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SUNDAY MORNING. jgL §> <^f| - ( . -.•-’• - ; M rf ' *f }'t r^ ||K: CANTIQUE DE NOEL. 9p night ' the bn-hLy A .i- O night divine! O night when Christ JM was born! t ,f t>ur hmc S-ivionv’s Truly He {.night us to love one another; . - Hia law is love, and His Gospel is peace; >Oii. .r, tae w ;,d 11 s.ii and error pm- Ch.-.ms shall lie break, for the slave is our ... I brother, m¥ He appeared, a* s the r nil felt its And in His name all oppression shall Ki m rth : {case. gthn h ;>o tie* weary worfd re- Sweet hymn of joy in grateful chorus raise tap* l \ oii'.h i brea anew and g.orious Let all within as praise llis holy name, By- ,!i ' 1i: , , • ■ Christ is the Lord! then ever, ever praise B* on vo*n kiues! O.i hear the angel we; IL. power and glory evermore proclaim! vvs $ $ ¥ {CALM ON THE LAST’NING EAR OF NIGHT. ;t aim pn she ust' nug c ot ‘‘Glory to God!’’ the sounding skies Come Heaver, s hu.-m-shu.; strain:*, Load with their anthems ring, jAYiuie Hi: . dud. : • '*-* he* far ‘‘Peace to the earth, good will to men, li?r .siivor mam 1 pou.is. From Heaven’s eternal King!” C*;< hovc Li.;ht on thy hills,^Jerusalem! :• i . t- 1 tie Saviour now isfiorn; ■At f' V* ! • H ' ; i ii -, And I)right on neth-ehem’s joyous plains |f :o tousic o;i the an*. Breaks the Ifrst. Christinas morn. Peter and (lie Green Men J V: BY FRIT’ERICK M. SMITH ft, T *\ KTEK sat looking out of the Hf window wondering what ho fell Uhl <!•. wlliiom u Chrlst ulns *''*•• for hi - mother it i<l ;;£aki there n-'i- littio chance of St. cojtiin,;;- that year, ami wh-st Wes tin lie- -e a 11\ (' ivin .1 tliiie was nothing to put 0:1 It. They ll\c-.l In ih great Thmingian forest, near the high littio v:’;nge of Igeishieb, l’etorV filth, r wa • <! and the gimut m-.ther wu > lit, ■ i;,... the mother had ■to earn Inv.td IV;- ail, though Peter lw!p. cl. In .-’tmnuT !• hunted hfiT-tain roots like tlm oil. r village folks. !-,4Aml now here I. was the day ho for tphrisfi.-m. and Peter had he >b toM that instr-ul of thinking of a <’imV, ma tt- Im must hit thankful if there was ci .-sigh black bread to go round. He w. s thankful, 1 tit ha co-fid tmt hdp ywishluf for a free. !!<- looked at the if oji diiadher huddled by the fireside. MHfls, ilte haliy. was |(laying cn tiie :Be . and Ills mother was iu:kl>:_• a PP' ■of i .dsaoi I- Tlii:- .... V to Pt tor. “You ttie to take .1.. to th- village aud give them to ti." .i. • t.,-r 4a i'lustivr.* for medicine,“ said she, "ami be sure yeti burry l>aek. for there wi 1 itc a snowfall 1-t night.” f&’eßst took bis w. od. it •••hoes from ►lh ovnt, where they had '■•".•a -•••artti ljgr. and as he put bis blue ‘tor-kinged \ T .. • C " v W A " ;S .yij. , v ;. -C ' "J, . *# yg • *V ’9/'.. mm mgr feet ittto them tiie good warm wood made him smile. Then lie dumped out iuic> the road, and stood for a moment !o 'kitjg up at the great black tir trees -'ll i ’den with twinkling snow crystals, and hack into the forest lie looked w-. re the snow carpet lay white and tin- ti-.-.* trunks east blue weird shad ows. lie never .-eased to regard -tiie ■. rest with awe and wonder, for tiie ran in it and tiie wild deer bid In its depths; above all. did not his grandmother tell of tin- queer little <C en Men who lived in tiie ground, ttt.d who sometimes appeared to chil dren ? 'file '’..id suddenly brought him back to bin! ■ if. Ho blew Into his lingers, iti'il < ■ lie went up the road to the vil lage. The snow, was well trodden. Just as it-:- got to the place where the road goes past the big rocks and Ilte over running spring lie heard somebody call !’• •!" He stopped and looked ei'omjd. but cover a soul did he see in all - forest. Yet he was sure lie liad heard ;t voice, a thin, small voice, and lie that there was someone near who could see him, tmt whom he could not see. set Ins heart n-thumping with fear, so he started off again, and if lie had walked fast before you can Imagine that lie made good time now. “Hi! Peter!” said the voice again, and tltis time he saw on the hillside above him a little man beckoning. ,\'i ar by were two other little men try ing to drag a tree. It was a small tree, but it was too big for the little men, who were no higher than Peter’s kncAll these men were old and were clothed in greelt. As l’eter looked at them bis eyes opemd v.-ry wide and his fear left Mm. so that when they all .beckoned again lie floundered toward -them itrongh the snow. “P tor.” said the spokesman, “just help . with this tree, will you? It's a Christmas tree, and we can't get It home.” Now Peter was a wise lad for his years, and lie had not listened to his grandmother's tales for nothing. He k cw that thes. were the wonderful (Jreon Men and that It paid to be polite to them. But being a German be was . r.Mou■'. “Where do you live?” asked : he. “At the bottom of the spring,” said the Green Man, “hut the way to get there Is through this hole at the foot of the old tir.” “Well,” said Peter, “if one has the luck to have a Christmas tree it’s a pity that one shouldn't got it home, so I’ll help.” “You push,” said the Green Man, “and we’ll pull. Now!” With the three pulling and Peter pushing they managed to get the tree into the ground, though when he stopped to think of it, it was funny that so trig a tree should go into so small a hole. Peter was puffing and his shoes were full of snow, but he sat down 1o empty them and looked ruefully at the place where the Green Men had disap peared. Suddenly one of them [topped out of the hole. “It’s nil right.” said he; “we are able to manage. Thank you for helping us, and a merry Christ mas to you.” Peter laughed. "That is as may be.” said he, “but with the grandmother ill and no money in the house there is lit tle elinnee for merriment.” “Cheer up,” said the Green Man, “and here is a groschen for you. Now we shall see what you will make of it. Adieu.” The Green Man walked back into the hole, and Peter was left alone in the quiet forest; it seemed stiller titan ever now. He looked hard at tiie gros ehen in his hand. He had heard about groschens that came from the Green Men, though lie had never known any body who had one. They were said to be very lucky, and if a man got one lie was made for life, for as often as lie spent it he found another in his pocket, provided that lie had spent the last for some good thing. The more Peter thought the more lie believed that lie had just such a gros chen, and with ids fingers tight around It lie again set off for the village. He knew very well what lie would liny first. At Herr Kelbel’s store was a humming top that lie Had long coveted. As soon as lie could lie did his errand at the doctor’s and then turned his steps toward the store. Sure enough, there in the window lay (lie top, lmt there by its side was a Japanese doll with slanting eyes and a queer, long gown. It, like the top, cost a groselien. Peter knew that Hilda, the baby, wanted a doll, lie stood on one leg and then lie stood on the other, lie looked at the doll and then he locked at tiie top. He was in two minds what to do, for lie knew that his groschen might he the wonderful sort he had heard about. Should iie buy (he doll “PETEK,” SAID THE SPOKESMAN, “JUST KEEP US WITH THIS TKEE, WI IX YOU?” and risk findingauother piece of money for the top, or should he buy to tin* top and leave the doll to chance? Fi nally he said to hints-’lf. “If 1 buy the doll and do not find another gfoselien I shall have to go without the top, hut i should lie ashamed to buy the top and then have nothing to give to Hilda, for have I not been toUi that at Christ mas one must give to others and not think of himself?'’ So he made a daslt for the steps, and when hr came out Herr Keibel had the groscheti and I’eter the doll. Every one knows that this was the right thing to do; I’etet knew it. too, hut when he had gone a little distance he stopped and very softly felt In his pocket. Now you think, of course, that he l%md another groschen immediate ly. Not a lilt. And if you are disap pointed I am afraid I’eter was, too, for though he examined all his pockets he found nothing. Every now and then on the way home he tried anew search and just before he went into the house he took off his jacket and shook it, but not a glimmer of money did lie set?. “Well,” said he, “it is plain tiiat the groSciten was not so lucky as I thought, hut anyway. I’m glad I got the doll for Hilda." And with Ills best foot foremost into the house he went. The room to I’eter was strangely light. The mother was bustling about, and Hilda sat on the floor with a big doll in her arms, while there in the chimney corner was a great tree; can dles glowed on its boughs, silver threads glittered in the candle light, and tiny balls of green aud red and gold glistened among the leaves. There was a heap of nut:; and cakes and ap ples at the bottom, aud upon the heap THE BRUNSWICK DAILY NEWS. was a humming top. reter opened bis eyes, I can tell you. "Did you meet the mail?” said his mother. “Whatman?” “Why, the forester from the castle,” said she; “he drove up just a little while ago and brought in these. I was for telling him that he had made a mistake, but lie said, ‘This is whore Peter Shuman lives, isn’t it? Then this is the place to leave The tree,’ and lie went off. ft.it you must have met him, for he has just gone.” Then Peter laughed, for lie knew a tiling or two himself. “It was not the king’s forester,” said he, “but the Green Man who lives at tiie Tot coin of tiie spring by the big fir” Then he told ills tale. “ ”i'is true, Mis true,” r-aid the grand mother; "it was the Green Man.” “Pooh!” said the mother, “it was the forester from the castle, and it was the prinNess who sent the tilings; as for the Green Man, you must have drea’med it.” “That is ns it may he," said Peter, “but here is the doll that I bought with tiie groschen given me by the Green Man, and a lucky groschen It was, too.” Well, ids mother could make no an swer to that. And, besides, everybody knows that the old grandmother was right, and that tiie little people still live in Thuringia in the great dark for ests and show themselves now and again to boys and girls wlio are unsel fish.—Woman's Home Companion. - Tw v i£ StiS £. 355. A f-.A yg ■_ ■ • wiSnSwesiriS St\niPn%J Oyster soup Celery Crackers Ptckles Bread Butter Chicken croquettes Greer, pees Roost duck Apple sauce Boiled oi\ioi\s Masked potatoes Celcnj and apple salad Cheese straws Plum* pudding Mtv\ce pie fruit Hut's , Cheese Cotl'ee Those Hf Don't Want. When a man says he doesn’t want any Christmas presents, he moans that lie doesn’t want any that are charged to him at the stores, or bought with his own money.—Atchison Globe. Tli<?!r Christmas dfls. “I thought it better to get you some thing useful,” said Mr. Itossill to his wife, "so J have bought you a couple of good brooms for your Christmas present.” "That was very thoughtful of you, my dear,” replied Mrs. Dossil). "I share your ideas, and have bought you a good strong coal-scuttle for you to carry up fuel from the cellar in.” DieiiX’Oolfltinent, P “And what did Santa bring you?” “Ah, shucks' Only a blame in.le struetlble wagou.”—New York Journal JEf. ■ * *• !k Take Care of Your Teetli. In ilie large cities we have a dentist for about every .2000 "persons, and many of these are driven with work. No doubt every one would have Ills hands full if every person who needed could afford their services: while prob ably one-half the present number of dentists would suffice for the rising generation if all parents would re quire sufficient chewing exercise throughout their children’s growing period, themselves setting the exam ple of giving the teeth fair play before it is too late. Use your teeth at every meal, give them crusts and hard things to chew, If possible brush them after meals, -but surely before going to lx:d; use some antiseptic wash to prevent ab scesses and ret a ixl decay-, and consult a first-class dentist twice a yea.’.—Amer ican Queen. Synonym* to Pleases Guc*t*. A “synonymous” cute rtainment is one of the best menus over tried for getting one's quests noquniuted and for removing nil stiffnesii and formal ity. Before the arrival of her guests the hostess must make put a complete list of their names and thin must set her wits to work to dewise. a synonym for each. No attempt is made at se lecting litoral synonyms for the word or its parts as sjx'lled. A few names from a list recently made out will at least prove suggest ive, and will give a better idea of Die method of carrying out the plan than would many words of description: Synonyms— Names, With noise of trumpet and drum.. ... - Blair Kipling’s latest, spherical In shape.. Kimball An essential part of a true...’. .Btenon Heaped . on an enemy's head. ..Coles Noted K. yiisii novelist Scott Scotch ten one, sign of possession, value Mnswc. -'h Sign of coltl wetiiher Frits; Be quiet Hush An emblem, sign of comtiawiiir, Biiitgi r Dignified names for right and left I bowers fohiis j Maker of barrels Cooper A dear gentleman Km* As oaeh guest arrives some sort of souvenir bearing bis or her name is pinned below the left shoulder. These souvenirs may be ns plain or as elab orate us tiie hostess chooses to make them. A piece of pnper with tiie name written upon it serves tlie purpose ns. well an a hand-painted or a silver mounted affair. At any time the hostess chooses slips of paper, each of which contains tiie synonym of a name, arc passed to the guests. They are told to try to find ilie names which they represent. Another plan is to have a complete list of the synonyms made cut for each guest, and then each one must keep his own counsel aiid fill in as many of the names as possible. There are various ways in which the list may he put to account in furnish ing a part of an evening's entertain ment, and hostesses will be able to adjust It to suit their particular pur pose if they study its possibilities.— Chicago Record-Hcrald. Art, of Putting Clothes Av/ny. The woman wlio, knows how to put away her belorjgings is noi only neat, but economical and generally smart Ju appearance. When she comes in from a walk, she never lmngs up her coat by tiie loop inside the collar; if site puts it away in the closet she uses a coat-hangyr— if she leaves it around the room, knowing she may need it soon, she disposes it over tiie back of a chair that will keep it in shape. The skirts of her gowns never have a stringy look because they are always hooked and then hung by two loops. For a tailor-imade skirt site uses a small coat-hanger with the ends bent down a little; tills keeps the skirt in excellent shape and causes it to hang in even folds. The strings of her underskirts are tied and the gar ment is bung by the loops, thus never showing a hump where it has rested an the hook. For the same reason her shirt waists are always hung by the armholes, unless they hare hanging loops. Handsome waists have both; sleeves and body stuffed with tissue paper, aud are then laid in drawers or boxes. Shoes are easily kept in shape by slipping a pair of trees into them as soon os they are removed from the feet. If trees are not available, news paper will do, if it is stuffed in tight. It is well to roll each veil on a stiff .piece of paper; a single foil will often spoil the set of a veil and sometimes even mar the expression of a face. Gloves should always be removed by turning them, wrong side out; tlioy should then be turned hack again, blown into shape, and each finger smoothed opt. Ties, especially four-in hand or golf.ties, should ho hung to avoid creasing. Hats, of course, should he kept out of the dust and placed so that the trim ming will not be disarranged. This disposition depeuds so much on the ljgt and the available space that each woman must use her own ingenuity. However, it is safe to say that no hat should he laid flat down on a shelf. Furs. also, should bo protected from dust, and a muff should always be stood on end.—New York Times. Lingerie Note*. A pretty idea for the trimming of a silk nightgown is a collar finished with a deep hem of a contrasting shade of silk Pinks, blues, rnanves and yellows are all washing colors, but a good make must be chosen in order to have a fast dye. Imitation Valenciennes lace is, after all, the best and cheapest trim ming procurable, and it is almost im possible nowadays to tell the difference between the real and Ilie imitation. Many of the best nightgowns are made like peignoirs. Extravagant peo ple are using washing satin, while there is a liberty satin with cashmere back that is Ideal for winter. As for chemises silk again is very dainty wear, hut the ordinary mull muslin or batiste is just as nice and certainly extremely cheap. Fine linen is effective trimmed simply with but tonhole stitching, and, though the cost of this is fairly heavy, the wear is endless. Nowadays there is no excuse for those people who wear ugly lingerie, for some of the prettiest models are quite inexpensive, though on the other hand we can spend a fortune on un derwear if so inclined. wnsovdofr Chat Five hundred women doctors are now in practice in Great Britain, jj Fannie Crosby, composer of “There’s Music in the Air” and of several well known hymns, has been blind ever since she was nine years old. Mrs. S. O. Reese, of Baltimore, Md., owns the court gown worn by her grandmother at tiie marriage of Na poleon and Josephine. Mrs. Kendal, the actress, lias a fad for collecting miniature models of larger bric-a-brac and other articles. She has a large cabinet full of these tiny replicas. Mrs. Jane ficlielzcr. of Franklin, Ohio, litjs just passed the English phi lology examination at Berlin Univer sity. She is the third American woman to accomplish this. The late Queen of the Belgians had given so lavishly to the many chari ties In which site was interested during her lifetime that it is said site had eom p.u’flti ’ely llttlo left to bequeath a t lici death. Mrs. A. A. J. Dean, of Boston, Is the iy survivor of the juvenile chorus viiich first sang “America.” It was cung by that chorus on July 4, 1832. Mrs. Dean is now In her eighty-fourth year. Lady Frances Balfour, tiie favorite sister of the new English Premier, is likely to become a political power be hind the throne. Sheds the brightest woman of that clever family, and is devoted to her brother and his career. Lady Frances is much interested in the woman’s suffrage movement, and was active in uniting all the English suf frage societies into one body. ' • Mrs. Asa Ilirooka, of Osaka, Japan, the founder and guiding spirit of file famous banking firms of Kajima, is an eminently successful financier and business organizer. This woman not only tided her vast establishment over the difficult restoration days, but was one of tiie pioneer coal miners in Ju lian. She also takes a keen in.erest in educational matters, ijat present, pro moting a university for girls, and, by way of giving practical encouragement employs' many educated girls at her banks. • ‘ JsfrAPS\ # Dark velvet coats arc worn with moire skirts of a light color. An exquisite fan, with ivory slicks, is of white chiffon trimmed with real lace. Plaids tis trimming are much seen and are to he had in velvet arid panne us well as silk and wool. A handsome hat pin has four pear shaped opals, with a diamond in the centre, set in a filigree head of gold. White satin is the prevailing lining in all the fancy coats, and especially so If the ermine is ilte trimtning. Cords and tassels will he seen on, all, our,, tailor-built frocks, while Indian' and Russian cuibroiderirs are extreme ly popular. The furriers' ingenuity is shown in the fact that; they; are discreetly adding waistbands of Embroidery or silk to these short, tight fitting coats. Fashion is very partial to the note of black in neckwear, and a touch of it Is Introduced into many of the prettiest pieces. Birds are being worn and promise to gfliu iu favor as the season advances. Paradise plumes are also greatly en evidence. The Russian biouke is again to the fore, the bolero lts by no means left us. and basques of all lengths will be worn. A pretty'white"shirt waist is made of the new striped walsting, with the col lars and cuffs piped with green and red plaid. A band and long tabs of white taffeta silk finish tiie collar. We are using line cloths, corduroy velvets and vkmnas, which lend them selves admirably to rttebings of glace and velvet, tlrese playing a very impor tant part In the season’s trimmings. Stocks of plaid silk In all tiie Tartan colorings are conspicuous. They n; * fastened with tiny harness buckles of gilt and around the top is a plain hand of silk in dark re’, bine, ivhite or ; black, according to tit > .-.plug of the plaid. DECEMBER 21 I?he Funny r ’j me of (Life* Sometimes I.Vicky. “A railroad accident is what I always fear and dread,” Thus spoke the maiden to the youth As on the engine sped. “Nay, dear, it is not always so,” Replied tiie gallant swain, “For it was through an accident We met upon the train.” ' —New York Iff raid. Hope. Fair Client—“But, after all, the let* ters seem unimportant.” • Lawyer—“ Well, I’ll go over them again, ma'am. Sometimes it takes ni smart man to write an unimportant! letter.”—Puck. Whore Ho Missed It, She—“ How did lie come to marry his ideal?” {* He—“He thought she had money.”-< Puck. I 1 j£ U.;'•&!- ;-V Ail Advantage. Damon Duckling—“l was hatched by an incubator.” Pythias Duckling—“l think they To better than lions. They don’t kicl* when you want to go swimming.”-* Puck. , . , j .Justifiable. “Johnson writes that lie’s just killea the hero In his new novel.” “Well, he needn’t worry over that— apy jury will acquit him!”—Atlanta Constitution. Unkindly Communion! Ive. Mr. Cash—“ Clara holds her a gal well.” Mrs. Cash—“ Yes; but she tells every, body else's.”—Detroit Free Press. The Influence of Clothe.. Jerry—“ How do good clothes tnnkd a man a gentleman?” J| Joe—-2p.'liey make him feel as if ha was expected to act like one.”—Detroit | Free I*Jess. ■£ An Oil-Hand Answer. 1 “YSho can tell me the meaning asked the teacher. . . . “It’s if place where match'd peopia repent,'Replied tbo boy ptT'im foot '-of the class.—Philadelphia Record. Interesting Heading. Mrs. Richmond—“ What is your readt Jng circle going to take up this win* ter?” i ’Mrs. Bronxborough—“We’re going tol read the letters our husbands used ta| write us before we were married.”—* New York Journal. I'olltics. Rmnrticus—'“Why is politics like al screen door?” Spartacus—“ Can’t imagine.” Smartieus—“Because the ‘push’ and! the ‘pull’ are so often on opposite sides.”—Los Angeles Herald. —•**".' ' lie Is Queer. I “He’s a queer chap.” ‘ “Yes; just now lie was saying that! nothing was certain in this world buk t)t,e uncertainty of things, and yon couldn’t bank on that.”—Detroit Frea Press. nci.t ■ . He Feels It. “Does a draft give cliilla down your back?” asked the Phil osopher. “It does,” replied the Wise Guy, “when my bauk account Is over .drawn.”—Cincinnati Commercial Trl bune. . ; r S' Her Cult. • “I ran into town to-day to do somb shopping, dear,” said Mrs. Subbubs, entering her husband’s office, “and I f “I see,” lie interrupted, “and you just ran in here because you ran out.’* “Ran out?” t “Yes, of money.” Philadelphia! Press. I£m£ !X--.■'•s^2*,- An Unfortunate. • “You say you don't believe in finding fault with the ways of the world.” “Yes.”' “Then you are an optimist?” “Not at all. I ara convinced that the world is so hopelessly bad "that there Isn’t the slightest use of trying to say or do anything about it.”— .Washington Star. tett-i, IB A Calloused Conscience. I “I suppose you have heard it inti mated that you made a hundred thou sand dollars last year in various quiet ways?” ; “Yes,” said Senator Sorghum. 'Jen “Aren't you going to try to stop tlif . .. story?” “No. Of course it will cause un pleasant gossip, but it will help mj liSWieial credit.”—Yv ashiagtoa Star, -