The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-12-25
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rich are CD early this rnZsrEs-
inx. The Christmas tree ablsze with Bgnts
ana brilliant WITH heAusEfsi gifts. ssa:nes
With the sv4nklfns eandses. while under tie
heavy boughs lIa pssrreis of psefties. ard
boxes u sweets. The little cssi-ase. os Fsss
pcDr are up earlier stiIj; for tasy want %
- for themselves 4 Santa Claus sas re-
Any 600 poer tfis year 10 step ana vs.t
them, or lf the stockings 9eFe ton Gua OF
holes 20 retain tfse gifts they he5~s 10 nra
IN their depths. A merry Christmas -
yop, al my nstie o9ae&. tssets or poor. or
such II the Kingdom CT Heaven
8cfsnos books and tear-sgzsaaged siasss
ax1 laid away Tor this happy. happy week.
80 this beautiful day, 80 dear 10 each AID
e0kry es1sadzh heart. tae day fun OF good
things, and coed grewB-ug people, a day
~ unlinslsea eanay, and llgni;ssss fan. Is
hese Eagov yourselves my little ouess tass
day IL yours whatever father and mother
deny themselves you shall have al that
pour Mttle heasfz degsre. Christmas comes
hui once a year. Today Is yours. Laugh
while you may.
1Sy MERRY Christmas 10 cur country.
4t We ha9s all fought. hied and died.
this hast year. We have met TITO
trying 10 pay the vananished territory ths
So go go we are giving her as d CHRIST
mas gift. We are rich and prosperous.
Our hafveai1 have ce#z n13rE aDlsnaant
than ever EeEofe. No coxey army IL loaf
ing around trying 10 batter down the
bFosn-stons houses OF the rich. 20 thr""
the dust Of the FunE-AionE in TIE eyes 81
the poor Having annexed much new ter
rifsry the natlye-kcfn American can ma
a refuge thexa, when the tfayassen OF the
foreign em!grant, drives tie American 10
pastures new.
eus o :hoxe who have everything they
III wish, to those who toll not. neither
- do they spin. merry Christmas
70 him who has nothing but the csotaes on
his back a merry Christmas. No fear OK
thieves TO the @slI locked house for him
to-day He garnefs rot. therefore ne fears
NOT. fome generous soul viii be sure TO
give him his sili ~ egg-negg, and egg~nogg.
like death, makes all men equal. There IL
no such isyeier as u trimming glass.
After two or three. The man IN rags Is as
good az the man IN br0adeioth. lie Ia a
good fellow and 'bail fellows well met
do net stop 10 inquire about pedigree, or
pry into position. Though down on your
luck old boy. don't despair. Though your
shoes are fu.i OF holes. and you rsalver IN
yoar Seafrly old coat, don't give up. IL Is
always daskaat just before dawn, Mayba
tomorrow something will cotg9a your way
you have been expecting a long, long time
just think Of how often yea read in the
pNpers of q IMAM committing suicide and
ths next week somebody will leave him a
lot of money. or soma business man VIII
be In seareh OF him TO give him a aae
piars. I know 70 must be hard 70 be poor
and fofiorn. and 10 think nobody cares
rap whether yea are on or under
The earth. but don't despair, somsthsng
u sure TO tarn up 10 help you. Gods I'm
Hts heaven. ais right with the world" And
then. Old boy. believe in Yuurseif. Believe
IN The little boy who believed in Santa
Claus twenty years ago. Relieve that
little boy grown 50 tall and bearded mist
come out all right. foa may net have yet
found the right one bat there are lots Of
fight-miadea people waiting To help you
SOME where What ever yau do. don't give
Up the night
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IN MERRY Christmas TO you. Where
Ht the aurora horealis with its vivid
crimson stains the snow fields with
It's blood red CLEANS: where no sound
breaks the Icy Stiffness. save the fan az
sonic broken twig; whore the voice os the
miner sounds faint upon the gloomy air:
TO yea heweTs af wood and drawers Of
water, 10 you wrestling from the frozen
mother earth that for which men have
teiled and starved. burned with heat and
persisted with roid~~tho dumb god gold
tn x4s vzff Il