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By S. B. HACKLEY
(Copyright, 1919, by the McClure News
paper Syndicate.)
OR many minutes on
the afternoon that
Robertson & (Jo.
marked down their
“window suits" to $25
» Ivn Ellsworth. Elsie
Banford’s visitor,
watched from Elsie’s
automobile with sym
pathetic eyes a little
lame woman who stood
before the window and
directly in front of a
navy blue coat suit of “chiffon broad
cloth.”
' Deimar Halstead stood at the s'de
of the car with his back to the side
walk ami ills eyes on Iva’s face. He
had made excuse to leave ids book
keeper’s desk when he had seen Elsie
come in the store and leave her guest
alone in the cur, so he did not see
the little lame woman.
“1 wish,” said the girl irrelevantly,
“everybody could have their dearest
Christmas wishes!”
Halstead's smile was a lilt wistful.
"I echo yodr heavenly kind thought—
Iva Ellsworth Was the Dixie Rose.
I’ve a big wish for Christmas myself.’
“Something pretty or useful?”
“It’s pretty, useful anil good—every
thing that’s lovely and desirable.”
Iva’s eyes were on the package In
her lap, but she felt that he was look
ing at her in unconscious appraisal,
and her pulse leaped.
“Tell me about It Christmas eve
ning. I mean,” she added a little con
fusedly, “whether you get it or not.”
“Indeed 1 will!” he promised.
Miss Adriana Halstead, elderly and
somewhat neglected by her only rela
tives—her dead brother’s family—gave
a glad little cry when she saw her
older nephew in her door that evening.
Delmar IVlt a little prick of conscience
ns he kissed her. For a few moments
the little woman fluttered about him
happily, then set about preparing the
evening meal she insisted he must
share. While she was out of the room
Delmar accidentally dropped his foun
tain pen in her wastebasket.
As he fished it out, absently smooth
ing the sheets of crumpled note paper
In which it fell, his eyes caught in his
aunt's cramped scrawl : “To Mrs. Mir
iam Halstead, My Mother in Heaven.”
Wondering, he read on: “Everybody
but me is thinking of Christmas
wishes—gifts possible for them to
have—and oh, mother darling, I must
tell someone what I know I cannot
have, or my heart will break !
“I want somebody of my people to
sit at my table to laugh and to talk
with me, to live with me and love me!
In the four years since you anil father
went away I've been lonely—lonely!
“I could not hear it if it were nol
for Delmar. When he is here I play
ne lives with me, and 1 torget for n
blessed hour or so I am alone. And
oh, mother, my roses are going un
pruned, my fence unmended and my
house unpainted, and my clothes are
getting shabbier every day. 1 am
iffraid they will soon not be respect
able enough for church. Oh, little
mother, I want a new dress. I want—
oh, mother, ought I to covet that coal
suit in Robertson & Co.’s window—the
blue French broadcloth that would
just tit me?—I—”
The words ended here. The writer
had evidently crumpled Hie paper and
thrown it in the basket when she
heard his ring.
.AVlien Delmar went home he walked
by the corner and looked at the blue
suit. Twenty-five dollars represented
an engagement ring if Iva Ellsworth
would accept It. Iva lived with her
cousins In the next stute and was used
to luxury, and his bookkeeper’s salary
was only $75 a month, but Delmar had
resolved.
On Christmas eve Miss A.driana’s
doorbell rang to admit Robertson &
Co.’s porter with a great box marked
“With Delmar’s Love.” Under the ltd
lay a fragrant bunch of violets, a lacy
white shirtwaist, a prejty blue velvet
touue, a pair of trim shoes and the
broaddoih suit of the window display.
Like one in a happy dream Miss
Adriana put on the things and prbs
entl.v Deltnar came In wearing his eve
ning clothes.
Would she go with hint to see the
play the young people of the town
were giving, “A Rose of Old Dixie."
With her face like the dawn Miss
Adriana watched the players. Iva
Ellsworth was the Dixie Rose, a witch
ing heroine; Paul Nelson, her lover.
Ivn played her part with brilliancy,
but Paul's heart prompted his acting.
It was fervent, real.
Delmnr’s mind was torn with Inde
cision. Rut near the end of the play
he looked at the little lonely woman
beside him, for the time pathetically
happy, and quite suddenly his mind
was made up.
“Auntie," tie said* abruptly to her
when they were again In her living
room, “will you let me come live with
you? Mother doesn’t need me; she’s
going to lie married soon to Dr. Ash
ley Wyatt. We’d he company for each
other. If you'll let me I’ll move my
desk and other things over tomorrow.”
Miss Adriana's happiness of the eve
ning, compared with the new joy, was
as a drop of water to the ocean.
That evening Ivn Ellsworth received
a bouquet of pink carnations and a
note that asked her to pardon the
writer for breaking his promise to cull,
and bogging her to accept liis congrat
ulations on the success of the play.
"I didn’t get what I wnnted for
Christmas,” the note ended. “I didn’t
dare, in the face of things, to ask
for It.”
For several months the world held
no hnppier creature than Miss Adri
ana. Then she observed that Delmar
had occasional fits of abstractedness,
unnatural to him. Gradually It
dawned upon her that he was troubled
over something.
“Where is that pretty Ellsworth
girl now, Del, do you know?” she
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early In December.
He started at her question, and she
noticed with a sinking heart that the
paper he had shook a little.
“Bryce Garth told me yesterday rani
Nelson was married,” he answered her.
“and though Bryce didn’t know to
whom, I—I think it must be to Miss
Ellsworth, auntie.”
Enter in the day, searching for a
lost cuff button of Delmar’s, she came
upon a picture of the girl.
“He loved her—lie gave up asking
her to marry him,” her troubled mind
reasoned, "to make a home for me.
And now he is grieving for her!”
As the weeks passed Miss Adriana
paled under the weight of her secret
trouble. Delmar became uneasy for
her, and a few’ days before Christmas
sent her to the near-by city to see one
of his friends, a fine young physician
there.
That afternoon while crossing the
street to the railroad station Miss
Adriana felt herself caught and pulled
back just in time to escape being run
over by a heavy truck that came
around the corner. The girl who
saved her helped her to the ladies’
sitting room of the station, but when
her train came a few minutes later
she was too shaken and nervous to
attempt to board it.
“Oh, what will Delmar think when 1
don’t come!” she exclaimed.
“Delmar!” The pretty girl’s cheeks
grew a deeper pink, and Miss Adriana
knew her to lie Iva Ellsworth.
“My nephew, Delmar Halstead, with
whom I live in Review,” she explained.
“Why, Review is only twenty-five
miles,” cried the girl; “I’ll telephone
him and lie can come for you in an
automobile.”
When she came back Miss Adriana’s
lips trembled over a question.
“Are you—are you married, my
dear?”
When Delmar came Miss Adriana
was able to smile in wan gayety at
him.
“Where is the lady that saved you?”
he asked presently as he knelt beside
r.
“Delmar, You've Misjudged Me.”
her with his arms about her. “I don’t
know how I’ll ever thank that blessed
woman 1"
Miss Adriana took his face between
her hands.
“Delmar,” she said, “she told me her
dearest wish for Christmas was a
home! She has a little money of her
own, but, Delmar, three people could
live on what we two do, In comfort,
in real comfort. I—oh, Delmar, 1 want
her to come and live with us I"
Before Delmar could speak the in
ner door opened and Iva Ellsworth
came in.
“1 know now why you didn’t ask
for what you wanted last Christmas!”
she said softly. “Delmar Halstead,
how you’ve misjudged ine! Plain liv
ing, with—with love, and this dear
woman to mother me, would be riches
to mel”
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Carol Singing
Is Dying Out
TnE custom or caroi amgrug
out of doors at Christmas
time seems to he dying out.
This Is a great pity, for
enrols nre .a branch of folk music, the
unconscious art of the peasant mind,
a heritage of Inestimable worth.
In many English villages there are
carols peculiar to themselves, to be
jealously guarded and retained for
their use.
The Christmas carol dates from the
birth of Christianity itself, the
angels having sung their carols at the
birth of Jesus Christ.
Among the early Christians enrols
were sacred hymns representing
Christ’s nativity.
Now the nnine is
given to a variety
of popular met
ricnl compo
sitions from the
simple record of
the birth of our
Lord to rude was
sail songs and
rhymes of holiday
revelry.
Probably no Christmas would seem
complete without the well-known and
popular hymn, “Hark! the Herald
Angels Sing.”
The word carol, which originally
meant a dance, Is thought to have
come into our language either from
the Norman French carole or from the
Celtic carol.
in msz uavles Gilbert published
“some ancient Christmas carols, with
tlie tunes to which they were former
ly sung in the west of England.” In
his preface he declared himself to be
desirous “of preserving them in their
actual forms, as specimens of times
now passing away,
and of religious
feelings now su
perseded by oth
ers of a different
caste.”
Of late years
some of the
churches — chiefly
in the larger cit
ies—have held
“Christmas carol
services” during the Christmas sea
son: This is an excellent movement,
and might profitably be taken up by
churches all over the,country. Cer
tainly if the churches can restore this
old custom it will add to the enjoy
ment of the season.
France is exceptionally rich in
'■arols, which are often drinking songs
is in many European countries. We
find many French carols translated into
English, no doubt as a result of the
intercourse which existed between
dwellers on either side of the channel,
in the days when English youths often
pursued their studies in France.
There is a great deal of discussion
as to which is the most popular carol.
While it is impos
sible to name the
favorite, there
can be little doubt
of the universal
appeal of “God
rest ye, merry
g e n t 1 e m e n,"
whose plaintive
melody has
touched a chord
in the popular
mind. Among modern compositions
may be mentioned, “The Shepherds.
Left Their Sheep,” by Alfred Hollins.
Mr. Hollins is blind, but this affliction
lias not prevented him from becoming
ono tlio finnof n ml nnm -
posers in Britain.
Washington Irving in his famous
“Sketch Book” introduces us to most
of the old English customs which have
from time immemorial, attended the
Christmas festival. Of his first night
at Rracebridge Hall he says:
“I had scarcely got into bed when
a strain of music seemed to break
forth in the air just below the win
dow. I listened, and found it pro
ceeded from a band, which I conclud
ed' to be the waits from some neigh
boring village. They went around
the house playing under the windows.
I drew aside the curtains, to hear
them more distinctly. The moon
beams fell through the upper part of
the casement, partially lighting up
the antiquated
apartment. The
sounds, as they
receded, became
more soft and
aerial, and seemed
to accord with
the quiet and the
moonlight. I lis
tened and listened
—they became
■more and more
tender and remote, and, as they'grad
ually died away, my head sank upon
the pillow and I fell asleep.”
In Pasqulls’ "Jests," a book pub
lished in 1004, an amusing story is
told of a knight who gave a Christ
mas feast at which he entertained
his friends and the tenantry.
The host ordered no man at the
table to drink a drop “till he that was
master over his wife should sing a
carol.” A pause ensued and then one
poor male, more during than the
others, timidly lifted his lonely voice.
The knight then turned to the ladies,
who sat at a table apart, and “bade
her who was master over her hus
band,” sing a carol. The legend saya
that forthwith “the women fell all
to singing, that there was never
heard such a cutter-walling piece of
musicke."
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To e. M. Gage, Peter Conaton, Will
iam Farrell, Jack Ryan, Morrles
O’Donnell, Eli McQuade and George
Dempsey: •
You and each of you are hereby no
tified that I have performed the an
nual assessment labor required
by law for the years 1912, 1913, 1914,
1915 and 1916, upon the following
described placer claims on Young
creek, a tributary to Nizina river, sit
uated in the Chitina mining and re
cording district, Territory of Alaska,
United States of America, to-wlt:
(1) Boston Association Placer
Claim, recorded in 1911, and
(2) The New York Association
Placer Claim, recorded in 1911,
and that unless within the time
prescribed by law you pay your pro
portionate amount of said expendi
ture, your interest in said claims and
each of them will be forfeited to me
under the provisions of the statutes
of the United States relating to in
terest in mining claims for failure •
to contribute their proportionate!
share of the expenditures required
by law for such annual work.
DEXTER CAYOUETTE.
City of Seattle, State of Washington,
United States of America—ss.
Personally appeared before me, a
Notary Public in and for the State
of Washington, Dexter Cayouette, of
Dan creek, Alaska, who deposes and
says that the statements in the above
notice are true, and that the said par
ties have not contributed any money
as labor towards the assessment work
on the mentioned claims for the
period stated.
DEXTER CAYOUETTE.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this twenty-fifth day of September,
1919.
(Seal) FORD O. ELVEDGE,
Notary Public for the State of Wash
ington.
My commission expires July 29, 1923.
Date of first publication Oct. 1, 1919.
Date of last publication Dec. 31, 1919.
SUMMONS
No. C-170
In tlie District Court for the Territory
of Alaska, Third Division.—Auralee
P. Pritchard, plaintiff, vs. Carl A.
Pritchard, defendant.
The President of the United States
of America, greeting to the above
named defendant:
You are hereby required to appear
in the district court for the territory
of Alaska, Third division, within thirty
days after the completion of the pub
lication of this summons, to wit,
within thirty days after the 23d day
of January, 1920, to answer the com
plaint of the above-named plaintiff in
the above-entitled action, wherein
said plaintiff prays that she be given
an absolute decree of divorce from
you forever dissolving the bonds of
matrimony heretofore existing be
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
tween you and said plaintiff.
And unless you bo appear and an
swer, the plaintiff will take judgment
against you for want thereof and will
apply to the court for the relief de-s
manded In her said complaint as here
inabove set out.
The date of the order for^ service
by publication herein is December 8,
1919, and such order was duly made
and entered and filed herein on said
date.
The date of the first publication of
this summons is December 9, 1919,
and the date of its last publication is
January 22, 1920.
Witness: The Honorable CHARLES
E. BUNNELL, Judge of the said
Court, and the seal of said Court,
on this 8th day of December, 1919.
(Seal) ARTHUR LANG,
Clerk of the District Court for
the Territory of Alaska, j
Third Division.
By JOHN B. MILLER, Deputy.
R. H. L. Noakes, Attorney for
Plaintiff.
First publication, Dec. 9, 1919.
Last publication, Jan. 6, 1920.
ORDINANCE NO. 68
Ann Ordinance amending Ordinance
5, entitled “An Ordinance to pro
vide for general and special elec
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
tlons in the Town of Cordova ,tn
the Territory of Alaska.”
Re it ordained by the Common Coun
eil of the Town of Cordova Terri
tory of Alaska.
Section 1. That section Five of Or
dinance No. 5 entitled “An ordi
nance to provide for general and
special municipal elections in the
Town of Cordova, Territory of Alas
ka”, is hereby amended and made
to read as follows: The qualifica
tions of a voter for members of the
school board for the Cordova school
district shall be as follows: All
adults, male and female who are
citizens of the United States, bona
fide residents of the Territory of .
Alaska for one year or more and of
the town of Cordova for at least
six months immediately preceeding
the date of election.
Section 2. All ordinances or parts of
ordinances in conflict herewith are
> hereby repealed.
Sec. 3. This ordinance shall take ef
fect immediately upon its passage.
Sec. 4. This ordinance shall be pub
lished for one week in the Cordova
Daily Times at Cordova, Alaska.
Passed and approved, December 15th,
1919.
SEAL A. J. ADAMS Mayor
K, G. ROBINSON,Town Clerk.
TRAPPERS TRADERS
SHIP TO
GEORGE R. GOSHAW Inc.
DEALER IN
RAW, FURS
SEATTLE NEW YORK
Alaska Building 127 W. 27th St.
Ship direct to New York for highest prices paid for Raw
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market prices are paid on correct grading the day received. If de
sired, your shipments will be kept separate, in order that our prices
may be approved by you. Providing that our valuation does not prove
satisfactory, the Furs will be returned to you, transportation charges
prepaid. Ship by Insured Parcel Post or Express. Ship in a dry
condition. Always inclose an itemized list of contents with name and
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Bank, or in any other manner desired. Special instructions, if any, to
accompany shipment.
SHIP NOW
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Santa Claus
Arrives at
Clayson’s
Hey!.. Hey there! Wait till 1 catch up! Say, kids, Santa
Claus was in Cordova last night and was in Clayson’s store,
and left a sign there that said everything*in the store was a
Christmas present for somebody.
HERE ARE MEN’S OVERCOATS AND
ULSTERS, THE NEW STYLES, WITH
BELTS AND CLOSE-FITTING BACKS
MEN’S FINE SUITS
MEN’S, WOMEN’S AND CHILDREN’S
FELT SHOES
LADIES’ FANCY HANDKERCHIEFS
CHILDREN’S FANCY SOX
LADIES’ SILK HOSE
MEN’S AND WOMEN’S ROBES
MEN’S SMOKING JACKETS
FANCY BATH SETS, ETC.
BIG STOCK OF MEN’S TIES
MEN’S SILK SHIRTS
LADIES’ AND CHILDREN’S SKATING
SETS
INFANTS’ FANCV ROBES
INFANTS’ SUITS IN SETS
FINE STOCK OF LADIES’ FANCY OX
FORDS, PUMPS AND SHOES
MEN’S SILK MUFFLERS
MEN’S NOVELTY SLIPPERS
ERMINE, OTTER, LYNX, WOLVERINE
AND MINK SKINS
I
And just everything, so nobody has to go without a Christmas
present this year, ’cause I say so. (Signed)
SANTA CLAUS.
If you don’t think the above is true,
come in and see for yourself. If you
do think so, come in anyway.
CLAYSON
THE CLOTHIER
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