Arizona republican., 1898-12-13

of those Christmas gifts which we are
 going to give. These which we are not
 going to give We will De careful about
 anyhow. The man who sneaks dsWn
 town about Christmas time and buys
 himself a pressnt is usually jusS the
 kind of shrewd and calculating cuss
 who buys the thing he likes. good
 many times it comes in bottle. and he
 develops a hacking cough that maks S
 him need it.
 But about those Christmas pres an s
 We are going to give we should be care
 ful, for, though they seem to pass for
 eyer cut Of cur lives, they might be left
 to us as m5mentoss in will. Besid s
 that, other people should te consii- cred.
 Give the preachcr a pair Of nee, easy slippers, net as hint to him to stay home and hug his CWn firesids, but be- cause slippers minister to a studicus mans comfort, and sc many lad jokes havo been made about this p3rti :ul2r gift that it is believed no preacher has received a pair Of slippers from his congregation since the last census. At least, the reports Of the department of agriculture we TOW lave Cn hand do not show it, if any has.
 Don't buy 9, popgun for grandma and a jar of goldfish for EliZa's best young man. Buy him a dollar watch Tha5 will enable him to tel what time i5 is with unerring accuracy, a thing, you may have noticed, at which he makes the weakest and most paltry kind of bluff. The reason why you should nos buy a pcpgun for grandma is not SO clsar but somehow it Goes net look like a thing that would amuse her. A pair of skates would probably b2 just as inappropriate, although in these days, when girls arc grandmo.hers and grandmctheTs are girls again, you can't always tell. A great daal depends on the sort of grandmother you gre eE- dowed with
 If you must buy Jones' Eaby a rattle, l don't get one with green paint ol it. Green paint is all right Cn a dog hous2, | but it is too rich diet fer baby's blocd. |
 Don't buy your sweetheart-welI, if you have a sweetheart and don't know what to buy her for Christmas, you are an adamantine chump, and there's TO use trying tc make 3. man of you, any way.
 The mail-carrier is easy. He Will appreciate dollar and has been known to receive half dollars
 Don't think just because a person likes thing that is the thing he should | be given for Christmas. We knew a man in Big Meadows once who was fond of liGuCr, and in burst Of gsner- csity we sinfully prssented him with a bottle of his favCiite medicine fO, Christmas. Right at this point, how ever, we discla:m responsibility. We are net responsible fer the totally un- way in which he used that wicked fluid. We can not help it if he was seized with a suddsn am bitten t0 be the bottle and contain the whole thing at enc time TOT do We reatIy blame ourselves that he subsequently entered the territory Of the Savacool Mining cCahpany in oOlQuering mocd that would have made Alexander feel slo hful and ambiticn'ess, and tried to have it cut with a four-foct turbine wheel, driven by a stream Cf water with a 200-fC0t head. We are nct r6- sponsible fer these things. But we have often thought since that if we had given cur friend some simple toy like a pct-metal shotgun CT a stick of dyn2i- mite instead, he would not have been so long in the doctors care.
 After all, we can rot help ycu mach about Christmas presents. l. is Q g0od' deal a matter of private cpin on.-E Squires in the Chicago Journal.