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The Christmas Delineator 



Largest Pecan Grove 



The December Delineator is a typical Christ- 

 mas number. It is sufficiently premature to assist 

 Christmas-makers with its hints for Christmas 

 gifts and holiday entertainments, besides contain- 

 ing an abundance of seasonable literature calcu- 

 lated to fit in from now until New Year's Day. 

 Maud Ballington Booth contributes a most touch- 

 ing description of the work of the volunteers, 

 "Christmas Sunshine.in the Shadows." Christmas 

 stories for adults are "The Evergreen Tree" by 

 Marion Ames Taggart, and "The Shoplifter at 

 Satterthwaite's," by William Hamilton Osborne, 

 and those for children, "The Blue Kimono," by 

 Virginia Woodward Cloud, and "Betty Evolves a 

 Christmas Idea," by Elizabeth Preston Badger. 

 Agnes and Egerton Castle's romance. "A Young 

 Conspiracy," and Anthony Hope's short story, 

 "The Duke's Allotment," seem especially suitable 

 for reading on winter evenings. But the crown of 

 the Christmas literature is Edwin Markham's 

 splendid poem, entitled "The Great Guest Comes." 

 It is illustrated in colors by J. C. Leyendecker, 

 The serial stories, "Fraulein Schmidt and Mr. 

 Anstruther," by the Countess von Arnhim, and 

 "The Chauffeur and the Chaperon," by the 

 Williamsons, are continued, while Barry Pain's 

 "The Diary of a Baby" is concluded. Essays for 

 every-day are, "The Slavery of Superstition," by 

 Lilian Bell, "Eliminating Non-essentials," by Lida 

 Churchill, and "Pulling Together Through a 

 Crisis " by William George Jordan. David Belasco 

 contributes a most interesting description of "Mak- 

 ing the Play Seem Real." 



The usual amount of space is devoted to up-to- 

 date fashions in garments and millinery, and 

 practical papers and departments for housekeepers. 



Is Located Near Charleston and Consists 

 of 600 Acres 



Maj. John S. Horibeck, near here, is harvesting 

 his pecan crop. It is the largest grove in the 

 world, consisting of 600 acres of nut-bearing trees. 

 The main grove consists of 550 acres. In one lot 

 are 10,000 trees which are just beginning to return 

 a good yield on the money invested in the enter- 

 prise, although they are now fifteen years old. 



The American public has developed a consider- 

 able taste for the pecan nut, and fine ones bring a 

 good price. Maj. Horibeck concluded many years 

 ago that there was money in raising these nuts, 

 and his present splendid grove is evidence of the 

 faith that is in him. 



Last season he shipped ten tons of fine nuts in 

 one lot and found ready demand for them at 

 excellent prices. — Charleston, S. C, Nov. 20, 1906. 



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The Old Plane Tree of Cos 



In the Island of Cos, on the Egean Sea, there 

 stands, jealously guarded, a huge plane tree 

 measuring nearly eighteen yards in circumference. 

 It is surrounded by a podium, or raised platform, 

 breast high, doubtless built to support the trunk 

 of the tree after it had become hollow and weak 

 from age. The lower branches are still well pre- 

 served and have been shored up by pieces of 

 antique columns, over the upper ends of which 

 the branches have grown like caps in consequence 

 of the pressure of their own weight. 



Close by the tree is a solid marble seat, which 

 is said to be the chair of Hippocrates, the father 

 of medicine, and it is supposed that he taught the 

 art of healing from that seat. He was born at 

 Cos 460 B. C. This gives a clew to the age of the 

 celebrated plane tree, which must be considerably 

 more than 2,000 years old. — London Times. 



