; scorer notions
‘ tated Communication of Old
LN“. No. 108. F. and A. M"
be held at its rooms January 2d.
_ at 0 o’clock p. on. Work. E. A.
m. All Master Masons cordially
atmermliy invited.
‘ meaiiy your-a,
nooimt It. wiiLoox, sec y.
TH NORWALK IDAHO OF
3"" ' TRADE.‘
‘MIIdent—Nehenflah Candee.
oIvPreeidatharieI J. Pidgeen.
”Secretaryuil‘rank w. Hadley.
‘ Hired—Matthew Corbett.
‘ “PHD ‘E CALLS
game-News Department
gag—Business Department
. Branch Office. Norwalk
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arr-City Editor's Residence
’ THE SHORT BALLOT.
One of the cities which has adopt-
ed commisIlbn government during
this month is the capital of Califor-
nia. The committee which had the
‘Work of charter tramlng‘ in hand
contained some close students of the
short ballot principle and they pro-
ceeded to make themselves felt in
I such a wa5- that Sacramento now has
a. charter in which the principle of
the short ballot is reduced to its
very lowest terms. The commission
is to be a boom of five men, one to
be elected each 5ear. These are to
H be the only elective oilicers of the city.
Even the school board as a sepaiate
'body is abolished and its functions
.'arc tailed over by the city commis-
1. Blimbl'li- The old notion that school
,admlnistratinn belongs in a higher
' are and has to he treated in a.
.41 “about manner iii-om the other
1 branches of the city' a business goes to
the scrap heap. And the encourag-
ing thing about it is that the best in-
terests ot the school will still he in
lth‘e people’s svhands. Thus, after the
V. first election Sacramento’ will have
the shortest ballot in the country
Oboe each 5ear the attention of the
hole city will be focused upon one
111”}. There can be no mistaking at
‘15 issues of a simple election like
their—Walelbury Democrat
WW
‘Mfl. HILL ON THE REPORT.
In an interview with a New York
Sun coriespondent at Vi ashlngion.
Congressman id J Hill oi this distlict
said rocenti5 that be regarded the
report of the president' is tariff board
"one of the most wonderful documents
evei transmitted to congifless, and to
the newspapel men geneialh Mr.
Hill declared with reference to the
document: “it gi5es us scientific in-
formation“ and he added that the Re-
publican committeemen are going to
build their bill on it, without lashing
themselves a minute about what
Chairman Underwood and the Demo-
crats are doing. We have an idea that
Mr. Hill comes pretty near to knowing
what's what as to the report.
.1...—
RiGHT To THE POINT.
it feeling against Russia is stirred
cup in England to the' same extent as
in this country, the Czar may be im-
‘pressed with the advisability, it not
the necessity, of broader racial and re-
ilgious views ”New Bedford Times.
The wars in, Persia and Tripoli were
denounced in a blehop‘ s Christmas oer.
man as most unjustifiable in history. '
That was a strong and sweeping do.
nuncistion, but it would not be an
it to. outrovert it, or,
’ gable wars.
A' ' “5'.”
h McNamara. on going to prl~
lion ave anon be was the John
‘ ‘ " That senti-
u'riuari runs:
was oiled to its capacity last evening
mtbeomlonottbwdnnmi‘ omn-
m feutivwil. A most Modulus varia"
than of use new scrim ‘or mm"
mm sound was the entertainment 5W
vided It. Womble my of time
.‘Ild wort; by the young people.
TheomsolosbyMiscMay Hock»
out, one or Norwalh‘e moulding m
data; violin .. , we'll validated by
Fred Mia-nor. accompanied by his‘
‘ Wmuwmurphy. and a conduit
sketch. “Ween" wanted by rev.
oral young ladiesand gentlemen ot the
school. The misundmtandlngs .49-
iinx room the coincidences of placing
. an Arizona cat and a woman in the
nuns room were ludicrous tin tithe or
trauma and provoked room 0! laughter.
one min was «I mm: Mrs. Dick.
son, lady of the house, Mantle Walk-
dey: Nora, the cook, Ruth Baldwin;
Mic. Dickson's mother llmm steam,
Helen Thompson; James, the butler.
“Orie” Heath; Mr. Dickson. lord of
the manor, Allen Moses.
At the close of bile entrainment.
cake and cocoa werencrvod to all pres-
em, and boxes of candy were paused
«to-the echoim back pulses were
switch roi- munch wbtendnnce. ,
Primary Exerciseg.
At the Norwalh Congregational cha-
pel yesterday afternoon the annual
Christmas deaths] of the primary and
intermediate departments was con»
ibined‘with that for the County Home
children and a happy time tor the little
folks was the result. The faces of
the children beamed with delight when
Santa Claus. in the person of Superin
iendent Smith of the Sunday school,
iclad in furs appeared from the iroaen '
i north with messages of greeting from
“Mrs. Santa.‘ and with all sorts oi,
interesting remarks about’ reindeers
which was very creditably given and
and books. together with an orange
and box of candy were distributed to
each one and all departed in the men
riest oi! moods. Following is the pro-
stem:
Song—Can a Little Child l. lite. \lc? all
children: , '1 r a .
Recitationi~Cbrl§tn1as Time, l'aul Ri-
dcr.
Recitationw'i‘he First Christmas. Mur-
ion Richmond.
Recitationmli‘redorlcir Ella.
Recitation—Theodore Street.
Song——Jesus Was a Little Child, Pri-
mary and County Home children.
Christmas h‘xcrcllhxindergarten.
Recitation~Joaepb Guttridge.
Recitation—Who Stocking! Christmas,
Judith Thompson.
Recitation—A Surprise. Robert Sher-
wood.
Song~A Lullaby, County Home chil-
‘ dren. ’
Recitation—Suppose, Kenneth Fitch.
Exercise for six children.
Recitation—~Sa11ta’s Whip Goes Crack,
Willie Gregory.
Santa Claus‘ Visit.
sP-nmowéoo CHRISTMAS rues
Largely Attended and a Fine Program
Enjoyed.
The annual Christmas examines of
the Springwood Union Sunday school
were held last evening in the chapel
‘The attair was Jargoly attended by
success at everyrside. At the conclu-
sion of the entertainment. the preach:
tattoo of gifts was made and a happy.
at the exercises was as follows:
‘Song by School-4 Love to Tell the
Story
Helen Paxton.
Song by the School—0 Little Town of
Bethlehem. ‘ 1
Recitation—«A Thoughtful of Him by
. Helen Czako ..
Reading by Miss Marion McLean.
Song by the School—shine On.
Primary~Merry Christmas.
at. alienation-om: for the; King by
om acuity
'Jl‘iw mun Concise-m chew
and snow and cold. After the program, I
entirely by the children. toys, games ~
"the members and their parents'undi
the program which was givoirmet with ‘
sociable time ensued. The program .
Recitation-—A Merry Christmas, by
ith I- company 0'!" Sunday dobooi
ldren that nearly tilled the church.
allot-walk Authorize: Sunday school
held its annual Christmas festival loot ~
evening under most. suspicions cir-
covariances. The doomlhix'oommit-
tee had spared no pains in making
the churclr‘ diatom with tasty use of
men and red Ind the elect was very
pretty. Suspended from the center at
the ceiling-worried: streamers of
men. ma‘y'épole tilts. and pendant from
mo‘ceum‘wa's a into red‘ bell. The
eitect was enhanced by housing email-
‘er belle at intervals along the stream-
ers and .s subataatiel effect was given
by massing Christmas trees uniform
in also about the platform. ,
The scholars assembled in the base
meat and marched. to Christmas muaic
furnished by Organist 1m. to the
church. where the exercises were held.
The program. though long, was— none
too long tor the children. andw their
interest and accuracy in song and root-
tation showed the result of careful
preparation. Alter the exercises ro-
iroabments were served and each child
received a gilt, together with In or-
am and box or sandy.
A pleasant feature oi the occasion
was the presentation by the'Bro‘lbor-
hood class or a handsome sold-tipped
fountain pen to the pastor. it was a
complete surprise. 1dr. Torrey mite
i‘eelingiy of the gilt and his apprecia-
tion of the record or his class.
Following is the program:
Song by the school.
Prayer-~11“. F‘. D. Torrey.
Recitation-«Address 01 Welcome, A‘da
Smith.
Recitation A Serious Question, Fay
Worthy.
,Recitatlonw’l‘he Now Mittens, Theo-
. dare Mallory. .
Recivtationavtlhristmas Song. Sarah
. Cookburn. .
Soug~81eep, Little iiube, Sleep, Helen
Reynolds.
-Reci«tation-A Secret, Dorothy Burr:
Recitalion~Thuughtiui Tommy, Willie
Gay...
Recitationwliiy Friends, Florence idol-
iory. ‘
Song by the school. ‘ ,
RecitationwA Little's ‘t‘ilri's 'Speech,
Justine Worden.
Rocitatibn~Jack ind .llii, Muriel Van
Hoosear. Jean Smith.
Recitation—~A Christmas Star. Emma
GBY- ‘
Dialogue and Sony-Alice Connolly.
Harold Gay and chorus
Recitation The Hole in the Stocking.
Leno: Currie
' Recitation~4~A Christmas Wish, Ethel
Worden.
Song by the school.
Recitatiou~liirthdnya, Almyra Weiss.
Recitation—A Christmas Gift. Frances
May Torrey.
Recitatiom—Shata‘s Picture, May Mai.
lory. .
Song by Juvenile ’QuurlotnFranocs
‘ Torrey, Marion Lent, Elmer Bennett,
' Wilbur Rowe.
Recitation—Playing Christmas, Elias
both Hawxhurst
RecitatioanhristmaI Horses by Ida
xlrls.
Recitation-Harold Baxter.
Song by the school
RecitatioIMAtter Bantu Came. lrvlna
Voorhoea.
hecitailon—Banta CM“! and His Auto-
.. mobile,‘Ethcl Barnum.
rRecitation~A Pair oi Stockings, Ver- “‘
no. Bobcats. .
Song—Jesus Was a Little Child, Anna
Sterllhg.
ltecltation-FloasidI Letter to Santa
Claus, Ethcwyatt.
Address by pastor.
Song by the Childrenwhlttle Christ-
mas Snowflakes.
TOWN COURT CASES. ‘
Two for Drunkmeee and Seven Paid
Perdonal Tax.
The case of ms“ make, which we»
collimation mom that week, came up in
the down court hm Judge William
F Mmamy bills morning and won‘
boiled-i
-wmtami-Innilonmairrodtodiw‘
‘mbymmlud nil-women
1
nnaanmo.
(Tom Daly in Catholic Standard
. “ and Times.)
i hate to read of millionaires
Because such reading seems
To hypnotiae me utterly ‘
And start me dreaming dreams.
How many times I've figured out
What i’d be apt to do
If I were in that fellow's place
And had a million, too.
Of course I'll use my fortune well,‘
4~ More Iaeneibly than he,.
' For I'd give ten per cent. at least
. To worthy charity.
Another ten per cent. would go
To help along a few
”HQ {oxide-sewing relatives
Whose bills are owerdue.
And then my duty to the church.
. Of course a goodly share—-
'Ssy twenty-five per cent. or so.
Would be devoted there. ,
I'd give this latter Quietly;
“hoisting that my name
blast be withheld, that none.
might know
' ‘ " Whence this donation came.
I’d only let the pastor know:
He'd have to know, you see,
Because the name upon the check
. Would show it was from me. _
Another twenty-five" per cent.
Would do myself and wife;
The income weftl-derive from that
Would keep us. both for“ life.
Then after that—lwell, after that.
I dream away and plan ‘
To spend still other ten per cents.
To help my fellow man.
‘5
.And finally my- dreaming gets V
A bit confused and then
Flake a tumble, and my feet
Touch solid earth again;
And common sense assure me, as
It stops me witha jerk, ‘
. I’ve wasted time enough to do
- a dollar. Worth of work.
ENJOY 30M! OF THESE BARGAINS. IT WILL‘ PAY You. I
l- 3 Off On
All
SAW [INDIANS-TURN BACK SUN.
-~.—_.
Hopia‘SIi'eguar-d World by Attending
to That important Function.
All the people on earth will not
ireczc‘lo death in 19:25 That has
been attended to by the. Hopiindlans
in Arizona. This information is of-
dcial. and thevauthority tor the "state
meat is Col. Hugh II Scott, U, S. A.
former superintendent or the Military
Academy at West Point an at present
commanding the famous bird cav-
alry. one of the regiments now on duty
on the Mexican border. says the New
York Sun.‘ He had to wait three days
{or the wise men or the tribes to con-
luse back the sun.
l
in addition to being one of the
army‘s best-known soldiers and most.
erudite scholars, Col. Scott enjoys
the distinction of being the one white
man now living who thoroughly un-
derstands the mysterious also inn
some of the North American in-
dinne. There is no more beloved sol.
dler in the army, the indlans being
his devoted servinm. and when every
thing else has failed to settle a dis-
pute in ‘whlch the rindian is involved.
Col Scott is generally selected to set
its the matter. and the records show
that he always succeeds
. "The taming back or the sun," a
feat that the Hopi! think they have
scmmpii‘shed. was witnessed by Col.
Scott during a. recent visit to the
Hunt villages in northeastern Arizona.
Hobart hen sent there onrrequest ot
‘ the department or the interior. to and
out. why the Harris refused to send
their children to the government
Ichools. For months thé department
had been trying to get them to pat»
roniae the schools, but they pen
distantly refined. and finally Col;
Scott was called on to deal with the
problem. He is called “Mole Tonnes"
by the Indians, which, in English,
means “altalks with "hi hands" The
colonebwas, transiemd temporarily
' from the war department to the ln-r
. terlorfand intruatod with the mission
. to no totballapi country and settle1
the Moroccan-that. had arisen, be-
.itween itbe indiehe and the White Fa
theratWthinztonp '.
Aiawwoeksaxo Col. Scott lett
. Woodlands- and proceeded in rail to
. . Hum, Aria. Iron which place its
‘ wentnil horseback over the Pal-ted
"to the field vilified After a
wlbiliooo niche mixed at
th vlllaxe where the head chiefs at
It “turning back the son."
were: also and happy to meet.
“was delivered to me in the Painted
Desert of Arizona on my way back
to the railroad station fromithe Hopi
towns. i wish y6u could have been
along for you would have enjoyed it 7
and you would have gotten a lot of III ‘
teroatlnx inhalation?
are among the oldest iii North Adde
erict and the lndians are extremely
primtive. '
“When Ivisited them they were ‘1“,
gaged in ceremonles preparathry to".
the turning back 0! the sun. I wad} ' "
informed that it they did' not attend‘
to this for us the sun would set clear
away from the earth and newer come
back again and we would all freeze
to death. "
Col. Scott did not refer to the TI!-
flcial part of his journey or indicabl
whether his mlssion had been duc-
cesstul. but tram another source it‘
is learned that he accomplishedrall
he was sent to do and that by now
all the little Hopi boys and girls are
probably busy with the "three 3'” .
with everybody in the Hopi country'-
happy . » .
“Col. Scotta word with the incl-11'}
is law,” a Governor‘s Island friend'-
saidrecently. ”and it is a catcher.
that he settled the Hopi eontro‘v‘etd'y
to elicit order and to the entire sails-r
faction of everybody concerned. The
lndlan may distrust everybody oi
but he never loses his taith in
Scott Among them, just do he is
the Moms of the $qu Archipe',
Col Scott is looked upon as n In
tirm. but always “11¢an and
just."
The records in Washlntxon is ”it! ,
that Col. Scott has seldom
settle any indian eont'rov
haa‘ever been enthused to'bi
years ago a little Indian wan”
imminent in the Four co
land villaxe.
Gol. Scott for a long time n ‘
error of the Sula Archipola
Philippines. He gained
and attraction or the =
has that oi! the In .
he left the Mom ,
nal copy or the 1 ‘ _
been. the most treasured
the Mohammad“
more than live, ‘
are still ileum ‘5
seat back to govern
Tome ono‘or ermine: , . .
Norwalk Chronicler