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SUMMARY OF, it 1VENTS .111.:art , -4-114PORTAN4 NE-Vie-OF -BOTH HEM I- ISOttatip DOWN TO T ANALYSIS. ED FOR BUSY READERS Brief Notes Covering Happenings This Country and Abroad That E of, L.egitimate interest _ to All the People. WIN f MONTANA SQUIBS John Perna, a former president of the Butte Merchants' association and also a former alderman, is dead. Mrs. Liunina Louis Archambault, a resident of Montana for 32 years, died at her - home in Bozeman Saturday at tile - Mat - 4 -44- ffaere. The state board of education beld its semi-annual fneeting Monday in Hele- na. Dr. E. C. Elliott, chancellor -elect, was present. So far as now known, only routine matters were passed up- on. In A. Maxwell, convicted of burglary in the third degree, was sentenced at Missoula Saturday in the district court to an indeterminate sentence of not less than six or more than nine years in the penitentiary. Privates in the German army now receive 30 piennigs (7 1 / 2 cents) a day. J. *biter Bristle Portland, Ore., manager of the United Press, was killed recentle- by a trolley car. The annual convention of the West- ern Retail Lumbermen's association -*tint for February 21-26 at Portland, .Ore. James Mapes Dodge, noted mechan- leal\ engineer, and president of the Link Belt company, died at Philadel- phia Saturday. The highway commission of Massa- chusetts has ordered that no further automobile races, endurance runs or attempts at records be held on the toads -of that state. Negotiations are in progress for the -chartering of the Alaska Steamship entnpany's passenger and freight ship i Victoria for a service between San l'irtuicieco ay Hongkong. 02 President Wilson has consented to qeeeivti 50(f delegates to the conven- tion at the national capital of the Na- tional American Woman Suffrage as- sociation, December 14. Fire at Metniketa Iowa, th* - .1, de- stroyed five_tusinees estalitishments, causing a loss estimated at ;100,000. The: tiWze is believed to have started filnItlefectiviictrie wiring. At Leavenwerthe Kan., Dec. 4, Jas. H. Beddow, widely known as a plains acont elore the civil war and of late Tears .friend of Many - army officers during his ,picturesque activities as a range rider, died - aged 89. With the freezing solid of the Yu- iroietlier Beeday the -whiter highway kettle railroad terminus at White 4 - Iteeee, Was -established. Three - horse- drawn stages are opeartifig each way. tOtiard spriug there will be daily ser- aredmiaillima Mecaleb has forwarded to Miltahiegtoll, his resignation as deputy federal reserve agent of the Dallas (Texas) federal reserve bank, to be - u'.. iepd.1 LmeuL te the bureau of municipal research of elew York city. UNCLE SAM OBJECTS TO THEM. . -Captain Eloy-Ed and Van Papen Ob- eeptious to This Government. Washington.—Immediate withdrawal of Captain Karl Boy -Ed, naval attache, and Captain Franz von Paper', tallIAttitehe of the. German embassy, ' has - been reeneseed by the state de- partment. • In 'making formal announcement of this action Dec. 3, Secretary Lansing said that . the . ettaches had rendered themselves - Peeteona non grata to the United States government by improp- er activities in connection with naval and military matters. - The secretary acted with the full leapreval of President Wilson, who is understood to have determined that hti Vatted States shall be rid of for- eign . officials Who make themselves obnoxiaus by activity harmful to the hest hitereste of the nation. 'le The state department made its re- quest through Count von Bernstorff, the German ambassador. Announce- imenteat-therlact-iwas withheld a few gp.3,T i plAinotter of courtesy to Ger- many artettg, prevent the charge being that ilieldry trying the warship seepty-tocespirators of the Hamburg. American line in New York had in any way been influenced in reaching a ver- aleteC. . eellPt't'tfttit r itetteheee reeeired, bu,t none . is necessary, and it was takee for treated • that: the ambassador ordet-the attaches away as soon ,as he had exchanged communiCation wtth Beelim j l e. 411ennittealp Minnesota Returns. ' Smeefitetneisco.—The crippled Hill ljn p.eseta,_ returned to Golden Gate alter hiving turned back when well at sea on her first voyage to Lon- de, ngland. . She has in her brig Mee men who' if information made IIt's correCt, r are stdapected of ,Pinteriling an * .eiplosion which, the Inforination „says, occurred in the en- ithitt400ni WI' the trig freighter and *eget& her_, disability. Albany, N. Y.---Edwere E. McCall of ittewl,ffeekile.fornimejustioe of the au- 11 1 .Il me e.Fa u lliAI N 9.. w : P14 , )las. been re- movecr tern orrice as chairman of the Heft - ice ''Veitithission by Governor Whitman, who sustained, In nart. the champa neetereee areeme gi e. 1 . 4e ,. 1 1$8, Thon,teson in - feet 0. committee of the legisla- ture. flikeilibtlositock iii firms he Was to in esV g At 4 i$J ,- ,..) • Cangdailmi 1,415 . ,000 men liable for Military service, of whom 75 per cent are physically fit, Engineer H. F. Miller was killed, Brakeman J. A. Marquette was fatally injured and Fireman Schultz seriously hurt Sunday when the engine of an extra northbound Burlington freight train blew up near Cadoma, Wyo., 12 miles north of Casper. Judge Roy E. Ayers of Lewistown announced Monday before leaving for Anaconda that Judge John A. Mat- thews of Townsend would be in Lew- istown on Dec. 9 to preside at a num- ber of trials in cases where Judge Ayers is disqualified. The verdict of the coroner's jury considering the death of Mary Ander- son, delivered at Bozeman, was that she met death as the result of two gunshot wounds inflicted by her hus- band, Walter Anderson, on the eve- ning of Dec. 2. He is in jail. The well of the Ohio Oil company, in the Elk basin field just this side of the Montana -Wyoming line, which en- countered oil some days ago, broke in- to the second oil sand Saturday, re- sulting in a flow of .petroleum which spouted 25 teat above a 75 -foot der- rick. vo v7. The formal dedication of the section of the Milwaukee road that has just been electrified took place last Wed- nesday, when President A. J. Earling of the Milwaukee road, together with nosily the entire board of directors, will arrive in Butte and make the trip over the line. At a meeting of the directors of the chamber of commerce at Lewistown resolutions opposing the proposed re- duction in freight rates on Canadian coal to Montana points were adopted and the state railroad commission, which is soon to have a hearing on the matter, was asked not to make this change. Three officers from the state vet- erinarian's office, after examining a herd of dairy cows quarantined as an- thrax suspects, raised the quarantine and declared that they found no eve ttenetrof - the dread diSeese. 'The - hard belonged to a dairyman near Gregson and some of the cows manifested symptoms of what seemed to be an- thrax. . When Fred Hommel', owner of a claim in Dixie gulch, northeast of Butte, went to the breast of a tunnel Saturday to see what progress Albert King, a miner 70 years old, had made, he stumbled on King's body, 15 feet from the breast. The head was almost off the body and the chest was terri- bly lacerated. Four holes drilled in- to the breast told the story. The man had drilled four holes, loaded two and was tamping the third hole when the powder went off. Montana's two representatives fared exceptionally well in the matter of committee assiguments for the Sixty- fourth congress, and each realized his ambition. Representative Evans was made member of the mighty commit- tee on appropriations, which handles mostly appropriation bills and will play an important part in the work this session. Members on that com- mittee have no other committee as- signments. Representative Stout, as he requested, was made chairman of the committee on expenditures in the interior department and in addition retains his old places on the commit- tees ee. Publgehtneleeelrrigatiosita oil the Indian affairs and two lesser com- mittees. Frisco Fair Closes, So great was the attendance at the Panama -Pacific exposition Saturday, closing day, that it took the depart- ment of admission _until Sundial after- noon -to tiger* out that 48&b people passed through the gates and took part in the farewell celebration. This was. the largest attendance of any of the ,288. days the exposition was open and 'brought the total attendance to 18,871,957. Chinese Cruiser Crew Mutinies. Peking.—The government announces that it has received a telegram from General Yang at Shanghai saying that the Chinese cruiser Chao -Ho has been recaptured from its crew, which mu- tinied Sunday night and opened fire on two other warships and the Kaing- Nan arsenal. It is stated that a rebel land movement against the arsenal was repulsed and that peace has been restored. Great Silk Shipment. Seattle —Thr , Nirprm Vrpor. liner Awa Maru arrived here Satur- day from Yokohama with a cargo of raw and manufactured silk valued at $4,000,000. A special fast train will carry the silk to New York. Some people are easily pleased, es- pecially with themselves. The senate was convened with Vice and those in which Lieutenant Robert President Marshall absent. (twine- to Fay and IttiliEcharilPileeri l itere innate the illness of Mrs. Marshall.. It wa . s cated in New, Y,ork e ee e icaatiderstoid called to order by Secretaii!•ifisitir, many facts point to such a conclusion. and the -first business ealeath, eaeitatek-eaf this proves true the department ex- guration of newly elected members, followed immediately by the election of a president pro-tekapere.\ Senator James P. Clark of Arkansas was Node ad to succeed bin:melt having beep nominated by the delmocratic caucus last week. Republican senators nom- inated Senator Gallinger, New Hamp- shire, who will continue as minority leader. In both houses there was the usual flood of new bills. Among theta are various measures on the subject of na- tional defense andirthe attendant prob- lem for raising increased revenue. There also was - the government mer- chant -marine bill. In these will cen- ter chief interepe ot the, anaston, and Gosossoutot.--- th New York. --- 7 11r. Karl Buena, Cseorge ey were. discussed by the president when he addressed flie joint session. Kotter and Adolph Hachmeister of the HainburrAmerican line, recently con - LUMBER AND WOODWORKING. victed of conspiracy to / al t ars/4d' the The Hill Logging Co., at a recent United States government, were sem- meeting in Chehalis, voted to increase tenced to serve one and *half years capital stock from $150,000 to $.300,e in the federal penitentieq,sit Atlanta. 000. Joseph Poppinghatis was.sentenced to one year. The Hambekg-Atnerican line was fined $1. „ oc , All the defendants were admitted to 'bait pending , the suing outrof -a writ Of error in their behalf. ) , \ fail was fixed it $16,000 - 1.n . 'each owte-aindiSsrais-PeambOted trilettria4urety 4 . 1 ifi l liP 4 P - . .1)413 bL. .A a Li - 1 SWISH HAL1I8141 MESOPOTAMIA operations about March I, with a 1 0 - ffrriT; daily cut of 50,000 feet of lumber. Tu in Superior Numbers, Force E. W. Harris, general manager of ' - ' n '''fia'avnshend's Men to Retire. the Dalkena Lumbar pm, has an- nounced the purchase by his concern of 50,000,000 feet of white pine Um - pects within a few weeks to have com- pletely defeated plans. „nationwide, to interfere with menation shipments in the east to England, and in the weed t4.Rusalato,4 - ken e Who the head of the suspected con- spiracy was or whether it had any one head is notallaCoVered, *Win gather- ing up the threads in the Crowley and Pa_Y_Pffsee the departmeirenas laid its hands on inforinstem fstekti e may de- velop along that line. , GERMANESTEAMERiAtlibl , 4,111. The Harrison Shingle Co. at Har- rison, Idaho, which recently suffered fire loss, will rebuild along modern lines. Armstrong & Miles of the Globe Lumber Co., Globe, Wash., have pur- chased a sawmill plant in Tacoma, which will be removed to Globe and installed in connection with the com- pany's shingle mill. They will start PARTY at New Y twi ll4tig Salim v. theft from two bands and the cheering of several thousand persons gathered on 10 , J alma zit , : .moi „we, 4k, the steamer Oscar II., car- - elm the Henry Ford peace expede CHAMP CLARK REELECTED - AS FEDERAL OFFICIAL'S BELIEVE thin, sailed at 3:25 this afternoon for RINGLektitintatilkitie allele bat FiRST EVEterffeatOUSE OF REP FUSE litT4T WES. TY1 It ' the Potstrbingy 4outeloteettalily total _ ° \4 1 4Willia 1460 - THIS IS THE 64TH -- SESSION coNFIE ASE 11 r I 4 .T.Piiilaiug_paomas !A., tiffs - On - tirrivstrats - the — ttoiii :-- an hlur before the steamer sailed to bid fare- well to Mr. Ford. Mr. Bryan spent half an hour with Ford. Mr. Bryan spent dome time on the ship bidding \Godspeed.\ as he term- ed 16 to the Pub'. \There is some chance for the mis- sion to succeed,\ said Mr. Aryan; \tera. gs all I care to say now, -except that I wish them every good -fortune.\ Henry Ford boarded the steamer at 1:05 o'clock, accompanied by several friends and three policemen. The lat- ter held the crowd back while Ford posed for a score of moving picture eameras and more thar 75 other pho- tographers. Ford carried a tattered American flag, which he waved with one band while he repeatedly doffed his hat to the cameras. Police Called Upon. An hour before sailing time the Crowd at the dock became so great that police reilerves had to be called to keep the gangway, clear for pas - Demonstration for Woman fiufframa 4 11 Ar LI y's Case—De- Early on Program—Flood of Still' °'-' tectrve Employed by Embassy In Already Presented—National San Francisco Mixed In Alleged Defense, Increased Revenue. Conspiracy—Who Is Head? Washington.—The opening Tuesday WatiblegeiteeerAftek'weelte of inves- of the sixty-fourth confress at Wash- tigation covering the.entire country ington, D. C., was enlivened by the sr department Or justi44 officials are rival cd belated Members andviktIo - now convitteed , that they hager ! ander dreds of visitors attracted by the open- arrest most oe the mem implicate4) 11 log eitcongtems, the convention of the pots to intereere with American cepa- Codgresedonal Union, for Woman Sur- *nem ,i n te w e e t r eee o r wee (rage, and the meeting of the national , Implicated; With DetitetIve.- democratic committee. The arrest 4,1tharaleg e is e gan e rrien- Elect Speaker First cisco of Baron vonBrinchen who Both houses convened at noon. In claims to be connected- with the :of - the lower branch the first •caeler; of 'f lee or the German - cOnsul geteral business was the election of a speaker. there, -is regarded here as et* of the When Clerk Trimble called the sesSimi most important made in several to order Speaker Champ Clark was ereeite The baron, iikcotdhag to the nominated by the maloritY (229) for information here, wsee4 grew:event fig - reelection, and Representattee Mann are in the plans of C. C. Crowley, a of Illinois was proposed by the repub- detective, arrested' ilaine city, Sensors and for porters to carry on licans (197). charged with plots against :munition hoard the luggage. Speaker Clark, upon taking t he . factories. More arrests are to be made - After the ship - had been cleireti of chair, recognised .Representative in the Crowley Vide, ark - iMportant visitors and the captain was waiting Mondell of Wyoming. This signalize e . v o onvon * v o ix 4 4 4, ri m _ When in the word to cast off, the crowd time a demonstration for women suffrage,' the witnesses the governbrnt . 1 8 B e d e filled the large pier gathered as close the Wyoming member having seeke,„..te i ng chosen to introdu,ce the, Susan B. 4..$$ti testipilopir: retteiSlin , PrilftelititfrIahct give their rt9 ,- Ilte .43hiv..18 POSilible -1 ;tether • !le s itglaatriotfe sank! or cditeere' Ica - the thony constitutional amendment ff ' - -7 euecet of the venehre. equal suffrage -as the first reselation , Cries _for „ord\ , were re - spondee to' bf, - r. re,appearing at the rail,e - 41e It*a.nat _aufficient- ly strong to make himself heard to the great crowd, so one of his friends volunteered to act es his spokespaAn. He sabli` ; 0 4 f1o1i1,p1r9gR1t! \Mr. Ford asks . .me to assure you., individtrally )itad'xitItectiVely that he appreciates this demonatration and that he thank& you - all fertile' interest In the mission. Mr. Ford nodded In approval as the volunteer finished speaking. The peace delegates received large red celluloid buttons bearing a white star with rays and the words \Out of the trenches by Christmas.\ of the new congress. Although officials I lel:mid irt admit that directgebuniefforr - ' litta' been es - The Senate. tablishOd ihialwejen :the., Crowley plots Year an aff for Let di °nape- Isondon.—The British, German and Turkish accoents of the recent figilt ber along the Priest river in Idaho- r hag in Mesopotamia, while containing , from the Menasha Woodenware CO. of Menaaha, Wis., for a consideration of $250,000. The figures are for stumpage only. The state board of land commis- sioners has ifettraised tide lands along the Pysht - river, in Clallam county, upon application for purchase by the Merrill -Ring Lumber Co. of Seattle, which has 25,000 aeres of timber land lying back of Pysht river, estimated to contain 3,000,000,000 feet. The company intends making necessary improvements to operate logging camps upon an extensive scale. Effective October 21, all through rates on sash and doors from Wash- ington. Oregon and 'California to all territory east of Buffalo and Pitts- burg were cancelled and the new rafes will be the full combination of local rates on Chicago. Sash and door factories on the north Pacific coast have- heretofore had a through rate to all points east of Buffalo and Pittsburg on sash and doors in car- load lots of 80 cents Per 100 pounds. This means that shippers will, under the new tariffs, have to pay rates from 3 1 / 2 to 9 1 / 2 cents nigher than heretofore applied on commob un- glazed doors and knocked down sash If they attempt to shill, set up sash or glazed or wired doors, the ad- vances will be from 8 1 4 to 14 1 / 2 cents General Bell in Command. San Francisco.—Major General J. F. Bell took command Wednesday of the western department of the U, S. army. Mr. Common Citizen stepped into the butcher shop With Zlo-or-die look on his face. \ ) :t2:1Y., \ The steak, mostly bone, was thrown on the scales. \Look here,\ remonstrated Mr. Common Citizen in as firm and de- termined a voice as he could com- mand, \you're giving me a big piece of bone.\ \Oh no, I ain't,\ returned the butcher; \ger paying for it.\ '''iordge Farewell Statement - Before sailing Mr. Ford issued what -he, called a fareWell statement. \ am .seilbaje. with the firm belief,\ he said, \that a great good Will come of this intstailies' It will keep alive the thought thletateace is_poeeilkie,afk well iitt - iitaable, end , so long as that is done hope of peace ilixists. 'I know little of the details of the working plan of the peace oonference, but I do know that every effort will be made for an honorable . mid early peace. It this, conference, succeeds only In bringing about a binning of negotiations for • peace, it will have accomplished a geed , work. • \Iii/Y heart IS Ale .wcirk for peace . and - -it is for thie' reason i lliat 'I have stood behind the ship ,andlielned the people to reach a common meeting place to discuss the possibilitiee of peace with the representatives of other neutral countries. \We are leaving on time and leav- ing with the -feeling that those parts of the -world now at peace and at war have heard of the plan and are in sym - pathy with the move and that the best wishes of the great majority go with us.\ nenoe.alls rifles respecting the c - - .Peace Agitator,' Strike Instigator. ualtteerand chaeaucter of the British re tiitNe York.—United Stat.?! AtteraftY Snowden Marshall, in a stAtemeet treat the \Vdgriti - dearly etsablish 1. the fact that without further reen- issued Tuesday, declared iiitiftistliffni- rnation which convinces him that, an forcements to equal the overpowering erganitation, known ageLabor's Nation - ;odds against. Ithigh ' they have been gtruggli , g, uritiat , al Peace council, was financed ' by Franz Rintelen, now held in a British General - Townshend have little pros- peeteof e cotninning the „man* Ao. Bag- prison, through David Lamar, to stir dad; 4e* aPPeil°4 f4 weelcs nufPasctrikturiensghimufancittiotiness. engaged in man - ago r. : almost withIn their ease. U gGreece Still Undecided. iirr-41glancl •Atrmy.. u5 iiid0n.—The . negotiations between Ottawa, Out.—Half the population Greece and the allied powers still drag of England is engaged in producing on at Athens, new hitches seemingly war munitions to aid the.3,000,04)0,men aria/144a ;the tild ortesid' imeothed in the fighting lines ma warereeiett is out.. gnalidarAt is reportedi settle. costing Great Britain $1,000,000 an meet - t eett been reached, only to be hour ,.t Brand, fMalloial agent of followed the next by denials or ac David Lloyd -George, minister of mu- counts of fresh difficulties confroet- nitions, told businese teen it a lunch- ing the diplomats. eon here Monday. Those preset*, in- . eluded the duke of 'COhitenght; - 'Sir All Agree to Allied Agreement. Edward Borden and Effr-Viiffrid+Lati; London.—The text of the declare rier. Con signed last week by the British 7 Smithsonian Institution Grows: Washington. ---A new $1,060,000 build- ing is to be added to the Smithsonian institution here to contain the collec- tioie naintinge, engravings, .Porce- lab's ,anfl ,larnazes &tree te the insti- tution &mil' time to time by Charles L. Freer of Detroit. Mr. Freer taut given $1,000,0,09. e 91e institution for the new. buttling. plans for which are be- ing. dtit e It will be Iodated on the Smithsonian grounds. _ Stick to Your Intentions. Don't put off getting Hanford's Bal- sam o royrra until something hap- pens. Get it now and be prepared for accidents. You will find frequent use for it in your home and in your stable for cuts, burns, bruises and any sore, any lameness. Adv.. Occasionally it may be all right to put up a bluff, but don't fall over it. foreign. secretary, Sir Edward Grey, and the French, italkan,,JePallese .444 1 Russian ambassadors at London, en- gaging each of the five eations' Mit to conclude a separate peace, has been agreed Upon. ira 1 Held for Murder—Shoots Self. Sebeca.' Katt---Dr. Herbert R. Mar- whoevas arrested eat Sabetha, Ken., recently te on a charge of mur- dering hieiffeln Salt Lake city Nov. 28, shot himself in the head in the county jail here Dec. 4. P*41WtI-*ovnn Killed. Portman, Ore.—lam. Margaret Bow- ers, a working woman 60 years Old, sustained a fractured skull Sunday by a jitney driven by W. D. Swaggert. London.—\Germany can halre peace as soon as she likes,\ remarks the Post editorially, \but only on the terms of the allies.\ \.( e III 1 1 1'11 11$ I IIE ...— _ ----- — C --- riRISTMAS nmEt net man men - be a trasandeepeenticed. - \ so eeitirsl r , r t st rored e ±1,7,1r t i,Zid , ....pleasant_ associations _are .tiot-, awakened--hy the recurrence of z o.it.0micuiti Chriersask -, 7 . - p1,- will eit ettu \: 'is 00,e -to. It them Wi it- \ea Abat Asiols' succisedingariamis ' ' 'loose cherished hope or happy prospect of Ahlt year before4: diatrusIkpe pined aWaSe that thOrsjaant,hr4 prowls to \reirtifsel than eif'setkette fr4itabte 'eta and ISsifened • ineismes-=-of the feast they once bestowed on hollow friends, and of the cold looks that meet them now in, adversity and. e ratsfettune. ' , Lei II ()i.--1 ..i,l ill 0 Never heed such dismal remade. ,cenceer There lit fet a / 4 m wtvo fast heed long enough in the world. who canoe; call Up such thisuOsi any day in the year Then de not select the merriest of the three hundreciend sixty- five for ea\ doleful recollections, but draw your chair nearer the blazing Fre—fill the alas and send round the song -and if your room be smaller than it was a dozen years ago, or if your glass be filledwith reeking punch instead -of sparkling wine Pet a good face on the matter . . Look on the merry faces of your children (if you have any) ILS they sit round the fire. One little seat may be empty; one slight form that gladdened the father's hel*rt and roused the mother's pride to look upon, may not be there. Dwell not upon the past; think not that One short year age the fair child now resolving into don, sat before you with the bloom oF health ,upon asehatit and the serty of is. fancy in as -joyous eye. Reflect upon eour - ()resent WS/sip—of • wNch 'every wan boa Many — Pet-on Your .past misfortunes. of syhich all Men have some- Fill ~dean nein, wnh a merry face and contented heart. Our life en it but your c•brilt' 'nue shell be Merry and yter.New Year a happy one- , , , , , !l i g 1,110 i $ ll llIl till WW I Wit Nuts a'ititt —Cherie , DMA. NOT A MISS. • , pcgDc7FD C=)=C- ele 11111. IrAP -te•e-e_ee,`\Bitekta„. er' e.eaa As two little girls were hurrying to school, one of them stir a disodrded Christmas tree in an ash herrel. , ----'sfAtzte - ,• 1- natd — stre, 'do yet Santa Claus is a myth?'.' - \ • \Certainly not,\ retorted „her com- panion, glancing sharply at her. \San- ta Claus is it mister. What makes, you lisp Borate . R . $1 t R WHOLE WEEK'S CELEBRATION Descendants of Old Spanish &sitters Observed Christmas With Dim $ teer elxl Parties. Among the descendants of the old Spanish settlers we find that they ob- serve a week in the celebration of Christmas. This begins one week .be- fore Christmas. In the .daytime they have dinners at each other's homes, and in the evenings they give a series of parties at the different houses. In the evening the young folk go to the home of ode of their- number and knock, and then aW begin to sing. Those within the honae,ask, \Who is there?\ and the ittiiiver is, \The Vir- gin Mary and St. Josepe rmek lodging In your house.\ TO - Carry out the Bi- ble story they are at first refused ad- mittance, and then the door is opened wide and they are all given a hearty welconie., On Christmas eve the old and .„ yerird4 join together and have a higemlebration. • In - 1 , arge hall they ffe i tie one side,te represent the IMtur ger, and here they very sestet:only give a little play in take part, the characters being *try and Jo- seph, the wtse men,' the shepherds and the angels. This play is very real to 0).8114,4nd they all play their parts with a reverent spirit. ' Led ' A Christmas Prayer. &Wine the etes to see my brother's Woe; '103itat me the vision that perceives hi ?are, That I, amid my Christmas toys, may14 And take some touch of mitigation lo c!,1 41 e5e- tee mote point the way . thii I ay Quin*/ find His acre waiting for the 'Mal relies. And tips my eyes that I may not be blind To tasks of love that ease the sting or grief. 21r1r+RUidlet 1##C Old Custom Still Prevails. The Christmas feeding of the birds Is still prevalent in many of the prov- inces of Norway and Sweden. Bunches of -oats are placed on the roofs of boasee, on trees and fences, to fur- nish them with their share of the Christmas bounty.
