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The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-12-15
Regarding Christmas.

Keep your Christmas nerve and
muscle and heart and hope and cheer
first for your own home, your own
fireside, your dearest, your closest,
your sweetest, and then comes the
homeless, the fireless, the unloved,
the undeared. and be true, true to the
last "Merry Christmas" that crosses
your lips.
Some time ago an effort on behalf
of the children was made to induce
the p%ostottice department to permit
postmasters to open all letters ad-
dressed to Santa Claus and turn them
over to the parents of the child cor
respondent or 10 some local organiza-
ton having a Christmas fund to spend,
but the attorney general for the de-
partment rendered an adverse deci-
sion.
st. Nicholas, as the patron saint of
the children, now termed Santa Claus
was canonized, died, according to ira
dition, at Myra, Italy, and was there
buried in the cathedral crypt. Six
hundred years after his body was TAX
en- to Bari, and there in the eleventh
century the great priory of San Mich
olo was built. It is at that priory
that Nicholas is held with great rejoic-
ing by pilgrims from all parts of the
world.
The merchants have got hold of
Christmas, as the m%illiners have got
hold of Easter, for their own CONNER
cia].purposes. But there is no more
real relation between the Christmas
shopping and the Christmas spirit
than there is between the Easter bon
net and the Easter service. The things
are quite apart, like the ~firecrackers
and the Declaration of Independence.
Christmas is a religious anniversary;
that is the heart of it.
Tt is fitting that kindly thoughts flow
out to all on the glad Christmas festal
day; that it finds expression in gifts,
good wishes and glad greetings. They
are akin in heart who follow the lead
ing of Bethlehem's star. May the 10Y
bells of Christmas, "peace and good
will' ring in all your homes, and may
the brightness of His presence illum-
inc every heart while we pour out at
His feet our offering of grateful praise
for the blessings His birth has brought
to US.
A gift, to be perfect, when given to
persons of mature age, must sink it,
self in it's symbolism. That is, the
emphasis must be laid both by the
giver and the receiver, not upon what
it is but upon what it expresses. 1t is
the feeling of esteem, of respect, OF
affection, of sympathy, Of approba-
ton, seeking an outlet through the
gilt. that makes, or ought to make, its
real preciousness. That it is which
throws a halo around the simplest
token, and sometimes makes a violet
or a curl more truly valued and treas.
ured than the heaviest gold or the
rarest gem.
The spirit of Christmas! What is
the spirit of Christmas? Is it the
generous spirit, the spirit of giving:
Yes, but that is not all. There will be
millions of gifts made between now
and the new year, and they will not
all express the Christmas spirit.
Some will be made out of pockets OF
plenty and thus entail no personal
service; some will be made under
compulsion of supposed necessity.
How many people give things at this
time because they think they must
They must give to those who, they
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-12-15
Superiority.

"Mandy, why on earth are you wash
ing that dish in that fashion,"
81 dunno, nam, ]ess'n hits cause
cullud people is jest nachelly smahteh
than white folks"
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-12-15
Lutheran.

There will be special Christ
mas service in the Lutheran
church at the usual hour. Rev.
Meyer will preach.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-12-15
Methodist.
Rev. Wyand, Pastor.

The service Of the day at the
Methodist church will be in
keeping with the significance of
the day. In the evening at 7:3O
there will be Christmas sermon
and special music.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-12-15
Program:

Song Holy Night" Boys voices)
Scripture, Luke 2:1-2O.
Anthem.
Prayer.
Song, 1T Came Upon the Mid
night Clear"
Sermon, No Room at the Inn"
Song, 20 Come, Let Us Adore
Him."
Benediction.
Postlude, Professional, Scheve.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-12-15
The Churches.

The Churches.
Services on Christmas Day.
Congregational.
Rev. Hitchcock, Pastor.
Morning.
Prelude, Andante, JAS. Callaerts
Doxology.
Invocation.
Gloria.
Responsive Reading.
Hymn, Co., Little Town of Beth
leham."
Notices.
Offertory, Andantino, Lemare
Scripture Lesson, MATHEW Hills
Anthem.
Prayer.
hymn, AL HlalSe 10 lnee, .ECef-
nal Lord"
Sermon Bring Me Word Again
Hymn, "Hark! The Herald An
gels Sing"
Benediction.
Postlude, March, Scharwenka.
Evening.
Prelude, Largo Cantabile, Haden
Song, Joy to the Worlds"
Responsive Reading.
Notices.
Offertory, Invocation, Guilmant
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-12-15
Catholic.

High Mass will be said at 9
O'Clock a. m. by the Rev. James
Harte.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-12-15
Christmas Entertainment

christmas entertainment
To Be Given by the Churches of Hope at the Opera House
on Christmas Eve, December oath, 1910.
Program:
1. Invocation.
2. Cantata, Santa Claus and Others Chas. H. Gabriel
Given by the School Children.
3. Shadow Pantomines.
4. "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" Sung by Audience
5. Distribution of Candy, Nuts. Etc, to Children.
Is. Benediction.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1910-12-23
Double Crossed by State Fair.

From the advance information fur
nished by B. A Holden of Whom
president of the Michigan State Asso.
citation OF Farmers clubs, which be-
gan a two days session in the SEN
ate chamber of the capitol, some red.
hot resolutions we're introduced.
At the last meeting of the associa-
ton, held in this city a year ago, A..
]. Lougherty of Detroit, one of the
members of the Michigan State Fair
association, promised the farmers
that no liquor would be sold on the
fair grounds last summer, but mas
much as liquor was sold in the usual
manner last fall, the members Of the
association declare that Dougherty or
some members Of the state fair as.
ISOLATION handed them the double
cross, and IT is said that they will
take cognizance of this before the
meeting is brought to a close.
1t is said that a majority OF the
delegates are in favor of statewide
prohibition and there is a possibility
that an attempt will be made to have
resolution passed calling for this
measure. At the meeting year ago
some one suggested such a resolution,
but 1t was not presented.
President Holden is authority for
the statement that a resolution will
be presented declaring for sweep
ing reform in the present method of
employing state help. Many of the
delegates are of the opinion that poll
tics is more powerful than efficiency
when it comes to selecting the
clerks to transact the states bust.
ness, and a resolution declaring for
civil service is expected to pass with.
out a dissenting vote.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1910-12-23
Two Very Old Ladies'.

We have heard a great deal lately
about long-lived people, but 1t is prob
able that the oldest two people in the
world today are Frau Dutlkievitz and
another old lady named Babavaslika.
The former lives at Posem, in Prus-
sian Poland. and was born on Febru-
airy 81, 1855. She is therefore one
hundred and twenty-five years old
The latter, however, is nine months
her senior, having been born in May,
1884.
She is still fairly hale old woman,
and for nearly one hundred years
worked in the fields. Her descendants
number close on 100, and these now
make her a joint allowance. She lives
at the village OF Bavelsko, whose
neighborhood she has never quilted
during the whole of her long life. She
remembers events which happened at
the beginning of last century much
more clearly than those of the last
40 years.-Dundee Advertiser.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1910-12-23
Vivid al Least.

DIR. Hiram c. Cortlandt, the we'll
known theologian Of Des Moines, said
in a recent address:
Thomas A. Edison tells us that he
thinks the soul is not immortal; but,
after all, what does this great wizard
know about souls? His forte is cleo
tricity and machinery, and when he
talks of souls he reminds me irresist-
IDLY of the young lady who visited the
Baldwin locomotive works and then
told how locomotive is made.
"'You pour she said, a lot Of sand
into a lot of boxes, and you throw old
stove lids and things into a furnace,
and they you empty the molten stream
into a hole in the sand, and everybody
yells and swears. Then you pour 1t
out and let 1t cool and pound it. and
then you put it In thing that bores
holes In it. Then you screw 1t to-
gether, and paint 1t, and put steam in
it, and it goes splendidly; and they
take 1t to a drafting room and make
a bluep rint Of 1t. But one thing for
got-they have to make boiler. One
man gets inside and one gets outside,
and they pound frightfully; and then
they tie 1t TO the other thing, and you
ought to see It go!'"
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1910-12-23
Too Ardent a Lover.

Georgotto Fontano, an embroiderer
who lives in the Rue Sevres in Paris,
has found herself condemned TO a
months Imprisonment for what seems
to her a harmless act.
She was going home from a concert
few evenings ago when she decided
she would like to see her fiance. AS
he happens to be a fireman whose
station is in her own neighborhood it
occurred to her 1t would be very easy
to summon him TO her side by break
ing the glass of the fire alarm and
sounding a call
She did so anr In a few moments
fire engines came from several direc-
tions, all laden with firemen, of course,
but alas! her fiance was not among
them, and more than that all the fire.
men were angry, and before she knew
what had happened she was taken to
a magistrate, who proceeded to make
the course of true love run unsmoothly
by sending her to prison for a month
in spite of her tears and protests that
she thought It would be a simple way
of bringing her fiance to her side.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1910-12-23
PLANTING Wedding Oaks.

Princess August Wilhelm, wife OF
the kaiser's fourth son, has set herself
the task of reviving one of Germany's
oldest customs, that according to which
newly welded couples Immediately af-
ter the marriage ceremony plant cou-
pie of oak saplings side by side in a
park or by the roadside of their ma
tive town.
The town of Mulchausen, in Thurin-
gia, is the first to respond to the prin-
cess appeal. A municipal official APP
pears ut the church door after every
wedding and invites the bride and
bridegroom to drive with him in car
riage to new road near the town and
there plant oak saplings.
The tree planting idea was started
by a former elector of Brandenburg
with the object of repairing the raw.
ages caused by the 80 years war. Tho
elector forbade young persons to mar.
ry until they had planted a number OF
| fruit trees.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1910-12-23
CONDENSED MIX for Ice Cream.

"The use of condensed milk is
recent innovation in ice cream
manufacture" said President ]. F.
Kelley of Grand Rapids In his address
before the Michigan Association of Ice
Cream Manufacturers. There is
nothing more sanitary than the manu-
facture of condensed milk, and now
about rs per cent. OF the Ice cream in
the United States is largely composed
OF condensed milk. Condensed milk
makes a dryer cream, which does not
become coarse grained The use of
condensed milk is not to cheaper the
manufacture, but rather to improve
the grade of the product"
In order that they may have the
same advantages given In other states.
a committee composed of William
Parks of Benton Harbor, ]. j. Melon
aid of Owosso and Harry Geer of Cad
lilac was appointed for the purpose of
meeting the railroad commission Feb
ruary is to request that the express
rate on Ice cream be lowered.
The subject of homogenized raw
material was discussed at some length.
The idea is new one in this country
and is simply a method of laying In
supply of butter fat when ii is cheap,
for use during the months when sweet
cream and butter are harder to secure
The method is to churn the cream and
make what is known as sweet" but
ter-that is, butter without salt-and
when the butter fat is needed this Is
very finely divided and mixed with
sweet milk, making a composition
very much like the original cream,
but which cannot be gathered into but
ter again.
The next convention will be held in
Detroit next December. Officers were
elected as follows: President, w. r.
Parks. Benton Harbor; vice-president,
II. r. Pierce. Grand Rapids; secretary
treasurer, Harry Geer, Cadillac.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1910-12-23

hospital and at the risk of death be cut.
Plain common sense shows the better way
is to stop food that evidently has not been
digested.
Then when food is required, easily
digested food. Crape-Nuts any other II
you know 1t to be predigested (partly digested
before taking).
We brought to Court analytical chemists
from New York, Chicago and Mishawaka, Ind,
who swore to the analysis of GrapeNuts and
that part of the starchy part of the wheat and
barley had been transformed into sugar, the
kind of sugar produced in the human body by
digesting starch (the large part of food.
Some OF the State chemists brought on by
the weekly" said GrapeNuts could not be
called "predigested" food because not all of
II was digested outside the body
The other chemists said any food which had
been partly or half digested outside the body
was commonly known as "predigested."
Splitting hairs about the meaning OF word.
II Is sufficient that II only one-half of the
food is "predigested," 1t is easier on weakened
stomach and bowels than food In which no
part is predigested.
To show the facts we introduce DR.. Thos.
Darlington. former chief of the N. Y. Board
of Health DR.. Ralph w. Webster, chief of the
Chicago Laboratories. and DIR. B. Sachs. N. Y.
II we were little severe In our denuncia-
ton of a writer. seh-confessed ignorant about
appendicitis and its cause, Il IL possible the
public will excuse U.S. in view OF the fact that
our head, Mr.. G. w. Post has made lifetime
study of food, food digestion and effects, and
the conclusions are Endorsed by many OF the
best medical authorities Of the day.
Is II possible that we are at fault for
suggesting, a Father and Mother might. to
one of the family who announced a pain in the
side stop using the food. greasy meats.
gravies. mince pie cheese. too much starchy
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1910-12-23
ANIMALS STARVING
ON GRAND ISLAND
ABOUT 1000 DEER ON TRACT OF
LAND OWNED BY ANcHoN CON-
PANY IN WANT OF FOOD.
WORD SENT STATE WARDEN
n Permission Is Secured From the
State Department, Many of Them
Will Be Transferred to Pri-
vate Preserves.

Lansing.-On Grand Island, a tract
of land owned by the Cleveland Cliffs
Iron company out in Lake Superior a
few miles off the shore of Alger coun-
ty, there are about 1000 deer, the
property of the capitalists who own
the island, and owing to the scarcity
OF feed the animals are slowly starv-
ing TO death.
At least such is the information
that has reached the Office of State
Game Warden Pierce from G. V. r.
Townsend, the general manager OF
the company, and he would like to
know what disposition can be made
of some OF the animals. Recently he
shipped several carloads of alfalfa to
the island. as II is said that the deer
are very fond of this food, but he es-
timated that II will require thousands
OF bales of alfalfa to feed the deer
until the snow melts in the spring.
II permission is secured from the
state game warden's department q
number of the deer will be trans
ferred to private preserves. and IT is
likely that Game Warden Pierce will
grant this request. Mr.. Pierce agrees
with Mr.. Townsend of the Cleveland
Cliffs company that It would be a
good scheme to secure the enactment
OF law that would allow owners of
game preserves to raise deer for
slaughter, governing their sale in the
same manner as the system under
which brook trout raised in private
hatcheries are sold.
This island is a beauty spot and a
natural game preserve. When the
Cleveland Cliffs company purchased
II several years ago, a number Of
deer were placed on it, but they have
multiplied so rapidly that hunters
were allowed there this year in the
hope that few of the animals would
be exterminated.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1910-12-23
State Fair Men Look to Detroit.

Secretary j. L. Hannah OF the
that the attendants at the recent Chi
cago meeting of the American Associ-
ated Fair associations were much i'm
pressed with the manner in which the
Michigan fair handled its transporta-
ton facilities last year, and also were
much interested in the coin" system
which superseded the old ticket sys-
tenn.
The American Associated Fair as
ISOLATION is made up of representa-
tives of 33 state boards" said Mr.
Hannah. I'VE get together every year
to exchange ideas and get pointers
Last year State Railway Commissioner
George w. Dickinson handled our
transportation problem, and We hope
and expect that he will do 1t again
The secretaries of the New York and
Indiana fairs were so pleased with the
way we received and shipped out
goods that they have promised to
send on their live stock exhibits again
next year.
Il think several OF the state falr
arrangements will take up the mat
ter of getting a railway commissioner
to handle their transportation prob
lens. An official can do II much easier
and better than private citizen.
I'VE are fortunate in the date we
have selected for our next fair, fortu-
nate in more ways than one. We will
begin September is and continue ten
days or two weeks. During the week
of September IL, the Kansas, Indiana,
New York, Wisconsin, Kentucky and
London, Ont, fairs will be under way.
The exhibitors at these places will be
at liberty when we begin operations,
and we will have for opposition only
the Hutchinson (Kan) fair and the
Sioux City stock show"
The new board of the Michigan
State Fair association will meet Janu-
airy 10 and at that time will make
definite plans for next fall
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1910-12-23
Not ALTOGETHER Dead.

Mr. Robert Butler of Marlborough,
England, has had the peculiar expe-
rience of hearing his death announc-
ed. He was attending the poor law
conference at Exeter when one OF
the delegates moved that, in conse-
quence of the death Of Mr.. Butler,
which they all regretted, another gen
tleman, whom he named, should be
appointed to I'LL his place as one of
the representatives of Wiltshire on
the central committee. Mr.. Butler
rose from his place on the platform
and announced to the conference,
amid much amusement, that, so far
as he was aware. he was still alive
and in good health, and would be
pleased TO continue In the Office II the
conference desired.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1910-12-23
An Alaskan Luncheon.

Runners of woven Indian basketry.
with white drawnwork doilies at each
of the IL covers, were used on an oval
mahogany table. The doilies were
made at Sitka. In the middle OF the
table a mirror held a tall central vase
of frosted glass, surrounded by four
smaller vases, all filed with white
spring blossoms. The edge Of the
mirror was banked with the same
flowers. Four totem poles were placed
on doilies in the angles made by the
runners.
Place cards were water colors OF
Alaskan scenery. Abalone shells held
sailed nuts, and tiny Indian baskets
held bonbons. The soup spoons were
of horn, several Of the dishes used
were made by Alaskan Indians, and
the cakes were served on baskets.
The menu was as follows: Poisson
a la Boring Sea (halibut chowder)
Yukon climbers (broiled salmon, po-
tatoes Julienne), snowbirds avec
auroraborealis (roast duck with jelly,
Shungnak river turnips, Tanana
beets, Skagway hash Salad, Fair
banks nuggets (ripe strawberries ar
ranged on individual dishes around a
central mound Of powdered sugarl,
arctic slices (brick ice cream. Circle
City delights (small cakes), Klondike
nuggets yellow cheese In round balls
on crackers), Nome firewater Coffee
--Woman's Home Companion.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1910-12-23
aankera and BANK Notes.

Four men, three of whom were con-
nected with brokerage concerns in the
Wall street district, were discussing
United States paper currency and the
disappearance of counterfeits. I'VE
are so sure nowadays" said one of
the party, "as to the genuineness OF
bills that little attention is paid to
them in handling. except as to de-
nomination" To prove his assertion
he took a $40 yellowback from his
pocket. and, holding it up. asked who
could tell whose portrait it bore. No
one knew, and by way Of coaching
the broker said it was the first treas
urer Of the United States. Again no
one knew the name. why, It's
Michael Hillegas." said the man
proudly. But in confidence, I'll tell
you, l didn't know it five minutes
ago"-New York Tribune
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1910-12-23
Rat Bounty Excltes Merrlment.

Seattle, fearing the introduction of
bubonic plague by rats, has offered
bounty of ten cents rat. This moves
Tacoma, safe from infection from the
sea, to raucous laughter, and the Led
ger says that the bounty, though not
intended for rodents of Tacoma,
Everett, Bellingham and other popu-
lous and busy centers, has been find
ing its way into the pockets of non
residents of Seattle for nonresident
rats But the joke would be on us If
1t were found that our rat popula-
ton had found its way into the Seat
tie census"
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1910-12-23
An Unnecessary Confession.

A hearty laugh was occasioned at
the Birmingham police court by pris-
oner who gave himself away in a very
delightful manner. The man was the
first on the list, and the charge against
him was merely one of being drunk
and disorderly. He stepped into the
dock, however, just at the moment
when the dock officer was reading out
few of the cases which were to come
before the court that morning, and a
guilty conscience apparently led him
to mistake these items fer list of his
previous convictions.
He stood passive enough while the
officer read out about a dozen drunk
and disorderlies, but when he came to
one "shopbreaking" the prisoner ex.
claimed excitedly, THAT was eight
years ago, your honor" Everyone be-
gan to laugh, and the prisoner, realiz-
ing the blunder he had made, at first
looked very black indeed, but finally
saw the humorous side of the matters
and broad smile spread over his face.
His blunder did not cost anything
Birmingham Mail.