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THE IiARGEST DAILY NEWSPAPER EV THE CITY.
THE CARRINGTON PCBLISHIW6 CO.
OFFICE 400 STATE STREET.
VOL. LIV.
Nl' HAVEN, CONN., SATURDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 25, 1886.
NO. 305
gru Woods.
Howe
Stetson
INSURANCE BUILDING.
Holiday Goods.
CHRISTMAS
AND
NEW YEAR'S
GIFTS!
' Can be found on our Holi
day Counters suitable for every
body, at our well known popu
lar prices. Our extensive stock
consists in part of Christmas
.Cards, Dolls, Baskets, Plush
Goods, Brass Goods, Swiss
Goods, China Ware, Bisque
Figures, Glassware, Silverware,
Japanese Goods, Writing Desks,
Work Boxes, Cabinet Albums,
Juvenile Books, Blocks,Games,
.Jewelry, Perfumeries, Bags,
Purses, Pocket Books, Port
monies, &c. -
We would advise our cus-
tomers to call as early in the
morning as possible in order to
avoid the crowd later in the
"day. Goods cheerfully shown
to everybody whether wishing
;"'toipuwiasi3rori,:,'";
"SUBSTANTIALS
In addition to the above Fan
cy Goods we would call special
attention to our large and care
fully selected stock of Linen,
Laoe and Silk Handkerchiefs.
The assortment is large and
prices right. We offer some
extra values in this department.
All handkerchief buyers should
examine before selecting else
where. -
Immense Stock of Silk Um
brellas with handles of all the latest
shapes and styles. Special bar
gains at $2.50, $3, $3-5. $4.
$4.25 and $5 each. There is
nothing more desirable for
Christmas Gifts than Silk Um
brellas. Gents' Traveling Bags, all
sizes and qualities, at extremely
low prices.
Ladies', Gents' and Children's
Kid and Fabric Gloves, Silk
Mittens, Wristers, Caps, Silk
and Plush Bonnets and Caps,
Leggings, Furs of all kinds.
An examination of the goods in
these departments should not
be forgotten in making selec
tions for holiday gifts,
In our annex we shall offer
for the next two weeks Silks
and Rhadames, Colored Rhada
mes, Faiele Francaise, Black
and Colored Satins, Surahs, In
dia Silks, Velvets and Plushes,
Dress Goods at marked down
prices. Please examine the bar
. gaius at 25c, 37c, 62cand 75c
: ja. yard. :
Good assortment of Linen
Damask Lunch Sets, Towels,
Table Covers, Linen Momie
Scarfs, etc., in choice patterns
and at reasonable prices.
- - All our goods .are marked in
plain figures. -V
Store will be open evemngs
until Christmas.
Hie & stetson
.' SUCCESSORS TO
r
no t u mint, nn
Sfi and 888 CHAPEL STREET.
OUR RECENT FIRE
HAS BEEN A GOOD TEST.
AND PROVES OUR SOLIDITY.
We are Now on Our Feet Again
And stand, ready to execute, all . orders with the
usual promptitude.
Laundr) Ingr, Cleaning and Dye
ing, Carpet Beating and
Carpet Scouring-.
ELM CITY DYE WORKS
AND '
Steam Laundry :
THOMAS FORSYTH,
' PBOPKIECTOB.
Offices: 878 and 645 Chapel St.
Vorkii State, Lawrence and Ittecnan-
' "" le Streets. ' '
BEST WOE
BEST ACCOMMODATIONS
r LEAST DAMAGE
Only te be had at
TROY STEAM LAUNDRY
80 Center Street.
A.J. CRAWFORD & CO.
r-Free collection and delivery. Telephone.
n8
Zxovisious, iz.
CHRISTMAS GOODS.
For choice materials for Christmas Pinner call at
my place and inspect my stock of
Beer, Mutton, Turkeys, Chlcfe.
ens. Partridge, Quail, Roast
ing Pigs, Lettuce, Celery.
Spinach, In iact,
Everything First-Class
IN
MARKET LINE.
C. E. 33!-AJRT,
350 and 352 State St.
ONE PRICE THE CASH STORE
We Offer for Christmas:
Prime Turkeys, full dressed, 15c to 18c pound.
Prime Decks, full dressed, 16c pound.
Prime Geese, full dressed, 15c pound.
Prime Chickens, full dressed, 14c pound.
Cape Cod Cranberries 10c quart.
Extra fine Celery 13c bunch, 8 for 25c
Extra fine Florida Oranges 30c dozen.
We shall also have our usual stock of Litchfield
County Turkeys.
B. F. BANKS, - No. I Broadway.
ELEGANT CHRISTMAS POULTRY.
Where Can We Get It, Do Yon Aakt
D. M. WELCH & SON,
Offer 12,000 Pounds Finest In
the Land.
Country Turkeys, full dressed, 16c pound.
Country Ducks, full dressed, 15o pound.
Country Goslins, full dressed, 15c pound.
Country ChicKens, full dressed, 14c pound.
Fine White Bleached Celery 120 bunch.
Fine Cape Cod Cranberries at 10c quart.
Delaware Sweet Potatoes 25c peck.
Oranges, Raisins, Nuts, etc.
Fine Large Havana Oranges 18c dozsn.
Fine Large Messina Oranges 13c dozen.
Fine Large Florida Oranges 39o dozen.
Fine Large Loose Raiaias 8c per pound.
Fine Large Loose Muscatelle Raisins lSJc pound.
New Nuts, ail varieties, l'2J4c pound, (mixed).
Elegant Large New French Prunes 2 pounds 25c.
Malaga Grapes ISfr&e per pound.
Fine Table Apples and Cooking Apples.
Fine Creamery Butter 28 and 83c pound. .
Everything for the Christmas Dinner WAY
DOWN IN PRICE. Come early.
D M. WELCH & SON,
38 and .30 Congress Ave.
Branch No. 8 Graifd St.
A QUESTION
For which there is no answer. Can Flour be
bought any where else In the country at my low
prices.
Pillsbury's Best Flour 55.50
Washburn's Best Flour 5.50
Columbia Mills Flour 5.50
Best New Process Flour - 5.50
Haxairs Best Flour 6.50
beat Family Flour 5.00
Butter Wholesale and Retail.
4 1-3 Pounds Sl.OO.
Lehigh Coal 5.33 per ton.
GEO. W. H. HUGHES,
independent Coal Dealer,
34 CHPRCH STREET1.
WWlGES
GLUES
Used by th best manufacturers
nu mei: iiiiii;. in uv 1 '
Pullman Palace Car Co.. Mason
A Hamlin organ a riano mq..
Jtc.oraUkiwhqfJineKarU.
At the Hew Ori.ftna Kxpeo.
tlon. Joints made with it en
dured a testing strain of over
1600 Pounds
TO A SQUARE INCH.
PnNiraMAl gtronaest ahtm knnirn.
TWO GOLD MEDALS.
Utm hi" eardawi lte, postafre fur sample can, FRES.
Gloucester, Haas.
LADIES. Enamel yew fiOM on the
sides twice a year, the top fcca a
k week, and you nave ine nnesc pousiusu
1 store in the world. 12x18 chromo for
ItOCtS. 1 AKT-Oii f RIDK ,U V uo., WW
Ston, Mass. For sale by all dealers and
!s. A. Fullerton, Judson Terrell,
jsilas Oalptn, JohnB. Oarlock,
1a. u.ocnwaner. i. w . n" - :
H. Hendrick. . Frank M. Hall,
J3. S. Adams, W.8. Foote,106 DeWltt,
H. Hoff meister, Robinson.
uurtiaa E fierpont, cearoaiey at owrj,
D. P. Verrimsn.
a8 Yale. Bryant at Co., Manufacturer's Agents.
NOTE IT.
SEALS
IBM
Ia5&5g
Engraved. New Designs.
Brass 4r Copper Sets.
RUBBER STAMPS
LINEN MABKEES,
ETerythlog In Stamp Line.
13 CENTER ST.
- A- D- PE R K X NS--
WLisczllVLUzaus.
lEHRY CHRISTMAS
AT
HEXHAM'S
GREATBARGAM STORE
316 ELM STREET.
Come one and all and select a oair from onr
splendid assortment of Christmas Slippers. We
have everything from an elesrant Silk Embroidered
Velvet Slippers at only ?5 cents, up through the
ricner ana more expensive varieties, ah oi tnem
selii ns: at exceedinelv low fieures for the aualitv.
Also a large assortment of wool lined Suppers.
Mouse Biioes ana aiq rtuiroa Boots ror uie isaies.
Just the thing for a Christmas Present.
SPECIAL BARGAINS!
Closing Out Sale.
E.U. SLIITM,
815 CHAPEL STREET
Offers entire tock of Milli
nery Goods' at a Great Sacri
fice.
Will also sell the movable Fix
tures at a Great Bargain.
BARGAINS BARGAINS
W. H. Balk,
E. C. Bennett.
BICYCLE SUPPLY CO.,
Auraia .stun
Royal Mail, American Star and
Kangaroo .Bicycles.
Bicycle Repaf rlns a Specialty.
Parts and sundries. Rubber Tires. -Cement, etc..
always on band.
y83 6m S front St., Mew HsreatCi.
Newspaper I
For a check of $29 we will
print a ten-lint advertise
ment in one million issues
of leading Americannews
papers and complete the
work within ten dars.
jApVERTlSlNQi
This is at the rate of only one fifth of a cent a line
far 1 nnn nirrailAt.inn. The advertisement will ao-
pear in but a single issue of any paper, and conse
quently will be placed before one million different
newsoaper purchasers; or five million readers, if it
is true, as i sometimes stated, that every newspa
per is looked at by five persons on an average. Ten
lines will accommodate about seventy-five words.
Address with copy of advertisement and check, or
send SO cents for book of 176 pages.
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Quarterly Dividend.
The Fort Bascoh Cattlk Raisinq Co., )
838 Chapel Street. V
Nrw Haven. December 20. 1686. 1
THE Tenth Quarterly Dividend of H per cent,
nn thn canital stock of this company has been
declared payable on and after January 8, 1887.
Resident stockholders can obtain their dividends
at the New Haven County National Bank. The
transfer books will be closed from Dec. 87, 1880, to
Jan. 4, 1887. , E. E. BRADLEY,
dal 6t xreasurer.
ONLY THE BEST
Seal Plush Garments are worth
having. These we show in larger
variety than any other house.
Seal Plush Sacques $19.50to $45
London Dyed Alaska Seal Gar
ments $85 to $175. Above prices
are for this month only. .Ladies
are invited to inspect quality,
style and finish, and judge as to
value.
NEW YORK.
HOLIDAY GOODS !
To tire uuw LHCjmicu biui s .......
ment of goods in our line as ever brought into New
Haven, comprising some very fine
Tlenna Sets,
in cases or open.
Wine Sets,
Water Sets,
Lemonade Sets,
Smoking Sets,
Dinner Sets,
Tea Sets.
Plated Nut Picks $1 dozen, in cases.
1 Dolls House, cost $18, for 10.
1 Dolls House, cost $12, for 88.
A large line of Mechanical Toys at cost.
Library Lamps and Stand Lamps in an endless
variety.
Dinner sets ana UDrary Lamps on secona noor.
ROBINSON,
90 Church Street, near Chapel.
dl4eod
Election The Mew Haven Coon-
tv National Bank.
THE annual meeting of the stockholders of this
bank for the election of directors to serve the
ensuing year wilt be held at their banking house
on Tuesday. January 11, 1887. Polls opeu from 11
a. m. to 13 m.
Sew Haven, December 4, 1886.
de HX. w.Taneit L S. KOTOHTTTSS. Cashier.
NEWS for IiADZES!
YOUTH and BEAUTY
Can Be Obtained
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eonverU the tmme to enviable beautr. Priee of wuupi- trial boxea,
25 cents. For Bale by all druggists. E. HEWITT
& CO., Sole Agent, 289 and 391 St ite street, New
Hayen, Conn. . :
ED PI MUD S
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Am
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Saturday, December 25, 1SS6.
CHRISTMAS DAT. .
Time flies, and as men and women grow
older the time from one Christmas day to an
other seems to shorten, snd, alas, the day in
many cases grows less and less merry. Bat
there are few who are not cheered by Christ
maa,and it is a positively merry day to many,
and especially to the young, who find in it the
most joyful day of the year In one shape
or another this ancient festival tonches the
hearts of all. The merchant and the artisan,
the rich and the poverty-stricken, the old
and the young, "suspend their usual avoca
tions and are as happy as they can be. The
making of presents, the Bpirit of love, the
making friends and neighbors happy is the
universal rule. From the youngest child m
the family to the gray-haired parent at the
head of the household the one thought is the
happiness of some one. The most trifling
toy, the simplest gift means that much, and
hearts beat warmly through the Christmas
tide because people have risen to the plane
of practical Christianity and are glad to dis
port themselves in its atmosphere. And on
this day the beanty and strength of the cen
tral truth of the Christian religion are
strongly felt.
We wish all our readers A Merry Christ
mas.
SIGNS OF PROGRESS.
The answer made by Mr. Edward Atkin
son to some questions pat by Senator George
of Mississippi contains some cheering read
ing for the Christmas time, or any other
time.
Mr. Atkinson finds that if we take any
given factory, such as a textile factory, metal
works, shoe factory or others, it will appear
that the productive capaoity of each opera
tive is from fifty to two hundred per cent.
greater to-day than it was in 1860. The same
number of operatives in a cotton factory,
making coarse fabrics, can tarn off 200 per
eent. more cloth in a less, number of hours
and with less arduous work at. the present
day than they could in the same factory in
1850. Invention has reduced the capital and
has increased the product advanced the
wages and reduced the cost of labor.
As to wages he snys that a computation
has been made of the daily - wages given in
volume No. 20 ot the census returns from
more than sixty establishments with which
there were connected one or more engineers,
one or more blzoksmiths, machinists, paint
ers and carpenters. The wages of these spe
cific classes have been singled oat and aver
aged, all of them being mechanics who were
in continuous employment. In 1860 their
daily wages per day was $1.56 in gold; for a
year of three hundred days, $468. In 1885'
86, not lees than $2.40 per day, for the year
$720.
As to what the dollar would buy: The
same quantities of the same articles included
in the standard at the average of retail prices
in twenty different shops ten west of Buffa
lo and ten east of Buffalo cost for a single
day's supply in 1861, 30 to 36 cents; 1885-86,'
30 to 31 cents subject to further investiga
tion, probably less.
Mr. Atkiuson further finds that the power
of capital, considered as capital to secure in
come, has be9n diminished by seventy-five
per cent, in twenty-five years, yet such has
been the vast and rapid increase of product
that the share of the capitalist, measured in
dollars, is probably as large In fact now as it
was in I860, although so much less in pro
portion. But the laborer who possesses skill
and aptitude, as has been proven, can pro
cure eighty to one hundred per cent, more
for a year's work than he could in 1865, and
a common laborer can procure from forty to
fifty per cent. more. Thus, while the rich
may have grown no poorer, the poor have
steadily become richer.
These are very encouraging facts. Ac
cording to them the workingmen of this
country are doing better for themselves than
ever before.
EDITOBIAL NOTES.
Six million barrels of beer are annually
consumed in New York city.
A man has got to be careful what ne says
in Boston. "Have you men's gloves?" asked
a man in a Boston glove-store the other dsy.
We have gentlemen's gloves," was tha
freezing reply of the young lady who presid
ed behind the counter.
In a recent murder trial in Massachusetts
a woman who was evidently guilty of murder
In the first degree was fqund by the jury
guilty in the second degree, the reason pub
licly given being that the jury would not
vote to hang a woman. Mrs. Druse, the
New York woman who murdered her hus
band and is now under sentence of death,
will probably escape the gallows, though
governor Hill does not see any good reason
why she shpnld.
How money can be locked up when it is
thought necessary to do it by the manipula
tion of the stock market is thus told by ft
New York broker: An expenditure of $7,000
will lock up ten millions for five days. The
proeess is simply to arrspge wit) five finan
cial institutions to each loan yon two millions
for five days at 5 per cent., on government
bonds as collateral, then to pay the interest
;n advance and fail to send in the collateral.
The whole amount is thus tied up for five
days and remains in the vaults of the banks
subject to your order and can be used for no
other purpose. , .
Mr. Siemens has stated that a sample of
his glass sleepers, tested at Glasgow, assisted
faTting weight of 3pi cwf. falling npqn a
rail placed upon the sleeper set insand bal
last, commenoing at 6 in. and rising by suc
ceeding increments of 6 in. up to 9 ft. 6 in.
the -maximum elevation to which the test
ram could be elevated without effect until
the blow had been repeated, for the sixth
time. Cast-iron sleepers are expected to
yjthBjand a ajmlai; test np to Tft. only.
The cost of glass' sleepers will be 'eonsidev
ably less than those ot either oaat iron or
is practically im-
; M. de Lesseps is like -Old Virginia in that
Tie never tires. Now he says that 137,500,
OOOf. are still needed for the completion of
the Panama canal. . A few weeks ago he
wrote that the entire cost of the canal would
be $250,000,000. The company's obligations
were then more than; $280,000,000. If he
mast raise $27,500,000 -more he cannot hope
to get it at a smaller discount than was al
lowed in the case of his last loan, and the
rate for that loan was 55 per cent. The sum
of $27,500,000 in cash would at that rate
represent obligations amounting to more
than $61,000,000, so that if the sum should
be raised the company's obligations would
be swollen to $H4U,0U0,UUU, which is more
than $250,000,000.
London Life reports that the insanity of
the unfortunate Carlotta, the ex-Empress of
Mexico, has lately been -manifesting itself in
an aeute form. She appears to be always
searching for something on the ground, and
shows great satisfaction if she can fur
tively pick up some trifle nnseen. Her at
tendants are careful to scatter small objects
inher path! She will not allow anyone to ac
company her in her walks through the park
of her castle of Beurchot, and if through the
gates or railings she sees a passing peasani
she flies and hides herself with all the symp
toms of abject fear. The Kjng of the Belgians
has decided to rebuild for her occupation
the castle of Pervueren, which was destroy
ed by fire. It is situated in the middle of
splendid forests and will ensure the afflicted
Empress every privacy.
The arrival of some English rabbi tsjat
New York has scared some people who do
not want any more English pests in this
country. In Australia they have had enough
of English rabbits. It is estimated that dur
ing the last ten years the little animals have
done damage in that country to the extent of
3,000,000 sterling. In a speech in the Co
lonial parliament it was shown that one sec
tion of about 12,000,000 acres, where a few
years ago smiling homesteads, fine orchards
and all evidences of prosperity were to be
seen,had been rendered nseless and uninhab
itable. Large sums of money have been ex
pended by private citizenB and municipal
and district authorities to exterminate the
pest, but with only partial success. The
chief methods employed have been trapping
and spreading of phosphorized oats and
wheat and arsenic Trapping is reported
slow and expensive, while Ithe rabbits in
many instances will not eat the poisoned
food or are unaffected by it.
NOTHING.
A ioint-stock company must be very mad
when it passes a dividend ana says notniog.
New Orleans Picayune.
Ethel (five) You know, mamma, my man
ners may not be so refined as Maude's, but.
then, I don't see such good society. New
York Journal.
A correspondent, who has heard that the
Indians are to be given land in severalty,
writes to ask whether Severalty is a State or
territory; but owln? to the crowded condi
tion of our columns we shall not be able to
answer him. Boston Transcript.
The man with the biggest, most expensive
whiskers is not always the smartest man in
a country village. It is the little thin, ner
vous man who hasn't time to grow a yeiiow
moustache who beats him m the race for
representative. Somerville Journal..
A brake has been invented which will stop
a locomotive coins at the rate of forty miles
an hour within a space of fifty feet. The
engineer and fireman are expected to keep
on for about a mile and a half, but they are
of little consequence. Detroit ree r ress.
When a man puts on an outlandish, cos
tume and slides down a hill on a new-fangled
sled it is not coasting. It is tobogganing.
And when a party of young men put on knea
breeches and knock a ball around the good
old eaine of "shinny" becomes polo. Nor-
ristown Herald.
It Wouldn't Work. Mary Ann (exhibiting
a hand grenade) "Ma'am, didn't- ye say
these things wuz for fires?" Mistress "Cer
tainly." Mary Ann "Well, Oi've been
thryin' to loight the fire wid wan av them,
but it doesn't same to wurruk, ma'am."
Chicago Rambler.
'I've hang up my two stockings," said
little girl as she kissed her mother good
night.
"Are you afraid that one wouldn't hold
the doll that Santa Claus is going to bring
you?" asked her mother in a sly way.
"It. isn't that, ma," slowly said the little
reasoner, but I thought perhaps 1 may have
twins this year." Judye.
Her Secret. "You tell everything you
know don t you?" said Mrs. is to Mrs. A ,
a garrulous neighbor, "indeed 1 don't,'
replied Mrs. Awith some show of asperity.
"1 can keep a secret as well as anyone. It
was only yesterday that Mr. A-r-iold me that
it was feared that Mr. H -was short in his
accounts, and I haven't mentioned it to a
soul, and don't intend to either." Tid
Bits. A Bonanza. "That dime is only worth
five cents," said the groceryman to Johnny
Fiszletop. " "How's that?" "It's got Ja hole
in it." "So a hole in a dime is good for five
cents!" "Just so." "Then give the dime
back to me. I'll punch another bole in it
and then it will be worth ten cents. By
thunder, I'll punch six holes in it and then,
it will be worth thirty cents. I'll have money
to throw at the birds pretty soon." Texas
Siftines.
It is related that a proud father of twins
Invited a friend to dine with nun. ine
friend came, in a dondition more befitting
a man who had dined than one about to dine.
The twins had been rigged out in their best
bibs and tuckers, and sat in high chairs side
by side.' ''There," said the proud father,
"did you ever see anything to match that?"
The friend looked at the children, and, con
scious that he was in a condition to see
double, said with great gravity, "Yeah.
Tha's splendid child."
Angels And Shepherds.
From John Hilton's Hymn of the Nativity.
The shepherds on the lawn.
Or ere the point ot dawn,
8at simply chatting in a rustic row;
Fuil little thought they then
That the mighty Pan
Was kindly gome to lfv with them below;
Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep,
Was all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep.
When such music sweet
?heir hearts and ears did greet
As never was by mortal iiner stroofe -Divinely
warbled voice
Answering the stringed noise.
As all their souls in blissful rapture took;
The air, such pleasure loath to lose.
With thousand echoes still, prolongs each heavenly
close.
Nature, that heard such sound
Beneath the hollow round
" Of Cynphia's geat the airy region thiiUlng,
Now was almost won
To think her part was done.
And that her reign had here its last fulfilling;
She knew such harmony alone
Could hold all heaven and earth In happier
union.
At last surrounds their sight
A globe of circular light.
That with long beams the shame-faced night ar
raved: The helmed Cherubim
And gorded Seritphiin
played, .. " '
Harping m loud 'and solemn choir, . '
With unexnregsiva notes, to Heaven's new-.boru
r
Such music (as 'tis said)
Befere was never made.
But when of old the sons of morning sung,
Whjje the Creator great -ma
constellations set.
And the wellrbalanced world on hinges hung,
And cast the dark foundations deep.
And bid the weltering waves their oosy channel
keep. . -
Ring out, ye crystal spheres!
Oncebless our human ears.
. ir ye nave power to touch our senses so;
And let your silver chime
Move in melodious time.
And let the bass of heaven's deep organ
And with your nine-fold harmony
For If such holy song
Inwrap our fancy lopg, ' 1
prate wBj run &atlc,nd fetch the age of gold:
Add speckled Vanity i
Will bicken soon and die,
And leprous Sill will melt from earthly mold)
And Hell itself will pass away.
And leave her dolorous mansions to the peering
day.
Tea, Truth and Justice then
Will down return to men.
Orbed in a rainbow; and, like glories wearing,
Mercv will sit between.
Throned in celestial sheen, -
Wtp raaiapc ieet fhe tissued ciouag agwnstserj;
:, f' 1021.,' i I- i i. -
And Heaven, as at some festival.
Will open wide the gates of her high palace nail,
steel, while the material
perishable.
CHRISTMAS FOR jSURE.
BY JOHN HABEETON,
AUTHOR OP
hkijen's babies." "b:
batotj," etc.
Copyrighted: 1886.
The spirit of inquiry, like reform, the
cholera and the historic wind that bloweth
has a way of suddenly making itself known
in the most unexpected places. This is the
only reason that oan be given for its appear
ance on Cat Creek, Missouri, several years
ago, in the cabin of Nimrod Cumplin, and
for Nimrod's daughter Piney to startle her
mother with the question:
"Mother, what's this here Christmas all
about, anyhow!" -
Mrs. Cumplin, who was frying venison
steaks ever a fire of hickory coals, was-so.
amazed by the question that she turned
quickly to look at her daughter, and in so
doing allowed a particularly fine steak, which
she was in the act of turning, to glide off
of the old iron fork, miss the frying pan and
fall into the fire.
"Fur pity's sake, gal, what's the good of
skeerin' the life most oat of the only mother
you've got to your name? You've gone an'
give me a reg'lar fit o' the jerks, comia' on
me so sudden with an outlandish question
like that. An' you've made me spile the
hest chunk of venison in that there pan,
'Twas one of them pieces that your father
specially likes too just where the side
leaves off an' the ham begins. Yon mind
this fryin' now till I go see ef ther's another
one."
Mrs. Cumplin went out and looked in the
family refrigerator -a barrel, oat of doors
on the northern side of the house, and cov
ered with short logs to keep out "varmints.
Her daughter knelt in front of the fire-place
and attended to the sizzling, spluttering con
tents of the frying pan, but she gave most
of her spare seconds to contemplation of the
fire. In this she displayed correct taste, for
the fire was the prettiest thing in the room.
The log cabin of a "settler" may be made as
pretty as a boudoir full of bric-a-brio if
its owner has a desire for elaborate interiors,
but evidently . the rage for decoration has
never come withing infecting distance of the
Cumplin domicile, for the only relief to the
dark gray of the log walls was an occasional
bit of yellowish gray, showing where bits of
bark had been torn off to quicken a slow fire
on mornings when the family wood-pile had
been suddenly covered with snow. There
was a homemade bed in one corner of the
room, but the framework was invisible, and
the coverlid was abont as darkly gray as the
wall bemud it. There was a ladder that led
to the loft above, which was Finey's bed
chamber, but that too was gray and dingy
from long use. The table a slab split from
a thick log and supplied with four legs driv
en into augur holes was without a cloth,
and the cups and saucers were of a dreadful
mottled gray that is highly popular in some
sections of the country because, according to
its owners, "it don't suow dirt."
The girl found the fire so interesting that
sue continued to stare at it until her mother,
returning with a duplicate of the lost steak,
exclaimed:
"Fur pity sakes, gal, what are you lettin
all the dinner burn to a crisp for?"
finey allowed Herself to be astonished and
pushed aside, but as soon as the work at the
fire seemed again to be progressing properly
she repeated the question:
"Mother, what's this here Christmas all
about, anyhow?"
"You know, just as well as I do," said her
mother. You've seed fourteen or fifteen
Christmases a'ready I don't know but it's
sixteen, an yon ort to know what they're
about."
'But what's Christmas for?" persisted Pi
ney, "that s what 1 want to know.
"What's it fur? Why it's fur men to fire
off Chris'mas guns on an' an' drink more'n
ord'nary an' an' fur women to cook more'n
usual ef ther's anything' more n usual in the
house, mat's an."
"Every bit of it?"
'"Tis, ez fur ez I knows on, 'xcept in some
parts of the country the children an' niggers
say 'Chris'mas gift to folks, an' folks give
em sometnio' et they've a mind to."
"lint how did it begin? What makes men
fire guns and drink more than other times,
and women cook more?"
'"Cause they want to be more than usual
glad .1 s'pose. Men's way of doin' it is to
make a noise an git drunk; women's way " is
to do their best cookin' that's all."
"But what do they wan't to get gladder
for!" asked the girl. "Why isn't one .day
lust as good as another for that? :
"Well, 'pears to me it s because that's tha
day the good Lord wus born in the world;
l don't say it fur certain though, cause Hol
der Twitchway ain't preached anythin'
about it long ez he's ben hoidin' monthly
meetin's np at the Forks. But I wan't to
know what's been pnttin' all this talk in
your head, Piney, gal?"
I don't know," said the girl, "except I
heard dad talking to Jed Kipner abont
wantin' to be sure to hev plenty of powder
an' caps tor Christmas, an' Jed said he d
been up to the Forks store an' seen Cap
tain Martin's wife givin' the storekeeper -.n
awful big order to git Chris'mas gifts for
her young ones. What is a Chris'inaa gift
anyhow? what kind of a thing?
Mrs. Cumplin seemed to struggle with
her memory tor two or three minutes.
Then she replied:
"Well, most generally it's mqney or some
thin' pooty. Young fellers give 'ther gls
candy or ribbons; if they're fust rate fel
lers tiiey give 'em breas' pins or somethin'
like that."
"What did dad give you when yen was
young gal, mother?" The girl sprang
from the block stool on which she had
been sitting, placed herself dangerously
near the fire in her desire to get in front
of her mother, bent very ungracefully' in
order to get her "face close to ths kneeling
figure before her, and prolonged her ques
tion with an appealing "Sav!" -
Mrs. Cumplin suddenly found that the
venison in the pan required the closest at
tention;, her- daughter, however, was not
tmnating or venison ox any thing else except
the subjeot of conversation, so she contin
ued:
"Mother mammy tell me. Tell your
very only gal daughter, won't you!"
Some hot coals not far from Mrs. Cum
plin 's face began to hiss spasmodically, for
qig ftfV we uryppuig upon mem.
" "Mammy!" exclaimed the girl, putting
both hands upon the head which, though
not yet old, was a dingy gray, as every
thing else m trie Toqm. Mrs. Oumplm
anaj&hed ftt the skirt' qi"heidxess', "wiped
her eyes with it and said;
"He give me the breas' pin I wear when
ever I go to meetin', an' anybody thet sez
there's ever any in the meetin' house that
can beat it don't know nothin' at all about
breas' pins. That's what he give me.
When I'm dead an' buried I want tht
breas: pin buried with me an! on me; it's
iher-thp only ' pbpty thing ' J evpr hedr
xcept you,''
"Didn't osd
ever give yen anything
you was married!" asked
Chris'mas after
the girl.
sho! Of course not. What would a
man want to give anythin' to hi) wfe for
after he'd got b&ef
i'Then all Christmas out here is goin' to
be tbjs year is men firing guns an'- gettin-
:Qf course it is. Far pitv sakes. sal.
yer dop't think thing is goin' to change
Ef yer don't bleeve me just see what yer
dad'll bring home from the Forks store to
day two pounds of gunpowder insMd o 3
quarter's wuth, an! aTiull jug flf h48key
ihstid of only a fiask.''
Piney wept to the window,, not so. muqh to
look for her father as to. change the object of
he; gage while looking at nothing in particu
lar. She felt certain, as children often do in
matters which they but dimly understand,
that something more was going on in the
world than she saw, that she deserved it, was
not getting it and felt aggrieved.
As she looked out she saw her rather com
ing. The gunpowder was not visible, but
the jug of which her mother had spoken Wais
so large as to;- be' tnip f' 'obtrusive piney
T4n out fa' meet him, threw her. ams arQqni
Ills neck and exclaimed;
'W14 you bring me a Uhris'mas gut?"
Nim Cumplin was so amazed that he
dropped his jug unfortunately it did not
break. For his daughter to almost strangle
him with her strong young arms was not of
unusual occurrence, but to be asked for a
Christmas gift was to be suddenly brought
face to face with the unepegteij. "
fpliqsimasgittV hV echoed. '(Why, nv
sourse not leaatwayg J mean I didn't think
uv It. I didn't know you wanted one. Gals
don't git Chrismas gifts from their dads
f 'xcept when they're babies."
" What did you give me when X was a
baby, dad!" -
Nim Cumplin had stooped to pick up the
jug, but he straightened himself, wrinkled
his forehead, scratched his head, looked into
distance and tried all other popular methods
ef refreshing his memory, but was finally
Obliged to reply:
"I cayn't remember.
"Neither can I."
Nim abruptly picked np his jug and strode
home,
"Got the things?" asked his wife, as Nim
entered the door.
"Yas; hyar's the whiskey," Nim replied,
dropping the lug and throwing himself in a
leaning position against the chimney.
rears to me, said his wife, looking np
from the cooking, "somethin' ain't gone
ngnt witn ye. What is it?"
The man did not answer. His wife looked
at him as earnestly as hopeless eyes could
look and continued:
"Who's been a-rilin' ye?"
"Piney." was the reply. "She wants
Chris'mas gift."
That's the way it 'peared to me from the
way she was talkin awhile ago."
"What's put it into her head? Nobody
hez Chris'mas gifts 'xcept niggers an' rich
folks."
An' young fellers' gals."
Yas, they've got to be counted in. But
Piney a big gal like her an' yet not big
enough to hev a feller payin' 'tention to her
-why, I'd az soon think of you a wantin' a
Chris'nias gift."
Mrs. Uumplin slowly straightened her
self and looked at - ker husband. She
said nothing; she had never in her life given
her husband an impatient word, so Nim had
nothing to fear; yet with a backwoodsman's
or animal's instinct in reading the eye, he'
saw something that made him exclaim:
Durned ef I don't b'leeve you want a
Chris'mas gift too."
The woman turned her face away, burst
into tears and replied:
it's drettul mean ot me. 1 didn't mean
ter."
Nim Cumplin was an affectionate husband,
so he straightway put both arms around his
wife, who continued:
Chris mas ain't for women an' gals no
how. You cayn't be expected to do ev'ry
tbin', you've got to give your friends a good
time an' fire guns, an' I know it tuck all the
coonskins you'd got this fall to buy the pow
der an' whiskey. But ef ther only could be
one Chris'mas for sure! I ain't been able to
help thiukin' 'bout it sence Piney got started
this mornin' ef there only could be one
Chris'mas for sure I think I wouldn't never
want nothin' else in the world. I wouldn't
keer for me ef only Piney could hev it. You
cayn't git her nothin' now all the coonskins
are spent and deer don't pay to pack to town
but 1 wish somebody else would do it. it s
all been a-comin' back to me, a little at a
time, while I've ben a cookin' here--the sto
ry 'bout how Chris'mas gifts began. Baby
Jesas' folks couldn't give him anythin'.
cause they was so poor that they hed to put
him in a feed-trough in a barn, so other folks
brought him things. Well, Piney's cradle
wasn't nothin' but a piece of a holler log. I
don't see az we're any better off."
We ain't got down to takln' things from
other folks anyway!" exclaimed Nimrod,
who, like backwoodsmen in general, was as
proud as he was poor. "Why, even that
lazy nigger, Brutus, is above that. I seen
him peddlin' wild tukkeys at the Forks to
day, an' I told him a good hunter like him
ort to be ashamed of gettin' mqney that way
twould make me feel meaner than stealin'
sheep. But he jawed back az sassy ez you
please, an' said he wanted some money to
give his little nigs a Chris'mas."
"tiood for nigger iSrutus!" exclaimed Mrs.
Cumplin with an energy that made her hus
band jerk as if suddenly attacked by ague.
Then she quickly resumed her customary
thin, listless voice and said:
"Dinner's all oooked."
The meal was eaten in silence a not unu
sual circumstance in good-natured families
that have little to' talk about. But the si
lence was broken into invisible fragments
when Nim Complin, having satisfied a good
appetite sharpened by a long walk in frosty
air, arose suddenly from the block that had
served as a chair, seized his rifle and powder
norn and opened the door.
For pity sakes, where air you goin',
Nim?" said Mrs. Cumplin. "You never
went huntin' before when you'd walked from
the Forks that same day!"
"Daddy, where are you goin'?" asked Pi
ney.
"I'm goin," replied Nimrod, with averted
eyes as if he had something to be ashamed
of, "I'm goin to get Chris'mas for sure. I
don't know what 'tis, but I'm goin' to git it
dead sure." Then be walked brisklv to
ward the woods, whioh, being near enough to
shade the cabin, soon hid him from view.
"I never saw yer father took that way be
fore," said Mrs. Cumplin, shading and strain
ing her feeble eyes.
"It makes him look good loot in' though,"
said Piney. "And," she continued, "J hope
he'll find out what it is and get it."
It s lust ea the old woman sez," muttered
the hunter to himself as he strode along.
'Chris'mas is only for men and niggers
along here on Cat Crick anyway. I wonder
how I'm goin' to find out what to do? S'pose
I might ask Nigger Brutus. Well, I dqn't
know's I'd be lettin' myself down doin' that;
he's black to be sure, but he's as good a shot
ez i be. Hello
The last exclamation was due to a Bndden
glimpse of a wild turkey. Nim selected
a good rest for his rifle, aimed and fired. Then
he walked up to his game and viewed it with
a look of utter disdain and disgust. There
was nothing the matter with tn& turkey, it
was large and plump; Nim was not above
shooting turkeys, for he shot whenever his
wife needed a wing for a fan, and sometimes
when she complained of venison as a steady
diet. But this particular turkey sgt him to
thinking aloud: '
"I've a darned good mind to back out."
said he. "The idea of me, that ain't afeard
to shoot agin anybody, an' that never sold
nothin' but venison an' bear an' skins of var
mints, startin' out to kill an' peddle wild
tukkeys just like Nigger Brutus!"
tie gave the dead bird a kick, turned on
his heel and started b.ack homeward. Soon
he. stopped, however, went back, picked up
the turkey and strode onward, muttering:
"I said I'd do it; now I've got to do it."
There was a notable increase of mortality
among turkeys that afternoon, and Nim
learned, to his amazement, how few turkeys
it takes to weigh as much as a deer. But
when ne nad mi ne oouia oomtortably carry
and started for the little village known as
"The Forks," he found himself carrying
uiuuu weiiiui, wuiuu uiu nor- consist of tni.
keys, ttis heart was as heavy as lead. What
would either of. the storakaerjars think of
him if they saw. him peddling wild turkeys?
Wurse still, what would any other hunter
think should he see Nim loaded with fath
ered game! as ne wondered he saw a. man
with a gun on his shoulder eomins from the
direct wnqi tne Triage, straightway Nim.
like a conscience-stricken murderer, dashed
into the woods and through a bog, making a
tedious detour in order to avoid aDoroachinar
iub r oiks oy tne road
Beckon," said he, when at last he felt se
cure and dropped his load so that ha misht
rest for a moment, "Pl go, tq&t to the big
uyuse whT M9 wneat Buyer lives, nobody
that knows me by sight is likely to be np
that war taint on the road to anvwhere. If
they. buy one or two I can chuck the rest
away in ease I see anybody an' get skeered."
In a few moments he reached the grounds
ux 1110 uig nouse. no cani;ansiy skirted
them, peered down th owner's private road
to assure himself that nobody was coming,
and' then approached the front gate. Then,
according to the custom on Cat Crek and in
many other P.arts, of th,a new country, he
lengd again9t"!the fence, instead of entering
ttie gate .and tittered a yell to attract the at
tention of the residents. This done he
turned his back to the house and informed
himself that no first-class hunter ever iado
such small potatoes of himseli before.
nis salutation was, not promptly retained.
go he yelled once more and made typhis mind
to run unless there was a prompt response.
In a moment he heard a door open; then he
felt more inolined tq ran than ever, Foot-
iteps approached; he felt his face beinsr o'er-
apread with every mark of shame and degra
dation. Then he heard a pleasant voice say
ing: Do you care to sell any of those las-
keys?" -
"I tnought,'' said Efim, partly turning, bat
taking to loo only at the gam a,nd ojt at
tle. IJoyer. ' : "
'Wbat do yo.u want to? them?"
'Qh any thiug.V said Nim. trying to brace'
np his self-respect; "whatever they're fetch
in in town. I don't know 'bout the prices
of turkeyB I never sold one in my life; I
wouldn't sell these ef they wuzn't too heavy
to tote all-of 'em home. I'll give vou one if
you like." '
You're very kind," aid the ladvs "hut
m aEraict one wouidn t be enough for me. I
Wd turkeys are bringing a dollar each in
town, '
-it s enougn ior 'em too." said. Nim. re
gaining the grand air of an habitual hunter j
of large game. "Sech varmints ain't wuth
a quarter ain't wuth a bit even."
"I'm quite willing to pay a dollar' each,
said the lady, with a laugh; "and it you've
shot them to-day I'll take them all. I want
to send a lot to different friends in the East
as Christmas gifts; so they must be fresh.
"Chris'mas gifts?" exclaimed Nim. "Yon
mean to say, ma'am, that a wild turkev is
good 'nough for a Chris'mas gift?"
"I thought so when I lived in the East,"
was the reply. It you 11 kindly bring
them np to the house for me I will get
you the money."
Nim followed the purchaser and after
considerable cutting of bark strings laid
the game on the piazza. There were ten
of them ten dollars. "More money,
thought Nim to himself, "than I ever 'arned
in a single day with my gun. Well, it ort
to be more to pay for sech low-down work
ez peddlin' tukkeys. isut who sez I ped
dled any tukkeys? I didn't do nothin' of
the sort. I wuz just leanin' agin this fence
an' she axed me et 1 keered to sell any of
'em. Yes, sir; that's how it was."
The purchaser emerged in a moment.
followed by two ot three children, one of
them being a girl of fifteen, plainly but
tastefully dressed. The lady counted the
turkeys and handed the seller the money,
Nim looked at the girl, then at the lady
and said:
"Your darter, ma'am?"
The mother nodded assent.
"You're goin' to give her Chris'mas gifts.
I s'pose?" , . .
Again the lady inclined her head.
"Would you min' tellin' me some of
'em!" asked Nim. "I've got a gal jest her
size an' I'm dead tired thinKin ef what to
git her."
"Amy," said the lady, with a smile and
a wink at her daughter, "go into the house
and don't yon dare listen." Then she said
to Nim: -
Her father is going to give her a piano
and"
I'll get one for Piney," said Nim.
"Which store keeps 'em!"
J. m afraid you won't find one at any
of oar stores," the mother replied, "but I
am going to give her some books and per
fumery, and gloves and candy all sorts of
things that young girls like you know. It's
so hard to think of things that one hasn't
given before on birthdays or at Chris'mas.
Don't you find it so?"
"Well, fur ez .finey goes"
Nim was about to admit that he had not
yet begun to give presents, when the lady
interrupted him.
Piney!" said she. "What a pretty, rus
tic name. But where did you get it? I
didn't know there were any pine trees in
this region."
Her mother named her arter the pineys
that once arrowed in her dad's back yard
great, big, round, red flowers, just like Pi
ney's race when she was little. They was
the pootiest thing the old woman could
think up when she wanted to name the
baby."
The lady looked puzzled; then she re
membered that the "piney" was the com
mon country name for the peony. But she
had something else to think of. Christ
mas was only one day off and here was a
puzzled parent who wanted counsel an Ar
ticle in which she abounded. She looked
at Nim, estimated his home and family by
his own appearance and said:
If I were you I would get her a story
book, staff for a new dress cheap but
pretty, a nice ltttle bracelet or ring and
some Christmas cards to nail on the walls
of her room; they brijhten a girl's room
up so."
JNim looked blank.
"If I didn't feel I could afford so much,"
said the lady hastily, "I'd get only part of
them." i
"Money's no object," said Nim, bravely;
"but I don't know sech things apart very
well. I wish one of the stores was right
here, I'd ask you to show 'em to me."
I'll cheerfully help you if you'll let me.
I must go down to my husband's office, so it
won't pat me oat at all."
Ten minutes later an idle clerk, lounging
in front of a store, looked np the road and
said to another idle clerk:
What's coming?" ' , "
Looks an if the piokats had cantnred a
female spy," shouted idle clerk No. 2, . who
had been to the war.
Two or three minutes later both clerks
were busy showing articles for which the
first lady of the village asked and at which
Nim looked. Nim threatened to be a some
what erratic customer. He insisted on bay
ing a lamp reflector, supposing it a mirror;
and he mistook a fancy box of toilet snap for
candy. Then he narrowly esoaped baying a
tiny dog collar for a bracelet, and he abso
lutely insisted upon having a large patent
medicine chromo, framed, because it made
one side of the store look gorgeous. But
finally he made purchases which the lady as
sured him would satisfy any reasonable girl
at Christmas. He paid his bill and found
more than half his money remained.
I m over an over obliged to ye. ma'am."
said he; "bat I want to ask ye one thing
more; pick out somethin' for my wife some
thin' sech a you'd nick out for verself."
The lady selected several things, amoner
them two or three eh,eap lace oollara, a col
ored silk handkerchief, which she said could
be worked over into a bonnet, a tiny bottle
of cologne and a pretty purse, in which Bhe
suggested Nim might put what change re
mained. Thea she bade him good-bye and
started homeward, while Nim took his pack
ages and began the long tramp to Cat Creek.
-w w
Amazement sat enthroned npon the brow
of each man who visited Nim Cumplin
Christmas morning to fire guns and drink
whiskey, for finey was dancing about in a
gypsy hat loaded with flowers, and a broad
pink ribbon about her waist. Mrs. Cumplin
wore a collar rthe first one ever seen on Cat
Oreekand it was fastened with the historic
breastpin, whioh had been carefully polished
with a&hes from the fireplace hearth. There
was an odor in the room that was not entire
ly that of whiskey, and great was the sur
prise ot each man whep. he saw how small
was the bottle that diffused so much per
fume. Thera was a red cover on the table, a
patent medicine chromo on each wall, and
Christmas cards in a row on the shelf over
the fireplace. The general effect was so as
tonishing to one visitor that he abrontlv de
parted without drinking and came bok
afl hour, bringing his wtfa and 'WO daugh
ters, - -
!I didn't kDCSr what to make of it all."
said he; "so I thought I'd brine the old wo
man and gals to find out for me."
"It means just this," said Nim Cumplin;
"it means we've found out how to have
Chris'mas for sure, an' we ain't. agoin' to for
git it again."
"Chris'mas for sure," said Mrs. Cumplin,
uicaua Liuria mas xor women ez well ez
men."
' Cat Creekers are human, so they all re
solved, each for himself, to be in the fash
ion. The result was revolutionary; from
being a lot of sturdy hunters, living in bare
log cabins, the most of the natives began to
be industrious farmers and build better
houses, and take their wives to the Forks
with them to help spend their money. They
even built a school house; about this time
some of the more conservative natives moved
away and the others, in the despair of their
longing for the good old 'time, drank them
selves to death.
But Nim Cumplin did not forget how to
shoot; each year, a day or two before Christ
mas, ten wild turkeys find their way in some
mystefions manner to the front door of the
lady who had been Nim's only customer.
How EmU Zola Works.
IC-op, Aligemeine Zeitung.
Zola writes everything himself, he never
has a secretary for his extensive correspon
dence, fie even seals his wrappers and
addresses them when he Beads his friends
brochures or his translators material. He
also writes iis literary manuscript himself
Oat of it the printers compose what are
called "placards," larare paees with four
gigantic columns of text. These are sent
to the author carefully revised and free
from errors, and then Zola begins to correct.
He fills the wide margin all round with
hundreds of marks and letters; ink lines cut
through the text, thin threads run cross
ways and diagonally, entwining like a lasso
a sentence scribbled in on open space:
scarcely a line s exempted from the hiero
glyphics, o the niaster. . Here a note
ifi Interrogation must make room for one
of exclamation; h?T a semicolon is changed
into a. full point; a comma before or after-
the oif effectively divides a phrase; par
ticiples are plaoed by adjectives; substan
tives take the place of pronouns; redundant
adverbs must also disappear; "the past
definite" is substituted for the 'iraperfectj"
more descriptive words supply the place
of tame ones; for s& exrjessjKn repeated
in five or sis pages synonym is in
troduced ; whole phrases are remodeled.
D&Ateuoea are condensed into two or three
words, and even half columns are ruthlessly
consigned at once into the compositor's tytse,
case. v-
case,
It must be a bitter task to, fereak uo tha
print again; but there is no help for it. The
extra fees charged elsewhere on authors for
corrections are not known jnobody complains;
authorand publisher rival each other in a
common endeavor after perfection. After
such a corrected text the Paris journal prints,
and the translations are done in exactly the
same way.
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