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CHRISTMAS MELODIES.
PICCOIA'S PBESEHT.
Poor, sweet Piccola! Did you hear
What Happened to Piccola, children dear?
’Tis seldom Fortune such favor grants
As fell to tnls little maid of France.
’Twas Christmas time, and her parents poor
Could hardly drive the wolf from the door,
Striving witn poverty’s patient pain
Only to live till summer again.
No gifts for Piccola! Sad were t hey
When dawned the morning of Christmas day |
Their little darling no joy might stir,
8t. Nicholas nothing would bring to her!
But Piccola never doubted at all
That something beautiful must befall
Every And child upon Christmas day,
so she slept till the dawn was gray.
She £nd stole full of to ftflth, her shoe when the at last morning she woke, broke;
as
ouch sounds ot gladness filled the air,
Twas plain St. Nicholas had been there!
In rushed Piccola sweet, half wild;
Never was seen auch a joyful child,
See What the good saint brought!” she cried,
And mother and father must peep Inside,
Now such a story who ever heard?
There was a littlo shivering bird!
A snarrow, that tn the window flew,
Had crept into Piccdla’s tiny shoe!
11 How good poor Piccola must have been!
She cried, as happy as any queen,
While the starring sparrow she fed and warmed,
And danced with rapture, she was so charmed.
Children, Of Picebla this story I tell you,
sweet and her bird, is true,
In the far ofl'land of France, they say,
Still do they live to this very day.
THOSE CHRISTMAS BILLS.
Those Christmas hills! those Christmas bills!
How many a heart with anguish tills,
When knocks, and rings, and postmen’s feet
Make echoing noises through the street;
And passing round from door to door,
Leave horrid notes which thus “ implore
Your kind attention; please to pay ;
Our books are closed on New Years’ Day.”
The wine wo bought is all used out
And left no trace (except the gout),
Yet port and sherry, pale and brown,
In hideous columns are put down.
The butcher, too! It. can't be that
So many joints of Jean and fat
Were all consumed within this house;
Which cook asserts would starve a mouse.
I’ll not believe it, nor that tea
Could such a source of min be.
And surely this can’t he the price
Of figs and almonds, prunes and spice!
We have n’t lived on Inrd or chefs?,
Yet rows of figures stand for these,
And here’s the draper! Now my wife
Has gone in debt, I’ll bet my life.
If Eve in Eden stole the fruit,
At least she wore no silken suit,
And Adam had no bills of hers
For gems, or lace, or sealskin furs.
Oh, Of happy time! oh, peaceful hours!
The making love and tending flowers;
Good simple gracious, blessings here’s Heaven grants—
a bill for plant s'
I’ll read no more, they’d drive me wild,
I’ll have my own “petition filed,”
We’ve ridden at the “ pace that kills,”
I cannot pay these Christmas bills.
-Mavfals
UNDER THE CHRISTMAS SKY.
BY HRLKJ* M. COOKE.
Out in the cold they hunger and shiver,
Dear little children with brave human hearts;
Where is their God to save and deliver?
Where is the comfort His pity imparts?
Wrapped in the folds of comfortable clothing,
Dear for little children, with sweet, tender eyea,
Gaze a moment, then turn away loathing,
Under these wonderful, glad Christmas skies!
•
Under the burden hand of sin, and of sorrow,
Is Is there there a that that will is hidden, and warm?
a sun nse on the morrow,
Over the clouds of misfortune and storm?
Out from the mold will the daisies and clover,
Spring Into perfection in their perfume, of color to and glad grace, the world over?
Where is the bloom, then, for each little face?
— Yonkers Gazette.
Proud bird of the barnyard, blithesome and free,
A murderous fleet-footed bludgeon urchin, is hard-hearted hovering o’er thee—
A Will hit thee witb a more’n stuffed bub,
a rap a club.
Make the most of thy time, for soon thou’lt be
And caught thy precious head the
own to block’ll be
Then brought. gobble! and gobble!
and gobble away;
Thyself will be gobbled on Christmas Day.
A reet to thy h>u! aud peace to thy ashes;
A dinner thou’lt make and sundry cheap hashes;
And A breakfast, then be dissolved perhaps, in and thin a light supper, t®o,
a carcass stew.
A LOUD and bails, laughing welcome to the merry Christ¬
mas
All hail with swells; happy gladness the well*known chant
thfct
We list the pealing strain, anthem chord, we hear the mid¬
And love night the tidings that proclaim Christmas-tide
a
there again. be melody, of deeper
But must a purer, sound.
A rich key-note, whose coho, runs through all the
music round;
Let kindly dom voices ring beneath low-roof or palacc
For these a’lone aro Chriatmas chimes that bless*
Christmas Home.
W bite, “ This is the baby’s stocking,
That hangs in tbe corner here;
You never have seen her, Santa,
For she juFtthe only came blossedest this year;
But she’6 baby;
And now, before you go,
Just cram her Stockings with goodies,
From tbe top clear down to the toe.”
Here’s Christmas-let well, us boldly greet him.
We may as for none can cheat him;
He will steal on, and silly sprinkle
The And first methinks gray hair, it and little first faint wrinkle.
What yet seed of Ptuin-mo's he matters.
So that amid it contrive scatters,
we
To keep Truth’s beaitease still alive
Within our breast.
Christmas In Norway.
In tlie mountain districts the All day work is
kept with hearty hospitality. days. The
is suspended for thirteen en
trance of every house ia decorated, and
the walls of the kitchen are fantastic¬ roughly
adorned with gaudy pictures, Through¬
ally painted in water colors.
out Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
the merry-making is entirely domestic,
restricted to the members of each house¬
hold. Not even a friendly visit is paid.
On the following days the neighbors as¬
semble at each other’s houses by turns,
for carousing. No regular meal is pro¬
vided, but open house is kept, the tables
richly permitted spread for all comers. house No stran¬ until
ger is to leave the
he has partaken of the strong Yule ale,
which is served up in true Norwegian
fashion, cask following cask in rapid suc¬
cession. On these iiecasions tho servants
sit at the same table with the host, his
wife and family. All are dressed in their
gala attire of neh colored cloth, trimmed
with gold and silver braid, the
wearing caps and aprons of
hues.
He who said, “Suffer little children tc
come unto me” was the great founder ol 1
the gladsome feast of Christmas, and i( 1
is in Hi* honor that we uphold the feaat *
and gladden the hearts of the tittle one, 1
he loved so dearly. It ia a pleasure, i ‘
holy pleasto make their amile* \
brighter, tteii laughter cheerier and l
more mnaical l/d ua *11, then, proper ’
Jv celebrate Christmas Day,
The Watkinsville Advance.
VOLUME I.
" 'TWAS THE NICSIIT BEFORE ( IIBMT.
MAS ”
BV EDGAR FAWCETT.
With spnw in pale volumes, by savage winds hurled^
world; as wr it
ini now to its noises the little ones bark
Where tbe nursery window looks forth on the dark.
While weirdly agaiust tho blai k blank of I he sky
Those phantoms of snow-cloud pass hurrying by,
The brains of the children shape form after form
From out the wan vapory whiil of the storm;
Huge White lions that ramp; mighty horsrs that prance;
'llli wallowing they dlsc.rn whales of prodigious expanse-—
Is bent now by the weight a of strange ponderous ligure, pack, whose back,
a
And dreaming in front of him, plainer than dar,
The beard of Kris Kringle like blown ocean spray 1
Spe Ah, happy Voting dreamers, dream on as ye will!
merry St. Nicholas trudging to fill,
Through The stockings harsh wintry hang gusts, with benevolent tread,
Hug you beside mantel or bod 1
fast your delusion, O soft dimpiei arms,
And gain while youean its illusory charms
Too soon will reality’s band tear asiuo
The sweat vail of fancy whose filaments hide,
I-ike the blemish, deep-sunk in the rose’s red youth,
Thatstern disappointment, life’s actual truth!—
And vet, darling zealots, content in your creed,
How blest were your fate through the future, ind eed,
If each disenchantment on earth left behind
Such a precious result as awakening to find
Tiuit iu place of your Santa Claus, wrought from a
Was cloud, that
the love engirds "you, fond, vigilmt,
Love proud!— bring,
New eager to ere Tthe morrow Bhall rise,
mirth to your laughter, new light to your eves!
A Christmas Tableau Vivant,
BT WILLIAM H. BUSHNE1X.
“Jerusalem!”
It was a favorite expletive of good
Deacon Parks when excitement got the
better of liis usual placid way, aud liis
wife looked up in astonishment as he
came the stamping into the house, slammed
door after him and stirred up the fire
until the hickory blazed and roared like
an “Gracious! incipient volcano. What
is the matter now,
Job?" she exclaimed, pausing in her
baking her operations, wiping the flour from
hands upon her huge apron and
lowering her her glasses from her forehead to
nose to obtain a better look at her
husband and satisfy herself that he had
not “Why, suddenly lost his wits.
day after to-morrow is Christ¬
mas!”
“As if I didn’t know that! Haven’t I
been making preparations for it for
more than a week? Catch" me without
jelly- mince-pios aud fried cakes and cranberry
and a great, bouncing turkey?” and
she smiled complacently at the thought
of the good things already prepared.
“And I never thought of it until just
now—been so busy; you know,” he
guilty apologized, as if in reality he hail been
of some great crime.
“Well, it don’t matter, Job; and I
wouldn’t worry about it, for I have taken
care of everything for the blessed day
and Minerva will be home from teaching
school. Poor child! how she must suffer
this weather, sleeping in cold rooms
and like as not without a feather-bed
and—”
“It’s all her own fault, Hannah. The
good Lord knows we have plenty for her
and half a dozen more, and if she will
persist in wearing herself out in teaching
other people’s brats, then—”
“What then?” questioned a merry
voico, as a pretty, rosy piece of mischief
tho came bounding into the room, shaking
snow from her long, golden curls,
and running up to her father, fairly
smothered him for a moment with kisses
and then darted away, laughing, to her
mother, twined her arms about her neck
and greeted her as warmly.
“Jerusalem!” exclaimed tlie old man
as soon as he could regain liis breath,
joy though with Ms. honest face flushed with
and his lips quivering with emotion,
for his daughter was indeed as the apple
of his eye and the one thing upon earth
altogether lovely.
dear, precious Iamb,” whispered
the fond mother, through tears of happi¬
ness, as with busy fingers she removed
the jaunty little cap, furs, cloak and
gloves, “to think you have come safe¬
ly hack to me once more and—”
“Now,” interrupted thegirl, “I should
like to know what father was talking
about when I came in. ”
“So unexpected,” said the mother.
“We did not look for you until to-mor¬
row “Oh, night.”
I had a chance to ride home,”
replied the girl, blushing, “and got per¬
mission to let out school. But you were
talking about me, father?”
“Well, yes,” lie answered, with a mer¬
ry twinkle in Ms eyes, “and I was about
to sav when hear—about you came rushing in like a
young if to say, kept though mind,
I didn’t—that you on teaching
other strength people’s teach brats yon wouldn’t have
to your own—when you
get them,” and he laughed loudly at the
changed expression of her face.
“But “For I’ll shame,” responded fatter. Minerva. Re
pay you for that,
member, I am with a young lady impunity, now, and you
can’t joke me with as
you once did.”
“A young lady? Whew! And I sup¬
pose some young trouble gentleman bring put him¬
self to immense to you
home through the cold and toll storm and
didn’t forget to collect at all the
bridges. Aren’t your lips sore, daugh¬
ter?”
The girl colored still more deeply, and
bustled around to help her mother get
the table for dinner, that she might es¬
cape the teasing; but her father enjoyed
it too much, and asked:
“Who was it, child? Some of them
scape-grace clerks from Beaverton, I’ll
be Iwund.”
“You know I never associate with
them ” she responded indignantly. “Mr.
Frank F.minons brought me home.”
“O—li?” with a low whistle. “Yes,
he is a nice and proper young man, and
has such pretty black hair and eyes, and
teeth and nmustaehe, and Bueh white
hands, and sings like half a dozen gentle- angels
and walks so gently,” and the old
m arose and strutted mmcingly around
the room in burlesque imitation of tbe
attendant of his daughter.
Minerva could not but, langfi, yet about pro
tending to take no notice glided
arranging the dishes, and her moUi/r
asked where the young man was.
“I know,” said her father, answering
the question for her, pink “Our .laughter and
TnnuZuniu has roiled him will up cologne in cotton
and put him
in s bandbox for fear bcwfll gat mussed."
“He will la. here Christms* Eve,” in
terrupted Minervs, with a strong < ff,.r‘
at sobriety; “he snd s number ot others.
I knew you w<»uid not oar*, father, if I
invited thum."
WATKINSVILLE, GEORGIA, DECEMBER 21,1880.
“ Not I.” answered the old man heart
fly, his and taking the curly head between
broad palms he drew her tenderly to
him and kissed the rosy and dimpled
cheeks. “ You are truly our one lamb,
and everything will some day be yours.
Yes, you did perfectly right, audit will
be pleasant to have the house filled with
young folks and have a rousing, merry
time. That is how Christmas ought to
be kopt.”
“Wo are going to have tableaux
vivants, and one of them will surprise
you, father.”
He was that already, and had about as
much conception of what was intended
as of the lucid (?) explanations of Her¬
bert Spencer of the Darwinian theory,
and for him to have repeated the words
with the French accent given by bis
child would have been an utter impossi¬
his bility, head so he pretended knowledge, shook
wink, sagely, gave a very knowing
but kept silent and soon found
that pressing business required bis ab¬
sence.
But the doting mother was taken into
full confidence and she and Minerva had
interesting a long, earnest and apparently deeply
conversation upon the sub¬
ject—one that continued for over an hour;
indeed it had not concluded when the
old man returned, for ho caught the
name of the minister and asked:
Martohe *fo?° effi” D ° mm °
“Oh, just because I like him, and his
wife is such a dear-old lady, and they
wifi be very lonely on such a day with
see them, and if he is here everything
mas von 1 knmv g ’for am^”’ “
“Hold, on, mercy’s sake!” ex
claimed her father, ‘‘or you won’t have
breath enough left to eat your dinner,
and that would be very bad. ”
“ But you wanted to know, and—”
“ You have told me sufficient to satisfy
any reasonable mortal man,” he said as
lie took liis place at the table and began
loading her plate as if she had been in
danger of starvation for a month.
Dinner over—it was one of the sub
stantial, old-fashioned kind, though the
mother had added the richest of dessert
delicacies to tempt her child, as if there
was no such thing as took dyspepsia in the
land—and the Deacon ail easy chair
by the broad hearth, lighted his pipe,
and between the curling clouds of smoke
resumed the subject of the morning con
versation.
“How many ouestioned are you going to have,
dauohter?” he bovsandSils
“A 1 the ”
“Boys first, every time with your sex,
and girls with the other,’’ he laughed,
‘S (rXctiveTyTfnim ' fifty to sev
entv five.”
“Gracious' uiacious. the tue old 01a house nouse will will scarcelv scarcely
hold them, and will be certain to bo torn
down with their sav“” vmrmin/r But what
does mother y '
1 | a Oil, she is perfectly satisfied, .. arent „
you mother, dear?” and a look of under
filter P “ ^ aBd
“Then all I have to do is to help the
riot along, for riot it will be with so many
youngsters tegothor. Bnlwl.M,ra.it
A uioio S evang, was answererlwitn
the broadest possible- French accent
“Ah ves I J remember lemeraucr, ana and no no doubt aouuc
; - &r?o,. «it
how “Yes, yes,” and fearful she should see
now much muon he ne was was nuzzled puzziea, he ne instantlv mstanuy
welves, wo, liannan, 1 tear you haven t
d Meriff e) "reTonded
“You 11m arc respouueu bis wife- wiic,
S C hoT •alculXm
been ‘"Well g ”
’is tl cv shan’t inV ko awav iJd huncrv tofS
if there enough
the big farm kettle, and kill lotsof chmk
ens arid turkeys, and send him for Mis.
bmitli to help dress them, and when I
go over to town to-morrow 111 bring
home some oysters und-well, any thing
else you need to have a good time.
“Oh! how much I « m pk you, dear
lather, „ said Minerva, impulsively . him. spring
ing to his side and kissing ‘You
are the kindest and best father in all the
wo 5
‘All a talk, , „ „ , he laughed, ~ though , * .
rare
pleasure was visible in bis face, “ana
you’U get married some day and forget
4 5ur 0u£n e i'»
“Mamed! 4. » exclaimed 1 • s the .. girl, end- .1
denly growing ashy pale. ‘‘Never! I
mean,’ she continued, with her face
flushing to the deepest c/imson, “I mean
1 ri< ^ er P;l te < ‘t y" u -
“Wnew he whist ed, “I never saw
the wind chop around more suddenly
Catch a tori saying shell never get
mamed! They would as soon think of
not being handsome and having pretty
dresses. But you needn t blush so. It s
all nght and proper and the natural con
Mtioiiof womankind.”
“Then, asked she, archly an coquet
finger ishly • 1, standing . thrust between before him her red with ... one little
modesty and bashfulneaa. “Yjt hp« wouldn’t in mock
object to my getting married'
“No, not to a good honest, industrious _
M by should I. A human heart,
and especially of your ttex, witlgmt love,
is as goral Lf?Sj as ‘and ho, my darling;
l TArt whe lwe* vfm W
™
j n fiUC L thine h and 111 not
<£. m ly .^ coimont but. “ mv blcssiriK fj “
f bnvjngf , a htart b the’ ifp
8 , WP dding 8 as will make
fn.rs rino "
^.m,ng ,. . *, . . 1
|
^ Frank-Mr Emmons, I mean?'
“Humph! „ I don t know He is— . ,,
“Just as nice a youriff young fellow fellow as as
lived,” interposed | bi. M* wife. wife.
“Yes, yes. I I can’t can’t gey say eught aught
him, but-'”
“I know, laughed really Minerva at his
fusion, “when you cr,me to
■ ol giving me up it is too much.
it. 1 ’
“f believe you are right, child. But
must go and see about au extra supply of
provisions. Gracious! it will bo fortu¬
nate if we don’t have a famine.”
He wiped away the mist from his old
eyes, daughter brought there by tlie thought his
had suggested; tried to whistle
bravely down the very situation I10 had
with the touch of lugged eloquence de¬
fended, and hastened to call liis man-of
all-work and give him instructions. “Mi¬
nerva lias come back, Mike,” ho said
“and is going to have some kind of a
blow-out on Christmas Eve. She calls it a
tabler vevaught, or something of the
kind.
“Afwhat?” questioned the Irishman,
scratching his head in the most puzzled
manner.
“That’s wliat sticks me, Mike, though
I did not let her know it. Anyhow- thero
is to be some kind of a female circus, and
the animals will want plenty to eat.”
and “Blessings its ivrytliing on tlie bright eyes of her,
on the old farm I’ll kill
if she wants it, the dartin'.”
“Yes, I believe you. That girl seems
to have a faculty of twisting every one
around her finger, and—”
or,” “Diyil said Miko a won more he thin proceeded her ould fayth- obey
as to
the orders he had received, “an’ muther
lasliins of poultry,” well knowing that
his share of the feast would be no stiuted
one.
T <> » ^ hour the making ready was
S®? turae £ ® nd a11 to hed tir * d bu
,appy ’ And the next day was a continual
S fi
wasi V lliy g i, n » bringing himseff useful B up°pHes from
•>* making as well
08 most provokingly officious.
Both© day passed and the night came
w '! h everything ready for the grated
time.
Early the house began to be filled with
a merry company, and were welcomed by
father, mother and daughter, the latter
resplendant abundantly in robes of fleecy white,
trimmed with soft, floating
laces and looped with artificial flowers,
while natural roses, fringed with myrtle
and smilax, were half hidden amid her
golden hair and pulsated upon lior joy
ously throbbing bosom.
For an hour there appeared to be a
ceaseless chiming of sleigh-bells, and
rosy, door. laughing Indeed, loads deposited at the
so many were the teams
that Mike was frantic to know what to
do with them. But the Deacon believed
in “the more the merrier”principle, / ’ and
k . ° pt 0116 l , T yand , contelded . , , - Yet .
^mp^y f a sh^WpeSL^now ■
the m y8toy o£ tbe if 1 ™- a " d d bun 8
n P£ n , \' m M * troublesome nightmare
£ 01 V. oulB the house rang and trembled
upou lts Btroug foundation. It was a
veritable bee-hive if of fun and frolic lrol!0 * and ana
“ any “. « oft i , x took 0,1 dee i I? t,r rose «
from stolen kisses; many an innocent
heart bounded more swiftly from the en.
circling arm and many a pair of ears
tingled from the slapping of white hands
^
But trood L ..'.ud. buxom damo Hannah had
,| r „,„ t prid. i,. hot
ancient clock made its huge, heavy,
coffin-like case throb with the ringing of
U,n ’, 8h wlll8 P e ff d to^erhusband, good,
prudent s soul that she was, that “tho
rz xrrattatf
.Auh^teluSiter 80U @ ht f* 1611 daughter ’'and^ld and told he°r fier tlmv they
wor( , going to , have supper, and that the
zn^^rspsstfs!
muB (- have the tableau first, and she
lo 'Aed'ip, blushing more^ deeply than a
,i am . lH k rose in June into the face of Mr.
U t’° n Wh0S0 aimsl ' e
happened to be leaning d oId
bebLl 11 n ? ht ; r<;s l’? n, ' ‘ tho
^ •*, 1 1 , 1 “dT'S
‘from Ms soffi
«isf 0 . | )U t f ell mother, please, I want
j ler< » And Miss Minerva darted away
to her own private room, while tho old
man t^d the fiddlers to adjourn to the
kitchen ail(1 muke themselves comfortable
until wanted again.
Evidently some of the girls understood
j wLttt wa s going on, if the Deacon did not,
or q, ( ,y cleared one end of tho hall,
i and m[) g marshalled a great patch-work the bed-quilt across
company into Home
thing like order. Then, after a brief
pause, in which there was much whis
p e ring, the improvised curtain was drawn
aside and disclosed Miss Minerva
j haml in haII(1 with Mr. Frank Em
mons> with a young lady and gentleman
aB supporters, and the old minister be
f ore tj ieIQ
Amazed, but silent, the Deacon looked
OJj _ Ho , ijd IJot w ®prehend ^\ the affair
at al] had no vra cai knowJe( ig e of
charades, but when certain word, had
den llg spoken L broke and in a ring Ve passed, darkness a sud- of
b j understanding, upon and he exclaimed
s
witb an earnestness that startled all:
| l“Je-ru-sa-Iem 1 It looks like a mar
nage! The followed sufficed
for full hearty explanation laugh that and it needed
a not
the assurance of the minister to convince
him that his daughter was honestly and
legally married to the man of her choice.
And yet at first he was disposed to Vie an
gry. Then he saw the fisilishness of
snch a prors?eding, especially as lie bad
P re J i(,1Ih| y K? vcu u >
° ctlon ° f h,S duu « hter > ttnd enteral
into the laugh against him
«eW
“That’s what you call a-
1 Oan't speak the new fangled name—is
lit? Yet it wasn't hardly fair to fool
old man no, Minerva. I did expect
i would find something in your stockings
! te-nighf, However child, but nil not right a great (anything live man.
it is
, could could have have done don< would would have have been been and
so) so;
1 we’ll make j'j ili the l»est of it, and your moth
j er ,. r and am I will w have i,ave fill plenty plenty to to do do in
things thatl” thing* ready ready to to fill the the little little
thata-* 1
A srrft wWte hand .to n aid his words,
red and rijs» !hs« were pressed ujmn
own, a «flk«n lime «ss lahi upon
wrinkh-4 one, a t*-w tears of
j were and with rained faltering down ujam his the broad old breast,
tongue
called the young husband to his side,
gave him the hand of liis darling, and
said, “Take her and may if God bless you
both, daughter my children, I have lost a
I have found a son and shall
have another arm to lean upon when my
eyes grow dim and steps unsteady
More he would have said but a great
ringing of bells summoned them to sup¬
per—and such a supper. It would have
made grim Famine commit suicide in de¬
spair to have looked upon the tables, and
Time throw away his hour-glass and sit
The blytliely good down and enjoyed the feast.
mother had known the secret
from the first, and with her pride stitnu-'
lnted had distanced all former efforts,
tho even onl to 'y produce a Christmas supper, and
when complaint again the was of excessive full¬
ness, violins summoned
tlie party to the hall.
A few more hours of such happiness
house as rarely comes to ekrth and tlie old
became silent. The company had
departed, hut not before tlie Deacon had
invited all to bo present that day year,
whispering in the at the same time something
ear of his daughter that sent tho
blood bounding to her cheeks and caused
her to turn suddenly and shamefaced
away.
Was lie right?
Come with me this joyous, blessed
day. ly. You will be welcomed right loyal¬
Come and assist in the festivities
and taste to repletion of the good oheor,
and when the bright-eyed babe is christ¬
ened, join with all in wishing to him, aye
even to all upon earth, a happy, merry,
bountiful Christmas.
Ch. Wn.as Sentiment.
Says a writer in the Y<mke r ’sG.«we«e;
1 here is so much about ('htistiuas that
savors of harmony, concord, peace a
peace that hostilities means not merely the oessa
tion ot between conflicting m
terests in our social world, but that Be¬
rener, broader, deeper all leace the which
unites man to man by ties of
friendly universal intercourse desire which make piooeed Christmas out of
an to a
bright spot among the fading memories
tlio year. I like the sentiment the
niore because it pervades every commu
!| it.v and brings to view the better Bide of
every man s character. Not. a Scrooge
n°r a himself (iradgrind on earth can wholly
® teel against its humanizing in
nuence, and though the closing of tlie day
may find no charity dispensed will least or glad
^ awakened, yet it at surely
? ed ?‘ ! habitual seventy
,, blmited. , if there ,, is . ever “peace on
earth, ” in its fullest sense, it is on Christ
ma8 ’ \ d ° believ f .\ Uat c, f t,,m ttud
of rejoicing; b f it ha. ever occurred to me
that uce irBt tho glail tiding. went out
f rom Bethlehem the event has left its im
l >leBa °“ encn . slu succeeuuig . ( . (!( .,limr ceiieration geueiai.1011,
an( j that each recurring “happy morn”
has fouud the chord of human sympathy
.,,..1 1(1V „ ros r0snO I ,onslv nsivG ® to the me mvstie mystic Mow glow.
it^hand-shakiiig Zn and ^ordfal* greetings sphcfe
we do now a luore Uuntcd
of action for the ^Claus, alma gatherer Christmas fewer vis
fewer
-
nwako ” find touM a snaraer havX harvest of mistln
we mora con
trw;te(l viewi of our Ufe-doud’s silver
H n i n „ A» lf i r liltA tlm math.
to consecrate ^ onr hves and , V'7 to shape ^ them "*
SS±ttSlJS5kSS; i„ the channel that is best suited to their
“ fteasii; jEssrft^
benevolent acts kind words to^ thedis
tressed, family distribution gatherings, of Kitts happy wheth- cliil
,i rP11 , m i the
the day’s sake or not, Hie occasion is one
that we should be truly thankful for.
^ ° f ° U ’'" is botte r 1
Do you boo tho poor,
thin man? How sail it is
to be poor, and have no
tur-key to eat. Who i»
tho man? Ho is an ed
i-tor. What i* an ed-i
tor ? An ed-i-tor is a man
who robs his own stom-aoh
«« , the heads of ... oth-er peo-ple.
Poor man! I will send him a big,
fat tilT-kor for hia Clirist-mae din-ner.
^ Do you see the fat,
1
; thick man? Ycb, I
can gee him with one
eye. Does the fat
mafl iove , „ t,lr - k,,y? . ,
a „ You , bet. , T Is , be an
ed-i-tor, too, Ma-ma?
Nix-ee, my child,
nix-ee ’
------- --7- -
A Christmas Snowball.
Snowballs filled with Christmas gift,
is a late idea of holiday wires in humor. halves A is frame filled
of whalebone or
with toj» aud bon-bona. covered with
thick paper, the halves lightly fastened
together and covered with pure white
wadding. The balls may be made small
and the fun of pelting the family with
them forms part of the ceremonies of
Christmas morning, the ball flyinglojien
| « ^' d ,' «‘ O r ThS ^Ulh
maaaand made and an , rollsU rolled rolled into into the tharown.aa room, osim aa as part part nart of of of
the the Christinas Christmas tree tree festivities. festivities The The semi- semi
! ! circular circular whalebone whalebone or or ennohna crinoline “dree* dress
| , ! improver*” i®proveni can cen be be put puMo to good good use use for for
! suowhalU in round their way wiih by joining a psir
* ^ oovormg cotton.
1 Isoeasonn tht reality mav of defy Hwset brimstone five and
doubt a ‘ and
s Bye, igis but tf he undertakes to pluck s
f * H hristls from th« tieard of Hants
Laus, th«r* wiU h* a row.
NUMBER 42.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Ktowali, Ala., lias over 9,000 tax-payers.
Twenty-eight failures occurred iu Alabama
Inst month.
The city tax rate at Mobile is $1.75 per
$100. At Memphis it is $2.
A gin for sea island cotton has been in
vented by a Screven county Georgian.
Cnpt,. Henry DeTonti made the fust settle¬
ment iu Arkansas, in tlie year 1680.
Sheep raising is said to be the principal
industry of Geneva county, Ala.
Sheep-raising is said to be the principal
industry of Geneva county, Ala.
The forthcoming report of tlie Auditor will
show in North Carolina 1,530,483 hogs.
Twenty-seven artesian wells are in Fort
Worth, Texas.
A kill in Alabama propose* to forbid tlie
shipment of fricighton Sunday.
in Birmingham, Ala., more than 100 houses
have been built in six weeks.
Gov. Warinouth expects to make over one
pounds of sugar this year on bis
La., plantation.
ilr. T. M. Boyd, of Vtt., lias been called to
tbe charge of the Kufaula. Ala., Presbyterian
church.
The total loss by the lire at Durham, N. C.,
last week is estimated at $60,000 to $05,000.
Fourteen ot fifteen buildings were destroyed
Tlie Alabama senate lias passed a bill au¬
thorizing the appointment of a commissioner
of immigration.
(’apt. Dwyer is cleaning out the Kuoxubee
river for steamers, which can reaeli Macon,
Miss., by spring.
The quantity of leaf tobacco sold ut Dan¬
ville, Va., in November, was 1,911,534
pounds.
The Henry county, Alabama, jail is with¬
out an occupant for the first time since it
was built.
There arc over 9,000 hales of cotton iu
in Vicksburg, awaiting transporta¬
to New Orleans.
There will he 29 farmers in the next legis¬
of Texas. A very large majority will
lawyers.
The New Orleans Democrat says that the
river never floated so many slea in
boats as now.
The travel on St, John’* river, iu Florida
is thought to he 50 per cent, greater than in
1879.
Jt is said that there is plenty of idle land
iu l/(iuisiiiiiii, w hich eau he bought eheap
and will yield large crops of corn, cotton and
cane.
(Jen. Joseph li. Brown lives on Washing¬
ton street, Atlanta; Henj, H. Hill, on l’eaoh
tree, and Gen. Gordon, at Kirkwood, a sub
urban tillage.
The census returns from ten counties of
Georgia are, not yet completed. It is thought
that the result will show that Georgia has be¬
tween 1,630,000 and 1,140,000 population.
The new lee faetor.v in course of erection
at New Orleans wi l turn out about 25,000
tons of ice annually, and employ about 76
hands.
The Jacksonville (Fla.,) Union reports the
reception by rail In that city for shipment
to northern factories of 55 specimens of
Florida wood.
The Gazette says that German or Hweedish
servant girls arc to he supplied to responsi¬
ble families at Little Bock. Two or three
have already arrived.
Poisoned water is said to have appeared
in the gulf. The Pensacola Gazstte hopes it
will not rtacli the upper hanks. The fish
seem instinctively to flee from it.
The loervilie South says that live’aeres of
eaue, ground last week on Mrs. Paulin Du
py’s plantation yielded 18% quarters hogs¬
heads of sugar of excellent quality.
The constitution of Florida provides that
after 1880 the legislature shall pass a law
making an education qualification for
voters.
A plan to settle the state debt of Virginia
proposes to issue three per pent, bonds for
the whole of the principal and establish a
sinking fund.
The amount of public school money avail¬
able in Georgia, this year is $346,273, or
about 80 cents a head on the school popula¬
tion.
The roll of tin New Orleans Cotton Kx,
change is now larger than ut the close of
any previous year. Tbe hoard is about to
buy the property known as the Denham cor¬
ner.
An orange crop embracing 35 acres con¬
taining about 3,500 trees, iu Sumter county
Fla,, has been purchased by.a Columbus,
Va., man for $31,000. lie sold the fruit now
on the trees for $3,000.
The annual report of Major H. 8. Thomp
son, state superintendent of education of
South Carolina shows 2,973 schools and 3,171
teachers for 1879-80, against 2,901 schools
3,166 teachers for 1878-79. In 1876-77
were 2,483 schools and 2,674 teachers.
Twenty-five members of the South
na legislature are in favor of holding a
stitutional convention, 18 are in favor of
istration, 10 want the state and federal
ions separated, 0 desire a property or educa¬
tional qualification for sufirage.
Gov. Hagood saw in Marlborough
8. C\, a field of 350 «cres which yielded
year, as it did also last year, 350 bales of cot¬
ton weighing 500 pounds each. At 10
a pound the gross value of the crop is $50 an
acre, which i* tub:at ns rntieli as the iand
north in the market.
There are six moss factories in New
Orleans and vicinity. All tha moss ginned
is slii|>p*d shroud as llw furniture nianufs.-t.
urers do not buy it ginned, preferring to
pick ‘ u “ '*
v*»i u,r He- remth mew hr ihe K n
up ho*lte r er» «nd mstlress makers of
h *'*£'*'* “ * ’ 1 ■
Th ". 0d8 * n “ w ^ lhiMb ' b , t ' ^
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tew*. **th dil.pid.ttd buildings,
street, snd a gvusral air »f rot audruiu,
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UUR4L TJ r* FOR Mi 'A
CHRISTMAS HUMOR.
The muss that children are anxious to
get into—Christmus.
As the Christmas tree is bent, so is
the youthful heart made glad.
Christmas is the anniversary of dys¬
pepsia’s fort.. fowlest conspiracy against com¬
Hose more despised by little children
than the man who takes no stockin’ Santa
Claus?
Remember the barber, the bootblack
—and the bartondor —Adviee to Bach¬
elors.
Some folks will hang up their stookings
Christmas eve, aud some will hang up
the bartender.
The man who takes unto himself a wife
on Christmas eve will be sure to have
well-filled stockings.
It is said that a child born on Christ¬
mas will always hate turkey and goose,
and loan towards codflsli and bacon.
The smull hoy now puts in eight hours
a day flattening his his nose nose against against tho tho
windows of confectionery and toy stores.
“ Is Kriss Klngle Alive, papal’*
The small boy said.
“ Ah! yes. and < kicking.’ "
Said tbe family’s head.
Christmas is rapidly coming this way,
and the young man with a No. 9 foot
will, os usual, lie presented with a pair ol
No. 6 slippers.
Listen to tbe sleigh-bolls Jiugle!
See tho merry snow-fiekeA mingle!
llow It makt ■ our life-blood tingle!
A royal welcome to old Krlie Cringle!
If you really desire to perpetrate »
practical joke upon your printer this
year just send him the amount of your
subscription on Christmas.
What time the holidays roll round,
The had hoy, si ill In Iroeks,
Led Ami by the ear, to his me draws near,
gvtleih bis Christinas box.
“Ham* up the baby’s stocking!"
shouts the Hackensack Republican. Wa
want it distinctly understood that we
haven’t any such appendages.
A youno man who gave Ms girl a $75
gold during watch lost Christmas, married her
the summer, aud now lie thinks
the present was “time” well spent.
Now comes tho season when the young
man, on an eight dollar salary, bothers
his brains to raise the stamps to get liis
girl Kansas a twenty dollar holiday present.—
City Times.
Christmas falls on Saturday this year,
end severe storms are predicted. Tlie
storm wake will likely and break ttnd when the young¬
sters up tlieir stookings
filled with chunks of coal.
The morning dawns, and the house¬
hold is awakened by the sound of drum
and fife. But it is not war. It is not the sum¬
mons to go out and slaughter the Zulus.
Nay, brethren, it is Christmas .—New
York B.ipfcss.
“M amma," said the little one, “do you
know what you aro going to give me" for
Christmas?” “Why yes, ” said the moth¬
er, “of course I know.” “Well, for mer¬
cy’s sake, don't vehemence. tell me,” responded the
puss with great
A» Christmas approaches, the young
man who has been toasting bis toes, and
lounging on the best parlor sofa, with begins
to try and get tip a quarrel his
young'girl nimself on go as Christmas to escape bankrupting present.—
a
Baltimore livery Saturday.
Hint And lrij>[>«! fbe o’«i tlie rushy rrotalng, blew,
An Mob wind, of fier that ankle fiercely
or no
L'xpoted to the jaibiic view.
The oflluei distinctly on the next corner
“ Was beard today,
That's the nicest think In a alt
I have soen tbta ebri stmae
“ Hish aye the merry mietletoe,
Tbe rnerrv, merry mistletoe, mistletoe,
The merry, merry bonrb.”
Tbe mistletoe
Pleasant Remembrances.
levee Sitting here, I find myself holding a
of departed Christmas nights. Si¬
lently, into my Btudy of imagination
come mantles, those hrooclied apparitions, clad in snowy
and gemmed with
frosts. Their numbers I do not care to
count, for they are the number of my
years. The visages of some are sad
enough;’ but, on the whole, ’tis a con¬
gregation of jolly ghosts. I hear a sound
as of light music, a whisk of women’s
dresses whirled around in dance, and the
dick as of glasses pledged by friends.
Before one apparition is a mound ou
which the snow iR lying. I know that
midst! spring of mistletoe. O, spirit in the
Under it I swung the girl I loved
with — and trencher kissed her, hand; too. And thou, too,
iu I remember thy
reigning night. girls Where now are the
Augers many hoys in thy and blaze? that thrust their
The kindly Christmas tree, from which
I trust every geutle reader will pull a
bon-ton or two, is already sparkling with
the sweet fruits of its season. You,
young lailies, will pluck giftling s fruits
from it; and with the sugar-plum you
will find one of those delicious conun¬
drums, which the confectioners intro¬
duce into the sweetmeats, and which ap¬
ply to the cunning passion of love.
There are some standing about the tree
who don’t care about thelove-riddlepiurt.
Patience, little people! will a dozen be reading Christ¬
mases more and you
those wonderful conundrums. As for us
older pulling folks, we branches; watch tlie but young people long¬
at the we no
er reach for tlie fruits, and for us the
Christmas lights have mostly gone out.
Wealth Not Omnipotent.
Wealth is potent in its own sphere,
but impotent under beyond the it. and It can put a
telegraph land with network sea wires cover with the
a of as a
spider’s web. It can build railroads and
bridge oceans. It can buy houses and
lands and every material advantage; but
here its power stops. It cannot pur¬
chase goodness, love, or justice, or gentleness,
or It patience, make or character or true stronger, friendship.
cannot or
life* sweeter. It can say to the minister,
I will feed you and clothe you while you
are teacher, making I will men take better, and to the
care of you while
you nothing are making without men the wiser, brain but of it wisdom can do
or the heart of goodneee. It can build
railroads, but it ia powerless to build
men
Hr who he* ridden in * country when eta ga
joanh knows how cream feel* it is
being churned into butter,