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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-12-16

day time he spent in the fields armed only with an opera
stass with which he studied the winter birds. always
Win an eye sharpened the possibility finding
species that was rare
President Taft loves nature too in a way he is
not much of ramper excepting where the walk leads
over the golf links which he spends his holiday after
hoons Christmas included in Washington because OF
the comparative mildness of the climate. the game OF
golf is possible nearly every day in the year.
There several hundred officers of the army and
Wy stationed in Washington most of them being detailed
Tor 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 army for the sailors have been compelled spend
many Christmases at away from their wives and
families while here they gather their families about
them and not break any regulations in doing The
army officer whether he goes the Philippines to
distant frontier post ordinarily takes his family
with him and Christmas day does not to him
sary bring with the loneliness and homesic
ness that it brings to the at
the biological survey which is a bureau of the de-
partment of agriculture there many scientists at
work. Most of these men have spent large part OF
their lives in the wilds studying birds and mammals and
shells plants and fishes, to nothing of reptiles The
office life is irksome to these scientists. They belong to
the free air. the barren plains and the pine forests So
it is that every hody that brings with it release
from office cares they take the open fields About the
hills many places about Washington Christmas day
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 asked, if they could make trip afeld
Christmas day make list of the birds that they
Thousands of bird lovers followed the suggestion
are still following it, Each of the students
in areport central headquarters giving the OF
birds that Christmas day fell under his observa
tion. AS result of this practice the Washington sci
entss have many valuable notes concerning out of
birds For instance, the report to Washington
Christmas two ago. that on the holiday four
mocking positively identified in the
fields Boston, Mass Other birds reported
other northern localities birds that in the ordinary
of things ought to have been far south OF the Ma
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-12-16

all busy erecting presepios in the homes of the
own. AS the mainland grows sophisticated the
quaint old devotion is fading but in conservative
Sicily people still make the presepio they
Christmas in New York All the island
families busy from December to 15 putting their
old presepios in order making and there is
much calling and fro to compare results and admire
and elaborate specimens of the art The presepo
may be little thing stand in corner, or 1t may
occupy the whole side of room.
may represent whole mountain side, made of the
rough flexible the cork tree. Peaks crags and
precpces abound with winding trails houses and castles
of coored cardboard forests twigs and sometimes tiny
pipes furnish brooks and lakes In the center Is the
grotto with holy family within sky of blue pa
per is stretched above, with the Star of Bethlehem con-
spcuous and the hills the shepherds bearing
the gifts to the babe.
Spain like Sicily, has never lost the presepo, and in
both Spanish and Scan cities there booths for the
sale shepherds mag and all the accessories
of the art the creche is not made at home, as
in the countries but it used to be part of the
Christmas decorations of French church. and is still
so in districts. Many polished cosmopolite OF
Paris can remember working busiy for days before
Christmas in his childhood to help freshen and reju
venate the of his parish church in some little vii
age of France the villages close by Paris to-day chill
dren who go the streets singing Christmas carols
carry little creche in a upon their shoulders.
The manger typies the difference between the Latin
and the Teuton Christmas The Latin Christmas is
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-12-16

study of them order that their merits and demerts
NAV be determined In some cases this long and
continued study and it is not at all unusual thing to
find committee chairman giving over the joys OF the
Christmas day consult precedents and to
arguments be used for against some pro-
posed legislation and to find him doing this in the Sc
cusion of a suffy 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 the winter day. and If the
fox is evidence there always rabbits and quail
while the lower Potomac and in the marshes along
Chesapeake bay in winters the ducks and the geese
are fairly abundant. outdoor life appeals strongly
to the southerner and in cases the northerners
who come the Potomac country have formed the
hunting habit and join the Christmas day outing parties
of their southern cousins
Christmas is the great holiday of Washington. From
high to low the people make the most of it. There is good
everywhere evident charity is not forgotten
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-12-16
AMERICAS CHRISTMAS
THE BEST OF ALL

An occasional Jersey commuter, familiar with the re-
lgious section of Barclay street. is commonly the only
of American in New York who knows presepio by
sight Yet the presepo is the sign of the Latin Christ
mas, the fir tree is of the northern The manger OF
the Barclay windows shows only the inside of the
stable with the figures and the cattle done in Italian ter
Gotta But the real presepo in it's native land may
show the whole countryside WELL and if the pilgrims
vending their way the manger good Siclian peas
ants bearing good Siclian wine and cheese their
donkeys, they only the more interesting.
St Francis, born in the quaint little town of Assist
among the brown Umbrian hills in 1882, invented the
presepo to make the Christmas story plain to the simple
iliterate common people During the 500 since it
has remained favorte devotion in Latin Europe The
Italian and Spanish call it the presepo the manger the
French the creche the cradle and the Hungarans and
Belgians, Betleim, Bethlehem.
Only few years since not carpenter could be hired
in Rome Naples for weeks before Christmas They
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-12-16

sa 90" ,,a:. as' 50 D'5t 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 lie G | 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
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-12-16

purely religious festival, as mucn SO
as any other feast of the church. 1t
has no particularly domestic or So
cial quality. 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 dwellers and worshippers.
Where Celt, Slav or Latin use 1t,
they have borrowed 1t.
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, lit
tle Babette and Pierre set their
shoes by the fireplace instead OF
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-12-16
CHINESE t57DOElY7J 1T CN1JG71zH5
REUWIOW At CHINESE LEGF71OW ~

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
G e n u / n e "old
CHRISTMAS" back
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 part of the
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-12-16

The South American people make much of Christmas
II is the great feast day in all LatnAmerican countries
the ambassadors and attaches and their families do
forget the customs of their native lands simply be-
a they have been transplanted TO
The open house" is the order OF the day In
nearly every official residence in Washington after the
family has had it's intimate celebration of the ho
day Large families the rule rather than the excep
ton among the ambassadors and ministers from the
southern European from the Central and South Amer
countries The children have gala time of 1t at
home and then the visiting begins. The presents that
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-12-16

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 OFF, cials have holiday dinners.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-12-16

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 th .
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
Arizona republican., 1909-11-27
TURNED UP TROUSERS.
A Sight That Makes People Stare in
 Some Parts of Europe.

Carlsbad in Bohemia has annually about 20O.0Oo transient sigh;seers. and sf late has received each year about 60.000 persons more who stay at least the eight day limit. which puts them into the class of the curetakers These visitors. a quarter of a million or more. come from almost every place on earth. therefore it is plain that some eccentricities of costume are to be observed in the little Bohemian town.
 One day last summer one of the American visitors saw on the Muhl- brunnquai a huge. heavy man whose get-up might be expected to attract attention almost anywhere. The man had on a coat that reached about half way down his thighs. It was of some white material faced with broad gold embroidery. In front it was open. giving view of frilled and fluted shirt front
 The knickerbockers were full. like bloomers. and they. too. were of white linen. with some sort ot red trimming along the sides Thick. bulging calves distended the shiny black leather boots the man wore On his head was sort of creamy
Arizona republican., 1909-11-27

white turban marked with gold here and there Even in that garb few turned to look at him.
 Gaiacian Jews. with alpaca coats reaching to the ground and their faces framed in the long curls that come down before the ears. Turks with fezzes. Greeks in their somewhat unusual native clothing. East Indians in long white robes pass through the streets sipping their glasses of water as unobserved almost as. if they new CT existed They may appear strange to the English and Americans who appear to think them worth staring at.
 Now there are hundreds of Ameri- cans and British who go to the water ing place every season. and it might be thought that by this time the Bo- pearance There is one thing about them. though. that makes the natives turn around and stare at the male visitors from the United States and Great Britain. That is the turned up trousers.
 What there is SO curious about that i; is hard to say. but the Carlsbader who doesn't think that man garbed in white boomers and wearing shiny boots and a long white coat is worth a second glance turns and stares long and hard at the turned up trousers.
 If an American wearing his trous-
Arizona republican., 1909-11-27

CTS rolled up goes to the Muhlbrunn or the Marktbrunn or the Schloss- brunn or any other of the springs, the little girls who serve out the water will nudge one another and make remarks about the trousers. The hotel servants, who certainly ought to be used to seeing them. will point them out or will stare at them as if 1t were some strange freak just let loose At first the visitor believes there is something wrong with his shoes. but after while he gets used to it.
 Not alone in Carlsbad is this the case. Almost all of continental Eu- rope finds the turned up trousers an exciting foreign characteristic. There was a man who had the idea for a long time that people turned around and stared after him and looked hard at his feet because he was wearing low cut shoes in winter.
 It wasn't until he went to a tailor to hare his trousers pressed that he found out what was the subject of curiosity.
 The American in question spoke 10 other travellers about it. and he soon found out that they. too. had noticed it. Folks who had been in Germany. in France outside of Paris and other of Europe all had been made uncomfortable because of the persistent staring at their trouser ends.-New York Sun.
Arizona republican., 1909-11-27
NEW USE FOR CACTUS.
Found to Contain Valuable Colorirg Matter.

Two miles from Tucson on the top of a hill the Carnegie institution has set up a sort of botanical workshop. the business of which is to make a study of desert plants. The object of the investigation is to find out how such plants manage to get along with almost no water.
 This is a kind of knowledge that will be very valuable when applied. so far as may be practicable. in the raising of ordinary crops in parts of the west where rainfall is deficient. But incl cilentally, efforts are being made to find use for some of these plants of the desert, especially for certain cacti. which, it is believed. can be made to field marketable products.
 There is. for example, one kind of pFickly pear tgrowing wild in Arizona and New MeXico) the fruit of which has juice of brilliant red color. This fruit is already utilized to a consider able extent for preserves. But it is thought that the juice might have i'm portant commercial value as a vege- table coloring. its hue, when the fluid is concentrated, being as rich as that of cochineal.
 of such cactus fruits there are a
Arizona republican., 1909-11-27

good many kinds. produced by a cor responding distinct species of plants related more or less nearly to the common prickly pear. All of them are known in Mexico. in a general way. as ''tunas," but, according to variety. they bear different names. such as
 -cardona." '-amarilia," "blanca. 1" '-palo altena. ''fafayuca" and ran chera-" These. indeed. are only a few of many.
 Such cacti in Mexico are cultivated simply by planting cuttings in the ground and surrounding them with fence to keen out animals. They rare ly receive any further attention. be- yond gathering the annual crop. The fruits. however, are utilized for number of different purpOes. some of are employed in the manufacture Of tuna honey" and tuna cheese: which are marketable products.
 To make tuna honey. the juice of the fruits is boiled in kettles until it reaches the consistency of molasses, and then is poured into wooden troughs to cool. after which it is stored in bottles and earthen jugs Being (thanks to the boiling) ster- ile product, tightly sealed and rich in sugar. it will keep indefinitely. Of course. it does not taste like honey. but is of about the same consistency as liquid honey and might appro- prately becalled cactus molases.
Arizona republican., 1909-11-27

adorable broadclofh walking suit she saw at skinnem's. Then he adds that iiii
 he tight pinch to make lt and that she will have to he content with the one new suit-especialiy since he is wiling to
 forego a new one entirely. That is. Bo.
 he does this if he's hep to the game.
 That's why he's happy. He got oT with
 only one new suit for wifey and has
 something to stand on when she comes
 back strong for another. That shabby fall suit of his is a life-sayer when his better-haif begins to talk clothes.
 And the single cuss-the chap who doesn't have to come across for any feml- nine lugs? What about him: Well. he takes of his sumner clothes as soon as he can recollect where in the deuce he left his fau ones from last season If at that time. he was financially embar- rassed. he digs through his bureau draw CTS until he finds the little ticket Uncle gave him when he put them in soak in the spring But. if little better off than that. he snoops around the closet in his room until he finds them hanging on the nail. They're covered with dust, and maybe the moths have been playing hide and-seek in them and maybe they haven't-he don't know.
 ''Thunderation, Don't they look like Samhil, How in the world did he ever play the long-iost brother to such rag gedy looking duds for so long in the spring. It means another ,>slice in that bank account that he'd hoped to make a real one this winter, We'll. there's noth- l ing else to it He might just as wei go right down now and get measured for a new one. Can't he get it on credit: Sure he can. Why. Do. I'm ashaInf1 of you. He gets the new fall suit on credit. to be sure, but he's go. to settle his account on that spring suit before he can get more credit. hasn't he:
 Why doesn't he send hem to the cleaners like the married chap does? Why. don't you know that single man is forever and a day intending to send things tO the cleaners. but rever does it until he has wife who enthusiasti-
Arizona republican., 1909-11-27

One of the most highly prized fruits of this kind iS the cardona- pr. David Griffiths of the government plant bu- reau says that he himself once ate 200 cardonas in day. This was to find out whether they were wholesome Even such a quantity did not dis agree with him. but it should be realized that the pulp of the cardona, which is the only part eaten. is nearly all water The fruit in fact ire quently serves the natives as both food and drink in the arid regions of the southwest.
 Sometimes fermented drink is made from the pulp. For this purpose it is boiled for two or three hours, strained and set away to cool. The longer it stands the more intoxicating it is. or. if preferred. the boiling is continued until the liquid is reduced to the consistency of a paste. which is sold in the Mexican markets as a sweetmeat-Chicago Iinter ocean.
Arizona republican., 1909-11-27
Moving Pictures.

IN order to identify immigrants who
 come to this country. Deputy Police Commissioner Woods. of New York. hss suggested that the federal authorities take moving pictures of every immigrant entering the port of New York. His Idea has been taken under consideration and fl may be adopted soon.
 One suggestion is to form the aliens in line. six or eight abreast and march them Into the photographic son. of the camera Numbers are pinned on their breasts: so that they would show clearly in the reproduction of the films: and these numbers together with the names of the wearers could be listed by the authorities. The pbotosra phiug of a ehipload of the immigrants would not be SO difficult as would at first be supposed. and sll would be on a long film instead of the innumerable individual ones. as they gre now made.
Arizona republican., 1909-11-27
WHAT ROBBIE WANTED TO
 KNOW.

He asked so many questions that day that he finally wore out his mothers patience.
 Robert" she cried. eff you ask me another question shall put you to bed without your supper.
 Robert promptly asked another and was packed off to bed Later his moth CT repented. After all. asking questions was the only way he could acquire knowledge. So she tiptoed upstairs. knelt beside Roberts bed and told him she was sorry.
 Now. dear she said. If you want to ask one more question before you go to sleep. ask it now and l will try to answer"
 Robert thought for a moment. then said: Mother how far can cat spit?" Success Magazine.
Arizona republican., 1909-11-27
:. Mr. A. Good Fello,D on Getting Out Fall Clothes

(" this season of the year. Bo. %
 ER remarked Mir. A Good Fellow.
 -'it is always easy 10 tell mar 7 ried man from single one Some times il is difficult to make the distinction
 for. understand. there are occasions when 2 married man wears the shadow, of smile But right now. when the leaves are failing. you can spot them every time How? Why. it's dead easy. a regular pipe the married man wears shabby clothes and looks happy while The single cnss appears in the same kind of duds and le0ks conscious cf their shah- biness,
 It all hinges. you s-e. on the mo Tnentous occasion whe the fail clothes arc taken out for th. season. The mar iied man. or rsthc his wife. takes his "ut nf moth balls -oH cedar chests. while tbe ciG bachelor yank his out Of soak O. cfi inc peg in the closet where they've beer hanging all summer
 ID either case it is serious affair fake th- married man. The summer dies. ,te fa.i sinds begin to blow and he sort of hinfS Co bis frau that it's about time s-,-ar af his fall dads make their appear snes Wifey pu6s him of for a week ar se animated by that fool idea tlint most uo nsn have of using the summer llgs a .I lcnger for the sake of getting fuii weas out of them. But finally she comes o-tanC and hauls them out. They are put of press and soiled and absolutely yicsIad iu campbor An. John, says wifey just look at this gray suit of yours had mo idea 1t was in such good condition, Why. sll it needs Is a cleaning and pressing [ thought you Wonid have 10 buy a new one, and now ypn can get along finely without Isn't that just grnndf'
 What does hubby do. Bo. ask you. what does be do? Does he object and plead that he's already worn the blamed o'l thing two years? No, sir--not if he's ua tue job He hands out long spiel al'oTt wanting new suit, hut being per fectly willing te pass + up in order to save enough money to buy wifey that
Arizona republican., 1909-11-27

Rich red and brown ties are the favor ites Pure white serge evening suits have made hit. and many men Of sc- c;ety are now wearing them during the winter ss well as in the summer. Mark Twain claims the fatherhood of the white serge dress suit. Caruso.- the tenor. is now wearing evening clothes of . royal purple broadcioth cut upon the conven- tional lines. with a silk braid stripe down the trouser legs. The coat Is cut trife smaller in the front to display the startling waist coat of old-fsshioned bro cade in flower patterns.
 Another style of evening clothes has