Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 18, Number 27, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 24 December 1887 — Page 1

Vol. 18.—No.27.fi

THE MAIL.

A PAPKR FOR THE PEOPLE.

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Twelve Pagesi!

"Notes and Comment.

A merry Cbrintmas, one ithd ail! Away with trouble and care and strife away with all which could mar our Christmas joys. In tlio language of "Timy Tim": "God bless us every one!"

The light of Christmas comes from every window and shines from the eye of every boy and girl upon the street. It Is in all its assoclatioi a the great anniversary of the world. For eighteeu hundred years it has sounded "Peace on earth, good will toward men,'' and today the voice is clearer and its lesson more heeded than ever before. Well may the whole worid rejoice and be glad for the light of the Christmas associations.

Our children! Ah, they will tell us when Christinas comes. It is the children's day. It is tho day which all the civ 111 zed world revorences as the one which gave the world a Saviour. And, next to meek and lowly Jesus, what is thorn

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puro and so adorable as a little

child. .Surely, Christ's day should be the children's day! Cram the stockings to their utmost capacity. Fill to the brim the cup of happiness of each little one who looks to you with eyes of yearning and of lovo. And what a host of bappv youngsters there will be all over Christendom to-inorrow. How many million bright eyes will open wide with astonishment, and sparkle with joyous wonderment at the revelations of Christ mHM morning,

The good will, the kind thoughts, the liberal charities, tho general benevolence of this most sacred season of the year, will leave Bn enduring record, on the earth and In tho heaven, if we appreciate the lessons of Christmas and carry them out conscientiously. From thousands of pulpits to-morrow the srweot story will be repeated of the angelic announcement of pence on earth and good will toward men. Hut there Is a universal sentlmant, peculiar to Christmas, that unconsciously influences many people who never listen to the story from the pulpit. The very philosophers who deny that Christ was born on Christmas Iav, or that He was Invested with any divine mission, feel drawn more closely to humanity at tho period which wo celobrate as tho anniversary of His birth. The most blatant infidels become Christians for a few hours, at Christmas time.

Santa Claus is the good genius who preaches as eloquently as the preachers and reaches a Irrger audience. A Mian may scotl" at religion, but he will not leave his chlldrens' stockings unfilled on Christmas eve. Hcopticlsm may have its charms for some overwlse people but it cannot stand against the happiness of the children. Their little hands must be loaded with toys and their littlo faces made bright, no matter what fathers and mothers may argue about the deluge, the propheHes are the Incarnation.

Another week and the old year will have gone. We will close another volume of Life's history, and open a new balance-sheet with Time. Before we shut and clasp the old book marked

N?," we will take it once more in our hand.*, and, running over Its pages with thumb and finger, scan what it contains There are some pages here that we love to dwell upon they are written In a firm clear hand, and tell of plans achieved and obstacles overcome by thejferror of stern resolve. Here is a page all staln&d and blotted with tine record of selfishness and sin. Tass it by—it cannot be rewritten. Here Is a kind word spoken to one who had sought to injure ns. At the time, we almost regretted it but now it is one of tho brightest spots in the book. Here ts a psrsrgrsph Ailed with bitter words, uttered to gratify personal hatred. They were written with keen relish, but It gives no joy to know that we have made an ©uemv suffer at tl.e expense of our own manhood. Her® is a passage as clear and sparkling an a mountain brook, repeating o'er and o'er th" name of a new-f und friend who has come into our lives. On another page Is written a sad record of estrangement. Pur what? It seems now a little thing:but it was enough, and the intimacy of years of closest friendship baa given way to coldness ami restraint. TtttHt* the subtle healer, may efface the it^sl, atid mutual friends rejoice. We canno* lell but as we we pay the tribute of a sigh forMJ timet' sake. Her© la along array of slimy, whls^i -d alantiers, -uttered In idleness or malic which have flown like thist a- seeds to Call and grow aw-ng the gran? nf

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life and blight tin. charms* vuf intercourse. Hew are manly s-mb, »pok«n In defense of oneso wronged, surf even now they warmed oar hearts wit

joy and brighten all the page with IVrv wrnnan wUl probably stick to her corset bright reward—the radlaceeofan auger*] a good long while.

int ring the past week a breathless world has been kept advised of every step in the war of fists between Jake Kit rain and Jen' Smith, which came off on a muddy island in France. After fighting for two houra and a half tho fight was del cared a draw. It is such occasions as this that make ns realise the full value of cable connection with Europe.

The proceedings brought by the C, II. A D. people against Mr. McKeen are llki-ly to fall through. There is reason to Ulieve that the Dexter crowd are ready to abandon the suit which was not brought in good faith in the first place, it being part of stock manipulation, bulldoting scheme which failed to accomplish Its purpose.

It appears that the women are never to be lt»t alone with their corsets. It is the Amertoan Public Health Association now that has been "going for" thepract!ft and the able doctors composing that hIV find that corsets an responsible for ait imaginable evils. And yet the little

smile. Draw the volume close, that u6 AWiety has beeti forhied In the East There are mysterious doings at home one can read your thoughts. Here is for the purpose of cheapening funerals these days. Queer questions are asked po«sago known only to yourself and an- and doing away with extravagance and of Tom, Dick, and Harry, and sentiqels other. How it brightens all that follows false show in the burial of the dead, It! seem to be posted at every window. "Are with the light of puro resolve! How It is a movement that should be generally you going to be out late to-night, dear?" fills your life with deeper meaning and popular, for it commends itself to the asks the wife of her husband. And pUces you In sympathy with life a brightest uses! Kven now the older heads, grouped with you about the tiroside are thinking of a similar passage in

uotmnon sense of all intelligent people. There is no sense in the lavish display of funeral pageantry which goes near to bankrupt some households whose In-

a volume long since closed, and as thoir come is limited. It is a foolish waste of oyes meet, it stands before them, clear money that can do no good to anyone and beautiful, through all tho mists of and that adds nothing to tho reverence the Intervening years. Here sounds a or solemnity Of the funeral ceremonies, knell, and through our hearts there The press and the pulpit have long been shoots the sense of sudden pain, the outspoken in their opposltlou to the while we read with vain regret the rec- present system which has con tinned in ord of fond joys that are no more. spite of the protest of an intelligent

Well, lay down the book. It is not all conscience. People are persuaded of the pure gold. Its pages are sadly stainod and blotted. Still wo do not willingly tear out a single leaf. It has become a part of vis, and we would not that any

thought or word or deod should pass out departing from a long-established usage, of our lives as mere decay. It Is useless Bat a change should come, and will to Indulge In vain regrets. We can only come in time, in this respect and organuse tho past as a compass to guide the ganised efforts of the kind referred to future, even as tho mariner takes bear* will help to bring. It about. ing from his traversed route to shape jt js something of a novelty to hear of gold and sliver mining In Indiana, but work of that kind Is now going on near

his onward course. There are few more pagcb to be written. Let them be filled with joy and gladness, then we will turn with hope to the unwritten future.

bad taste and extravagance of the present system which is suffered to continue merely because each individual family is indisposed to take the initiative in

Jasper, DuBois county. It produces

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TERRE HAUTE, IND„ SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 24,1887.

CHRISTMAS MORNING.—"Merry Christmas to Papa and Mamma!"

there to a small sprink­

ling of gold to the on. With coal, po­

troleum, natural gas, gold and ailver, and building stone Indiana la about as wall supplied with mineral rescources as any State in the Union. And we have not found near all there is yet either. Wa may run across a diamond field stowed away in some corner, by and by.

A company has been incorporated In Chicago that might be Imitated with good results in other places. Its object hi to extend the popular building and loan association system, which has done so much good in towns and cities, to the rural districts, giving farmers the benefit of it, by enabling them to borrow money on their farms in the same way that loans are now made on town prop* erty. There seems to be no reason why the plan aboald not work and it will be a blessing to the farming community.

The waits was a hundred years old on Tuesday. Tlte people who dance it wouldn't think so. Bat after all, the beat things are the old ones.

Chicago is to have a schoolof Din te. Will the slaughter of hogs and the study of the great Italian poet go well, together? ^£^4

picking a quarrel with me but I was

bound not to humor him, and I kept my

quarrels are senseless and absurd. I am glad to know you are getting such aoommund over your temper. Patience and forbearance are among the loveliest virtues which woman can "Oh, I have enough sense to work the

'patience and

forbearance

Do you want to make your absent friends think of yen every week in the year? If you do we would suggests subscription to the Saturday Evening Mail. You east not make a more acceptable Christinas gift.

We are crowded with Fancy Goods, Jewelry, and Toys. At your own price nutSl New Years. FECHHEIMERS, south 4th*

'MERRY CHRISTMAS NOTES.

A fair exchange—Tho compliments of tho season. Sad is the Christmas time.

"When will you be home, Harry," is No stocking is so smalLthat .Santa addressed to the son. The tone is care- Claus will overlook it. less, decidedly iudifierent, as it were On Christmas day, though the turkey's but an Investigating nature at onco do-1 tender, the eaters stuff. W' tects a hiddeu or suppressed eagerness, though such a person will be, or ought1 to be, too generous to remark it. Oh, these Christmas days! What care, what burdens they impose—with all their pleasures! Nimble fingers are busy from morn till night—making gowns, fashioning articles for .the toilet stand: embroidering slipper or jacket or cap and the men bless 'em are always in the

Just notice how nice your best giri-will be from now till after the holiday season.

view—even the remnants on the floor arc gathered and stuck in pockets while the intruder enters all unconscious of the terrible scare he had given. It is well, perhaps, that "Christmascomes but onoe a year," for It is anything but a season of rest and recreation to the busy house- ng new n-s ngs. wife. I Know all men by these presents Chrintmas presents) that the milk of human "Clara, my dear." said a fond mother kindness is still sweet. to her daughter the other morning*, A nice, easy exercise for Christmas day "What was the matter with you and is that of counting the change you have George last night? From his tones, which ]efU It can generally be done with ono I overheard, he seemed quite angry.' hand. "Yes, he was, Mamma he was ben ton „)On0y/,

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A Christmas goose—The8 than Who thinks Kautu Claus a fraud. It is not always the largest stocking which catches the most valuable Christ mas gift.

way. A step on the porch, and bundles pay for the Christmas gifts received from are hurriedly wrapped and hidden from his dear wife. In giving Christinas presents bo sure and keep your presence of mind. Don't be extravagant.

It's a wise husband who prepares to

Fashion note—This is the season of the year when everyone is looking for some-

cbeerjng

temper just like a little angel!" 'ready cash "Quite right, my child, lb- low*,

Thls ought

to be

news to the man of leisure who

jbl|#Chri||tmj|8 presenU| to buy and no

who do the mo,t

cheer the hearts of the needy poor will have the merriest Christmas and the happiest New Year. Try it and see.

Hie store clerk who gets seven dollars a week and spends twenty dollars for a

scheme. Mam- Christmas present /or his girl should be

ma, when it promises to pay. George classed among "Christmas greens." would like first-rate to have a row with __________________ me now and 'makeup' after the season I* there any good reason why the for holiday presents is past but yon churches should not have the Sunday may be sure your patient and forbearing 1 school Christmas festival on Sunday? daughter will stand a good deal from her fretful George until the Christmas and Hew Year returns are all in!"

Several of the German churches will have their Santa Claus celebration tomorrow and it seems that there could hardly be amors appropriate day for the observance than Sunday, now that] the anniversary falls ott that day. It would fill the minds of the young with the truer idea of the great event than usually obtains with the youngsters who too generally associate Christmas with the receiving of presents.

Eighteenth Year

CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL.

IN THE CHURCHES AND IN THE HUNDAY SCHOOLS.

The greatest of all Christmas festivals' falling upon Sunday it is doubly appropriate that it snould be very largely ce)brated In the churches, and in all of our

I'laoesof

worship there will be to-mor-

r«»w services appropriate to the day. The «iianimliy in which we are learning towolcome this day, with all its genial, benign influences, shows that we are fast K-ttlng away from the husky doetrineewhich our Puritan ancestry bequeathed us that we see at last that the truth of Christianity lies in no outward creeds l.ut in the happy spirit of love to God,. «ud our neighbor which passing through the ages, has remained the same whity doctrines and sects have buried with the temperaments of individuals or nations* It is worth while for each of us to pause on this most sacred morning of the yoar, •and think whether we cannot carry its. sacredness, its large charity, Its fredom from care, its liberal teaching, Its hopeful, jolly mood even, unto every day of the year. "Until the holiday tide of Christmas

All others does *nuee." It is in the tSunday School rooms thatthe most joyous celebrations will occur# Here great preparations are being made^ and the happy children are looking for^ ward with bright anticipations.

Asbury's festival will occur this evening. An entertainment of music and speaking will be given in the church to which an admission of 15 cents wUl be charged everyone not a member of theSunday school. The proceeds to go tp a destitute family for which thechurob. is caring. After this entertainment the little folks will be treated to ioe eream and oakes in the Sunday school room.

The Centenary will have a Santa Clauahouse and a general distribution of candy iu the Sunday school room to-night. Owing to the meetings now In progress at thechurch no elaborate entertainment oould be prepared.

The Presbyterian sohool will present a cantata this evening in honor of the visit which Santa Claus will m^ke.

The Universalist children will bo visited by Santa Claus this evening, with *. nice present for each one. Tbeie will also be singing and speaking. '1^

The German Reformed church wilt have a Christmas festtvat td-ttforniW morning at ten o'clook in the Fourth street church and in the evening at seven a Sunday school entertainment. On Monday morning at ten and evening at seven there will be a Christmas festival at the Mission at Fourteenth and Sycamore.

The German Lntheiea school will have an entertainment and prises on to-mor-row afternoon in the Poplar street churcl*

The Gorman Methodist school will have two beautiful trees loaded with presents for all on Monday eveningThe school will also be entertained witta music and short addresses by the children. Tho choir and school have been* preparing for some time.

The children of the First Baptist have* been preparing a beautiful cantata for some time, which will be given on Mon-r day evening and in addition will bo» visit from Santa Claus with candies and.: nuts in abundance for all.

The Congregational school will haare* their entertainment on Tuesday evening* I Friends near Chattanooga sent a large box of evergreens from the Tennessee mountains, and these will oe used in decorating the school room. There will be music by the children and a general distribution of refreshments and presents.

The children of St. Stephen's will haws* a beautiful festival. A number of carolswill be rendered in the presence of a. large Christmas tree loaded with present* for all. This will occur on Wednesday evening.

The christian school festival will be some evening next week,•will present the "Ancient and Modern Mother Gooss'*a very novel and pretty thing. 7lte modern Mother Goose was written by/ one of the most brilliant ladies of thisr city especially for this occasion. The rhymes are pleasing and novel. The children will also receive a "treat."

The colored are also making great preparations for their entertainments. The-., Baptists will on Sunday morning give their presents to the Lord to consist of m, contribution from member of the chnreh of one cent for each year of their livasu At the entertainment for the chilnren on Saturday evening there will be a tree and presentation of gifts. The colored Methodl*t£will have a tree and concert at the church on south Third street on Saturday „$vening.

The children of the Rose Orphan Home' will have a Christmas party on Monday evening, Dec. attth.

RIGHT, YOU ARE! (GoeetteJ

It would be a great help in snpprssw ing gambling if the churches would cease making gamblers by conducting lotteries.

Physicians prescribe Ayer's Sasaener— ills in cases of scrofula, and in every form of chronic disease, because

medicine is safer to take, and is mora highly concentrated, than any other preparation. It can always be depended upon as an effective blood partner..