I f your knives get rusty pour m
abusee of civilisation are due to ab
sorption in our own concerns. The little sweet oil Into a Jar and let
Interest of your neighbor Is forgot tbs knives stand In tkis two or three
ten. Everyone admits the Justice of days. Then rub with emery paper
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the plea for early buying and mail and polish in the usual way.
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By J. C. AKERS, Newberg, Oregon
ing of gifts but the greater portldn
will not practice it.
♦pavooeoeoeoeoeqMooaoooooa
infidels, and all alike agree that the
TH E D AT A P T E S
Now, let everyone of us think a
W s pay the expenses,
ultimate purpose In life la not the
little bit about the other fellow.
W
e take the blame.
Bvery holiday has Its day after, accumulation of wealth, or upbuild
W
e get results,
reminding us of the old adaga, ing of strong governments, but the
W
e
Report Results
Notioe
To
Creditors
''A fte r a atorm a calm."
growth and strength and beauty of
W e remit results,
In the County Court of the State
A holiday la the culmination of character— and the ideal, perfect
Mtlclpattona and the flowering of character conceded of all men and of Oregon for the County of Yamhill.
NO COLLECTION NO CHARGE
In the matter of the estate of
hopaa and plana that bare been care all nations la that of the Man of
K N IG H T ADJUSTMENT CO.
Sgmual Mtnchln, deceased, Notice Is
fully nursed and matured. The day Qallilee.
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starting on Sixth Year at
la sufficient unto itself; but the day
Room 13 Masonic Bldg.
It la well that the Christian hereby given thst the undersigned,
after— ah!
"There's the rub." If teaches a lesson which makes the E. S. Minchin, has been appointed
McMinnville, Oregon
It be the day after Christmas the world better and stronger. It Is well administrator of the estate of Samuel
We collect everywhere.
gifts and the greetings have been that we pay tribute to a perfect char Minchin, deceased, by the County
exchanged, the hilarity hfca expended acter, tho’ we may go back to the Court of the State of Oregon for the
County of Yamhill, and haa qualified
itself, the foam of the champagne.' old ways.
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aa such. All persons having claims
figuratively speaking, haa evapo
rated. If it be Thanksgiving day the We ring the bells and we rated the against said estate are hereby noti
fied to present the same, dnly veri
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strain.
turkey haa been eaten, the family
fied by law to the undersigned at
circle haa met and partially dissolved We hang up garlands everywhere
1012 Gasco Bldg, Portland, Oregon
again 'til the next re-union, some And bid the rafters twinkle fair,
within.
aix. months from tha
member« of it having hurried away And feast and frolic and then we go
,
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to resume their several vocations, Back to the same old lives again. hereof.
E. S. Minchin,
and others have settled down with a
. Administrator.
But with each recurring Christmas
virtuous determination to give their
Dated and first published Novem
stomachs a rest. Always in some the world grows stronger in the
character exemplified In the life of her 18, 1820.
form there is a day after.
Samuel B. Lawrence,
Christ,
for his power grows with the
Is it not worth while to consider
1012 Gaaco Bldg.
that we have Just as much to be passing years. As it was impossible
Portland, Oregon,
thankful for dh the day, after for Rome to circumscribe the com
Attorney for Administrator.
Thanksgiving as we had on the day memoration of the birth of Christ,
and-date itself? It can not be family so it is impossible to circumscribe tho First Issue November 18.
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re-unions and turkey with cranberry increasing influence of Christ’s char Last Issue December 18.
same every day in the year, but the acter on the human race, for in the
spirit of thankfulness for the bless language of Horace:
"In darkness there is no choice.
ings that makes a happy and pros
perous people should never die out. It is light that enables us to see the
If it is especially In evidence on differences between things; and it is
Thangsgiving day it should not be Christ that gives us light."
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wholly forgotten or Ignored on the
day after, nor any day after.
TH E H O LID AY RUSH
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It may seem trite to keep on talk
CHRISTMAS
ing about the evils of the holiday
The Christmas of all Christendom rush. But when a social practice
is different from the Christmas of becomes intrenched in such a way
long ago, the first celebration of the as to cause human suffering and
birth of Christ, which took place in economic waste, there is satisfaction
an .tnconsplclou8 part of the Roman in hammering away on a theme that
Empire. Rome was then in its glory is old and yet always vital.
The Christmas g ift habit was
but as its mighty power waned that
A Valst AaloStrep Rasar isr«J 8 A y
o f the Nasarene grew and spread started as a manifestation of the trial, li yom É n ¿acida lo ksap k, pay
ss fot it, il sai, rotata it
with the lleht o f hope. While the spirit of the Prince of Peace.
Chrlalmaa
Ts
the
day
o
f
"Peace
on
Roman Empire crumbled the power
No Rtok— No Obfigatkm
o f the Christ increased.
While earth, good will toward men." It
Greece tottered and decayed, Chris signifies the laying aside of all cruel
tia n " truth possessed the heart and ties and harshness, the prevalence of
souls of men, and in the long stretch the spirit of brotherhood, of kind-'
Ito vaia*. If yen hovs a ebano aeeoaafc
o f years to the present day, empires, ness, of consideration for the needs writo lo as and wa wiQ mai! tha raaas
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have come and passed away. Decay and rights of others. T et this so- tayaw.
haa come to all works of man, but called Christian world continues year
the rule of the Christ has survived after year to practise certain habits
all the changes and all the decays. that Impose the most nerve-wrecking
On the morn of the first Christmas toil on hundreds Nof thousands of
the proudest nation on earth, ruled people.
For a week previous to this holi
by force, inspired by greed, and per
meated with shame and venality, was day of joy and good cheer the life
in contempt of the Christian sim of postal clerks, mail carriers, shop
plicity, and little did the ruler of girls in all large towns and cities,
that empire fear that the ,Christ is one of drive, worry, hurry, scurry,
would become greater and stronger loss of patience and temper, late
than a Roman ruler, but In the test j hours, hasty feeding, lack of sleep.
o f years it is proved that neither the It leaves them physically and nerv
achievements of force or the triumph ously depressed. The experience is
o f the intellect can outlive the power dreaded for weeks, and is a night
c f the eternal truths that are taught mare to many of sensitive temper
in the life of an obscure Jew, who ament and frail physique. And yet
<lled an Ignominious death.
I knowing all this, realising it per
Men may fear a corrupt power And | fectly, people still keep on year after
bow to its edicts. They may sur year buying a mess of gifts the week
render to the powers of the mind and before the holiday, and clogging the
become subjects of an overpowering malls and expresses with this futile
Intellect, but at least we must all accumulation of packages.
It is a queer reflection on the com
agree that the most super!),and en
during power is that wielded not by mon sense, the human sympathy of
force, not by wealth, not by a tower the American people, and suggests
ing intellect, but by one who Is a great big, wide yellow streak of
T h at the lightness o f the Business
selfishness running through the na
strong and perfect in character.
So enduring haa been the influence tional temperament. It all goes to
C ar is united to great strength
o f Christ that Christians, atheists. illustrate that a great many of the
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