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bed. Of course, we don't know
anything about it, but-oh, well,
the missus reads this sometimes,
We'd rather see the profits of
the department stores. cut a little
than the pay of our fremen and
coppers,cut 20 per cent. Firemen
and cops don't get so doggone
much anyhow-except a lot Of
blame that belongs to the higher
ups.
It's high time the business men
who paid Teddy Webb & Co. to
steal autos were on the inside
looking out. They'rewors than
bandits.
In view of the rapid gains Cum
nea is making and the big losses
to Hoyne in the states attorney
recount, we are somewhat trou-
bled about how to refer to Hoyne.
Should we say Maybe-State's-
Attorney. Hoyne2 Or Maclay
Hoyne, .who-is-in-thezstate'
torney's office by-grace-of-cer-
tain politicians who -aoted-as-
clerks and judges of-election-
Nov.-5-last?
Meantime it doesn't seem to us
that Hoyne is in a good position
from which to demand the re-
moval of a judge-even Judge
Cooper.
The Elizabeth Cady Stanton
guild demands to know by what
right Taft in a recent message re-
ferred to this as a Christian ma
ton.
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Lewis also mentioned in his let
ter that if one J. Ham Lewis were
cheated out of a senatorship by
an ungrateful and purbIind legis-
1ature, !. Ham would be in favor.
of accepting an anbassadorship.
at the hands of Wilson.
1t is well that Lewis, the politi-
cal correspondent, mentioned this
inclination of Lewis, the politi-
clan, in view of the present situa-.
ton at Springfield.
The situation at Springfield, by
the way, is highly interesting.
Our honorable legislators are.
amusing themselves in a game of
political ring-around-the-rosy
with an occasional button-but-
ton-who's- got-the-button thrown
in for good measure.
Death Turks in Shoe Lace" -
Head in Tribune. Our idea of
zero in lurking places.
We are sorry to know that the
railroads have selected a differ
ent site for their station than the
city selected for them. It will
so upset the plans of'the city.
We hereby give notice that no
record of robins being seen will
be reported in this paper from
now on.
Some one told our landlord
yesterday that he had seen a
robin, and the steam heat was
shut off within half an hour.
DR.. Maude E. Dunn advises
women to put on their corsets in
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-01-04
THOMAS CARLYLE ON WAE
Great Scotch Philosopher INDUCED In
Some Severe Structures as to Its
Effect and Necessity.

What. speaking in quite unofficial
language, is the net purport and up
shot of war? There dwell and toll
in the British village of Drumrudge
usually some 500 soils. From these
there are successfully selected, during
the French war. say thirty able-bodied
men; Dumrudge, at her own expense.
has sucked and nursed them; she
has, not without difficulty and sorrow,
fed them up to manhood and even
trained them to crafts, so that one can
weave, another build. another ham
mer, and the weakest can stand under
thirty stone avoirdupois. Neverthe-
LESS. amid much weeping and swear.
ing, they are selected. all dressed in
red, and shipped away at the public
charge some two thousand miles, or
say only to the south OF Spain, and
fed there till wanted. And new to
that same spot are some thirty SINH
lar French artisans, from a French
Drumrudge, in like manner vending;
till at length. after infinite effort, the
two parties come into actual juxtapo-
sition; and Thirty stands facing Thir-
ty, each with a gun in his hands.
Straightway the word "Fire!" is CIV
en-; and they blow the souls out OF
one another; and in place Of sixty
brisk, useful craftsmen the world has
sixty carcasses, which it must bury
and anew shed tears for. Had these
men any quarrel? Busy as the devil
is, not the smallest! They lived far
enough apart: were the entirest
strangers; nay, in SO wide universe.
there was even. unconsciousiy. by
commerce. some mutual helpfulness
between them. How then? Simple
ton! their governors had fallen out;
and, instead of shooting one another,
had the cunning to make those poor
blockheads shoot!-Thomas Carlyle.
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Christian customs adhered to by the Austrian
German peasant can be traced back to heathen-
ish Germanen rites, some dispute the use OF a
tree at the Jul festivities; nevertheless it is GER
tain that in Sweden needle pines and frs were
set up at this time before the houses. Teutzei
of Saxony an antiquarian authority on these
subjects says: THE ancient heather sat before
their houses between two crossed pine trees and
ate and drank at the turn of the year. for nine
teen days"
The Christmas tree was introduced into Aus
tria some eighty years ago by Duchess OF
Wurtemberg and spread throughout Germany.
About 1910 it is supposed to have taken fresh
root in England. and became highly popular.
Both Thackeray and Dickens seized hold OF the
idea of happiness begot of Christmas gatherings
and the Christmas tree and Charles Dickens In
1850 used The Christmas Tree" as title Tor
one of his annual stories.
Although Christmas was not celebrated In the
first centuries of the Christian era, there are
indications in the records of early Roman his
tory of the setting up Of a decorated tree at
Christmas time and the presentation of gifts OF
fruit and toys. The Romans are supposed to
have taken the idea from the early Egyptians
Centuries DID, the customs of Christmas OBJ
servance have taken myriad forms in the various
countries of the world. In many cases they per-
petuate some ancient custom which long ante
dates the advent of Christianity. Such are the
customs which have grown up around the mis-
tletoe worshiped by the ancient Druids OF Brit
ain as sacred and magical plant. An old Eng
lsh writer speaking Of the Druids' celebration of
the winter solstice. Christmas. says:
This was the most respectable festival OF
cur Druids, called Yuletide: when the mistletoe.
which they called all-heal, was carried In their
hands and laid on their affairs an emblem of
the salutiferous advent of Messiah. This mistle
toe they cut of the trees with their upright
hatchets of brass, called celts, put upon ends of
their stats. which they carried in their hands
Innumerable are these instruments found all
over the British isles. The custom is still pre-
served. and lately at York the eve of Christ
mas day they carry mistietoe to the high altar
of the cathedral, and proclaim public and uni
versal liberty pardon and freedom to all sorts
of inferior and even wicked people, at the gates
of the city, towards their four quarters OF
heaven"
The lore of the strange plant is prominently
In evidence in the Voluspa and other Scandina-
Wan Sagas. 1t was with a mistletoe branch-or
an arrow prepared therefrom-tElat the blind
and heavyheaded deity Holder Amer his deadly
blow at Balder, the god Of light or benevolent
principle of northern mythology. The inspira-
ton of the Of the mistletoe was of course due
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not given definite promise to Freya to prove
harmless II used against the person OF her son
Bladder Thus Scandinavian mythical lore &C
counts for the death of the latter And accord
ingly a traditional idea of the poisonous proper
ties of the mistletoe is found to persist in re-
mote regions of the north and west of Europe,
even to the present day. In Great Britain Tin
the Forest of Dean) 1t has been used down to
recent date as popular remedy in the treatment
of cardiac troubles. Like the strophanthus of
African arrow poison fame It proved reliable
substitute for digitalis.
kissing under the mistletoe Is ell that now re
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Ditchheld in his 'Old English Customs, says
that the Christmas tree was first imported into
England by some German merchants who lived
ut Manchester in the first years of the nineteenth
century.
In 1900 : writer on folklore said: Although
we are accustomed to consider Germany the
home of the Christmas tree. it has not been gen.
eraI there for more than couple OF centuries
Old people are still living whose parents never
saw one in Germany The decoration Of houses
with olive leaves and green branches. as in Eng
land at Christmas, Is a far more ancient custom,
and can be noticed in Botticelli's picture Of The
Alteration of the Shepherds" In the National Gal
lery in London. 1t is as Fritz Ortwein observes,
q distinct remnant of an ancient heather custom,
as at the turn of the year during the twelve
DAYS of the Jul festival In honor of Wooden, green
cry could be fetched by all from the woods
without punishment, and every hall was deco
rated with green leaves and branches.
Again in old works English customs we
find many references to the decorating OF the
interior of the dwellings. as well as the pious
adornment of the churches with greenery and
the introduction of Ar tree as symbolical OF
the palm In the halls of the barons and the
squires and In the gigantic kitchens of the
farmers fir tree ever held prominent place
but whether ordinarily decorated or not is not
specifically recorded Here we are in doubt
In all probability the remaining fruits OF the
orchards of the year were hung upon the
branches as a Precipitation to the gods of the
fruits of the earth to insure good harvests
Going abroad get fuller knowledge of these
things. The custom of carrying away branches
and trees from the woods at Christmas time In
various parts of Austria became so extensive on
account of the superstitions OF the peasantry
that at Salzburg. in 1755. and at Nuremberg. in
176s, severe bylaws were issued against persons
purloining from the forests. In some regions OF
Hungary a solemn procession with decorated
tree takes place through each village before the
shepheld play bee1ns 1T is adorned with rib
hons and fruit, and is supposed to symbolzs
the tree Of knowledge. Although most Of the
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TO BEAUTY PARIS
Project Outlines Reforms Esti1
mated 10 Cost S49, O00, 900.
Ten Million sto Be Spent for Enlarg1
ing and improving Water Supply,
100000 in Precautions
Against Consumption.

Paris.-"To live is the first neces7
sity, and for such city as Paris to-
live is to develop. and beautify it,
SELF" were the words used by the
project of the Seine, NJ Delaney. I'M
calling on the Paris municipal'council
recently to sanction further loan to-
enable the authorities to spend anoth-
er s4s,000,000 on the city's needs
The largest part Of this amount VIII
when borrowed. be applied to realise
the colossal scheme of hygiene ana
anti-tuberculosis reforms on which,
Project Delaney has been engaged
for some time.
In connection with this scheme 1t Is
proposed to spend $10.000,0o0 for en-
larging and improving the water sup
ply. $2,000,000 in precautions against
the consumption scourge already
spent. over "a 1000, 900 for keeping the
roadways cleaner and In q better
state of repair, 100000 for rebuild
ing and enlarging the slaughter
houses, and $1.O00.O0O for improves
ments in public hospitals.
In addition to this program, no less
than $24,000,O00 win be applied to
opening new streets and widening ex-
isting ones. to solve the traffic prob
lem. which is still the gravest before
the city authorities: $2,400,000 for
schoolhouses; $4,000. 900 for municipal
buildings, and 100000 for walks and
paintings.
These operations. it is thought
form a minimum necessary to keep
Paris in q condition worthy of us POI
sition among the capitals OF the world.
1t is also purposed to appropriate and
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In the early days Of the republic
the electors were chosen by the legis-
latures of the different states and
voted without any formal instructions
for two persons, the person receiving
the highest number Of votes becoming
president and the next highest vice
president. At the first election. IN
1889, there were ten states voting and
50 electoral votes. George Washing
ton received all the electoral votes. 81,
and John Adams of Massachusetts re
ceived "a votes; John Gay of New
York, 9; John Rutledge Of South Caro-
lima, 6; John Hancock Of Massachu-
sets, a: Samuel Huntington OF Con-
necticut, 2; George Clinton Of New
York. 8; John Milton of Georgia. 2;
James Armstrong of Georgia. 1; Ben
iamin Lincoln of Massachusetts, 1.
So Washington became president ana
Adams vice-president- This practice
continued several years.
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couRTED AS INvALIDs; WED
Greenwich Girl and Auburn Youth
Restored to Health Eiope IN
Auto; Forgiven.

Greenwich. Conn. Miss Gladys Lin
stedt, daughter of DR.. and Mrs. VIII
liam e. Linstedt, has returned to her
home from a trip to New York. She
was bubbling over with pleasure.
What do you Think? she asked
"while was in town / met Win.
and I've invited him to come here to-
morrow
The subject Of the outburst is Win
throp C. Beardsley Of Auburn, N. T.
He is twenty-one, and 80 Ii Miss Lin
stedt. They met in Saratoga last
winter. He was suffering from pneu-
monia. and she from another sort OF
lung trouble. Both are now in the
best Of health
Beardsley, soon after his arrival at
the Lindstedt home, suggested that
he and the young woman go for .
stroll. Her brother offered his auto
This was accepted. and the couple
drove on
They returned about one o'clock In
the afternoon. DIR. and Mrs. Gnstedt
were at home together, and, leading
Beardsley up to them, the girl said:
Il am pleased to be able TO present
to you my husband"
The parents almost tainted.
"Now l know why you made that
| trip to New York." said Mrs. Linstedt-
1T wasn't an accident"
The parents decided that there was
no occasion to become angry, so they
blessed the couple and hustled them
on on their honeymoon
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mains of once horrible Druid rite.
The ceremonies which the mistle-
toe figured in among the ancient
Druids always accorded it place
Of honor. The myths that chung
around it in their wondering. puz-
cling minds were many more than
the few that have come to us in
these later years. But, old as they
are. those hoary, heather myths
lack the true flavor of antiquity
when it comes to measuring tradi-
tons by the centuries.
Oh, we do not by any means owe
our mistletoe to the Druids. We
can go back SO much further for the
first adventures of the mistletoe
that the Druids become merely
modern innovators. 1t was one OF
the noblest of the trees in Paradise,
the lordly tree of good and evil;
and on it's twig hung the apple
which Mother Eve plucked with
such disastrous consequences. Alas
for Mother Eve and Father Adam!
And alas for us, their punished
heirs-at-law divine! But alas, too.
for the wicked, handsome, tempting
tree of knowledge which put human
ity in such graceless plight. Upon
it's lofty crown, its massive trunk,
its delicious fruit, descended the
universal curse. 1t shriveled away
from the Mortified earth; it dwin'
died to the meanest smallness; II
was cast out into the bitter cold;
it became a parasite and beggar
existing by the bounty Of vulgar
neighbors. Only In the peariy
translucence Of its shrunken fruit
the most trivial of berries, did Il
preserve some semblance OF 1T
once radiant splendor.
And it has preserved some OF 1T
pristine virtues. too, in traditiona
l.
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to the oppos-
ing principle
of darkness
or evil. The
pla mt which
furnished the
deadly dart
grew on the
slope of As
gard. and was
the sole agent
X n o W n to
gods or men
a m o n g pol
eonous plants
uhich ha Il
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Another Ensmy Of the Fly.

The ny has an effective enemy other
than the hand that Yields the swatter.
This IL the parasitic fungus known
a. the Empusa muscae. This fungus
Is q deadly enemy Of the house n.y.
and it must destroy myriads Of these
pernicious insects, especially in the
fan. The flies may often be seen IN
: dead or dying condition on walls,
ceilings and window panes, surround
ed by a quantity Of white powder
1. e., the spores Of the fungus which
have fallen from the insects body.
These spores are capable OF injecting
other flies which may come In con-
tact with them. Whether the Mes
actually eat the spores, or merely get
them attached to their bodies, appar-
emily Is not known
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all over Germany. Three
trees in great pots were put
on a long table covered with
linen; each tree was illumi-
mated with three circular
tiers of colored wax candles
blue, green, red and white.
Before each was displayed a
quantity of toys. gloves,
handkerchiefs. workboxes.
books and various articles,
presents made to the owner
of the tree" This princess
was a Russian. and in her
later days lived mostly In
Paris. Then again Prof.
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Recent investigations into the
hours of work BY onicials OF the
French department of navigation
have brought to light record In gov
eminent employment in the shape of
an oficial whose daily hours of
duty amount to exactly two minutes
This man dwelIs at place on the Bel
gian frontier. ard his arduous labors
consist in fetching from one ofice q
list of the number o. barges that have
entered French territory the previous
"a hours and handing the said List 10
1t another ofics. II the position be =
sinecure. the pay Is not high. the re-
Enumeration amounting to $1.4o .
month
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fruition still carry with them
the tenderest Of Christian
faiths, as they carry, too. the
story of humanity's most far
reaching disaster. 1t Is one
of the Christmas greens
which has the warrant OF re-
ligious associations dating
back to the very beginnings
of mans creation, even as 1t
is accorded the sublime
honor of typifying the ances-
trail origins of the Redeemer
Of Man himself.
But what about the mistle-
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Christian lore, as II it we're still neogeo ABOUT
with a yestige of the glory that arrayed 1t In
Paradise. :,
Time was. and time is now, when epilepsy Is
one of the scourges of mankind; only now we
1ook for its cure. as we look for its cause, IN
quite natural means and conditions. The notion
that some poor devil with the falling sickness
has been cursed from on high Is held scarcely
compatible, in popular science, with the prmci-
nles of eternal justice or with cold observation
OF cause and effect
But in times that were in Wales, when an
epileptic developed the symptoms characteristic
of the disorder, 1t was commonly believed that
he was being scourged with the rod OF Christ
and that was the name by which the disease
went. although 1t had another designation as
well-St Valentines sickness. The cure TOT II
was believed to lie in the Rod Of Jesse. The use
OF the mistletoe as the Rod OF Jesse In epilepsy
was general and, If faith can work wonders. per
haps the miracle of cure did sometimes attend
its employment.
Perhaps it didn't. II hard-headed science
choose to take shy at that gracious addition to
the list of miracle-working agents But whether
it did or didn't the mistletoes rare birth anc
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Ho invented the

10 invented the
Christmas tree?
Whence does it
come? 1t is a
C curious fact
that most of the
old chroniclers
have thrown a
veil of mystery
a r gu nd t b e
Christmas tree
ana make no al
tempt to ex-
plain its origin.
1t has been
stated that the
tree came to US
from E CIV Mt.
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Yggdrasils branches bear gifts for men to take"
Is that our Christmas tree? Anyhow the idea
that Prince Albert introduced it into Great Brit
ain is very prevalent. One of the prettiest and
most eagerly looked for events of the Christmas
tide-that of the setting up of the Christmas
tree-is associated with the late Empress Fred
erick of Germany Queen Victoria, after the
birth of the princess royal had Christmas cele-
brated at Windsor in 1910. and ION that occasion
Prince Albert introduced the pretty German
tom of decorating Christmas tree. Since that
period it has become welcome custom for both
rich and poor. and affords graceful means Of
distributing little presents 1t probably
first imported into Germany with the conquering
legions of Drusus and is alluded to by Virgil in
the Georgia"
1t will be seen by this that the generally ac-
cepted notion is that Prince Albert was respon-
sible for the British adoption of the pleasing
tree and all that it means. symbocal and prac
tical, to the youngsters But on the threshold
of this acceptation met with this state
ment from the "Greville Memoirs under date
Dec. 81. 1929. when Queen Victoria yet but
ten years old. "On Christmas day the Princess
Leven got up a little fete, such as is customary
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HIM. To tell the truth. II we want 10 De con-
sistently CHRISTIAN in our Christmas greens ana
the purposes to which they should be put, tnere
isn't anything about it, at least OF any recoros
which such careful investigators as Alfred z. r.
RAYMOND bowling have dug up while studying
the general subject None will deny that the
most consistent Christians have taken to the
mistletoe kiss with abundant enthusiasm and
faith in its excellent results that has never been
surpassed. But that doesn't make the mistletoe
kiss any more Christian than 1t ever was,
Isn't the excellent story of foolish Mother Eve
and the original mistletoe apple enough for any
reasonable Christmas decorator who wants TO
iustifv its employment? And II 1t isn't haven't
we the legend of the Rod Of Jesse to make 1t
distinctly one of the Christmas greensg As Tor
the kisses that are supposed to go with it-weii,
IL YOU insist on knowing about them. you'll
simply have to take the consequences, same
as Eve did when she insisted on tasting OF
that COMPOUNDED tree Of knowledge.
The mistletoe kiss seems not to be Chris
tan at all Druidical, probably, and therefore
heathenish and therefore very, very wrong.
So all young men who encounter II, artfuiiy
4 suspended where pair of ripe, red lips must
pass. do you piously refrain or, more piously'
| tear down the hoary old temptation and nee
n the accursed roof as IL 1t were the house OF
I Aria Marcella and you were not Gautier's
Young Frenchman. And you. maidens, give
leave to no pagan rites; remember the fate OF
vour poor Grandmother Eve and beware lest
the fruit of the mstletoe, accused tree Of
knowledge. prove now more bitter In the mouth
than ii did in Eden
But IL you have ivy, wreathe 1t generously, FOL
the French know 1t as the herb OF st. John, the
disciple whom the Savior loved. the emblem o.
purs friendship, the vine that heeds not decay
and death of its beloved but clings ever more
closely as the fall impends and bears up its fail
ing ally against all adversely Learned STUDENT
of these legends have surmised, too. that 1t ma.
be the herb of St John the Baptist, who 10 usual
" pictured a. the boy in HIS camelshair coaa
gazing at his cousin. the infant Jesus.
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Bars Walls In Paris Are Sometimes
Hsautifsd BY the Erection Of Foun-
tains.

pull down large ntlnber Of unhealth-
full dwellings and build In their places
hygienic one, in the course of the
works contemplated.
The money, which viii be borrowed
for the purpose, will be the second
instaIlment Of the great loan Of $1Ss-
100000 which the city Of Paris was
authorized by parliament last year to
make.