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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 26, 1922)
1 S?fL CU.OUJLATX0S Average for November, 1B22: 151 THIS CITT OF SAIXM m! eisewaot la KtriM a ad Folk Oeantiee , Keariy everybody read . The Oregon Statesman TUB HOME SEW8PAPCK Bandar only ..573S Dally and Sunday . 5386 A vera lor tlx months en dine October SI, 1923: Sands; only . -6874 Daily and Bandar 5485 ! r SEVENTY-SECOND YEAR SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 26, 1922. PRICE: FIVE CENTS Til Of ON BERRY.-MEN TO DISCUSS 1923 YIELD ! Six or Seven Arrests For ; : Masked Outrages Expect j I ed by Police Within Next ; - Few Days. VISITORS ARE DENIED FREEDOM, OF PRISON Inquiry- Probably : Will Not ' Get Under way Before : Next Thursday IN Delegates Will Meet In Salem Thursday and Fix Prices . For Next Season DRY AS DESERT ACCUSER OF CASH WIER IN BARGAIN TI f BASTROP. La., Dec. 25. The probability that the next" chapter la the Morehouse kidnaping In testlgatlons would be written soon In Mer Rouse loomed strong' ly here tonight. . ? Attorney General v Coco s - an I t nouncement , In ; Marksvllle, La 1? where he is spending Christmas that the state expected to arrest at least six or seyen more persons I on Charges of "murder ol "Watt ,V Daniels and Thomas Richards. Is j expected to be fulfilled in the Mer Rouge community. , It 13 belief ed that many of the f men whom the state snspects as 1 ringleaders of the August white i robed and masked mob will be J served with -warrants before Jan 's uary 5; the date set for the open t hearing: Devel6pments and the i hearing may bring about arrest of I others. Federal agents have de it dared they; hare the ' names of i : twenty members the mob. ; Suspect Is field , "The state 'believes ,T. J. Burn ett guilty of , the charge upon which., he was arrested Saturday," the attorney general declared to day In,' speaking of - the lone 'ins pect held in Bastrop Jail.' "We further believe we hare the evid ence upon which to convict those we arrest, he added" r Art order was issued tods? de nying visitors permission to com- ' nii.kiwtlS nMltf svrfc In the pretence of an ;of fleer of the rftlllrarv Am Pnrtifttri f Henri k,, . Iw JVfca,. a ww aw , ova avuMw All Independent loganberry growers are urged to take part in the delegate convention to be held in Salem beginning Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock. This con tention is-the outgrowth of two earlier meetings of the growers. to take up the matter of better prices for logans. Delegates were named at the pi if CI Aim vHPNP most of the larger berry districts in a close, executive session to thresh out a definite plan for bet ter prices. Delegates are to come from all the cooperative canning and f raft-handling associations -in the valley, they being interested precisely as are the unorganized growers in getting at. least enough money from their crops to pay their crop expenses districts not yet organized or re presented, delegates may be chos en to attend and sit in for the deliberations. It is so clearly recognized that it Is going to be a big problem to mark-nr lha inmiMriillv Kttla known loganberry at a price from - - 26 to 50 per cent above the prices Mrs. Helen Leary Offers to Refute Story If Wiers Agree to One Thing CITY FOLKS SLIP AWAY FOR HOLIDAY Railroads Report Largest Business for Many Years; Ticket Sales Heavy Defeat of Bahama Liquor Fleet Takes Joy Out of Life for Thirsty New York . Flappers. OF JOYFUL HOLIDAY Governor-Elect Smith Leads Army of Relief Workers in Slum District KKW YnrtK. TWr?. 25. Tra- From the Ljuion has It that there is only one Santa Claus, but tradition was given the lie direct in New York today when nearly everyone from Governor-elect Smith down to' the humblest citizen donned red coat and whiskers, in PORTLAND, Ore.. Dec. 25. Mrs. Helen Leary told newspaper men today that she might declare her whole story of the killing of a 15-year-old girl in Cash Weir's houseboat here a' lie if "Cash and Earl would agree to one thing." She would not say what the "one thing" might be. Cash Weir, his son Earl and Mrs. Leary, their accuser, rested today in the Jail after prolonged questioning. Police detectives have planned to make an effort tomor row to locate the body of the girl whom Mrs. Leary said 7as slain in the houseboat. Accord ing to her story the body was dis posed of in the river by Cash and Earl Weir. Preliminary heart lg was set for tomorrow on the charge of murder filed against the father and the charge or .cies Bory after the fact agalatt the son. I 1 A wonderfully good ticket bus iness is reported from the Oregon Electric beginning on Thursday. The sales were good enough to make it look as if the war was still on and there were shipyards at both ends of the line and every body travelling both ways. The rush was still continuing Monday, the sales from the Salem office being still almost as good as just before Christmas. The bad weather made the 'regular" steel rail lines especially popular. The best travel in many years is reported from the Southern Pacific passenger department. They have kept the trains crowd ed, both ways, to such an extent that most of them have been run ning double, two sections and all crowded at that. The car windows have looked like movie pictures of the starving Near Easters go- ins somewhere to be fed, hundreds and thousands of them, clutter ing up the whole landscape. ST TOPS GONZAGA IN HARD FIGHT Eastern Eleven Put Across Victory Before Big Crowd at San Diego Final Score Is 21 to 13. BLEACHERS THRILLED BY SENSATIONAL RUNS More Than 35,000 Fans See Westerners Lose Game Battle Reported EUGENE FOR DAY CAPITAL OF THE STATE Governor Louis H. Bean Says He Will Transact Official Business at Home EUGENE. Ore- Dec. 25. Eugene today became the capital of Oregon and will continue so for another day by virtue of its being the residence of Louis E. Bean, speaker of the Oregon house of representatives, who is acting governor in the absence from the state of Roy Ritner, president of tire senate who has been acting In that capacity since Governor Ben Olcott has been in the east for several weeks. Mr. Bean said he would not go to Salem but transact all business of the executive position in Eugene. 1 ES CHILDREN IE ' YOUNG 1C1 Seattle Home Is Scene of Christmas Tragedy; Slay er Turns Gun on Self and Commits Suicide. '" THREATS RECALLED BY: VICTIMS FATHER Ferry Boat Operator Broods Over Imaginary Wrong Liquor is Found Hit DIE IN FLIES It was a city of Santas. The that have ruled for te past two new governor was the first to set years. The delegates set their tne iaenion. ueturning irom meeting for Thursday bo that they midnight mass to his apartment would have three full days if ne- In the Hotel Baltimore, he mount- cessary before even a Sunday in- fed a stepladder and began string- terrupuon. xney expect to spend ing glistening ornaments on a R p. , . Q,,ffnrQH most or all of the three days in sturdy Christmas tree. Then D0Y na IT' tWV OUIIUUlltU getting all thedata and laying out plain "father Al Smith he seat- When Fife Interrupts a definite course of action. ed himself on a low stool beneath i What they do decide to offer! the tree and began distributing to the growers of the state will tne iamuy s gins be made public at a mass conven-1 Santa Is Welcomed tion of growers to he called later .Meanwhile other Santas were by the president, H. H. Mumtord harnessing their theoretical rein of Liberty. Christmas Program BOXING CARD IS BIG EVENT v I who are many, are rallying to his support. - The " state forces penetrating into the mystery and the populace ! of Morehouse relaxed today under the spirit of Christmas. The ' troops stationed here and 4 at Mer Rouge rested on their X arms as the town folk brought J . them good things to eat and help ed them to be merry. t- 'V Governor Parker was at- his - desk at Baton Rouge summariz y ing the developments- of the past week, which began with the troop movement that succeeded in lo 4 , eating the bodies of two men be lieved by the state to have been killed by the mob. " The governor V dispensed with the' traditional i dinner with his aged mother and . relatives at New Orleans to re t ;main at his post. ' Inquiry to Proceed . i.t A conference of those conduct ing the inquiry was announced to day for Thursday at New Orleans. t At that time plans for the hearing will , he outlined and the findings of the coroner's Jury which held the Inquest over the bodies of Daniels and Richards will be dis cussed. w ; A The bodies, lying In cool water y at the bottom of the lake four - iii i in ueiurH umax biiul b.u s.ud i JVsearface by unidentified midnight I riiraamltsri vera tlM rn nlft been well preserved: The hands Sind limbs were : missing. The . pathologists are not In a position ,to state whether these parts were hacked off by the executioners. The physiicans declared evid ifcnce showed that the men were beaten ' and their bones were broken before they died. I Q Department of Justice men are seeking to locate Dr. B. M. Mc , Koln. former' mayor of - .Mer Rouge, wanted for- Interrogation. , The mayor quit Mer Bouse foK lowing an attempt to assassinate him. . He went to Monroe and then to New Orleans and ttpoa de parting from there' declared he Has en route for Johns Hopkins university at Baltimore, tor. a post BATTLE CREEK, Mich., Dec 25. Two children. WHlison, 10 veitra and Barbara. 8. suffocated in aeer lur a snowiess journey i hntnn horn tmlav Bhnrt1v af. around town. There were private ter th6 parerjts Waynard Watts oanias gaiore, out u was me oan- ftnd M Watts' had finished dec tas m nospitais ana prisons, orating tnerr Christmas tree street corner santas ana sanias A fIre Dfolre out ln tne base. In missions that drew the most ment and Bpread rapidly through eyes. It seemed as If New York h fl(-t fioor rooms. Watts the great city of nearly six mil- dashed through the smoke and lion souls had harkened to the flame the children's hedroom cry of darker, war-time days and but failing to find them there was giving until u nun. ra- from tne house, believinz the Not even prison bars could little ones already dead. Cinhtere Arrive In Qalam shut out the Christmas cheer. In When the flames were checked, .w..v.. "in.w hi - ww viii th Tombs, that forblddinr build- firemen found the bodiea of the ing with its bridge of sighs, Santa children ln the bathroom where strode the stone-flagged . corrl-1 they had gone to escape the dors, his pack on his back. A smoke. real Christmas dinner, with mince "Jimmy Duffy" of Aberdeen Die "Xln was spread oerore a&u sounds like one of the last of mea ana ze womeiL the Celtic kings, and those who! Dinner-Is Enoyjed have seen him fight say that On Ellis Island, that famous he is precisely like all his an- gateway of the immigrants, 1500 cestors of the Hibernian line- I future Americans ate their first he's there with the goods. HelChrirtmas dinner in America un-i arrived in Salem on the 24th. 1 fler the very shadow of Lady Llb- tor his-match with Chick Rocco erty. of Portland, Wednesday night,! Into the hospitals, where the at-the Company-F. boxing pro-I grownups and the youngsters lay gram. Duffy started In yester- on their beds in pain, marched the day morning at 11 o'clock, with fed-clad figure with his toys and Phil Bayes, oC Salem, who Is to sweets. At hie entry, eyes that I meet Brick Coyle of Vancouver a moment before had been dull Ready for Battle Next Wednesday Night PARTY LEADS TO the same evening, and they had hot and heavy for a train- ng bout, Duffy shoVs remark able class ; no faster, more prom. and empty, lighted up. the Santas were the stage folsJ0" S5' ton,fht f? be,ni hel( frm nrn.Hw,v ,nH.i' to the Richland county grand jury lslnr boxer has ever appeared I into .i.m in tho homo. nf-n,Jon charges of murder in connec- In Salem. lhnnMfl .m. h .ma h. Soi. tion with the death yesterday oi Rnem worked out Monday I ii .i ii j I Ralnh Lonxley. 32, after he drank - i Thiun ai in j lanaiua, .tkry iiuvicu. i - : . . eventna. at 5 o'clock' and ap-1 nra.rfin. (,. thn.. v I moonshine wniskey at a enara aealn tonight at the 8ameLu mas party." Two other men who w . . . , vviuiu MU , tuu uiuoviucui . ... i J hour. He looks neavier man i at th h office partooK oi tne liquor were onaa when he mathced'up with Bayea Tnn wa, nnf 1nnr MAMv led and a score made ill year ago, or Wltn AiaCKJe I tn rrrT tha rrv nt "XTflrrv Phrtnt montn past; ne cenamij iuu i maga fit for a long nara roatcn. Rocco has established a good fh eetln, untll tne ve j -u a ssm v wn recora inoruu, oU -" heavens were full of good cheer, sppwiranwa iio.o """"" I Christman Etk Drr (Continued on page 5) THE WEATHER WASHINGTON-and OREGON Tuesday occasional rain LOCAL WEATHER. , w , ... 'Maximum temperature, 52, Minimum temperature, n. River, 1 2.5 feet j above nor mal level. Rising. Rainfall, .04 Inch. .V 4 Atmosphere, . cloudy. Wind, south. MURDER FOUR IRE KILLED IN C HI Fayette County Coal Field Scene of Shooting irf Christmas Parties IS If Physician Declares Singer Has Chance Crisis Said to Have Been Passed UNIONTOWN, Pa., Dec. 25. Four men were killed during the Christmas celebrations in the Yay- ette county coal field last night and today. One of the dead is Frank Hall, formerly of Kansas City, Mo., but at the time of his death a member of the H. C. Frick Coke company's police force. Hall was shot to death today when he attempted to arrest "Pomp" Allen, a negro who had engaged in an argument with a number of companions. Allen fired one shot and Hall, although fatally wounded, pulled his re volver and killed his assailant. The shooting occurred at Oates, a mining camp near here. Ed Lindsay, a negro, was killed in a revolver duel at Footdale. A third negro was killed in a pitch ed battle at Buffington. STADIUM, SAN DIEGO, Cal. Dec. 25. The east proved super ior to the west in football today when the West Virginia team of Morgantown. W. Va.t triumphed over the Gonzaga university elev en of Spokane, Wash., in San Diego's second annual inter-sectional gridiron contest. The game was declared one of the most thrilling seen In Southern Calif ornia this season. Both elevens resorted to for ward passes for their offense and PARIS. Dec. 25. (By the As- if Gonzaga had not fumbled thelsoclated Press) PronouAced Im- ball so much in the first half the provement was noted today ln the score might have been different, condition of Sarah Bernhardt Three long runs thrilled the While not attempting to minimize spectators. Captain Mereditn oil me seriousness ot ner case, me West Virginia, intercepted a pass attending physicians this after and ran 80 yards in the second I noon expressed the belief that she period to a touchdown. In the 1 was out of danger for the present last half, Matt Bross, an 1 8-year-1 at least old freshman who was substitut- It seemed almost as though that ed for right halfhack Garrity of miracle which the medical men Gonzaga, completed two runs of said was necessary to save the more than 50 yards. Both of life of the 'divine" Sarah had Bross runs started the Bulldogs happened on the way to touchdowns. Nar- Maurice Bernhardt, her son, diccl for West Virgiinia and said - tonight that Improvement Stockton for Gonzaga played a was so marked that the doctors slashinK eame for their respect-1 had permitted several intimate ive teams. Teams in Fight Shape The contest was one of the first seen here where both teams on almost every other play used a forward pass. Only enough friends to visit the patient. Reports that Mme. Bernhardt was dying spread throughout the city, yesterday following her re lapse in the early morning hoars when she suffered a fainting spell similar to that with which she was straight football was used to keep r trcken Ugt gunday dnrtng me oilier ream iruiu kuius men Two Are Held Following Death of Man After Drink ing Moonshine SHELBY, Ohio, Dec. 25. Phil lip Weiganot, 36, and Lester El- Elston was arrested today on his 40-acre farm an a warrant During the day the radio took wori1 tobr. WeIga..,V!!'he?,fr; raignca uuiu uieu auuimcu so.ub the liquor, which the authorities believed contained wood alcohol, Commerce Commission Will Elect This Week WASHINGTON", Dec. 25. In terstate commerce commissioners will hold their annual election this week to select a new chair man to serve during 1923. The choice is expected to fall to Com missioner B. II. Meyer, who has previously served one year term in the chairmanship. According to the commission's custom, Chairman C. C. McChord. having served one year, will retire from the post but retain regular duties as a commissioner. the final rehearsal of the new Guitry play In which she was to have appeared the following even ing. These reports caused her home t r Ha Koq Inrnrl all Haw tnttaw hu halfback, sent the ball 30 yards promJnent 80Clalt pomical and defense "to combat the aerial at tack. West Virginia started the scor ing in the first period. With the ball in-midfield, Nardaccf right to Simon, left halfback. The Gonzaga line could not repulse the mountaineer attack and the ball was further advanced until when on the 12-yard line Nardaccl theatrical personages, all eager to know of her condition What she needs is complete rest for many weeks, her doctors say, but to the energetic star the slipped through right tackle, Plac- Wea of inactlTlty la most repul8 ing me uau ueuiuu luu (uai puma, i KKDerg, auanerDacK, aaaea tne try for a point with a place kick The second period was filled with thrills for the spectators "Rest? I can't rest If I did I would die," she is reported to have told her advisers Cable messages have been re SEATTLE, Wash., Dec. 21. Rejection of his advances . Jsst spring, believes Helen En gel, ,1 years old and pretty, caused Emtl Neuriter, 40, a ferryboat operator, that after fortifying himself with drink, he entered her home hero today and turned Christmas Joy Into tragedy by killing her two sisters and one of her brothers and then committing suicide. Neuriter, when he came into the house, asked for Helen. Helen says that Neuriter . at tempted to shoot her when she repelled him la the spring. Neur iter took to the Engel home today three pistols and two pockettuli of cartridges. Ambushed in Yoodhrd Neuriter, according to the cor oner, ambushed himself in the woodshed at the Engel home, waiting until' D. S. Engel, father of Helen, came out of the house, leaving his family, around, the Christmas tree distributing girts. Engel says that Neuriter leveled two pistols, at him and ordered him into the house. In the house Neuriter ordered . Engel to Jock all doors. . !'Oet , HeleaXoe me," Neuriter la alleged to bave shouted with ' the pistols still In his hands. "I am here for business and I'm go ing to kill Helen; I'll kill - you all." .- t.. . - Girl Dies FlghUag Anna Engel, 17, sister of Helen, v sprang to the defense of the fam ily and sought to wrest the pi , tols from Neuriter, A bullet tort through her arm and into hei J heart. Leaping over Ann's body, ac cording to the story pieced to- i gether by Coroner W. li. Corson, who talked to all the surviving members of the family, Neuriter commenced shooting at Helen, at.3 Ernest, her brother, 15 and at Mr. and Mrs. Engel. Helen and Er nest jumped out of a window and the parents fled through the front door. ; '' Babe Shot Don a . As the parents ran they saw Each team tried forward passes frQm many countric8 ,n. thelr daughter Llllle, aged, i In Salem stamped Jim t " boxer of But the note of tragedy-inerl- b" Ped not guilty to the ability snd lnterest. He is prom-1 . . . . . ,,,,,,.,, ,f charges of murder. - - . t I iw: " suit w u.v? miu .... . f . ised a matcn wn ueorsie 1 f . f An investigation inio nongiey of Portland, one of the North- deatn was begun today bT Coro west stars of the ring. If he ,:: ;: .,"" wftv h hn. Leber. Samples of the whia win. here on Wednesday; it Is "' .JJTrW ave been sent to the state pn toi wurm ,u T"? a tren .n,lnH tha chemist for an analysis snow, cyclones ana Ruueiauj - t . temtherweiichts climb into was hung for baby's pres A tine white oe". wu,.c "; nignt were saia to De ayiag, wm TUG CORNEL IS L PROBABLY 1ST Crew of Eight Believed Lost With Boat Now Missing For Four Days on almost every other play. Many were for gains of 30 yards, but neither eleven could get the ball over to the other's line until, when after Gonzaga had carried the ball to the Mountaineer 25-yard line. Captain Meredith of the West eluding the United States, expres-j standing ln a chair With two dolts sing the hope for recovery. Discussing his mother's condi tion, Maurice Bernhardt told the Associated Press: We believe she is out of dan ger, although at her age it Is un- Virginians intercepted a Gonzaga gafe tQ make predictlon9 untn 8ne pass ana ran ov jius muuuui lent. recover, physicians said tonight. Than tineHanA ind WifA rtnar " I H. . 1 ' reled. In the night the wife rireman IS iniUreCL.in Walla Walla Fire (Continued on page 6) his Christmas Cheer Given WALLA WALLA, Wash., Dec. 25. Ohe fireman was seriously injured and damage amounting to $10,000 sustained in a fire which early this morning broke out in the Whitehouse-Drumheller fur- the ring Wednesday night Phil Bayes takes on another ri nrtrv - nnvie. ior a six- rmnA bout. Bayes lost their arose, passed the stocking Santa match at Dallas, a week na pacaea, enierea me oamroom whit la recarded an tinfalr decision; neither he! the way to the hospital. nor his friends bel,ieve that the Vancouver lad can do It again. nir tnv kind of conamons ti.trsi haa alwavs given a V . ... a !! . . flead best here In Baiem, ana DV Afner Can Men O War niture store, one or me largest .nv vmild eo out to see him I 1 stores in the city. The fire start- who wouldn't go to any other CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 25. ed In a pile of sacks on which like event because they believe ijne American cruiser Pittsburgh, some linseed oil had accidentally in him. I eleven American destroyers) and I been spilled some days ago. Heat BUI Hunt of Salem and Earl J tw0 other Bhlps, lying In the Bos-j generated and caused spontaneous ctnttii of Euxene. heavyweights, I nhoni. v Christmas cheer to combustion. The loss Is covered put on one oV the- four-round I J,eTerai thousand refugee orphans, by Insurance, it was said tonight up a lot of Teai ooxing mw hundreds of whom were picked up I nrellminaries. Hunt has picked la tht. Btreta of Constantinople POOR REMEMBERED he started In, a raw but tre- h ... j can relief workers head- mendously earnest mauler, a I-j hv Mr. ElB.e white af Grin- MADRID. Dec. 25. The king year ago, and the crowd laughed neuf iowa. The warships were and queen -observed the Chrlst at his awkwardness while theer- . decorated. Turkev dinners I mas eve festival In the-same man- ing his coursge. He is gaining f served and there were gifts ner as the majority of their sub- skill and eonnaence. ana iuC. - -Tervone from the Christmas Meets, exchanging gins 01 simple are many who would give """Jtrees. Tens of thousands gath-j character and passing the evening to see Wm In another match like Ij fc0 Wa.terfront at night- "at home." The king and queen bis last one witn "ne faU i& watCn the illuminations of imade their customary generous CLEVELAND, O., Dec. 25. The mystery surrounding the dis appearance of the Tug Cornell, missing for four days, remained unsolved tonight, and for the first time It was conceded by vessel men that the tng, with its crew of eight, probably had gone down. Four tugs which spent Christmas cruising Lake Erie, late today re ported they failed to find any trace of the missing vessel. The Cornell, thoroughly dried out by more than a season of in activity had taken fire, and the crew had sacrificed its chances of escape by remaining too long to fight the flames, was the explan ation most commonly suggested by Cleveland vesselmen tonight. Ji. B. Shaver, superintendent of th government air field here. todav received orders from the postmaster general to enlist all air mail machines in the search for the Cornell. The Cornell's disappearance parallels that of the Pere Mar quette and Bessmer car ferry No 2 between Conneaut, Ohio and the Canadian side in December 1909 No trace of the ferry or its crew oposition to the second touch down. Ekberg again added the extra point. Vsum is Sensational The third and last Mountaineer score came in the third period "when a 16-yard forward pass, Nardaccl to Simon, placed the ball over the goal line. Ekberg kick ed goal for the try for the point. Both Gonzaga touchdowns came in the last period. Stockton of Gonzaga sent a short pass to Bross, who ran 55 yards through a broken Mountaineer team for a touchdown. A series of passes averaging 10 to 20 yards carried the ball to the two-yard line. Bross made the second touchdown, slipping past center. Stockton kicked goal and the game ended soon afterward. The concrete stands, which seat almost 35,000 persons were about one-third filled. Lineup: W. Va. (21) Pos. Graham L.E. Howard L.T. Settron L.G. P. Hill C. Mahan R.G. Meredith (c) R.T. Hawkins R.E. Ekberg Q B. Simons L.H. ' Nordacci R.H. Martin F.B. Score by periods: West Virginia 7 7 7 0 21 Gonzaga OK) 0 13 13 West Virginia scoring: touch down: Nardaccl. Meredith, Sim ons. Points from touchdown: Ekberg (3). Gonzaga scoring: Touchdown, Stockton, Bross. Point from try has completely recovered. She is still very weak and needs a long (Continued on page 5) that she had climbed to take from the Christmas tree bagged to her breast. She was ' found dead with a bullet hole . In. er, forehead. ' . . Hans, a brother. J4w'as crouching ln a dark corner of his bedroom when Neuriter entered. -Here his body and that of Neurit- " (Continued on page I) THE NIGHT AFTER CHRISTMAS THE NIGHT ATTEB CHRISTMAS Gonzaga (13) Flaherty Ashmore Grant Murray Busch (c Cahoon Needles Pecarovich Stockton Garrity Skeate of 30 men ever wag found, T"- th nifht after Chritm, when all through the houe Every nnul was a bed and a (till as a mouse ; Th Bto-kini,-s ( M lately St. Kicholal" care) Were emptied of all that waa eatable there ; Thi darlinra liad duly been tucked in their beds. With Try full tmarh and paina in their head!). I -was dot ins away in my new rot too cap. And Nancy wn rather far cone in a nap. When oat in the nur ry (here arose sorb a clatter. 1 prsn from my sleep, crjinir, "What is tlM matter T I flew to each bedside, still halt in a doze. Tore open the curtain and threw off the clothe. While the licht of a candle ser.ed clearly to show Th. nit.n. n 1 i t af th. obtecta h.lAw : tor what to the tatber a fond eye ib.oa.ld I appear Bat the pale little face of each sick littl aeaf. For each pet that had crammed itself foil as a tick I knew in a moment now felt like Old Xiek. Their poises were rapid, their breathinja the tame: What their atoniachs rejected I'll mention by name; Now turkey, now staffing, plum-pudding, of coarse. And custards and crullers, and cranberry sauce. Before not raged Nature all went to the wall Tea; lullypnps. flapdoodle, dinner and all. Like pellets which urchins from pop-guns 1 y. Went fig, cuts and raisins, jams, jelly and pie. Till each error of diet wae brougb to my riew. To the shame of mamma and Santa Ctaaa, too. I turned front the sight, to my bedrooai stepped back. And brought out a vial marked "Fare Ipecac. ' Waea my Baser oxcJaiaed. for taar aui teiSM tassksi tvcfa . . "Don't yon think yea Dad better, lev. ' so for the doctor!" I weat, end was scarcely back tusder tor roof. . ' When I beard th sharp clatter of 1J - 'Jalap' hoof: I might say I hardly had turned myself round, WTien the doctor eame into the room with' a bound. Ho wae covered with mad from hie head to hta foot. And the suit he had ea wta hie very best ' ui: . He hardly had time to put that on his back. And he looked like a Falitaff half fnddl.rf . witn sack. His eyes. how. they twinkled! Had the ' doctor t merry I . HU cheeks looked like Port and hit breath smelt like Sherry: '. He hadn't been shared for a fortnight or ' so, - " And his beard nor his skia Wasn't ae"; 'whir. L .-, But inspecting their tongues', la spite of their teeth. j And drawing hta watch from his waist- -e ) coat beneath. He felt each pulse, saying, "Each little fellow .Mast get rid" here he laughed "of the rest of that Jelly." I gazed ea each chubby, plump, sick little If. And groaned, whejj he said so, in spite of myself; - . ... But a wink of hia eye. when he bhraickad our rred. ' - - Sog m te know I fcad nothing to witiau. He didn't prescribe, but ho Went straight' to hia work. And dosed alt the rest, gare his tronsera lrk. And adding directions, while blowing hta nose. He buttoned hit coat, front hie chair ho arose. Then IU Jumped fai hia gig, gse ! "Jalap" a whistle. . . . And "Jalap" dashed off ea though pricked by a thistle; k- But the doctor exclaimed, as h drore oat of eight, "They'll ail well tomorrow. 1 Oopd- sjbt iHSail fiwa;SiUl,- (Continued-28 ES? 5i h lieej.