and Dix
t. on line. So it
is that a
Washington Christ
mas day idea has
been made to serve
the ends of science.
1t has been said
that in years past a
great many of the
senators and repre-
sentatives in congress
went home to spend
the holidays, but that
now the practice
largely has passed.
An exception should
be made for the past,
and the present, as
well, in the cases of
those senators and
members who have in
charge | e G j S | a t ion
which has been pro-
posed in bill form at
the opening of the
session of congress.
When bills are intro
duced they are at
once referred to COM
mittees and if the
measures are of i'm
portance the chair
men of the commit
tees to which they
have been sent, make
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Mistakes VIII HAPPEN.

Lady Ito her sister, doctor)-
THERE cooked meal for the first
time to-day, and made q mess of it.
well, dear, never mind, it's moth
Ing. lost my first patient"
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The South American people make much of Christmas
great feast day in all LatpAmerican countries
ambassadors and attaches pd their families do
forget of their native lands simply be-
few they have Eoen Tansplanted to
The open house is the order OF the day in
nearly every official residence in Washington after the
family its intimate celebration of the ho
day Large families the rule rather than the
tioB among the ambassadors and ministers from the
southern European from the Central South Amer
countries. The children have gala time of it at
home and then the visiting begins. The presents that
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Financial.

Stella-Isn't Mabel going to marry
the duke?
Bella-No, he rejected the budget.
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ciared that he has made an important
contribution to the solution of the
great question confronting alike sci
ence and philosophy-what is life?
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the festivities of
the day were ov-
er and the chill
dren had a chance
to take account
of their presents,
and then he left
for the log cabin
in Virginia where
he could sit in
front of a huge
open fire with a
s e n u i n e "old
Christmas" hack
log. On these
CHRISTMAS out
lngs Mr.. Roose-
welt did a little
rabbit shooting
and tried to do
s o m e turk e y
shooting, but the
major mart of +bo
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IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND ANYTHING
better for sdeache, backaches stitches thea
Perry Davis Painkiller Get the large size, IL Is the
cheapest AT I'LL druggists. 25c Sc and SOC bottles.
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purely r61SlOuS IeSJlVdl, DIS IuuCu 50
as any other feast of the church. 1t
has no particularly domestic or so
ciaI qualitZ. Italian children never
get presents on Christmas day. That
is done on All Souls day, in October,
when they believe-if they are very
small-that the spirits of their de-
parted relatives have come back in
the night and left presents for them;
undoubtedly a very ancient relic OF
ancestor worship. 1t is the great
Teuton family of nations that give
presents to children on Christmas
day. And the Christmas tree came
out of the vast forests where dwelt
the heather German and Scand1na-
Wan tribes. 1t is, in fact, pagan
relic. passed down from primitive
forest jewellers and worshippers.
Where Celt, Slav or Latin use 1t,
they have borrowed it.
France, half Latin and half Celt,
dashed with Gaul and Viking, is
family by herself in this, as in every
thing. She builds the manger In the
churches, but at home, though she
seldom dresses a Christmas tree, III
+,a Babette and Pierre set their
shoes by the fireplace instead OF
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It's one thing to run into debt and
another to crawl out.
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Constipation causes and seriously aggravates
many diseases. il is thoroughly cured by DIR.
Pierce's Pellets. Tiny sugar-coated granules.
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A girls ideal is naturally shattered
when he goes broke.
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HIS STATUS.

OATS swell horse youse got, jim
mie! What is he, charger, orr"
"Aw, by de way he is always kickin',
I guess he's just a plain mule!"
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green and so are
the wild honey
suckle and, the lau
rel, trees and
plants that are
abundant along the
Potomac.
President Roose-
welt was, as every
one knows, a nat
ure lover. He took
every opportunity
that offered to get
away from the
city. His daily
walks and rides
took him far into
the country, and on
Christmas day dur
ing the last four
years of his term
of Office he went
to Pine Knot, a
wooded, mountain
country place that
belonged to his
wife. Mr.. Roose-
welt stayed in
Washington until
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ASHINGTON not only has United States
Christmas celebration but it has the fes-
tivities that mark the Christmas season in
all the civilized nations of the world. At
the Russian embassy there is a Christmas
fete after the manner of the people in the
land of the czar; there are French doings
at the great European republics official
residence, and there is the genuine old
English Christmas at the home of the Brit
ish ambassador, and so one may go on
through the entire list of foreign repre-
sentatives, not even barring the embassies
of China and Japan, where in honor of
the day, as Christian nations view it, the
oriental officials have holiday dinners