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Prince is Still .k.In
American Citizen
Once he swept out the Bee Hiv
Store in Ripon, Wis.and here he i
to -day thegrand seignieur of Lens
•downe House in 'London. H. Gordon
Selfridge, once a, partner . of Marshal
`Field; started Monday spending• ap
proximately $20,000,900 to make his
London department store the largest
In..the :-World.
It may bringhealth to the sick. some
day,:.
, i so• help the ,needy in some way; ,. ...
e Perhaps bring pleasure to make us
gay
_ • And cause hard times topass away.
I The old year is past, perhaps gone
forever,
Will it return? I think not, never!
So this New Year. Iet us' endeavor
To act neighborly and ne, friendship
Sever.'
I wish .my r' aders health and cheer.
From all n :sfortune may you keep
clear,
On the road to prosperity may you
steer,
And "to-" all I wish "A Happy New
Year."
By Harry Holford, Clinton, 'Ont.,
When Mr. Selfridge set' up his store
'in 'London- in 1909,• °`Punch" ^ipdulged
in exquisite irony, dowagers reached
for, their smelling . salts ' and Tory
England. was 'mildly amused. Then
Mr. Selfridge •"=sok" London as •did
young, Dick, 'Whittington a few cen-
•aui4es- back. He hiied Lady Afiiick,
,one of the crritical lorgnette brigade,
-to take charge ,of his dress depart-
-anent. He joined up around town, the
'away a newcomer in "Ripon used to
'present his church .Iettea and start
meeting people. He took Lansdowne
!House for sixty-five years, this house,
-With its great art collection, being
ane of the last great citadels of in-
growing British conservatism. His
:•slaughter Violette became Viscountess
•.de Sibour. His trim, perfectly tail -
aired figure, his pineenez and wavy
"ray hair, his great glittering depart-
ment store all became institutional in
'London and those who came=.kt; scoff
m
reained to buy.'
• With all: Phis he retains.••his..Ameri-
e$n citizenship and paas•`°income tax'
in bothseountries.
• ''Primitive Surgery
About forty years ago an Amster-
dam doctor; instead of continuing
what . promised to be an exii'emeey
brilliant eareer,:went out to the East
in order to study anthropology and.
'discovered the • remains of pithecan-
thropus, who; until the Peking man
'was recently- unearthed, was regard-
ed as the oldest Ancestor of man. A
study of the bones of pithecanthropus
1 rveals the interesting fact that this
first _known ancestor of man alba the
subject of a surgical disease. He suf-
Ifered from a condition of muscle con-
verted into bone as a 'result of ex-
'trerne muscular activity": • ••
1 , Investigations have proved clearly,
too, ;that the Pharaoh. Who 'IAN the
i second. pyramid was a sufferer from
a chronic rheumatic condition, for his
mummy =•bows characteristic deform-
ities peculiar to this condition. We
WSW, too; that this disease was by
no means uncommon. In fact, the
determinate of old age in the Valley
of the Nile in those days was the
condition brought about by this ma]-
erle—vvarped knees and bent and
crippled spines. It is curious to think
that •this• species of disease was prev-
alent in the very districts to which
we now send modern sufferers to be
healed.
'Relics of the Neanderthal man,
which I have seen and studied at var-
ious places show, too, the peculiar
fac,t.. that thisell known ancestor of
the human race undoubtedly suffered
from surgical tuberculosis, as a re-
sult, probably, of drinking milk in-
fected with the tuberculosis germ. Arai
a mummy of the twelfth dynasty,. a-
-56ut 1500 B.C. shows the same char-
acteristics, probably due to the same
cause.
From Peru we have obtained bones
and skulls of prehistoric men suffer-
ing from various forms of mastoid
disease, and I am confident from what
I have seen of these relies• that the
individuals suffering from that dis-
ease were °relie•sted of it during life,
as the cavities made in the bones by
the surgical instruments of those days
show appreciable signs of having
healed.
• The New Year
(Contributed verse)
Be merry! A New Year is born!
The old year; it is past and gone; I(
'There is no need for us to mourn
eOr being downhearted 'or jeer and
scorn.
We cannot tell what it will bring,
'We •knew Piot how the --future may
swing, .,
'To past experience we may cling •
But time and tide change's, things.
Let us look 'ahead 'kith hope and chee?',
Keep striving on and show no fear;
And should success be far;or near,
Let `u( watch and welcome this New
Year.
The old year some hard times brought
With many obstacles it was fraught;
We didn't find the things we sought,
Though many. lessens • it may have•
taught.
'These hard times put me in debt,
asks some have spoken that I've met,
.But What's the use. to worry and fret,'
2irrumstances this year..,..niay help
you yet. ,
This year may bring about. fir"change,
1'n many ways that may seerri strange;
Certain conditions we could- arrange
For an alteration ar, et'c'hange.
it may turra things in an upward
trend,
.And,give us extra dollars to spend;
Many good things it may yet send
,e
.And prove itself a real good friend.
Perhaps it has goad things 'in store,
Such things have happened years be-
fore; •
St. May give labor to the poor,
Who limy be hungry with naught in
• store
'Twill make some think they're get-
ting old
And place "silver threads"'among the
gold";
Many new things 'twill fashion and
mold,
Which in time will be bought and sold.
Although this year is really new,
It is for aTI'frot -just a few;
But in some ways the follotwing is•
true,
According to your deeds it will treat
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'From the mummified remains of a
boy who about nineteen, who died a-
bout 3 000 'years ago, we know how
fractures were treated in those times.
Splints of dry rushes and strong
bandages were used—and in a way so
effective that the healing .was almost
perfect. I am sure no surgeon in
London to -day could make a better
Jab of such a fracture.
In the tomb of Pharaoh of the op-
'p'ression, of biblical renown, was dis-
covered a jar containing his heart. I
examined a section of the aorta of
this heart, i.e., of the blood vessel
leading directly from the heart itself
as a conduit pipe for the blood stream
to the other parts of the body, and
found obvious traces of a well=kno-aiti-
,,condition, characterized by deposit's
of-ca1'Ci'um and lime, which harden the
tissues and make them incapable of
expanding with the oneoming rush of
blood from the heant. This condition
Is accompanied lay definite psychologi-
cal' changes, lack of enterprise and
"initiativei„a hardening.of the outlook
--or, to, speak literally, a hardening
of the heart. From this we know
that the complaints in ExO,dus_ about
the "hardening of the heart" of `the
Pharaoh of the oppression were well
founded;,
Napoleon.. ,,.Fre Great is commonly
supposed .to have died front cancer of
Islae stromaeh or intestines, Ent -Sir
Arthur Keith, who trade a study of
this some years ago, found no indi-
te -don at all of any. ;malignant disease
of this kind, but ._that the ehatges
IVItii.eh hail taken place were very much
likethe changes w ieh occur in the
disease known as. "°balsa, -f ver."
rk
of
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345 ;. Qple to;day __eve hear
The ancient belied 1ilat
was ill and display;. ,.. pertain *OW.
characteristics. to was said. to be P90 -
,sensed of an "evil]. spirit';" and to ears
him this • ""Evil ,e iirit" had to be ex:
eieiaed. We are fanbiliax wi any
paintings depleting the exo cis of
the "evil spirit" from the body of the
vict7m.
And -these paintings invariab-
ly show the "evil spirit" being, driven.
out of the mouth or out of the 'top of
the head. The body of the possessed,
too,, is always shown .in the position,
head thrown back and the spine bent
almost into Ile forms, of a semi -circle.
Bearjng this in mind, we may re-
alize the significance of the find made
a year or so ago in Peru. Two men,
prospecting for"' gold,. chanced upon a
canyon 300 feet -or -more in depth, At
the bottom there was what seemed to
be the dried-up bed of a river. .One
of them was lowered to the ll ottom,
and there found, not gold, but hun-
dreds, of thousands of ,skeletons laid
out in orderly' rows., And ..in every
skull there . was a small round hole -.-
sometimes two, three or four. Speci-
mens of •thed'e skulls soon found their.
Way 'into the laboratories and work-
shops of scientists and anthropologists
and we learn that these holes were
;m
c ainly made during the lifetime of
the ind'vicivals—an operation requir-
lii); est" ding skill and delicacy --very
probabl or that very purpose of al-
lowing th escape of the "evil spir-
its." And wen we find that these-
hol:es...wete...niade with mere flints, we
cannot bur marvel at the skilful and
painstaking' way in which our pred`e,
ressors in surgery carried...out their
work.
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Noble Lord Mulcted
By Libelled Trainer
"The acting stewards of the Kemp-
ton Park second summer meeting
(Major Mark Weyland, Sir illia
Cooke and the Hon. T. Egerto
on September 13th to receive the re-
sult .of tie examination 'which they
had ordered to be made' of Don' Pat
after winning the Bedford :High
Weight Handicap. Having interview-
ed Mr. Rowe, the owner of Don Pat,
and C. Chapman, the trainer, they re-
ferred the ease to the stewards• of
the Jockey Club. The stewards of
the Jockey CIub (Lord Ellesmere act-
ing for Lord Zetland) satisfied them-
selves that a drug had been admin-
istered to the hearse" far' -the- purpose
of the race in'r question. They dis-
qualified the horse for this race and
all future races, and they warned C.
Chapman, the'11rainer of the horse,
off Newmarket Heath."
Now if you had happened to read
this lordly deliverance in the London
Times would you have come 'to the
conclusion that Mr, C. Chapman had
doped the horse? Or would you sup-
pose that Mr. Chapman had been
guilty of carelessness'or an error Of
judgment? The steward's of the
Jockey Club, in one of the most un-
usual cases in which they ever figured,
contended that they did not accuse
Chapman of doping the Horse. But a
special jury sitting under Mr. Justice
Horridge decided that they had ac-
cused Chapman of doping and award-
ed "hini''the substantial damages of
16,000 against the Jockey Club, and
the Times. His Lordship granted leave
to appeal only on the condition that
Chapman should be given £500 imme-
diately, not returnable in any case.
The evidence went to show that
Chapman, a young trainer,•previously
of excellent record, had been ruined
financially and socially by the publi-
cation of the notice. At the time
he brought suit he was making a
living as chauffeur and groom. To
be warned off Newmarket Death is a
figurative, or rather technical, way` of.
saying that his license as trainer had
been cancelled and that he ,was thus
deprived of making a' living in the
profession he had chosen. Moreover, -
this disqualification would apply to all
race tracks in the world, since one
jockey club invariably honors the
decisions of another. This, of course,
is the only way by which its decisions
can be made absolute and scaly char-;
acters.effectively dealt with. But sup
„ e one is not a scaly character?
Suppose our lords cif " the Jockey Cfrb
have fallen. into grievous error? Is
a man to be ruined inadvertently?
Not while there remains courts in
England to see wrongs righted. The
Jockey Club being apparently unable
to remedy a supposed injustice, C.
Chapman appealed to a jury • of his
peers.
Evidence showed that there had
been a good deal of doping suspect-
ed °on the Engli'sh turf • in recent
years and that thea stewards- of the
jockey club had denounced it and
threatened the culprits if they ,were
caught. • Suspicion fell upon Don
Pat and after the race a vet was sent
to collect specimens of his sweat
and saliva: These, when analyzed,
'revealed the presence of some dope
administered from two to four hours
before the race. Chapman _agreed
that in all probability tl}e 'horse had
been doped, but ' sw6•e he ]:new
nothing about it. There was also
something ,approaching a consensus
that only himself, two stable he+y
and the driver of the horse van' had
access to Don Pat, The stewards
took the ground that Chapman was
wholly responsible for the custody -
of the horse. From, this Chapman
stlidnot dissent. On his behalf, it
was admitted that he might have
been careleas,•,trough Lord,Rosebery,
one' of the defendants, said that the
carelessness amounted to grave
dereliction of duty.
The great error of their lordships
lay in the fact that the notice they
handed to the press did not say that
Chaptban was held to have been
-negligent. The pls'in inference was
that he had been crooked. Yet there
was no evidence before' the stewards
to show that he had been impli-
bated. There was no' evidence to
show who or by wheat means the
horse had been doped. There was the
doped horse on the one hand. There
Was the trainer on t er. But to
link them In a public tate rov-
ed al highly expensive enterprise.
Chapman had not only denied all
knowledge -.of the matter, He 1iad em-
ployed a 'firm of prit+ate detectives
to traee the mis'' reante and a re-
ward of £bell] had been offered. Ite
had appealed to the stewards not ;to
m: a final decision until he 'could
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collect some evidence, but the stew-
ards d said that ha they were a alwaY s will-
ing
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iI -
ing to yeopen a case on the discovery
of new evidence, and the fact that
Chapman had threatened suit if they
pulblished' the damning notice had
merely expedited their action.
Undou'btedl'y the most important
feature of the case was the decision
of Mr. Justice Horridge that this was
not a case in which privilege could
be pleaded. The right of the jockey
club to 'regulate the turf, and the
right of newspapers, ' to publish
statementeadid not include the right
to ruin people in the course of their
exercise. Probably Chapman could
have been ruled off the turf; prob-
ably the newspapers could have re-
ported that he had been ruled off,
and also that 'Don Pat had been
doped. But when they made a state-
ment bearing the implication' that
Chapman had 'been ruled: off for dop-
ing a horse they both exceeded their
rights. Before it could be said that
he had been ruled off for doping a
horse, it would require to 'be proved
that he had doped the horse. Of this
there was no_ evidence.. The, stewards
of the ,Jockey Club` are Lord 'Elles-
mere, Lord Harewood and Lord Rose-
bery. 1
Christmas Boxing
dst anct Present
What are the inventions of Watt,
Stevenson, ,„Edison or Marconi com-
pared to the Christmas box? With
every revolution of time the Christ-
mas '-box grows older, but still re-
tains its youth. It has spread happi-
ness and goodwill through the cen-
turies. It
has filled hundreds d ds ofm il-
lions of hearts' with joy and glad-
neas, and its missi; n is not yet com-
pleter The first Christmas gift has
been carefully recorded. It was
brotight, saysthe sacked writs, by
the three Magi to the Babe at Beth-
lehem. The. Cfold, Frankincense and
Myrrh, symbols of royalty, divinity
andsorrow, were the beginning Of
long ages of • 'n
at
v e. Veil Christ-
mas'tide, which' will feat , so -long as
the world itself ,lasts.
We do not kno •' • precisely . when
Christmas
celebrations .
ns wer
e begun.
un.
It is recorded that in the year 98
there `was then a yearly fete in hon-
or of the great founder of Christian-
ity. A, few years later, in A.D. 137,
a solemn feast was Arder`ed'-sty-dope
Telesphorus. But there was much
disputation as to the actual day of
the nativity. To settle the matter
once and for all, St. Cyril of Jerusa-
lem institutdd an inquiry in the third
century. At that time much evi-
dence was obtainable that has since
passed out of existence. St. Julius,
wl'io died in 332, made the inquiry,
and reported that the, proper date for
it was the 25th of December. Since
then by common conseht of. all
Christianity it has been universally
recognized as such.
The faithful recognition of the date
proved a costly affair, according to
tradition, to one of the early Anglo-
Saxon 'rulers --King Alfred, We are
told he allowed his soldiers to cele-
brate Christmas day, 8Th, so freely
that a force of Danes descended upon
theta in the midst of the 'reielries,
and cut the army'to pieces. This was
a Christmas gift,of swords and axes
that was not ,cordially appreciated.
It is said hat the feasting and
giving at Christmas time were bor-
rowed by the early Christians from
the Roman Saturnalia. Dean Stanley
has agreed with that view, so that it
cannot be rashly disputed. But sup-
posing that to be the ease, it only
serves to'show how the purifying and
elevating influence of Christianity has
changed the disgusting heathen festi-
val into'one that appeals to the best
that is in 'tr"iari1'cind:•• . The Germans
claim that the Christmas tree' is a
product -et the Fatherland. They
woo d like
l to stamp it"made i;tad'e lit Get•-.,.
many," doubtless, brut their claim is
disputed. In England the Christmas
tree; the symbol of Christmas giving,
was known in the time of Henry
VIII, as it played an important part
in a ceremony given in honor of Bluff
King "Hal. in recent times it liar
been contended that the Prince Con
sort
rt gave England-theGhristma't tree,
Ile certainlyjrelpped to make it popu-
lar. The Christmas tree symbolized
p
eternal spring g ando ,e
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They
hey
have a
curious way of dis-
tributrng Christmas mas b
ores in some
parts of the North of . Europe. The
Seandinavians call Christmas Yule-
tide, for a, reason that some of us.
have forgotten. The old inhabitants
thought that the sun was like a 'wheel
ar "yul," as they say, and 'when the
days began to grow longer, they call-.
ed it Yuletide. "Hence the Yule log
and the Yule Klapp. The Yule Klapp
expresses the manner in which pre-
sents are often distributed by the
Scandinavians. They are made up
into mayster' us bundles, so that one
cannot be sure of their contents from
the exterior. Then they are thrown
altogether into a,, foom, and at the
appointed hour all those for whom
they are intended make their own
selection. There is, doubtless, a good
deal of lottery about this, but it
heightens the amusement. Mistakes
are remedied, one may be sure, so
that in the end, after much confu-
sion and fan, the presents reach the
particular person for whom they, are
intended.
But still more remarkable is the
practice„ that prevails in some parts
of Russia. It is the custom in many
villages to set up a gift tree of sur-
passing interest. The young women
who are not already appropriated. are
scatted on its branches, hooded and
cloaked, and veiled so that their.
identity is quite concealed. The
young men are adnvt't'efi one by one,
the order of precedence having pre-
viously been determined by lot. Each
is privileged to sept a bride before
the , veil is lifted. The ceremony of
lifting the veil betroths the couple,
and in due time they are made. happy
ever afterwards. It often happens
that the young people conspire to
-prevent mistakes by 'giving each other
signals. When the decision of the
veil is reversed on appeal to the Court
of Cupid the defaultee,,bas�,to pay' a
substantiate penalty. Theirs the Rus,
sian Christmas espousa'I becotnes' what
is familiar to us alle-a game of for-
feits:' In England the 26th of De-
cember has long been known as Bolt-
ing "Day. It is the day' off va'cih
Christmasresents are . i tri u
and often solicited by the yotingIt
has long 'been the custom, of tlrade3 ,
yl
people to cement the goodwill of their
customers by giving them presents of
various r o s k i
ods. But many branches
br nth a
of trade hav mow combined against
the practi e, and "boxing" has be-
come again more of a personal than a
business matter.
70 -Year -Old Dowager
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Saves Pony From Fire
A tach into blazing stables by the
Dowager Lady Dunleath, who is 70,
saved the life of her favorite pony
when fire broke out recently at BaIly-
walter Park, County. Down, the resi-
dence of her son, Lord Dunleath. '
The fire had started in the stables,
and at considerable risk Lady Dun-
'leath, accompanied by the cook, led,,
the pony to safety. She then helped
to rescue three other ponies.
Lord Dunleath, in the face of the
flames, climbed a ladde • placed a-
gainst 'the Stables. and fought the
flames with an extinguisher until the
smoke forced him to Retreat.
Others who helped to fight the fire
included Lord Dunleath's brother, the
Hon. 'Henry Mulholland, Speaker of
the .House of""Commons,,,ef ,Northern
Ireland. and his brother-in-law, Sir
13asil. Brooke, Bart. ...
Brigades from Belfast and Newton-
ards got the flames under control af-
ter an hour and a -•half, but not before
the., centre portion of Bloat a long Bloof
buildings were severely damaged acid
a quantity .of hay destroyed.
L1KE F.4THEIt---"
A prosperous real estate agent had
given his little girl a splendidly egttip»
ped doll's house. On lie to ttirtl after:. .
a week's absence, lie aske "ker lei
she liked it. ..
"Ws very nice, daddy," she i :
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But where is it?" h .its totited,
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