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0. Christmas bells, nng out the story old? C
Gay bells, joy bells?the sweetest ever told.
ImmanueJ the King has come? Tl
0. chiming bells, be ye not dumb.
|l-; 'Tls peace on earth, good wiH to men. Ml
T.ll :i A/tua ttmt XdAin
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0, Christmaj beH?. ^ 0
ffiRMIA X:
Its Origin, Its Spirit
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?IO(eK)(0<OK^HRISTMAS is such a thoroughly
established instituS
I* * tion, so integral a part of
5 our yearly program that I
really don't think the pos tolilty
of dispensing with it ever occurred
to me until A.. H. J.'s little
poem, "The False Calendar," came to
band, and I
"Fell to thinking how 'twould be
If such a thing were true,"
and Christmas were wiped off the calendar.
Surely, winter would seem a
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niversary that opens our hearts, our
tkomes and our purses, and possesses us
with the spirit of loving and giving, 1
and kindly thought of others.
Our Christmas season is a curious
commingling of Christian and pagan
Ceremonials. When Christianity was
making slow headway against polytheism,
ytte early fathers of the church
found it erpedieut to engraft upon the
new faith some of the customs and
practices of die old. Thus, long before
the Christian era "the babe in the manger"
was a symbol of the birth of the
new year, and was part of the Saturnalia,
or festival of Saturn, the maddest
and niost riotiously merry of pagan
feasts. The decorations of our
houses with evergreens and mistletoes
fcoraes from the rites of the ancient
Druids, who yearly cut the milky-berr|ed
parasite from the trees with silver
knives aud much ceremonial. The Druids
were not pagans, as the Romans
were; they believed in God, in a future
life, in rewards and punishments for
good and evil doing, but their faith
was crude and cruel.
;- The giving of gifts, the feastings,
and the benefactions to the poor which
characterize the great Christian holiday
were features of the midwinter
jig*; test*. va4-Qf the pagans, and were graftIKfe?
ed upon the new religion to make the
transition from the one to the other
more easy. Later Christmas revels,
11^ the wassailt the "waits," traces of
Bfe which still survive iu England, can
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foe ionowea uacK 10 me xuie
of the ancients, Ynle being the name of
the winter month in which the days
begin to lengthen. Yule was derived
from Hule, a wheel, the ancient symbol
of the sun. Great logs were drawn
to the cavernous fireplaces of those
days with great ceremony and merriment,
and were lighted as symbolicol
of the return of the sun in the winter
solstice, and in honor of the lengthening
days.
The early Christians did not specially
celebrate the nativity, but regarded
as more sacred the anniversary of
Christ's baptism, as the date on which
His ministry began. The institution
or the festival of Christmas is attributed
to the Emperor Commodus, and
it was not until A. D. 3S0 that Eastern
rcggfe; churches generally adopted it.
fe v "Christ's Mass"?from which "Christie
mas" is derived, was in earlier times
1|0 celebrated at the New Year (January
6) by Eastern Christians. Julius I.,
Bishop of Rome, fixed the date we now .
: celebrate as Christmas.
Christmas is not, therefore, the ex2
act anniversary of the nativity, that
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\S BELLS
I. C hnstnus bells, ring out the Savior s brriJ*?
Sweet bells, glad bells, this day to all the earth*
hit all to Hsm. their glorious King 0.
silver bells, may incense bring
ho welcome Him, with Him shall reign.
Tell it again and yet again.
. Christmas hells.
date being unknown. It is a day set
apart to celebrate the event, much as
we set apart Thanksgiving as a day
of gratitude and giving thanks for the
bountiful gifts of the earth.
AH Christian nations observe Christmas.
It is a well-nigh universal holiday.
Some of us keep it in spirit;
there are few who do not keep it in the
letter. The mvsteries beein weeks
prior to its coming; we plan the Christmas
surprises, practice self-denial to
swell our Christmas fund, or give our
time to the making of gifts, that we
may fitly celebrate its annual return.
There is something about the season
that inclines-the heart to generosity.
We want to make others-happy. We
begin prudently?set a limit to our expenditures
and declare "thus far and
not a dollar over." But "the loving
and giving" spirit grows apace. We are
tempted; there are so many lovely
things in the stores, so many expedients
to wile the cash from our purses.
Just as long as we keep our motives
pure and high, and don't let them de
the ma:
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scend to the level of a ''bargain counter
Christmas," our joy in Christinas
Is real. But when we make gifts hecause
others have given to us; when
we measure values; when we let ourselves
feel a little envious because
others have received more richly or
more abundantly than we, we very
soon find out that we have lowered the
high meaning of the day and drifted
far from its spirit.
A merry Christmas by no means requires
expensive gifts. A tree pretti
ly dressed with strings of popcorn and
cranberries and hung with apples and
oranges delights child eyes as much as
if its adornments were more costly.
.Little things please if chosen with
thought of the desires of the recipient.
Have a good dinner, and invite some
who would otherwise eat a scanty or
a lonely one to dine with you. Don't
have a selfish Christmas, but let your
Christmas giving and your Christinas
cheer radiate from your home to bless
the poor, the lonely, the unfortunate.
Make up your mind to do something
toward making some outsider have a
merry Christmas, and the act will
prove a benison upon your own.
Last year a kind-hearted woman in- j
vited to her Christmas table a man J
who called to see- her?husband ??
Christmas morning..^* He. was .poor
shabby, lonely; he. had been down.iu
the depths of despair; lie had "eater
husks .with swine," and,was trying tc
work his,Avay back, to respectability
He ate^as only a half famished mar
can eat at a.home table, and when lit
went away;, warmed and fed, and, better
yet, cheered by the kindly welcome
and encouraged by being greeted
as a friend and an equal, tears ran
down bis cheeks as he thanked his
entertainers.
Did not that woman's act breathe
more of the true spirit of Christmas
than the entertaining of well-to-do
friends, or the bestowing of rich gifts
upon those who already have more
than they need? BEATRIX.
His Wants.
I want two drums
When Christmas comes;
(But I don't want slates fer dcin' sums)!
An' a wagon load of sugar-plums!
An' a big football, an' a top that hums,
(But never a slate fer doin sums)!
Oh, I just want lots when Christmas comes!
Os a CtoltS
DONNA WITH THE
phael (Italian: Bora 1483; Died 15!
New Version.
A long green Christmas makes a
fat pocketbook.
ONLY TWO REALITIES.
Billy?''So yer didn't git liuthin' but
a jacknife and a sled fer Christmas?"
Tommy?"Yes. Dat's all I got worth
speaking of. Dere wuz a suit uv
clothes, and a overcoat, and a liat or
two, and some underclothes, and a Bible,
and a book uv poems, and some
stockiu's, and gloves, and collars and
cuffs, and a few other trifles like dat
not worth speaking of."?Puck.
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Santa Clafcs?"I- guess I'd bettfef ]
wind up this toy spider, so as to show
the kid how it works."
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The Kid?"Papa?pa! here is a big
spider in my room."
! Papa?"Weil, I'll do liiml"
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DIADEM.
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The Merry Days.
Hang the holly berries?
Let the red flames glow;
Cheeks as red as cherries
Was born on Christmas Day.
'Neath the m'stietoe! (
Outside voices on the air:
''Christmas comes but once a year!" 5
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Steeple bells a-ringing
Over merry throngs, 1
And the fiddle singing
All the old-time songs!
And outside voices on the air: 1
"Christmas comes but once a year!" |
Goodnight Sonjf.
Sleep, my little curl-head, sleep! ,
Ilere beside your nest I keep.
Mother's hung your Christmas stocking, '
Mother's liana your cradle's rocking?
Sleep, my little curl-head, sleep!
Sleep, my little curl-head, sleep!
Soft the Christmas shadows creep;
Snowflakes white are flocking?flocking
Santa Claus will find your stocking? 1
Sleep, my little curl-head, sleep!
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SUCCEEDS MARK HANNA.
August Belmont is Elected as Prts
ident of National Civic Federation
at Annual Meeting.
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At New York, Thursday night, August
Belmont was elected president of
the National Civic Federation to sue
a. x ;
ceed the late Senator Marcus A. Kan
? a nnk* /vl i r*r? fAAl? O t fllO
ua. ? uc c^ici/uuu ?*
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dinner of the national civic federation,
which was held at the Park Avenue
HoteL
Samuel Gompers presided, and the
speakers were: Archbishop Ireland,
August Belmont and John Mitchell. A
paper by Andrew Carnegie, who was
unable to be present, was read. In it
Mr. Carhegie advised employers not
to hire new men during a strike, but
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to wait for the old ones to come
back.
Mr. Easley ,in his report,, said the
movements for tho organization of the
civic federation are making good progress
in England, France, Germany and
Canada. He believed their success
might logically lead to the creation of
an international body to improve the
condition of wage-earners and their relations
with employers and to forward
economic education throughout the
world. , . "Never
before," the report ' says,
"have there been so many evidences
of the growth of a spirit of broad con- .
servatism on the part of large employ- .
ers and on the part of organized labor.
Its significant and encouraging outlook ,
la volpnmoi^ ovorwhftro rlfffor
on the details of the work, however."
Alluding to the section of appren- ;
tices and efforts to regulate competi-. ,
tion, Mr. Easley said:
"The eternal presence of these ques- j
tions so vital to all society and to the !
progress of civilization, invites the '
most searching and devoted study. If .
they are insoluble and irreducible
there may be found adjustments that
wbuld prove effective so far as they
accord with principles. It is for the .
attainment of these purposes that the ^
department of the industrial economies
has been organized."
The newly organized welfare depart- ;
ment which deals with the physical
comfort, recreation and education of
the employees has received enthusias- ,
tic support from many employers, ac- '
cording to the report of Chairman H. '
H. Vreeland, who followed Mr. Easley.
Mr. Vreeland said the work was
practical as well as altruistic.
A growing appreciation of the trade
agreement on the part of both organized
employers and wage earners as a
practical method of securing and
maintaining Industrial peace, was re- '
ported by Francis L. Robbins, chair- :
man of the department of trade agree- ;
ments already existing in great national
industries, and an extension of .
their local application. As an evidence
of what can be done by this department.
Mr. Robbins pointed to the re
newal by the organized bituminous
mine workers in the four states of
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and 1111- .
nois, of their agreement with the op- ,
erators' association to which he referred
to as the most important Indus- [
trial event'of the year. *
FATAL ACCIDENT ON WARSHIP, j
Three Men Scalded to Death In Boiler j
Room of the Massachusetts.
Caught in a trap and helpless to
save themselves, three men lost their ,
lives and four others, including Lieutenant
William C. Cole, were terribly
scaled Thursday, by a rush of steam
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uuu uuuiug waier 111 uie lire room or
the battle ship Massachusetts, lying j
at the League Island navy yard in ,
Philadelphia.
The accident was caused by the giving
away of a gasket or rubber wash- (
er on a boiler on the starboard side ^
of the ship. , |
The Massachusetts has been at the ^
navy yard for some time undergoing
extensive repairs, particularly to the 1
boilers and machinery.
Death Strikes Down Gen. Whiteside. ,
Brigadier General Samuel M.> ,
Whiteside, retired, who had com and- (
sd at Santiago during the Spanish (
war, died suddenly in Washington j
Thursday.
WANTS LAWSON INDICTED.
Instigator of ftecent Copper Break 1
May Answer in Courts.
An application for the indictment
jf Thomas W. Lawson and for the
jhowing of the books of the Amalgamated
Copper Company was made at
the district attorney's office in New
fork Friday, by Harry Wellington
SVack. Mr. Wack asks that a demand
Pe made on the Amalgamated Company
for its books to ascertain just 1
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svnat its stocK is worth and if Lawson's
declaration proves false he 1
be indicted.
STRIKERS VOTE TO ARBITRATE.
Trouble at Fall River Seems in Fair '
Way to be Settled.
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The textile council at Fall River, j
Mass., voted Sunday to submit a prep- 1
osition for arbitration for the settle- <
ment of the strike in the cotton mills <
to the individual unions, and in case c
Df their approval by a vote on Tues- j
lay to ask the civic federation to i
choose a board of arbitration. 1
' ' 'VCARNIVAL
OF BLOOD i
Marks Desperate Onslaught I
of Japs at Port Arthur. I
CORPSES ARE IN HEAPS ?1
Mikado's Troops Take Another HIM ' J
After Most Cesperate and Per- ^ m
sistent Fighting'?Tragedy 1
Unsurpassed in History. >' ' ^
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Confirmation has been received- In '-Mi
Tokio of the. report that the Japanese ji
army besieging Port Arthur has #!
stormed and captured 'North Fort, on . ; h
East Kekwan, after exploding a mine ,g|
under the fortifications.
An Associated Press account says:
The Japanese fired an immense mine v
under portions of the north fort of *
Kekwan mountain at 2 o'clock yesterday
(Sunday) afternoon. The infan- '
try immediately afterward .charged n
and occupied the fort with a heavy
force.
It is reported that the Japanese : - '-j
have seized a strong position about a - : ^
thousand yar^s southeast of 203-Meter
hill, preparatory to assaulting the new
town and pushing, between Uaoti
mountain and. the Russian headquarters
at Port Arthur. p
The fighting against Sungsho mountain
continues. .
A junk, which arrived at Tien Tain
Monday from Port Arthur, reports
that four Japanese torpedo boats were
sunk during the attacks on the Russian
battleship Sevastopol. The Japanese,
the Chinese added, are spread- 7/jg'
Ing false reports of their success in
order to facilitate the negotiations of
fresh loans abroad.
Struggle Without Parallel. *
.News brought to Che Poo by Russians
who have recently escaped front
Port Arthur and by Japanese camp
followers indicates that the straggle t
going on before the czar's stronghold
Is without a parallel in the annals, of
war for ferocity and for sustained desperation
on both sides. ^
The most graphic story of the fear- ^
ful losses sustained, by the Japanese*':'M
and of thejr desperate courage In the
face of withering fire is told by Commander
Mizzenoeff, executive otdcer %
of the battle ship Poltava, up to the
time the vessel was disarmed, and'
who. as already told, headed the partir
of seven Russians, who left Port Ar-thnr
in a sailboat-December 15. and f
after extreme suffering while crossing
tw o /fulrfvicr en/vtwofAHiw owtrofl In HVa
IU a UHIU15 guvnowtiu oinrcu |XL vw
Poo (December 16, bearing die patches
which were turned over to the Rob- ~
slan consul for transmission to St.- . . #
Petersburg.
Commander Mlszenoeff, who was
slightly wounded daring the battle of
High Hill, said In part:
"Since the Japanese began thefcr atl
jk on High hill, which they call 203*
Meter hill, the fighting has been con- f
tlnuous. The steep and sandy slopes
of the hill were streaked and dotted
with snow when the1 Japanese, began'
the battle, which was destined to fardish
so many deeds of heroism that
they became commonplace. There was *
so much slaughter that even Port Ar- ;
thur's war:hardened veterans shudder- ^
ed at the sight.
"Japanese were compelled to clabber
up the slopes of the hill In many
cases without firing. In the face of on?. . - ^
ef the most murderous deluges ever
poured from rifles and machine guns.
[ was tb9re, and it seemed to me that
flesh and blood would be unable to
3tand our fire feu. 5, minute. . . - S
"The enemy'went down in .squads
ind companies, hut-always therp were J
ethers grimly coming forward. Their }
bravery was bevoird nraise. as was
that of our own men. Som&tftnes the
Sghting was hand-to-hand with the >j
muzzles of the rifles at the breasts of ,j&.
the contestants, the bayonets being P
ased as swords. . /
'The sides of the hill were strewti
with bodies and the snow was crim- ' -.i
soned with the blood of the wounded, T ^
jome of whom had crawled Into it,
3eeklng in its coldness surcease for r
their dying agonies." f .
south safe yet awh4le. i
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Senator Foraker Says no B1U Will
Pass Reducing Representation.
United Stat?3 Senator Foraker, i f v
who arrived in Cincinnati from Wash* f
ngton Monday, in an interview, sali \ i
ie did not believe the present con- ^
jress would pass any bill reducing the*. -;'
representation, in congress of any jf'
states. He said.
"In the nature of things, such a bill
irill provoke extended and elaborate
lebate, and under the circumstances ^
;here will not be time enough to deak jT
vith the subject properly. _
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HOLOCAUST IN MINNEAPOLIS. &
ralling Walls Case FT re and Dozen
People Are Thought to Be Dead.
At Minneapolis, Monday, by the fallng
of the east wall of the O. H.
Peck building, destroyed by fire several
days ago, twelve people,occupants
)f the Crocker hotel, are thought to bo
lead and the hotel burned to the v
ground, the gre ht-ving been started,
t is thought, from gas in tie build?
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