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The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1915-12-09
WHY SANTA LIVES.

Was there ever wider or more
loving conspiracy than that which
keeps the venerable figure of Santa
Claus from slipping away, with all
the other old time myths, into
the forsaken wonderland of the
past? OF all the personages whose
marvellous doings once filled the
minds of men he alone survives.
He has outlived all the great gods
and all the impressive and poetic
conceptions which once fitted be-
tween heaven and earth-these have
gone, but Santa Claus remains by
virtue of common understanding
that childhood shall not be despoiled
of one of its most cherished beliefs,
either by the mithologist, with his
sun myth theory, or the scientist,
with his hairless diatribe against
superstition.
There is good deal more to be
said on this subject if this were the
place to say it. Even superstition
has it's uses and sometimes its
sound heart of truth. He who does
not see in the legend of Santa Claus
beautiful faith on one side and
the naive embodiment of divine
fact on the other is not fit to have
place at the Christmas board For
him there should be neither carol
nor holly nor misletoe. They only
shall keep the feast to whom all
these things are but the outward
and visible signs of an inward and
spiritual grace.-Hamilton Wright
Mabie.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1915-12-09
THE CHRISTMAS CROUCH.

The Christmas crouch dies hard,
There is scarcely a family but has
but he begins to breathe feebly.
There is scarcely family but has
a Christmas troublesome one who
thinks gifts are foolish and that a
great deal of money is wasted at
the season now upon us. He hates
to see money wasted; he hates to see
the Christmas trees cut down; he
thinks it is sin to tell the children
the legend about Santa Claus; he
scolds about shopping; he is sorry
for the postman who carries so
many bundles; he says everybody
runs into debt at Christmas and
that the new year gets started in all
wrong on account of the debts; he
says the sentiment has all gone out
of Christmas on account of it's being
commercialized and that Christmas
trees are a menace to life and that
once he knew of house that caught
fire from Christmas tree; he says
1t is a sin to spnd mony for flowrs
at Christmas.
TIL Christmas reformer has hun
dreds of ideas about how Christmas
can be improved. He says the Christ
mas holidays never mean anything
to him and he will be glad when
they are all over.
But Christmas remains Christmas
just the same, for all the crouch s
protests, and will be the same for
ever; will laugh at the crouch and
his follies in such wholesome,
hearty way that he will grow
ashamed and will join the merry
ma king in Snite Of himSa1f
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1915-12-09
CHRISTMAS DREAMS.

Were every Christmas of which
we have been present at the celebra-
ton painted accordingly to nature,
what a gallery of pictures! True
that a sameness would pervade
them all, but only that kind OF
sameness that pervades the nocturn-
al heavens. On, clear night always
is to common eyes just like another.
for what hath any night To shuw b. t
one moon and same stars. ii blue
vault, with here II few braided ana
there few castelalted clouds? Yet
no two nights ever hore more than
one family resemblance to each 9TH
err before the studious ana instruct
ed eye of him who has long com
muned with nature and is familiar
with every smile and .roWn on her
changeful, but not capricious, coun-
tenance. Even so with the annual
festivals of the heart
''Thoughts that like spirits track
Charles Lloyd's. But 10 bird Skins,
no arrow pierces the air without
produ ing some change in the uni
verse. No coming or 90 ng is abso-
lutely tTackless. nor recoverable
by nature, law is any seriousness
however ghostlike, though many a
one even the most rilstful, never
does return, but seems to be buried
among the dead But they are not
dead, but only sleep, though 10 US
who recall them not they are as they
had never been, and we wreI:hed in
CRATES, let them lie forever in Obliv-
ion. How passing sweet when of
our own accord they rise to greet us
in our sOlitude!-Christop North
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1915-12-09
THE GIFT MONTH.

December the gift month
Give; it is like God" says an old
proverb. Christmas is a happy time
because then the best feelings of the
heart are ELECTED and allowed full
play. What would otherwise be
smothered down as suggestive of
sentimentality, as unseemingly as
indicative OF too dear dream, may
ality Of the Christmas season and
gift-fulness, blossom out in good
will, gladness, Christ-like kindli-
ness, blessing and blessed.
1t is we'll that there should be
such season. We are all kinder
than we seem. Life as it comes to
us with it's imperative pressure OF
duty demands, it's brain racking
cares for the immediate future, it's
pitiful misunderstanding leading
unto arrangements, GOODNESS, for
getfulness-life, even as it is and
ever must be unto us mortals, Gre
ates, as it were, an icy film over
what is the kindliest and best in all
our hearts.
Then comes the Christmas season
with it's memories Of other years, Of
better, happier hours, and the hand
of little child brushes away that
ice film, and there rises up silently
into our busy day those gentler
kinder feelings which, though dor
mant, were not dead.
At home we are loved best; too,
we love best In the genial Christ
ian home, as in no other place on
earth, there are full meaning, full
appreciation, full enjoyment of the
God given gift, Christmas.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1915-12-09
SAVING FOR CHRISTMAS.

Any plan that includes almost
half the population of city of 49,
900 people to save in small amounts
$175,00O a year is worthy of study
The Oil City Trust Company of Oil
City. Pa, has a Christmas Saving
Club, which has grown greatly in
recent years. The object in start
ing the club was to enable people
of limited means to set aside small
amounts each week to be paid to
them with interest. two weeks be-
fore Christmas. Members may be-
gin by paying cent week, increas
ing the amount by a cent each week
calls for a two cent saving the first
week addinng the initial amount
until the fifty are up. This amounts
to $12.75 per year. A second class
calls for two cent saving the first
week, adding the initial amount
each succeeding week. This makes
total saving of $3.50 for the year
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1915-12-09
SANTA CLAUS UP TO DATE.

Every year l am tempted to come
out on housetOp and tell the young
and self raising generation the truth
about Santa Claus.
l believe it only right that the
children should know Santa Claus
no longer goes about in a dinky lit
tie sleigh, delivering toys down the
chlmneys. He simply couldn't do it
II he tried. That kind of thing was
all right when his business was
small and he was younger than he
is now. In those days he made the
toys himself-glued even the little
tails OF the toy sheep in place, stuck
the little eyes on the tops of their
little heads, painted the little bodies
as different from the real thing as
he could and do it quick, and then.
hltching up his six reindeers, deliv-
cred the whole batch before sunrise
Christmas morning. 1t is different
now.
Santa Claus is old, and all he does
is to live on the laurels of the bust
ness. The business now is run un-
der the name of S. Claus & Co., and
the firm has many workers-clerks
drivers and the rest. Some of the
employees of this big firm have
grown so careless that they miss lit
tie boys and girls who live in out of
the way places. Old Santa Claus
never did such a thing in his life.
If any of our young people are
overlooked this year they must not
blame Santa Claus. He is Just al
jolly and good as ever. They'll have
to blame it on the new driver that
looks after their section of the
earth.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1915-12-09
CHR MAS AS 1T SHOULD BE

When Christmas is made an
occasion ic. sending expensive
presents OF all SORTS and to all
sorts of people simoly as com
pliment with the fashion of the
hour, the most beautiful Of fes-
rivals is made cheap and tawdy
by gross misuse. The value of
the present lies in the sincerity
of the feeling which it represents
says Hamilton Wright Mabie and
the expression, not only OF re-
gard, but also of respect for the
recipient. When persons of mod
crate means make gifts entirely
their usual way of living there is
no real honor in the sending or
in the acceptance of the remem-
brance. The day which comment
crates the birth of a little child
in a manger ought to be kept
holy by simplicity, sincerity, alb
sence of pretension and the joy
of the heart.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1915-12-09
OLD FASHIONED CHRIST
MAS.

What does Christmas mean
to you? A day off, few re-
membranes from relatives
and friends and a good dinner
is that all? Surely you are
going to make it an occasion
for more than usual rejoicing
this year, real old fashioned
Christmas. Going to be lib
eral in spirit and pocket and
scatter merriment as you new
er did before. Been a little
selfish, maybe, devoted so much
much time to enjoying your
self that you have forgotten
other folks. Good folks, now,
aren't lhey-the best folks in
the world? And you're just
going to show 'em how appre-
ciative you are. You don't like
this modern way of turning
dear old Christmas into an
occasion for trading and the
exchange of meaningless print
ed cards, and you're going to
see all the friends you can
that day and shake hands with
them and pat them on the
back and tell them how glad
you are to be with them, and
to those you cannot see you
are going to write long, warm
hearted letters and tell them
you want to hear from them
ofterner. OF course you will
make presents, more than ever
but you're going to let the re-
cepient know that there is a
lot of good, warm heart beats
back of every little gift. Isn't
that how you feel about the
greatest of all birthdays?-
Recreation.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1915-12-09
mot UNTIL NEXT CHRISTMAS''

1t was said the other day by an
old southerner in Washington that
no home loving Virginian ever
would move until after the next
Christmas" The next Christmas
comes and goes, but there is still
another to come, and the moving is
put off and, happily, will be put off
until holiday spirit has gone from
the south, a spirit that will go when
the south goes.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1915-12-09
PAY THEIR DOCTOR
AT CHRISTMAS TIME.

AS regards presents at Christmas,
the rule is, in primitive Spain, to
send a present to the cura (parish
priest) and the doctor. Many Span
iards pay fixed sum annually to
their medical man, and he attends
all the family. including servants.
His salary is sent to him at Christ
mas. with the addition of turkey,
a cake or some fine sweetmeats.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1915-12-09

Give the clerks a CHI istmas. Shop
early.
The evening world., 1915-03-18

Williamss order made no reference
10 granting the Edison Company the
right Of charging for Its globes and
installation when II was read origi-
nally. The clause was added after
conferences Of the Commissioners
with the Edison officials on Friday.
They had asked for the privilege Of
charging for the lamps. but ! did not
understand the permission was to be
Incorporated In the order"
Other members Of the commission
took the stand to- day that failure
Of the commission to grant the
meant a refusal OF the Edison Com
pany TO comply with tho order. and
long drawn out litigation in the
courts, pending the outcome Of which
the consumer would be Obliged to
pay the old rate Of 10 cents q kilo-
watt hour. They argue the public
win benefit By the arbitrary reduce
ton granted by the COMMISSION. be-
cause Of quick action.
-All bosh," was Maltbie's reply.
similar threats were mado whom So
cent gas was introduced. and By like
protests and threats Of the telephone
rate reduction. Records show that
~; ~ 10000 q year. BY the present
order, a. II stands, their proflts will
be cut between u 500, 900 and $500.
600. leaving them stiii o profit Of be-
tween $1,000. 900 and SS.6oo.o0o.
This 10 by no means the reduction
"a which the public 10 entitled. There
IA no reason why the company should
NOT have been forced to accept the
strairht cut Of 3 centA They would
have been glad 70 do 90 In the end.
A. Il lie they will md II hard to keep
a straight face when they read the
ORDER
The evening world., 1915-03-18
EDISON CO. Joker
COSTS CONSUMERS
S6OO,0OO A YEAR
Eleventh-Hour P. S Commits
sion Order Materially
Reduces 2-Cent Cut.

How the legal experts of the New
York Edison Company outgeneralled
the Public Service Commission and
at the last minute "jockeyed" the
commission into Issuing an order saw
ing the company approximately $780,
900 Of the $1.s00.000 II had been
planned to save the small consumers
Of electricity In the city annually. was
related to-day by Commissioner Milo
X. Maltble, who has championed the
fight for q cheaper current rate during
the four years he has been In once.
On Tuesday, in the face Of q vieor-
Gus protest from Commissioner Malt
bic, the commission signed an order
to 30 into effect May 1. cutting the
cost Of electricity from ten cents q
kiiowatt hour to eight cents, but--and
! here's the Joker" which aroused Mr..
Maltbies ire--the company V TO be
/ permitted to charge for renewals Of
lamps and installations, which are
now granted free of payment
/ This clause. which COMMISSIONS
Maltbie charged to-day was inserted
without his knowledge. and Of which
| he knew nothing until the order was
read and voted on Immediately after
ward, In a clean gift Of 100000 . year
to the Edison company.
! Where q two cent reduction-or q
saving to consumers Of 20 per cant
had been agreed upon the price Of the
current was virtually Jumped . hall
cent. making the reduction but Is pc,
cent, when the commission at ths
eleventh hour voted to allow the com.
pany to charge for its lamps and In
staliations. Tho cost Of this fire.,
equipment has been equivalent TO Z
one half cent increase In the price O
the current
COMMISSIONER IGNORANT Of
i "JokER's" INSERTION.
"it means that instead 81 ~.
dueino electricity from 10 70 Q
cents q kiiowatt hour, the rsdue.
tien 10 really from 10 70 ~ esnta
although the order gives the In.
preston the reduction amounts
to z osnts," explained Commits
sioner Maltbie.
II knew mounting about the inser
ton Of the 100000 Gift. clause unit
the order was read to b voted OF
The order was based on an opinio
submitted on March to the commia
sion by Commissioner Williams. RED
ommending . reduction from 10 to
cents a Elovatt hour. Commission
The evening world., 1915-03-18

ty.hfth Street. whore he lives with
his mother and three brothers. The
bomb was intended for him. the
Mayor believes. although he says he
has received no threatening letters
and has no enemies except those Of
a political character.
Since he defeated former Mayor
william J. Eyttsr by fftscn votss ~
the village election. slxtsen months
ago, the Mayor has had . turbulent
time. As one Of his first acts was "a
Are the entire 0uttsnberg ,olios
force d six mon. two ssrxeants. aud
a captain. he IL now confronted with
tho problem OF who shall investigAte
tho attempt to wreck I'M homo.
However. the police force hes 70
fused 10 be hred and to-day respect
fully intimated u would - sssd "a
undertake. the investigation. though
Its members ala not seem ovsr-sn-
thusiastio. according TO IN observes.
''You can imagine how anxious that
police forcs IL to ana anyone seeking
to injurs His Honor. the Mayor" e.
planned the outtsnbsrs oorrssuon-
dent. especially whom His Honor he's
held MP their pay for sixteen months.
and told them the town was - sood
II didn't need . police force anyway"
The controversy over whether the
Ma vop ~aa right In Atanhs ps1uA A.
The evening world., 1915-03-18
BOMB EXPLODED !.
UNDER ROOMSOF
JERSEY MAYOR
Gutenberg Executive May
Have to Use Police He
Fired to Investigate.

At an early hour to-day q bomb
was exploded in the rear of thu home
Of Mayor Daniel Hermann a Cot
tcnbsrs. N. T.. directly under the win
dows Of the Mayors room on tho
second noor. The rear wall Of tho
grocery store kept by his brother on
the Arst floor was partially demoi-
lshed and the windows Of the Mayors
room were blown IN. but no was un-
injured. Small bits Of steel and part
Of the fuse of the bomb were found
nearby.
The Mayors home Is In the franc
structure at Park Avenue and Twon-
The evening world., 1915-03-18

then sDins out 10 work whsrs shs ~
10 moro certain. The policeman claim
however the right to make necessary
police investigation and win investi.
gate tho placing Of the bomb. II the
Mayor allows them.
Some. Of the police force charge they
were hned because they wsre not
over-sealous In working for the cleo
ton Of the Mayor. but the Mayor and
Council say II was done as a matter
Of economy.
The evening world., 1915-03-18
A coated tongue means slug
gish liver and bowels
Listen, mother!

Your child isn't naturally cross and
psevish. Sec II tongue IL coated; this
Il . sure sign is little stomach. liver
and bowels need . cleaning 81 once.
When listless. pale. fsvsrish. iull q
cold. breath bsd, throat soest dossn't
eat. slesp or act naturally. hes sour
stomach disrrhosa. rsmenbes . osatls
liver and bowel cleaning should always
b The first treatment givsa.
Nothing equals "Cslifcsnis Syrup 81
Hgs" for children's ills. Give . tsa-
The evening world., 1915-03-18
CROSS, FVERSH, SICK CHILDREN
NEED california syrup OF Figs

spoonful and in just . fsv hooGo
the foul waste. sour bile ard leRmu
food. clogeed In the bowels. ionnGo .
d The system and zoe Asve 49, I
playful child again. Al ehiDan
tAis harmless fruit laxative - 4 u
fails 10 eifsst . good "iuaidss dpnaI
Directions for babiss. skllAkv1 2 !
ssss and rcwp-ups sss paainly = g
bottle. ,ir't n
Mother, keep Il Aaady h 49, ~
4 little given te-Gay savss . - q
Tomorrow. bat ~ IL $500 Z
your druegist Tor -; esue -
"Cslifosais Syrup u u.s.. 1hsqlq
and - that 4 b nado h9 ~ 20
fosnia FIG Syrup Coapseys We =
70 ehsspsr sise. Dsat - Sss1B&
Advt.
The evening world., 1915-03-18
BOMB TRIAL MARCH 20.
Panel Ordered for Catkedral Uyna.
mitiua Case.

tisdse Mott in General Sessions to.
hay fixed Ma.ch 30 as IN, day for the
trial Of Csrn:ine Carbonc and Frank
AbarDo. who are under Indictment fcr
placing bo.ibc in 81 Pejrick's Cathedral
On motion Of Assistant District At.
torney Train Judge Mott ol0ered drawn
panel of loo talesncn from which q
!. tury 40 try the two will be selected.
s. "a n tontended by the mans counsel
that, Tie, bot,bs Contained m, ,xplosiyo.
The evening world., 1915-03-18

LslEs OIa N NSnn 49,
ATLANTA. o.. March ls.<-A1
OF belonging to q secret croaao1
very similar to that OF the old a.
Klux band. eight wealthy fa1insFs
Pike and spaidlns Counties ws1i q
In Atlanta tomorrow for trial ~
the Federal courts on charges a
out of the recent horsswhippins
negro farm hand near F'ayettsval&
The evening world., 1915-03-18
BANK TELLER A SUICIDE.
Pspcrs In MS Pocket Indicated Ne
HAD Einnuci Troubles.

CLEVELAND. March 1s.--B. q. iiili
Of Pittsburgh, receiving teller In the
Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank. shot
and KILLED himself in the Williamson
investigation indicated that financial
troubles. were responsible for Hills act.
In his pocket was found a notice that a
note against him held by the German
National Bark OF Pittsburgh for ST15 Is
due tomorrow. and another letter ac-
knowledged the receipt. of n $1,000 bond
which he had deposited as collateral
for n $4,000 note on which he was Sc
curity for William II, Dorr & Co.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-03-27
CRUISERS
BEING REPAIRED
BRITISH AND FRENCH WARSHIPS,
DAMAGED BY TURKS TOWED
TO PLACE OF SAFETY.

London, March 26.-The French bat
tleship Gaulois and the British battle
cruiser Inflexible damaged in the re-
cent actions, have been towed to we'll
sheltered bays where they are being
repaired. There Is good reason to
believe in the opinion of these reports
that some of the forts along the
Dardanelles have been demolished by
the shells of the warships.
Subjects Of the allied powers, the
Reuter- correspondent goes on to say,
have been for days fleeing from the
town known as Chanak, and their
dwellings have been pillaged by the
Turks.
The authorities. of Constantinople
are forcing Christians up to the age OF
As to work on the defenses protecting
Constantinople along the heights on
both sides of the Bosphorus.
A dispatch under date of March 20
from Athens said the Turks were for
tifying Lule Burgas, forty-fve miles
southeast of Adrianople, and other
places in the fear of possible attack
by Bulgaria. A Turkish army at Lule
Burgas is being trained by German or
ficers.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-03-27
AUSTRIAN OFFER
NOT SATISFACTORY
NEGOTIATIONS OVER CESSlON
OF TERRITORY ARE ABRUPTLY
BROKEN OFF.

Rome, March 26.-Efforts of Prince
Won Buelow, the German ambassador,
to bring about an agreement between
Italian and Austrian governments re-
garding the cession of territory, have
definitely failed. according to the Ag-
enzia Rationale, which says it is in
formed that when the last courier
from Vienna brought to ambassador
Austria's final terms they were of such
a nature that he did not consider it
worth while to submit them to the for
eign Office here. 1t Is reported that
Prince Won Buelow has resigned the
role of mediator.
A royal decree has been promulgat
ed extending the prohibition of exports
to include all metals, sulphate of alum
mum, cement, stearin, paraffine, ceres
in and all materials for tanning.
The Italian government on Feb. 8
prohibited the expectation of all food
stuffs except fruit, vegetables, milk
and butter. The order included
everything which might be used to
feed cattle and other animals or
poultry.
Rumania Excited.
Paris, March 26.-The fall Of Pr
zemysl has caused sensation in
Bucharest and resulted in increasing
popular clamor that Rumania enter
the war on the side of the allies, &C.
cording to a dispatch from the cores
pondent of the Petit Parisien.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-03-27
j, s, BATTLESH|P
At MEXICAN PORT
WAY TO BE KEPT OPEN FOR SHIP
MENT OF SISAL HEMP TO
AMERICAN PLANTS.

Washington, D. c., March 26.-The
battleship Georgia was due at Pro-
greso. Yucatan, today to cooperate
with the cruiser Des Moines in guard
ing foreign interests and maintaining
an open port for the shipment of sisal
hemp urgently needed in the United
States for the manufacture of binding
twine. Conditions in the Mexican state
were improved, Washington officials
said, and arrangements were under
way for the export of 10000 bales of
sisal now under contract by the Yuca-
tan government to American manufac-
turers.
Proposals to send a warship from
Galveston to Yucatan to carry more
than 100000 belonging to manufac-
turers to pay for hemp, were held In a
allegiance, pending determination Of
whether some other means could be
found to transport the money.
Field Not Destroyed.
Washington, D. c., March 26.-Rear
Admiral Caperton at Vera Cruz re-
ported today that reports of the burn
ing of sisal fields around Progreso
were untrue. He added that ships
were daily loading sisal and that
everything was quiet.