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tain packages. This puzzled him, for
his mamma had told him there would
be no gifts this year and he did not
expect any except what Santa Claus
would bring. Bobby asked his moth
er If what she brought In was intend
ed for Christmas, but she gave him
no satisfaction, though she took him
In her arms and gave him a bear hug
and dozen kisses, She seemed Ms
happy as IL she expected Santa Claus
to bring everything she wanted for
Christmas.
The day before Christmas mes
senger boy came with telegram for
Mrs. Sawyer. She tore of the envel-
ope and read it, and looked very hap
py. giving the messenger half dol
lar. Bobby asked what the telegram
was about. She told him it was about
n Christmas gift she and all the rest
OF the family were to receive, and
when Bobby kept asking again and
again "What is 1t mamma ?" she gave
him another bear hug and smothered
him with kisses.
Bobby had a sister. Edith, twelve
years old. and brother Jim. ten. Both
of them were too old to sympathize
with Bobby in his faith In Santa Claus
bringing him the gift he had promised
him In his letter. Indeed they didn't
believe Santa Claus really wrote let
ters to children. Bobby tried his best
to get out of Edith or Jim what made
their mother so happy. but they would
not tell. Indeed they seemed almost
as happy as she. Having failed with
them Bobby tried Peter the postman.
Peter said he suspected Santa Claus
had something to do with the family
happiness, but he wns not sure. So
poor Bobby was obliged to swallow his
curiosity and wait for Christmas morn
ing.
Bobby went to bed on Christmas eve
determined to resist the sandman and
keep his eyes open all night. SO that
he might get glimpse OF Santa Claus
and see what his remarkable gift was.
But the sandman soon began to drop
sand in Bobby's lids. and he was asleep
in ten minutes after his head struck
the pillow.
When Bobby awoke the sun was
quite high in the heavens. He heard
the word ''Bobby!" shouted in his ears
and at the same time felt himself gent
iy shaken. He did not awaken by de-
grees, but all at once. And there
standing before him and looking down
upon him, smiling, was his papa.
"Why, papa" he exclaimed, II
thought you were never going to come
home any more"
Santa Claus told me that he was
to bring me home to my little boy for
a Christmas gift"
Bobby threw his arms around his ia
Tiers neck and hugged and Rugged,
and 1t seemed that he would never
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Wrote His Letter.

give 1t 10 anybody but Bobby, saying
that Santa Claus required him to give
nny letters marked from Kris Krin-
gle" to the child to Whom 1t was ad-
dressed and to no one else. Bobby
opened 1t and read:
Dear Bobby:
II have received your letter and will
bring you the finest Christmas present
you ever received in your life.
SANTA CLAUS"
Bob of course was delighted with
this, and he noticed that from the
time of It's receipt everything about
the house seemed to take on certain
cheeriness. Bobby laid in wait for Pc
ter when he came again and asked him
lot of questions as to how and where
Santa Claus gave him the letter. Pc
ter said that he was not permitted to
tell children anything about Santa
Claus. They must hang mp their stock
lngs and wait for him to fill them.
This was three days before Christ
mas. Bobby who was very watchful
detected his mother smuggling in GER
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CHRISTMAS OF LONG AGO
Poignant Pangs Come Instead Of
Peace, as Season Causes Thoughts
Of the Past.

Christmas, slngularly enough for a
festival that il supposed to celebrate
JOY. Is characterized by sadness. The
time Of year. which Is supposed to be
fraught with good cheer. Is laden with
pain. Instead of peace, there are ex-
perienced poignant pangs.
Nor is 1t cynicism which says so /;
the average man in the street will tell
you the same. Neither Is grabbed age
sponsor for the crotchets of the time /;
unless, indeed, grabbed age begins in
this hurried era when man passes
his majority. Nor Is the tragic contrast
between the cloud. which now for the
fifth Christmas darkens Europe and
the world, and the bright star of Beth
lehem the reason for the somber tone
that sounds beneath the gay notes OF
the season, as the deep diapason of the
organ rolls beneath the ripping mel
ody. No; 1t is none of these things
which imparts to Christmas the SOM
berness which Is apparent to every
body who has passed into years of ma
turity.
It's memory that does 1t. Memory
plays tricks with us on these days.
Perhaps more than on any other holI-
day our minds revert to Christmases
that used to be. We like to think about
IT; we like to read the Christmas
Carol, because 1t puts in everlasting
words the emotion of gladness which
used TO dominate that day. No mat
ter how humble the home, memory
paints 1t in wonderful colors on this
one day, from the time we jumped
from the warm bed long before dawn
and scampered across the cold floor
TO get the stocking which somehow
had been stuffed during the night, to
the end of The plethoric home festival.
point of ,4on we We're rescued
from the v < of toys and packed
wenrily OF to sleep, more or less
troubled with painful suggestions of
turkey and mince pie.
There is only one thing that can
make Christmas real to grown-up,
and that is to do something for some
body who cannot pay 1t back. That
otherism Is. we begin to suspect, the
thing which dominated the Christmas
es that used to be and made them so
real that they remain warm ia mem
pry. Unless you would have memory
become dry specter, you yourself
must make real for little children of
the now the pictures which memory
conJures up for yon OF the Christmases
that used to be.-Saturday Globe.
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A o|lrriHt,naH Urrr
Ry Gharlrs Dhkfms

HB VqdIlEn 0uk1uh
q / have been looking on this
n evening at a merry company
n Of children assembled round
y that pretty French toy, =
y Christmas tree. The tree was
y planted on the middle Of
q great round table and tow
= cred high above their heads.
. 1t was brilliantly lighted by
Z a multitude of little. tapers
4 and everywhere sparkled and
r glittered with bright objects.
= There were rosy-cheeked dolls
3 hiding behind the green
= leaves, and there were real
/ watches with movable hands.
= at least, and an endless ca
-pacity for being wound up)
4 dangling from innumerable
4 twigs. There were French
r polished tables, chairs. bed
steads, wardrobes, eight-day
4 clocks and various other ar
4 ticles of domestic furniture
q Wonderfully made in tin at
Z Wolverhampton) perch ed
among the boughs. as II in
Y preparation for some fairy
u housekeeping.
n There were jolly. broad
= faced little men, much more
agreeable In appearance than
y many real men. and no won {;
q der, for their heads took Off
n and showed them to be full
of sugar plums. There were
fiddles and drums. There i,
4 were tambourlnes, books,
= workboxes. paint boxes. peep
show boxes. sweetmeat boxes
and all kinds of boxes. =;
\ There were trinkets for the
4 older girls, far brighter than
z any grownup gold and jew
els. There were baskets and
pincushions in all devices. ;
4 There were guns. swords and
r banners. real fruit, made ar
officially dnzzliDg with gold
4 ieaf: imitation apples. pears
4 and wnlnuts, crammed with i;
Il surprises. In short, as "A
= pretty child before me de-
Z lightedly whispered to anoth-
4 er pretty child, her bosom ,
i friend, "There was every
4 thl,-g. and more"
y - = - III - . - = - = III
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The Boys Are All Away

How shall we wreathe the holly?
How hang tho mistletoe7
How shall we keep the Christmas feast
with the joy we used to know,
When on the happy Christmas Day
The boys are all away?
The holly pricked their fingers
And brought wee drops of red.
When caught beneath the mistletoe
The laughing lassies fed.
No romping games this year wen play
The boys are all away.
But we will never shame the lads
with hearts 10 bold and true,
Well never mix our Christmas greens
With sombre boughs of yew:.
With courage high wen learn to say;
The boys are all away
Wen keep the heart and make the home
As bright as bright can be
And sing the carols old and sweet
OF Christs nativity,
Like Mary smile. the while We pray
For all the boys away.
-Ethelbert d. warhelu.
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0Oetdedtohss)her
B4tsxs1ssseeslslths.yk $3.50
BhG I'LL mnke >ib, on Szmas
Due
Beneatn the Mstletoe.
hi We Give Ourselves.

Christmas is not u day or n sea.
'son. but IA condition of heart and
mind. If we love our neighbors as
ourselves; If In our riches we are
poor in spirit and in our poverty we
are rich In grace; IL our charity
vaunteth not itself, but suffereth and
is kind; If when our brother asks
loaf we give ourselves instead; II
each day dawns in opportunity and
sets in achievement however small;
then every day is Christ's day and
Christmas is always near.
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FRS FOR CHRISTMAS TREES
Thousands of Balsams Supplied by
New England to Cities OF
East and Midwest.

Most of the tinsel-covered trees that
are set up each Christmas season in
the homes of Boston, New York and
Philadelphia, IL has been found, are
balsam frs, and many of the selected
specimens are even shipped compara-
lively long distances from their places
of growth to Chicago and the cities
Of the middle West.
While the balsam fir is popular as
a Christmas tree on account Of its
symmetrical and practically perfect
conical shape, 1t is in growing demand
for variety of uses. Its white,
straight-grained wood has come to be
used more and more in the manufac-
facture Of toys that hang from the
branches of Its younger fellows and
from the branches of the other ever
green's that are widely used in many
parts of the country.
The wood of the balsam fir Is used
TO large extent, also, in the manu-
facture of excelsior, Of which thou
sands of tons are used each holiday
season for the packing of gifts that
are sent by express and mail. The
udiSdm Ut Is the SOurcts toO, VI thc
wood from which are made many of
the food containers. such rs fruit
baskets and butter boxes. in which
materials for the Christmas dinner
are brought to the market, the taste
lessness of the wood making 1t unsur-
passed for such uses. Finally, the
balsam fir is being increasingly used
for the manufacture Of rl0ner md
this, wrapped around thousands of
holiday packages, adds still another
chapter to the list of the trees almost
indispensable usefulness as factor
In Christmas observances.
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1rrrtirhkr

o month far famed. For festive days
and nights renowned,
Joy fraught. with hallowed benedictions
crowned:
Iife's annual clearing house for retro
spective thought,
Where pensive memory recalls the smiles.
the tears
The hopes and joys of youth, the loves of
vanished years.
And sighs to see tho havoc, sad, that
Time has wrought.
o hoary month! In regions of the north
and east
The song of blrd and ripping of the
brook have ceased.
And Natures thousand charms of sum-
mer days have fled.
There Boreas regns, fierce god Of wind
and storms:
And winter all OF verdure into brown
and white transforms
And leaves trace OF life and beauty
sped.
o happy month! When keen anticipation.
sweet
Flies swift on wings of ardent love to
greet
with gifts the friend. the lover or the
kindred near.
As Winter closer draws his icy fettered
The heart expands and love unselnsh
And speeds its larsess to the ones most
dear.
nlustrious months of most illustrious
birth!
Good tidings. peace and joy to all the
earth
A heavenly choir announced when Christ
si was born. r
No other birth such mighty portent bore,
This Prince OF Peace whom heaven and
earth adore.
Christmas morni
u. C. Oliver in Los Angeles Times.
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HOLIDAY SEASON IN ITALY
Or. orenfeii Of Labrador Fame
Explains Christmas observances
in the Sunny Land.

Travellers visiting Rome while 1t
was still the center of land Of peace,
found Christmas there day of JOY
BUSINESS; and the merry bells Of many
churches, ushering In the day. spoke
the familiar Language of home.
Just before the war, DIR. Grenfell.
of Labrador fame, INDUCED in the
unusual luxury of q brief holiday in
Europe. after years of tIreless service
among the fishermen. His journey
brought him and Mrs. Grenfell to
Rome just as the many religious and
civil observances of the Christmas
season were about to take place. A
great contrast these scenes were to
dor.
|. The decorations, the greetings, and
the crowds fiocking in and out of
churches, emphasized the spirit of the
season. "All the places of worship into
which we peeped," he says, "were
ablaze with lights, while professions
of priests in glittering robes. with So
norous choruses and ascending incense,
appealed to the various senses"
At one church they viewed the five
boards believed to have formed Il part
Of the cradle of our Lord.
The American Episcopal Church of
st. Paul, where they worshiped on
Christmas morning, was crowded with
the Protestant population of the Holy
City. A feature of the service was the
.ledicating of a beautiful new mosaic,
rsvering one entire wall of the church
and representing the nativity of
Christ.
OF the Coliseum, says DIR. GrenfelI,
tive could think OF no place better to
suggest to our minds the communion
Of the saints; and as we walked
round the tiers of seats we could see
again the men of like passions with
ourselves giving their Hives for the
same Master we claim to serve"
When darkness hud fellen the trav-
ellers were attracted by numbers of
bright lights over by the POrta San
Giovanni. These proved to announce
"all the fun Of n fair'-there in Italy
Just as one finds them in this coun-
try Mt county fair"
=8a
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"why. P.pa!" He Exclaimed.

let go. Mamma. and Edith and Jim
came in and SO great was the excite
nent that Bobby forgot to look for
what was In his stocking.
That was certainly the happiest
Christmas the Sawyer family ever
spent or ever would spend. Bobby
was too young to have 1t all explained
to him, but when he is older his mother
Intends to tell him that his father was
on vessel that was torpedoed and
sunk. Mr.. Sawyer was reported miss
ing, but he was picked up out of the
water by an American cruiser and in
time managed to get home. After word
came that he was saved the letter was
written to Bobby by his sister as from
Santa Claus, and afterwards tele-
gram came saying that his father
would be home on Christmas morning.
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tningS Ior Cnrlst-
mas l want" said
B o b by Sawyer.
IN n m ma says
that because papa
won't ever come
home any more
we can't have any
Christmas gift. ]
don't see why, be-
cause papa was
lost at sea, Santa
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A Repeated Messaqe.

Every year Christmas repeats its
message: Fear God no more. He
brings liberty to the enslaved, light
to the despairing, purer joy to the
glad. He is the Comforter of the
sorrowing, the Physician OF the sick,
the Healer of the sinful, the Friend
and Companion OF mnn.-wilbur u.
Nesbit
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Day Of All Days.

Merry Christmas! may II find you
Gay with ail the best of cheer:
Joy come your way to remind you
OF the time OF all the year.
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New York.-Speaking Of honor
stars-and everyone was a week ago
it begins to look as If the Sammies
lover there" were going to take all
the stars away from the home folks.
The theatrical profession has vol
unteered body to go across and
take future rOutings on the hut"
circuit where they are always as
sured of a sincere hand but where
they will have to makeup in the
open, work without props" in many
foot or sidelights from a table top or
packing case stage.
Pershing has called for actors and
actresses to help cheer the lives of
the Sammies, to break the terrible
monotony of the battle front, to give
them contact with a home tie.
And the American stage is ready
to transplant itself.
Two Make Inspection Trip.
e. H. Sothern and Winthrop Ames
recently returned from a tour Of the
fronts where the Sammies are quar-
tered and their stories Of the need
for entertainment over there, detail
ed to the profession at a series Of
meetings here since their E~Eurn,
have resulted in the inception Of
movement to transport boatloads Of
talent to the other side.
Sothern, Ames and George M.
Cohan, who put the usual Conan en-
thusiasm into the movement as soon
as he joined it. have the plans in
hand. The actors and actresses have
placed themselves at the disposal Of
the Y. M. c. A. Thousands Of en-
tertainers have already enrolled
tragedians, comedians, singers, vau-
devillians.
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The organization is to be known
as the Over There Theater League.
Present plans call for the immedi-
ate formation of seventy-f1ve or
eighty companies to go Immediately.
Cohan, addressing one of the meet
ings, said:
"Pershing asks that it be done
and done quickly. Anything General
Pershing asks for he is going to
get"
Sammies Need It Most.
1.-THE necessity for entertainment
becomes obvious to you the moment
you land over there" said Sothern
after his trip. 1.-THE vehicle for en-
tertainment is naturally in the hands
Of the Y. M. c. A. The French and
British soldiers are not as badly off
as our Sammies. The Poilu and the
Tommy can easily go home for few
days now and then. Our Sammies
are over there to stay until the Hun
is crushed. That may take years.
And after the war the SammIes
are going to be over there for q
year or year and a half at least
relaxation and entertainment is go
ing to be even more acute than it is
now when they have work to do, our
battles to fight, and the ever-active
Hun to watch"
Ames, addressing one Of the meet
ings of the profession jocularly told
the actors that, as they would be I'M
der army supervision they could easily
be taken out and shot If their act
was rotten enough.
Shells "Speli" Drummer.
Eergt Arthur Guy Empey, in de-
scribing the picturesque theatrical
entertainments in huts so near the
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line that the lannon's roar was ever
present, told of one entertainment
where the shells were breaking so
regularly that the bass drummer
rested, letting the shells punctuate
the music Of the orchestra.
Some Of the earliest volunteers OF
the thousands who are enrolled were:
Maude Adams, Lillian Russell,
Frances Starr, William Collier Jane
Cowl, Billie Burke. Julia Sanderson,
Marie Doro, Elsie Ferguson, and
John Barrymore: Among the pro-
ducers early on the list were Charles
B. Dillingham;, Joseph Ritter and
Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. ~
William Collier expressed the
spirit of the volunteers when he told
Sothern: 'I'll go to head my own
company or to carry a spear or a
gun"
Sothern's plea, after telling the
need particularly for vaudeville folks
who would get along with less
props" and conveniences, was sum-
med up thus:
you can very we'll comprehend
that the man who lives in Kankakee
or Cincinnati or Reno or any city or
town in this broad land and who has
seen actors and actresses at his
home theater or his home movie
would take q, new lease on life should
he learn that these very actors and
actresses he knows have cared
enough about him to cross the ocean
and give him the little entertainment
that he Graves. Shall we not show
these boys that we appreciate the
fight they are making for us and that
we are willing to do something In our
turn? Can't you see how 1t Is go
ing to affect their morale!"
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Amendment to
Widen Sidewalks

The first reading Of an amendment
to the present ordinance defining the
manner Of construction of sidewalks
IN Fargo was made by the city COM
mission at its regular meeting this
morning.
The amendment provides that side
walks hereafter constructed on
Eighth street south between First
and Tenth avenues, on Fret avenue
south between Seventh and Ninth
streets and on Broadway between
Sixth and Ninth avenues north shall
be six feet in width; and on Broad
way between Fifth and Sixth ave-
nues north 10 feet in width.
The amendment is intended to
take care Of increased traffic on the
first streets named, and for the ex-
tension northward on Broadway of
the business district.
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Hanson Files
For County Job

N. B. Hanson. Barnesville, has fill
ed-as a candidate for county attorney
of Clay county. Mr. Hanson is may
or of his home city and was city at
torney when elected to his present
Office. He has been engaged in the
practice Of law at GAINESVILLE for the
past Is years.
This filing makes a contest at the
primaries on June II, to select the
two candidates whose names will go
on the ballot for the general cleo
ten in November. The other two
candidates for nomination are N. I.
johnson and G. Fl. Rustad. both Of
MOorhead
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George S. Barnes
Indicted Today

An indictment for manslaughter in
the second degree was returned
this morning, by the Clay county
grand jury at Moorhead. against
George s. Barnes. charged with caus-
ing the death Of Mike Magnus on
March 10. 1t is charged that Mr..
Barnes was driving his automobile
at a high rate Of speed on the state
road east Of DilwOrth when he struck
Magnus and threw him into a pool Of
water in the bottom Of the ditch at
the road side.
The other indictments returned by
the grand Jury were all for violations
Of the liquor law. Following are the
indictments made public:
Six indictments were returned and
the following were made public:
George s. Barnes, manslaughter in
the second degree.
Edward LOdgard, storing and keep
ing liquor for sale N violation Of the
county option laws.
Oscar Hanson, Albert Hammered
and J. E. Fitzgerald, jointly, for keep
ing and storing liquor for sale.
Oscar Hanson and Albert Hammer
I'D jointly on the same charge.
William Bake, selling liquor to a
minor
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EAST SIDE NOTES

Walter Fosnes. an attorney OF st
| Paul was a caller this morning al
the Office Of City Attorney James "A.
Brick Berman and ]. P. Nelson,
| Oakport township farmers, in MOOT
head this morning, said the crops In
| that locality were only slightly in
| jured by the Saturday ana SUNDAY
night frosts.
N. H. STADIUM, Dr. L. M. Lowe and
r. B., Osborn were visitors from
Glyndon today.
Rev. Geo. w. Powell will give an
illustrated lecture on the Ruined
Churches of France" at Grace NJ. d.
church. this evening.
F. w. Altenbernd and Louis Alien
bernd, farmers and potato growers,
were up from Sabtn this morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. p. H. Lamb returned
on Tuesday evening from trip to
the twin cities.
Sen. f. H. Peterson was at Ada
Tuesday on business in the Norman
county district court.
The total amount realized at the
annual tax sale for Clay county, held
on Monday by Co. Aud. A. Q. Houg-
lun, was $s,4$0.23.
Clerk of Court G. d. McCubreyg is
sued marriage license on MONDAY
to eSevert Runde and Carrie Raul, both
of Ulen, Clay county.
+ Chester Mills, of the Macnab phar-
macy has been appointed recruiting
agent for the merchant marine by the
United States shipping board. Enlist
ment by men of draft age e1empGs
them from service Ina the army. after
a month on training ship the men
will be given positions in the mer-d
chant marine service.
/. q. Week, Moorhead, has purchased
a stock Of general merchandise at
Pekin, NJ u.
Edwin Adams, county fuel admins
traitor. was at Breckenridge Tuesday 4
Thomas NJ Roach. old settler OIL
eastern Clay county, was here Tues
day on business.
Martin b. IL. Wilk, of 64eorget town,
IN Woorhead TuesdRy, said the frost +
had not caused much damage no crops Il
rs that mart Of Clay county.