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CHRISTMAS DAY. Of all dear days is Christmas Day, . < The dearest and the best; { fitill In ltk dawn the angels sing Thier song of peaoe and rest. A"<1 yet the b'eesed Christ-Child comes ind walks the shining way, Which bflngs to simple earthly home ' Heaven's light on Christmas Day. Then, deep in silent woods, the treee The hemlook, pine, and fir? Th'lll to the ohllly winter breeze, and waft a breath of myrrh; And far and near Kriss Kringle's bells Their atry m^sic shake, ? And dancing feet of boys and gtrls A sweeter Joyance make. The Christ-Child came to Bethlehem, To Mary's happy breast, And found within her brooding arms A warm encircling nest. And many a tiny oherub child Tn mother's arms to-day 8miles like the Christ, the undefllod, On this dear Christmas Day. The Christ-Child's mother dimly saw The oross In faint outline Above the baby face that held Her own in awe divine. Thus oyer little cradle-beds The sacred passion-flower Its purple sign of sorrow spreads Tn love's most rapturous hour. To Mary's feet the Wise Men brought Their gifts of gold and sptoe; The "Gloria" swept the midnight skies To greet her Pearl of Price. And down the ladder of the stars, \croas the shining way. The angels watched the Christ-Child come That first dear Christmas Day. Of all dear days is Christmas Day, The very dearest dear, The crown and olasp and topmost sheaf kji an inn joyiui year. Then dancing feet of boys and girls Oo gayly to and fro. And ' Merry, merry Christmas" rings In all the winds that blow. ?Mrs. Sangster, In Harpor's Bound Table. AS OTHERS SEE USL A CHRISTMAS STORY. t ISTER PEROT nf Beokwith was fltt \ ^ / mm despondent de j feM spite the Y nletide va\| cheer that everyl^vm\l|w^ere snrroundM fw p I ed him. He sat w in his comfortaA ft ww" A? H ble apartmennt MV. intently gazing at the glowing aoals in the open grate. The coals seemed to glare at him, as though curions of the cause of his depression. "I'm ashamed of myself, and I ought to be horsewhippod for acting like a oad; but it's too late now (heaves a deep sigh), the damage is don?. bet , . J - ? ' ? ^ W *A "" * \+?'% j Aja'iston. Poor Agnes, when I bade her good-bye, I really loved her ; j but then, well, Bke is only a country giri, witu country manners, ami it would be a mistake for me to marry lior now. I recall the day we parted ? didn't sho look protcy, though? By Jovol she was a sweet, pnre, rustic picture! And when I kissed her, she eobbed just a littlo and wished me good luck and whispered that sho loved mo. Ah, well! those are swcot, pathetic memories ! Since coming to New York nearly everything I have touchod has turned into gold; but I bave grown rich too rapidly for my own good. "But sho did care for mo then, and I acted liko a cad. It's too late now ?but I'"wish I knew whether sho is happy and well." With theso words, Mister Bookwith kicked over a velvet hassock, advanced to the window, and presently returned to his chair before the tire, at which he gazed perplexedly. "I'd give anything," ho finally exclaimod, "if 1 knew what would happen within tho next twenty-four hours." "Do you really?" ho seemed to hear a musica. voice at his elbow." Mister Beckwith was startled. "J?I ?I," lie stammered, turning his bead slowly with a searching look. A woman stood beside him, at least he thought so. lie rubbed his cyas, pinched his arms, kicked his feet against a chair leg, to satisfy himsolf that ho was not dreaming. "At first I couldn't believe J eaw you," be esid apologetically. "Wan it because--I am only n Christmas fairy? l'ou seom startled." 1 "1 am, rather, you see. With all due respect to yourself, I have never believed in ghosts or fairies, auil that sort of thing." "If 1 grant your wieh, and permit you to peep into the next twenty-four oours, then will you believe?Yes? Very well. You shall know what is to happen within the next coining diurnal round; but I must warn you that no matter what you may do or say, you cannot alt* r the course of events. Y< will be obliged to follow blindly > implicitly. Look into tuo hand* i; ' ss at your side. 'ilur np n tin', fairy di immured, leaving Mr. Jleekwith more 'iouius) Y<Meet ''neath than over. For several moments tie sat silently wondering what it was all abont and what had happened. "Well," he exclaimed, whimsically, "if that doesn't b?at anything I have ever experienced. A real live little fairy, with rosy cheeks and charms galore. Dear mo I I'll take a walk, or I will soon be seeing alligators and green mice with red tails." Aflat or ltnnlraiith rnaA V.rr. aViArl hia hai., donned his stylish far-trimmed overcoat, and paused to take a final look at his handsome countenance in the handglass. He almost dropped it, and an expression of horror and dismay overspread his face. He looked a second time, then a third, turned tho glass over and around, and exclaimed: "Well, I'm blowed!" In the glass he beheld not himself but his chamber in miniature. He was dressing by gaslight. Just ther the door opened, and % man handed him a letter. He glanced ac the handwriting, and threw the note into the fire unread. Then he proceeded tc finish dressing. It was impossible foi Mister Beckwith to put the handglas< on the table ; he held it with a terrible fascination. "I must bo mad," he gasped, "to see such things. That letter was fron Agnes, and I was a coward to dostroy it before reading the message. PerI When ho looked into the mirroi again tho scene had shifted. He was standing at iho street door, evidently arguing with a shabbily dressed mai who was holding a bill toward him, He requested tho money due him, ano then demanded it peremptorily. Mr. Beckwith became farious, and strncl the man a blow which sent him reeling down the steps and prone on the pavement. "That was my tailor asking foi something on account," mused Mistei Beckwith. "Poor fellow 1 I wondei if this is a true presentiment that ] shall havo to knock him down." Once more ho looked. The tailoi had vanished, and Mister Beckwith wai standing on the sidewalk confronted bs an emaciated, poorly-clad woman, evidently in the last stages of consumption. "Holp mo," he hoard her say ; "helf me. I arn an outcast, a homoless, shelterless wauderer. I am dying? can't you help me?" He drew a roll of bills from his pocket, flaunted it in the face of the wretched woman, and then handtfd hei a dime. "What a contemptible scoundrel!" ejaculated Mister Beckwith, forgetting for an instant that it was his owe image that he saw. "I'd eat my hat j if I wore us mean as that. If I should i happen to meet that woman she shall have nil tho money sho wants, poor \hiugI" He was now enraged at tho mirror for disclosing such shocking truths about himself, but ho still held it in a firm clasp, as though completely subjected to its spell. Once moro he looked iato tho mysterious dopths of the quicksilver, and his faco suddenly grew asken. Ho saw tho door open softly and through it entered Agues Turner. Sho was dressed in tho samo j summer gown sho woro whou ho bade her good-bye two years before. A (lower nestled in her glossy dark hair, ! and a strange wistfulness lay embosomed in her largo blao oyos. Slowly die approached him and placed her hand on his shoulder. For a moment , die stood silent, thou sho uttered his : name tenderly. In rosponso he seized : her rudely by tho arm. pushed her out i of the room, and iocice 1 tho door in ! her face. "No, no!" shouted Mister lljck^ uith uoar :o'y. "This glass liei, or I * >T"TK ^ 1\ 1 I' CbijToj -Sconan% ^ \ desk winds matter, I ^flnjjfifWa rlth eery dins I 1 iak logs sputter, I. . i ursts the laughter -like on the rafteri WilrT^ r each mlrth-wafter, N\rEVE?^w r to have been. nUmEfflfTI > jocund bnbblee ' UtASfli / 1 and broken all, / ud down the hall| ts. It lightens, I M wHOl I It brightens, i??31y hlgbtens, * ieful falL \ stories woven, f of long ago? N ^ 1 dungeons cloven Ireliubt's glow. ? cloudless slumber, dreams to cumber, ow sweet a number!? , the mistletoe. ?Detroit Free Press. am mad." He hurled the offending mirror H the floor with all his foroe. Ther# was a load orash of broken glass, and Mister Peroj Beokwith awoke?to discover that he had upset and shattered a riohlj decorated Japanese vase. "That was a horrible nightmare," he said to himself a few minntes later. | Then he paoked his portmanteau, left the house, uud took the very next train for Balaton?and his heart'c happiness. The Yule Lor. A custom at one time prevalent in 1 Englaud, and still observed in some'o! the northern distriots of the old country, is that of placing an immense log of wood?sometimes the root of i great tree?in the wide chimney place, i This log is often called the Yale clog, , and it was on Christmas Eve that1! was put on the wide hearth. Around it would gather the entire family, and its entrance was the occasion of a great deal of ceremony. There wat mnsic and rejoicing, while the one an thorized to light it was obliged t< have olean hands. It was always lighted with a brant left over from the log of the previou year, which had been carefully pre served for the purpose. A poet sip^ of it in this w-With las'" yeen>'a hrand ' i .. e new block, and v for good success iu his spending. On your psaltries play, Thntswoet luck may Come while the log is a toendlng The Yule log was supposed to be protection against evil spirits, and i was considered a bad omen if the fir went out before the evening was over The family and guests used to see themselves in front of the brightl; burning tire, ami many a story am merry jest went round the happj group. ' Wailing to lie tilieu. ; I ~^7 Since Last Christina?. "Give mo a pair of your eighty cent ladies' gloves, Furpelt. That'i all the Christmas prosent I'm going tc , mako this year." 'Is that so? Why, last yoar you bought a $300 sealskin cloak for sdmo body's Christmas." "l'es. Those gloves are for the same lady." "Jove ! Have times hit you so hard as all that?" "Oh, no. We weren't married las Christmas." Christmas Weuiiicr i'rovcrhs. A light Christmas, a heavy sheaf. A warm Christmas, a cold Easter. A green Christmas makes a fa graveyard. A wind on Xmas Day will bring much fruit. If ieo will ber.r >i man before Christ i mas it will not bear a man afterward If Christmas finds a bridge, he'l break it; if he tiu Is uoue, he'll mak< one. LATEST NEWS . IN BRIEF. QLBANINGS PROM MANY POINTS. Important Happenings, Both Home and Foreign, Briefly Told. Newsv Southern Notes. The National Christian Conference met in the Moody tabernacle at Atlanta Wednesday. Twenty-four miners lost their lives Friday in the Nelson Mine, entry 10, near Dayton, Tenn., by an explosion of fire damp. At the Democratic ' convention at Shreveport, La., Thursday Governor Murphy J. Foster was re-nominated for Governor without opposition. There was a fatal explosion of gas at the Cnmnock Coal mines in Chatham oounty, N. C., on Thursday, in which thirty-eight persons were killed. At New Orleans Wednesday, Judge Pardee, of tho United States Circuit Court, decided in favor of the coustitu tionahty of tho sugar bounty act, una against Comptroller Bowler. Fire at Bowling Green, Ky., eurly Wednesday morning destroyed the , Christian and First Presbyterian Churehes and the residence of Dr. J. N. MoCormack, president of the State Board of Health. Loss $30,000. 1 C. J. White, telegraph operator at L Hapeville, Ga., was shot Thursday by some unknown party. He was seated at the table and was sending a message to Macon, when a bullet crashed through the window and blinds of his office and buried itself in his left arm. The Georgia State Populist convention met in Atlanta Wednesday to eleot t delegates to the national convention. ( The reason it met before the national convention was called was because of the cheap rates to Atlanta. The usual Populistic platform was adopted. Coxey was not allowed to address the i }?/->(? v Tli? cnnvontinn fnvurml 1111. ~ ?* -r f holding the Monroe doctrine. Northern News Notes. I The press feeders are on a strike in k Cleveland, O. The strike of the Philadelphia Unt ion Traction Company employes has j been declared off. I The Sheriff at Rockport, Ind., fired on a mob who wauted a negro in the jail, and put it to fight. By the bursting of a steam valve on J board the Amoricau line steamer St. - Paul at New York Wednesday morn3 inp, five men were scalded to death aud fivo others were badly scalded. The first and fourth assistant engineers * and two machinists are dead. 8 Four of the injured men on the St. i" Paul at New York died at different s times during tho .d^iy, aud night, WedWashington. ( apt. Isaac Bassett, the veteran assistant doorkeeper of the U. S. Senute, died at his home in Washington City on Weudesday evening. There was an amusing colJoquoy in g the U. S. Senate on Friday between j Senutors Chandler and Tillman in which the former "got the laugh" on 9 the South Carolina Reformer. The Senate in executive session on it TH11 rfl/1 i\v r*f\n fi rm nd fli ck nnminnfinna y of Willis L. Moore, to be chief of the j Weather Bureau and Wheelerock O. Veazy, to be an interstate commerco ^ commissioner. ?. _ . Foreign. French papers are jubilant over England's dilemma. A portion of the Barracks, Buenos Ay res, collapsed Thursday with disastrous results. Twelve soldiers whe were in the building at the time wert killed and sixty were injured. While the crew of tho German ship Athena, with a cargo of naphtha, which took tire, was being transferred to the British ship Tafna, in the Atlantic, the oil exploded and the captain nud I'd ol the crew were killed. Tho German steamspip Spree, Cap taiu Willigerode, from New York to Bremen, is st.-Anded on Wardeu Ledge, Isle of Wight, but will probaably float at the next Hood tune. All lior passengers and mails have been landed. Tho Cuban insurgents have burned millions of dollars worth of sugar Holds in tho district of Lns Cruces, Santo Doraiugo, Esperanza anil Sugun La Grande, in the province of Saut.i Clara, on their way to the frontier ol the province of Matauz is. ' Notes on Veneiiinhi. Tho standing army consists of a lit Ho ovor t .3600 muu. The Republic claims an area of 632,807 square miles. Tho emancipation of slaves took place on March *24, 1854. The Constitution is modelled on that of the United State-*. [ From 1550 until early in this century the country was under Spanish domination. Tho National Militia consists of all males t bet ween tho ages of eighteen and fortv-llvo. The coast of Venezuela was the Jlrst part of the American mainland sighted by Columbus. It was not until 1845 that the independence of the Republic was recognize by Spain in t hut nutty of Madrid. The monetary system of Venezuela is that tr of the Latin convention, tho Iraue bcittgropres< nted by the bolivar. I).ui Guzman lilanco was Dictator from [ lHTd until February 2b. 1*7.s. wnen ho was elected constitutional i'residont. In l*lb Venezuela r<?se against the Spanish yoke, and in the loll owing year the independence ??f the territory was proclaimed. Tho pure white population is less than 1 three per cent. The va-t majority oi ttie people arc negroes, Indians, mulattocs and vjantbo-. STATE SUPREME COURT. Change of Rule# for the Benefit of the Bar and of the Public. Pursuant to the order and call of the President, the Justices of the Supreme Court and the Judges of the Circuit Courts met on Tuesday in the offioe of the, Justices of the Supreme Court Present: Chief Justice Molver and Associate Justices Pope and Gary, and Judges Bennett, Aldricb, Buchanan, Watts, Gary, Townsond and Earle. On motion of Judge Aldrioh, the Chief Justice was elected president and U. R. Brooks clerk. On intimation of the president, a committoo of the Bar from Charleston, Abbeville and Greenville was invited to appear before the Convention to present their views with reference to proposed amendments to Rule 12. Mr. J. W. Barnwell, chairman of the committee, was heard in behalf of said committee. Mr. T. Moultrie Mordecai, Mr. William N. Graydon and Mr. A. Markley Lee were also heard. The committee then retired. On motion Rule 12 was amended as follows: All original pleadings and other proceedings shall be written on legal cap paper or printed in accordance with the requirements of Rule 6 of the Bupremo Court. Typewriting niii v.? .... i 1,1 i. vfiix uu uuij wucu uinun iu* dollible ink is used with ordinary spacing upon lineu paper weighing not less than four pounds to five hundred single cap sheets, eight by thirteen inches in size, and each pago of typewriting shall be numbered and initialed by the attornoy or officer or persoos signing such paper. It shafl be the duty of the clerk of the Court to see that papers are numbered and initiated as herein prescribed before filing. Papers in handwriting or in typewriting must havo a blank margin of an inch and a half on the left. If more than two pages of typewriting or handwritiug be used they shall be fastened at the top so as to read continuously. Paper in handwriting or in typewriting shall be folded from the bottom in four equnl folds and endorsed with the styles of the Court, tho venue, the 1 names of the parties, the nature of the paper, and tho name of the attorney or officer. On motion. Rule 18 was amended by striking out tho words in the second to the last line, "must be in," and insert iu lieu thereof the following, "may be made orally, but the grounds upon i which said motion is made must be reduced to writiuar l>v the counsel sub raitting the same or taken down by i the stenographer nnder the direction of theCourt, stating wherein the pleading objected to iB insufficient." Rule 18 was further amended by adding the following paragraph: "Motion for non-suit must be re'"*, duced to writing by the moving couu( sel or by the stonograghor, under the direction of the Court, stating the grounds of the motion. Rule 12, as now amonded, permits ' the uso of typewriting in original pleadiujta "nd nrnnni"l:.t'qr"] under Certain wise and wholesome restrictions, which will secure the uso of good paper and ink that will not fado. It will also be seen that the provision formally embodied in the rule that papers should be written "on each side of the paper" has been stricken out, a 1 change that will be welcomed by the 1 members of the Bar. i 1 TKLKORAPIIIC TICKS. Alabama will erect a largo cotton 1 factory on the State's convict farm and operate it with convict labor. Charles F. Mayor hnH boon removed as President of the Baltimore & Oliio Railroad Company. Utah will bo admitted to the Union January 10th. The president lias rejected the coast defense ram Katahdin, built by the i Bath, Me., Iron Works. A bill has been introduced in Congress to cumi pensato the builders for their loss. * Speaker Reed announced his committees on Saturday. ' Nine indictments have been returned 1 against ex-City Attorney Moreland and 1 Assistant W. H. House, the defaulting | Pittsburg officials. A Key West dispatch says that Campos lias been informed from Spain that ' if he does not break the rebellion ' quickly, Spain will bo unable to bor1 row money to continue the war. Harry Haywood, in his ante-mortem i statement the night before his exeen- j 1 tion, confessed to three other murders j prior to the killing of Miss (ling, and etatcd that be never got into trouble j until lie began gambling and associating with counterfeiters. 1 The Washington correspondent of | the Charleston News and Courier wires his paper that the Senate will insist that the commissioners to investigate the Venezuelan boundary lino shall i bo nominated to and confirmed by tho Senate, instead of having them named by the President without any check whatever upon his selection. Christmas Confabs. Tho best Christmas courtesy is the mistletoe bough. A woman will never remomber that a little slipper goes a long way. Tho forbiddon fruit on tho Christmas tree tempts tho sinnll boy. Santa Clatis is about tho only person who knows what th^ small boy wants. Tho Chrifitmas stocking doesn't come as smooth us tno bathing suit , variety. Santa Cluus's favnrito girl is the . one that gets engaged just before , i 'liristmas. The Christmas card is a cheap yet j useful present, so long as you buy ho kind without tho date ou li ? 'udgc. yi|MK95<^..t ' ^ > ?> .' SjsS > \ v V , , THf NEW YEAR BOWS ITSELF IN. J J" isj i:?i.i li"'y?, i|:j,; ia *7 tS la vviaT':!.:; it t,o *s **i?1419 . a10!1! "a1419 tO X7 it ifflao 31 2} 1^17118 toao sx n 13 2< *3 atJarJaS 29 3(84;73ji6137p5 >j Mar. 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The eclipse will return February 24th, 1914, when It will still be annular and visible in the Autarotio Ocean. II. A partial eclipse of the moon. February 28th; Invisible in the Unitod States; visible in Europe, Asia and Africa. Thlsooiipse will j, return Maroh 10th, 1914, when It will be larger and vlsib.o in North nnd South America. III. A total eolipso of the sun, August 9th; ? visible In Europe aud northorn Asia. The totsl phase will bo visible In Siberia and the northern Japanese lslaud Ezo. This eclipse wilKreturu August 20th, 1914, being still total'Vut visible in more northern regions. Ill A ,.f H?. "1 .. r....4 AT. ^Iiim ' ' "" AU^uni 23it; visible thro# South America. The oc o? upon the ->??< ??> southern limb of the maon, which nausea from wast to east through the northern limb of .1 the earth's shatlow. This will eauso theeolipso rt to begin on the eastern limb oft he moon when \ at 1. At 2 the first six <liuritM.\ or one half o' \ the moon, will be eclipsed; at 3 the middle or greatest eclipse oocurs; af 4 the last six digits; and 5 shows the moon's position al time of last contact with the earth's shadow. This oolipse will return September 3d, 1914 when it will be larger and visible in Asia. this voun BUASONB. n. a. *, Winter begins 1895, Deo. 21, and lasts.89 0 45 Spring " 1893, Mar. 19, " 44 .92 20 5 Summer4' " Juno20, 44 " .93 14 35 Autumn 44 " Sopt. 22, " *4 .89 18 28 Winter 44 44 Deo. 21,Trop.Year.3fl5 5 51 1 MOBNINO STABS. ETBttlNO STABS. Mercury, from Feb, 8 Mercury, until Feb. 8 to April 18; June 10 and from April 18to 1 to July 31. and Oct. June 10; July 31 to 8 to Nov. 28. Oct. 8 and after Nov. Venus, until July 9. 28. Mars, until Sept. 1. Venus, after July 9. - .^J Jupiter, from Aug. 12 Mars, after Sept. 1. to Nov. 90. Jupiter, until Aug.1" I Saturn, until Feb. 7 and after Nov. 30. and after Nov. 13. Saturn, from Feb. 7 to Nov. 13. WKEKLY IiKVlKW OK TRADR. I The >Iessuge IJut Sraroely Affected 1 Ilustucss. 1 Dun A Co., of Now York, in thoir weokly I review way : Failures for two w??eks of Do- 1 omborsliow liabilities of $0,510,451 against ] *0.840,401 lust year, and $11,070,990 for tlio same week so far of the year. . The strong Americanism of the President's message has given its character to the week. Popular feeling was profoundly moved, but excepting in stock and cotton markets, business was remarkably dull aud scarcely affected. Helling of securities held abroad was a natural first impulse, though the sellonyaro not unlikely in time to discover that no other securities ure safer from international complications thau American. Cotton bus declined one-quarter ami wheat about 2 cents. The markets in this country do not act upon the theory that any interruption of foreign relations is to be ex fleeted. Coming at a time whou nearly ail produce markets are inactive ami industries unusually dull, the disturbance lias aiTected values much less than might have been expected. Not because of any foreign question, but solely because of influences which have been in continuous operation for months, price* of manufactured goods continued to decline Prices of iron and steel have fallen about 3 per cent, for the week ami are now 3 per cent, below their maximum. B.'ssomor pig and grey forge and most kinds of finished products having yielded more or less. Purchase* by the great steel companies, it is now evident, were much in excess of their actual consumption, and it is believed that some furnaces will have to suspend production, as the demand for manufactured products is too small to support the output, estimated for the year at 9.387,(139 tons by the Pittsburg /yum-i !<- ? ? Muuuimnirur. minor (liuiais are Weaker There is no change of importance in the market for cotton goods, which is not active enough to prevent some accumulation. Print cloths arc a shade weaker. The market for woolen goods has not improved. Kales of wool aro mainly conllnud to immediate needs of manufacturers, who ure huying hut little ahead. The imports of woolen goods continue very large, though smaller than a month ago. The movement of cotton continues comparatively small, l>tit estimates of consumption here aud abroad begin to takothe place in a measure of estimates of yield, as markets for goods are geueraly dull. There was a shade of advance in the price until foreign questions disturbed the market, but itclosod with a one-fourth decline. The Crematorium, Tho subject of cremation is just now receiving marked attention in England. In densely populated districts tho disposal ot the dead is a matter of vital importance to tho living. Especially is this so when tho deaths uro caused by contagious diseases. Spaces that have been set apart for burinl * grounds have become overfull, and more is no room for further interments. Shallow graves are a menace to the living, ami deep ones are impossible, from the very nature of things. Cremation, or Homo similar way of disposing of the (lead, is one of the most important problems of the future.?New York Ledger. i