Show MERRY CHRISTMAS the celebration of the christmas holidays is an old custom and the season loses none of its popularity as each year come around it is a season to bo be celebrated jn in the home where friends friendt and kela relatives tives can meet together and renew friendships and make gitts gif to speak louder than words expressive of the love admiration and affection we have for one another s the ancients honored yuletide when the world was young when tho the seasons harvests barvest had been gathered they were wont to ce celebrate lebrato these celebrations were hardly in line with those of the present day although the spirit of the present day custom is probably the same in the times of old the christma christmas s holiday was one of prayer and sacrifice hoove HoO av vr er celebrations of the present arc are f equally as sincere Chri christmas Amas is considered the birthday of the master while the not be correct it is nevert nevertheless heleas glorious to remember and commemorate his tits my birth b after he had come and gone humanity began to realize the great mission he performed and the great tidings which he delivered to poor mortality his was a mesge medge of peace and good will indeed his ills admonitions of the gulden rule have always been a shining light the spirit of the bett gr man responds to this teaching and therein lies the secret of a happy christmas do unto others as you would have others do unto you ard the christmas holidays will always be happy ones the news wishes its many readers a merry christmas and a happy ond and prosperous new year if the moon expects her eclipse to become a popular feat feature ure she must choose some different time than 3 ti m these cold night the gold brodu produced ced by the mines of the united states last year was valued at or just about the value of the confect and candy tho the nation consumed more fortunes fortune i have been made from investments in real estate than from all other sources combined real estate both city ard country is LQ constantly advancing and will continue to be valuable until tho the end of time ak dr cooks story that he reached the north pole has finally been turned aown the scientists tista in copenhagen have pronounced his proofs as lacking on some very important points this means that they believe the doctor is fibbing ane doctor has disappeared and his whereabouts is unknown at first ic was thought the doctor had broken down and ald had retired to some sanitarium for rest but his continued silence leads the people to believe he thought it best beat to retire whether the doctor will reap reappear pea ca and try to make good his ills claims remains to be seen proofs have been ex t alinea and pronounced genuine he will now get the monetary reward for his pluck patience and perseverance his story of the discovery of the north pole will appear in hamptons magazine and the commander it is stated will receive for writing it st mayor elect glassman of ogden takes a very practical view of y boxing contests and football games the ogden ministerial asic has been trying to prevent the sullivan collins boxing con cn test which is to come como off in the junction city on january 7 during the meeting of the national wool growers convention in his Y letter to the ministers mr air glassman de declares cleres that where one man is injured in a boxing contest over are injured in football he says 1 I have seen such debasing brutality in football games that I 1 have been forced to withdraw sons of mine from the game and and yet I 1 have seen an ogden pr preacher eachor referee a football game while other members of the ministerial society stood on the side lines and rooted tooted with enthusiasm I 1 cannot understand why your association objects to a scientific illustration of the manly art of self defense and remain silent on that most brutal and debasing of all contests the football garno game there seems to be no limit to the size of locomotives locomotive 3 each year sees new now ones larger and better than those already in ill use the baldwin locomotive works has just completed a monster for the atchinson topeka santa fe railway the most powerful passenger locomotive now in use apart from ita its tender this locomotive weighs pounds ard is 66 feet long the tender carries bollons of water and gallons of oil which will be used as tuel uel the length of the locomotive and tender is feet the trec tive power of the locomotive is pounds there are five pairs of driving wheels 73 in diameter working in in sets of two the locomotive being of the mallet articulated type the locomotive is the first for passenger service to bo be built of this type and is the first to combine feed water heater and heater rc in one machine its firebox is built on an entirely now new plan which eliminates stay bolts j |