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Evening journal., 1909-06-07

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Evening journal., 1909-06-07

wilmington. Del, June s. 1909.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-12-10

lander. Mrs. Taylor told me 1t was
the pride Of her husbands heart"
How did Il happen. JackY asked
Philander, with interest.
Mr.. Taylor said his wife heard some
one chopping about half past IL last
night, but she didn't think anything OF
it. and this morning they found the
tree was gone-only the stump left"
That's very strange" observed Mr..
Philander. Hard luck for Taylor
And, father" continued Jack ear
nestly, 81 was in the woods on Turkey
hill road today and that little tree we
saw last sunday Is there yet. You
didn't cut ii down. l knew that one
wasn't it,
Mr.. Philandcr paled slightly.
"Why. father" pursued the terrible
Jack with n directness born of sudden
revelation, this is Mr.. Taylor's tree!
l knew I'd seen it beforev'
Mr.. Philander shrank from their hor-
rified gaze.
'The Taylors will be here in few
minutes. James," said Mrs. Philander
coldly.
"My dear. l must have got turned
around, in the storm. but the Lord
only knows how 1 got in Taylor's
yard"
'Tt's on the other side Of the woods,
father" said Jack sympathetically,
''and l guess you walked right through
and into Mr.. Taylor's yard"
81 must have done that" groaned
Mr.. Philander. Then with sudden in
spiration he stripped the tree of it's
ornaments and candles and carried 1t
through the house into the back yard.
He scratched match. and in five min
utes the Phiander Christmas tree was
a charrcG ruin.
"Too had. old chap" said Taylor
commiscratlvely as Philander agi-
tatedly explained the absence Of the
tree. THAT'S one reason why i don't
believe In Christmas trees. They are
apt TO take fire. and there you are.
1 am glad it happened before we ar
rivedr'
$50 am l." calculated Mr.. Philander
But AL the little Philanders agree
that II was the most beautiful Christ
mas tree they ever had.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-12-10
Christmas superstitions.

II Christmas day on Sunday be.
A troublous winter we shall see,
Mingled with waters strong;
Good there shall be without fable
For the summer shall be reasonable,
With storms at times among.
Wines that year shall all be good:
The harvest shall be wet with flood
Pestilence fall on many country
Ere that sickness shall have passed
And while great tempests last
Many young people dead shall be.
Princes that year with iron shall die;
There shall be changing of many lords
high,
Among knights great debate.
Many tidings shall come TO men;
Many wives shall he weeping then,
Both OF poor and great estate.
The faith shall then be hurt truly,
For divers points of heresy
That shall then appear
Through the tempting OF the fiend,
And divers matters unkind
Shall bring great danger near.
Cattle shall thrive, one and the other,
Save oxen they shall kill each other.
And some beasts--they shall die.
Both fruit and corn will not be good,
Apples will be scarce for food,
And ships shall suffer on the sea.
From Harleian MS. In British Museum,
Fifteenth Century.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-12-10
POLITICAL NOTES

Patrick II. Kelly is still busy nit
ting about the state in the interest of
his candidacy for governor.
Colin c. Lille. of Coppersville, is
said to be harboring aspirations to-
ward the lieutenant governors seat.
Senator Bill Bradley, of Greenvllle,
Is going to be a candidate for con-
gress in the Eleventh district, but he
will control his ambitions until 1912.
Supporters of Chas s. Osborn de-
clare that more than 60 per cent of
the papers of the state have edito-
rally endorsed his candidacy for gov
ernor.
The members Of the late constitu-
tional convention will hold their an
nual banquet at Lansing on Dec. 8.
Lawton T. Hemans will be toast
master.
The editors of the state are surely
sticking with Brother Osborn. He has
been given more publicity than all the
other gubernatorial candidates put to-
gether.
The State Grange meets at Trav-
erse City Dec IA to Is, and there
promises TO be much political discus
sion about the meeting, owing to the
importance of the campaign NEXT
year.
1t is practically a certainty that
Frank Buell., the Bay City lumberman,
will oppose Congressman Loud for the
nomination in the Tenth district. Mr..
Buell. has made no announcement, but
his friends are already busy in his be-
half.
Vice-President Sherman will be one,
of the speakers at the Lincoln Club
banquet in Grand Rapids next Feb
ruary. The Democrats, not to be out.
done, have secured Gov. Harmon, OF
Ohio, a presidential possibility. and
Senator'S Gore and John Sharpe Will
Jams for their banquet, which will be
held in Grand Rapids on Jan. g.
The internal revenue department 10
busy mapping out plans for the col.
lection of the corporation tax witch
was made a part of the tariff bilf At
the special session of congress. I'm
der the provision of the law all cor
porations operating for profit are
taxed directly on their earnings. and
millions OF dollars will be collected
by the government under this system.
This is one Of tho provisions of the
tariff bill for which Senator Burrows
worked and voted.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-12-10
LOOKS LIKE BURROWS.
Chicago Record-HeraId Thinks He
Will Be Reelected.


The Chicago Record-Herald has had
a staff man in the state looking into
the political situation. Writing from
Grand Rapids he sizes up the affair
as follows:
'SThe Michigan forces are lining up
for an intense time in Michigan poll.
tics next year. Four candidates have
announced themselves for governor
and two for u. S. senator, and the chief
interest will center on these two
onices.
THE candidates for governor in the
order in which they made announce
ment are Patrick Kelley, of Detroit.
now lieutenant governor Of the state,
Amos 9. Musselman, a wholesale gro
Ger Of Grand Rapids, Justice r. NJ
Montgomery, Of Lansing, now justice
Of the supreme court, and Chase
g. Osborn, of Sault Ste. Marie, one
of the regents of the state university.
THE nomination will be made by
primary election, under the law en-
acted by the last legislature. The
candidate receiving the plurality will
be the nominee. Under the old law
the successful candidate had to re-
ceive 40 per cent of the total vote
cast.
Lieutenant Governor Kelly was a
candidate two years ago, but curbed
his ambition when Governor Warner
entered as candidate for a third
term. He has the administration in.
dorsement now.
The other candidates are we'll
known in Michigan politics, and are
In good standing as citizens, but It
has not yet developed from what
sources they will draw their support.
Chas S. Osborn expects a very heavy
vote In the upper peninsula, which
section of the state has never had q
governor, and his friends declare also
that he will run strong in the Sagi.
nav Valley and in Detroit.
Amos s. Musselman is a whole.
sale grocer with headquarters here
and branch stores at Saginaw, Kala-
mazoo, Traverse City, Escanaba and
other points.
Justice Montgomery has been on
the state supreme bench since 1891
and prior to that time was for nine
years judge of the circuit court.
The candidates for United States
senator are julius Caesar Burrows.
who wants to succeed himself, and
Charles e. Townsend, of Jackson, now
congressman from the second district
Under the new law candidates for
senator must go to the people for in
dorsement, the vote being advisory to
the legislature, which will make the
real election. Senator Burrows has
the advantage of long service, having
been in congress IS years and In the
senate since 1895.
ut is possible that Mr.. Townsend
expects to do little more than score
at this time"
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-12-10
A TRUE STORY OF
CHRISTMAS AT SEA.

copyright, 1909. by American Press Asso-
ciation.1
The gathering Of "old salts" official
ly known as the Harbor club, was in
session at Captain Truman's store.
down by the dock. Outside the wind
howled and shrieked through the rig
ging Of the fleet Of coasting vessels
warped alongside the Main street
wharf. and unconsciously the men
hitchcd their chairs closer to the fire
as fiercer blast ratified the windows.
During Il temporary lull i'm the storm
Cap'n 81 futile broke the silence with
the following narrative:
"'Twas jest sech a Christmas eve
as this. along back in the eighties.
when | was roundin' old Hatteras in
the good ship Tirzah Ann. You recol-
lect her, don't you? Hailed from Green
port and could smash through any gale
that ever bowed
"In course twas some wet on deck
and the further we pounded along the
rougher it got, and finally we had 10
turn and run afore the wind. Never
saw scch gale to hang on! We
plowed through seas you could only
guess the height Of. And dark You
couldn't see your hand afore your face
"Thpre was five of us aboard. and
we was pretty we'll tuckered out next
mornn'. but daylight showed no let
up. and. to make things wuss. heavy
snow sot in. Seemed as il 1t turned to
ice to wunst soon as it hit the deck.
and afore you could say Jack Robin
son the riggin' was froZe solid. and
dozen men with axes couldn't have
cast loose the dory.
"Along about six bells the fust mate
took the wheel. and went below to
get bracer. when there come heavy
crash. and both masts went by the
board. | went up the companionway
in two jumps. but afore ] reached the
deck the water was pourin' into the
fo'castlc in tons. and the ship begun
to hrave and wallow like stuck pig.
"Thcre warn't any use tryin' to
launch the dory. even If we had had
time. and In two shakes Of q dogs
tail he Tirzah Ann rose high on the
top of huge comber. quivered like a
dyin lion and then plunged head first
beneath the waves with all on board"
Captain 81 stopped and leisurely bit
off chunk of cut plug, when some one
asked. How did you escapeT
1--WE didn't" drawled the captain.
"Evcry blamed one Of us wuz drown.
ded." w. +. III.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-12-10


use on the continent. but the more
secular minded English had only the
rude Yuletide jingles and the quaint
carols Of beef eating antiquity.
Contrary to the prevailing notion. the
Inventor Of the tale with n distinctive
ly Christmas flavor was an American.
1t Is likely that it would occur to few
Americans and to no Englishman to
dissent If II were asserted in their
presence that Charles Dickens origi-
mated the Christmas story. His name
is so inseparably connected with so
much Of the holiday literature en-
shrined in the popular heart that it is
small wonder the mention of Christ
mas suggests him. The credit of the
'literary find," however. must be given
to another. a man who was at the end
Of his thirties when Dickens was born,
who had been at Malta when Nelson's
neet sailed away to Trafalgar. who had
visited Sir Walter at AbbotsfOrd and
had captivated him and who was aft
erward secretary to the United States
legation in England. That. Of course.
means Washington Irving.
Irving's first book. THE Sketch-Book
Of Godfrey Crayon, Gent" had pleased
everybody. so much so. indeed. that 1t
was repubished by John Murray in
London and translated into several con-
tinental languages. Both the publish
ers and the public were urging him to
do something equally meritorious. No
body realized more keenly than did the
author Of the exquisite work the diff
Guilty of producing its mate. and he
was not man to he driven into medi-
ocrity. Three years later he published
"Bracebridge Hail." and the chapter Of
that masterpiece of literary workman
ship entitled christmas at Bracebridge
Hail. was the pioneer holiday tale of
English literature and has furnished a
model for subsequent fctionists which
has seldom been equaled and never
exceled. It's easy grace and felicity of
expression were a revelation to every
body in those days. and the wonder
and the charm are potent still.
William Makepeace Thackeray, mas
ter of realism that is the wonder and
the despair of those who have followed
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-12-10

that Senator Burrows Is to nave oppe-
sition, an active campaign for success
in the primary will be at once taken
up.
How much of a personal part Sena-
tor Burrows will play In the campaign
is as yet undecided. or course, he
will make his position clear on any
points on which the public wishes to
be informed and will make a number
Of speeches, but 1t is not probable
that he will attempt a general speak.
ing campaign Of the state, such as
made in the last gubernatorial con.
test
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-12-10
Bowels and Stomach.

Miss Mary Jones, 1918 Reynolds Ave.,
Chicago, ILL.,, writes:
CT can recommend Peruna as a good
medicine for chronic catarrh of the
bowels and stomach. have been troub-
led severely with it for over three years.
zone year ago began to take Peruna,
the wonderful tonic for women, and 1
noticed wonderful Improvement at
once. took six bottles in succession ana
always have it on hand to take some
now and then when my cough is bad.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-12-10

words cannot express my praise for
your tonic. L weighed only ninety
pounds before taking Peruna, now one
hundred nineteen pounds"
Catarrh Of internal Organs.
Mrs. b. ii. Jackson, r. +. d. 5, New
man, Ca, writes: 81 have had catarrh
of the internal organs for more than
year. / tried other medicines without
any benefit.
81 was persuaded to give Peruna .
trial, and the first bottle proved a god
send, and after taking ten bottles have
received u permanent cure"
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-12-10

IT until the first
half of the last
century was we'll
spent did the spe-
cies Of literature
which has come to
be known asChrist-
mas fiction effect a
permanent Tod e
ment in the hearts
of English speak
Ing mankind. The
ancient para b | e
p ] a VS. and the
r h y IN e q holiday
legends of the mid
IIo an ,.o. a,. ..tslI -
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-12-10
NO ACTIVE WORK YET.
Burrows Forces Are Resting Quietly
at Present,

Thus far the forces of Senator Bur.
rows are doing but little campaigning.
Going on the theory that there is an
excellent chance Of the senior senator
being unopposed for reelection as
senator they are resting quietly.
However. n IT becomes apparent
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-12-10

Most amazing of all, the author of the
tale professed TO believe that 1t was
Mrs. Perkins Bali that had made
the fact that vanity Fair" had just
been published. This perversion of
Thackeray in regard TO the literary
value of his wares and his lack of faith
in his masterpiece-he had so little
confidence in the success Of vanity
Fair that after 1t appeared he applied
for a small government position-are
proof sufficient that the man who Gre
ates "a masterpiece may have a dim
conception Of artistic values.
All the makers Of great fiction are
more or less under the spell Of their
immediate surroundings. but few have
made it more apparent than Charles
Dickens. Those who knew the circum-
stances saw plainly that he had put
himself and his sad childhood into
many of his pathetic short stories.
This is especially true of The Ghost
in Master BIS ROOM" which is an ac-
count of things which happened to
him in his troubled boyhood AS
child he was a firm believer In ghosts,
and 1t is probable that he never entire
ly abandoned his faith in spectral APP
pearances. Many of his tales are peo-
pied with disembodied spirits. and they
are like the ghosts of no other writer
They are the spooks that appeal to one
and make one believe in their genuine
ness. They are frequently more real
than the living characters who consort
with them. Although they are dead.
they conduct themselves like living en-
titles.
Dickens Christmas ghosts are unique
I'm the realm of literature. or all the
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-12-10

him, II ee d e d no
model and chose
one. His Mrs.
Perkins Ball. re-
semblcs II o [ h i n z
ever conceived in
the mind of any
OF h er man. The
public was pleased
with it. but never
so m u C h as WIS
Thackeray himself.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-12-10


Peuna
medicine
with
incurable.
am pleased Peruna."
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-12-10
CHRISTMAS :,
IN FICTION.
BY GEORGE H. PICARD

copyright, 1902 by American Press Asso-
ciation.l
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-12-10

ionable spooks even invented. They
are seldom sepuichral, but are fire.
quently cheerful. They are not the
haunting, sleep killing and never to be
exercised phantoms Of the fairy tales.
but actual personalities, freed from all
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-12-10

silent Shapes tnaC
haze been sum-
moned from the
upper and neither
worlds TO lend en-
chaninIent TO the
Christmas tai e
his a lone have
become acciimat-
ed. There Is new
err anything re-
pulsive a b o u [
them. They are
the most compan-
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-08-10
Uncle WuH Mason
Tie SnnHozysr Poet OF Etnpona, Kansas, SAYS Today


1 owe he sur n the gentle breeze and thu brook thtw winds through the
pleasant vae; n owe III birds and 1 love h uees, and I'm always glad
= when Pm III Of Jail We are governed 10 by so many laws
that nbertys dead, n we've heard its knen, n the wise
GUVEkNED man carries a set of saws, to ut his way from a prison cell
TOO MUCH he grocer a1s IN a dungeon auneso" .a aap %r ne s@a al, an 81 NAV
loaf of his bread IA under weight The butcher BEATS a his
lprison door.a n fills the air With his dohfo1 moan; they'll cut O If his head when
the night is Ger for h e sold a steak that was mostly bone The mnkmans
here in thu prison yard and the janers fog him and make him jump; it seems
to ne that his fate is hard, though he did draw milk from he old hon pump.
"A sickly weed,t that "a ank and thin embelished my lot at hi edge of town,
and the paaers nabbed me n ran M in, because l neglected to cut it down.
l dropped a can as crossed the park, and that is a crime that's against the
law; So they shut me up in a dungeon dark. with its rusty chains and its moidy
straw. 1 owe the brook ind TIL burbnng breeze and I'm rather mashed 0 N the
bowling gale; and II fond of robins and bumblebees, M I'm always glad
when I'm out of jail
Copyright 1907 by George Matthew Adams.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-08-10
FAMOUS BITS Or PROSE
BY FAMOUS PIE OpLE
Evolution.
Born 1895
BY LYMAN ABBOTT.
NO. XXXVII.

W.T. HEN man would max a rose With tools he fashions petals n leaves
M of a cobrs them, manufactures a stalk by The SAM process and
w the rose is done. When God makes a rose HI lets a bird or a puff of
wind drop a seed into the ground; ut of the seed therete energies stalk and tut
of the stalk branches, nc or these branches buds n out oil these roses UNI
is the difference between anufacture and growth.
The radical evoutonist believes that Ill divine processes sc far as we are
able to understand them, are processes OF growth; hat God make thu oak Of
the acorn, nd the roeY out Of the cutting and the maj u Of the babe, n the
nation ot of the colony, m he literature tut o. the alphabet; so God has
made all things by development of higher forms om lower forms He be-
Heves that, so far as lie car see God is never a manufacturer, bt always does
work by growth processes The bet simple definition of this tina have
ever seen is LIE Contes Evolution is a continuous progressive change, ac-
coring to certain w nd by means of resident forces"
1t is in the making. In the belief o the evolutonists the same processes that
we're going on in the creative days are going on here n o Still the
nebulae are gathering together in globes still globes are beginning their revo-
luton still they are hattening at the poles, still they are cooling and becoming
solid, still in them are springing up the forms OF life. n our W globe the
same forces hat we're operative in the past to make thu world what it is today
are operative today; still IRON he seeds are springing the plants; still the
being made by the earthquake; all the methods and all the processes that went
on in those first great days are still proceeding. Creative days! Every day is
q creative day. Every spring is a creative spring. God is always creating.
Does this ccoun Of creation by evolution AXE God away ron the world?
1t seems to me that it brings Him a great deal nearer II
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-08-10
THE SQUARE DEAL
IN PUBLIC LIFE

act! Human nature is prone to believe i'll rather than good. It is
more easily Influenced to crticise adversely than to commend ap,
provingly. 1t is as easy to afford comfort and encouragement by
extending the hand of fellowship as it is to blast hope and quicken
despair by presenting a face of blighting distrust; and yet how SCI
dom is the former course pursued. This tendency prevails strongly
enough in the pubics analysis of private acts, but, fortunately, its
field of action here is limited, and its baleful influence is not Pc
nounced. 1t is only when it is brought to bear upon the acts of pub
lie officials that its influences are fully apparent. Here its scope is
unlimited. Through the medium of the press the entire public is
at once addressed. A vast audience is provided, and not infre-
quently it is in a mood to receive bold assertions as facts and
vicious ISLANDERS as truths. With the public thus mentally dis.
posed, how essential it becomes to allow the element of fairness
to enter into public criticism. Fortunately, the period of muck.
raking is past, but the wanton criticism of public offcialdom is
still with us. There is hardly a man in public office today
whose prominence does not invite attack, and it is a lamentabIe
fact that when the attack comes it is usually unjust. Were such
attacks confined TO public acts. and tempered by fairness. much
good would flow therefrom, but the element of malice is too fire.
quently present and fairness too often absent. AS a result, sinister
motives are assigned where they may not exist. Conclusions are
drawn from public acts in a manner so viciously insinuating as to
carry conviction where no evil purpose prevails. The officials
public career is scrutinized, and when it is exhausted the zeal of
the writer carries him into private realms. Here he reveIs. caring
little, apparently, that his excuses are spreading sadness and
hcartaches among the friends and family of his subject. and in.
fuenced not at all by the thought that he may be doing an irrepa-
rable injury to an honest and innocent man. And here lies the
evil of it all. When such attacks are made through an imperfect
knowledge of the facts; when an honest and capable official is un.
justly piIomed through malicious or other motive, a great inius.
tne has been done an innocent man and an equal wrong has be-
fallen the community. Fair criticism must be borne, but public
abuse, coupled with imputaton of evil or unlawful motive, arrived
at hastily and uniustly, leaves a stigma that may not be efaced.
Capable officials are thus forced from public life, and. what is
equally harmful, men eminently qualified to fill public positions
with efficiency and honor are restrained from giving their services
ITO the community. This is not intended as a defense of all public
officials. 1t is an assertion that public criticism is frequently I'M.
justified and a plea for fairness and a square deal in treating of
people in public life.