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A Christmas Carol.
There's a song in the air!
There's a star iu the sky!
There's a mother's deep prayer,
An! a baby's low cry!
And the star rains its sre while the beautiful
sing,
For the manger of Bethlehem cradles a king!
There's tumult of joy
O'er I he wonderful birth.
For the Virgin's sweet b iy
Id the Lord ol the earth.
Aye! the star rains its tire and the beautiful
sing,
For the uianger of Bethlehem cradles a king !
In the light ol that star
Lie the ages impearle 1;
Ami that song from alar
Ha*swept ovor the world.
Even* hearth is aflame, and the hoiutifid
lii tho homes of the nations that Jesus is
kins.
We rejoice in the light,
An.l wo echo the song
That conies d iwn through the n ; ght
From the heavenly throng.
Aye! we shout to the lovely evangel thev
bring.
And we g cet in his cradle our Saviour and
King.
—J. G. Holland.
THE GULDEN GOOSF.
A CHRISTMAS LEGEND OF THE EARLY
PAYS OF NEW" YORK.
In the year 1609, two hundred anil
seventy-two years ago, and eleven
years before the Mayflower landed the
Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock, Henry
Hudson, an Englishman, in command
of the Dutch ship Half-moon, entered
the magnificent harbor of New York,
and was the first European who navi
gated the beautiful river now known
by his name. The history of his
voyage up the river to the present site
of Albany is too familiar to repeat
here, and it is sufficient to say that his
discovery resulted in the Dutch claim
ing the territory, which they named
New Netherlands, and the present site
Df New York they called New Am
sterdam. The growth of the colony in
New Amsterdam was not rapid; so
that in 1G64, when its name was
changed to New Y r ork by the English,
who had taken it frcm the Dutch,
there was a population of only fifteen
hundred people, and speaking eighteen
different languages; and njw the popu
lation is 1,265,000, and all the known
tongues of the world are spoken here.
The prosperity of New York dates
from the arrival in 1647 of the brave
and honest Peter Stuyvesant, the hist
of the Dutch governors.
Among the many Dutchmen who
came from Holland was one Peter
Van Arsdale. a fur trapper, with his
wife and a daughter, whose name was
Wilhelniina, fifteen years of age, and
instantly acknowledged to be the very
prettiest girl in the settlement. Van
Arsdale w as an independent and eccen
tric man, and though poor, was very
honest and very religious, and all his
interest seemed centered in the happi
ness of Wilhelmina. Soon after his
arrival he purchased from Governor
Stuyvesant a tract of land lying beyond
the creek or canal, which is now Canal
street, and erected a substantial log
lut upon the exact spot where the St.
Nicholas hotel now stands. Peter Van
Arsdale pursued his vocation as a trap
per of beavers along the creek and the
shores of the Hudson, assisted by the
beautiful Wilhelmina, who was his
constant companion, unmoleste 1 by
the Indians, who were his only neigh
bors, for his hut was far away from
the fort and the settlement of New-
Amsterdam, which in those days did
not extend beyond Bowliag Green.
"When Teter had accumulated beaver
pelts enough to pay for the trip, he
would go down to the settlement with
them for sale or trafhc for whatever he
stood in need. On these trips he was
generally accompanied by Wilhelmina,
who bad attracted the attention of a
young New Amsterdam merchant, and
who had fallen desperately in love with
her,and upontho declaration of his ardor
was delighted to fmd that it was fully
reciprocated by the lovely girl.
Matters had progressed for some
time between the young lovers, when
Peter Yan Arsdale- was informed of
the affair, and instead of raving, as
some fathers would have done, he took
a very sensible Dutch view of the case,
and finding that the young merchant
was worthy of Wilhelmina's affection,
and that they really loved each other,
he consented to their betrothal; but he
was compelled to postpone the mar
riage for an indefinite time, for the rea
son that under the old Dutch laws no
maiden could be married unless
she was possessed of a dower,
and Peter Yan Arsdale had no
dower to give his daughter except an
uncertain lot of beaver pelts, and they
were not sufficient to comply with the
legal standard of the Dutch dowers.
This obstacle was a distressing dis
couragement to the young lovers, but
none whatever to the sturdy old trap
per, who said he had faith in his patron
saint, who was none other than St.
Nicholas (or Santa Glaus), to whom he
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vowed he would pray each night
and morning until he sent him a
dower for his daughter, and so faith
fully did he keep this word that he
never missed praying to St Nicholas
each night and morning, so that it be
came a matter of public notoriety to all
the inhabitants of New Amsterdam,
and many ridiculed him, ami among
the most prominent sneerers was a
certain dealer in furs named Jacobus
A an Vechten, a close-fisted old fellow,
to whom Van Arsdale sold many pelts.
Whenever Peter went to dispose of bis
stock to the old fur dealer lie would
chafe Peter by tauntingly inquiring
whether St. Nicholas had answered his
prayer and sent him a dower for his
daughter.
"No, no," the trapper would answer
cheerily; "but he will at the proper
time. Wilhelmiua will be only eighteen
next Christmas, and about that time
St. Nicholas will send me the present
of her dower." The hard-listed old
dealer would sneeringly laugh and call
Peter a fool, and tell him his prayer
would never be answered, and that his
daughter, in consequence, would die
an old maid.
Now. the old furrier Van Voohten
had great dealings with one Andreas
Van Terwilleger, who was an old miser
and a money-lender, and who had ad
vanced money to Van Vechten at large
interest to buy furs: and to make up
the interest and to get large profits in
his furs, Van Vecliten, in turn, never
hesitated to cheat the poor trappers
who sold him pelts, and among his
victims whom he had swindled most,
was poor, honest Peter Van Arsdale.
On the Ist of December, 1650, there
was a large account standing In tween
Van Terwilleger and Van Vechten, the
latter being greatly in his debt, as he
had borrowed an immense amount of
gold from him to purchase pelts, and
he consequently had a large stock on
hand, because no ship hail been charter
ed in many weeks to sail l'or Europe;
so he had plenty of furs, but no gold.
Besides owing the old money-lender,
Van Vechten was also indebted io
Peter Van Arsdale and others; and as
matters were getting hot for him, he
faithfully promised that if the other
merchants would charier no ship, he
would do so by Christmas himself, and
thereby raise money and liquidate his
debts by the new year.
Peter Van Arsdale,who was a patient
man, ua- one of the first who said he
would wait, but he had in the mean
time determined to call upon the old
miser on Christmas Eve with furs
enough to enable him to get money
sufficient for him to purchase a Christ
mas gift for "Wilhelmina and a few
things for his good wife. So, when
the day before Christmas came he made
up his pack, and then kneeling, he
prayed fervently to St. Nicholas to
prosper him and soon send him a
dowiy present for his daughter; and,
kissing Wilhelmina, whom he request
ed to stay at home with her mother,
and telling the old lady to be of good
cheer until his return, he set out with
his pack of furs, assuring them he
would be back in the morning with
some good news, and they would have
a merry Christmas.
He started down the narrow trail,
for there was no Broadway then, and
as he trudged along he alternately
sang about old Admiral Von Trump,
who had swept the seas with his
nautical broom, and praying that St.
Nicholas would not forget about the
dowry. Peter arrived in the settle
ment which then clustered around
the Battery, just as the tallow dips
and rush lights were being lighted
in the "Beaver Tail Tavern," theD
the only resort for the wayfarer in
New Amsterdam. After partaking
of some crullers and lighting his
long-stemmed pipe, and without wait
ing for supper, he went directly to
see the old miser and offered him
his furs, telling him he did not wish
to dispose of them to Van Vechten,
because he could get no money,
which he must have that night.
The old miser cursed Van Vechten
bitterly, and said if he did not pay
him the money he owed him soon,
he would be ruined, and then driving
a hard bargain with Peter Van Ars
dale, he told him he was going to
surprise him by making him a pres
ent. This announcement almost took
the breath from the trapper, and this
is the way it came about: The old
money-lender said lie had sent to
Jacobus Van Vechten that very
morning for his money for the last
time, threatening him with law, and
that Van Vechten, instead of sending
him the money, and to add insult to
injury, had sent him a great, fat
goose, with a message that St.
Nicholas had told him to send it to
him as a Christmas gift, and that he
was so enraged at this deception of
Van Vechten that he was about to
cast the goose out in the road when
the trapper came in, and he said that
as Van Vechten had sent the goose to
him in the name of St. Nicholas, as
MILLIIEIM, PA., THURSDAY,DECEMBER 1.1, 1881.
much as to say that he (Van Terwille
gor) was a goose, it occurred to him at
the instant to give it to Peter Van
Arsdale as a present from St Nicholas
as lie knew lie prayed to the saint; and
so the goose, which was a big, fat one,
indeed, was duly transferred to the
possession of Peter Van Arsdale, who
accepted it with words of true thanks.
Peter was so overjoyed with his good
luck that after purchasing some stuff
for a gown for Wiihelmina and some
trinkets for his wife, and after partak
ing a hearty supper at th Half-Moon
tavern, the night being cold and clear,
he trudged homeward. When lie
reached his cabin he was almost ready
to fall down with fatigue, for the goose
was the heaviest he had ever carried
He found that his wife and daughter
uere fast asleep, so he thought he
would play a trick upon Wiihelmina,
and instead of putting the stulf for the
gown near her stocking, which she had
hung up at the chimney corner for St.
Nicholas to till, he placed the goose
there, and wrote on a slip of paper,
"St. Nicholas sends this goose as a
dower and a nierrie Christinas for
Wiihelmina," and with a merry twinkle
in his eye and a happy heart, after
thanking St. Nicholas for the goose, he
quietly slipped into bed, and was soon
in a blissful sleep, and knew nothing
again until the early dawn, when he
heard the merry voice ol' Wiihelmina
calling him to come immediately and
see the dower St. Nicholas had sent
her, and her light laughter was such
as lie had never heard before. So he
soon arose with his good wife, and
V ilhelmina ran and embraced them
and kissed them, and wishing them a
merry Christmas, and said she would
soon be married, for St. Nicholas had
at last answered her father's prayers,
and conducting her parents to the
kitchen she pointed to the great, fat
goose lying on the table, completely
surrounded by immense heaps of glit
tering, gold coins.
Peter Van Arsdale gazed in v.of used
wonderment at the sight, as though in
a dream, while Wilhelmina explained:
"I found the goose this morning, with
St. Nicholas" note, and so I brought
it out here, thankful to have even such
a gift, and I immediately commenced
to prcpura it for our Christmas dinner.
After I had singed it I placed it on the
table, for it was very heavy, and when
1 thrust the knife into it something
hard was hit. I made a long incision,
and then lifted the goose up to see
what strange thing had struck the
knife, when out flowed not golden eggs,
but all these heaps of golden coins, and
so St. Nicholas has answered your
prayer; anil I'll soon be married."
Now, to end this true Christmas
legend, which happened in old New-
York two hundred and thirty-two
years ago, it must be told how this
goose came to give the shower of gold
for Wilhelmina, and made her the
happy bride of the young Amsterdam
merchant. It happened in this wise:
On that Christmas eve, Jacobus Van
Vechten had succeeded in chartering a
ship, and had received a large advance
in gold on his stock of furs from the
old Dutch skipper who commanded the
craft, and Jacobus thought he would
give the old miser, Andreas Van Terwil
leger, a genuine surprise, and so he
bought the biggest goose he could find
in all New Amsterdam, anil when he
had had it killed and drawn, lie stuffed
it full of gold coins, covering the
amount he owed the old money-lender,
and then neatly sewed it up and sent
it to him with the pretended message
that it was a gift from St. Nicholas
supposing that when the old fellow
discovered the trick he would have a
good laugh. The sequel shows there
were surprises all around, and the de
scendants of Peter Van Arsdale, w r ho
live in New York to this day, tell the
story of the beautiful ancestress, Wil
helmina, and the golden goose, and the
legend has passed into the truthful
Dutch history of New Amsterdam,
only the insignia of the Society of St.
Nicholas, instead of being a cock, as
seen on the weather-vane of the St.
Nicholas hotel, should be a big, fat
Golden Goose.
Fcnr and Twenty blackbirds.
There is often a great deal of sense
in the Mother Ooose rhymes,if only we
know what is intended to he taught by
them. A writer in Goldai Days thus
explains the story of the Tour and
twenty blackbirds:" The birds are the
twenty-four hours. The bottom of the
pie is the earth, and the top crust the
sky that overreaches it. The opening
of the pie is dawn of day, when the
birds begin to sing. "The King sitting
in the parlor counting out his money,"
is the sun, and the golden pieces that
slip through his lingers are the golden
sunshine. The Queen in the kitchen
is the moon, and the honey with which
she relishes herself is the moonlight.
The maid is the day dawn and the
clothes she hangs out are the clouds;
while the bird who "nips off her nose"
is the hour of sunrise.
A PAPER FOR THE HOME CIRCLE.
qCEER Fisn.
Tlrmlirri of the Fltiny Tribe with i*
I'M 11 {unite
A writer in the Philadelphia Times,
writing of his experiences among the
fishermen of Marblehcad, says:
"Among the fishes hero that utter
sounds are the dogfish, the cunner,
angler, etc. The former, as might bo
expected, utters a short bark, some
thing like that of a dog. Ia all about
fifty fishes are known that have a lan
guage. Our skipper informs us that
when he was 'a-whalin" he has heard
w hales cry out, and that black fish utter
a strange sound is a common belief
along the coast, but as these are
mamma's it might be expected. It is
difiicult to determine how the sound is
made. In some it is due to the action
of the pneumatic duct and swimming
bladder, while in others it may lie made
involuntarily by the lips or the pharyn
geal or intermaxillary bones. In the
curious trigla that one of t party
landed the swimming-bladder lias a
diaphragm and muscles for opening
and closing it. producing a gentle.nmr
miuing sound. In the eat fishes, that
are noted 'talkers,' the sounds are pro
duced by their forcing air from the air
bladder into the {esophagus. This i 3
also the case with the cel. whose voice
is said to be the most musical of all
fishes, having a metallic trill to it.
Perhaps the loudest-voiced fish is the
grunt -a fish of the genus Ho mulou
—their noise having been heard two
hundred feet away.
" I hat fishes uttered sounds was well
known to the ancients. Aristotle
mentions a fish by the name ot choiros,
or p g, as inhabiting the River t'litor,
in the Mediterranean, and as being one
:>f the fishes that have the power ot
emitting sounds. On a visit to Uatto
carla, on the north coast of Ceylon. Bir
Emerson Tennent heard wonderful
tales of musical sounds that were
alleged to issue from the bottom of the
lake, and on the lake, in a boat, on a
calm night, he distinctly heard, he
says, the sounds. They came up from
the water like the gentle thrills of a
musical chord or the faintest vibra
tions of a wine-glass when its rim is
rubbed by a wet linger. It was not
one sustained note, but. a multitude or
tiny sounds, each clear ana distinct in
itself. In the days of old Rome eels
were believed to talk, and the Emperor
Augustus professed to understand
their language. The loudest sounds
are made by the pagonias, or drum-tish,
and the prionotus, called the pig-flsh
on the Jersey coast, because of the
loud croaks it gives utterance to when
drawn to the shore in rnts. Professor
linird, who investigated this, has ex
pressed the opinion that the sounds
came from the belly of the Qsli. The
inaigre makes a strange, cooing noise,
not unlike a moan, accompanied by a
sharp croak, which has been heard at a
depth of two hundred feet. Another
genus of this fish is called by the Ital
ians orvo, or crow. The sound of a
bell, which is occasionally heard from
the depths of the Mediterranean Sea, is
attributed by some to the corvo, while
others think that shelly inollusks pro
duce the*© singular sounds. The
sleeper iu his berth has often been
startled by the peculiar noises made by
the drum-fish on our own coast, and
Sir John Richardson says that lie was
prevented from sleeping by the noise
made by these fish when off the coast
of Carolina."
Lieutenant John White also says
that on his voyage to China, when his
ship was anchored at the mouth of the
River Camboya, the sailors were much
astonished at the curious sounds that
issued from the water, resembling the
bass of an organ mingled with the
tones of a bell, the croaking of an
enormous frog and the clang of an im
mense harp. These sounds swelled
into a gentle chorus on both sides of
the ship and were attributed by the in
terpreter to a school of fish. A simi
lar occurrence in the South Sea was
described by Baron Humboldt. The
sailors were greatly terrified at about
seven o'clock in the evening by an ex
traordinary noise in the air, like the
beating of tambourines, followed by
sounds which resembled the escape of
air from boiling liquid. At 9 o'clock
these strange sounds, which, it was
judged proceeded from a school of
seioenoides, ceased. The gizzard shad,
known scientifically as the lorosoma,
utters a distinct, vibratory, whining
sound. The mullet utters a distinct
note, often quite prolonged, and ac
companied by a discharge of air
bubbles.
Tho Ocean Full of Life.
The fact is revealed that everywhere
in the lowest depths the ocean is full
of life, as proven by observations taken
ut three hundred and sixty-two stations,
In traversing a route of nearly 70,000
miles. The physical conditions o f the
ocean, as to depth and temperature, de
termine the variety which may exist in
any particular locality. Much valuable
information has been gathered respect-
lng the configuration of the earth's sur
face, often refuting theories heretofore
accepted as fact The coral islands of
the Pacific Ocean are accustomed to
rise in many instances from depths
much greater than are found in the
Atlantic, while the latter lias a great
submarine ridge extending through it
at an average depth of two miles, with
a trough on either side from three to
four miles deep.
The Production of (ptinlne.
The next step in the relief of mala
rious sickness on the grand scale \\a
the extraction of the alkaloid quinine
from the cinchona-bark. The pow
dered bark was not only very unpala
table, but it was cumbrous to carry
and dispense, and, although the princi
ple of the remedy remained the same,
it has proved of infinitely greater ser
viee in the form of quinine, and in the
form of the cheap alkalouhd mixture
known in Bengal as "quinetum." The
lirst extraction of an alkaloid was in
the ease of morphia, from opium, in
1805; the discoverer was an apotheca
ry of llameln, who was rewarded rath
er better than the celebrated piper of
that town, for the French academy ol
Sciences voted him two thousand
francs. Quinine was discovered in
l v 2o by the French chemists Pelletiei
and Caventuu. The sciences and arts ol
botany and practical forestry, of chem
ist i\ and practical pharmacy, are now
all concerned in the production of this
most invaluable of remedies. The
commerce of the world has taken cin
ehona in hand, and there are now plan
tat ions of the trees not unworthy t<i
be named beside those of eolTee and
tea. The value of the crude bark im
ported into England alone in 1822 was
nearly two millions sterling. The orig
inal and native cinchona region on the
damp eastern slopes of the Andes in
I'eru is still a source of wealth, and a
still greater source of wealth are the
new plantations on the. Andes in Bo
livia. The Indian Government has suc
cessively cultivated the bark on a large
scale in the Xilgbiri Hills in Madras
and more recently at Darjiling in th€
Himalayas ; while a crowd of private
planters have followed in the same en-
It-rprLsO ill ' OOtm.—n,l f.l-sY
!<m. The Dutch Government, whe
were the pioneers of cinchona culti
vation, have found the climate and soil
of .Java well adapted for the species
and varieties of trees most rich in qui
nine. Jamaica is the latest field tc
which this new and ever-increasing in
dustry has extended.
The Created Earthquake.
The most violent earthquake of mod
em times was that which in 1755 vis
ited Lisbon, the capital of Portugal
The greater part of the buildings were
thrown down, terrible chasms opened,
and swallowed habitations and people.
The city had then a population of 150,-
000. The shock was instantly followed
by the fall of every church and con
vent and most of the public buildings,
and more than one-quarter of the shops
and private dwellings. The event oc
curred on a holy-day, when the church
es and convents were full of people,
very few of whom escaped. The earth
opened and shut like the jaws of an
enormous vise. An ineffable terror
seized upon those who were not instant
ly killed. To add to the consternation,
a conflagration broke out on all sides,
and raged for three days. More than
30,000 people perished. The shock of
this earthquake was felt away up
among the .Swiss mountains, on the
coast of Greenland, at the Barbadoes,
at Gibraltar, and along the shores of
the Mediterranean. Lisbon seemed to
have been near the center of subterra
nean agitations. It is remarkable that
although Portugal had been known in
former times as an earthquake region,
the ground had been quiet for more
than a hundred years.
An Idyl of the Train.
The poet laureate of the New York
Morning Journal has perpetrated the
following : "She stood up in a horse
car, That maid, with careless grace ;
And oft the bold conductor Appeared
to scan her face. Iler eyes were large
and dreamy, And golden was her hair;
Iler crimson cheeks were creamy, And
he was—passing fare. Alone she leaned
that morning, Against the sliding
door, And, all their glances scorning,
She eyed the sitters o'er. While there
she stood rellecting, The man with
dimes and cents, Was busily collecting
With industry intense. But in his pri
vate pocket, No dimes he slipped that
morn; And, listless from each socket,
His arms hung down forlorn. 4 Whv
does he gaze so wildly ?' The modest
maiden thought. While, fumbling his
cash mildly, He muttered 'I am
caught.' His stare became so rigid,
The maiden was in despair, And,
with a glance most frigid, She sought
the outer air. Why did her face burn
hotter ? And why was he not cool'?
He took her for a 'spotter,' Sba thought
he was a fool,"
Terms, SIOO Per Year In Advance.
PEABLS OF THOUGHT.
Failure should be the stepping-stone
to **,■--
trfio can answer where any road
leads to? — Lucile.
Stay not until you are told of oppor
tunities to do good; inquire after tnem.
The best rule for good looks is to
keep happy and cultivate a kind dispo
sition.
Re always displeased at what thou
art, if thou desire to attain to what
thou art not; for where thou hast
pleased thyself fljere Hum uhide.it.
Cf all the gilts that nature can give
us, the faculty of remaining silent, or
of answering apropos, is perhaps the
most useful.
In enterprise of every kind, it i 3 hot
ter to lose the game by a card too much
than a card* too little; for it sounds
better to be rash and daring than tim
orous and cowardly.
Success is obtained by mixing two
parts of common sense with three parts
of will, and stirring both in the bowl
of ambition, with the spoon of perse
verance.
Laziness grows on people. It begins
in cobwebs and ends in iron chains
The more business a man has to do the
more lie is able to accomplish, for he
learns to economize his time.
Some there are, with an abundance
of wealth and a thirsting desire for
novelty, who indulge their taste in
oddities. A wealthy New York lady
last season wore a full set of furs of
leopard skin, and not to be outdone,
one of her neighbors secured a similar
set of tiger skins, and since then both
of these furs are in moderate use
The tiger skin rose in price, and one
season about two years since the mar
ket was completely exhausted. Some
gentlemen wear vests of this skin, thus
following the eccentric style adopted
many years ago by the far-famed Gen
eral Sam Houston, of Texas.
Our common wild cat is much used,
being a handsome fur at moderate pri
ces. As for skunk skins, in Europe
they are readily sold for trimming
tnufTs an * dresses, but here they must
receive a new cnrisa nmg ueiuio oeiu#
used to any considerable extent. Some
times they bear the name of the Aus
tralian mink, at others, any name to
suit the fashion.
The fur of the house cat is much
used—black, white, Maltese and tor
toise-shell having the preference. Last
year the fur of over. 1,200,000 house
cats was used bv the trade.
Monkey skins are by no means over
looked, and 42,ud0 skins were used last
season by furriers. The fur of the
Abyssinian Diana and black monkeys
are preferred, they being mostly used
in trimming. In the trimming of gar
ments ofttimes a most incongruous set
of animals are made to harmonize.
For instance, monkey, skunk and cats
are all side by side in a trimming known
only to purchasers as IToang Ho seal.
The skins of rats, mice, dogs, oppos
sum, kangaroo and bay lynz are sal
able, the latter finding much use in
muffs and boas. The coon hair finds
special favor in Germany, where it is
made into bats. Hair of the ox and
calf is used in the imitation of woolen
goods. Our skunk, white backed and
striped, is in Germany dyed and made
up into muffs and boas, and so dis
guised we readily buy it as Alaska sa
ble. Tartar sable dyed passes off read
ily as Russian sable, bearded sealskin
finely imitates leopard skin, while the
beach marten copies the sable and fox
skins pass for lynx. Three million
muskrat skins were collected last year,
and 15,000 American bear skins and
the same number of buffalo robes were
used. Every year there are used
5,(>00,000 rabbit skins, 0,000,000 squir
rel, 3,000,000 lamb, and there is scarcely
an animal that has hair but what is
used in some way. The beaver saoques
so largely sold in Canada are rarely
seen here, as they are deemed too heavy
for this climate.— Cincinnati News.
There are 4,000,009 families in the
United States. An exchange wants to
know if anybody can conceive of the
value of even a little improvement on
each one of these farms in a year. It
says that on every farm there should
be "more thorough cultivation, better
implements, and above all, better care
taken of tliera ; better fences, better
barns, better stock, better homes, and
more home enjoyments, more social
gatherings, more family picnics, in
which the help are allowed to partic
ipate ; more products about the farm
for boys and girls to have a personal
interest in ; more good books and pa -
pers ; more smiles and fewer frowns ;
forbearance; less impatience; more
pleasant words at home ; more time
and sunlight in the parlor, and no room
about the house, nor anything about
the farm "too good" for father, moth
er, boys and girls to enjoy.
NO. 49.
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JVorl.' JS/oel!
Thus sounds each Christinas bell,
Across the winter snow.
Hut what are the little footprints all
I'hat murk the path from the churchyard
wall?
They aie those of the children waked to-
night
From sleep by the Christmas bells at light:
Ring sweetly, chimes! Soft, soft, my
rhymes!
Their Le Is are under the snow.
Aoctf JVocl!
Carols each Christmas bell.
What are the wraiths of mist
That gather anear the window*pane
Where the winter frost all day lias lain?
They are soulless elves, who fain would peer
Within, and laugh at our Christmas cheer:
King fleetly, chimes! Swift, swift, my
rhymes!
They are made of the mocking mist.
JSToel! J\'otl!
Cease, cease, each Christmas bell!
Under the holly bough,
Where the happy children throng and shout.
What shadow set-m-t to flit about?
Is it the mother, then, who dkd
Ere the greens were sere last Christmas-tide?
Ilush, falling chimes! Cease, cease, mj
rhymes!
The guets are gathered now.
—Edmund. C. Sieadman.
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HUMOROUS.
Bovine (owns—Moscow, Stamboul
and Lenox.
The proper place for undressed kids
is in the bath-tub.
"Beauty is kin deep." remarked th*
old beau, as he kissed his pretty
cousin.
The cat show is over, and aesthetic
Boston has ceased to court the
mewses.
"Sofa so good," remarked the young
man who couldn't get too close to bis
best girl.
First impressions are lasting, as
the gentleman remarked when the
trip-hammer came down on his fin
gers.
Now is the reason of shiver and shake,
And prolific flow of the nose,
When mortals jnmp ha*tiiy into bed.
And cover their heads with the clothes.
"Never try to take fencing lessons
of a barbed-wire fence," said the joker,
"it brings a man a little too much, ' up
to the scratch.' •
"Waiter, bring me eleven, raw ny
ters." "We don't give eleven, sir; we
give six, or twelve." "No, twelve
would never do; we should be thirteen
at table!"
Mr. Spurgeon, the famous London
preacher, being asked whether a man
could be a Christian and belong to a
brass band, replied, "Yes, I think he
might; but it would be a very difficult
matter for his next door neighbor to be
a Christian."
An oystey will live to the ag6 of
twenty-six years—that is, in the sea he
will In the restaurant the chance®
are decidedly against him. Sometimes
he lasts a long time in the restaurant—
oh, a very long time! But he does
not live nearly as long as he
lasts.
The Dally Life of Prince Bismarck.
Bismarck does not arise until 8 or 9
o'clock, sometimes later, especially
when the Reichstag is in session, says
a correspondent, describing the daily
life of the German chancellor. Then
he sips brandy and seltzer, takes a
short stroll, and on his return goes to
his study, where he sips coffee, nibbles
at hard brown toast and reads the
newspapers, while his secretary is open
ing the letters. Bismarck, so the under
secretary told me, opens many of the
letters himself. He professes to de
spise newspapers and writers, but the
servants all know that he looks at ev
ery article. Breakfast is served short
ly before noon, and the family dine at
one table. Bismarck likes soft boiled
eggs and fried eggs done brown, with
thin slices of bacon done to a crisp,
lie will dot eat white bread or any
kind of fresh-baked bread. He drinks
black coffee without cream or milk,
anil if he has been up late he drinks
four or five cups, with a small glass of
brandy in the first cup. Mutton chops
and rare beefsteak suit him, but he is
a light eater. His wife and the child
ren, however, must have dainty dishes,
with fresh rolls, and remain at the ta
ble an hour, chatting or reading the
papers. Dinner is set out at six o'clock
in the evening, and unless guests are
present it is very plain, but at all other
times it is a grand affair. Bismarck
eats meat and vegetables and brown
bread, but his wife and the children
are fond of pastry and confections,
Bismarck drinks Moselle, Tokay or
Johannisberger wines, and occasional
ly he has a mug of stock lager. Gen
erally there are from five to twenty
guests at dinner. Bismarck remains at
home in the evening reading or writ -
ing, unless the Reichstag is in session,
or he has to go to some reception or
conference, and tea is served at raid
night. He seldom retires to his bed
chamber until two o'clock. His room
is not carpeted, but there is a mat in
front of the plain bed."