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The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1914-12-18
More Letters To Santa
Dear Santa:

Dear Santa:
I am little girl three years old.
I wish you would bring me big
doll that will open and shut its eyes,
and don't forget my little sister Jean
bring her one too, and | want
oranges, apples and candy and l
will be good.
Berna McCulloch.
Dear Santa:
am a little girl six years old,
and l go to school every day, please
bring me q doll carriage and some
other toys. oranges, bananas, apples
nuts and candy and [ will try to b.
good. Beatrice McCulloch
Mentor, Tenn
Dear Santa Claus:
I'm little boy 4 years old, and l
thought / would write and tell you
what to bring me for Christmas
Please bring me a little train with
an engine and some cars can un.
fasten ard fasten back together,
little knife with chain to it, SOM
apples, candy, nuts and some oranges
and please don't forget my baby |
sister bring her some candy.
Ralph Aubrey Love
Mentor, Tenn.
Dear Santa Claus:
Pm little boy q years old and
will write and tell you what / want
you to bring me for Christmas.
Please bring me a little train with
an engine and some cars little toy
watch. some apples, candy banana.
nuts, raisins, and some oranges and
please don't forget my papa and
mamma and little sister, bring them
nice to.
John Houston Love.
Friendsville, Tenn.
Dear Santa:
tn ought l would write you
etter to let you know what | want
'Ou to bring me, please bring me q
little wagon and some candy, oranges
and some fire crackers and :
oman candles and little watch ,
nd knife with a chain on it and
santa 1 haYe got little sister since
'ou was around last Xmas, please
ring her something, bring her a
ably doll and bed for it and bring
ne little wind up train, SO am q
oV. Clyde Miller.
lear Santa Claus
will write and tell YOU what | I
yant for Christmas. l want air +
un, knife, a pair of gloves, some ;,
andy, oranges, bananas and apples y
Your friend,
Fred Hitch.
)ear Santa:
l want you to please bring me !
tile automobile that will iun on .
40 floor and q couche 5 in. long for
10 to lay on. 1 want q horn and q
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Don't fail to see our line of Xmas
Candy before you buy your girl a
box.
George & Mitchell,
Both Stores
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on Worthless
Toys
Don't Waste Your: Money

Wagons Velocipedes Miniature Wag
o
members of the family buy Aluminium Cooking Vessels
Robes
make gifts will
Now good to
Great Majestic The with Repua
Princess
All %
Princess
We a
thank making
volume business
n
We unable fully
favors. able
appreciation of
1915 will
perty and both prosper together
Thanking you again your kind patronage
truly
K. G. McNutt Hardware Co.
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not our fault If the inevitable logic
of progress makes our name synony.
nous with it's own.
Hands off my grove of trees!" says
the duke of Massa in his grave. Dur.
| ing his lifetime he was offered $4,000.
600 for the unique frontage occupied
by these wooded grounds and carved
stone villa, with their monumental
stables, at the corner of the Rue de
la Boetie. NO" he said. las l in.
herited the place from my father, SO
l will keep it. What is money in com.
parison with sitting under my trees
to see Paris ride by?"
Yet the duke was not rich. He had
simply held on out of sentimental rea-
sons while the property went up, up
The day after his death, few months
ago, an insurance company offered the
heirs $2,40O,O0O for it. A week later
a speculative architect offered $780,,
600. Two days after that it was 3d.,
100000, from a London syndicate.
The heirs refused.
Americans Spend Millions.
All, the millions which Americans
spend in Paris! I mean the increas
ing millions. The hotels of the center
remained crowded, and, year after
year, the new palace hotels" each
more so than the other, ran up their
facades in the Champs Elysees and
round the Arc de Triomphe.
Filled by the Americans for whom
they were built, and equally by the
English and French who came with a
rush to enjoy their luxury, spacious
ness and society" tone, the hotels
of the Champs Elysees" became a
commonplace Of Paris.
We imagined that we knew the
! Champs Elysees. We had seen the
great avenue crowded at its hours. II
was the gala parade to the Bots and
the hurrah rush back from the races
1t was residential Paris fastening
home to dinner, or to and from the
theater. But now the afternoon crush
was different Suddenly, every one
of the Champs Elysees. The Champs
on the Champs Elysees. The Champs
Elysees is great commercial street
To sum 1t all up, you have typical
example at the corner of the Rue dc
la Boetie. The past is represented
by one old residential mansion that
| remains, crowded back between the
modern business buildings which stand
Dor the present
OF these, the first. as you look to
ward the Arc de Triomphe, Is the
new building of company Of per
tuners. with their own flower farms
laboratories and retail salesrooms
Beyond them. always looking toward
the Arc de la Triomphe. is new hotel
which veritable palace is not quite
finished. Scaffoldings. in front. still
extend to the second floor. The
architects, consulting with those Of
the Guerlains and the city of Paris
produced a vast harmonious front 70.
the two piles.
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yellow and green, if possible, and
paste them over the openings in the
disk as shown in Fig. 6. Then punch
a one-quarter-inch hole through the
center of the disk, and fasten small
silk-thread spool over the hole for a
hub. To the outer edge of the rim
fasten a common thread spool for a
handle.
For mounting the disk upon the box.
you need stick shaft, and hole
must be punched through each side
of the box, in the position shown at
ID Zig. p, for this shaft to run
through.
To operate the colorscope, slip a
postcard into the holder and drop the
holder through the slot In the box
cover; then stand beside a window,
with the side of the box on which the
disk is mounted turned toward the
light; look through the pair of holes
in the end of the box, and turn the
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the ends of the slot and the side edges
of the cover. In the end of the box
opposite to that on which you have
been working, cut a pair of holes
about one and. one-quarter inches in
diameter. Space the pair one inch
apart. With the cutting done, fasten the
cover to the box with paper strips.
Figures and show how to make
the holder for the picture post
cards that are to be viewed. The dot
ted lines in Fig. show where to
bend over the edges to form grooves
for the pictures to slide into.
The color screen, shown in detail
in Figs. and 6, is OF cardboard disk
about twelve inches in diameter.
Three openings of an equal size should
be cut in this disk, with straps left be-
tween them just wide enough to hold
the center in place, and a rim around
them wide enough to be rigid Gig. 81
Get three pieces of tissue paper-red,
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New York Service.

Not long ago." relates ex-Speaker
Canon, "a young couple came in from
the suburbs to New York city to see
the Hippodrome. They arrived very
early and decided to have lunch.
They visited tearoom and had the
place all to themselves.
"In serving them the waitress omit
ted to supply teaspoon and the fair
young bride whispered the fact to her
husband.
"Summoning the waitress. the young
man asked:
MAY we have a spoon?
why, certainly replied the girl.
I am just tidying up, and you can
have the whole room to yourselves in
minute or two. "-Lippincott's.
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a cat and could see a snakes trail
where it was absolutely invisible to the
ordinary eye.
Having found a snake, probably
asleep after a meal, he had to get It
alive and uninjured into his bag. He
rsrely tried to lift up coiled snake. 1t
was a most difficult thing to do, and
he always preferred to catch the rep
tile when, stretched to its full length,
it was gliding away from him. He then
approached from behind, caught it
firmly by the tail, and as it turned its
head to strike he would catch it by
the neck also and place it in the bag.
A fighting snake-for instance, a
tiger snake-he preferred to tire out
before attempting to handle, and
would feint and dodge for an hour on
end as the snake, with head slightly
raised, darted at him, striking vicious
ly this way and that He disdained
leggings or gloves and always worked
among his snakes with his shirtsleeves
rolled up above his elbows.
He had been bitten over one hum
dred times and used the antidote Of his
own discovery.
In India, the country of fatal snake
bite, there are about twenty thousand
deaths annually. but in Australia,
where the snakes are almost as ven
omous, 1t is doubtful If there are
dozen. The reasons probably lie in the
fact that Australians wear thick boots
ard leggings, and every Australian
has been taught from babyhood up
wat to do in case of snake bite. This
at the expense Of the government,
which placards all schools and railway
stations with snake bite precautions"
Any small child bitten by snake
knows that he must instantly tie tight
features above and below the wound
and then slash the part freely to let
the flow of blood carry away the
venom. Many lad willingly sacrifices
a finger tip rather than run the risk of
dying of snake bite, and will instantly
chop off the tip himself and then hurry
off for treatment.
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For Handy Bous and
Girls 10 Make and
Copyright by A. Nicely HalD
A POSTCARD coLoRscoPE.
BY DOROTHY PERKINS.

With the homemade colorscope
shown in Fig. 1 you can make un-
colored picture cards appear colored.
and colored cards in colors other than
those in which they have been printed
A shoe box forms the colorscope
case, and Fig. 2 shows how the box
and its cover should be prepared.
Cut the opening A in one side of the
box, near one end, making it about
three inches wide by the full depth of
the box. Then from the rim of the
cover cut piece of corresponding
width, in the right position to come
directly over the opening in the side
Of the box. Across the top of the
cover, at the same end of the cover
that opening A has been cut through,
cut slot about one-quarter inch wide
(B, Fig. p. Leave about one-quarter
inch between this slot and the box
end, and the same distance between
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of pins or long carpet-tacks Gig. ~.
The tail is short piece of Irvine
fastened to the cork with a tack di-
rectly opposite the head. Make the
shell out of a piece of stiff paper, fold
ing it into the shape shown in Fig. 5,
and tapping the ends to make them
round. Fasten this paper shell to the
edge of the cork base with pins or
long carpet-tacks, as shown in Fig. 3.
The little raft Gig. g. is made OF
two halves of a split cork, fastened
side by side by means Of pins. This
raft is easily converted into a sail
boat by lacking piece of card
board cut bow-shaped on one end,
to the top of the corks, sticking a
short stick through hole in the card
board for mast, and running small
square of paper on to the stick for q
sail Gig. y.
The houseboat shown in Fig 8 is
built upon a cardboard platform
mounted upon four corks. one at each
corner. Any medium-sized corks will
do, and you may make the platform
of any size that you wish. Fasten the
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EXPERTS ANT|DOTE
FAILED TO WORK
Snake Trainer, Owner of 500
Reptiles, Dies From Pune
ture in Wrist.
BITTEN BY A KRAFT
Estimated That Their Bites Cause
Fully 10000 Deaths Annually In In
dia-Said to Be Lots Of Them In
That Country.

Calcutta, India.-The death occurred
here recently of man for whom it is
claimed that he was without equal in
his skill in handling snakes This was
Professor Fox, an Australian snake
farmer, who came to India little time
ago to prove the efficiency of what he
claimed to be a perfectly sure antidote
to the virus of snake
Fox had been successful in all his
experiments with animals in the Cal
cutta zoo, and had just treated goat
which had been bitten and was lean
ms on a box containing poisonous
snakes when a kraft, one Of the most
venomous of Indian snakes, escaped
and punctured Fox's wrist in five
places.
Fox, who had often submitted to
snake bite In order to show the eff
cacy of his antidote, was in no way
perturbed and treated four of the bites
at once. Later in the day symptoms
of poisoning developed and the tiny
fifth puncture was discovered. 1t was
then too late, as the antidote only acts
II applied at once, and Fox died the
same evening.
Fox was well known in Australia
His snake farm was few miles out
side of Sydney, where he kept over
five hundred snakes, most of which
he had caught in the brush. His bust
ness was to extract the poison from
the snakes and sell it to the chemists.
and for this purpose he farmed snakes
as other people farm pigs or poultry,
and moved about his stock as fearless
ly as if they were rabbits.
On his snake hunts he tracked his
prey with the cunning and patience of
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n HEY are Americanizing the

HEY are American1z1ng the
Champs Elysees.
Commercial houses crowd
the gala promenade of the two
empires. Hotels invade the
slysian fields.
The most famous avenue of PARIS
where rich Americans of past genera
lions deemed it incumbent to rent
is being deserted by it's old residence
population.
Historic mansions are transformed
to shops. Such is the most beautiful
Of them all, the town house Of the
Due de Morny, where Napoleon III
plotted his coup detat, and which
had it's secret entrance to the Jardin
Mabille. 1t is now. used by an art
dealer to show off and sell his wares.
Such is the house of the notorious
Paiva, bijou palace which cost Ma
poleon III some three million dollars
to build and furnish. Situated in the
center of the Champs Elysees, the ar
tistic decorations of its interior still
render it unique among the noble
buildings Of Paris. During the last
years of the second empire 1t was
the home of the fascinating Marquise
de Paiya.
Turned Into Club.
The Paiva house is now the Trav-
elers' club, which you can call Amer
lean, because its membership includes
half the foremost American men who
come to Paris. In the fabulous silver
bathroom of La Paiva, with its onyx
fittings, ruby decorations and oriental
mirrors, they can dream of the vanity
of vanities. La Paiva died in Silesia,
in 1884, her last ten years having
been spent in piety and devotion.
She was a Russian beauty Of the
humblest origin. Her husband was a
little tailor. She came to Paris in
search of work, and was introduced
to the literary and artistic aristocrats.
Napoleon III loved her. "A Spanish
nobleman, Marquis de Paiva, married
her. They lived in this little palace
which the emperor built for her, en-.
Pertaining gloriously, until, one day,
at the end of dinner party, the mar
quis blew out his brains. Later, she
had to quit Paris hastily, under sus.
picion of being a Russian spy. To
end her life in peace and charity, she
married Bismarck's cousin, the Graf
Won Donnersmarck, first governor OF
Alsace.
The Paiva house was typical of the
Champs Elysees. but another was
more so.
Forty years from now, when Ameri
can tourists will scarcely be able, 9th.
erwise, to distinguish the Champs
Elysees from Fifth avenue, the eigh.
teenth century two-story villa of the
dukes of Massa, in its little grove,
will remind them Of the gallant
fight of a single old nobleman against
the Characterization" of his beloved
avenue
In his tomb the old duke will still
be fighting, and we shall admire him,
because Americans also love trees and
greenery and air and low-built man
sions that do not obstruct the sun
and old historic avenues that give
beauty and interest to a city. 1t is
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He Lost the WaQer.

A man who prided himself on Won
derful imagination that could conceive
the biggest lies on record once made a
wager that he could tell greater
falsehood than any man In the town
where he resided. The stakes being
deposited, he proclaimed that he once
threw a nail with such force that it
pierced the moon. aye, that is true, y
exclaimed another man. Il saw him
do it, for 1 stood on the other side and
caught the nail"
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Draw head and neck upon a piece
of cardboard, using Fig. 1 as a pat
tern to copy from, and cut a slit in
the round face of one of the halves of
the cork, as indicated by dotted lines
In Fig. 1, for the lower edge of the
cardboard neck to fit into
The turtle Gig. 81 is built upon a
pickle-bottle cork. The head is a
piece of cardboard, with eyes marked
upon 1t in ink, and the feet are four
other pieces of cardboard. Fasten
the head and feet to the upper face of
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Pachmari, central provinces, India, OF
a blood slide from a native child con.
tanning malignant parasites different
from any malaria parasite Of man yet
described" It is extremely active.
with thin processes occurring as long
tails to more or less ring-shaped
bodies. The new parasite is dubbed
Plasmodium tenue.
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New MaIariaI Parasite.

Sir Ronald Ross, who demonstrated
that the malarial parasite is spread
among mankind by means of mosqui-
toes, has communicated to the Royal
society paper by DR.. ]. w. Stephens
and Sir Alfred Jones, professor Of
tropical medicine in Liverpool uni
versity. recording the rec ut from
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-05-22
Saw Iona Service In Navy.

Rear Admiral John Joy Almy, who
served with distinction in the War
with Mexico, and in the Civil war,
was born 100 years ago in Newport,
R. I. He became midshipman in
the navy at the age of fifteen. In
the Mexican war he served in the
Ohio, and was present at the siege of
Vera Cruz and capture of Tuxpan.
At the beginning of the Civil war he
was promoted commander, and per-
formed efficient service during the
next four years in the North and South
Atlantic blockading squadrons. He
was promoted rear admiral in 1878.
Four years later he was placed on the
retired list, after nearly half CEN
fury of active service. Admiral Almy
died in Washington. May 16. 1895.
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New Modern Dancing

The leading Expert and Instructor In Now York
City, writes: "Dear Sir:-I have used ALIENS
FoOT.EAsE the antiseptic powder To be shaken into
the shoes for the past ten years 1t is blessing to
all who compelled to be on their feet dance
eight ten hours daily, and find that ALIENS
FooT.EAsE keeps my feet cool, takes the friction
from the shoe, prevents and Sore. Aching feet
l recommend it to all my pupils"
(Sgned) K. FLETCHER HALLAMORE.
Sample FREE. Address Allen Olmsted, Le Roy, NE
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Come Here Dioqenes.

Portland, Ore.-Shades of Diogenes!
Discovering that he had been long
changed" $40, man who wouldn' t
give his name later returned the
money to L. V. Dickson, druggist. A
ive-cent cigar was his reward.
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A Smart Fool.

York, Pa.-Detective StroEan court
ed the april fool" ha-ha Of the multi
ture on April / and picked up a dingy
pocketbook 1t contained $1,000 and
Stroman was offered a fat reward by
William Hykes, loser.
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The EMPLOYERS Viewpoint.

First Factory Owner-This race.
suicide business looks bad for the
country.
Second Factory Owner-Yes, the
factory owners of the next generation
will face a severe child-labor famine.
Puck.
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CORK TOYS FOR THE BATHTuB.
BY A. NEEIY HALL.

Ducks, swans, turtles and boats Of
different patterns for floating In the
bathtub, furnish fun by the hour, and
they are toys which are easily made
For the duck Gig. ID get medium
sized tapered cork. and split it in half
from end to end, using a sharp knife
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platform to the corks with long car.
pet-tacks or pins.
The little house is made of stiff
writing-paper, cut to the pattern
shown in Fig. 9. This pattern shows
but one-half of the house. and must
be marked out twice. The dimen-
sions of the house may be whatever
you wish to make them, the only i'm
portant thing to look out for being
to make the walls short enough so
there will be space on the platform
around the house for walk. Cut
along the solid lines, and fold along
the dotted lines. The portion D on
the end piece is a doorway, and is cut
along one side and top, and folded
along the third edge, for door. The
portions marked w are window open
ings.
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Time SERVING,

What are you making such a fuss
about? l thought being executor OF
an estate was a soft thing"
Perhaps it is sometimes. But l
have to wind up the affairs of clock
maker."-Judge.
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Juror In AppIause.

Oakland, Cal.-Louis Leinert,
Juror sitting in Judge Browns court.
started to applaud an attorneys argu,
ment. do you think you are at
ball gamer" demanded Judge Brown.
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He Explains.

What do you mean by kissing the
housemaid?"
at was an excusable mistake, my
dear. The hall was dark, and she had
on your face powder and your beauti-
full golden hair"
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Some men are troubled with tempo
rary deafness; it all depends ON who
Is talking and what is wanted.
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Appropriate.

appropriate.
Mrs. Winks-When is Miss Hard
cash to marry the count?
Mrs. Binks-On Monday.
Mrs. Winks-Oh, of course. I might
have known. Monday is bargain
day.
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Evasive.

They say that girl can lead any
body by the nose"
''The story is misleading"
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There are only 20 persons in France
with a yearly income of more than
100000.
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Chocolate Currency.

Chocolate is used in the interior of
South America for money, as well as
cocoanuts and eggs
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disk handle SO as to allow the ligh.
to pass through each of the three
pieces of colored tissue paper. The
light passing through the yellow It's
sue paper will produce sunlight eff
feet, that passing through the red will
produce a sunset effect and that pass
ing through the green an effect Of
moonlight
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Alfalfa seed $780, Farms Tor sale on crop pay
nenJs. J. Mulhall 300 City, Ia--Adv
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Anybody can dye successfully with
Putnam Fadeless Dyes. Adv.
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Literally,

Literally.
II tell you, this is black outlook"
What is?"
about this coal business"
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1t takes two to make a bargains
lawyer to get the est of 1t.