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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-12-23
Real Meaning of the DAY.

What with the happy hustle and
planning and working and shopping
which Christmas brings. there is real
danger that the deepest significance of
the day may be overlooked. Superb
cially, Christmas is the season of ever
greens, of gayly decked trees, of Santa
Claus, of feasting and of the giving
and receiving of presents. But if that
is all that it is it is not enough.
The heart of Christmas-the meaning
that vitalizes all the obServances and
perpetuates the festival throughout the
centuries-is rude manager in an
oriental khan. wherein lay the Babe
who was the son of Mary and Son of
God. In its very name and in its very
character Christmas is the birthday an
niversary of the Christ Child They
miss the message of this gladdest day
of the year who have not eyes to dis
eern in it the cooling. helpless, beauti-
full Babe who in his complete human
ness warns our hearts and who in his
divinity sets our spirits to soring-
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-12-23
Lonely on Christmas.

Christmas is a homing season. The
wanderer times his roamings so they
draw him to the family board for the
| great birthday.
! The first Christmas away from home
I is a sorry one, and the bride who must
decide between spending the day with
his or her family has need of much
him.
Because the home ties are so strong
at the holidays Christmas day brings
sonic of the lOneliest hours of the year
TO those with whom home is only a
memory.
1t is not pleasant thought that there
Is no one who cares whether our Christ
mas be happy or not. 1t is thought
that once allowed to root brings bitter
ness of soul. Instead of watering lone
illness with tears smother it with kind
thought for others.
De not sit mOping the day away; dis
tract yourself; force content; go into
the highways and byways for company
rather than sit alone
You may not have money to spend;
you may fear rebuffs from advances to
comparative strangers, but there is
scarcely one among our acquaintance
with whom we cannot come into close
Christmas touch if the desire be with
in us.
The thing is to have the Christmas
spirit so streng within us that 1t scars
above unhappy environments.
As DR.. van Dyke has put it in his
christmas Prayer For Lonely Folks"
Lord God of the solitary
Look upon me in my loneliness
Since I may not keep this Christmas In
the home
Send II into my heart
Have Christmas in the heart, and
the dreaded day will be passed, not In
sadness and loneliness. but with in
ward comfort to sweeten it into for
getfulness of a happier Christmas long
since gone.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-12-23

workers sit stringing strips of shredded
gold on threads to make tinsei trim
mings for the trees. They wear great
spectacleS on the ends of their little
round noses. for this work is great
strain on the eyes Each string is one
mile long. and each gnome completes
three of these a day.
Silver tinNel is also made in the same
way. The fashion in tree trimming de-
mands the lavish use OF this gorgeous
adornment
No Storerooms For Santa Claus.
Santa has no need for storerooms in
which to stack his finished toys and
tree decorations The demand is so
great aud so immediate that directly
things are finished they are packed.
loaded on to immense sleighs and ship
ped to special stations which he has
situated in every city all over the world
and usually in such places as depart
ment stores or toy and candy shops.
Sometimes when all these places are
illed he even hides them IN odd corners
VI DtOplc - HOuStS II uOW IL
ZONES that one often accidentally will
end things tucked away in the most
unusual places
Years ago be would use his reindeer
10 carry the loaded sleighs to stations.
and often they were so worn out by
sverwork that they were unfit for
driving on Christmas eve. But now 1t
IS quite different. Since motor trucks
have come into use Santa has bought
82S to do this heavy work for him.
Something ought to be told the kid
lies OF the character and habits of the
little toilers who make their toys. They
are an entirely different Kind of crea-
lures from any which we. who do not
i've at the north pole. have ever seen.
They are very small OF stature. with
arge heads and queer eltin faces, We
would call them gnUInes or elves. but
Santa calls them t0bies They nave
bright mischievous eyes which dance
with delight over their pretty handi-
work, the inerriest laughs and sweetest
little voices which keep up a contin-
ions accompaniment to their tasks
New York Evening World.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-12-23
A Christmas Hymn.

Sing, Christmas bells!
Say to the earth this is the morn
Wherein our Saviour King is born.
Sing to all men-the bond, the free,
The rich, the poor, the high, the low,
The little child that sports in glee,
The aged folk that tottering go
Proclaim the morn
That Christ is born,
That saveth them and saveth me.
Sing angel host!
Sing of the star that God has placed
Above the manger in the east.
Sing of the glories of the night
The virgins sweet humanity,
The Babe with kingly robes bedght.
Sing to all men, where'er they be,
This Christmas morn,
For Christ is born
That saveth them and saveth me.
Sing. sons of earth!
D ransomed seed of Adam, sing!
God liveth, and we have King.
The curse is gone: the bonds are free.
BY Bethlchems star that brightly beamed,
by all the heavenly signs that be,
We know Il at Israel is redeemed;
That on this morn
The Christ is bora
That saveth you and saveth me.
Sing, o my heart!
Sing thou N rapture this dear morn
Whereon the blessed Prince is born,
And as thy songs shall be of love,
So let my deeds be charity,
By the dear Lord that reigns above
BY him. that died upon the tree,
BY this fair morn
Wherein is born
The Christ that saveth all and me-
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-12-23

Here comes old Father Christmas
With sound of fife and drums.
With mistletoe about his brows
So merrfly ne comesl
His arms are full of all good cheer;
His face with laughter glows:
He shines like any household fire
Amid the cruel SHOWS.
He Is the old folks Christmas.
He warns their hearts like wine
He thaws their winter into spring
And makes their faces shine.
Hurrah for Father Christmasl
Ring all the merry bells
And bring the grandsires all around
To hear the tale he tells.
Rose Terry Cooke
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-12-23
Christ the Center.

1t is not mere figure of speech that
Christ, the anniversary of whose birth
we celebrate is to our moral and spirit
ual what the sun is to our planetary
system. The dependence in both cases
is alike. If the body has appetites
the soul has ambition, and both must
be satisfied or human equilibrium is
lost. We must possess the two, linked
together in some mysterious way, or
we shall fly to social and moral chaos.
Good government, good morals and ev-
cry orderly, well directed progression
rests on that concession.
TO be intidel to it is to destroy the
ideal, to shrivel the heart of the race,
20 make might right, to enthrone selfish
ness and greed and to displace and do
violence to the public conscience.
The Man of Nazareth and what he
represents are the embodiment of the
law of moral Gravitation which holds
the world i'll its orbit. He gave us the
ideas on which orderly communities
base their legislation. He furnished us
with the spiritual ideal. created new
motives, made quiet, humble endurance
a cardinal virtue and placed on the
brow of bereavement the radiant cero-
net of hope.
Others have sought the same end,
the same browning achievement. Confu-
cius, Zoroaster, Mohammed and Bud
dha were of the royal family of souls,
but at most they were mere princes
in the presence of the King. They gave
much; he gave all.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-12-23
a Christmas Vision.

At Christmas, when the pealing bells
Ring back our hearts to Bethlehem,
Whence the fair flower OF Jesse's stem
EternalIy our love compels;
Borne on the peal my fancy goes,
Far from the Thames and noisy Strand,
To Christmas in that distant land
Where a more ancient river flows.
And there the deserts changeless calm
Is troubled Gods and goddesses,
All Egypt's monstrous deities,
Gather in fear by well and palm
The cry is heard 80 Egypt, bark!
We gods must die. Another comes"
Again the unrelenting drums
Skater the horror of the dark.
Affair." where some oasis, spiced
With palm and lotus, charms the Nile.
The sphinx. with her mysterious smile,
Sees Mary kiss the sleeping Christ.
r.. Ellis Roberts.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-12-23
Che Cbrlstmas Spirit

Christmas One dayspring of cheerfuness and freedom
cankering and fshne and envy year of toll
and strife and consuming Christmas marvellous
to humanity spngng gitimatey from the BRIEF eventful
life of the carpenters Son, fixed institution The twen
tieh century could not spare it if it would wouldn't if it
could The Christmas spirit everywhere pervadng the world
for this brief blessed day Levelng ranks lencing selfish
ness dwarfng ignoring toll forgetting creed and cult
and birth and environment it makes and good will not
only possible but inevitable The gifts bears the spon
taneous fruit of the omnpoten all pevadRg spirit of Christ
mas-a wellsprng the desert sunbeam wintry day.
single exception seadfast rule The spirit of Christmas
never clogs We cannot have too much Of it. Morning
and night for breakfast dinner and supper the first thing
awaHg and last thing going to sleep every hour of
every day of every of every month of the year
the spirit Christmas for is the spirit of mnistraon, of
giving. of service of doing for others
mot TO be mnistered unto but to minser'-ths motto
lived out every day the would dpe the of
the world its wrinkles abolish its poverty soothe
its pain comfort its hearaches heal its diseases make it
heaven This what typifed by Christmas tree and
every gift bears by every bullying little stocking that hangs
in chimney by every wreath of holly BY every
greeting and merry wish.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-12-23
Decemher.

Oh, holly branch and mistletoe
And Christmas chimes where'eT we g
And stockings pinned up in a row
These are thy gifts, December!
And if the year has made thee old
And silvered all thy locks of gold
Thy heart has never been a-cold
Or known a fading ember.
The whole world is a Christmas tree,
And stars its many candles be.
Oh, sing a carol joyfully
The years great feast in keeping,
For once upon Il December night
An angel held a candle bright
And led three wise men by its light
To where a child was sleeping.
Harriet f. Blodgett.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-12-23

m RCTIC REGIONS. Dee. 6.-Tht
N center of the giant glacier has
& been followed out into mon
ster cave ANA is serving as d
factory for making tree ornaments. II
is being run on very much better
system than it was last year. having
two shifts of workers, with l0.OW
gnomes in each shift. The day workers
come on at II. m. and stay until Il
p. m One band of toilers sleeps while
the other works.
Each of the workers sits squat upon
the floor in front of a blazing fire. over
which is suspended II huge black cal
dron Each little fellow has long
stemmed pipe with which he blows
bubbles of the substance which siZzles
and boils in the huge pot before him.
The boiling substance is liquid
made of melted precious stones. Mil
lions of dollars worth of priceless
jewels are being imported into the
north pole regions for this purpose,
Each caldron boils different jewel.
The melted rubies make blood red bub-
bles that glenm like flames The dia.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-12-23
Wanted a YOUNGER SAINT. Claus.

please appoint a younger Santa
Claus" wrote an eight-year-oId Illinois
girl to Postmaster General Burleson.
Grandpa says he. used to come to
his house when be was little boy, so
he must be pretty old by this time, and
I'm afraid he's too old to come to my
house"
Mr.. BurlesoD wrote to her that
personal representative of Santa Claus
would attend to her wants.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-12-23
Bio THINGS in Ar,er;o.

Talk about cathedrals. The biggest
in the the world is in st. Looie. u. s.
A, and the biggest Office building in
the world is the Railway exchange,
in the same city. The biggest sky
scraper in the world when it comes to
height is the little ole woolworth In
New York.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-12-23
A YUEETIDE THOUGHT.

WOuldest thou learn thy
Lords meaning III this thing?
Learn it well. Love was his
meaning, Who showed it thee?
Love. What showed he thee?
Love. Wherefore showed it he?
For love. Hold thee therein and
thou shalt learn and know more
in the same. But thou shalt
never know nor learn therein
other thing without end.-Ju-
Llama of Norwich.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-12-23
Cbrlstmas Homecoming

One Of the great features Of Christmas is
The borne meeting. Dow many hundreds OF
thousands who bave been separated through
out the year will now be gathered together
once more under the old bone roof! 1t Is
well that it should be SO. 1t warns the beart
to read of the trains to the north and the
trains to the south, east and west being filled
With people going bone for their Christmas
holidays. al am told" said Gladstone once,
"tbat the strain Of our commercial life bas
loosened even the bonds that unite the fam
lily; that in the struggle for e9lstence the par
ents forget the child and the child torsets TIE
parents. Well, read the other day that some
bundreds Of thousands Of people were lcav-
ing London to spend their Christmas bolt
days at bone. Chat IS pleasing and prac-
tlca REPUTATION Of much of this pesslmlsm."
1t is. IF the parents did not think Of the
children they would not bave them bono, and
If the boys and girls did not think Of the
parents they would not go bono. Blood IS
great deal THICKER than water, and nothing Will
alter it. 60 bone for Christmas!
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-12-23

CLAUS.
monds make white ones, bright and
shining like great. round stars. Sap
phires turn into deep blue spheres. tur-
quoises make pale blue balls that look
like the summer sky. and so on. As the
bubbles grow to the desired size the
workmen shake them gently off their
pipes on the ice floor. Here they are
allowed TO rest until they are frozen
into hard. round shiny. wonderfully
colored.bright balls to hang on Riddles
Christmas trees. 1t is estimated that
one man can make 500 finished orna
ments i'm day.
Mines Give Output of Gold to Make
Tinsel.
The great Klondike gold mines are
being worked day and night to supply
the demands of another room of the
great glacier. where thousands Of
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-12-23
PLANT A CHRISTMAS TREE

A correspondent of the Cleve-
). land Plain Dealer offers timely
and pertinent idea that should
commend itself 10 many readers.
1t refers to the use of Christmas
trees after the days festivities
are over
In explanation of her plan she
offers the following clipping
) fpom Good housekeeping:
An eastern city carried out an
} idea last year that might well be
initiated by any progressive or
} ganizatien of women. After New
Years wagons went from house
to house to collect all the Christ
mas trees. These were taken to
the public squares. Sns opened
on the ends. they were thrust
into the ground in artistic groups
and e4umps of varying heights.
In some eases they act as wind
shields for the growing shrubs
and evergreens. In every case.
though but temporary tenants.
they make attractive. restful
beauty spots for the eye. Com
pare this with the fate of Christ
mas trees in your neighborhood-
After a short week of tinseled
splendor they are often left in
the aileyways OF litter up the
back yard for weeks"
This interesting question is
added:
Certainly the Christmas trees
IN the southwest corner of the
square are a great improvement
10 It and no one who sees them
can help wishing that they might
grow there all the year round.
They talk of improving this cor
ner. Why not plant some little
evergreen treesY'
Worth considering. isn't TT
. q n =. :. =. a a Z. q -.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-12-23
Ar Exoention-

If he win Il, N often enough a man
can succeed inN ioing almost anything
unless he is trFsng to be original BIZ
copying somebody else.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-12-23

BY JOSIAH GILBERT POLAND.
TNHERE'S a song in TIE AT,
There's a star in me XIV.
There's mothers deep PRAYER
And paby'S low cry,
And the star rains its fire while The beau
tful sing.
For the manger of Bethlehem cradles a
King.
THERE'S tumult of 10y
Ger the wonderful birth.
For the Virgins sweet boy
Is the Lord of the earth
Aye, the star rains it's fire. and the beau
tiful sing.
For the manager of Bethlehem cradles a
King.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-05-14
JOHN MARSHALL FINDS
ASHLAND OUTFIT EASY
Locnl Prep School Hands Dreadful
DrubbinE to Visiting Hall
Players.
NE Is TERRIBLY
SLOW
Mnrshnliitcs Nin as They Please De-
hind Excellent Pitching of both At
kfnson md Woodward.

John Marshall added another scalp
10 rs i9ng string yesterday afternoon
Ashland High school aggregation Into
camp by the overwhelming score of
The game was too sided to bo
interesting. ard was terribly slow. The
only r1deeming features OF the game
We were , me sensational SCI! stabs pulled OFF
Wood. Zig Boy" Atkinson started
Tor six innings went like a House '; aiir re-
allowing the aliens but two hits and
IIa snsnrEE sly to .whin at his elusive
the mound in the seventh. and WITH
n pr0per support you'd not have been
S SoN FOR upon ,Tn v,s ton Wo3dn. in tho
good game, holding the slugging Mar
s ,nr ,,,e to Ave bingles. and with bet
to n much closer score.
double play killed tho locals chance
or Sr. SCORING In the first. but in tho second
Chunky" Sale led Off With "a" q ; sint,Ie.
fooled Pulliam's easy drive. Goat.
went to second on Turner's neat sac
rihce. and sale crossed. PuilIain scored
when Lancaster again erred on Atkin
sons clout
e. The he locals gathered ANOTHER counter
VIII" me iour'h. when pullian led Off
Grihith's error. stole third, and scored
G ~, hiani<,cnship's hit In the fifth Big
Was forced to second wien '' Can riIs;
iinslcy was given y walk Both run
n nSrws n9V S,n up reg sao on Happy" Mat
Ashers drive TO left scored both run
ncrs. "'
The sixth frame was tho producer NJ
Tour taliies. when Wood WAS given free
transportation and stole second Einrl,
eemship got in the way of orc OF Wood
Woodiin. and the latter retired WOOD a.
..n,ird Tinslcy flow out to centre, but
'J R ;tmSwS Vas MIlked. ;iiiing tho bases.
when ID. Lancaster messed up Ashcr.s
orLIc. Sale came through with am
other safety. and Matthew'S and Asher
nicked the rubber.
IN the eighth CAPTAIN Tinsley was
walked walked again. swiped the middle has
again fulnblcd.
~ h t6 Of tho alien tallles came across
second on u. T.ancastcr's drive. which
amGiuentaiiy was tho only clean hit the
S nn nan. c got Both runners went
started star gazing and allowed the
bail to roll at his feet without attcnnt-
, nisto TO ro ,hr ,,, II; Baker crossed tho
smashed sacrifice ny to deep rirht
u! y; lancaster TITLED when CAPTAIN
ter easy one. The next two men wnnt
out In easy style. "''''
Skinny" Wood and .chMnky" sain F', tIe
pitching OF both Atkinson and Wood-
waru; We're the features from n locaI
standpo'nt. while the work OF Driver
on MIRO Tor the visitors was commend
aolc; Driver sent three pretty drives
10 right Hold that fast fleldinE on ia
part OF Wood kept from being hits
WiEhtman. in centre for Ashland. also
PLAYED nice game. getting two sa TO
.ieS OUT OF Tour attempts. although both
rl,c 49, amer nuky
saturday morning In Broad Street park
,he battle starting at 1880 O'CLOCK
rs nich depends on this game II 10
thought that Il bumper crowd ,viiI hs
out. Hshl II
The score or the Ashland game FOL.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-05-14
VIRGINIA WILL MEET
PRINCETON ON TRACK

charlottesvllc; Va, May Prince
ton is 20 meet Virginia Ola the cludci
uach for AT least TWO years TO come.
~ e. recent meeting % the . A. n.
board the contract Tor the meet was
.athtd for th2t extent OF time. RMS
IS ueW addition 10 athletic relations
with tue Tigers, as Virginia has newer
AeT,tofore met them IN uis branch
OF sport The meet for the ucN, TWO
years VIII alternate between Char-
lott'sNillc ana Princeton. and proyi-
Ion Is made :or its renewal at thu
nd Of that period.
Tho ncnrd transacted other !mpor-
iahi business iu clcctn SncXt years
nanaEers and assistants in those
branches Of sport for which they had
HH5o't theM, ben chosen. CHARLES cobb of
MarShail. i"%"". and =. Eugene Non.
OF Chilhowie. We. ""To mad, muuacor
ana "sslsiant respectively, Of the track
team and Charles -. ClGd.ugs. III. uf
Atlaltts, Ga. aod HARRISON NJ. Rob
efisoH, Of Danyillc. Va, elected to the
manaecrship and assistant InAnacer-
shi hnd III me w eaaebaii tG,ag, 49,,
oali. track d. .k5,oib9!! and Presidents
!zcd to act as assistant manager at
tho dual moot with Johns Hopkins
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-05-14
D0NNELLY GETS RIGHT
TO MEET DR.. B. F. ROLLER
Husky frlrhman Defeat. Dave Martin.
OF New England. in Straight
Fails.
MATCH PROVES REAL THRILLER
Audience Pleased at Speed OF Big
Feilovs-Dettcr Man Won-RoIIer
PoStponcH Match Until 18th of Montb

Postponcs MntCh Until 18th OF Month.
Mike Donnelly, of Ireland, won tho
right TO meet DR.. b. i. Roller on tho
2 Tar, or this month by defeating Dave
H"rtin, or New England, In two
straight falls at the Academy OF
Music before the most enthusiastic
ana best pleased audience that has
witnessed wrestling match since tho
game became popular here. Tho FIRST
fall came In 2s minutes, and the soc
ond In 30.
Both men showed that they were In
excellent condition. and there was a
Perceptible hush as the two stripped
ready for the conflict. There was no
cessation throughout hostilltlcs Both
men were on the jump all OF tn. time
ana each got out Of difficult situations
through the combination OF science
ana strength. Donnclly's bridging,
when In peculiarly tight place
feet. while Martin ELECTED many a
huzzah through his sheer pluck
There Is no question but that DON
nelly is the better man OF the two. aud
.he already formed opirion OF many
that tho lrishlnan can defeat Roller
was strengthened through his per
formance last night lie is far and
away the most aggressive, az we'll as
the specdiest biz fellow watched here
not excluding DR.. Roller. Martin ran
him close second, and. unlike pre-
Vlons matches between hcnvywelghts.
II was fast all tho way
DIT Roller telcgraphed that II would
Dc impossible for him TO appear hero
on the 2oth. the original date SGT 70,
him and the winner of tho match last
might, but stated that he would 10
more on tho 10Th. Donnclly, said that
nc hah many engagements. but that
nc would break them All TO meet the
1io added thst he ho
'eved Roller was bluff,nE, and ,hot
ne was afraid To meet him. Blu, Roller
s'ateo In his telegram that he would
positively be hero on the date spcci-
fled. ''N'
However. the fans will long ren.rn-
i last Hishts affair. II was rirnon-
pure thriller between crp.-t. -, 80,
game. l''@