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Latest News From Toyland Special Dispatch From Santa Claus' Country ARCTIC REfJIONS. Dec. 0.-The renter of the giant glacier has been hollowed out into a mon ster cave and is serving as a factory for making tree ornaments. It Is being run un a very much better system than it was last year, having two shifts of workers, with 10.000 gnomes in each shift. The day workers come on at fl a. tn. ami stay until t! p. m. One band of toilers sleeps while the other works. Each of the workers sits squat upon the floor In front of a blazing fire, over whl'-h is suspended a huce black cal dron. Each little 'el low has a long stemmed pipe with which he blows bubbles of the substance which sizzle* and boils in the huge pot before him. The boiling substance is a li»iui<! made of melted precious stones Mti if dollars' worth of priceless Jewels are being imported into the north pole regions for this pun Each caldron boils a different jewel. The melted nibies make blood red bub bles that gleam like flames The din- BHOWINO THE FINISHED TOYS TO SANT* CLAUB. monds make white ones, bright and shining like great rouiul stars Sup pliires turn Into deep bine spheres, tur quoises make pale blue balls that look like the summer sky. ami so on. As the bubbles grow to the desired size the workmen sbnke them gently off their pipes on the ice Boor Here they are allowed to rest until they are frozen into bard, round, shiny, wonderfully colored bright balls to hang on kiddles Christmas trees. It Is estimated that one man can make r>oo finished orna ments in a day. Mines Give Output of Gold to Make Tinsel. The great Klondike gold mines are being worked day and night to supply the demands of another room of the great glacier, where thousands of workers sit stringing strips of shredded gold on threads to make tinsel trim mings for the trees They wear great spectacles on the ends of their iittle round noses, for this work is a great strain on the eyes Each string is one mile long, and each gnome completes three of these a day. Silver tinsel is also made in the same way. The fashion in tree trimming de mands the lavish use of this gorgeous adornment No Storerooms For Santa Claui. Santa has no need for storerooms In which to stack his finished toys and tree decorations The demand Is so great and so Immediate that directly things are finished they are packed, loaded on to Immense sleighs and ship ped to special stations which hi- has situated in every city all over the world and usually in such places as depart ment stores or toy and caudy shops. Sometimes when nil these places are Blled he even bides them in odd corners of people's nou>*s. That is bow it comes that one often accidentally will find things tucked away In the most unusual places. Years agn be would use his reindeer to carry the londed sleighs to stations, iiud often they were so worn out by overwork that they were unlit for driving on Christmas eve ttnt now It Is quite different. Since motor trucks have come Into use Santa has tiought 328 to do thlH hi-uvy work for him. Something ought to be told the kid die* of the character '"ill habit* of the little toiler* who make tiii-ii taja. They are an entirely different kind of crea ture* from any wblob we. «ho do not lire at the north pole, hnve ever seen. They are very ■mil of stature, with targe bead* mid queer «-iflu tale*. We would call them uiriomeH or clu-h. bat Hants call* them i.1.1.-- They have bright. mlaelilevum eye* which Asm* with delight over their pretty hnndl work, the merries! liihrli* and sweetest little voices which Keep up a contin uous noi-oiiipunlnii'iii to their tiiHks.— New York Evening World. A Famoui Old Abbey. Melrose abbey is in Roxburghshire. Scotland, in a beautiful situation be tween the ElMon* :irirl the Tweed. Da vltl 1 of S'olliihl tiniinli'd iin abbey at Mulni-e in I liiii II whs NWIi times torn down I rvlmtlt The present famous niin« urn what Is left of tDe abbey bulll nrticly b> the gift of Robert Brine In Hi. ruurtMOtll ceutiiry. They are the pr ; >n\ of the dukes of Buc clengh and ire carefully preserved The abbey trim n cruciform building In the decora hi I rind perpendicular styles, with proii' limed French Influence. Much of Hi- iii re remains, with the two transei t- the chancel and tbe choir, two ue>( piers of the tower and the sculptural roof of the east end Sir Walter Scott has immortalized the east wluduu in The t-ay of the Lust Minstrel " I'lu- Qeart of Robert Bruiv is buried at the high altar Sir William Douglas, ■ •The Knight of Liddesdale;" .lames, tdt secoud earl of Douglas, and AlexauUei 11. king or Scotland, are also burltd in the abbey.—New YorK limes. Didn't Oiteharg* Him. Id the Bunnclnl district they tell a story or a link that was In difficulties several year- .igo and bow the clearing bouse Dnpi'fmij to learn ot tbe situu tiun One ■'. die big national Dunks was clearing tor a certain other Dank that was in trouble and every day the president ul ttn- clearing bouse bank would certif) $2.OuO.(XK> worth ot checks for the other Finally the pay ing teller m eil the attention to the fact that he »v:i* taking a mighty MM chance, but ttio president paid oo at tendon to try hint. Then the teller Id formed th t . :ir:ng boose of tbe situa tlon. and '.<" president was railed to book. "Dl<l my paying teller tell you you that?" doaianded tbe president •He did." r.; ltd tbe cnatnnan of tbe clearing ■»■■« committee. "'I shall dls barge bini =>i once." declared tbe pres idem. bclsi op with indignation. •You do ar.-i we'll close your bank to morrow." raimiy repiled tbe cbalrman. Needless to --ly. the teller was not dls charged -rnt-bursn Dispatch. Falstaff and Yarmouth. farmontti tui a claim apoo all Eng | lishmen aji ti iDd<tpend«ltly of Its a* sociatluc- «iift in* Breakfast oJoater. For It wa* it;e txxue of Saasespeare'* Falstaft. »" uf+tmn 10 We Orea a. man of txrmp&rj p;ety- Tbe Fauuffi «retv ::u I d * arnK*siin family. "A K«bt«lf« or r*lrUß~. writes John Hich;iril Green. -wi» a bailiff of arrooutb i: 12sl- Aootber is amußS tbe first uf its repr«!S«auciTes la parllatueDt. md from ttiat the mefD bers of thit family tilled the nig&cat municipal otfi'-es. John Katstolfe. a man of i-vusiderable account In the town, purchased lands at tUe close of the fourte«-ii*n century in Caistor. ana became tin- father of Sir. Juhn r'ai stolfe. who. after a distinguished mili tary career, whs luckless enongb to give his me to Shakespeare's famous charactei In Yarmouth, however, lie was bettp' own as a benefactor to the great Church of St- Nicholas "— St. Nicholas Europe's Richest City. The riclie-i city In Europe la HaseL the great Bwl«i railway ceDler. Zurich, in a neighboring canton, coining sec ond. This i> proportionate to the nuin ocr of Inhabitants Basel's richest citizen boasts a fortune of £500,000, another h;is tIiOO.IHJO, while no fewer than sixteen residents pay income tax on a round million dollars. Eighty two are "French millionaires," possessing fortunes of a million francs The aver age wage earning capacities of the various professions form an interesting contrast. Raxel'n doctors—the place Is flooded witli medical men-are the wrorst paid, uveragtog only £-40 a year; druggists Miy i;uod for more, and law ers tfle same I'rofessors. on tne other hand, earn something like £500 a year ;ind bank d rectors anywhere from £1,000 to U.-'iKi Pearson's Weekly. A Statue of Brick, Perhaps ii" otlier nation In the world save the inventive (iennans would have thoii. i-i of building a statue of brick. In Hip little city of Vegesack. near Bremen uml In the district of the iJiTiu-ii, clay fields, the citizens have erect''l such a statue to oue of their ntiml'ci who won fame as an African explorer. The monument U of brick, thirty feet in height. Includ ing the pedestal. The architect mold ed the figure* or a man and camel out of a solid mass of clay, which wm burned Id B crent kiln and then sawed Into brick tfcml blocks. A Herculean Talk. The brldi-cmom was Intensely scrl ons. "My dear. ' tie said to bis little wife .they are always little), "you nave a hard task befure you. Now that we are wed. you will have to prove to my four Bisters thai you are worthy of me."— Philadelphia Ledger. Marriage In Java. In Java when a man marries he goes to nto wife » noose, where the women ■It In coonHi upon nil matter* of im portance and dictate th« affair* of tne MM Child* Day In Belgium. St. Nlcboiati day. wlix-h is Dec. 6, Is the day on which m.- Ki-i^ian child ex pert* 11 new to) 11 is the Belgian ••tiller* Christmas. Charity. iimrity does not demand ot us that we hhouid never «pc tilt* faults of oth era. hut she does ;i«n us to avoid dis covering them when there HI no need Cblldrrn have more need ul models }hnn of critics.— CLbc !,cavcnwortb i£cbo. A Christmas Carol By JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND, s WHERE'S a song in the air, -*- There's a star in the sky, There* a mother's deep prayer And a baby's low cry. And the star rains Its fire while the beau tiful sing. For the manger of Bethlehem cradle* • King. rpHBRK S a tumult of Joy ■-* o'er tne wonderful birth. For the Virgin's sweet boy Is the Lord of the earth. Aye, the star rains Its fire, and the beau tiful sinu. For the manger of Bethlehem cradles a King. I •fob th» MANGF.B OF bcthleheji CRA DLES A KJJiO." 1 IN tie light of that star ■*■ Lie the ae«> empearled. And that song from afar Ha* swept over the world. ETery feearth is aflame, and the beauti ful s.ng La tb« home* of the nations that Jesua IS Kins VT"E r«jctc« b the lijchu ** A: 1 « echo Ihe song Tbat comes down through the night Frota tte lii«imilj tbrong ; AT*. we shout to the lovely evangel they brine \Bd we greet In his cradle oar Saviour and King -- COSTLIEST CHRISTMAS GIFT. MorsarTs Prevent to His Son Was a House, For Which H» Pad $600,000. It was tbf late J. litrpout Morgan ! who pare tin? cwrtilort present ever be stowed in ,\ c i York m a Cbrlxtma* ere. says tile Broadway Magazine. The gift, w bin «©o. was a luuauaUiM pile of s fcao<!r*4 m»/ro». with rtft«*D room* fcjr nerra; oo tb« lap H<j«r. at tee cvroer of Tliirfj-«rf»tb »ir**t and UadLvjo sre-noe Tt« <J»-«-<l </f gift contained f*i<-* lt» tMrttn; of 4. I'U* ponf llorgao. for the fiixarvWr pfe seoted tk« IBM Don— la ttt« H'irnnn colon; on M;i'lij«jri arevtie »'/ Ml »<.r. On one corner stand* th* original Mor gan mansion. Hanked on IB* H^ht try the magnitl'-fnt marbte MNM ami ait gallery SIM with treaanre* with t-n-ij by the elder Morgan from arming the great art storehouse* of Enrbpe. Next In Hit- Morgan BOBMMM4 utand* tbe home of Mrs. Herbert Xatturlee, Mr. Morgan's daughter, and adjoining Mrs. Satterlee's home Is the borne of .1 Pierpont Morgan. Jr.. the costliest DIM ent ever made on the island of Manhat tan, representing an expenditure of $000,000 After houses. In the esteem of those upon whom Christmas rains a golden shower, rank automobiles. \ Khun motorcar, whose ordinary speed Is a mile in two minutes and costing $16,000, Is a mere bagatelle to a spoiled beaut; who tires of her motors as when a pampered little beauty she tir ed of her dolls. She wants ever a lar ger, faster and more wonderful car, and it was In obedience to her wish that the car as large as a Harlem Hat, with folding bed. table and separate com partments, came into being and added to the family expenditures $27,000. And after automobile architects the Jewelers. Diamond tiaras at $100,000. the salesmen In the diamond bouses say. are not uncommon purchases at Vuletide. and a diamond tiara is a poor affair that does not cost approximately $100,000 Wanted a Younger Santa Clau*. "Please appoint a younger Santa Clans," wrote an eight-year Illinois girl to Postmaster General Burlesou. "Grandpa says be used to come to his house when he was a little boy, so he must be pretty old by this time, and I'm afraid he's too old to come to my house." Mr. Burleson wrote to her that a personal representative of Santa Claim would attend to her wants. Father Christmas. Here comes old Father Christmas With sound of fife and drums With mistletoe about tils broWB 80 merrily he comes! His arms are full of all good cheer, His face with laughter glows: He shines like any household fire Amid the cruel Knows. He Is the u.i folks Christmas. He warms their hearts like wine. He thaws their winter Into spring And makes their face* shine Hurrah fot H'atlier Christmas: Ring all Uii- merry bells . "7 And bring the gran<l«irea all around To hear the tale lie tells. -Kwe IVrry fooke. . The Greater Courage. Men have offered op their lives by tin' tin Hi sum Is upon the Held of battle, but In Hi.' struggle for existence woman Is coutlnuully ulTeriuß up her life for man. If there Is it mission of mercy to perform she utulerttikea It. It there is suffering or distress to succor tier wll ling hiinil la ulways ready. If wretch edness and misery iit-i-u « comforter Btu> Is present i'be faintest whisper of pain brings her as n pilgrim to It* couch, nnd In the chamber of death she takes her place, assuajfing the hopeless sufferer with tin' comforting assurance that there Is a '"" beyond the rilvt! free from ihe agony of pain. Sin- suffer* herself without a murmur ur complaint, ""il the man that would In the slightest degree add to It mid In crease the anguish that it Is her lot to bear Is beneath tin- level of the brute. If she should happen to possess de fects and faults, which every human beliiH has In a greater or less degree, let him compare them with her virtues, ami especially with bis vices, and ev ery Impulse of his better being will prompt him to overlook them and make due allowance therefor, Kay uer. Belgium's Postmen. A Belgian who baa money owing to ulni often bandj the account to hla postman, woo passes It through the of Bee, to be presented to tbe debtor In whatever locality the latter may re side, nnd If payment be made tbe creditor receives It from bis postman un the following day, with but a trl fling deduction for commission. As to newspapers, nlnwst nil regular subscribers to a Journul pay their money to a postman, and two or three days before the subscription expires that offleinl presents the notice for the renewal of the subscription during a fresh term. All this makes of the Belgian post man a kind of ambulating general agency and bank of deposit, and tbe man Is obliged to have t' desk slung in front of him and to carry a locked and chained portfolio under his arm for valuables, but he gets through his work satisfactorily, because bis rounds are short.- Pearson's Weekly. Why Do Seals Swallow Stones? No nature student seems yet to have discovered for what reason seals awal low stones, though the fact Is a well established oue. Certainly the stones are not taken In for ballast, for the empty seals keep down as easily as the others. They are not. swallowed for che purpose of grinding up food, for they are found In the stomachs ot nursing pups. They are not taken In with tbe food because they nre found In the stomachs of both young seals and Id those that live In the open sea and feed on squid. Vet It Is evident that these things nre not swallowed Haphazard, but are selected with con siderable cart- from the articles strewn along the shore, and that a preference bj exhibited for rounded objects. This is shown by tbe fact that, us v rule, only articles of oue kind are found in ■tnf oue seal's stomach. The Night Writer*. Writers who habitually work at nlgbt, and all olgbt, frequently get strange | berrou* fancies. Huxley said, "When I am working at night I not only bear bttrKlars moving about, but I actually -.':(: tli'-rn looking through the crack In i tlit floor at me!" VSIikU- Collins was a habitual night worker until he was frightened out of i? hf the ippearuce of another wiiuie V;iilrm. who *nt down at the table with film and tried to monopolize the desk. There whs a struggle, and the Ink stand wa«t up«et. When the real Wll kit Collins cume to himself, sure enough, the Ink wan running over the writing table, proof enough of a strug gle. After that Mr. Collins gave up night work. On Buaineaa Bent. "Cnn you make me a sheet Iron man dollnV "I might, but It wouldn't bave uiudi tone What do you want of a sheet iron mandolin, anyhow?" "I'm try in;; to serenade a girl, and they bave a bulldog. I've busted sev eral Instruments on him. Next time I -mas'.li him I want to smash him good." Kansas City Journal. Oh, That's Different! "1 thought you told me that you would not contract any new debts without m.\ knowledge." bowled Mr Uabb as he tore up a bunch of dunning letters. "I haven't, my dear," replied Mrs. Uabb. "I merely expanded aoiue ot tbe old debts."-C'lnclnnatl Enquirer. Cherry Wood. Cherry is the wood most used an a backing for the metal plates from which Illustrations are printed In mag azines and periodicals It Is cliosen above all others because it Holds Its shape, does not warp or twist, works smoothly and does not split. Handicapped. Dr. Cureru- You will llml your dys pepsia greatly alleviated. Mr. Peck, by i beerful and agreeable conversation at jour meals Mr. Peck -That's good ml vice. doe. but my Im-uine will not permit me to eat away from home- Terre Haute Express. Rigs In Scotland. In Scotland the corn and grass Melds Hie divided Into spaces twenty to thir ty yards wide by a furrow made by a plow, These are termed rigs. Tropical Medicines. Id the order named quinine, calomel, rastor oil. tincture of Iron, opium and brand\ are tnu medicines most used In the tropics. jfiidav December 15 1914 PROFESSIONAL CARDS PHYSICIANS AND DENTISTS ATTORNEYS AT LAW office Hours* toll a.m. Fred Kemp ' K. L. Baker l:»itoB p.m. Ito 8 p.m. MB. J. M. M.Hiiinii KKKIP * BAKER Phvsiclnn and Surgeon Lawyers °]£%s'&S£ Wenatch.e.Wasb. N. A. PKAHSON Attorney and Counselor-nt-Law DR. P. A. SNYDER Notary Public DENTIST run . xi h. suite 2. Elliot Hlk. Telephone Hulto 1 Office Hours Leavenworth, Wash. ' Klllott Bldg. 8:30 to 12-1 to« I ' I _______________________ —_. I ,\Vm. A. Keneiiu Irs Thomas ' O. O. Hnnnan W. M. MCCOY Thorn..* 11..ma,. lawyers PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Suites, K»rey Bldg Wenatohee Columbia Valley Bank llullalng ~~~~~" ■""""""""■■"""' Wenatchee, Wash ■«———■————— ————————— Reeve*, Crollard & Crollard I Phones: Lawyers - "■ Office, 1666; Residence, 1662. . ' Office, Second Floor Keeres Building Farmers' Phone M __— iii Hi. -in .■ - - Washington owl. a. w. *ox.-t B-J' Wllllflm' A N-Colbl" PtiYSICIAN and SURGEON WILLIAMS & CORBIN Leaven worth, WuL Attorneys at Law v" ■-'■-'*.'■ . - _ wenatchee • Washington DR. J. STILLSON JUDAH LEWIS J. NELSON Phys.Cn .nd Surgeon axtob^s-o^u,. at law y Office In Leavenworth Hospital Suite Elliott Block Phones—Office, 112; Residence, 111 Office Telephone 14 Office Hours—lo to 12 a.m. 2-4, 7-8 p.m. Residence Telephone 15 Sundays by appointment Lbavihwobth, Wash. _-—————— ——————— DR. A. Q. ncKEOWN J" B< ADAMS DR. A. a. ncKEOWN J' °' AHAm» . Attorney and Counsellor at Law OLD RELIABLE DENTIST Notary Public Office Hours oto 12 and 1:30 to 5 Drawing-deeds, contracts and mort gages, and examining abstracts a specialty Opposite Post Office Phone 132 - K. H. FOX I»r. C. K. BRHiGS Lawyer— Notary Public Dentist Office, Eight St. adjoining Weeler's ' Offices over King's My work will Leavenw^tTOshln^on Drugstore ; -pleaseyou Leavenworth, Washington ABSTRACTS OF TITLE JOHN E. PORTER IS OUR BUSINESS. Attorney at Law Notary Public We were here when Ohelan Oounty 310 Columbia Valley Bank Bldg was organized, our records are com plete and kept up dally: accurate Office phone 163S Res. phone 1074 and quick service Is our motto. Wenatchee Wash Mall us your order. Chelan County Abstract Co. i ■■ ■■■■ ■■■■ ■■ (Incorporated) .... . ... . J. A. GELLATLY W. W. GRAY t^ftf Enfto President Secy. take the bus for WENATCHEE, WASH. __ . . _, . t Hotel Wenatchee r*J4*/ ni«ni; I \t%{\ Most convenient to all important wily I 'lay LI lIC business points, and License No. 2 Where you are most likely to meet All kinds of hauling other Leavenworth visitors to promptly and carefully done _ ' , , „ BAGGAGE TRANSFERRING j Metropolis of the Valley. 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Brown, »/r Tv -i- • t-» «^xS2jf» K.,,i a. and h. visiting Manifold 1 ype writer Paoer brethren cordially lnvit«<f J r , * "r" ' For sale at The Echo Office iTaxidermyji H i I am prepared to do any- __ thing in the line of mounting, £> QI^CI cl \ heads or whole animals, birds. ■* fish, etc. All work guaran- A" C> Barclay ' Fm^ teed moth proof. 33 Daylight Rooms H V I OVF Ppchactin New and Modem Sample Rooms ii. v. lv vc, i esnasiin We Meet M Trains Prices one-third less than elsewhere. Phone 656 P. O. Box 672 —_ . Auto for Hire The Northwestern Portland Cement ■——■—————__. Co., has sold its holdings of 220 acres ■ " of liraerock to the Mercantile Trust Co. 100 Enveloped with your name and[s_ of San Francisco for *387,550.20. address £* Orting will construct an $8,000 *"J E" school house. . £ t / Use Echo"want7»di ,for_beßt.re»ultii. i At The Echo Of I Ice I