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Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-02-03

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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-25

slew a boar in Huntly Wood in self-defence
A d. 1893. If that the origin of the Gus
tom the function certainty came a long while
after the fact There may have been local
cause which preserved the ceremony so strangely
at Queens, but there can scarcely be question
but that we have here, as have in the Gus
tom which used to prevail Of serving bOar's
head at family dinners in the Chrstmastide,
described by Sir Walter Scott in the lines intro
ducing this article, a survival of a solemnity of
much vaster antiquity than the local legends.
The bOar's head feast and celebration came
down to us like Christmas Day itself and all it's
amIdble asSOciatiOnS-the houses decked with
yeW and mistletoe and holly, the merrymakng
and the giftgiving-from the Yule festival of our
ancient ancestors. In Sweden at the time of the
winter solstice bread and cakes are baked in the
form of a boar. Says Sandys in his book of
Christmas carols: Among the most celebrated
of the festivals of the ancients was that in honor
of the return of the sun, which at the winter
solstice begins gradually to regain power and
to ascend, apparently, in the horizon. Previ-
ously to this the year drawing to a close
and the world typically considered to be in
the same state. The promised restoration of
light and commencement of a new era were
therefore hailed with rejoicings and thanksgiv-
ings" And Shrimpton in his Oxford" discuss
ing the boar's head ceremonial says:
Undoubtedly the custom takes its rise from an
ancient BabylOnish Sun Festival during which
wild boar was sacrificed to Adonis. or Tam
muz. the Sun God, because AdOniS (also known
as NimrOD was said to have been killed bv the
tusk of boar, boars head being always
served up at the festival Egyptians Germans
Greeks Indians, MassaSetes Persians Romans
ScandinaVians etc, alike held their sun fes-
tVals at each of which an Offering of the boar
took place at Yuletide Nule signifving sun
wheel. The festival of the Druids in honor of the
goa Thor was called leul. Ycol whence the
derivation Yule. Christmas was introduced nc =
festival as late as the fourth century-taking TO
a great extent the place of the old YuIe obsery-
ahce. In other words what is still celebrated at
Queens College. oxford; St Johns College cam
bridge December 20, and in a few other places is
but a survival of what was formerly a regular
winter solstice. II r
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-25
JEWS KEEP CHRISTMAS.
Children Demand 1t on the East
Side, and That Settles 1t.

! Santa Claus visited the East Side last night.
and hardly missed tenement house In the
greatness Of his heart, tingIing with the good
cheer of the holiday season. he forgot that there
was religious significance to the day for which
he has to be the patron saint. and dis
pensed his favors regardless of creed or caste
This meant that tens of thousands of little He
brew children were remembered just as gen.
eroUsly as their Italian playmates, who are
grounded in the Christian faith from the cradle.
The Santa Claus who comes to the East Side
differs in many respects from the fine old gentle
man who gets over most of the country the
night before Christmas with wonderful team
of reindeer. The East Side Santa Claus has
long. bushy whiskers, but he carries his Won
derful store on pushcart- He doesn't come
down through the chimney, either, as the most
popular legend has him do for they don't have
frepIaces and wide chimneys in the teuemeuts.
He comes up through the steam pipes or climbs
the fire escapes of the tenements which are IN
heated.
Two factors are responsible for the celebration
of Christmas among the Hebrews of the East
Side, according to both Christian and Hebrew
workers among the poor. The Italians, who look
upon the day of great religious sigufd-
canoe, and who celebrate it with much giving
and receiving of gifts have within the last few
years scattered themselves and their children
through the crowded Hebrew district italian
fathers and mothers gave Christmas presents OF
dolls and toys to their children. and the Hebrew
youngsters across the hall in the next ten
ement demanded the same consideration.
The other factor is the growth of Settlements
and charity organizations of one sort and an
other. The Settlement workers have from the
beginning made much of Christmas Without
laying stress its religious significance with
out making it religious issue. they have seized
upon it as an opportunity for teaching the great
lesson of generosity to others. During the last
week every Settlement. with the exception
perhaps. of one two which are directly con-
trOled by the most strict orthodox Jews has
had a Christmas tree holiday entertainment
of some sort at least distribution of gifts
In the homes of the poor Hebrews. as well rs
of the we'll to do. Christmas is being celebrated
with never a thought that it is the birthday OF
Him whom their forebears crUcitied more than
nineteen centuries ago The fine old story of
the stable in Bethlehem. the mother without
sin. the star in the East and the wise men who
came with rich gifts naturally is not told by the
Hebrew mothers Indeed they have little or
no lore about the day to tell their youngsters
Many of them have fallen back on the santa
Claus myth. and the Hebrew tots are lust IS
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-25
THE QUIET LIFE.

The Rev. Silas c. Swallow. in a recent address
in an Indiana church, praised the quiet and do
nestle type of life.
Give me-" he said. the evenings spent at
home-eveninGs around the bright fire. the
father and mother absorbed in good books. the
children absorbed in innocent games. That Is
the typical American evening, and 1 am glad it
Is so common in the West. In the East I am
sorry to say. it becomes more rare each year.
ut was to an advocate of these quiet evenings
Philadelphia of forty or SO, that his CAV
wife said day:
John, We haven't chairs enough for our
company
There are plenty of chairs the man re-
piled. but too much company
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-25
The boris hede. as I VOW say.
He takes his lefe. and gothic his way,
Gone after the XII twel fit day,
With heV

The reference to the departure of the boar's
head in the last stanzas of the last two versions
goes plainly to the custom of continuing the
Christmas revels till Twelfth Night. Now
whence came the custom which Queens College
has kept alive? Her sons treasure a legend
that is almost if not quite as old as the founda-
ton, which is amusing if indefensible. Accord
ing TO this legend, some time about 1876 a stu
dent of Queens reading his Aristotle in
Shotover Forest, four miles from Oxford Sud
denly there rushed upon him wild boar. Taken
by surprise, and having no other weapon, he
closed with the furious beast and thrust the
book down its throat, eXclaiming he did so,
IT'S Creek CGrHcum estr) What with
this terrifying formula and the tome cloggina
his NAV the boar yielded his life without more
ado Tn" hoar's IN al feast 1T Christmas was
said 10 have been Instituted to commemorate
this eveh;. Thr,o families that have matricu-
lated sons ut Queens CollcIo have a boar's
head - a crest and Of one Of them. the Cor
dons, it is said Chat a member of the family
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-25

By bue-coated serving-rnan;
Then the grim boar's head frowned on high,
Wen can the green-garbed ranger tell
How, when and where the monster FELL
What dogs before his death he tore
And all the batting Of the boar.
To-day Cor probably Tomorrow if the official
Christmas festivities postponed till then
out of Difference to Sunday Queens College,
oxford, viii be the scene of "a right merrie
joUste of ye olden tyne" which will illustrate
well any ceremony how fondly the
human heart and imagination cling to pretty
mummeries ages after their origin and signfi-
canoe have been forgotten. There will be
notable gathering in the hall of the college, and
a notable feast in which not only the college
dignitares and students will participate but
also chosen circle of friends and strangers
who have been lucky enough to secure invita-
tons There will be a banquet and merry
making and singing and at a supreme moment,
for which the feasters will have been waiting
with the pegs of curiosity and emotion set high
and tense, there will be enacted a spectacle
which for 564 years has warmed the hearts and
delighted the eyes of the denZens of the
cradle college First will come a procession of
the provost and fellows in all the glory of their
regalia Then from without will be heard the
warning call of a trumpet, and following the
procession will three bearers bringing in
the historical boars head. monster head it
Will be if such be obtained weighing
sixty seventy pounds, "surmounted by
crown, wreathed with gilded sprays of laurel and
bay mstletoe and rosemary, with small ban
ners surrounding" With the bearers Will come
the college precentor, who will announce his
presence and purpose by singing carol, which
may be in one of its several forms as old as the
college ceremony, though it must be thousands
Of years younger than the precursors of the
function which it enlivens. After each stanza
the whole company will join Justify in the Latin
refrain:
Caput apri deferO.
Reddens laudcs Domino.
After the feast the ornaments which had
decked the boar's head Will be distributed among
the invited guests
The melody of the Bears Head Carol is that
printed above, but there are several versions of
the words. AT the present time the following
version is used:
The hoar's head in hand bear l.
Bedcckcd with bays ans roseI"rN;
And / pray you, my masters, be merry
Quot estls in cOuYIVIo.
1Refratr)
C&DCt apri defero
IteLdcns lauGCS Domino
The boar's head l understa,
Is fla lraI GiSb in all he 1Jr
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-25
BRINGING IN THB BoAR's HEAD.

When thus bedecked with a gay garland
Let US Servire cantico.
Our steward hath provided this
Which on this day to be served is
In Regmensi atrio.
In 1921, when Wynkyn de Worde had his
printing house Gin ye f1ete strete. at we syne
of We Some" he published the first of the
printed versions. and gave it this form:
The bore's heed in hand brynge I,
With garlanS gay and rosemary;
And l pray you all synge merely,
Qui estis in convivo.
The bores heed I understands,
Is the ehefe service &c in this lande;
SerVlte cum cantlco.
Be glade. lordes. both more and lasse,
For this hath ordeyned our stewarde
To chere you all this Christmasse.
The bore'S heed with mustarde.
There are two obviously older versions IN
manuscript collections; this from Balliol MSS
No. 354:
7 boris he'd in honde 81 h bry9ge ,.r,nra
pray you All help me to synge,
ON estis in cOnViVio.
Refrain)
Caput apri defero
Reddens IaIdes Domino.
The boris he'd l understand
Us Us chiefly sirved in this elonde'
Ceruiter cum sinapio-
The boris he'd care well say
Anon after the XVIII day
He taketh hys leve and goth away,
EXult de paTia.
More ancient than even this seems to be that
found in a fifteenth century collection known
the POrlington MSS, which begins follows;
Hey hey hey. hey the borrys hede is army'd gave;
The borrys hede in hOnd l brynge,
The hede ye furst mes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-25
THE BO4RS HEAD FEAST.
Celebration of 1t Kept Up for
Many Centuries.

Then was brought in the lusty Drawn
By blue-coated serving-man;
Then the grim boar's head frowned on high,
Crested with bays and rosemary.
Well can the green-garbed ranger tell
How, when and where the monster fell;
What dogs before his death he tore
And all the batting of the boar.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-25

CUSTOM AND THE CAROL WHICH ACCOMPANIED 1T AND is
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-11-29
A LIVE DEAD MAN.
Mr.. D. A. Wright, Who Was Killed
At the Battle of Richmond, Is
Still Prosperous Farmer.

Mr.. D. A. Wright, who was killed
in the seven days battle around
Richmond, in the Civil war, paid us
a very pleasant call last week. Some
thing of Mr.. Wright's remarkable
resurrection has appeared in print
before, but the telling of such an ex-
perience as his is not likely to grow
stale or lose interest. Mr.. Wright,
who was a gallant Confederate SOL
der. was shot down on the bloody
field of the seven days battle and left
for dead. He fell at about noon.
and, to all intents and purposes, was
a dead man until late that night.
The hospital corps had appeared on
the field and had gathered UP the
wounded, finishing their work, and
leaving Nh. Wright among the dead.
Later he came to life, was nursed
to convalescence and recovery, and
TODAY is a prosperous farmer OF No.
d township, this county. He has
been a steady subscriber of The
Herald and News for over thirty
wears. Mr.. Wright's visit was some
thing of an event, as he comes to
town sometimes once year, and
sometimes once in four years.
Apropos of this same incident
Mr.. H. NJ. Barger, of The Herald
and News force, tells ali interesting
story. Mr.. Barger was enlisted in
the same company with Mr.. Wright,
at the outbreak of the war. While
the company was still in Newberry,
where it was formed, Mr.. Barger and
Mr.. Wright had the curious exper-
ience of both being shot by the same
bullet. Mr.. Wright was handling
a pistol and Mr.. Barger was standing
bv his side. In some way the wea-
pon accidentally exploded. the ball
penetrating through the f1eshy part
of the former gentleman's hand, and
making a serious wound in the hand
of the latter. entering at the back
and ranging upword through the
wrist.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-11-29
PURELY PERSONAL.
The Movements of Many People,
Newberrians and Those Who
Visit Newberry.

Sheriff NJ. NJ. Buford ard son, Will
liam T. Buiort, are taking in the
worlds fair at St. Louis.
Mr.. S. S. Langford, OF Rock HILL,
formerly OF this city, is in Newber-
ry.
Mr.. lack. Suber, of Whitmire, went
10 St. Louis on Saturday to take in
the exposition.
Mr.. H. w. Fulmer of Knoxville,
Tenn, an alumnus of Newberry COL
lege, is in the city.
Miss Edith Henderson has accept
ed a position as assistant teacher at
the Mount Pleasant school, this coun-
ty, and will take charge this week.
Miss Sue Dean, who spent Sunday
in Newberry with her aunt, Miss S.
L. Holland, returned to Winnsboro
yesterday.
Mr.. Henry D. Adams has gone to
Columbus, Ga, to accept position
with the Georgia Coffin Manufacture
ing company.
Miss Clara Pearson, who has been
in Newberry on visit to her sister,
Miss Allie Pearson, returned yester-
day to the Columbia Female college.
Judge J. Y. Culbreath has gone to
Atlanta for special treatment. He has
not been altogether well for some
time. His many friends hope he
will return much improved.
Another rural free delivery service
has been ordered established from Po-
maria, this county, with one carrier
TO commence on Thursday, December
IS.
Mr.. J. E. Merchant has resigned
his position as overseer of the cloth
room at the Mollohon mill and has
accepted similar position with a
mill at Abbeville. Mr.. Merchant
was superintendent of the Mollohon
Methodist Sunday school, and will be
missed. He was an earnest worker.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-11-29
WOUND HAS FATAL RESULT.
Mr.. Foster Slawson Accidentally Shot
Himself on Thanksgiving Day
And Died on Sunday.

While on Thanksgiving hunt on
last Thursday Mr.. Foster Slawson,
OF Prosperity, accidentally shot him
self, the wound resulting fatally and
causing death on Sunday night. Mr..
Slawson was in company with
Messrs. Harris, Alewine and Banks,
of Prosperity, when the unfortunate
affair occurred. The hunters were
proceeding through a thick under
growth of brush and vines, when Mr.
Slawson's gun became entangled in
the vines and was discharged. The
entire load entered Mr.. Slawson's
right shoulder, at the height Of the
shoulder blade, breaking one rib and
scattering around the spine.
DR.. Dominick was summoned, and
at one time it was thought the injured
man had a fair chance for recovery.
He became worse, however, and died
on Saturday night, at his home in
the outskirts of Prosperity. The
funeral services were held on Sun
day afternoon, at three o'clock, the
Rev. w. A. Lutz of Grace Lutheran
church officiating, and the interment
was in the Prosperity cemetery.
The deceased . was an unmarried
man of about forty years of age. He
is survived by father, mother and
other relatives.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-11-29
Teachers Meeting.

County Superintendent OF Educa-
ton Eug. S. Werts has made ar
rangements for big, genuine, old
fashioned teachers meeting, to be
held in the Newberry graded school
building. on Saturday, this week. This
will be the last opportunity of Sup
erintendent Werts to meet the
teachers before he retires from Office,
and he is very anxious, for that and
other reaosns, for every teacher ia
the county to make a special effort
be present.
An Gnteresting program is being
prepared and addresses will be made.
Many of the teachers have already
signihed their intention to be at the
meeting, and it is almost certain to
be one of the most successful in the
history of the county.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-11-29
TEACHER TRAINING.
Two Addresses To Be Delivered in
Newberry by Secretary Pearce,
Of Chicago.

Two addresses, one in the after
noon at 4 o'clock, and the other at
7:3o p. m, will be delivered on next
Friday, December 2, at Central
Methodist church, by w. c. Pearce
of Chicago, whose subject will be,
Teacher Training; or Approved
Workmen, How Secured" MI
Pearce holds the responsible posi-
ton of teacher training secretary OF
the International Sunday School as
sociation. and he comes to Newberry
by authority of the executive COM
mittee of the state. Mr.. Pearce can
only visit four points, viz, Green
vile, Spartanburg, Greenwood, and
Newberry. He comes highly recon-
mended and his addresses promise to
be very interesting.
Teacher training in its bearing On
Sunday school work is attracting the
attention and enlisting the thought of
the best minds throughout this and
foreign countries so that this topic
should be one of absorbing interest
to all who love the Sunday school
cause, and who are striving to do bet
ter and know moro. Mr.. Pearce is
known personally by DR.. w. E. Pei
ham, who would urge all to hear Mr..
Pearce, at both afternoon and even
ing services.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-11-29
NEW ARC LIGHTS.
Put Into Operation For First Time
On Saturday Night-Something
Of the New System.

The new enclosed arc lights were
put into operation ior the first time
on Saturday night. The switchboard
for the new incandescent system has
not arrived, and the new plant will
not be put into regular operation and
final shape until the board comes.
The arc lamp is one Of the prettlest
and simplest pieces of mechanism
in use in electrical plants IN the
world. Coming out over the globe
is an enamelled steel reflector. There
is an outside and an inside globe,
the inside globe being opalescent'
When the old arc lights were burned
all night it was necessary to clean
them every day. The new ones need
trimming only once in ten days, on
an average. The globe is air tight and
the absence OF free oxygen does not
admit rapid combustion, and hence
the advantage. The adjustment IS
perfect. In an alternating current
system there is alwaysta a considerable
amount OF vibration in arc lamps,
causing a constant hunmlng' but this
perfect automatic adjustment does
away with much of this vibration,
though there is some little humming
which cannot be done away with
Superintendent Boyd says this lamp
is in operation in Atlanta, in Blrmlng-
ham, Ala. in Columbia, in Spartan
burg, in Jacksonville, Fla, and IN
nearly all the larger cities. He has
personally noted the workings OF
these lamps in other cities and has
found them fully satisfactory and gen.
orally superior to the old kind.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-11-29
An Unfortunate Rurnor.

Some weeks ago Will Hill, colored,
was shot in the head by Bennett
Amick, a white man, in No. ! town
ship, near the plantation Of Mr.. God
frey Harmon. The wound was not
Immediately fatal and the negro was
expected to recover. On Friday even
ing Mr.. .Amick, the man who did the
shooting. came to Newberry, and
while here told one gentleman that
the negro Hill was dead and buried.
Other persons made the same state
ment. Sheriff Buford was in COM
murication with Magistrate John w.
Ropp on Saturday, but could get no
absolutely definite information.
When interviewed over the telephone
by the reporter yesterday Mr..
Ropp said he did not know whether
the negro was dead or not. He SEEM
ed to be inclined to the opinion that
he was not. Mr.. Godfrey Harmon.
on whose place the wounded negro
lives, or lived, was in Newberry
yesterday and said that Will Hill
would be able to take out the lndlct-
ment for the shooting in person, in
ferring that the negro was still alive
and in a fair prospect to get well.
The rumor of the negro's death was
persistent, but there appears to be
little likelihood of its truth. The
coroner knows nothing Of the mat
ter, the sheriff knew nothing definite
on Saturday, and it is almost certain
that Mr.. Ropp, the magistrate in the
township where the trouble occurred,
would have heard something of it
if the man had died.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-11-29
Injured a Passenger.

On the night before Thanksgiving
day. while the mixed night train on
the c.. n. & L. road was running be-
tween Jalapa and Newberry, some
person threw a heavy stick OF wood
at the passenger coach. crashing
through one of the windows and
striking the occupant of a nearby
seat upon the side of the neck, in
Aicting a slight cut The affair was
reported to the sheriff and an lnves-
tigation was made at once. Nothing
definite as to the identity of the evil
doer was discovered The matter
has been kept quiet since in the hope
that something pointing to the per-
petrator Of the deed would be dis
covered, and it is still hoped that the
person will be caught.