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Domino Fortunes,

Darker thereon, burn salt and alco-
hol in bowl in the center table.
around which are spread dominos. Al
low each one in turn to draw FIVE.
The ingenious fortune teller makes up
thrilling tale from the following
Specifications:
6-5 denotes amusement and success
Ga denotes early marriage and much
happiness.
6-3 denotes constancy and affection.
GO denotes orderliness, industry and
economy.
6-l denotes two marriages and riches in
old age
6 blank denotes the death of a near
friend Il
Double denotes good luck in every ven
ture.
ga denotes a marriage with attendant
poverty.
90 denotes ample means and eventual
great wealth.
50 denotes an unfortunate love affair
ST. denotes an Invitation to an enjoyable
affair
blank denotes danger from gambling
or games of chance
Double 4 denotes (brings) luck to lovers.
farmers and laborers
AS denotes neither riches nor poverty.
AZ denotes Il change in circumstances.
Al denotes childlessness, but wealth.
blank denotes fame as a writer.
So denotes extensive travel by land and
sea.
81 denotes caution in all undertakings
blank denotes deceit Of sweetheart.
Double , denotes thrift and moderate
riches
2-l denotes life of luxury and single
blessedness.
2 blank denotes poverty and continual
bad luck.
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GRAND BALL

A masquerade dance will be given
at the Radium hall, Saturday, Dec. 16.
Good music and a good time will be
assured Everybody come. ct
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The Chamois.

The chanois is extremely agile. He
can leap over ravines from sixteen to
eighteen feet wide. A wall fourteen
feet high presents no obstacle to him.
and he passes readily up and down
precipices which almost no other four
footed animal could attempt. He is
said to descend obliquely precipices
Of more than twenty feet that are al
most perpendicular. striking his feet
once or twice against the rock as if
to stay or guide his descent and alight-
ing securely. often on a narrow ridge
of rock, with his hind feet first and
bringing the fore feet almost into con-
tact with them.
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M The best gift you can buy f t2
Christmas fine pair of shoes and
slippers. Different styles and prices.
Buy them at Fred Swanson's. n,
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Kodaks at Farrell's al price that
are from $500 to $4,000 Also all
kinds Of supplies.
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trace Of Christmas bounty and good
will, and he called to the sea, which.
as of old, obeyed his voice, and Been.
the city of sin. was buried deep, clean
out of sight. beneath the waves. But
ever at Christmas up from beneath the
covering waters comes the sweet call.
ing of church bells buried In Been. It
is a legend which appears to tell in
parable that nothing which ever be-
longed to the Christ, and was dedi-
Gated to his service, Is ever wholly lost
from him and alienated from services;
that ever and again something Of their
inherent beauty and compelling sweet
ness rises from the depths through all
seeming ruin.
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(lJbat Christmas 1f1eatt$.

Christmas means hope and
it's realization. The child
grows eagerly expectant as
the time approaches for the
visit of Santa Claus. While
this fiction remains unques.
toned, the imagination
opens new and wider worlds,
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Wild and improbable although such
and such legends appear on their
faces, they bear study and repay it.,
for we then see that they are full Of
subtle spiritual expression, as it were;
that they are parallels of certain spir-
itual facts, and it will be ill for us
should the Christmas day ever dawn
on which such flowers of tender faith
and wonder shall appear to us no
more than dry curious specimens from
the dead roots of superstition
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-12-14

1t is surely dandy stock Of Xmas laf
goods at Holm's this season.
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AaH7ez 0zQngeI

-As&AA~A ANSA>3 NOSA0AS0 sAAsSS
NJ within the stone manager
there was another one
Of wood. and that the stone cradle In
the Chapel Of the Nativity is, indeed.
the outer manger. Splendid is that
humble stone trough now with white
marble, softly rich with costly dra-
peries. and radiant with silver star.
which is surrounded by 16 lamps, ever
ALT. But yet more glorious is the
wooden manger at Rome, held to be
the verltable manger In which the
Christ-child lay. 1t was removed to
Rome in the seventh century, during
the Mohammedan invasion of the Holy
Land, and there it is preserved in q
strong brazen chest, from which 1t Ia
brought forth on Christmas days,
when it is placed on the Grand Altar.
It is mounted upon stand Of silver.
which Is inlaid with gold and gems,
and the shrine in which it rests is Of
purest rock crystal. In the days In
which this was accomplished men.
whatsoever may have been their
shortcomings in other directions, gave
magnificently to the Church Visible.
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A@41istmas Bells:

was tHe HUur OF mIuu18ut,
and legend adds that from then until
dawn cocks crow. In ireland it IL
held that whose looks into a mirror on
this eve will see the devil or Judas
1scariot looking over his shoulder.
surely thought sufficient to drive tho
hardest soul to a thought of the limo.
cent Babe.
Another legend tells that, on Christ
mas eve, Judas Iscariot is released
from that hell-"his own place. and
is allowed to return to earth that he
may cool himself in icy waters.
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h1egE7irsDnaCs71Hstn1Qs Rose.

MOTHER Of those spiritual
parallels is the legend of
the Christmas rose, and it
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@gA}a5R|?q5
1A05P jHTdS

LII around the season Of
the Coming of Love as
q little Child there have
sprung legends and be-
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SYNOPSIS.

Archibald Terhune. popular and In
dolent young bachelor Of London, re
ce.ves news that he has been made neir
to the estate Of his Aunt Georglana, With
an income Of $4,000 year. on condltioaa
within ten days. Failing to do SO the
legacy will go to a third cousin IN Amer
lea. The story opens at Castle WycKon.
where Lord Vincent and his wife. frienas
OF Terhune. are discussing plans 70 nrH
him wife within the prescribed time II
seems that Lady Vincent Is one OF seven
persons named Agatha. all close girlnoon
chuns. She decides to invite two OF tnem
to the castle and have Arcsie s. .hers etr,.as es
Archie as handpainted beauty. Agatha
First Is breezy American GIRL Lazy
Vincent tells her husband that Agatna
Sixth already cares for Archie. ne gains ans
she cares for him. but will require a
months time fully. to make up her mino.
Agatha First. neglected by Terhunei re-
ceives attentions from Leslie Freer. Four
when Terhune Is called to London on
business Agatha First. on the plea OF
sickness. excuses herself from q moeor
trip planned by the yineents; Liter ,tb fhes
ss AGATHA First rps picking WInfsnts n9wsrs discuss
AgatHa's seeming duplicity. The follow.
ing day the party visits the ruins OF an
old convent. Terhune continues ms az.
tent!ons to Agatha sixth. Ihen suuoenS n
First Vincent scores him for his appar-
emit fickleness. The last evening OF the
time allotted in which to become eng geo
arrives. The following day Solicitor Burns
will arrive from London. and the VIM
cents are anxious to consummate the en-
garement. Vincent discovers Agatha
First and a man with his arm around
her waist. Vincent decides that the man
hume and Agatha Firs. are very friendly
at the breakfast table. while, Agatha
Sixth seems somewhat displeased. Solci-
tor Burns arrives. The vincents are
his wife the latter cries In desperation
n"er the puzzling condition Of affairs.
Solicitor Barnes arrives. The Vin"ent,s
are anxious. VIII Terhune report an al
fianced or a free man? Terhune tells
J1rd Vincent that he proposed to Agatha
ca. +h and that she had refused to marry
him.
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She didn't answer. and went down
the corridor and descended the stairs
in considerable OF temper. admit.
by Jove!" said to Terhune. whom
l found waiting anxiously for me at the
foot Of the stairs. "if / were you !
wouldn't waste any more time over
Agatha Sixth! She and my wife are In
league, : should think to prevent you
from inheriting fortune! The girl
cares for you, know. Dearest told me
as much, but they're just contrary
enough, the rair OF them. to wait until
it's too late to get your aunt's property
before they admit 1t to you! Some
Quixotic notion about love for loves
sake only seems to have SO possessed
them that they will not actually be
content until they've forced you to sac
rifice :he property. All women's non
sense. too, say. There's no reason
why you shouldn't have had both! But
since they're so pig-headed about It,
upon my word, I'd outwit them yet. "
were you!" Twas thoroughly excited
and sore, or perhaps | wouldn't have
made this suggestion. II wouldn't let
them cheat me of my rights that way.
This is chance in hundred to make
yourself rich for life! | wouldn't wait
for them. If were you! I'd go ahead
e ask Agatha First before the times
up. She'd have you in moment!"
I'm not go sure" replied Arch,
gazing longingly at his watch. as If to
hold the minutes back by force. His
self-contideDre was terribly shattered,
poor old nap. lzcould see the. 1t
was a e., too! 1t was something
/ wa ays chatting him about. but
for nat, was really fond of the
egoisl. that was so characteristic OF
hin. had always delighted in his
childish vanity.
Come, Terhunen' / said, "be a
man! There's Miss Endicott now Go
and ask her, before it's too late. It's a
shame you should lose both the girl
and the fortune!"
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CHAPTER XII.

hurried round to that part OF the
castle, followed more mechanically
than inquisitively by Terhune. and saw
on the stoop under the port-cochere,
through the wide-open doors, slight
Young fellow of about Arch's build,
with a dark, anxious face. just relin-
gushing a long duster to his chauf-
feur. But even before had perceived
who 1t was, my eyes wandered back
of him and took In the automobile he'd
Just stepped from, with a vague sense
O, having seen it somewhere before.
But its owner surprised me more. for 1t
was Murray Brancepeth-of all people!
What In thunder brought him here?
| wondered. hadn't seen him In a
year of Sundays!
Hello, vincent!" he cried. on see.
Ing us. "And old Terhune, too" And
he caught our hands in large. exuber'
ant grip. Too exuberant. I could see
Terhune thought, for he was frowning,
and must say felt inclined to resent
Brancepeth's familiarity, myself, for
had never known the fellow well. when
he followed his handshake by a great
slap on my shoulder. But by his next
words 1t was explained and excused In
the same moment. as were many other
things that had happened lately.
where's Agatha First? he cried.
Its all right now! Miss Simplin has
e!oped and We can get married"
An enlgmatical speech enough. III
admit, and. of course, l don't mean to
say that 1t alone was the means OF en-,
tightening Terhune and myself as to
the new turn this rather complicated
and stubborn affair of his aunt's prop
erty had taken.
It was only after number of ques'
lions had been asked and answered
that we understood him. When 1t ap
peared that he, Brancepeth. had been
in love with Miss Endicott and she
with him ever since the first Castle
Wyckhoff houseparty. but that there
was an obstacle to their marriage
which prevented their acknowledging
their attachment. which obstacle con
sisted of the inexorable determination
| of Brancepeth's sole relative, 9
wealthy uncle, that he should marry
certain Miss Simplin, an heiress her
self. and a neighbor of his uncle's.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-03-15

Atlanta and requested to be allowed
to take a pauper's oath; but the de-
partment of justice served notice that
it believes Greene and Gaynor have
hundred of thousands of dollars Sc
creted and that it will contest the ac-
ceptance of pauper's oath. The
hearing by Commissioner Colquitt OF
Greene's and Gaynors petition to be
adjudged as paupers was deferred un,
til March 81.
!: In meeting of the Knoxville
(Tenn.) Church Federation DR.. ]. j.
Taylor, pastor of the First Baptist
church, caused sensation by the fol
lowins declaration: The church mas
no right to make man go to church
If he prefers to go to a baseball game,
and it is an individual matter what
a man shall do with his Sundays. Ii
persons play golf or baseball or eat
ice cream, the church has no right
to call policeman and have them
To- I'd up 1t is not the churchs
business.
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General.

Mexicans, officials and private citi.
zens, appear to have accepted the
view that the mobilization of troops
along tae border presages no inva.
sion Of their country.
That Mexico has granted to Japan
no concession for the maintenance
of a naval station and no privileges
on the Tehauntepec railway, are tEe
statements which Enrique C. Greet.
minister OF foreign affairs, authorized
Francisco L. de la Barra, Mexican
ambassador at Washington, to make.
The jury in the case of Beatrice
Anita Baldwin Turnbull, tne 17-year-
old Boston girl seeking a one-sixth
share OF the S11,OOO,OO0 estate OF
Lucky Baldwin, reached a verdict
adverse to the claimant.
In riot between white men and
negroes on a street car at Braddock,
Pa, a suburb of Pittsburg, eleven
men, five women and baby sustained
injuries, number of them serious.
Several shots were fired. The trou-
bic started Wnen TWO negroes were
asked, to step into the car from =
rear platform in order that woman
carrying a baby might board the car.
El TEMPO, newspaper CT Mexico
City, suggests that international war
might follow the intervention of the
United States in Mexico, and ventures
the opinion that the Americans would
find this bad for business"
: Having exhausted every legal re-
source in three-year struggle to es-
cape the penitentiary, Abraham Ruef,
former political boss OF San Fran
cisco, was sent to San Quentin to be.
gin 14.year term for the bribery OF
supervisors during the regime of
Mayor Eugene 2. Schmitz. AS final
concession Ruef was removed froD
Jail to the ferryboat in taxicab.
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--.u lue revenue
,orectcrs 10 watci Tor violations.
Water weighs heavily in a pound OF
.utier, but the law allows IL per cent.
Commissioner Cabell says there is
proof that the law can be obeyed
without difficulty.
Twenty thousand soldiers have
been modified on tie Mexican boun.
dary. 1t was officially announced at
the white house and at the war and
navy departments that the purpose OF
this great mobilizaticn is unprece.
dented, save in war time. The real
significance Of these activities is now
thought to relate very directly to tie
conditions in Mexico, and to the grow.
ing benef that the situation there is
by no means SO satisfactory as the
Mexican government would have it
Lelieved to be.
The ways and means committee Of
the house net and tegan building the
committee structure of the lower
branch Of congress Its operauCns
will mark the beginning of the great.
est committee overhauling the house
has ever experienced in sixteen years.
The chairmen of the most important
committees tall Democrats) probably
will be selected as follows: Appro-
priations, Fitzgerald IN. " OF Bur
Lesson (Tex); agricultural. Lamb
(Va); banking and currency, PuJo
ua); District of Columbia, Johnson
(Ky) or Aiken IS. c.; judiciary.
Clayton (Ala.); military affairs, Sui
ger (N. "; public buildings, shep-
pard (TeED; naval affairs, Padgett
(Tenn); public lands. Robinson
tArkD; invalid pensions, Lindsay IN.
"; interstate commerce, Adamson
(Ga); insular affairs. Jones (Va.)
There were $50 deaths from acute
anterior poliomyelitis, or infantlle pa
ralysis, 1G from pellagra, So from ra-
lies or hydropnobia, and nine from
.eprosy in 1909 in the death registra
ten area of continental United States,
which comprises over 55 per cent. OF
the total population, according to the
census bureaus bulletin on mortality
statistics for 1909. OF the 5G9 deaths
from infantile paralysis, 562 were
white and only II colored. There
was a somewhat greater number OF
cases among males and an increased
mortality in August, September and
October.
The resignation of Richard A. Bal
linger Of Seattle as secretary OF the
interior was accepted by President
Taft, and Walter L. Fisher Of Chica-
go was appointed as his successor.
It appears in the correspondence be-
tween Mr.. Ballinger and the presi-
dent, which was given out in full by
the white house, that the secretary's
resignation has been in the presl-
dents hands since January 19 last.
Walter LOWE Fisher, Mr.. Ballinger's
successor, is a Republican, and has
cen notably active in the movement
or the conservation of national re.
sources.
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CHAPTER xI.-contInued.

she was only trying you" l replied,
taking Dearest's sayso as my authori-
ty for advancing this opinion. "She had
right to 90 that! Every girl does 1t.
in fact!"
"She nearly tried me tco far" he
said dogged,y. But I'm sorry 1t all
happened. and If l had known |
wouldn't have risked my happiness for
the world"
There didn't seem much more that
could say after that, and l gave up
trying.
We'll, anyway. it's deuced shame,
ended. II must go up and see what
my wife thinks about it. Meanwhile
you might be trying to persuade Barnes
over there" smiled at the stiff elderly
gentleman on the hearthrug, ito give
us more time. 1t can't be twenty min
utes to one now, and I'm afraid It
would take more time than that to per-
-s-Al-->artoi, yo,,nr lady tr> nhonrr
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ce are
letter" ("

-..u couched in as formal
phraseology as If he had been address
ing Judge and jury instead of poor old
Arch and myself, he lapsed into medi-
tative silence.
My friend. perceiving that there was
no help to be had in that quarter,
turned imp,oringly to NE. Go up and
see what you can do. Vincent" he
said, there's good chap!"
With all the pleasure in life!" l re.
pied. And l may persuade her to re-
lent, who knows? So cheer up, old
fellow!" And / left them
What is all this about Terhune?"
asked excitedly. bursting into my wife's
room without my usual preliminary
knock, Ind quite forgetting Williams
caution that she did not wish to be
disturbed.
DO you mean to say that she has
really refused the old boy? l thought
you said" But there | stopped, for
there on the floor with her head in
Dearest's lap, was Agatha Sixth, and
I caught a glimpse of a little tear
stained cheek that smote my heart
with a guilty sense that there were
two sides to every question always,
and that something here was very
wrong.
will you be kind enough" began
my wife She had been going to ask
me to leave the room, knew, but 1t
wasn't necessary. Agatha Sixth got
to her feet on sudden and, with
murmur of gratitude to my wife,
slipped past me with averted face and
fed down the corridor to her room. We
heard the door Gang in the distance. ]
looked at Dearest, and Dearest looked
at me.
Its the crue,est thing ever heard
Of" she said, speaking first. "and l
should think you and your worthy
friend would be proud of your work."
Yes, that's just what she said. l never
was so taken aback in my life. Dear
est speaking so to me. Why was to
blame, | wanted to know! And fancy
referring to old Arch. whom Dearest
had vays petted and made even more
Of than l have, as my worthy friend!"
Really, It was amazin'!
But. my dear girl" said, lit isn't
my work, and Terhune's more to be
pitied than to be blamed, as far as !
can see! He's awful unlucky, III ad
nit, but, after all, making love to
Agatha First on the sly isn't hanging
matter. is ito"
Very WELL" said. Don't answer
me if you dent choose, and III go fast
enough. don't care to stay any long
er. But | think you're making great
fuss over nothing, and don't see that
the misfortunes of our friends is ex-
cuse enough for row between us, at
ALL" | said this with much dignity
and went toward the door. Reaching
it, threw a parting shot as l went.
Besides" | said, You know you'll
have to see me pretty soon in spite of
yourself. 1t will be time for luncheon
in a quarter of an hour, and suppose
you intend to come down."
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With rear that was heard for fi-
: miles, glare taat was seen fully
q far, and with a concussion that
roke windows core than hunGTeL
lies away, three carloads OF dJAa
mite at the piaGt of the Du-Pont-Sem-
,,urs company exploded at the village
If Pleasant Prairie, six miles wes'
Of Kenosha, Wis. Nearly every house
II the village, which contains 7OO res
dents, mas been badly damaged and
ome of them utterly demolished. But
one man was killed by the explosion.
With every "freshie S" head shaved,
the first year students OF the Louisia-
ma state university have bene put
through courses of hazing that per-
haps surpasses anything ever pulled
of in Southern college. The upper
classmen decided that they wanted to
bring back the fashion OF round
heads" The freshmen in the bar
racks were corralled and their hair
clipped to the scalp. The freshmen
living in the city were captured on
the streets and deprived of their
The Missouri legislature passed q
bill prohibiting tie shooting OF quail
n Missouri for three years.
Half the farmers living along the
rural free delivery lines of mail out
of Haynesvil.e, Kans., pulled down
their mail boxes and refused to ac-
cept their mail from negro carrier
recently appointed. The farmers an
nounced their Intention Of continuing
to do so until wnite man should
be made carrier.
Ninety persons, many OF whom
were children, were burned to death
and forty others injured in fire tha.
destroyed moving picture theater at
8olosole, Russia. The flames quickly
enveloped the building. cutting off .ev.
cry avenue of escape Futile attempts
at rescue were made by those who
happened to be close to the exits,
Government investigation into alleS-
ed Alaskan coal land frauds involving
approximately 4o,UUO acres OF land
valued at more tnan SoO,O0O,O0O. re-
suited in the issuance of an indict
ment by Federal grand jury, charS
ing seven individuals vita conspir
acy against the United States. The
defendants are w. w. McAlplne, A.
n. Roehm, G. W. Ross, +. u. Anurus
A. L. Holmes and Nc. c. Lebeau. all
of Detroit, and John NJ. BUSINESS ol
Chicago.
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WOULD LIE AWAKE ALL NIGHT
WITH ITCHING ECZEMA

Ever since can remember was
terrible sufferer of eczema and
other irritating skin diseases. would
lie awake all night, and my suffering
was intolerable. A scaly humor set
tied on my back, and being but a
child, 1 naturally scratched it. 1t
was a burning, itching sensation, and
utterly intolerable, in fact, 1t was so
that 1 could not possibly forget about
1t. It did not take long before 1t
spread to my shoulders and arms, and
l was almost covered with a mass OF
raw flesh on account Of my scratching
it. l was in such a condition that my
hands were tied.
"a number Of physicians were call
ed, but it seemed beyond their med
ical power and knowledge to cure
me. Having tried numerous treat
ments without deriving any benefit
from them, had given myself up to
the mercy Of my dreadful malady, but
1 thought rSwould take the Cuticura
treatment as a last resort. Words
cannot express my gratitude tn ~"