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The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-12-18
A CHRISTMAS WALN

I'm sflvery softness the anthem closed
Like a slowly silenced bell:
The sacred calm OF a peace divine
Like a benediction fell;
And out on the morning light that spread
A glimmer of amber gray,
] walked with Margery home from church
On an old, old Christmas Day.
A bland, mild day-for the rugged month
Had CHOSEN aAlkindly mood,
Like a wonder full mellow aftermath
From the Autumn's plenitude.
With scarcely tang Of wholesome cold
Did the Winters breezes blow,
AS Margery walked from church with me
On Christmas long ago.
The earnest words that had touched our
The warnings, kindly and wise
Had left shadow of tenderness
In Margery's violet eycsI
The merry, hoydenish maid I'd known
For twelvemonth's flying space,
Had taken on that old Christmas Day,
new and womanly grace.
AS through the tremulous opal clouds
That shifted and swayed apart,
A sun ray lighted the rosy face,
The wish was born in my heart
That down the trail Of the unspent years.
Whatever their trend might be,
The soft-eyed maiden beside me then,
Might walk to the end with me.
Absently watching the velvet flakes
BY the white gale set awning,
I breathe the spirit of other years
While the bells of Yuletide ring;
And near me, smiling with happy eyes
At our children's romping plaX&
Is the girl who walked from church with
me
On that old, sweet Christmas Day.
Harriet Whitney Durbin. in Peoples
Home Journal.
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iH%a 80 SS11EESsa $50
LESSON OF CHRISTMAS DAY
Example Of Christ Should Inspire Un-
seIfishness and Make Us Try to
Remedy Faults.

Christmas should inspire world Of
unSelf1Shness. The example before us
is almost too perfect, for it rather
frightens us to attempt such divine
heights of self-abnegatiOn, but we can
try. 1t will at least take US from the
depths of selfishness, where most of US
now are. Each Christmas day should
teach us something of the lesson of
the Holy Child's life.
If we could learn from Christmas,
today and in the succeeding years the
serious lessons of self oetterment and
ennoblement it has to offer, how in
fnitely better it would be than just
to look on it as a holiday for gifts and
feasts, for extravaganza and foolish
ness.
So take an hour or two off on
Christmas day and give it up to retro
Epective and self-inspet ton. You will
each find faults, if you judge yourself
impartially, for no one s perfect. Then
make serious determination to try
to overcome those faults, for only try
ing to improve is there any growth in
character. If you are satisfied with
yourself you stay just as you are with
all your faults and virtues. But If
you try hard to remedy the faults your
character is constantly growing broad
er. This is the lesson which Christ
mas day has for each of you.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-12-18

to watch in all the chimneys on Christ
mas eve to catch Santa Claus, but even
if they did not see Santa Claus COM
ing down, what would that prove? No
body sees Santa Claus, but that is no
sign that there is no Santa Claus. The
most real things in the world are those
that neither children nor men can see.
Did you ever see fairies dancing on the
lawn? OF course not; but that's no
proof that they are not there. Nobody
can conceive or imagine all the won
ders that are unseen and unseeable in
the world.
"You may tear apart the baby's rat
tie and see what makes the noise in
side, but there is a veil covering the
| unseen world which not the strongest
man, nor even the united strength of
all the strongest men that ever lived,
could tear apart. Only faith, fancy,
poetry, love, romance, can push aside
that curtain and view and picture the
supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is
it all real? All, Virginia, in all this
world there is nothing else real and
abiding.
"No Santa Claus! Thank God, he
lives and he lives forever. A thousand
years from now, Virginia, nay 10 times
10000 years from now, he will con-
tinue to make glad the heart Of child
hood"
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-12-18
A SEASONABLE SERMONETTE

c Cheerfulness is a personal posses
sion, but you can
n Hand some of it on to those whose
weary, Grab lives
r Represent naught but a grim strug-
gle to exist, whose
. Inheritance is labour and sorrow
stranger to joy.
S So, in kindly spirit, go forth, seek,
and find some Of
T These joyless ones. Bring some
cheer into their lives.
M Make it a Christmas resolve that
you WILL out of your
A Abundance or suficiency, make,
with kindly heart, the
S Sun to shine at Christmas in. one
poor home at least.
D Do this, and the deed shall bring
you such sweet JOY
A And satisfaction that the remem-
brance of it will make
Y Your own Christmas a HAPPY
one in deed and in truth.
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CHRISTMAS FACTS IN BRIEF
Day Celebrated as Christian Festival
for Centuries-HoIly Once
a Sacred Plant.

Christmas day is the anniversary of
the birth of Christ, and has been cele-
brated as a Christian festival for sew
eral centuries. The Christmastide lasts
from the 25th of December to the 9Th
of January, the twelfth day after
Christ's nativity.
The origin of the Christmas tree is
obscure; the thought of Christ as the
Light of the World and the Tree OF
Life may have given rise to the light
bearing tree, or the popular old belief
that every Christmas eve, trees bios
SOmed and bore fruit, may have been
the fOunda ton of the custom.
Gift-giving is, of course, the echo
of the Wise Mems gifts; and mince
pie, turkey and plum buildings are
modern relics Of the pagan feasts.
Santa Claus, known to every child in
every land in this old world is the per-
sOnification Of the spirit of loving and
giving.
The holly, synonymous of Christ
mas, was sacred plant, and the mis-
tlntae mysterious plant, supposed by
the ancient Druids to have some mys-
tic power of healing and preventing
misfortune. 1t was never allowed to
touch the ground, hence the modern
superstition that it is unlucl1y for a
mistletoe bough to fall from it's place.
1t was dedicated to the Goddess OF
Love, which explains the custom Of
kissing under the mistletoe.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-12-18
II You Need a Medicine
You Should Have the Best

Have you ever stopped to reason why
it is that so many products that are ex.
tensively advertised, all at once drop out
of sight and are soon forgotten? The
reason is plain-the article did not fulfil
the promises of the manufacturer. This
applies more particularly to a medicine.
A medicinal preparation that has real
curative value almost sells itself, as like
an endless chain system the remedy is
recommended by those who have been
benefited, to those who are in need of it.
A prominent druggist says "Take for
example DR.. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, a.
preparation I have sold for many years
and never hesitate to recommend, for in
almost every case it shows excellent re-
suits, as many of my customers testify
No other kidney remedy has so large a
SALE"
According to sworn statements and
verified testimony of thousands who have
used the preparation, the success of DR..
Kilmer's Swamp-Root is due to the fact.
80 many people claim, that it fulflls al
most every wish in overcoming kidney,
liver and bladder ailments; corrects uri-
nary troubles and neutralizes the uric
acid which causes rheumatism.
You may receive a sample bottle OF
Swamp-Root by Parcels Post. Address
DR.. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y,
and enclose ten cents; also mention this
paper. Large and medium size bottles
for sale at all drug stores.-Adv.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-12-18
CHRISTMAS

Sparkling snow Oh the ground
an invigorating tang to the
air-the mouth-wa g ring smell
of cooking from the cozily-warm
kitchen-our boy safely home
from overseas with brave stories
to tell and all the N anhOOd crys-
tallized in him-relatives and
old friends gatherir g at the fes-
tive tablezholly wi'eaths at the
windows and a cracking fire in
the open hearth-ihe hilarious
laughter of kiddies as the new
toys make them b lbble over
mistletOe nailed I1ischievOuSly
above the door for the kiss you
mean to give bustling, unsus-
picious mother-the silvery,
tranquil peal of !hurch bells
across the soft-snOwed open
places-an amazing forgetful-
ness of the dour anticipations
and business worries of only
yesterday-a sudden re-belief
that love is life
That is Christmas
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-12-18
DON'T WHIP!
Stop Lashing Your Bowels
with Harsh Cathartics but
take "Cascarets. %

Everyone must occasionally give the
bowels some regular help or else SUI
fer from constipation, bilious attacks
stomach disorders, and sick headache"
But do not whip the bowels into ac-
tivity with harsh cathartics.
What the liver and bowels need is a
gentle and natural tonic, one that can
constantly be used without harm. The
gentlest liver and bowel tonic is "Cas-
carets." They put the liver to work
and cleanse the colon and bowels OF
all waste, toxins and poisons without
griping-they never sicken or incon-
venience you like Calomel, Salts, OIL
or Purgatives.
twenty-five million boxes Of Cas-"
carets are sold each year. They work
while you sleep. Cascarets cost SO
little too.-Advs
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-12-18
THE CHRIST CHILD

Across the snow the home lights glow
From the myriad hearts alight,
And through the street with noiselat5a
feet
The christ-child walks tonight.
At silent gates outside He waits,
To find fitting spot.
Be thine the shame, If through thy
blame
The Christ-child enters not.
Where Joyous notes from chiIdren's
$ threats
The old glad song begin,
Where love impels and kindness dwells,
The Christ-child enters in.
Where hate has room, pride sits In
gloom,
And wrong invokes unrest
Though green the walls and bright the
halls,
He cannot be a guest.
But where the thought that angels
brought
To earth's enraptured ears
Good will to men and peace, again
The Christ-child, listening, hears.
He turns His feet with welcome sweet,
Enters, and there abides.
Angels know best how such are blest
Through all the Christmastidcs.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-12-18
Christ Is Born
BY
Louise F. Els71endOr1

The aOorzd, late racked aUitR pain
through bloody gears,
Has climbed its weary zong-pGthed
Calvary,
Where millions died, as Christ,
that they might free
Others from wrong. and black OPP
pressiop's tears.
Once more now through the wor1d
comes to oar. ears
The song Of all the ages, "Chrtst
is born"
Mute tomgued to notes of joy haze
been the bells,
Ind only childhood and old age
dared try
To sing, so near the threatening
battle sky,
The song that told, though dul1ed
by shrieking shells
Whose bursting turned a thousand
homes to bells,
The womder of the ages, "Christ
is BORN"
Oar faith IN God has brought to as
the goal;
War-we0ry lands haze peace on
earth again.;
Aasd IN the SCARED and fire.
purged hearts of men,
Made sweet and strong By suffering
of the soul,
Through travail of a aUor1d once more
made ovhoze,
Anew IN human hearts the Christ
IS born.
Dear God, the Christmas songs are
fr0ught aUith prayer :
That Thou wizt be sVith those
whose tears still pay
That we mag haze the glory of
this day;
That men may ziUe their thanks; !;
that iUes may bear
Eternal witness for Thee, every-
where
Proclaiming that IN US the Christ
is born.
s=en=kesessgeesskssessaOt 1880 ayEesa9
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-12-18

Christmas is not just day
of tree-trimming and toy-giving
for the kiddies-not just holt
day for youngsters to outgrow.
Its spirit is Of the heart, the soul
communal between us and all
those whom we hold dearly as
our friends. 1t changes not,
however we may. May it's glow
be reflected for you through all
the coming year.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-12-18

Accept "California" Syrup of Figs
Only-look for the name California on
the package, then you are sure your
child is having the best and most harm.
less laxative or physic for the little
stomach, liver and bowels. Children
love it's delicious fruity taste. Full
directions for chi1d'i dose on eacL bot
tie. Give it without fear.
Mother! You must say California"
ADV
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-12-18
Is There a.
Santa Claus?
Classic Answer OF % NeGV
York Journalist Affirming
q Little Girls Belief

NE of the finest things ever
O written about Christmas was
the editorial printed 20 years
81 ago by the New York Sun in
answer to the earnest appeal of little
New York girl to be told whether
Santa Claus really exists. Its author,
Frank P. Church, was an accomplished
journalist and wrote much on many
subjects, but his fame will rest chiefly
on this beautiful setting forth of an
eternal truth. With DR.. Clement Clarke
Moore's "a Visit From st. Nicholas, "
it is one Of the great classics of the
Christmas season.
The answer to the eternal question
as printed in the Sun follows:
1--WE take pleasure in answering at
once, and thus prominently, the COM
munication below, expressing at the
same time our great qualification that
it's faithful author is numbered among
the friends of the Sun:
"'Dear Editor-I am eight years old.
Some of my little friends say there is
see it in the Sun it's so. Please tell
me the truth; is there Santa Claus?
VIRGINIA O'HANLON,
"115 West Ninety-first Street.
"Virginia, your little friends are
wrong. They have been affected by
the skepticism of a skeptical age. They
do not believe except they see. They
think that nothing can be which is not
comprehensive by their little minds.
All minds, Virginia, whether they be
mems or children's, are little. In this
great universe of ours man is mere
insect, an ant, in his intellect, as COM
pared with the boundless world about
him, as measured by the intelligence
capable Of grasping the whole truth
and knowledge.
Eyes, Virginia, there is a Santa
Claus. He exists as certainly as love
and generosity and devotion exist, and
you know that they abound and give
to your life it's highest beauty and joy.
Alas! How dreary would be the world
If there were no Santa Claus It would
be as dreary as If there were no vir-
| ginias. There would be no childlike
faith then, no poetry, no romance, to
make tolerable this existence We
| should have no enjoyment except in
sense and sight. The eternal light with
which childhood fills the world would
be extinguished.
"Not believe In Santa Claus! You
might as well not believe in fairies
You might get your papa to hire men
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-12-18
The DaY We GATE -

In other words, Christmas is the day
where we shall celebrate, masticate
and bicarbonate, and the next day we
shall medicata.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-12-18

Hubby-It's all rot and nonsense to
ny to make children believe there's
such a character as Santa Claus. They
ought to be taught better.
Wifey-Our children don't need to
be taught better. They know there's
no Santa Claus in this house.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-12-18
Its L.imltS.

''What is heredfty?' "Something a
father believes in until his son starts
to act like a fOol."-Life.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-12-18
CHANGED His Mind.

Doris-I thought you and George
were going skating?
Marjorie-So we were, but when he
saw / had my hat trimmed with mis-
tletoe he asked me, to go for q walk.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-12-18

IT, An Insinuation.
3 Edith-Jack has spoken at last.
Marie-And was his answer "yesT
Boston Evening Transcript.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-12-18

NE of the finest things ever
written about Christmas was
the editorial printed 20 years
ago by the New York Sun in
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-12-18

eve take pleasure in answering at
once, and thus prominently, the COM
munication below, expressing at the
same time our great qualification that
it's faithful author is numbered among
the friends Of the Sun:
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-09-17
WIFE OF PROMINENT
ARCHITECT HELD ON !
POLYGAMY CHARGE
Butte Woman is Arrested in
Palatial Home After Long
Search, Was Indicted in
Portland for Larceny.

PORTLAND. Or, Sept. H. tuni-
ted Press. deputy sheriff Schirmer
Is expected to arrive here today fron'
Butte, Mont, with Mrs. stella DeSnell
wife of a prominent Butte architect
who was arrested in her pala.ial home
in The Montana city last week.
Mrs. Desneli will be tried here soon
on a charge Of poloygamy. She was
also indicted by Portland Brand
jury several months ago on charge
Of larceny.
The arrest of the woman ut Butte
was the elimination of a search
which was instituted for her last
March when she. under the nanne OF
Mrs. M. T.. Overman, is alleged 20 have
married Anthony Dolecki in Portland.
The groom claimed his bride decamp-
ed the day following the ceremony
with $3.50 of his money, 5000 in thrift
stamps, 5000 in mining stocks ana
considerable jewelry. which she had
procured and charged to Dolecki at
Portland stores.
Dolecki told the police he married
the Butte woman following cores
pondence of six months which result
ted from his reading of the follow
ing ad in a Portland newspaper:
Butte, Mont ] am an all around
busin ness woman: making $175 mon
thIy: have $4,000; am AZ years old
height. five feet five inches: weight
1852: auburn hair, gray eyes, fair conn
plexIon: play piano and. mandolin
widow by death: no children; very
fond of home; wish to correspond with
sober gnetlemen, not necessarily
wealthy as | have more than enough
To live on, so will only marry for love
ard companionship. (Signed) Mrs
f. NJ. Overton. lis South Excels or
avenue Butte"
Dolecki claimed that Mrs. DeSneli,
or. Overman. was fond of his home
for only pne day; that when she aban-
doned him she left him the following
note: "Remember, I love you, put /
am afraid. oh. so afraid, we have
made a mistake. SO, good bye
Dolecki says he knows he made a
mistake.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-09-17

The age of romance for a woman
is anywhere between and 65.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-09-17

There is always hope for man un-
til he losses his self-respect.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-09-17
COUNTY IS EXCELLENT
FIELD FOR Y. M. c. A.
SECRETARY BELIEVES
Cash Wood Says Young Mems
or Boys Group Most Salient
Characteristic of Work; 200
Counties Well Organized.

Umatilla county presents an excel
lent field for the work of the county
Y. NJ. C "A, Cash Wood. new secre-
tary, reports after a preliminary sur
vcv of his district He is optimistic
over prospects for success and anxious
that the work shall begin.
The county is rich in boys as well
as In wheat" Mr.. Wood said. "As the
finished product of the County Y, NJ.
|C. A machine is clean virile young
manhood, this abundance of raw ma
teral ought to be worked up.
There should be no misapprehen-
sion OF the method and field of en-
deavor of the county work. The aim
here is not to do some preliminary
work for a year or two eliminating
in n whirlwind campaign for a city
Y. NJ c. A. building in Pendleton
While it is to be hoped that as the
most progressive city in the Inland
Empire Pendleton will some day
erect splendid home for city type
of Y. NJ. C. A. work yet the work now
inaugurated is quite separate and
distinct in character.
"The. county type. of work has the
young mems or boys group as its
most salient characteristic. We have
the Y. NJ. C. A. organization and
complete program without the ex-
pensive equipment Adult volunteer
leadership is depended upon. The
| county organization develops ano
trains for leadership. Two hundred
counties in the United States are wei
organized and scores and hundreds o
others are soon to adopt the plan
which has proved successful in som'
localities for score of years. 1t Il
a practical scheme for bringing tn
full program of the Y. M. c. A. to tn
rural communities"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-09-17

made wicked use OF his legs and feet
and once held Davis helpless for IL
minutes when he got double toe
hold. The crowd was all with ireland
although both men, by their clean
tactics. were favorites
ireland announced after the match
that he was through with wrestling
at least for some time. He said this
was his first workout since he had
left the army hospital and that he
might stay here and help promote
match between Davis and Ketterman,
challenger. II "A better support from
fans was forthcoming. Ireland was
wrestling instructor at Camp Lewis
for many months 8
Chief White Elk, himself well
known athlete refereed the bout to
the satisfaction of the crowd.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-09-17
IRELAND GIVES HEAVY
OPPONENT FAST BOUT
IN EXHIBITION ON MAT
Davis Throws Small Man Once
But Cannot Put Shoulders
Down Twice in Hour as He
Had Agreed to Do.

Vernon Davis. 1853 pounds, threw
Lloyd kid" Ireland. 1872 pounds, In
~ minutes In their handicap wrestl-
ing match last night but was unable
tc turn the trick twice in an hour as
he had agreed and ireland won A
small crowd turned out for the match
which was fast, clean and. on the part
of Ireland. one of the most skilful
exhibitions ever staged here.
Hold after hold the smaller man
wriggled out of, Davis only fall re-
sultlng when his smaller opponent was
stunned by a hard bump. Ireland
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-09-17
FIRE CHIEFS WILL HEAR
COL. ROOSEVELT, JR., IN
SPEECH AT BONNEVILLE

PORTLAND. Sept. 17.-Wnited
Press) Fire chiefs OF the Pacific
coast began the second day Of their
annual convention here this morning
with discussions on fire fighting and
fire-preyention topics.
A mass meeting and dance will be
held in the public auditorium this
evening. The visitors will be taken
for trip over the Columbia highway
tomorroy, stopping at Bonneville for
venison barbecue. Lieutenant Col
cnel Theodore Roosevelt who is COM
ing to Portland for the Oregon con-
vention OF the American Legion, will
address the fire chiefs at Bonneville.
Thursday morning will be devoted
to business session, with big If re-
prevention parade in the afternoon
The convention will be concluded ia
the evening with a banquet at which
the Portland Chamber Of Commerce
will be the host.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-09-17
$4,000 LOOT RECOVERED
AFTER GUN ENCOUNTER

ST. PAUL Sept. 19.-Three bandits
captured by four detectives after a
gunfight at MENDOZA following an at
tempt to rob the MENDOZA state bank.
All of their $4,000 loot has been re-
covered
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-09-17
ALLEGES WILSON is NO
LONGER U. S. PRESIDENT
BUT LEAGUE ASPlRANT 7

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17-Senatol
Sherman attacked the leageu of ma
tions covenant in the present form ir
a senate speech yesterday. He said
Wilson is mo longer the American
president" but "sn international as
pirant for the first president of the
worlds. league of nations"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-09-17
FIVE BANDITS GET
$4,000 FROM BANK

MINNEAPOLIS. Sept. 17.-Five
heavily armed bandits held up the
Chicago Lake bank yesterday and es
capped with $4,000 cash after locking
three employees in the vault.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-09-17

Some spinsters advance stey by
step until they become stepmothers.
When a man. questions womman,