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matter of guesswork, either, when it
comes, for then the great Southern Cross
constellation stands poised upright in the
heavens; earlier or later it leans to right
or left-when midnight comes. on Christ
mas eve, the girls gathered at one side of
the long village green raise song of Joy.
Perhaps 1t IS this. which was written by
a native and set to a native melody:
kykoya ia Inagu
koi au Sa luvena
Ga leve Oti mona dra
Ko Jisu no Crisaito.
(which means, iitrally, He is my
Father, L his son. His blood was split all
out-Jesus the Christ
"Then from the other side of the green
the boys take the antistrophe and last OF
all the old men in the middle of the green
roll in laundering bass. The chiefs
house stands at one end of the sylvan the
alter, the church, or missionary house, at
the other.
"Now in antiphone and now in united
harmony the two bands of children sing
until they have exhausted all the carols
they have learned. Then some one kindles
fire by the rubbing of two sticks, the
spark is caught and passed from hand to
hand to tip with flame the torches of CO.
coanut buds. The torches glow in every
dark corner as two by two the singing
bands unite and march to every house In
order.
ITO each they wish health and wealth
and all good things and take their leave.
The young merrymakers put out their
torches and seek their mats, to Sleep By
daylight comes the turn of the older folk
who, with the grave courtesy of these
islanders. call upon their friends and
neIghhors. At a later hour all meet in the
mission chapel and hear the lesson of the
feast, as others do in lands more civilized.
A feast of pigs and yams and fruit is
served by the chief, who calls on all the
households as they sit at meat.
There is universal gift-giving. If the
law didn't forbid it they would give away
everything they possess. So they are ie-
gally limited TO tribes. and of these every
body gets one from every body else if it is
no more then cocoanut with the husk cut
in fanciful patterns"
And in SAMOA"
IL don't know much about Samoa" said
Mr. Churchill. Robert Louis Stevenson
and divided the South Pacific for literary
purposes and Samoa came in mis- half"
And thus it is seen how Christmas en-.
circles quite the whole world to this day,
and hundreds of millions join in its sim
pie observance. Is any other holiday so
UNIVERSAL OWEN LAsGDox.
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one gyumbled but there has been no suf-
feringo lasting hard times even. As I
rode over the state rough shod IN a lux
urious car filed with everything that
could exait or embellish life l could but
compare the lot of these Ohio farmers
with vast barns and overlooking corncribs,
CHEEKY white cottages with porches and
bay windows. and driving spirited horses
on the welI-made turnpike or macadam-
lied road-with some of the mountain peo-
pie of East Tennessee, West Virginia and
Western North Carolina.
| know a man in the mountains of East
Tennessee, and he is not SO different
from others there except in the matter
of simplicity in architecture. When he
married he WAS fired with ambition TO
have home. He found big elm that had
broken off twenty feet from the ground
and fallen nearly down, but still ciinging
to the stump at one end and with its top
resting on another. He went to work and
split out chestnut slabs long enough to
make a lean-to, and there he has lived. he
and his wife. and nine children have been
born there.
Consider that, you gentlemen who swear
II the water is degree too cold to shave
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the earth as the moon and the planets age,
but that it was situated among the fixed
stars. He did not fully comprehend the
meaning of what he thus established, BE-
cause he had very inadequate and incor-
rect idea of the distance OF the Il xed staFs.
II the new star was really at
the average distance of the fixed stars
land it probably was) then, when it hiazed
most brilliantly, 1t must have poured fosz h
st least ten thousand and perhaps hun
dred thousand times as much hight a. o:Ir
sun giyesi Some astronomers haze
thought that the outhurst of this strange
star was due to the effects of a collision
involving a sun ordinarily too faint,
through distance, TO be visible from, t.e
earth. But suppose that sun 10 have besn
like our own. the center OF system ri
woridS-what became of them when khelr
orb Of day suddenly burst out into flsT-
mace two hundred-thousand-told as intense
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with IN the morning, or If the children
knock dent in your English brass bed
stead with a toy fatiron.
Recently the tired wife sickened and
died in this barbaric lair. With the rain
and the sieet by dav beating in upon her
and the frost of nigh. settling down on
the aged quilt. sheIgroaned the long hours
away till her worn and weary hands lay
idly outsde.the old calico wreck of cover
ing. For fifteen years they had lived
there through the soft, delicious spring,
the quiet summer and the gorgeous aut-
umn gay with a thousand ;ints. Then
somehow they had shivered through the
short winter. and the hound and gun had
kept them alive.
Now the sad faced man-not especially
more SO than ever, for these mountain
folk are born with the saddest, gravest,
most immovable faces on earth-started
away for the nearest mill, land there"
said the proprietor to me. ''he bought so
cents worth of 'culls' to make coffin for
her." You can see him, dumb with that
strange grief that cannot express itself or
even weep, making rough and pathetic
looking box of culled lumber in which to
put his wife.
This almost reminds one of the sad.
simple life of prehistoric man. We pict-
ure to ourselves prehistoric man as o big,
strong specimen of health, with mighty
muscles of malleable iron, clothed in the
pelt of chipmunk or some other wild
beast, and absolutely destitute of fear.
But when the wailing cry of his child in
the cold, damp night of his wretched cave
told him OF fever or cramp, what did he
do3 Did he even have the simple phar-
macopeeia of lard and molasses and honey
and vinegar in case OF croupf No. He
could not strike q match even If he had
one to scratch.
Sometimes I murrnur when the train il
ar h Ia MI avS r az ha e.,
City house at Rogersville Junction, where
the girl will not give me another knife
after eating my bullhead, and where the
doctor tells me l am suffering from mall
nutrition and prescribes for me while I
stay there good nutritious food three times
q day, to be taken after eating; but We do
certainly live in a better time than did
prehistoric man.
l have suffered keenly from adversely in
my time, but there was never q day when
l could not have entertained prehistoric
man and given him pretty good time.
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tary of the American Board of Commits
sioners Of Foreign Missions, said: Christ
mas IS universally celebrated at the mis-
sions in China. Japan, India and else
where, taking precisely the shape that it
has with US, mingled tone of religion
and home cheer. 1t is even Introduced
into family life, though, of course, to q
very slight extent as yet. 4 great many
presents of toys. dolls, books and the like
are sent from this country. so that a: the
same time that French children are play
ing with Japanese dolls, Japanese children
may be gazing in speechless wonder at the
kind that grows in Paris"
Writers on Japan say that the Japanese
are very fond OF making trihing presents,
SO that they doubtless take kindly to a
new holiday with a gift attachment, espe-
ciaiiy as the take" religion much easier
than the Chinese.
do they have any Christmas in the
Fiji isIands?'' I asked Mr.. William
Churchill, the author of "a Princess of
Fiji" one of the books of the season.
Yes. indeed" replied Mr.. Churchill,
"and very much of Christmas. You
know the islands are Methodist now. dis
mally Methodist. Well, when midnight
comes in Fijian village-and it isn't
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this respect. and although shadows inter-
vene now between me and the place where
the stockings used TO hang can look back
upon those times with the perfect con-
viction that at no period in my existence
have | experien ced such perfect JOY as
when l could hear the prattle of many
childish voices at peep of day-voices that
were impatientiy awaiting sunrise. long
ing eagerly for the fire TO be lighted in the
nursery that they might spring from their
beds and hasten to see what 1T. Mich olas
had brought for their enjoyment.
There were six of these little folk born
to US within ten years. As they stood in
line, side by side, their little heads formed
the stepladder 10 happiness over which
any fathers fancy might climb with that
calm enjoyment which supersedes every
other worldly pleasure.
Every Christmas eve was gala time I'm
our house then. 1t was delight to con-
template their eagerness and innocence, to
answer their multitudinous questions. TO
indulge them in their raptures of expecta-
ton, 10 administer 20 the fond faneies
which are all In all To child life, all IN all to
the fathers and mothers OF such children.
Ii was no small task TO induce the iittle
ones To retire Christmas eve. but when at
last they were asleep the Joys that ex-
perienced i'll playing the part OF Santa
Claus and filling each little stocking with
lOnged-for toys were greater, i know, than
any that can ever come TO me again
Now, even though sadness is mixed with
that precious season of the year, IL Will
ever remain a glorious event to me. for
with il comes the memory OF the days
that were. My own boyhood sinks 10 in
significance ia the contemplation of the
happy faces, rosv cheeks. eager voices and
light footsteps | have seen and heard
around my own tireslde among my own
children.
The father and mother of family
should be the happiest people in the world
at Christmas time, even though some Of
the merry voices may have been stiiled by
| the changes which time inyoke5, but
when the children are all there, laughing.
dancing. shouting, singing. running.
stamping, blowing horns and whistles
and pounding drums. words utterly fail
! 10 depict the acme OF happiness parent
| feels the heart fagters and Is dumb when
/ such as this becomes its portion.
The happlest Christmas days l ever
| lived were with my own children. when {
| knew them 10 be happy.
CaAkLEs Il. CHxO.
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NYE ON THE ROAD.
He Hears About a New Feature
Of the Worlds Fair.
HoWAMURDERERw WAS DETECTED
The Prehistoric Man Compared With
the Tennessee Mountaineer-Pros-
perity Of tho Ohio Farmer.
copyright, 1892, by Edgar ". Nye.l

The managers of the Worlds fair tell
me that there will be many new and Won
derful features aside from the display of
art, manufactures and machinery. The
arrangements are made by which the new
Siamese twins, Radica and Doddica, will
appear there. These twins are in fact
more astonishing than Chang and Eng,
who lived for some years in North Car
DINA and were seen by the entire civilized
world.
Radica and Doddica are girls. and are
connected by sort of bony structure at
the chest and below this there is visceral
connection. Medicine administered to one
affects the other, SO that unpleasant rem
edies like castor oil need not be given to
both, and they may match pennies to see
who will take it. They are only years
old.
When sentence is begun bv one the
other frequently completes it. But this
is not an anomaly. ! have an ac9uaint-
ance who does that. l begin the story and
do the artistic work. Then he finishes
the job and gets the applause. hate such
man as that.
The twins are girls and sleep together Of
nights.
They are very good-tempered now, but
when young used to quarrel q good deal
and evade each other as nearly as possi-
BILE. They are very intelligent, indeed.
and have been studying English in India
preparatory to their visit to England and
America.
The scientists and medical men will be
greatly interested in these strange twins
and will study them carefully.
They will be dressed in full evening
dress, so that the public can get a good
idea of their wonderful bond of union.
Recently We have been travelling
through Ohio, and each year l have a
greater respect for this mighty common
wealth. Standing, in fact on the mighty
thoroughfares between the West. thickiv
settled by prosperous and thrifty class
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OF Chrlstiana. or Asmund, Just back from
minnesota. with pocket full of dollars.
there is plenty of snow on roof and field
and the birds have scant provender. So
IL 1t De farm or hamlet-not in the CITY.
OF course--up goes plump Johann and
iixes sheaf of wheat upon the ridge of
the roof for all the wandering ones OF the
AIR to feast at and make merry, too, while
the rafters ring with the dance and the
laughter below.
Mr.. Amundsen, the Danish vice consul.
says that IN his childhood he used i'm
plicitiy to believe that the Jul Nisse, or
christmas gnome or fairy, perched in his
own tiny person, clothed in peaked tooue
and long boots, with his gray beard flow
ing down TO his fat stomach, at the sway
ing top OF the Christmas tree, and that the
obiiging Nisse put lights on the tree and
the presents about its foot before the
children were led into the room. After.
ward religious turn was given to the
myth by speaking of it as Christmas
angel" but the children liked the Nisse
better somehow,
Mr.. Amundsen showed me a picture of
the amiable gnome as he appeared in DAN
ish art and literature. and then continued:
The celebration with the tree is always
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Manchester paper tells this story about MI
Gladstone. Al time when the Irish situation
seemed critical TO the officials al Dublin, in ISL
or 1ss2. a certain Liberal pear was delegated to
go 10 Hawarden and consult with the
premier Upon his return his friends
received him with eagerness ''Well, what
did he say; what policy did be recon-
mend?" The peer blushed slightly, hesitatsd .
moment and then mildly remarked, swell. to
tell the truth. the fellow wonderfully
agreeable that we never got on TO the subject of
Ifeiand at all Mr. ". \. Foster is said 10 have
been one OF the men to whom this confession
W6S mace.
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KRIsS kRINGLE's TREE,
Kriss Kringie's bells are jingling.

Kriss Kringle's bells are jingling,
The frosty air 10 tlngling,
All silvery sounds are mlnglinE.
This merry, merry day.
With many e fieeey feather,
The snowfiskes dance together:
Hero comes kriss kringIe's weather,
In good kriss kringlss way.
Kriss Kringle's measures tripping.
miss kringle's sweetness slipping,
The while his gifts were clipping
From brave kriss kringle's tIeA
We set thecsndles burning,
Like stars and planets turning,
And every dream ana yearnipg.
There satisfied We see.
Alone and solitary,
Aloof from ELF aud fairy,
Il grew in forests airy
Through many season dim
To reach It's day of glory.
When winter woods were hoAry,
TO hear kriss kringls's story,
And dear hriss kringle's hmm.
@ tree that wearics neyert
a tree mat chsrms US ever!
. tree that lives forever!
The blessed Christmas tree.
Where love aud Kindness blending
Round up the years fair ending,
There heavens own beauty lending,
Behold Miss kring.e's tree.
Margaret T. Sdagst1
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ALL THE WORLD OVER
Merry Christmas Day Is Cele-
brated in Every Land.
THE ONLY UNIVERSAL HOLIDAY
eosg Service OF Fijians Under the South
ern Cross-French Dolls in Japan
and Hindostan.

NEW YORK. Dec. l9.-TSpeciaI Core
pondence. Never did l feel so like a
passenger OF mercy and herald of happy
thought Wherever / went it was the
same. Men with preoccupied faces turned
from their business to hear but a sentence
before they broke into a broad grin and
called to each other across the desks. and
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We can only watch and wait, confident
that II the strange star does reappear mod
ern science will not let it escape until it
has told Us its story. And that story
would surely be one of the most marvel
Gus of all that the heavens have unfolded
to man. GARRETT +. SERVES.
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| f happiest Christ
mas days man ever
experiences are
those on which his
children are gath
cred around him
enjoying the an
nual invitation OF
Santa Claus and
the joys he brings
TO them i'll so many
and such varied
forms. My own
life has been par
tieularlv hanny in
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Barrett Browning. son OF two famous poets,
~rcre verses % promise when be was years
old. and John Ruskin said he should be great
poet He 10 = painter instead.
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How He Used to spend Christmas Day
When . Boy.
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And thus it is seen how Christmas en-.
circles quite the whole world to this day,
and hundreds of millions join in its sim
pie observance. Is any other holiday so
UNIVERSAL OWEN LANGpos.
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SCHOOL NOTICE.

The Spring examination OF Publ C
School teachers of Jackson County, will
be held at the Courthouse, in Scranton,
on Thursday and Friday of each week in
April; the first and second weeks for
White teachers, and tho thirl and fourth
weeks for Colored teachers. Tho eXami-
nation will commence at 8 o'clock, A. H.,
each day. Applicants for examination
only will be admitted.
The following extract from regulations
adopted by the State Board of Education
is given for the information of teachers !:
"a Supcrinten lent mist not recognize
or endorse licenses granted in other
Counties to Teachers who are residents of
his County. aud may refuse to endorse
all Licences issued in other connties."
II. l.. HOWE,
Superintendent of Public Education,
Jackson County.
March IL, 1S92. At
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LAND NOTICE.
LAND OFFICE At jackson, Miss.

LAND OFFICE AT jackson, Miss,
April |, 1892.
Notice is hereby given that the follow.
ing named settler has filed notice of his
intention to make final proof in support of
his claim, and that said proof will be made
before tho Circuit Clerk Of jackson
county ut Scant0n, Miss, on May Il,
1892. viz
Gabriel II. Ellis, Homestead No. 16.720
tor the east of southwest of Section
13, Township & south, Range = west.
He names the following witnesses to
i'r,.ve bis continuous residence upon and
cultivation of said land, VIZ
Sarline G.. Ramsay, Henry G. Ravens,
John NJ. Breland and l.. W. Armstrong.
all of Vancieavc p. o., Jackson Co.. Miss.
HENRY KERNAGllAN, Register.
April |, 1892. G-6t
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Notice to The Ladies.

Assoc course of Scientific. Dress Cutting
Lessons will be given FREE of charge
to advertise Prof. O. H. De Lamorton's
Wonderful World Champion Scientific
Taylor System. 1t is King of all systems,
and challenges all others for 5000 a side.
Yon will be taught over $50 things, a few
OF which are as follows: Seamless Prin-
cess Dresses, Seamless Basgncs aud
Waists, Tea Gowns, English Walking
Jackets. Partisan Nc Dell O's Capes,
Coats. Cloaks, Waterproofs, Plain Dasques,
20 styles of Sleeves, 8 styles Of Collars,
l6 new styles of Girdles. London Pride
Basques. Children and Infants Clothing,
One Seam French Basqucs, etc, in fact
and in short, everything pertaining to five
distinct trades combined in one, and fin
ish your course with u DIPLOMA. Ladies
call and investigate this Golden oppor.
tunity. School ut
MRs, SUE CURRIE'S. Instructorcss
and County Representative,
Eagle Hotel. ---. Moss Point, Miss.
April s, 1892. Tlt
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MARINE.
OFFICE oF THE DEMOCEAT-STAR, I
PAscAGOULA, April 9Th. 1892. !
Report for the week ending April 9TH.

OFFICE OF THE DEMOCRAT-STAR,
PAscAGOULA, April 9Th. 1892.
Report fov the week ending April 9TH.
ENTERED.
Mex sch Tres Hermanos, Hemandezc, De.
leze. b II. o.. 60 tons, LIST inst.
Nor blk Prince R-iint. ~JOhanneesen, Liv-
erpool. 1915 tons, LIST inst.
Nor blk Tcrzo, Johnsen, Richefort, 1923
tons, LIST inst.
Am sch l.. N. Dantzler, Strange, Pro-
gresso, Mexico, LII TONS, 4th inst.
Nor bk Caroline, Frodenksen, Belfast,
I'LL tons. 5tl inst.
Brit steam ship Norfolk, Woolston, Bar
celons, 1859 tons, 9Th inst.
Am sch Ella G. Eells, S%enuell, Cailiarien,
243 tons, 9th inst.
Brit brig Estella, O'Neill, Havana, go
tons. 9th INST.
Am sch Sarah A. Fuller, Brown, Havana,
46S tons, 18th inst.
Nor blk Eua, Gundusen, Paterson, Down.
ing Il Co., Kings Lynn. Cents, 643.5lO
feet OF lumber valued at S6,95S, LIST inst.
Am sch Mile Williams, Pinder, Denny
&Co., Vera Cruz, 1855 feet of lumber
valued at sos, LIST inst.
MOI TX Srea, %Jorgensen. Hunter, Benin Il
Co Sunderland, 620,053 feet OF lumber
valued ut $3.50 ID inst.
Swd blk Marian2e, f. Jernburg, Paterson,
Downing H. Co, Carwarvon, England
3O6, a5l feet Of Lumber valued ut S3,5j5,
I'd inst.
Brit sch Boniform, Chut, L. N Dantzlel
Lumber Co., Havana, 1877 ,305 feet c
lumber valued at 81 1892, 9Th inst.
Nor Tx FOider, Simonsen. Donald Bros.
Dundee, England, 1928 feet Of lum
Der yaiued at $500, 9Th inst.
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In The conflagralion in New Or
leans last Sunday ten squares oil
property were swept away IN
volviny a loss Of over S2,5O0.0OO IN
value, viz: 4 cotton presses, 44,029
bales of cotton, ol which 10000 are
a total loss, 1000 badly damaged
and 10000 more or less wet and
burnt; 81 residences, a church and
several stores, The great loss is
barely covered by insurance, and
is the heaviest which The dear old
Crescent City has ever sustained
at one fell swoop.
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FOR SALE.

The realty known rs the Poor House
property of Jackson county, Miss, co,,-
sistiug of two commolious dwellings,
with ont. houses and about IL acres Of
cleared land, situated one mile from the
Court. house, will be sold ut public cutlery
Mt the fro. t door OF the Court house, in
Scranton, on
June 6, 1892, at IL O'clock, II.
The terms OF sale to be ons-fourth cash,
and balance in three equal payments to
be made IN ene,. two ard three years, &C.
cured by vendors lien, etc.
by order of the Board of Supervisors
of said county. W. M. DENNY, Clerk.
March II, 1892. 3-3t
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The wind storm of the LIST Of
April throughout the Northwest
was very destructive of life and
property. Over ~"ble:ding Kan
sas' it swept with resistless force,
and in its wake are left dead and
dying.hundreds mangled victims
will reach. The damage to prop
erIy cannot be calculated. In
Michigan and Nebraska it riots
most destructively, and on the
Windy City it swoops in its rage.
Massive houses topple in ruins,
burying their inmates. This storm
has been one of the most far.
reaching and destructive on record
is borne out, as tar as fragmentary
scraps of information are borne in
from the Northwest, the far West
and Southwest over the badly
crippled, and almost unavoidable
wires, which escaped the fury Of
the warning elements.