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R '' : fes'V ? < - - - -- ~ ? ^ ? And sits with his hant "pi. Half-tone and color-page JUk In the holiday numbei A ruddy old gentleman 1 Who rides m an auton | .:4 Christma P By TOM M, f VE been wanting," said ! \ Wiggton, "to have a good t 0 T O old" fashioned Christmas | g 5 A- )t for years?a Christmas I such as 1 used to have d I: .when i was a boy?and this year I am ? going to have it. I'm going to open 41 up the old homestead up in Hillville. ii Martha, the cook we had when I was a boy, will cook for us. Everything's v planned?tickets bought. Come, my n dear, what do you say?" Mrs. Wigg- n ton looked at her husband aghast. "I don't seem to have anything to " ay," she observed, "if you?have made all the preparations. When do we S ' tart?" ' "To-morrow," said Wiggton. "Back to the old homestead. How I have looked forward to it! We'll have something decenfto eat at last How tired 1 am of this modern cooking!" The next day, when they arrived at the little New England village where the Wiggton homestead reared its {dingy colonial frame to the say, Jiartha was on hand to greet them. "To-morrow will be Christmas, Martha," said TViggton, after the compliments of the season had been passed, and I want a. genuine old-fashioned Christmas, such as I look backward opon with such fond reeollectiQns." Martha, with a glow of pride in her honest face, nodded assent. "I guess I know. John," she# said, calling "Wiggton by his first name " 'X you'll have it if I kin give it to yew." as Mrs. Wiggton sat silent, with a novel fhe had brought to read. Being from the city, having married John after he ^ had gone away from home, she was V t??aataw : J I ** .C' I ' A'AETHA WAS OX HiSD TO GBEET THESI." temporarily out of it, and merely an nhi?**t of curiosity. "Whafs the matter -with this base . burner?" said Wiggton, examining the ancient heater with its isinglass win"It doesn't seem to heat up the k [JSHJANI^ 'BILE. ^jS city are whitened ?T ed with rime, ^jg ting its wonderful a* aning to chime, g x no more in their m nners of steel, ?' ata Claus over the " ; tomobile. K sing of the bells , jfe/, ana shake, ar wears a rose in I on a brake, jSl i daintily drawn rs reveal v aooted and gloved, efc. lobile. ?Minna Irving. flr is Dream ASSON ray it used to. And the blamed thing hrows out enough coal gas to run a ashouse with." Martha came in and gave it a shake own. "I guess it's all right" she said. Halnt ben used fer some time, but t never did burn the way it ought to." The next day, when Wiggton and his rife at last sat down to their Christmas dinner, that enthusiastic gentleman rubbed his hpnds in glee. "NoV," he said, "we're in for it Here comes the turkey. Hooray!" Martha brought it in on a platter/ Ihe followed with chicken pie, boiled ^118^ HHH fjpp 1Hii8ME I The yule logs burn Like beams that eli . While a wooden sol On a Christmas b turnips, cranberry sauce and mashed potatoes. "Isn't this great?" said Wiggton, plunging his fork into the turkey's breast bone. "Martha, where did this turkey come from?" "Sam Tucker's," said Martha. "Sam's done well this year with his turkeys." "That must be a local turkey," ventured Mrs. Wiggton, watching her husband's desperate efforts, to carve. "It does seem a little tough," said Wiggton. "Never mind; we know where it comes from. These city turkeys?what do you know about 'em, anyway?" "Martha," said Mrs. Wiggton, as she helped herself, "is evidently not a waitress." "Sh." warned Wiggton. "She might bear you. A waitress! Well. I should - y* - * v ' * v * ? V |? >i, ? $j . >* " . ' * ; * /" ' 4 say not. Martha comes from one of the oldest families here. And by the way. my dear, try and unbend, won't voil i- .Marina s sensitive, uuu ui^ut | ia feel it." J ? The first course ot dishes, -which had j ? %% "i have a confession to make.p been arranged by Martha on the ta- | ble in that bailie spirit that she dis- i sj played when conveying sundry pieces ]? of wood from the wood pile, were now removed and the second course carne on. > ^ "Now/* exclaimed Wiggton. "we'll "} have the real thing. That turkey was ^ a slight disappointment, I'll admit." ?* "And don't say that I said it," whis- c( pered Mrs. Wiggton, "but that chicken j & pie was a tribe heavy, don't you er , think?" . |aI i "A trifle," admitted Wiggton, "but 01 wait. Here comes the glorious pumpkin pie. Here are the delicious crul- r( lers and the sugar cookies I've dreamed ^ about so long." ai "Hope you're enjoying yourselves?" tl said Martha, as she dumped the dishes down in front of Wiggton. P' "Very nice," said Mrs. Wiggton, with 01 a reception smile. j ' 15 \ A 'a goos square meal." . "Fine," said Wiggton, his eyes glistening with anticipation. "Any cof- ^ fee, Martha?" q She brought in the old-fashioned coffee pot?the only object that Mrs. Wiggton took any interest in?and sat it down in front of him. "And now," said Wiggton, "we're " off." F A silence ensued, A silence broken I ! tiristmas ISiight ?=? iif^a O to an ashen char: The last little bear in ly assemble, His tale in the wood ng to a dying star, And tired eyes close o dier dreams of war At the sweets and toys augh a-tremble. Scattered and bent i only by monosyllabic observations on the part of each diner, with Martha hovering near. Finally, by simultaneous impulse, they both arose and made their way into the little front parlor. Wiggton, taking from his pocket a large perfecto. put one foot on the haircloth sofa, and ere be struck the match, turned to his wife: "My dear," he observed. "I have a confession to make. That was the toughest turkey, the soggiest pumpkin pie, the most abominable coffee, to say nothing of those fierce and indigestible doughnuts, that I have tasted for years. And now I'm going to find out about the next train back. I want to get home as soon as possible and have a good, square meal."?New York Mail I and Express. , t i ' / - . .... \ *! r A k ; ' > /1 ; *' , *;,' ,. ; i In England, where we derive our hrislinas customs, the turkey is not, > in this country, a "must-have'' for a hristmas feast. The roast beef of d England, with its regulation ac>mpaniment cf Yorkshire pudding, linked by a savory roast goose, is the owning dish of the event. Occasionlly or.e tiuds in an American family f English extraction the old customs ve on, and a menu is served that is iminiscen't of old-time entertainment, n English dinner is undeniably good, ad if one longs for a change from irkey and pumpkin pie, an American;ed English menu will not be disap[>inting. Following is a typical dinner I this order: Consomme Bread sticks Olives Salted almonds Fried smelts Shrimp sauce Roast beef Yorkshire Dudding Mashed potatoes Celery Roast goose Apple sauce Lettuce salad Plum puddings Wafers Cheese Cafe noir. ?Good Housekeeping. j Glad Tidings. Floating on the winter air,. Ne'er was sweeter music heard; List the chimes the soft winds bear? Promised in His holy word, Glory to God in the. highest, we sing, his is the birthday of Bethlehem's King!'* Nearer and nearer it sounds? Carols of children at dawn, Tell to the earth's farthest bounds, "Christ, our Redeemer, is born! lory to God in the highest, alway! . savior is bora? This is Christmas Day!" With light the East, is all aglow: Hark! the bells ring sweet ana clear; Hear them acho 'cross the snow? Christmas morn at last is here! hout the glad tidings, our Saviour was born, enturies since, upon Christmas morn. Again the bells "Glory" repeat, Echo takes up the refrain; It joins in the music sweet, . Sounding "Glory" o er hnl and plain; Glory to God in the highest, this morn, or Bethlehem's King on this day was born ?Lilla X. Cushman. the picture book s in niche and nook, If every day were Christmas! With joy the sentence thrills. The offices would all stay shut And we needn't pay our bills. / .. , i ' ? * '! \ ' - ' t " ' r ' MORE CARRIERS FIRED. ' Postmaster Wynne Ousts Other Officials Connected With National Rural Carriers' Association. ! A Washington special says: Post I master General Wynne Wednesday re-; mov?d two more rural carriers for al- j leged efforts to. influence legislation, the employees being H. E. Nevin, of ! Barthoud, Colo, and J. W. Whitehead, j | of Medina, Ohio. Nivin is chairman of the executive \ board of the 'National Rural Carriers' j Association. Whitehead also is a mem- j ber of the executive board and is sec-1 retary of the Ohio state organization 1 of the carriers. The executive board held a meeting in St. Louis, as the re- 1 suit of whose instructions President i Cunningham, of the association, is said to have called on members of the \ t national committees of both the republican and democratic parties to ascer- j tain what support they would give to ; legislation in the interest of the car- i riers. The plans for the campaign for this legislation carried, on prior to the No- ! vember election by President Cunning-: ham and Henry Tumor, both of whom recently were dismissed as the result or an investigation 01 tneir worn, were, it is charged by the postal authorities approved and indorsed by Nivin and Whitehead. The report on the investigation points out that Nivin's plan was that the rural carriers in each state should look into the question of supporting J the candidates for election or re-elec-; tion to congress in their state and to : such of these candidates as proved I "true" to the carriers, the as- j sociation would pledge its support for any political hSnors sought in that par- j ticular state. Some letters which the department j now has on file indicate that the car-! riers had outlined an elaborate plan \ which they expected would effect ifn-1 portant results in favor of their cause i and set out that the association must be free from entanglements with any i particular political party, but must se- j lect for their support such men, re-1 gardless of party, as were most friendly to their interests. The correspondence indicates that; Representative Overstreet, of Indiana, was a special target of attack by the! carriers because he refused to give j them .any pledges or promises as I chairman of the house committee on | postofflces. ! Two postoffice inspectors are inves- i tigating these matters and other de- j velopments are expected shortly. It is ; understood that a meetinsr of the exec- i utive board of the National Associa-j tion of Letter Carrieis, comprising the carriers in the city service, will be j called immediately after the Christmas holdays to take action in connee* | tion with the recent dismissal of i President Keller, of that organization, i from the government service. * - ? EPISCOPAL BISHOP OF CUBA.' * I Rev. Albion Knight ,of Atlanta, Conse- j crated by Church Dignitaries. In St. Phillip's church at Atlanta. , Ga., Wednesday at noon the bishops of the Protestant Episcopal . Church | placed their hands upon the head of Rev. Albion "Williamson Knight and i pronounced him the first missionary"! bishop of Cuba. This impressive cere- j mony of the bishops upon him who is j now one of them, is the most solemn of aJl exercises Connected with a consecration. as it is symbolic of the con-. tinuity of episcopal authorityfroin the days of the apostles down to the pres- j ent time.and when the candidate arises i from his knees, he takes his place in j the ranks of his future equals. The consecration of Mr. Knight was witnessed by more than a thousand j people. Every seat in the large audi- : torium was occupied and the aisles j were filled with chairs, while many j were forced to stand. Men and wo men of all denominations were pre*-1 ent and prenchers from other communions than the Episcopal were numerous, thus showing the high regard in which the recent rector of St. Phillip's is held by the entire community. earlier elections wanted. Representative Livingston Introduces i Bill to Change National Voting Date, ! Representative Livingston, of Geor- j gia, introduced a joint resolution in | the house Wednesday providing that i hereafter electors for president and j vice president and representatives in j congress shall be voted for in each j state on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in September, and that the fifty-ninth congress shall assemble and hold its first regular session on the first Monday in October, 1905. i BUILD SHIPS IN GEORGIA. ' Yard Located on Huntchinson's Island j to Construct Wooden Vesseb. The Jacob Paulsen Company will establish a ship yard on Hutchinson's island, opposite Savannah, Ga., plans having all been laid. Actual work is to begin at once. All manner of wooden vessels will be built by the company. Timber will be secured from the pine and live oak ' forests of the section. I . r REPORTISiUBTEO | Ginners Claim Government Padded Cotton Estimate. ^ Tj . i i Annrn a whole month 4ul Owners of Many Gins Declare Thejr - Signed No Reports to Census Bureau and Authorized no One fclse to Do So. An Augusta, Ga., dispatch says: Rihi.^0 M. Mixon, whose letter, claiming the 1 I last government's cotton report estl-^^H mate to be one week's ginning or over :>' 600,000 bales too much, has what fce^ ..^Bj considers to be another sensational feature in connection with the case. -JB It will be remembered that Mr. Mix- * son own3 and operates a gin at William . ' ^ | ton, - S. C. He claimed that while th*? government's last estimate of the cot# % ton crop, making the production oyer* r?i|n 12,000,000 bales, wasoflven out to.;he| ^0 the ginning figures up to November 14, they were really the figures up November 20. In order to substantiate his claim he produced as evidence a blank similar to the, one ho ^ had filled out at his gin and sent U. the department of agriculture. The letter raised quite a sensation when it reached 'New York and cotton > immediately advanced about 2d points. ' The government explained that Mr/ . . . 1 Mixsoa had confused the different de- . partments of the government and: that v the estimate made public was that of the census bureau and not the agricul- C tural department. To this Mr. Mixson made reply that "Atf the government either used the agri* cultural department gin report or guessed at the figures, as no other re- . . port had been made by the glnners. u Hundreds of ginners have giver evi- V". dence in favor of Mr. Mixson's contention and they all say positively that the government has only adopted one means of securing reports on ginning *; and that has been through thp meduim ui me agricuuunu atj?ruuwn, The whole argument lad -reached such proportions that the department ' of labor and commerce, under which. . 4 the census bureau operates, took the > - 1 matter up with Mr. Mixson personal- | ly. He clung to his contention so . -'|j strongly that the government finally j Si sent him a blank, which reached him \ f, Tuesday, with z report of hia giaf t vmade to the census department and- ? signed by the superintendent of his ^ j gin at Wllliston. ) Mr. Mixson unhesitatingly submitted1"; ; <j the report to his superintendent, who immediately denied all knowledge of M it, and says the signature Is not hi* ^ | and that he never made the report to J apy one, either in writing or in per- j Now the question arises as to hoV* 'j^8j? the alleged report of the Mixson ginnery reached the government census J bureau. ' g 1 The ginners of this section are Q&.Wj j tirely unanimous that they liave made / A no report to the census department and that the only representative pPM this branch of the government they t ^ ever saw was in the summer and -he 11 was merely an agent going through ; ? the country locating the gins for fUr }jW*3 tore reference. 1 SAMEJIMA CARRIED THE DAY. 1 Veteran Jap General Snatches Victory 1 From Defeat at Port Arthur. . All Japan is today ringing with m praises for General Samejima as the. hero of the assault on Kewan moun- , 1 tain fort at Port Arthur. . m It is conceded that his heroism in- 'gK 1 spired his men and turned a threaten- ^1 ed disaster / into a splendid victory. ' General Samejima is a veteran of the llfl war of the revolution. He is gray- V il haired and bent, but is wiry and v> pJI tive. He is an engineer and was lor- I 9 merly a garrison commander. He is i Japan's specialist in fortifications and \ I was called to Port Arthur to superin- -4 9 tend the siege works. He was not #"JB assigned to an active command and Y'9 it is supposed that General Samejima <9 replaced General Tsuchiya as division VB commander. MISSOURI LOSES TO NEBRASKA. Jw United States Supreme Court Decides j/9 a Boundary Case. . I H The supreme court of the TJnitedlf I States Monday, decided the boundary ft case between the states of Missouri JM and Nebraska in favor of the state jdfl of Nebraska. The case involved th^r Ifl question as to whether a change <& S the course of the Missouri river had the effect of changing land lines, but Jpfl the court held that it did not and that Am the boundary must remain in the mid-|*t ~ die of the old channel as before the ' rhan r ?? I MORE JAP SOLDIERS CALLED. Mikado's Capital it Once AflMn Like. vfW a Great Military Camp. * /fl Tokio is again a greet military |l camp, and the scenes of .last spring, ' yfl when the first armies were mobilized -|H and dispatched, are being 'duplicated. 1 JJH Thousands of recruits and res^- ; I ists are assembled, drilling and equip- |H ping preparatory to taking the field. -jB The permanent and temporary bar- >jB racks are completely filled. ?^B