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THE HOLBEOOK NEWS, HOLBROOK, ARIZ., DECEMBER 22.
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By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN
UREE WISE MEN, as everyone
knows, paid homage to Jesus
at his birth. Their story Is told
in part thus in the Gospel ac
cording to St. Matthew:
Now when Jesus was born
in Bethlehem of Judea in the
days of Herod the King, behold,
there came wise men from the
East to Jerusalem.
Saying, where Is he that la
born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star
in the East, and are come to worship him.
When Herod the King had heard these tilings, he
was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.
And when he had gathered all the chief priests
and scribes of the people together, he demanded
of them where Christ should be born.
And they said unto him. In Bethlehem of Judea,
for thus it is written by the prophet.
And thou, Bethlehem, in the land of Judea, are
not the least among the princes of Judea ; for out
of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my
people Israel.
Then Herod, when he had privily called the
wise men. Inquired of them diligently what time
the star appeared. '
And he Bent them to Bethlehem, and said. Go
and search diligently for the young child; and
when ye have found him, bring me word again,
that I may come and worship him also.
When they had heard the king, they departed,
and, lo, the star, which they saw In the East, went
before them, till It came and stood over where
the young child was.
When they saw the star, they rejoiced with
exceeding great Joy.
And wtien they wen come Into the house, they
saw the young child with Mary his mother, and
fell down, and worshiped him : and when they had
opened their treasure, they presented unto him
gifts; gold, and frankincense and myrrh.
And being warned of God In a dream that they
should not return to Herod, they departed into
their own country another way.
These Three Wise Men Were named Melchlor,
Easpar and Balthazar. They are sometimes called
the Three Kings of Cologne." Their bones are
mid to rest in the cathedral of Cologne. This Is
the finest specimen of Gothic architecture In Eur
ope and its building took more than 600 years
1248 to 1880. Anyway, skulls purporting to be
theirs were exhibited as late as the Eighteenth
century. To touch them was to be liealed. An
old prayer charm reads:
T. three holy ktnga.
Kuptr, Melchlor and Bajthaaar.
Pray for us now
And In the hour of death.
Early tradition supplemented this account by
adding a fourth wise man. And the story of this
fourth wise man Is one for us all to keep In mind
at Christmas time.
This fourth wise man started with the other
three to make the Journey to Jerusalem and pay
homage to the new-born King. But he never
reached the manger where lay the child. Instead
he sacrificed his life to render service. Never
theless, before he died he was granted a vision
of the Christ. Henry Van Dyke's "The Story of
the Other Wise Man" tells the tradition most ex
cellently well:
Detained by his efforts to save a dying stranger,
Artaban becomes separated from bis companions.
He, therefore, seeks the Christ alone, traveling
from place to place, feeding the hungry as he goes,
clothing the naked, nursing the sick, comforting
the oppressed.
One after another he spends for others the
precious gifts which he had hoped to offer to the
Christ. . At last he surrenders his one remaining
pearl in order to ransom a tormented slave girl.
Strnrk on the temple by a falling tile, he lies
bleeding and breathless. But he hears a Voice
commending him.
Unable to believe the testimony of his own ears,
the Other Wise Man murmurs:
"Not so, my lord! For when saw I Thee an
hungered and fed Thee? Or thirsty, and gave
Thee drink? When saw I Thee a stranger, and
took Thee In? Or naked, and clothed Thee? When
saw I Thee sick and In prison and came unto
Thee? Three-and-thlrty years have I looked after
Thee; but I have never seen Tby face, nor min
istered to Thee my King."
But the Voice replies:
"Inasmuch as thou hast done It unto one of the
least of these, my brethren, thou hast done it unto
me."
Is it hard to imagine the Fourth Wise Man re
appearing on earth at Christmas time with a mes
to all mankind? Certainly he has a mes-"
age well worth delivering. And certainly It Is
a message well worth listening to. For from his
experience he could say to us:
"You have served God only as yoa nave served
men."
The Christian citizen should be serving God
in relation to his home, his community and his
nation. There are those who are serving God by
trying to Improve the conditions under which their
less privileged fellows live and work, by trying to
bring more of Justice, beauty, peace and love Into
the life of the world. It is to be feared that most
of us fall far short here. But he is a poor Chris
tian and a poor citizen Indeed who, having, can
pass Christmas without doing something In keep
ing with the day for those who have not
Everywhere In our modern Twentieth century
life we meet the very people whom Jesus painted
to living words 2,000 years ago the prodigal son,
who "came to himself"; the elder brother, who
"was angry and would not go in".; the priest and
the Levite, who "-assed by on the other side" the
good Samaritan, who "was moved with compas
sion" ; the Pharisee, who thanked God that he was
"not as other men are"; the publican, who cried
"God be merciful unto me, a sinner I"
At Christmas time. If at no other, it Is well for
us to be the publican and the good Samaritan.
Without Christmas tree, holly and mistletoe
Christmas would seem strange Indeed to most
Americans. The balsam fir is most used for
Christmas trees, but doubtless almost any kind
of evergreen can be used In an emergency. And
some of the municipal and community center
Christmas trees nowadays are of great sUe, espe
cially when they are set up outdoors.
The photograph of the Christmas tree repro
duced herewith is worth studying as something
quite out of the ordinary in several respects. In
the first place, in the original photograph three
separate exposures of the plate were made the
first for the building and Its lights ; the second for
the Christmas tree and Its lights, and the third
for the moon. Each exposure varied in length to
suit the different degrees of brilliance.
And where do you suppose this unusual photo
graph was taken? Why, at the annual Christmas
celebration in Yosemlte valley, Yosemlte National
park. California. Most people think that all the
national parks are closed in the winter time. Well,
they are not. Rocky Mountain National park in
Colorado has a carnival of winter sports in Febru
ary. Mount Rainier National park In Washington
has winter sports and a ski tournament as late as
July. And Yosemlte Is open the year 'round. And
Yoseraite's Christmas celebration Includes a fat.
Jolly, fur-clad Santa Claus who drives up In the
old-fashioned way in his sleigh and distributes his
gifts to the village children.
But that isn't all about this unusual picture.
What kind of a tree do you suppose the Christmas
tree is? You could not guess if your Christmas
gift depended upon your guess. That's because It
is the only one of its kind In the whole world.
This Christmas tree is nothing less than a living
Sequoia tree. The Sequoia (Sequoia gigantea) is
the oldest and biggest living thing in the world.
SOme of the biggest and oldest of them are 85 feet
In diameter and at least 5,000 years old. So yon
see many of these Big Trees In Sequoia and Yosem
lte national parks were not even middle-aged when
Christ was born in Bethlehem.
This particular Sequoia Christmas tree was
planted In 1890. From a seedling it has grown
to a height of more than 60 feet A thousand
years from now it will probably be nearly 300 feet
tall and have a diameter of 15 or 20 feet
One wonders if there will be a similar Christmas
celebration in Yosemlte valley then a thousand
years from now. Why not? Christmas will still
be celebrated then if the world endures. And
our nineteen national parks, have been set apart
by congress as public playgrounds for the people
forever. So, If the United States of America en
dures, why not a Christmas celebration In Yosem
lte A. D. 2922? All that seems to be necessary
Is the planting of a Sequoia seedling every thirty
years or so.
. .
Christmas and mince pie! Nobody ought to
have to tell anybody that Christmas is the time for
mince pie. Why, the two go together Just like
Thanksgiving and pumpkin pie and the Fourth of
July and spring lamb and green peas. The first
mince pie of the winter should grace the Christmas
board; any housewife who gives her family even
a taste of one before Christmas day should go with
out a new Easter hat that's the punishment to
fit the crime. And any man who eats mince pis
at a restaurant or at his club before Christmas day
should go without mince pie all winter.
However, If he should, his punishment would
likely fit the crime. For nowadays the making of
mince pies Is largely a lost art The ordinary
restaurant mince pie is nothing but minced fruit
There is a saying that every really good woman
cook must have a temper. Maybe. Certainly she
should be nice and plump as If she ate her own
mlnce pies and thrived on them. And it's easy
to tell by watching a woman make mince pies
whether or not they're going to be a success. If
she goes at It, you know, as if it were sort of a
religious rite as if the fate of the nation hung
on tier work why, all Is well.
"Pies like mother used to make !" Tenderloin of
beef and Northern Spy apples and real cider and
everything else to correspond I Maybe mother used
to bake her pies a dozen at a time and set them
away In a cold store room to freeze. Maybe
mother got her mlnce meat ready and set It aside
in a big stone Jar to ripen. It doesn't make any
difference. They were real mince pies when they
got to the Christmas dinner. The looks of them !
The smell of them! The taste of them! Yum,
yum! There's a memory a fellow can carry with
him to his grave.
Do you remember Izaak Walton's friend Dr. Bot
teler and his famous appreciation of the strawber
ry? Well, It's quite evident the good doctor never
sat down to Just the right kind of a Christmas
dinner or he would have Ignored the strawberry as
unworthy of his cleverness and would have said in
stead that doubtless God could have inspired some
heaven-born cook to make a more appropriate des
sert for December 25 than mlnce pie but that doubt
less God never did.
ARE IN CONSTANT FEAR OF DEATH
Incident Shows Dread and Suspicion
That is Part of the Lives of
South American Rulers.
The proverb of the crown and the
uneasy head might well be twisted to
apply to a Central American presi
dent Certainly the president of
Honduras that Mr. J. H. Curie de
scribes in "This World of Ours" could
not have felt at his ease for very
long; there was too much revolution
and Intrigue for that
Once, says Mr. Curie, there was a
banquet at Tegucigalpa, the capital.
The man who happened to be presi
dent on that day attended It and sat
next to the consul of the United
States. In the midst of the banquet
the electric light failed, and the room
was plunged into darkness. Fearing
a plot, the president sprang to his
feet but the consul seized his arm.
"Sit down!" he whispered. "It is
safer."
The light returned a few moments
later. The consul was sitting calmly
In his chair; beside him sat the presi
dent wiping the sweat from his brow ;
every other man in the room was on
his feet guarding himself with drawn
revolver. Youth's Companion.
Libraries.
The word library Is taken from the
Latin word "liber," a book. The old
est library of which any record is
available was discovered in Assyria a
few years ago and consists of. Baby
lonian books Inscribed on clay tablets,
supposed to have been prepared for
public Instruction about 650 B. C. It
Is said that Pislstratus founded a li
brary at Athens about 537 B. (X, al
though there Is no clear evidence of
the fact. Strabo says that Aristotle
was the first known collector of a li
brary, which he bequeathed to Theo.
phratus 322 B. C, and this library at
length found Its way to Rome.
and There
Greater New York Swallows 'Em All
GREATER NEW YORK. At a
meeting of the Broadway Mer
chants Association of Brooklyn, N. Y.,
the following resolution was adopted:
' "Whereas, the name Williamsburg
Bridge refers to a section not geo
graphically bounded and vague and
foreign to most of the population, it is
advocated that the name be changed
to Broadway Bridge. Thus the travel
ing public will recognize the terminal
of the bridge and much confusion will
be averted." '
So the big bridge between Brooklyn
and New York is likely to be known
as Broadway and with the change will
pass the last vestige of recognition ol
Williamsburg. This is Interesting be
cause there was once a city of Wil
liamsburg within the boundaries of the
present f!ty of New York.
Williamsburg was a village one oi
the many that made up what Is now
Brooklyn until 1851, when It was In
corporated as a city and Dr. A. J.
Berry was elected mayor. He took
office In 1852, and Williamsburg as
sumed its place as one of the cities'
of New York state, along with New
York, Brooklyn, Albany and other cen
ters of population.
In 1853 the project of a Greatei
Brooklyn materialized. Brooklyn, Bush
wick and Williamsburg (then a city ol
5,000 inhabitants) were consolidated,
and Williamsburg as a city, after two
years only of separate existence,
ceased to exist The mayor of Wil
liamsburg laid down the regalia of of
fice sixty-six years ago. The Greater
New York will celebrate the twenty
fifth year of Its establishment next
year its first quarter of a century.
"Because the Law Should Be Enforced"
MINNEAPOLIS. That he was se
vere in sentencing liquor law vio
lators "because the law should be
enforced," and "because it never can
be made effective unless I am severe,"
was the statement of Judge Page Mor
ris of the United States District court
here.
Judge Morris' wholesale sentencing
to Jail of bootleggers and venders of
Illicit liquor has caused consternation
among those arrested for violating the
law. Many persons plead they have
large familler and ask to be let off with
fines. Such pleas generally result in
heavier Jail sentences and fines. "It
Is remarkable the number of large fam
ilies we have in this district" Judge
Morris asserted.
"Easy sentences don't accomplish
anything," said the federal jurist, "and
I am sending liquor law violators to
Jail wherever the statutes enable me
to do so."
Judge Morris said he imposed sen
tences to the federal penitentiary at
Leavenworth only in extreme cases,
but two men had been recently sent
to that Institution when convicted of
conspiracy to violate the liquor laws.
Four county jails in this district
have been comfortably filled with fed
eral paying "guests" since Judge
Morris started his campaign several
weeks ago.
"But there is plenty of room yet'
he said. "Ramsey, Hennepin, Wi
nona and Wabash counties' jails are
pretty full, but there is still plenty of
room."
Judge Morris has adopted several
means for speeding up liquor cases.
For one thing, an accused who pleads
guilty for the first offense generally
has the option of a fine or at least
a comparatively short Jail sentence.
But to plead not guilty and then be
convicted means jail.
Greek Sage Had Nothing on This One
LOS ANGELES. Weird ceremonies
and strange beliefs have been
partially revealed through the filing
of a contest of the will of Walter
Lockwood Thales, who for a third of
a century led his disciples In prac
ticing Oriental teachings.
At the coming hearing of the case
fci the Superior court of Orange coun
ty at Santa Ana, the secrets of the
"Mystery House" on the Thales estate
near Placentia, where Thales and
many of his original followers lie
burled under the trees, will also be
disclosed.
Relatives of Thales, who came here
from England after his will bequeath
ing ten acres of land near Placentia
to the four remaining colonists wag
filed for probate. Initiated the con
test Opposing the contestants ar
Mrs. Matilda Wlederhold, her son, Wil
liam, Mary and Vera Smith and Frank
V. Hinde, all members of the colony,
Thirty-five . years ago Thales came
to California and founded his. cult
People from all over the world came
to Join the mysterious colony. The
peculiar tenets which Thales taught
his followers . may be briefly sum
marized as follows: That the living,
if members of the colony, were In con
stant communion with the dead. To
this end, Thales asserted that he had
the seams of his head opened to let
the spirits in.
All of the rooms In the "Mystery
House" were built In circular form.
Thales declared that square rooms
were a bad thing for the spirits. '
Thales died December 24, 192L
Louis Lockwood, Thomas Lockwood,
Martha Carter and Hammond Lock
wood, all of England, caught the next
steamer after they heard of Thales'
death. They declared that Thales was
mentally unfit to draw up a; will.
The Eccentric's Spurned Million Dollars
NEW YORK. When Charles Gar-
land, eccentric Massachusetts "so
cialist" and "platonic love expert," in
herited $1,000,000 more than a year
ago, he startled the world by refusing
to accept it He said nobody was en
titled to that amount And he began
his investigations in the realm of love.
Between his researches for the "true
mate" and his trustees' efforts to dis
pose of the legacy. Garland has caused
a great deal of publicity. Various
young women have come and gone
from the "love farm" near Lenox,
Mass, and Mrs. Garland finally got
tired of the dual role of wife and wit
ness to her mate's experiments. She
sailed to Europe recently.
Last July Garland turned over
$850,000 to the American Fund for
Public Service, Inc., to be used only
for "public services."
"Since July," said Roger N. Bald
win, secretary of the fund, "the di
rectors made a complete survey of the
whole field of enterprises of an ex
perimental or pioneer character in
NOfiocrr SHOULD
HAVE SO MUCH
tiotlrr
order to shape a policy for handling
the money if it is taken over. So far
the directors have been merely re
sponding to the pressure of the needs
put up to them.
"Only about one-third of the 181 ap
plications made have been favorably
considered. The full $20,000 of income
has been paid out or pledged and
about $60,000 uninvested capital, has
been loaned out at Interest to nine
different enterprises, chiefly labor pub
lications. One loan of about $25,000
was made for strike relief to a district
of the United Mine Workers."
After the Nestlings Have Flown Away
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. Mrs.
Benjamin C Allen has met and Is
solving the question which is faced by
many women whose children have
grown up, married and moved away.
She has found that the house that
seemed "comfortably roomy" when the
family was all under roof is too large
when the younger members are gone
to their own homes.
Mrs. Allen's problem is even greater
than that of most women, for hers is
a 40-room house. It is a $500,000 man
sion, which for fifteen years has been
a show place In a locality of show
places Broadmoor. Her method ol
solution was unique. She is having
the mansion wrecked and It will be re
placed by a $10,000 bungalow of con
siderably less than 40 rooms four
rooms.
. Brick by brick the structure is be
ing demolished. More than 100 work
men are busy in all parts of the huge
building. Each polished narrow strip
of the hardwood flooring is carefully
lifted and stored for future use. The
great paneled oak doors and the
wainscoting are loosened with infinite
care and taken away without so much
as a mark of a hammer or crowbar.
Weeks ago every piece of furniture
was taken away In its white coverings.
Mrs. Allen has left for Philadelphia,
where she formerly was a social lead
er. While there she will consult her
architect on the plans for the $10,000
bungalow which will be erected. When
it Is finished Mrs. Allen will return to
make it her home. The estate, except
for the mansion, will stand as It Is.
Mrs. Allen expects then really to b
comfortable.'
WHY DRUGGISTS RECOMMEND
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For many years druggists have watched
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Swamp-Root is a strengthening medi
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should do.
Swamp-Root has stood the test of yean.
It is sold by all druggists on its merit and
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Be sure to get Swamp-Root and start
treatment at once.
However, if you wish first to test this
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sample bottle. When writing be sure and
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Time for One, Then.
"Mama, Tige's begging. Must I give
xa a piece of my cookie!"
"Of course you must "
."Well, I haven't any cookie !" Life.
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A Sure Sign.
"Is your wife a good cook?"
"She must be. All her relatives stop
with us when they visit town."
. Important to Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle of
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for infants and children, and see that it
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Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoria
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Husband Ah, when I think of the
old days ! Then I could have goose at
table!
Wife But Fritz, you have me !
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