Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 12, 1909, Page 48

UNT The Music Hall is in the second stovy of the famous Omaha A udi- torium. DPutting the second floor Francisco Duran, director of the Band, says: “Itis the best hall in which we have ever played.” Every seat is comfort- able—high back with foot-rests, while the great hall is brilliantly lighted afternoon and evening, and in was a happy idea. kept at the right temperature. AY BEE: Dl'l(‘}-‘.MHl"l{ 12, 1909. Special Concerts Sunc'lay Mexican National Band - The best band that has played in Omaha since the Transmississippi F 2:30 P. M. National Corn Exposition. ~ where there Is reason ‘to believe blind tigers exist.. Nothing will be more agreeable to the government than to re- | celve Information that intoxicating liquors § are being shipped to any “dry” village, city New Laws About W“‘G“d' Shipped | or town, without the label provided by taw. to Dry Territory. | It would seem pertectly easy, agents of ine | Department of Justice say, to drive out blird tigers under this new legislation. It 1s pointed out that from now on they can- not exist without violating the federal statute, and the assumption of the De- partment of Justice Is that would-be viola- tors will not care to take the chance of falling into the clutches of the federal courts, ” Trouble for Blind Tigers. It is anticipated also that men who are running blind tigers will not care to have the wares in wbich they deal come to them addressed as the new federal law says they shall be addressed. The arrival of intoxi- cants at the rallway freight station would be a “glve away;" and it may be sald in passing that the Department of Justice is very likely to have men on the lookout at freight stations. Sections 238 and 239 of the new code are designed to make it extremely difficult for the rallroads to show the violators of section 240 any favors. For instance, 238 provide “Any officer, agent or employe of any | rallroad company, express company, or any |other common carrier, who shall know- igly deliver or cause to be delivered, to {any person other than the peson to whom it has been consigned, unléss upon the | written order in each Instafice of the bona “lldr consignee, or to any fictitious person, or to any person under a fictitious name, tant provision that and after|anye gpirituous, vinous, malted, fermented, | January 1 shlpment of ~Intox- | op other ntoxicating liquor, of any kind, cating liquors shull bear the name of the |which has been shipped from one state, consignee, the nature of the contents of the territory or district cf the United States, | roceptacle and the quantity conteln™ |or place non-contiguous te but subject to therein. It is a notorious fact, so say’per- |the jurisdiction thereof, or from any for- woris Who have had experlence in attempi- |eign country into any state, territory, or ing o Qrjve out “blind tigers” that pruc- |district of the United States, or place non- tieally all the liquor now shipped into pro- |contiguous to but subject to the jurlsai hibited territory“is labelled as some other |tion (hereof, shall bo fined not more than commodity, or not labelled at all, and fre- 5,000, or imprisoned not more than two quently addressed to persons other than the years, or both.” consignee. Here s what congress says Regulation of Carrlers. #hall he done after Janudry 1 It has been alleged from time to time “Whoaver hall knowlngly ship or cause | a¢ 1n some: of the btates where the sale to be shipped from one state, tervitory of intoxicating liquor has been prohibited district of the United States, or place non- in one way or another the railroads and contiguous to but subject o the jurTsdic- express companies assisted the violators tion thereof, or from any forelgn country |of the law by meting as buying or selling into any state, territory or district of the |agents, or both. Congress, with the iiea United States, place noncontiguc of putting a stop to this practice, provided but subject to the jurisdiction thereo as follows In section 29 package of or package containing “Any raflroad ituous, vinous, malted, fermented, pany, or other common intoxicating liquor of any kind other person who, package be labelled on the outside cov:r | transportation @8 to plainly show the name of the malted, signee, the nature of the contents, and | liquor the quantity contained therein, shail be fined not more than $5.000; and such Mauor shall be forfeited to-<he United ana | may be seized and condemned by MARK THE PACKAGE PLAINLY SAM TAKES A HAND UNCLE & and nd Quaniity of Contonts Must Be Vie- ible—Regula Effective the First of the Year, Name of Con Nature Another phase in the great campalgn mgainst liquor will come to the fore Jan- uary 1, when the revised penal code of the | United States will go Into effect. Many of | the changes made In the penal laws by the Sixtieth congress were of minor interest, but the section relating to the shipment ot Intoxicating liquors Into ‘“dry” territory contained new legislation, the result of which will be to make the United States & factor In promduting violators of the act. In thickly se'tled communities like New England, the local authorities, as a rule, are able to deal effectively with of- fenders, but in the south, where settlement is sparse, the task Is not/so easy, and the southern members insisted that the fed- eral government should to the ald of the local authorities New L come ws on Ligquor. Three sections of the new codification re- 1ate to the liquor traffic. The most impor- is on every or ny company, express com- carrier, or any tion with the spirituous, vinous, fermented, other Intoxicating of any kind, from one st ter- ritory, or district of the United States, or plave noncontiguous to, but subject to the jurisdiction thereof, into any state, terrl- tery, or distriet of the Unlted States, oeedings as those provided by place non-contoguous to, but subject to the ure and forfeiture of propo: . jurisdiction thereof, or from any ferelgn 10to the United States coatriwy to law.” | country into state, territory, or dis- triet of tho United States or place non- contiguous to, but subject to the Jurisdic- tion thereof, shall collect the purchase price or uny \part thereof, before, on, or | after delivery, from the consignee, or from Ay other person, or shall in any act as the ag unles: in conne of any or any Liguors Must Be Labelled, The federal authorities al ont notice to cants that i the outside of first of the natwe of t amount here have sent of intoxi- must be labeled on o on and after the setting fort! and oxaoi in each pockage. The authorities | dy all manufacture ware the manner t of the buyer or seller of any such llquer, for the purpose of buying Wazhing take it for .mnudiur selling or completing the sale thersof | that the my turers will pass the word | saving only in the actual transportation wn Une 1o tho wholesale and retail and delivery of the same, shall be fined dealers that tho federal government lntends [ uoi wore than $5,000." 10 see that this new Jaw s eafoced; for | The railroads, as a rule, were perfectly the government does intend to onforce the | willing that this legislation saying what law (o the lotter. Vielatlons of this section | they shall do and what they shall not do | will bo looked aftei as consclentiously as |in connection with the transportation of Violations of the iniernal revenue law are |Intoxicating liquor in “dry” tervitory now. Of course the federal authorities ex- | ghould be enacted. Under the three new he at n Bast the Lo operatios f clbsens & com- | sections e constived together, o Xposition 8:00 P. M. No Reserved Seats. A . O P A Danza—"La Paloma’ M fternoon Program, March— Waltz— Puerto Real"” La Barcarolle” erture—""William Tell” Nocturno—'Maybells Herald the Approach of Spring' Selection—''American Airs" Intermission Fifteen Minu uneral March Fantasia—'‘Pagliaccl” ria—"Stabat Matter Evening Program, 8 p. m, arch—‘‘Seventh Army Corps” Waltz—“Enlace de los Cefiros Overture—‘Fra Diavolo” Alborada—*'Senor Toaguin Imitative—"A Hunting Scene” . M 9. 10, %ome early Chrigtmag apg i, dmerica HE Mayflower landed ths Pil- grims at Plymouth Dec. 21, 1620, just a few days before Christmas, but Christmas Day brought no thought of revelry, gayety or even observance to the Pligrim Fathers. As a matter of fact, the very thought of observing the day was regarded as sinful. The first Christmas day found them with no houses built and no shalter from the fcy winds, as the day before was Sun- day and no hands were allowed to labor or disturb the sanctity of the Sabbath, The next day, however (Christmas Day), the swinging of axes, the felling ©Of trees, the splitting of timbers and the clearing of ground occupied thelr time entirely. They gave no outward sign that the 25th of December was to them any more than any other day. They bent themselves sternly to the work before them, though most of their countrymen across the sea were in the midst of transports of hilarious joy. When the second Christmas came, there haq arrived in the meantime an- other ship,-and of this colony Willlam Bradford, the sternest of Puritans, was governor. He formally outlawed Christmas, as the Puritans of England had done when they assumed control of Parliament. The enactment of the General Court of Massachuseétts ran, “who s found observing by abstinen from labor, feasting, or in any other way, any such day as Christmas Day shall pay for every offence five shil- lings" More than a century passed before the gradual growth of plsco- pal infuence In Massachusetts and its assoclation with officlal power when the colony fell under the direct control of the crown, brought about some relaxation of the anti-Christmas seatiment of the Puritans. During this time the rule of the “Roundheads” in England had fallen before the Restora- tion. In Virginia, or what was then called the Old Dominion, Christmas was ven- erated. Even {n the midst of perils which confronted the pioneers in the days of the settlement of Jamestown, they did not entirely forget the cus- toms to which they had been brought Up at home. They were fond of feast- ing and drinking and dancing, although thelr first Christmas, when the gallant John Smith was a prisoner in the hands of Powhattan, and when the legend of the rescue by the lovely littls Pocahon- tas had its genesis, as well as their second Christmas, when the indomitable captain was leading a band of colonist against her father, were ilmes wh! drove the little colony nigh to despair. As years went on these Virginia colon- ista thrived and became & colony of planters and cavaliers and the spirit of Christmas filled cabin and mansion with festal joy. In the time when George Washington was still known principally as a pros perous planter, the great manor houses ng the shores of the James, the YoPk, the Rappahannock and the Po- tomac presented at Christmas such sights as the hospitable roof-tree under which the entire family and their de- pendents, black and white, were as- sembled. There was a big roast tur- key at the head of the table, the great fire place blazed with crackling logs, the apartments were decked with ever- greens, the long tables were set off with shining silver branches and the darkies thrummed their banjos and sang their jolliest songs. This Virgin- lap Christmas was also characteristic of the celebrations in the Carolinas, Georgia and Maryland. South of these, however, in what is now Loulsiana, the festival was French in its traditions. It fa in New York that we catch the first glimpse of Christmas in America as a season of both religious commemor- ation and domestic joy with all the old English heartiness and a little of the old English grossness. The old Knickerbockers loved ease and content- ment the pleasures of the fireside and the innocent merriment of the children and they ate and drank with the whole- some appetites of strong and cheerful natures. From the Netherlands they brought with them the Christmas of love and sympathy in religion, of com- radeship among nelghbors and of festiv- ity in the family. In that region of Manhattan Island which now lles be- tween the Battery and Wall Street the honest joviality of Christmas in its purely human aspect was unsurpassed anywhere on this side of the Atlantic. The Burgomaster and his assoclates officlally commarided the observance of the day; sometimes all public and pri- vate business was lald aside for the rest of the waning year, and In fact all work that was not consideréq absolutely necessary was temporarily abandoned. It was in New York, or rather we should say New Amsterdam, that Santa Claus made his first American appear- ance in something like the garb and manner now familiar to all pf us. To them Saint Nicholas was a sacred per- sonage with his bundles of cakes and toys, as he passed from door to door and possibly came down the chimneys of the houses on Heere Straat, as Broadway was then called. They plo- tured him as fat with a Flemish nose, rosy cheeks, frosty beard and holding a long pipe between his laughing rows of tewth. In those days and long afterwards, the Christmas tree was unknown to most American children. The tree was chiefly German in its origin among us and made its advent largely through the extensive German population which settled in Pennsylvania. It was this German joy over Christmas that gave the Continen- tal army during the Revolution one of their earliest opportunities for national inspiration. In the gloomy days of the close of '76, Washington surmising that the Hesslans, who were Germans, of the British Army would set up a Christmas carousing in their camp, formed his plans for the crossing of the ice-packed Delaware on Christmas night and for falling upon the forelgn mercenarfes. The victory was complete and over- whelming. The second Christmas however was the darkest and saddest in American history. This day found Washington at Valley Forge where he had retired after one baffling defeat upon another. On the day before Christmas Eve many of his men were sick or poorly clad, in fact the Tories derided them as “scarecrows” and “ragamufins.” Many were half famished and a bowl of soup was re- garded as a Juxury. Tents, overcoats and even blankets were few and thou- sands of the soldiers when they lay down to sleep had nothing between them and the earth but thelr ragged clothes. During two days before Christ- mas they were almost wholly without bread or meat and Washington was in fear that the army would desert him or 80-10 pleces in the face of its hardships. Many Americans distrusted Washing- ton's ability and there was a movement on foot to supplant him by General Gates. O the day before Christmas ev General Washington reported that many of his men were confined to hospitals and farm houses for want of shoes and that 2, men in camp were unfit for duty because they were barefoot and otherwise naked. Thirteen years afterward witnessed the first Christmas under the new Republic. The first Christmhstide of the first President of the United States was a season of simple enjoy- ment amidst a happy population. In the morning the President went to St. Paul's church; iu the evening Mrs. Washington held a reception. There was no dleplay or lavish expenditures, nor Intemperate gayety in the Presi- dentlal household, for Washington ap- preciated the effect of his personal ex- ample in such things upon his country- men and was studlous In avolding os- tentation. the Department of Justice say, the rail- roads as well as the express companies now have a clear understanding as to*just what part they may legally take in the hauling of intesicants in prohibition ter- ritory. The understundifig bere is that Wt of the rallrvads have already agreed ' to assist the fedcral government in every way possible in enforcing section re- quiring that intoxicants be pleinly labeled as to character and quantity. That Law Small Checks. The new penal code, all of which goes Into elfect the first of the new year, also | provides, by the way, that any person that issues & bank check for a less sum than $1 shall be fined more than 8500, not or imprisoned not more than six months, or | both. Whiie the Treasury department has no authority to suspend the operation of a United States statute, it will be greatly Fantasia— Berenade— Mexican Air—"La Golondrin Intermission Two. Step—*"Tarug Ideal” arch—"Funeral” ..... ‘Pagliaccl” | & ‘Los Angeles” . ... Dec. 12th, 25¢ P. M. «+.Guarranz Waldtenfel .. . Rossini « . Hilemberg tes. . .Chopin ++..Leoncavallo «+ . Rossini .T. F. Hall . .Aubert Caballere Bucalossi +++..Struson .+ .Chopin Leoncavallo «....Braga ampodron surprised if anybody is ever prosecuted for issuing a check for less than $l. The probability is that the federal authoritles will suggest to congress at the coming session that this law, which 18 not a new one, but a long-forgotten one, revived by the codification of the penal code, be | repealed.—Boston Tyanscript. [ EXPERT WORK IN CARVING | Most Important Part of Calls for skill Experience. the and Feast The turkey Is not usually carved in a scientific manner, but it should be, for the ving 18 a very Important part of the feast. There are many carvers actually dull the appetite, they work So clumsily. But there are others, | Who whet the appet te—meke the mouth | water and the eyes shine—as they run the | keen knife through the savory muscles and | aiong the bone. Don't let anybody carve the turkey. It Is the work of a genius. The customary method of laying the | turkey on its back, plunging the fork down | Into It white breast, and then ‘sawing | heavily into the ligaments and jolnts, is all wrong. Carving a turkey is not a struggle, | it Is & deed of grace, which s as happily |done as the prestidigitator does his little | trick on the stage—no turmoll, no confus- | lon, no worrying with conditions. There is no scraping of bone, no digging franti- | cally Into a joint. It s all as gentle as | | sathering a bunch of lilfes You lay the turkey on the side, [ the leg and second joint with & fork, and | sever them from the body with a slip of the knife; then the wing the same way. It is all done without a ruffle or a scuffle There is no fierce glare in the carver's face. He-is as tranquil as the eventide. Turn the turkey on its back, cut down the thin slices of the breast, then turn up Ulk" other side and repeat. Why, it's actually | beautiful the way it 1s done, and then how | much action is entitied to a treatment In | which grace and skill abound When sit- ting down to the turkey—don't get a hag- | gler to earve it. Let him look on and learn first how to carve. DECORATIONS FOR THE TABLE| Light and | Feative i who | &0 at the ralse | that Lend o the Home, In massing holly for mas table it Tepays o leaves with a cioth dipped in & ilitic | oil. Tall candles should light the feast und | the holly leuves reriect the twinking lishus | In a beautiful manner. If a cnand hangs over the dining table a feature which | wiil"delight the chilaren is to have a nose- | | gay of “artificial fiow uspended from the chandelier to within a | by means of a red ribbon should have the paper ruff of the old-tim tashion, and the bouquet itself will be found fo be a shower bouquet, onc small nosegay for each person in the depths of | which ‘some trifling gift is hidden. Snowballs of cotton, tightly wound .with white ribbon, also conceal gifts most at- | tractively, while the cheap, but pretty little | Santa Claus candy boxes for sale at favor | shops, are effective upon the Christmas | table 'and will hold quite & good sized | package, or, of course, may be used to | hold the bonbons for which they are in- | tended, For a luncheon or high tea during Christmas week, a beautiful table may be | wet by employing the use of green iinen runners embroidercd in white, A holly bell | or a bunch of red carnat’'ons in & cut-glass vase will touch the center of the table to brillianey and soft garlands of mouthern moss may lightly cdge the linen runners, or_doilies If they be Yissd Instend. The colonlal glass candlesticks are still in favor and nothing is more attractive in @ country house. With tall green or red | tapers. a group of helly as a centerplece is both appropriate and beautiful A quaint little Christmas tree may be used as & centerplece by procuring at the florist's & little “pepper piant,” which has lovely green leaves and red berries. Wound | with glittering tinsel and tled with candied | i fruits beld fn place by wee baby ribbon, | Little Things Color use on the Christ to wipe off A holder "7 Thén buy a rainproof cravenette— | Gloves, ——— or hung with little favors of French jew- elry or articles of trifilng worth, the little tree makes a centerpiece of charm.—The Housekeeper. PRATTLE OF THE YOUNGSTERS. Little Margie (aged 4)—Mamma, have ze fine toof tomb? Mamma-—-What do you want it for, dear? Little Mar To tomb my toofs wif, of tourse. tan 1 “Willie, s it true that you struck your brother in the nose?”’ “Yessum, but he had to.” pervoked me. till ‘I Small Mazie was taken to church for the first time, where the cholr loft was above the pulpit. Upon her return home she asked: “Marima, why did all those who sung have to sit on the mantelplece?" Papa—Don't be afraid of the dog, Eddle. Haven't xou heard that a barking dog sel- dom bites? Little Eddie—Yes, dog hasn't heard it papa; but perhaps the “Mamma, 1 don't never want to eat at this restaurant again." “Why not, dear? 'he under ide of my chair seat is all wire springs, and my gum won't stick to ft.” Tommy—Ma, do you good time Christmas? Mamma—~Why, of Why? Tommy—Then don't give me a new suit for a present. I'll have to put it on an' then be careful of it all day. want me to have a course, I do, dear Mamma—Tommy, you've been fighting again. Your clothes are torn and your face is scratched. Why can't you do ltke your little sister? She never fights. Small Tommy—Well, mamma, t's better ‘ to have a good square fight and get all the” mad out of you than to earry It in you for months like girls do CHRISTMAS BUYING. Don't say you don’t know what s such a foolish thing to s There is no need for you to fr With such & glittering array, At any pri ou want to pay, As through department stores you drift, You'll see them in profusion, gay. You soon may pick a Christmas gift, to got, Well, how What's pra about a tollet set? wrong with bedroom slippers, for a clgarette, A fountain pén, a lacquered tray, A silver shaker, salt to siff? e tinicky, as e'er you may 500n may pick a Christmas gift, 1 The money won't be thrown away, The season’s likely to be wet And spring, at least, will come some day, handkerchiefs—the women they 84l cling to these whate'er they shift, And always there's a grand display, Kite, You soon may pick a Christmas L'ENV withe ‘&flu)’. hrow to the winds all thoughts of thrift. You'll see, an igh the stores you stray, You soon n pick a Christmas gift, Chicago Ne Preparing.! Wo have been watching him for a weel two now, and can detcet the symptoms There s a sanctimonious twist settling upon his lips, his eyebrows are arching in & wort of depreeatory sincerity, and when he aees & liitle boy or girl he fidgets as though he Wanis L0 say something, He is perhaps practieing self-restraint, but he knows, and we know, that he will break loose before long. He is the man who goes about telling children there lan't any Santa Claus, He's £oIng to be honest, no matter how mueh hapoiness he wpoili—Lite,