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GOD BLESS US ALL.

BY MAHGARET K. SANOSTKK.

God bless OR allI With Tiny Tim TIB thus we finish prayer and hymn, While cheerily from Hp to lip The Christmas wishes gayly trip God blew us all, the circle round, Wherever are onr dear ones found At home, abroad, please God, we say, od bless His own on Christmas Day!

O bless the golden beads arow

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ruddy hearth flame«'t»apand glow.

G«d bless tbe baby ban"* clasp Ht trt fibres in their cllnitUif grasp GoJ bless tbe youth with eager gaze God bless the sage of lengthened days At home, abroad, please G«d, we cry, God guard his own. 'Death any sky!

God ease the weary ones who bear A cumbering weight of grief and care God give the wage no ill can ppoil. The honest loaf for honest toi We round the heart-felt prayer .-nid Hymn, And breathe Amen with liny 'J im, As reverently, please God, we say, God bless us all on Christmas DM}

ON THE QDI VIVE.

Some dozen well fed gentlemen from New York, Chicago, Cincinnati and Cleveland sat in the Council chamber Tuesday eve, and politely 8wallowed as bitter a dose of "mitten" as our aldermen could concoct. Terre Halite's councilmen sent invitations several weeks ago to all the big brokers of the money centers to make bids on two bond Issues—one for $100,000 and one forf40,000. Tho astute finance committee were careful to say in their circular that they would "probably" issue tbe bonds. The brokers bad no reason to suspect a trick in the languago, and from their former dealings with Terre Haute, their bids were made up and sent on through meinbors of the various Arms.

But tho men from Wall street, tbe brokers of Dearborn street, the bankers front the Forest city, didn't know our Urban. If they had,lt wou.d have saved sleeping car rates and hotel bills. For when the brokers wqre waiting for the 1-10,000 bids to be opened, Urban told them that tho honorable city of Terre Haute had changed Its llckle mind and would borrow money from itself through the wintor. Mind you, this is the same Torre Haute that didn't have enough money two weeks ago to clean Main street.

The bankers withdraw mad, very mad. They announce that Terre Haute will go begging tho next tltno she wants to place bonds—and thoir threats is not meaningless—large sums of money are not alwsys nvnilable. The biggest bond brokers in the states were represented hero and their hostility might, not be so funny some day after Urban and his associates are forgot let).

Honesty is the best, policy. It was a shabby trick, to draw those fellows here, ami then draw their lire, when the li nance committee never intended to tl'at the $40,000 issue. The whole tiling smack* of village legislation.-'1

The ghoxt, walks We all thought that when ihe State Normal wiulrd through this ftll term with no "blood on tls bridleV no revolution, more decapitations, that the old trouble was laid llt on its back Ami i). V. tMuks so yet only,

the

lacuity at Hie Noriusl are fear

ful and speak In bated whispers of the dire events that will take place at In* dianapolis next week, at the Indiana {State Teacher's Convention, where the deposed Albert Humpke will preside, the "find" Arnold Tompkins will read a paper on "The Law of the School," the be spattered Prof. Henry, of Blooming ton, will talk, auda host of "autl Nor tual Trustee" teachers will open their rebellions Hps In vituperation.

All this Is anticipation. Maybe it will boa love-feast but you can wager a seal-skin cap against a cotton ear tab that the State tt-achera will not pass a resolution Indorsing and comtnouding the Normal trustees

The grand and only "Messiah" will be sung by the Oratorio society after New Year's under the auspices of the Y. M. O. A. To postpone it until then is a mistake. Just before Christmas is the only appropriate time for it. As well might Easier anthems be chant-d Thanksgiving day as for the Messiah to be rendered in January.

Hut never mind that incongruity. Go to it. Musical people know what a treat it I*. Other clues crowd great opera halls to hear it sung at Cnrlstmas tld*» A crowded house should greet it here. To appreciate it fully* attend it every year. The first year, it mystifies you the second, It awakens you the third, you are enthusiastic but after that, you are Its devotee,

"Crnwf'' Fairbanks manages to get Itu^ a new combine ev«ry month or so, and the latest trust ht is forming is to roraer tbe wagon wheels of the country. He played no »m*U part t» the cattlefeeder*, trust heljwd to org*ni*e the whisky p*ol and put his partner John Iteggts in as vic©-pr«*ldeot» while he occupies a high office in the great American Str»wtxard company, as welt as| pushing the brewery and distillery latereets of Terre Haute. Bank face I* I as well known within the Mexican1of

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ium as it is on Terre Haute streets and his $20-a-day room at the Chicago hotel is frequented by him as much as his cosy home on Sixth street.

The passing of old Uncle John Dawson, 104 years of age—who died yesterday morning—forcibly reminds as of what a remarkable man he was. Ten years old when George Washington died. He conld vote when tbe British sacked Washington. The panic of 1837 is looked npon as ancient history but John Dawson was nearly 50 years old theu. He was too old to go to the Mexican war while the great rebellion burst upon him at the age of 72 What a cen tury he has rounded with four years to spare!

Tbe new cancelling machine at our po3t office is to be in running order this week. To old fogies, this news will be flat. Business meu know what it means. Instead of Terre Haute's post-mark on letters being a blurred ring and a blot, there will appear on every envelope a perfect stamp of the city, day and hour, seven parallel lines cancelling the postage. Instead of an overworked mailing clerk pounding on your letters with a hand stamp until his forearm is paralyzed, a smart young man will feed your correspondence in this patent job press, and the nicely marked mail will fall into a bag at the rate of many thousand an hour.

But don't put any glassware in your envelopes, else you will block the machine, and cause its civil-service reform feeder to swear. Qui VIVE.

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

It is a good thing in these hard times to be able to lay up one's treasures in heaven. It is hard to lay them up any other place. "Buffalo BUI," after hobnobbing for many years with the scions of the effete monarchies of the old world i* going to be a candidate for governor of Nebraska next year. He will no doubt make a lurid campaign of it, and if he should challenge bis competitor to a joint debate with six shooters at forty paces he will have little opposition.

George B. Swift, who will be remembered as the gentleman who organized tbe Dago laborers on the street department of Chicago into a tin bucket parade in 1888 to show how popular Waiter Gresham was with the working people, was beaten for mayor of Chicago, on Tuesday, by 1,220 votes. He was defeated by .John P. Hopkins, a young Irishman, who has been a resident of Chicago but fourteen 3Tears, but who hj that time has come to carry the destinies of his party in bis pocket. He is a bright, active fellow, of good parts, who evidently deserves the success he has achieved.

About the best recommendation oue needs to get a good job under the pres ent administration is that be is an apostate from Republicanism The long list of ex-Republicans who have been successful in the distribution of spoils, headed by Gresham, was increased this week by the addition of Wayne MacVelgh, who was given the position of ambassador to Italy, declined by Mr. Van A'«n. Mr. MacVeigh left the Re publican party some time ago, for fear that the immaculate purity of his polit leal ewments would bo smirched by contact with those who controlled Its destinies, but like the majority of those who are encircled by halo of political purity, he Is n«-t averse to taking a fat job when it is offered him.

HE JjtiA TH LIST.

Mrs. Llnds E. Gosnell died Thursday night at her home on north Seventh street, of consumption.

Mrs Mary Fiispatriek died Tuesday morning. the residence of her son, James Fitspatrick on north Second 8".• «t. aged seventy-six years. She had bee.i a resident of this city for many years, and was a woman of the most estimable character.

Edward W. McK*nnan died Thur^iy morning at the r«M douce of his mother, oh north Sixth street, aged thirty-five years. He bnd tx-en a sufferer with consumption for a long time. Deceased was for years c.»nu*et«l with Hulman fe Oo., where he wwpled a responsible position. He was. young man of many excellent traits of uiisracter, and had a targe circle of friend.-. His funeral will occur to morrow afternoon.

M. C. Rankin is certainty entitled to sympathy in the sflllcUous that recently have been visited upon him. A few months ago his wife died \ery sudden !y, and on Tuesday nigut bt» daughter, Nettie, who had gonesouui for the bent tit of her health died at Scotsbt*i*s Alabama. Only oo Monday a*"'* W ri»ten to him speaking hopefully Uie prospects of her recovery, and he *rs«?* greatly shocked on Tuesday t-vwnin^ receive a dispatch announcing W-. death. i?

Huld* Dahlen, a milliner at fW« Unci, has begun a novel suit agaiost the Big Ftoor company. She ask* the court wi.i tt»«t you "Ji years ago multifor an order testraining tbe company p!'ed suany hundred times and be very from building coal sheds near her *oe|sure if you have been cruel and business on the ground that the «oi| hajr»!-h«ar«Hlf there will Just a* certain-

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Memories of the Christmas Says when Old

Hearts were Young—A Day That ShMld

Be Perfectly Happy to the Big Ones as

Well as the Little Folks.

[Copyright, 1883.]

NBW VORK, Dec. 20, 1893.—They on chiming "Peaoe on earth!" And yet there walks abroad the grim spirit of hard times and of unbelief. But the bells ring and ring, and ring just as merrily as if the land were laughing with richness, and as if all the world believed in the little child who was born eighteen hundred and ninetythree years ago. Think how long ago that's been! Think of the people wbo have been born, who have lived and who have died! Think of the heart histories that have been written out during that time written in indelible letters that will stand forever and forever. For though unbelief may come and go, though tbe days may be good or bad, yet always will love, live and always will the bells ring back in answer to tbe heavenly chimes, "Peace on earth and good will to men."

Are you giving good will? Are yotf forgetting tbe little meanness, the petty spite, or the nasty envy A,re yoy„

taking that great magnificent sponge of forgetfuluess and wiping out every disagreeable feeling from off the slate of life, and leaving there only the wortis

TERRE HAUTE, ESTD., SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 23,1893.

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BAB TALKS OF THE GLAD SEASON NOW AT HAND.

that mean kindness, consideration, ifoodj tation to cime back borne. Are you gowill And love? Are you doing this, my log to let Christmas day go by without friend? You shrug your shoulders and [giving it? What good laugh. You say you did it lastyear, and that after the Christmas sentiment had passed, you drifted, back to just wnere you were betore. But why did you let the Christmas sentiment pass? Why didn't you keep it in your heart for all the year around? Sorely you must know that it weari* well. It has stood nearly nineteen hundred years. Surely, you «re not like the fool who says it's all nonsense its merely an excuse for spending money that it's a time only suited for women and children. You don't think that. You have got too much brain and too much heart. "l

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OUR INFANT SAVIOR'S INFLUENCE. How can you let tbe sentiment of loving kindness go from you when you think of that little Child who was born so many hundred years ago to teach jyou* and to teaoh me how to live and how to die? What have you suffered that yon complain so much? Have- you seen every friend go from you? Have you been bleeding and torn, beaten and bruised, and alone? I don't believe it. If you are alone in

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Cause you have pushed from you those loving ones that would have turned to help you. If no teoder hands touch you when you are bruised and sore physically, it is because you laughed at ail pain suffered by others, bad no pity, and so by all the laws of justice when v- ,if time for suffering comes you are alone. But if you had been different, if you had dressed the wounds of bim who w*« in pain if yon consoled him who wn.i in trouble if you gave a belong hand to him who needed it, don't you know an well as I

do to day you wouldn't

In? alonftl But around you would be tbe people whom you had been good, and who t«irmb»ring your kindness, 4^jad by you i« your hour of trouble.

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your brutality intensified a hundredfold. Perhaps you are a brute. Perhaps y»u have forbidden, calling them nonsense, the holly leaves and berries, the Christmas tree that bears such Wonderful fruit, the •R- HANGING UP OF THE STOCKINGS, that mystical ceremony that means sb much to all the little ones. Perhaps, although your dinner may be a rich one, you have forbidden the repentant prodigal son to appear. Perhaps you scoff at everything gentle, sweet and holy, and ohjpct to the very babies being more merry than usual because of Christmastime. Ob, you beast! Do you know what will come from all this? "Aa you have done it uuto the least of these, ye bave done it unto me." Thiak over that for a little while, and repent as soon as you can. Deck the house with tbe glossy leaves, and the red berries of the belly. Help trim the wonderful Christmas tree, and steal quietly into the nursery and put in each little stocking what the little hearts have been asking for so long. You needn't wait for the hereafter to get your re ward it will oome while you are here oome in loving thanks, in bright eyes, and in appreciative words from those very children wbotn you have kept so far from you. For the sake of the' little child born in the stable, make Christmas happy for the children.

Away off some place, probably you A A A

know where, there is a boy or girl who has disobeyed you who had gone out into the^ world, fought the tight and been beaten who only wants the invi-

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your table is a marvel of beauty? Everything will taste like ashes to you If you refuse to believe in the repentance of the one sinner and have no place at your board for that one who went astray. Who are you who shall decide the greatness of sin? Have you never made a mistake? O

HAS ALL YOUR LIFE BEEN SPOTLESS? Then how dare you set yourself up as a judge, and say to that child, born of your blood: "It is not fit that thou shouldst be among thy brothers and thy sisters." Can you be hard and cruel, while they are rejoicing in hd*ven over the one sinner who repents, and while the Christmas bells are ringing "Peace on earth"? Wherever you are or wbereveryou may be, get down on your knees and beg God Almighty to forgive you jfor not being more considerate, and entreat of Him to give you another chance to be merciful to the stray lamb

I think it was a woman I beard who said she didn't propose her children Should believe in Christmas. She looked like a woman, and was dressed like a woman but surely she couldn't have been one In reality. For it was a woman to whom was given the glorious right to suffer pain, and bring tbe Christ-Child Into the world. Can it be a woman who would keep from her children tbe sweet story of Christmas? Who wouldn't tell them of that little Baby, sleeping in the manger, before whom all tbe dumb beasts knelt down? And tbe dumb beasts, wis^r than that woman, still knee! in iheirslablesoii Christmas morning in memory of Him wbo honored them by being born in their borne. You or I might have been that woman's child, «od then wbat would Christmas have been to net What was it in tbe day# gone by? From September it meent a saying of the pennies op to the week bt*

Christmas, when the buying was t§ done. The day we were all to atfrrt out, tbe earthen banks were broken open, and, queerly enough, we always found mora money there than we expected. We were told that some o| the

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angeld had comedown aud dropped that little gold piece in. Sometimes we used to doubt but now we are all sure. Then came the rapturous days spent In tbe toy shops the buying done in great secrecy the mysterious bundles each of us carried, being burdens of delight and always there was a delightful toy whioh we all bought together, that was to be for the strange child. We never knew who it was from year to year but some child always appeared to claim that toy, and in our hearts we fully believed that the Christ-Child Himself sent that little oue to us. After the shopping, we went home, and the gifts were given to the mother we told her who they were for, and all this made another delightful time.

WHEN THE BELLS WERE RINGING in Christmas mom, we stopped neither for shoes nor stockings, wrappers nor frocks, but flew to where we knew we should find the Christmas tree. Aud whether the times were hard or not, whether the household was prosperous or not, that tree of everlasting good-will was always ther% bearing the fruit of happiness. Nowadays I wonder if ohildren ever go to seek this tree, and are disappointed? I cannot imagine anything more dreadful. Indeed, everything about Christmas that comes close to the little people ought to be observed, to teaoh them not only the beauty of generosity*, but to impress upon their minds that it is tbe day of the anniversary of the coming of the greatest of all gifts—a Saviour, who is Christ, the Lord.

In your heart, and in mine, there is always a Christmas that stands out plainer, clearer, and brighter than any other. Sometimes it is uota happy one sometimes it is one that is so happy that we know there will never be auother like it, and think then what we have got? A beautiful memory. Nothing com pares with this. To-day, to morrow or next week we may be wretched, but always we can turn back the leaves of the book of life to a page on which is written "Happiness," and we oin gloat over it as a miser would over his gold. Haven't you such a Christmas?

BAB LOOKS BACKWARD.

I am more than rich I have two. One was a great many years ago. We had thought out ourChrlstmaS^ifts, and we had wondered all the time why, Instead of our mother, our father went with us to do the mysterious buying. Days went by and we didn't see her, but we got messages and notes, and we knew that in tbe other side of the honse she was to be found, and we firmly believed that she was having daily interviews with the Spirit of Christmas that the day might be happier for us. Christmas came on Sunday that year, and the oburch bells roused us bright and early. We flew to the library, two happy boys and one small girl, and there we found suoh a Christmas tree as we had never seen before, and close to it, seated in an easy chair, was the mother, all daintily dressed, and looking, with her golden hair and blue eyes, like one of the an gels. Underneath the tree, in a real crib, lay a little baby that had come the week before, with eyes as blue and little curls as yellow as those on the dolls, and on her spread was pinned a card that said: ''This is the Christmas gift that came straight from Heaven." Do yoo wonder that that was a happy Christmas?

XMA8 AND LOVE ARE ONIS'.

Years afterwards, when the children were around the tree, bidden behind the curtains was a girl waiting to tell her story to tell that a heart had been given to her, and that because she feared tbey would think she was too young to take It If she asked, she bad doue without the asking, and a gold band on her finger told that, though ber hair was in long braids and ber frock was short, and yes terday they had spoken of her as a child, to day she was a bride. The story was whispered, tbe little bride was dressed as a woman, and that night when they all were dancing together, it seemed to her as if that was tbe beat Christmas she had ever known because it bad brought her love. Did they blame her? My friend, if people were harsh on Christmas Day thoy would never keep the love of their children.

I tell you wbat we want to ao—we want to make up our minds that one day in tbe year shall be perfectly happy for somebody, and, as surely as we give happiness will we receive it.

BYGONE CHRISTMAS JOYS.

^Don't you love to think over the dear Christmas time? To remember the woolly dogs that bark, of tbe Noah's ark filled to overflowing with mysterious animals, flies aud elephants tbe same size, and tigers aud poodles looking exactly alike? Don't you love to think of tbe wonderful dolls bouse* where, if the young lady wishes to go upstairs, she has to be lifted out one window and put in another? Don't you love tbe wonderful tea service that will hold real things to eat? And Jbe stove in which yon can make a fire? The carpenters' tool* that will aaw tbe legs off of chairs? Tbe engines that can be wound up and will run all around tbe room, and tbe dear dolls that will submit to having their earls combed? If yon don't care for any of the ChriaiiiMM belongings, there ia something very

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wrong about you. I like to think it la your digestiion that is bad, for nobody wishes to believe that anybody's heart is hard at Christmas time. And you know one doesn't need to have much to make a Christmas. One can make it in one's heart. It is sad to be alone at this time. Don't you know somebody lonelier than yourself whom you can ask to come and be with you? Those are the people we want to look out for at suoh a time. The people who are alone. People to whom Christmas is not merry, and who cannot in themselves make it glad. One needn't to goout in the highways and byways to fiud these people. It is only necessary to look among one's friends and acquaintances. Will you do it? Will you look for that man, or that woman, whese day might be lonely or sad, and make it bappy and gladf If you will, there will go from you,

A CHRISTMAS GIFT TO GOD ALMIGHTY. And cau yougiveauything better than that? I want you to get into your heart the spirit of loving cheer and to make one soul bappy for the day. if every one of us would do this, there wouldn't be many unhappy people. And won't you be cheery in your words and in your looks? For after all, you have a deal to be glad about. Think out to whom you can give pleasure and give it plentifully. Give it after the measurement of the Good Book, "Heart full, pressed down, shakeu together and running over." We ought to be generous, you and I, for no matter what we do, no matter wbat we give, it will seem after all so little beside that great gift that came on the first Christmas Day. And yet what we give is tribute to Him who came into this world to save slnm-rs.

God bless everybody. God give everybody a happy Christmas, Is the earnest wish of BAH.

Councilman Wey, who is never satisfied uuless lie is kicking up a muss about something, rushed pellmell into an interview this week, in which he advanced the theory that there is no need of the oity borrowing money for the general fund while there is money In the special funds, meaning, of course, tho bond funds. If the councilman would familiarize hiu»s»olf with the state laws and the city ordinances under which, all oonds have been sold, he would discover that they provide that when bonds are issued by a city a special tax levy shall be made for the purpose of creating funds to pay the interest and principal of these bonds, and the money thus collected "shall be used for this purpose and for no other." Any attempt to withdraw lliis money from these funds for any other purpose than that for which they were created would bring the oity into a lawsuit inslanter, and would cause a rush among the city treasurer's bondsmon to get of) his bond, for he holds this money at his own peril, and they are responsible for it. The same ppeclous argument was used in the eflort to get Gust Cotizman to use county bond funds for general purposes when he was county treasurer, but they availed nothing, as they will in the present case. The city is hard up, but her credit is good, and' it's nonsense to try to influence an official, who is under $400,000 bond to do what is right, to do anything else. If lie should use this money for any other purpose he would become an embezzler, liable under tho law—and .there's mighty little possibility of him doing this.

The programme for tbe four days of the annual meeting of tbe IndlanaTeacber's association at Indianapolis next week is significant in the fact that avowed enemies of the management of the Normal school are numerously and proinlneutly set down for addresses. Chief of all is Prof. Arnold Tompkins, the deposed professor, whose subject, "The Law of the School," leaves no doubt that be will discuss tbe questions involved in the rebellion at the Normal last June. Prof. Woods, wbo was asked to resign because of hie expressions of approval of Prof. Tompkins'course, is to discuss the same subject as is also Prof. Henry of Bloomlogton who was active in promoting tbe war on tbe Normal management. Prof. George P. Brown, wbo was President Parsons' predecessor as president of tbe Normal, is to have a place on the programme. He and bis friends have been bitter enemies of President Parsons for years. Tbe only recognition of tbe Normal is in Professor Bandlson, who is to deliver an address tbe first evening when tbe attendance will be small and late in tbe evening after the address of welcome and tbe president's annual report. f«,

Levi P. Boyle, of Pimento, on tbe Mexican burrow offered by Thorman ifc Scbloss, tbe clothiers, to tbe one guesslog the nearest to tbe number of button# in jar displayed in their windows. Several persons tied in tbe number nearest tbe number of buttons, but Mr. Boyle was successful in getting tbe prize.

The Elks, tbe "Best People on .Bartb," netted $100 on their entertainment at Bindley Hall, Tuesday night, which was immediately turned over to tbe Citizen's Relief Committee. Tbe entertainment was as great a success artistically as financially* and tbe mock initiation scored a great hit,

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