The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-12-25
9VANCY LEES BEST WISHES
FOR o4 MERRY CHRISTMAS.

fsnr!xIn aasI And do you men 80 FAR away
IN Alaska. know that today - CHRISTMAS
day. Have ycg all these weary Garkerlsd
uaos4ths been saying, as the school Boy GIG
checking CT each day on the calendar.
''eEss day near Christmas" And today are
sou opening your canned soup, and canned
oysters. canned turkey ard canned cram
berries and getting ready for yosir Christ
mas ainnsrg Have yol put "sosa-bocf
picture at ire foot os .fse saole2 IL isn't
very ike her after al. is ~ II keeps - =
same aa.et modest. look OF please MI
Picture taker make me- prstty for rim.
and IL don't smile hack al yoa A. all Ana
then you kiss IL. and /. doesn't kSs back!
X IL not like her a BIZ, IS Il on. for sne
clasp Of her dear. fat little hand. but
We cant have everything. and when we
dig for gold xe must leave .'her" behind
T0isers OF the earta we do wish you
merry Christmas. Maybe sn February or
March some % yDi wliI chance 70 see this
paper, and some viii say Nancy Lee has
50 boys say with al! my heart God o4ess
you all and bring you safely back
p -
tn ERHAPS as am writing this, with
sears In my eyes. you are merrsly
II burning your fingers, trying TO
make your canned oyster fry TASTE just
like mothers did" in days OF yere in the
far-csT New England village. Perhaps all
OF the Seattle colony has invited THE boys
in blue from everywhere 10 drink the
bowl Of foaning egg nogg, eoncocsed from
condensed eggs. condensed milk. and the
rum and brandy safely guarded TO grace
me Christmas spread. Perhaps you ars
laughing and joking in your frozen homes.
happy I'm the thought that SO many OF the
Icy weeks are past and that with the first
break OF the snowy rivers you VIII come
out With your bag Of gold. won by toll and
courage.
Tr Nd Oh. perhaps as am writing this.
Al thinking SO tenderly OF each and
every one Of you: those whom I
know. and do not know. VINO have SO
bTRYeiy Left home and friends 90 labor in
the ice-bonnd earth, perhaps there is one
dear to some heart, who even now tx deaf
and dumb 10 al this world contains,
Somebody's darling" perhaps has laid
down III. rusty spade. From somebody's"
nsrvelnSs fingers the shovel and the piek
have fallen away. Somebody" has gone
70 sleep where tie great northern light
throws It's crimson scarf across the snow
heap. under which somebody's darling
lies. God help the girl he left behindi
She Wild look for him. when the FIRST boat"
comes in. She viii be there to meet him
but 10 word or smile win bring him back
gold from the frozen depths: and then the
earth opens TO receive our treasures the
loved ones OF our own lives. Soft be the
rest OF him beneath the snow. Nothing
can touch him now. The ice has no power
to chill him. The sneer OF rival man can
rot grfeve him. There is no wreath OF
Christmas green for him today, and per-
haps the one for whom he left the home
viii never SEQ thu suot where now he
rests. Net all the battles are fought where
cannons thunder and muskesry rattIes
and he. who In fighting the great battle
OF life. falls before the victory be wen,
In the great day VIII often outrank him
crowned with success.
r r r
I'D Ut believe In Santa Claus. he
IN heve that If hang Up my stocking
A~ III get something In Ii IL it's only
my own right hand or my leg. as | go to
put II on. and SO my brothers and sisters.
LET'S rejoice and be glad. and enjoy our
selves today. IL We have anything to give
anybody. let's give Ii gladly, and IL we
have no money to buy Christmas gifts let's
go To some one worse or better of than We
are and give them our smiles ana harry
thoughts. and the output OF our glecf,l
hearts, Let's aii be little children TODAY
and not think Of anything except this Is
ChristmaA II we have any troubles. let's
bury them II We have any pleasures. LEES
share them. Peace on earth, goodwill to-
ward men. and q merry Christmas 10 all
the world from
NANCY LEE.