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4 gjp IBafnina Moraine Newi Building, fcTnnah. Ga l .... ■— -^=TT SUNDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1904. Registered at Postofflce In Savannah. THE MORNING NEWS is published every day in the year, and served to subscribers in the city, or sent by mall; one week. 18 cents; one month, 70 cents; three months, 82.00; six months, 84.00. one year. 88.00. THE MORNING NEWS by mail, six time a week twlthout Sunday issue), one month, 50 cents: three months, 81.50; six months, 83.00; one year. 86.00. THE WEEKLY NEWS, two issues a week (Monday and Thursday), by mail, one year, 81.00. Subscriptions payable In advance. Remit by money order, check or reg istered letter. Currency sent by mail at risk of sender. Transient advertisements, other than local or reading notices, amusements and classified column. 10 cents a line. Fourteen lines of agate type—equal to one inch in depth—is the standard of measurement. Classified column ad vertisements. 1 cent a word each inser tion. Every word and figure counted— No advertisement accepted for less than 15 cents week days, 25 cents Sundays. Contract rates and discounts made known on application at. busi ness office. Orders for delivery of the Morning News to either residence or place of business can be made by mail or by telephone No. 210. Any irregularity in delivery should be immediately re ported. Letters and telegrams should be ad dressed “MORNING NEWS,” Savan nah. Ga. EASTERN OFFICE, 23 Park Row, New York City, H. C. Faulkner, Man ager. 26 PACES. Mil 10 MW ADVEBIiSEMESrS Special Notices—Christmas Dinner, Veruki’s Cafe: Compliments of the Season, Prager Laundry Company; A Merry Christmas, Jas. J. Joyce; The Dixie Laundry, J. H. Furber; Crew Notice, British Bark, Pass of Brander; General Insurance. W. T. Hopkins. Business Notices—Enjoy Yourself, G. W. Thomas; Dinner To-day, Som mers’ Cafe; There Are Many Valuable Christmas Gifts, Pennlman & Ennen; Leather Novelties Are Acceptable Presents, I.- H. Friedman & Cos.; A Merry Christmas, Roos’ Market; Yon Don't See This Often, Cohen-Kulman Carriage and Wagon Company. Merry Christmas—Foye & Eckstein. On Monday Morning—Jackson & Gut man. You’ll Not Worry—Savannah-Georgia Laundry. The Great Day Has Dawned—The Delmonlco Cos. • Our Best Wishes for a Merry Christ mas—Gustave Eckstein & Cos. To the Vast Nmber—Savannah Gas Cos. Hold Your Cotton—Ludden & Bates S. M. H. To-morrow—McGrath & Ransford. Financial —Southern Bank of the State of Georgia. Merry Christmas to All—Falk's, Around the Corner. In Making Merry Christmas—Edward Lovell’s Sons. Seed Potatoes—Henry Solomon & Son. Hand-Painted China—Thos. West & Cos. Special Notice—Gerst’s Hair Dress ing Parlor. Pause and Consider—Electric Supply Cos. Merry Christmas to Friends and Pa trons—The Bee Hive. A Very Cordial Christmas Greeting— B. H. Levy, Bro. & Cos. Greetings Sincere—Estate Daniel Ho gan. This Day Is Not for Business T. A. Bryson. I Make Weak Men Strong and Well —Dr. J. New’ton Hathaway. Merry Christmas to All—Lattimores’. Huyler's Candy and Bon Bons—Sol omons Company. May Your Christmas Be Full of Sunshine—Dr. M. Schawb’s Son. Nunnally’s Candy Livingston’s Pharmacy. Delicious Candies—At Conida’s. Always Good—J. T. Shuptrlne. Compliments of the Season—Row linskl, Druggist. A Gigantic Holiday Business— Rhodes-Haverty Furniture Company. Red Cross Coffee—Henry Solomon & Son. Mid-Winter Schedule Peninsular and Occidental Steamship Company. Compliments of the Season—Ogle thorpe Savings and Trust Company. Savannah Theater—All the Week, the Arnold Stock Company. Saddles and Harness—Leo Frank. Apples—W. D. Slmkins. For the New Year—The Connor Book Store. To Those Who Motor—R. V. Con nerut. Remembered—Connor A Sullivan. A Merry Christmas to You All—Leo pold Adler. Closed All Day Monday—Foye & E> ksteln. Our New Shirt Work—E. & W. Laundry. Medical—Peruna. Cheap Column Advertisements—Help Wanted. Employment Wanted, For Rent, For Kale, Lost, Personal, Mis cellaneous. Tito Weather. The Indications for Georgia for to day arc for rain, with fresh west winds. Hosiern Florida fair weather, with light west winds. A 1 hi-dot tor of the name of L t M E X* tgier, has awed the estate of a * attain d*-‘ -Sim 4 rich woman Ft llztnoo for medical get tinea. Maybe If the doc tor irsd hom aMs to rnoai *i eco r,< i m JUsl he wtsuid have swsd I-,r lI.UW.M*. CHRISTMAS. Everybody knows, of course, that Christmas is celebrated as the anni versary of the birth of the Babe in the Manger. It is a holiday through out Christendom. But it has become of larger meaning than a mere Chris tian feast day. Asa matter of fact, its blessed spirit extends far beyond creeds, and on this day Jews and Mo hammedans as well as Christians will be found giving gifts and exchanging the compliments of the season wher ever they are associated together in what for convenience is called a Chris tian country. Nor do the Christians enter more heartily into the celebra tion of the day than the other religion ists, who have no especial reason in their faith for making a feast at the recurrence of the anniversary of the birth of the infant Saviour. The fact is, the spirit of the day is so sweet, so captivating, that it reaches beyond all creeds and becomes universal in character, because it is based in love and human kindness. The first Christmas impulse of the loving heart is to give something; some token, by which the recipient may he reminded of the kindly and affectionate feeling of the giver. At Christmas love and charity have their full fruition. It is then that gifts are exchanged. Intrinsically they may be poor, but the sentiment that accompanies them makes them rich beyond price. A doll worth ten cents may carry with it joy and hap piness that could not be purchased for a million dollars. The amount of money that is spent for Christmas presents and Christmas cheer is practically beyond computa tion. It runs into the millions, easly; but not a dollar of it is wasted if the sentiment that accompanies the ex penditure is taken into account. The mails are loaded down, the express companies are jammed with the extra ordinary amount of business offered, the stores are crowded and the sales people worked to the point of exhaus tion. But all the while everybody is cheerful and smiling. Why? It's Christmas. It is the season for smiles, and happy greetings and good cheer. The spirit of the season is in all hearts. Everybody is willing to do more and give more, for the happiness of the community. The spirit of Christmas defies complete analysis, but it is a delightful psychological fact. THE LIMIT REACHED. The disorder on Broughton street^last night reached the limit. It was as destructive to business and the pleas ure of sightseers as a riot would have been. Men and boys, white and black, filled the street, and with devil sticks and torpedoes not only kept up such a din that it was impossible for cus tomers in stores to communicate with clerks, but the exploding torpedoes alarmed people, and forced them from the street. The condition of affairs that prevailed was outrageous and dis graceful. It ruined Christmas Eve for a very large percentage of the peo ple of the city, and for whose benefit? For that of a few men and boys who have little or nothing at stake In the city, who don’t care whether the mer chants do any business or not, and who are totally Indifferent to the wishes and rights of Christmas Eve shoppers. It is up to the Mayor and the City Council to say whether we are to have this sort of thing every Christmas Eve in the future. We are sure if the retail merchants could have their way, If peaceably disposed citizens and well-wishers of the city could make their voices heard there would never be such another exhibition of noisy disorder here on Christmas Eve as there was last night. The retail merchants should meet and put themselves on record against the sale of devil sticks and torpedoes for Christmas Eve celebrations, and they should bring the fact home to the Mayor that they are as much entitled to police protection on Christmas Eve as on other occasions. They pay for the privilege of doing business and they are defrauded when conditions are permitted that prevent them from doing It. Last Christmas Eve a bluff was made at checking the disorder, but it was ineffectual. It was hoped that this year the police would see to It that Broughton street was kept free from the torpedo and devil stick nuisance, but the hope was not realized. The condition of affairs surpassed that of last year, and will steadily grow worse unless the merchants and citi zens generally make their protest so emphatic that the city authorities will heed it. _ THE GROWTH OK THE CHURCHES. Recently there has been much pother about the out-of-dateness of religious creeds, the decline of church attend ance, and things like that. Ministers and others have expressed opinions as to why men do not attend divine serv ices in larger numbers, and what should be done to bring the people out to the churches. Through It all there has run a somewhat pessimistic vein, as If the world were faßt going to the dogs. But when the facts and figures are consulted, it appears that the churches are steadily forging ahead; some of them, indeed, faster than the growth of the population. For example, it appears from the offi cial reports of the Episcopal Church that that organization has added 25,915 to its membership during the year, making its present membership 807,351. This is an Increase of 3 per cent., against an estimated Increase of 2 per cent, in the population. The Fresby terlan increase in membership Is 2V4 per cent., and that of the Baptists and Methodists about 291 per cent. The Catholic figures have not yet been made public, but It Is predicted that they will show an Increase of not less than 4 per cent. Dots that look us If the churches were falling Into decay; that religion wea beeondiig unpopular; that the people no longer took n deep and abid ing Interest in the spiritual Ufa? Does that look ms If preachers weie obliged to (elk to empty lurches, while the populace sought worldly pleasures on Ibe Mebb.ths When the growth of the churches *i> w 4* relatively the growth of population, the .via, nos la tamely SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. DECEMBER2S. 1004. slve that the churches are vital, mili tant and convincing. There may be defections here and there, but the great stream of modern thought con tinues in the old channel and its vol ume is all the time being increased by important additions. It is stated in the Presbyterian hand book for 1905 that the religions of the world have 1,430,000,000 adherents, di vided as follows: Christianity, 477,080,- 158; Confucianism, 256.000,000; Hindu ism, 190,000,000; Mohammedanism, 176,- 834,372; Buddhism, 147,900,000; Taoism and Shintoism, 57,000,000; Judaism, 7,- 056,000, and various heathen faiths, 118,- 129,479. The adherents of Christianity are di vided into the following branches; Catholic, 230,866,533; Protestant, 143,237,- 625; Greek Church, 86,016,000; Church of Abyssinia, 3,000,000; Coptic Church, 120,000; Armenian Church, 1,690,000; Nectorians and Jacobites, 150,000. Till STS MIT 17 DANGER. Those who are watching the discus sion of the trust question are no doubt coming to the conclusion that trusts are no longer in danger of being de stroyed. During the campaigns of 1896, 1900 and, to a limited extent, the cam paign of 1904. the attacks upon trusts were so bitter that many no doubt thought the time wasp't distant when an indignant and much oppressed peo ple would rise up in their might, as it were, and smite them so vigorously that they would all be dissolved into the little corporations out of which they were formed. Now, however, we are being told that they are necessary to the condi tions which prevail in the business world of to-day, and that what is needed is not their destruction, but that they be wisely guided and direct ed so as not to injure any other in terest or oppress the people. This is virtually the position the President took in his message to Congress, and it is the position taken by the Com missioner of the Bureau of Corpora tions. It is the view also that is being taken by some of the ablest and most influential thinkers of the country. It Is worthy of notice that comparatively little is now being said in favor of de stroying trusts. The discussion is all in the direction of devising ways and means for directing and controlling them. Efforts are being made to dis cover how the federal government can be given power to supervise them, and so control them that there will be no discriminations in their favor. In the course of his address at the New England dinner in Philadelphia last Thursday night Chief Justice Mitchell of the Supreme Court of Penn sylvania said that man’s na ture cannot be changed by stat utes, that "the people want trusts and they will have them.” There were trusts, he said, in the sec ond century and we have them in the twentieth century, expanded along more diverse lines. More than six hundred years ago the British Parlia ment undertook to wipe them out and failed, and all the talk and legisla tion there has been against them in the last dozen years have made no impression upon them. They are still doing business at the old stand, and new ones are being formed all the time; If this Is a correct statement of the situation the thing to do now is pot to continue the fight to destroy them, but to bend all our energies towards placing under proper guidance and direction, so that they will cease to be a menace to the welfare and interests of the people. WHO IS A GENTLEM AN t "We referred some days ago to the decision by an English court that a schoolmaster could not be a gentle man. An absurb statute, still pre served in the English code, provides that a “gentleman” shall have a high er standing in the eyes of the law than a “tradesman,” and that his oath shall have greater weight. It was held by the court that a schoolmaster was a “tradesman” because he work ed for his income, and that therefore the schoolmaster occupied a third-rate or fourth-rate position in the eye of the law'. The judge took pains to say that there was no intention on the part of the court to reflect on the moral character of the litigant in question, but merely to hold that, in law, one might not be a gentleman, whereas he might be one in every oth er relation of life. The whole thing seems ridiculous to the Intelligent American. In this country we hold as gentlemen all those who are “gentle men;” who regard the sensibilities of others; who would not willingly and knowingly wound the feelings of those they come in con tact with; who would put themselves, to inconvenience to be obliging and of assistance; who never forget to be deferential to women under all cir cumstances; who are clean of person and thought end action, and against whom no breath of reproach can be brought. In short, in America "gen tleman” mean3 an upright, honest man who strives to do right and live up to the golden rule. But In England they have a different idea. It was Carlyle, we believe, who described a gentleman as "A man who keeps a gig." Another Englishman said that a gentleman was one who "wears Sunday clothes on weekdays.” The English law, tt seems, defines a gentleman—possibly not In so many words, but In effect—as a tnan who doesn't have to work for his living, but who has an independent Income, how ever, small. Thus J. P. Morgan, who goes to his office and works, would not bo regarded as a gentleman un der the English although his Income were a thousand times great er than that of some “tlanneled fool” of the leisure <lass. Oddly enough, in some parts of the United States the designation, “gen tleman," Is employed In the directories to describe persons who have no known occupation. The man may be a gam bler, fakir or all-round disreputable person, Hut If be has money, he goes Into the dirts lory as “gentleman” or “capitalist To ih* average American mind, how* ever, ' 'gentleman” means—and will • uttilnue to mean—a man who en dutU himself la a genii*, lonaiderai*, liberal manner; a man whose soul is above meanness and avarice; a inan In whom honor governs and to whom selfishness Is unknown. In America the gentleman may not have a second shirt, but if his morale are right he is “the real thing.” Col. William Jennings Bryan passed a hot afternoon in Denver the other day, notwithstanding there was snow on the ground. He wanted to write a letter, and asked for a desk In the of fice of the depot master at the rail road station. That official accommo dated him, but slammed the door as he went out of the office. It chanced that the door Hastened with a spring lock, that the office was very small and that the steam was turned on the ra diator at full force. When Col. Bryan had finished his letter he discovered that he couldn’t get out, and mean time the temperature was continually rising. For an hour and a half he was a prisoner in the little room, which during the while had been converted into a veritable sweat-box. The "frenzied financiers” after whom Thomas W. Lawson is gunning, are finding many ways of striking back at him. One of the largest schooners in the world—a seven-master —bears the name of Mr. Dawson. She is owned by a syndicate. A director of the syn dicate the other day introduced a reso lution at a board meeting ordering that the name of Mr. Dawson be taken off the vessel because of his sensational articles In the newspapers and maga zines. PERSONAL. Joseph Smith, a citizen of Hobart, I. TANARUS., aspires to be appointed scaven ger in that place. He showed up be fore the appointing authority with these indorsements on his petition: Saloon Men’s Protective Deague, Law and Or der Deague, Young Men’s Christian Association, Women’s Christian Tem perance Union, Anti-Prohibition So ciety, American Protective Association and Catholic Union of America. Some curiosity is felt as to just what “pull” he would have produced had he been looking for a really good job. —The Beecher-Tilton trial Is recall ed by the death a day or two ago of William H. Davis, the last of the twelve men who made up the Jury which sat in the trial. In all the time which has elapsed since the Beecher trial Mr. Davis, according to the state ment of his relatives, has never told how he voted on the jury, nor express ed an opinion in regard to the guilt or innocence of Mr. Beecher. After the jury returned to the courtroom and re ported a disagreement it was discharg ed. The individual members were ask ed for expressions of opinion in regard to the case. None of the twelve men would consent to say anything, and it was learned that before the verdict was brought in all had agreed never t j divulge what had taken place In the juryroom, even to their own fami lies. It is believed that with the death of Mr. Davis the last chance that the proceedings of the jury would become known has vanished. BRIGHT HITS. —Windig—“l don’t know what we are going to do with our youngest boy.” Joblots—"What’s the trouble?” Windig—' He’s getting so we can't be lieve a word he says.” Joblots—"Why don’t you get him a job in the pre diction department of the Govern-, ment Weather Bureau?”—Chicago Daily News. —Nearly All Standing—Jokeley— “There’s the result, of Roosevelt’s re election for you. See how the stand ing army’s been increased lately.” Cokeley—"What! Why, I hadn’t heard of it.” Jokeley—“No? Haven’t you noticed the army of shoppers going home in the street cars these holiday times?"—Philadelphia Press. —“What’s them letters you got up there over the door?” demanded Nu ritch, Inspecting the plans of his new mansion. “That,” replied the architect, “is ‘S-a-l-v-e,’ which means ” “ ‘Salve?’ I never made any in me life. My money was made in soap. Take ’em down.”—Philadelphia Press. CI HHEST COM MUST. The Richmond News Leader (Dem.) says: “It is to be supposed that the magazine Thomas E. "Watson proposes to publish will be devoted largely to 'frenzied politics.’ ’’ The New Orleans Picayune (Dem.) says: “The fact remains that there is no trade, profession or current means of earning an honest livelihood but is open without reserve to the negro in the Southern states, but naturally the best opportunities that are open to him are in some department of labor. The demand for negro lawyers, doc tors, clergymen, school teachers and the like is limited, but for laborers of every class, whether skilled or un skilled, for men as well as for women for domestic service, is practically un limited. Under these conditions the educated negroes find it more or less difficult to secure a profitable field for their special accomplishments, while the uneducated are sure of employ ment, If they will accept it. Doubtless the educated negroes will find better opportunities in the Northern states, and it is certain that all, whether edu cated or not, who aspire to a state of social affiliation with whites are mov ing northward at every opportunity. Whether they realize their desires re mains to be seen.” The Springfield (Mass.) Republican (Ind.) says: "Southern cotton plant ing interests are displaying symptoms of having lost their heads since the i big slump in prices of cotton following the government’s estimates of produc tion. They are, in the first pluce, or ganizing a movement to have the re mainder of the crop held back until the price has been forced up to 10 cents a pound. But if the crop is as-large as indicated the effect of such a move ment, could it be brought about, would be like that of damming up a stream only in the end to see it break away and inundate those engaged in the operation. It would work exactly as have corners in wheat or corn—pro ducing a temporarily higher price, to he followed on the break by lower prices than prevailed at the beginning. And now we are told an organized ef fort Is to be made to compel the gov ernment to cense collecting ginning and other figures as to the size of the cotton crop-on the theory that these statistics constitute an unwarranted •xponurs of the -business affairs of the planters. The Western grain raisera have ns good u right to make the as me demand, and acquiescence would in volve an abolition of the whole crop reporting bureau at Washington In times of short <ro|>a when Its reports help boost prices as well as In times of large crops. Hut If the government retired from the business there would be, as (here are now, plenty of private concerns to Uk* It up. and the pro ducers would have gained nothing U> secrecy for their business. '* The Diver’s Gratitude. "A few years ago I was in Little Rock, Ark., selling goods for a Chi cago house,” said a Seattle real estate nfan a day or two ago, says an ex change. “I made that city my head quarters and ran out through the state. One day I started to make a trip with several big trunks of samples. The negro expressman was such a good nutured, accommodating fellow that I took a liking to him. I bought a twen ty-four hour accident ticket, according to my custom, but before the train started I met a man I wanted to do some business with and I decided to stay. "As I started to leave the station I saw my expressman talking to a ne gro woman and as I passed him he said: “ ‘My ole woman is goin’ on de same train wid you, boss.’ ' ‘l’m not going,' I said, 'so I'll just give your wife this accident ticket.’ " ‘What’s dat fur?’ “ ‘Why, if your wife is crippled in an accident she will get money, according to how badly she is hurt, and if she is killed you will get $3,000.’ “The couple seemed much pleased at the investment and I went away and forget it. In the evening I learned that the train which I had failed to take had been wrecked and several persons had been killed. After dinner I was sitting in front of the hotel, when my expressman came along look ing anxiously on all sides. When he saw me he came forward and ask ed: “ ‘Be you de gemman I hauled some trunks to de depot dis rrtawning fur?’ " ‘Yes, you took some trunks down for me.’ " ‘Den you is de man dat give me dat ticket?' “ ‘I believe I did give you an acci dent policy.’ “ 'Well, de ole woman was killed in dat smash-up,’ “ ‘ls that so? I am very sorry, I said, offering him my hand. ‘She was a nice-looking woman and I know she must have been a good wife.’ “ ‘An’ you told me ef de ole woman got killed I’d git $3,000?’ “ 'Yes, that is what those policies call for.’ “ ‘Am dat sholly true, white man? Does I git $3,000?’ “ ‘You certainly will. The company is good for it.’ " ‘Well, dat do beat all! Now I kin buy a fine house, an’ have an organ in it, an’ have a two-horse team ’stead of one ornery mule. White man, lemme shake yo’ hand agin.’ ” The Mystery Cleared Un. A man with a wild look of hope in his eye entered a West Baltimore street business establishment, says the Bal timore American. Stepping up to a salesman, he said: “I’ve got one I’ll trade to anybody eight unseen. So trot out any of ’em and I’ll swap mighty quick and glad of the chance.” “One what?” asked the mystified salesman. The visitor put his hand to his ear nnd looked puzzled, proving that his hearing was slightly defective. Being not quite sure that the salesman had spoken, the visitor went on: “Yep, mine isn’t a very good one, I’ll admit, but it might suit some man with a tougher conscience than mine. Some fellow who has a longer life ahead of him in which to live it down might get along very well with mine, while I’m willing to take his and ask no questions.” Still more profoundly be-addled, the salesman called the proprietor and said: “Here's one that’s nutty for keeps. I’m away off from understanding what he’s driving at. Come and take a whirl at him and see if you can get next.” The proprietor came forward briskly and said, with his lips close to the stranger's ear: “What is it you want?” “Why,” said the stranger, “I want to patronize your place of business. I saw a sign out there on the window 'Records Exchanged,’ and I was tell ing your clerk I had an unenviable rec ord that I would be willing to get rid of at any terms.” And the proprietor of the phonog raphery went out and changed the sign. The Pane nnd the Pun. Tuesday afternoon a good sized au dience lined the curbstone opposite the Electric building and watched three men in the third story of the afore said edifice holding a large pane of plate glass that had broken and was in an admirable position to fall down upon the sidewalk as soon as the trio was willing to let go. Perhaps it was due to the vaudeville atmosphere of Keith’s theater, perhaps it was just natural "curbstone” dia logue, but at all events a number of amusing observations were made by the interested spectators. . ’’That’s certainly a paneful situa tion,” remarked one. "Its a difficult problem to know what to do with It,” said another. “Oh. I don’t know, anybody can see through tt,” put in a third. “I hope there isn't a ball pitcher among the three.” said the first. “Why?” asked an innocent bystand er. "Because he might get a glass arm. I wonder if they'd like to sell the pane?” "Yes, I bet they’d let anybody take it off their hands cheap.” “I guess Its a heavy glass.” “No, Its only a light.” And the glass continued to hold the attention and the trio continued to hold the glass. <‘Bo Yonnit, So Wise.” A gentleman going Into the Royal Hotel at Ramsgate the other day who had not been there for some time, says Ally Sloper’s, missed a familiar face and inquired: “Where Is old William, the head waiter?” “Oh, he’s gone,” replied the land lord. "Gone? Not dead. I hope?” "Oh, no! But the fact Is, William had been here so long that he got too big for his breeches, and so I thought it was better that we should part.” A bright-eyed little maiden of about 7 chanced to hear this conversation, and an hour or two later, when some one In the coffee room observed, “I wonder what's become of William, the old waiter?" Someone else replied: "Oh, I think he's been discharged.” "What for?” ”1 don’t know." “I do," volunteered the diminutive damsel. "What was it, then?" •• 'Cos his trousers was too short.” From Urmlle to Grave. The stork disappears and we look Into the cradle and behold a male child, says the Lockwood (Mo.) Times. After running the gantlet of measles, mumps and chlekenpox he enters school. At the age of 10 he is a red headed, freckle-faced boy and the ter ror of tho neighborhood. At 12 he is an apprentice In a printing office, At 18 he has acquired two cases of long primer and an army proas and Is th editor of a country newspaper. At 20 he la married. At *0 he la 4>;ild-hondd. stoop-shouldered and the father of a large family. At It he la a corpse In a cheap ptne coffin, and as 500 delin quent subscriber* fll past his bier f., r the last look they are hoard to say: "Ha waa a good fellow, but be couldn't aava hta money ” CHRISTMAS—LOVE’S FESTIVAL. From the Commoner. Christmas is love’s festival. Set apart from the commemoration of God's gift of His Son it has grown into a great holiday which is observ ed throughout Christendom by rich and poor alike. Even those who re fuse to take upon themselves the vow's of any church are constrained to join in the beautiful custom which makes both parents and children look forward to this day with pleasant an ticipations. For weeks before Dec. 25 busy hands are at work, tiny savings banks are gathering in their sacred store and eager expectancy is written upon the faces of the young. To the boys and girls Santa Claus is a sort of composite donor who monoplizes the distribution of presents and w'ho, reading the minds of his little friends, rewards the good (and ail are good just before Christmas) with the very toys that they themselves have se lected, while the older ones learn by experience that it is more blessed to give than to receive. Back of Christ mas and the Christmas present is love, and the broad, brotherly love taught and exemplified by the Nazarene is not content with the remembrances which are exchanged as tokens of af fection between members of the fam ily and between intimate friends; it is compelling a widening of the circle to include the poor and the needy though not of kith or kin. What an Instructor love Is! How it develops the -one of whom it takes possession! It is the mightiest influ ence known among men. When once it is awakened it dissolves all opposi tion. Dr. Parkhurst, the New York clergyman, in illustrating the differ ence between force and love said (quoted from memory) that force is the hammer which can break a block of ice into a thousand pieces but leaves each piece still ice, w-hile love Is the ray of sunlight which, though acting more slow'ly and silently, melts the ice. At this season of the year our thought turn to the contemplation of the new degree of love revealed to the world by Jesus. To love betw-een members of the family and love be tween friends He added an all-per vading love that Includes every mem ber of the human race. Even enemies are not beyond the bounds of this love, for man’s puny arms are not strong enough to break the bonds that unite each son of God to all his brethren. "Love is not stupid,” says Tolstoy. It makes known to us our duty to our fellows and It will some day rule the w-orld. Force Is the weap on of the animal in us; after it comes money, w'hich the intellect employs, sometimes for good, sometimes for harm. But greater than all if love, the weapon of the heart. It is a sword that never rusts, neither does it break, and the wounds that it leaves are life saving, not life-destroying. No ar mor can withstand it and flo antag onist can resist it. But why try to define this love or to measure Its scope? Paul, the apostle In his first epistle to the Corinthians describes it in language to w'hich nothing can be added and from which nothing can be taken. Let his words suffice: “If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become counding brass or clang ing cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profit eth me nothing. Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave Itself unseemly, seek eth not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil: rejolceth not in unrighteousness, but rejolceth with the truth: beareth all things, bc-lieveth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Love never fail eth; but whether there be prophecies, they shall be done away: whether there be knowledge, it shall be done away with. For we know' in part, and we phophesy in part; but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man I have put away with childish things. For now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face; now I know in part; then shall I know even as also I have been knowm. But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the great est of these is love.” DO ANIMALS REASON? John Burroughs in Outing. When a bird selects a site for its nest, it on first view, as if it must actually think, reflect, compare, as you and I do when we decide w'here to place our house. I saw a little chipping sparrow trying to decide be tween two raspberry bushes. She kept going from one to the other, peering, inspecting, and apparently weighing the advantages of each. I saw a robin in the woodbine on the side of the house trying to decide which particular place was the best site for her nest. She hopped to this tangle of shoots and sat down, then to that, she turned around, she readjusted ho-rself. she looked about, she worked her feet beneath her, she was slow in making up her mind. Did she make up her mind? Did she think, compare, weigh? I do not be lieve it. When she found the right conditions, she no doubt felt a pleasure and satisfaction, and that settled the question. An inward, instinctive want was met and satisfied by an outward material condition. In the same way the hermit crab goes from shell to shell upon the beach, seeking one to its liking. Sometimes two crabs fall to fighting over a shell that each wants. Can we believe that the hermit crab thinks and reasons? It selects the suit able shell instinctively, and not by an Individual act of judgment. Instinct is not always inerrant, though it makes fewer mistakes than reason docs. The red squirrel usually knows how to come at the meat in the butternut with the least gnawing, but now and then he makes a mistake and strikes the edge of the kernel, instead of the flat side. The clifr swallow will stick its mud nest under the eaves of a barn where the boards are planed so smooth that the nest sooner or later is bound to fall. It seems to have no Judgment In the matter. Its ancestors built upon the face of high cliffs, where the mud adhered more firmly. “I’M THE FUNERAL,” MAUI THE BOY. From the London Chronicle. A curious story of a burial scandal comes from Congleton, a little town In Cheshire. Notice had been given to the officials of the parish church that a burial would take place, and at the appointed hour the clergyman and sexton met in the churchyard to await the cortege. After considerable delay the sexton went to the gate to see whether the mourners were in right. Here he found a small boy standing with a perambulator covered with brown paper. The sexton told the hoy to move sway ms h funeral was expected. When he was startled by the observation of the little rtfap. I’m the funeral!" Tile amaaed sexton removed the paper from the (terarnbu lator and found a small coffin whMi contained the bodies of two babies It afterward transpired that ihe ••,m n W-d been paid for and th interment fee*, so It ia stated, found by i| w rr . iU-vtng Oflli er af the town No lie,-ifn. era same and tba children wars buried aa they war a. Jill Humors Are impttre matters which the sk n liver, kidneys and other organ* can not take care of without help, there i* •uch an accumulation of them. They litter the whole system. 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