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To The Editor Os The Tribune:—
The following letter from “Santa
Claus” to the children appeared in
the Atlanta Evening Capitol of De
cember the 21et, 18«7. So you see I
have preierved it ten years. It is a
delightful letter. lam sorry Ido not
know who is the author. Will you
please reproduce it for the benefit of
all the good children. J- Branham.
Dear Children—Here’s my letter,
the first one I ever wrote, and the
only writing that ever told anything
much about me and my reindeer and
my sleigh?
Now sit down and be pretty and
keep silent while mamma reads it.
Other people would begin by telling
you when you were born; I never was
born, I always was old Santa Claus
just like I am now, without being
born, and I always lived where 1
live now.
I live in a beautiful grove, and it’s
away down at a pretty green place,
right in the valley between two
mountains, and the name of the val
ley is Love, and one of the mountains
is named Innocence, and the other is
named Beauty.
Some of the streams that come down
the sides of these mountains run melt
ed candy, and when the stream
breaks over a rock at the bottom, the
candy quits being melted and falls in
sticks and drops in round pieces on a
clean marble floor.
Some of the other streams are pret
ty little branches of clear sparkling
water, and they sing sweet songs as
they go dancing on to the sea. and
oh, I haven’t got time to tell you what
pretty little fishes they’ve got in them.
But they havn’t got any snakes;
Santa Claus never saw a snake in all
his life.
The trees in this grove, which I call
my orchard,have many pretty flowers
on them, and the flowers all turn to
toys as they get ripe.
1 have peach trees and apple trees,
and all the trees you ever heard of,
but I’ve got doll trees, too; doll trees
and top trees and pop gun trees, and
every kind of toy trees; and when a
toy gets ripe and falls off, it falls so
slow it don’t ever break.
The leaves of some of the trees
make mighty pretty cloth for doll
dresses.
You have all heard about Santa’s
reindeer and sleigh.
Well, I’ve got them sure enough,
but I didn't always have them. Long
time ago, long before mamma was
born, or ever thought of being born,
I didn’t have anything to help me
carry the Jtoys but a little old goat
and a little old wheelbarrow, and I
had to shake the trees so much to get
off the fruit, and had to work so hard
in loading up, and had to come back
so often, that a heap of times I
oould’t get to all the dear little chil
dren to give them their Christmas
pretties.
One day my goats got sick and my
wheelbarrow got broke just as I had
loaded up to start, and I was so sorry,
I cried.
Then a beautiful fairy came, and I
can tell you all that she said to me
and I said to her. But the wheelbar
row was turned into a beautiful
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sleigh, and the goats were turned into
the prettiest kind of reindeer, and the
sleigh was made so it couldn’t get full,
no matter how much was put into it,
and the reindeer were fixed so they
could fly, and fly as fast as lightning.
But Santa Claus kept crying—he
cried then because he was so glad.
But I havn’t told you all about this
yet. The fairy fixed it so that when
I drive under the trees the toys fall
into the sleigh of themselves, and all
I have to do is to drive right straight
along through the orchard, and when
I get through we are loaded and ready
to start.
The deer rise away up in the air
and fly along in a trot and a great,
big, whole crowd of birds get all
around the sleigh and keep along
with us, and anybody np at the stars
would think the reindeer were wading
waist deep in a sea of birds.
The sea of birds is about a mile wide.
The birds close to the wagon and all
around it are beantiful butterfly
birds, the next, further off, are rain
bow birds, the next are humming
birds, and a mile off, ont on the rim,
is a circle of lightning bug birds, and
they give light for me to see.
As we go along the birds sing all the
while, and so I never get lonesome.
When I stop to go in a house I mustn’t
go in till the children go to sleep; if I do,
the reindeer will turn back into little
old goats and the sleigh into a little old
wheelbarrow.
ISo I send Pet to see—(Pet’s my little
humming bird, that makes its nest in
my pocket)—l send Pet to see, and when
Pet comes back, if they are all asleep
she goes to me, and if they are not
asleep she goes somewhere else. This is
the only way Pet has to tell me whether
the children are asleep or not, for Pet
can’t talk.
When I stop over a house to go down
the chimney the birds all quit singing,
for fear they-will wake up the children.
The birds don’t know anything, but
they love children just like kitty loves
children, when kitty don’t know any
thing.
I and my toys and my reindeer never
get smutty and never get hurt, or burnt
or broke going down the chimney, be
cause the fairy won’t let them
When I come in the house I can see
you as well as under the cover as over
it, and whep I look at you there
asleep I know whether you’ve been a
good child or a bad child.
Santa Claus don’t get any older or
any younger, just like dolly don’t get
any older or any younger, and if you
want to know how Santa Claus looks,
he looks like pappa.
There, now; I can’t tell it all, and
so I must quit.
Some of these days I intend to
write a book and say a whole heap
about all these things I’ve been writ
ing about, and tell you of my pretty
little dogs ank kitties and blue rab
bits, and ever so many other little
pets I keep at home, and how I feed
them all on toys and they all stay fat
Now, sweet, {precious] children, say
your prayers and go to sleep and
dream about Santa Claus and the
sleigh and the birds and the toys, and
may the Lord bless you while mamma
and the angels watch over you. Bye,
bye. Santa Claus,
J. A. Perkins, of Antiquity, O , was
for thirty years needlessly tortured
by physicians for the cure of eczema.
He was quickly cured by using De-
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A SOLEMN SEASON.
This Week Devoted to Secular Observ
ance ot the Birth of Chri t.
Last Sunday according to the ecclesi
astical calendar of Roman Catholics and
Episcopalians, was the last Sunday in
Advent, or the * Sunday next before
Christmas Day,” which will be Saturday
of this week.
During the ensuing days of the Advent
se»son the faithful are expected to com
plete their spiritual preparation for the
solemn festival of the Nativity. The
early fathers, it is unnecessary to state,
never contemplated the giving over of
this time solely to preparations for the
secular observance of the birth of the
Prince of Peace.
The religious observance of Christmas
day is becoming more and more general
among the Protestant churches. Former
ly religious services on Christmas day
were confined largely to the Roman
Catholic and Episcopal churches, but this
is no longer the case, and many Protest
ant churches now hold Christmas services.
Christmas day ranks among the high
est festivals of the Christian calendar,
side by side with Easter. In the various
Roman Catholic and Episcopal churches
the services are specially elaborated and
beautiful. The churches are always ap
propriately decorated with holly and
I mistletoe. The Christmas music is al-
THJfi ROME TRIBUNE. THURSDAY DECEMBER 23. 189?
ways bright and beautiful, and the choral
' features of the Christmas services are
I most attractive in character. This year
. will prove no exception to the rule.
The Christmas services in the Episcopal
churches will begin with a midnight cele
bration of the Holy Eucharist. Besides
this there will be elaborate chorsl ser
vices during the day.
In the Roman Catholic services there
will be frequent masses, the last mass be
ing high mass and accompanied by mag
nificent mass.
DON’T NEGLECT
A COMMON CASE OF PILES.
It May Lead to Serious Results.
When people generally understand
that all such fatal diseases as fistula,
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invariably begin in a simple case of
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MERCER FOOTBALL.
Professor Pollock Favors Expelling Stu
dent* Playing in Match Game.
Macon, Deo 22.—Notwithstanding
the views by Governor Atkinson on the
subject of football Professor Pollock of
Mercer University, does not agree with
him.
The faculty at the time of Von Gam
mon’s death took prohibitive action on
the subject, and no football has been
played since that time. In fact only
two games have been played by the
Mercer football team this season.
When the game between the high
school of Macon and the Gordon Cadets
of Barnesville was under discussion it
was found that some of the Mercer stu
dents who are still considered as be
longing to the high school would be on
the Mercer side of the game. Professor
Pollock, however, interfered with these
plans and notice was given that if any
of the Meroer students took part in the
game they would be expelled.
It was at first thought that Professor
Pollock was a good friend to athletics at
Mercer. But the later developments
show that the principal will probably
put up a strong fight against this feat
ure of college life.
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Coming back one day from the office of
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—Boston Trauscript.
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-•The March of the Men of Harlech.”
In military music the march occupies
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but also from about the middle of the
seventeenth century to insure the order
ly advance of troops. One of the earliest
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Men of Harlech,” which is supposed to
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Sir John Hawkins in his “History of
Music” teJJs us that its characteristic
was dignity and gravity, in which re
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which was brisk and alert, and apropos
of this subject the same author quotes a
witty reply of an Elizabethan soldier to
the French Marshal Biron’s remark
that “the English march, being beaten
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sluggish.” “That may be true,” he
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your master’s country from one end to
the other.”—Chambers’ Journal.
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