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The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-13
10000 UNDER CIVIL SERVICE.
Only Skilled Workers Come Under
Order Issued BY President.


Washington.-More than 10000
skilled workers in the navy yards
throughout the United States were
placed undor the protection of civil
service by executive order of Presi-
dent Taft. The Presidents order was
issued with tho approval of the civil
service commission and In accordance
with an opinion by Attorney General
Wickersham.
No navy yard employees below the
grade Of skilled mechanics will be af-
fected by President Taft's order. A re-
cent conference of navy yard com.
mandants recommended that the men
be placed in the classified service, and
that was approved by Secretary
Meyer.
Toolmakers. electricians, stone cut
ters, machinists, masons, moulders,
ordnance men, plumbers and others
will be affected by this order. Until
eligible lists for the new classifica-
tions can be prepared. new appoint
ments to such positions will be made
in the regular way.
Rules for covering the 10000 men
into the classified service have been
approved by the secretary OF the navy
and President Taft and will be made
known to the navy and commandants
shortly. 1t is said that the order viii
not displace any employees.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-13
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all ready to be lighted. They ready that
when Pantaloon looks out Of his window before
making up his face for the day he that
the candles have burst into nsme-nowers in the
night.
Then Columbine takes out pipe. and she puts
some magic soap into nectar and stirs 1t round
with the bowl of the pipe until frothy suds mp
pear And then she blows bubbles that float up
and out OF the window until they reach the
Christmas tree. when they turn into great. gilt
tering glass balls. all sorts OF colors and show
pictures of the world all colored and shining.
The children in the World look up and think
they see Harlequin and Columbine floating down
as gently feathers. but they don't say SO be-
cause their elders would only tell them It
the clouds. But 1t is Harlequin and Columbine.
and Pantaloon end Clown follow soon after.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-13

but a hole IN tt IN the morning.
And when 1t is dark these four quaint figures
fit through the country. city. town and village
like conspirators. Harlequin tapping doors and
windows with his magic wand open. openi"
he cries to the Spirit of Christmas Let the
rich uncle reward his needy nephew, and the
unforgiying father his repentant Mothers,
forget to be Jealous of your elder daughters
growing beauty. Children, forget your spite and
naughtiness Let's be old-fashioned. Let's be-
lieve in ghosts. I'll tell you ghost-stories stories
of yourselves when you were children and played
Pirates the stairs
And Clown says he taps the doors with
his red-hot poker:
open. open. you old grousers And let the
Spirit of Fun come into this house. Romp a Bit
and lose your twopenny dignity. for pompous
stiffness makes the gods laugh"
Pantaloon taking his turn. taps with his walk
ing-stick. and says:
open. open, and let In the food OF memories
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-13
Greece to Join Allies.

Belgrade.-Grece is on the point
of giving her formal adherence to the
armistice. AS a d!plomatist observed.
Greece has no interest in continuing
hostilities alone for the sake OF the
possession of Janima, for II an inde-
pendent Albania is formed she cannot
hope to obtain the city. and II the
allies are allowed to retain the prov
ince Janima naturally will fall to the
Heliones.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-13
CoiumbIne. Q.

Ooiumpine. rot may Gull and
again to twiddie between his teeth
IL you know the way. and the Cheshire cat will
let you you walk down the garden path. past the
butterfly lime and arrive at the neatest little
cottage in Olympus
Now this is the dwelling place of the Harle-
tAioon. 1t is one cottage in little colony on
the lower slopes of Mount Olympus (where the
high gods dwell: Jupiter and the hke), and IL
most important because it contains the oldest
Inhabitants
The Clerk of the Weather lives a little higher
up The Four Queens and Kings live in a square
of pagoda-like houses and waited upon by the
knavec. Pierrot and Pierrette live In romantic
seciusion by a pool in tumbledown place
ered with blue roses And away behind the
fields of stars where the focks OF clouds Craze.
cesses live. and the Third Son and Ogre, and
Talking Rabbit, and all those peculiar and
beautiful people who entangled in our minds
with the memories of night nurseries. and the
scent of our mothers who bent in won
derful toilettes. and told to go to sleep, or
they'd be late for dinner.
When it gets to be about Christmas there is
a sort of aroma OF excitement on the lower slopes
of Olympus and. especially in the house where
Harlequin lives-a delicious Of something
exciting happening.
Columbine opens the lid of the well that looks
down onto the world and there comes up mur-
muir Of children's voices, and you can hear the
quaintest things being said about the hanging
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-13

stirring up old memories in dull people. that
uncles must remember all their nephews in
membering when they were nephews themselves.
and had peculiar hunger at Christmas.
Columbine is awfully practical Her sentiment
extends from the Joy of watching the making of
baby-clothes to the pleasure of remembering to
put nice soap in the spare rooms 1t is she who
sees that children get the right presents. and
when they don't 1t is not her fault but the fault
of some stupid person in a shop.
1t Is she who suggests the secret delight of
keeping presents hidden at the bottom of the
wardrobe; and it is she who suggests the secret
delight OF peeTing at children when they
asleep.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-13

and friends and hope. and 1 Will be the
warm, nesting thing you covet for your frozen
hearts. and you shall feel my soft check against
yours till the tears come and your heart takes
life again You shall give Joy to other peoples
children And IL you have friends who have
children are there not thousand thousand chill
dren who have no friends? Go to them. and give
them all you can, and you will be rewarded al
most more than you bear for there is a link
between those who suffer. Are there some
you have forgotten neglected? This lonely
cared for. perhaps for years. Put your hat
and your coat, and put your heart your s;seve
SO that all may know your errand."
To see her pleading before black sombre houses
where thin light shines under a blind;
her face pressed against the window of some big
mansion where a man woman sits alone with
hearts like stone; to see her tears she essays
to melt an aching heart is to see something SO
touching and beautiful that one almost wonders
the doors and windows not instantly opened
to admit the spirit of love she begs for pitt
fully.
Look at yourselves, Messeurs ct Mesdames
Importance. and remember the funny little things
you used to be when you bit at coral and bells
and wore bibs, and thought everybody in the
world had enough to eat; when you hated to go
TO bed early and crept downstairs in your night
gowns TO listen over the bannsters to the voices
IN tne dinlng room: when jam for tea was a
traseoy. And when your mothers knee the
throhe OF Justice and mercy for you buried your
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-13
Federal Control of All wireIsas.

Washington.-An extensive system
of government supervision over wire
less telegraphy will become effective
next Friday. four months from the
date of the enactment of the law. San
Francisco and Seattle will be among
the divisional headquarters.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-13

and the chimes will be
very melodiously for you
and for those whom you try
to make happy. And re-
member. you can't feign
Christmas without being
caught as an impostor.
both by your own con-
science and by the feel
ings of those about you.
The very value OF Christ
mas is that 1t puts the gen.
uineness of everybody to an
unerring fest
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-13

There Pagan Saints who find Arcadia every
where. Pan pipes much In the crowded city
Mount Ida when the sun is high. And
Columbne finds roses where the world sees
thorns: and Harlequin finds magic in motor
Buses and Pantaloon digs away for pleasant
memories in the most unlikely places. and finds
them bright and clean. and good as new
These halfgods of mine (and yours) come
down at Christmas to correct the bilious attitude
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-13

makes business: hence the shops full OF gifts
Imagine poet writing:
Gent per cent. the moon is rising.
Watch the stocks upon the bank:
Rubber shares too surprising.
Spectators surmising
Who the deuce they have to thank!"
No ono can get heartbeat out of that, and
whatever your business man says. he knows he
gets all the good in his life out OF heartbeats
SO this Christmas Spirit creeps about the world
Knocked at scorned. but alive yet And you who
feel these things may night this quaint
quartet at work. perhaps for second at the cor
OF your street. perhaps Just vanishing down
the drive moving swiftly down a country
lane And you may say wonderingly: 1T is a
cobweb moth. and the branch OF tree. and
the starlight makes them look like-like some
thing remember"
But i tell you who they are-Harlequn. Colum-
bine Clown and Pantaoon. And II you hear a
childs laugh ring out suddenly. and 1t brings a
new. quick emotion. one of them has conquered
you!
The spirit OF Christmas doesn't cling to presents
in proportion to their cost-unless you are very
rich; and II you very rich the voice of the
jeweler and of the furrier and OF the motor
maker will seem to you wise as the word OF
happy poor man. though he were philosopher
Simple and genuine and glad-strike these notes
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-13

mead there with her hand in your
hair, and forgot to be afraid OF the
dark"
Columbine has her own very par
tucular work, and she calls It in
her mind Secret Delights. She calls
1t that because she delights in max
Ing up odd names for emotions. as.
for instance. when she pointed out
two lovers to me one day in the
spring. who were seated under a
hedge. yellow-flushed with prim-
roses; they were holding hands and
looking at the hills beyond just as
II some wonderful thing was about
to come over the hills to tell them
what their feelings meant. And the
peace was so great and the moment
SO held that the World seemed to
have stopped breathing, and some
thing superhuman to have poured
out a cup of stiffness. And she
called 1t Liquid Velvet. A Liquid
Velvet moment. And / understood.
1t II Columbine who watches that
beautiful comedy Of the newly mar
ried. who steal about their house
iCdl iui vi Wahih6 LILO
very new servants. fearful of creak-
ing the boards as they gaze enrap-
tured on tho very new furniture.
looking with Joy on the very new
pots and pans in the kitchen. turn
ing the electric lights up and down
all over the place to see the effect
In their new bedroom. And he has
a dreadful brooch for her hidden
where he keeps his razors: and she
has knitted him a tie he will have
to wear. But 1t is all perfectly
beautiful.
Someone wrote the other day that
people who read are more interest
ed, nowadays. in business than in
love. and I'm SO sorry for that man.
He Is more blind than l thought
anybody could be. Business may be
the means to an end. but Love is
the beginning and the end. And It
is just at this season that Love
.~z., hapoa tho Shppo ft,It ~ vift~
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-13

son. and there fs flower called CoIumbine and
1t Is SO called because 1t is like four doves with
outspread wings. and the French dove Ia colombo
and the dove is the symbol of the soul So the
world Is never allowed to forget beautiful things
even II the burden Of history is borne on the
back OF flower. And the god-like glow and gilt
ter of Mercury's limbs still shows in the glisten.
ing sequins on Harlequins clothes, parti-colored
as they have always been. to show how he Gov
ered his nakedness with rags
All this. beautifed by the essence of Time like
things put away In cedar chest comes back
when Harlequin blows his pipe that air the
shepherds learnt in Greece from Pan
The next night Clown will take out another
kind of pipe, long churchwarden of white clay.
and NIL II with tobacco, and then the fragrant
clouds roll up into the rafters. memories come
of all the great people of the Harlequinades they
play down in the world, all inspired by them and
they see the figure of Tarlaton who was the first
clown. and invented the very clothes they now
wear hand In hand with Grimaldi, that great
clown. And they seem to see all the great Italian
Farlequins and the dainty French ColumbInes
and the old dandies of ffteenth-century Venice
whose clothes Pantaloon
Do you know that elderly gentlemen IN the
World smell that magic tobacco or something
like it. and they forget their paunches. or their
bald heads. and they sit and dream of the time
they went to their first pantomime? Was It
Cinderella or Beauty and the Beast? Or was
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-13

It that splen did thing
Mother Goose" or that en-
trancing production The
Yellow Dwarf?
Such things are conjured
up by just that one pipe OF
tobacco smoked in the cot
tage on Olympus. ald on
that night a gentle breeze
blows up through the well.
laden with the poignant.
eternal memories of child
hood. and the candles on
the Christmas tree are
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-13

bringing the
t r Q g W ith
N o W their
each to his
Columbine to
to preparing
that m u Q t
this season.
easily as n
in n breeze.
his m a 9 1 C.
things must
tiful n o W,
must buy the
Indies. And
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-13

OF the rest
They C o m 9
. 9 9 d 8 that
ers In the
hearts. They
ence t h a t
give a man
instead of a
the b Ell n &
that the bus
weighs more
timent h a d
up his stock
mas Eve. and
feels like to
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-13
Dies In Hospital From Blow.

Trinidad Esuignel NJ. Pachicio
died at San Rafael hospital as the
indirect result of blow said to have
been struck by Benjamin Chacon, fol-
lowing a quarrel in the redlight dis.
trict.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-13

c h r Is { mas
them.
work begins.
own job and
hers. Clown
the laughter
spring up In
and ripple as
barley field
Harlequin to
or common
appear beau
and a penny
wealth OF the
Pantaloon to
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-13
Grain la MlnneapolIs.

Minneapolis. Wheat. December.
s11sc; May. s57sc; July. s7Ac.
Bran.-ln 1o0-pound sacks, $4,000
1850.
Flour.--First patents. s4.i5G445:
second patents, s4.009425; first
clears. ss.00Q3.30; second clears.
$2.20@2.60.
Flax.-$1.27H.
Barley.--s0@5 sac.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-13

of the year.
to SOW those
grow to flow
still innocent
are the infu-
makes y o u
fifty C e n I 8
quarter. And
W h o 8 a y q
mess of life
than the SEN
better hang
ing on Christ
see what 1t
find nothing
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-13
Price OF Flax.

Duluth. Minn.-Linseed.- lon track,
Sl20%; to arrive. $1.26A: December,
$1.25A; January, si.26N asked; May,
sL31M.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-13
oenver Boy college Class Poet.

Boston.-At Williams College. OIL
yer w. Toll Of Denver. was elected
class poet for the class OF 1918, and
his production viii be one OF the fea-
turos Of clasT day next June
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-13
Corn In CHICAGO.

Chicago.-Corn.-C No. 8 old,
SIC; new. 46hD47c; No. 3 white.
47hG4sc: No. 3 yellow. old. SIC:
new 47H04SAc; No. a old. 52c; new.
45A @4Glsc; No. 4 white. 46@47c: No.
4 yellow. old. SIC: new, 46M47c.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-13
Grain in Kansas CITY.

Kansas City Wheat.-Decem
sohc: May. s57s @S5hc; July. s2Ac.
Corn-December. 46hc; May, 46ss
@46Ac; July. AK G47%c
Oats.--December. 33c: May. $3.50
34%c.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-13

Of the good old times!
Holly and mistletoe and
robins. and church bells
sounding over the snow.
And hampers all packed to
be sent away. and plenty
to eat at home.
And then Colu m b 1 n .
steals up to the windows.
and taps them with the
rose from her hair. and
she whispers:
open. open to me all
YOU who have no chiIdren
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-13

st. .--Wool-Medium grades
combing and clothing. 23h h@26c: light
fine. 19@2lc; heavy fine, l30lsc: tub
washed. 27@36c.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-13

~ N the left. just past
IL U the we q ther hens
nest, and not moro
than two steps from the
box where they keep the
cuckoo. there is the long
bed where roses bloom all
the year round. And they
grow like this SO that
Columbine may always
have one to stick In her
hair. and that odd. mock
ing. soft-hearted cynic Pier
rot may Gull one now and
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-13

up OF stockings. and about SANTA
Claus and the likely width of chin
neys, and the running power of
reindeer. And there Is tremendous
rustic of colored paper. and great
run on almonds and raisins. and
quite respectable citizens stand in
front OF shop windows gazing at
dolls and dolls gaze back at them.
so that the citizens go back forty
years at a rush, and the rush is SO
great sometimes that they get tears
in their eyes; for memory is quick
er than motor cars, and the road 1t
travels is often dark and broken.
So Columbine leaves the top of
the well open all day and all night.
and all the people In her cottage
sleep with their windows open, so
that the sweetly laden air comes up
and gives them wonderful dreams.
1t does more than that. 1t waves
the branches of the Christmas tree
that grows at the bottom of the
garden, near the sausage frames.
and very soon candles begin to bud
on Its branches.
Now when the candles begin to
get ripe. which happens at the same
time that geese and turkeys hang
in rows in shops and grow rosettes
all over them. Harlequin takes an
old. oaken pipe from a cupboard un-
der the stairs. and they all sit round
while he puts 1t to his lips and
blows
As he plays. dreams come to them
of their ancient days. for Harlequin
Is first cousin to Mercury, and wears
black mask to hide the light of
his face when he visits Columbine.
who is Psyche. the Soul; the Clown
is Momus. the Spirit of Laughter;
and Pantaloon is Charon. who has
that grim work of ferrying the souls
over the Styx.
There's an odd link of memories
and of things held all through the
centuries. but the most charming is
this: Columbine is a fiower-like per
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-13
Live Poultry.
Eggs.

Eggs, graded No. net F.
b. Denver ...........30 Q32
Eggs. graded No. net, F..
y. u. Denver -.........24 026
Eggs, case count. are bring
ing from ....7.5OMS.75
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-13
Grain.

Wheat. choice milling. 100 lbs. .1.27
Rye, Colo. bulk. 100 lbs. ....1.05
Nebraska oats. sacked .1.22
Corn chop. sacked ..1.17
Germ, In sack ..1.16
Bran. Colo. per 100 lbs. ........ 80
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-13
Hay.

Hay.
(Prices Paid by Denver Jobbers F. o.
B. Track Denver.)
Colorado upland. per ton. .1s.o0@1s.50
Nebraska upland, per ton 12.00m12.b0
Second bottom. Colorado
and Nebraska. per ton 10000 1880
Timothy, per ton ....... 1900 400
Alfalfa. per ton .......... 9.50010.0
South Park. choice. ton. .12.50@13.00
San Luis Valley. per ton. 1.00@12.0O
Gunnison Valley. per ton. 11.00@12.00
Straw. per ton ........... 1000 4.50
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-13
Lead and speIter.

St. Louis.--Lead.--si.25; spelter.
s7.25@730.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-13
LATE
MAR K EFT
Newspaper Union News Service.
DENVER MARKETS.
Cattle.
q U oTArIo N s

Cattle.
Beef steers. corn fed. good to
choice ............ .s.0oG9.oo
Beef steers. corn fed. fair to
good ............. .7.ooGs.oo
Beef steers. grassers. good to
choice .6.4oG7 90
Beef steers, grassers. fair to
good .e.0oG6.4o
Heifers. prime grassers 80. 5.50H620
Cows and heifers. grasscrs.
good to choice .....-.. 5000 $50
Cows and heifers. grassers.
fair to good .425@5.00
Cows and heifers, corn fed.
good to choice ....... $500 GOO
Cows and heifers. corn fed.
fair to good .5.ooa5.50
Feeding cows 5000 500
Gamers and cutters 2.506D4.00
Veal calves -6009S.5o
Bulls d. .3.75ep4.50
Stays =. .4.0GG5.50
Feeders and stockers. good
to choice .............. .5.oo@7.oo
Feeders and stockers. fair to
good .5.2s@s.oo
Feeders and stockers. COM
mon to fair .......... .45oa5.26
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-13
Butter.
MISCELLANEOUS MARKETS.
Cotton Market.
Wool In St. Louis.

Galveston.-Cotton.-l2%c.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-12-13
Hogs.
Sheep.

GOOD hogs ................'Hs 'Hso@7'7o
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-05-24

There are two yitagraphs on the bill at the Rink Theater to- night.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-05-24
EXCURSION
An Opportunity to See South
 eastern Alaska for S25

The steamer AIki will, sail from ketchikan, tomorrow af- ternoon or evening. for Skag- way. yia Chomley, Dolomi. Wa terfall. Craig. Petersburg. Rake Sitka and HOonah. returning via Juneau and Wrangell. The steamer will remain at Skag- way for several hours. giving the passengers plenty of time 10 see everything of interest at that place. The aIki will pro- bablv not be calling at Skag- way again this season, So do not miss this opportunity. The trip will take at least seven days, for only s25.00-cheaper than staying at home. First class accommodations and ia ble service the best.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-05-24
WHARF COMPANY
 NOW OWNS IT

The ketchikan wharf Com pany has accepted the offer of the Tonga>S Trading company 10 sell the strip of tide land ly- ing between Front Street and inc Wharf Company's property. south Of the strip recently pur- chased by the city. and through to the Hechman wharf property This. after the Wharf Company and the city have settled mat ters. will give the Wharf Com pany the undisputed ownership of everything west of Front street. from the Ryus property to Heckman's wharf. The Cas- person building will be moved probably in July, and Market street opened through full width 10 the wharf.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-05-24
RIVER BOAT ARRIVES

The Hudson Bay companys river steamer. Port Simpson. en route to Wrangell from the Skeena river. made port today. She will ply on the Stikine riy- er this summer. between Wran gell and Telegraph Creek. She is going north earlier than usu- al this year owing to the fact that the building of the railroad out Of Prince Rupert has taken the greater part of the freight carrying on he Skeena away from the steamers. The pt. Simpsons salt water captain is C. Glunas. while c. A Gardner will be in command on the river.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-05-24
A VERY BUSY PLANT

\ visit to te ketchikan can- nery is we'll worth the walk out to that institution. Night and day the machinery is humming along making the 100000 cans necessary to hold the pack Of fish. The old method Of making the cans by hand is re- placed by a machine that is al :. most human in its action, which takes the sheets of tin cut to the right size for a can. and shapes and soldiers the body of the can turning them out already for the machine which puts the bot toms on. The cans are then talk en by belt which sends them flying upstairs as though they had wings. They are then talk en and stacked by hand, the on- ly hand work in all the process. It is easy to talk millions of of anything, but just how many 6 million actually is doesn't oc- cur to a man until he has seen a million cans stacked up eight or ten feet high. fifty or sixty feet long, and tier after tier wide.