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The Penn's Grove record., 1891-07-24

OF the capture of q shark, we returned
to the Edna b., and had dinner con
sistiDg OF roast beef, ham, potatoes.
oysters fritters, and coffee, we sat on
the deck and waited for church TO be-
gin. At three minutes past s we join
ed in fancy with the choir at st. Paul's
in the opening hymn, tune Arlington,
and announced the time when Bro.
Messeroll gave out the text, and also
announced the time for closing, and
could almost fancy we could hear Capt.
Whitaker saying. 81 tell you thatswas
a good sermon''i
The next morning we were up bright
and early and after breakfast we start
ed for the fishing grounds, Leap and
Adams proving the lucky ones, catch
ing forty-seven to the other boats twen-
ty-flve. Brick made a start catching
three. We returned to the boat at 2
i. H., and went hunting for bait for
the next day. AT 4.30 dinner was an
nounced-iisli, potatoes and fritters
with coffee. After supper it was de-
cided to go to Newport and Brick an
nounced that he was going home. The
remembrance of that footprint on the
sand had fingered with him and he no
longer appreciated our society. We
hired n of the natives to convey us
TO Newport where we babe farewell to
Brick. We returned to the ship at 9
p. NJ, and retired to rest.
The next morning Tuesday We
started for the fishing grounds but
there was no fish. We ran we to
Hog Shoals but with no better luck.
Capt. and Kidd caught thirteen and
Leap seven. The wind coming fresh
from the south and quite discouraged
with the fishing. and perhaps a little
tired, it was decided to start for home,
which we did as 1.30 p. NJ, and arriv-
ed in PENIS Grove at II p. NJ.
CnRoNIcLER.
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Regardless of the advanced duty on
Irvine, we are at present selling Irvine
and Netting at the same price as last
year. We now have ten American ma
chimes operated by the best workmcn in
the factory, employed OF u netting and
are turning out about 5000 pounds of
netting per month.
We would advise our patrons to place
heir orders promptly, as We do not guar
antee that the price will remain the same
throughout the season, and all orders
placed now will receive IL prompt at
tcntion at old prices and goods be held at
our store subject to purchasers order.
We have an unusually fine stock of net
ting and Irvine this year and think it
would be to the fishermcn's advantage to
call and examine it.
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A working woman said she
would walk ten miles to get
the Ball corset, if she couldn't
get it without. She had had
experience with it.
That corset is just as easy
the minute you put it on as
it is when half worn out.
You can 60 to your store
and get it andwear it two or
three weeks, and then you
will know what comfort is in
a corset. If you are disap-
pointed in it in any way, go
back to the store and get
your money within three
weeks or so-you'll get it.
The maker pays the merchant
to do that.
There's a primer on Cor
sets for you at the store.
CHICAGO CORSET Co, Chicago and New York.
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The Supreme Court of New Jersey
has decided that where husband and
wife live together the wife has author
thority to pledge her husbands credit,
because it falls within the domestic de-
partment, ordinarily conided to her
management. When the husband and
wife are separated, the presumption is
against the wife.
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-07-24

The colored politicians of Whining
ton are kicking like mules because the
new Republican Mayor $. j. Wiley has
not given them representation on the
police force. They say they asked for
bread and got a Hebrew stone, our APP
peal for an egg is met with AN italian
scorpion. Therefore their future parti-
cipation in politics shall be guided by
tangible evidence of benelittiug our
race regardless of party title.
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Judge Ball, of Wilmington, has de-
cided that flirting is a crime and has
fined a young man SIS for his enjoy
meDt in diverting a girls attention in a
morocco, factory who vas working by
the hour. Some workmen never once
think that all their labor they are COM
petent to do in working hours belongs
to the person who pays them wages. If
any one interferes with the laborer dur
ing working hours they are liable for
damages.
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We desire to say TO our citizens, that
for years We have been selling DR.. Kings
New Discovery for consumption, Dr..
Kings New Life Pills, Bueklen's Arniea
Salve and Electric Bitters, and have
never handled remedies that sell rs well,
or that have given such universal salts
faction. We do not hesitate to guarantee
them every time, and we stand ready to
refund tho purchase price, if satisfactory
results do not follow their use. These
remedies have won their great popularity
purely on their merits. NJ. Johnson, Drug
gistG.
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The Legislature of Georgia has pass
ed a bill disqualifying drunken doctors
from practicing. A method of indict-
ment has been framed, and upon con-
viction OF drunkenness the accused is
made subject to a heavy penalty if he
should attempt to practice again.
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-07-24
FRIDAY, JULY "a, 1891.

S. Clement Hornhlower editor of the
Liberal Press, Woodbury., has II smy-
pathies in the loss Of his ~l1-year.Old son,
Clement, by being struck by an express
train on Friday, 18th.
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1t is an i'll wind that blows nobody
good. The bad crops of Europe offset
by Americas big crops, and the farm
ers promise soon to become as big imam
cially as they have already become poll
tically.
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-07-24

Ex-President Cleveland will take the
stump for Campbell, in Ohio. His
weighty presence and words should
have some influence against the chief
apostle of protection for projections
sake, which does not protect.
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-07-24

p. Lorillard, of New York is having
a fiat steamboat built in Wilmington
at Pussy q Jones's with a house and
all home conveniences for his family to
travel on the shallow waters in Florida.
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-07-24

Those needing Job Printing in Penn's
Grove should keep in mind that they
can get it done at the RECORD office.
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-07-24

When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria-
When she was q Child, she cried for Castoria-
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria.
When she had Children, she gave them CastoriA
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-07-24

Visit Stites's ice cream parlors and
lunch rooms
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-07-24

Bananas at Stites's.*
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-12-25

Christian land, to revere the sinless
Christ, the import of Christmas is scarcely
of a Christian character, but rather of the
advent of a barbaric myth. True, the
churches strive to keep up the memory of
the Christian observance ana with special
decorations special services are held. But
comparatively few attend them and the ju-
venile mind centres on Santa Claus and his
gifts instead of on Christ and his mission.
To the general mass of mankind Christ
mas means holiday rather than holy day
Why should it not mean both: Relief from
labor, general Joy, plenty, gaiety, congrat
ulations and benedictions are quite compat-
ible with the Spirit of Christ and the tenn
perance, chastity and goodness that he
taught. Excess is not necessary to enjoy
mant; enjoyment does not forbid devotion.
The observance of Christmas certainly
ought not to exclude ren.em brance of
Christ. but should embrace respect for His
name and celebration of His birth.
Christmas TO the true Christian imparts
memorial and aprophecy. 1t commentaries
the coming into the world Of the Redeemer,
and heralds his approaching advent as the
King of all the earth. 1t is musical with
the song of the angelic choir which the
shepherds heard near nineteen centuries
ago. 1t sounds the notes of proclamation
that the Bridegroomis at hand. 1t reminds
him of the ties that link him to Christ and
to his fellows, of his obligations to labor
for human emancipation, and of the
promises of reward to the true and the
brave. This momentous day with its
merry Dells andlively carols, its holly branch
and mistletoe its laughter and good cheer, its
tokens of affection and of friendship, its
salutations and fraternal words, its prayer
and praise with glory to God in the highest,
import the release of the world from the
grasp of sin and misery, from the dominion
of darkness and death, the union of heaven
and earth, the triumph of right and the
ushering in of the reign Of righteousness
and peace.
Christmas is of great import to the whole
race. Even though the occasion is some
what abused, the good that comes from its
observance far outweighs the evil. 1t in
creases trade, circulates money, stimulates
gener osity, unites families, brings home
the absent, makes glad the heart of child
nOou, cheers oIu age, ISeuS Iue poor, COM
forts those who mourn, quiets feuds, and
fills the air with sounds that promote good
feeling and help to make peace For man
is Influenced by his environment, and the
environment is affected by the acts and
words of man. So, let Christmas and other
holidays and holy days be observed. The
more the merrier. the merrier the better,
so that they are Christian in the true sense
Let the bells ring, the music play, the
dance go on, the gifts be bestowed and the
feasting, the alms-giving. the good wishes
and the thanksgivings, with moderation
and with praise and with Christ as the
central figure of alteration. aud as our
Deliverer and Prince, whose glory shall
fill the earth and whose presence shall bring
happiness universal and supreme.
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THE IMPORT
OF CHRISTMAS.
WRITTEN FOR THE CHRISTMAS HERALD.

earth came with Christ. Some was
native to humanity. For example, during
the Roman Saturnalia it was not allowable
to make war, and it was the custom that
masters and slaves were for the time upon
an equality. Gifts were exchanged and
the poor were remembered with food and
clothing. Christmas, as we have it, is
product of humanity rather than of sin
gle religion. In its slow evolution it has
drawn its essence from many countries and
times.
Our Christmas decorations, holly and
mistletoe, and the green in the churches,
we derive from England, but the beginning
was with the Druids before England was
Christianized The Christmas tree comes
from Germany, but it was heather tree
at first and was baptized into the church
because it could not be banished from the
hearthstopes And it is quite certain that
Santa Claus was heather deity before he
became a Christian saint. All Of which
should deepen rather than check our appre-
citation and enjoyment of the Christmas
season, for it is a greater thought that we
belong to humanity than that we belong to
some particular church or religion.
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THE UNITARIAN IDEA.

= ~
GG%%a calendar by the church Of Rome
RAES as holy day, has become the
GMtN(Jlt, chief holiday of one-third of
E5M&S4 the human race, of that third
ESzz-Z-0SGY which we think of when we
~ sd speak of the civilized world.
NS15 On this day the church celebrates
en- the nativity of Christ, the founder,
and the day bears His name, although it is
well known to be highly improbable that
the true date of His birth was known or
discoverable when it first became desir-
able to celebrate it. Shepherds in Pales-
tine do not keep watch over their focks by
night in the fields in the month of Deem
Der. From what is said in the gospel OF
Luke concerning "Zacharias of the course
of Abia'' some one has calculated the true
date of the birth of Jesus to have been in
October. But even these earliest tradi-
tons concerning the Nativity have evil
IDENTIFY taken on a mythical character
indicative Of entire ingorance, on the part
of those who made the record, of the facts
of the case. The birthday of Jesus had
been entirely forgotten for fun three cen
turtles when it first became desirable on
the part of the church to celebrate it. The
25th of December was fixed upon in order
to give Christian name and character to
the great heather festivals that in Rome
and throughout Europe and England were
celebrated at the time of the winter sol
stice The Roman Saturnalia was in reality
the Italian husbandman's thanksgiving
day, as Saturn was the god who presided
over agriculture, and when the year ended
and the farmers work was done then came
the season of mirth andrevels, home pleas
ures and merry making.
Y ule tide among the Saxons and the
English was a similar season aud must
have originated in the same way The
word yule, though sometimes derived from
the same root as wheel and supposed to be
connected thus with the wheel of the sun
and the turning of the year, is said by
Skeat to be from the same root from which
we have the words yawl, yell, jolly and
iodle, and ne supposes the season to be
named from the sounds of mirth and jollity
that then prevailed. The yule tide was
the jolly tide, or the merry time, and so
our word of greeting, ''merry Christmas, -
has no doubt very ancient origin.
The connection of the chief religious
festivals of the world, with the motions
and periods of the heavenly bodies has
often been remarked. Easter is fixed by
the vernal equinox, Christmas at the winter
solstice. and during the middle ages ST.
johns day at the time of the summer
solstice was celebrated much as Christmas
is now. The refinement of Christian civil
hzatien has done away with what was most
rude and boisterous in the ancient festi-
walls and has emphasized the benevolence
and good will and brotherly kindness with
out destroying the merriment. For one. l
am glad that the Roman, church did not
succeed in making the Saxon yule tide over
into series of holy days, saints days,
but that the holiday spirit still persists
in spite of the changed name Not
all the peace and good will of the
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times are observed throughout all Christ
endom. In the farther east, the earlier
home of Christianity; in the Roman church,
throughout all its vast dominions; and in
the Protestant churches generally, except
in those which, by a natural reaction, not
so much from Romanism as from ROmaniz-
ing Professionalism in England, in the time
of Archbishop Land and of Charles II. were
driven into the other extreme of Puritanism
= and even among these there is strong
tendency to come back to the proper OBJ
servance. Luther made this distinction
between the festivals established by the
church Of Rome in honor of men, and those
which had their roots in the word of God;
that the one should go away with Rome
and Popery, and the other ought and
should be retained in the church. In this
season of Christmas instinctively the minds
of young and old turn toward the Bethle-
hem manger. Gifts are given and observ-
ances made, all tending to inspire the mind
that we give our gifts on Christmas day
because on Christmas day God gave His
great gift to the world. think that many
men who could not help hesitating if you
asked them whether they really believed
in the historical fact of Christ's birth, still
feel certain sense of exaltation, the leap
ing of some unknown possibility, when
Christmas morning opens on the earth.
The narrative itself is an exquisitely
beautiful one. 1t seizes upon the heart of
the world by natural sympathy. You
cannot speak of anything that will attract
children's minds or influence youthful
imaginations more quickly in all the Bible
story than to tell them of the star in the
east. And so throughout all Christian
poetry this theme has been taken up in
song by some of the most vivid magma
tions And in the realms of profane
poetry, in legends, in sculpture and in
painting, for age after age, the visit Of the
wise men has been one of those themes OF
which the world never tires. There is
great beauty in the figure itself. There is
no more lovely object in the whole uni
verse Of God than Venus rising in the
morning. AS Milton says:
Fairest of stars, last in the train of night,
II better thou belong not to the dawn,
Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling
morn,
While day arises that sweet hour of prime
Who were these wise men from the easts
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AA-iA@-N
~ HRISTMAS has a different i'm
81 port to different persons. To some
& it means only merriment, revelry,
&nsxssszrasusa-> feasting and sensual en-
joyment. To others it is of
sacred Significance Of spiritual meaning,
bearing suggestions of the dawn of bet
ter day for humanity, and predictions of
a future redemption for the earth and for
mankind from the reign of evil, of sorrow
and OF strife. For the whole civilized world
it is pregnant with good things, past. pres
ent and future. 1t is redolent with sweet
odors, melodious with sounds of harmony
bright with the smiles of childhood. CHEEKY
with the greetings of frienus, and glad
some with good wishes even to foes.
Christmas means peace on earth, good will
to all men.
Christmas, as the word implies, is essen
TALLY Christian anniversary. Chrisrs
mass is religious ceremony of Romisb
origin. 1t is to celebrate the supposed dav
of the birth of Him whom all Christendom
regards with veneration, if not with wor-
ship, Jesus of Nazareth, the incompatible
teacher and eXemplar. 1t is not day of
fasting and humiliation, for He came not
with frown and a rebuke of enjoyment,
nor to bringe sadness and affliction to the
soul. He came "eating and Drinking to
lift up humanity, to give the spirit of ioy
for the garment of mourning, to Danish
darkness, to unite men as brothers and IN
fill the world with light and gladness.
Gradually the import of Christmas &c
| commemorative OF the birth of Christ has
changed, in the United States, to the dav
of Santa Claus, or St Nicholas, The gifts
to children which make the day SO
welcome to them, are presents from
an imaginary being suggestive in
no sense of the Savior's name
| To the little ones who should be trained in
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worship Him.
THE MORMON IMPRESSION.

~ HRISTMAS day is observed and
q kept throughout Christendom as
81 festival in memory of the birth of
Jesus Christ. In fact, this is what
is meant by the term christmas Day."
Many writers have questioned the correct
ness of this date, claiming that it is not His
birthday, and have offered in evidence
some very sound reasons therefor.
Now, whether it was from some tradi-
ton, or as some have suggested, from de-
sire to supplant heathen festivals which
were held at that period of the year
notably the ''Saturnalia1-that the twenty
fifth day of December was chosen, or
whether this is really the correct date of
His birth, is not my purpose at this time to
discuss.
Seeing that this date has been accepted
from the fifth century down to our time it
would require something more potent than
the reasonings of learned men-no matter
how conclusive these reasons might be-to
revolutionize the feelings and traditions of
the masses sufficiently, to get them to ac-
cept any other date than the twenty-fifth
day of December for our Christmas.
The Christian world at this late period of
history are certainly more interested in
keeping this day so long observed by them
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Nnu. n MuM>

ONE VIEW OF THE CATHOLIC CHRISTMAS.
NG HRISTMAS brings great 10y to
E the Christian; to the unbeliever it
4 should bear no more Importance or
$saxaezEuauzs,-> attraction than Mecca pill
grimage. For the spirit of Christianity
penetrates into this mystery of the Incar-
nation under the guidance of the revealed
Notwithstanding faith; and thus animated,
it voices its devotion in Noels, Alleluiah
and To- On this day the Christian soul
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4 HRISTMAS day is observed and
kept throughout Christendom as a
= festival in memory of the birth of
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A MoRMoN's SENTIMENT.

A MoRMoN's SENTIMENT.
~ HRISTMAS has a different i'm
& port to different persons. To some
e it means only merriment, revelry.
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-12-13
THE DIVORCE WAS WRITTEN IN BLOOD.

Henry Blumenstein. a German. living IN Johnson
ave, near Humbodt-st Brooklyn, visited the Lee
Avenue Police Court yesterday and asked the clers
for warrant for his wife Elizabeth, whom he charged
with assault. lie said that he had been married
eral years, but the life Of himself and his wife had
boon anything hut happy few weeks age
a paper of separation was drawn up between them
It was written in blood and read as follows
with our hearts blood we hereby divorce our
selves and sOemny promise not to modest each other
In the future but each to go their way and each
to do they like"
The paper bore the signatures Of Elizabeth and
Henry Blumensiein. The clerk ordered the man from
the courtroom The clerk said that hundreds Of
similar cases came to the court. There lawyers
In DutchtOwn' who made 1t practice to draw up
such separations aad receive fee from 81 10 so.
The papers never bore the signature of the lawyer but
a red seal, and many thus divorced have remarked.