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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-12-21
The Christmas Chimes.

The Christmas chimes are pealing, softly
pealing; and the joyous sounds are ringing,
ever louder and clearer, ever nearer and
nearer, like sweet-toned benediction fall
ing ON the ear. Glad ringers are pulling
the ropes, and in one grand swell of mel
ody, Christmas, with its old yet ever new
and marvellous mysteries, bursts trium-
phantly upon the world once more.
The cattle have turned their heads to the
East and knelt down to worship the king
Graded in the manger; the houses are
decked with holly, the yule log burns
brightly, the gray shadows sweep away,
the sun is up and the bFight-eyed children
who have lain awake all night listening
for the patter of old Saint Nick's tiny steeds
on the roof, only to fall asleep at the event
full moment, wake firriedly to find the
stockings running over with toys and sweet
meats.
Beautiful and right it is that gifts and
good wishes should fill the air like snow
flakes at Christmas tide. And beautiful
is the year in its coming and in its going;
most beautiful and blessed because it is al
ways the Year of Our Lord.
do not know grander effect of music
on the moral feelings than to hear the full
choir and the pealing organ performing a
Christmas anthem in cathedral, and fill
ing every part of the vast pile with trium-
plant harmony Washington I-ring.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-12-21
THE OLD RURAL CHRISTMAS.
The Ways Were Different in the old
Days, yet Children Were Very Merry.


Days, yet children Were Very Merry.
How many of the young people know
that some 40 years ago nine-tenths of the
children in America had to enjoy Christ
mas with only such sums as they had saved
up for months, often penny at time?
Yet so it was. Not one father in 10
thought of giving boy "Christmas mon
ey;" the big family dinner, and such fun
as cost nothing, were enough. Indeed,
save for candy and firecrackers, there was
little to spend money for. Robinson Cru
soc" and "Parley's tales" were almost the
only story books, though the people had
some old standbys on their shelves, and
the "Old English reader" was, like the
poor, always with them. There were
"Moral lessons" few, and tracts enough;
but no gorgeously lettered volumes of
childish song, no fairy stories shining in
covers of blue, green and gold.
The story that artists for the earliest ju-
venile books had to label their pictures
"This is a horse, "This is a cow" etc, is
no doubt an exaggeration, but the toys
really needed it. Many a little girl made a
doll by dressing up crock-necked squash.
'Rag babies" were the rule. A doll such
as any child Of parents above the grade of
paupers may now have for Christmas
would then have excited the amazement of
! the neighborhood, and a doll that would
open and shut its eyes-well, language is
lacking to set forth the Juror such a Won
derful creation would have excited. 1t is
an actual fact that the purchase of such a
doll by order from Cincinnati-at a cost of
| S2-was made matter of church discussion
in one town as late as 1S4S. "The neigh
| bors" finally decided il was all right, as
the mans little girl was an invalid and
needed amusement. She certainly got it,,
/ if company was any amusement, for every
child for miles around was crazy to see
that doll. As for paying $40 for a doll,
the people would have asked the court to
name a guardian for the man who did it,
as one unfit to manage his own affairs.
! Ten dollars would buy an acre of good
! timbened land in half of the country.
Wood carving was an envied accomplish
ment in those days. The "hired hand
who had some skill with jackknife had a
crowd of children after him on all possible
occasions; the father who could carve a
human-looking figure out of walnut bark
was hero TO his family,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-12-21
THE THREE OHRIsTMAsEs.

There is no doubt about this being a love story.
IL is very good one, and was written by Mary
Murdoch Mason for the handsome Christmas
number OF Harpers weekly
I.---ChrlstmRs In Paris.
1t was in Paris; it was Christmas. High
mass at St.-Roche, which means music to
draw your soul out of you, and pomp to
blind your eyes. Daphne and her mother
were sitting in the royal box up amid all
the glory of 1t. Every time Daphne knelt
down she looked across the heads of
the young acolytes below her in the stalls,
over the orchestra from the opera-house,
beyond the bowed head of the greatest liv-
ing tenor-from the opera-house too--at
the mysterious lordly pipes of the sweet
sounding organ. If she glanced to her
right, down the nave, she saw the lofty
church filled to overlooking with humanity !;
If she turned to the left, the sea of up
turned faces and kneeling forms was made
of the faces and forms of the clergy and
their assistants. The royal box-which
was once in reality box for royalty--is a
wonderful underground from which TO
watch the superb Christmas festival 1t
was thanks to the dear old Able NJ,
the wisest and simplest of men, that
Daphne and her mother were so well
placed.
The Able M owns the best bit of Pa
lissy-ware out of the Hotel de Cluny, and
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-12-21

blessed bread toward the girl. Now Daphne
was young, a foreigner, Protestant. She
hesitated; if this were in the nature of
sacrament, and If she dared to partake of
1t not being of the elect Quietly another
hand passed hers, took the bread divided
1t with her, knelt, and Daphne fell on her
little Protestant knees by the side of
stranger--a stranger who had broken and
given her to eat of this blessed Christmas
food. Her heart beat high as the music
surged in her ears. She prayed her little
Protestant prayer, voluntarily, spontane-
ously, for herself and for the stranger at
her side, whose face she had never seen.
Then she rose from her knees; she met
his gaze. She knew suddenly but quite
surely that this was to be the one man in
the wide world to her. His red-brown
eyes were the color of wine, his smile was
like sunshine and shade. AS Daphne
looked at him she seemed TO see, not so
much the man as the setting around him.
Often afterward, when he came upon her
suddenly, she had a swift vision of that
mise en- scene.
She saw again the great church of ST.
Roche, rich with incense and music
and vestments. 1t the distance moved
the Able M, or was 1t his angelP-
so remote he seemed from the home
able who played with the parrot
as he went about his priestly office. Away
across the church she saw the faded pic
ture over the altar in the chapel opposite
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-12-21
Christmas ships.

Blow fair, sweet wind, upon the distant seas;
Blow fair, aud kind.
For many sails sue for favoring breeze
Where none they find.
Your grace they court,
For Christmas port.
Some ride the waves with strong and bouYani
prov,
And canvas white;
Others with straining spars the dark seas plough
In piteous plight
Make them your care.
Kiud wind, blow fair.
Many are faring home from Ravens far,
After long years;
And eyes are gazing out across the bar
Through gathering tears
Bring the ship near,
For Christmas cheer
Wherever ships should speed upon the wave,
Go friendly breeze;
But when the pillows fiercely rock and rave,
Iull them TO ease.
let joy abide
AT ChristmRstidei
ida Nichols Alan, in Harper's Weekly.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-12-21
|eWs, Politics, Literature.

In all of these departments OF a newspaper
the policy of the Republican is broad, indie
pendent and fair. 1t is alert and enterprising
In the service of its constituency. 1t seeks TO
eplghten the minds and brighten the lives of
lis readers by laying before them day by day
nil that is best aud richest and most interest
ing in current affairs, both at home and
abroad. 1t publishes fully and fairly the in
formation which enables its readers to form
their own opinions on public. questions. It
samples literally the best literature of the
inn
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-12-21
Err 81. 1894.
I know it was an even

think it was ten. know it was an even
number"
And then Daphne's sense of humor
came back to her, and she laid her head on
Merlin's shoulder and laughed. "You
dear delicious Christmas present." she
said. "Even the old able and the pain
b6nit and my wedding day and our first
do you remember it?-why, even the ba-
by is not quite as nice as you are"
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.Iohnson Does 2

a SIX any who ever employed A. o. Johnson,
n and they will all agree that what ne does ~
the plumbing line is always done rlknnt. ~
ne ion IA really finished Il needs no IurlH
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THE HAPPIEST TIME OF ALL THE YEAR.
A MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL WHO READ
Good Will.

And Find Here
Good
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room for three of them there vi sr
the clock "And / have choselN 6e,
and you must promise to read lANA Try
day when you drive; it willfM ~ for
your mind, my dear" Ank<NY Iooks
we're tiny edition of LandqkH[N kgina-
ry conversations" a copyAAS~A Jed de
Musset, and "Cosmopolis, ~ ~ kse, of
which all the world wastEf3 talking.
"And here is picture of NJ
to remind you of the last ifs and of
st. Roche, and of the lit and of
me-"
Gas if I needed and hgr' said
Daphne. "But thanbf Tor IN the same,
and boRfour dear ole, scianl7seu rAbbe.
All, how 1 shall enjq r. added the
bride, leaning back o dcushion. at
is like a birds neS .fcoinfort and its
sense Fo 81 t 1Spe G s%6 1 Daphne.
When we drive EJgether at night
after dinner or ping nqra-we'li have a
long drive, you Pod yint away down to
Washington Squl chSs fbu shall tell me
everything you h9 81 on. and thought, and
der your fine feaf re'Yi Hose to mine, Just as
1 do now" Is. Pry
And so they Il on in that blessed
solitude a deu1H steetting that there was
any world on fno7hfn their little four feet
by four of paE bHtJ
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-12-21
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The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-08-04

where he should carry.her. Suddenly
they found themselves on the verge
OF the battlefield. The old darky
became frighl enei, put her in what
he thought a safe hiding place and ran
away. When he guided me back TO
where he had left her, he found
only trampIed ground and blood. She
was gone. And the cloud OF mystery
that then fell ION her fate has
never since been lifted"
Col. Swift listened attentively, but
said nothing more than TO offer sym
pathy. That evening the Captain
was the guest OF the Colonel at his
home. The latter and ~~hs guest
were, upon entering the Colonels
parlor. received by two ladies, one OF
middle age, who were introdu ed as
"My wife, Mrs swift;" the other a
lovely girl, OF whom the Colonel said,
my adopted daughter, Miss Eunice. I"
For minute the young man and
the girl stood staring at each other.
without word or movement, as II
paralyzed by surprise. Then, with
simultaneous cries, brother Frtnk"
and "My sister" thev sprang into
each others arms. Seeing them to-
gether. no one could have wondered
that the CulOnel had found the feat.
ures OF the Southern Captain strange
ly afmiliar
At dinner the old soldier explained:
"From to moment you spoke OF the
old darkey hiding the little girl
away, the mystery was at an end for
me. Some OF your boys made a
pretty stiiI stand behind the big
rocks, where he had hidden her, and
there was hard fighting around there,
but the little one kept quiet, and her
presence was not suspected until a
man who was shot fell on the brush
and his blood ran down on her.
Then she screamed. Ny boys took
her out and Brought her 70 me, and
/ turned her over u the care OF my
wife, who was in the camp at the
time on some Sanitary Commission
business The child's fright had been
Sc. o.&reat that not until some time
after she had been brought TO New
York was she able TO tell her family
name or give any information by
which We might lind the brother
Frank, for whom she was constantly
calling i sent word into your lines
by exchanged prisoners again and
again, trying 10 reach you. but never
could. In time i forgot her old
name, for we gave her new one
our own. Having no children OF our
own, and she having no ties, so far
as we could learn, we legally adopted
her. and she became as dear 10 us as
il she were our own child by birth. -
Boston Herald.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-08-04


whsn-ths day is gene And tie stars CONE cut,
and the barber sfop l. full.
Whss Low and clear yoa frequently hear the
faint Does the razor pull
There comes with . rlsh the man who Is late.
no matter how late f. De.
Who opens the door 20 look in and roar: "How
many ahead OF meg'
he secs a pstient on every chair, and all around
The rom
Wherever q man can sit or stand. in silence like
the tomb.
The brisily faces and tousled heads are count
ing the ''aexts" that Oe,
But this tardy elf only thinks Of himself How
many ahead o; IneT'
From shop tn shop, from door 20 door lie N axes
his anN ious round
He never viii rest from his eager quest while an
open place il found.
Bearded and restless the same old crowd in
every room lie ii see.
But lie rings the chime on the same OLD rhyme
-"Eow many ahead Of mey
For the man who comes last al bank. train, or
feast wants ever 10 be served nrst;
What custom may hold centuries old he
clamors 10 have reyersel;
IN religion and politics, business and play, OF
- land or deep rolling sea,
icu can hear his wild shout as lie gets crowded
Outflow many ahead OF meP'
And one of there days when lifes weary ways
shall end in the region Of ro.t,
When the line has passed through, at the tail
OF the cue he will stand at the Gaze OF the
Blest;
When the door is shut fast aud ST. Peter at last
has locked IL and thrown down the Key.
AS IA turn him away 10 the left he viii say
Row many ahead OF meY
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-08-04
Divers and sharks.

We anchored a little sloop about
fifty feet of from the wreck, and
when all was ready 1 went down, says
writer in Scribner's Magazine.
When / got below into the boiler
room / saw looking out at me, from
one OF the furnaces, two eyes as big
as saucerS stepped 10 one side and
out shot huge shark. AS he darted
past me he gave me flip with his
tail that knocked me fifteen feet
That knock was not, however, as had
a. IL may seem; for it's easier 70
move objects under water than above.
] myself could easily shove a man ten
feet under water.
Divers often encounter sharks, and
huge fellows they seem, too. But we
don't take much stock In them. The
diver is usually moving about. the
escaIe valve gives shrill whist ng
sound, and my experience is that
sharks. like other fish, are scared half
out OF their wits when we divers ap-
pear upon the scene.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-08-04
('oaling.

Harper's Weekly gives an interest.
ing picture which may bc witnessed
at the docks where the great ocean
steamships lie unloading or taking
In cargo The discharge o, the cargo
takes place on the side OF the steamer
next the pier The work of taking
in coal is done upon the OF er side.
Great steam.shoycls lift the coal
from the holds OF the harges that
line her tall. black side, and send 10
Kissing and roaring down the iron
chutes that lead TO the bunkers. The
furnaces dcvour the fuel SO ravenously
that often steamer, at the end OF "A
trip has considerably more free board
than when she started and great
care has to he exercised in stoking TO
prevent "a list 10 one SIZE or the
other.
Up 10 the last minute, before the
tugs swing the great vessel out into
midstream. she takes in coal, and
barge after barge is einptied, and still
the work goes on. EnoLgh coal is
burned in oJo day 20 keep block OF
buildings warm for months.
Some OF thus oal has already made
one sea voyage, coming from lensyl-
vania and creeping along the Jersey
coast 10 New York In unwieldy hulks
that years ago we fast sailing ships,
but now have fallen from their high
estate, and become mere drudges for
thcr successful rivals, the steamers.
II is a strange thought thai all this
coal poured In at the steamers side
has been dug out OF the mines only
10 make path OF ashes at the bot
tom OF the sea; path connecting
two continents u which thousands
of tons are added daily.
To the average cabin passenger,
snugly ensconced in his rugs IN the
upper deck, the depths OF the ship
whc the sweltering stoker works
are rs unknown as the interior OF a
volcano. But II sight that IL never
u bc forgotten is attractive, ne will
be repaid by a trip down the iron
ladders
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-08-04
ON THE BATTLEFIELD

The sun was we'll up in the eastern
SKY, yet only half light penetrated
the dense North Carolina pine for
est, through which TWO weary way
farers were trudging northward, near
ing Petersburg. one was a COlored
man, past middle a2e, but how far
it would have been hal "a say since,
although his wo lily heao --ds well
frosted and his thick ey.u.vws white
as snow, there were few wrinkles in
his face, and his frame still seemed
vigorous. His companion was a lit.
tie white girl, not more than 81 years
DID, daintily dressed and exceedingly
pretty. The deep carpet OF pine
needles upon which they walked
swallowed up the sound OF their
footsteps, and, as tNey went silently
forward for some time they might
well have seemed TO a supersttious
observer, an ill-assorted pair OF ghosts
VIVA dat?" suddenly exclaimed
the darkev, in start ed, and excited
tone, pausing with one foot raised