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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-12-24
One little girl in an uptown fam

One little girl in an uptown fam
lily anxiously inquired of her mother
Christmas eve if she thought Santa
Claus would 60 in the dining-room, as
she had told him in her letter she
wanted dolly and she was afraid Santa
would see her old one and think she did
not need one. She finally hid her doll
in a basket and covered it up, and was
sure she had fooled. old Santa when q
new dolly was found in her stocking
Christmas morning Utica Observer
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-12-24

women are the pupils, and as long as
we live there are lessons to be learned.
Grandpa Wyman was very unfortu-
nate old man because he had forgotten
something. And what he had forgotten
was something which old people ought
always to remember. and that was
that when he was young he behaved
very much like a child, and a very child
ish child at that.
But now, when he was seventy years
old, Grandpa Wyman seemed to expect
that his grandson Jack, aged eight
years, would behave as we'll and know
almost as much as his father; and that
Bertha, aged ten, would be as indus
trious and almost as quiet as her
mother; but one day Bertha and Jack,
and Jack in particular, taught Grandpa
Wyman very useful lesson.
It was just before New Years day,
and that, you know, is the great time
for making resolves, but Grandpa Wy.
man hadn't thought of making any re-
solves; he seemed to think he was a
pretty good old man, and he really was,
but we are never too old to determine
to do better in a coming year than we
have done in the past.
Well, this afternoon, just before New
Years day, Grandpa Wyman had gone
to the library to find a book, and when
ne found it the room was so dark he
went behind the curtain to read mo.
ment, and while he was reading Bertha
and Jack came into the library. The
children were not generally allowed to
play there at all; but this afternoon the
furnace fire got rather low and the
nursery was cool; 50 mamma said if they
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-12-24

stormy night in the middle of winter.
In my library was a brightly-blazing
fire; on the table a student lamp with
colored shade, which filled the room
with rich and mellow light.
An hour may have passed, for dis
covered that had been mapping, when
l heard the patter of slippered feet in
the hall, and moment later my little
daughter came in for her goodnight
kiss.
In her dainty night robe she kneeled
by my chair and said her Nov lay
me-" thought heard little sigh as
she finished it. She climbed into my
lap and kissed me time and time again.
There seemed to be sweet and pc
culiar tenderness in her childish ca
resses. At length she skipped away
with her nurse to bed, calling back to
me from the stairs: Good night! Pleas
ant dreams and happy birthday"
While she was caressing me so pro-
fusely, heard little click IN my letter
rack where I placed my letters to be
ready for the morning mail. Reaching
over found dainty package and read
this address upon it:
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-12-24

See my strands OF popcorn white
See the presents. row on row,
Swinging, swaying, to md fro.
Oh, the strange and motley fruit
That bear from branch to root
In the forest dim and vast,
Where my early days were passed,
Never dreamed such estate
Fer would be my happy fate.
But they came, and blow on blow,
The strong choppers laid me low.
Wanted me tor Christmas; so
Here I am, ind l can see,
That there really could not be
Much Of o Christmas without me.
Ding dong! Ding dong!
Oh. the music sweet and strong!
In the steeple bell swing,
And ring and ring and ring;
For am the Christmas bell.
And my glad notes surge and swell,
And better than aught beside tell
OF Loves dear birth, OF peace en- earth,
Good will to men. Now what I pray,
Would be the merry Christmas Day,
Without the clang and surge and swell
OF lie, the Happy Christmas Bell?
And now pray. just look at M,
Mr.. Christmas Bell Mr.. Christmas Tree.
In boasting just be pleased to pause,
For l, you can see, am-Santa Claus!
And neither OF you are, I'll be bound
VI muCQ account Wnen I'm AROUND.
High and low and rich and poor
come with gifts to every door.
II ever the time should come about,
When the over wise ones vote me out,
And l should G, with my deer and sledge
Over oblivion's outmost edge
Out OF the dear world s sight and ken,
What would become OF Christmas then?
So, Christmas bell, and Christmas tree,
Be q little more modest, and look at-ME,
Oh. no! oh. no what all this fuss?
Better keep still and look at-Us.
Now tell US true, old pine-wood tree,
II we weren't here where would you be:
Would you ring out SO jolly clear,
Old steeple bell, if We weren't here?
And you, old Sanity, where'd you 60,
II it weren't for us, I'd like to know?
For in spite OF all you can sing or say.
We boys and girls make Christmas Day.
-Carlotta Perry, in ". Y. Independent.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-09-02
A DOOr.KnOb Problem.

The other day a man who is so fond
Of mathematics that he is never so
happy as when setting himself hard
sumo, tried to give some sort of an
average of the amount of work, and
time, and strength, and health, and pa
tience, and good nature, that could be
saved if every body opened and closed
the doors of all the houses by means of
the door-knobs. OF course he had to
give it up. But think of it one mo-
ment Think of how many doors there
are in one house, and how much time
it takes every week to scrub off the dirt
which need not be there if the fingers
closed upon the door-knob inste ad of
The door. Watch yourself, and watch
yonr friends as they let thems elves in
and out. They turn the knob if there
is no ether way of entering, and then
transfer the hand to the door, feel of
the wood for while, and then push it
to with the fingers upon the paint in
st, ad of the knob "Show me hui
man." said the wife of Thomas Car
lyle, ''who can open and close door
without samming it, and without leav-
ing a mark upon it, and | will show you
someone whose acquaintance you would
do well to cultivate" Mrs. Carlyle
evidently understood the use of door
bs.-Harper's Young People.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-09-02
A Genuine Philosopher.

Madam Necker relates the following
anecdote of M. Abauret, a philosopher
of Geneva: 1t is said of him that he
never had been out of temper; some
persons, by means of his female servant,
were determined to put this to the
proof. The woman in question stated
that she had been his servant for
thirty years, and she protested that
during that time she had never seen
him in passion. They promised her
a sum of money if she would endeavor
to make him angry; she consented,
and knowing that he was particularly
fond of having his bed we'll made, she
on the day appointed neglected to make
it. nj. Abauret observed it, and, the
next morning, made the observation to
her; she answered that she had forgot
ten it; she said nothing more, but, on
the same evening, she again neglected
to make the bed; the same observation
was made on the morrow by the philos.
opher, and she again made some such
excuse, in a cooler manner than before
On the third day he said to her: You
have not yet made my bed; you have
apparen tly come to some resolution or
the subject, as you probably found il
fatigued you. But, after all, it is of nc
great consequence, as begin to accus
tom myself to it as it is.' She threw
herself at his feet and avowed all t.
him. "--Ne,o York Ledger.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-09-02
The Bones of Columbus.

The bones of Christopher Columbus
are believed to be in the cathedral at
Santo Domingo, and not in Havana, as
supposed. Columbus died in great OBJ
security, May 20, 1906, and his remains,
first deposited in vault in the Con-
vent church of the Francescans, were
afterward transferred, according to his
will, to Santo Domingo, and placed in
a closed vault in the cathedral. The
remains of his son and of his grandson
were placed in two crypts alongside of
his, aud there remained forgotten until
1888, when, while some repairs were
being made, there were discovered
some remains in small uninscribed
metallic case. This was supposed TO
contain the remains of Christopher
Columbus. After the Franco-Spanish
war of 1895 the French, taking pos
session of Santo Domingo, allowed the
casket to be removed on December 20,
1895, to Havana. In 1877, the crypt
containing the remains of Don Luis,
grandson of Columbus, was discovered
at the cathedral, and in order to set at
re st rumors as to the bones that had
bee n removed eighty-two years before,
a careful investigation was made and
yet another cry pit was found. This new
one contained a metallic case, with in
scriptions outside and inside the cover:
"Most illustrious and renowned per-
sonage, Don Cristoval Colon" and
"Discoverer of America, First Ad-
miral," and elsewhere on the casket his
initials &c. G. A." and a small silver
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-09-02
Made of the Right Stuff.

On the corner Of one of the business
streets of the city, the other morning, a
shoe black had just finished polishing
the shoes of well dressed and gentle
pearing man. The latter was un-
fortunate in having deformity which
compelled him to wear shoe on one
If his feet with an exceedingly thick
sole, thus endeavoring to make up
mech anically for what nature had de-
MED him. "How much shall 1 pay
you?" he asked the boy. "Five cents,
,ir." ooh, but you should have more
than five cents for polishing my shoes"
said the gentleman, tapping the thick
sole Significantly, with his cane. "No,
-ir," said the boy; GIVE cents is
enough. l don't want to make no
money out o. your hard luck" The
customer handed out a coin, laid his
hand on the youngsters head for a mo-
ment and passed on. Who says the
days of chivalry are over?-Erchange,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-09-02
Boards.

In the beginning there can be 10
doubt that it was the fashion to wear
the beard just as long as it would grow.
Methuselah must have had remark
able beard, though, as he lived in
comparatively advanced epoch of hui
man life, we cannot say whether or not
he wore il in its natural plenitude.
1t were curious to trace the vicissitudes
of the thing among the different ma
tions and copies of the world, but much
time and learned investigation would
be required. "Some people, among
others the Turks, cut the hair off their
heads and let their boards grow. The
Europeans, on the contrary, save their
boards and wear their hair. The
American savages pluck the hairs off
their boards, but are proud of those on
the head" etc. So far Button. Since
Buttons time, however, we have al
most killed off all our American
savages, and those that survive, IT
least in North America, are not 80
particular about their toilette as they
used to be. Shaver Turks, moreover
are not rarities nowadays. Nor do we
Europeans, as body, fight against the
beard, though we certainly do our best
to keep our natural hair upon oul
heads. What vast difference there is
between one beard and another? There
is the long, untrammeled beard, broad
and thick, which the owner caresses as
if it were an infant. Men with such
boards may, think, as rule, be
trusted rather more than other men
Can you imagine Venetian Doge Of
a member of the Council of Ten with
out beard? I cannot. If you have
seen man of mark fondle his Ions
beard during the processes of reflection
you will be apt to wonder whether o
not his mind would lose its equilibrium
if he were in the night to be clear
shaven.-AU The Year Round
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-09-02
A Plain Case.

A famous Chicago lawyer once had a
singular case to settle. A physician
came to him in great distress. Two
sisters living in the same house had
babes of equal age, who so resembled
each other that their own mothers were
unable to distinguish them when they
were together. Now it happened that
by the carelessness of their nurses the
children had become mixed, and how
were the mothers to make sure that
they had received back their own in
fants? But perhaps" said the lawyer,
" the children weren't changed at all "
ooh, but there's no doubt that they
were changed" said the physician.
" Are you sure of it?" Perfectly"
well, if that's the case, why don't
you change them back again? don't
ee any difficulty in the affair. Dos
ton Gazette
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-09-02
Mistellanp.
The Dunchurch Bells.

Where the German Ocean, driven by the
east coast of England there are, underneath
its waters, villages, some OF actual exist
ence and some of mere legend, over which
the tides have ebbed and flowed for centu-
+ es. Among these is the pastoral village
of Dunchurch, in the belfry of which hung
chime of bells the pride of East Anglia.
The Dunchurch ringers had no peers, and
on windy nights the coasting voyagers, far
out at sea, heard, fitfully, the music that
they made. Dunchurch is now itself far
out at sea.
In stops and swes
The Dunchurch bells
Went pealing, peang, pealing;
In mead and fen
The Dunchurch men
Heard them peang, pealng, peaing;
And ships that sailed far out to sea
And the sailor-lad from the north countree,
when the wanton west wind whistled free,
Heard them pealing, peaiing, pealing.
Now the North Sea leaps both fierce and free,
Where the bells went pesling, pealing;
And the keen keels glide
Through the tumblng tide
Where the bells went pealing, pealing.
Sorest of all, in mead or fen,
No longer do the Dunchurch men
With scythe or sickle listen when
The Dunchurch bells go pealng
But the fisherman shooting his net in the bay
Hears them pealing, pealing, pealing;
And the sailor-lad from the north countree,
Hears them peang peaing pealing;
And when the flaming Cromer Light
Flares out atiash at the fall of night
You hay hear ian you listen with ears aright)
The Dunchsrch bells still pealing.
-Archibatd Gordon, in !Scribner's.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-09-02
Mr.. SteyensOn's Will.

Robert Louis Stevenson, the novelist,
is now living in Samoa, and is neigh
Dor of Hon. Henry G. Ide of st. Johns
bury, Vt, land commissioner for the
United States on that island. Mr.. Ide's
daughter Annie's birthday comes on
Christmas day, so that she is annually
deprived of holiday. The fact so
moved Mr.. S.evenson's heart that he
decided to give her his own birthday.
This he did by formal and legal will,
of which the following is copy: 81,
Robert Louis Stevenson, advocate of
the Scots Bar, author of 'The Master
of Ballantrae' and moral Emblems,
civil engineer, sole owner and patentee
of the palace and plantation known as
Vailima in the island of Upou, Samoa,
British subject, being in sound mind
and pr, tty well thank you in body
In cons liberation that Miss A. H. Ide,
daughter of H. G. Ide, in the town Of
st. Johnsbuly, in the county of Gale
donia, in the state of Vermont, United
States of America, was born, out f all
reason, upon Christmas day, and is
therefore, out of all justice, denied the
consolation and profit Of a proper birth
day; and considering that |, the said
| Robert Louis Stevenson, have attained
an age when o, we never mention it,
and that | have now no further use for
birthday Of any description; and in
consideration that | have met II. G..
Ide, the father of the said A. ii. Ide,
and found him about as white land
commissioner as l require; have trans
ferred and do hereby transfer to the
said A. H. Ide, all and whole my rights
and privileges in the thirteenth day of
November, formerly my birthday, now,
hereby, and henceforth, the birthday
of the said A. II. Ide, to have, held,
exercise and enjoy the same in the Gus
tomary manner, by the sporting of fine
raiment, eating of rich meats and re-
ceipt of gifts, compliments and copies
of verses according to the manner of
our ancestors; and | direct the said
| A. I'll. Ide to add to her said name of
Annie II. Ide the name Louisa-at
least in private; and / charge her to
use my said birthday with moderation
and humanity, ct tamquam bona fila
familia,' the birthday, not being so
young as / once was and having carried
me in very satisfactory manner since
can remember; and in case the said
A. II. Ide shall neglect or contravene
either of the above conditions, l
hereby revoke the donation and trans
fer my rights in the said Dir hday to
the president of the United States of
America for the time being. In wit
ness whereof hereto set my hand and
seal this nineteenth day of June in the
year of grace eighteen hundred and
ninety-one.
"RoBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.
witness: Lloyd Osbourne.
Witness Harold Watts"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-09-02

Tiny, little, sugar coated
granules, are what DR.. Pierce's
Pleasant Pellets are. The best
Liver Pills ever invented; &C
tive, yet mild in operation; ;
cure sick and bilious head
aches. One a dose.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-09-02

plate inscribed " U. Cristoval Colon"
The Spanish authorities made an inves-
tigation and pronounced this find a
fraud, claiming that the real remains
are at Havana. Others, however, still
believe they are at Santo Domingo
Baltimore american.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-09-02

10000. 90 year is being made by John r.
Goodwin, Troy, NY, at work for US. Reader,
you may not make AS much, but we can
teach you quickly how 10 earn nom 20 TO
$40 a day at the start, and more as you so
on. Both sexes, all ages. In any part OF
iAmerica, you can commence ut home, CIV
fling all your time,or spare moments only to
the work. All Is new. Great pay SURF for
every worker. We start you, furnishing
everything. EASILY, SPEEDILY learned.
PARTICULARS FREE, Address ct once,
sTIAsON co., PORTLAND, MAINE.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-09-02
advertisements.

There's a patent medicine
which is not patent medicine
-paradoxical as that may
sound. It's a discovery! the
golden discovery of medical
science It's the medicine for
tired, run down, exhaust
ed, nerve wasted men and
women; for you sufferers from
diseases of skin or scalp, liver
or lungs-it's chance is with
every one, it's season always,
because it aims to purify the
fountain of life-the blood
upon which all such diseases
depend.
The medicine is DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery.
The makers of it have
enough confidence in it to
sell it on trial.
That is-you can get it from
your druggist, and if it doesn't
do what it's claimed to do, you
can get your money back,
every cent Of ii.
That's what it's makers call
taking the risk Of their aO0raS.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-11-08
CAPITAL OF ONE MILLION.
Stockholders Vote to Increase CONNIE
cial National Bank stock.

Yesterday the stockholders OF the Commercial
National bank held a meeting and Endorsed the
action OF the directory some weeks ago in yot-
ing an increase of the capital stock from 500 900
to 100000 II. W. Wheeler, the president of
the bank, said yesterday: ''We began business
a year ago October l. and at the end of twelve
months We found that We had accumula ted a
surplus OF about sll ,000-and that Is what call
success for the first year
"We find, however, that the need of
Seattle Is not more banks but larger
banks. We need bank with a big capital for
carrying the accounts and business OF heavy
wholesaling; importing ana shipping concerns
Seattle is commercial seaport, and must do
large foreign trade. SO We want a bank that can
make large advances to exporters of wheat and
other products, and to the wholesale firms that
supply the Sound country 1t is fact that the
wheat i'll the elevators here has been carried in
part by Portland banks, and as a result the
drafts for payment which have gone to the
banks in Eastern Washington have gone through
Portland and have helped build up the balances
there instead of here
1--WE intend 10 make bank which can aIways
raise the money when the security is good"
WI. Wheeler said that the substitution books
would be open on Monday morning He had al
ready had from various sources applications for
100000 OF the stock, which will be put on the
market at $40 a share, as that is the present
value of the old stock. The expectation is that
the negotiations will be completed and the IN
crease made in about three months. The Com
merclal National will then Dc about the biggest
bank in the state
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-11-08
TACOMA FRATERNITY NEWS.
Printers Meet Next Observation-Disclosures
BaIl-Solid Rock Reunion.

TACOMA, Nov. Especial. delegates from
the various unions composing the sixth district
OF the International Typographical Union will
meet here December l6. The local union is ar
ranging TO entertain the visitors handsomely
A. Lemon. of the Stonecutters' Union. has
been made member of the Trades Council
The local Typographical Union has adopted
resolutions opposing al manner OF non-union
products
The Brotherhood OF Carpenters and Joiners is
discussing various topics OF interest to its mem
oers AT present farming is the subject under
discussion
Robert C. Huntriss, OF Boston, Mass, Supreme
Councillor of the Order of the Solid Rock, who is
visiting the Sound country in the interest OF
the order, will meet with Mount Tacoma Lodge
NO. p Monday evening. 1t Will be a social as
Wei as business meeting. All members are ex-
tended cordial invitation to be present
one thousand copies of the Rev. Copeland's
Labor day address, delivered here, have been or
dered sent to each of the Central Labor organi-
cations OF Seattle. Portland, Spokane. San Fran
cisco and Oakland
The Bricklayers Union will give ball No
Vember u at the Armory hall, when an exhibit
ton will be given of the ancient and modern
methods of laying brick. Ten Seattle and ten
Tacoma bricklayers will take part in tug OF
war for prize.
The East Tacoma lodge OF Odd Fellows, No.
II.
V. o. w. X. Knewell, Treasurer William Schlarb,
Secretary NJ. W. Coon, Recording Secretary L. c.
Moore, Trustees II. Griffin, E. A. Knewell, j. C.
Stoope.
New Years eve the Firemen's Relief Associa-
ton will give ball at Armory hall
Monday night the BARRIERS will endeayor to Or
game protective union. At a preliminary
meeting held last week committee was ap-
pointed to visit the few BARRIERS who have re-
duced rates to join the proposed union. The
principal cause assigned for cut rates is the in
crease in the number OF barber shops.