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W?fli A r?ift?ctmac f*?ft ' me' t0*t* tne clerk Jennie had i v? HU a *L/UriSlUl?S lilli* ] been very well since her papa dh At Christmas time long years ago The loving wishes of a friend and she hoped that I would cheer 1 "Good will to men" the angels sang, f That comes today. up on Christmas Day. If Jennie "And peace on earth" their message like her mother I am going to lo rang -At Christmas time In future years- her." . Across the sky's celestial glow. And all the other days besides- Bright Eyes was laughing by tl At Christmas time May life for you always provide time, and Interrupted to say, "Y Long years ago. Its laughter all unmixed with tears must be a missionary rag baby th? At Christmas time 7 How funny!" , In future years. "That's what I am" cried Dorott At Christmas time that comes today ' -W. R. Murphy, in Christmas St :'and unless Jennie expects too mu This message of good will I send- Nicholas. of a- rag baby, I believe that I w / ?- make her happy. Do you think th . ^trWLVwrrrmm'mmrm^m^T^^m^^^mmKB*LJLf,iiT JIILLII1'11 /?,iiur,mtin_- the little girl wher9 you are S?I] er before. We had some dolls from fn'ht-^society! and won? worry abo ^^>^j**^^^^V**^S<>|<x China ia our department several ; t?ejr ioving me." ^B^^^^^^^^^^S WeekS a"?' but 1 ?ouIdn,t understand j Dorothy Jan0 knew nothing aboi '>^|^^BBfS^H?Il?H What thoy Sald" H0XV d0 you Shut society, and did not fully understar IKliimBllfflIfiltllllliBlllllii >'?"r eyes that way when you lio Bright Eyeg. idea of "fe> A11 st IH^HDHiiiqHlH I doWn? HoW nice lt ls " Brlgbt Eyes could think about waa Jennie Ree. M^ffllSfflffilHi mt Up f** l0?ked at flat Uttlei and whether or not thev would t ffl^SSO?SSPTOi I PaiDted fiCe ?f P0r0thy Ja2e With eTl* haPP>' together. "Get that big Frene JBEBS-"^ aSHI^ Illili deDt amuseraent- 1 doll cut. Bill," said the driver *o h! IIBlBB^S?r?BSK. JJ IIB Y0U ?'?n,t PrStend t0 ?aI1 yourscIf assistant, as the wagon suddenly stO] fflffi?t^S??O^TBiS!^ a Cbristmas Present- 1 u?Pe?" SQ8 ped. It startled Dorothy Jane. E ^^?BWSlh?^^n;?i' Said' '<YoU mUSt haVe bSen PUt t0"' she had about made up her mind t fflS ^WSS^AVMB^^ J gether In the d?rk' 1 d?n,t See Wh?t tel) Bright Eyes that she had misse //O?B??ffl^ pleasure you can find in existence." | entirely the object of Hfe wheQ sb ? '/iSBS^^m] llb6lIeVe that 1 am haPPler than made !ove secondary. All she ha (Jmmm^mYWW ??\V y0U are tonIsbt-" said *>?Tthy Jane. time to say, as she put an unshapel rjanff miTMnin iffiyW but her lip quivered. rag hand in one of BrIght Eyeg; wa, . ^ "Why?" asked Bright Byes. "Don't 1<Make tnat IutIe ^ love you/. m _ . .. ? ' ' you know that I am going to live in p-i^w* wvfiq tnssa? her head scornfu BrW eyes ana Dorothy Jan., mat " ot tfle finest h"ose8 m the clty. S?^J?^.K-m?S?SSn tan?????. ?? ?>?T ? memoers a. toe ^g^gg^^g MADONNA IN CONTEMPLATION. O^ ?i \?? 'inn*"** ,? . * ?... ?I high ?cciety call on me," were her ^ .. Jm???mm '^at ?P y0" CT?an by tbe 400? I Parting words. \ /mW////M queried Dorothy Jane Bi;, ]aiDed bmsrl ^ tne ! K "Y0U P0?r' ne^ctf-J'nedn^^ driver about being overworked after i N?X Uttle thinS' SaId BnF n yeS' ?!; he had handed Dorothy Jane over to ,; r*?M^\Z>> ce- where are yon jo ^ any way. ? Mrg Reed Qn ^ flfth fi0Qr Qf ^ X ,-(fe ^ V^) "l aci ?nin- t0 ?ttl? Jennie Jteed. 1^ gjde tenem?Dt hcuse> Mrs Reed ; ' ' ? : ^\ ~ / Wfc0Se mctner doeS wasH!n? four 8 "V'l took the rag baby and quietly sat her I,am,rkn.ow; *ut can t ? be: friends, fag. I am so anxious to see brr. be- ,n tfae fif JeQn?e,s ^ anyway?-.ti. never ^talked* to. a foreign- cause her mother, when she bought bed -?' .'? -;.? . ; , . ^. . . . TI When Mrs. Reed had kissed the I *****'*:i*H?* A sleeping child and tiptoed out of the J\ iC!^i " V% JLHL.'S ? _ 4|\ i, room, Dorothy lookod around for other "^^?J?^-?t&r-Ol. ?S??!li?0???? Christmas arrivals. At first she saw Jjpjh /^Vl no one e,se. and began to feel the re fi^^\ ??,?**??-.**?......?....*#...?..........**.?...?..**. ^ sponsibUity which had been thrust up* . : _., -;- i on her of being little Jennie's whole Y Christmas. Finally, however, she . J; told her that he, too. was tb^e for The next morning Mrs. Reed peep . pj._ ^^^^^Siw^^^S'^'^''' ' ed Into thte rconi in time to see ^en' * ^^^^ ^^^^ - " ^ M^ ' ' ' ^ ^' NEWSJREVIIIES Condensed from Wide Fiefds, Domestic and Foreign. AS THEY ARE HAPPENING DAILY Suited to the -Wants of Bus;- Beaders Seeking a.,,Bmowlcd?e of What ?3 Going on. The st/amer Gov. Ames, found iron New York to Brunswick, Ga., went tc pi?ces off Wimble Shoals, 25 miles north of Hatteras, N. C., Monday. The captain and wife and eleven o? the crew were lost, one of the crew only escaping. George P. Sheldon is indicted for larceny in the shortage of $45,000 or $50,000 dollars in the Atlanta of fice of the- Phenix Fire insurance company of Brooklyn, N. Y. Zelaya has resigned the presidency of Nicaragua amid riotous demonstra tions in which the populace cry down with the . old and up with the new regime. The sugar scandals at the New York custom house are being ferreted out and the Arbuckle Brothers have coughed up $695,543 out of which they had wronged the government. The Brokaw divorce suit in New York is now a live topic. It is brought out that the husband was about to sue for the divorce but he is fighting, the suit now as there is $00,000 at-stake in alimony. It now envelops that Capt. Au gust W. Loose and his man Dunkle who swore .that they made Capt. Cook's calculations to help him de ceive the world about his getting to the North.Pole and squealed because be did not pay up-were after selling their fabrications and Loose says Dunkle got most of the money for the. fabrication. News has just arived that a mine explosion in, Southern Japan recent ly claimed 762 victims. Forty-three others escaped. - The mine.works 4, 755 hands "and bas a monthly output of 44,000 tons of coal. Secretary of War Dickinson will take\a trip to inspect Santo Domingo and : Porto Rico, paying special at tention to the revolutionary con ditions in the former islands. It is estimated that 7 to 8 million people visited' Coney Island during the late summer making about 20,000 trips besides spending $40,000,000 mostly in nickels and dimes, sums three times; as much as the United States paid; for Louisiana and six times as mnch as Alaska cost. Women in- high social position members of the Colony Club-held ? an enthusiastic meeting Wednesday ? afternoon in their clubrooms at 122 j Madison avenue, in the interest of the striking shirtwaist workers, who will receive, substantial financial aid from the organization. The Brownsville court of inquiry is sitting behind dosed doors in Wash ington, hort?ig such applicants of the NegroTti?5anded regiment as wish to re-enter the army and eau show themselves elligible under the Fora ker act. Congressman Kitchin, of North Carolina, introduced a bill in the house Wednesday the object bf which is to prevent corporations do ing business in the state from ap-, pealing cases from the state to the federal courts. King Leopold, the soverign. of Belgium, died Friday morning in Brussels. The National Geographic society in Washington City Wednesday night bestowed on Commander Peary the honor of the discovery of the North Pole and awarded a suitable medal. Capt. Bartlett also received a medal for sailing a boat further into the artic regions than any one else. A fire at East St. Louis. 111., on | Monday, burned 100 car loads of j grain. The loss is estimated at $100,000. Zelaya who is so conspicious be fore the world now has a nephew in Kew York who is in trouble in love affairs. Miss Juliette Hero, of Gre cian descent, is suing him for $100, 000 dollars on breach of promise. Another severe storm accompanied with snow,.ice and s'eet passed over New York; Pennsylvania and the ?rreat lakes . Monday and Tuesday. Considerable damage was done to wires. Three sisters are in New York jail charged with the murder of Ocey Snead, whdse body was found sub merged in a bath tub long after death. , The Senate committee on judiciary voted unanimously Wednesday to report favorably the nomination of Judge Horace H. Linton, of Tennes see, to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of. the United States. Some members of the committee ex pressed the opinion that it would have been better to have named a younger man, Judge Lurtor. being in his 66th year, but there was no gen eral opposition to him, or any criti cism except as to his age. l-'assenger tram Wo. ll on the Southern Railway was wrecked Wed nesday at P*30 a. m., at Reedy Fork Creek, ju.. north of Greensboro, N. C., prcoably ? broken rail caused two coaches and three sleepers to drop from a high trestle and twelve per sons were killed and probaly 30 were injured. At Cincinnati last Tuesday some oc cupants of a tenement house were en gaged in a quarrel and overturned a kerosene lamp which caused a fire in which ten persons lfct their lives, two were probably fatally injured, and 50 made narrow essapes. Gen*. Clement A. Evans, of Atlanta, commander in chief of the Confed erate Veterans, has pledged the sup port of the veterans to a $2,500,000 memorial hall in Washington City in honor of George Washington, still the most honored president the Unit ed States ever had. It is stated that the largest ship ment of Christmas presents that ever arrived at New York from over the sea came in Wednesday, the 15th. Th?: employes of the Southern rail way Will ask for a raise in wages ef fective on the 1st of January. The House Thursday devoted near ly fivo hours time to consideration of the District of Columbia appropri ation bill. The measure carries an appropriation of $10,14b',473 for the expenses of the District for 1911. General debate was concluded but the reading of the measure, para graph by paragraph proceeded slow ly. Several members made points of order against certain sections in the interest ul', economy and the reading had not concluded when the He use adjourned Thursda}'. Mr. Macon of Arkansas had the paragraph ap propriating $2,400 for an automobile for the engineer commissTonr- r-P (ho pie+Tn-t; ,?&.-''I-f*, r?+ ~f tho protests of Representative Taw ney of Minnesota, chairman of the appropriations ciuuo?t.??c ?L.a ncpi sentative Gardner of Michigan, in charge of the bill. . Democratic applause .greeted an attack Thursday made by Representa tive Hitchcock on tue oiAciki conauct of Secretary of the Interior Ballinger in connection with the so-called Cun ningham coal land cases, in a speech demanding a congressional investiga tion of^he General Land Office, Rep resentative Shepard of Texas ad dressed the House during general de bate on the bill urging th.; House to revive the moribund c >mmissions on expenditures for the various depart ments in order that sweeping envesti gation of the departments might be made. '.Repr?sentative Burgess, of Texas, Wednesday introduced in the House a joint resolution declaring that the United States shall cease to exercise sovereignty over the Philippine Is lands, and by treaty with foreign na tions set up and maintain there a free and independent government. The resolution requests the President of the United States to consider the expediency of opening negotiations with Great Britain, Germaty, France, Russia, Ital}', Spain and Japan for a joint treaty providing for the recog nition and " preservation of such a government. Diplomas' of merit Tuesday were presented by Secretary Wilsen in his office at the Department of Agricul ture to Bascomb Usher, of South Carolina; Dewitt Lundy, of Missis sippi ; Elmer Halter, of Arkansas and Ralph Bellwood, of Virginia-all boys under 18 years-for special pro ficiency in agricultural pursuits. The recipients of the awards are among the 12.500 in the boys' demonstration work in the South. Each planted one acre of corn and cultivated it under instructions- from the Depart ment of Agriculture. The effort of the oresent Congress to suppress the "white slave traffic" has caused a materialization of the specter of "State's rights,'3 and that House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce before which the Mann bill is pending, is at .logger heads over the question. Such strong objection by Democrats bas been manifested that Chairman Mann and his Republican associates have aban doned temporarily fheir efforts to ob tain early action on the measure. The Pee Dee river, in Chesterfield county, is to get no more money if the recommendation of the chief of engineers of the army, Gen. Mar shall, is followed and they will be in a communication through thc sec retary of war to congress Tuesday. Gen. Marshall savs that thc com merce along the Pee Dee does not justify any further appropriation. Acting, it is understood, upon the suggestion of Secretary Knox, the the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate Wednesday steered dear of the resolution of Senator Raynor of Maryland, authorizing the President to descend upon Nicaragua and punish Zelaya promptly. Some ! of the niembers were strongly in fav- . cr of modifying the Rayner reso?u- . tion slightly and authorizing its fav- < orahle report to the Senate. , Advocating thc adoption of a defin ed waterway policy by the United States Govenment. Representative Richardson, of Alabama, delivered a speech in the House Tuesday, while ' that body was in committee of the ' whole with the President's message under consideration. Mr. Richardson proposed the expenditure of $50,000, 300 for the imorovement of the Miss- j issippi River and its tributaries. Francis E. Bliss, Jr., former mern- 1 ber of Hie Baltimore paper ruling firm of Bliss, Albrecht Co., was Wednesday acquitted of charges of embezzlement by a jury .in. Criminal Court No. L Bliss, who figured in the Kenyon street tarring case something more than a year ago was the Washington representative of the Baltimore con cern'. It was charged that while in this capacity he received checks for work done by thc firm for the United States Government amounting to about .$169. Bliss was placed on trial about a month ago, but the prose cution was withdrawn at that time beeaus the indictment was faulty. President Taft presided Thursday afternoon at the annual meeting of thc executive board of the Jeanes fund of $1,000,000 for the better ment of the small rural negro schools in the South which was held in thc Cabinet room at the White House. During a brief session of the Sen ate Thursday a resolution by Speaker Cullom was adopted calling upon the Secretary of the Interior for in formation respecting mining disaster and facilities of the Federal govern ment for rendering aid in such cases. Representative levering, pf Massa chusetts, one of the leaders of the band of House "insurgents," in an interview Thursday night on the prob able course of the insurgents at this session, took occasion to pay his re spcaks rather vigorously to Cannon. The display of the name of the architect of a building under con struction Avas condemned as a viola tion of professional ethics by the American Institute of Architects Wednesday morning, in session at the Willard Hotel. i Two Cc a ches and Three Pull mans Hurled frc m Trestle. TV/ELVE ARE KILLED OUTRIGHT. A Score of More Injured in Various Degrees of Severity-Wreck Be lieved to Be Due to Broken Rail Occurred at Reedy Fork Creek North of Greensboro. Greensboro, N. C., Special.-Three Pullmans and two day coaches-two of the Pullmans partially submerged in the waters of Reedy Fork creek, four of the cars splintered into aa un recognizable mass-are lying Tuesday night, ten miles north of Greensboro, a vivid picture of the most horrible railroad accident that has ever occur red in North'Carolina, Twelve dead bodies in the undertaking establish ments iii Greensboro, some of them mangled beyond recognition, and a score or more injured in St. Leo's hospital, tell further of the awful calamity that same without a mo ment's warning to southbound local passenger train No. ll at 6:30 Wed nesday morning. / The engine, mail car, express and baggage cars passed over the bridge in safety, the first car to leave the track being the day coach, which probably left the rail about midway of the trestle, which is about 150 feet long. This car did not leave the bridge until it liad reached the south end and it turned completely over down the embankment and lies prob ably fifty fee* from the track almost off the railroad right of way aud probably one hundred feet from the nearest car. The second day coach lies on its side battered into kindling wood at the foot of the bridge which is 23 feet high. This car and the three Pullmans behind it fell the 30 feet,/dragging a number of the heavy bridge timbers with it. The first Pull man car in the train was probably the most complete wreck of all. This was Pullman car Ephesus from Rich mond bound for Charlotte. The sec ond Pullman is the Norfolk-Charlotte Pullman. This is also a corrplete wreck. The rear car was a dead head coach, and no passengers were in this car^ The following is the list of the dead: A. P. Cone, superintendent. Richmond division, Southern; H. C. White, traveling auditor, Southern; Richard Eames, Salisbury, mining engineer; John G. Broadnax, Rich mond, Va., wholesale liquor dealer; D. C. Nolan, Greensboro, Pullman conductor; Virgil E. Holcomb, Mount' Airy, attorney; Edward Sexton, Den ton; Charles Bagby, Manchester, Va., flagman; H. L. Stribling, Winston Salera, traveling salesman; F. W Kilby. Anniston, Ala.; Charles T. Broadfield. A.mericus, Ga., Virginia Carolina Chemical Company; Isaao Dammals, colored, Richmond, Pulh man porter. The injured are: John Phillips, Petersburg, Va., head bruised; Stuart Watterson, Baskervile, Pa., bad scalp wound: Arthur Watterson. Basker ville, Va., scalp wound; Alvis Harris, Reidsville. tobacro manufacturer, head bruised, left les: broken and back sprained; Rev. Benjamin Hill, colored. Reidsvilc, head bruised; Wil liam Kimraon, Davidson . College, slight injury to the head; William Monroe, colored porter on the train, slight scalp wound ; Daniel. P. Me Brayer, Anderson. S. C., seriouslv in jured; Thomas W. Eldridge, Rich mond, Va., baggage master on the train, leg and head injured; James Anderson, colored. Norfolk, Va., slight head wound; A. S. Johnson, Norfolk; Pullman conductor, slight bruises; Philip Nelson, Greensboro, civil engineer on the Southern Rail way, leg broken; Thomas V. Chalkey, Greensboro, employed in engineering ieoartment of Southern Railway, back hurt: Richard A. I'obie. Norfolk, superintendent of public schools, not seriously injured,! W. T. Carter, Dan ville, traveling auditor Southern Rail wa}r, injuries not considered serious: George lt. Wamier. Danville, South ern locomotion engineer. Injuries not serious. Wa?s traveling as a pas sensor; W. T. Caroll, Norfolk, city ticket aeent of thp Southern. Not se riously injured: M. T. Dpberry, col ored. Portsmouth, Pullman porter. Not seriously injured: Mrs. Mary T. Cook, Norfolk, suffering from shock; F. Smith, Spencer, Southern Railway employe. Unconscious and probably fatally injured; Burton Mayre, Rich mond, roadraaster, Richmond division Southern Railway. Seriously injured about the head and body; C. L. Cand ler, Norfolk, agent Southern Railway. Not seriously injured; H. L. Wood. Norfolk. Pullman superintendent. Slightly injured. Was removed froT hospital to hotel in the afternoon: Mrs. Robert Edmonds and Robert Edmonds, Jr.. New Orleans. Both bruispd and shocked;.Robert H. Rus sell, New York, painfully bruised and collar bone fractured ; Jay Gould,' Jr., son of George Gould, severe nervous shock. More Disorder in Managua. Corinto, Nicaragua, Special-There were scenes of wild disorder iii Man agua, the capital, again Tuesday night. During a meeting of the alder men one of them made a speech de nouncing Madriz aud favoring the revolution. The speech was greeted with cheers and hooting and a free fight among the government and anti government elements followed. Two pistol shots were Tired. The row ex tended to the street. Night Riders Reported to Be Active in Georgia. Rockmart, Ga., Special. - Alleged night rider raids in this community have become so numerous lately that Wednesday Governo- Brown was sent two telegraphic dispatches that the neighborhood was being terrorized. The burning of a dwelling had been charged to the night riders, threaten ing letters had been received by good citizens and signs pos;cd telling what they proposed doing. Expected Setback. We did not know just what would hap L? To stop Wellman's north-going, tut we knew something would-it did; lt seems the wind was blowing. Question. r ?-ila-"You have two proposals?" Bella-"Yes. I can't decide which, to marry ?rs;."-New York Stn. Hard Proposition. Jinks-"His wife 13 trying to get into society." ;' Blinks--"What's he doing?" Jinks-"Trying to keep out of Ccbt."-Washington Star. . Argus at the Polls, Argus was boasting of his hundred eyes. "I could read this year's ballot at a glance," he cried. Plainly, he was born before hil time.-New York Sun. In the Belly of the Fish. Jonah stepped ashore. "I left my records in the whale," he observed. "Anybody who wants to see them can go after them." It was noticed that none questioned his exploit.-New York Sun. Sounds Seasonable. "If marriages are made in heaven, why are not divorces?" asked the at torney. "Well, because It takes a lawyer to get a divorce, and there are none up Wiere," replied the client-Yonkers Statesman. Her Observation. "Love," remarked the , romantic young nan, "is sa,id to brighten the eye.", "I don't know aboutt'aat," rejoined the practical maid, "but it has a ten dency to disarrange one's hair."- j Chicago News. Easily Settled. . Mrs. Justwed-"The new cook has' burned the bacon, dear; she is so young .and inexperienced. Won't you be satisfied with a kiss for breakfast, ' instead?" Mr. Justwed-"All right; call her In?"-New York Evening Telegram. Up North. First Eskimo Wife-"The North Pole has been discovered." Second Eskimo Wife-"I'm glad of that; for now when my husband comes home late he can't give me that old excuse about being out looking for ii."-New York Times. No Further Use For nim. "You are discovered!", exclaimed the two detectives in the same breath. ' "All right," replied Eill the Burg lar as he calmly stepped out of the window into the free night air, "that much of it Is settled. Now go ahead and hold your controversy."-Wash? ington Star. hatched stage. " Long Way to Travel. "I played in one of the largest the atres in this country." "How large was it?" "Well, to give you an idea of its enormity, I'll just say that the eggs. thrown from the rear seats were before they reached the .Philadelphia Bulletin. Weil Qualified. "The one thing we demand from our employes," said the head of the office force,"iscorree, less In figures." The applicant smoothed her hip less skirt complacently. "I have never had any complaints on that score, ' she replied with a glance of assurance.-Bystander. I-: - \ ../ Just an Argument. "Good gracious, isn't that your hus band across the street lhere quarrel ing with the man on the opposite porch?" "Oh. they're not really quarreling. They dispute that way every night. George is a monoplanist and Mr. Stiggins is a biplanist."-Cleveland Plain Dealer. Easy. "Do you think you can make my daughter happy?" asked Mr. Cumrox. "She has been 'happy with you, hasn't she?" rejoined the confident youth. t "I think so, sir." "Well, if she's that easy to please, there ought to be no difficulty."-* Washington Star. yt Tagless. Mrs. Duncane?-"Poor Mrs. Tits worth has always been having bad luck. She-" Mrs. Drummond (interrupting) "Oh, I know sae has; do tell me what'her trouble is now." Mrs. Duncaner - "Why, she had set her heart upon getting a red plush rocker with 1000 tobacco tags, and just, when her husband had collected ail3 he got a divorce!"-Puck.