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Show Loaded With Presents for the Children of the Bear River Valley. SANTA'S BIOGRAPHY PLACE OF HIS BIRTH AND HIS A PARENTS ARE UNKNOWN. Is Best Known and Most Popular Individual In-dividual on Earth Gives Presents Worth Many Millions Yearly But Is Not Classed as Rich. Snnta Clnus, tlio most widely known nnd popular Individual on earth, wns horn so long ago that It would not bo ladyllko for him to acknowledge it, so nobody known his exact ago. Neither Is It known Just whero ho was born, nor who his parents were, but they must hnvo beon eminently respectable c pcoplo, for everybody nowadays claims kin with him. Ho Is thd only untitled porson whom nobody calls "Mister," and ho Is a bachelor of excellent repute. re-pute. Although he gives away moro at Chrlstmns than Mr. Carnoglo nnd Mr. Rockefeller ever thought of giving, ho Is not clnsscd with tho millionaires, . Still ho shows a preference for that class and ho puts moro In their stock- jP. ings than ho puts In tho stockings ot tho poor. Perhaps ho has a tasto for . flno hosiery. Some bachelors do. In any event, tho fact remains that tho rich get more out of him than tho poor do. Maybo ho Is not altogether to blamo for that. Anyway ho docBn't rldo around In an automobile. This may bo becauso ho wants to save rnoro to glvo away. At tho same tlmo he doesn't rldo In tho atrcot cars. So 'i thero you arc. ' Santa Claus la tho only truly re ligious person, for ho novcr asks any-j any-j body what church ho belongs to beforo taking up his stocking to 111! It. Neither docs ho caro n continental , about politics, and ho novor votes Hots especially fond of children, and tho children aic so dead stuck on htm that they wnn.t him to como around every i day In tho year. Tholr parents, how- ? over, don't fool so much that way j nbout it, and Santa Claus kindly con- 1 alders their feelings In tho mnttor. Ho ' knows enough not to bo anxious to work n good thing to a frazzle. Nobody knows whoro Santa Claus lives in the summer, also tho spring and fall nnd most of tho winter, but whnrcvor It Is it must bo a healthy placo, because ho always shows up at Christmas looking bo fat and Jolly that really ho ought to ndvortlso tho locn-! locn-! tlon nnd take In boarders. Thero Is ono thing certain, If ho did thero ; wouldn't bo any "NoChtldron-Tnkcn" signs nround tho establishment. Santn Claus confines his attention almost exclusively to mankind, tho ffUfl loft!r nnlmals, oxcopt tho rolndoer, ( having no pull with him whatover. A , This Is n well-known fact in natural i !f history, which may bo proved by pic- 4 tares of Santn Claus and his holiday L turn-out coming In over tho snowy ', . |