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fc \ /MO Christmas, m/A ffiM *W^r,r iW fC and Jou &r\m HQ? . Gladness <0? \ * yi I3l? NeOell Dulioht Hilltv ^ / j \ ??I R-ictar ?( PI rtm i fk.-^U l ***# n\ \ W \s- I ^kt?Luke ii.*, 10: "lie!;o!d I bring you good tidings of great joy." Gloria inExcelflia. Rj5 ~lJS|NCE more the hallowed, child as the sturs looked down upon sl^lsJ gracious Christmas time is the little town of Bethlehem, and who I fl upon oai'th. At last sent through the ages this word, "Sufthe long year of toil over fer little children to come unto Me." Bffji fSjj tools and arts and indus- Jesus said, "Take heed that ye offend tries is all but ended. The not one of My little children" and Bpistmas festival, dedicated to bappi- "Their angels do always behold the ^ s* and good-will, has fully come. face 0f Father." and hope dawned ^ s morning the whole city has wak- for childhood. From that hour Jesus' ^Ed to quadrupled joy. The very at- disciples began to make life happy for Bephere of our earth is rosy, stained children. I the rich colors of the h?art. All They founded homes for the exposed ws are bright with holly and children who had been left to starve, een. Parents have discovered They founded schools for orphaned t is more blessed to give than to e. Youth overflows with animal . Suddenly the aged have shed I and titled men questioned Him. \ W * jj s plncrd a child in the midst of IdT -.c a and said: "Of such is the king- ' v ' f of heaven." Socrates sneered at j^r w " ?||ra\3|jr grief of a mother weeping for her V| i \? v . ; '. K If Plato suggested that every ftidt \N^H / *' WW w g? should select a distant hilltop v r-V r B T|jf build a pen for the exposure of wpjsR "v\\v^'- fcjf ^ V g elcome children; if Aristotle urged ^jg/ ' S i making the drowning of sick a lid >ir xJk,^' & kl;r children compuisory on their ^ Ints; if Seneca said, "We sU\v the | ' i-out ox and liorse, and it is not |||i L,--?> th, but reason, that separates TCl Emmm*"11*11*1111"111 k children from strong;".If Cicero *^9 ~ ^ ^ A ^ ifcetl bis friend for grief because be ?( ted the dead babe, then every lover JfeC) ' *"*"* bildhood must rise up to speak for t Cbrist "\vbo took a child in His <s0%f -?=?5-^p* THE BOAR'S HEAD. n t ? d f th T children who bad been cast off by poor f^HwSgi^'To-day all institutions are beginning to imitate the wise men from the East, who brought to the Divine Child their gold and aromatiu spices, cneir frank i -l -j * l i *. i incense and treasure. ond rosemary; _ Christ's estimate of the value of LL J"?,a?v- **!71?y childhood has conquered the world. tiis thought of childhood is the verj heart and genius of Christian civiliza tion. Because Christ Christmas and mas sj.,ltds foi the Golden Age. t|)0 as father of the uuui, and for the cradle, as the one point where futurity i.? vulnerable, it will yet usher in the I Goldeu Age. To produce an idenl j world we need only one thing?a ; Christinas that lasts all the year. When the sun rises it throws its beams of sunshine forward a half hour in advance^ (he orb of fire. When the sun sets the light lingers long in the clouds. And the Golden Age means that the approaching Christmas will cast its generous beams forward townrd July, and that when the Christmas Day has passed its peace and good-will wil! linger to lend light to those months that end with June. Tc-day parents give gifts to-their-children, the1 prosperous help the poor, the happy stretch out friendly hands .toward the wjdow and the fatherless?the Christmas spirit has transformed selfishness into service. This morning, without changing a single law, economic or political, lo! the Golden Age is come. It seems that to produce au ideal world, without sorrow or strife or sin, it is only necessary that the beams that stream from this bright day should encircle our cold earth, not in robes of frosty selfishness, l?ut with the sweet blossom of the heart. Little wonder that in the far-off forest and valley aud plain, in the frozen North and in the sunny South, in the innumerable homes of this great Republic, all people, young aud old alike, through gifts and soug and good-will, celebrate this greatest day aud the greatest event that has ever befallen our earth. The civilization that advances and rolls forward like a golden flood.represents a spirit, that set forth from Bethlehem. Universal happiness aud wisdom and peace will come to our earth when the Christmas comes to stay all the year.?New York World. The Snnta Claua I.etter. We smiled when little Willie wrote Hia nnln fr, Xiir^a f'lflllU And yet we didn't have the heart To bid the youngster pause. For have we not in silence kept The hopes that we have prized , Without the chance that Willie's have Of being realized? Let him who in his day-dreams builds No castle in the air, Who never hopes the morn will dawn With gifts surpassing fair, Who nevermrtnide'-tha beat 'of less Than what he fain would ask? Let him make hold to stay the child In his.fond, trustful task. The Japanese Santa Clans. This has been called the era of cbil dren, so much are the little ones thought of nowadays and so completely have the old, harsh, unkind ways died out. Yet the Japanese long ago showed us the way. In a country where all the grown-up people laugh and the babies are treated with wonderful tenderness, ttiey worship a god, "the God that plays with little children in the sky." The image of the god stands by the river at Nikko, and into his lap the passers-by pour little white pebbles, in case the god should forget to gather them and the children have nothing to play with. EXPLICIT INSTRUCTIONS Santa CJaus?"Ha! Ha! Here's the usual list, of urgent necessities, I sup- | pose. Let's see (reading), 'Dear Santy -De inclosed stockiu' is mine. Me little brudder Jimmy ain't got any ter hang up er odderwise, but would like a stockin'-full, too, so please use mine ter measure it wit' an' den dump hisa on de floor an' oblige yours trooly, Swifisey Dugan.' "?Puck. COUNT TOLSTOI 1 THE REPUBLICS OF PANAMA AND COSTA RICA MAY UNITE. The Republic of Pauama has made overtures to Costa Rica looking to I union of tbe two nations, and in the opiuion of those in a position to speak with authority a coalition Is the probable outcome of the negotiations now inuHintwi. Thp first definite hews of the purpose of Panama to propose an-1 noxation to Costa Rica reached the State Department, at Washington, in the form of a communication from I United States Consul-General Lee, who I reported that Senor de la Guardia, Panama Minister of Foreign Affairs, is about to visit San Jose, the capital of Costa Rica, with the purpose of negotiating a treaty of annexation to that country. The offer of the Republic of Panama causes no surprise to Costa Rica, and ....lnca onmmnn niffl llV Conditions l'C garded as impossible by the Costa Iraa,- ?L?U?C _ '* **'? j MAP OF PANAMA A Which uiay be united ii " ~ T Rican Government will be promptly accepted by that country. In fact, the desirability of union has long been appreciated at San Jose, although it was deemed good statesmanship to make no suggestion, but to leave it to Panama to realize the advantages to be gained as well as the disadvantages of independence to so small a republic. A NEW SHOE EYELET, Can Be Substituted For the Present Lacing Hooks. i .Several new designs in shoe hooks have been patented at different times, * tout the hook now universally used has proved so practical and useful that attempts to supplant it have proven fail- 1 EYELET COT O0T OP THE LEATHER. ares. It would be difficult to improve dm its construction, but a Wisconsin inventor thinks bo has an improved shoe eyelet which should be popular. In his design the lower eyelets are the same as those generally used, tbe improvement being ;u the upper'eyelets. These latter are similar to the round eyelets, except that they are open on the upper side to receive the lacing. The eyelets are reinforced by a iirtilnli I CI + n of "flin WUIv.U AO laj/ciuu IUU v-i-V, so that it can be passed through the leather aud clinched ou the under side of the shoe, a metallic plate being inserted between tlie outer and inner facings of the leather. This plate cor- .1 responds in shape to the eyelet open- ( ing in the leather, this consisting of a < slot with a bntf-shaped mouth. A series < of these slots near the edges oi the ( leather form a series of tongues. I11 l lacing up the shoe the lacing cord 1* i drawn through the slots into the eye- 1 lets and then across the lacing slit of i the shoe to the eyelet 011 the other 1 side, so that the cord passes under the 1 lower portion of the tongue and over j the upper portion. This naturally r presses the eyelet ngaiust the foot of 1 i-i- - ^ rtn.vi.nnf?> if fvAm hointy 1 [llli Wl'iUL'l UUU Cilio Ik 11VSU1 uu..? . bent out of position. The intervening t plate reinforces the leather around the ( eyelet and prevents it from tearing c out, giving rigidity to rhe fastening.? Philadelphia Record. ( The Shah of Persia says that the t i French seem to have saltpeter in their I j veins, the British beer and the Jap- i I anese camphorated shimotose. ' j LND OLD HAN J ^seei SgHHj^KraS^flEj^^HfiHBMj^S^S |mw|P^^MEMBWB8^^^^bB L\D HIS WIFE. i A Lively Wild Oat. It is not commonly accepted that the i wildcat is so vicious as to attack human beings, and this section has lately tnU/v/l +1\A no *- flio f nt*Al'/ia fho AT 1 til lliaueu. 11IC i Liu t i^v ception to the rule. Albert Dennis, a guard at ttie Varn Turpetiue Company's convict camp, was attacked by a monster cat in Gillette Creek, not more tbau a mile from the camp, and bad be not used unusual presence of mind would most likely bave been, torn to pieces. The young man w.ts return- ! ing to his quarters at a rather late hour from an evening pleasantly spent with bis parents three miles distant, and upon reaching the swamp of the creek i was literally held- at bay by the cat, i which held the pass to the bridge be- * yond and refused to move when advanced upon by Mr. Dennis. The ( youug man was armed only with a ; clasp knife, and with his weapon he waded into the brute, kicking him | over lirsr. xue cat?[irung quu^ij uyvu i ^ r-?^ | . : i * 1 * ; *\ ' /^c ! M:* p..A,?i A M A ' 1 LND COSTA RICA. ito a single republie. ( : i him and succeeded in doing the young man's Sunday clothes considerable 1 damage before his throat was cut. Mr. 1 Dennis has killed severaL cats in his 1 time, but says tbis one is tbe biggest ' be bas ever seen. It is said tbat tbe , female cat is especially vicious during tbe period of nursing, and tbe one in j question was seen to be carrying i young.?Tampa (Fla.) Tribune. 1 Transvaal an a Magnet. I It was stated in one of the sections of tbe British Association tbat tbe sur- 1 vey of tbe Transvaal bad sbown tbat :he eastern part of tbe country "seemed to be a mass of magnetic iron." judging from tbe effects of tbe rocks on j tbe compass needle. Magnetic ore or j black oxide of iron is the richest of the j ares, containing only oxygen and iron, and yielding seventy-three per cent, of [ iron by weight. It is found mainly in the older rocks, and in Europe the best form of It is fqund in Sweden. Tt exists also in Russia, Canada and several jf tbe American States. SEAL ON THE GAS METER. The temptation to endeavor to beat | tlie gas meter appears to ne uu mimic instinct in mankind, and while manipulations of tliis character are per- < baps infrequent, a demand exists for a device to indicate any tampering 1 It II i r) IMfil seatj on" the oas meter. ivlth the gas meter. One very simple contrivance for this purpose consists )f a pair of projectors in the shape >f spanners which are adjusted to the coupling nuts on the inlet and outlet )ipes of the meter. These coupliug iruis are joined together upon adjustment by a leaded or other seal, which ndicntes at once whether or not Hip luts on the inlet and outlet pipes have jeen surreptitiously handled. By this irrangement it is possible to detect my such attempt. If the gas company's representative should find it lecessary to make any adjustment the irms can be resealwl with the official 1. ni,:in,iaini,;? pnn. lesignaung ui.uu.?j. unaucitjuw >L'd. The use of cocaine has become Quite :ommo:i among tbe negroes in South;rn towns and cities. They derive exliliration and istimulation by sniffing t, birt in a year or two they are physcal and mental wrecks. - * m BEGUN 01 FfllfflMlj; Death Makes High Record in the Game as Now Played. r . - -i NINETEEN KILLED THIS SEASON ] rite Moat Fatal Tear in the History oI | the Popular College ami School Sporf '?Girl Slain in Contest With Other jjj GirlCollege President Takes a Bold ( Stand?List of Fatalities. i New York City.?All records for foot- , ball brutality were smashed during the j 3eason just closing. 1 Nineteen lives Tfrere sacrificed, ex- f ceediug by eight the black record of 1903, while the number of casualties jj greatly surpassed that of any. previous ( year. Th<e list.* of* dead appears elsewhere. I The first death on record of a femi- < nine football player occurred during * the season, the victim being Miss Ber- ^ nadette Decker, eighteen years old, , daughter of a leading nolitician of Cumberland, Md. . The list of dead is: James Bryant, struck in stomach in 1 game at Florence, Col. Died instant- * ly. Miss Bernadette Decker. Died of injuries received in scrimmage at Cumberland, Md. John C. Donders. Died of cerebral1 hemorrhage caused in f game at Jewett City, Conn. Arthur < \V. Poote. Death caused by scrimmage injuries at Salem, Mass. G. C. Fick- j en. Death caused by kick on head in } game at New Orleans, La. William < J. Kelley. Died of injuries received while tackling opponent in contest at , Buffalo, N. Y. Scott Kerr. Fatakin- 1 juries received in game at Newcastle, Pa. Horatio T. Knight, at Exeter, N. H. Meningitis induced by injuries. Joseph Latimore, at Mukwonago, Wis. Rubber-down for the Northwestern Uni. versity team. Died after game. William Moore, New York, Union College. Fractured skull. Howard Montgomery, at Farmville, Va. Injuries to spine. John Meehan, at Pacific Grove, Cal. Fracture of spine. Herman O. Norgaard, at Council Bluffs, la. Injuries caused abscess of brain. Carl Osborn, at Belmore, Ind. Died from heavy. fall. Rib penetrated heart. James Squires, at Alton, 111. Injury resulted in blood poisoning. Football abandoned in school as result of death. John S. Summergill, at Chester, Pa. j Kicked in stomach and head. Clarence i Van Boheion at San Jose, Cal. Fractured skull. Leslie Wise, at MilwauIcee, Wis. Died in scrimmage. Vernon Wise, at Oak Park, Chicago, 111. Broken: back. Because of these nineteen ^eathgand 13f cased of s*erioiis injury due to football this season, two of the largest universities in this country announced their entrance into the crusade to sliminate the cruelty and barbarity of the game as it is now played. The University of the City of New York, through its venerable chancellor, Henry M. McCracken, and the University of Pennsylvania now stand committed on the elimination of brutality an the gridiron, even if it means the abolition of football as a college sport The long list of football injuries also stood forth as an imperative reason for reform of the game which for a ' quarter of a century has held the front rank in college sports. Chancellor McCracken addressed a letter tothepresidentsof all the leading universities and colleges of the coufitry asking their co-operation in the reform, jr the abolition of football. It seemed* ' plain that the chancellor would prefer the elimination of the game. From the University of Pennsylvania tie received word of stringent rules against brutality that were being adopted. The rules made it impossible for a brutal player to maintain his place on the team. , President Nicholas Murray Butler, af Columbia; Eliot, of Harvard, and other presidents of universities, colleges and schools are expected to reply to Chancellor McCracken. For the first time since the agitation against brutal football began a decisive movement either to stop the game or to abolish its briTtal features is under way. and it bids fair to sweep through all of the institutions of the laud and accomplish results. BURTON CONVICTED. Kansas Senator Will Again Ask Foi i a New Trial. } St. Louis, Mo.?United States Senator Joseph Ralph Burton, of Kansas. 1 was convicted for the second time on ] a charge of using his influence as Uni- 1 ted States Senator in behalf of the Rialto Grain and Securities Company, < of St. Louis, to prevent a fraud order j being issued against it by the Post- ] office Department. Attorneys for Sen- s ator Burton will file a motion for n + .:?! n*wl Sf fhlo 10 /Inni/irl will hoy uiai, auu ii. ao uvm-vv. ..? . move for an appeal to the Supreme \ Court of the United States. The maximum penalty which the court can impose is two years in prison and a flue of $10,000 on each of the sis ' counts. 1 GALE SWEEPS BRITISH COASTS ' Cross-Channel Service Suspended anc " Liners Sept Out at Sea. Dover, England.?The worst gale tha< has been experienced in the past tbref , years swept the British coast. The Ad (" miralty pier here was partly submerged , and tho London boat train was unable j to reach her pier owing to the hug< seas. The cross-Channel service was sua pended. No Hope For Mrs. Rogers. : The Supreme Court of the Unitec < States at Washington, D. C., affirmed the decision of the United states dis trict Court of Vermont in the case o: Mrs. Mary Mabel Rogers, who is un 1 der sentence of death in Vermont foi the murder of her husband. < 1 Baron Rosso Speaks. 1 Baron Rosen spoke on Russian free dom at the American Academy of Po iitical and Social Science at Pbiladel 1 phia, Pa. Atn?cican Secretary Assaulted. The Second Secretary of the Ameri '' can Embassy at St. Petersburg, Rus aia, Robert Woods Bliss-, was attaokec \ by rowdies in one of tho principa' streets of the Russian capital and bad ? ly beaten in the early morning houn ] before the police rescued him. Russian Editor Lands in Jail. A new satirical journal, called th? ] Mitrailleuse, appeared in St. Peters 1 burg. The first number was confis ! cated by the police, who closed tin offices of the paper. The editor, M 1 Chibonieff, was landed in prison. 1 y ?hhhmIH V 9 s -1 BITS I HEWS WASHINGTON. The report of the Superintendent of he Jllnt showed that coinage of silver lollars had ceased under the law oC .890, and would not be resumed with>ut action by Congress. Advocates of the Darlen Canal rout* ire expected to revive the project b?* tore Congress. Postmaster Wilcox consulted PresJ? lent Roosevelt and Postmaster-Genera* ?ortelyou relative to better postal faclU ties for New York. President Roosevelt has appointed ludge Charles E. Wolverton, of the Su? >reme Court of Washington State, art Jnited States District Judge of Ow jon. William H. Michael, former cble^ :lerk of the State Department, ha4 >een appointed Consul-General to CaU :utta. i. i Cuban Minister Qnesada reported to Secretary Root methods taken by hit country to preserve its sanitary condi^ ion. The Department of Agriculture an* lounces an increasing market for tb* guinea fowl as table birds. TIip Trpsldpnf has nnnnunrpd a loni2 ist of appointments in Kentucky as ? esult of recent conferences With. Bemblican leaders in that State. OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. , Rear-Admiral Train, with the battle* ships Ohio and Oregon, has arrived at Oavite, Philippines. Attorney-General Lorrln Andrews, Hawaii, has resigned to become attor? ley for American firms involved In that. Chinese boycott at Shanghai. Clarence Allen, Principal of the puln ic school at Oroaoc, P. I.f was stabbed ind killed by a *flneen-year-*>ld Filipino )oy, a pupil in the school'and a mem>er of a jprominent family of the town* Having "occasion to secure twentr* Ive additional officers for the Philip* line constabulary, the places paying 51100 per annum to begin with, Capj :ain Mclutyre, acting chief of the insttt ar bureau, invited 100 State military; nstltutes and agricultural colleges ttf iame candidates for the places from imonif their graduates. Less thaat :wenty applications were received. First Lieutenant Hugh Iprlcman, of he Eighth Cavalry, has been arrested it Fort McKirley, Manila, P. I., on be charge of forgery. It is alleged :bat he is short of troop funds to th fr imount of $500, and that he raised thtf noney by forging names to a note. L . jr,. * DOMESTIC. . ; ' Lieutepant-General Chaffee has re4 jeived from France the insignia oil ?rand comman&er of the Legion ofi Sonor, bjiJ nffist wait until Congress Fotes~ it to him. Passed Midshipman Harold D. 3hilds, of Vermont, has resigned from1 he Naval Academy owing to ill health^ The Steel Trust has bought 2500> icresrof land in Indiana, on the shore; >f Lake Michigan, for manufacturing Mirposea. Because be rolled a cigarette for hi* >wn use, eighteen-year-old Patrick Raymond, of Chicago, 111., has beeni >ent to jail for twenty days ia Lincoln J N'eb., under tbe new Nebraska lawj prohibiting tbe manufacture of cigarittes. The body of Midshipman Branch wa? ?xhumed at Annapolis, Md., the medcal board finding "such evidence as ivas desired." Two marines who were left behin<3t , xy Prince Louis were arrested at Stamford, Gonn. Thirty passengers and the crew of twenty-two were rescued by means :ne Dreecnes uuoy irum me a irgo, which went ashore in a storm oa uake Michigan. August Belmont wag appointed Treasurer of the National Democratic Committee by Chairman Taggart, at [ndianapolis, Jnd. A plan* for a monster World's Fair :o celebrate the 300th anniversary of :he discovery of the Hudson River, ivas heard by the Tercentenary Committee, in New York City. i " Ten men who had gone out in a row5oat to welcome the arrival of friend* >n an .Italian steamer were upset into :he North River, New York-City, and! larrowly escaped drowning, but all ivere rescued. Jacob H. Schiff sent a check to the Fewish Defense Association, in Newj ifork City, which is preparing to sen* irms to the Jews in Russia. Butler County, Nebraska, declared ? joycott on the Burlington and Unions ' Pacific Railroads for refusal to pay, taxes. Alone and helpless, Mrs. Panette iiopir sDvpntv-fonr vears old. was Pound dead in Chicago, 111., with hen lead resting on the burner of a ga? stove. / i Ten more indictments have been re-' turned at Peoria, 111., against Newtoa D. Dougherty, the bank president, ac:used of stealing school funds. About $15,000 in cash was obtained oy burglars from the Japanese Bank it Los Angeles, Cal. Despondent over the death of her sweetheart. Miss Mary Ross, a society; tvoman, killed herself at Madisonville,' Ky. FOREIGN. Sixty Romiugton rifles have beet* -? - L " "* J* Dinon 5G1 ZeCi iiZ will tJUULL ue iuamucA, ?. ium' lei Rio Province, Cuba, where fiftyj inti-Government plotters were meeting. An ammunition factory in Cuba waa >eized. Rumors of plots and uprisings * :ontinued all over the island. Positive denial was made at St Petersburg, Russia, that Count Witter liad suffered a paralytic stroke or wasotherwise ill. The warships of the allied Powers, for the demonstration against Turkey, reached Mytllen'e. , ReDorts from all over Russia indi :ated that the riots caused by the fail-* ure of crops were spreading alarmingly. The Semitic Museum at Cambridge, Mass., has been given 125 Syriac man-? uscrips on parchment and vellum byj Professor U. R. Harris, of England. Two rival leaders in Macedonia* united to work for autonomy anc* against all foreign encroachments. The Executive Committee of the In-* terparllamentary Congress, meeting in Paris, France, adopted a plan for j world legislative body, practically 01^ the lines suggested by Congressman Bartholdt, of St. Louis, Mo. j The Khns and Queen of Italy pai<% m unexpected visit to the scenes of? the earthquake desolation in Calabriai ind were received with many demon} strations of affection by the peopie. The 75,000 Russian prisoners in Ja-J pan are to be sent, to Vladivostok H LJerman steamers.