Douglas Island news., 1919-12-19


 bells chime
 m summer for glad Christmas
 timo
 tta ot Che rlad Christmas period
 hat fond memory brings to us Che thoughts Of other days when events 1f Che past parade thomso.yc
 trough our minds until we are apt
 O forget our present surrouudiugs md again 1.-Two over some almost for- gotten chapter ueour lives.
 TO Ono Stroller Christmas has ol- ways been what might be properly .ormoi am epochal period AS a pebble m Che atrcamlot cast has hanged thc course of many rIyor hos some happening during the glad Chr.s,maa season changed Che s,rouer's entire after lIfo For ez- ample.
 When tho Stroller had more on hls head and less at h.s wa.atlno very much Ices ho conceived Che idoa chat he would locate in Salt Lake city and embrace Che Mor- mon religion therc being certain Jcoturos m chat cult chat appealed To him in those halcyou days of In- experience With Chat object in view bo went Go Che Mormon center and was making fair progress along the line Of hIs ambitions whom Che Christmas scason arrived. By chance he engaged In conversation with Q Mormon older ono ntcful day. Tho latter had heard of tho Stroller 8 ambitions Co identify himself with ,be Latter Day Saints and. becoming -onndenuoI Che old Mormon dolIy- pred himself something as follows.
 "Forrct it Mormonlm would bc au right if we Mormons would mI- srate Go some country where Christ mas Is not observed or known. but here 10 m dolusiou and O snare. Look ot me. for example am Che head Of fourteen large and rapidly Increasing families and. believe me. it is a pleasure Co bring Christmas cheer into every one of chem It Is not Che cost Of Che many presents am required to buy to make my various. divers and sundry wives and sIxty-oirbt children happy No iu- deed That is one Of Che greatest pleasures J obtain from iiie But what gets my goat is thia Every one Of my wives persists m proscnt- ing me with a box of cigars Che Qual- Icy of which they judge from tho picture on tbo box rather chan from tho brand of thc contents The re- mlt s chat for several weeks after tho holidays ] am forced to either smoke rope and cabbage cigars or' take long walks out on Che banks of. Che River Jordan. where J can load up oud enjoy am old pipe Moro chan that my progeny insists on presenting me with ucckues. Che mae iorIty Of which have graccd store wine iows for months and borne tags reading Take Me Home for 10. Ccnts' SO. between cheap cigars and cheaper uockties ] have a horror for Che Christmas season. which Co. mo Is as sounding hraa
 The Stroller knew Che old elder was telling him Che truth for ever and anon as he spakc a tear would rlckic down bis cheek and ail with l resoundiug kerplunk on Che juno lion of Brigham street and Polys amy avenue.
 Abandoning his Intention of be- coming a Mormon Che Stroller cone coaled newspaper plant about his person and Iourneyod to Florida. where hc openly toyed with fate In his eaora Co reconstruct Che un- done and soddeu South and where after years of persistence. while he. was not able Co make Che practice of| yuchlng unpopular he did succeed n getting rope substituted for boom chains which served Go make the yuchiues moro humans Also thc| Stroller published small booklet which to this day gracos many D. home and library In Florida. It was entitled Pistol Toun m Connection with Church Work"
 But again Che glad Christmas sea- son arrived and once more the course of Che sroucr's ufo led into a new channel through no fault of bis In fact. what happened at that lime was Che cause of Che Stroller coming Go Alaska getting as far away from Florida as possible with- out going to a foreign country lt was this way.
 Miss Arabolla Bourbon. Che only daughter Of Colonel Bourbon. was married at 8 o'clock Christmas eve. In order Chat Che affair might re- coiye Che publicity chat Che mar r.ore of Che only daughter of tho. house Of Bourbon warranted Che