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know many of them have no relatives
nearby, and these cards may help them
to remember that it is Christmas" And
then she told the friend the story of
Lydia's hard-working life.
So the Montana bride dutifully sent
the pretty picture cards about to the
miners at Christmas tide. Some OF the
men, she knew, would laugh at them,
some OF them might regard her interest
in them as impairment, but at all events
she sent them.
One of the cards-and she chose the
one with the most cheerful, cleverest
verse-she sent to a young ranchman
nearby. He was an Englishman, with
money, who was trying his hand at
ranching. He was making a success of
it, too, so that even if he had not in
herited a comfortable fortune he could
have looked forward to riches.
Now Dick Robinson had all OF an Eng
lishman's love of home, combined with
all of an Englishman's reserve. His
family in England consisted of mar
ried sister and some more distant rela-
tives, and the holiday box his sister sent
to him failed to reach him until after
Christmas. He had few friends in Mon
tana. His men wished him a merry
Christmas and his Chinese cook did his
best with an English plum pudding, but
Christmas was, nevertheless, a rather
dreary day for Dick Robinson.
Perhaps Lydia's guardian spirit had
arranged that the young ranchman's
Christmas should be lonesome. Anyway,
Dick was much interested in the envelope
he found waiting for him when he rode
to the postofice on Christmas eve. 1t
was Tabled, in true holiday fashion, with
a holly wreath enclosing the warning
that it was not to be opened until the
next day. And Dick put it into his
pocket with a thrill of the sort of pleas
ure that surrounds every surprise and
mystery.
He waited until the next morning at
breakfast, and then he opened the en-
velope. The picture which was on his
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She held a good position now, but she
needed every cent she could scrape to-
gether, for during ten years her brother
Frank had been an invalid and Lydia
had been taking care of him.
The daily work at the bureau, the
evenings spent in company with her
brother, and the constant worry about
his loneliness and practical helplessness
had sobered Lydia Hale a little, perhaps,
but she had a happy disposition, her
brother was a cheerful invalid, and her
work was congenial. Mrs. James, espe-
cially, Lydia had found delightful. and
the plucky little widow and the equally
plucky spinster had grown to be firm
friends. Few persons in the big Office
knew of Lydia's personal history, but
Mrs. James knew it all and admired the
girls courage.
Mrs. James had interested a friend,
the wife of young mining engineer in
Montana, in the Christmas Guild. The
young woman had spent many busy
hours making warm little flannel petit
coats and pretty little baby frocks for
Mrs. James to give to the Christmasless
people she had found in New York. So
Mrs. James sent the bundle Of cards,
as soon as Lydia had finished with them,
to the Montana friend.
Perhaps you can send them about to
some of the miners she wrote. Il
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Hi don't know where e is hat the mo-
ment, miss. Hif e comes in Hill tell
i'm you called. Would you like to leave
your patrimony on the piano. Ell
make away with it when e comes IN,
but e as to work more undermined
than e used to, miss" Then he sheds
a couple of solid gold umbrella jars
full of bitter tears and shows you to the
door.
Maybe old Scadds is down at Mikes
Joint on Cherry street exchanging crime
stories with Billy the Rat and One
fingered Ike. and maybe he's in the back
room over Fatty Burke's saloon on the
Bowery being initiated into the Refined
Criminals Pleasure Association. and
maybe he's down at Washington telling
some noSey committee it was all Nor
gan'S fault, and then again he may be
mid under the sink in his own kitchen,
lodging the grand jury. It's no cinch
to be the wife and family of a prince
of finance any more When ma wants
to make a friendly touch for a million
or so to buy bevy of 1915 style auto
mobiles she has to stand in front Of
the telephone by the hour, trying to
decide whether to call up Wall Street or
Sing Sing, and when she gets the old
gent on the wire he's too busy with his
own affairs to have time to send home
a CARLOAD of other peoples money.
"'Scuse me, sweetness" he says, but
l haven't a moment to spare. I'm on
the Jump. This is my little old busy
day. There are six more or less di-
vorced l. w. w. gents trying to put a
quart can Of nitroglycerine in my coat
tail pocket, three process servers trying
to paste a subpoena on my bald head,
and eight hundred and six different
kinds of committeeman crowding up
against me with most important legal
looking documents. won't be home
for lunch. | can't pull loose from this
Group OF the Anarchists Friendly
Bomb Association long enough to send
home any money. Go and see if any
orphans, or widows, or other trash have
left any money on the piano. If they
have. grab it and buy your automobiles"
When one of those Respected Cts
steps out of his house nowadays he
sees a line waiting for him that runs
all the way down the block and around
the corner. and he don't know whether
the squad of police is there to keep the
line straight or to arrest him for putting
a few carloads OF gilt-edge stock in the
mud class. Instead of dreaming of a
peaceful old sge, spent on his private
safety-razor shaved golf course beneath
the shade of the sheltering toupee, he
has nightmares in which the horny
headed subpoena and the poison-fanged
summons dart out of their holes and
sting him in the face.
Honest, it is getting almost disrepu-
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AChristmas Card Romance
By OSBORN MARSHALL
&St g.

Where did you get them?" asked
Miss Hale.
"A woman l met last year on my va
cation sent them to me-" said Mrs.
James Her husband is publisher and
these are pretty colored picture cards.
She thought might use them for Christ
mas cards. But there isn't word about
Christmas on any of them. See, they're
just pretty bits of landscapes and seem
cry. They're good pictures, though, and
l should like to use them"
Miss Hale looked at some of them a
moment.
'I'll help you out" she said. I'll
write some little Christmas jingle on
each of them, and then perhaps they'll
do"
why, my dear girl" said Mrs. James,
you'll do nothing of the kind. Indeed
you shan't- You have got your hands
full as it is"
But in spite of protests, Lydia Hale
took the little bundle of cards home
with her that night, and in two weeks
she had written a clever little Christmas
verse on each. Lydia had always liked
writing jingles. Indeed, when she was
a child, her family had talked of the
poetry" Lydia wrote.
But for long time Lydia Hale had
been too busy working to think much
about verse writing. For ten years Lydia
had been working in the clipping bureau.
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explained that it had taken J. Smith
years of patient endeavor to invent a
way to beat an egg without breaking
the shell. and that as soon as anybody
was fool enough to pay the price for
eggs ready beaten, there would be big
demand and the stock would pay divi-
dends. Mr. Missouri said he guessed
that was so, but Perky could wait for
that time just as well in Cell No. 80 as
anywhere else. Perky handed me a
dime for car fare and told me to hustle
out and drag in lawyer. He said to
get one that looked like a combination
IF a fat lobbyist and relentless villain,
and | got one As soon as he got to
the Office he collected FIVE hundred dol
The Washington herald., 1914-08-23
Copyright, lg4.l

NAY, honest! don't this high finance
- game get your goat? Every time
you pick up a paper nowadays
you read where some gang of the Real
Respected has turned out to be worse
than Capt Kidd was when he was try
ing to see just how near the gallows he.
could come without having his head
trip over a moose of good old sisal rope.
girl to read how one bunch or another
of Honored Citizens got decoyed into
some old directorate and after year
or two were lined up before some COM
mission or other and had to chant,
Nothing is lost but honor!' while their
Wallets stand in the background whisk-
grooming the moths out of a set of
suits made up in the latest penitentiary
stripe styles. A poor girl don't know
who to admire any more. It's getting so
a gent with sideburns can't steal ninety
million dollars any more and have any
'hing left but the money.
If this keeps on it will put society
on the bum A widow won't know how
20 get rid OF the money George was
thoughtful enough to have an insurance
company pay her after the surgeon
made the mistake and cut out Georges
giblets instead OF his appendix The
poor little orphans will be running all
around town to find the kind looking
old guy that used to grab anything they
mad and give them a swell green certif-
cate with a big red seal. Its fierce, amt
it. the way they knock the dear old gents
that never did anything but try to get
a little easy money? II used TO be that
you could go right up to the brownstone
front and ask for Mr.. Easy Scadds,
and his butler would show you into the
LoOey CAM parlor. merely asking you
not to stick your gum on the silk plush
furniture, and in FIVE minutes Mr..
Scadds would come right in and take
the money Uncle Peter left you Just
as if you were in his own set. But
now!
Say! You don't know where to go to
find His AIutton-chops. You go up
to his white marble front and the butler
comes to the door with a carcworn look
NJ his map, and says: Mister Scadds:
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they couldn't vote and had no pull the
thing would be smoothed over and Con-
gress would grant Perky relief sppro-
priation of sixty thousand dollars and it
would be all right.
So We are trusting hopefully for tbs
best and selling stock as usual. l am
keeping a close eye on the high fnancier
matters and J. Smith is out trying to
get somebody to be brave enough to
open Ready Beaten egg and see what
happens. The eggs J. Smith opened all
exploded, but little setbscks like that
don't worry US high hnanciers. Our
eggs may be rotten, but-gee we do
have some classy looking stock certih-
Gates printed
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Copyright. lslI.l

NCopynght, 4Sl4-J
IA TOW what in the world shall
~ do with these"
= Mrs. Peter James held up
bundle of picture cards for the inspec-
ton of Lydia Hale, the young woman
at the desk next to hers.
Mrs. Peter James was a widow, a
year or two past thirty, and Miss Lydia
Hale was a spinster of the same age.
They had worked side by side, at ad-
joining desks, for three or four years
in a big New York clipping bureau and
in that time Mrs. James had grown to
rely on Miss Hale's advice.
1t twas about month before Christmas
and already the air of the clipping bu-
reau's big workroom was full of the
holiday spirit. Mrs. James was respon-
sible for this fact. For Mrs. James be-
longed to a small organization known
as the Christmas Guild The object of
this guild was to see that gifts were
sent to people who otherwise would not
have any, and she had interested all her
fellow-workers in it. Few of them could
do much to help her, but they all did
what they could. There was something
about warm-hearted, cheerful, little Mrs.
James that made every one who knew
her want to do things to please her. And
the Christmas Guild was the pride of
her life.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-02-25
Ex=GOV. Plaisted's S
Sterling Tribute.

Ex-Governor Frederick w. Plaisted of
Augusta paid the following tribute to the
memory of the late Gen. Joshua L. Cham
berlain:
1.-THE death of Gen. Joshua L. Chamber
lain will be felt as a personal loss to
every citizen of Maine. He died full Of
years and honors, loved and admired by
all He made a part of Names history
such as has been permitted no other of
her citizens He stands alone, a majes-
tic figure, just as he stood 80 years ago
on Little Round Top at Gettysburg. In
peace as in war he played an important
part His life is an inspiration TO every
Maine boy. He was hero if ever there
was one. Scholar, soldier. Statesman, he
will always be remembered as one of
Names truly great men. The record of
his achievements will be his splendid
monument. His memory will be revered
as long as this nation. which he did so
much to preserve, shall endure"
Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-02-25
SENATOR NORRIS
AYERS THEFT OF
s2OO,oOO,Ooo|N
RAILROAD DEALS.

Washington, Feb. 24-Charges by
Senator Norris that some one had stol-
en- 100000 from the stockholders
of the New York, New Haven &
Hartford Railroad, precipitated a hot
discussion in the Senate today sew
eral of the New England senators in
sisting that Senator Norris was gull
tySof loose and unwarranted language.
Senator Norris retracted nothing, how
ever, insisting that his statements
were warranted and that the adoption
of his resolution under debate would
have salutory effect.
The resolution would direct the at
torney general to inform if he is ne
gotiating in regard to the re-organlza-
ton of the New Haven system and if
So to give to the Senate certain details.
1t asks specifically whether any con-
templated agreement between the de-
partment and the railroad provides for
immunity from prosecution to any one
connected with the railroad and
whether it contemplates the surrender
by the railroad company or any of it's
stockholders the right to bring action
for damages on account of past mis-
appropriation of funds.
Senator Lodge served notice that he
would speak tomorrow against the res
olution.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-02-25
BLEACHED FLOUR
CASE DECISION
GIVES VICTORY
TO THE MILLERS

Washington, Feb. 24.-Millers and
food manufacturers generally through
out the country won decisive victory
over the government when the su-
preme court held that federal inspec-
tors could not condemn under the pure
food law "bleached" flour unless they
proved that the flour contained enough
poisonous ingredients added in bleach
ing, to make the -four injurious to
health.
Officials of the department of agri-
culture have fought the case bitterly,
contending that the adding or any
quantity of poisonous ingredients was
in violation of the law. They coneen-
trated their efforts to have this plea
established in the bleached flour case,
because the decision will be applica-
BILE to every other proceeding involv-
ing an article of food claimed to con-
tain added poisonous or deleterious in
gradients.
Justice Day in announcing the de-
cision of the court held that every
word of the pure food law prohibiting
interstate commerce q food if it con-
tanned ANY added poisonous or other
added deleterious ingredients which
may render such article injurious to
health" must be given its true mean
ing.
IF 1t cannot by any possibility,
when the facts are reasonably consid-
cred injure the health Of any con-
sumer," said the Justice, ''sueh flour.
though having a small addition of
poisonous or deleterious ingredient
may not be condemned by the act
The principal effect of today's de-
cision, officials said, would be to re-
quire much more expert testimony in
practically every case the government
prosecutes for violation of the pure
food law, and consequently the win
ming of much smaller percentage of
suits.
More of the famous Poison squads"
originated by DR.. Wiley, while he was
chief chemist, may be necessary to de-
termine the exact amount of injurious
substances which a person may eat
without being harmed thereby.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-02-25
Poisons that Irritate

When the delicate machinery of the
body is not working harmoniously,
poisons are retained that should be ex-
PEELED. These may accumulate in the
tissues and cause irritation. Should
this irritation affect joints or muscles
you have rheumatism if nerve be-
comes infamed you have neuralgia.
But if the system is kept toned up
with DR.. williams Pink Pills and no
body poisons are retained. foods that
once distressed you will be harmless,
exposure will bring no rheumatism and
neuralgia and even germ diseases need
hardly be dreaded.
The lowering Of the tone of the sys-
tenn which results from thin blood is
Easy to recognize. Weakness is al
Ways present, a tendency to perspire
and fatigue easily. ringing in the ears,
black spots passing before the eyes,
weak back, dizziness, wakefuness and
unrefreshing sleep. These conditions
DR.. Williams Pink Pills will correct.
DIR. williams' Pink Pills build up the
blood and strengthen the nerves. In
this way the general health is i'm
proved. the appetite increases, and
new ambition and energy developed
These pills are sold by all druggists.
send ~ the DR.. williams Medicine Co,
Schenectady, n. Y, for free book
Building Up the Biood."-Adv.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-02-25
VILLA DECLARES BENTON
A CATTLE THIEF IN HIS ,
JUAREz TELEGRAM.

Juarez, Mex, Feb PA telegram in
which General Villa at Chihuahua
charged tho late William S, Benton
with being a cattle thief and having
committed four murders was received
at military headquarters here today.
The telegram in part follows:
Il expected the scandalous American
press to attack me about the execu-
ton of Benton. But l did not have
any ether remedy to avoid new at
ternpts of the foreign HuertaiastaS
who. protected by the flag of their
country believe they are authorized to
commit the greatest of crimes. Ben
ton was all his life a criminal OF the
worst kind He killed more than four
men without any provocation what
ever. Then after the taking Of Chi
huakua. in common with the above
named individuals and according to
his own confession, he appropriated
more than 1000 head of cattle which
did not belong to him, and further
more, the day he came to see men, he
attemnted to cowardly kill me. Fortus
natcly, anticipated his movement and
disarmed him. All these motives, and
especially the last named one, forced
me to act severely against Benton
without taking into consideration the
fact that he was foreigner.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-02-25

from Juarez TO the Chihuahua jail.
No news has been received concerning
the whereabouts of Harry Compton and
the ranchman Curtis.
Secretary Bryan today intimated that
he had been considering the possibility
of establishing a marine guard for the
American legation at Mexico City follow
ing the example of the European govern
ments and Japan.
In Senate circles the Benton incident
was again frequent subject of discus
sion. That Congress wants information
as to the inside facts regarding the deal
ings of the government with the Mexican
factions was more apparent and it was
asserted tonight by several senators that
the Senate would adopt a resolution call
ing upon the secretary of state for such
informatio if it is withheld much longer
Tomorrow the Senate foreign relations
committee will meet to consider the Mex
lean problem among other things, and
Secretary of State Bryan will appear.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-02-25
Travels of Old Church Plate.

A remarkable story is told OF the
adventures of some church plate Of
the sixteenth and early seventeenth
century. 1t belongs to the parish OF
Savington St. Michael, England, but
about seventy years ago the parish
toner's decided they must have new
plate, and without the knowledge or
their rector, Rev. r. A. Cox, dis
patched the valuable communion serv-
ice to London to be melted down.
Fortunately, the rector learned of
the affair in time and personally ac-
quired the articles. subsequently,
they passed from his widow into the
hands of her nephew. Rev. Henry
Burnley, and a short time ago were,
purchased and presented to the pariHh
by an anonymous donor. They have.
now been solmenly rededicated in the
presence of large congregation
From the London Globe.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-02-25
TWO PRISONERS FOR
BREAK SATURDAY AT
CAMP ANDROSC0CC|N

winthrop, Me, Feb. 24.-(SpeciaD.-
Deputy Sheriff John A. Foster return
ed this afternoon from a trip to Phil
lips, where he went this morning, and
being Leslie Burke. aged about 25
years, and Howard Taylor, aged about
2S years. who had been taken into GUS
tody on suspicion of having commit
ted the break at Camp Androscoggin.
on the shore of Androscoggin lake in
Wayne Saturday afternoon. Feb. IA,
on which occasion the camp was en-
tered and some groceries taken. The
men were committed to the lookup In
this village, and will be given hear
ing Wednesday morning before Judge
E. T. Clifford of the Winthrop muni-
cipal court.
Burke, who had been taken into Gus
tody Monday at the request of Deputy
Sheriff Foster, was found by Deputy
Sheriff Harry Bell of Phillips at Red
ington. where he was working in one
of Vose's sawmills, and made no re-
sistance when taken by the offlcer'
Deputy Sheriff Bell brought his pris-
oner down TO Phillips, but owing to
an accident Tuesday on the narrow
gauge railroad between Phillips and
Pennington, because of the breaking
of an axle on one of the cars at
Strong, which necessitated the send
ing of an engine from Pennington to
take the train back, and train from
Phillips to take the passengers back
to that town, there was some little de-
Law before Burke was transferred to
the custody of the Winthrop officer.
Howard Taylor was taken into Gus
tody Tuesday by Deputy Sheriff Fos-
ter at Jay, where he claimed to be
working in a sawmill, and said that
he had been there since Monday. 1t
wns learned that he had been In the
woods with Burke since Tuesday, Feb
II. Sheriff Foster said tonight that he
was confident that the men In CUSTODY
are the ones who made the break at
Prof. Hea1y's camp
Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-02-25
Respects to Memory
By Ex=GOv. COnnOr.

Ex-Governor Selden Connor Tuesday
night paid the following tribute to the
memory of the late Gen. Joshua l..
Chamberlain:
chamberlain, a most parfit, genttl
knight has left us and the world is much
the poorer for the loss. 1t will always be
the richer for the memories that remain
of his long. useful and brilliant life. 1t
is given to but few men to win respect
admiration and honor Dy so many titles
and in so many fields of activity and use
fulness.
"As a patriot soldier, the story OF his
achievements forms one of the brlghtest
pages of the history of the great war.
AS n statesman he served his State faith
fully and admirably, and as its Governor
and in many other capacities in when
his services were called into requisitlon.
AS a scholar and orator he delighted the
many thousands whom he addressed
throughout the country. As teacher or
Young men his presence and the example
of his life greatly reinforced his instruc-
tion in the upbulding of character and
the formation of manly worth and MS
.sn;rations. And in all. the outward
graces of mis- person and the ciear hsht
of the spirit shining through a noble
countenance marked him a Christian
gentleman.
"His fellow citizens deeply lament the
loss of this true son of the state ana
faithful servant of his country, who SO
greatly endeared himself to them' ana
will transmit his memory in all honor.
His comrades who always welcomed his
nresepce and his eloquent words with the
,,,arp,est enthusiasm are filled with grief
that he who was among the hlshest rep
resentatives of their Observation-Disclosures
has been taken from them.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-02-25
AMERICAN CAPTURED
IN TEXAS AND TAKEN
TO MEXICO, HANGED.

Laredo, Texas, Feb. 24.-Clementd'
Vergara, an American citizen. cap
tured and carried into Mexico recent
ly by Mexican Federals, was hanged
the morning after his capture, ac-|
cording to advices brought here to-
day from Hidalgo. Mexico. Nergara
had been ordered released by the Fed
eral commander at Piedras Negras as
the result of representations in his
behalf by American authorities
Vergara, IL was reported. complaint
ed that Mexican Federals were steal
ing his horses from an island in the
Rio Grande near Palafox. was iured
To tie island by promises of pay for
the horses. knocked in the head ana
carried unconscious into Mexico.