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D e t r o i t — « p — lu » DafroM
poorhouse «Ms • saMtor o t tor-
tune, now mteua the tort««*. gko
fhunlngharald. To the south and
west a eload o f fire baa lowered
over the Held« of Boos, where one«
Both gleaned barley behind the
reaper«. The night a ir la burdened can 'a u th e n tic a te la g ' e in te to
with silent melodies. The atrange
starlight uiantles the village with (bp following experience:'*
He eaw the charge of too Light
» Stranger happiness.
Strange
omens crowd the hour.
People are gutheriog down by
He was naraed by Florence
the old Inn. They stand In stleneo;
Nightengale.
He waa a gun ranner for Oar-
thatyl.
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* Ha pulled toe RmpreSs Cartolto
pers: ''Strangers from Nazareth— out ol a ditch by her anttO.
a child la born."
He was present at the Indian
They A lso Serve ......................
Growth
Peter Vacuum ............................
Iron W ill ......................................
God and the Groceryman . . . . . .
. . . P. B. Kyne
___ Tarkington
............. .. Gibbs
Jalna, the $10,000 prize novel,
L ights U p ............... ........ . . . 4 . .
. Chas N. Buck
. . . H. B, W right
. . I De , ■ La Boche
Grace Richmond
Land of the F r e e .......... • -- -
Destiny
, . . ........... Seltzer
. Rupert Hughes
Silent Storm s . , ..........................
. . . J . . . . . . Poole
MANY OTHER T IT L E S AT A SH L A N D ’S BOOK
STORE.
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Now the people fall bark to
a n te mow for a -company of night
watchers ^roin the sheep flocks,
their tMHffined faces bright with
excitement and wonder. They am
from tbb Boas liUls. They'tell ex
citedly the story of angels stag
ing praises to God and announcing
, the birth e f a King and Savior.
They have come to see. Following
them through the old liouse Into
the adjoining caves, where even
meek-eyed beasts share the wonder
of the night. There are the stran
gers from Nazareth, and there In
the manger their new-born Child.
The simple shepherds kneel before
the Child and tell the story of the
sky. They declare the Child la »
King.
Scarcely are the shepherds gone
before a slight commotion heralds
the coming of bearded strangers,
travel stained, but richly garbed.
They had seen the star months be
fore sad they had followed from
the east. It was a king they had
come to find. They bow down ami
worship. Tliey pile gold beside the
twaddled babe and fill the cave
with the odor of Incense. An el
der from the synagogue brings a
scroll and reads, “And His name
shall be called Counselor, the
HJglity God. th e . everlasting Fa
ther, the prince of Pence.” Then
understand—you hero witnessed
the mightiest miracle of earth.
Here Is the place where Divinity
became humanity that humanity
might become Divinity.—William L.
Gnston.
*
Mutiny.
Captain Roland Walpole, mem
ber of the ‘British fam ily ef that
name, is now 100 years old. Ha
sits a little apart from toe othat
inmates.
A Scotch cap ie eet
« ktohly on hie head.
On his
breast are Medals with bam th«t
bear historic names — Crimea.
Alma, Balaklava. Inkerm an. Se
bastopol, Lucknow. D elhi, Fak
ing. Egypt.
ihm as Points Cftricajpo
Educated as a soldier, be liv
.yor Out aa T ypical
ed to fight under five flags. He
Politician
was a student In military en-
LONDON— (LP) — “BIG B ill”
glnereing at F re ifu rt, Saxony,
Thomson's
private war on Eng
when he started the career of
volunteering which iee t ed him land and the political success of
throughout hie active life-
He his method ef attack strikes the
Joined the' Turkish service under British press a * • cross between
Omar Pasha and took part in a strip of comics and an unbeliev
able nightmare.
the principal Crimean fatties.
The' persistence of Big B ill’s
During one i f the campaigns'
attacks prompted a section of the
he was a patient o f Florence
press to take a seml-serlous view
Nightingale for I f days.
bf the a ffa ir and Moved the Eve
He next saw action in Persia ning Standard to comment edi
and la te r took part in the In-'
torially:
diaa M utiny. H e wae sent back
“ Perhaps the most
serious
from the Bast on sick leave, but complaint that America
could
w ithin 14 heure of reaching Eng make against us would be that
land he was on his way to Ita ly we do not take enough Interest in
as a volunteer for g arib ald i, thé her and her affairs and life in
general.
ME). J»M. WaMern MfUSi m UnMe.) patriot.
The Ita lia n rumpus over, ba
“ But if we are ignorant of
went to China to become a gen America, we must remember that
they are Ignorant of us, and that
eral under L i Hung Chang.
The American m ilita ry observ Ignorance is a fertile soli in
er fn the Crimea, General George which not only misunderstand
Chriatma» Kaleidoscope
HHWSTMAS places a ka- j B. McClelland, wrote him that ings but also fantastic legends
leidoscope In my hand. . there waa a sizeable w ar on In can flourish freely.— The remedy
Fantastic designs of rare ’ tho United States and M id the for this lies in knowing one an
coloring and exquisite form I
other better.”
show themselves— pictures of • Union A rm y had need of tech
The D ally Telegraph finds dif
nical officers.
people, and places, and epi
ficulty
In seeing the connection'
sodes — dreams unfulfilled
Walpole packed his grips and
between Thompson’s threat
“ to
. . . persons whom I have
became a eavalry officer under
loved and lost pass before
puneh K ing George's nose’’ In fT
me. They all -but speak.
matters of local Chicago politics,
I seem to catch a distinctive
but
adm itting that the threat had
note and a familiar ring of .
much to do with Thompson’s po
laughter., .
.
.
places
teeming with sweet memo
litical g u ceoe n . says:
ries and hallowed associa
“This attack and the sudden
tions come, too, and are '
alleged
discovery that British
gonel . . . Ghosts of un
propaganda was rife in t h e
accomplished desires, un- ■
solved problems, unattalned .
schools, in typical of the simple-
goals, pass In review. . . . It
minded directness of “ Big B ill”
Is Christmas! Joyous in Its
aa w e ll aa hto astonishing politic
present gtndr.ean bHt thrice
blessed In memonee! A day
The komemade Christmas g ift al astuteness.
“ But how do people swallow
to which moetr. If but the
has a deeper slgntfigance than
laughter of a child, Is richer *
sueb guff?” I am asked. The
most any other g ift which might
than royal feasts, and when
answer is that it rings true to tho
a tried friendship to more
he giren and many women of
vast m ajority o f the pleasant im
heartening tlmn richest wine.
artistic tendencies are b u y these
migrants who constitute such a
—W. P. Pennypacker.
days preparing the most attrac
©. H IT . Wetter» Newspaper Union.)
large seetlon of Chicago's voters.
tive gifts for th« loved ones at Aa for “ Big BUI” himself I find
Christmas time.
bard to describe. The myn is so
Painting to en a par ia popu amazingly naive that ha actually
la rity w ith embroidery work for believes that h i i threats have sent
home made gifts.
The fortun King George into hiding behind
ate woman who wag skillfu l with doubled guards within one of hie
her needle and coaid fashion the palacea.
most attractive typo of home
“ But so fa r aa really harbor
(made g ift has in many instances ing any animosity against t h •
turaed her attention to w a rd hand King, that is to M y an animosity
palatine on silks of choicest tex for which he could give a ' rea
ture which first bocaass popu son. it is probable that If he were
la r last year, and which to prov shown a picture of the British
monarch he would not recognise
ing popular again thia y e a r.’
Beautiful scarfs, handkerchiefs, tt. Beside«. “ Big B ill” to not a
sometimes
elaborate
costumes reasoning person. Ho to simply a
That is
all sections of the country, and ¡are painted w ith beautiful de- shouter o f statements.
«ueh
teposelble
threugh the explosion of fireworks, signs. The needlework to still an why
antagonist. Ho is proof against
both ridicule and argument.
In
the words ef big adoring wife:
W hen A m 'm a/i Kneel
’You can’t heat my big boy.’ And
There are many quaint • animal
of
such are politicians in Amer
superstitions connected with Christ
ica.”
mas night. One of them to the
legend that the oxen kneel hi their
stalls to worship the Infant Christ
at midnight on H I* birthday.
I t would seem ns If most every
body would appreciate as a Christ
i n e » gift a Handy Andy who would
hold guard over a ball of cord,
keeping It ever ready for use, like
the little pasteboard-faced elf in
this picture is doing. No, the
spiral neck and spindling .legs of
the little .sprite aren’t . Just for
‘‘looks"; they form the axis on
which the boll of cord revolves.
The flower ;>etal skirt 1 Oh. Just
a way o f “dolling up" the trinket
eo that It Is “ornamental as well
as useful." The figure stands on
• box which holds rubber bnnds,
tags, thumb tacks und other needed
articles.
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Every boudoir a bower of beauty
—such to the sentiment which now
prevails In the home. Wherefore
’tla not to wonder, when .milady
g o * n-Chrlstmng shopping, that
■lie laeprone to buy boudoir acces
sories that tempt her eye and be
guile her fancy. You may be sure
that these exquisite Marie An
toinette hand mirrors will prove a
fascination to every woman.
THE VICTOR ORTHOPHONIC
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felt, this material being strongly
featured for home decoration Just
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The decorative flowers are
made of felt in all the gay colors,
standing out ta bold relief ngulnst
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EASY PAYM ENTS
Canadian Field
Peas Are Raised
STEWART^WARNÉR
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Nothing more striking could be
chosen as n decoration for the
Christmas table than a pair of sil
ver peacoeks or a large pheasant,
either In silver plate or in pot
tery.
Growers In Oregon who do
nat have « « W en t hay aad are
anxious to Trow an additional
acreage next spring may. use data
and Canadian field pea*. This
co*btoatton crop gtoee a good
quality hay and has given a saf^
An OW Christmas Custom
Bean wuavil. prevalent In some tofactory yield at the experiment
Blessing the apple trees Is a
Christmas jrustom still observed to places in Oregon, cannot be con station when Mwn real Mrly in
the Kngltfh counties of Sussex and trolled in the field, the mperi-
Devonshire.
mant station has found, since
flame fields of Lejjino clover,
the WMvUe maltfply rapidly in
the giant ■ form of White elover
the etored beans, fumigation with
uhtch 'h as given such excellent
carbon bisulfide or heat 1« rec
yioMpitoafler Irrigation conditions,
ommended. Thia treatm ent‘ Is
applied aa soon after the beans hate' been certified by the Ore
«re harvested and dried as pos gon Agricultural collage. These
sible. The seed to than «tore<f In fields are free fron» noxtoua
wMVfl-procf bate ae o tter recep wuedfe and alslka clover. Sources
of this eaod may ho obtained on
Salem — Fbrty Marino eohn- tacles.
appWoattoa to too eoliego.
ty dairymen start cow-testing as
Albany may vote on naw ©bar
ter plan/for better street lights
sociation.
*VBUU HOME M ADE MOUE
ENJOYABLE
to R a d io -L e t us shot» the a * and
w ill do. We are w illin g ta tet Z®*
on the market, can he used w ith yo
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feb Ihrofe sWtoith twrtto eut to
a vwy useful ltttto box, Just
q <^ugh to routain Ite todle-
sable por.’d»r'«i»d puit te w
L it is fashionable for tficee
ratte: ehto» doll fan tories to
. up «betr abode lit every well
Dinted boudoir, ’tto a clew to
int fo’givu" at Cbrtotnms.
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