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t 'and [any Processes lit Went 'Through Ordinary, uidn Hem In out Is the mod ernd! But [not nlwayB en lu cxlBt i? origin to Iii mine or Fpaek of a r In tho mnlly ono idth Intent, alvcd an |ho eeut lo voibob ? mo ten |o give me century ?r classes aud by Interesting j They were lajorlty not half Inches thoso used fchoH by ono ladles four ITnchcs. Then fea used nbout ^fonglug to nn Eng- I !T~of a century ago | ^lle street, Caveudlsb associated with Lord shand's card Is smaller pf tho family homo In still remains In the collateral desceud JrS so good It deserves Jt would certainly )of tho cards wo TOer If they boro tho Jour friends' homes as lames. implo shows that history * for, although Issued In ith century, tho lady was Iii Monday," as many mod now. Visiting en blunc. t^led-vlz, by leaving a card .ivetty ?heu, und on many S from Italy **lu persona" Id lowlng^that they had been aent JSIfetoiLL" Df cards. Lt this leco ite '.ollo-HHUM?.??.Hum:; iher. Tho Litter, according to Walpole, saved her lifo by loo when In Homo, Instead of .L party at a palace where tho n m. ?*v^'"" " """?f"*" of tho "tickets, as visiting |vc?ro called In those days, wero ed with architectural buildings Berlin and clscwhcro and Fashion. They wore sold In The names wero frequently upon thorn, and even when *o printed It was rare that ono r pattern was kept for any person. The head of a well Wurwlckshlro family during n [to Homo In 1783 kept, and has |ed down, thoso loft by his nc ltance. On these llguro tho nrch fltus, St. Peter's, tho castlo of St. fcelo and many other Hons of Rome. 'ot a few of the visiting cards of this lod recall nothing so much as tho oral monuments of thoso days, netlmes the names appear on well rave~d vases, sometimes on chlm pieces. Some are square, with porting columns, scrolls and cur ls; some display festoons of flow ind a variety of animals. Ho cognonious of naval officers rgo from tho midst of spikes, lors, ropes, lings and other naval Inln, while military otllccrs ap surrounded by helmets, cannon, ts and soldiers. Artists flguro amid ottos, brushes and other adjuncts their art, mostly accompanied by n ceful feinnlo form, and every kind musical Instrument has been called > play?lyres, harps, trumpets and pslchords?for musicians. Birds of f>y kinds hold scrolls bearing tho lies In their beaks, or they are Ite^n omtheir breasts or outstretched na? Ar.lmuls often play a double ? Tin? nnnio of Hare, for example, Krcsented as a rebus by that little Hal running at full speed, while a I figured on the fnshlonnblo designs p85. Archery, agriculture and sport prally Tieft their Impress on the ting card. bout ,1810 puro white cards with Josse)) herders and largo embossed erlifgs wero tho prevalent modo, tory ngnln repents Itself ? tho ighter's iinxne appeared then m4U| mother's, ns It floes now. How jy of the title?? thou extant have lutl It very often happened thnt |uly's enrda and tho gentleman's >f the finmo size, but not always, her "ticket" tho Duchess of In 1704 favored a very pretty ^vlng of n Chlneso flguro looking low doorway, with an Angll jingnda nt the side. On another |?eniing a famous lord's name a powerful engraving of tho with the Egyptian pyramids tedr. . a great durue of those days name on hcr<Vlsltlng card sur by n framework hold by Cu fheso wero far prettier than tho looking cards covered with st, engraved, horizontal lines (very deep border. Monograms ;ooets figured on some of them ivo left to posterity flno specl ^f steel engraving, but tho most ito of heraldic cards wero gen Iforeign, and somo of tho for ibassles employed colored crests mnlly Introduc'u In tho center. I?W Ycnr-H a< Frnnkffart. ar the most charming of tho n Now Year's customs Is one i-d from time Immemorial In rurt-nin-Mnln. There at tho inincuiBfto whole city Balutcs iMmf a happy new year. M of Dec. 81 all the city pvul, watching tho old io now year In. Pnmlly flags of fr lentis oro to I rrrT-V'Ty house*, (mines, sto musl;' nr* kindred dlverslon.4, |nu honornllo attention to eating Jfrlnklng. ?ffrvo to speed on the L?, : thd dying year, ftily nt lllr oxn<;t moment when 10 greet domo of tho cathedral roko of nlldnlght sor.ids Kh house throws wide open tb from tho ease' dwellers In tho; together, each CatherineVcGray's Christmas. ..lr< seit. Little Mabel thrust her Viny hand into1 the great china jar of rose leaves, and lot out a gust of tnunnery BwettneiB. though outBide the winter wind was bhrluklng through leafless trees, and the blinding snow was whirling along through almost desertod streets. "Uu careful, my pot, don't spilt the rote loaves." murmured a aweot voice. It was Mabel's slater, brown-eyed (jHtuori.no, who sat sowing by a dim light and a dying tiro Blio was furtive ly rnakiug a pluk drcBs for a cheap doll, iii-t.iv u und. i her aprou, for tomorrow would be Christmas and the doll must be put in Mabel's little red stocking. Tin y were all alone, these two, and Catheiluti waa lighting the battle for both But though her heart was brave, hope would sometimes fttb her, for there were so many things that were needed to keep grim poverty away from the dor, and alas, thero was so little that she could do. Duly a few mouths ago they had been the pitted daughters of a wealthy bank or, but failing in business, their father died or tho shock, aud his heart-broken wife soon followed bim to his gravo. And ho Catherine and Mabel were but alono. Riches took wlnga and friends forsook them Of all the aplendors of their magnificent homo, nothing waa lull to them but a few doltara, and the great ro?u jar. And this Catherine would keep, becausj the roses in it were the lust Hichi>rd had ever given her. one li id tried so ha-d to for.40:, but uevcr ?v day bad diwnod since that aw ful night when he left her that she had u it awakened Irom mocking dreams to a lealizalton of unutterable loneliness and desolation bleeping or waking, in crowds or in solitude, her sorrow was evor with her-a haunting and pitiless spectre, from which thoro was no respite aud uo e?c?;-o And tonight as Utile M jibel btirre 1 ihe withered leaves iu the ?Id rose Jar the wealth of that lost love .nd that dead summer burst forth (mm aepulchn atiev. I It happened at a ball and banqu* t a | laud public fnactlon iu honor of a dis I ii.guisbed townsmau, who had just i- on electod to a high office. Mover hail Cathorine'B lover Bh"Wed tier such ardent attention, never before had he seemed so proud cf her grace 11 d loveliness, xud tho very notioeablo ni r of pi opt let 01 ship Wblch he m mi fest 1 d si vi tod the warm blushes to her delicate cheeks. he had J" l declined a Wal z . itb t. 1 Uib.iu^uisbcii guest o( >he uvvldug be cause BicLard bad requested her to waltz with nono but himself. I have never beon so exacting bo lore," bo said, as ho drew her to a sea among tho tall palms along the sides of the long salon, "bat 1 am likely tobe come so from this on." * l'bo long lashes drooped over the pitttty brown eyes, and tho warm b ushes on her cheeks glowed a more vivid crimson, for she knew that this eager manner meant that, their marriage day was not far off. *' Wo shall alwayBhavc plenty of these iu the conservatory, darling." said he, drawing one of tho long stemmod roses from the buuch at her waist. "Thoy are my favorite of all (lowers, and I shall never see them without thinking of-'' His volco ceased abruptly, his hand somo head was suddenly erected, and he sat as if spult bound, his eyes fixed on a dazzling form in white gauzo of ?' cau do nilo" satin which had just passed them in the whirl of the sensuous waltz On her bosom was a spray of jasmine flow ei s, which emitted an intoxicating per fumo as she swept paBt. And, from that night, the sight or scent of the faintly odorous jasmino flower would turn Catherine faint and ill ?'Who is she, Catherine?" Richard in quired, in a voice hoarse with passion ate fooling. Bho did not know, and s > she told bim. At tht end of the waltz ho sprang to hie fcot with the impatience of a school boy, and with a slender apology ho left her. Presonlly sho saw an acqualntauco conduct him to tho enchantress and tho form of an introduction gone through with, then in a few minutes they whirled past her in tho waltz How Cathorino lived through that aw ful night, without losing hor reason, she novor know. Tho rose that ho had taken from her bolt had failon unheeded to the floor, and now lay crushed be noath tho dancers' feet. He never ouce glancod at hor throughout tho whole evening. Ho no longer remembered oven her existence? and strange to say ho was so absolutely the thrall of bis passion, that he was unconscious of any wrong doing on his part. And that ?ae tin beginning of Rich ard Hartslleld'B infatuation !? r R .p< Carow, and the end of lov?,'? you 11 r dream for sweet Cathorino Gray. For a long timo Catherine half hoped he \ ould return to her, but (he lorn months ccmo and wont, and nl.c nov.ii ono timo heard front him. ?be 1 eld a went out, she did not read the news papers-sho was too busy and too poor - so sho did not know oven what had bo come of her old lovo "If 1 could only outlive it," she moan ed "But I never shall. Oh, lovo, ho a could you bo so weak? Ah you woulo have boon kinder if you had eluin in. tLat bitter night." . Whllo Catherific wept ou her folded hands Mabel, ever intent on rhMdsi. mlsohlof. came and leaned against hor knee, slipped tho tiny thimble from her linger and trotted back to dabblo in the old roso leaves until her loving nurao mammy camo and put her to bi a ? * ? Christmas morning dawned on a cold gn.y . ky, and quietly falling snow. Ma nel waa very happy with tho new doll ni.d sugar p urns found In her stocking, and thu big yellow orange which Mam my gavo hor. But for Catherine there waa no Christmas token. She prepared THE MEW BABY Opens up a new world to the loving mother. If it is a strong, healthy baby that new world 1* a world of happiness. If it is a weak, f-otful child the new world 1? full of anxiety. It has been proven in thousands of cases, that the use of Dr. Plerce'a Favorite Prescrip tion makes all the difference between strength and weakness In children. Healthy, happy mothers have healthy, happy children. ?Favorite Prescrip tion " gives the mother strength to give her child. It makes the baby's advent practically painless and promotes the secretion of the nourishment necessary to the healthful feeding of the musing child. ? I have been iwlng Dr. Piere?'? Favorite Pre ?crlptton nnd can any U U ju*t what von adver tUe it to be," write* Mr*, victor J Iladin, of I bes .... v.o., Kan***. ?I began taking it jutt two month* before baV<y came ?nd was greatly benefited by Ita u?e. Tbc de tor who attended T.eonarr'Uville, Ktley Co two mont r benefit** fd ?1? im Id I did about aa well a* any one ha had aeen (a* I waa aick only about three houraft and st?o that your ' Favorite Pre scription ? waa Vne patent f^edlcrne' which ho did have faith lit. uUm, have a darling baby boy, ftrogg M\Ajmmmm%Tl*lbs> weighed nine Bronchitis 441 have kept Ayer's Cherry Pec toral in my house (or a great many year*. It is the best medicine in the world for coughs and colds." J. C. Williams, Attica, N. Y. All serious lung troubles begin with a tickling in the throat. You can stop this at first in a single night with Ayer's Cherry Pectoral Use it also for bronchitis, consumption, hard colds, and for coughs of all kinds. Tbrw ?lits I 25c.. 50c, $1. All ?raubte. Con milt your doctor. If he tart t*ke It, thou do aa lio says. If ho toll? you not to tako It, then don't take It. He knows. LflRVO it with lilin. Wo aro Trilling. J. O. AYKK CO., Lowell, Ma*?. tholr. simple breakfast of toast and tea and sat down to mend a snag in Mabel's apron. She lookod carefully in her workbaekot for her thimble, but could not. find it. ? " flow strange I cannot Und it," Bhe said. " I know I had It late last night." Then a sudden moraory camo ovor her, and she added quickly, "Mabel, pot, you had sistor's thimblo last night; toll mo whoro did you put it." Mabel ran around tho room, with a gravo brow of deo'n perplexity, and even old Manuir joined in the h. iirch Hut all lu vain, the lliimblo could bo found nowhoro. Suddonly, -with p cry of joy, Mafcol ran over to tho rouo-jar, while sho Hep od, "All my pay-sings in dore." Cathcrino grasped tho jar and turned to contonts out on tho floor Out rolled the ibimble tlrst, then dozons of buttons and spools of throad, and a -.hoc buttonor, a toothbrush and a hun dred otbor things. And there, from a? ay down at tho bottom, Mummy's old fut black ir ml has pulled out a dainty whim onvtlopo, soalcd with re? wax , and on tho back Oathorinu'b own name, I in a man'" Irm hand. "On, MI?h Catherine, der? ii is at .tu?' dat Ion' lotior. I'so douu looked on, olo houso ober a thouBan' times for dat letter, and dero it la at las' exactly where dat little mischief dono hid it." "Oh, Mammy. Mammy," cried Cathor ine, "how camo this hero? Whon how?" Hor trembling voice broko in a sob and she fell upon hor knooB moaning: "You havo ruined my life, Mammy I'll never forgive you, novor?noverl" "Please don't cry eo, Miss Oatb'rlo 'Taint nothin' 'portant, la it? Yea, let mo 'Bplaln 'bout it, 'causo maybe I done wrong when I nober told you 'bout U sooner. Oat letter como to our house do day of olo marstor'a fune'rol, an* you kep* a cryln' an' a cryin' bo ober do corpB dat I Job' laid It down on do table in yo' room. But blnoby, when I wont tor git It for you, it was gone. I wuz 'frald you'd be mad 'bout it, bo when do uiggor como for de answer I tole him dero wasn't nono. Oh, honey, tho Lord Almighty knows old Mammy did'nt tend to do yo' no harm." Aud tho tondor hoarted old negro w-. man, when she Baw how unhappy uih erlno was, foil down on her kuies by her aide and wept liko hor heart would break "Don't cry, honey. I'll bring bin back to you," sho said. " Oh, Mammy, it ia too late now?loo late," wailed poor Cu horiuu, tos she broko tho seal of tho dear letter whoBc secret the jar of withered roso leaves had.kept so long. Richard had written in a passion o! remorse and tondorneBS. 'Dearest Catherine: ?I havo been bo unhappy over since wo parted. Won't yon try to forglvo mo, darling, and lake me back Into your heart once moro ? " My heart aches for you in youi great sorrow, and if you will but let mo. 1 will love you bo much that you will forget all the enhappy past, Send mo one little word of forglvoncss, and lei mo como to you, darling, for I am so miserable without you. ? Yours, Richard." Tho snow dashed in a blinding sheot of white against tho window paneB, aud as tho old negro woman opened the door and went out, tho pitiless wiud rushed in, wailing too latel too latel All day long Catherine sat motion ?88, with her pale cheeks preasud close Against tho withered roBca, and Rich ard's letter clasped tightly In her hand With eyes as sad as death, Bho looked absently into the whito outside world, whero the passers to and fro were only fitfully and dimly visiblo through the warming snow Hakes. Tu ward? night the aky grew darker, the clouds hung over tho earth like a great hlack shroud, and the storm burst forth in all its fury. But above tho noise of tho storm an imperative ring of tho bell arouues Cath orino from her weeping. Tho front door opons and closos quickly, and a moment later sho hoars old mammy cry out: " Miss Cath'rin, honey I I'se dono brought him back ter you 1" She feels a pair of strong arms clasp her to a warm, mau y breast; she feola loving lips cling passionately to hers, and she hears Richard's tender voice softly pleading for forgiveness. "I havo loved you from first to last, darling, and I must havo been mad to havo imagined for ovon one momunt that I could lovo any other woman than yon. Won't you forglvo me, sweet ?'' Her only answor was a smile -a di vine smilo, eloquent of woma j's com pan sionate, deathless love. AndCatherlno waa happy at last, foi she was in Richard's arm*, weeping on Richard's hoa-1, aud they weru recon ciled. THE YULE LOG The word Yule signifies Christmas, which was called in the Latin or Wes tern Church, the Feast of Lights. I was tho custom to use many lights, candles or blazing torches in honor ol Christ, the Light of tho World. Hence the lighted log. The deep meaning of religlo?n eh servances that tended to rejoicing und feasting, the world over, bave iciained their hold upon mankind. The Yule log has becorao a bright , and beautiful feature of Christmas cheer. In former days, on Southern plantations, some hoary.headed pa triarch among the plantation hands was master of ceremonies. Ax in hand, he crunched over tho snow or frozen ground, or being good, mild weather rustled the fallen 'twos and scared away the bright-tyid squirrels and busy blue jays and robin*, point ing out and leloctlng the big htuknry or oak for his coterie of wood-choppers to fell and lay aside for the Christmas a year ahead. Such was the reverence then for tho Yule log that each Christ, mas Eve had a year . id, seasoned log brought in with pompous ceremony and {daced on the strong bias3irons. How ? crackled and burned. Tho ill col ored ui.cle, the oracle of the plannt, tion, Invariably II?toned to the burning of the log and Interpreted the weather for the Nejf Year by the sounds. A ccrtj^^ray of blazing and sing. 1 ftshine ; a crunching led by it* Ohrlstiriae. Holly and mistletoe in] decorations ; egg-nog and Chrlt/.*u8*{ greetings ; ion stocking for the chim ren ; the Christmas tree and exchange of*gifts from one to another, wit!i all. remembered and nobody neglected, emanated from the blazing Yule log. In practical meaning, it is a huge back l<>g, that will burn all night, keep the room warm for the ?Santa Claus that comes in night robe and slippered feet, aud for the childreti bouncing out of bed before good daylight, saving the bother of anybody having to tako time to kindlo a Ore. If tho opon 0replace has given way to grates, a huge piece of coal will answer the purpose ; but nothing ia like to, and exactly what the big back log is, on an opeu Ureplace. Under whatev r conditions, remember, Christ mas morniug is apt to be cold, and youug'folks are apt to bo up early, aud like all regular work, let tho good old Anglo-Saxon custom of lighting the Yule log prevail. Light it " the night I before Christmas V und let it burn slowly till Christmas morning, and have it lurge aud solid enough to burn well on through the day. There is seutimout* good cheer, wholesome, moauing and wisdom in the Yule log. There is difference in tho wood for tho log ; poplar is unndvisablc, it pupa and may set lire to the room ; walnut ia loo valuable to cut, piuu hurua too fast, hlckoty has few obj< etious, oak none. Oak is my preference for the Yule log, but hickory will auswur the purpose.?Mrs, G. T. Vrcnnan in Southern Cultivator. THE COURSE OF COTTON. Tim tot mi iiiaikiL |it?H' l>? in in rathur au uucerlaio state since the publication of tbo government crop tcport With its Frnsationully low ?.-ti I mate of tho crop, pa\s tho Augusta Chronicle. Tho trade has not been able to decide what to think of the gov ernment n port. IU record m the past, and its gtowiug rcputuliou lor i.cou racy, do not permit tho cotton mi n to be unmiudful of the governtn- nt'b eatimato oven though they believe, i too low, and those who do not accept it have lowered their own prevb.ua high estimates of the or p. A month ago tue uotnuateb raugud utuuud 11, 000,000 bales. The governments re port has brought them duwu between 10,000,000 aud 10,250,000. If the recoipts of cotton had fallen off after tho government's report, prices would have strengthened sou. nationally, but the fact that tho crop has continued to bo marketed up to the ptcscnt time as heavily as it wan last year, makes it dilllcull for dealers tu tho staple to believe that tho nresont crop can be as low as ibo govorumoul has predicted. It is generally bolievcd that the late winter und spring mouths will show a great fulling off as com pared with the movement In*I year, out there is nothing t. ? om .100 Ibid view in the present heavy shipments. a prominent (m.ton man said tho sit uation had bei u well staled by a relia ble New Voik bouso as fo'.lows : " The future course of t'.iu market ?>ill depend very largely on the Ulli tudo ol the holders ol cotton in ihu South. If tho cotton remaining in the hands of lurmers and merchants is pressed for sule at this juncture it wid have a double effect, both as calculated to delay tho acceptance of traders the world over of ? conviction legnrdin*.' tho real h/.c of tho crop, and ohn ol causing buyer.-, to hesitate in a< c piiug onleis. Tho volume of thu niovemenl lo dale is so nearly i qua! to last year hut iia continuance ou a scale equal to or greater tluu for tho same poriod last December, will cause a bait in speculative enthusiasm which will tend, (or a time, to hold values in check. It is true that underlying all this is tho growing conviction that receipts for tho late winter aud spriug mouths will give all tho necessary conviction re quired to advanco values, but it is the present status which is affectiug the speculative world aud incidentally the price." CHRISTMAS. On thu winde that moanlug sigh Angels songs go drifting by, Heavenly voices fill tho sky. From tho radiant heaven afar, Through tho midnight's silver bar, Steals away ono wandering star; Floats and lingers where he lies, Child of holiest mysteries, 'Meatli the bending Bethlehem skies. Swift, what eager questions start' In His coming havol part? Can I hold him In my heart? Can my inn, bo rude and wiid. Make him room, tho nndefilod, Find its Master in this Child? Troubled soul, whero'or yo bo, Who this sacred morning seo, ChrUt Is come for theo, for Ihec. Thine tho song tho angola sing, And no ?cepVorod Bastern klug Hath such gifts as thou may11 bring To thy living love intense, To thy Buffering ponitenco, What aro gold and franklncouseV To thy burning thoughts, thatetir Tenderly for thoso who err. What tho fragrauco of the myrrh? I'mieut under wrong or Hcorn. nows thy brow the touch of thorn? hon In thou the Christ is born, And yon star's triumphaul shino, Is not clearer than tho sign Thou art His and Ho is thine! Thiuo, hurls untold, iu tears ? In labors manifold -in fears - Thine for grand eternal years; Thine for rod and stag, and wine Till beneath His lovo divine, There is no more thlno or mine. Lifo of self and uiu o'ei thrown; All the kingdom is his own. Aud tho Christ child takes his throne One is with us where woru twain, That one ().': Ring ont agaiu. Christmas bells, y, ur gmldeBt strain, Christ the king iscomo 10 itigi.t Qeu. George II. Slowail, on ox-Con federate, has just had returmd 10 him by Abram Smith, of Long Bench, Cal., a Bible which he carried through the civil war. Smith look tho Biblo from a Coufedi rnie wagon a tow duys be fore the surrender of Luc's at my. let the GOLD DUST twins do your work. GOLD OUST ^t&Sj^m)$* *nd cJ**n ^wrt InKiry to CIUUSTirSsrfBVB IN OAMP. ] MY CURTIS (llMi.lt, JH. Lato Jjitfutpitnnt-t'oljunel and Inspector Uui.cr ?t 7lh Army Corps. Nol the 8ort ol Christmas the American b*y kuov * was this ono. There we?o no p.csents. Thore was no fragrant cone of winter-green tufted with cotton-wool and iinsel in cheer ful mimicry of Uio snow und ice outside. There was neither anow nor ice nor cold. . The Seventh Army Corps, on the evouing of Docomber 24, 1898, was encamped on the long lines of hills at Quemados, Cuba, a bare half-score of miles from Havana. The men were American volunteers, neither the demigods drawn by the newspaper correspondents nor the demons de picted by those ignorant persons who from their imaginations create a fcodom and Gomorrah in every army post. 1 sat in frout of my quarters, an old brown tent in a sweet-potato Held, with my best friend, .Major Hobort E. Lee Michie. Major Micbie was our assistant adjutant-general,?a speci men of West Point education and American manhood. Virginia has, ami has had, many bko him; and in this war, thank G-<'I Virginia and Massachusetts stood < > they did when Morgau's ritlomeu i no with Wash ington to aid the mir ne-men of Mas sachusetts ugaiust a c > union enemy at the siege of Boston. It was a boauliful tropical night, with the clear, starlit sky and soft air of a New England June. From great garden near by " the scent roues was wafted nb oad," and abov our htads another Sharon waved " la B'>lomn praiso Hor Bilout grovca of palm " We talked on nn 1 on'in the atarlighl long past taps,?talked of tho things a fellow does talk about when he's hundreds of miles away from home, and i"t Christ mas Eve. So denly, " clear upon tho midnight air," Jioro rang from the camp of the Forty-ninth Iowa tho challenge of a sentinel, "Number leu; twelvo o'clc and all's well!" It was Christmas morning. Scarcely liad tho cry of the sentinel died away, when from the bandsmen's louts of Hint sarao - regiment there roso the music of an old, familiar hymn, and one clear baritono voice led the chorus that quickly ran along those moonlit Heids: " How firm a foundation, yo saints of tho Lord!" A milikm- voice joined in, and another and anolhcr, and in u moment, the wholo regiment was singing, and then the Sixth Missouri joined in, with the Fourth Virginia and all tho rest, till there, on tho long ridges above the groat city whence Spanish tyranny onco went forth to enslave tho Wow World, a wholo American army corps w.h singing : " (Tear not, I am with theo; oh, bo not dismayed, For I am thy God, I will still give thoo aidl I'll strongthen theo, help thee, and causo thoo to stund, Uphold by my gracious, omnipotent hand " Thon they sang ?* Noaror, my God, to thee," und ** Coronation," and, ol course," America." Thotu may bo those who think that it was by accident that the Qrst hymn happened to be what it was. There, are those who bcltove that all things happen by accident. Yet there are some of us who do not shout our creed from tho house-tops, aomo of us who believe that even bloodshed is at times a necessary, if awful, evil, yet who do not believo that this is alto gether a world of chance and accident. The hymn tho bandsmen played that OL -iHtmafl&ve at thrfW?i?~?Ttln^B war siaccftho daysjpv?cn AmcrrffJ^ fought no foreign f<? Hot each other, Is almost m& oldest! Christmus music known to tfio Roman Catholic Church,' ?the Portuguese Hymn, wbose familiar Latin words begin, ?'Ailette Qdelcs, biuti 11 iutuphnnti..." The English words the boys Bang to that ancient music will be found in well nigh ?very Protestant hymu-book of the old New England days. The Nmthnrn soldier knew the hvmu its one he had learned beside Iub mothor's knee. To tbo Southern soldier it was that and something m<>re; it. was the favoratu hymn of General Robert E. Leo, and was sung at that great commander's f: neral. Protestant apd Catholic, rnulh and North, Binning together <?n Chrislmas Day in iho rooming, -- that's au American army I The Amurig.AU soldi r is no saint. Ho i- no heller, but no worse, than other Ametlewis. Vet at least this may bo said, ? that, since Oliver moHiwoll led his I roue Idea lo war, there has never been a nation whofo victorious soldiers, like ours, have celebrated the, dawn of tho first Chris tian \ ear on new and foreign soil, not with debauchery and .drunkenness, not even with Bports and games, but with a voluntary, almost an iuvoluntary, Chlisliau bervico of prayer and praise. LlUICUTY Bki.l at Cuaw.kston.? Tho Ohicugo Anioican says that Ainerca's most valued iclic, the old Liberty Hell, will bo sent ;o Charlts lon on January 3 next, to bo exhibit ed in the Pennsylvania building, at the exnosition there. Tina will make tho bell'? fourth trip ? ut of Philadelphia within little more Ihutl nquarforof u eontury. Prepara tions for itfl removal bavo already be gun. Tho woik will bo attended with all tho dignity that national and civic pride omands, and tho bell, dear to tho heart of millions, will go out of Philadelphia to tho music of bands and tho match of men. The pat ado will not be imposing for its size, but it will be important on ac count of those who will have the hon or of participating in it. An escort of cmucilmeu has already been appoint - ed. A local safo building company will have tho contract for removing tho boll to Charleston. The truck on which it will bo hauled frjtn the State bouse to tho Pennsylvania railroad yards will bo decorated with the na tional colors. Six or eight horses will be attached to tho truck, ou ouch side of which will ;Uan<l a cordon of police. A. dozen reserves, all inoro than six feet in height, will tako their places iie-idc.jiiie belljwheu it is secure on.the truck, and tho procession will move up Chestuut to Broad street. The fiat car on which it will he. placed will have a railing built arou.d it. 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