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preserve the yuIe log ceremony. The
Scandinavians have pretty way of ex-
pressing their spirit of good will. Beside
the yule log they place in a row every
pair of shoes in the household, to signify
their intention of living together in peace
and harmony during the coming year.
At the Christmas feast of this day
there was a stately ceremony that is still
bringing in the boar's head. The master
cook, preceded by trumpeters and must
clans. and followed by huntsmen with
boar spears, carried this initial dish into
the hail and placed it at the head of the
table.
Can one pass this rollicking period
without a glance at the Lord of Misrule?
Every person OF position had Lord Of
Msrule, who governed his household
during the twelve days. An idea of the
authority exercised by this Christmas
potentate is shown in the articles of APP
pointment of Owen Flood. trumpeter to
be Lord of Misrule for twelve days in
the house of the high sheriff of Surrey
and Sussex in 1924.
Il give free leave to said Owen Flood"
reads the document Ito command all and
every person whatsoever to be at his
command whenever he shall sound his
trumpet or musick and to do him good
service, as though l were present my
self. Item: If any man shall kisse any
maid. widow wife, except to bid well
come farewell, without his lordships
consent, he shall be punished as his
Iordship shall think convenient. And.
finally, l give full power and authority
to his lordship to brake up all locks,
bolts, barres. doors and latches, and to
come at all those who presume to dis
obey his lords commands. God save the
king"
AT length the twelve days of Christmas
were shortened to one, and the single
day came to overshadow all festivals of
the year But there was a time when
the existence Of even this one day seemed
uncertain in both England and America.
1t followed the rise of Puritanism. To
the Puritan mind everything pertaining
to the day Wreaked solely of heathenisrn,
and with the advent of the Pilgrims in
America. the anti-Christmas feeling be-
came SO firmly rooted here that in 1863
the general court Of Massachusetts Or
dered that Everybody who is found OBJ
serving by abstinence from labor, feast
ing any other way, any such day as
Christmas. shall pay for every such Of
Tense five shillngs." And she did not
repeal this ordinance until 1851. Never
theless. the Pilgrims and Puritans could
not control all the colonists. and Christ
mas, north and south, became the most
attractive festival or the year.
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to the Corner. convinced that he was
on his way to meet Another Woman.
He came home that Evening with a
Simon Legree demanded the Name of
the Hussy he simply pulled a Yearn-
ing Smile and invited her to go ahead
and use him a PunchinsBag.
Next day she put a Newspaper
around the Bird Cage and tied UP the
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and supplies the details. In the m1iale
ages, and for centuries later, the I'VE TN
might and day were of more Importance
than Christmas, and this is stll so III
Russia and some of the southern ma
tons.
Nowhere did 1.-The twelve days of
Christmas have a firmer footing than in
England The English country gentle
man held open house. writes the chron-
icler. with day break on Christmas
morning the tenants and neighbois
thronged the hall The ale was broacned.
Black jacks and Cheshire cheese. with
toast and sugar and nutmeg, went plen
tifully round. The hackin, great
sausage, must be boiled at daybreak,
and if it failed to be ready two young
men took the cook by the arm and ran
her around the market place till she
was ashamed Of her laziness."
This was a time when the lord of mis-
rule held sway, the Yule log frightened
the hearth, and caused many merry
game, the froIicsome mummers We're
abroad and the sweet strains of the
waits We're borne on the evening air.
Most of these old ceremonies are still ex-
tant in parts of England, and likewise
in few other countries.
The custom of burning the yule log was
one of the most pleasing of the period.
There is a legend cinging about its trans
formation to Christian uses. The ancient
Scandinavians had mythical tree of life,
Yggdrasil which they worshiped. The
Anglo SaXonS OF early England, who We're
partly Scandina Wan, worshiped also the
YlgdraSil When the missionaries came
to the SaXonS they determined to put an
end to this superstition, so they required
their converts to break in pieces and burn
all figures representing the symbol of the
YggdraSil as token of the destruction
of heathenism by the Christ Child.
This act gave the converts their idea
of burning a massive piece of wood.
Christmas eve in old England the yule
or Christmas log was drawn triumphant
ly into the baroniai hall amid shouts of
laughter and the dotfing of hats. On its
entrance the Ministries hailed il with
music or in the absence of MINISTRIES
each member of the family sat upon it
a cup of spiced ale. After kindling the
log they spent a riOtouS evening in feast
ing gaming, dancing and relating legend
airy tales beside the blazing fire.
Parts OF England anu Scandinavia still
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Their Married Life. which started
every Vase and a long Piece in the
Paper, now settled down to a Thirty
Years War with all of the Attendant
Horrors.
The only time the Dove of Peace
really Lit was when they had Com
pany.
Then they would Dear each other
until the Premises became sticky and
she would even coax up a Ripple Of
Fake Laughter when he pulled some
Wheeze that used to go Great the Year
they were engaged But the Moment
the last Guest closed the Front Door
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THE HONEYMOON THAT
TRIED, TO COME BACK

- nee there was an undivorced
Couple that would get up
Y i every G. NJ. and put on the
fve-ounce Mitts and wait for
the Sound of the Gong.
Each was working for the Champion
ship of the Flat and proved to be a
Glutton for Punishment.
Every time he landed a crushing Hay
Maker on her Family History she
countered with short-arm Jolt on his
Personal Appearance
Both would retire to the Corners
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The German Christmas dinner offers as
its principal attraction the goose, without
which YOUR true German would feel that
he had not had real holiday feast An
other fayorite CHRIS tmas dish with the
Germans IS .'mohnpIelen." This is com
nosed of white bread, almonds, ralsIns
and poppy seed steNed III mix
In Italy Christmas is a season or
church. going and the Christmas Tree is
little known. though gifts are exchanged
and there is a great dinner, the feature OF
which is roasted capon a faVorite
feast dish with the Italians Is a combina-
ton of cells, periwinkles ana Vermlcelil,
while the inevitable macaroni and spa
shetti FORM of course. the principal arti-
cles of food at ali times.
The Russian working people seize
Christmas as an occasion Tor ceaslng
work for somewhat lengthy period
sometimes a month or more But, then.
throughout the south of our own country
All farm hands and like laborers have a
holiday extending over two weeks. In
Russia at this time the clergy call upon
1beir flock and receive substantial pres
ents not infrequently grudgingly given.
tx olenda" is the celebration Of Christmas
eve when the peasants gather about the
houses of the mobiles. sing carols and
scramble for the coins tossed to them
from the windows.
IL Roumania il is the custom to bless
tho Danube at Christmas, and a process
sion. consisting of priests and people
dressed to represent biblical characters,
,aoyas through the streets singing chants,
and so to the banks Of the river If there
he ice on the stream it is broken with
treat solemnity and a small wooden cross
is thrown into the water. Any one who
can recover this cross is considered ex-
treneIy fortunate and sure of good luck
for the remainder of his years
quaint and impressive ceremonial is
observed in Holland on Christmas eve.
At midnight the men of the towns and
villa ges meet. dressed in varied cos
tunes in the public squares One is Sc
lecteG. and into his charge i; given a
lar.e Illuminated star m united upon
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NE Night a Com
plimentary Dinner
was given to a
Captain of In
dustry by some
Fri en- d S looking
for Orders.
The Chairman of
the Arran gementS
Committee was a
20 p u ] ar Wine
V the volunteer
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the table, till the hands and arms of
every child We're laden and overladen.
Then they gathered round the dis
man.led tree with its tapering lights, and
sang and the procession reformed. and
the happy little ones went home in the
moonlight
1t is the glittering and festive tree
that has tended more than any other
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IN tracing the origin of this most
beautiful and joyous of yearly fesu-
walls one finds much that is legendary
and unaccountable. There Is even
a doubt regarding the day on when
Christ was born. Many claim that IL
could NOT be December ~. since this is the
month that the rainy season in Juuea Is
at its height. and the shepherds would
nat then have been watching their flocks
in the open.
The early Christians are responsible Tor
the confusion in the date AS they De
lieved the celebrating of birthdays to be
q beatheuish rite, they kept no record OF
chris, Later on. when Christianity ad-
yanced, the old prejudice d1ed out ana
then the nativity of the Savior became
matter for the church to settle. AheS
found upon investigating difference Vi
or,nion Some of the churches had chosen
Doc.uber % others a day in January
March. April even so late as May "a.
last however, they decided upon INC
,osert date Notwithstanding the doubt
that still fingered in their minds. mus
:, is that our Christmas can only be IN
celebration of the memory. rather than
the actual date of the birth OF Christ.
One must search farther back than the
biblical period for the origin OF Christ
mas. Among all antiquity the time OF
the winter sostice brought forth the
principal festival of the year. The an
clients were sun worshipers. so 1t was
natural for them to choose this turning
point in the year as period for great
rejoicing and festivity. Chief among
these festivals was the Roman Saturnaiia,
which began the 18th of December and
lasted for several days. The distribu-
ton of presents, wax candles and little
wax or clay images was a prominent
feature of the ceremonies.
Passing on to the ancient Teutonic
tribes, one forms a little closer link to
the present Christmas. The Teutons had
a poetic way of accounting for their fes-
tvities
Winter" SO the legend runs, was the
ice giant, cruel, boisterous. unruly, the
destroyer of life. the enemy alike of gods
and men. Riding his steed the all-stiff-
ening north wind, he built for himself
great castles of ice. Darkness and death
followed in his wake. But the sun god
and the south wind gave battle to the
ice giant. AT last Thor, the god Of the
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)SITE. WOt Id REMARK. "STt NG.'
Search Parties were out for Three Days
after gathering up the Dead
Along about 1880 when every Per-
feet Gentleman was neatly Stewed ana
each Chandelier was doing a sinuous
SaIome in time with the Hungarian
Orchestra, Il Man connected with the
Jobbng Trade got UP to say Few
Words.
He was keyed to Concert pitch ana
the Audience was Piped and all the
old sure-fre Bokum of a Sentimental
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F all the facts and
fancies gathering
about this merry
holiday there is
none more engag-
ing than those
dealing with the
adoption of the
Christmas tree.
Like most of the
Christmas customs
the use of this tree
springs from pa
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Geranium and took the unfinished Tat
ting and Blew.
When she walked in on her Own
People. with the Declaration that all
Bets were OFF, they wanted to know
how about it, and she said Spirited
Woman couldn't keep on rooming with
a Guinea-Pig.
Moral-Contempt breeds Familiarity.
Copyright 1911, by George AdeD
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Christmas ceremony Ito throw open
every door. unlock every heart and blend
all ranks In one warm generous flow OF
joy ana kindness"
Acknow ledgment is made TO Walsf's The
Story OF Santa Klaus Brands boos The
o den Customs and Helen Pattens 18th"
Years Festivals from which some of the facts
set forth CLEANED
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the Germans that We o"e ''iN
tom of the Christmas tree, legend
having if that Martin Luther was the
first to bring into his home little fir Oh
which was suspended lighted candles
Now the supplying Of Christmas trees Is
a big industry in every city of the world
many forests being stripped of their fr
md holly trees to supply the millions re-
quired.
A German family could hardly conceive
a Christmas without Il tree, and gifts
are planned and prepared months before
hand The tree is placed in a room which
is kept carefully locked, and by noon
on the 9th day OF December every deco
ration is IN place and the gifts hung on
the tree, so that at u O'Clock the door
NAV be thrown open and the mys 'erIous
Chr.stmas room" revealed. 'Pieffer-
Kuchen," a ginger and spec cake, IS TO
be found in every German nome, from
the palace To the cottage, al Christmas
time In the villages may be seen
.'knecht Ruprecht. an OLD man dressed
in white furs,. VINO goes about win a
huge bag of toys and swee,s on ms BACK
and rod in his hand, handIng out Sits TO
all the ch ldren and warning them
against badness.
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the Dove Of Peace would beat it and
another domestic Gettysburg would
drive the Servants to Cover
After this had been going on for sew
eral Seasons he happened to get hold
of a Powerful Work, written by a Popu-
lar Novelist Unmarried), who made
a psychological Dissection of a Wom-
ans Soul and then preached a Funeral
Sermon over the Dead Love that once
blossomed in the Heart of the Heroine.
After he read this Tragedy of flick
cred Romance he felt like a Pup.
He perceived that he had been in the
Wrong.
The Novelist taught him that his Cue
was to bear with the Weaker Vessel
and to keep the Honeysuckle of True
Affection pruned and watered by De-
votion and Sacrifice.
Therefore, he made one large Vow to
cut out the Rough Stuff.
Amazons put on her Paint and Feath-
ers and began to heat the big War
Drum there was Nothing Doing.
He refused to enter the blood stained
Arena and when she came after him he
fell over and took the Count before a
Punch had been delivered.
Before starting for the Office he
Kissed her a couple of times and gave
her some Massage Treatment around
the Shoulder Blades and called her
''Toots"-a Term Of Endearment which
had been rusting on the shelf ever
since they used it at Niagara Falls.
She was so dazed by this Reversal
of Form that she peeked from the
Front Window and watched him clear
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-24

IN tracing the origin of this most
beautiful and joyous of yearly fesu-
walls one finds much that is legendary
and unaccountable. There Is even
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-24

lille naturally every Chris
tan country loves the Christ
mas season, the Germans are
perhaps the worlds greatest
lovers of the feast. II Is 10
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and supplies the details In the midile
ages, ana for centuries later, the TIVE fth
night and day were of more Importance
than Christmas, and this is still so III
Russia and some of the southern ma
tons.
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the Dove Of Peace would beat it and
another domestic Gettysburg would
drive the Servants to Cover.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-11-16
Plan q State School Tax.

Columbia, NO., Nov. ia cam.
paign is to be started at once for an
amendment to the state constitution
providing for l-mill tax to maintain
the public schools of Missouri, includ-
ing the state university and the
normal schools. The teachers of the
state at their annual convention in
Hannibal last week passed a resolu-
ton for arranging the amendment. A
committee is to be appointed at once
to begin the work of circulating the
petition necessary to bring it up at
the next general election. :
The plan proposed by the teachers
is tax of one mill on dollar for the
public school fund. Of the amount
derived from such a tax, it was de-
cided that one-third should go to the
state university.
A proposed constitutional amend
ment providing for tax of three
cents on 500 for the support of the
state university was defeated last year.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-11-16
Stone Out for Champ Clark.

St. Louis, Nov. 9.-Senator Stone
has announced himself in favor of
Speaker Clark for the Democratic
Presidential nomination. In this he
is in direct variation with his COL
leage, Senator Reed, who announced
some months ago that he considered
himself and the Missouri Democracy
pledged to support j. w. Folk.
Senator Stones statement, which
he dictated, follows:
II am for any good Missouri DEM
ocrat for the nomination for the ex-
allied office of President who is and
always has been loyal party man
and who apparently has a good
chance to receive the nomination.
II think Speaker Champ Clark fills
these requirements in every particu-
lar. He has never failed to support
his party and stand by his principles
without equivocation or apology.
HE and l have not always agreed
as to some matters pertaining to par
ty policies.
II think he has as good q chance
- any man for the nomination. /
am, therefore, for Clark first and
condnuously - long q believe and
be thinks he has ! chance for the
nomination. "
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-11-16
A ScandalOus Situation.

How the election officers of St.
Louis are debauced for party pur.
poses was made clear by Commits.
sioner Jamison at the Planters Hotel
conference.
I'm looking over the records" he
said, 81 find that since have been
in office there have been $50 vacan-
cies among Republican officers OF
election as the result of appointments
to Government, state or city posi-
TONS"
Further he said: In the month of
June | found that eighty-four judges
and clerks of election in one ward,
the Sixth, received appointments OF
this kind. In July thirty-two judges
and clerks in the Seventh ward were
appointed to office
These appointments were not made
on merit. They are in payment of
party services rendered. They are
held out as rewards not for public
duty done but for partisan activities
of the most dubious kind.
With our elections controlled large
ly by Republicans, judges and clerks
who are intent upon commencing
themselves to the appointing power
and by Democrats" in many cases
who always vote the Republican tick
ct, is there any room for wonder that
the st. Louis ballot box is under sus-
picion?
There is only one thing worse than
corrupt election officers in a repub-
lie and that is corrupt electorate.
One leads to the other.-Republic.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-11-16
PREDICTS DEMOCRATIC
PRESIDENT in 1912.
Graft Prosecutor Declares People Will
Rebuke Administration.

Graft Prosecutor Declares People Will
Rebuke Administration.
Kansas City, Nov. 11.-If you want
to find out what is going on in this
country travel and talk to the people.
That is what Francis j. Heney,
gressive Republican, graft fighter and
all-around enemy of special privilege,
has been doing and that is why he
was able to say at the Savoy Hotel
this morning;
eff a presidential primary could be
held in the Republican party Senator
LaFollette would beat President Taft
for the nomination hands down."
Such primary is not going to be
held-not this year, anyway-and so
Mr.. Heney had another conclusion to
offer and it was this:
president Taft will be renominat-
ed by party convention and beaten
by the people at the polls"
If it should be urged that President
Taft had been doing some travelling
himself, and doubtless has learned of
some things, it should be remembered
that President Taft isn't talking about
the things he learned, and Mr.. Heney
is. Besides, Mr.. Heney was not
travelling as President of the United
States, and fancies he got a little
closer to the people than the Presi-
dent.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-11-16
POOLS ABILITY UNQUESTIONED.

POOLS ABILITY UNQUESTIONED
Mr.. R. D. Allen,
Butler, Mo.
Dear Sir:
The Republican press has been in
spired to create the impression that
the Democratic members OF the State
Capitol Commission have injected
politics in their affairs by standing
for the election of j. K. Pool as Sec
rotary. write this personal letter
that you may know the charge is
false. After the Commission was
named, the Governor himself started
the ball by singing out Pool from
those mentioned saying his the Gov
ernor's) fealty to his party would not
permit Pool to be chosen if he could
help it. Up to that time | had no
preference for Secretary. Believing,
however, that being an active Demo-
crat is no bar to official position, Lat
once decided my fealty to my party
was as sacred to me as the Govern
or's to his. Every Democrat on the
Commission and on the Permanent
Seat of Government Board concurred.
At no time has POOLS integrity or eff
ficiency been questioned or attacked.
The Governor raised the issue of
craftsmanship, and in the face of a
Democratic majority, admitting that
Pools editorial paragraphs had punct-
ured his hide and exploded some of
his soap-bubbles. have never con-
sidered it a crime for Democratic
editor to unhorse a partisan Repub-
lican official, so long as the truth was
respected and employed. l therefore
protest against Republican papers be-
ing permitted to create false impress
sion and appeal to you for energetic
cooperation in assau,ting such cita-
dels of falsehood.
With kindest personal regards,
am, Yours truly,
CORNELIUS ROACH.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-11-16
Does Haeley Order a Whitewrsh?

Gov. Hadley says there is nothing
in the charges Of fraud in last years
election, and nobody believes the
charges, he says. Yet he orders the
circuit attorney to have the December
grand jury to investigate them be-
cause, explains the Governor, their
continued reiteration may lead many
good citizens to believe that they are
true.
The circuit attorney, who will d.
rect the investigation, makes light of
the charges in the same way. Where
fore, are we to believe that white
wash is a foregone conclusion? What
else could come of'an investigation of
an investigation of fraud ordered for
the sake of proving there was no
fraud, and under the direction of an
official in sympathy with the Govern
or's political purpose? Whether he
means it or not the Governor, in ef-
feet, has ordered a whitewash of his
party in St. Louis.
Utterances by the Governor and
circuit attorney plainly calculated to
prejudice and hamper the action of
the grand jury beforehand amount to
an abuse of official power. A SELF
respecting grand jury, which will re-
fuse to allow itself to be used by poll
ticians for party purposes, may ar
raign both of these men for an abuse
of official power. It is to be hoped
that the grand jurors will resent the
attempted interference with their
functions.
The grand jury is an agency Of and
acting for the people. As such it
must thoroughly investigate the
abundant evidence of election crime
to the end not of clearing party, but
of proceeding against the criminals,
if the evidence warrants. Republic.