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ft CURISUS ISLAND1 land of Fond Memories and! Home of Saint Good Will. T MAN, as wo Jour neyed eastward to the Land of Hearts Desire, wp caine to an Island which Is o a 11 p d Christmas, where all good pil jilms go tsbpre. ISut those who have ventured Car from their course, Of hare no iyd))| to company with their fellows, sail on to the north, which Ih a chilly tv-a, of to the Mouth, *bere tho blast is not tempered. For Chrlstmus Island llos Btralght In way of tho honoBt mariner, und the itreani which runs uh u river through ihe sea hath warmth and fragrunco, whereof the ffcorw QJf '?"< Ulftnd give ploalift'nt evidence. Now, the gales that uweep tho Island swoop westward upon tho approaching pilgrims, and oast ward upon the departing sails, so that tho stay within tho gracious port is but a part of tho Joy of that sea. -I And an the shores camo out of the horizon, a little child called, "Christ inas l file! Christmas IbIo!"? ho clear j la the air of these parts to Infant 1 eyes, And tho older folk aboard were Joyful, too, for off the west coast of the Island, which those who have charted these seas call tho Shoro of Memory, a fragrant breeze began that minute to blow; though of these ! names 1 cannot be sure, for tho child had a book of his own wherein this j shore was nnmed Anticipation. And now tho journey meant a few more dawns and sunsets ere a landing could ' bo made, but with each league onward ! tho mellow fragrance was more mark- I ed. So there was groat dispute among ' the elder folk to say just what made up the pleasant assault upon our Bonnes, some saying It was composed mostly of this, and others of that. "It Is lavender," said an old lady. "Lavender and spruce and burning candles. I remember the night the new dress was taken from tho chest, and wo danced beneath tho candles, and there was mistletoe, my dear, . . . that was how I mot your grand father. Yes, the breeze from off tho shoro of the Isle is. lavender and spruce and burning c&ndleB." "Jlo! to me!" cried a bluff and hearty man. "It Is tho good smell of well-warmed horses on the snow, with the moon making a double team of them. And it is the good dry smell of popping corn and cooking apples. Oh, yes, and I will be saying there's the brown turkey In it, too. And tho smell of a lantern in tho barn vyhen we go out to get the horses after the dance." "Ah," said another? and as I looked ?I saw he was habited as a' priest. "It is tho incense, the Christmas incense, which goes in ghostly columns to tho darkened roof of the great church as the Three Wise Men go in proces' sion up the aisle attended by acolytes and hooded nuns to do homage to the Babe at tho altar. Raster" I know by the li}ies which smother .ho incense, but Christmas is incense and music. It is that which makes the breeze so delightful to you, my good people/'-. ... I "No," said another, "No, no. Ah? [ now I know what It Is. It is back ! In the hill kirk that wo aro, where j the foot-warmers keep us alive j through the Christmas, and it's the faint scorching of honest leather and j the faint singeing of homespun that j the L:\i zl' is bringing you." "It's randy! It's varnish on sleds! Its perfume ton. dolls! It's oranges, andUevorgreens, and the smell of the wooki fire in the fireplace, and tho smell of the cold on mother's furs!" cried the child. And I know not to what lengths the talk might have gone, but the sailors v,ero calling '^Shore!" and there .was great motion among the pilgrims. " Now, tho island is ruled by a saint ; whose- names are many, but in air' tongues and races they have one meaning, which is GOOD WILL. And his name is tho law of the isle. For that if a Inan hath Good Will he fulfllleth all law; and if he nave not Good Will no law can put within him; but if ho have it he cannot but give proof of It. So that Here is groat giving of gifts in tho gand called Christmas, for Good , *3 itself a gift which forever ranches and blossoms and sets to fruit of its kind. And it Is the cus tom of the saint to meet the pilgrim Ps and give those who call upon m the choicest gifts, and when a man hath received any one of them J* for?ver a citizen of tho island thereof wIth all the rights J5?k\th? aro hung upon a tree Ihov , ? Called tho Treo of Life and elvl l!ne Wilh a wonderful light and f. ? ?V a sweetness which in good ir -i sweclen the world. Indeed, , gr,,ns know, the reason that distant from the Christmas erir^ai?e Stable at all is that pil* eiftcS f'aVft COme back bearing their * *)f sweetness and light. And the first gift is the Gift of the break n whoreby ono m?y whirl 1?' * a narrow veracity but In 8 him- truthfully enough his in IO? unwiso^y. to the faults of nor tiI?WS: Thero are neither riches Tho.rr ~ra^ to <h? G??d Sir h? i whlch comes of the Good ? .leroby men have discovered hidden worth ^8 t round Un? blackened, l? Idlug hillside to bo threshold of v orldu of gleaming gold. ll?- tbfll ric v. .m . gift comes to bllDMlf to Cinl li I mtul f lu a trlerdly world. it Ik n gift greatly to be deal rod, us a iU?> In wlntor, a friend In inlnfoi'tuno; and by iu magic are miracles wrouglit oo those WOO dvill far from the king dom of tho Saint Good Will. And the second gift la llko unto It? a mild apirit of amneaty toward all pilgrims whoita faulty compatm takes thern astray, and thoao who receive it are atraightway Inducted into the Order of the Forglvers. It strikes fi'un the pilgrim aa hi the twinkling Of an eye, the cold bond" of hatred, vengeance, and all the brood of ma!' loo, which make their homo with a man but to destroy him. v And the third gift ia the Juat Judg ment, by which tho .world la vaatiy lightened by reasou of the number of condemnatlona being leauc.nad. Kor bh is the number of those wo condemn in thin world, ao la tho number of disuppolutmenta wo carry about with us, and the number of tho sunny window* we have darkened for our hHvok. There lights of life WhlCll u Juat judgment forbears to extin guish, ?tyd he who beura thla gift walks in a mellow circio of serene tolerance. And tho fourth gift 1b that of tho Cheerful Spirit, having which ono ban light at eventide, yen and at midnight. For thero 1h no darkness llko unto tho darkness of tho spirit bereft of cheerful lamps and Area, and there 1h nq darkness of tho spirit that the St. Good Will cannot dispel. And when the pilgrim has received these gift ? ho finds among them an other, which is tho gift of Vision, whoreby ho Bees tho uriBQen. Indeed, nil tho gifts of St. Good Will portain to sight and vision, for aa tbu physi cal eye- is tho chief of tho body's blessings, bo la tho gift of vision the Stiver of life, which possessing, no man perishes. For as blind men walk the way and see neither rivers nor trees nor men, so he who has not received these best of gifts walks In great blindness toward n world which en compasses him with beneficence, guid ance, protection and inspiration. And when the pilgrims sailed on, lo! they were new mortals. And no mat ter how great the distance they jour neyed, tho pleasant gales of Christ mas isle were always In their nos trils. And they went to many lands, but wherever they set foot, or bpllt a booth or raised a tent, the people knew they had been to the Blessed islo. And Christmas trees sprang'as seedlings from tho Tree of Life, and many kindnesses to friends and tho poor were borne abroad on the wings of sweetness and light which forever came forth from tho Rifts of St. Good Will. ? Detroit News. Christmas Song now is the time when Dolly sprays Eight all the Darren, brooding ways, Jlnd every bell, it sounds noel, J\ p*an in tbe master's praise. How is tbe time when ivies gleam Cike beryl in the morning beam, Jlnd every bell, it sounds noel, jUnd makes the master's praise its theme. now is t be time when mistletoe Is Glossy in tbe noonday glow, And every bell, it sounds noel, Co praise upon Ijis name bestow. now is tbe time of ingle mirtb, Che blessed day of Christ? his birth, jlnd every bell, it sounds noel, Co ring fjis praise throughout tbe earth. ? Clinton ScollarJ In Alnslet's. NOT A DAY OF JOY FOR ALL ..Those Who Are Happy onXhriatmai Should Remember the Suffer ing and Distressed. "It's Christmas time, friend! . What will you do about It?" asks L. D, Stearns in Suburban Life. "Mothers! Aunties! You who love to see youi babies bend, crooning softly, ovei their family of dolls, with that grave little smile of dawning motherhood flitting tenderly over their faces, just within a stono's throw of babies who have no dolls, and the mother heart beats in their bosoms just as it does ? in that of your own sheltered darl- j ings; but their faces are grave, and sharp and old; and little drawn, white lines show about their mouths; and their eyes are not lllco the eyes of your children. The other day, a baby opened its eyes for the first time on this old earth; it was one of our coldest days; but in the homo was no stove, no bit of warmth, no food ? almost no clothes! On another street, in the midst of plenty, a woman, with two small babies toddling about, the father out hunting for work, cries ? with red lids: 'We've not a dollar in tho house, and nothing to eat!' Oh, mothers ? oh, adoring aunties ? life isn't made up of just prayers and sit ting reverently in church, keeping one day in tho week holy! There'? n tryst to keep with lifo that is spelled in many, many ways, if you'd make it complete." Women and the Ballot. Weiner-Neustadt and Waldhofen, Austria, have just, given the women taxpayers the ballot, making voting compulsory for women as well as men The legislature of "Manitoba recently permitted women' to practioe law. The legislature bf Georgia only a few days later defeated- a similar amendment. (Cdpyrltfht.) M I > it had como to l>n?B that on tills day befpre chrUt initH <i man not old in yearn nut in hu room it 9 tiu tel in u Ht range town and foit him self of nil the world tii?> moat lonely. High and low. rich and poor, mingled In the procession of hui> l>y shoppers with out. 1 1?> uIdik' had no thouicfit for bantu Clang. It wont back five years. Jlo, the uon of ft railroad magnate, had ?l uro<l to fall in lovo with the blue i d daugh ter of a locomotive driver on his fa ther's xoad? a mun whose face and hands carried grime ? -who dwelt in a cottage ? who had no society outside of daily tollers. An<i he had dared stand before the father who thought himself specially created and say: "Father, I going to bo married/' "Well?" 'To Gladys Davis." "Never heard of her." "Tho daughter of one of , our en- j gineers." There was a moment of painful bub j pense and then the storm broke. "You shall not! .'You aro either a j fool or. a lunatic to think of It. An I engineer's daughter! Think of your mother ? of me ? of your slHtor? the disgrace! You must have lost your senses!" "But I am to marry her," was the steady reply. "I say no! If tho Jade has trapped you Into an engagement buy her off. The father must use his Influence or take his discharge." "But we love and are promised to each other." In the next half hour the father stormed and cajoled. If tho sou In sisted on such a marriage ho would be cast out by the family; ho would be ridiculed even by the common peo ple. And the magnate ended up with: "Fred, I will have tho engineer call ed up here and give him. a check for a thousand dol lars and tell him that this non sense must end." "We ?hall be mar r led three days from now," was his answer. In reply to that the father point ed to the door, and the son bowed and passed out to he son no longer. Me had money that had been left him , by an auntj and the father could not threaten him with novfiftrtv Love may always be right, but it can be so influenced as to be seem ingly a mistake. The marriage took place and Fred Dillingham was ostra cized. He was not kindly welcomed in tho other stratum. If there is a gulf between the rich man and the work ingmtan the latter resents intrusion as much as tho former. There was love, but after a few months it was influenced from both sides. Both hus band and wife were made to fear that a grave mistake had been made. They fought away the idea and sought to hold -their love, but that brought irri tations and vexations and culminated in mjsunderstandings and quarrels. After two years there was a separa tion. Neither really desired it. It was what the gosslpB had predicted, and what they strove to bring about. There was more sorrow than anger when tho young husband turned his back on wife and infant a year old and went out Into the world a3 a wanderer The wife went back to her father's cottage, but not to strug. gle with poverty. Tho husband been generous to her. Five long years, and Fred Dilling ham had not been heard of. As an outlaw without a famiiy, whom should he write to and why? At three yearB of age the child, who hail been named Patty, wondered in her childish way why she hadn't a papa. At Ave she demanded to know. At six she stood before the embarrassed mother in in dignation and threatened to go out and find one. And at last the wanderer had re crossed tho sea and headed for Ids home. He was tired' and weary and lonely. Home? But he had none! He had left it when he left wife and baby. This struck him liko a sudden blow, though he~had all along realized It in a general way. No home ? no wife ? no child! That was why he havi left the train and taken lodgings. He had no place to go. With money In his pockets, he was a tramp. And to know thrrt Christmas was at hnnd, and to hear the jlnglo of sleigh b*.<. on 1 1 ftlii] n , . , . 0)?i h. 11 1 ;? I I'm nu?n ? not k^*>p i A ii'i.'i i . . Of 11) law whs down on ? ? 1 ' v t, out'! 'i ' llMfr thy out th? ? i'.( I J *ould wlp?U will* tho throng Ho would filter . the ?tOftl undrr tbl ov??rgr*HMi branch eu au<J look ?l?out Mm- aye, make a piirrhuuo and h? Bunta CMaus to lomo b I g o y e d Child on tho Btrot't. Ho v. uh it n out i.i a biit (bi world hIuiiiM not rr?>\s .1 hliu unit u to tho ('(Iko. llo who al? most HinllliiK ti" ho crowdod hip way Into u biK ?toio, and ho wa? lookljjg 11 bout htm when u small, warm Juiftil wiw , cuddled Into his And' u Child's voice said; I'leaso tuko caro of mo 'till mam- ' iiift finds mo -I'm lost!" It whk u Ulilo girl, and on her face wn.s both ft smile and a look of en- j treaty. "Why, of courHo/' replied tho out- I law, preuslng her hand ami drawing '"or buck ft little. "So you camo hero l v. i(h your mother after ChrlBtmaH thing** and got separated?" "That's It, only I think she rati away from mo ho that I shouldn't know what Santa Claun was going to hrlng inn tomorrow night," " I hope it win ho something nice." "Qh, it will he. Aro you buying hoiim tiling tor your llttlo girl?" "N-oo," "Maybe she's dead?" "I ? I don't know." 'f lic I'iri iook< .! <ip and noticed the ! grave expression on tho outlaw'H face, 1 and cuddled doner to bin) and Huld: "I'm sorry if I have hurt you; Mam ma BayH I talk too much. I've Just thought that maybe you are net mar- ' rlcd at all?" I guess' that's pretty near It," re plied tho outlaw as ho tried to laugh, hut 1 1) {i r] c poor work of It. "Well, If you haven't got any little girl I haven't got any papa. What! you going to buy. "Why, whatever you Bay?" , "But not for me?" ? "Yen, for you. We'll select Bomn tiling, and then when your mother comes I'll ask her if she'll let you have ;it," ... ,j "I hope bIi <5 will. Yon look to he Buch a nice man that she shouldn't re fuse. I picked you out as the very nicest man < hat. canto along." "Thank you," said tho outlaw a? he felt his heart grow big. "Now, then, about this doll. Real hair, o^es that wink, pink Bhoes and almost as big a? you are. 'She'll bo a sister to you." - "And how much is it?" "Only ten dollars." "My, but can you pay that inuch! If you can you must bo rich." "But you see I havo no little girl of my own." 'That's bo. Isn't Christmas nice? Do you know ? there's mamma over there! Let mo run and tell her." Tho outlaw turned Ills back on the crowd and gritted his teeth and winked his eyes. He had been hit hard. Three or four minutes pass ed and then a hand pulled at his and a voice said: "Please, Mister nice man, tell me your name, that I rhfly Introduce you to mamma. I think she will let me have the doll." The outlaw turned and gasped and his face went white. "Gladys!" , "Fred." "You here!" "And you!" "And this la our daughter?" "Our Patty. Father was discharged from the road and moved over here to take another run." It was the next day, and Patty was sitting on her father's knee and the happy mother was wiping tears from her eyes, when the child said: "Ray, mamma, I Just picked him out as the very nicest man In all that big crowd, and I didn't make any mistake, did I? Don't anybody sit down oil my doll and glvo her a pain!" Made It Work. A wook before the Christmas holi days an undergraduate wished to start home, thus gaining a week's vacation on the other student 3. He had, how- ; ever, used up all the absences from '. the lectures which are allowed, and any moro without good excuse would have meant suspension. In a quan dary he hit upon this solution; hc^ telegraphed his father the following message: ? "Shall I come home at my leisure or j straight homo?" The answer he received was: "Come straight home." An exhibition of tho telegram to the professors was sufficient. An Assurance. "Don't you think a holiday Is more cheerful when there Is a largo family gathered about festive board?" "I do," answered the sardonic per son. "A largo family is a glad assur- ; ance that there Is not going to be ' enough turkey left to supply tho menu i for tho next few days." j Baruch-Nettles Co. Copyright Hart Schaffhcr & Marx You want Saint Glaus to stop here at this store on his way to your chimney and Christmas tree; there are more things here that men and big boys want for Christmas than in any other store in town. Some day soon you'd bet ter come in and pick out the things you'd like to have him deliver; we'll' mark them f??r him and guaran tee to get them there at the right moment. Here are a few things that Santa Claus will be glad to carry for you; Hart Schaffner & Marx suits and overcoats; best Christmas gift possible, $18, $20, $25, $30, $35; finest made. Others a} $10 and $15. Other appropriate goods we carry in stock for holiday gifts are Suit Cases, Hats, Bath Robes, Sox, Ties, Shirts, Pajamas, Belts, Mufflers, Gloves, Silk and Linen Initial Hand kerchiefs. Baruch-Nettles Co. ? ? ? - - ? - - _ ^