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of our*. Glorious Orb! from
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t were l<>nn<%l; from whose
k<T.t,oall * ii|i(U . loUi .
spected two bßrrrTfts JTT,
and w JLj
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nf light, of In ;ii. of
Mq rii.i of Hfc,
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i • , • 7 , blessing* llow.
lis high U ..ij-, *
fldixlicd in ii
it, 1 2 110 ol cemtier.
Hfcy^ ;u,v cO the calendar of
.‘lis - was (In lentil
HHHfe*'word i/11111 ie l : nil 1
calendar it u a
two] It h. Among lie
month was devoted
festivals. Oil the sth
"’“'•pi- the Fannalia; on tho
the SAturnalia; on the 22d,
KJ.atirarin ; and on the last, the
■Blniles I.inli. The Peasants
Mr” hpt the feast of the goddess
after having got in the
I fiown the corn. Dm
he.nis time, all orders of the
~i t - w ■ 1
‘m unity- were devoted to mirth
Kru festivity. Masters and slaves
Here all on an equal footing.—
D'Tiends sent presents to one an
dlior, and feasted together at the
sumo table. The schools kept a
vacation, and nothing was to he
seen hnt mirth and freedom.
The Saxons called the month
Winter Monath. The feast of
Thor, called Vale, began at the
winter Solstico and continued in
to January.
TH* Rft> Letter Days of the
month are as follow :
6th.— “ St. Nicholas." lie was
Archbishop of Myra, in Greece,
A. I). 302, and is regarded as the
patron snint of children anil mari
ners, and consequently churches
built near to tho sea are general
ly dedicated to this saint.
13th.— “ St. Lucia' was a young
lady of Syracuse, who died in the
year 304, and was remarkable for
the devout and charitable life she
led.
21st.—“<8Y. Thomas'' is said to
have travelled and promulgated
Christianity among the Persians,
Modes, Partitions and Armenians,
and that ho met with his death
by being stoned, and having darts
thrown at him by the Brahmins,
who wore incensed at Jiis preach
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“(7/>ristm<H Day." This
were ns R s °l‘‘ inn festival by our
j. iv irch. and many curious cus
toms prevail, which we have nei
ther time nor space to describe,
particularly as they are generally
well known.*
20th.— “ St. Stephen." This feast
is fceld, according to Brady, “in
coaspquence of St. Stephen hav
ing keen the first who suffered for
Ins steady adherence to the faith
of Christ, so that his anniversary
has been fixed immediately fo]
lowing the day held by the
Church in commemoration of the
Nativity of our Saviour.”
f7U><—"6V. John, the JiiHingth
iet." This feast is observed in
commemoration of this era n gel
iU:\ JleWse he drank poison with
out dying in consequence.
28th.—“ Childermas" or “Holy
Innoetmt'e Day'' is held in com
memoration of the slaughter of
the innocents by Herod, and is
celebrated by thct'hurch of Home
with uiassot* It is considered un
lucky to begin work upon this
day.
81st.~ “St.Silvettyr" was a pope
and is said to have been the au
thor of several rites and eeremo
nies of the Romish Ohurch, as
unctions, palls, asylums, etc. He
died in 334.
t. Winte'sauid Spring.
Ot I'luto ref is b r J’lie sear and
ylMlow leaf is gone, and ice and
snow have obliterated the last
vestige of Spring, of Summer and
iwJ
■' - h iV
o \
IHfIL -
An tiny, torch of Ceres
in Til fays, and
, "‘Viis i/ hi l#,( ‘ • vainm Uy* nres-
I ,'Af tfiV ie<l fron .‘, vfp-*
i dn*f Ir room ♦,
imaw thel .
Minty,, v
nature. ami ha-sol \
111liv<■ ii- into ,i go
spiritual i .'••mil- ;
Hlo kiiow better. .Science
something ef nia
tliTT eve.vU.Jiat when
*(W^J^R|k f !^ e !‘n/'*ftKirual round,
brings us to the Summer solstice,
that our fields will again he cov
ered with verdure, and that Phoe
bus—the Sun—will then give
the heat, the light, the warmth,
essential to vegetable life. Then
we will know, not that Proserpi
na has returned to bless the Earth
or that. Phoebus has deigned to
smile upon it, but that the laws
of nature have brought light and
heat nndHife in accordance with
the movements of the Earth.
CRICKET'S CBEISTXUS. 61FT,
HY fl — ll—.
It was three days before Christ
mas, and making
preparations for that grand event.
In the Marchmont kitchen a big
fire reared and crackled in the
ample fire place, and the stove
in the corner was also heated up.
Grandma Marchmont sat by
the fire knitting, her placid face
wearing a contented smile.—
Mrs. Marchmont was mixing cake,
Julia was rolling out pie crust,
and Cricket was stoning raisins.
‘Julia what are you going to do
with your uncle’* Christmas pres
ent r
‘l’m goingsto buy that dark
blue silk at Murray’s to wear to
our Christmas ball.’
‘Couldn’t you do with a cheap
er dross, and give some of it to
those poor people that have
suffered so this winter. Dr. Car
roll was telling me this morning,
that a great many of them had
had the fever and xvere unable
to work yet, and that they would
have a sad Christmas.’
‘Oil grandma ! I really cannot
do without my dress. Miss Gor
don, Susy Long and all the oth
ers will bo out in new dresses,
and l wouldn’t go, and look like
a nobody.’
‘But think, my dear, how much
good you would be doing,’ said
Grandma, gently.
Julia’s delicate brows met in a
frown.
‘Uncle Amos gave me the
money to do as I pleased with,
and I don’t seo why I should not
have the dress.’
‘Certainly, dear, I shall not ob
jeet,’
The old lady looked thought
fully into the lire a minute, her
shilling knitting needles lying
idle, then turning to Cricket,
said:
‘And what are you going to do
with your’s. Cricket ?'
Cricket bent lower over her
work, her small, dark fare flush
ing.
‘I—I don’t know, Grandma. I
have not thought much about it
,yet.'
•I would tell you what would
bo the best thing to do with it.
Cricket,’ said Julia with anima
tion. -Get. a rose colored silk,
and trim it in black lace. It
would become you, then rose is
Dr. Carroll's favorite color.—
Don't you think she ought to
spend it that way, mamma?'
‘Mv dear, Cricket must please
herself,’ said Mrs. Marchmont
with a smite.
‘Well, I am going to get my
dress, and have Mrs. Wilson to
make it, and papa must, give me
enough to buy a wreath, and
some gloves to wear with it.’
The work was done, and Crick
et took off her cook apron, and
ran up to her own room.
Mr. Marchmont had given the
odd, whimsical name of Cricket
to his youngest daughter, because
she was so brave and cheerful.
THE FIELD AND FIRESTDE—MARIETTA, (GA.) THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1878.
A veritable cricket singing on I
the hearth.
Cricket was not a beauty. She j
was slim and dark, with velvety
black eyes, and long, silky, black
hair. A quaint girl, with the
truest and tenderest of hearts.
The one window faced the
south, and was filled with plants.
Geraniums, winter roses, chry
santhemums, and as many others
as she could get to live. An ivy
vine wreathed the window, its
dark green leaves, contrasting
well with the crimson curtain.
A low, white bed filled one coi
ner, and a book case stood against
the wall. It was so pure, and
dainty, this girlish bower, with
it’s simple furniture, and bloom
ing flowers.
j ticket opened a tableshiw’er,
_ infl taking out a smaller Ik purse,
sat down on the heam^ug.
‘I can wear my old blaYlJ silk,'
she said to herself, resting her
chin in her small palm and gaz
ing into the fire. ‘lt is shabby
T know, but if people don’t like
me without fine clothes, their
liking is not worth having,’ nod
ding her little dark head.
She counted over the fifty dol
lars slowly, wondering how many
wants she could relieve with it,
‘and they do need it more than I.’
It was a cold dreary afternoon ;
but buttoning up her cloak, and
drawing the rose-hued hood over
, her head, Cricket w-ent out to
visit some of the poor people.
It was nearly dark when she
started home. Opposite the drug
store she met Dr. Carroll, look
ing haughty, and aristocratic,
and showing the true gentleman
in every line of the grave, mar
ble face.
‘Where are you going, Cricket ?’
he asked.
‘Home,’ answered Cricket with
| a smile.
‘lt is too late for you to be out
in the cold,’ said the doctor al
most severely, ‘and as I am go
ing your way I will take you
home.’
Cricket tried to object, but oh
jections had little force with
Winthrope Carroll, and she was
wrapped in the warm carriage
rugs, and whirled away home.
‘Where have yon been this
evening ?’ inquired the Dr.
‘To seo poor Mrs. Adams.’
i ‘But I told you not to go there
; any more Cricket. The fever is
contagions.’
‘Yes, but I am not afraid,’
said Cricket.
‘No I don’t think you are, still
it is not necessary to endanger
your life.’
A fearful fever had broken out
among the lower class, and there
! was still a few cases. Dr. Car
roll devoted his time almost ex
clusively to them, going down
j info the haunts of misery, with
out shrinking. The poor crea
tures almost adored the calm,
bravo man who helped them as
much by encouraging words as
medicine,
Christmas eve came with low
ering grey clouds and a cold raw
wind. Cricket went out early in
the afternoon to make her pur
chases. Bhe spent all her money
even to the last dime, which she
gave for a big over-grown gin
ger cake for a little ragged news
boy.
I It was grey dusk when she
| reached home. She walked into
1 the large cheerful kitchen, with
i crimson cheeks, sparkling eyes,
i and a song on her lips.
‘What makes you so merry,
j Cricket ?’ asked grandma in her
pleasant voice, a smile on her
sweet old face.
Cricket knelt down at the old
lady's knees. ‘I just feel happy
grandma, that's all.’
‘I expect I know what makes
my little girl happy,’ said grand
ma, laying her withered hand on
the dark head. -It is the con
ciousness of well -doing. Cricket
I know what you have been do
ing, and dear child, God will
bless you for it. 1
Crickoutlaid her head down on
her grandmother’s knee, and with
j tender dreaming eyes, watched
| the red coals drop doVrn and turn
to grey ashes, seeing beautiful
pictures in their depths.
The Christmas hall was a grand
affair. The Marchmont girls were
there, Julia in her handsome
•ilk, with pearls on her neck and
; arms, and a wreath of silver
I leaves in her hair. Cricket was
in her old black silk, with soft
white lace at her throat and
wrists, and winter roses in her
hair.
‘Just look Dr.!' cried good na
tured Mrs. Germaine to Dr. Car
roll, ‘there goes Julia Marchmont
dressed as fine as you please,
and Cricket in that old black
silk.’
Doctor Carroll looked down
the line of dancers, his eyes lin
gering on Miss Gordon with ad
miration, and on Cricket March
inont in cool displeasure.
‘There is quite a romantic sto
ry attached to Cricket’s dress,
Dr., continued Mrs. Germaine,
fanning herself vigorously.—
Would you like to hear it?’
‘Yes,’ said Dr. Carroll politely.
‘Well their uncle gave them
fifty dollars apiece, to buy dres
ses for this ball, but Cricket wore
her old dress and gave her money
to the pioor. She is a very queer
girl though.’
‘Yes, extremely queer, or she
would never have done that,’
and Mrs. Germain did not know,
whether he was praising or con
demning the girl for what site
had done.
Miss Gordon swept by in lus
trous violet silk and diamonds,
her fair face faintly flushed, and
her large, lovely blue eyes full of
fire. She was beautiful, very
beautiful, but Winthrope Carroll
never saw her. He went straight
to the window where Cricket was
standing and abruptly said:
•So you are the good fairy that
my poor people are blessing?’
She looked up quickly.
‘llow do you know?’
‘Of course I know. Can such
things be hid ? I knew you
were a brave girl Cricket, but I
never thought you had the mor
al courage to wear an old dress,
and give up your money.’
‘I had forgotten all about it,'
said Cricket with a merry laugh,
and an upward glance into the
grave eyes so intently watching
her.
All through the evening, Dr.
Carroll’s eyes followed the slen
der figure, with a tender light in
their depths never seen there be
fore.
Two o'clock in the morning
Julia proposed going home.—
Cricket was eating an ice and
enjoying herself thoroughly.—
‘Don’t go quite vet, Julia, wait
awhile.’
An hour after she ran upstairs
and put on her wraps. Coming
down through the hall she met
doctor Carroll.
‘Have you seen Julia ? she en
quired, ‘I can’t find her.’
‘Julia has gone home. I prom
ised to take care of you.’
Cricket was surprised. When
did doctor Carroll ever take so
much trouble before ? The first
few minutes of their drive was
passed in silence, then Winthrope
said:
‘Don’t you think Miss Gordon
is very- beautiful ?’
‘Yes sir, I do. 1
‘Do you think she would suit
me for a wife ?’
The girl looked steadily into
the keen, searching eyes and re
plied :
‘1 do think she would suit you
perfectly.’
‘My friends are advising me to
marry and I have been thinking
seriously of doing so for some
time, but,’ with a sudden change
in his voice, ‘it is not Miss Gor
don, or any other fashionable la
dy, that I want for iny wife.’—
For a few minutes there was ut
ter silence, then quietly,gravely,
he asked the all important ques
tion :
‘Cricket, will you be my wife ?'
Cricket shrank back in her
corner of the carriage, trembling
with a mixture of fright and keen
joy.
‘I have never loved any other
woman except my mother, my
darling, so you get the best and
truest love that I can give. Will
you accept it ?’
A small, warm hand was slip
ped into the one waiting to re
ceive it and that was Cricket's
answer. When Dr. Carroll lifted
her out at the gate, he held her
close for a minute, kissing the
scarlet mouth and whispering
tender words ot love between his
caresses.
So the blessing grandma
Marchmont predicted had come,
and Cricket looked up at the win
ter stars with anew light in her
eyes, that through all the after
years would never leave them.
A Man-Baby.
In the second story of one of
the low. rickety wooden buildings
on the east side of Chatham street
in humble apartments,there lives
one of the most curious of human
monstrosities. It is a boy. or
man, twenty one years and six
months old, having been born in
1557, that is in all respects, phys
ically and mentally, nothing
more than an overgrown infant.
Its parents are Mr. and Mrs. Jac
ques Jenn, of No. 165 Chatham
street, industrious French people.
The child was born on the 10thof
■ June. 1857, and was christened
Jule. Up to his eighth month he
did not differ from other children;
but at that’age he was taken sick
j with measles, and for six months
1 it was thought that he could not
live, one childish disease follow
ing rapidly upon another. Ilis last
ailment, and the one to which his
parents ascribe his deformity',
was one that baffled the attending
physician, and is described by the
father as “the English disease.”
Both physical and mental growth
seemed to be arrested by this
disease. The boy is not quite
three feet high, but measures
four feet around the waist, being
inordinately corpulent. His head
is well shaped, but looks much
too large for his body being more
than two feet in circumference.
His hands and feet are exceed
ingly small, like those of a one
year old infant, and he weighs
one hundred and sixty pounds.
Every effort has been made to
; educate him, but he is not capa
ble of learning anything. When
ihe was ten years old he was
! scarcely two feet high, but weigh
|ed almost one hundred pounds,
i The physician who attended at
■ his birth predicted that he would
! not live to be fourteen years old :
but he is now in good health. The
I boy’s skin is remarkably' soft and
white like a baby’s. All of his
I habits are childish, and lie can
j speak only a few words, such as
i -‘papa,” “mamma,” “yes,” and
! “no.” His extreme corpulence
| prevents him from walking, but
he is very active with his hands
1 and feet. He amuses himself
with childish toys, and is very shy
; when strangers are about. Ex-
Police Surgeon Baker, who has
i watched the case close for sever-
al years, says that it is the most
wonderful case he ever heard of.
The boy has been examined by a
number of scientists, who have
all come to the conclusion that
he is a perfect baby in mind and
body. His father has been ap
proached by many showmen, who
were anxious to add the boy to
their list of attractions; but Mr.
Jenn has declined every offer,
not desiring to have his son ex
hibited to the public. —New York
Times.
It seems to us, from a casual
notice of returns, that the aver
age yield of Clawson wheat is
far higher than that of any other
variety. It is now well known
that this wheat should be well
seasoned before it is ground. We
find, also, that the bread made
now is better than that made ear
lier from flour ground at the same
time. —Rural New Yorker.
Marietta High School!
—FOR—
HOYS AYD CURLS.
rplIE undersigned proposes to resume
1 the exercises of the Marietta High
School on
MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 1878.
The course of study embraces Latin,
Greek, French, Mathematics, Rhetoric,
Natural, Mental and Moral Science,
Composition, Book-keeping, etc.
Special attention paid to Reading and
Writing, Spelling and Declamation.
Mrs. M ANGET will remain in charge
of the Primary and Ornamental Depart
ments.
Four pupils, one from eacli of the
churches, will, as heretofore, be receiv
ed free of charges for tuition : the selec
tion of these pupils to be made by the
Ministers in charge of the churches.
TERMS,
Per Scholastic Month of Four Weeks,
FROM $2 TO $5.
Incidental fee (which pays for fuel,
pens and ink,) thirty cents for term of
four months. V. E. M ANGET.
Marietta, Aug. 8, 1878. tf
WESTERN & ATLANTIC
Rail JUMjfliii Road.
TIME OF DEPARTURE
I'KOn MARIETTA.
No. 1, night passenger, north 2.45 p. mf
No. 2, night passenger, south 9.52 p. m.
No. 3, day passenger, north 0.45a. m.
No. 4, day passenger, south 12.08 a. in.
No. 5, day freight, north 6.47 a. m.
No. 6, day freight, south 4.42 p. m.
No. 7, night fr’gt, acc. north 6.20 p. m.
No. 9. way fr’gt, day, north 8.30 a. in.
No. 10, way fr’gt, day, south 2.15 p. m.
No. 12, acconi. freight, south 5.00 a. m.
JSnAll freight trains carry passen
gers, provided they have tickets.
.Tune 20.1878. W. McRAE, Sup’t.
LIVERPOOL & LONDON &
GLOBE
WSI RAACE (OUPAW.
U. S. Branch Assets $3,959,901 00
Liabilities 2,191,769 49
Surplus over all liabilities $1,768,131 51
Total income of 1877 $2, 713,059 32
“ expenditures of 1877 1,603.916 79
Surplus income of 1877 $1,109,142 53
Aggregate of losses paid by the
Company over $79,000,000
Risks taken at reduced rates of Premi
ums. Apply to,
Wx. KING. Agent.
Marietta, Ga. Oct. 31. 1878. 1 v
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