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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-12-23
CHRISTMAS.
BY 8. TEACKLE WALLIS.

On the Swiss mountains, when wandered
In the wild, awful passes, all alone,
little cross of iron, cold and bare,
Rose, oft, before me, from some wayside
stone
Strange, uncouth names they bore-a holy
Traced by rude hands upon a rustic scroll,
And, blotted by the SHOWS, piteous line,
Begging our prayers for the poor sleeper's
soul.
Some traveller it was, perchance, whose doom
The torrent or the avalanche had sped
MaYhap was buried there some peasant, whom
The hunted channels o er the cliff had led.
His simple thoughts had never crossed the
From whose far borders to his grave 1 came.
Yet, brother, called he unto me,
And my hearts echo gave him back the
name
Peace to thy spirit Brosherl 1 had felt
The quick ming Of the blood that wanderers
feel
At thong hit of home and country. had knelt
A affairs where the nations came to kneel-
But knew l never, in it's depth, till when
Thy lonely shrine besought me for my
prayer,
The sense Of kindred with all sons of men
One love, one hope, Gods pity everywhere
And SO thy scroll, thou gentle Christmas tide,
Reared on the cross, high Ger the wastes of
time,
Speaks to earths pilgrims, in His name who
died,
Good will and peace and brotherhood
sublmel
And, unto them that hail thee, chiefly worth
Are the glad wreaths that twinest round the
year,
For that thou bidd'st our kindled hearts go
forth,
Wherever love can warm or kindness cheer.
Up the bleak heights of daily toll we press,
To heed the hurried grasp, the brief caress,
The brother fainting on that weary road.
Then, welcome be the hours and thoughts and
things,
That with US from ourselves, little while,
To that sweet human fellowship which brings
The only human joy unstained of guile
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all the flaming advertisements he picked
out one, went back for the boys and
started for Franklin Avenue. Arrived
at the imposing, well filed store, full of
shoppers, he marched boldly in and ask
ed for Mr.. Famous. The jolly gentle
man at the door laughed as he told the
boys to be seated. Calling check boy
in neat uniform, Mr.. Famous was soon
on the spot.
''Well, my little lads. what can do
for you ?" Howard, assured by the
kind face of the tall gentleman Gone of
natures noblemen,") who, bending
low, heard his wants. After stating
how much money he had and the cir
Gums stances connected with the receiv-
ing it, Mr.. - said "Well, | will
attend to you myself as my partner is
very much engaged on the third floor,
and the clerks all as busy as bees. 1
think l can fit out you three boys and
still have something left. Come up in
the elevator and we'll see."
You wouldn't have known those boys
when they came down, and Mr.. Famous
was overjoyed himself, as he had little
boys at home waiting for Santa Claus
that very moment.
Such beautiful things, and so cheap,
overcoats, undercoats, jackets, pants,
boots, shoes, and everything they
needed.
Howard knew he had struck a second
bonanza, young as he was.
ave never take all the money Gus
toner has, said the other Mr.. Famous
who had just arrived, and was becoming
interested in the trio"
eve don't want to get rich off the
poor, so you must come again, boys"
s'You bet we WILL" said Howard, his
eyes sparkling with joy, ''and Wen tell
all the boys who have only little
money where to go"
He could not understand how any
money could be left, but he was made
to understand that there were Christian
gentlemen who dealt fairly by them,
although they were inexperienced in.
buying, and that enough money had
been saved to buy them all a good hot
supper and procure good clean beds and
kind treatment at the Street Boys
Home. So the three were after all, the
happiest boys in st. Louis, or in the |
whole world, for that matter Despair
not, little boys, Santa Claus may be
nearer you as you lie on a pallet of
straw, than you are aware.
And you who have the means of
doing some good deed, delay not think
of the hundreds of homeless little ones
as you sit by pleasant Preside at
Christmas. "Take heed that We despise
not these little ones, for 1 say unto
you, that in heaven their angels do |
always behold the face of my Father,
which is in heaven"
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and with his face believed with tears,
when the star opened once again.
Said his sisters angel 70 the leader,
us my brother come p
And he said, Nay, but his maiden
daughter"
And the man who had been the child
saw his daughter, newly lost TO him, a
celestial creature among those three,
and he said, my daughters head is on
my sisters bosom, and her arm is round
my mothers neck, and at her feet there
is the baby Of old time, and ! can bear
the parting from her, God be praised
And the star was shining.
Thus the child came to bc an old
man, and his once smooth face was
wrinkled, and his steps were slow and
feeble, and his back was bent And
one night as he lay upon his bed, his
children standing round, he cried, as
he had cried so long ago. see tho
star"
They whispered to one another, He
is dying"
And he said, Il am. Ny age IS
falling from me like a garment. and
move toward the star as a child. And
o, my Father, now / thank thee that it
has so often opened 10 receive those
dear ones who await me r.
And the star was shining and it
shines upon his grave.--Charlcs Dick
ems
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-12-23
Christmas Associations.

The ancients, all over the world
made as much of the season as we do,
and surpassed us in their efforts to vary
and enliven it. As the sun was stand
ing still, time also was arrested. Janus
looked backward as well as forward,
aud for time the whole order of things
was turned upside down. Not only did
the old become young and the young
old, but the servants became masters
and the masters their own men. We
are going through this process now in q
more business-like fashion. The anus
ing aspect of it is left to the state, where
transformation and anarchy survive in
in their old glory. Even they who can
vie with the Puritan in their horror of
mince-pie may some times steal into a
theatre to forget the world as it is
around them. Well, the effort has to
be made, and many will find the efforts
above their powers. Many man, in
the bitterness of his soul, will calculate
a wish that Christmas were abolished.
Poor wretch even that would not help
him, for the year viii still come to an
end, and another year tread the same
circle. You may try to turn Christmas
upside down, but you will not destroy
its associations, even If you spend it at
the Antipodes, with the thermometer at
SO degrees.
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Christmas Gifts.

The practice of making presents on
Christmas is said to have originated in
the example of the wise men of the
East, who brought their offering to the
Manager at Bethlehem, and laid them at
the feet of the infant Savior. Since
then Christmas gifts have been almost
universal throughout Christendom, and
many persons feel that they have not
properly discharged their duty unless
they bestow something among friends
and favorites. Those who can afford it
usually do, and this holiday never
passes round without an interchange of
tokens of good feeling and kindness in
almost every neighborhood. Be the
gift ever so small, and, intrinsically,
ever so valueless, it is esteemed as a
special favor. The anxiety with which
our children look forward to the ap-
proaoh of this popular holiday Is an in
dication of the great interest they feel
in the receipt of those gifts, and their
little hearts are made light and filed
with gladness whenever they are made
the objects of some special donation.
The practice of decorating our
churches with evergreens on Christmas
originated with the ancient Druids, who
wore aaFIands of ivy and mistletoe on
that day, and since their time it has
been religiously kept up by several de-
nominations uf Christians.
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NUMBER 81
OLD cHR1srnAs nAnn1.

saw three ships come sailing in,
On Christmas Day, on Christmas Dav:
l saw three ships come sailing in
On Christmas Day in the morning.
And what v SIS in those ships all three.
On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day?
And what was in those ships all three
On christmas Day in the morning.
Our Savior Christ and His lady,
On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day;
Our Savior Christ and His lady,
On Christmas Day in the morning
Pray whittier sailed these ships all three.
On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day?
Pray whittier sailed those ships all three,
On Christmas Day in the morning
. they sailed into Bethlehem,
On Christmas Day, on Christmas Dav:
y they sailed into Bethlehem.
On Christmas Day in the morning
And all the bells on earth shall ring.
On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day;
AND all the bells on earth shall ring
On Christmas Day in the morning
And all the Angels in Heaven shall sing.
On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day:
And all the Angels in Heaven shall sing,
On Christmas Day in the morning.
and all the souls on earth shall sing
On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day;
And all the souls on earth shall sing,
On Christmas Day in the morning.
Then let us all rejoice, amain,
On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day;
Then let us all rejoice, amain,
On Christmas Day in the morning.
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The Natural Orator.

Youths Companion.]
"The orator is born, not made" say
certain critics. The assertion is contra
dicted by so many exceptions that it
can not be received as a general rule.
1t is, however, verified in the career of
some great orators. The most notable
case, in the annals of American orators,
is that of Patrick Henry. The bees of
Hymettus, touched his lips as they did
those of Plato while slumbering in his
cradle. He lisped in eloquance as Pope
did in numbers.
Henry was a natural orator, but he
was t'only that and nothing more" Mr..
Jefferson, who knew him well, and often
listened spell-bound to his eloquence,
says he was neither a man of education
nor a well-read lawyer.
Writ, in his ''Life of Henry" which
should more properly be entitled Wirt's
Romance" says he read "Plutarch's
Lives" once year. 81 don't believe, "
said Mr.. Jefferson, che ever read two
volumes of them"
One November. on leaving Jefferson's
house, Henry selected two books from
his hosts library. Il will take these
two volumes of 'Hume's Essays" he
remarked, as he put them in his saddle
bags, "and try to read them this winter.
In the spring he returned them, saying
he had not been able to get half through
one of them.
In fact Henry was too lazy and toe
fond of company to read, His delight
was to pass weeks hunting in the ''piny
woods" along with overseers and people
of similar social position. At night
when they gathered about the campfire
Henry was the soul of the company
telling stories and cracking jokes until
bedtime.
Yet the lazy, half educated lawyer
seemed like one inspired when he stood
before jury or on the stump.
"He appeared to me-" wrote Mr.
Jefferson, "to speak as Homer wrote,
/ never heard" he continued, "any
thing that deserved to be called by the
same name with what flowed from him.
Where he got that torrent of language
from is inconceivable. / have frequent
| ly shut my eyes while he spoke, and
when he was done, asked myself what
he had said, without being able tt
| recoIlect Woru OF II. ne was III
logician."
But Henry's case is an exceptiona
one. There is nothing like it in oul
history, and the times were on his side
To-day the man who wishes to affair
eminence as an orator must have idea
and know how to put them in an at
tractive form. To gain ideas and ac
quire the art of putting them, he
must study.
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A KISS DEFINED.

pout and parting Of lips as they touch
That's kiss in the abstract. IL does not
seem much
But where is the language can rightly express
it2
What letters can sound It TO help YOU to
guess it
What smile suggest, what fancy reveal
The mysterious bliss il can cause you 10 feClf
Here Nature assuredly won a diploma
For fragrance Of favor and perfect aroma.
A kiss Is electrical-comes with start
That tngles a delicate shock TO the heart,
And sets the eyes twinkliug with raptur0us
delight,
Like stars in the sky Of clear frosty night
When It's over the ecstacy cliugs to YOU yeti
lis j y to remember and never forget,
All pleasure condensed in an instant Of bliss
Can but partly describe what's contained i'm
kiss
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CHRISTMAS READING.
'-7~-~r'---0A01@-~ANOr
HANGING UP THE STOCKINGS


Night has fallen O er the snow drifts.
Piilowed is each baby head;
A nd the Christmas Tree is laden
For the children are in bed.
side by side the little stockings
hang upon the nursery wall
santa Claus came down the chimney
Ihro' the snow 10 fill them all.
Plump and full see them hanging
Keeping all their treasures fast;
ana beyond these tiny stockings
Visions greet me from the past
scenes from my own sunny childhood,
Frightened by my mothers love;
Ever present love that guided
Where my little feet might move.
And again | see bright stockings
Like the ehildren's, plump md small,
Flashing crimson in the freight,
Hang upon the nursery wall
Stockings filled BIZ loving fingers
Fer the tired hands reposed
When my baby mouth was silent
And my happy eyes were closed.
Oh, the blessed faith of childhood,
Fled from me forever more
All your joys are past and vanished,
Christmas mirth Tor me is DER.
1 have seen each bright hope perish,
watched each thing that loved me die;
To the beauty of my childhood
have said long goodbye.
Yet when Christmas SHOWS lie heavy,
And ! watch the white fakes fall,
Memory haunts me with her pictures
Of bright stocking on the wall.
Pictures OF my fair dead mother
% the love that crowned my life
When l dreamed of dolls and play-thing,
Not Of worldly care and strife.
On my lap my hands lie idle,
Let me dream awhile TO night
Not of womanhoOd and wisdom,
But of childhood, love and light!
Let me feel that sweet faith stirring
o er my heart now, as Of old,
Faith in Santa Claus, ft-laden,
Creeping in through snow and cold.
Leave the hopes of youth behind me,
Trample fame beneath my feet;
Take me back to sunny childhood,
When my life was fresh and sweet
What have lore and learn ing brought me
That l would not give again2
What has womanhood ser taught me,
But that life is bitter pain
All, tonight, | place in fancy,
Oue more st0c king on the wall
IT'S my life with its dropped stitches
In the web | see them all
Take, oh, Time, your years of learning,
Take your gifts, L spurn them all.
Give me back the faith of child hood,
Hang my stocking on the wall
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CHRISTMAS BRLLs
List TO the bells
IT ~ -

List TO the bells
The Christmas bellsl
Tidlngs of joy their music tells
Ger US. round US everywhere
Upon the snow-bespa gIed air,
Resonant, clear, triumphant sweet.
Deep, rich thrilling and complete
King cut the bells
Tie glorious bells
The beautiful bells of Christmas
List TO the bells
Tbs Christmas BELLS
Snrging In full, harmonious swells,
The while taeir silver tongues repeat
In tones with holy Joy replete,
The sweet Cd story eff that time
When first rang cut the Christmas chime
The damorous bellsl
The rapturous bells
The beautiful bells of Christmas
List C the bells!
The Christmas bells
Peace on earth their me lody tells
Good will to neu!" how pure the strain
How rich with fRUTH the sweet refrain =
From belfry, splre and lofty tower,
Ger land and sea" with wondrous power.
Swing fsrth the bells
The magical bells
The beautiful bells of Christmas
List TO the BELLS
The Christmas bells
Like spring of "ltvi water wells
The heavenly eadeace near and far
From earth to where the angels are.
From North TO South, from East to West,
Millions OF hearts are touched and blest
By the glad bells
The wonderful BELLS
The beautiful bells Of Christmas
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To be reported. ]
/. Strauss, TRUSTEE,
v No. S499.

/. STRAUSS, TRUSTEE,
II. F. BAILEY.
Error to the Circuit Court of Kinds
County, Hon. 5. ). Calhoon, Judge.
Holmes rented land to Hudson aud
Philips, for 5000 pounds lint cotton, and
also hired to them several mules to make
the crop, for which the tenants were to pay
in money, cotton or corn. With the con-
sent of the landlord the tenan is executed a
trust deed on the crop to Strauss to secure
payment for supplies.
One of the tenants refused to aid in
gathering the crop and the landlord had to
advance money for that purpose, also
bagging and ties.
Fourteen bales of cotton were made, all
of which were delivered to Bailey for the
landlord, eleven bales for rent, and three
for hire of the mules, gathering cotton, etc
Strauss sued out writ of replevin fol
the three bales, claiming that his trus
deed had precedence as to them, and in fact
that his deed gave the right of possession al
TO the entire crop.
Judgment was for defendant. Strauss
brings the case up.
CHALMERS, c. ].
He'd
l. It was within the power of the tenants
to deliver and of the landlord to receive
the eleven bales of cotton in payment o
the rent. Consequently the landlord could
hold the cotton as against the trustee In the
deed in trust executed by the tenants
?. The charge for the animals furnished
by the landlord in cultivating the crop Il
expressly protected by the statute, the con
tract having been made before the LANDLORD
had notice of the merchants trust deed.
3. The items for money paid in gathering
and handling the cotton and for bagglng ant
ties, originated after the landlord had NOTES
of the merchants advances, but they tax
priority. These charges were for the gooc
of all, and were absolutely essential. The,
must be paid. Judgment affirmed.
NJ. Green, for plaintiff in error.
J. w. jenkins, contra.
ITO be reported.
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"He Can Col
We're the Remarks COOlly Uttered by a
Much Imposed Upon Wife.


New York, December I5.-Toung Mrs.
Bergman, the runaway wife, occupies her
old room in the department for "lost chill
dren" at police headquarters Ia the last
interview with her mother, who leaves Tor
Europe to-day, the daughter signihed her
unalterable resolution not to return nome.
II was then arranged that she should stay
in this city and take care Of herself IN iur-
uished rooms and without restraint upon
her whatever Her money is 10 be placed
in the hands of trustee, "a Philadelphia
friend Of Mrs. Swain, who is to allow Mrs
Bergman $50 a week as long as 1t holds out.
Her husband has completely thrown her of.
Mrs. Bergman's cool remark when informed
of this was merely che can g0!' The last
interview between mother and daughter was
rather stormy, but the daughter was proof
against her mothers tears. You broughtlt
an upon yourself" she exclaimed, when up
braided "you sent the doctor and some men
tn examine me and find me crazy when You
knew that / was only fleeing from a cold un-
sympathetic man 10 one who would 40 ieast
love me the fault is yours, and 50 take the
consequences; go where you viii, j stay
here y The mother admitted with tears, in
conversation with friends, that she herself
was much to blame. Her daughter had been
brought up a pettod and spoiled child, and
made to marry a cold, stern and precise man,
with whom she could have DO sympathy
and she broke loose in time from an re-
straint.
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Lespedezas and FrOsts.
ITO be repOrted.]

Lespedezas still lives, and is green
after the freeze Of Saturday night, 9Th
inst, three degrees of latitude above
New Orleans. 1t has been growing
along the jackson Railroad this year
nine months, and still it lives and
proves itself one Of the best grasses that
grows selfpropagated outside of fields
and meadows. Del. bennett II N. @.
Picaynne.
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a. hODD1 Ii AA@-5
MUnHoL1Ax & BRowu. w. ''i''
Error to the Circuit Court of Rankin
County, Hon. A. g. Mayors, Judge.
Mulhollan & Brown sued out a writ o.
seizure to enforce a claim for rent, 1900
pounds Of lint cotton"
The writ was levied on cotton seed, corn
and seed cotton, of probably less value than
the rent demanded.
The officer illegally permitted the plain
tiff 70 give bond and take the property.
Judgment was entered for plaintiffs tina
they "do have and retain possession of the
property seized"
CAMPBELL, J.
Hld-
/. Certainly the judgment should have
been for the money value of the 900 pounds
Of ltnt cotton, u be m Ids by a sale of the
property seized, in legal contemplation still
IN the hands Of the officer; but form is un.
important, if Justice has been Done If il
wa shown that the goods seized were of less
value than the 900 pounds of lint cotton
claimed, no harm was done the defendants
by awarding to the plaintiffs in payment of
their dem lnd the property already in their
possession.
, There being no bill of exceptions. it
must b. presumed that there was made OUT
10 the circuit court such case as would
authorize the judgment entered, if under
any circumstances such a judgment could
have been proper.
affirmed.
J. ". jenkins, for plaintiffs in error.
Buchanan & Miller, contra
Not 10 be reported.
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E,oaus Yictims Dring in kansas.

CHICAGO, Dec. THE Inter Ocean says
that letters have been received from Gov
ernor St. John, Mrs. GOmstock end others
laboring among the negroes In Kansas,
saving chat there is great suffering among
them. Arrivals continue at the rate OF
about one hundred and fifty per week, most
of them in q destitute conditlon- Inc
Weather is very cold, and rs the capacity OF
The present asylums for these negroes Is
fared 10 It's utmost the situation is very
arifical and many deaths from starvation
must ennra dugipR the winter
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HOLIDAYS.
By HENRY W. LoNGFELLow.

The hottest ofall holy are those
Kept by ourselves in silence and apart
TIE secret anniversaries of the heart
When the full river of feeling overfiows =
The happy days unclouded to their close,
The sudden joys that out of darkness start
As flames from ashes; swift desires that dart
Like swallows singing down each wind that
blows
White the CLEAN of receding sail;
White as cloud that floats and fades in air,
White as the whitest lily on stream.
These tender memories are IA fairy tale
OF some enchanted land we know not where,
But lovely as landscape in a dream.