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2 a G 's tA nos lo . nag (wot | K DALLY THES... ¥ at a wOonIKmay waw YoRX. ._ Advertising. ® resentative I Thea Conkiie. . pawick BHirilding =» «~ New York . Smckion Boule - - Chicago Z -Lefaycite Boulevard +- - Detroit numoztrszon mass - $6.00 «/| many things are likely to happen in, A> would permit Santa Claus {i ride the skies in all his traditionel i THE SNOWS OF CHRISTMAS. | | the distribution. Many will say that lof typical Chriatmas weather at noon | out without taking this on, but it is Today. Those who have lived long in') a fact that, Watertown will never { our: North Country are aware ethatlget cheaper milk until municipal ilk stations are established in a, few hours in matters of wenther,| stores and elsewhere and there is a but there were indications at midday municipal system of distribution. tiday that we would have condxtionsfi The matter is one for consideration 12; of our new combailssion after it gets its working e'lothes on. \RIDING HORSE,\ &Tc. The people of Watertown #Hincere glory, There is snow on the ground | und that ia ome of the first requisites Tor a bappy Christmas, and the trees themselves are snow covered. Any traveler, home-coming from down- state or New York, is invariably dis: appointed to reach the Black River road and find no snow. Christmas site for a school. Mr. Sherman bas is not a real Christmas up here with - There wore signs of a prevalence | we haye problems enough to work. ly hope that the board of education will see the justice of Mr. George C. Sherman's position relative to the upper State street or Park Entrance » 0.50 wot - <r; Loul- the SNOW. - -. wrence und Lewis “Tat?\ OUR CHRISTMAS oF 1913. This Christmas season is- a happy Rai , one. t. Lawrence end I ing of those immediately about us in Counties. - $6.00 | America. Our hearts go out more R\ wok e e a +e $:50 | freelingly than ever Adroma ications to The reais all commun C of other nations who are t Company, 126-1832 Arcade wa, N. ¥. reason of the war; but ditians have been advanced over No 120 No. 119 ' that which they were a. ago. We «want by There is a minimum of suffer before to those Bir own con-‘1 ' Steven:] been most generous in his offer. He formally agreed to sell the iots for $10,000 and immedJately turn that sum over to the city for a park pavil- Hon, adding $5,000 more from his own pocket.toward the pavilion fund. The offer is now held up by &a desire on the part of the board that Mr. Sher man give two more lots to the city to insure the extension of Boyd rireet through to the school proper- | ty. Mr. Sherman | naturally balks. ! While he does not say' so he prob- ably considers that it is a case of rid- dise\ at\ McCarthy eep etate 'so Wreten--Th# ale in Ttica * rains et 469 A -The Times is on aw gr’k City at Houllngs Broadway. near 48¢ St., A of Fime ullding, érees of Pager. ‘:n order for change ber to The Daily Times malt! Reformer and T.mss, ”Rh“ POSTOFFPICE AD- # and the address to which you desire to have your paper sent. ”fibfipfibor who fall to receive The ar a ros.' News near N. ¥. x from the carrier will 'a fuvor \gin-tin: the fact to usimest 92390- 57 re M \credite Rewa t to it ar xm' awise credited in this trot Christ child and cast it aside with! Sbervian has said that the children wil Ale the local now» PUbM®R®C B9® ino coming of the disturbed . condi-] Will be permitted to go through that I tions of the yrars recently past. space indefinitely or until bouses . They argued that a just God would *hould bo built. Louth MAMd *** t » ov ba e s rar seas a i.. . 35,078 i.. LIFE 11. 15744 the thero was nothing to the Aoclent' *bould certainly to met in kind. The | say that eirculags= I werk tha above aba +g : The Times is on sae in : @fe perhaps wont to rega T 1.00, {son's lines. especially when as a|ing a free horse to death. That is | Leople we are ourselves prosperous: | the way It would look to the public. , The two extra lots which the board « | would have are vajued at approstm- svery Chedstion sont f piace. - Ptely $5,000. Mr. Sherman has al ll! is so very nice to think The world is full of meat and \' a house immigration committes | ffounces that there #&re manyradt cals, anarchists and communists in western jails who will fqllow Berk» man, Goldmitn, ef al., &nd it is evi- dent that the \investigating commit- tees will seek put other colonies” of them to transport. We are having a, housecleaning. We bave needgd it for a long time. Wa were of the opinion that we were digesting the foreigners and Amer- icanizing them in a manner entirely satisfactory. The war and its draft entirely removed. New York has discovered at a plreet called Wall. eram \Twas the night before Christmas and All through the house not an egg- nog yas stirring, gouse.-Don Marquis in New York Sun> - + This is the time of year when every man and woman resolves to be- gin his Christmas shopping for next year immediately after New Year's. non |_ And yet wo know that there are' agreed to give the city sum. great bodies of people who are suf! Me can scarcely be expected to give fering and that there are little chil! 24 additional $5,000. 1 dren who are reduced pitiably by the! It is true that the education board | lack of food and clothing. 'The out.} !s sorely pressed for funds, but it has: look is far brighter for their relief Slready the funds put aside for the: than it was a year ago. There is a Purchase of the senool site, and it light in the clearing. Conditions may. Would be poor business not to take be deplorable in many districts, but LG@vantage of the Sherman offer by the bases of better times have been Obtaining @ditional funds from some established. lungs-tar to purchase the two lots if it There were those who were in- !s imperative that the board own clined (o scoff at the story of thel those lots «or a thoroughfare. Mr. permit no such conditions to oxist, Sgldom in the history of our mu- that tho «nere incident of the war Dicipal affairs is there a more gener inflated that wo wore as far from 0Us spirit displayed than that which uchieving the ideals of Christ as we Mr. Shorman has shown In regard to were 12,000 years ago. Therefore 'he Fark Entrance school site. , It; story. But the war itself has em- People of the city would not have our phasized the ome great truth that representatives on the board of edu Christ taught, * ! catfon indulge io driving any bar That it in more to be arnan | gain that would appear to make the [ t6 {tore no this $58 thy or #.. * oal ant 5009 Piha ~s Gbeamsaimngin Ya\\ ~ClaAys®, ~THE *axkar., HKLART OF MAtNikinp,.» I ite Clays, \'the GreatReart.. of| stopd 10. *e p P Than being a man, to be a king. city atem ungrateful for that which Tho contrasts Retween civilizations | has been extended with such a froo | which the war revesled showed the band. and it is certain that the! proxrésu that has boon made in those board members themselves can have 2,900 years ang tho nations that. No suc) thing in mind. + out In the best light wore thos»! mmm omens amman. | coming | toy. town nag \who bad followed/closaly tho real: CITY SUBSCRIRBKS iT8 Quota. tonifit wilh a. care of € molt. 6 \tx oye (oce famta Claus comes 'with t phokc. -AL little children dre { te- thy-fruite of orgy ° in it tumperately c Afined *to year : ~Axt why disillaston k. A% %o lhe: resourcefuinsks of Claxin] ' W bave talght tham tally to katisve 'that=ibe did gentleman would bring «¥afpihing If they would luit ba calf out after 'they had 16 bed asd would sat all their smdal. Whiat parent but trs in- & fn -th) acncipnt art of deceir- Sants Clas Whe betfec the the citaned{their tooth them omly is the morning. he dicipline; datirely indefenaibie repreEeniible to employ . they are.to continue hon- degree they must make never 'be absent on *% he still \the Great- Wl\ that Aur toude'alt ter tor th® sweeping fuills to make around rtmas night? || MANAGER NAMED, Robart E. Calill sh thi lection of a naw tity never Cabili and his }* P8 Ibe hew commission Cbirge of the city af th 3, 1120, hare agreed on shim of Waltham, Mass. \le engimeer of experience, In the ¥ & mamhood and has tad: years\ experience as the mane Khe suntcipal affairs 'of Wa fl? 'of 20,000 people. He lia! the thing that tausen costs to consumer to mount. Until they are & ker, \the pillar of a. poople's hope. able Christmas for baving qversub 6: the centre of a work's desire.\ \~- Christ, the central Agure of our, Ralief. 'The announcement is made Ye |Christmas ohmrvance, stands out fm) today that up to and including last clearer light today tham be has atinight \Watertown bad subscribed $25. & any other time. Abarat war has fulfHed Its purposes. in the county is $40.000 under the same system of distribu- \tion at a price about the same, jdeals of the child born in the man-! Watertown will pasa a more engoy-| ! scribed the sure asked for Jewish If It required a' 664, or $664 more than the quota for groat war to accomplish so much,! the city. Tho total sum to be raised. All of the énd. sftter all, in summing up thehvnhxu and towns havo not been progress of Chriattanity we must @ot heard from. but to date thoro Has foss sight of tho fact that a teen reported $4.383.11. leaving a Féars Is only a watch in the night as balance of $10,716.89 t. be raised the sends drop from theo hour glass curing the baixnce of the wook | It is of gime. {confidently expected thit this sum ' This Christmas sea»on is &a kappy | will be subscribed. one fer that which it' indicates for| The city /answered tho the future. The Christ spirit is; with a promptness that was charac, broader by resson of the war; Chriz, teristic of our peoplo's - impulses tfanity has> been broadeged rather| Necessarily much hard work was re than narrowed in the activities of its | quired to get so many subscriptions workers by reason of the wat. in no, Men and woman neglected business ¢ther gift-giving | ssason followingiund home affairs to carry an out the custom of the Wise Men of campaign, but they made tho sacri | 2,000 years igo has - humanity's| Aces as cheerfully as those whom heart beem so responsive to the ap- {they interviowad made their sub poels of ths world ais it is at this Christmas time. Our people aro es- pecially joyous fn singing Christmas qurois this year because they have in & greater measure than ever before taken on the apizit of wider and more generous giving to those who are fu to successfal termiqmstion at this time. It was the Orst time an appeal! ' for the suffering Jewish people of! Rusaia and Poland bad been made. Their deplorable condition was weil reed. * known. Therefore thero was ready response. ; WHY THE cost oF| it is to be hoped that the towns | we a> MILK? end villages will make their quota as | complete as has the city. arena OTHER BOATLOADS To Fellow.] tion is costing too much. | The re-! That must necessarily be an un- | port of ths commission that has bappy Christmas which the shiptoad , been fnvestigiting the Rochestor|of url@@strabies will spend on the sitdation for the past five months at | high seas. They may whistle to keap & cost of $35,000 sets forth that ex-| up their spirits, they may be exbilar cessive costs of tailk distribution are | ated by the sea air, but (n reality | a costs which hare grown up as a r»! depression is settling over them, the sult of the competitive system, \for| like of which they have never known which the city itself, in common with | before - Their feeling must be akin other cities of the country, is re-] to that of persons who have entered | &ponsible.\ - The commission hospitable home to reside and- monds centralisation of the milk 4 | have vialated all Its rules by cutting tribution Im the city itself uader| up the furniture, preaching lawless municipal control \on the ground | ness among the servants and ultt that the present conpetitive syntem b The -Rochestar milk survey is com- pleted. It sbovs the samp thing that was found in Watertown. Distribe mately reeking to undermina the prin- t yroduct and because of the unneces. but be filled with remorse as they sary and exceamive expenses.\ sre kicked from the front porch and told that they have violated the hos- pitality of the place to the extent that they wili never be permitted to return. \* There is significance in the adjec- tive which the Department of State and the immigration bureau of the department of labor employs in re ferring to the ship. It is invariably spoken of as the first ship, indicating that there are others to follow. 'That will be good news to the American people. We can now be assured that r 4 +] we ure going to pipe them out as we : The duplication of mflk routes is | piped them in. The skidway will be the | tipped back in. the other direction for & Ume now until we have relievedf . A year or more ago Watertown's commission reported the same thing. In Rochester, as here, it was being charged that the farmers were pro- fiteering. It was subsequently shown that they were getting no more for their product than «s though they sold it to go to New York. Obvrious- ly, it should be easier to take milk from the nearby Farmers and sell it at a city close at hand than to trans- port It way to New York and sell it diminated there will be no. relief. It attérs not whether the survey is adi in New York, Rocheater or Wa- th o*®n, the findings wil be identi» The day's dispatches indicate tha' Congress is going at the matter syn-i flemautica.ly to . investigate wherein [ they can . the bouse-cleaning furthers.\ Clikirman Johnson | of \the t ; tion in the South wast.\ Movement. Documents\ and 7 and gauging; ions.\ If you think we are not descended from Simians, fust consider hpw high j a child can climb in his search for bidden Christnaas packages, MM + Fomorrow is the one morning of the year when it isn't necqnary to call the children. “fig—m After Jan. 1 the railroads will be wandering about, all steamed up and nowhere to go. ~ rtm nar mtr nang We can imagine nothing quite as thrilling as being a whiskey smug gler. = ee tem Nq return trip tiekets on the Gold- man-Berkman special Ho who shops last ghops worst &_ GOES UP ON HIGH Weaithy - Chimsse Has Nove! Trip From Tists Life to Next. There was a proity custom among some of the amclents when a prom- Inent citizen died, to send his valot along with him on the road to Park- dise, and it was oftentimes neces sary to resort to extreme methods to fowure this company for the depart- ed. But in the tarritory of the China American Trading company, Ford dealers in Tlentsin, China, they have discovered a much better mid to the deceased over the rough places on the trip to the Promised Land. It is a<ustom of tho Chinese to burn various kinds of ofizies at tha funeral coroemonmios of the rich, the more wealthy the departed the more 8 Wig» all : has demonstrated otherwise, ~ With: characteristic American decision we go forward with the job of cleaning up the mubs and we will keep at the work until this undesirable leaven is smaLufr Parerts <, )' ° Suggestion Made That Size Re Re- '' duced by Folding 'Crosmwise, - ftreet, comes the following com- munication : .~. - *Good morning, sip. You are al- ways suggesting better ways of -do- ing things for other people. So 1. want to retaliate. + w \*There is much talk of making tlie newspapers réduce the number Of pages. \Why pot take the bull by the yarns and reduce the size of the Pub- io Ledger by folding it crosswise and er way from the present path? This would make the paper about the size Of the Pall Mall Gazette. and be 3 boon to rajlroad and street car rid» *#re, who are a. nuisance to their From W. N. Jennings, of £305 Arch? ® get Prs andy n Lon t -. ~1. _ mmmmmm #1, Tos. % D. T [EF in Bu Burroughs' ature Notes [Ballad 5 houses? aat? can - you answir These qyssT/ON3? I What is the' difference between wild bees and domesticated ones? I1. 'How do Eakimos build III. Js porcupine meat good to their ~ . That is Almost Extinét . u ames ° ,W h Few Loyal Adherents That Remain Guard Treasures al Ridicule of Sophisticated 'World, Says Prof. MacKenzi m \The Quest of the Ballad,\ |. _ e ° in Wh 1 . a . they 3331383) swim-flagmafi'fiffi Sign 23513?! balleds was provey quite often Part of ad ments. So,. ballad singing, 'in ciden ballad was missing. the columns run the oth-]. times a pleasant custom, has nature {tually ceased to be heard in Answers - in - tomorrow's vir the the * conntrysiae - gru=\ 10 *~~-Mar-toriarge \pages. \Theo size of The louat one broker's messenger who is hoy- est and the municipality may erect a monument to him at the head of a no hope of a neighbors while turning the present ads could be cut in half-chirging the present price-and they would look as big on the half page as they do now on the whole. page. There may be some dead wall or blind alley to block this scheme, but if you can see a why to give us the Public Ledger in large magazlfi form, a little bigger than <the Post, with pages cut, so we can turn them eas- fly -bless you.\ There is merit but not novelty in Mr Jennings' idea. Thirty years ago Frank A. Munsey bought the New York Star and changed it from stand- making it though }ife remains for some time. night ? a have. jfrosh for its young -but introduces ita polson into certain nervous gang- ler, the injury to which has the ef- fect of paralyzing the victim and incapable of motion, I1, Do any American birds sing at In this equntry the mocking bird is the onlyj regular nightminger we Othér songsters break out 00 . castonally in the middle of the night, that it gives one the . land becaume the - presont geriora- every singer who over E#! U 5s. | tions despiwas the \quaint Innguaga\ | lad fn question Card the bay. ANSWERS Toflgzgyw 8 au in which hrmble folk used to express Another. luterzfitlxg afifieflm’“ bernet keep fresh thor emotions, author had was with «gang *the . |. How in“ a h rae P W. Roy. MacKensic, professor offers, a weather-beaten old bat, meat for its young L English An Washington ulnzttnm or. 22007\ had not indulgeq 08 sand hornet does not sting gigs-51mm pastime for-several yous\. Amsect it captures In a vital part- ikd,\ has presented a fracinating and tyd Prof. McKenzie be w but hg for in that case it would not keep sand exhaustive study Of the decline to think some up, 8 ould try of the ballad and the reasons there- for. 'The hack is from the Princeton, University Press. , . \Only in the rarest cases do bal- lads still exist ar e popular tradi- tion,\ writes the author, \and the tew old men and women who are fe- miliar with them are excessively un- willing to reveal this femilfarity to {anyone but a trusted friend or rela- tive. The rude wind of neglept, acorn, and contumely bave so chilled the custom that its few loyal adherents ._\ 'Wall,\ roare®@ny pr tertainer, 'a nice Angst? 1°§2§°uv° fik o the hay since I was talking t?!” $ Pd start the horse an; git my” one o' them blame of fs first thing 'I'd b beilg- down the field with me hay goa,.\*\ egiwut at“, crooked'?‘ ay scattereq . en, the stor ed to sing. ¥ Eras. Sandy lFlnn‘liy hid seized upon aimost immediately b him. - With ihe cles Start. PRe which away ard size to a Ave-column new$paper, eructly as Mr. Jennings suggests. The new paper was called the Dally Continent. t was much easier to read than is the newspaper of today and gave more opportunity to display nows. And it We a better showing to the ads Mr. Munsey was ahead of his time. Traffic by subway, surface and ele valed road was not so heavy then as pow, and the need of a paper of mod- ern width was not so great There is one objection to the news- paper of narrow width. That is*in the increased waste of newsprint by reason of the additional margin, but that is not sufficient to offset the ad- vantmges. Some day the paper of the size of the Daily Continent will be estab- lished. To turn the pages of n newspaper in a public conve ce to- day without annoying the 03:3“ on either side of you is difficult. Many persons do not know how to fold & newspaper so they can read and their neighbors will not have cause for trritation. The majority of bu- mankind is thoughtlioss or indiffer- ' ent Thgre are persons who make | almost as much of a job of turning | the pages of a newspaper in a crowd ed car as they would of turning a : feather maitreas. Many students of newspapers be Hoved Mr. Munsey would have suc ceeded with the Daily Continent and forced n change in the size of tho newspaper page had he persisted. but he did rot have the wealth thea, that hhe has today and the Star was; lxxxorl!~n.nul when be (vok it over and, besides, Mr Munsey was not a news but so bfieflg impression that they sing in their; sleep. Thus 1 have heard the halt-l bird, or chippie, the kingbird, the oven-bird and the cuckoo fitfully in the dead of the night, like a school- boy lsughing in his dreams. . It!. Why ars bears easity trained? Béars seem to show more human nature than most other animals. Bostock says that 'they - evidently love to show off before an audience: \The conceit and good oplguon,l ol\ themselves, which some performing ters, He f bears have, is absolutely ridiculous.\ | d charac und A trainer once trained a young bear! to climb a ladder and set free the American flag, and so proud did the bear become of his uccotnplishmcnt,’ that whenever anyone was looking ' on he would go through the wholo performance by himseH, \evidently simply for the pleasure of doing it.\ Bears are in so many ways-in their | rarely play-in their boxing, in their walk-' presen ing,- such man, that one is induced to aocept the trainer's statements as contain- ing a measure of truth. . (Rights reserved by Houghton Mif. filn Company) instinctively feel that it is itive strangers who desire to ballads sung in order to hold up to ridicule.\ bad once been able \to Hitle snatches of verse. generation,\ says the fathers, for the cares of this world and the deceitfuiness of riches hays in a practical ago grown up in hdit minds and killed the good seed of the ballads which was lightiy sown there in the days of their youth; but with a somewhat larger * Castle Baidt. , prospect one mfasih seek {mt and qty: 5 eak and deso tlon the grandfathers, if haply Y Weird £3“ and“)? ® i hare survired to &a day which has U'pan an island haun'ed by despair' |Provided so many duties and amuse Thy moonlit towers reflected in the mMOnts to supplant the simple recre- atream * » a of he balladertin Beom Mke a dungeon kesp of mem \Practically ail of the ballads! lii ory dungeon P my collection I have procured from There love and romance sipep be men and women in the neighborhood ueath a spall -! of 10 or 50 years of age.\ Till fancy comes and with ber magic From \Old Bob\ Langvillo, an oc- torch 'togenorian of a little hamlet on the paper man. As a matter of fact. the *rewspaper | page has been decreasing in sigo. storad4ly for mans years The news| paper page of the mid ninoteenth' contury period was far bigger than ; the standard page of today. It was called a blanket abeot, mand justly so.‘ Dispels the gloom. Then from aban- north coss( of Nora Scotia, the au doned ruins. thor -zot many of the ballads in his An enchapted palace rises like a collection Of \Old Bob's\ manner of dream alnging. the author has tho follow Complete the beautiful as in the ing paragraph learis , \Bob learned forward. tized his of builders Fancy , Kato earbestly upon & knot in the floor. and 'studlied' for a fow mo ments; then, throwilug back bis hesd ite - forbiddon ends m Theo broken hourglass and from wast elaborate the Agures burued over his REINDRE® MEAT od sands closing his syem, ho began with grave. Theso efiliries represent ove rog conjures up a night when castlo a suddenness and a volume of sound manner of thing such as human fig-. scl lll uy s iste . that for the moment harrowed me ures, horses, sedan chairs, tables | Steeds of Santa Claus on Bale Here |GlO®s with a mystic light and all , with fear and wondar. It would not logded with mones. otc. The figures . As Steaks. w the air > »Bbave seemed possible, without auri ssually conform to somes of thexe L222 22 Seams vibrant with the voice of joy | cular evidenge, that such a frail old stereotyped fashioms, but at the fo | Now York Evoning Sun and mirth. body could be made the propailing neral of &a Mr. Li, who died a short time ago in Tientrin. and who was a very wealthy ify Imitation - 6f the deceased man's Ford car to be burned grave. This Ford eMigy was made entire ly of strong Chinose paper atretched on bamboo and reed (frames. The- car was complete in every detail, the pedals accurstely pisred and all made of paper and bamboo. The in terior of the car «as siso accurate man, the boreased fag the In detail, being carefully upholstered . in paper - The eMgy of the driver as shown in the photograph, work of art The car was carried about three miles through crowded | It is doubtful if any oth-| streets _ to the . graveside where a DOMNECTQ PML Of bor this 40 er campaigh could have been carried | MBtCh/ was applied and it war con. ) INSSIC (bet will no 'the timber sumed in a few minutes U This ia the time a motor car ‘beIL Elquimaux ralzed the ”Swift-r has been burned at the grave of a bare been brought to New Chinese and there is every reason to bellere that the deceased went up \On High \ ~ ermmm s How To READ U. 8. History | A. M.\ Shows a Practical Plan and Tells Backs to Get. ; A. M in New York Evening Sun In reading history It is a good plan to begin with m short genera} hi« / tory (such as Channing's \American i History\) for m bird's ere view, 16 | follow It with a map and then «up . plement it by special books ap the periods _ found _ most intereattng There are plenty of good hooks of th a latter sort - For example Gardiner. S R \The _ Puritan Revolution © Andrews | \Colonial SelfGovern ment\ (in the - Amerfean Nation' , Serien) t Hinsdale \The Old Northwest {Stilver. Burnett, Boston) Johnson. W J < \French Pathfind ers in North America.\ Bolton, H. H.: \Bpanish Explora Ma Lodge: | \The Ameri H 18 a menace to public health becausg ciples on which the owners seek -to , dong-g © Ametican Revolu | of insufficient sanitary care of the maintain that bome. They cannot Burgess \The Middle Period. 1827 ' 1858\; The Growth of the Countr; | and the Rise of the Anti-Slavery 1 Dunning: \The Civil War and Roi construction.\ Walker: \Making of the Nation.\ Turner. F. J.: \Rise of the .Nexw | West\ (American Nation Series). | For biographies there are the; Statesman series ('Lives of Ameri can Statesmen\) Caldwell's \(Great American Legisintora,\ etc, For primary sources there are the documents Involved, the Constitution outdid themselves and inade an ' gown gentle 'ty be served to thase who like that at his ' : the flesh of the reindeer “ll, | penin«ala. I can't wear my het as I please and , | be the majority leader, then the ma- |__ Memt direct from Santa Claus land ts oA dlaplay in front of «some of the well known game restaurants in towp New York and will short Ravor.which Arctic mosa imparts to Protests from the younger gener. ation over the idea of slicing Santa's team into steaks and chops may be expected, but the poor reindeer. out of date as a means of transportation. is doomed to the pot. while the old gift giver of silvery hair end tinkling bells swoops from roo\ to roof in his Vimy Bomber Reindear meat is a regular dist in Lapland and Alaska, that is in the moss and lichens north of the timber On summer winds the breath Bring songa and laughter of belated i . Hark! From the castle tower a chim» of. powor for stch thunder Blasts of » muale. - The waice was now cracked sunkem garden with a.and boarse, and perilously uncertain sound lon the upper motes, but the evidence Of tinkling fountmins, and through | was clear on the point that old Bob lumined balis . ibad been in his day a mighty singer Movo maskers. to the tusic of tho | of ballads. . i_ 'His manner of delivery was dif goddess ferant from that of L4itle Ned and of |manvy other «ingers whom I hare beard more recently - They. as a roses steals From out the dance. One light and airy as a laads A joyful throng of mimic deities Cupid is are and fearful of bis w bo on the lait words of each staosa; but Walk glittaring fairies arm in erm Bob proceeded from line to line. and with gnomes. from stanza to stanza, with the While on a dais. host and hosgess greatest rapidity and vehamence. On stand | the last line of the song, however, he Smiling bencath a canopy of flowers [practiced the device which has besn Over (§@ moonlit watéra lary braegas used by every ballad-singar that I have ever Hatemed to, that is, he sang the first gart of the line in the reg ular why with eyes closed and head thrown back, then made a suddeg and swift descent from the empy- suests. | And muffled shouts of bestmen from' tha mokt. w York. Large herds graze an the | of bells * rean of music, opened his eyes, loan- plains in certain parts of the Alaskan filings 3:13:15sz Tims for dmrernlnd forward. glared upon his audi- - - Governor Smith always wears his , hat-be it straw, derby, or silk \tile\ -At a typically Bowory anglo. Just before he was made of the asserobly, a Tammany judge took him to task for the habit. \Look here, Al, you've got to live» g to your I do for the leader of the great Democratic party in the assembly to. 8hC #0es with him go around witH#f his hat cocked on une side of his bead as theugh he was sauntering elong the Bowery \> \Look bere, judge, | wear my hat- that way because that's the way my head is built. When I try to wear It straight It gives me a headaghe. If | jotity Readership b* damned. Sect\ --George MacAdam in the World's Work for January. COO 2 3003 \How loug that girl looks the way | her face is done up.\ \Yas; why haven't the giris sense ' tubing-ate use fioiseleass nel They pause ar throbbing | strings | Who is this stranger\ Now be whir majority leader , The hoatess' Look! she starts as {f | Yet silently she takes bis new dignity now fi never The castle door and down the castiv; Philadel And . All guests depart 'The ow! resumes bis reign on castle 1P03t-Exvresa. [ mventEo \TEST or ~, ' Man Who Also Cencelved African | | New York Telegraph: once, and pronounced the list faw words in an emphatic conversational tone ~ The way of the ballad collector ia grow mute Now love Aad pleasure cast azido their masks. But there - hard. as Prof. MacKenzie shows. Is unantrullk masked walking alone in Even where, by dint of di lomacy ack ' on, an U and a great deal of conversa pers to career and the character and ths , dignity of Russell H. Conwell, D. D. arm. and: and LJL D., amd for almost $0 years pastor of the Baptist Temple sf phis. his detailed explana- *! tion of the appearance of his late Doat into a waiting wife from Spiritiand recalls Lowell's oat. th ish -d '\A Gordon Knott \ soon ey vanis or 1 shadowy fitream. ile the He lay in bed in fear'! through steps Pursuit is vain. The darkness uni-l And heggdma wifg with well known lows them. shed; (Or wasn't his fancy mocking *} And then ° isle. -J. T. Swineburn» And then (aha'd been some ten years in - Rochester TEs ; Or, in his room (his breath STRENGTH machine! thick) | He heard the long-{familiar click Of slender needles, flying quick, Dodjar Paeses Avray. As if she knit a stocking, them to give it protection and warmth at their own hearths, and to bar the door against the blasts from the outer world, which may bring Inquis- hear them | Professor McKenzie. during his summer vacations on the north coast of Nova Bcotls, following the dim trail of the surviving English and 'Bcotch ballmds, encountered many vaint but exceedingly igniting the oldest of the land, and 'but faw of them, were able to sing any of the ; old ballads, and many of them who sing all day without repeating themselves,\ had forgotten all or could remember only \Even in communities where bal lads are sung they are own to the children .of the the au- parodies - of , thor, \nor need one turn hopefully to rulo. sang with a carefgl ratardation | The lights go out! Entering the kitchan. through the, Opening the pantry, cutting bread. ' dead) . 2a Closets and drawers unlocking: | | & terrific clear; le throat he grasped at it null}: of the In mqm lived a noble lord: ‘0‘1131 riches wus beyond compare, \Once more the co bail 4 him mnd dluppeareg alled eludeg \I peered cautiously throu window, and beheld a stirrinxxhsptx tacle. Sandy was marching resolute. ly up and down the yard. with arng waving and hair and beard tossing t wildly in the nor east gale His lips worked spasmodically, and at times a bellowed word or syllable cams driving in through the rattling panes Presently he made a rush for the . door, and 1 had barely time to re- sume my seat and replace my pi when ho hurtled himself through IE: room, flung himself into his chair and broke into a raging and irreals tible torrent of song.\ The author in discussing types of ballads, points out that no clagaifi- cation would be consistent or Rely sive. Ther® are the genuine \old popular ballads, now more precious than fawels and gold.\ Quite often the theme of the ti} lad is as follows: A Sravalior, newly arrived in the country, approachs a maideb, and, with apparently ' {. decent baste, makes propossis tor her hand. The inalden rejects bim with scorn, remarking that aho Rar, - in some foreigo.jand or uut upon the weas. a lover to whom she will re main faithful ustil he comes to claim her 'The stranger mikes repeated and unsnccessful atteropts to shake her faith in the absent one. but at last produces balf of a gold ring, | proving thag be himself is the long absent lover. who. yéars before di vided a ring with this identical maiden in token of betrothal. . Another vary prevalent motive i; that ef a malden who wishes to > clothe herself In men's attire and ao i her lorer to see or to warm., Then there aro tho sea ballads. srom® ; designed morely to show the danger and delights of life on the ocean, but - most of them aro of a more san guinary naturo.inatioct with tho lust of battle, asd ringing with triumgh for victory over the enemies of Brit © ain. b It is said that all artists aro affiict ed with temperament The suthit rhows that there is something aboat ballad singers akin to temporameat Ho pictures the violent argument that ensued batween two ballad wap ors orer which version of an old Iad was correct. \I think it is safe to say that 80 truo ballad stoger ever consciously cbanged a line or even a word in the songs which he received from his fathers and passed on to his Chil dren; but evaryone who has ths , slightest requalntance with ballad} knows that tiey exhibit the moa! startling variations in phraseology, so that even within the limits of a single community a given stant may be sung in several differea! In discussing the causes for the' dacline of ballad singers, the author says that one resson is tho taff of more modern music and methods of entertainment, added to the ir creassing suspicion that ballads wert becoming old-fashioned and out qf date. doubt is entertained. Clearly tht, «phenomenon which he offers to ab ence must be studied out | His ow! doubt about ft is more - convincia® than personal certainty would be, t thotso who have given careful altets tian to the alleged or real spiritualia}, manifestations of the past. aug + + | - Gevernor §mith's \Alma Maw-3,2}.- George MacAdam in the World} , i _ Work for January: 2 Diring debate in tha New York | atate embly one day, when G9T, ermor $1213\: was a member of that body another mafiber xx; to & TeOna T ged nggegftgeu'Cm-uelf had won th4 t he was a graduate of Corpalh,: ft13111!!! started a reminiscence mung? other members arising to mgm 1th}? name of their alts mater. frirs and suminer parks for more than a quarter of a century, Captain \Jim\ was 87 years old when he died of acute indigestion ''Ate you going to . wear that oid | BSturday at the City hospital in silk hat agarin*\ inquired the ctitical | Boston. 6 was & vetérat of the for ribbons to reward distinguished services alone.\-Louisvilie Courier. Journal. and Declaration of Independence, | woman. {Crimean and Civil wars and has Colonial charters, «to.; but best of es I am going to a funeral and been a familiar figure in rocent all aro the actum! writings of the |a high hat riways looks more mel- , years. having spoken in all the war buildars of history. Such books as ancholy when it's out of atyle,\~<l \drives.\ Sparks's \Writings of George Wash- mamma -When he was only seven years old ington\ or the spelckes of Webster Wind-Bilown Cedars. -\Jim\ Russell ran away - from his and Lincoln give not only more of our hfatory but niore of the meaning | I U ine country of some of these undesiv., Of, \8\, Amerieantsre than any ao | Like sentinels stately and slil1. count at second hand. The original dAocgmenia may be' found in such books as MeDonald's | Ligh summer wind» e'er the hill \Betact Charters of American His- torv,\ of the United States,\ Hill'® 'Liberty | Poora's \Chafiters \oa 500 ; © . L a h Dark on the crest of the h{l} * Davidson's \Reference History Now, when the North wind blows I Branches toss wi'diy ' j i home in Greenock, Scotland. From that time untit recently he followed ithe sen as sailor before the mast, captain and ship-builder. He served In the Bfitish &rmy durin mean war and In the Civil war h« Stand the cedars together; Fearing no weather Sway them but mildly; + -spmence s The Spirit of a Wire. Brookiyn Eagle . -o, >_ __ j Resist ttoone reav. and perha In New York Evening Sun - $ i sbrill, f . dav. erha Jr,¢#6e-~ Is a. daty considering - B. £8. + & the Cri-, was in Admiral Farragut's feet. « »~since 1881, He has made d as an suiber. Off ; the , of: his bums” allly mo; | versed with him freety on many sub- Parhaps it's o'er &a million scads, 2131 ljects. Dr. Conwell is not a spiritual | mayba but a nickel. I fst. He says he is puszled by the The only thine that he € phenomenon. .He asks scientific o when the badgared Jury - . _.} dents of psychic phenomena to ren- Become so obfuscated by the 4, son it out with him. But when Dr.' yers' sound end fury tsl Joseph H. Leidy, a great neurologist That no one need be shooked {Int i and D\. Lightwer Witmer, the Tnk __\ . or think it strange or qusitil} versity of Pennmylvani{a psythologist, They aock It to defendant \hf? ' 'natiribute whai he thinks he sees to, really mean the plaintilf ... ; operations of the subgonsclous mind; -»Fennyson J. Daft in Kansas w {gr-inconwgu Is a bit maximal, though Star. » L oth aro his personal friends. \ . seite. Dr. Russel; H. Conwell is now 77, Pape q Zn”: out and 11 I8 written. \Your old men On paper he could fleurs On! shall dream dreams.\ He ware Hien , A profit Ttaising chic a old tenant colonél fn the volunteers of Rehm after ream the goo dickens the Cluil war, was edmitted to the _ Went ciphoring like the dick*! bar In 1865, entered the Baptist min-. ' ‘ tatry in 1879 and has been? the effi. But oh. the schemes of men and cinot head of the Baptist Temple | The attp 'twikt lip and cuD. ._, seee ren wing t nne (_C. L. Réson in Kansas Cy v ston on the world as an j A 8 a In org the whole balla ; €T 10 get search NL If yas a Y. 0 4 p ETS\ boat race at Poughkeepsie, sddink - s ( unced: San seo Chronicle. | X A plece of sad news is the death} a The stoirit ottth; lutei Mra. Conwell Ifin'glllimro? and mf the F F. If? «e sme e- _ of Captain Jim Russell of Chartes. 94008 Dot seem to bave ndulged or to t 0:6.“ is that?\ {os $2 Jyoti-57) ffiffifi’nfi‘i’ we sbent: town, Mass., who was the inventor have appeared to indulge In any in-; m Fish Market\ oo |- \well 00 ' i of unb 7A brioan dodgar\ idea and the | du e widower where t fnd mie fis | Boe; His Luck [ * R \test o strength\ striking machine.! the widowar where to fin s dia John Doe; His 54 mgflnd?nofggi: ' ar when £3] two amusements have been , Ch&rge papers from the army, which | Think.on the state of one loki. \J learn that more than that was spent [D, 426 at Conay Island mnd county bad been lost fot years, and It con: | who's always in a pi a -~ Singing An An - | C* t : Taken | | _- Files 1 < A Merry for the ric those who t toll for An to maka know how- January 1 mencement things. The effect and Public ofice passes and Cape - Vince with a load land Seed C The farme plowing this fault with puiting in tI Johan Sullt Chicago's po brother, Dar Charlea - 1 who has bee past drilling to his Dep: Christmas who is now brothets ans Christmas the home |: into the stu droves Rafiing w the Hine last Is there | trees? If yor a good big mustn't \kic not get one. nice trees fe doll's house. fit for the % family price, Half a mi wine, rare v tainment has Year's eve b: ol New Yor every square hotels and r the event as before in th: In an acci which John . bis life on torney Joseq narrowly es: Tuesday nig headtong int -~passenger #r prompt gctic the Tesm sect ing ground b The bigge: given out xt to this seaso The use of rolling snow dozen towns ing entirely The turke basted and r morning. Fal the stocking: have dreams nights is her A white C for northern which is ass er and huge ple of the re promod 'The Out Harry Care casts of Pok Hien 4¢ adapt s adap Bret Hart, ® Thrill fc Every base with the bail the first part picture enti which will %
