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The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-12-21

THE FEATURE OF CHRISTMAS
Spirit OF Generosity and Happiness
2 and Arrival Of Old Kris kringle
Y Completes Program.

AIT7HE happiest feature Of
k9fa1 Christmastide is the spirit
49, Of generosity it engenders.
- The embodiment of this
spirit Is a Father Christ
mas, Knight Rupert. or some other
mysterious parsonage, who ubiquitous
ly glides from house to house shower
ms down bis gifts for the 'weans,"
and leaving behind him everywhere
an atmosphere of cheeriness and
genial happiness.
The beneficent belief In this Old
World spirit has, happily, spread to
almost every corner of The civilized
world. In America the German Christ
Kindlein or Infant Christ, becomes the
Kris Kringle, who like Santa Claus in
England, pursues his unimpeded way
through keyholes and down sooty
chimneys to bestow his gifts upon
children that are good" while Pels-
nichol or nicholas With the Fur" fol-
lows closely upon his heels with a
birchen rod for the naughty"
Long may this belief in Kris Kringle
maintain it's virile existence, and may
the "weans" see little of that chasten-
ing rod Of P~elsnichol.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-12-21
ASK FOR CHRISTMAS PEACE
Let All Pray to God for Perfect Rest
and Perfect Power and Perfect
Love.

THRISTMAS peace is Gods
and he must give it himself,
with his W hand, or we
shall get it. Go then
to God himself. Thou art
his child, as Christmas Day declares:
Be not afraid to go unto the Father.
Pray to Him; tell Him what thou
w~antest; say, Father, I am not mod
crate, reasonable, ~forbearing. / fear
I cannot keep Christmas Alright for I
have not a peaceful Christmas spirit
In me; and I know that I shall never
get it by thinking, and reading, and
understanding, for it passes all that,
and lies far away beyond it, does
peace, In the very essence Of thine un-
divided, unmoved, absolute, eternal
Godhead, which no change nor decay
of this created world, nor sin or folly
of men Or devils, can yer alter; but
which abideth forever what it Is In
perfect rest, and perfect power and
perfect love. o, Father, give me Thy
Christmas peace."-From Town and
Country Sermons.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-12-21
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Christmas Trees and Stockings.
Two Christmas practices, both old
and very pretty, that have come down
to us are the Christmas tree and the
hanging up Of children's stockings on
Christmas eve. Each provides a way
of making gifts, and the way provided
by the stockings is especially pleasing
to children. Perhaps it Is going out,
but in homes where it Is still followed
there are delighted children on Christ
mas morning when the m~ysteriously-
filled stockings are examined in some
thing like awe blended with great
pleasure. The Christmas tree sur
wives, and no Christmas school festi-
val is complete without one, brilliant
with lights and loaded with presents,
presided over by a merry yet veneer
able Santa Claus.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-12-21
BENTINCK TOWNSHIP
Too late for last Week9S


A dance was given at Matt Iedoen's
last Friday night and a good time re
ported. sss8 s*s
Miss Gertrude Kormann visited at
Talcott's Wednesday afternoon.
Jimmy Stead is quite lucky in trap
ping foxes as he has already caught.
four. sl p II &
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Benson ate
Thanksgiving dinner at Mrs. Floy
Seth's. ON
Walter Kormann and fanny spent
Thanksgiving with Mr.. and Mrs. g.
Kormann. - H. sSsz$ ~
Miss Hope Talcott spent Saturday
and Sunday at her home.
Miss Olene Jacobson, teacher in
school No. 3 visited at her home in.
MaXbass oyer Thanksgiving.
Henry Steinhaus was called to- his
old home In Minnesota, his father be-
ing very low. 81
Madeline and Bill Kelly were visit.
ors at Talcott's Sunday. { (
The first Literary and basket So
cial was held a week ago last Friday
in Sherman Township. ~ i
Clifford Peterson visited friends in
Bcntinck over Sunday.
A few Of the young folks of West
hope visited school No. 2 Wednesday
afternoon. 'H.+.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-12-21

How rich rs Old Captain Johnson
hissed out q long "O-h-h!' followed hy
a frosty smile and Pardon, | didn't
dream you were Interested there.
Il am not--the way you are" Sarah
said. coioring hotly. II do like the old
gentleman he's nice even when he's
tilesome. LII he were not | should make
him welcome for my mothers sake. he
knew her as d girl, and tells me so
much about her nobody else can tell
II see an hereditary romance" Miss
Dean commented, smiling from the
teeth out, only she was furious. Sarah,
tall. and twenty. vigorous, muscular,
with clear, d~eep-seelng eyes and un-
afraid even of Mrs. Grundy, was likely
to prove a lion in her path.
Or, rather, the path of the beautiful
scheme she had mapped out. before
coming to Windmead. Its cornerstone
was gossip vaguely heard of a man
there, old, lone. fabulously rich and so
accessible. All that saved him from
coming to want was the fact that he
could not spend aught but the income
from his big estate. Further, he could
not divert nor parcel out the income
through settlements-gifts had to be
made of cash after the money had &C.
crued. Thus astute and faithful trus-
tees had so far saved him the orgies
of g~enerosities he might have been
seduced into, but he gave enough and
so freely as to make him worth atten-
ton. n
Miss Dean was of those workers in
the vineyard of progress who feel
worthy the highest possible wages-"all
the traffic will bear" A keen nose
for opportunity had led her at the
welfare convention held a fortnight
back to cultivate unknown provincial
delegates, especially those who APP
peared shy and lost. Thus she had
won the heart of Mrs. Linton, Sarah's
devout sister-in-law, and been asked
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-12-21
CHRISTMAS DAY In ICELAND
Natives Still Cling to Old Customs ard
Songs; Day Is One Of Great
Happiness.

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far north, where the short
est day Is four hours long, and where
at Christmas time the sun does not
rise above the horizon for a week.
Christmas is a great day with the
people of Iceland and they still cling
to all their old customs and songs and
the day to them is M of great hap
piness.
One of their favorite old songs Ia
filled with simplicity that Is touching
and yet gives d glimpse of a philos-
ophy of life that is pretty fine:
When 1 go good and think Alright
At peace with man, resigned to God
Thou lookst on me with eyes of light,
Tasting new joys in Joys abode
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-12-21

like a %footlesS stocking.
Finally, as time went on, the poor
PEOPLE, hoping thus to remind the
more fortunate of their needs, used to
hang these empty purses out of the
windows on the night before Christ
mas, so that a gift might be placed
in them.
In the north country, where the
weather is cold at Christmas time, the
purses were hung by the chimney
place in the hope that st. Nicholas
would drop his offering down the
chimney.
When the purses went out Of fashion
stockings as the thing most like them
we're used in their stead, and thai is
why We today still observe the prac-
tice and the custom.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-12-21
MAY BE EARTH'S Satellite
Only Explanation Astronomers Can
Offer for the Presence Of the
"Gegenschein."

There is visible In the night sky
under favorable circumstances a faint
light, rounded in outline and situated
always exactly opposite to the place
Of the sun. It is called the "gegen-
schein," and Is n Of the most In
applicable objects known to astron-
omers. 1t was Pickering who sug-
gested this explanation Of the gegen-
schein. It may be a "sort Of cometary
or meteoric satellite" attending the
earth. i
1t ID supposed to be composed II 4
cloud Of meteors, situated about
100000 miles from the earth and re-
volving around it In a period Of just
one year, 80 that the sun and the
meteors are always on opposite ddsa
Of the earth. It il estimated that thu
sire Of this ghostly satellite may be
nearly the same 40 that Of the planet
Jupiter, Viz. about $1,000 miles In
diameter.--New York Herald.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-12-21

Christmas Neckties.

Some individual with leisure and
curious mind has figured out that 80
out of every 100 men receive a necktie
as a Christmas gift. The estimate is
conservative, but how many Of the
neckties so bestowed are worn by their
recipients7 The giving of neckties is a
perilous proceeding always, for a neck
tie is essentially a matter Of indi-
vidual taste. Many a man gets neck
wear at Christmas that he could read
lily enough admire as part Of 4 curtain
or q drape, but that he would wear
only under the eompulsion Of . gun
at his head. r "
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-12-21
Nature Demands Cleanliness.

All the fur-bearing animals are most
ness, and this is a necessity in the
wild, for the fraction of a second in
rapidity of movement often means the
difference between life and death to
the animal concerned. So the fur
must be kept smooth and supple in
order not to interfere with quick and
quiet motion. .
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-12-21
~ sse; an Hereditary Romance"

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to visit Windmead for at least q
month. Miss Dean had accepted for
some indeterminate future time. When
she learned next day that the Lintons
were friendly neighbors of old Captain
johnson, she began making her plans
for an easy and profitable summer.
Sarah owned Windmead, but gave
herself no airs Of proprietorship.
Brother Jim was her pal and mentor
because she loved him so dearly she
tried to feel more than a tepid fond
ness for Molly, his wife. 1t was an
effort, but she did not let the fact
appear. 1t was only to the old captain
she ever even spoke truth. saying: IF
it weren't for her ballast of piety
Molly Is so light the first big wind
would blow her clean away"
Thereat the captain had chuckled,
merely pretending to frown. But next
day he had said irrelevantly: "Wbat
a pity, Sarahkin, you can't divide
brains with Mrs. Molly. If you could
I should not have 30 much trouble In
thinking up a match for you. The
country boys are pretty much clod-
poles. the town fellows sissies. I've a
great mind to advertise, 'Wanted-A
real man,"
do, please !" Sarah had entreated.
Find him and I'll agree to take him
sight unseen, provided he measures up
to. your pattern. Otherwise nothin'
doin'."
what a shame l have no grandson,
else l could cut out fifty years or So"
the captain had answered. signing.
"T1l never insult you BY saying will
you be al old mans darlingY You&are
not for sale. Pity your mother couldn't
overlook the thirty years difference,
you might be my daughter. but I didn't
try to change her mind; she loved an
other man, and | knew III"
"Tll adopt you Illegally as my grand
pop." Sarah had answered. masking
q sigh with a laugh. Memory of all
his made her flush a lovely scarlet at
the Dem i%nsinuatiOn, She hated her
self for blushing until she caught an
exultant glealn in the Dean eyes.
It reused her protective instinct. She
said lightly: "Oh, m s.oiIance at all;
just the basis for q nice business ar
rangement. I adopted him as a grand
father some time back. We will have
the papers drawn pretty soon. That
won't be like the other way round. IL
he adopted me ! might inherit q tidy
fight for his fortune. In default Of
blood heirs 1t goes to colleges, and
things He won't have 4 chance Of
ever coming into Windmead. + shall
make q new will as soon as We settle
things. Besides, you know, real estate
never goes back" ~ =
" wonder what standing q wife
would hayef' Miss Dean said pensfve-
u. "About the same m 4 SNOWFALL Ut
the equator" Sarah said recklsssly.
'.But why speculata idlyf / won't
marry the captain, and hs surely went
marry anybody elsa a
.About that No shall see," kliss
Dean said., but inaudibly to her innsr
consciousness. on the surfacs she
swan away Wrapped In slant msdita-
tt0n. IL
Then tricksy Iate took to nw
doubts deallng III round. She Ind The
captain ~ thS hsels With luInbego
and sent Sarah q ssrvs U maid =
h0nor q i WEDDING I hundred mills
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-12-21
Provident Ants.

The ant has its farms and "sheds"
In which it keeps various kinds of
small beetles and plant lice, either for
the sake of their secretions of milk
or for their value as food. Some ants
merely hunt and kill the creatures
they require, but others collect them
into flocks or obtain their eggs and
rear them.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-12-21
Authors Sound AdNieA-

1t is a familiar custom for an author
of some merit but little fame to get a
more celebrated colleague to introduce
his book. The custom Is sometimes run
into the ground. Such an author ap-
piled to Mr.. Bernard Shaw for a
preface. Shaw replied: "Swim on your
don't trust cOrks."
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-12-21
USE OF CHRISTMAS STOCKING
Custom Comes From Sunny Italy
Where Poor First Used Long
Knitted Purses.

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sunny Italy.
In the city of Padua, long ago, good
old st. Nicholas used to go about the
streets after dark and throw through
the windows of the homes Of the poor
people long knitted purses, tied at
both ends, and containing much need
ed coins. These purses we're made Of
yarn, and when united looked not un-
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-12-21

A ludicrous distortion Of sCrir,:t%.
school when a small pupil wrote OF
the Pharisees: ''The Fareses CT (
mean, measly lot. One day ORC o
them gave our Lord a penny and OF
Lord held it out in his hand and
looked at it With scorn and said,
Whose subscription Is thisY'-Bos
ton Transcript.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-12-21
CHRISTMAS FEAST FOR BIRDS
Feathery Tribe in Bosnia Not Forgot
ten-Food Placed Near Nests
and Shelters.

are several quaint stories
In which animals and birds give evil
dence of their alteration. A we'll
known Bosnian legend offers a version
Of world-adoration. They claim that
on the holy day 1.-The sun in the east
bowed down, the stars stood sill the
mountains, and forests shook and
and the green pine tree bent; the
grass was be-1oWered with the open
ing of blossoms; incense sweet as
myrrh pervaded upland and forest;
birds sang on the mountain tops and
all give thanks to the great God"
In Bosnia on Christmas Day a sheaf
Of rye is put neal birds nests and
bird houses for the birds Christmas.
An old Indian legend says that on
Christmas night all the deer in the
forest kneel in alteration before the
Great Spirit. Woe to him. however,
who tries to spy upon them. He is
punished with perpetual stiffening of
the knees.
Many people of the Old World
claim that on Christmas night animals
are gifted with speech, but none must
trespass or eavesdrop.
Many and many have been the tales
which account for the robins red
breast. In great many parts of Europe
he is called the Savior's bird, and a
story lis told that when the Christ was
cruciied the robin, unable to stand
His suffering, ventured to pluck the
thorns from His head. In doing so, the
blood stained the robins breast, which
sign he wears today.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-12-21

national president, has also obtained
the cooperation of the w. G. e. U.
for the formation of women's war or
~ganizatioras and auxiliaries to soldiers
declarations similar to the Interallied
Veterans Association which met in
New Orleans at the time of the Amer
lean Legion convention
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-12-21
Bow That Will Stay Fastened.

When you are tying the final bow
Of your shoe lace pass the loop
through the knot twice instead of
once, and the trick il done. This
fastening can be undone In a moment
by simply pulling the two ends,
though it never comes unfastened OF
it's own accord.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-12-21
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"COME AM GONE

TN THE days before prohibit
L. ton, an old, southern uarky
was wont to celebrate Christ
mas with a quiet and solitary
bottle of liquor. Upon one oc-
casion he was going home with
his prize under his arm, when
he stumbled on the curbstone.
The bottle slipped, fell and
broke, spilling the contents all
over the pavement.
The old darby regarded. the
catastrophe with gentle
fulness.
Deere, now" he murmured,
christmas come an gomez"
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-12-21

When Criminals Were Branded.
Up to the year 1929, all criminals in
England were branded, as we'll as
gypsies and vagabonds, but after that
year only deserters from the army
and soldiers who were VIGOROUSLY
bad characters were so marked.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-12-21
Power Given Conuress

0Tedt roVcT GTVeH CUnUTetS.
The Constitution gives congress,
power to raise and support armies.
Power to support an army includes
everything connected with arming,,
clothing, equipping, mobilizing, trans
porting ind feeding it.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-12-21

GOOD SCHEME.

GOOD SCHEME.
Doing o u r
Christmas shop
ping early, amt
you Jones?
Well, you 70 I
want to git my
wtfe's Christmas
present before my
O 0 r git
around to buy
ing their wife's
nracorfe
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-12-21
DR.. Kate Waller Barrett,

DR.. Kate Waller Barrett, national
president of the American Legion
Auxiliary, has appointed Miss Bess B.
Wetherholt, of Gallipolis, O., national
secretary Of the Auxiliary, which is
composed of mothers, wives, sisters
and daughters of Legion members and
Of men who died in the service.
Miss Wetherholt has been secretary
of the Ohio department Of the Auxil-
larry since it's formation and achieved
a notable record by TRIPPING its MEM
bership and doubling the number of its
units during her first ten months of
office. She also obtained distinction
for her work for the relief of sick
and disabled soldiers in the hospitals
of. that state. s #
Miss Wetherholt was educated IT.
the public schools of Gallipolis and in
a private school at Cincinnati. During
the war she served in the statistics
section Of the ordnance department in
Cincinnati. Her spare time was spent
in organizing chapters of, the Ameri-
can Red Cross. Three brothers Of Miss
Wetherholt Were World War fighters.
The mex auxiliary secretary has ar
rived in Indianapolis to assume her du-
ties. @RI b /. :,ay 5$& @s #H 4e&% hi
Letters and kilograms indorsing the
protest of the American Legion
against the proposed American lecture
tour of Captain Helmuth Won Muecke,
former German naval officer, continue
to arrive at the office of the Legion's
Am~ericanism Commission here. A tele-
gram from "A. G. Fisher, Of Juneau,
commander of the Alaska department
of the Legion states: fAThe American.
Legion in Alaska strenously objects to
the proposed American tour of Cap
tain Won Muecke. VIII stand back Of
you in everything you do TO stop
same ~ H
Wrold observance of a plan TO bring
Christmas To all soldiers OF the World
War, widows, orphans and disabled
has been agreed ~ by tho Women =
3Christmas Temperance Union, which
viii assist the American Legion Aux
Hilary In its Christmas plans.
Dr.. KITE Waller Barrett, Auxiliary
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-12-21


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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-06-19
FREEDOM FOR FILMS.

The people Of Missouri are drafting new consti-
tuition, which. If adopted will replace the which
has been the bulwark of public and private rights
for half century
1t is significant that into this new constitution
viii be placed provision against any censorship
of the films as well as a more definite safeguard
for freedom of speech and OF the press
It is natural reaction against the arbitrary
OF war power in reace time and belief of the
people that is mixing too strongly into
the purely personal affairs of the Individual
Censorship is abhorrent in any form because 1t
fixes the standard Of a small group of indi-
viduals the standard for all.
1t has accomplished little as applied to the movie
and has resulted in such giaring absurdities to
make itself ridiculous
Films that pass the censors in Chicago are abso-
Iutely barred in Philadelphia while those that
welcomed in both these centers placed under
ban in Kansas
kiss must fill but two feet Of film in one state
and may ten the border.
The censors, empowered to trim and change the
productions, must necessarily use their personal
judgement and by that act the standards of public
presentations become measured by the whims
prejudices tastes of some set of persons.
The dangerous part of the censorship is the pre-
cedent it establishes for limiting freedom of speech
and OF the press. 1t easy step from the celu-
lo'd to the printed cage and those persons
their ideas find ready for blue
pencillng not only the printed periodicals but the
public utterances of the Individual
Free speech is the only safeguard Of a republic
and film partake some Of the
attributes Of the press.
1t is of the many means OF Public expression
and it IS quite possible that It will be largely used
in the future a of informing educat-
ing pubic opinion.
Every person should be snswerable for his words.
II they nbellous he be made TO pay
damages or by Imprisonment. II they are criminal.
the law reach the vioiator.
TIE freedom OF the film is matter which would
large interest in other states If they had
chance At their written constitutions to the
conditions OF modern life.
The people themselves the real censors
such matters and law should be applied TO the
film which docs deal tasi a. strictly with every
other form of pub &c entertainment or public ex-
preston.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-06-19
ALWAYS ONE BETTER.

Norwich, the wonder horse has been beaten That
Will the followers OF the track who trust 70
heredity to saying II told you So"
For Norwich, from the standpoint OF ancestry
should never have race. His father was one
OF those animals that show speed for a distance
and then fail at the finish. His mother was a plain
plebian in the aristocracy of horses
But Norwich did win until its owners be-
Heved that he could be Beaten and many thou
theory and increased their available cash by
placing wagers upon his races.
There human animals who often get the
opinion of themselves and who always reach
the fate that has this animal
You will find them In politics always with the
faith that they are unbeatable always with conf
dence that they the best to be had always with
the egotistcal theory that they win because
they always have And then they fall.
You viii find them in other walks Of life from
digging bitches TO managing great Industrial enter
prises and banks They get the idea they are indis-
pensible and often feel sneaking sympathy with
the world when they contemplate that some day
they pass. They imagine the world
going ahead without them.
Most OF them dsillusionized before they reacn
the grave. Some day some else comes along
job a little better and they are turned into
soured and snarling creatures who bewan the lack
OF intelligence OF the human family.
The employe who feels that his services are indis-
pensible very often begins the hunt for new job
The leader who believes that he is the one unre-
placeable factor is headed for bankruptcy.
For this is the rule OF life-that there is nothing
that is Perfect and who cannot be replaced
generally TO advantage. The lesson is that no
matter how good you think you are it IS always
wise 20 train yourself TO be just little better.