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proseoutor After oraftera.

Dayton. O., Jan. 7-Prosecuting At
torney Carl Lenz has issued state
ment announcing that suits. would be
instituted for the purpose OF reim-
bursting Montgomery county with
part Of the $92,7S4.67 elleged to be
illegally OF irregularly taken by
county officials. past and present.
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conaressman cited For contempt.

Dayton. O., Jan. r. Congressman
James M. Cox, owner OF the Dayton
Daily News. and George Burba, ed
itor. have been ordered to appear In
common pleas court to answer charg-
es of contempt for the publication Of
an editorial In connection with the
award of the court in the proceeding
Of the Dayton Reduction company
against the city.
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WOMAN
uses GUN

HainIton. o., Jan. 7.-Miss Isabe:
Phelps of Cincinnati. agent for toilet
articles. wa. .Ged into the dining room
OF louis Walkers home. where she
was boarding. and shot Walker fatal
iy through the head and his wife
through the left shoulder. His wifes
injuries are not serious. Miss Phelps
imagined that enemies were poison'
ing her and that poison was In al
her food except some tomatoes. After
shooting the woman she walked to
the courthouse. where she gave her
self up to Sheriff Graf. She Is
thought 70 be insane.
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Certificate of Three Directors or Aud

OF train can be 'braked' instantly,
although the steam power may not be
shut off. The Prentice invention, it
is believed, will eliminate the head-on
collisions, and railroad men who saw
the demonstration became enthus-
iastic.
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ELECTIONS IN ECUADOR

Guataquil, Jan. IA president OF
the republic is to be chosen at the
general elections in Ecuador tomor-
row. The leading candidates for the
presidency are Alfredo Bauerize Mo
qreno, the choice of the Liberals, and
milo Estrada, who has the support
of the administration.
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Mrs. Chauncey Wright of West Vine
street went to Akron Saturday morn.
ing to spend several days with Mrs.
j. G. Cole of that city.
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Mr.. John Wilson returned to his
home In this city Saturday noon after
spending several days with relat yes
in Mansfield.
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COURT HOUSE NOTES
First Partial Account

s. M. CARRIER, executor Of Michael
Hess, has filed first partial account
In the probate court of Knox county
showing the following; Received So,
4sS.0o. paid out $210.63, balance So,
27737.
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Dean OR7
IS DEAD

Springfield, O., Jan. 7. - Rev. DR..
Samuel A. Ort, dean Of Wittenberg
college, died from paralysis, with
which he has been afflicted for the
last year. For 25 years he was presi-
dent Of the college and was one Of
the most widely known Lutherans in
the United States. DR.. Ort at one
time was president of the general
synod. He was 68 years old.
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stricken While on Auto Trip

Circleville, o. Jan. 7.-W. l.. Krim-
mel, 40. city treasurer and a drug
gist. was stricken with apoplexy
while in an automobile on his way
to Columbus. He was brought back
to Circleville and died four hours
later.
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Deeds Filed

Sarah G. Fleming to Sarah NJ Pad
dock, part lot 20, Potwin's addition
10 city. $1,000.
Ida B. Dowds TO Sarah ]. Beeney,
parcel In Mt. Vernon, $4,000.
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Marriage license

Jacob A. Thuma, retired farmer,
Morrow county, and NJ. Elizabeth
Morrow, Mt Vernon. The Rev. E. d.
Barnett.
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w,
Company OF Mt Vernon Ohio
full detailed
F.
subscribed ana to before this
M
KnoxCo o.
Certificate of Three Directors Auditing Committee
The Knox Building
off
rending y. ="
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Bend in,., name OF paper and this ad. for our
boaui,tal savings Bank AID Chile Sketch Book.
Each pank contains Good Luck Penny.
SCOTT & BOVINE. 400 Pearl ST.. New, York
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PROFIT AND LOSS
Pass-books and initiation fees. 26.2o
Total ..................... ......S 16.90S. IA
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PROFIT AND LOSS
Dividends on running stock. k......$ 1889. 50
DIVIDENDS on paid-up stock..... 2,065 90
10 reserve fund .................. 5000
interest on deposits ;;....:.... 7.9SS.o4
os tors, s5s4 90 .;...., s5ssoo
services: sioS co. ..:;..:......:.. sssw
penses, .s254.n ................... 62o45
Endivided profit fund. ......... 1,727.52
Credit to furniture and fixtures. 10000
Total ..................... ......s l6.sOs. IA
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4 HAD been West taking a GONZALES
cent patient to his home and was re-
turning to New York when a case fell
Unexpectedly into my hands. The
Pullman conductor startled us early
one morning by calling ont to know if
there was a physician in the car. There
was no response, SO without hesitation
I offered my services. He took me at
once into the stateroom aud introduced
me to a worried looking young man.
There was no need to ask his trouble.
On the couch tossed little girl of FIVE or
si1 years. her cheeks and eyes bright
with fever
| had a few simple remedies with me,
but the child showed rather alarming
symptoms of an aggravated cold. Decid
ing TO take no risk. sent a telegram
ahead, and when we reached Chicago q
physician with necessary medicines came
aboard and accompanied us to BGESlo.
Dorothy escaped all of the maIadies
with which she was threatened and by
the time we reached New York was very
much better. However. Mr.. Singleton,
her father, retained me, and the three of
US went to a fashionable hotel.
The little girl continued to improve, but
the spontaneous gayey of childhood was
lacking
Christmas was approaching and Dor
othy was now able to 90 about. was
instructed to take her to shops and matt
nees-in fact, to do everything to afford
her amusement Her father suggested
that she give Christmas tree for twenty
less fortunate little girls, and he Kept the
big limousine car touring the shopping dis
trict while we played Santa Claus.
One day we had been out all of the
afternoon. Dorothy had selected twenty
dolls. and in retrospect / viewed my own
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toys and gifts we found scattered about
our playroOm or in our stockings. Bu
despite these beautiful toys we woulC
gladly leave them to stand at fathers ol
mothers knee while told some beautiful
Christmas legend. Those stories / have
never forgotten, and even at the age Of
seven l knew by heart many of Charlie.
Dickens most exquisite Christmas
stories
While the older members of the family
remained at home throughout the day
nevertheless at night there was invari-
ably a Christmas ball To this all the
beauty and chivalry of old Baltimore was
bidden, and the old Assembly Rooms, the
scene of these functions. were trans
formed into bowers of beauty. OF course
that part of the Christmas enjoy ment
came to me later in life, when ! grew into
young manhood and could appreciate the
delights of society. But rather fear the
Christmas / knew is fast disappearing
from the American home, and aside from
the perfunctory exchange of gifts there is
little to carry out the real spirit of the
day"
As he thought of the change that had
come over the spirit of the times Mr..
Sn ith grew indignant. speaking of the
woman of to-day following false gods and
sacrificing the beauty of the home. the
glory of motherhood and the duties of the
freside. 1t was in the library of his
beautiful home. at No. $50 East Thirty
fourth street, New York City. that the
famous author talked about Christmas,
how real it was and how this one season
of the year seemed to beautify life and
make it more earnest and joyous and
noble.
Gazing thoughtfully into the fire. whose
lambent flames lit up his face, glowing
with enthusiasm, he said
IFS rather a peculiar coincidence that
you should have called here to-day and
Oroached the subject of Christmas to me.
It's the one topic that lies closest to my
heart. Returning a few weeks ago from
my annual visit abroad, and while pass
Ing through London, l determined to-
prolong my visit a few days in order to
90 to Old Staples Inn and from that
point sketch and paint a corner
of old Fernald Inn, where Charles
Dickens had a room in which he wrote
one of his most charming Christmas sto-
ries, by the way.
Il arrived in London at its worst. and
n order to complete my canvas I was
to sit there In a pelting rain
storm, my chair set upon a board which
n a measure kept my feet out Of the
ouddles that eddied< about them. But as
worked the same train of thought that
Tou have heard me express to-day surged
through my mind. AS worked 1 real
zed that that greatest of great authors,
Charles Dickens did more TO perpetuate
he spirit Of Christmas than any other
writer. If there was nothing else from
lis pen to perpetuate his memory, every
English speaking person in the world
yves him undying gratitude for these
Christmas stories. I never tire Of them
md stIl read them with avidiU."
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Clubs VS.. Children.

And why should it be otherwise? What
chance have these children had to absorb
the beautiful things in life as told in verse
and song, and perpetuated on canvas
Those things do not come to them unbid-
den. If their mothers have been too busy
with their suffrage meetings and their
fathers so absorbed in the mad scramble
for the wherewithal with which to paw
their wives ways through clubdom, who
else was there to see that the children
should be reared as children should, and
kept young anu fresh ands sweet and whole
some? 1t makes one sick at heart to con-
template what the childhood of the next
generation will come to if things continue
as they are. I have no sympathy with
women of this stripe, and all can add is,
God help their children"
That the speaker was terribly In ear
nest and that he felt every word he
uttered was reflected in his fine, rugged
face. HitchinE his chair closer to his
and facing the broad, open
fireplace on which big logs of hickory
merrily glowed and cracked, he relighted
the cigar he had allowed to 60 out during
his arraignment of the worldly suffragist-
After long pause he began to speak
Of what Christmas had meant to him; Of
how the memories of home during the
Christmas season had chung to him
through his long life and of how that
life had been made sweeter and more
blessed through that memory. And his
thoughts turned back, even as he spoke,
to that dear old homestead in Baltimore
the very house his pen had immortalized
as the residence of RichaF2 and his son,
Oliver Horne.
IF Christmas is to be our theme,
said Mr.. Smith, 81 want to tell you about
the first Christmas that can remember
[ think cannot have been more than
i've years old at the time. Ny sister and
I slept in little trundle bed at the side
IF that of our parents. When we were
put to bed BY our old black nanny on
he night Of Christmas Eve we had been
told that If we opened our eyes before
morning old Kris Kringle wouldn't for
Siye US; neither would he nor his nngic
lied visit our rooftop that night. It
llmost makes my head ache now to think !
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BY A GRADUATE NURSE.

meagre childhood and fancied what such
Il glorious afternoon would have meant to
me, but the child appeared even more list
less than usual. Feeling rather anxious,
took her temperature, gave her some
stimulating nourisbment and asked her to
get into my lap while read to he.
Dorothy had the beautiful old-young man.
ners in which the little children of the
rich are drilled, and always treated me
with careful consideration and politeness,
regardless of her own wishes. Obediently
she Climbed into my lap, put her head
aGainSt my shoulder, and began TO read
aIoud a wonderful Christmas tale. We
are all of US children at Christmas and I
found enjoyment in the story. Dorothy
was very quiet, and as I turned a page
l looked down to see If she had fallen
asleep. To my CONSERVATION, the wide
blue eyes were brimming with tears. fast
overhowing and running down the childs
white cheeks. As dropped the book
and clasped her closely in my arms che
gave way to convulsive sobs.
Mr.. Singleton came in, The opening ot
the door reused Dorothy, and, seeing her
father, she stretched eager arms to him
and cried out - --'
Father, dear, don't want tree.
just want mother for Christmas"
1 placed the child in her fathers arms
and left the room An hour passed and
then Mr.. Singleton raped on my door.
He told me the story.
Mrs. Singleton was not dead, as had
supposed; she was in Paris, and if the
Of which he told me was caused
by fault Of hers be did not so much as hint
at it He told me that Dorothy's mother
was very young, beautiful, gay and 81
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Mr.. Smiths study. or ibra1-den ne
calls it's simply cluttered with exqui-
site gems of art, whether they be in the
form of furniture. bric-a-brac, or the
many canyases that cover every square
inch of walf>space. The room, withaI
was primarily designed for comfort. 1t
is sanctum in which any writer could
find inspiration. There is not an article
in it around which there is not some in
teresting bit of history or romance. The
walls. shelves. cabinets and bookcases all
reflect the tastes of the owner. At first
glance a visitor would be at a loss to
determine whether or not his hosts life
work is that of the author. artist or en-
Gineer. Those gems most precious to one
in either of these chosen professions are
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spoiled child; that only when 1t was toe
late had he realized she must not be tied
to the domestic life which be preferred
Dorothy had always idolized her mother
and now he was afraid chat she was
Tieving her heart out
Mr.. Singleton cabled at once TO Paris.
There would just be time for Mrs. Sim
gleton to reach New York for Christmas.
Christmas Eve came and still no word,
and though Mr.. Singleton's face looked
thin and strained he started out with
Dorothy at noon, telling her they wero
going to have a grand and glorious time
that afternoon.
was left TO attend TO the last details
of the tree that stood in glittering brav-
cry in the centre of the sitting room.
There was a lot 10 do, and l was bustling
around when the door few open and a
radiant young woman rushed in, call
ing
Dan! Dorothy"
Stopping quickly. her look arrested by
my uniform, she exclaimed:-"H "He-she-
oh. who is inT' She faltered, going
white.
My smiling reinsurance that all was
well brought forth thousand Questions,
and we both talked at once as helped
her of with her wraps. She cried in my
arms and kissed me with fervor when
told her Of how Dorothy had begged for
her, and then she bubbled over and we
had a gay afternoon finishing the tree.
Mrs. Singleton was on the stepladder
laughing down at me when Dorothy and
her father came in. The laugh died on
her lips, but caught his glorifed look
and heard Dorothy's glad cry. Then
crept silently from the room, feeling the
loneliness of spinsterhood as had never
thought to do.
But / was not left 10 dwell upon the
reasonable thought Of how inadequate
a profession is to comfort one who longs
for that bone and sinew. Of woman's
life-the role of wife and mother Ny
door opened softly, Mrs. Singleton's
arms were around me and she drew
me back and made 5ns one Of the re-
united family.
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in reverence and where on Christmas
night the blazing Yule log consumes in
its cheerful flames all of the bitterness
and unkind thoughts and meanness, leav-
ing behind only the joy and loving kind
ness inculcated by Him who on that
Christmas morning centuries ago was
in manger gently laid"
Christmas is meaningless outside Of
the homo, Mr.. Smith holds. 1t is only in
the presence Of the mother and her chill
dren that the man of to-day can realize
the benediCtion that came upon the world
when to the shepherds who watched
their focks by night" came the glorious
tidings that Mary of Bethlehem had
given birth to that child who was to be
the redeemer of the world.
Decadent is the Christmas spirit of
To-day. thinks Mr. Smith. who has writ
ten so feelingly and well of the holiest
season of the year.
When / was a little fellow and even
when you were a boy, our mothers chief
joy was in her home" he said. "All her
love and fondest hopes centred in her
children. Everything beautiful in life
was conjured up before our unframed
but highly impreSsionable minds. There
is no story in the world so beautiful as
that which deals with tie birth of Christ.
In every civilized country in the world
that story has been told and retold. Beau
tifuI legends have sprung up around the
child in the manger. some far more poetic
than others, perhaps, but that depends
entirely upon the nationality of those
who conceived them. These exquisite bits
of sentiment have been exchanged byI
the Old World and New World and the
best and sweetest of them were perused
and studied by our mothers, who in
turn told them to us in their own sweet
way.
Where our needs, comforts and pleas
ures were at stake nothing on earth could
have called our mothers from their chill
Gren's nurseries. That came first of all,
Aad what tune she could spare from her
t-stle ones was devoted to her husband
and her friends.
But as look about me now ] see
sad change. The worldly woman of to-
day, if she is so unfortunate as to be
mother, has so many other duties that
come before her children that she has
little or no time to be worried by them.
II she thinks her little ones would be
quieted by Christmas story she tele-
phones. or has her nursery governess tele-
phone to the book store she patronizes to
send up something that might interest the
children. Then the governessN ia told to
-SEe the babies, but, above all, to keep
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attributes of Suf,aa

them quiet, as she, their mother, has an
important paper to prepare which she is
to read before her club, and under no cir
cumstance must her train of thought be
interrupted.
This suffrage movement that is sweep
ing over the country is the curse of the
age. 1t is destroying the home and mother
hood. As these women concentrate all
their time, thoughts and energies on mat
bers with which only men should deal they
sacrifice all that life holds dear Can you
picture a woman of this kind snatching
the time from her many clubs to spend
morning in her nursery with her children :?
Could such a mother descend to such an
apparently useless task as to gather her
little ones about her and recite to them
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l gave her, as though she herself had not
purchased them.
"And then came the visitors, troops of
them, all relatives, of course fer among
gentlefolk it was the day of days to
be spent in its entirety in the very bosom
Of ones family.
The day was given up to us children.
OF course the house was decorated from
cellar to garret with holly. mis:letoe and
other Christmas greens. so that you not
only knew it was Christmas but felt it
as we'll All about us fairly radiatcd the
Christmas spirit, typifying those beauti-
full lines. Peace on earth. good will
toward mem
Naturally the greater part of the day
was devoted TO the tree and to the many
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some utterly absurd and highly improbabl
fairy tale: Could a woman who pores
over civics, political economy and other
brain feeding topics 50 far forget herself
as to read to her tots the nonsensical
jingles to be found in Mother Goose: That
would be a waste of time to her mind, and
yet the children she has brought into the
world are literally starving for love and
childhood simplicity. They have no child
hood. They are jumped from the cradle
to worldly wise and precocious boyhood
and girlhoOd. They are as well versed in
the little amenities Of polite society at
the age of ten as their parents They
know all the scandals in the set in which
their parents move and they can tell you
exactly who Mrs. So and So was even
prior to the first of her three divorces.
That's the childhood Of to-day.
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how tightly L kept my eyes shut until
dropped off to sleep.
But day finally dawned and l was
awakened by a silent figure moving
noiselessly about the room. At first |
was afraid to peep. If it had been Santa
Claus and l had caught him in the act
of filling our stockings l fully realized
that the jolly old gentleman would have
been sorely ve1ed. in which event there
would have been no Christmas for me.
But my fears were quickly quieted for
soon flames began to crackle on the great
open fireplace and then I knew that the
invader of our chamber was none other
than old black Malachi. the butler. whose
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MarSter: Christmas gif'. Missy, and you,
too, Little Mistiss,' as he spied my little
sister just crawling from our trundle bed.
And then followed a rush to the living
room below, where stood the majestic
Christmas tree Will ever forget that
most wonderful of ftteS?
"Ah, the joy and beauty of that day.
How vividly it all comes back to me now.
The wonderful toys that fell to my lot;
the stacks upon stacks Of good things to
eat; the pride we took in presenting our
individual presents-those that Santa
Claus hadn't brought-to each member of
the household; how surprised my mother
was at the presents my little sister and
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first duty every winter morIing was to
lay the fire on our chamber hearth.
AS the flames leaped higher and
lighted up the room-for it was barely
dawn could see the great stockings
hanging at the fireplace. There was a
stocking for every member of that house
hold from my father down to the hum
blest servant. Then the joy of it all burst
upon me. AS | sprang from my bed to
rush to the fireplace to inspect the con-
tents of my stocking old Malachi caught
me in his arms, exclaiming, Christmas
gif', little marster" and then turning to
the bed of my parents, he repeated, but
in more respectful tones, Christmas gif',
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preservation of the Christmas spirit as it
was known to t5e children Of generation
ago.
No one in our time or country has writ
ten more genially or with clearer under
standing of what Christmas means than
Mr.. Smith. for he is blessed with mem
ories of the Christmas season in the
South, where ancient customs are held