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The Washington times., 1910-12-10

Lear Santa Claus 1 want a rocking
horse and a rocking chair That's all
7 want It live at 1919 Union street
southwest Goodbye
HARRY DAWSON
The Washington times., 1910-12-10

Dear Santa Claus
Tnib IS the first tine I have written 10
you, and I hope you VII not forget me-
The Washington times., 1910-12-10

The annual election of officers by
Electa Chapter, No. . Order Of the
Eastern Star, viii be held on Tuesday
evening next in the AnacOstia Masonic
Hall
The Washington times., 1910-12-10

Several members OF tTe police force
respective duties for a number Of days.
having been granted 4 portion Of their
annual leave just prior 30 the expira-
ton Of the year They are Policemen
Louis Gee. E n Brooks. John AIS, and
II 4. Tarmon-
The Washington times., 1910-12-10

service Interest your friends in the
toy fund Tell them that Christmas is
for the child, and that with their aid,
The Times St Nicholas Girl viii take
good care that no child IN Washington
spends joyless holiday
Here are some letters taken at random
from the Santa Claus mail bag which
comes daily to The Times office:
Don't Forget Stockings.
Dear Santa:
VIII you please bring me a muf and
fur to wear to SCHOOL, ] am twelve
years old. and my little sister six years
old wants a big doll and my little
brother eighteen months old, wants a
teddy bear Don't forget TO I'll our
stockings with goodies Bye-bye-
From
ELSIE, BESSIE and WILBUR
Please send them to $50 Grace St.
y ".
Dear St Nick
Please don't forget me this Christmas.
I am a little girl / so to school every
day ] am eight years old I wrote 10
answer my letter. Please remember me
this Christmas. Please bring me a pair
Of shoes a hat, large doll baby, some
candy, cakes, oranges and nuts I also
have one little brother three years old
de warts a pair Of shoes. hobby horse,
some fruit. bye-bye Santa Claus, with
love, and wishing you merry Christ
mas
21s John Marshall Place.
The Washington times., 1910-12-10
Pleads for Boots.

Dear Santa Claus:
My name is Charles Leon Zones I
viii be nine years old next Thursday.
/ wish you would bring me a pair Of
boots and tool box. d wagon, and
pretty tree, and some candy and cakes.
Yours truly,
602 b street southwest
The Washington times., 1910-12-10
What Esther Wants

COZ B street southwest.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-22
FAMOUS SWORDS.
The Monster Weapon Used at Welsh
Eisteddfods.

The largest sword of which there Is
any record is the seven foot ceremo-
NAL sword that was made for Edward
III. and is now preserved in West
minister abbey. Next comes the
Sword of ceremony that is used at
Welsh eisteddfods. This weapon If
placed in the hands or modern
Godfrey de BouillOn. who, it will be
recalled, with a two handed sword
cleaved a Turk into halves from the
shoulder to the hips, would be quite
long enough for any one who wished
to put it to practical use. 1t is six
feet two inches in length.
OF gorgeous swords which are not
so much weapons as settings for pre-
cious stones the most valuable in Eng
lish is said to be the one presented by
the Egyptians to Lord Wolseley and
valued at $4,000. This sum is COM
paratively insignificant for bejeweled
sword if the value of the sword
brought over to Europe some years
ago by the then shah of Persia
namely. $5O,OOO-be taken as a stand
ard of what a diamond hilted weapon
ought to cost. Competent authorities
on the subject familiar with that IA
nous weapon of the Persian ruler are
rather skeptical as to the existence of
the gaekwar of BarOda's gorgeous
blade, which is supposed to be worth
more than twenty swords Of equal
beauty and value to the shah's, but
il is popularity supposed that the dia-
mOnds. rubies and emeraldS with
which it is thickly incrusted bring up
its value to about $1,000, 0,000.-Ex-
change.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-22

just as the young man came out OF the
dining room door. Then Will pulled
up, and realized that he was calling
my attention to the stranger.
Will grabbed my arm without say
ing anything and pulled me into the
bar.
"Hello!" 1 said as he went round be-
hind and opened the cigar case
Whats up?"
He took out two boxes of the finest
five-centers in town and placed them
before me. "Thems up" he said
you win. Have one"
1t staggered me to have him give In
that way. 1 had been looking forward
to a long and diverting dispute. u
guess you've heard everything worth
hearing about today's history" I said
disappointed, as 1 selected the least
unpleasant looking of the cigars.
mo, 1 haven't" he said. Il didn't
have to hear anything. What earned
you that smoke took place right here
in this office. Here" he said, striking
a match for me.
1 had been trying to put the cigar
away so that I might dispose of 1t
without hurting Wills feelings, but he
had me, so 1 recklessly poked the
thing into the automatic clipper and
then into my mouth. What do you
mean?" I asked, putting.
Come long outside" said Will, and
we went out on the porch just in time
to see Mr.. Duncan going wearily up
stairs to his room. Il mean," said
Will, him" And then he told me all
about it.
But things like that don't happen
everyday" he wound up defensively.
"Tll go you another cigar on tomor-
row."
mo, you won't" l said Indignantly
and furtively dropped the infamous
thing over the railing.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-22
CHINA'S HOARD.
Imperial Treasure That May Provide
Navy.

1t is proposed to select the sons OF
high Manchu officers attending the
Mobiles school at Pekin and send
them to the naval colleges at Nanking
and Tien-Tsin for q preliminary course
Of study preparatory to a foreign ed
ucation in the navies Of the friend
ly powers. 1t Is reported that the
Chinese government has already ar
ranged with the British authorities
to train the cadets on board British
warships and that permission has been
granted by the regent to select one
hundred students at once.
The absence of competent native
officers to train the men for the new
navy and command the ships is a
factor in the scheme occupying the
serious attention of the authorities
Students are now being educated In
England, France and Germany, and
a request has been made to have the
number increased. Whether the naval
academies of Europe and America VIII
be as freely opened to China as they
were to Japan is problematical. for
there is a tendency to discontinue
such courtesies.
The escapade of a Chinese naval
pupil on board the French training
ship Borda, who decamped to Bel
gium with papers stolen from an ON
GERS cabin, has served to intensity
the dislike of French officers to the
admission of foreign cadets to the
training ships. There is a revulsion
of feeling in France at least to this
system, and the officers are complain
ing that after educating Japanese they
are now expected to teach the Chinese
The recent incident of Chinese
military student in Japan who ac-
uuired the mobilization plans OF the
regiment and other information led
to the summary dismissal OF all
Chinese students from the army. The
order. it appears, was subsequently re-
Scinded.
OF course the all-important part
of the scheme is TO raise the funds.
And as already pointed out, every
cash of revenue entering Pekin mas
a capacious nav open to receive IT..
The desperate straits of the govern
ment to raise funds for the navy pro-
gramme are fully disclosed by the
many proposed schemes for this pur-
pose.
But the persistence of the regent
and his advisers in carrying through
the scheme. in spite of the apparent
lack of sufficient resources, and his
refusal to accept foreign financial as
sistance suggests another view of the
situation which has not been touched.
While the government is poor and
in financial straits there remains the
great wealth of the imperial family
to be reckOned with. Overlooked by
the allied troops, who ransacked the
palace from end to end, the accumu-
lated treasure Of years lies untouched
in the secret vaults over which the
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-22

this and down here to this, where it's
vaporized-much the same's they va
porize gasoline for autymobile en-
gines, We know-and then it just nat
urally flows up to the bracket, and
there ye are"
It's wonderful, SAM" said I, Won
dering if it really were.
And the best part of 1t is the econ
omy, Homer. A gallon will run one jet
six weeks, day in and out. And simple
to install. 1 tell ye"-
Have you got it patented yet?"
YES, sireel Took out patents just
as soon as it struck me how simple it
'ud be-more than two years ago. Only,
of course, it took time to work 1t out
just right, specially when I had to
stop now and then cause I needed
money for. materials. But it's all right
now, Homer; it's all right w."
And you say Roland Barnette's
writing to some one in New York about
it?"
Yes; he promised he would. I ex-
planned it to Roland, and he seemed
real interested. He's kind, very kind
l was inclined to doubt this and
would probably have said something
to that effect had not shadow cross
ing the window brought me to my feet
in CONSERVATION. But before / could
do more than rise Colonel Bohun had
flung open the door and stamped in.
He stopped short at sight Of me, and
singled me out with a threatening
wave of his heavy stick.
WELL sir" he snarled, 1--WE come
for my answer. Have you sense
enough in your added pate to under
stand that, man? I've come for my
answer"
And may have it, whatever it may
be, for all of me-" 1 told him.
His face flushed deeper red. "Oh,
it's only you, is it, Littlejohn? took
you for that fool Graham in this dirty
dark hole. Where is he?"
ITO be Continued
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I don't know but that's a fairly apt
description of his ordinary expression.
He had a way, too, of nodding jerkily
at you-just once-to show he recog-
nized you or understood what you
were driving at; at other times ne
carried his head a trifie to one side
and slightly forward. He was man
you wouldn't forget, somehow, though
what there was about him that was
remarkable nobody seemed to know.
He nodded that jerky way in an
swer to Will Bigelow's "G'devenin',"
and without saying anything took the
pen and started to register. He had
to stop, however, for Tracey was
pressing him so close upon the right
that he couldn't get any play for his
elbow, and after a minute or two he
asked Tracey politely would he mind
stepping round to the left, where he
could see just as well. So Tracey did.
Then he wrote his name in good
round hand. Nathaniel Duncan,
n. Y"
I'D like a room with a bath" he
told Will, something simple and
chaste within the means of man in
moderate circumstances"
Will thought he was joking at first,
but he didn't smile, so Will explained
that there was a bathroom on the
third floor at the end of the hall,
though there wasn't much call for it.
II could give you room next to
that" he said, but you wouldn't want
it, I guess"
why not?" asked the mysterious
stranger.
Because" said Will, "'taint near the
sample room"
That doesn't make any difference.
I'm on the wagon"
The only sense Will could get out OF
that was that the young man was traV-
cling for a buggy house and hadn't
brought any samples with him. Il
thought" he allowed, las how you'd
be wantin' a place to display your
samples, but of course if you're in the
wagon business
"Oh," said Mr.. Duncan, Il thought
you meant the sample room over
there" He nodded toward the bar.
That's what you call the dispensaries
of Intoxicating liquors in this part of
the country, is it not?"
Will made a noise resembling an af-
firmative and as soon as he got his
breath explained that travelling men
generally wanted a sort of a show
room next to theirs and that that was
called a sample room too.
But I'm not a travelling man," said
the mysterious stranger. so I shall
have as little use for the one as the
other"
Then the room on the third floor'll
do for you," said Will. How long do
you calculate on stayin'?"
That will depend said Mr.. Dun
can, "a day or so, perhaps longer, un-
til 1 can find comfortable and more
permanent quarters"
In his amazement Will jabbed the
pen so hard into the potato beside the
ink we'll that he never could get the
nib out and had to buy new one.
You don't mean to say you're thinkin'
of coming here to live?" he gasped.
Yes, l do" said the young man
alphabetically. Il don't think you'll
find me in the way. l shall be very
quiet and unobtrusive. I'm a student
looking for a quiet place in which to
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pursue my studies"

pursue my studies.
Well" said Will, you've found it,,
all right. There amt no quieter place
in Pennsylvania than Radville, Mr..
Duncan. l hope you'll like it," he said,
sarcastic.
Il shall endeavor to-" said the young
man. And now may go to my room,
please? 1 should like to renovate my
travel stained person to some extent
before dinner"
You'll have time" said Will. Din
ners at noon tomorrow. l guess you're
thinkin about supper. That's ready
now. Here. Tracey, you carry this
gentlemans things up to No. 43.'
l have never been able to UNDER
stand how we failed to hear of it at
Miss Carpenters before o'clock.
That was the hour, when, having fin
shed supper and my first evening pipe,
| started down town to the Citizen Of
flee, intending to stop in at the Bige-
low House on the way and confOund
Will with the list of the days happen
ingS. Main street was pretty well
crowded for that hour, l remembered
noticing, and most of the townsfolks
were grouped together on the corners
underneath the lamps, discussing
something rather eXcitedly. l paid no
particular attention, realizing that be-
tween Caesar. Pete Willing, Roland
Burnette's suit and the checker game,
they had enough to talk about. So
it wasn't until walked into the Bige-
low House office that l either heard or
saw anything of the mysterious stran-
ger.
Will Bigelow was in his usual place
behind the desk and looked, l thought,
rather disgruntled. His reply to my
"HOwdy, Win?" sounded somewhat
snappish. But he got out of his chair
and moved round the end of the desk
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-22

foreign soldiers lit their campfires, un-
conscious of the wealth underneath.
The tribute Of years to the en-
press dowager and former sovereigns
is here boarded and available for the
countrys defense. Native reports are
to the effect that an investigation by
the chief Of the imperial household
disclosed the fact that the treasure
amounted to 100000 taels Of gold
and 999,000,000 taels Of silver, or
roughly speaking some $1,000, 100000
gold.
This amount Of actual treasure Is
enormous, and 1t may be greatly eX-
aggerated. But there Is every reason
to believe that the imperial treasure
must be vast as the tribute from the
provinces, gifts from officers and other
perquisites Of the throne have been
rolling into Pekin for years. The
money has not been expended on any
great public improvements or build
ings or diverted into any provincial
reform scheme, so it is safe to believe
that 1t exists.-Journal Of American
Asiatic Association.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-22
CHAPTER ".

The 21st of June was day of mem
orable triumph to me, day of MEM
orable events for Radville.
Only the evening previous Will Bige-
low and l had INDUCED in acrimonious
argument in the office of the Bigelow
House, the subject of contention being
the Importance of the work to which 1
am devoting my declining years-to
wit, the recording of the history of
Radville township, Westerly county, in
Pennsylvania. Will maintaining with
that obstinacy for which he is famous
that nothing ever had happened, does
happen, can or will happen in our
community, I insisting gently, but
firmly, that it knows no day unmark-
ed by important occurrence (for it
would i'll become me, as the only lit
erary man in Radville, to yield a point
in dispute with the proprietor of the
town tavern). Besides, he was wrong,
even as 1 was indisputably right, only
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-22
Tbinkino In Millions.

In astronomical calculations 1t Is
most difficult to grasp the meaning or
millions Of miles, but some idea In
this connection may be gathered from
the statement of the time that would
be consumed by an express train or
the shot from cannon to cover celes-
tial space. Now, the distance from
the earth to the sun is about 92,OOO.-
900 miles, and the light travelling from
the solar luminary comes to us at the
rate of 1S6,700 miles a second IN
vacuo. 1t traverses this distance IN
eight and a quarter minutes, but
railway train proceeding at sixty
miles an hour would take 175 years
to cover the distance of the sun. the
circumference of the eclipse forming
the orbit of the earth around the sun
is about 577,76O.000 miles in length,
and the earth covers this distance In
1861 days, travelling at the rate OF
$3.50 miles an hour, or l.O9S miles
minute. or nearly LOO times as fast
as train going at one mile minute
II is therefore clear that a train pro-
ceeding at this speed would require
nearly LOO years to accomplish the
Journey around the earth's orbit.-Tit-
Bits.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-22
License For Hunters.-At a meetin

License For Hunters.-At a meeting
of the Beech Island Farmers club the
following resolutions were offered by
j. G.. Gardner, president of the Demo-
cratic club, seconded by d. \. Atkin-
son, and passed by unanimous vote:
Resolved /. That the farmers of
the state urge the general assembly
to pass at it's next session a hunt
erS' license law, similar to the laws
now in force in most civilized coun-
tries, and in all the states of the
union, except Virginia, North and
South Carolina and Georgia. for the
purpose of checking the wantOn de-
Struction of birds, game and fish,
now proceeding so rapidly as to
threaten their total extinction, in
volving a loss of a valuable food sup
ply for all our people as well as the
loss of protection by birds against
the insect ravages upon our crops, es-
timated at slS.000,000 annually in this
state. and at more than $1.000,000,-
900 for the United States.
Resolved .. That it shall not be
lawful to hunt with a gun in South
Carolina without having taken out a
license. therefor that any bona fide
resident of this state may obtain such
a license good for twelve months,
payment of one dollar.
That each nonresident be required
to pay s10.25 for a similar license.
Resolved 3. That the money de-
rived from the payment for hunting
licenses be paid into the state treas
ury to the credit of the game pro-
lection fund, and paid out on the or
der of the chief game warden.-
Anderson Daily Mail.
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ITO be Continued
TOBACCO IN THE ARCTIC.
Resource of Miners When They Can
Neither Chew Nor Smoke.

when the wind is blowing thirty
miles an hour and the temperature is
40 below it is some cold" said a man
from Alaska. IF a man used tobacco
in the ordinary way out of doors dur
ing such weather and got his lips wet
through smoking pipe or chewing
he would be apt to get into trouble.
First thing he knew he'd have his lips
cracked, and they would be raw all
winter long.
THE regulars stationed at the mill
tary posts up in Alaska found that if
they tied a tobacco leaf in their arm
pit previous to undeSired duty they
would become very sick and could pass
the post surgeon for hospital, getting
rid of detail work they wanted to
avoid.
The miners up there learned some
thing of this and found that the to-
baccO craving could be satisfied by
binding a quantity Of the leaf either
in the armpit or against the solar
plexus. This avoided broken and
bleeding lips during the winter, and
they weren't prevented from smoking
indoors as well if they wanted to. 1t
was the outdoor smoking or chewing
that made all the trouble. New
York Sun.
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he had not the grace to admit it. We
ended vulgarly with a bet, Will wag-
ering me the best five cent clear Ha-
vana in the Bigelow House sample
room that nothing worth mentioning
would take place in Radville before
sundown of the following day.
l left him, returning to my room at
Miss Carpenters (Will and l are old
friends. but refuse to eat the food he
serves his guests), warmed by the
prospect of certain triumph if little
appalled, by the prospect of winning
the stake and sympathiZing a little
with Will, who, for all his egregious
stubbornness, has some excuse for up
holding his unreasonable and ridicu-
lous views.
At 5.45 the evening train lurched in,
bearing the mysterious stranger.
Tracey Tanner saw him first having
driven down to the station with his
fathers surrey on the off chance of
picking up a quarter or so from some
drummer wishing to he conveyed to
the Bigelow House. Only outlanders
pay money for hacks in Radville.
Everybody else walks of course. Nat
urally Tracey took the mysterious
stranger for a drummer. He had three
trunks and a heavy packing box, so
Trdceys misapprehensionw was pardon
able. Instinctively he drove him to
hn
again makes Tracey present of a
bottle of sarsaparilla or lemon pop,
with the result that Tracey calls Tan
nehill. who runs the opposition hotel, a
skiniint and never takes strangers
there except on their express desire.
The mysterious stranger merely asked
to be driven to the best hotel. This is
not like most commercial travellers,
who, as a rule, know where they want
to go, even in a strange town, having
made inquiry in advance from their
brothers of the road.
Will Bigelow was doing behind the
desk, lulled by the sound of Hi Nuts
voice in the barrOOm as he explained
to all and sundry just how he had in
advertently permitted Watty the tailor
to best him at checkers that morning.
otherwise the office was deserted.
Tracey wakcned Will 10y stamping
heavily across the floor, and Will me-
chanically pushed down his spectacles
and dipped a pen in ink, Slowing the
register round for the guests sigma
ture. He says he knew at a glance
that the mysterious stranger was no
travelling man. But this is moot
point, Traceys memory being minute
ly accurate and at variance with
Wills assertion.
The mysterious stranger was a
young man. rather severely clothed in
a dark suit which excited no interest
in Bigelows understanding, although
|. when | saw him later. had no diff
Guilty in realizing that it had never
been made 10y a tailor whose place of
business was more than five doors re-
moved from Fifth avenue. He was
tallish. but not really tall, and carried
himself with a slight stoop which took
away from his real height. Tracey
SAYS he had a way of looking at you
as if he was smiling inside at some
joke he'd heard a long time ago, and
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Why" said, Il didn't know you

Why" 1 said, Il didn't know you
had an acetylene plant"
mo more have l, Homer"
But what is that. then?" l demand
ed.
Its my invention" he returned
proudly. 1--WE been workin' on 1t two
years, Homer, and only got 1t goin'
yestiddy. It's goin' to be a great thing,
tell YOU"
But what is it, SAM"
It's gas from crude petroleum,
Homer. See!" he continued, indicat-
ing a tank beneath the bench which
seemed to be connected with the brack-
ct by a very simple system of piping,
broken by a smaller, cylindrical tank.
"Ye put the oil in there-just crude as
it comes out of the wells, Homer. 1t
don't need refinin', and it runs through
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