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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-09-17

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The Chilkoot post., 1924-11-28

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-21

please tell II in less talk. What
are contained in Points 8. 10, II. IL &
Is & lat"
oh" I negotiate, they are same
as other only in different words to
make it sound legal"
But when this law go into affect"
he none, what you do with Xmas
| day to make it enjoyed?"
Reforms are not Supposed to make
| things enjoyed" ! snarrel. They are
| manufactured for purposes of Re-
/ form. Yet Xmas would not be silent
after that Geneva IN. W Conference
morning fire bells e. alarm clocks
could be rung at cost price to make
sound OF jolly Yule. Then upjump
| happy children to find stockings fll-
ed with grocer bills marked Paid.
thusly showing that Father can spend
one "a more yr away from Poor
| House. After breakfast OF hoiesome
prunes long walk should be took in
| freshair for deep breathing while q
! Lecturer go along TO tell about life
| of Jno D. Rockefeller who got that
way because he never spent amy
| money he couldn't afford to.
after harty lunching of proteins,
ptomaines & starch children could go
to a Museum admission free) and
study the fossils of dead crabs. Then
after supper OF more holesome prunes
| Hon. Children go TO rad 20 for slight
| bedtime story as following:
"Good evening little deerys this
are Sandy Clause broadcussing from
Treasury Dept, station OWCH. once
upon Time there was a little boy
| who read the Congressional Record
J and dishcovered that the National
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with IA points. If pussibie. like fol-
lowing:
POINT ONE-Xmas are invented to
have a good time without strain
ing or bursting anything.
POINT TWO-30 days before Xmas
Incum Tax Dept should send
Gummed Shoemen from places TO
places to find what persons want t.
Sign on the dotty line.
POINT THREE-Sandy Clause should
be put under bond OF 23000e0000o-
00000s to keep the peace on earth.
POINT FOUR-Persons shall be for
bid by law to give anything to
Friends they would not give to
themselves. This include colds
radio outfits & other curses
POINT FIVE-No duplicates. II you
already got a fountain pen or a
book or picture do not let this
S. Clause pam another one off on
you. All such should be sent TO
Dept of Justice where it will dis
appear, as usual.
POINT SIX-1f you see anything you
like in Store buy II & send 1t to
Yourself by Partial Post. This
will make you happy all day.
POINT SEVEN-All Savings Banks
must keep open Xmas Day so per-
sons can deposit what they didn't
spend for something somebody
didn't want
POINT EIGHT-AIl Xmas Presents
must be approved by Hon. Her
bert Hoover, Wash. d. c.
** 4
WHILE l were saying this list my
w Cousin Nogi look at me with
weary teeth and report,
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Santa Claus Disarmament Pact
Proposed by Togo as World Boon
Wallace Irns japanese Schooboy Letter Sets Forth Great Benefits

We EdItpr The Star. who pay his
honest Income Tax to Hon. Andrew
~delons with following Xmas thought:
1t are more blessid to Give than to
Deceive.
- EAREST SIR:-Yestdy am.
my Cousin Nogi approach
up TO me with that form
loan expression peculiar to
poverty enjoying December.
Togo" he say so, 81 shall not hang
up my sox this Xmas"
For reason why?" I ask to know
with auinine.
II have but two ca left, and those
are so punctured they will hold moth
ing but holes" he persuade.
Hang up yr shoes, pant or amy
other article of dress, Hon. Sandy
Clause Will unstand & be charitable
Il have connundlum or Joke for
you to reply" snuggest Nogi. What
are difference between Pres. Coolidge
IL Sandy Ciause?"
Let me see," assert. There must
be difference between those two Bos-
tonians. But what2 Maybe you can
tell by looking at their photo.
You are talking trap clap" snarrel
Nogi. Now, / shall tell you the an
swer. 1t are following:
When Hon. Coolidge como in
stocks go up"
When Hon. Sandy Clause come in
5oN go up"
(Mr Editor, please tell Hon. Printer
TO print that joke SO II Will look quite
comickal)
Cousin Nogi" say, putting strong
iron on my eyebrows, II are delicious
~ shocked to hear You speak so light
and gassy about Pres. of U. S. He
have been elected by sovrin vote of
America & Illinois. But IL you wish
attack somebody, I ask to know, why
should Motive do something to burst
up this Sandy Clause, who have never
even been Supported by VIM. Jenny
Bryan?"
HE have never done anything for
the party" Suggest Nogi, then why
should he go on holding an office?
He are muchly more expensive than
a Presidential Election because he
come once yr."
You have said a earful," I ampu-
tate. "& now / shall tell you some
thing which have entered my brain
oftenly while working in this Kitchen
over my intellectual dishpan. Now
shall tell you a few statisticks.
Every year Xmas cost America
more money than are spent on gin,
blackmail, hivyers, divorces & other
necessities of life. For price of one
to 60 to war for two Cd yrs with
Japan, France, Finland & the Malay
Archipelican. For price OF two ca
Emases America could make first pay
lnent on Teapot Dome, the Philippine
Islands & other natural scenery she
are now too poor to keep. For price
Of three (3) Xmases we could CIV
ilize our Police Force, print (free)
Il Book of Etiket for Street Car Con-
ductors & start a National Move
ment to Educate Feetball Players.
All European Nations could do similar
If Dec. rs was removed"
x y x
HpUT what shall you do with Xmas,
~ If you are so smart about it?'
require Nogi.
TT must be scrapped" I holla.
Look what happen in Geneva
tSwtzlnd) right now, please! ALI
those Powers are requesting from
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Devotion to Family and Clan Assists In Curling Chine


1t was Of these matters that talked
with Tang Shao VI. He said:
Conditions are indeed very bad.
The country is being overrun by the
militarists. We are ruled by a lot of
generals and their armies, who are
levying taxes on the people, but send
ing nothing to Picking. 1t is esti-
mated that these militarists have alto
gether about 100000 men under
arms. 1t takes large sums Of money
to pay, feed and equip such big bodies
robbed in all sorts OF outrageous
taxes in order that the leaders may
sustain themselves by means of the
armies at their backs. They know,
of course, that IL they do not provide
for them their troops will desert
them"
How did China get into this situa-
ton, Mr.. Tang" / asked.
1T is all the result of the effort OF
Yuan Shi-kai to make himself En-
peror. He had, as you know, been
chosen President of the Chinese re-
public after the revolution of 1911,
but he soon began to scheme to place
himself on the throne. With that In
view he raised armies and scattered
troops at the most important points
over the country. 1t was his idea
that when he had seized the throne
these soldiers stationed In the impor-
tant centers would put down any re-
bellion. He did in fact proclaim him
self Emperor, but the young men and
the masses of the people rose UP in
their anger and made Yuan say that
he would be content with the presi-
dency.
1.-TWO months later he died, and
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Pres. Coolidge, Kindly to call another
DISARMAMENT Conference so that a
few more American battleships can
be sinked or blew off, thusly saw
ing money for Japan Well then, If
so. Why should not Hon. Cool Cal
remove that Conference to Geneva
(N.Y.) while inviting all Prim Min
listers from England, ireland, Bel
GUM, France & sometimes Germany
for draw up a protocol what would
make Sandy Clause impossible from
now onwards.?'
20 horrus" report Nogi.
''Why you said it?' This from me.
THAT man Sandy Clause have got
| swollen head from too much power.
Nothing have been did to stop him.
He have not even had a Senate Inves-
igation. Everybody should have
that. Yet that Hon. Sandy Clause
go on, not being trimmed in amy
thing, not even his 'whiskers. Do he
account TO a Finance Committee for
his annual expenditure? Seldom If
any. Do he keep books? If so,
where are? Yet there he go round.
climbing down chimleys, fire escapes,
steam pipes every Xmas morning.
throwing around presents just like
Tammany Hall at election time"
This may be bad habit" renig
Nogi, but it make folks popular
II do not care for popular people"
dib. That are why l nearly
voted for La toilette
But how could you tie up Hon.
Sandy C ause by u Conference" Nogi
QUESTIONABLE.
'It are so simple 1t look deceptive"
II tell. This Protocol could start
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selves. 7 was born and brought up
on the island of Macao, Is miles from
the Portuguese settlement Of that
name. 1t is town of 10000 people.
but for the last 80 years we have
never had there any representative
of the central government. There are
thousands Of villages which hardly
know that there Is such q thing as a
government in China. except when
some such condition as that of today
comes into being. They will stand
will not tolerate them forever"
How are the villages goyerned?"
/ asked.
They are governed by the clans or
families. a few clans constitute the
village and the leaders Of these come
together and decide about anything
that needs to be done. The Chinese
are really an orderly people, for any
disgrace that comes to one of them
is considered as a disgrace to his
clan. A criminal knows that IL he is
caught and executed he cannot be
buried in his ancestral cemetery. 1t
Is this feeling for family and clan
which really keeps the Chinese in
order and the reason why the nation
stays together and goes on in spite
of the conditions existing today. The
great mass Of the people are taking
no part in the present disorders. The
Chinese are peace loving and demo-
cratic. They want nothing more than
to live their own lives in a reasonable
way. They are, I believe, about the
only people in the world capable OF
keeping things going in such a situa-
ton as we have In this country Just
now
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these armies were left without their
commander. Each one chose q new
leader of its own and none OF these
men would fully recognize the au-
thority OF the President at Picking.
They assumed control of the various
regions they occupied and began col
lecting taxes for themselves, while
military and civil governors in other
provinces did much the came thing.
Time and again the foreign powers
and bankers have been promised the
disarmament of these armies, but SO
far these pledges have not been full
filled, and there is no government in
China today that is powerful enough
to compel the dismissal of the troops.
From that time to this We have had
practically no central government in
China. and matters seem to be getting
worse all tho time"
Does that mean that you think
China will fall to pieees?" I said.
Not at ALL" replied the former pre-
mier. 1T means trouble for time,
and how long IT will continue I can
not say, but l imagine 1t will not last
a great while. China has often had
her troubles, but after certain
length of time the people have always
come to the rescue. This will prove
to be the case in the present situa-
ton. The Chinese people are here as
they have been for the last 2,eo0
years. and as I believe they will be a
thousand years from now.
You must remember that we have
never been ruled from Picking. Our
people have never been ruled even
by the governors of the provinces.
The truth is that they have never
been ruled by any one but them
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Notwithstanding all the chaos and
anarchy, business is going on in
China today much the same as usual
Our commerce with foreign countries
continues. New factories have been
built and our industries are growing.
New schools have been established all
over the country and a new national
spirit is In the process of being born.
l look to the young men OF the eoun-
try and the new movements now well
under way here to lead China out of
the wilderness. If the foreign powers
will keep their hands off and let
will eventually remedy matters"
y 4
A LTHOUGH Mr.. Tang expressed un-
"A limited confidence that the people
of China will themselves eventually
bring order out of chaos, / find that
the masses are not much taken into
account by those who are really run
ming the country today. 1t is, as i see
1T, fight Of the classes. struggle for
power on the part of individuals and
groups. The Manchus and their en-
peror have gone, but in their places
are military men each of whom hopes
to come on top. They believe that the
present situation will end only when
a dictator rules in China, and each
one of them hopes he will be that
man. Every one of them does all
he can to weaken and hamper the
central government at Peking and
tries at the same time to keep his
rivals from getting too much power.
AS was the case in Mexico ten years
ago, the military leaders seem quite
willing to ruin the country If by that
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seemed to pay any attention: and
anyway, / got nervous about the gas-
oltne. I'm Coo immaterial to be round
where there's gasoline. A fellow
would blow up, wouldn't her"
He might" / said, $50 what hap
pened?"
SWELL. one day somebody in the
garage actually saw me and
he threw a monkey wrench at me and
told me to get 20 h out OF that ga
rage. SO I wsps"
And after that"
ST haunted round: I've kept on
haunting round, but It's no gcce.
there's nothing in II. Houses, hotels,
I've tried IL all. Once ! thought that
if L couldn't make hit any other
way, at least / could haunt children.
You remember how little children
used to live in terror Of ghosts and
see them In the dark corners of their
bedrooms? Well, I admit ii was a
low-down thing to do, but I tried
that"
And 1t didn't work."
Work l should say not. I went
one night TO a bedroom where u
couple OF little boys were sleeping
and 1 started in with a few groans
and then half materialized myself. go
that l could just be seen. One of the
kids sat up in bed and nudged the
other and said, Say! I do believe
there's ghost In the room! And the
other said. Hold on; don't scare him.
Let's get the radio set and see II it'll
go right through him
They both hoped out of bed as
brisk as bees and one called down
stairs, Dad, we've got q ghost UP
hnN EGfC
just an ernanation or partially ma
terial. We're going to stick radio
into him Believe me-" continued
the ghost. that was all I waited 10
hesr. Electricity 5ust knocks me
edgeways"
He shuddered. Then he went on
We'll, It's been like that ever since;
nowhere to go and nothing to haunt.
I've tried all the big hotels, railway
to haunt a Pullman car, but I had
hardly started before 1 observed a
notice. Quiet is requested for those
already retired and I had to quit"
Well, then" I said, why don't
you just get immatertal or dematertal
or whatever you call IL, and keep
SO? Why not go away wherever YOU
belong and stay there?"
That's the worst of It," answered
haul US back. These spirituaIists
have learned the trick of IL and they
Just summon US up any time they
like They get dollar apiece for
each naturalization, but what do we
get?"
The ghost paused and q sort Of
spasm went all through him. Col
darn It," he exclaimed, they're at me
now. There's a group of fools some
where sitting round table at
Christmas eve party and they're call
ing up a ghost just for fun-a darned
poor notion OF fun, I call it'd like
to-like to"
But his voice traiIed OF. He
seemed to collapse as he sat and my
dressing gown fell on the floor. And
at that moment l heard the ringing
of bells that meant 1t was Christmas
midnight, and ! knew that the poor
fellow had been dragged off to work.
Copyright, le24l
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me how completely the ghost bushes
seems to be dying out of our Christ
mas literature. Not so very long ago
there couldn't be a decent Christmas
story or Christmas adventure with
out ghost in 1t, whereas nowadays
And just at that moment 1 looked and
saw that there was a ghost in the
room.
can't imagine how he got in, but
there he was, sitting in the other
easy chair in the dark corner away
from the freight. He had on my
own dressing gown and one saw but
little of his face.
Are you a ghost?" 1 asked. Yes"
he said, worse luck. 1 am"
y 4 =
r NOTICED as he spoke that he
seemed to wave and shiver as II
ne were made OF smoke. couldn't
help but pity the poor fellow. he
seemed SO fmmateriaL
do you mind" he went on, in the
same detected tone, 'if sit here and
haunt you for a while?"
by all means" 1 said, please do
Thanks" he answered, II haven't
had anything decent to work on for
years and years. This is Christmas
eve. isn't it?"
Yes" said, Christmas eve"
Used to be my busiest night the
ghost complained. best night OF the
whole year-and now-say," he said,
would you believe It! I went down
this evening to that dinner dance and
I thought ia haunt Thought I'd
stand behind one of the tables as a
silent specter, the way / used to in
King George HIS time
"WelI?" ] said
They put me OUT" groaned the
ghost. THE head waiter came up to
me and said they didn't allow silent
specters In the dining room. was
pnf outp
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Christmas Ghost in It's Old Haunts
Finds World Now Greatly Changed


TINE other night was sitting up
late-away after o'clock
thinking about Christmas be-
i cause 1t was getting near at
hand. And. like everybody else
who muses. on that subject, I was think
ing of the great changes that have
taken place In regard to Christmas.
I was contrasting Christmas in the
old country house of century ago.
with the fires roaring up the chin
neys. and Christmas in the modern
apartment on the ninth floor with the
gasoline generator turned on for the
maids bath.
was thinking OF the old stage
coach on the snowy road with it's roof
piled high with Christmas turkeys
and a rosy-faced guard" blowing on
keybugie and the passengers get
ting down every mile or so at q
crooked inn to drink hot sptced ale
and 1 was comparing all that with
the upper berth No. 6, car 220, train
No. SO.
I was thinking OF the Christmas
landscape OF long ago when night
settled down upon 1t with the twinkle
OF light from the houses miles apart
among the spruce trees, and contrast
ing the scene with the glare of motor
lights upon the highway Of today. 1
was tniDhiHB Oh the loiSiy hiS Nv ds
man shivering round with his clumsy
pistols. and comparing the poor fell
lows efforts with the high class ban
dts of today blowing up a steel ex-
press car with nitroglycerin and dis
appearing in a roar Of gasoline ex-
plosions.
In other words, was contrasting
yesterday and today. How on the
whole yesterday seemed all to the
good.
Nor was II only the warmth and
romance and snugness of the old
Christmas that seemed superior to
our days. but Christmas carried with
II then special kind Of thrill
with its queer terrors, it's empty
heaths, its lonely graveyards, and its
house that stood alone in wood,
haunted.
And fhinkinx Of that IL occurred to
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| He groaned again.
| You seem" 1 said, rather down
on your luck"'
Can you wonder?" said the ghost,
and another SILVER rippled up and
| down him. 81 can't get anything to
| do. Talk OF the unemployed-listen! %
! he went on, speaking with something
| like animation, '1et me tell you the
| story OF my life
! can you make 1t shortT' I said.
1 'G'n try. A hundred years ago
'Oh. I say" I protested.
81 committed a. terrible crime. a
murder on the highway-''
You'd get six months for that now
adays,' said.
'I was never detected. An innocent
man was hanged. 1 died but couldn't
! highway where the murder had been
| done. It happened on Christmas eve
| and so, every year on that night
II know" l interrupted. you were
heard dragging round a chain and
| moaning and that sort OF thing; I've
| often read about it,
Precisely" said tho ghost. land
for about eighty years II worked out
admirably. Peaple became afraid, the
| house was deserted, trees and shrubs
grew thick around II, the wind
whistled through it's empty chimn eys
and its broken windows, and at night
| the lonely wayfarer went shuddering
! past and heard with terror the sound
| of cry scarce human, while a cold
sweat"
quite So" I said, "a cold sweat.
| And what next?'
The days OF the motor car came
and they paved the highway and
| knocked down the house and built a
| big garage there. with electricity as
| bright as day. You can't haunt a ga
1 rage, can you? i tried to stick on
| and do a little grooming, but nobody
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Debt for 1898 exceeded the TOLL saw
ings Bank deposits for that yr by
1895 & 44c. Papa, Papa" he holla,
this candition are pretty darnly
financially unsound. by goliy" So
he commence to save gradually by
licking the special delivery stamps
from envelopes until 1913 when we
find him a head Of n. Y. Inse-
cur4ty Co, a position OF pump &
power.
TOO much static" narrate Nogi
peevly. 81 could not listen to such
garbage. That do not sound very
Xmas to me-"
"Perhapsly not" elope. But this
are a Scientifick Xmas which ! shall
arrange by Disarmament Treaty.
Economy could accomplish amy
thing II America should save money
like that for 6 Xmases, you know
what she could do?"
What, II anything" he ask to
know.
"she could lick the world.,l" I
grandiose.
"She would have to-" dib Nogi, "or
bite off her own head from revenge"
Nogt are one ID OF those who
keep his brain in the ice box.
Hoping you are the same,
Yours truly.
HASHIMURA TOGO.
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Amethyst's Powers.

a METHYST was traditionaIly sup
"a posed to be possessed OF lhS
virtue OF warding Off or curing
drunkenness. The word itself, which
comes from the ancient Greek, liter
ally means mot intoxicating" The
amethyst also has been held TO have
the power to make men shrwwd Id
business deals.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-07-18
CONCERT By BARNES
CHILDREN

On Thursday night. July %. at s
O'Clock a Musical Concert will be
given in the Public Hall. at Risina
Sun. by the Barnes Juvenile orehea-
tra.. assisted by Miss Minerva VIII
liama, Of Port Deposit. and Mr..
Marion May, of Baltimore, Md.
This noted orchestra has been
heard often over the radio and has
had engagements in the largest
hotels and theatres. They never
fail to enthuse their audiences with
their unusual talent.
They will render twenty-five or
more different numbers, consisting OF
the New Popular Music, Orchestra
tions and Classics played on an amaz-
ing variety Of musical instruments,
Admission will be Sde for adults
and 25e for children, Tickets may
be purchased at Alice q Shepherds d
Store IN Rising sun.