On Saturday the United States
Circuit court handed down a
decree against the Standard Oil
Company of New Jersey and its
branches and subsidiary compa
nies all over the United Sfates.
This suit was begun in lbOti and
was just decided Saturday. The
opinion states that the Standard
Oil Company is a trust and
operates in inter-state commerce
in restraint of trade and is il
legal and orders the company
dissolved and gives them 30 days
to get rid of their holdings and
quit business. The Standard Oil
Company is the richest and most
powerful trust in the United
States and has almost a monopo
ly on all the betrolium and pe
trolium products in the United
States. F‘*w people know how
many of the common every day
household necessities are made
f rom petrolium. Most people
when they name Standard Oil,
connect it with coal oil and gaso
line only, when in fact the oil
i that oils the sewing machine, the
axle creese that oils <he farm
wagon or automobile; the fuel oil
that drives some of the great
ocean greyhounds in their five
I days trip across the ocean and
heats the furnaces in our great
factories aud even the butter we
eat on our pancakes for breakfast
and the vasceline the dear ladies
so dearly love to dob on an iuch
thick over their pretty faces to
get ia our mustaches all come
from the products of the Stand
1 ard Oil Company. The Company
will apneal the case to the United
States Supreme Court and if
they are again decided against
will divide up the spoils and go
out of business nit. John D.
the possibility that escaped
THE WOMEN OF BETHLEHEM.
Some Name Might Have Rang
Through All Ages Had She But
Known the Spirit of Christ
mas Hospitality.
IK child born in the
stable of Bethlehem,
"because there was no
room for tlc-m in the
inn," was heralded by
an*T>>ls to the shepherds
; by a star to the
v\ men; but no voice
told the mothers ot
Bett;iehem of f v. >nder which was
happening in their town that night.
Suppose som g itle woman had
met Joseph arn Mary on that Won
derful Day, as entered the town,
and had said to them: 'Our streets
are full of homeless strangers, Com"
you and hide wi' t me! " By that sim
ple act of ho. totality, her mime
would have been written high, high
among the name of earths happest
lolk "Blessed is she," we should
have cried, "to whose home the
Christmas joy first came!" But the
women of the Judean town did not
know to throw wide their doors and
bring in the worlds gratitude and
love, says the Youth s Companion, So
the Child was laid in a manger, and
oblivion holds the names of all the
tone'll in Bethlehem who slept that
wight beneath the wings of wondering
angels Mad they but known!
Year by year, for 1H centuries the
story of the night at Bethlehem has
been told and retold To-day no house
hold in Christendom, In town or \i!
lage or on distant prairie can ph ad
the ignorance in which Bethlehem
then lay If the door Is shut on
the Christ child today, It is not from
lack of knowledge, but from chor b
ness or indifference
The Christmas spirit speaks in
many voices The sprig of holiv or
the plum pudding, the tree laden ai t
gifts or the cheer for the lonely -
these are all the world's way of say
ing to the Mother and the Holy Cnild,
‘"kblde with us'"
Barred out alike from cottage and
palace and inn in Palestine, the Ho-e
of the World renews his appeal e t
Christmas-tide to our modern C . ,s
tian world By the very pathos 01 tiie
first Christmas the heart is softened
and prepared to give him weleome.
Today there is no heralding any 1 >r
guiding star
No ♦'a? may t ear His •••n h l;
Hut in this* world sin.
Wh»*r»* somI.h will r*** Hve Him mill.
Th* (1*‘ar I’hitxt enters* in
Santa Claus Abroad
ft is strange to contemplate the
gre.it variety of forms the Santa t’laus
custom assumes in different countries
In Helglum the little ones fill their
sluies with < arrots and oats and hay
for ttie white horse St Xieholas is
supposed to drive Very early in the
morning they run to the room in
which their shoes have been left and
find that the provender has gone and
In its place candies and presents ate
found
vrnnng the Carpathian mountains it
is St Peter, who. dressed as a bishop,
and accompanied by the dreadful Hu
precht, is eipected by the children on
Christmas eve The visitor first de
livers a short sermon, lays on the
table a rod whitened with chalk and
takes his departure with his tinkling
bells, while Ruprecht follows close be
hind The children now hasten to pull
off their shoes, polish them and tie
ttnfn together; and. as soon as the
last notes of Nikio's bell* have become
In ' in tlie distance they run into the
garden and secrete their shoes be
i '-nil a bush They spend the time
until IP o'clock in relating stories,
then go to their shoes, to find them
flliatf with aggies auts and goodies
Christmas Carol
Bv Phillips Brooks
Che earth has grown old with Its
burden of care.
But at Christmas it always is young,
Che heart of the jewel burns lustrous
and fair,
flnd its soul full of music bursts forth
on the air,
UJhen the song of the angels is sung.
It is coming, Old Cartb. it is coming
tonight!
On the snowflakes which coocr thy
sod
Che feet of the Christ-child fall gentle
and white,
And the voice of the Christ-child tells
out with delight
Chat mankind arc the children of God.
On the sad and the lonely, the wretched
and poor.
Che voice of the Christ*cbild shall fall;
And to every blind wanderer open the
door
Of hope that he dared not to dream of
before,
With a sunshine of welcome for all.
Che feet of the humblest may walk in
the field
Where the feet of the fioliest trod.
Chts, then. Is the marvel to mortals
revealed
Ulheu the silvery trumpets of Christmas
have peaied.
Chat mankind are the children of God
THE ROAD TO CHRISTMAS
In Retrospect Grandfather Picture*
Yuletide Journey* of Many
Years wgo
All the year Ion* wr have ho an
traveling toward t'ir stmas—1 and iut
old wife, our children and otir grans
children not all t»v th*' same 'o;m
not all \\ mi llic same expectations,
hut all looking out alike for the fir»t
glimpse of it' smoke rising above the
wintry lanoscape or tie vear Now
we can almost fancy that we hear
the chiming or the famous bells a'l
Christmas towns are famous for their!
liell.s and we know that we shall soon
tie at our inn
If life be a journey and each
year a stag*- upon the road. I do not
know where else a sensible man would
stop for the recruiting of his health
than the fine old Christmas town.-.
There it anywhere, men are to he
found living together merrily; the inns
are warm the cheer is good, the
amusements are ot the heartiest, and
tiie society is of the best 1 have to * n
through many a Christmas town to
1 have traveled far and have rested
tliorntighly m e<a< h I never found t\o
of them alike Of late they haw- been |
much gravel and quieter than the> i
used formerly to he; but I do no’ |
think that I have been less happy ot
the quiet towns at which 1 have or j
laie years resided. I<et me confess so j
much As for these about me who |
declare them to be not quiet by any
means, but perfectly uproarious with
jollity. 1 do not interfere with then j
opinion Children so easily deceiv*' j
themselves, it is enough for me tha'|
1 am old enough to see things as they j
are
The First Christmas Tree.
•‘It's the Germans who brought th* ,
Christmas tree to America, the Gor I
uiau said “Didu't you know that?!
The duke of Hesse sold a tegur-nt
called "The Hessians,' alter him. tc
tight the Americans They got sc \
drunk over their first Christmas tree
here away from home that Washing
ton captured them, and that started
the fashion of Christmas treat to
America it's history."
Rockfellow, the brains of the
big steal, savs he has not a
thing to say, not a single thing.
He will probably tell his Sunday
School class ail about h./.. it
happened next Sunday and'point
to himself as a shining example
and he is a “shining” example;
shining with sweat and teutsand
misery and want that he has by
the power of his money and
methods of his company iiterallv
wrung from these who in an>
way disputed his right to take
whatever he laid his eyes on and
wanted. It will be remembered
that a certain Federal Judge in
Chicago fined this same company
twenty-nine million dollars a few
years ago. and did they pay it?
Not on your “aeroplane, not a
penny of it. They simply creat
ed a supreme court ul their own
and set the decision aside to
gether with the fine and they
will probably ;o ont of business
and divide up the money among
the 1,500 sucker stockholders in
about the same way they paid
that big fine—Ex.
“Is your father rich?” some
one asked a five year old irl and
the little one replied confidently,
“Why, of course! He’s got me.”
And she was rig’nh too. for the
father of a sweet, loving 1 - ipfu!
little daughter i= roller than
some millionaires wh n m .
can not buy th n the love of ..
single heart. How ah. nit your
father? Does he think * ■ is a
rich man because of the daughter
at home? There are 1. <u ehold
where it is hard ‘ t » make doth
ends meet” but wher there
plenty of that bettei wealth of
love and goodness and loyalty.
Is yours one of them?—Ex.
In the early days of railread
ing in the country no restraint
was laid on any employe from
In Bad Fix
“I had a mishap at the age of 41, which left me in bad
fix,” writes Mrs. Georgia Usher, of Conyers, Ga.
“1 was unconscious for three days, and after that I
would have fainting spells, dizziness, nervousness, sick
headache, heart palpitation and many strange feelings.
“1 suffered greatly with ailments due to the change of
life and had 3 doctors, but they did no good, so 1 concluded
to try Cardui.
"Since taking Cardui, 1 am so much better and can do
all my housework.”
Take CARDUI
J 41
The Woman's Tonic
Do not allow yourself to get into a bad fix. You might
get in so bad you would find it hard to get out.
Better take Cardui while there is time, while you are
still in moderately good health, just to conserve your strength
and keep you in tip top condition.
In this way your troubles, whatever they are, will grad
ually grow smaller instead of larger—you will be on the
up-grade instead of the down—and by and bye you will
arrive at the north pole of perfect health.
Get a bottle at your druggists’ today.
thinking and nanyof them were
intemporale. Now railroads are
virtually lernperar.co societies,
.viany companies will :;.>t permit
any employee to be seen enter
ing a saloon, nor under any (
cumstances to drink intoxicati
liquors.
i..*ad the Picayune.
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