Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1921-12-21
A CHRISTMAS-SONG
(By william Allen Knight.)

Come, my heart, canst thou not hear 1t,
I Mid the tumult of thy days?
Catch the old sweet song of angels,
| Join thy voice to swell their praise!
= Hast thou never shared the blessing,
Never known kind heavens gift?
Bethlehem thy Saviour Graded!
/ Heart Of mine. a song uplift.
: First to hear were browsing shep-
herds,
Sore afraid that winters night;
Soon to Bethlehem they hurried
10, the song they heard was right!
Ever since, all they who hear it
! Find Saviour where they dwell;
toilers
Thou the Christward way shalt tell?
Long ago the angels vanished,
Oh, their song is sounding still!
| Millions now with hope are singing,
Peace on earth. to men goodwill"
Sing, my heart! Though peace may
tarry.
Sing goodwill amid the strife!
Join the old sweet song whose music
Will attune to heaven thy life.
A cordial Christmas greeting to
all readers of the column. May the
day bring to each of you the glad
ness or the comfort or the peace
which will make it "red-letter
day. in your lives, individually.
have good Christmas letter
from "Meb," which fortunately
reached us in time for this issue Of
The American.
Dec. 10. 1921.
Dear Aunt Madge and NJ. Bees"
Hello! Guess 1 will write to the
column for a Christmas present.
Since l last wrote we have left Miami
and come here to Ft Lauderdale,
about twenty-six miles from Miami.
We came here to grow peppers. My
( daughter and her husband are with
us. This is pepper and tomato town.
We are out three miles from FIT.
Lauderdale.
We left Miami the last Monday in
, June They cut down wages from
$50 per month to $55 and Lee thought
best to try something else. We have
| taken down one house and two other
buildings, and, with some new lum-
Der and windows, put up house.
/ My daughter has a sleeping-roo
fourteen feet square on one end; we
| have the same on the other end, liv-
ing room zig the middle fourteen feet
| square. Then we have a kitchen on
thA back, eight and one-half feet
wide and some twentyodd feet long.
At one end a bath room. We pump
our water in the house, have an iron
sink about five feet long 1 brought
, from Maine. In all of my travels
never have seen large sink.
Coming from town, we came a way
on the Dixie highway, then out here a
little over one mile on the Rockroad,
so if any Maine people, or of any other
state, want to see our peppers grow
ing, here's a chance.
| We have some pepper plants about
eight or ten inches high with five to
eight tiny peppers. The peppers grow
with the plants. We had in about
three acres of pepper plants, when we
had a flood that killed the plants
and we had to lay back for the water
to drain Off We also had some seed
beds which were over flowed, but the
seed beds here at the house were all
right We keep seed beds going all
the time. For pepper beds, they build
them up fifteen inches about four feet
wide. set out two rows of plants,
leaving space in the middle wide
enough to walk and cultivate.
On this place there are twenty
acres, about fourteen fit for peppers
the rest good for grove. We haven't
bought this place yet, and / doubt if
we do; 1 think it cheapest to rent
If we hadn't had the flood, we would
have been picking peppers aNout the
fifteenth. If we don't have frost, will
be picking by the middle of January
Peppers are now Sc box at FIT
Laude rdale, where we sell them. So
far we have had only four nights we
needed quilts on tho bed. blanket
and spread are enough.
l like Miami the best of any place 1
4 have been in Florida. The pepper
and tomato and string bean growers
live in town and drive out every day
Those who come here for the winter
tent and camp where they can. We
have, across the road, four men from
Michigan who are growing peppers
here.
! Well, haven't 1 said enough about
the pepper business? Oh, l forgot we
are going to grow some tomato plants
to set out when the pepper business
is done. We set them out in the mid-
die of the pepper bed. We have Ave
or six acres of pepper plants set
out, and expect to set out as many
more soon.
Now, Aunt Fannie, am pleased to
hear you talk in the column Hope
you come often. About the movies,
they are trying to cut out the fight :
ing and such bad things. The film
editors are calling for stories of real
life-just things happening in real
life. / don't think much of the rough
life shows, but we go so seldom I
don't see much of the movies. The
afternoon shows are more for the
children. and l think they should put
stop to some of the shows. and make
them show things to please the young
folks. 1t is sad to take up the paper
and see where men kill their wives
and wives kill their husbands. Some
times l think the "old fellow" is hav-