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The Holt County sentinel., 1916-12-22

SVEsvtVVoD SsVVOSs
iionnire feel n little tug at his hcart
and remember the poor.
u IL characteristic Of the day that
tho most widely separated c,nsses arc
often sorry. each for the other That
N why At holiday time tho rich esi'e'
chilly put money Into circulation. It
has been roughly calculated thnt In
New York alone s25!U0.O0D II spent
every Christmas time. From what I
can learn from charity organizations.
Il would not bc mn extreme estimate TO
say that IN the entire United States
nearly u billion dollars changes hands
nj this open hearted scnson OF the year.
or course. this does not mean q billion
dollars worth of charity; I means tho
money spent upon Christmas In every
form. Still, n great part In charity.
To give q dinner ON Christmas de-
lights the hearts ~ many rich men.
The annual Christmas elbow out
given by the late Timothy u, sullivan
% the poor ~ the lower east side of
New York has become known through.
out the country. Every year big
TIN fl,cd about 5000 people with
food md good cheer. IL addition
everybody received "A 81 blu aud a new
mir ~ shoes. The Sullivan dinners.
which hive been carried on by his heirs.
used I'M 5000 pounds OF turkey aud
chicken, twenty barrels of potato
saInd. ton boxes OF celery, 1000 loayes
of bread. 1900 mics, go gallons OF cof-
fec and forty kegs OF beer. Being a
polltIcian. Sullivan distributed charity
in many forms throughout tho year,
but those who knew him wei sny that
no locked forward with the earcrpess
of n boy 10 the feeding of Ibis home.
less on Christmas day.
III. covcrnmcn, secs Tint tho army
AMI n.yy receIve n worry Good christ.
mn. IInn.r I'm, rncle sam Jisncnses
nn chnr,,y Nys n Shanarn UIo,.
on conlJ o,woys maize. n, y no,n, %
so,L snm. annrn,r,o,c rrosen, ,o ,ba
n.va, branches NJ ,he younc Mems
Christian association. and .o" boorI
many battleshIps 90 boxes filled with
tobacco. reading matter and other
things to gladden. the hearts OF the
sailors. II IL significant that at Christ.
mas her name Il chcercd by every tar
In the United States navy.
This giving OF Christmas dinners Is a
The Holt County sentinel., 1916-12-22

port Offering inducement for Christ
mas or New Years revels.
II one has a son, brother or n friend
among the men serving on the ships OF
the American acct In tho far east 20
whom one proposes sending Christmas
gifts. tho following. taken from n little
monthly published on ono OF the
American battleships Mt Yokohama. IL
timely:
"Shonld you wish to send him wear
ing apparel, a pair Of pink garters
would not BE- out Of order, as these he
wears, but the pay department has
overlooked them N the small stores
Towels aud handkerchief are accept.
able, and q Jackknife IL u good thing.
The bell strikes every half hour aboard
ship, but a watch might save his being
late for the liberty boat. II you send
him q good fountain pen DO may re-
member you more frequently with let.
tiers, and II he smokes send him q
pipe. but cut out hand painted neck.
ties, cravat pins. slipper cases. collar
boxes and embroidered pillowslips.
Fancy socks win surely catch the
esgie eye Of his division oficsr. and
thar he win b. up against 'nonreg.'
OF course he. would appreciate any.
thins you send. yet many things eet
spoiled In the bottom Of his bag while
waiting till bis time h OUT New
York Evening Post
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The Realm Of
,f Christmas Fancy

70 the realms Of Christmas fancy
! must speed away, away.
Where the elfs Of Joy are dancing
And the sprites Of pleasure play:
I must 90 where gentle fairies
Whisper softly on the air
And the gift king waves his scepter
Over blessings sweet and rare.
Childhoodi realm Of Christmas
fancy
Once sgain shall feast my eyes
With the old time love and rapture,
With the old time fond surprise.
In the Pickering hearthstone shad.
In the music and the mirth,
Once again each dear remembrance
speaks good will and peace on
earth.
IN the realms Of Christmas fancy
I shall very shortly see
All the old, beloved memories
Coming back to gladden. me.
Long forgotten forms and faces,
Long departed thoughts and
dreams,
I shall find in those fair vistas
Where the Christmas glory
streams.
-Lurana Sheldon in New York
Times.
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Lovely Of Him.

"What Q kind man Mr.. Wigham IL.
lie always does all the Christmas shop.
ping for his wife"
isn't that lovely Of him? II gives
her chance to put In all her time Just
booking around and pricing things
Chicago RecOrd-IIcraid.
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Christmas.

White IL the frost upon the fr.
And white the rhine upon the thorn.
An ashen cloud, with threat OF snow,
Has yelled the eyes OF morn.
The wind II like a burdened heart
That may not still It's plaintive moan.
And sobs behind tho wooded hills
In seris undertons.
And yet within the chimney's throat
The backlog sings with lyric glse.
And there 70 sound OF chtldrsn's mirth
And buoyant minstrsisy.
And down the spacious aisies OF air
Triumphant music sinks and sweliA
Their Peace on earth. good will to usni
Peal out the Christmas bells
Clinton ecoilsri In Cincinnati Connie
cial Tribune.
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lessSSsosssssssssssssseee
Delights Of Christmas
An Ancient Poem

!: An Ancient Poem
SssssssssssssssssssssssssS
When Christmas approaches each
bosom 10 gay,
That festival banishes sorrow away,
While Richard he kisses both Susan
and Dolly
When tricking the house up with
ivy and holly,
For never - yet II was counted Q
crime
TO .e merry and cherry at that hap.
py time.
Then come turkey and chine, with
the famous roast beef,
OF English provisions still reckoned
the chief.
Roger wishes the cook maid his
wishes to crown,
"0h, Dolly, pray give me . bit Of
the brownw
For never a. yet IL was counted .
crime
10 be merry and cherry at that hap.
py time.
The luscious plum pudding does
smoking appear,
And the charming minee pie 10 not
fer from the rear.
Then each ticks his chops to behold
such . sight,
For to taste II affords him superior
delight,
For never % yet II was counted Q
crime
10 BE- merry and cherry at that hap.
py time.
Now the humming October goes
merrily round,
And each with goed humor 10 hap.
PLY crowned.
The song and the dance and the
mirth giving Jest,
Alike without harm by each one Il
expressed.
For never . yet II was counted .
crime
TO b merry and cherry at that hap.
py time.
Twelfth day next approaches to give
you delight,
And the sugared rich cake 10 die.
played to the sight;
The man and the maid and the
king and the queen
Alike must b present to add to the
For never % yet II was counted q
crime
70 DO merry and cherry ct that hap
py time.
Nay each be found thus a. the year
circles round,
With mirth and good humor each
Christmas be crowned,
And may all who have plenty Of
riches in store
With their bountiful blessings make
happy the poor,
For never es yet II was counted
crime
TO be merry AMI cherry at that hap
py time.
Anonymous.
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Columbus. o.-Thousands Of resi-
dents IN many Ohio cities celebrated
their 1rst municipal Christmas eve
with community Christmas trees and
completed preparations FOR serving
thousands of unfortunn'cs with Christ
mas dinners, Church chimes, boys
choirs, large choruscs and brass bands
furnished music for the municipal ce'e
brations.
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Christmas Time, BY ohaksspssrs.
0oms say that ever gainst that season
comes
wherein our saviour's birth u celebrated
The bird Of dawning singsth all night
long.
And than. thsy s.y. no spirit dare stir
abroad:
The pightssars wholssoms; then no plan
.ets eeeiks.
No fairy takes nor witch hath power TO
-"Hamlst," Act !. Scene !.
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mas diniT,

Cincinnati. O,-Isinging OF chimes all
over the city, fanfare Of irnmpets.
carols by a selected choir OF boys AMI
a brilliant illumination Of the munich
pal Christmas tree ushered IN Cincii-
nati's public Christmas celebration,
The city Christmas tree. forty'hve feet
In height. was illuminated with cleo.
tric lights. There was no attempt to
distribute presents, but the musical
dedication OF the tree by singing So
cietIes drew crowd which taxed the
capacity OF Government square. I'm
der the auspices OF Santa Claus as
ISOLATION 10000 Christmas dinners
were delivered TO the DOOR Tho bas-
kets contained food and toys and
were made up with the assistance OF
boy scouts.
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Just Before
Christmas Day

Last night when we were Il tea the
little fellow said:
Paw, what are all those packages
hid beneath your bedr
I almost choked upon my food and
mother simply smiled
A though to say we're bringing M
Q very knowing child.
Ees waiting for me at the door
when I get home at night.
I try to sneak into the house and
not turn on the light
And get upstairs before I dof my
overcoat and hat,
But he 10 Johnny on the spot. with
Paw, oh, what 10 thatf"
Hes cycling me suspiciously. Ireal.
.ly think he tries
With all his youthful artfulness to
take me by surprise.
He hasn't intimated yet that he has
found 10 out,
But eyes and ears are open wide
whenever we're about.
I spelled . phrase to mother once,
and then he promptly said:
II guess it's time now. NAV, for me
to 80 upstairs to bed.
An suppose that you an paw will
talk out when I'm gone"
I'd make an anldavit that the little
rsscal's on.
Detroit Free Press.
The Holt County sentinel., 1916-12-22

Playing cards st Christmas.
Playing cards when first introduced
into England were looked upon purely
rs q Christmas pastime.
The Holt County sentinel., 1916-12-22

Evansville. Ind.-Hungry horses ~
ceivsd q Christmas feast at the e.
penss Of Adolph Melzer. philanthropist
and fbiend Of dumb animals.
The Holt County sentinel., 1916-12-22

Christmas island, In the Pacific ocean.
10 80 named because Captain Cook
landed there Christmas day. l777.
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aud Christmas dinners Tor the poor. aud
they were assisted by charitable or
ganlzntionS.
The Holt County sentinel., 1916-12-22

Detroit. Mich.-Detroit's municipal
Christmas tree, gayly decorated with
lights, tlnsel aud toys. was the center
Of attraction for thousands OF citizens
and children. A large band and choir
furuishod the music.
The Holt County sentinel., 1916-12-22
Holiday Time In Holland.

The country where the people enter
most thoroughly. perhaps. into the splr.
1t OF the nativity Is Holland. In near.
~ every Dutch town at 2 o'clock on
Christmas morning the young men as
sembie 10 the market place and light
large bonares aud sing carols until
dawn. when they repair to the house
Of some prominent man and partaks OF
q bountiful breakfast. England, bow.
ever, furnishes the best exsu0le Of the
Christmas carols.
The Holt County sentinel., 1916-12-22

A. Christmas D Merry.
Al CHRISTMAS bs merry and thanitul
Wtthal
Ana feast thy poor nslshborA the srsst
with the small.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-12-28
INDIAN TRIBES USE
WhISTLIhG LANGUAGE
Able to Express Their Thoughts
Perfectly by Its Use, Says
Mining Engineer.

Carlisle, Pa.-That entire TRIES of
Indians in Mexico carry on long con
versations by means Of whistling Is as
serted by Harold T. Mapes, mining en-
sineer. who was for twelve years in
Mexico, but now lives in Carlisle.
Mapes declares hat the Indians have
a whist1ng langn re and are able to
express their thoughts perfectly by its
use. He says it Is not series Of signs
or calls signifying danger. love, fear,
peace, war, etc, but regular language,
by which the most subtle shades of
thought may be expressed.
Like people In other parts Of the
world, the Mexican Indians occasion
ally whistle for their dinners, only they
are able to explain by their whistles
exactly what kfad OF dinner they
want--either a simple meal of tortillas
and frijoles or more elaborate feast
Of enchiladas and mole qua jalote, with
cervezt or vino.
Mapes says that he understands that
the whistling language has been hand.
ed down from generation TO generation
from the time of the Totecs and AZ
tees and that Indian lovers can put
world Of tenderress and passion into
their whistled declarations of love or
stir their fellows to heroic deeds by
the fiereeness with which they whistle
a call to arms.
A whistling language has been used
from time imraemorial by the Swiss
mountaineers, and Neapolitan sailors
converse frequently by means Of whis-
Ting Corvicts In the big jails in Ma
pies cons erse freely by means of whis-
tling. and there Is apparently no limit
to their whistllng vocabulary
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-12-28
BOSTON STAYS Wet
BY LARGE MAJORITY

Boston, Dec. 21. Billy Sundays
campaign for a dry Boston failed. The
greatest effort ever made to have the
sale of liquor made illegal for a year
after May L. next, under the annual
local option referendum, resulted in
an increased majority for license. the
largest for six years.
The vote complete stood: Yes, 53,-
559; no, 29,997; a majority for license
OF 23, 462
Not since 1892 had Boston ever pv.
fore been in danger of being dry
When Billy Sunday came here early
last month, however, fresh from a
prohibition triumph in Michigan,
things began to num-
There is reasonable ground for the
deduction that Sundays campaign in
creased the license vote. IL was re
ported that certain conventions would
not be held in Boston if the city should
go dry and Boston hotels have deriv-
ed a large revenue annually from ma
tional conventions of various associa-
tions
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-12-28
UpSETS VALUABLE AUTO
TO SAVE LIFE OF A DOG
Four Passengers Are Hurt, and Then
the Car Burns Up.

Mineola. n. Y.--A dog which trotted
along the Fulton roadway In the path
Of auto traffic on the Hampstead plains
Indirectly caused the loss of O large
touring car ana the injury Of its four
occupants, Dr Henry y. Read and
Mrs. Read and tlrer two sons. Lewis
and Edmund
Edmund Read acting as chauffeur.
came upon the dog at "A turn of in the
read and attempted to turn aside, but
the auto shidded and turned complete
ly over twice after the physician and
his family had been thrown clear OF
the revolving body of the car. 4. c.
Nandewater called an ambulance from
the Nassau hospital. DR. Read. sew
enty years old. and his wife. aged
sixty. were I'm serious condition from
shock, and their sons were cut and
bruised. Al were taken 10 the hospital.
Shortly after the accident. which oc-
CURED about mile east of Hemp
stead. the dry grass of the Hampstead
plains became ignited from some un-
known cause. ana despite the efforts
OF persons living near by to extinguish
the flames or to rescue the auto. the
fire reached the gasoline tank and ex.
ploded IL. The car, which lay bottom
up i'm ditch. was consumed to the
steel framework.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-12-28
TWO THOUSAND VOICES IN
CHORUS CHRISTMAS EVE
viii Be Supplemented by Soloist and
Orchestra Of Seventy Pieces.

New York. The New York Commu-
nifty chorus. under the direction OF
Harry Barnhart. will try to have al
most all New York sing on Christmas
eve There will be Christmas songs
around the Christmas tree I'm Madison
square, and later the chorus and as
many other people as the place can
hold will fill Madison Square Garden
and sing Handel's Messiah"
The chorus probably viii contain be-
tween 1900 and 1000 persons. who
have been practlcing the oratorio for
two months They will be supple
mented by a soloist and an orchestra
of seventy pieces.
Mr.. Barnhart, who. with Arthur Far
wen, the composer; w. Kirkpatrick
Brice, the treasurer. and Claude Brag-
don, the architect and the creator OF
the Light" half Of "Song and Light"
was impressed first by the national in
eptitude for music. When listening TO
a band concert In park at Rochester
he suddenly was struck by the idea
that the mute and enchanted crowd
would be glad to sing If they had only
the opportunity and training.
To fill this need he organized com
munity chorus I'm Rochester and later
smaller one at Lyons. \. Y. Ii was
only In January of 1915 that the New
York Community chorus was attempt
ed, but since then its ranks have been
expanding rapidly until 1t now is neces-
sary to transfer 1t from the auditorium
OF De Witt Clinton high school to Mad
ison Square Garden for the Christmas
celebration.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-12-28
SEVEN THOUSAND MILE
VOYAGE is MADE BY TUG
Mistaken a Dozen Times For Sub
marine In Trip Across
Atlantic.

New York.A remarkable sea voy-
age Of 1000 miles, from Dordrecht,
Holland, to Tampico, Mexico, In tug
boat but sixty feet in length. with a
draft of three feet. has just been COM
pleted by crew OF men under the
leadership of Captain III. Waltaker.
Captain Waltaker and his crew, OF
whom one was f. NJ. Eden, young
artist of Amsterdam, who made the
trip to satisfy a longing for adventure,
started home ON the steamship Nieuw
Amsterdam.
The voyage required elghty-four days
time and was made doubly hazardous
by the fact that the tug could carry
only twenty-seven tons of coal. FIRE.
quent attempts TO stop passing vessels
to replenish the bunkers failed. Each
time the presence of the small boat in
the path of steamship would send the
vessel zigzagging away in the belief
that the tug might be a disguised sub
marine.
I'VE were taken for a submarine u
dozen times during the trip" said Mr..
Eden, 'and each time the vessel took
to flight and we could not catch her.
although we were badly I'm need OF
coal and provisions"
The tug was the Fuerta, built by the
Corona Oil company Ia its shipyards
In Holland for use In towing oil barges
in the Panuco river In ordinary cir
cumstances the tug would have been
transported Iashed to ships deck, but
the freight rate demanded was deemed
exorbitant, and Captain Waltaker was
selected to make the voyage with tb0
tug under her own power
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-12-28

from English sources states that the
bottom OF the canal through this sec
ton Is found 10 be bog, which Is con
stantly being pushed up and through
which the dredges have difficulty In
maintaining a channel; further, that II
Is acknowledged on the part of those
in charge that the canal is failure
and that American engineers are seeh
ing information in England relative to
the Nicaragua route.
''Such reports are false, and there Il
no foundation for them. Gaillard cut
extends from Pedro Miguel to Gamboa,
a distance Of S.7J miles Every foot %
the existing channel was excavated
through rock, all Of which had to be
drilled and blasted. The bog theory is
a myth.
The cut has been stable with the ex-
ception Of the portions in the vicinity
Of Culebra and at Cucaracha. The
slides at Culebra ere on both sides of
the waterway, occupying a length OF
2,S00 feet, while the channel affected
by the Cucaracha slide is less than
1000 feet long. so that out Of a total
length of S.75 miles only OSS mile is
affected"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-12-28
SQUIRREL ATTACKS COP.
Makes Flying Leap, Burying Teeth In
Thumb and Forefinger.

New York.-A gray squirrel that had
been making a somewhat hopeless
hunt for nuts in Morningside park
near One Hundred and Twentieth
street, suddenly showed renewed inter
est In its work as Patrolman Karl NJ
Huber of the West One Hundred AMI
Twenty-fifth street police station came
along a winding path. With a screech
in the squirrel tongue that sounded
like long drawn out Eureka" the
squirrel made flying leap at the cop.
This at least is the version OF the
squirrels attack on the cop told by
some witnesses. Patrolman Huber
whose version of the incident also
should be listened to. says that while
he was trying to drive off a squirrel
which had alighted on the shoulder OF
frightened small boy the squire
grabbed Huber and tried to crack him.
DR.. NJ. X. Smith of st Luke's hospi-
tai looked at the pollceman's right
hand and found that Huber had not
come nearer 10 death than some squir.
rel tooth marks on the thumb and fore
finger
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-12-28
CATTLE KING BEGAN
As HELPER IN MARKET
Romantic Rise cf Butcher Boy
Who Died Leaving an Estate
of $2O,OOO,OOO.

Oakland, CaL--The romantic rise OF
young German butcher boy, once the
butt of jokes at Washington market, in
New York, for his inability to speak
English, to the position of cattle king
of the west and probably the largest
single land owner in the country has
been revealed by legal controversy
over the administration Of his estate IN
California
Three years before he died In Oak
land, Henry Miller decided his entire
S20,000O00 estate to his daughter, Mrs
j. Leroy Nickel Of San Francisco, to
avoid the Inheritance tax collectors OF
the state. The collectors now are ut
tempting to find way in which tney
can collect the tax.
Miller came to this country from
Wurttemberg, Germany, In 1S47. He
worked for time In a small down
town hotel In New York as a porter.
Finally he obtained work in Washing
ton market as apprentice. where he
was known as "P0tsdam."
He saved his money and In Decem-
ber, 1850. joined the gold rush to Call.
fornia. He arrived too late to get to
the gold fields and got job as a Sec
ond butcher In San Francisco. In ten
months he had saved enough TO set u2
for himself. Then the miners who Ls~l
found the gold came back and, spend
Ing their money recklessly, made for
tunes for the merchants Of the town.
Miller later became associated witt
Charles Lux, a cattleman, and togethe,
they bought hundreds OF thousands OF
acres of grazing land In California.
Oregon, Nevada and other western
states. They went into the cattle rails
Ing business and at one time owned
$4,000 head Of cattle and 100000 sheep
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-12-28
CAN OF MONEY FOUND.
Small Boys Pay Out $4,000 For so
Cents Worth of Candy.

San Francisco, Cal. = Three small
boys, whose aggregate age is twenty
years, plaling near San Francisco's
new City and County hospital, un-
earthed the "end of the rainbow" In
the tangible form of tomato can
stuffed with real money.
Five thousand dollars In FIVE dollar
notes-federal reserve bills of the issue
Of 1914-the boys pulled forth anC
then began an onslaught upon neigh
boring candy stores. They did not count
the money, but exchanged sheaves oi
the bills FOR bags of candy.
In all they passed out $4,000 for 90
cents worth of sweets before they wert
observed by police officer, who took
the remaining $1,000 In charge.
In the opinion of the police the money
was Buried by thief. The money will
be returned to the boys IL it Is not
claimed and identified.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-12-28
GIRL JILTS ARE FALSE,
SAYS PROFESSOR SHAW
Don't Believe Her When She Says
She'll Be- Your Friend.

New York.-"When a girl says. 4
cannot be your wife, but I'll be your
friend she tries TO speak the truth.
but utters a psychological falsehood,
declared Professor Charles Gray Shaw
head Of the philosophy department of
the New York university. in a lecture
at the institution.
Professor Shaw argued that no wom-
an could be a friend to men or TO
women, because friend requires a
clear cut personality and a dislnter
ested outlook on life. Both of these,
clared that friendships between men
were passing from the earth.
woman cannot he friend because
she Is never an individual. for to be
an individual one must stand alone,
he said. "Only those who stand alone
can come together
Professor Shaw said that woman was
like a planet-well adapted tQ revolye
about some center, "but not organized
in such a way as to stand alone
Unfortunately, masculine friend
ships are just passing from the earth,
and in the course of time friends will
be found only In museums. along with
other aboriginal products. This mel
ancholy situation Is due to the fact
that modern life tends to destroy per-
sonallty and philosophic view of the
world. Man is bound to man not by
ties of friendship. but by bonds of pro
fessisnalism which are usually OF q
commercial character"