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,2lia A Ihriitmas bells, ring out t!v :? ( L beilj, foy bel.'s?the swzebtold. [nutl the King hay come? T [chiming belli, be y? not dut bace on earth, good wii! to V I it again, and yet again, hrijtmaj belli. { ^ I?'? X I ? ?*,_* ?* * * * * * * ? k3(0(6K^HRISTMAS is .such a t oughly established inst ^ $2 tion, so integral a pan $ our yearly program th: really don't think the ] pyof dispensing with it ever Kd' to me until A. H. J.'s li L '-The False Calendar," cam( I. and-1 I ''Fell to thinking how 'twould be | Ii such a thing were true/' Christmas were wiped off the kr. Surely, winter would seen L cokl, cruel season without the rsary that opens our hearth, es and our purses, and possesses the spirit of loving and givi 'kindly thought of others, tr Christmas season is a curi< mingling of Christian and pa? monials. When Christianity v ing slow headway agaiust pc Isui. the early fathers of the chu; 'To? Owte I THE K uaj it expedient to engraft upon the w faith some of tbe customs and actices of the old. Thus, !ons before e Christian era "the babe in the manr" was a symbol of the birth of the yr year, and was part of the Satur?ia, or festival of Saturn, the inadSt.and most riotlously merry of pan feasts. The derc-'\iions of our riftrtittft in h<? (f hricitinin ITr** 'Duguijj in *&,in I , m. " r AS BELLS I U'ilt:a>nt ). Christmas bells, rtng ot;: t>e Savtor s brrtn ? Sweet bells, glad bells, this day to all the earth* hat a!! to Him. their glorious Xing 0. silver bells, may incense bring k'ho welcome Him, with Him shall rej-v.i Tel! it again and yet again. ). Christmas bells. ^ V^r - bouses with ever^iCtns and mistletoes comes from the rite.3 of tne ancient Druids, who yearly cut the milky-berried parasite from the trees with silver knives aud much ceremonial. The Druids were not pagans, as the Romans were: they believed in God. in a future life, in rewards and punishments for good and evil doing, but their faith was crude and cruel. The giving of gifts, the feastings. and the benefactions to the poor which characterize the great Christian Iiolil,day were features of the midwinter 'festival of the pagans, and were grafted upon the new religion to make the j transition from the one to the other ^nore easy. Later Christinas revels. he wassail, the ''waits." traces of rhich stiil survive in England, can ?e followed back 10 the Yule festival ' the ancients, Yule being tlie name of caie winter month in which th? days a ?gin to lengthen. Yu!e was derived anom Huie. a wheel, the ancient s.vrnou?l of the sun. Great logs were drawn 1115 the cavernous fireplaces of those iiff.ys with great ceremony and merri?nt. and were lighted as symbolicol jus the return of the sun in the winter ran ;tice. and in honor of the lengthenras days. >Iy- hie early Christians did not special;ch J-elebrate the nativity, but regarded b ? .Clhili i; LDONNA .WITH THE 1 aphtiel (Italian: Bora 1483; Died 152( as more sacrel the anniversary of Christ's faptisu, as the date on which His ministry >es;an. The institution of the festival of Christmas is attributed to the Enperor Commodus. and it was not until A. D. 3S0 that Eastern churches geierally adopted it. "Christ's Mass'?fcom which "Christmas" is derived was in earlier times celebrated at the New Year (January | G) by Eastern Christians. Julius I.. Bishop of ^ate w'" uou* Christmai^% *therefore, the exact atuiiveraSfy .ofithe nativity, that date being It is a day set apart to cew^tirfce event, much as we set apijfi^Hfcj^sgivIng as a day of stTtitud^jkB^gilying thanks for the bountiful earth. All Chris^||^Bfl Mii<i observe Christmas. It i&'jP^jftflftigk universal holiday. Sonjfiffiwgiffi keep it in spirit; there are few ^fho uot keep it iu the letter. TIk <;af^2ries begin weeks prior to its panoUjj5,v^ve plan the Christmas surprifeg! jw^ittiee self-denial to swell our (SflHBi fund, or sive our time to tbf!jttajitinj? of sifts, that we may fitly t eijtjxgj& its annual return. There is about the season that inclinjr' oHH enrt to generosity. We want tgragfljHothers happy. We begin prudBajpjjt - a limit to our expenditures MhHHi are "thus far nud iot a (Iolinw| But "the loving uul *rinSmm> 5WS aPac(?- We are empted; so many lovely bings in so many expedients to wilflH^^Eh. from our purses, fiwt as lotfHplfiB^ keep our motives >ure and d ou't let them deI. in Vin i' I scend to th?> level of a "bargain counter Christmas," our joy in Christmas is real. But when we make gifts because others have given to us; when we measure values; when we let ourselves feel a little envious because others have received more richly oc more abundantly than we. we very soon find out that we have lowered the high meaning of the day and drifted far from its spirit. A merry Christmas by no means requires expensive gifts. A tree prettily dressed with' strings of popcorn and cranberries and bung with apples and nr?inflpli?rhi-K fhilri ^ves as much as if its adornments wore more costly. Little things please if chosen with thought of the desires of the recipient. Have a sood dinner, and invite some who would otherwise eat a scanty or a lonely one to dine with you. E>on't have a seltish Chris.'mas, but let yost Christmas giving and your Christmas cheer radiate from your home to bless the poor, the lonely, the unfortunate. Make up your mind to do something toward making some outsider have a merry Christmas, ami the act will proved benison upon your own. Last year a kind-hearted woman invited to her Christmas table a man who calied to see her husband on Christmas morning. He was poor. DIADEM. >) . ?. t shabby, lonely; he bad been down in tbe depths of despair; be bad "eaten busks with swine," and was trying to work bis way back to respectability. He ate as only a half famished man can eat at a home table, and when he went away,."wart^d*and fed, and. better yet, cheered by tbe kindly welcome and encouraged by being greeted as a friend and an equal, tears ran down his cheeks as be thanked lite entertainers. Did not that woman's act breathe more of the true spirit of Christmas than tlio entertaining of well-to-do friends, or the bestowing of rich gifts upon those who already have more than they need? BEATRIX. Tli? Merry Days. Hang the holly berries? Let the red flames glow; Cheeks as red as cherries Was born on Christmas Day. 'Neath the m'stletoe! Outside voices on the air: "Christmas comer* but once i year/' Steeple belis .^-ringing Over merry throngs. And the fiddle singing All the old-tune songs' And outside voices on the air: '''Christmas comes but once a year!" : I SYRIA'S BEAUT ;! THE ORC ?1 HAREMS ALONG THE ORONT ; - I' 0110 has lived in Syria, it is I eis of Hama that bold the gaze, not ever of many that claim to guard the bones of j and interesting above a!! is tbe Orontes, through tbe great city, bringing to Ham health. One sees few rivers in this land. so fertile, Abana and Pharpar are hardly ! that parts of Lebanon fairly sweat with coast as more than stony wad is that dry south, the Leontes, emptying between Ty; north?these complete the tale of Syrian Eastern city that I have seen in which the orama. Rising from the snow springs of j through the Entering in of Kamath, da Hittites, growing slowly as it passes thn ; Antioch it is almost deep enough for na uiree ui me great tmej ui v?vnu. It winds and twists through Hama of the street. We crossed no less than fo scene, yet always the scenery of Hama I latticed windows mark the harems of th little company of women are washing clc press trees; yonder a weary train of mu cool water, while a crowd of naked boys with as much energy and zest as any tru ner's Magazine. i FAMOUS OLD PULPIT. for . Of j First Used by Robert Strawbrldge tral j , in a Maryland Farmhouse. the j One of the newly-elected BiiUop3 or tne the Methodist Episcopal Church of he the United States recently preached ing from a pulpit which is perhaps the Wli most notable in America. Its length of laic service comprises as many year3 a3 bui i j?r | #"' r i PULPIT T73ED Br B03E?.T STR.VW3RIDGE i the life of the Methodist Episcopal | Church, for it was first occupied . when this great religious organization came into being in the State of Haryj land. The one who first discoursed I funni woe tlin f-imnna Rnhorf SffilW. I bridge, who has been credited with bej lng the organizer of the church re| ferred to, for when he preached the I doctrine of John Wesley in the little I Maryland farmhouse he used the pal- H i pit which had been made l'or thi3 oc- jja I casion. A narrow strip of board || | fastened to the pulpit pillars formed ?1 | the reading desk on which was spread i the Bible, from which came his inspira- |? i tion. The .memorable sermon was & ! preached to a little band of about m j twenty people, but such was its ef- & ! feet that then and there was created the nucleus of a religious body which || i was destined to become one of the ??! 1 most powerful in the world. || It is indeed a crude a Ha it?the ^ . Strawbridge pulpit, as it is termed? M i bat it has had a most interesting liis- || j tory. For a quarter of a century It was p| | utilized by many ministers and carried lg| i from place to place in Maryland where Igj | services were held. Among those who J ! occupied it was the famous Bisliop j Ashbury, another pioneer of Ameri- /*dii ! can Methodism. T!ie little pulpit was i taken to the dwelling of John Evans, j where it was first utilized, and stored I away to be forgotten for nearly a half j century. A few years ago it was ac- tj ! cidentfilly discovered by a clergyman era{ s who was visiting Iij the Western part of Maryland and who was familiar , with its history. He carried it to Bal- Ti i timore, where it was given tn* place of tow I i J191HT RAINIER, TIE HICdEST MOUNT ALTITUDE ABOVE SEA U I View From Spray Parte, oa the Head1 mT -. ki II IFUL EIVERTi >NTES. ? IL^fSj ES BIVEH IN SYRIA. not tlie twenty-four slender minari the Great Mosque, which is one John the Baptist; but beautiful winding its slender cord of blue a fertility and prosperity and Although they make Damascus more than noisy creeks. It Is true springs, but few of these reach the up in summer. The Jordan in the :e and Sidon, and the Orontes in the rivers; and Hama is the only great ? river fills a large part of the panLebanon. then flowing northward mmed up near Homs by the' old 3ugh the 4,Land of Hama" until at vigation, the Orontes has made so that you meet it at every turn ur bridges, each with a different . Along one bank a line of closely e wealthier citizens; farther on, a )thes under the shade of the cyIes are standing knee-deep in the are sporting in the shallow stream ant brothers of the West.?Scriblor among a number of other relics the church, including the first porIt ever made of Bishop Asbury and saddle bags in which w(ere stored Bishop's Bible and hi3 food when went from place to place preachthe doctrine of his denomination, ten the great fire occurred which I so much of Baltimore in ruins the Iding containing these precious mentos was destroyed. Two Methot clergymen, however, endeavored rescue them, and even while the ucture was on fire, bravely entered building and1 carried the relics to lace of safety, trundling them, away 1 wheel-barrow. i No Treacle-Moon la Oklahoma. V'hen one of our young couples get rried they do not spend a month ley mooning, like it i3 the custom the East, but they settle down to routine of life with the one harnious nurnose of buildine ud a afortable and happy home. Instead "spooning" around over the coun, attracting the attention of every[y. looking sickingly lovable and ling each other all kinds of sweet le "chestnuts," the newly married y be found at work the next day owing the nuptials. It may be the le will put out a big washing, while other half will be found plowing a and carrying water simultaneous. -Mutual (OklaJ Enterprise. BEAN VETERAN WHO LEADS TflE IITH REGIMENT'WTO ACTION. : J ?Collier'a Woekly, 1 1 le dogs of Constantinople, in sev- j parts of the city, are now daily ig fed by the Turkish Government Lere are at present over 2000 1 Ins in Spain lighted bv electricity. ( j J A1N IN THE UNITED STATES. VEL, 14,509 FEET. i sratars of tbo Pujallup River, ( ( % ie^agfe;^v , "' ^ V < , o, ., . r FATAL BATTLE IN STREET' Two IV!en Killed and a Third Wound- | ed at Carbondaie, Pa, ? 'I CLIMAX OF WAR ON GANG j (tetter Element in Italian Colony Organize to Drlre Out Lawless Men?Shooting Follows Arrost?Policeman Obliged to Hold His Prisoners Between Himself and Desperadoes For Self-Protection Scranton. Pa.?As a resalt of the efforts of the better class of Italians ia ancl around Carbondaie to rid their colony of the members of the lawless gang who have been committing many outrages, a street battle occurred at that place which was attended with the loss of one life and the serious injury of a second man. At 8 o'clock at night Santo Carressi, one of the gang, was caught by a con stable levying tribute on one of the Italians of the colony. The constable and three of the Law and Order men itarted to take Carressi to jail. Word was quickly passed to the gang's headquarters in a nearby saloon, and four of them rushed out and opened fire on the constable and his oosse. The latter returned the fire. When the attacking party* emptied their revolvers they fled, leaving all chree of the constable's escort lying in -trrihh hllllnft: in thPlT hf>dif>S. The constable protected himself by liolding his prisoners in front of him. Joseph Tolerico "was shot through the head and died in a few minutes. Frank _ Ferressi was taken to the Emergency Hospital with a bullet In his 'breast, near the heart, and another in the abdomen. He died at 12 o'clock at night. The third victim received a bullet in the arm. and after recovering from the shock was able to walk home. The movement of Italians of the better class in and around Carbo??dale is designed to rid their colonies of the members of the lawless gang which for the last year, and particularly for the last month, have been levying blackmail and punishing those who refuse to pay. The first practical step to the end ^,kn? o ortmmil-tuo of thA U4.tv.iru iv ucu a w new organization furnished the Edgerton Coal Company officials with the names of four members of the band, and asked that they be discharged and evicted. - This Wfts done. Two of the four left the colony. The, others secured quarters with persons who are suspected of being fellow members of the gang. It is believed the gang is affiliated with the Mafia or some similar organization, as part of the tribute money is sent to a headquarters in New York, according to the statements made by members of the gang when levying tribute. Among the outrages recently perpetrated was the knifing of four men who refused to pay the tribute. In efloli instauce the victim was called out of In's house late at night and slashed across, the face. Arrests hare been made from Jjme to time by the Carbondale police, but in every case the persons who privr.tely gave the in formation wbicii iea to vue arrests could not be Induced to testify in public. WIDOW MURDERED IN ALBANY. Old State Treasury Employe Accused of Shooting Her.' Albany. N. 1'.? Joseph F. White, for ten years orderly in the Stare Treas-' urer's office, is under arrest here charged with killing Mrs. Josephine Russell, a widow. Jealousy is said to have been the cause. White is sixty,-five years o?d. and a widower. His home before he entered the Treasury Department was In BLughamton. where he'was at one time a member of the police force. He had just been released from the hospital. Mrs. Russell was thirty-five years old, and White formerly boarded with her. Early in the morning he appeared at a milk depot where Mrs. Russell traded and spent the day until 4.30 o'clock, apparently waiting for hex* to appear. When she came in the police say Ik; shot her in the neck. Three more shots were fired into her body. White made no atempt to escape, and when arrested denied committing the crime. p? "r* - - ??ii WI.a rf.ip. nnAAiic/v!rt:icr iur?. nu??;u. wuv ?.?*? uuv"i.?u?Uv, was taken to the hospital, where- she lied. - " < Submarines at Cronstadt. The two Lake submarine boats purchased by Russia through a New York shipping ho'use have arrived at Cronstadt. and will be shipped to Vladivostok by rail. 1 i Shot by Stranger. Colonel J. Francesco Chaves. long ! leading citizen of New Mexico, was thot dead by an unknown person as lie sat by a window in his home in Pinas Wells. Kiiled by Auto. j James Donohue. of Providence, R. I.. 1 ivas instantly killed by being thrown from an automobile, his neck being i >roken. A companion escaped uuiu' j lured. . 1 Another Feud Started. The Hatfields, of West Virginia feuu i 'ame. began war with the Dufys. One j m each side has been' killed. America to Be Represented. ] The British and Russian govern- < nents invited the United States to ippoint a high ranking naval officer < is a member of the court of inquiry ; ivhioh is to investigate the attack on British fishermen by the Russian Bal- , ic flet. j I Russia Accepts Our Term?. Russia has accepted the invitation of :he United Stales to conclude an arjitration treaty on the lilies of the re* :-ent American-Freuch agreement. Eoorting Brevities. Chicago wairts the airateur bilUard tourney. Lou Dillon fai.'ed to beat 2:01% at I Memphis, Tenn. I 1 - . W..1I -J 4 I I JOCKPV A' unci" (liliu iiitmc wuiLuti >.">000 for his release. Harvard defeated Yale at football jy a score of 12 to 0." Mary Glenn, a 100 to 1 shot, rron the jpening race at the Washington meetng. The Yoseintte Club, of 'Frisco. Js :rying to match Jimmy Britt and Billy Sardaer for next month's <*hotv. I l * IIIKISfflTSOFIHEffl ??. v I < v " WASHINGTON"The War Department has accepts? the resignation of Major falter 8. Alexander. Artillery Ctorps, 'stationed at San Francisco. j Another arbitration treaty wasslgneiff at the State Department, the high contracting parties being the United States and the Kingdom of Portugal. , The Merchant Marine Commission* heard testimony from Secretary Mor< ton and. a number of naval officers,who spoke of the value of the merchant marine as an auxiliary to th<* navy in time of war.* ' a! r OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. A 1 - The teachers of Porto" Rico. whfl> oyeui, some >veeh.s iu uiis couiiirj summer studying .it Cornell Universi-^ ty, are now experiencing the benefits* of their training. , ? The troops pursuing <thtf cOnvicf* "who, after killing three of their guards, seized a launch at Malahi Island, Laguna de Bay, and escaped across tlief lake to the hiiis, have killed three of them and captured fourteen, including the leader of the ganj, who wa? wounded in three places. The constab* ulary have located nineteen others. | ? % On account of laci of funds, due to * decrease in the appropriation for eduOfwn k?. * ItlUUll, aUUUL IC41LUCIO Will UU dropped from tie teaching staff la th? Philippine Islands. -*-{ Hawaiians are muck exercised ove? iwhat to do with Porto - Ricana who< ,were imported several years ago to work on sugar plantations. The experiment has resulted in complete failure. The Porto Rtcan colony has developed' criminals of the worst type. For soma time these people simply murdered onei another, \jut the wanton murder of thd . banker, Damon, stirred up public feeling against the race, and now Porto Ricans are shunned, and no one .will give them work. t . . - ' .1 DOMESTIC. ' 'A woman was arrested in St LouJ*, Mo., for persisting in an attempt to see President Roosevelt to paint bis portrait. . MfcJ The fall of an electric light pole at a: firp cut wires aad left a large part of Jersey City, N. J., in darkness fat; hours. The little son and daughter of JosepM Keller, a New York City department store clerk, found their mother murdered on returning from school. Th? murderer took $200 and $400 in jew.elry. -J The New York Health Department steamer Franklin Edson was drlvea on the rocks off.Blackwell's Island. | Owing to the illness of a juror who was stricken with paralysis a new trial1 was ordered for Nan Patterson, thai 4 New York actress accused of killing! "Caesar" Young. .{ Fourteen hundred small children Iti a Brooklyn (N. Y) school were marchedi to the street on a fire call in one min ute and three-quarters. ?( The New York Municipal Art Socie-' ty urged Mayor McClellan to appeal to the courts to oust all advertising signa from subway stations. '***$ 'Accused of agreeing to accept ? bribe of $1000 to influence his courser as a jurqr jin the contest over the wills of Hugh an-1 Neil O'Donnell, Leo Cohen was held' in New York City for ex-> amlnatioii. 1 > ! ??!??The Supreme Court of the United' i ( States decided the Fayerweather wllS contest, involving about' $3,000,000, in favor of. twenty-one colleges, among; which the estate is to be divided. - ( The New York City bond issue Of $25,000,000 was over subscribed eight times, and the largest number of bid? on record for city bonds were received. Sheriff Erlanger, of New York County. New York, has asked the Bar Associations of the State and city to aidr in abolishing imprisonment for debt. | In its official trial *he armored cruiser Pennsylvania won the record for this class o'C; ships for the greatest speed with the least fuel. ' *. Ti;A Nord America, bound out front New I'ork City with 1500 passengers for Italy, was rammed by a float and disabled. *j An argument over a aeDt causea taw killing of Frederick Saunders, a dairyman, at Louisville, Ky.. by William* H. Slaughter, Jr., a coal merchant. , The skull of J. H. Smith, a scorching cyclist, was pierced when he blindly ran into a carriage pole at Eockyille Centre, L. I. j Prince Fushimi, a cousin of the Mikado, wbojis on a visit to this country,1 ^ was robbeti of jewels worth $5000 at the Buckingham Club, in St. Louis; Mo- : ' ' Three policemen in Newark. N. charged with stealing turkeys, .wet? stripped of their uniforms. FOREIGN. 4 The Cuban House passed tue bill! prohibiting religious processions in tho i!?; streets. ' -i An attempt to explode a mine by a' countercharge in Portsmouth Harbor, England, resulted in th?? sinking of ; two British launches and the death of two sailors. fc fJSfiaE The Panaqtan contentions in matter? ... the United States were laid j bei'pre Secretary Taft at a conference- ] in Panama. . ( a Robert Cbnpman, a young American, i eper'.al cable diopatcli stated, attempted suicide at a London hotel by. i leaping down a staircase well, sus- ^ taiuing serious injuries. _ t ! A special cable dispatch from Seoul ] said Japan Las sont workmen to theisland of Quelpart, a dependency of ;j Korea, to make fortifications. ' | Russia has agre?d in principle to I Mr. Hay's proposal for an arbitration J treaty between America and herself. | A case supposed to be of yellow fe- J rer was discovered on a French school- | ship at Havana from Martinique. I | The Mayor of Moscow, Prince Galit-* ziu, intends to call a meeting of the* ; Mayors of all Russian cities to discussi reforms in municipal government. The plan grew out of the zeaistov leaders' meeting. * ' >* Russia's Interior Minister forbade the arrest of editors for articles in. newspapers. The Shah of Persia, a special chble despatch from St. Petersburg stated, is sending an important diplomatic mission to Russia in view cf the Brit 1J1 commercial expeditions 10 rersia. as James Wallace, confidential secre- jfi tary of James Breitung, of Marquette, a Micli., was arrested in Liverpool, Eng., S charged with misappropriating stock S certificates valued at about $30,000. I Prince Mirsky presented the memor ial of the Zemstvoa to Emperor Nicb- fig Three fast yachts have met the Baltic fleet at Port Said and are preceding; 91 Admiral Voeikersam to look out foh v 'jK reefs iu the Gulf of Suez. ' SB ' ' * Vi?zj[^|I jflj