Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-12-20
Christmas comm with rush
Hail the rising starl
If our pockets are not flush,
Che eks of children arei

| To morrow is the shortest day in the
year.
Renew your subscription to the CITr
zgs for the year 1895.
The Penn'a Reserves will celebrate the
| battle of Dranesville, at Oil City Hall,
| Pittshurg this evening.
Programmes have been printed for
the Christmas treats To be given in several
| of our Churches.
| Harmony has new P. N. at last, in
the person of Adam Eppinger, who was
appointed last Monday.
If you want your tenant to vacate your
premises next Spring you must serve
| quit notice on him on or before the lst of
January.
The improvement in the appearance
of the average school teacher is one of the
salient features of modern progress The
school teacher of to-day is "up TO date"
If theatrical managers would put up
signs requesting bald headed ladies to
wear large hats at public performances,
poor, suffering men would have better
chance to see the stage occasionally.
Some ciiizans of Butler have money in-
vested in lufs lying between Buffalo and
Niagara Falls, and expect to make money
ON them Niagara Falls hitched up" Is
developing Buffalo and vicinity wonderful
ly.
The Pittsburg, Brsdy's Bend d Lake
Erie r r. Co b, secured charter, which
calls for a route from Brsdy's Bend,
through Fa:rviaw, Concord, Oiklsnd, Snm-
init and Centro Twps to 8 point on the
P.S. 81 e. r r with which it is to
connect.
The Lehigh County Commissioners
bsve decided to purchase ton of pig iron
for placing In the Jail yard aud compelling
yagsbond tramps to carry the bars back
and forward from one eni OF the prison
yard to the other daily during their period
of incarceration.
The Pennsylvania railroad company
has sent notice TO all parsons who work
for the company saying a physician would
visit them, and not only vaccinate them,
but all the members of theif families.
Some of the railroaiers are not in favor Of
vaccination. but will submit.
"A commercial traveller who stopped
over night with a friend in Butler, was
asked TO sag the blessing ut supper. The
request ratified him. and he responded Is
follows: ave acknowledge the receipt o.
your favor Of this date. ALLOW US TO ex-
press our gratitude for this expression of
good will. Trusting that our house may
merit your confidence, and that We shall
have many good orders from you this win
ter, we are yours, Amep."
This is essentially the children's sea-
son Others cannot en- joy the spirit of
Christmas as do the little ones, who have
profound faith in Santa Claus, and who
are as happy as larks just to be allowed
to gaze their fill At the wonders displayed
displayed in the shop windows. Every
where you 20 the childish treble sounds
above the noise Of traffic, aud sarill little
voices talk of Christmas Dys as the doors
of great stores swing back sad the crowds
on the streets are augmented By host of
juveniles out With the adults, wlO find
much real delight n gazing back into their
own childhood through the medium of
bright eyes belonging TO their own little
sons and daughters. Ii is really pitiful to
observe the overwiss Youngster who doa =
not behave in Santa Clans, and who III its
own disappointment endeavors to spoil the
Christmas of others WHO are not 80 blase.
This child is to bs wept over. So much of
life has heen lnst To him OF sash an early
age. Think what the future will be, with
no memory Of that beautiful faith in g
kindly Saint that made Christmas a sea-
son Of jryous excitement no, altogether
unmixsd wi tIBgs of fear al mystery
that children of all ages o1slt % thorJIgh
ly belisye in. Parents shonld try TO keep
up these illusions rather than Try to dis
pei them because their own i1eas of logic
and common sense range them selves in
opposition to this species of deception.
Christmas to Child who has been told
that there is no such person as Santa
Claus is not half as sweet az the festival to
the Innocent believer, even though tho
former receives three times as many re-
membfances of the season as docs the lat
ter. Life all too soon takes on serious as
pect; therefore. while the clouds are held
ia sbeyance aud the light couaterbalsnces
the shadow, lot ours not be the hand to
drag away the curtain that shrouds SO
much of Christmas joy and life in mantle
of pleasing mystery.
The Pi'tsburg Commercial Gazette is
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ming Its new price, 10 cents week. or
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"A Christmas gift that would be
appreciated box Of Tenney's Can.
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