Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1901-12-30


And gaiety without alloy
That gives no fellow creature pain;
OF grand achievement, glorious name,
Yet based al honor firm and true.
So naught Of evil may Undue
The escutcheon of our country's fame.
Starsi these your tidings glad and good
Can be but, like the Magi, see
The Christ that was. that is to be.
Present in higher humanhoodl
els they really Sanity CLAUSE
your friend Jake,
This was the brief and pointed query re-
Gently received by the Kansas City Star,
and that bright paper proceeded to answer
1t. It recalled to ''Jal1ie" that a famous
editor had already answered that ques-
ton in the New York Sun. A little girl
had written the editor that she had never
seen Santa Claus, and that her father had
told her that nobody ever had; so. she had
begun to fear that there was no such de-
lightful person. The editor wrote her not
to worry. ..a1t "a
Nobody sees Santa Claus he said.
but that is no sign there is no. Santa
Claus. The most real things in the world
are those that neither children nor men
can see. No Santa ClausI Thank God he
lives and lives forever
Then Inc Star commentS:
There is no question at all but that there
is a Santa Claus. The only wonder is that
the great editor had never seen him.
Plenty of other people have.
One of them has written about him In
a poem that used to be in the school read
ers and maybe is still 1t began, Twas
the night before Christmas, when all
through the house, Not a creature was
stirring not even a mouse"
a.. 10 E,lV Il 4resak fYxy
caught Many and many moy has hung
up his stocking and gone to bed deter
mined not to go to sleep until after Santa
Claus had come. But after listening a
long time for the bells of the reindeer and
the clatter Of their hoofs on the roof, he
has fallen asleep to awaken to find his
stocking already full. But Santa must
have been there, else how could the pres
ent have come? '
Fathers and mothers are often awake
when Santa Claus comes, but boys and
girls are generally unlucky about catching
glimpse of him. Sometimes, to be sure,
he appears at a Christmas tree and hands
around the presents. But there are usual
ly doubts as to whether 1t is he or only
make believe" The real Santa Claus is
the one that comes down the chimney with
the pack on his back. He is as real-as
real-as Jack Frost. Ell
America has sent more than million
dollars to Europe in Christmas gifts.
Christmas is indeed abroad. o.. -N.-
The telling figures are as follows:
Three transatlantic steamers that left
New York for Europe last week carried
81, 1Ss. 1852 in money orders. The sepa-
rate orders numbered 102,265. showing an
average value of about $11.62. These are
largely Christmas gifts from all over
the United States. OF the money, $S56,OOO
goes to Great Britain and Ireland, $216,OOO
to Germany, $4,000 to Sweden, $4,000 to
Italy, $4,000 to Russia, $4,000 to Hun
gary. SS2, 1000 to Norway, $4,000 to Switz-
erland, $4,000 to France, $4,000 to Den
mark, $500 to Belgium and the Neither
lands and $3.50 apiece to Egypt and For
tuEai The Italian orders average high
est, namely, $25.6S each, and the Danish
and Dutch the least, $3.50. In the
year more than twelve million dollars
has been sent to Europe by postal order.
The North German Lloyd steamship
Kaiser wilhelm der Groose carried away
yesterday for Plymouth, Cherbourg and
Bremen, 1172 sacks OF mail, including
2O,12O registered pieces, chiefly in enve-
lopes. The Cunarder Lucania had aboard
1902 sacks in which were 1922 registered
pieces The total is the largest two-day
accumulation of foreign Christmas mail
ever sent from New York.
& -#3 s~a~s roy --< w.. %
A lover of history and historic dates re-
minds us that this Christmas of 1901 marks
the 125th anniversary OF washington $
crossing the Delaware and OF his subse-
quent victory over the Hessians holding.
Trenton. December 18th falls on the same
dav OF the week this year as II did then,
so the date is In every sense an anniver-
sary.
Rollicking Germans and loyal Britons
held Trenton and made merry on tnat nrst
Christmas day, while the Continental sol
iiers, in their tattered uniforms. suffered
on the opposite shore from cold and hum
ger.
to the minds of the children today, and
to let some of the bombs and rockets be
in celebration of those brave men, who by
their valor made Fall the future OF this
great country brighter and better. e~
DR.. AIonzo Monk tells this story: 1-.--
visitor to a certain house asked one
Of the children, a boy four years OF age,
which one OF his parents ne would rather
sell, his father or HIS mother. TVS
at don't want to sell either one" said
the child. - @
"But suppose you were forced to sell
one, then what?" ft'R
"why, I'd sell the one that brought the
most money. answered the boy.
commented DR.. Monk. - F- 7
s.f aE- r -r-
Frank Stockton IS as delightful recon
teur as he is novelist. Here Is one OF his
latest fish stories;
A gentleman encountering a boy out
fishing. began talking to him. The boys
responses were extremely indistinct.
why don't you speak plainly?" asked
the man.. What have you In your
MOUTH" -t ..r .
''wums, wums for bait answered the
boy. ~ .-.. --...- ---.-.- . ~
That was the first instance ever really
knew. declared Mr.. Stockton, where
person actually spoke with baited-breathl
Telephones are treacherous. A woman
telephoned her husband, the other day,
to bring home with him some bromo-
seltzer, and he came armed with bologna
sausage His memory cells. doubtless,
took hold in an abnormal way Of the
bologna sausage vibrations. 70 G..
Papa, what is a plumber
A plumber. my child, is a man whose