if 1 ,1 K si ?f- n 1 miniinimmiunv 1 1 1 ,n, i I, ji in BavW' Pit A I IE Jolly, potueiuea, toibl I I erlng old Santa Claus Is JL I In hot water. Preachers and parents are rising up against him, declar ing that he Is a fraud and as such ougjit to be suppressed. Thank heaven, a spora dic agitation like this can have no serious results. Recalcitrant parents and preachers will pass away. Santa Claus will endure until the end, as tie has endured from the beginning. No -pfie can say how old he Is or at what period he made his first appear ance among prehistoric men. Tho name of Santa Claus, by which he is known in America, Is the Dutch pet name for St. Nicholas. Tne name Crlss Cringle, by which he is known In England, Is a corruption of Christ Klndleln, or the Christ child. But the festivities that distinguish Christmas existed long before Christianity, and a jolly god of good cheer appears as the personification cf the period from the earliest pagan times. Now, the Sauta Claus of today is simply that old jolly god sobered up, washed and purified. The Dlcmysia of the Greeks, the Saturnalia of the Romans, the Twelve Nights of the old Norsemen and ot the Teutons all celebrated the com ing "of the winter solstice. People then gave themselves up to all sorts of revelry and excess. In the Dionysla the representative figure was not the young Dionysus or Bacchus, but the aged, cheery and disreputable Sllenus, the chief of the Satyrs, or the god of drunkards. In the Saturnalia it was Saturn, In the Germanic feastB it was Tlior, both long bearded and white haired gods like Sllenus. Now, although the central figure of the Christian festivul Is the child God, the Christ Klndleln, the Influence of long pagan custom was too strong within the breasts ot the early Chris , tlans to be easily superseded. The tra dition of hoary age as the true repre sentative ot the dying year and its attendant Jollifications still remained smoldering under the ashes of the past. It burst into new flame when the past was too far back to be look ed upon with the fear and antagon ism of the church, and there seemed no longer any danger of a relapse in to paganism. At first, however, the more dignified representative was chosen us moj-e In keeping with the occasion. Saturn was unconsciously rebaptlzed as St. Nicholas, the name of the saint whose festival occurs In December, and who, as the patron of young people, is especially fitted for the patronage of tre festival which has come to bo looked upon as especially tjiat ot the young. At first St. Nicholas did not supersede the Christ child, but accompanied Him in His Christmas travels, as. Indeed, he still does in certain rural neighbor hoods ot Europe where the modern spirit has been least felt. Bt. Nicholas according to the haglo loglsts, was a bishop of Myra, who flourished early In the fourth century. Ho Is the patron of children and schoolboys. It is Btrange that everywhere St. Nicholas Is most honored and his feast day most observed the most pious and Instructed among the com mon people know little of the legend of the Balnt. He Is treated with that mixture of seriousness and frivolity which becomes a dying myth. One masquerades in his dress in the even ing and prays to htm in the morning, nnd ro fulfils a duty without spell ing the fun. Yet even the mumming has an educational purpose. THE GERMAN SANTA CLAUS. In Southern Germany and Austria a youth possessing the necessary relig ious knowledge Is musked, dressed in long white vestments, with a silk scarf and furnished with a miter and croler. He Is accompunled by two angels and a whole troop of devils. The angels are dressed much like the choir boys in Anglican or Catholic churches. Each carries a basket. The duvlls blackeo their laces and add flurkr rf vAn Bw mornmft dump). Eo( loon in tht vmnfl, hvyK, o vAni and ISe Jons. 4 thrujh., it jtar and firefly lomj. 'iMn and iWt f llloetf Wunij.) W b In lh JilVtr it hnra the earth in (he inf. di m fw pu' uwy oat in HK Oliver mwunj nv iW brim the earth in Km arm of June VM) lily nd rtjt and imijl in.- Clint and flUam of Iht aotdtrv-rwj ifcrj ojfecb In fh jctnttit Sod Mr burnt aittri abosfc mem nod if and unura of citmaiij, Lik jvfcyinft, amethyjtj SnMlnj oAr e lilj fced. Jvortn dv on the vAolttj bloom. .. -5W:3 o) frojt Where -the .row gno. red And ft fiflden heart o( the fcornmji Jjbtd JtJ lifiht throuffh H Summer moon. tov huno mi5fj vAere the jun flamtj whilt, Snowdrift ovtr tb dalej and dunev Clinh of let vAert lh flrabM bunA,nt, . ;Shijfiri iray (or the poldtn fibril Of Autumn ojternoony Hear! of hobe vtn (fie Jun jfione britflit, Drtam of talh in d jnoW bound filen, ivAth the hitf of Cod on d Chnjlrnoj nifiM. wn foer or dvi i u u ww j ' . . react on earm. jwn win ,v m,..; horns of pigs' snouts or Jcn other fantastic, devices as the Ingenuity of boyhood can devise. They are girt with chains, which they shake or rat tle furiously. It is thought much bet ter fun to be a' devil than an angel, hence the number of the former Is only limited to the number ot boys who are able to command the neces sary regalia. In the twilight of the evening of December the good bish op and his suite begin their round of visits. It is the season for juvenile parties, and almost all the children ot the village are collected in a few separate houses, each of which St. Nicholas visits In turn. He enters with the two angels, while his swar thy followers are left to play their pranks outside. A great silence falls upon the children, and one by one they are called up and examined by the saint. This part of the evening's business Is carried on with the great est seriousness and decorum. Simple religious questions suited to the age of each child are propounded, after which It has to sing hymns and re cite prayers. If the ordeal is sucess fully passed the ungols present it with nuts and apples. It it falls it has to stand aside. When the examination Is ended the devils are called in. They are not allowed to approach the good children, but may tease and fronton the naughty ones as much as they like. They do this at first as a matter of duty. Duty Is followed by the pleasures whose anticipation had caused them to enlist pleasures which consist In pursuing the lnrger girls with the attempt to blacken their faces. Their whole appearance iu intended to be grotesque and farcical, For the entire evening they are allow ed full license In the villages, though In some cf the lw the festival hue. for good reasons, been prohibited. For weeks before the eve of St. Nich olas a devil may occasionally be seen at the window of some cottage, where tb children are supposed to be naugh- ty or their elder ulster Is known to be particularly attractive. It Is proof of the sound nerves of the children thnt no harm comes from the ordeal. When St. Nicholas has left the chil dren return to their own homes, but they do not teiieve that the generosity ot the saintly bishop has been ex hausted. After saying their prayers and going to bed they place dishes or baskets upon w.ndowsiII, with their names written within ..them, and in these their parents deposit small pre sents, which -their little sons and daughters fancy he has brought. Iu many places the bugbear over shadows In Importance both the Christ child and St. Nicholas. He ap pears under different names and Id different guises. In Lower Austria he Is the frightful - Krampus, with his clanking chains and horrible devll'f mask, who, notwithstanding his gilded nuts and apples, gingerbread and toys, which he carries in his basket, Is the terror of the . nursery. In Hanover, Holsteln and Mecklenburg he Is known as Clas. In Silesia his name Is Joseph. Sometimes the bugbear was a fe male In Lower Austria she was call ed the Budelfrau. In Suabla it was the Berchtel who chastised children that did not spin diligently with rods but rewarded the Industrious with dried pears, apples and nuts. The female bogie survives, espec ially in Russia and In Italy. In the former place she is known as the Baboushka, In the latter as the Bef ana. Befana la a corruption of Eplph onla or Epiphany. For It la on Epiph any, Jan. 0, that the Itlatilans make presents to their children In com memoratlon of the gifts given by the three wise men to Christ on that date. New York Herald. A 8urpre For Father Christmas. "Dear me, how very strange this Is!'' So Father Christmas cries. "Whose can these small red stockings be. This very curious size? "While traveling , round the world. I've' seen Ot stockings, many a score, But never till tonight have found Such tiny ones before." Gladys was tucked up fast asleep; Her doll, too, was In bed; But Dolly's eyes were open wide. And she heard what he said. She sat right up and called (dolls talk ' On Chrlstnia-s night, you see) "They are mine, those stockings; Gladys Has hung them there for me!" God Rest You, Merry Gentlemenl (Old English Carol.) God rest you, merry gentlemen! Let nothing you dismay, For Jesus Christ our Saviour Was born -upon this day. To save us all from Satan's power When wo are gone astray; O tidings of comfort and Joy, For Jesus Christ our Saviour ' Was born on Christmas Day. MOTHER AND CHILD. N. Barablno. a Living Italian Pointer : : If i Si '..J&w'lIa - - - .. s ....... Aerial Flight is Assured - As Easily as the Sea is Navigated, Says Sir Hiram Maxim, Will the Air Be Used, in a Decade, For the Purposes of Trade and Travel. : : : : : : : BALLOON FOR WAR, Sir Hiram Maxim, In an interview I In Iha Maw Vtflr tfa.l1 ant. 4V.... I within ten years at the outside men will be navigating the air as surely and safely as they do the land or the sea, and Professor Huntington also Joins in his belief, both declaring that the aeroplane is the airship ot the future. A Herald correspondent in terviewed some of the leading au thorities in England, and on all hands he was practically told: "It it be not now, it will come soon." Sir Hiram Maxim said: "We shall not have any balloons in future; we shall have flying machines. The fly ing machine is heavier than air, Just as the birds are. There are no bal loons in nature." Continuing, the famous Inventor said: "In his recent lecture Colonel Fullerton advised continuing experi ments with balloons. I don't agree with him. As a matter of fact, It has only been on very rare occasions that the balloon has returned to its start ing point, and these results have only been obtained In France. "Much experimenting has been done in England, but we have not at tained such satisfactory results. At present several of the best engineers are engaged in studying aeronautics, and perhaps the whole science ot aerial navigation may be solved any day. "These men are being assisted in their work by clever balloon makers, but, as I have already said, I think the balloon will soon be a thing of the past. So I always advise my friends to give their attention to the flying machine. "A few years ago the automobile was looked upon as a sort of mon strosity; now It Is practically a neces sity, and I really think that in ten years, at the very outside, we will be navigating the air as easily and as surely as we are now navigating the sea and even roads. "For a balloon to lift It must have specific gravity less than air. To attain this it must be exceedingly fragile. Therefore it is useless for all practical purposes. Again, it has to be of comparatively enormous di mensions. "Thus, you see, in a balloon you have a combination of size and fragil ity, which must tell against its use fulness. But with the advent of the true flying machine these drawbacks will disappear. "So I have no hesitation' whatever In saying that before many more fears pass we shall do away complete ly with the balloon. If we are ever to fly it muBt be with a machine heavier than air. Many men are busily engaged in trying to invent a machine which, like a bird, will stay In the air as long as they wish and o wherever they desire to guide It. 'Wright brothers are engaged In making these machines In America and M. Santes-Dumont has spent a large fortune and, I am pleased to say( has met with a' certain amount at success in his experiments. The German Emperor too, is taking the matter up, and he will have the lead ing scientists in Germany at his dis posal. Then Professor Langley and myself have both worked hard trying to solve the problem. "That solution Is coming, whatever people may think, and I really believe myself that within a year from now there will be a-great number ot ma chines in the air. This Is certain to happen within two years at any rate. "We cannot get away from the fact that the real flying machine has now made its appearance. M. Santos-Du-mont has proved this in his recent demonstrations, and these mark the beginning ot a totally new epoch in the history ot the world. There are sure to be some startling develop ments within the next year. We are only on the threshold at present, and the immediate future is full of possi bilities. "Personally, I think that the road to success lies in the development of powerful motors. This means care ful and expensive experiments, yet I feel sure that success will soon be achieved. The flying machine will be a sporting affair In the beginning, just as the automobile was. "But in the same way it will be de veloped so that it can be used for practically all commercial purposes. Some persons may declare this the dream ot a visionary. It is no such thing. Flying machines have come. They will be improved, and at no very distant time, ten years at most, we shall be traveling from place to place in our flying machines just as 'at the present day we go by train or automobile." Professor A. K. Huntingtou, of King's College, London, who was one lot the two British competitors in the international balloon race which end ed in England, also thinks that the immediate future holds great proba bilities in the development ot aerial navigation. Ka said: ' "The future is with aeroplanes. Personally I have not done much with them up to now, except having mod els made. Probably what has retard ed progress up to now 1b the expense attaching to the experiments, i "The Wright brothers have been pegging away for years, and must have tried a great number ot models. Some years ago they got as far as an (apparatus that would life a man, and although they have kept the result ot (their trials secret, there is no doubt that they have made a great advance ln the last year or two. I "Of course I am only going on what I beard, but I think they have succeeded in producing a flying ma- chjne of practical value. A great deal of scepticism has been expressed about their flying twenty-four miles .That is a very considerable achieve ment. I "Yet. personally, I think they have done It and now, so far as they are (concerned, ft limply, becomes a quet- Its Vehicle an Aeroplane .'BUT . NOT . FOR . WORK tion ot working out the details. "However, it all amounts to this: The flying machine is an accomplished fact, as several others beside the brothers Wright have arrived at good results. I think we will soon see a workable machine. You see when once you get a machine that will lift, Improvements are sure some Tery rapidly. "The objection I see in the aero plane at present Is its lightness and construction, but this will be grad ually overcome, I have no doubt. In order to clear any obstacles near its starting point it must be light, so that it can lift rapidly, and on this very account the machine can be eas ily damaged. "This has occurred with M. Santos Dumont. Still, when once we have got to the principle of the thing, im provements are only a question of time. There is no doubt that the dirigible balloon will be valuable tor war purposes, but we can never hope to produce it at small cost, and the future rests with the aeroplane. "There Is no reason to doubt that an aeroplane can be driven against the wind, and the great thing wanted in It now Is stability. In this lies the weakness of this demonstration. But, of course, one Is sure to try to overcome these difficulties. - "Still, until thea aeroplane is kept In the air for a longer time than M. Santos-Dumont succeeded in doing, it is not possible to say that, through some fault of its construction, the machine will not tilt. There are oc casionally strong gusts ot wind, and any one of these might turn the aero plane over. "In dealing with aeroplanes, it must be borne in mind that you are traveling near the ground and, to be successful, the machine must be built so that it will go a sufficient height from the ground to clear houses, trees and anything else that may come in the way. These difficulties will, of course, be overcome in time. "But the solution of the aeroplane Is dependent upon actual experiment. Theory helps us to see the limitations of any particular form ot construc tion, but we do not know enough at present to say what is the best form ot construction. Therefore, it is by experiment and by this method alone that we shall learn. "Still, I think that well within the next five years a very considerable advance will have been made in this particular branch ot aeronautics. Not bo very long ago people scouted the idea of sending messages across the sea by wireless telegraphy. Yet it has .been dope, and In tbe same way traveling through the air wllf be come a reality." M. Georges Besancon, of Paris, secretary of the Aero Club, an editor of the Aerophile, has received a long letter from the Wright brothers, of Dayton, Ohio, explaining their ex periments in the last few years. This letter adds little to what is al ready known of the claims of the Wright brothers, beyond bringing out more clearly than ever the fact that considerable trouble has been met with In finding the correct way ot maintaining one's balance in the air. It is tjils problem, in fact, with which M. Santos-Dumont Is now struggling. At the Aero Club a good deal ot scepticism reigns concerning the claims made by the Wrights, especial ly with regard to the oft repeated statement that the French Govern ment has practically purchased the apparatus. M. Bejancon said that so far as hs knew the offer made by tpe Wrights, that they would display the apparatus to any one willing to pay a million fiance ($200,000) for Its purchase in case they succeeded in flying fifty kilometres (thirty-one and one-fourth- miles) In an hour, had never been withdrawn. He considered it aston ishing that the offer had never been accepted, seeing that no risks were to be run. M. Jacques Faure, hero of several sensational cross Channel balloon trips and other long distance flights, seen by a Herald correspondent con cerning the Wrights, said he had never from the commencement had the slightest confidence In the state ments made concerning their long distance flights. Mlsslonn had been sent over from France to Investigate the statements made, and had re turned with a verdict of "Not proven." The Curse of Pockets. A tailor who bad received an order for a suit of clothes waB asked by the customer's wife for an Interview. "I want to ask you as a special favor," she said, "not to put any poc kets in my husband's clothes." "Why not?" asked the astonished tailor. "Because they are responsible for his looking bo shabby bo much ot the time," she explained. "Ha wears his clothes for weeks without pressing because he says It la too much trou ble to change the things in his poc kets to another suit. He says that halt the men who go round In seedy clothes do bo for the same reason. It that la so. Just leave out the poc kets and they will have no excuse toi shabblness," "That Is a new potnt of view," said the tailor. "I will see about 'it. " But when the sui( came home it had the usual number ot pockets.. New York Sun. Lobsters For lioulevardlers. The head waiter of th rata Ha Paris is going over to spend a month I in Mew xork for the purpose of studying tbe method ot preparing I American dishes. He will make a special stuay ot Drolled lobster and cocktails. Henri, with his pink whls Vers on ot the sights of Parts is known to all wealthy Americana who visit Paris. ParU Dispatch, to NW. York American, , . . 'WORTH KNOWINCM A soldier in the Philippines is re ported to have been cured of stutter ing by being shot through the throat It is estimated that the apple crop in the United State this year will amount to more than 36,000,000 bar rels. In West Brldgewater, Mass., re cently the first church wedding In forty-four years took place in the Unitarian church. In the west cloister of Westmin ster Abbey is a gravestone to John Broughton, once champion prize fighter of England. A .New Yorker, a youth In his teens, Is reported to have sued a young woman of the same city, al leging breach of promise and asking $100,000 damages. The Government of Victoria, Aus tralia, has appropriated $25,000 for the making of roads by prisoners through the "bush" in unsettled parts ot the State. Pethlck Lawrence, husband of one of the "suffragists" Imprisoned In London, promised to subscribe 10 a day to the woman's suffrage fund for every day his wife remains in Jail. Japanese children begin to go to school when six years old. During the first four years they learn Jap anese and Chinese; In the next four years every child has to learn Eng lish. William Plnckney Whyte, United .States Senator from Maryland, who recently celebrated his eighty-second birthday, has never been inside a sa loon, never smoked and never rodo In a cab. Denmark, famous for her great exportation of butter, has 600 cows to every 1000 of her inhabitants, and if five heads are counted a fam ily there are two and one-half cows to every family. Up in Vermont they killed a bur glar who had $118.20 on his person, and after paying his burial expenses and erecting a monument to him, turned $63 and the twenty cents in to the town treasury. Major John S. Horlbeck, ot Charleston, S. C, la raid to own the largest bearing pecan orchard In tbe world. He has more than sixty acres in bearing trees and his main grove consists of 650 acres. The neatest town In the world is Brock, in Holland. So tidy are tbe inhabitants that they will not allow horses in the streets. It contains a population of 2700, and the chief in dustry is the making ot Edam cheese. " German firms ere building very large gas engines, one having just been built of 2000 horse power for a mining company, and a number ot 1500 horso power tandem gas en gines and 1200 horse power gas dy namos are reported. In Turkey there are 1500 schools in which girls receive education. There are forty secondary schools having 3000 girls on their rolls. The learning of the Koran Is compulsory, and arithmetic, geography and ele mentary science are taught. DISTRIBUTING CENTRES. Cities From Which the Great Volume of Printed Matter is Sent Out. A striking example of the great volume of printed matter which the Postofilce Department is called upon to handle from month to month is found in a report recently Issued by the department. Of printed matter, designed for general distribution, 28,000,000 pounds were shipped in one month lust year by publishers at the rate of a cent a pound at the 100 largest postofflces in the United States, the total amount of such shipments hav ing increased from 296,000,000 pounds in 1896 to 450,000,000 in 1900. These shipments of printed mat ter, collected and transmitted by the Post office Department, constitute a very fair guage of the distributing points of news and literature in the United States, and the relation which they bear to each other 1b peculiar and has little reference to popula tion. New York stands at the head with more than twenty-five per cent.' of the whole shipments ot the country. Chicago follows with about two-thirds ot the shipments of New York. Then follow St. Louis, Philadelphia and Boston, in the ordor named, Boston's shipments seeming unduly low, and then Kansas City, Cincinnati and Augusta, Me., the shipments of Au gusta seeming unduly high. Minneapolis, Sau Francisco, Pitts burg, Detroit, St. Paul, Cleveland and Milwaukee follow all of them minor but populous cities and then come Springfield, Ohio, and Elgin, 111., two small places, Springfield be ing notable on account ot IU output ot agricultural machinery, and Elgin on account ot its manufacture of watches and its shipments ot con densed milk. Baltimore comes next, then Den ver, Omaha, Des Moines, Atlanta, Lincoln, Nashville, Louisville, In dianapolis and Washington. Bangor, Me., exceeds Buffalo; Dallas, Tex., exceeds New Orleans. Brooklyn has shipments little larger than those of Watervllle, Mo., and Rochester, N. Y.; Wllllamspoit. Tex., nnd Mem phis, Tenu., have about tbe. same shipments. Albany, N. Y., and Provldenco, R. I., are tar down on tho list. Newark, N. Ji Is still further down, and Charleston, S. C, ranks below Ra cine, Wis. It is estimated thut it would take (5,000 postal can to car ry these econd-cUss mail mattor. phjpmenti. . city food vs. cou.vrnr. The Girl Who Came Back to MB lmttan For Her Health. "I think I'll be getting wc'l now that I have come to the city to live, said the girl who had been living ia the country for her health, "and can have what I want to eat good things. Look at these peaches I got for our breakfast real peaches, red one side and creamy on the other. Bee, they are so fine you can take the peeling off with your fingers. And guess what I paid for them. Next to nothing. I haven't had any this sea son. You see they don't have peaches in the country till they grow on the trees. I love the kind that grow on the New York pushcarts. "Now, don't think I'm extrava gant, but I bought a canteloupe, too. We can eat that first, then make tht peaches our dessert. "Do canteloupes grow on trees or Just come up out of the ground T 1 never saw any at all In. the country. I think they must be a city fruit, yon see so many of them around. Guest what I paid for this lovely little can teloupe big enough for us two. Three cents. I tell you we can live Tery cheaply here in the city, and have just what we want. We can both live on what you paid for my board In the country. I will count up exactly what I spend and you will see. "Isn't this cream simply delicious! I am glad to have cream again. Yes, I know, I lived on a dairy farm, but do you suppose they let us hare cream? li we got skimmed milk wa were mighty lucky. I haven't tasted cream since I lived in the city. May be this Is milk from our dairy farm we are drinking. I wouldn't be sur prised. ' And still, It is awfully good milk. I don't know. "These eggs, too: I am very fond of eggs for breakfast and I haven't had them for such an awful long time. Have them on the farm? Why, ot course not. Dairy farm eggs bring too much money in the city for farm people to eat them. "I have bought some corn on the ear for our dinner. Did you really think we had it out there? Why, it hasn't got ripe yet, and when It does they won't have It. They will sell it. We have been eating canned corn the year 'round. I suppose It it wasn't for the country people the canned corn people would peg out. There wouldn't be anybody to sell It to to amount to anything. The same with tomatoes. The same with nearly ev erything. And you wonder why I am thin. "Look here, I don't believe I'll ever in the world get back my liking for meat. You wonder why I want little, tiny, thin slices of cooked ham cut off at the delicatessen Btore by a long, thin, sharp knife till it almost looks like the shadow of slices ot meat. This is why. I like to eat animals I am not acquainted with. I am tired to death ot eating legs I've I seen running gayly about the farm, pigs I've seen squealing, that I've heard in their death rattle, that I've seen chopped to mince meat and made sausage of, the odor ot which I have had to endure. I'd rather eat cured ham that's been In the cold storage a century or two. Then you know the owner hasn't been a friend of yours and you haven't got to lis ten to him in his last agony. "The chickens! My landlady used to wait till they were greatgrand mothers before she'd kill them. Then she'd have them In the frying pan before they'd quit wriggling. We were eating them when by rights they should have been cooling off and getting ready to be cooked and eaten. There was a cow they were all very fond of. They called her Rose. I rather liked that cow, too. If she did give skimmed milk and little enough of it at that. Well, the time came for her to die and they killed her. No cold storage for Rose. Like the chickens and pigs she mu3t be eaten up at once while they were in the humor. They wouldn't have eaten her at all If she hadn't been tough as leather. They would have sold her. "Do you know what they did? Sat up at the table and said, 'Will you have some ot Rose?' "Wouldn't that take your appe tite? Wouldn't you have lost flesh, too, and got to be skin and bones as I am? I just reckon you would. "Oh, yes, I shall be getting well and fat and rosy now that I have come to the city again, where I can have all the fruit I want and eat strange animals." New York Press. Kentucky's Good Old Corn Bread. Land ot the luscious, indescribable and ever conquering corn bread, Kentucky, we hall thee! Other States have their corn bread, but no corn bread on earth ever reaches the right spot in the hungry man's make-up like that of old Kentucky. Corn bread is the Kentucky house wire's monument. See the genuine corn bread anywhere, or even the imitation, and the mind must instinc tively go back to old Kentucky, with all its treasures and traditions of corn bread making. This, verily, la "a land ot corn and wine; a land of bread and vineyards." See the Ken tucky household gathered about hos pitable tables to realize the truth of Victor Hugo: "Oh, the love ot mother, love no one forgets; miracu lous bread which God distributes and multiplies; board always spread by the paternal hearth, whereat each has his portion, and all have it en tire." Louisville Herald. , Commas. Mr. and Mrs. Comma celebrated the seventy-fifth anniversary ot their marriage a tew days ago, and the funny papers at once got busy with their name. The Washington Post remarked that It was "a pretty long sentence for two commas," and The Boston Transcript adds the happy re flection that It was no doubt "a bliss ful period." This Is fairly good "pointing." These Commas have been bracketed together so long that we express the hope.Jw way of () that nothing will their happiness or bring It suddenly to a full stop. Columbia Statu. A SUeslan court recently sentenced to prison tor two months a man who had failed to cheer the Kaiaw iailcj tba military. aiaueuTors. .
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